Chapter 67: New Year's Day
Wearing new clothes, wearing new hats, and celebrating the New Year, it's really lively.
People in this year, especially children, have been looking forward to the New Year since they entered the Layue Gate. I finally looked forward to Chinese New Year's Eve, and I got up early in the morning with all kinds of jubilation and all kinds of trouble.
Every household gets up early and sticks up with Spring Festival couplets praising the new society, as well as red and bright window flowers, which decorate the atmosphere of the New Year even more.
The situation of the Qu family is a little special, Qiaolian's in-laws have died less than a full year, so they can't post Spring Festival couplets and window flowers, and they can't set off firecrackers at night.
The two children didn't care much about these, anyway, they had been around Qiaolian since early in the morning, chattering and laughing, which added a bit of excitement to the deserted courtyard.
Eat casually in the morning, and after noon, Qiaolian began to cook.
No matter how good or bad life is, Qiaolian will not treat herself and her children badly, so she prepared a lot of food early.
At this time, they were prepared one by one, fried and fried, making the room full of aroma, and making the two babies' greedy saliva flow.
"Alright, let's eat." After working for more than two hours, all the meals were out of the pot, and Qiaolian led the children to bring the meals to the kang table.
Zhang Wenguang stopped working after he was a child, so he deliberately rushed to work and made some tables, stools, boxes and other furniture for Qiaolian and sent them, so that he could finally eat on the table.
The meals on the table were hearty, with chicken stewed with mushrooms, rabbit stewed with potatoes, pork stewed vermicelli, and a braised fish.
This fish doesn't need to be asked, it was naturally exchanged by Qiaolian from the system, but under the guise of a large set.
Four hard dishes, accompanied by stir-fried cabbage with meat and cold mung bean sprouts, skin jelly, croquettes, a whole eight dishes. The New Year is just an auspicious celebration, even if you can't eat so much, you must be prepared.
Jiakang Jiayuan was already hungry, and her eyes kept staring at the food on the table, until Qiaolian said that it was time to eat, and the two babies moved their chopsticks.
"Mom, today's food is so delicious, my saliva is dripping." Jiakang said a little excitedly, "It's better to celebrate the New Year, I really hope to celebrate the New Year every day." ”
"Brother, what are you dreaming, how can you celebrate the New Year every day? If we eat like this every day, our family will not be able to catch up with the landlord's old wealth? Jiayuan over there took a bite of food, shook her head and said.
The appearance of the two babies as little ghosts made Qiao Lian laugh, "Yes, how can you celebrate the New Year every day?"
But my mother can assure you that our family's life will get better and better, and there will definitely be better meals than this in the future, don't worry. ”
Qiaolian has this confidence, she will definitely make the life of the family better and better, and let the two children enjoy happiness.
"Let's eat, it's rare to have so many delicious foods, you two can eat at ease, go out for a walk when you're full, you can't eat dumplings until late at night, it's okay to eat more."
Eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and eat dumplings until more than eleven o'clock in the evening, so long in between, the children can't eat more, so Qiaolian persuaded the two children to eat more.
It's rare to have so many delicious foods, and the two babies are naturally not polite, but after all, they are still young, how much can they eat? Half a bowl of rhubarb rice for one person, and then eat some vegetables, and the stomach will bulge.
The table was full of dishes, and there was not a half of it after eating, but none of the three mothers could eat it.
So I packed it up one by one, put it away carefully, and continued to eat it tomorrow. The Chinese New Year in the north is like this, and no one is an exception.
"Jiakang Jiayuan, don't lie on the kang, go, go to the warehouse to pick up a few frozen pears, use water to slow down, and eat at night to save sleepiness.
Westinghouse also has apples and oranges that my mother bought, so I can take them and eat them myself, and I like them for the New Year. Qiaolian saw the two children lying lazily on the kang and said hurriedly.
The frozen pears were bought on the big set, and the Qu family originally had frozen pears, but unfortunately there was no left after the fire, so naturally they couldn't bring it.
As for apples and oranges, they were exchanged from the system, and vegetables and fruits were not seen at all in this winter, so Qiaolian was worried that the children lacked vitamins, so she specially bought them for the children to eat.
The two babies knew that their mother had bought a lot of things from the big set, but they didn't know what they had.
The tutor of the Qu family does not allow the children to pick up things casually, whether they are brought by guests or their own, they are absolutely not allowed.
This also gave Qiaolian convenience, a lot of things just crossed the road, after all, the two children are still young, it is easy to fool the past, except that Jiakang is worried that the money is not enough to spend and always chatter.
The only thing the two babies have eaten is frozen pears, which they used to eat in winter when they were in their hometown, and as for any apples and oranges, they have never seen them at all.
As soon as I heard my mother's words, I went straight to the West House and found what my mother said from the two bamboo baskets on the ground.
"Mom, which is an apple and which is an orange?" The two babies hadn't seen each other, so they grabbed one of the same and asked curiously.
Qiaolian patiently told the children, and finally advised, "Don't say that we have these delicious foods when you go out, in case people can't afford it, and I hear you say that they will be hungry, what will you do when the time comes?" ”
When the two babies heard this, they hurriedly nodded, and Qiao Lian smiled, washed the apple and cut it in half, and let the two babies hold it and gnaw it.
Where have the two children ever eaten sweet and crunchy apples? I liked it immediately.
The two babies knew that this was a precious thing, and they were reluctant to eat more, so they quickly put it away after taking a bite, chewing it in their mouths and savoring it slowly.
Qiaolian doesn't have time to care about the children, she still has to chop meat and noodles and make dumplings later.
It was not early, the room was a little dark, and the kitchen lit an oil lamp, and the light was tinkling and busy.
Jiakang Jiayuan is a child, and she used to sleep when it was dark, and after playing for a while, she would lower her eyelids.
When Qiao Lian saw this, she simply asked the two children to lie down on the kang and sleep for a while, "Don't take off your clothes, just lie down like this for a while, and get up later to help me make dumplings." ”
The little baby couldn't stay up all night, let alone help, so she just let them sleep.
The two children fell asleep, Qiaolian was busy alone, adjusting the filling with noodles, and then started to make dumplings, and when Jiakang Jiayuan woke up, Qiaolian had already wrapped all the dumplings.
"Mom, didn't you say let's help make dumplings? How did you wrap it yourself? Jiayuan rubbed her eyes and asked.
"I see that you two are sleeping very soundly, I am not willing to call you, it's okay, my mother will do this little work alone.
If you are still sleepy, you can sleep for a while, and if you are not sleepy, you can get up, there are melon seeds, candy, and fruits at home, and eat some casually. ”
Qiaolian has prepared a complete range of New Year's goods, all of which are available, just to make snacks for the children and make the children happy for the New Year.
"I don't want to sleep, Mom, do you have any more work to do at home? I'll help you. "Jiayuan is a sensible and caring child, and she is afraid that her mother will be tired, so she plans to help her mother do something.
"It's nothing, if you want to help your mother, when you cook dumplings later, just help your mother bring in some firewood."
Firewood equals wealth, and holding firewood at home on Chinese New Year's Eve night is equivalent to holding wealth, which means very good. It's not that the child is expected to work, how strong can a little girl be?