Chapter 328 The Rules Have Changed

Zhou Qinglan fed the baby, and Zhang Shuzhen found a new set of clothes, put the baby into it, wrapped it in a quilt, and sent it to the kang in the east room.

There are two kangs in the north and south of the east room. The kangs are very hot for cooking during the Chinese New Year, and the room is not cold.

Sheng Liancheng cared about his grandson, so he took Sheng Xinhua out of his blanket and put him on his lap to coax him.

The little baby is about to be born. He doesn't sleep all the time like before. He gets up and plays for two hours every morning, and then gets up and plays from around five o'clock in the afternoon. He can play until around eight o'clock or almost nine o'clock before going to bed.

Such a little guy doesn't know much about anything else. Anyway, he just lies on Sheng Liancheng's lap, dances and chats with Sheng Liancheng from time to time.

But Sheng Liancheng was so happy that he imitated his little grandson and chatted with him. The grandfather and grandson just talked like a duck, which was quite interesting.

With Sheng Liancheng, Sheng Xitai, and Chen Feng coaxing the children, Zhang Shuzhen could rest assured and go about other things.

Zhou Qinglan also took the opportunity to gather the West Room and tidy it up.

Of course, the baby was awake and playing, and had just finished feeding, so he must have peed a lot.

Sheng Liancheng didn't know how to pee a child. As he was playing with it, he felt something was wrong. Why was his leg so hot?

I lowered my head and saw, my grandson, this splash of urine was quite serious. Not only did he wet his pants, but also wetted Sheng Liancheng's cotton pants.

"Ouch, old lady, hurry up, my grandson peed on me." Sheng Liancheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly called Zhang Shuzhen to handle it.

"You just pee when you pee, what's the big deal? Our grandson is trying to see if you know how to date? How good is it for a child to pee?"

Zhang Shuzhen laughed when she heard this. While smiling, she took out the diaper and replaced it with something dry.

By the way, I wiped Sheng Liancheng's cotton pants with the dry area on the edge of the diaper.

After cleaning up, Sheng Liancheng put his grandson on his lap again and chatted with him.

Little Xinhua was also quite interesting. While chatting with his grandpa, he raised his calves and tried to reach his feet.

Brothers Sheng Xian, Sheng Xikang took turns, and soon they chopped out the minced meat.

Then, according to Zhang Shuzhen's instructions, she chopped up the washed cabbage and shredded radish that had been blanched and squeezed out the water.

Northeastern people make dumplings, and many vegetables can be used as fillings.

For example, shepherd's purse, celery, Cantonese vegetables, and acanthopanax in spring, leeks, elm mushrooms, and celery peppers in summer, mustard tassels in autumn, and sauerkraut in winter. These are all classic dumpling fillings.

But during the Chinese New Year, most people make stuffed cabbage and radish stuffings, and the Sheng family does the same.

Add salt, monosodium glutamate, peppercorns, soy sauce and other seasonings to the minced meat filling and marinate it. The vegetable fillings are all drained of water, and placed in a bowl in lumps for later use.

Mix the noodles over there. When the noodles are almost awake, break up the cabbage stuffing dumplings, pour a little oil in and mix well. This is to prevent the cabbage stuffing from meeting the salt and water later.

Stir evenly, then pour in the chopped green onion and meat filling, and mix the filling with chopsticks or your hands.

Some people like to eat ginger, and they will also put a little minced ginger in the stuffing of dumplings.

New Year dumplings need to be made in a neat and beautiful way, so it’s not easy to make them randomly, and the whole family can’t do it at the same time.

Zhang Shuzhen led her daughter-in-law and daughter to make dumplings, Sheng Liancheng coaxed the children, and Sheng Xiping led his younger brother to fry melon seeds, hazelnuts, pine nuts and other foods.

Around 6:30, the four mothers started to work. Zhou Qinglan took the dough, Sheng Yunfang rolled out the dough, and Zhang Shuzhen and Sheng Yunfei made the dough.

