"Qinghe, you still cook for yourself. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but do you know how to cook? Don't waste good food."
Li Qinghe rolled his eyes. "You can't say anything nice. Who knows how many people you might offend when you go out."
As he spoke, he brought two dishes to the table.
He Yuzhu smirked and picked up a pair of chopsticks. "I told you the truth and you're not happy. Let me taste your skills. Oh, it looks good. It would be a waste if it doesn't taste good."
Then he picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. The next moment, his eyes widened, "Huh? No, Qinghe, when did you learn to cook? This tastes good, almost catching up with me."
"Really? Let me try it."
He Yushui couldn't believe it, so he took a pair of chopsticks and tasted it, then nodded repeatedly, "It's true, just a little worse than my brother's. You're good, you hid it well, why didn't I know you had this skill before."
He Yuzhu had already taken several bites at this time, and was hit on the hand by He Yushui with a chopstick, "Brother, eat less, Qinghe hasn't eaten yet."
"Girl, what's wrong with me eating a few bites of food? You're being disloyal. I'm your brother." He Yuzhu glared at his sister in dissatisfaction.
"Hmph, who made you so shameless?" He Yushui was not at all inferior to him.
After all, they are brother and sister, and they can make up quickly after a quarrel.
"What's going on between you two?" Li Qinghe was a little amused when he saw the bickering brother and sister. "Why, you're here to steal food from me instead of eating dumplings?"
He Yuzhu said directly: "What else can I do? I'll invite you to dinner. My sister can't invite you, so I have to come."
"Come on, I've prepared the dishes, please go back quickly."
"Hey, you." He Yuzhu raised his hand and pointed at Li Qinghe.
"Okay, stop pointing. I've already prepared the dishes, so don't bother."
"Well, just eat it yourself. Your food is no worse than ours."
He Yuzhu had no choice but to ask He Yushui to go back.
Seeing that Li Qinghe was determined not to go, He Yushui could only stamp her feet in frustration and followed him unwillingly.
After the two left, Li Qinghe started eating by himself, took out a bottle of wine and poured himself a glass.
For people in later generations, there is actually not such a deep obsession with the Chinese New Year. The reason why people of this era look forward to the Chinese New Year so much is that the whole family can get together to eat New Year’s Eve dinner and stay up together.
But in the later world, there is no shortage of food, and what is eaten during the New Year is no different from what is eaten at other times. Moreover, Li Qinghe has no family in this world, and Ding Qiunan and the others can see them every day, so there is no problem of reunion.
The thing that makes him happiest is probably the holiday.
After the meal, the table was cleared and a large plate of melon seeds, peanuts and some candies were placed on it. Of course, they were not milk candies, but some cheap hard candies.
This is prepared for the guests coming to my house tomorrow. Although it is a collective New Year's greeting, there will definitely be people visiting, so some preparations need to be made.
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At the Yan family across the street, Yan Bugui was listening to the radio with a very contented look on his face.
But he turned the radio volume down very low.
"Old man, please turn up your voice." said the third aunt.
At this volume, she wouldn't be able to hear it if she sat a little further away.
"It's enough to be able to hear the sound. It doesn't waste electricity if the volume is loud." Yan Bugui said confidently.
Yan Jiecheng and the others also stretched their necks to listen, but they couldn't hear clearly, so they gave up and looked at the peanuts on the side, "Dad, we are still waiting to eat peanuts."
"Yes, old man, divide it among them." The third aunt also said.
"Okay, I'll give you some."
Yan Bugui stood up, picked up the basin of peanuts and took a small shovel.
"One person, one shovel, fair and just."
As he said this, he gave a shovel to no one.
Yan Jiecheng pressed his hands and said, "Hey, hey, hey, don't rush to eat, or dad won't share it fairly."
It's the number of peanuts that counts. It's an old tradition. The Yan family eats pickles by the roots.
Yan Bugui snorted, "If I'm unfair, then there's no such thing as fairness."
When the peanuts were being distributed to Yan Jiefang, this kid quickly grabbed one and ran away happily.
Now the others were unhappy.
It was New Year's Day, Yan Bugui didn't want to say anything to him, and shouted, "Alright, stop arguing, I'll make up one for each of you."
"Dad, can you buy more next year? These are not enough." Yan Jiecheng peeled a peanut and put it in his mouth, saying helplessly.
He looked at the peanuts in his hand. There were only about ten of them, enough for everything.
"That's right, just spend a few cents more to buy some." Yu Li also agreed.
She washed clothes for Li Qinghe and earned a few dollars a month.
If she wasn't afraid of being discovered, she would have used the pocket money Li Qinghe gave her to buy food.
During this period, she often went out to eat out by herself. With the money and tickets given by Li Qinghe, she looked down upon the food at the Yan family more and more.
Yan Bugui knocked the basin with the shovel in his hand. "You make it sound easy, but where can I get the tickets? There are only so many taels in the food voucher. What can I do? If I want to buy more, I have to take out the tickets. Do you know how expensive it is to exchange them in the pigeon market?"
Yu Li counted the peanuts and said helplessly, "Okay, at least I can still eat something."
Yan Bugui is the pillar of the family, so this is all she can do.
"Okay, we'll eat the rest tomorrow."
Yan Bugui put the remaining peanuts aside and continued to listen to the radio.
Yan Jiekuang asked: "Why, there will be more tomorrow?"
Yan Bugui said without even looking up, "Ah, isn't there a group New Year's greeting tomorrow? Li Qinghe said he would provide melon seeds and peanuts. When he came back in the afternoon, he brought a big bag of stuff. I saw it was quite big."
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