Su Xiaoxiao was cutting vegetables and raised her eyebrows: "She is also very beautiful, right, Da Hu, Er Hu, and Xiao Hu?"

The three little ones nodded.

Mother is the most beautiful! No objection! "Little bastard..." Wei Ting felt that if they continued like this, they would forget whose sons they were.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at the stove and said to Wei Ting, "You've come just in time. Add some firewood."

Wei Ting walked in with a cane, sat on a small stool, put a thick linen cloth on his right leg, grabbed a handful of dead branches, put them on top, and pressed down hard on both ends.

Snap! The dead branch broke.

This is how people in the countryside break dead branches, but if people in the capital saw this, they would probably be shocked.

The great killer who became famous at a young age, he had broken the spines of his enemies, strangled the throats of his enemies, stepped on countless dry bones, waded through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and his hands were soaked with countless thick blood.

At this moment, he was willing to sit in a shabby kitchen and work as a country peasant.

"Peeling a corn cob." Su Xiaoxiao said.

Wei Ting washed his hands and started peeling corn cobs.

Su Xiaoxiao: "I need another bucket of water."

Wei Ting went to fetch water again.

No way, this guy is so obedient today? Su Xiaoxiao looked him up and down. To be honest, she felt it was abnormal if he and Old Man Su didn't slack off for a day.

"Mom, I'm full." Xiaohu couldn't eat anymore. He held up half a piece of lean bacon and looked at Su Xiaoxiao eagerly.

He ate the fat part because it was easy to chew, but the thin part was a bit hard for his little teeth to chew.

"Uh, I'm going to gain weight again." Su Xiaoxiao sighed and ate the food from the little hand that Xiaohu handed over.

Among the three, only Dahu finished eating, and Erhu gave his share to Su Xiaoxiao.

The little bit of meat floss that fell on the stove was also eaten by Su Xiaoxiao.

Wei Ting looked at how she interacted with the three children, his eyes moved, but he didn't say anything.

…

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. This is Su Xiaoxiao's first year in ancient times, and she takes it very seriously.

In their previous life, Ms. Li and Academician Su would only get together on the day of the New Year’s Eve dinner. Unfortunately, even so, there was never a New Year atmosphere in their family.

The three of them ate the New Year's Eve dinner prepared by the nanny, watched the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala, stayed up until twelve o'clock, and then had some dumplings or a bowl of white fungus soup, and the new year was over.

Throughout the evening, Ms. Li and Academician Su exchanged no more than ten sentences.

As the only child in the family, she could still chatter away in her early years, but when she grew up, she became an emotionless New Year machine like them.

At noon, Su Xiaoxiao cooked bacon and corn rice. The bacon was stewed until very soft, and its salty fragrance was perfectly blended with the sweetness of the corn. With a little glutinous rice added, it tasted sticky.

The three little kids loved it! The whole family was busy eating, and the big pot of bacon rice was finished in the blink of an eye.

Su Xiaoxiao ate only 60% full. This is all she could eat if she wanted to lose weight.

Even though she was only 60% full...the portion was actually not that small.

She was going to cook some rice crust soup to fill her stomach. When she opened the lid of the pot, Xiaopang was shocked! No way? It was all gone?

I made enough for two meals! Are you guys eating too much?!

Su Xiaoxiao felt that she had to work harder to make money, otherwise the speed at which she earned would most likely not be able to keep up with the speed at which the family could eat.

In the afternoon, Su Xiaoxiao planned to make some fried food.

She washed the table in the main room clean and sprinkled flour on it.

She remembered that when she was a child in her previous life, she went to her grandmother's house in the countryside. Her grandmother used a door panel as a table, and the whole family gathered together to work, and they worked very quickly.

There are not many people in this family now, so a table is enough.

Su Xiaoxiao took the fermented dough, cut it into balls of even size, rolled it into strips, and then rolled it into five-centimeter-sized twists.

Su Ergou learned how to do it and followed suit, making ten small twists in one breath.

Old Man Su and Wei Ting don't have this talent. They are playing mahjong instead of mahhua.

Su Xiaoxiao was furious: "I finally rolled the dough into noodles... and you rolled it into a ball again!"

"Mom." Da Hu held up the ugly little twist he had made.

