In addition, Zhou's mother brought red dates, pine nuts and other foods from the Northeast, and there were quite a few delicious ones.

Few people buy Spring Festival couplets at this time, and most people ask others to write them. Zhou Yu has beautiful handwriting, so he writes the Spring Festival couplets at home every year.

He went out in the morning, bought some ink and red paper, and wrote several pairs of Spring Festival couplets in one breath before he stopped.

He gave two of them to Zhou Yuanzheng and asked him to bring them over to paste.

Mrs. Wang next door was also preparing things for the New Year, so the three women got together and worked hard in the kitchen all day. It was a very enjoyable life.

New Year's Eve came quickly, and the kitchen was Shen Qingqing and Zhou's mother's territory.

The two of them prepared a variety of cold dishes, hot dishes, and dumpling fillings.

Zhou Xu and Zhou Yuanzheng were not idle either, they were asked to make dumplings in the living room.

Shen Qingqing is very good at rolling out dumpling wrappers. The wrappers she rolls out are round and white, with just the right thickness. The dumplings she makes are plump, just like little ingots.

Zhou Yu and Zhou Yuanzheng waited at the dock early in the morning for the fish for the New Year. The fishing boats would arrive at that time. They picked a big and fresh turbot and bought some other fish, crabs and other species.

When the two people came home carrying a large bag of things, both Shen Qingqing and Zhou's mother were shocked.

"Why did you buy so many things? This seafood doesn't last long and will become smelly if it's cooked." Zhou's mother muttered as she answered the phone.

The winter here is not that cold, and the temperature doesn't even reach below zero degrees. Therefore, these things that don't last long will easily go bad if you buy them and don't finish them.

At this point, Zhou's mother recalled their days in the Northeast. When winter came, thick white snow would cover the ground, and people would stay at home. The kang was heated, and all kinds of food were placed outside the window to freeze, and they would not go bad even if they were frozen all winter.

At that time, when they had nothing to do, they liked to eat at different people's homes, eating all kinds of big pot dishes, tender chicken stewed with mushrooms, and dumplings of various flavors.

After raising a big fat pig for a year, she would never forget the pig-killing dish.

Mother Zhou swallowed her saliva. She was happy just thinking about having those sauerkraut pork dumplings again in the evening.

There were two flavors of dumplings for the New Year, one was the sauerkraut pork dumplings that Zhou's mother loved, and the other was three-fresh dumplings.

The sauerkraut pork dumplings are flavorful. The taste of the sauerkraut neutralizes the greasy taste of the pork, making it very refreshing and appetizing.

The dumplings are made with large fresh shrimp, pork and bamboo shoots bought from the Shenqingqing market. The dumplings are so delicious that they can make your eyebrows drop.

This made Zhou's mother very conflicted when eating. Both kinds of dumplings had their own merits, and she loved them both and couldn't give up either one.

But her stomach was so small that she couldn't eat much, not to mention the braised fish cooked by Shen Qingqing and the stewed chicken with hazel mushrooms.

The dried hazel mushrooms that Zhou's mother brought were very delicious after being soaked. She also caught an old hen in the space and raised it for more than half a year. The hen grew up eating the vegetables in the space.

The cooked chicken soup is golden yellow with a layer of oil floating on it. Add hazel mushrooms and stew together, it is so delicious.