My mother stayed at home for a few days, and then went to my sister's store to help.

Ya's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and she still insists on going for a prenatal check-up once a week. Except for the prenatal check-up for a long time, she usually stays in her room, either memorizing poetry for a while, or practicing calligraphy and reading books for a while. Towards the end of the evening, she began to embroider the cross-stitch of "God is with us."

These days are as quiet as water, and Ya no longer thinks about making money. This time is also rare, the child is still in the womb, I don't need to care about him for the time being, this day and day a large chunk of time belongs to me, Ya can read and write quietly, do what she likes to do......

Spring flowers and autumn leaves cover the mottled years

The moon hangs in the sky to dispel the long silence of the night

The oil-paper umbrella interprets the ink Jiangnan

Wandering footprints on bluestone slabs

The sorrow of the cloves

Teardrops slipping from the umbrella

Tell a lingering thought

The edge of the season watches the heartbeat of the red dust

The long river of memory overflows

The yellowed thousand paper cranes are still warm

The years are like water, desolate and prosperous

Watching the warm years by the railing

A piece of Qinghuan paper is faint with ink

The tide rises and falls, and the sky is full of stars

Stay in the clear light and the lights are shining

Participate in the wind and smoke and write happily

……

Ya sometimes thinks: If you don't think about making a living, how good it would be to immerse yourself in memorizing poems, writing essays, and painting every day, what a comfortable life it would be! Probably those full-time painters and writers are in this state, they are famous and married, when they are in the stage of being nameless, do they also feel anxious and worried? They are undoubtedly happy and can work on what they love for the rest of their lives.

When we have a hobby, when it becomes a hobby, we can't help but think: how nice it would be if we could immerse ourselves in it all day! When Ya liked calligraphy, she would sit at the desk every morning to practice calligraphy, and she just wanted to practice calligraphy first after school every day. This situation lasted for a year, and writing also benefited a lot. Later, I slowly relaxed, because my homework was rushing. Especially after entering middle school, hobbies are on the back of my mind. It's like homework is the main job, writing and painting is the side job, if the side job is the main job, it seems to be not doing the right job.

Ya remembered that when she was a child, she loved to draw so much. Dad bought a few long paintings during the Spring Festival, and Ya still remembers that there are tigers, lions, plum orchids, bamboo chrysanthemums, ancient ladies, etc. Ya used a workbook and a pencil to draw the pictures on the wall, and the tigers and lions were depicted by her, and the pictures of the ladies were also very similar.

At that time, Ya liked to read comic books, those little bees and birds were so delicate and cute, and the colors were bright, Ya often used the homework book to describe those small animals. Ancient ladies are the most difficult to draw, but looking at the delicate and dexterous lady picture, Ya wants to paint exactly the same.

Seeing that Ya liked painting so much, her mother took him to her grandmother's house and told her uncle to let him teach Ya to paint, and her mother gave her some money. Uncle didn't teach Ya to paint, but gave Ya a book to teach painting, which taught how to draw insects and birds, and Ya drew according to the book.

At that time, Ya and her mother admired Uncle and thought he was very good at painting, because they saw that the self-portrait painted by Uncle was exactly the same as Uncle Xiao. Uncle didn't learn to draw, he was completely self-taught, buying some books and drawing while reading. Grandma asked the uncle to apply for art school, but the uncle agreed, but he didn't go. Ya and her mother both feel sorry for the uncle, now that I think about it, it should be that the uncle has no self-confidence, after all, he is all self-taught, and there is still a lack of penmanship skills. The people around him think he's great, but he knows the difference between himself and people from a professional background.

Uncle is a versatile and studious person, he also taught himself fashion design, made his own clothes at home, and asked his grandmother to set up a street stall to sell them. Ya remembers that there was a sewing machine at her grandmother's house, which was placed at the door of the house all year round, and her grandmother often used it to make sachets and sew clothes and insoles.

Grandma did not work in her life, and her daily routine was to cook, do housework, coax children to take care of children, and make some sachets, clothes, and insoles to sell on the street in her spare time. Grandma has two daughters and four sons, Dad is the eldest, it is said that Dad began to work at the age of thirteen or fourteen to earn money to support the family, uncles and aunts also started to work early, and they paid money to Grandma on time every month until they got married and started a family.

Every year when the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, grandma makes a lot of beautiful sachets, Ya remembers that there are birds, puppies, rabbits, big roosters, tigers, lions and other shapes. Grandma is ingenious, and the little animals she makes are vivid. Grandma's house has a small bamboo cart, grandma added 4 long bamboo poles to the top of the cart, and separated them by long bamboo poles in the middle, which can be separated by two or three layers, and grandma hung these delicate sachets on the bamboo poles. Every time around the Dragon Boat Festival, grandma pushes a small cart to the street to sell sachets.

Every Dragon Boat Festival, grandma gave each of the sisters a sachet, Ya they hung the sachet around their necks, the fragrance was refreshing, Ya they took it to the tip of their nose and smelled it again, looking intoxicated with their eyes closed.

Although life was difficult when I was a child, in Ya's memory, every festival was full of rituals. The good or bleak memories of childhood really run through a lifetime.

