I am studying and eating melons in Chronicle

Even though the three of them couldn't eat too much, they still cooked the dishes according to the specifications they used to eat at Yunmeng Yunsheng's house-crispy crucian carp, braised pork, Sixi meatballs, pork skin jelly, stewed three delicacies, fried crunch box ...

The coffee table in the living room is filled with mixed peanuts, melon seeds and dried fruits, which are full of colors.

The kitchen was steaming hot, and white smoke kept rising from the chimney. Every household in the alley heard the sound of chopping boards, and nearby children came out in groups to run around. Get together to play cannonballs.

The family of three finished all the pre-cooking work an hour later than expected. According to their plan, most of the dishes should have been gradually put on the table by now.

Perhaps the progress was a bit slow, so the couple stopped teasing questions like how much salt to put, and started cooking wholeheartedly.

Although they are not skilled in cooking, they are very good at knives.

Yun Yi modified the crucian carp with criss-crossing knives, deep and impenetrable, and the size of the braised meat was cut so that the naked eye could not tell the difference.

Although Xie Yuzhen was obsessed with the spoon before, she can actually get the right amount with just a pinch, perhaps because of the hand feeling honed by years of grasping medicinal materials.

Seeing that the two of them were serious and orderly while busy, Yunling knew that they definitely sneaked away on purpose just now.

She sighed helplessly, who would have thought of it?
When I first came home, my parents regarded her as a treasure, putting her first in everything and obeying everything.

As a result, before the end of the new year, all the work at home was left to her.While she was at home, the two happily went out to watch movies several times, walked around several streets, and didn't think of bringing her something when they came back...

But complaining about it, Yunling relaxed a lot.

When she first arrived home, her parents treated her like a porcelain doll, and they behaved with a little apology and guilt, as if they felt that it was because of them that she went to the countryside alone and endured hardships.

But she didn't expect this level, because the blood is inseparable, and the family does not speak two languages.

Mourning for her parents, giving birth to her toil.

No father, no father, no mother, no mother.

May I ask, who stays at home every day, but has the same care for guests and doesn't feel restrained?Now this casual bluntness made her feel more at ease.

"Mom, the meat stuffing is ready." Yunling pushed the enamel basin containing the vegetarian stuffing onto the noodle table in Xie Yuzhen's hand.

In their capital, they eat dumplings after twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve to show "Jiaozi", which should be vegetarian stuffing.According to the old rules, ginger can be put in this vegetarian stuffing, but onions, garlic and leeks that are counted as "meat" must not be put in.

Although the old culture, customs, and gods are now broken, Xie Yuzhen still prepares two kinds of meat and vegetables—winter leeks and fresh meat, cabbage and fungus.

Meat fillings are delicious in any way, but if you want vegetarian fillings to be delicious, you have to work hard on the fillings.

She asked Yun Yi to prepare the ingredients one by one according to the recipe.

——Chop the Chinese cabbage and squeeze out the water; rub the carrots with a bamboo bed, blanch them in water, dry them and chop them; chop up the soaked mushrooms, fungus, and vermicelli.

In addition, if possible, it is best to add chopped five-grain fork, or crushed oil cakes and fried dough sticks, so that the vegetable dishes can be covered with oil and water, and the taste is more fragrant.

This is also particular about rolling the dough. You can't cut it with a knife, but pull it with your hands.

When the whole family made dumplings together, Yun Yi wrapped clean red dates that had been washed several times into the stuffing. It was auspicious for the New Year, and eating dates would herald good luck for the coming year.

Xie Yuzhen put the all-vegetarian boiled pastry into the pot first, the water boiled, and the steam came to his face.

After a few breaths of effort, the kitchen was shrouded in mist like clouds.

The fire cooks very quickly, and within a short while, it can be taken out and put into a bowl.

Xie Yuzhen placed three empty bowls by the window sill, and placed five vegetarian dumplings in each bowl, which could be regarded as a simple offering.

When the meat dumplings were cooking in the pot, there was the sound of crackling firecrackers outside the courtyard gate.

Yun Yi looked at his watch, "Did I go out to set off firecrackers?"

Xie Yuzhen was finishing the work in the kitchen without raising his head, "Go ahead, take a broom and sweep it to the door of our house after putting it away, and pile it up in a pile."

Yunling also went out to join in the fun, "Mom, I also want to go out and watch."

"Go too, stay away, don't get bombed."

"Know it--"

Grandpa Zheng from the neighbor's house happened to come out to set off firecrackers.

