Wen Family Has a Wife

   Chapter 59 Making dumplings

   After the old man Huang chased away the last villager who was watching the fun, he asked his daughter-in-law to close the courtyard gate, and then he looked at his youngest daughter, Huang Ying, who was about to get married, "Yingzi, what do you think of today's dowry?"

  Huang Ying blushed pretty and lowered her head in embarrassment, looking at her, she knew she was extremely satisfied with the dowry.

The old man Huang felt relieved, and said to Huang Ergou: "Today, our family is in the limelight. With these dowries, your sister can raise her head in her husband's house, but we can't take advantage of others for nothing. You didn't say that there are mountains. The family wants you to help build a stone table and four stone benches, and then send them directly, no money or anything, and it can be regarded as a kind of repayment."

Huang Ergou nodded solemnly, "Father, even if you don't tell me, I won't accept Youshan's money. If Youshan didn't trust me to let me build a stone house in his house, I wouldn't be able to take on so many jobs now. If you think about it, we can all renovate the house this year with these jobs.”

   "Okay, okay, that's okay, your brothers are all capable, father will not have to worry about it in the future." Huang old man said cheerfully, got up and went to his room.

  Wen's family, since handing over the furniture, Wen Youshan has also felt a lot more relaxed. Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. He teased his youngest son and asked Chen Ningya, "Miss, how will we spend tomorrow?"

  Chen Ningya paused at the work in her hands and looked at him suspiciously, "What's the matter? Do you still want to take the children out to play?"

  Wen Youshan hurriedly shook his head, what are you going out to play in this cold weather? Besides, there are not many activities in the town, at most it is to go to the temple to give incense. There must be many people entering the temple tomorrow, so it is not safe to bring children.

   "Then you still ask!" Chen Ningya gave him a sullen look.

  Wen Youshan laughed twice, "I didn't want to ask you if you want to be a dumpling tomorrow."

  The custom here in Fushan Village is to eat dumplings on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. They are made of glutinous rice, with a red jujube in it. It tastes sweet and delicious. For the poor, this is already a rare and expensive food.

   The children next to him immediately gathered around when they heard the food, and looked at Chen Ningya eagerly. They had never eaten dumplings or something, and it was absolutely delicious from the look of their father.

Chen Ningya was defeated by this group of foodies, looked up at the sky outside the house, and said helplessly: "Forget it, since you all want to eat it, eat it, but it's not easy to handle, and you have to make glutinous rice, I'm afraid I have to do it today, while it's still early, I'll go to the town and see what I can buy, the boss stays at home to take care of the younger brothers and sisters, I'll just go with your father."

   A few children were a little disappointed, but they laughed at the thought that the dumplings would be eaten soon.

Chen Ningya was pushed by Wen Youshan with a scooter this time. The snow has not yet completely melted away, and the road is full of ice. If you don't pay attention, you will fall over. Wen Youshan is fine, but he is worried about Chen Ningya. Ningya, let her ride the scooter.

Not to mention, Wen Youshan's speed was much faster in this way. It didn't take long for the two to reach Yuchang Town. The town was much more prosperous than before, and all the stalls came out. The two of them walked slowly all the way. Go, when she arrived at the grain store, Chen Ningya only found out that a pound of glutinous rice costs forty-five cents, which is almost the same price as pork. To be honest, she is quite distressed, but fortunately, she buys this thing once in a while. , Since you want to satisfy the cravings of the whole family, it is natural to buy more.

   When the shopkeeper asked her how much she wanted, she directly said 5 pounds, and all of a sudden, more than 200 wen was gone.

Afterwards, the two went to the grocery store to buy some caramel, red dates, peanuts and sesame seeds. When walking around, Chen Ningya even saw someone selling shallots. A lot of them made Wen Youshan feel bad, "Miss, we still have a lot of Baisong in our family. Why do you want to buy these shallots? You can buy a pound of pork for this money."

  Chen Ningya was in a good mood, gave him a coquettish look, and said slowly, "Isn't it the Lantern Festival tomorrow? In addition to making dumplings for you, I'll make dumplings for you to try. This spring onion is just fine."

   Wen Youshan didn't feel distressed when he heard it, and even had some vague expectations.

  The two went to cut a few pounds of meat, and then they went back.

   After noon that day, Chen Ningya cooked all the five kilograms of soaked glutinous rice. In the evening, there was a sound of beating in the Wen's yard.

  Xiao Li stared at the halfway up the mountain in confusion, and asked with Sun Laifu, "What's the matter with the Shan family? Hearing this sound, it sounds like a hammer."

  Sun Laifu cast a gloomy glance at his mother-in-law, "Tomorrow is the New Year's Day. They made money last year, so they shouldn't be a dumpling or something."

  Little Li was startled for a moment, and hurried into the house to find her mother-in-law.

Chen Ningya didn't even know that the Sun family was ready to eat **** because their family made glutinous rice. When Wen Youshan made five catties of glutinous rice into adult cakes, Chen Ningya also prepared the fillings here, and Wen Youshan asked for red dates. , there are also peanut and sesame fillings. This is still ground with a stone mill sent by Huang Ergou. In addition to the first time, Chen Ningya has ground some chestnuts. It can be mixed with caramel candy and wrapped in chestnut filling.

   It hasn’t started wrapping yet, and the filling alone is enough to make people drool.

  Chen Ningya didn't tell the truth, she wrapped the wrapped rice cakes in bamboo leaves. It looked like a zongzi, but it was rectangular. Each rice cake was wrapped in a bamboo leaf. The family was busy until late at night to wrap all the rice cakes.

Chen Ningya counted it carefully and found that there were more than 200 dumplings wrapped in the five kilograms of glutinous rice. She immediately became happy, turned her head and said to Wen Youshan, "We can't finish so many dumplings, we will give them to your brothers tomorrow. Send some, and some from the village chief, and let's keep the rest and eat slowly."

   It’s just cold weather, so this thing can be kept for a while.

  Wen Youshan smiled even brighter. In the past, he always accepted things from others. I didn't expect that this year their family could also give things to others. This doesn't prove that their family has a better life.

The next day, Wen Youshan got up early. First, he helped Chen Ningya live, and then he made breakfast. Then he went out with the dumplings. The first stop was naturally the Sun family. Mrs. Li was still cooking. When I came out to see the movement, I asked suspiciously, "A mountain, so early?"

   "Auntie, it's getting late, I'm here to bring you dumplings." Wen Youshan took four dumplings and put them on the table in the main room.

   Mr. Li hurriedly stopped the person and put four dumplings for him without any explanation, "This is from my aunt's house, you can take it back and have a taste."

  Wen Youshan didn't refuse, it's a matter of etiquette.

After taking the stuff, he went to Huang's house again, and he also got four pieces of dumplings. Others would give him a few eggs or some mountain goods if they didn't eat dumplings, especially the village chief's family, who even made cakes. Wen Youshan left. When you have to let him take a few pieces.

  So, when he came home, Chen Ningya found that he brought back more things than he took out.

   (end of this chapter)