The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

Chapter 185, making dumplings

The sun was setting, and it was getting dark gradually, but the small courtyard of Qiao's house was still full of laughter and laughter.

After clearing the table and cleaning the pots and pans, the women began to knead the dough, mix the stuffing, and prepare to make dumplings.The old man was sitting on a small stool by the door, smoking a pipe, and the three sons sat beside him, talking with him.

The old lady's health was not good, she sat outside for a while, and then said she went back to the house to rest.

A group of half-grown kids were still working on their kiln chickens, and the kids were running around in the yard, very happy.

"Oh, I almost forgot, I have to go and light the lantern at the door." Seeing that it was getting dark, Uncle Qiao remembered that the lantern at home hadn't been lit yet, so he stood up and prepared to light the lantern.

Qiao Mingshan heard it and said, "Sit down, Dad, I'll go."

"Okay, if you go, you can go, and light the lamps here." Uncle Qiao sat back and asked his son to light the lanterns at the door.

"understood."

Qiao Mingshan went to light the lantern at the door, and then came back to light the small lantern hanging in the yard.

It's just that the sky is not completely dark yet, and the lit lanterns don't feel too bright.

"I also have to go back and light our house's lanterns." Hearing his elder brother's words, Qiao Chunfu remembered that their house's lanterns were not lit, and planned to go back and light their house's lanterns.Qiao Chungui stood up and said, "I'll go back with you, and our lanterns are not lit."

The woman making dumplings shouted: "Remember to light the lights in the house together."

"I know, I know."

The two brothers went home together to light the lamp, and after lighting the lamp, they came to their elder brother's house again.

Today, every household in the small village kills chickens and sheep, prepares a sumptuous dinner, and the family sits together to have a reunion dinner.For everyone, today is a different day. People have been busy for a whole year, just to live a good year and have a good meal.

The small village on this day is different from the past. When it gets dark, everyone blows the lamps to sleep, so as to save lamp oil.

Today is the New Year's Eve of the New Year's Eve, and every household will light up the lanterns at the door and the lights in the house.There is only one day like this throughout the year, and everyone doesn't care about the money for such a little lamp oil. They have to light it overnight, and it won't be blown out until the next day's dawn.

"It should be fine. I seem to smell sweet potatoes. Are they ripe? Let's dig out some sweet potatoes and take a look."

"It should be cooked, dig dig dig."

They have been waiting for a long time, and they can't wait to dig it out and have a look.

Several big and small children dug up some sweet potatoes and some eggs, and saw that the dug out sweet potatoes and eggs were all cooked.

When a group of children heard that it was cooked, they all ran over and surrounded it, waiting for something to eat.

"Oops..." Qiao Mingyong reached out to touch it, and it was so hot that he grinned his teeth, and said to a group of children surrounded by him, "It's a bit hot, you can take it later... go get two pieces of straw paper to wrap it in."

"I'll get it." Third Sister Qiao was more active than anyone else, she turned around and ran back to the house to get the toilet paper.

Qiao Mingyong raised his head and yelled at the people in the courtyard, "Everyone, come get something to eat."

"I've just finished eating. Didn't you feel full just now? There will be dumplings over here in a while. Let me see where you got them." Mrs. Qiao felt a headache seeing the group of boys cooking so many things again. I can't wait to catch her kid and beat him up before I come back every day to take the lead and not do good things.

"Haha, what are you afraid of? Let's eat and run around here twice, and we will have a stomach full of dumplings in a while." Qiao Mingyong returned to his mother in fear of death.

Aunt Qiao still wants to have a seizure.

Huang Yan smiled and persuaded the sister-in-law, "Don't pay attention to them, eat as much as you want, if you can't finish it, let's save it for tomorrow."

"I'm too lazy to take care of them." Mrs. Qiao quickly rolled out a dumpling wrapper with a rolling pin, and handed it over to make dumplings for my aunt.

The hands of the women are fast, and the dumplings are beautiful.

The boys at home came back with great difficulty, and had to leave again after a few days.In the past, when this group of people were at home, they still felt that it was too noisy. After the children left and quieted down, they were not used to it.

Now the boys in the family are all going out to do business, and they will come home less than a few times throughout the year.

The women were chatting about the children, and glanced at the boys from time to time.

In the eyes and hearts of mothers, no matter how old the child is, in their eyes, the child is still a child.Now that the children have grown up and left home to go out to work hard, there are not many opportunities to go home, and it is good to be able to take a look, otherwise, when the children leave home, they will not be able to look at them even if they want to.

Life in the past was not as good as it is now. There were more children in the family, and they were all screaming with hunger. It would be nice to have a sip of rice soup. Even if it was Chinese New Year, there was nothing to eat.But today's life is different. They eat meat and wear new clothes. The children just want to eat more meat, so let them eat it. The adults don't blame themselves too much for this.

