Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 327 Another Year

The old man used to say that whether you have money or not, marrying a wife will help you celebrate the New Year.

For the Sheng family, this year's Chinese New Year has added imports to the family, not only the daughter-in-law and the younger grandson Xinhua, but also the eldest grandson Chen Feng, so it is natural to take care of it.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Sheng Liancheng got up and led his sons to clean up the yard.

Clear out all the snow in the courtyard, then erect lantern poles, hang lanterns, paste couplets, window grilles, blessing characters, and other busy tasks.

As for Zhang Shuzhen, she didn't follow these tasks, but had other tasks.

"Fourth and fifth, you two take good care of Xinhua at home. I will take your sister-in-law to the bathhouse to take a good bath. When I come back, we will cook again."

Zhou Qinglan was Sheng Xinhua who was born on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. Today, it is barely 30 days. Logically, it should be confinement on the first day of the first lunar month tomorrow.

This month, without washing or bathing, and smelling like sweat and milk, Zhou Qinglan felt that she was going rotten, and she couldn't celebrate the New Year in such a dirty way.

Ordinarily, Zhou Qinglan shouldn't be allowed to go out to take a bath in this cold weather, mainly because he is afraid of being caught by the wind on the way back and forth.

But although the temperature at home is okay, there is no suitable furniture. The large basin for washing clothes is okay for children to bathe, but adults can't sit in it, so there is no way to wash.

So Zhang Shuzhen said, let Zhou Qinglan dress more tightly and let her accompany her to the bathhouse.

As the New Year approaches, the employee bathhouse is crowded every day, and sometimes there is no queue.

So on the morning of New Year's Eve, the baths are still open, and they only rest in the afternoon.

Zhang Shuzhen led the daughter-in-law to the employee's bathroom. The mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law hadn't bathed for a long time, so they took a good soak in it and then took a bath.

Zhang Shuzhen also helped Zhou Qinglan clean her hair.

For the convenience of confinement, Zhou Qinglan specially went to cut her hair at the end of December, and the original big braid was cut into a hinged head.

So I haven't washed my hair this confinement, so it doesn't make my hair tangled and difficult to comb.

Short hair is easy to clean and comb. It took more than an hour for the couple to wash and tidy up.

Zhang Shuzhen brought several dry towels and kept wiping Zhou Qinglan's hair until it was almost dry. Then the two of them got dressed and covered themselves tightly and went home.

"Girl, you go back to the house and stay there. You don't need to intervene in the housework today. You just need to take care of the child."

After returning home, Zhang Shuzhen did not let Zhou Qinglan work in the fields, and still asked her to go back to the house to rest.

Zhou Qinglan originally wanted to help with the work, but she was going crazy lying in the house for a month.

But the mother-in-law insisted, just at this moment Xinhua was crying for breastfeeding again, Zhou Qinglan had no choice but to go back to the house to take care of the child.

On Zhang Shuzhen's side, she led her daughter to work in the kitchen for a while.

This winter, although Sheng Xiping was not at home, thanks to Huahua, the family really did not run out of meat, and a lot was saved in the big tank in the warehouse.

Zhang Shuzhen has not been idle these days. What should be cooked and stewed has been prepared for a long time.

Last night I specially brought some frozen meat back and kept it for cooking today.

Yesterday, brothers Sheng Xi'an and Sheng Xikang followed their brother's instructions and went to the river bend near Diaoyutai, digging holes in the ice and caught several big fish.

There are a lot of ingredients at home, so you can use your cooking skills to your heart's content.

This is the first year that the Sheng family has been imported, and Zhang Shuzhen pays special attention to it, and must cook more good dishes.

Knuckle in sauce, braised pork vermicelli, chicken stewed mushrooms, rabbit stewed potatoes, bracken bracken bracken, stir-fried roe deer meat, roasted venison tendon with green onions, braised bear paws in honey, braised fish, sauerkraut spareribs, jelly skin, meat slices, Pork heart and liver in sauce, fried eggplant and fried mushrooms.

There are fourteen dishes in total.

Zhang Shuzhen didn't think it was enough, and there happened to be mung bean sprouts sent by the Liu family, together with some dried tofu and shredded carrots, mixed with sweet and sour seasonings.

The last dish, which Zhang Shuzhen learned from Chef Li, is the kind of sausage stuffed with meat stuffing in casings.

On the day of Chen Weiguo's wedding, this dish was the most popular. Many people asked how it was made, and Zhang Shuzhen also paid attention.

There happened to be a rack of washed pig intestines at home, so Zhang Shuzhen took them out in advance, slowly opened them, washed them again, and scraped off the grease.

Following Master Li's method, the mixed meat filling was filled in, and before steaming in the pot, holes were pierced in the casings to vent air.

