"My daughter-in-law doesn't dare to take the credit, Xiaocao came up with these dishes." Liu looked at her daughter proudly, and gave her a chopstick of vermicelli. My daughter has a way to make such delicious vermicelli with sweet potato flour. As a bonus, the girl eats more!
The New Year's dishes are prepared in large portions, Mrs. Zhang eats delicious dishes, and she doesn't say anything bad about Mrs. Liu's behavior of serving food to her children. I thought it would be a happy new year, but I didn't expect such simple ingredients to make a rich New Year's dish.
Mrs. Li said while shoveling vegetables into her mouth, "Xiaocao thought of it? She is the only one in the family who has this leisurely food."
Yu Xiaocao glared at Li Shi: This fat woman didn't have a good word in her mouth, she seemed so greedy, she was so focused on eating it! !
"If you don't know how to speak, just say a word, you can't stop your mouth even if you eat!" Yu Dashan noticed his second brother's displeasure, and hurriedly reprimanded his mother-in-law.
Mrs. Zhao, who was rarely seated with the Yu family, put a few small plates in front of them, and the dishes inside were the same as everyone else's. Mrs. Zhang knew that the younger daughter-in-law was particular about eating, so she didn't like to share a dish with the big guys, so she prepared it specially for their mother and son.
Xiaodoudou tried hard to suck a vermicelli into her mouth, chewed it with a smile, and gave Xiaocao a big smile: "Second sister cooks the best rice! Doudou likes this long thing, it's delicious!"
"This is vermicelli! We Doudou like it. Before you go back to town, Second Sister will make some for you to take with you!" Yu Xiaocao has never been able to resist cute children. Although it is more laborious to make vermicelli, it is not bad that it can be improved with various dishes.
"Yes, yes! This year's sweet potato production is high, and the potato flour is enough to last until the autumn harvest. Let's make more vermicelli, and you can have more dishes in winter! This vermicelli stewed with bean sprouts tastes really good!" Mrs. Li smacked her chopsticks with her mouth I rummaged through the home-cooked dishes a few more times, found a piece of fatty meat, and stuffed it into my mouth.
Heizi who was sitting next to her even stood up, wiped his nose with his black sleeve, turned over the chopsticks in the vegetable bowl, and never stopped until he found a piece of meat.
Seeing how the two of them were buried, no matter how delicious the home-cooked dish was, Yu Xiaocao would never use second chopsticks. She stared at the fried bean sprouts in front of her, and ate hard, and if she took another look at the lady, she was about to spit it out.
Stir-fried bean sprouts are made with bean sprouts that have just sprouted one or two centimeters. Heat the lard in a hot pan, add dried chilies and sauté until fragrant, then add bean sprouts, add seasonings, add some green garlic and stir fry. The fresh fragrance of bean sprouts, with meat oil as the base, the taste will not be bad.
Mrs. Li's mother and son are too ugly to eat, and it was Mrs. Zhang who spoke first: "You pick and choose, how can others eat it? If you do this again, go back to your room and eat, don't bother people here!"
As he spoke, he glanced in the direction of his little daughter-in-law. It turned out that Mrs. Zhang, who had always paid close attention to the mother and son of the younger daughter-in-law, found that Mrs. Zhao glanced at the eldest daughter-in-law with disgust from time to time, and put down her chopsticks after eating delicious food. Only then did she speak out to stop Li's mother and son.
Seeing that the meat in the home-cooked dishes was almost gone, Mrs. Li stopped rummaging for chopsticks when she heard this, but she still devoured the dishes, as if someone was trying to grab her.
The New Year's Eve lunch was spent in this episode. For this meal, Mrs. Zhang didn't limit the portion size. Even though the staple food was still rough pancakes, the family was still very satisfied with the meal. The main reason is that the dishes are more abundant than in previous years.
After the meal, Mrs. Zhang was distressed that the food was coming down fast, and she kept muttering. It wasn't until Old Yu scolded her for "never stopping during Chinese New Year" that he drooped his face and stopped thinking about it.
On New Year's Eve, we have to eat dumplings. Originally, the Yu family didn't buy much meat. Even if they mixed a lot of cabbage with the stuffing, it still wouldn't make everyone feel full.
Yujia's dumplings are stuffed with cabbage and pork, as well as cabbage oil residue. On the 30th night, the men shared 20 dumplings each, and the women only shared 10 dumplings, and the children's dumplings were half of the women's.
Five small dumplings, even a three-year-old Xiaodoudou can't get enough, let alone Yu Xiaocao and the others? After Yu Heizi finished eating his own, he felt that it was not enough, so he grabbed a small stone and quickly stuffed it into his mouth while he was not paying attention. Regardless of Xiao Shitou screaming in anger, he approached Yu Xiaocao and Xiaolian sisters again.
Yu Xiaocao obediently dragged Xiaolian and brother, ran to their father's table, and stayed by his father's side. With old Yutou and his own father guarding him, Yu Heizi naturally didn't dare to do anything wrong, so he had to lick his face and ask his mother to ask for dumplings.
Mrs. Li is a gluttonous mother-in-law who is reluctant to give her own dumplings to her own children, so she begged her mother-in-law shamelessly: "Mother, look at Heizi, he is already half a child, and he can eat as much as an adult. Five dumplings are not enough for him to clog his teeth." Made it. Mom, the wife doesn’t ask him to give him a man’s amount, so just give him another five, just like us!”