The four mothers cooperated very well and did the job very quickly.

Zhang Shuzhen was so happy this year that she even put a penny of steel coins, dates, peanuts, sugar and other things into the dumplings.

There are many children at home, so let them play.

Sheng Xiping was in the kitchen, frying all kinds of dried fruits in pot after pot.

After frying it in a pot, put it on a dustpan with a strainer and bring it to the house for everyone to eat.

The melon seeds were grown at home. Zhou Qinglan ate a lot during her pregnancy, and the rest was fried in two pots.

Don't even think about peanuts, they are in short supply, and during the Chinese New Year they are supplied based on population, at two taels per person.

There are so many people in the Sheng family, so two kilograms of peanuts have to be saved and fried for use as a dish or something, so it is impossible for the children to eat them casually.

Fortunately, there are large forests all around, which are rich in products. There are hazelnuts, pine nuts and so on in the mountains.

There was no pine nut harvest this year, so Sheng Xiping and the others didn't sell the few pine cones they harvested, so they simply kept them for their own consumption.

Sheng Xitai is professional when it comes to eating. He doesn't like melon seeds, but he likes pine nuts very much.

So I prepared the pliers early and put the pine nuts into the nest on the side of the pliers.

Clamping hard with both hands, the pine nut shell broke, but the flesh inside was still intact.

This kid is so weird, he doesn't just eat one after picking it up, but he keeps pinching it with pliers.

After making a pile, he would give the pliers to others and slowly pick at the pine nuts to eat.

On New Year's Eve, the forest farm provided power all night, and every household had all the lights on in their houses and lanterns on in their yards.

At this time, if you stand on the hillside of Nanshan and look down, you can see the brightly lit lights on the forest farm.

Compared to the forestry farm, the area at the alkaline farm is much dimmer. There is no power supply there yet, and candles are lit at night.

At around nine o'clock, Sheng Xinhua felt sleepy and began to take a restful sleep.

Zhou Qinglan couldn't work anymore, so she took her son back to the west room and nursed him to sleep.

It happened that Sheng Xiping had finished his work, so he came over to take over his wife's work, kneading the dough and picking up the ingredients.

Sheng Xiping didn't use this kind of force, so he just used a kitchen knife to cut the seeds.

The children had a lot of fun during the day and didn't sleep. At about ten o'clock, Chen Feng felt a little sleepy and sat there nodding.

"Aren't there frozen pears and frozen persimmons in the outer room? Lao Liu went to see if they were frozen?

Bring it here for you and Xiaofeng to eat to keep you refreshed. "When Zhang Shuzhen saw it, she quickly told her younger son to go to work.

Sheng Xiping went to Songjianghe to deliver pork to the Zhou family, and Wang Chunxiu picked up two bags of frozen pears and frozen persimmons and brought them back.

Years ago, the bureau brought back a batch of frozen pears and persimmons from other places, and each unit distributed welfare.

Two employees, Zhou Mingyuan and Wang Chunxiu, were given double portions and brought back just one portion to the Sheng family.

The forest farm is located in a remote area, and it is inconvenient to get to Songjiang River. Everything we eat is provided by the supply and marketing cooperative.

Frozen pears, frozen persimmons and other things, whichever year there are more shipments, it will be the forest farm's turn. If there are less shipments, the forest farm will not be able to get close to them.

Doing the math, it seems that Sheng Xitai has only eaten frozen pears twice in his life. As for frozen persimmons, he has never seen them.

So when Sheng Xitai heard that there was delicious food, he immediately opened his eyes and dragged Chen Feng to the outhouse.

The two of them found an enamel basin with straw hats, picked up four or five frozen pears and two frozen persimmons, and came back very happy.

Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen are already this age, how can they still argue with their children? They both excused themselves from eating it because it was too cold and their teeth couldn't bear it.