Not to mention, the cooking was really successful. All of this was served on a plate, making up sixteen dishes.

The kang table of the Sheng family was too small to be used, so it was placed on the side to stand aside, and a large table was set up, and the plates were eager to be piled up.

"The food is ready, hurry up, wash your hands and sit down, let's eat."

Zhang Shuzhen brought out the last dish with her daughter, counted it carefully, and after confirming that there were sixteen dishes, she began to invite everyone to eat.

"Girl, let's go, hold the child, let's go to the east room for dinner."

Zhang Shuzhen turned around and went to the west room, opened the door and saw that the little grandson was sleeping soundly, so she came forward, wrapped the little grandson, carried her to the east room.

Zhou Qinglan also got off the ground and came to the east room together.

The east room of the Sheng family has two large Kang beds in the north and south, leaving an aisle less than two meters wide in the middle.

This side station was just placed in the aisle, Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen sat on the edge of the southern kang, and Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng sat on the edge of the northern kang.

Others sat on stools and sat around the table.

As for Sheng Xinhua, who was just one month old, he couldn't eat anything yet, so he could only lie on the kang and fall asleep.

Sheng Xiping took out a bottle of wine from the cabinet and poured a glass for Sheng Liancheng, Sheng Xi'an, and himself.

Sheng Xi'an is no longer an educated youth, he is considered an adult, so he can have a drink.

This is the rule in the Sheng family. Those who study are considered children, and those who don't study are considered adults.

The three men were drinking. Zhang Shuzhen asked Sheng Yunfang to get a few bottles of soda, and everyone poured a glass.

Sheng Xitai was impatient, so the soda poured a little faster, it doesn't matter now, he just watched the foam rush up.

Shocking Sheng Xitai, he hurried over to take a breath, he couldn't be blind for nothing.

Sheng Xitai's actions made everyone laugh out loud.

"Slow down, no one will grab you, and you just think about eating every day. It will be great when you can change this problem."

The dishes were served, the wine was filled, and the whole family sat around the table.

Sheng Liancheng looked around the table, and then turned back to look at his little grandson sleeping soundly on the kang, hey, in his heart, it's so beautiful.

"Come on, let's have a drink first, it's the Chinese New Year, and our family has added three people this year, a daughter-in-law, an older grandson, and a younger grandson.

The population is thriving, good life, come, for the good life of our family, do it. "

Sheng Liancheng brought the wine, so why don't the others rush?
Drinkers and non-drinkers all raised their glasses, and the big guys stretched out their arms to touch them.

"Happy New Year, all the best." Sheng Xiping took the lead, followed by a few younger ones, shouting New Year's wishes together.

Happy Chinese New Year, the children shouted loudly.

Zhang Shuzhen was unprepared. She felt excited at that time and quickly looked back at her little grandson on the kang.

It turned out that Xiao Xinhua slept soundly there, and it didn't affect her at all.

"Keep your voice down, there is someone sleeping on the kang, don't scare him." Zhang Shuzhen turned her head and said to the children.

"Mom, it doesn't matter, we just talk normally, Xinhua just needs to adapt slowly.

Children, only those who are beaten and beaten will be strong, you often said that when you were young. "

Sheng Xiping laughed as soon as he heard it. Mom, is this called a double standard?

I remember that when we were young at home, we were never told to keep our voices down. Everyone just said what they wanted to say.

Northeast people are born with loud voices, Sheng Xiping and Sheng Xi'an were more noisy when they were young, and the younger brothers and sisters grew up as well.

Sheng Xiping still remembered that one time he heard his mother chatting with the next door neighbor, saying that she didn't need to worry about it. It was like normal life, but it would be the same after she had a child. It was good to have some movement at home, and the child was strong.

If it is very quiet all day long, and there is no sudden movement, the child will be frightened.

Unexpectedly, when it was the grandson's turn, the mother's rules changed. First, the dog was sent out, but now it is not allowed to speak loudly.

In fact, it's really unnecessary. Gouzi has been at home these days, and he hasn't heard Xinhua crying. The big guy was talking loudly just now, so the little guy should sleep anyway.

Just get used to it. You really can’t be too meticulous in raising children. The more careful you are, the more troublesome things will be.

“Can today’s children compare with when you were young?

Who cares about you at that time?Three or five days after he was born, he had to work in the fields. The child would push himself into the kang and fall asleep on his own.

There are a lot of things going on at home and outside. If you don’t work, you can’t even eat. Who can take care of it so carefully?
Now that there are so many idle people at home, why is it difficult to take care of one child?Can't it be more precise? "

Zhang Shuzhen was angry and glared at her son.

"Mom, children who are all the same don't need to be treated differently. The children will grow up soon. It's okay."

Sheng Xiping still insisted on his own point of view. Children should be raised extensively, there is no need to be too meticulous.

