Chapter 101: Farewell to the Old and Welcome to the New
Xu Haibo just went to eat meat, the Xu family ate heavy food, and he didn't drink water, he was thirsty.
There is just this sweet and sour juice, so why not drink enough in a bowl?
A bowl of soup was drunk into his stomach by him.
"Milk, this is delicious, much stronger than the one in my grandfather's cup, sweet and sour."
Children are simple-minded, good or not, and the taste is directly judged.
As soon as Xu Haibo shouted like this, Xu Jinfeng and Xu Jinxiu also came to their senses, and they all ran over and surrounded Zhou Guilan.
"Milk, what a good thing, we have to drink it too."
Originally, I was coaxing the children, and now the children want to drink, so why don't you hurry?
Zhou Guilan simply took out a stack of bowls, filled a bowl for each baby, and gave Su Anying and Wu Qiuyan some too.
"You two can taste it too, it's delicious." Pregnant women can have special treatment.
"Do it yourself if you want to drink, there is still it in the pot, add some water and continue to steam when you are done, and you can steam it twice more."
Zhou Guilan looked back at Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong, they have been married to daughters-in-law for several years, and they don't need their mother-in-law to do this, they can eat whatever they want.
Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong were not polite, they went down to the ground to get a bowl and drank some of each.
Not to mention, this sweet and sour taste is indeed very suitable for a woman's taste, and it is very delicious.
"Third child, look at you silently for a day, but you can figure it out, you can poke out anything."
Wei Mingrong drank the juice in two sips, and couldn't help but praise Xu Shiyan twice.
It's just that when she said this, she didn't know whether it was a praise or a loss.
Xu Shiyan smiled when he heard this, but he didn't say anything, he made these to coax his daughter-in-law, and it was purely piggyback for the family.
Of course, you can't say that, whatever they think.
At this time, women and children drank juice, men drank wine, and the reunion dinner was delicious.
Until five o'clock, when I was full of food and drink, there were still a lot of dishes left on the table.
Men drank too much, or slept or chatted together, while women were busy cleaning up.
The big pot in the kitchen boiled water, and the two kangs in the West House were boiling hot, and a large basin was made in the middle of the floor and hot water was poured on it.
Xue Xiulin and Wei Mingrong pressed the children into the water one by one and scrubbed them.
When the children finished washing and plugged in the door, the women also took their own baths.
For the New Year, remove the old cloth and wash it before you can change into new clothes for the New Year.
After all this work, it is not too early, call the man up, go and wash the one who should be washed, and then start to jingle the meat and vegetables, and bread and dumplings.
In the Xu family, the dumplings for the New Year must be filled with cabbage and radish.
Cabbage is homophonic to Baicai, and radish is also called Laifu, which are all excellent meanings.
Everything was ready, and the panels were put on the south kang in the east house, and the women either sat on the kang or took a stool and began to make dumplings.
The weather in the northeast is cold, and there must be a kang at home, so I have developed a habit, and I am willing to do a lot of work on the kang.
The old lady in the Northeast is even more unique, sitting cross-legged.
Of course, Zhou Guilan will, and saw her sitting cross-legged on the side of the panel, kneading the dough with her hands.
After a short time, knead the dough into long strips, and then knead it into an evenly sized agent by hand, and put the agent neatly in a row.
If you talk about it, you can't cut it with a knife as fast as you can cut it with your hands.
But in this year, eating dumplings is not just a meal, it represents more of a meaning, and there must be a sense of ritual.
Anyway, here in Zhou Guilan, dumplings must be made by hand, this is a rule, and it is not allowed to be broken.
A piece of noodles is quickly kneaded into four neat rows, at this time grab a handful of thin noodles and sprinkle them, and flatten the agents with your hands.
The daughters-in-law can take it, roll it out into a dumpling wrapper with a rolling pin, wrap it with filling, and place it neatly on the curtain.
It is definitely not fast to make dumplings like this, but fortunately there are many people in the family, otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to eat dumplings until the second half of the night.
There are many Xu families, and there are many dumplings, starting from more than eight o'clock and continuing until eleven o'clock, before they are finished.
It just so happened that Xu Shixiang also fried melon seeds, pine nuts, hazelnuts, etc., so he boiled water to cook dumplings.
The dumplings were put into the pot, and Xu Chenghou led his children and grandchildren to light firecrackers outside.
In the sound of firecrackers, the children clapped their hands and laughed and made trouble, and the new year also came in laughter.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
Firecrackers rang out one after another, and Xu Chenghou also coaxed his grandchildren to light a few firecrackers and coax the children to play.
It didn't stop until the house shouted to eat dumplings.
"Let's go, go back to the house and eat dumplings, kowtow to grandpa after eating dumplings, grandpa has a red envelope for you." Xu Chenghou coaxed his grandchildren, who had not yet finished playing, into the house.
The little babies have been out for a long time, and their faces are red from the cold.
Rao is like this, they don't feel cold, they are very happy.
The New Year, the children live, the New Year is theirs, only these carefree children are the happiest.
I ate at five o'clock in the afternoon, and in the middle of the night, I was hungry, and it was a delicious dumpling, who was not hungry?
What's more, Zhou Guilan also said that the dumplings are packed with money, sugar, peanuts, and dates.
At this time, several babies were staring, and they had to eat money.
Xu Shiyan didn't have that mind, so he casually grabbed the dumplings nearby and put them in his mouth.
As a result, I took a bite of it, and I suddenly clenched my teeth, and looked down, okay, it's a two-cent coin.
"Okay, good, it seems that the third child can still make a fortune this year, okay."
The dumplings are wrapped with candy and money, just to please the mouth, to have an auspicious meaning.
So as soon as Xu Shiyan ate the money, Zhou Guilan said a few good words with a smile.
The others also said a good word, and then they each ate their heads, all wanting to eat something.
Xu Shixiang took a bite of the dumpling, it didn't feel right, it squeaked, and he saw that there was a peanut in it.
"I don't eat money, I eat peanuts." Don't care what you're eating, it's all good anyway, Xu Shixiang is very happy.
"Then you will definitely be able to get admitted to college today, peanut, go on to higher education." Xu Shiyan answered over there.
This peanut means rising step by step, which itself means taking an auspicious meaning.
Xu Shiyan's explanation is not wrong, but it is more desirable.
Xu Shixiang became happy when he heard it, "Thank you, third brother, with the third brother's auspicious words, I will try again this year." ”
Last year's failure was unwilling, Xu Shixiang made up his mind to review and retake the exam, but he didn't dare to say it clearly, and he didn't care about it now.
He also saved some money from hunting a year ago, and bought some books, and this year he had to go to university.
Xu Chenghou didn't say anything when he heard the words of his fifth son.
Now he also understands some things, his son has his own opinions when he is older, and it is impossible for people to listen to him for everything.
He's an old guy and can't keep up with his thoughts, so don't care so much, just whatever.