Chapter 36: The New Year of Family Affection
Chinese people have a deep love for the New Year, because there is only one day of the year when you don't have to work. Every family prepares their best food to welcome the new year.
Yun Xiao thinks that foreigners are jumping and jumping in the New Year, and they are doing some unreal fancy things. Or we Chinese are real, and we eat one word for the New Year.
From dumplings to Lantern Festival to delicacies from all over the world, Chinese people are using various ingredients to interpret the food culture with Chinese characteristics.
The place where the Yun family lives is the annex of Jimo Hou Mansion, and Liu Cheng is quite good at enjoying it. This annex is located at the foot of Laoshan Mountain, a blessed land with beautiful mountains and rivers. Actually let this guy with a fat brain occupy, Yun Xiao decided to fight a local tyrant. In the future, the Yun family will come to Jimo and live here.
Miss Yun Er and Yun Da Shao were lying on the kang with snot in their noses. There was drooling in his mouth, and he was walking and crawling. From time to time, grab something that you feel interested in and try it. From toy wooden balls all the way to Daddy's white and tender palms.
"Oops." Yun Xiao, who was laughing with Yan Xian, suddenly felt a pain in his fingers, and withdrew his hand to see that Yun Da Shaozhen was drooling and grinning. There are two small dimples on the round face, revealing two small white rabbit-like teeth. Yun Xiao looked at his fingers and was bitten out of two rows of fine small tooth marks.
Xiao Yunai was biting her fingers intently, and she was very disdainful of her father's stingy behavior. Seeing his younger brother looking at him, he generously took his finger out of his mouth and handed it to his younger brother with a longing face.
Ellis hurriedly fished back the stupid girl's hand, and the child didn't have a serious mouth. This pink little finger is not bitten yet.
Yun Xiao grinned and watched a pair of children playing with living treasures on the kang. The maids set up a large table in the middle of the room. There is a panel rolling pin on top, and a large pot of good dumpling filling.
"I don't go home during the Chinese New Year, and I have to run outside if I want to see a snowy scene. After standing for a while, my feet were numb from the cold. ”
Yan Xian was very dissatisfied with looking at the bamboo slips by candlelight, and she could lie in front of the big glass bed in the Yun family. The winter sun shines in like a waterfall. The cold wind is blocked from the outside by the double-glazed windows, and the sunlight in the room makes people feel warm, which is the warmth of the heart.
The goddess is obviously still in the stage of foodie, and her ability to move her mouth is higher than that of her hands. After pinching two things that looked like buns and dumplings, Yun Xiao decided to let her lie on the recliner and look at the bamboo slips. Where is this helping, it is simply adding to the chaos.
Yan Xian twisted her ass and sat back on the recliner. He snorted softly in his nose. Continue to look at her bamboo slips. This woman wants it. No wonder Confucius said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and a young woman in literature and art who does not touch the spring water with her fingers will not be able to do housework, and Yun Xiao remembered his wife in later generations.
Luckily, Ellis is a capable one. Blonde and fair-skinned. The dumplings are more beautiful than Yun Xiao's wrapping. The meaning of ingenuity is fully demonstrated.
It's a pity that there is no TV and no Spring Festival Gala now. Otherwise, the family watched the Spring Festival Gala around the table. While making dumplings, talking and laughing. If you have a phone, it would be best to call Nangong who stayed behind.
It's like now. The family silently made dumplings without even making a movement. The maids were like quails one by one, and none of them dared to show their youth and liveliness in themselves.
Suddenly, I felt that someone was tugging at my robe, and when I looked down, I saw that it was a big girl.
"Daddy, Yun Mi wants to set off the cannon." Xiao Yunmi is not in the mood to play with her younger siblings and two little kids. Holding a windmill made by Yun Xiao in one hand. While raising a smiling face, he looked at Yun Xiao's longing face.
It's bad, the big girl has developed in the direction of tomboy. Whose girl loves to shoot firecrackers, shouldn't little girls hide far away when they set off firecrackers, and scream in their mouths?
"Daddy, Yun Mi wants to set off the cannon." Xiao Yunmi saw that Yun Xiao was stunned, and hurriedly tugged at Yun Xiao's robe again. The big eyes looked at Yun Xiao with watery eyes, and the arhats cast in copper and iron could be melted away by this complaining little eyes. Hey, it seems that he has grown up to be a master of disasters for the country and the people.
"Girls can't play cannon fights, they have to learn to make dumplings." Yun Xiao decided to lead the eldest girl to the right path, and everyone wanted to go out of the hall and into the kitchen. When you get out of the hall, it looks like you want to be taught by a goddess, and if you get into the kitchen, I'm afraid you have to count on my father. This has to start with the doll, and there is no delay.