"Okay, you two are arguing slowly, we have dinner, and we don't listen to you two."

Sheng Liancheng saw that the mother and son were fighting each other, so he quickly opened his mouth and settled the mud in the middle.

"If you don't hurry to eat this table of good food, what are you waiting for? Isn't Xinhua good? I didn't cry.

If you two continue to argue, he should wake up before finishing the meal. "

Zhang Shuzhen was right when she thought about it. There was no guarantee when the baby would wake up. Once the baby woke up, he would not be able to stop eating.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense with you, hurry up and eat."

So, the topic came to an end, the big guys picked up the chopsticks, picked up their favorite dishes and put them in their mouths.

Except for the mung bean sprouts, dried tofu and skin jelly, which are considered vegetarian, the rest of the dishes on this table are not small.

Especially the braised deer tendon with scallions and the braised bear's paw, both are dishes that require a lot of heat and test cooking skills.

Not to mention ordinary life, Zhang Shuzhen has never done it even during Chinese New Year in the past.

It is rare to do it once, and the children are inevitably curious, and they all work hard on these things.

In the past, whether it was deer tendons or bear paws, they were treasures that could only be eaten by dignitaries as tribute to the imperial court, but not by ordinary people.

At this time, advocating hardship and simplicity and opposing extravagance and pleasure, these precious ingredients have disappeared from the market.

If there is no place to buy, you can't get the money back, so Sheng Xiping and the others don't think it's a good thing if they encounter it while hunting.

Zhang Shuzhen lived a careful life and kept everything that should be saved. Just in time for the Chinese New Year, she found out and made it so that everyone in the family could try it.

The cooked scallion roasted deer tendon is golden in color, elastic and flexible, full of collagen, and paired with scallion white, it tastes full of scallion fragrance and rich gelatin.

Not to mention the bear's paws. The cleaned bear's paws are covered with a thick layer of honey and boiled for more than an hour.

Then wash off the honey with water, add the seasoning again, and simmer for at least three hours.

The bear paw itself is rich in fat and collagen. After a long period of stewing, it has become crispy and trembling when touched with chopsticks.

When Zhang Shuzhen smeared the honey, she poked a lot of small eyes on the bear's paw with a big needle.

The honey has seeped into the bear's paw, and the mouth is sweet and smooth, so delicious that you can't stop.

And that sausage, also very popular.

When the Chen family held a banquet, the children didn't go there. Afterwards, Xu Xiuxiang specially stuffed half of Zhang Shuzhen's intestines and asked her to bring them back for the children to taste.

Everyone in the family agreed to eat these. Sheng Xitai was very greedy, but there was too little intestine and he couldn't even enjoy it.

This time I saw that I made it at home, and the children didn't care about it, so they quickly put it in their own bowls.

Even if the Sheng family could eat this table of delicious food, they wouldn't be able to eat it.

The stomachs of the last ones were round, and there was still more than half of the food left.

"Oh, today's food is so delicious, I'm full." Sheng Xitai, the best eater, was defeated in the end and said while touching his belly.

"Aren't you quite good at eating? Today you ate openly? How come there are so many old people left on this table?

Eat fast, don't stop. "Sheng Xiping looked at his younger brother and said intentionally.

When Sheng Xitai heard this, he quickly waved his hands in fright, and at the same time stepped back, directly into the kang.

"No, no, I'm full, I'm full."

Are you kidding me?What about this big table of food? How big a belly must he have to eat so much?

Sheng Xitai's cowardly look amused the whole family, and they burst out laughing.

At this time, Sheng Xinhua, who was sleeping on the kang, was probably hungry, so he made some noise.

When Zhang Shuzhen saw it, she quickly picked up the child.

"You little guy will love others, let your mother have a quiet New Year's Eve dinner. Let's go, grandma will take you to change the diaper."

After saying that, Zhang Shuzhen carried the child to Westinghouse, followed by Zhou Qinglan.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to Westinghouse to change the baby's diaper, and then Zhou Qinglan picked up the baby and nursed it.

This little guy is getting older, and he is not so honest when feeding. While eating, his calves are still twitching, which is very interesting.

"Old lady, bring the child over later. I'm not worried about it yet."

Sheng Liancheng stood in the outer room and yelled towards Westinghouse.

The child was small and would not be carried out easily. Sheng Liancheng wanted to care for the child, but never had the chance.

It's finally confinement, why don't you have a good kiss?
"Oh, I got it, just wait." Zhang Shuzhen responded in the room.

"Hurry up and tidy up the east room, and let the second and third children chop meat, and we have to make dumplings at night.

For the meat stuffing, use the two pieces from the red pot in the outhouse, that kind of meat is better. "Zhang Shuzhen didn't forget to instruct her sons to work.

(End of this chapter)