At this time, the entire Yunling Village is filled with the aroma of meat. Today is the New Year's Eve. Even the poorest families will prepare some meat dishes and make some meat dumplings on this day. It can be said that there are quite a few People point to this day throughout the year to get some good food.
Ding Jiuniang, Ye Laoshuan and Ye Tan came to the kitchen, and the three of them were preparing to make dumplings. Looking at the dishes prepared by Ye Tan, Ding Jiuniang smiled and said, "Our food today is so rich."
Ye Laoshuan looked at these rich dishes. Although he said nothing, the smile on his face never faded.
Originally, if Ye Tan didn't come back, the old couple planned to simply make some dumplings and celebrate the New Year. Their son would not come back anyway, and their granddaughter was sent to the northeast to suffer. They also felt that this New Year Life is meaningless.
However, I didn't expect Ye Tan to come back to spend the New Year with them. Not only did he come back, he also bought so many things for the old couple, new clothes, new shoes, all kinds of food, and now he has prepared so many dishes. The old couple suddenly felt that this year was something people were looking forward to.
"That's right." Ye Tan said with a smile: "You can't use the knife tomorrow. Make more today, and the rest will be enough for tomorrow."
"Yes, yes." Ding Jiuniang responded with a smile.
The three of them, one rolling the dumplings and two making the dumplings, quickly made several dozen dumplings, and Ye Tan cooked all the prepared dishes one by one.
One braised pork with dried beans, one braised rabbit, one minced eggplant, one braised carp, one scrambled egg with tomatoes, one fried peanut, plus the chicken stewed with potatoes and stuffed tofu sent by Wen Xiuping, a total of eight Finally, Ye Tan cooked two more plates of dumplings, and the three of them had a lively New Year's Eve dinner.
The old couple also gave Ye Tan new year's money, a full ten yuan. They now know that Ye Tan is not short of money and can give them money for retirement. However, this new year's money is what they want, and Ye Tan understands in his heart, so he smiles. If you accept it, the old couple will not be short of money in the future anyway, so they don't have to push back and forth for this little bit.
After eating such good food, Ye Laoshuan had to drink some wine. Ye Tan didn't let Ye Laoshuan drink the bulk wine, so he took out the ginseng wine.
This ginseng wine was made by Amu. It uses the best wild ginseng, which can replenish yang energy, strengthen the spleen and lungs. It is very good for the elderly. Even Ding Jiuniang can drink a glass of it.
"Okay, okay, this wine is really good." After taking a sip of ginseng wine, Ye Laoshuan nodded with a smile. He really enjoyed the blessing of his granddaughter.
Ye Tan then smiled and said: "Grandpa, if you like this wine, you can drink a little from time to time, but don't drink too much. I also brought back a piece of wild ginseng, and I brewed it later. You can drink it as soon as you have time.”
"You kid, don't just think about us, you should also take care of yourself." Ye Laoshuan and Ding Jiuniang both said hurriedly.
"Don't worry, I will take care of myself."
Ye Laoshuan and Ding Jiuniang both smiled and nodded, thinking about sending more things to Ye Tan later.
The three grandparents and grandsons were enjoying the family reunion dinner here happily, but the couple Ye Laiqing in Fengtang Town were not so harmonious.
Because the money at home was very tight, Qian Huaihua did not dare to prepare more meat and vegetables, so she bought some fat meat and a small piece of lean meat, and also bought a fish of about two kilograms from a non-staple food store. As for chicken , not at all. In previous years, they were captured directly from Ye Laoshuan's yard. This year, the relationship between the two parties was severed, and the chicken was naturally gone.
Seeing the dishes Qian Huaihua brought to the table, Ye Laiqing's face darkened a few shades: "You don't know what day it is today? Are you going to feed me these?"
In previous years, let alone the Chinese New Year, my family could eat some big meat from time to time on weekdays, and it was very oily. But this year, look at the few oily and watery dishes on the table, and the only meat dish is the braised fish. , even the dumplings were just stuffed with oily cabbage. This made Ye Laiqing, who originally thought he could satisfy his craving during the Chinese New Year, immediately angry.
Not only Ye Laiqing, but also Ye Xiaobao was dissatisfied. He wanted to eat chicken, pork belly, and big meatballs. Looking at the dishes on the table, Ye Xiaobao twisted his arms and legs and started crying: "I want to eat chicken. I want to eat chicken." I want to eat pork belly, I don’t like fish, wuwuwu… I want to eat meat!”
Qian Huaihua felt aggrieved and couldn't help but said dissatisfied: "How can I have money at home? I bought this fish with all my heart."
Nowadays, things are expensive again, but her and Ye Laiqing's wages have been deducted. At least in the next one or two years, their family will not have any surplus. Let alone eating meat, it will be good to be full. .
After saying that, Qian Huaihua was still not relieved and murmured: "That good girl of yours has a lot of money in her hands. Look at the big and small bags when I went back to Lao Ye's house that day. You, the father, also I didn’t see her send you a penny back.”
This sentence directly made Ye Laiqing even more angry. The shame of being beaten in front of the whole village that day came back to him. He immediately didn't care about the day. He stood up and slapped anyone with a big mouth. On Qian Huaihua's face: "You still have the nerve to accuse me. You haven't gotten back a penny of the money you lent to your eldest brother. Your family named Qian eats and drinks from me, and you still turn your back on me." Man, what kind of good do you think you are?"
Before he finished speaking, Qian Huaihua was slapped on the face again.
Qian Huaihua felt a little guilty because of the money matter, but she was extremely aggrieved: "How did I know that my elder brother would be like this? If I had known that he was like this, I would never have lent him any money. Now that he doesn't pay back the money, I'm the one who's suffering. During this period, I went back to him to ask for money when I had nothing to do, but he just refused to pay back. What can I do, or else you can beat me to death, beat me to death. I'm fine, I'm just like Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror, I'm not human inside or out."
As he spoke, he burst into tears.
Ye Xiaobao didn't expect that Ye Laiqing and Qian Huaihua would start a fight like this. When he saw Qian Huaihua crying, he started crying too, shouting: "I want to eat meat, I want to eat pork belly." "
No matter how angry Ye Laiqing was, he also felt hurt for Ye Xiaobao. After all, this was his only son and he would provide for him in his old age in the future, so he softly coaxed him a few words.
But Ye Xiaobao was only thinking about eating meat and refused to listen. But Ye Laiqing was so angry that he pushed Ye Xiaobao to the ground and shouted: "Pork belly, pork belly, look at me, do I look like me?" It’s like pork belly, otherwise you could eat me.”
After saying that, Ye Laiqing simply turned around and went into the house to lie down without eating.
"Wow -" Ye Xiaobao cried even louder when his butt hurt from the fall.
Qian Huaihua hugged Ye Xiaobao distressedly, cursing Ye Tan secretly in her heart, and mother and son cried together.
(End of chapter)
