The eldest aunt brought a bowl of gnocchi out of the kitchen, she glanced at her concubine, and said to Liu Zhiqiang: "Zhiqiang, there are still a lot of gnocchi in the pot, call your brothers and sisters, and one person can share a bowl!" ”

Hu Shi saw that the bowl in his sister-in-law's hand was a gnocchi made of pure white noodles, which was fried with lard and chopped green onions, and it smelled fragrant. She knew that Yu Xiaocao brought this white noodles, so she said curtly: "Our family just had breakfast, just make a bowl for Xiaocao, what are you doing with wasting that white noodles!" ”

The eldest aunt smiled faintly: "Mother said, how can I not miss the children's mouthful!" You can't eat the grass, my cousins are watching from the side, can the grass still be eaten? Xiaocao, you're hungry, let's go, go inside and eat! ”

The gnocchi is made according to the number of children's heads, and one bowl per person for seven children is enough. Liu Feiying and Liu Zhiwei thought they were adults, and served the bowl they shared to their grandparents. After pushing for a long time, the gnocchi is almost cold and there is no result. Yu Xiaocao took two bowls from the kitchen, and made seven bowls full of gnocchi into nine half bowls. Liu's coarse porcelain bowl, half a bowl is enough to fill her little belly.

The two old and seven children sat around the kang table and ate gnocchi happily. The gnocchi made by Han's family, although there were no eggs, the ears of noodles were stirred finely and boiled thickly, which was very suitable for Yu Xiaocao's appetite. After eating the gnocchi in the bowl, Yao had to pour some from most of his remaining bowl. First, Yu Xiaocao was really full, and second, she really didn't have the habit of eating other people's saliva, so she resolutely resigned.

After a simple and warm lunch, the wind and snow outside stopped. Yu Xiaocao took advantage of the snow to stop and prepared to go back. The Liu family didn't have anything to give in return, so Liu Cunjin brought the last ten catties of green wheat left in the family to his granddaughter. He remembered that his daughter and granddaughter liked to drink porridge made of green barley, which was specially reserved for them.

After giving the New Year's gift, it was soon Chinese New Year's Eve. There was still light snow on this day, and there was a world of pink and jade outside. The room was steaming and full of New Year's flavor.

Chinese New Year's Eve is still spent by the Yu family and the Liu family. The Chinese New Year's Eve meal is very rich, and the meat dishes include: sweet and sour fish symbolizing the surplus of each year, braised lion head, minced tofu clips, braised pork, pork stewed vermicelli, and a pot of red boiled meat slices; There are also a lot of vegetarian dishes, including shiitake mushroom greens, silver sprout spinach, oyster sauce lettuce, mapo tofu, dry pot potato chips, vinegared cabbage; The soup is pork rib soup and three fresh soups, both meat and vegetarian, which one you like to drink. The staple food is white and fat steamed buns, which exude the fragrance of wheat, and you can eat two of them even if you don't eat any dishes.

In the year of the locust plague, both meat and vegetables were relatively scarce, and even the rich families in the city could not find a few such a rich Chinese New Year's Eve meal as the Yu family. Tanggu's Zhenyu Lou launched a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner worth hundreds of taels. The big shopkeeper bought a few boxes of vegetables and hundreds of catties of potatoes from the Yu family at a high price.

Not to mention, there are fresh vegetables in winter, as well as fresh species introduced from the West - potatoes, this gimmick can make those celebrities in Tanggu Town who have become popular flock to it, and more than 20 tables of Chinese New Year's Eve meals are booked out at a very fast speed. There are a lot of undecided, and I still ask when there will be a similar banquet, and I must leave a table for them......

However, most of the people in the disaster area have had a miserable year. Those who can eat white flour are considered good, and many people are full of coarse grain cakes. As for the dishes, don't think about it. When the locust plague comes, not all villages collect the vegetables in the vegetable fields in advance like Dongshan Village and make dried vegetables or pickles. Later, there were locusts and they could not grow vegetables, and there was nowhere to buy silver. As for meat, who can afford it!! Therefore, most families gather together as a family, holding coarse noodle cakes bitterly, with a little salty soup, and hastily ending the annual Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Many families in Dongshan Village, because they have dried vegetables at home, put them together in a pot, put more oil, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is considered to be coping with the past. Dumplings to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new in the evening, then there is none. What dumplings do you eat without meat and vegetables? If you can save it, you can save it.

Compared with the lively and warm atmosphere of the Yu family's old mansion, the Yu family's mansion is much more deserted. It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and no matter how capable the Zhang family is, she can't conjure things out of thin air. At the beginning, Zhang didn't believe Yu Hai's words, thinking that he made it up to deceive people, and the vegetables in the vegetable field were not harvested at all, and all the locusts were cheap. Fortunately, when Zhang's usual digging sea intestines, he also took advantage of the low tide to dig up some clams to make dried clams, and also picked up some kelp and sea vegetables, dried them, and now they are all stewed in one pot. And a few days ago, Yu Dashan went out to the sea once, leaving a small sea fish, and finally made up two meals.

The fishermen on the seaside have long been tired of eating seashells and sea fish, and Zhang's cooking is reluctant to put oil, and the white water is cooked with a little salt, and the taste can be imagined.