"Here comes the straw paper." Third Sister Qiao ran to take out the straw paper.

"Come here, what do you want, tell me quickly." Qiao Mingyong took it, asked the children what they wanted, and wrapped them a sweet potato or an egg in straw paper.

With so many chickens in their family now, there is no shortage of eggs, otherwise they would not dare to harm eggs like this.If it was in the past, they would have to sneak around with every egg at home, for fear of being caught and spanked by his mother.

Several children took the eggs and left, and there are still a lot of eggs and sweet potatoes left here.

"Xiao Cheng took it to Grandpa and the others." Qiao Mingyong found a basket, put all the things in the basket, and asked his cousin to take it to Grandpa and others.

Qiao Mingcheng took the basket and took it to the grandpas.

"Brother, brother." Qiao Xiaobao ran over to his brother grabbing an egg, stuffed the egg into his hand, and looked at his elder brother eagerly, waiting for him to peel it off and eat it.

"Is this for me?" Qiao Minglang was sitting here with his grandfather and uncles. He was listening to the adults talking when he was grabbed by his child and an egg was stuffed into his hand. Holding the egg, he deliberately asked the child.

The child looked tangled, it belonged to him, not to his brother.

But this is my brother, it seems that I have to give...

Qiao Minglang waited for their children to make a choice.

"Brother, yes." Qiao Xiaobao saw the little brother coming over with a basket of things, so he was about to reach out to grab the eggs.Qiao Minglang quickly grabbed the little paw of the child, "Hey, it's hot, don't move around."

Fearing that the child would be disobedient, he pulled the child to him and clamped his legs to prevent him from running around. "I'll peel the eggs for you, and then go play after eating. Let me see if your hands are dirty." of."

When I looked at it, I found that the little guy's hands were really dirt and sand, and I didn't know what he did in the yard just now.

"Your hands are dirty, I'll eat them for you, and you bite them yourself." Qiao Minglang didn't bother to take the child to wash his hands, because he knew that the children on his side would get their hands dirty when they turned their heads. .

The weather is too cold this time, and it is too troublesome to wash hands and get hot water in the kitchen.

Seeing the egg handed to his mouth, Qiao Xiaobao opened his mouth, took a bite, then pushed his brother's hand, eating in his mouth, he said nothing, and stared at his brother with big eyes.

"Let me eat?" Qiao Minglang understood what the child meant, and when he saw the child nodding, he lowered his head and tried to bite his egg.Seeing the child smiling at him, he couldn't help laughing, and he couldn't bear to eat his eggs anymore, saying: "There are here, you eat first, and if brother wants to eat, then peel it yourself."

Does this mean he stopped eating his eggs?When Qiao Xiaobao saw that his brother refused to eat, a little doubt flashed in his eyes.

Just now he refused to give it to his elder brother, but now seeing that his elder brother refused to eat it, the child quit again.

"Okay, I'll take a bite." Seeing the child stubbornly pushing his hand, asking him to eat the egg, Qiao Minglang had no choice but to take a bite of the egg, and he was unwilling to take too many bites, so he took a bite meaningfully.

Seeing that the elder brother finally ate his eggs, the child smiled with crooked eyes.

"Little Treasure, do you want Uncle to have a bite of the egg?" Qiao Chunfu took the child to him and hugged it. Usually the child was raised in their home, and sometimes he would take a piece of egg to the town to sell things.

This child is very sensible at a young age. They told him not to run around, so he would not run around. He could sit on the small stool in the stall and play for a long time.

"Well, here it is." Seeing that the little uncle wanted to eat eggs, Qiao Xiaobao nodded without thinking, and then looked at his brother eagerly.

"..." Qiao Minglang suddenly felt that he had fallen out of favor.

He asked for a long time just now, and the child still had a melancholy look on his face. When the little uncle asked, the kid gave it up. Didn't he fall out of favor?

Uncle Qiao sat there for a while, then came over to watch his wife and sisters-in-law making dumplings, went to wash their hands, and then came over to help make dumplings.Qiao Erniang looked up at her man, pushed her with her hands, and said, "You don't need to come, you go and sit over there."

The men in the family were all sitting there, and the woman felt embarrassed when the man from her family came to help make dumplings.

"Sitting is sitting, I'll pack a few for you." Uncle Qiao was willing to leave.

"It's all wrapped, and I'll help a few too." Qiao Chunfu came over to take a look, and seeing that the dumplings were already being made, he also came over to help.

Several women saw that the dumplings made by the men in the family were so ugly that it was an eyesore to put them among the dumplings they had made. The women joined forces and drove away their respective men.

"The chicken should be cooked, let's dig one out and have a look."

"Dig dig dig."

Several big and small children carefully dug out the chickens they buried in the ground, peeled off the outer layers of straw paper, and wrapped two layers of leaves inside, peeled off the inner leaves, and you can see the cooked chicken inside. Lotus Leaf Chicken.