Seeing that his second aunt was anxious, Jiang Xia comforted her, "Don't worry, second aunt, if I refuse, grandpa and grandma won't agree. Even if grandpa and grandma agree, I have ways to refuse."
The second aunt also regained her composure. After Jiang Xia refused, her parents-in-law would indeed not agree.
They were not such confused people, and they both knew the personalities of Tan Yudai and Li Qiuying.
Besides, my parents-in-law don’t ask for salary when they help take care of the children. They just want to help their little grandson.
Of course, Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei would not treat them unfairly. They did not give them a fixed salary every month, but the money they gave to honor their parents during the holidays was much more than their salary.
After calming down, the second aunt felt that she was treating her niece-in-law and niece in this way, and was afraid that Jiang Xia would misunderstand that she was only concerned about making money for her own family and not caring about family affection.
She didn't want to say anything bad about the two younger generations, but if she didn't explain, she would seem very selfish: "Xiao Xia, I don't want your cousin's wife and Li Qiuying to go to Beijing because they and I don't get along. If you..."
Jiang Xia interrupted her: "Second aunt, you are wrong. It is me who does not want them to go. It is not your problem. A Lei and my parents cannot force me to do something I do not like, let alone other people. So it is none of your business. If anyone asks about this, just say that I did not want to invite them and you know nothing."
My second aunt thought Jiang Xia was good at talking and had a strong personality.
When Jiang Xia said this, she felt particularly comfortable.
For Jiang Xia, she is very cautious about choosing someone to take care of her children. The person must have good character. In addition to taking good care of the child, another reason is that children have a strong ability to imitate, and the personality and way of doing things of adults will always influence the child to a greater or lesser extent in a subtle way.
*The next day, the Zhou family came to my second uncle’s house at around seven in the morning to have breakfast.
Zhou Chenglei glanced at Jiang Xia's eyes and found no dark circles, proving that he had slept well.
"Did the child wake up last night?"
Jiang Xia: "No, I didn't wake up until six this morning."
After hearing this, Zhou Chenglei went to help carry a large enamel basin of goose dumplings into the house.
My second aunt and grandmother got up early in the morning and cooked goose dumplings and chicken soup with knife-cut rice cakes.
Goose glutinous rice balls are made of glutinous rice flour, and knife-cut rice cakes are made of sticky rice flour.
Some people don’t like goose glutinous rice balls because they are sticky, so my second aunt made knife-cut glutinous rice balls.
Li Qiufeng helped fry radish cakes, taro cakes, mugwort rice cakes, steamed cakes, beef patties and salted water dumplings, and also made leek and shrimp dumplings and pork and cabbage dumplings.
The pastries were steamed yesterday afternoon and cut into slices and fried this morning for later use.
The beef patties and salted water dumplings are fried freshly, and they taste better when fried freshly.
The dumplings were also made freshly, by Jiang Xia and Li Qiufeng together.
Zhang Rui looked at the sumptuous breakfast and said in surprise: "Why did you prepare so much? This is too sumptuous!"
My second aunt brought out a plate of sugar rings, fried rice cakes, and fried dumplings. They were made years ago. She smiled and said, "It's rare for you to come, so I'll let you try them. They are all things we often eat during the New Year in the countryside."
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "My second aunt and my little cousin got up at four o'clock to make breakfast. You are in for a treat this New Year. My little cousin made these dumplings for you. We didn't have any dumplings when we came here last year."
Li Qiufeng: “…”
Zhang Rui glanced at Li Qiufeng, and sure enough, she blushed again! He smiled and said, "I must eat more."
Li Qiufeng: “…”
His face got even redder!
Li Qiufeng glared at him: "Then eat quickly, why are you talking so much?!!"
Finally you dare to be mean to him!
It's rare! Zhang Rui teased her and raised his hand to salute: "Yes, sir!"
Li Qiufeng: “…”
Can't you just talk properly?
Zhang Rui smiled and picked up the uglier dumpling.
He recognized that this was the one she made when she was a beginner.
He also knew that Li Qiufeng made the dumplings because she heard him say that they ate dumplings during the Chinese New Year.
Li Qiufeng also said that they do not grow wheat here, only rice. They do not have flour, only rice flour and glutinous rice flour, so the village never eats dumplings during the New Year, and the villagers do not know how to make dumplings.
The villagers have passed down from generation to generation only various snacks made from sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour.
Not only do the villagers not know how to make dumplings, buns, or steamed buns, they also don’t know how to make almost any food made with flour.
It was only after Li Qiufeng went to Beijing that Jiang Xia taught her how to make dumplings and buns.
Of course, my second aunt often visited neighbors and gave them snacks from home, and naturally learned how to cook many northern foods from them.
The mother and daughter can now make dumplings, buns and steamed buns.
After breakfast, several young people went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots.
It is not yet the season for mushroom picking. Mushroom picking usually starts in March, and the Chinese New Year is early this year.
There are no mushrooms, but there are winter bamboo shoots. However, you need experience to dig them out.
Several people came to the bamboo forest on the mountain. Zhang Rui carried a hoe and didn't see a single bamboo shoot. But he also knew that winter bamboo shoots were hidden underground. He asked Li Qiufeng: "Little cousin, teach me how to dig them."
Li Qiufeng: "I'm not very good at it either. Every year my dad and brother dig them, while my mom and I go to pick camellias. You can ask my cousin to teach you. My cousin is an expert at digging bamboo shoots."
Digging bamboo shoots is too tiring. Although Li Qiufeng can do it, she is spoiled by her parents and older brothers and sisters, so she has never done the work of digging bamboo shoots.
Most of the chores she did at home were washing clothes, cooking, growing vegetables, transplanting rice, harvesting rice, and drying rice.
Generally I do the easiest tasks unless I am really too busy.
Zhang Rui: “…”
He also wanted to dig bamboo shoots with his little cousin to develop their relationship.
Li Qiufeng said to Jiang Xia, "Cousin, let's go to the hill over there and pick camellias."
There are also wild camellias on the mountain, and the camellias are blooming this year.
"Okay." Jiang Xia didn't have the strength to dig bamboo shoots, nor did she know how to do it. The winter bamboo shoots had not grown yet, so she had to rely on experience to make her judgment.
I’ll learn after I finish picking camellia flowers.
Jiang Xia said to Zhou Chenglei: "Dig more and bring them back."
"Okay." Zhou Chenglei knew that Jiang Xia planned to use bamboo shoots to develop a new food product for the food factory.
Zhang Rui just happened to have nowhere to use his brute force, so he said to Zhang Rui: "Come, I'll teach you how to dig bamboo shoots."
Second uncle and Zhou Chenglei are both experts in digging bamboo shoots, so they stayed here to teach Zhang Rui how to dig bamboo shoots.
In Jiangxia, Li Qiufeng and her second aunt went to pick camellia flowers.
This camellia is an edible camellia.
Camellia can be made into scented tea, and people in their village usually use camellia to make tea when entertaining guests.
But there are not many flowers. Before the Chinese New Year, every household goes up the mountain to pick flowers, dry them and make scented tea. Some people give them as gifts, some people use them to entertain guests, so there are not many flowers.
Some of them have grown out in the past two days.
The three of them picked a basketful of bamboo shoots and walked back to where they had been digging.
Then Jiang Xia was stunned when he saw the bamboo shoots Zhou Chenglei dug out along a bamboo shoot. (End of this chapter)
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