"Yun Mi wants to set off cannons, don't learn to make dumplings." The eldest girl stuffed a finger into her mouth and began to sell cuteness to Yun Xiao. Seeing that Yun Xiao was still the same, his round little body struggled to climb onto the stool. hugged Yun Xiao's face and imprinted his wet little lips on Yun Xiao's cheeks.
Well, the girl's invincible coquettish Dafa is really invincible. Helpless, Yun Xiao had to rub off the flour in his hand and took out a firecracker from the cabinet. Tell the maid to find the iron guard to lead, but don't dare to let this girl let go of her own hands, it's not a joke.
The little girl ran out happily, and after a while there was a crackling sound of firecrackers outside.
Listening to the sound of firecrackers, Yun Xiao felt that this was a bit of a New Year's flavor. In the years of later generations, if there is no sound of firecrackers, where will there be a little New Year's flavor.
wrapped a large basket of dumplings, or steamed dumplings that Yun Xiao likes to eat. The noodles in Shandong and Guanzhong are very strong, and they taste much stronger than the dumpling noodles of later generations.
I don't know if the iron guard couldn't stand the eldest lady's begging, so he brought firecrackers again. Anyway, the crackling sound outside has not stopped. Fortunately, this is the annex of Mohou, which is lonely at the foot of Laoshan Mountain. There is no one nearby, otherwise it would really cause a sensation. Firecrackers are still a novelty for the people of Dahan, and the people here are not as strange as the Yunjia households.
The ground in Shandong is evil, and everything is big. Green onions can grow more than a meter tall, and garlic is fucking big. Characteristics: Garlic is white skin, the head is full of large cloves, the skin is thin like paper, white like jade, sticky and spicy and fragrant. This kind of garlic, which is said to be produced in Cangshan, is very popular with goshawks, and it is not said that his ancestors cultivated it. You even have to go back to the genealogy to find theoretical support.
Yun Xiao is embarrassed to say, you are all fucking blue-eyed. At most, it is a hybrid breed, and it also helps the ancestors to put gold on their faces.
The garlic cloves should not be patted with a kitchen knife, they must be chopped directly with a knife. It's chopped, but this Cangshan garlic is really good. The kitchen knife clicks when it is chopped up. Ellis's knife skills are not bad, and the main patience is good. Knowing that Yun Xiao likes to eat chopped garlic, he chopped a bowl full of minced garlic the size of millet grains.
This thing goes well with soy sauce and tastes like dumplings.
Pour a bowl of Yun's steamed wine, and the dumplings will be drunk more and more. As soon as the dumplings were served, the goddess stood up from the chaise longue. Lazily in front of the table, beckoning the maid to bring wine. The demeanor of a noble lady is fully displayed, no wonder it is said that the temperament is raised. You ask Ellis, who is full of garlic and a cloth apron, to play with this style, but you can't play it anyway.
The eldest girl came back from the firecrackers, and her little face was red from the cold. The little nose snot twitched, and Ellis hurriedly pulled out a cloth towel to blow her nose.
"Look at the cold, kid. Catch Ming'er and let the goshawk go into the mountains to fight a few foxes, and make a fox fur hat and scarf for us Xiao Yunmi. Ellis covered Yun Mi's frozen red face with both hands as he looked back at Yun Xiao.
"Good, good." Yun Xiao took a sip of steamed wine, put a dumpling in his mouth, and said vaguely while chewing.
The fox fur thing to be made has to be shot through the eyes, so that the fox skin has no eyes. This fine hair work really has to be done by the goshawk, and the sea can't go down in the winter. Since there is no chance to plague the swimming fish in the water, Yun Xiao decides to go up the mountain to find trouble with the beasts. Take Gong Along's two giant dogs, not to mention that rabbits can even catch tigers.
Xiaobai forget it, this thing is still angry with himself. It's been a long time since I've been ignoring myself, so I'm going to send some dumplings to this guy for a while to ease the tense atmosphere.
The Chinese New Year's Eve meal has no taste, there is no cup to change the cup, and there is no Spring Festival Gala that is complained about every year, but it is indispensable every year. I always feel that something is missing, but fortunately, I have two wives and a big daughter by my side, and the warmth of the family makes Yunxiao's melancholy much more indifferent.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Yun Xiao walked into the courtyard in a big coat. It was dark like a cloud of ink, and lights were lit everywhere in the courtyard. The guards shouted in the courtyard, and the sound of guessing the fist order was heard far away.
In the shadows of the corner, two guards stood like nails. The heavy snow has already turned them into snowmen. (To be continued......)