Chapter 41: It's New Year
When I wake up again, it will be the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Jiang Xinyu and Jiang Yuzhu didn't have new clothes to wear this year, but new cotton was added to the patched old cotton jacket, and the old cotton was also taken out to dry. There is no new outerwear, but the sweater inside is a new one brought back from Shanghai, although it has been worn for a while, but it is still a new clothes.
Jiang Xinyu learned from the memory of the original owner that the children of this year will pick up the old clothes of their brothers and sisters, and there may not be a new clothes for several years. After all, cloth tickets are not easy to obtain, and even if there are cloth tickets, it costs money to pull cloth. Some families would also spin their own homespun cloth to make clothes to wear.
Jiang Xinyu wears a military coat and Comrade Chen Xiuyun to go to the town every day, and when she gets up today, she still wears a military coat with a sweater on her head, and the lower half of her body is the only pair of pants without patches owned by the original owner, which is still black.
Jiang Xinyu boiled the pot after washing, and after distilling the red dates and white flour steamed buns and a few steamed buns, Comrade Chen Xiuyun put the chopped fish into the pot.
There are three more fish sent by Chen Yi who are alive in the pot, this morning they killed one and stewed and eaten, and the remaining two Chen Xiuyun is going to eat one more when she keeps her eldest daughter back to her parents' house, and another one when she celebrates the Lantern Festival, and the five fish are all arranged clearly.
Today, every household is willing to eat well, no matter whether they have money or not, they have to eat meat on a whole plate at night.
Jiang Youfu next door, Ma Meili is not very comfortable, a while ago the family handed over the New Year's pig, the pig was rated as a third-class pig, Mrs. Li was dissatisfied, but she still got some money, and she pinched it.
Ma Meili didn't get the meat, not to mention, she didn't have a cent of the money, who did the old lady keep the money for? Aren't the two boys born to Zhang Fengmei? Although the meat was divided in the brigade a few years ago, it was all marinated and made into bacon, and it was to be kept for next year to eat slowly, and even today, you can't eat it with an open stomach.
Ma Meili thought that the smoked fish that Chen Xiuyun gave her was going to be served at night, and she felt a little distressed. Hearing Mrs. Li say that she would let the third family come to dinner in the evening, she was instinctively unhappy, she dared to say that Zhang Fengmei couldn't get anything good.
Ma Meili rolled her eyes and said to Old Man Jiang: "Dad, this Chinese New Year, is it inappropriate to just call the third family and not the eldest sister-in-law, mother and daughter?" ”
Old man Jiang nodded, "You can talk to them later, come to dinner in the evening, this is the New Year, the family is lively." ”
Mrs. Li's face pulled down again, thinking of what happened a few days ago, Chen Xiuyun's cold-blooded ruthlessness, even if she was unfilial to her mother-in-law, it also made Zhang Fengmei bear the reputation of a thief and couldn't raise her head in the team, thinking of this, she couldn't eat when she saw Chen Xiuyun's mother and daughter's three sweeps of Xing's angry face.
"What do you tell them to do! The New Year's Eve is all for bad luck! ”
Ma Meili thought to herself, letting Zhang Fengmei come over is to find bad luck, she and Zhang Fengmei have a feud, and they didn't speak when they met for a while, Ma Meili was more willing to deal with Chen Xiuyun than Zhang Fengmei.
Old man Jiang glanced at Mrs. Li, the corners of her mouth twitched fiercely, and Mrs. Li suddenly stopped talking.
Smelling the aroma of stewed fish from next door, Ma Meili was envious, during this time, Chen Xiuyun's family had eaten a lot of meat, and the mother and daughter had a small population, so they would definitely be able to eat with an open stomach. Unlike their family, although they are nominally separated, every time there is meat to eat, it is the mother-in-law who has the final say on how much meat can be cut, and when the meat is on the table, the meat is eaten by the men in the family, and the mother-in-law herself does not eat much, let alone let her and Pandi eat as much meat.
