At six o'clock in the evening, the dining table in Chen Suwen's home was set with poached chicken, roast duck, roast pork chops, Dongpo pork knuckle, cold star fruit salad, stir-fried green beans, steamed fish, garlic roasted eggplant, fried eggplant fritters, and pumpkin soup.
Pumpkin Golden Soup is made by Chen Suwen using chicken broth from boiled poached chicken, adding mashed steamed pumpkin, and then adding it to the soup. It has a fresh and sweet taste.
Of course, although there is only one name for cold star fruit salad, there are several dishes, as they are prepared in different ways.
"Happy Chinese New Year!" Chen Suwen said, holding up a glass of starfruit sparkling water.
There were so many starfruits that Chen Suwen asked Zhou Cunzong to pick some more, juice them, and then add some cooled boiled water to make sparkling water.
The taste was pretty good.
Chen Suwen doesn't like drinking, and Zhou Qingyun also doesn't drink because she doesn't like the taste of alcohol, so no one drinks at today's New Year's Eve dinner.
The brothers Zhou Cunzhi and Zhou Cunzong wanted to drink, but seeing that their parents weren't drinking, they could only drink sparkling water instead of alcohol.
"Happy New Year!"
Everyone raised their glasses and toasted together. Zhao Lexin, Zhou Xian, Zhou Mei, and the others were all very happy.
No firecrackers were set off during the Spring Festival. Chen Suwen didn't know if other places set them off, but no firecrackers were set off in Guangzhou.
Although the festive atmosphere wasn't as strong as setting off firecrackers, every household was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations.
The children all wore new clothes, and they also ate meat for the New Year's Eve dinner.
"Mom, thank you for teaching me how to make bread. This is a New Year's gift that Cunzong and I prepared for you."
At the dinner table, Shen Wenxiu took out the gifts she and her husband had prepared and handed them to Chen Suwen to thank her for taking care of her.
The main reason was that Chen Suwen made that bread oven, taught her how to make bread, and helped her find a sales channel.
She earned money in less than a month, and then discussed with her husband about buying a gift for Chen Suwen.
Chen Suwen took the gift and looked at it. It wasn't gold or silver jewelry; nobody sold such things in this era.
Chen Suwen took a look and found that it was a new dress, a style that could be worn in spring and autumn.
"Actually, this was a collaboration between me and my sister-in-law. We bought the fabric, and my sister-in-law made it by hand."
"We thought that you probably didn't need clam oil or face cream, so we made clothes for you."
Shen Wenxiu gave an explanation.
Yes, Chen Suwen didn't lack skincare products.
Since she went to buy medicinal herbs to give her family a medicinal bath, she has taken the time to make beauty cream and hand cream.
Her skin condition has improved a lot now; this beauty cream has the effects of removing wrinkles and blemishes.
Hand creams are similar.
Seeing that their mother-in-law had skincare products, they didn't buy her face cream or anything like that, but instead made her clothes.
Chen Suwen couldn't make clothes; she didn't even know how to use a sewing machine.
In her previous life, she never used a sewing machine when she was a child in an orphanage. When she grew up, she would buy new clothes when they were torn and unwearable, and she basically never mended them herself.
Even when it comes to mending, they do it themselves with a needle and thread, not with a sewing machine.
When she sewed clothes, her stitches were not very tight or neat, so she didn't know how to make clothes.
Now we're dressed like we're back in the 70s. Ready-made clothes were very expensive, so everyone bought fabric and made their own clothes.
The original owner did know how to make clothes, but her stitches were similar to Chen Suwen's—they weren't very good-looking, and the clothes she made weren't nice.
Now that she has received the clothes made by Xu Huixue, she took them out and looked at them. The style is indeed very nice, and the stitches are very dense.
And there was even embroidery on it.
"Did you embroider these?" Chen Suwen asked, looking at the beautiful embroidery on the chest of the red top.
Embroidered on it is a cluster of lotus flowers, a fully bloomed lotus flower, a half-open lotus flower, and two flower buds.
There are also three lotus leaves of different sizes.
The embroidery is very beautiful. The lotus leaves are not embroidered in emerald green or light green, but in dark green.
Dark green and red are alright; they don't create a tacky combination when paired together.
The pink and white lotus flowers also look very beautiful.
Chen Suwen reached out and touched it, "Your embroidery skills are not bad."
Xu Huixue smiled modestly, "Actually, I embroidered this with a sewing machine, so it doesn't have the same charm and beauty as hand embroidery."
"The main problem is that time is a bit tight. We need to finish it before today, so we can only use a sewing machine to embroider it."
"Next time I have more time, how about I embroider an even better embroidered dress for you, Mom?"
It's important to please your mother-in-law.
When the mother-in-law is happy, their lives will be better.
Of course, the main reason she felt confident saying that was because her family had made some money this year.
Chen Suwen touched the clothes in her hand and looked at Xu Huixue.
"Your sewing skills are excellent; you can even embroider with a sewing machine. You're very talented."
She knew her daughter-in-law's skill in making clothes and would occasionally take on odd jobs such as sewing and mending.
But in the city, most people from well-off families would own a sewing machine.
After all, in this day and age, when people get married, they value the "three turns and one sound" (referring to a house, a watch, a radio, and a bicycle).
The sewing machine is one of the three revolutions.
Therefore, opportunities to ask Xu Huixue to do sewing and mending to earn money were not many. Her sewing machine was basically used for sewing and mending clothes for her family and making new clothes.
Chen Suwen hadn't expected Xu Huixue to be so skilled, even knowing how to embroider with a sewing machine.
Moreover, the embroidery is very good. If Xu Huixue had this skill, perhaps she could do something with it?
Shen Wenxiu has a talent for cooking, and now she has also connected with the supply and marketing cooperative to sell bread.
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