Chapter 36: Singing about wine
After sending away Li Pang and Liu Wugang, Mingfang picked and washed the shepherd's cabbage he brought, boiled the water, and scalded it. She took a knife and went outside the house to slaughter the hare. The old man hurriedly stopped her and told her to sell it for money. Mingfang laughed, saying that this rabbit was caught by his father, and he should have stewed it to relieve his father's hunger, and besides, how could he finish making money, and he couldn't fall into the eyes of money.
The old man was relieved to hear this. On a snowy day, the father and daughter had a good meal.
Mingfang quickly disposed of the rabbits, hung the fur on the branches, and dug holes for the dirty things to bury. Cut the rabbit meat into pieces, there was more dry firewood on the side of the hut, Mingfang took advantage of the effort to go out to hold firewood, entered the space, and took the condiments of the stew.
Boil the water, blanch the rabbit meat and take it out, then put oil, put onion and garlic, soy sauce, bean paste, fry the fragrance, put water, pour in the rabbit meat, boil over high heat, remove the firewood and simmer over low heat.
Called the dry wood under the stove to burn, Mingfang put the scalded shepherd's cabbage on the board and chopped it into a filling, poured out the white noodles brought into the basin, put water and reconciled, beat the shepherd's cabbage filling into two eggs, poured in soybean oil, sesame oil, pepper powder, salt, stirred evenly, Mingfang began to knead the dough and roll the skin.
Old man Lin was happy when he saw Ming Fang busy with his work! The radio sang the red lantern of the model play, and put his voice loud, and he started to help make dumplings.
The father and daughter rolled the skin and made dumplings, and Mingfang also stuffed two firewoods into the stove from time to time.
The dumplings were wrapped, and the fire was burned for a while, and the rabbit meat was stewed, and the smell of meat wafted all over the house.
Old man Lin moved the dining table to the kang, set up two bowls, two pairs of chopsticks, and poured wine.
Mingfang's rabbit meat and dumplings here are also on the table, steaming. The father and daughter sat cross-legged on the kang facing each other. The old man picked up the wine glass, his eyes brightened: "Girl, it's good for the old man to have you, thank you girl!"
At this moment, the snow is flying outside the window, and the food inside is fragrant. Thousands of acres of forest farm, a cottage. It's so warm, so quiet. At this moment, the two seem to be out of the world, only family affection!
Ming Fang raised her wine glass and touched it with the old man: "Thanks to my father's refusal to give up, I have another relative!
Touched the glass. The old man raised his hand and drank the wine in the glass, and Mingfang also drank it dry. Mingfang picked up the wine bottle and filled it for the old man, and poured it for herself.
"Come, taste a piece of rabbit meat," Ming Fang grabbed a piece of rabbit meat and sent it to the old man's mouth, the old man quickly opened his mouth, nodded while eating, and smiled at the corners of his eyes.
"Well, the girl's cooking, it's so delicious! This is the best meal the old man has ever eaten!"
Mingfang smiled and picked up another dumpling: "Dad likes to eat, come, try dumplings again!"
The old man swallowed the rabbit meat in his mouth, ate the dumplings again, and raised his wine glass: "Come, man, drink! Dumplings are wine, and the more you drink, the more you will have! Today, the old man will celebrate the New Year! This is even happier than the New Year!"
The old man drained the wine in his glass.
Mingfang took a sip of wine and put a few pieces of meat in the old man's bowl: "Dad, in the future, we will celebrate the New Year every day." I'll come to the hut to accompany you if I have the kung fu, and I'll make you whatever your old man wants to eat, okay?"
The old man's eyes glistened with tears in his eyes, and he couldn't stop nodding: "Good! good! good boy......"
Seeing the old man's happy and excited appearance, Ming Fang had a whim, and a thought came to him: "Hey, I'll sing you a song, right?"
The old man put down his chopsticks: "Haha, you sing, you sing, the old man likes to hear you sing!
Ming Fangxin said, when have you ever heard me sing? Since I was reborn, I have never sung a word. In her previous life, although she lacked family affection when she was a child, she was angry with her stepmother, but she was naturally optimistic, loved to talk, laugh and sing, and actively participated in various recreational activities in school when she was in college, and the songs she could sing went to the sea. At this moment, she thought of one.
Mingfang sat on the kang, knocked on the edge of the bowl with chopsticks, and hummed the song "Always Go Home to See"
"Find some free time, find some time, and take the children home often. With a smile and wishes, accompany your lover to go home often...... The old man doesn't want his children to contribute much to the family, he always works for the rest ......of his life, so he runs for peace and security."
From the beginning, Mingfang wanted to make the old man happy and help him drink. She sang and sang, and the more she sang, the more focused she became, and she sang so excitedly that her voice trembled. The old man was stunned, his eyes were full of tears, but he had a smile on his face, and his eyes looked at Mingfang without blinking.
When Mingfang finished singing, the old man grabbed Mingfang: "Man, you sing so well, where did you learn this song, why have I never heard it?"
Ming Fang grinned in her heart, and said in her heart, I learned from Chen Hong in my last life.
"Oh, I am...... Hum while thinking about words, it's like chatter, I'm just singing blindly, singing blindly, where is it good!"
"The old man doesn't want his children to contribute much to the family, and he will run for peace and security all his life. Old man Lin couldn't help nodding, "Yes, that's the truth." You kid has thoughts, and in the future, you will definitely have a future!"
Ming Fang smiled and raised her glass: "Haha! Then I'll borrow my father's auspicious words!"
Ming Fang and Old Man Lin were eating meat and drinking wine and chatting in the forest hut, and they were happy.
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Liu Erqin and his wife followed what Ming Fang said, found two broken sacks, and pulled out an old cotton mattress for the pig to pad. Li Hongbao and Honghua ran to Chunyu's house next door after breakfast. Chunyu came to call them, saying that her father bought Jiang rice noodles from the supply and marketing cooperative, and when the two heard about it, they put down their jobs and ran over.
Li Yam didn't stay at home for a while, he didn't arrange to go to work today, and he went out after breakfast and didn't know where to visit.
Liu Erqin sat alone on the kang to make shoes for the child. It's almost the New Year, adults, and the children have to put on new clothes. She listened to the drama box as she flew the needle and threaded. The soles and uppers were sewn, and she struggled to lift the uppers with an awl in one hand and the sole of the shoe with the other.
The best one was placed beside her, and it was a safflower shoe, a black strip of flannel, with two small flowers embroidered on the toe. She has always been bad at needlework, but she is fast, and with a pair of shoes in her hand, she took the time to make it in one or two.
When it was almost noon, Liu Erqin's shoes were ready, and she just got off the kang and was about to make lunch, when she listened to the sound of the branches shouting in the yard.
"Erqin, how is your pig?"
Liu Erqin came out when he heard the sound, and Zhizi stood next to the pigsty, looking at the pigsty with his eyes.
Liu Erqin came over to take a look, ouch, her big black pig was standing in front of the pig trough, and her mouth arched to eat the leftover porridge inside. Liu Erqin's eyes immediately widened: "Hey, my pig...... Stand up, want to eat, ouch, that girl from the Liu family...... She really didn't talk nonsense?"
Zhizi was also shocked: "Erqin, your pig, is it really the girl of the Liu family?"
Who else could she be!
Liu Erqin fought with the Liu family last night, Liu Erqin went crazy and Zhang Meiyu did not give up, and the girl of the Liu family immediately boasted that she could cure the Li family's pigs, and this matter had already spread throughout the village and became a household name.