0274 Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
When Nanni returned home, she saw her father and MG sticking Spring Festival couplets at the door.
"It's crooked, a little to the right, no, it's crooked again, a little more to the left." My father was directing from the sidelines.
MG is tall, and he can easily reach the door frame without using a ladder to stretch his arm, so this practical action is left to him.
He never seemed to have done anything like it, holding the Spring Festival couplets and gesturing, but he couldn't put them in the right place.
Nanni entered the house, and quickly took out a clothes pole and handed it to him, "You can put this clothes pole across the door frame, and then put the Spring Festival couplets next to the clothes pole." ”
He did so, and soon pasted the Spring Festival couplets, even the horizontal batches were pasted squarely, without a little tilt.
"Nanni, it's better for you, I knew that I would have waited for you to come back, and let you finish it with MG." Nan Kang smiled heartily, "By the way, why did you only come back now, did you come back from eating in the Tang Mansion?" ”
"Mr. Xiao Tang also went to the Tang Mansion today, and Mr. Tang left me for dinner, so I stayed. It turned out that Mr. Tang was going to marry Sister Tian, and on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Mr. Tang said that we would let our family go to watch the ceremony. ”
"Really? We wouldn't be rude to look like this, would we? "Talking about male Kangjian, I feel cramped and uneasy, Mr. Tang's marriage must be a big scene, the guests are all high-ranking officials and prominent people in the city, isn't he going like a clown, and there is nowhere to stand?" If we still don't go, you can just let MG accompany you. ”
Nanni smiled, "You and your mother should be lively, and I will accompany you." Do not worry. She understood her father's concerns, and people who had never seen the world were afraid of this kind of big scene in high society.
"Even if I go, your mother won't go." The man shook his head like a rattle. "We'll talk about that in a few days."
"Okay, I'll talk about it then, I'll go help mom in the kitchen now."
Nanni originally didn't want her mother to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home, so how much trouble would it be to book a table at the hotel? But Zhang Lanzhi repeatedly objected, saying that she had moved to a new house this year and was happy at home. She understood. The mother is worried about money, she knows that now the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has risen, and the price of a Chinese New Year's Eve meal is almost a month's living expenses for the family. Mother is used to saving, how can she be willing to spend this unjust money.
In the kitchen, the mother was busy alone, on the kitchen board. There is a kneaded ball. Green and bright, very eye-catching, take a closer look, the balls are mixed with a lot of green cabbage leaves, "Mom people say that the balls are made of meat, how do you use greens to make balls?" ”
"I make five-color balls, meat balls, and glutinous rice balls. Soybean balls, black sesame balls. We make five-color balls for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner every year, have you even forgotten this? Zhang Lanzhi only remembered at this time that her daughter's memory had not been fully recovered, and she had forgotten many things at all.
She has always felt that the old man is protecting this sensible daughter, losing part of her memory, but she was able to go from a nanny to the marketing manager of Rui Che Group, I heard that she will go to work at the headquarters of Rui Che Group next year, which can be said to be a higher level, such an achievement is not something that anyone will have, even many famous college students can't do it.
"Forgotten. Are you too busy to do so much alone? What about my sister-in-law, why didn't my sister-in-law come in to help you? From the moment she came back, she really didn't see her sister-in-law Shao Juan, Nanbao was watching cartoons in the living room alone.
"She was going to help me, but I don't know why, I suddenly felt very nauseous, ran to the bathroom and vomited for a while, I let her go to rest, she has been vomiting recently, and she went to the hospital to check that it was a cold stomach, she had a bad stomach at this young age, and it was really worrying." Zhang Lanzhi opened the steaming drawer as she spoke, and Nanni saw that there were already a lot of balls in the steamer, including her most common meat balls, as well as white glutinous rice balls, swarthy black sesame balls, and soybean balls.
She helped her mother put the green vegetable balls on the board into the steaming drawer one by one. Zhang Lanzhi saw her help, and turned around to slowly mix the ground soybeans and flour with chopsticks, and after mixing to a certain extent, add various seasonings to continue stirring.
After the last ball is kneaded, put it in the steaming drawer and steam it together to be considered the real completion. Nanni didn't expect the process of the five-color balls to be so complicated, but her mother said that every year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has this dish, which shows that the meaning of this dish is good, reunion, this must be done.
Nanni's biggest takeaway from working in the Hajin community for a few months is that she has learned some simple cooking skills, so she can really help a lot by staying in the kitchen.
When night falls, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the Nan family officially begins. Although it is an ordinary people's family, there are some rules for eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, first of all, when the meal is full of tables, the family cannot surround it, but the elders of the Nan family, that is, the male Kangjian, pour a little wine into each wine glass, and then add a little rice to each rice bowl, and finally silently ask the ancestors of the Nan family to come out for a reunion dinner.
After the ceremony is completed, the Nan family is served on the table, and the wine in the wine glass and the rice in the rice bowl are shared, and it is said that after eating and drinking these things for the ancestors, the ancestors will definitely bless them, so as the only grandson of the Nan family, those leftover rice will naturally fall into Nanbao's bowl in the end.
But after the wine was mixed with the male health association, it was actually put in front of MG, "MG, you can drink this wine, if you drink it, you will be blessed with everything you do smoothly next year." ”
MG was overwhelmed by this hospitality for a while, looked at Nanni beside him, and saw that Nanni did not make any reaction, so he was flattered and said, "Thank you, uncle." ”
"After drinking the wine of the ancestors of the Nan family, you will be the Nan family in the future." The man said with a slight smile.
"Dad, what do you say?" When Nanni heard this, she didn't expect her father to take MG to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner to talk about things, "Don't scare him." If she hadn't made the relationship clear with MG in advance, she would have been really worried that MG would be cranky at this time.
"Dad, you too, it's better for you to deal with their young people's affairs by yourself, aren't you putting pressure on them when you make a fuss here?" Shao Juan's spirit was much better at this time, and when she saw that Nan Kangjian had already regarded MG as the son-in-law of the Nan family, her reaction was even greater than Nanni's. (To be continued......)