Sheng Xiping did not hesitate to compete with his brothers and sisters for this bite, but he did not eat it.

So Sheng Xi'an and others each divided a frozen pear, took it and took a bite.

The frozen pears are frozen with flower cover, and the outer skin is black and not very pretty.

As a result, the outer skin was bitten open, revealing the white and delicate pear flesh inside. With a slight sip, the sweet and sour pear juice entered the mouth, which immediately refreshed people.

Chen Feng ate frozen pears for the first time in his memory. The moment he took the pear juice into his mouth, his eyes lit up with an expression of surprise and disbelief.

For children in the Northeast these days, frozen pears are one of the few fruits they can eat. It is a rare good thing and very delicious.

"Uncle, this frozen pear is delicious." Chen Feng took a bite of the pear flesh and said vaguely.

"Oh, this frozen pear is not for you to eat. You suck the water inside first, and then eat the pear flesh.

Otherwise, all the water would have flowed away, which would be a pity. "Sheng Xitai saw that Chen Feng was eating something wrong and quickly taught him the correct way to eat it.

Chen Feng said oh, and followed the method taught by his uncle, first sucked the pear juice a few times, and then ate the pear flesh.

A frozen pear is not that big, and Chen Feng can eat it quite well now. He finished it in a short while.

The frozen pear that had just come out was ice cold, and there was still ice in the middle.

After eating a frozen pear, Chen Feng was no longer sleepy, so he and Sheng Xitai took a few firecrackers and set them off outside.

Here, the dumplings were almost finished. Zhang Shuzhen looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was not even half past ten.

"Second and third, hurry up and boil the water. Eat your dumplings and go to bed early."

There are many children at home, and I don’t get much sleep during the day. I won’t be able to stay up for a while, so I might as well finish eating early.

Just now, Sheng Xiping cleaned the pot after frying the pine nuts, filled most of the pot with water, and there were still charcoal at the bottom of the pot.

At this time, just throw a few pieces of fine dry firewood into the bottom of the pot, and the fire will be hot in a short time. The water in the pot is already warm, and it will boil quickly.

Zhang Shuzhen covered the two curtain dumplings with white cloth and carried them to a high place in the warehouse. These will be frozen and cooked and eaten tomorrow morning.

The rest, wait for the water to boil, and put it directly into the pot.

Dumplings were being cooked inside, while Sheng Liancheng led his sons to set off firecrackers outside.

Sheng Xiping did not go out, but went to the west room and covered his son's ears, fearing that the sound of firecrackers would scare the child.

Unexpectedly, the little guy slept soundly without being affected at all.

The dogs of the Sheng family are used to hearing the sound of gunshots and are not afraid of the sound of firecrackers.

Even the two puppies, Zhaocai and Wangfu, waggled their tails calmly and watched the family setting off firecrackers in a lively manner outside.

If this were an ordinary dog, especially a puppy back then, he would have been so frightened that he didn't know where to hide in a corner, shivering.

After setting off a bunch of firecrackers, Sheng Liancheng led the children to set off some flash thunder, two kickers, flying monkeys and so on.

Chen Feng didn't dare to let go of others, so he could let go of the Sky Monkey.

Seeing the flying monkey flying up with a squeak and exploding in mid-air, Chen Feng was so happy that he jumped up and down, clapped his hands and cheered.

"It's so fun, so fun."

"When you are older in a few years, grandpa will teach you how to fire flash thunder. That one will be more fun."

Sheng Liancheng smiled and patted Chen Feng's head and said kindly.

"Well, well, I will eat well and grow up quickly." Chen Feng nodded happily.

At this time, the dumplings were also cooked in the house, and Zhang Shuzhen shouted to the people in the yard to come in and eat.

As soon as he entered the house, Sheng Liancheng realized that the rules had really changed this year.

Unlike previous years where you had to use a spoon to scoop the soup together into the basin, you used a skewer to scoop the dumplings onto a plate. Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei were carrying the plates into the house.

