"Okay, it's not like I'd be in a hurry to leave once I get back to your house. I have to stay at your house for a few days. After all, it's New Year's Day and I can't just show up at your house and go home." Gu Zhao said.
They went to work on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. They could stay until the fifth day. On the sixth day, they took the train home. Although they could only stay for three days, it was not a short time. It was enough for taking pictures.
"Then I can give Tian Yining a red envelope. I will prepare a big red envelope for her." Tian Tian was happy when talking about the Chinese New Year.
She really wanted to give red envelopes to her younger generation. Last year, when Tian Yining didn't come back, she still gave red envelopes to Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu, but the money in the red envelopes was not much, only one dollar for each person.
Tian Mu is now working and earning money. According to the customs here, you don't need to give red envelopes after you earn money.
Tian Zhuo is still a student and has to rely on school subsidies for food and other expenses. Although he works part-time to earn money outside, he can only make a little money. That's why Tian Tian gave Tian Zhuo a red envelope. However, Tian Zhuo and Tian Mu are not much different in age, and they are both Tian Tian's younger brothers. After Tian Tian gave Tian Zhuo a red envelope, it would be a bit bad if she didn't give Tian Mu one.
In the end, she gave two red envelopes as a token of her appreciation. Although the amount given to Tian Zhuo was not much, Tian Tian did give Tian Zhuo some subsidies in private. Every time she came to their house from school, Tian Tian would basically give Tian Zhuo some money, although nine times out of ten Tian Zhuo refused to take it.
The New Year is coming, and Tian Tian and Gu Zhao have moved from their own homes to Ge Huiyun's home. Ge Huiyun's home has been very lively these days, with many people coming to give them various gifts.
Ge Huiyun accepted some of the gifts from people who were close to her.
However, for colleagues at work, with whom she does not have such a close relationship, Ge Huiyun would also accept the gifts if they were not very expensive.
Ge Huiyun unceremoniously returned the gifts to those who came to ask them for favors. After those people left, the family sorted out the gifts in the living room.
They definitely could not finish all the gifts that piled up like a mountain, so Ge Huiyun planned to send these gifts back. Of course, she would not return the same way, but would send them back in an interspersed manner. There were also some gifts that did not require them to reciprocate.
They kept some of the extra food for themselves and planned to take the rest home with Tian Tian and the others.
Tian Tian looked at the gifts for a while without objecting. They were mainly oranges, apples, malted milk, canned food, biscuits, cakes, etc. Basically, these were what she would buy when she got home.
Tian Tian was confused looking at all these gifts. She couldn't figure out who the relatives and friends of the Ge family were, so she took An An to an empty room upstairs to play. Before, An An always played downstairs. Now she has learned to walk. Although she doesn't walk very steadily, An An loves to walk very much. The living room downstairs is the largest area in the house, so Ge Huiyun and the others moved all the sofas and coffee tables away and let An An play there.
But there were many people coming during the Chinese New Year, so they had to have a place to entertain them. So they restored the coffee table to its original state and cleared out an empty room upstairs for An An to play in.
Tian Tian doesn't dare to leave An An in one place now, because she can walk now, especially since they have to go upstairs and downstairs. She is also worried that An An will fall, so she stays by An An's side all the time.
Whenever An An does something, she has to give it enough emotional value. After only watching for two or three hours, Tian Tian was exhausted and her waist and legs ached.
Fortunately, Gu Zhao came up quickly to replace Tian Tian, allowing Tian Tian to go back to bed and lie down for a while. Tian Tian lay in bed for half an hour, then ran to the kitchen downstairs to look at her pot of braised food.
Since the success of their experiment with stewed food at home, Tian Tian has developed a great interest in stewed food. Because stewed food is also very convenient, you just need to cook it, take it out and refrigerate it in the refrigerator. Even if it is cold, you can still eat it, and it tastes especially good.
They basically have a plate of braised food with their meals every day, so they eat very quickly, and their house is often filled with the aroma of braised food.
During the Chinese New Year this time, Tian Tian also specially brought several packets of braised food. Gu Shuyun was very interested in cooking. He had eaten the braised food that Tian Tian sent them before. After receiving the braised food packets, he also began to study the spice packet.
The pot in the kitchen now is the result of Gu Shuyun's experiment. Tian Tian is quite curious because the aroma it smells is very different from what Tian Tian and the others eat.
Moreover, Gu Shuyun specially made two pots, and the taste of the two pots was different.
Tian Tian ran into the kitchen and took a look at the braised food. The pot was bubbling with sounds and the aroma was already very rich. The color of the ingredients inside was also getting darker little by little, which was very tempting.
These two braised dishes include not only Tian Tian’s favorite chicken feet, chicken necks, chicken wings, and chicken legs, but also a large piece of beef shank.
God knows how much Tian Tian wants to eat braised beef, but she can’t buy beef outside.
She even went to the state-owned restaurant that used to sell braised beef and asked the chef. The chef said that this was the last piece of braised beef he had that day. Although Tian Tian was very disappointed, there was nothing she could do about it.
Tian Tian picked up a spoon and stirred the two pots of braised food. The pots were full and it was a bit difficult to stir them, but Tian Tian still stirred them carefully. There were eggs and radishes in them, and Tian Tian was worried that they would be broken into pieces.
After stirring, Tian Tian tasted the juice on the chopsticks.
To be honest, the soup is a bit salty. I can't taste how delicious it is, but it is a little different from what Gu Zhao made before. This one tastes a little more fresh and sweet.
Although the soup was very salty, Tian Tian still had great expectations for this pot of braised food, because it was normal for the soup to be salty. She washed the chopsticks, put them back into the chopstick cage, and then ran to accompany Gu Zhao to watch over An An.
An An might be tired from playing, and now he finally calmed down and sat on the floor, happily stacking building blocks.
Gu Zhao was beside her helping her with the stacking. The stack was already very high, and when she put one piece down, she had to hold on with her short arms and then stand on tiptoe carefully.
She is still too young and doesn’t know how to use building blocks to build castles or something like that. She can only stack the blocks a little higher, but because she is small and her hands are unsteady, she often only stacks a few layers before the blocks all fall apart.
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