Chapter 45: The Joy of Chinese New Year's Eve
Gu Mingtang looked at Lu Liangzhou and asked, "How many dishes?" ”
“…… Heptad. ”
"Oops, you can't make a singular number." Gu Mingtang glanced around, "It's all meat, you have to get some vegetarian, shallots mixed with tofu?" ”
Lu Hui, who was drooling when he heard it, finally couldn't help but stick his head out from behind the door curtain, "Mom, my grandmother said that you can't eat tofu during the New Year, it's not good, it's not good." ”
I think so.
But this little guy is quite superstitious.
It just so happened that Gu Mingli came at this time and brought a bundle of frozen celery for dumplings at night.
I also brought a pot of fried golden and crispy little trash fish.
This is a snack, for the two babies to chew and play.
The bones and heads are gone.
If you want to say that Gu Qingshan can't do it anywhere else, he is delicate and thoughtful in this regard.
He also quietly fished out the carp from the big river loop, and only brought it to Gu Mingtang after cleaning it up.
After the northern Chinese New Year's Eve night dinner, dumplings are still to be made at about ten o'clock in the evening, and most of them have to eat celery filling, which means that the new year will be hardworking and capable.
Lu Liangzhou had already left red sausages for the Gu family, and then Gu Mingtang gave Gu Mingli a small handful of garlic sprouts, asked her to go back and scrambled eggs to eat, and asked her to bring back a bowl of radish meatballs.
After a while, Captain Zhou and his eldest son also came, named Zhou Feng, Zhou Zongming's father, and thanked him again, and quietly brought wolf meat and two wolf teeth.
The wolf's teeth were dealt with and tied with a red rope, saying that it could ward off evil spirits, but the child could not wear them, so just find a place to put them up.
Gu Mingtang stuffed a paper bag of White Rabbit toffee, and when the others left, she continued to cook.
Then the eighth dish was decided, which was stir-fried vermicelli with celery, and pork belly was placed in it.
The dish is stir-frying, and the call is coming.
Lu Hui and Lu Xueyan hugged each other with cheers.
Gu Mingtang deliberately changed to a large wattage, and for the New Year, he had to be bright.
After a while, the loudspeaker sounded, "Attention to all members, first of all, on behalf of the brigade department, my Lao Zhou thanked all the members of our Lingxi brigade ......"
Let's go for it, give Gu Mingtang a compliment in the middle.
Finally, summarize the encouragement.
I feel that this year's Lingxi Brigade is very different from previous years.
The four members of the Lu family sat around the Eight Immortals table, with eight dishes on it, a chair for each person, and a stove next to it, and the kettle on it was boiling water, and the whole room exuded fragrance.
Who is most excited?
Of course, it's two babies.
Eating like this is very ceremonial.
Looking at the beauty under the lamp, you can see seven points of three colors, not to mention that Gu Mingtang already has nine colors, she is as happy as a child, she is really smiling like a flower.
Lu Liangzhou only glanced at it, and then quietly withdrew his gaze.
It's too dazzling.
He thought of the Lu family thousands of miles away, and thought of his father who he saw at the conference, who hadn't seen him for five years, and his father's temples were gray and much older.
and the eldest sister who has been waiting for him to come to the door to apologize and admit his mistakes.
Although his birth was a mistake, it was not a reason for his family to hate him.
Although there is no snowstorm outside, the temperature is very low, but the interior is warm as spring, and with a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, no matter who you are, you will feel happiness from the bottom of your heart.
Two months ago, Lu Liangzhou felt that Gu Mingtang was ugly, and he was bored at a glance.
Two months later, Lu Liangzhou, although he only glanced at her, felt that the old lady in the department store was right, this woman was indeed beautiful.
Beautiful, so that he didn't dare to look at it a second time.
At this time, in City A, Lu Huai went to a sanatorium, and as every year, he visited his father-in-law in a vegetative state, and his eldest daughter stood aside and didn't look at him.
When I got home, Lu Huai was standing in the foyer, my stepson Lu Yuanqi was talking to Zhang Zhen with a smile on his face, Shen Wan was feeding the two children, and the nanny was busy and kept getting things for them.
Lu Huai also had to go down to the grassroots level and signaled the nanny not to speak.
He didn't enter the house, turned around and left his house.
He thought, he didn't know how the Liangzhou family was now, and he would have to make a phone call later.
Hopefully it's okay.
His grandchildren should be four years old.
What do boys look like, what do girls look like?
Somehow, I suddenly had a strong curiosity about the two children.
At this time, the two babies were surrounding Gu Mingtang, looking at Gu Mingtang with anticipation to make them milk jelly, so much milk, all of them were semi-frozen, Gu Mingtang was ready to make the simplest milk jelly according to the existing ingredients.
Of course, it's milk jelly to tell the children, after all, there is no fruit in it, and it doesn't match.
Milk, sugar, cornstarch are all available, put a small aluminum pot on the stove, pour about two catties of milk, then add sugar and starch, and start to boil over low heat.
The two babies had never heard of milk jelly, and Lu Hui asked curiously, "Mom, is this the same as the meat jelly made by grandma?" ”
"It's almost, but I'm the first to do it, I don't know if it will be successful." Gu Mingtang is also uncertain.
"Mom, you're so tired, it's going to happen, I'm going to eat jelly." Xueyan stared at the pot with her eyes, and patted her ass with a milky voice.
About the time after that, pour it into a basin.
Gu Mingtang said that it would be cooled for thirty minutes, but if it was placed outside, it would be frozen, so it was simply placed on the shelf on the north wall, and Lu Hui and Lu Xueyan began to look at Lu Liangzhou's watch without blinking.
Lu Liangzhou simply took off the watch and gave it to his son.
Then she stared at Gu Mingtang, she really likes to do this and that, just like a big child.
Half an hour, and it was really done.
Press it up and bounce it.
When they poured it out, the eyes of both babies were shining.
Cut it into small pieces and put it in the snack plate, one by one, Gu Mingtang asked Lu Liangzhou, who seemed to be reading the documents, if he wanted a piece.
Without waiting for Lu Liangzhou to say it, the two babies couldn't wait to swallow it in their stomachs without chewing a few bites.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Gu Mingtang was taken aback, fortunately it was jelly, what if it was something else?
Gu Mingtang decided not to give them food, and she herself ate them one by one, eating neither fast nor slow, and the two babies were about to cry.
They looked at their father expectantly, and cast aggrieved eyes for help.
Lu Liangzhou ate a piece, noncommittal, and said, "It tastes good." ”
Asking for help is ineffective.
I had to beg my mother.
Gu Mingtang looked at the two babies pitiful, so he gave another piece to one of them, and asked them slowly, "How do you eat this time?" ”
"Eat slowly like mom and dad do." Lu Hui assured loudly.
"Do you know what you guys looked like?" Gu Mingtang asked seriously.
Lu Xueyan hurriedly replied, "It's like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit." ”
Gu Mingtang smiled at this time. Then hand them two snack plates.
Lu Liangzhou glanced at Gu Mingtang, who was smiling, lightly, and then at Ah Hui and Xue Yan, who were sitting on the hot kang with a snack plate and eating milk jelly, with a softness in his eyes that he didn't even notice.