Li Shi frowned and swallowed the tasteless clam meat, rolled his eyes, and said, "Mother, it seems that Yu Hai has really broken off relations with our side!" ”

Zhang raised his eyelids and glanced at her, but did not answer. Li continued: "I heard that Yu Hai sent more than a dozen catties of pork to the uncle's family, the fat is three fingers thick, and there is a bag of white noodles, not to mention twenty catties. I also gave a lot of Chinese cabbage and radish. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the uncle's family must be full of oil and water! ”

"Mother!! I said to go to the second uncle's house to buy a few catties of fatty meat, but you didn't let me. Now I envy people for having meat to eat,......" Kuroko frowned and nibbled on the coarse grain cake, complaining to his mother.

I have become a regular employee of the wharf, and I have saved no less than ten taels of silver in a year. Grandma is reluctant to pay for meat, he just pays for some, why should the family be so clear? But the mother had to let it, saying that she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat the meat in their mouths, and it was cheap for the uncle's family. Alas! It would be nice if I could split up like the second uncle, my father went to sea to fish, he went to work at the wharf, and my mother took care of the housework at home.

Xiao Doudou gnawed on the cake aggrievedly, tilted his head to the side, unwilling to eat the fish that Zhao brought to his mouth: "Don't eat it, it's too fishy!" ”

It's been a few months since he came back, and Zhang's family can't always open a small stove for his youngest son's family. Since the locust plague came, there was no income in the family, and all the food was bought with money, and the silver flowed out in an uproar. The eldest son was picked up by the Li family, and only half of the money was handed over for each fishing sale. There weren't many of them, but now they're even less.

In the year of the disaster, almost all the fishing villages by the sea rely on the sea to live, especially the sea intestines and oysters, which are collected by the Zhou family's workshop, and the price is not low, so not only the villages near the sea, but even the villages that are a little farther away, there will be people who get up early and rush to dig the sea intestines and pick up the oysters. The nearby sea intestines were dug up and were almost extinct, and she might not be able to dig them if she had to go farther away. There are three more people in the family to chew, and the savings in their hands are getting smaller and smaller, and Zhang's mouth is so anxious that his mouth is full of fire bubbles.

But what can be done? The youngest son's hand does not leave the book every day, and the house is not very out, and the little daughter-in-law while watching the child, while embroidering some handkerchiefs, insoles and other small pieces to sell in the town, in exchange for the money is not hidden, it is handed over to her. But the embroidery is too slow, and the small pieces can't be sold at a high price, compared with so many people in the family opening their mouths to eat, it is tantamount to a drop in the bucket. After a few months, Zhang's hair turned white, his waist was bent, and he looked more than ten years older than before.

Zhao sighed softly and persuaded his son softly: "Doudou, eat more fish to grow taller." ”

"That'...... I'll just take one bite! When I grow up, I will be able to help the family work like Brother Shi! Xiaoshi aggrievedly took the fish meat in his mouth, swallowed it without chewing, and drank coarse grain porridge to wash away the fishy smell in his mouth.

Li began to say sour words again: "'Brother Shi', it's very close!" You treat people as brothers, but people don't treat you as brothers. People must be eating big fish and meat now, why do you want someone to call you along? ”

Zhao glanced at her unhappily, and said pointedly: "The second brother has long been separated, and no matter how good the relationship is, it can be regarded as two families." I'm not that thick-skinned, and I'm always trying to take advantage of others. ”

Li flicked his chopsticks, pointed at Zhao's nose, and said, "Who do you say is thick-skinned?" You're not thick-skinned, who always rushes to get some food? It is said that it is to teach people to embroider, who is to coax? The family eats bran at home, you might as well take your son to someone's house to eat fragrant and spicy food, eat it yourself for nothing, and don't care whether the man lives or dies. Is there such a daughter-in-law as you? ”

In terms of quarrels, where is the Zhao family's opponent of the Li family, she was so angry that her eyes were red, and she said hatefully: "I taught Xiaocao Xiaolian embroidery, and the second brother's family entertained me and Doudou for dinner in order to thank me." Sister-in-law, it's useless for you to be greedy! People's feelings are mutual, and there is a return for paying. Sitting at home and doing nothing, waiting for the beautiful thing of pie falling from the sky, only sister-in-law can do it! ”

Li opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Zhang slapping it on the table.

"What's the noise? Big New Year!! The eldest daughter-in-law, the third daughter-in-law ate yours or drank yours? It is the ability of people to make people eat willingly. Do you have what it takes, do you want to try it too? It's strange if you don't beat your big stick!! "Zhang's is getting more and more tired of the Li family, who is lazy and gluttonous, and always has nothing to do.

Li pursed his lips and said, "Mother, you will be partial to the youngest son and daughter-in-law." Have you ever thought about how your eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law feel? Why didn't the second family treat us to us, isn't it because you are too desperate and break people's hearts? If you don't divide the family, the big house of the second family, and so much land, aren't they all ours? ”

Zhang glared at her fiercely and said, "Who said that Yu Hai's leg is not good, and their family is sick and weak, which will definitely drag us down and let me think of separating the family?" Without your backing, can I risk being scolded and break people up? ”

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Thank you Nana for the red envelope.