If Jiang Pandi sandwiches an extra piece of meat, not only Mrs. Li will squint at her, but Ma Meili will also be unhappy.
Jiang Xinyu's house, when the fish was stewed, Chen Xiuyun took out a large plate of vegetables, brought it to the table, and then asked Jiang Yuzhu to soak two bowls of malt milk essence.
Jiang Yuzhu soaked three bowls directly.
Chen Xiuyun said: "Let me drink it and waste it." ”
Jiang Xinyu disagreed, and said sweetly: "Mom, what a waste of waste." In the future, our family will not be happy to let you endure hardships, my mother is well, and our sisters can be good! ”
Jiang Yuzhu nodded, "Little sister is right!" ”
Chen Xiuyun had a smile on her face, she thought, who said that a girl is not as good as a son?
The fish is stewed with dried radish and tassel vegetables that were dried before, which absorbs the taste of the fish soup and is also fragrant.
The specifications of this meal on the morning of the thirtieth are still quite high, white flour steamed buns with stewed fish, and sweet and delicious malt milk essence, the mother and daughter eat it with their stomachs open, and there is still half of it left in the pot.
Compared with the days spent in the old Jiang family in the memory of the original owner in the past, Jiang Xinyu is not too comfortable now.
Mrs. Li can't see her granddaughters and daughters-in-law eating meat at home, but whenever there is meat in the dishes, they are all eaten by the men in the family.
Although they can't eat meat a few times a year in the old Jiang family, Jiang Jianmin and Chen Xiuyun will privately subsidize the three sisters, and the malt milk essence and peach crisp always eat more than other girls a year.
Chen Xiuyun plans to cook three meals today, and she will eat the leftover fish at noon, and as for the evening, she will stir-fry a few dishes. This year, her family does not post Spring Festival couplets or set off guns, but the dishes on the dinner table cannot be missing. It's the first year that the mother and daughter have spent alone.
As soon as the mother and daughter finished eating, Ma Meili came.
"Sister-in-law, my father and mother let you go to dinner at night, and our family is also lively."
Chen Xiuyun said: "You talk to your father, I won't go at night." Mom saw that I definitely couldn't eat, so I didn't want to annoy people. "If you don't go, you can't go back, you still have to send something over, although in her selfish heart, Chen Xiuyun doesn't want to give anything to Mrs. Li.
Ma Meili continued to persuade, but Chen Xiuyun was unmoved.
Jiang Xinyu was scalding Xiao Hei and the pig baby, the cornmeal and chopped wild vegetables were mixed with wheat bran, and she didn't look appetizing when they were cooked, so she simply lifted the lid of the pot and scooped a spoonful of leftover fish soup out.
When Ma Meili saw this scene, her brows furrowed, "Why are you a loser, is that for livestock?" ”
Ma Meili herself has never drunk this kind of flavorful fish soup, and the little girl of the sister-in-law's family really can't live! also fed cornmeal to the dogs, and how much food was enough for the sister-in-law's family to spoil.
Jiang Xinyu blinked and said, "Then what do you feed them?" ”
Ma Meili was speechless, looking at the little black dog circling around the food bowl, thinking to herself, shouldn't this dog be outside to pick up feces and eat? Changed her, she was reluctant to feed the dog food, and the pig was forgotten, and she could exchange money for tickets after she was raised, what is the use of raising a dog? Pure waste of food. But thinking of the reason why Chen Xiuyun's family has a dog, and thinking of Zhang Fengmei, she wanted to laugh a little again.
Chen Xiuyun wouldn't mind if her daughter made fish soup for the dog bowl, the cornmeal was fed, what is a little fish soup?
The things were fed to the dogs, and the dogs only recognized them as their owners, wagging their tails at them, and someone barked and bitten, if the things were fed to Mrs. Li, this kind of person would have to raise a knife to her after eating her, it would be better to feed the dog.
In Chen Xiuyun's heart, Mrs. Li is not as good as Xiao Hei in her heart.