When I was a child, every afternoon or evening on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival, my parents wrapped the zongzi. The Ya sisters also helped to wrap it, although the bag was not good-looking, but it was finally wrapped, and the zongzi were wrapped with peanuts, sesame seeds, dates, etc. The night before, my mother gave Ya the colorful threads and tied them around their necks, wrists, and ankles.

On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Ya sisters got up happily, got dressed, and wore the sachet given by their grandmother around their necks. My mother would smear realgar wine on the ears of the sisters, which was said to ward off mosquitoes and poisonous snakes.

My mother boiled the rice dumplings, garlic, eggs, and duck eggs early in the morning, and made a pot of gnocchi egg porridge. Every morning, my mother would go out to buy a big bag of fritters and a few bowls of tofu brain. The fritters are soft and golden, and they are fragrant between the lips and teeth when you eat them.

When Ya grew up, she ate fried dough sticks in Beijing and fried dough sticks in the south, although the fried dough sticks in these places looked thicker than the fried dough sticks in her hometown, but she just couldn't eat the taste of her hometown. There is also tofu brain, the tofu brain in my hometown is white and lubricated, and it melts in the mouth. Beijing and the south also have tofu brains, but why can't they eat the smooth and sweet taste of their hometown?

Every time she returns to her hometown from other places, Ya must go to the breakfast shop near her home to eat tofu brain and fried dough sticks the next morning to relieve her nostalgia for being in other places.

Egg gnocchi may seem simple, but it takes some tricks to make it taste delicious. Ya thinks that the gnocchi made by her father is the most flavorful, and the gnocchi made by her mother is not as delicious as that made by her father.

Ya had lived at her grandmother's house for a while, and her grandmother had taught her how to make gnocchi. The noodles in the bowl do not need to be mixed with a lot of water, the most important thing is to keep stirring with chopsticks until the chopsticks lift the batter and lift it. This step takes effort and time, and then when the pot is put down, the chopsticks should be stirred quickly in the boiling water, and the batter in the bowl should be lowered slowly, and the chopsticks and batter will be entangled, blending together in the turbulent whirlpool. Then wait for the porridge to bloom, and then sprinkle the beaten eggs into the pot in a circle, and the gnocchi porridge that comes out of this way floats a layer of small lumps, and the eggs show the shape of large pieces, which is really a delicious delicacy to eat with fried dough sticks.

When Ya was confined, she didn't like to drink chicken soup and crucian carp soup, but only liked to drink egg gnocchi and brown sugar. A bowl of porridge is scooped into a large spoonful of brown sugar, and the whole bowl of porridge turns maroon, and it is sweet to the heart when you drink it. Ya Yuezi ate brown sugar gnocchi porridge three times a day, but she never got tired of eating it. However, at noon, there are mostly eggs and green onion noodles, and people can't go a day without salty.

Eating brown sugar after childbirth is very beneficial to the mother, which can promote the rapid recovery of physical fitness, promote the discharge of congestion in the uterine cavity, enhance the body's immunity, and promote the secretion of milk by the mammary glands.

During childbirth, a large amount of qi and blood will be lost, so that the body's physical energy will decline rapidly, and the body's immunity will be weakened rapidly, and brown sugar water can improve the physical fitness of the mother, so it can be taken.

If there is no special dietary contraindication for pregnant women, they can have a glass of brown sugar water every morning and evening, and wolfberry, red beans, jujubes, barley and other foods that have the ability to nourish the body and strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach can be added to the brown sugar water. In addition, ginger can be added and boiled together, which can dispel wind and cold, and prevent postpartum wind.

There are many benefits to eating pasta regularly. The pasta we often eat are batter, gnocchi, noodles, steamed buns, bread, buns, dumplings, etc.

Southerners love to eat, and northerners love to eat noodles, which is the dietary difference in our country. Ya has not been a picky eater since she was a child, whether she eats rice or pasta, she is used to eating.

Pasta and rice have their own strengths. Generally speaking, pasta is digested more than foods made from rice, and these two certainly belong to the same starchy food, but the structure of starch is different, and the result of digestion is not the same.

Especially pasta, for many people, there is a lot of stomach acid, and you should eat more because the soda used is alkaline and can neutralize excess stomach acid.

Some people like to eat steamed rice one by one, while Ya likes to eat rice that has been boiled for a long time. People who like to eat rice in the south, if they have a bad stomach, try to make the rice softer, the harder the rice, the less likely it is to digest. You should also try to eat less glutinous rice noodles, otherwise it will be bad for digestion.

Pasta is made from flour, which is derived from wheat. Wheat is peaceful and sweet. However, it has a slight dampness and stagnation compared to rice, so it is necessary to process flour into products, or dry it into cereals. Its stomach tonic health is slightly poor, and its qi-invigorating effect is better than that of stomach.

So generally speaking, people with a good stomach should be good at eating brown foods and pasta, while people with a weak stomach should eat fine grains. In addition, pasta is easy to digest and is also associated with processing.

In general, pasta has many nutritional effects: pasta is easy to digest, high in calories, and can be eaten more often. Pasta also has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and has a health care effect on the weakness of the spleen and stomach.