Chapter 251: Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival at Home
When Yu Hui woke up, Gu Huai and Bei Bei were no longer in bed.
Last night, that drunk Gu Huai refused to let her go. She couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep.
Anyway, a drunk man can't get hard and can't do anything to her.
The sun shone into the house, showing that it was getting late.
As Yu Hui was getting dressed, she thought, today is a holiday, and she usually has to get up early to do things, but today she slept a little longer and got up late. No one should think anything of it, right?
"My aunt is up." Gu Qiuyan, who was playing with Beibei in the main room, shouted outside when she saw Yu Hui coming out of the bedroom.
Three black lines appeared on Yu Hui's forehead. There was no need to announce it so loudly.
"Let's have breakfast." Gu Huai's voice was heard outside the house. After a while, Gu Hongmei, Gu Huai, and the two brothers Gu Dong and Gu Nan came into the house carrying breakfast.
It was obvious that everyone was waiting for her to get up and have breakfast together, so they hadn't eaten yet.
Yu Hui glanced at the clock hanging on the wall and her eyes widened immediately. It was already eight o'clock.
Since she came into this world, she has never gotten up before eight o'clock.
It’s all Gu Huai’s fault, the drunkard. Yu Hui secretly glared at Gu Huai.
When he looked away, he saw Gu Hongmei smiling at him, and that smile was very ambiguous.
Yu Hui was stunned at first, then she realized why she was looking at her and smiling like that.
She opened her mouth to explain, but the words were swallowed back at her throat.
What if she said to Gu Hongmei, "It's not what you think?"
Everyone would wonder what she really did with Gu Huai last night.
After all, the other person didn't say anything, but you rushed to explain. It seems that you have done that kind of thing, which is why you think that when others smile at you, it means that.
Yu Hui sighed silently, her shoulders slumped a little, and her heart felt very tired.
Looking at the culprit, he was still sharing chopsticks with the children, as if nothing had happened.
In the morning, they had sweet potato porridge with pickled vegetables and pancakes stuffed with pickled vegetables and minced pork. Gu Hongmei had baked the pancakes after getting up, and she had also bought the meat at the grocery store after getting up.
Halfway through the meal, Gu Huai said, "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival. The city must be very lively. Do you want to go out and have fun?"
The three Gu Dong brothers all raised their heads. They were still a little eager to go to the city to play. Brother Lixin and his family had just gone to the county town.
Before Yu Hui could say anything, Gu Qiuyan said, "The city is bustling today, but there are bound to be a lot of people. If we go now, not to mention whether we can squeeze on the bus, we might not even be able to eat lunch when we get to the city. There are definitely a lot of people eating at the state-owned restaurants today."
When she came back yesterday, she saw that there were many more people in the city than usual, and the buses were very crowded.
Gu Hongmei nodded in agreement. During the New Year and other holidays in the county town, there were so many people that it was hard to get on the buses. People on the streets were shoulder to shoulder and could only move slowly.
There are so many state-owned restaurants that you have to wait in line for a long time.
The year I first got married to You Shengxing, I invited relatives to dinner at a state-owned restaurant at noon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. We made reservations two days in advance, and those who didn't make reservations had to wait for an hour before they could eat.
Gu He was thinking that once they got to the city, they would have to spend money. As an older brother, he didn't want his younger siblings to spend money, so he said, "What's the point of crowding around? It's better for us to just stay at home, eat some sunflower seeds, chat, and make some delicious food."
The three Gu Dong brothers were still thinking about the park they had visited before, but after hearing what their cousin and second father said, they felt that there would definitely be a lot of people in the park today, and they might not be able to rent a small boat. There were too many people and they wouldn't be able to do anything.
Yu Hui also had the same idea. The buses are crowded on Saturdays and Sundays, and it would be even harder to get on during holidays.
It's a big holiday and she doesn't want to be crowded.
Gu Huai looked at Yu Hui and asked for her opinion.
As soon as Yu Hui saw his face, she remembered how he had mistaken her for someone else last night, hugged her and called her his wife, and said aggrievedly that he didn't want a divorce. She immediately became furious.
Just rolled your eyes at him.
Gu Huai: "..."
Why is she rolling her eyes at me?
Could it be that I fell asleep last night while holding her in my arms and she found out?
When he woke up in the morning, Gu Huai discovered that he had slept with his arms around her, not with her hugging his arms.
As for how he fell asleep, Gu Huai had no recollection of it at all. After coming back from the bathhouse, he lost all memory and thought he fell asleep right after he came back.
"Let's just hang out at home. We'll make fried dough twists for lunch." Yu Hui then asked, "What did you buy at the grocery store this morning?"
Gu Hongmei said: "Today, the grocery store has a lot of goods and many people are buying vegetables. I grabbed a chicken and also bought two pounds of pork belly, three pounds of tofu, two pounds of eggplant, two pounds of bean sprouts, and two pounds of tomatoes."
She originally wanted to buy two more kilograms of pork belly. After all, there are so many people in her family, and they must eat more meat during the festival. However, the grocery store has limited the quantity, and she can only buy a maximum of two kilograms of pork.
Yu Hui quickly drafted a menu, "Then for lunch, we'll make braised pork with dried beans. Gu Huai, take your second brother and Qiuyan to the river to catch some fish and half a bucket of crayfish. For lunch, we'll also make braised fish, crucian carp and tofu soup, stir-fried mapo tofu, fish-flavored eggplant, cold-mixed tomatoes, and tiger skin eggs with hot peppers."
"Tonight we'll make mushroom and chicken soup, eat crayfish and bean sprout noodles, and in the afternoon the whole family will fry fried dough twists together."
Here, they have a tradition of frying fried dough twists during the Chinese New Year and other festivals.
The fried dough twist with brown sugar is crispy and can be stored in an airtight container and eaten for several months.
It is also one of the favorite snacks of children.
"Great." The three Gu Dong brothers clapped their hands together.
Beibei, who was a little slower, also clapped his hands, showing a few small glutinous rice teeth, and followed with "Yeah~"
After breakfast, Gu Huai and Gu He took two buckets, shrimp fishing rods, fishing rods, a piece of fat meat, and went to the river with Gu Qiuyan and the three children.
Yu Hui and Gu Hongmei rested for a while before starting to prepare the food.
Gu Qiuyan and several children were responsible for fishing for shrimps, Gu Huai was responsible for fishing, and Gu He felt that the fish were caught too slowly, so he took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs and went into the river to catch fish.
But there are few big fish caught, most of them are crucian carp two or three fingers wide, which are suitable for frying and eating.
Gu Huai also let them stay. "This kind of crucian carp is perfect. After frying the fried dough twists, we can fry it and give it to the children as a snack."
The bones of this small crucian carp are soft, and after frying, the bones are crispy and can be eaten directly.
Gu Huai waited patiently for more than ten minutes, and finally a big fish was caught.
It is a grass carp weighing about four or five pounds, which is just right for braising.
Then I caught a few more crucian carps, the size of a palm, which were just right for making soup.
Crucian carp soup and braised fish were to be eaten at noon. After Gu Huai had caught enough fish, he skewered them with grass and brought them back.
Before leaving, he also took Gu Nan and Gu Xixi back with him.
Gu Dong is older, so he feels more at ease staying by the river with Gu He and his daughter.
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