During the Chinese New Year last year, everyone in the family except Sheng Liancheng objected to eating dumplings with soup.

Zhang Shuzhen said at that time that the rules must be changed next year. Unexpectedly, I actually put this into practice this year and ate it dry instead.

Sheng Liancheng sighed, okay, if you change it, just change it. What can you do? This is the first year that my daughter-in-law has entered the family, so she has to get used to it.

Therefore, Sheng Liancheng walked into the house without saying anything and sat on the edge of the Kang.

Several boys came into the room and washed their hands, and also helped put dumplings on the table.

Zhou Qinglan settled down her sleeping son and came out of the west room, just in time to bring garlic sauce and a stack of small plates.

"Okay, okay, let's sit down and eat dumplings. Let me tell you, these dumplings are filled with money, dates, peanuts, and sugar. Let's see what you can eat."

Zhang Shuzhen glanced at Sheng Liancheng and saw that there was nothing unusual on Sheng Liancheng's face. Then she pursed her lips and entertained herself while inviting the children to eat.

Sheng Xiping came in from the outer room and was stunned when he saw the dumplings on the table.

I didn’t expect that the rules in the family were really changed at the drop of a hat. I don’t know what my father was thinking, or whether he felt unhappy because he changed the old rules.

Sheng Xiping secretly glanced at his father and was reassured when he saw that Sheng Liancheng's expression was as usual and did not look unhappy.

So, everyone sat down, put a small plate in front of everyone, scooped some garlic sauce, vinegar or something into their bowls, and started eating dumplings.

The few little ones were all working hard and wanted to get a lucky break, but they all hesitated and didn't know which dumpling to put.

Sheng Xiping didn't care about that, he just picked it up and put it in his mouth.

As soon as I bit into it, I felt my teeth grind. When I lowered my head, I saw that there was a one-cent steel coin wrapped in the dumpling.

"Oh, we Xiping will make some money by eating it. That's great. We will definitely make more money next year."

Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen said in unison when they saw it.

Over there, Zhou Qinglan also felt that something was wrong with the dumplings. He lowered his head and took a look, then put two peanuts inside.

"Oh, our Qinglan is not bad, we will be promoted step by step in the coming year." Peanut, the homophone for "promoted" means "promoted step by step", isn't it?

When the little ones saw that their brothers and sister-in-law had eaten something, they became red-eyed and kept eating hard.

As a result, Sheng Xian got a peanut, Sheng Xitai got a piece of candy, and Chen Feng got a date.

Anyway, no matter what they are eating, everyone is very happy. The purpose of celebrating the New Year is to entertain the children.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Sheng Liancheng once again told stories about his hometown.

There used to be a landlord's house. The mother-in-law didn't want to see her daughter-in-law. She had to wrap charcoal in the dumplings on New Year's Eve. She said that the daughter-in-law had a dark heart and would definitely eat the charcoal.

When they were eating dumplings in the evening, the mother-in-law waited and didn't see her daughter-in-law eating charcoal. Finally, her man bit her.

The charcoal was bitten to pieces, and there was black foam all over the mouth. The man in the house was so angry that he turned over the table and scolded the mother-in-law.

"This is called harming others and harming oneself. Some people just think about the hardships I have endured and have to let my daughter-in-law suffer.

People live a lifetime, why do they have to care so much?

Being a mother-in-law comes from the time when I was a daughter-in-law. It is not easy for me now, so I have to be more considerate of others.

Isn’t it good for the family to live happily together? You have to be in a state of complete chaos and are all unhappy? "

Zhang Shuzhen smiled, she had never thought that way. The hardship she had endured must not be allowed to her daughter-in-law again.

After ten years of looking after the mother-in-law and ten years of looking after the daughter-in-law, if she is good to her daughter-in-law, she will be unable to move when she is old, and her daughter-in-law will be good to her. This is called two good things plus one good thing.