After a long day of work, the whole family was finally able to eat.
After everyone sat down, Pei Yunzhi took firecrackers outside to set them off. Once they were done, everyone could finally start eating.
However, everyone was sitting there with big smiles on their faces, but no one spoke or touched their chopsticks.
This is a smile that comes after hardship, a smile of happiness. This year has truly been filled with so much.
From the death of Pei Yuezhi's original self to her own transmigration, only seven months have passed, but these seven months have changed the lives of these people.
Fan Chao and Fan Mu, two little children, one eight years old and the other only five, are left with the loss of their father and the numbness of their mother.
He was much more mature than his peers, despite being pale and thin and living in poverty.
Now, although they can't be said to live in luxury, they eat well and are warmly dressed, live in a big house, and Fan Chao has even been able to go to school as he wished.
I never even dared to imagine all of this.
Liu Yuanyuan's family was actually doing alright; the ones who were most affected were probably Pei's father and Pei Yunzhi.
Pei Yuezhi didn't want to say anything more about their miserable lives.
Not to mention Liang Zhenzhen, who almost lost her life.
In short, all these changes have given Pei Yuezhi a lot of motivation and a great sense of accomplishment.
The future looks bright; let's wait until next year and make a big splash in Beijing!
"Hurry up and eat, don't just stare! Dad, try this pig's trotter, it's incredibly tender." Pei Yuezhi snapped out of her reverie and quickly called everyone to eat.
You can't just sit here daydreaming.
Liu Yuanyuan immediately realized that they were starving and hadn't eaten yet.
"Yes, yes, everyone, let's eat! Mom, this lion's head meatball is something I learned to make. Please try it."
Thanks to the timely interruption of the two, otherwise it's hard to say how long they would have been thinking about it.
"Alright, let's eat," Pei's father said with a smile.
Everyone finally started eating.
Although I've eaten plenty of delicious food in the past six months, I've never had such a lavish feast before.
This was the most sumptuous meal everyone had eaten, except for Pei Yuezhi and Liu Yuanyuan.
"I've lived most of my life, and I've never had such a prosperous New Year before," Grandma Liu said with a broad smile.
"Yes, it's all thanks to the children." Mr. Pei also smiled happily.
Everyone enjoyed the meal with laughter and joy, and everyone felt genuinely happy and content.
Here, during the Lunar New Year, the reunion dinner is eaten during the day. The New Year's Eve dinner in the evening usually consists of making dumplings and stir-frying two dishes, or sometimes no stir-frying at all.
So now that we've finished eating, it's still early.
However, Pei Yuezhi had already started kneading the dough. It was for making dumplings; once the dough was kneaded, it could be left to rest.
As for the filling, Pei Yuezhi would definitely wrap a sauerkraut and pork filling. Since there weren't many vegetables available at this time, she would also wrap a sauerkraut and egg filling.
Although both are made with pickled cabbage, they taste completely different, but both are delicious.
She prefers vegetarian fillings, and as for meat fillings, she only likes lean meat and doesn't like fatty meat.
Including meat patties, stewed meat, stir-fried meat, etc. Eating some fatty meat is okay, but eating too much will make you feel nauseous.
So I made myself a vegetarian one.
After kneading the dough, start preparing the filling.
First, prepare pork belly with a 3:7 ratio of fat to lean meat and mince it.
This kind of physical work was left to Pei Yunzhi. The minced meat should have some texture and not be chopped too finely into a paste.
While he was chopping the filling, Pei Yuezhi prepared a sauce.
Cut the ginger into chunks, then smash them flat. Smash the scallions as well, then cut them into sections. Add a pinch of peppercorns.
Steep in boiling water, let cool, and use.
Add a spoonful of salt to the chopped meat, then add the seasoning water in three batches, stirring in one direction until the mixture becomes sticky.
The mixed meat filling is sticky and clumps together, but there is no water at the bottom of the bowl.
Add thirteen-spice powder, white pepper powder, chicken essence, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and oyster sauce to the minced meat, and stir again until it becomes sticky.
After mixing well, add a spoonful of sesame oil and two spoonfuls of regular oil, and mix well.
"Yueyue, it seems like you always use this method to make dumplings. It seems like you did it this way when we ate dumplings together before."
Liu Yuanyuan, who was accompanying Pei Yuezhi, noticed that Pei Yuezhi always prepared the filling in the same way when making dumplings, and she became a little curious.
Pei Yuezhi explained, "This is a versatile dumpling filling recipe. If you want pure meat filling, add more chopped green onions later; if you want to add vegetables, add more vegetables. It's a particularly useful method."
"I've learned it again. I'm really good at it now. I won't starve even when you're not home."
Liu Yuanyuan said with great pride.
"You've really got some nerve. Okay, we'll make these dumplings tonight, so I'll leave them here for now and go back to rest."
After Pei Yuezhi finished mixing the meat filling, she put the bowl aside and went back to the room to rest with Liu Yuanyuan.
Because they got up a little early and had been busy for half a day, the two of them actually fell asleep right away.
When I opened my eyes again, the room was dark; it must have been evening.
Just as Pei Yuezhi was about to get up, she heard someone knocking on the door.
"Sister, are you awake? Zixun just came over. His family hired a metal flower performance troupe. There will be a performance tonight. Do you want to go see it?"
It turned out to be Pei Yunzhi. Upon hearing about the iron flower performance, Liu Yuanyuan, who hadn't fully woken up yet, immediately perked up.
Pei Yuezhi was also very excited. She thought that her first New Year in ancient times was over. She didn't expect to see the iron flower performance. Although this technique has continued to the modern era, she had never had the time to watch it.
This time, not only will we get to see it, but we'll also be watching it in ancient times! I can't wait to see it.
Pei Yuezhi immediately got off the ground and went to open the door.
"Yunzhi, when are we leaving? I haven't checked yet," Pei Yuezhi asked excitedly.
Pei Yunzhi smiled and replied, "No need to rush, sister. Just get dressed and set off now. It's a bit far, since the fire is quite dangerous. We need to go to an open area by the river."
"Alright, alright, you should go back and put on your cotton coat too. Let's set off now."
When Pei Yunzhi left, the two sisters were incredibly excited.
"Yuanyuan, we're going to see the iron flower performance today! It's a cultural tradition that's been around for thousands of years!"
Liu Yuanyuan was also very happy and excitedly replied, "That's right! Back in modern times, we always said we would go see it, but we never got to. This time it's great! The Qiao family is really rich. Where did they find such a performing troupe?"
"Oh, let's not worry about where we found it. I'm so excited! Let's not wear the expensive ones, I'm afraid sparks will fly at us."
After Pei Yuezhi finished dressing, she went to the children's room to see that Fan Chao and Li Nian'an, who was resting in his room, were already dressed.
They went to find Fan Mu, and once everyone was dressed, the whole family set off in a large group.
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