Mrs. Zhang raised her eyelids, looked at Mrs. Liu, and said flatly: "If you can guarantee that no one will say that I am partial, and it is the New Year's Eve, mother will not be reluctant to part with these five dumplings."
Liu always didn't like to argue with others, so she replied in a low voice: "Heizi is a half-grown boy, who can say anything if he has five more dumplings? It's just that it's unethical to rob younger brothers and sisters."
"What do children know? Why do younger brothers and sisters have the same knowledge as a child? Mom, I'm going to deliver the dumplings to Heizi right away." Not only did Mrs. Li not educate her son, she also thought Mrs. Liu was too busy. Alas, what kind of mother there is, what kind of child there is!
Liu-shi went out of the kitchen silently, and put four of the ten dumplings she had distributed into the youngest son's bowl, and the remaining six were going to be three for each of the two daughters.
Yu Xiaocao tightly covered the mouth of her bowl, and said, "Mother, I have a small appetite, and five dumplings are enough! If you share all the dumplings with us, we will be hungry at night. You just gave me these dumplings." Me, how can I eat it?"
Xiao Lian also echoed: "Mother, it's rare for you to eat dumplings once a year. You've been busy all afternoon, and you can't even taste a bite of the dumplings you made yourself. Do you think we as children can still eat them?"
"Mother, return the dumplings to you, I don't want them!" Xiao Shitou hurriedly turned back the dumplings in the bowl.
"Eat it! Mother has eaten too much at noon, and she is not hungry yet!" Liu Shi said, picking up the dumplings and putting them in the children's bowls.
The four mothers pushed back and forth here, and Yu Hai came out with his own dumplings. Seeing this scene, he felt sad and moved at the same time. In the end, he made the decision and divided the dumplings distributed by Erfang evenly in the afternoon. The children each had eight, and he and the child's mother had ten each.
"You are a big man, where can you get ten dumplings? I am used to eating watery ones at night, and my stomach feels uncomfortable after eating too many dumplings. Come on, I will give you some more, and I will drink more dumpling soup later..." Liu's heart ached Men are reluctant to eat the dumplings they get.
"It's only ten dumplings, how can I eat too much? Hurry up and eat, it's almost cold!" Yu Hai went into the kitchen with a bowl, asked Mrs. Zhang to scoop up a bowl full of dumpling soup, and drank it with a snort. Drink a bowl of soup first, prop up your stomach, and then eat the dumplings, which will make you feel soft and full.
On the first day of the new year, everyone in the village knew about Mrs. Zhang's stubborn temper, but not many children came to pay New Year's greetings. Except for grandpa, Zhao Liehu and a few close relatives, the second room of the Yu family has no face to take the children to other people's homes for New Year's greetings.
Yu Xiaocao's siblings didn't receive red envelopes from their grandparents, but their grandpa gave them two copper coins as lucky money. When they arrived at Zhao's house, the wife of Zhao's family used her embroidered purse to pack silver peanuts worth about 1 yuan, and distributed them to each child.
Yu Xiaolian looked at the embroidery on the purse and was very fond of it. Seeing her full of envy, the wife of the Zhao family accepted the job of teaching her how to embroider.
On the way back with the family, Mrs. Liu told her man in a soft voice: "Sister-in-law Zhao's style is all over her body. At first glance, she is not from our ordinary family. You see, let alone the village, even ordinary people in the town will not Pay attention to giving lucky money to children in purses."
"Not only the sister-in-law of the Zhao family, but Uncle Zhao and Brother Bufan's skills are not something ordinary hunters can have. Uncle Zhao's family lives in seclusion in the mountains, and there must be something hidden in it. However, this is not what we should inquire about. How should we move around? How to move around, don't do it deliberately."
Yu Hai has long noticed that the Zhao family always shows the demeanor of a wealthy family unconsciously, no matter how they eat or drink, or how they behave. The men of the Zhao family exude the agility and majesty of being in the army. In the late period of the former dynasty, the imperial court was licentious and immoral, and many people with lofty ideals in the court retired to seclusion, and the Zhao family—maybe one of them.
Day by day, this winter is destined to be a disaster year. In the first month, the snow has hardly broken. Many families with insufficient food reserves can only deal with one thin meal a day, and they will be lucky if they don't starve to death.
However, there are not a few people who died of freezing and starving because of the continuous heavy snow. What's more, none of the family was spared. Even in the city, people are starving to death...
Fortunately, in Dongshan Village, except for a few occasional weak and elderly people who failed to survive the cold winter, there were no large numbers of people who died of starvation or freezing to death. However, the situation in the village is not optimistic.
At this time, Mrs. Zhang regretted that she was stingy years ago and didn't let the second child buy more food and store it up. The millet noodles at home have already bottomed out, and the only thing that can satisfy our hunger is the sweet potatoes in the cellar and sweet potato chips that can be ground into sweet potato flour.
Every day, in addition to sweet potato porridge, it is sweet potato steamed buns, and sometimes dried sweet potatoes are cooked directly into porridge. The elderly have a bad stomach, and eating sweet potatoes every day will cause heartburn. But if you don't eat, you will face the danger of starving to death. Yu Xiaocao can only use the only herbal medicine, combined with Lingshi water, to nourish the stomach of her family.
Continuous heavy snow blocked the road. The food in the town is also facing a crisis due to scheduling problems, and the price of food remains high. White rice and white noodles are fried to the same price as meat!