Seeing this, Yun Yi said, "Uncle Zheng, let's put it away together, and I'll clean it up together when the time comes."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Uncle Zheng walked slowly, and Yun Yi was afraid that he would be collapsed, so he helped him light the fire.

When the match is struck, the moment it is lit, the sound is deafening.

Yunling covered her left and right ears with two index fingers, her pale lips were slightly curved, her eyes were bright and her teeth were bright, and the flames of fire flashed across her fair face from time to time.

Thick smoke suddenly rose, and with a flick of a finger, only scraps of red paper remained on the ground, and the air was filled with the burning smell of saltpeter and phosphorus and sulfur.

The sound of firecrackers is still unknown.

After Yunling and his daughter swept the snow in front of their own houses, Shi Shi quietly slipped back to the main room to help serve the food.

"It's been a busy afternoon. You sit down and eat dumplings first. You don't have to clean up the stove now. I'll clean it after eating." Yun Yi gently pushed Xie Yuzhen down on the chair, and persuaded him in a soft voice.

There are two cups in front of each person, one is a small white wine with a little base, and the other is for drinking jasmine tea.

Xie Yuzhen looked at the empty bowl in front of him, and suddenly remembered: "Hey, there is a bowl of New Year's dinner in the cupboard, I'll go and get it out, and the three of us will share it."

Yun Yi quickly raised his butt, "I'll go, you sit down."

"Row."

Xie Yuzhen took the white bowl from him, divided it into three parts, and said auspicious words: "After eating this bowl of two rice, the family will have surplus food every year, and can't finish it all year round."

Yunling waited for the elders to move their chopsticks, and after Father Yun's mica started eating, she put on a meal and picked up a Sixi ball.

Although it is said to be Sixi meatballs, there are only three of them, which happens to be a happy family reunion.

The homemade version is different from the one made by the chef at the wedding banquet, but they all use pork foreleg as the main raw material, add tender tofu, crispy white powder of scallion, knead into egg white and wet starch, and add other seasonings Material, knead into balls.

First fried and then boiled, it has both the deliciousness of the meat and the mellowness of the sauce. One bite, it is soft and fragrant, firm and elastic.

After tasting other dishes one after another, Yunling gave it a high praise: "This year's New Year's Eve dinner is the most perfect one."

Xie Yu is really a high self-discipline, "There is indeed progress, but compared with your aunt, it is still far behind."

Yun Yi immediately retorted: "I think the three of us did something different."

Xie Yuzhen smiled: "You have to speak perfectly."

"In life, one must make oneself and others happy."

After the words fell, Yun Yi toasted his congratulatory speech, saying with great sincerity: "A lot of things happened this year, but fortunately, it is very happy. This made us realize that in this family, the youngest Ling Ling has grown from a seed to a towering tree, which is enough for this family. The house is sheltered from the wind and rain.”

Hearing this, Xie Yuzhen raised his wine glass with tears in his eyes: "Speaking of which, we used to always worry about what to do after you graduated and what to do when you got a job. We would even sit together from time to time, worrying about your career, marriage, etc. , children... I even had the idea of ​​staying at home for the rest of my life, anyway, we can afford it."

"But the you you have now makes us look at you with admiration. Maybe we should have let go a long time ago, and keeping you trapped in the family will hinder your deep and profound steps."

Yunling stared at her parents with good faces, but there were a few silver strands faintly showing between the jet-black hair, which was an old age that had never appeared before she left home.

Parents used to be proud and proud of their career and contributions, but now they are so low-key that they only dare to complete their own work, for fear of making a mistake, and are cautious all day long, walking on eggshells.

If she hadn't asked the laboratory last time, I am afraid that Yun Yi would never touch the research again, and she would listen to whatever she said in passing, for fear that she would feel burdened.

They used to be the ones who wished they could live in research institutes and hospital operating rooms... They were the ones who desperately wanted to contribute to domestic medicine catching up with the world.

But this time when they came back, their parents seemed to have experienced a lot of vicissitudes in an instant.

She couldn't imagine what kind of mood they felt when their lifelong beliefs were shattered, when they were shut up in a small dark room waiting to be questioned, when their firm ideals were questioned?
Yunling sniffed, and wiped away the tears that were about to fall with the back of her hand, a little choked with sobs.

what happened?

Obviously at the beginning, she didn't cry when she saw her parents being taken away for inspection, and she held back tears when she was about to board the train, and she didn't cry because her hands and feet were bleeding and blistered during the autumn harvest in the countryside.

But now when the reunion is happy, I can't help crying.