Chapter 389: Warm Chinese New Year's Eve (II)
A warm Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is over, and at this time, everyone does not start to make dumplings, but makes a few pots of tea on the side to drink tea and chat, take a short break, and then the whole family will work together to make dumplings.
In fact, making dumplings, this is also a traditional habit of the Yang family, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family is together to make dumplings, but the only difference this year is that they make dumplings, to start from the initial thing, that is, noodles, mixed filling, rolling skin, are all made temporarily, not as in previous years, and noodles and filling are prepared by the maid, and this year, it is completely the family to do.
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"Mother, mother, look at it, this is the little worm dumplings that the baby learned from the eldest brother." The baby's face is full of hands, full of flour, and a strange-shaped gnocchi in his hand came to the old lady, which is a new type of dumpling that the baby learned from Yang Hengxin, a small insect dumpling.
"Okay, okay, our baby will also make small insect dumplings, come, my mother will reward you with one." As she spoke, the old lady gave her a kiss while holding the baby's face with both hands, this, she was originally full of flour, but now there is more flour.
"Giggles, I'll reward my mother too." Similarly, the baby also hugged the old lady's face and returned a kiss, and as a result, two small paw prints appeared on the old lady's face, "Giggles, giggles, I put on makeup for my mother, it's so good-looking." As a result, when the baby's hand left the old lady's face, it was found that the flour on the old lady's face, the baby actually laughed, and the old lady also laughed.
And the same. There are also a few girls who are as big as babies who are also interacting with their mothers. Let the other aunts look at it and be very hot-eyed. Why isn't this the last child of his own daughter, look at those stinky boys, they look like wood on the side.
"It's naïve, it's inseparable from my mother when I'm so old." Bei Bei said in a jealous tone, "Yes, yes, they are all little female dolls, and they haven't grown up yet." ”
"Mother, I want to kiss too." Brother Nian came to the front of the old lady. He's still young, it's normal to be coquettish, "Okay, good, my mother also kisses my little girl." As he spoke, Brother Nian's face was also covered with flour by the old lady.
"Envy, sister-in-law, forget it, let me give you beauty." "Your brother and sister, don't you envy," the two aunts, who had no little daughter, joked with each other. Even smeared flour on each other's faces.
"These old witsies." The uncles shook their heads and smiled, but their hands were not idle. They are busy rolling out the dough, they are rolling a big dough, and then these dough are cut into a small trapezoidal dumpling skin, so that the dumplings are Yuanbao dumplings, and for these old men, only these big dough is the simplest, as long as the thickness is controlled, and the shape is not high, then it is cut with a knife, and the small round small dough is not rolled out by these old men, that is the real craft.
"Brothers, everyone work harder, the more evenly this filling is stirred, the better the dumplings will look when wrapped." This is the work that Brother Yang Li is doing.
Yang Heng is playing with the children, teaching them to make a small insect dumpling, and then pinching out a small rabbit, in short, his task is to watch the children, and the old lady and aunts, as well as a few older sisters, Changle Yuzhang is wrapping dumplings.
"Big brother, I heard from my little sister that when we first made dumplings, we put copper coins in them, and said that whoever eats copper coins will be very happy in the coming year."
"Baby, we don't need to wrap copper coins in it now, because we are all very happy, do you want to make the family members who haven't eaten copper coins unhappy?"
"Don't, don't, don't wrap copper coins, we are all happy and unhappy, and we don't need copper coins to bless anymore." The baby was anxious when he heard it, this is his own family, and naturally he can't let some of them be unhappy, so he quickly changed his words, don't wrap copper coins, if he says that he will be happy if he eats copper coins, then he didn't eat it. She didn't even say that she would wrap copper coins in each dumpling, and it seems that the baby is also very sensible.
"Alas, this year, the main family didn't hold any party, it's really boring." "You, you, this is the master's understanding of our subordinates, let us take advantage of this New Year's opportunity to get together, especially the subordinates on duty this year, don't you see that they have changed to those who have not started a family, if we hold another party, do we still have time to get together." The descendants of the Yang family, and even the villagers, also gathered together to wrap dumplings, chat, and look forward to the future.
"Our children are also getting older, and he will graduate from the ordinary class soon, and the master said that if there is a chance, let them go to the academy, and if they really have any prospects in the future, they will make us pay back." ……
Similarly, Yang Hu did not forget these subordinates, even the families of the villagers, each family gave them some flour and meat, so that they could have a good New Year, and the subordinates who did not have a family gave them some extra money, so that they could be on duty during the New Year with peace of mind.
Yang Heng felt that he seemed to be doing the right thing again, maybe he didn't need to worry about anything in the future, once a special person was arranged to be responsible for these things, they would be handled properly.
The dumplings were finally wrapped, the whole family was washed and changed, and sat down in a big room, this time Yang Hu removed all the tables, chairs and stools, what is he going to do, drinking tea, there is a younger brother or sister who knows how to play the piano on the side, or playing the piano, and the others are kneeling on the edge of a big case, and the juniors are making tea, which is actually a way of drinking tea that Yang Heng said, because up to now, there has not been a fixed, inherited tea culture in Datang.
And what Yang Heng taught was a kind of tea culture in the south in the previous life, that is, kung fu tea, there will be a small charcoal stove next to each case, and this charcoal stove is burned with a fixed kind of charcoal, and the top is a mud pot to boil water, and this tea is also a kind of tea fried by Yang Hengxin, this kind of tea is brewed with boiling water, which is specially developed for the way of drinking tea in kung fu tea, and it is the way of pouring tea for children, which is also trained by Yang Hu by surprise. However, these so-called children are just Yang Li and Yang Hu, not the group of babies, they are still too young, and Yang Hu is afraid that they will be hot.
"Well, yes, yes, isn't it beautiful to see your way of drinking tea?" "Ah, Your Majesty, why are you here?" This makes the novice subordinates on duty just can't succeed, you say that Li Er is coming, you give a signal is good, since Li Er came a few times on Chinese New Year's Eve, some old subordinates have learned the signal, when Li Er came, they just coughed a few times, the subordinates inside knew who was coming, and they would immediately notify Yang Heng of them, but today.
"Can I not come, if I don't come, can I see such a beautiful way of drinking tea in your country, why are you wearing all your dresses?" In fact, this is also a detail of Yang Hu's arrangement, he said, this is to drink tea, to form a tea culture, then it is better to follow the ancient tradition that the eldest brother said, and the ancient tradition is not kneeling and sitting, with the dress, but it is just for a while, and then change back when you eat.
"Your Majesty, please take a seat, little lady, and serve tea to Your Majesty." At this time, only Yang Heng received Li Er, and the father and uncles were a little stunned, this Li Er hadn't been here for a few years, and they didn't know Li Er in the past few years, so they didn't feel anything, and naturally no one dared to speak.
"Lao Cheng, come in, let's appreciate their new way of drinking tea, I knew this was the case, I brought Tang Jian here, maybe only he can identify this way of drinking tea?" Li Er regretted a little, how could he call out Cheng Fairy tonight, if he took Tang Jian, not to mention any Confucianism, at least Tang Jian was a civil official, he could give some advice, wouldn't he. (To be continued......)