Su Xiaoxiao took a look and said, "The children are better at rubbing than you!"

Su Xiaoxiao gave them a job that required less skills - making dumplings.

Cut the thin dough into small diamond-shaped pieces, make a cut in the middle, and pass a corner of the diamond-shaped dough through the cut. This will make the dumplings her grandmother used to make for her when she was a child.

Wei Ting was responsible for cutting and carving, while Father Su was responsible for threading.

It must be said that Wei Ting's knife skills are really good. His movements are crisp and neat, not an inch more or less, not a millimeter off.

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes widened as she leaned over to admire the artwork cut by Wei Ting, and whispered, "Have you practiced it before?"

"Yeah, I've practiced."

Wei Ting held the knife with his slender jade-like fingers and easily cut a cut of exactly the same length and angle.

"When killing someone, you must not only find the vital point...if the angle and depth are off by even a point, you won't be able to kill the person."

Su Xiaoxiao: “…”

Old Man Su, who was sitting opposite the two of them, was threading noodles with great effort, which was also a way to exercise his right hand.

His right hand is becoming more and more flexible.

The 80% certainty becomes 100% certainty.

Su Xiaoxiao took the fried dough twists and dumplings to the oil pan in the kitchen and fried them until golden and crispy. She added sesame seeds to half of them. The aroma of the mixture of butter and sesame spread to most of the village! In addition, Su Xiaoxiao also fried a few pounds of lotus root balls and mung bean balls, and made dumplings and spring rolls.

She called Su Ergou and sent some fried food and dumplings to Liu Ping and Xiao Wu.

Old Li's family and Aunt Liu's family also sent a bowl each.

"Oh, and here's this." Su Xiaoxiao took a few window decorations and blessing characters and gave them to Su Ergou.

The reason why it was not given to Xiao Wu earlier was because the family had not been divided. If it was given to her, it would have been snatched away by Da Wu and the second wife.

There is no trouble now.

Su Ergou was very agile, running at full speed in the cold wind and snow! ——As expected of a tough kid who grew up taking cold showers! When he came back, Su Ergou had two large baskets of fresh vegetables and a sack of plump chestnuts in his hands. ——On New Year's Eve, Su Xiaoxiao got up earlier than she did business.

She is going to prepare a family reunion dinner.

When other people have a reunion party at noon, most of them skip breakfast or just have a quick bite.

Their family can't do that, they have to work until they are full.

She made sweet potato pancakes for herself with peanut butter, and cooked vegetable and egg noodles for her family, with fried lotus root balls and mung bean balls.

Wei Ting's injuries are no longer serious. Apart from spicy food, he doesn't need to be too strict with other foods.

Then Su Xiaoxiao discovered sadly that this guy's appetite had increased since he started to eat more.

There is one more person to eat at home! …

Su Xiaoxiao made braised crucian carp (the fish was caught by Su Ergou in the river), braised pig trotters stewed with lotus root (the lotus root was dug by Su Ergou in the fish pond), and wild vegetable egg pancakes (the wild vegetables were dug by Su Ergou in the back mountain).

We also steamed lotus root balls, mung bean balls and glutinous rice pearl balls.

The three little ones love glutinous rice balls the most, and they even eat the small pieces of ginger inside.

There are also steamed preserved meats - pork liver, sausage, spare ribs, and some stir-fried side dishes.

Old Man Su never expected that he would be able to have such a sumptuous family reunion dinner in his lifetime. It would have been great if his wife was still alive.

She will definitely be pleased.

"Grandpa, eat some ribs." Dahu picked up a large piece of ribs and gave it to him.

"Eat some meat." Erhu gave him the meat from his bowl.

Xiaohu was not as good at using chopsticks as his brothers, so he scooped up one of his favorite pearl meatballs with his own small spoon and clumsily put it into Father Su's bowl.

"Pigsy!" he said in a baby voice.

Father Su smiled and corrected him, "It's pearl meatballs."

Xiaohu learned: "Zhuzhuwanji."

"Zhen, Zhu, Wan, Zi!" Old Man Su taught with great patience.

"Pig, pig, pill, a few!"

Little Tiger studied very hard! Big Tiger stuck out his tongue: "Little Tiger is so stupid!"

Xiaohu waved his hands seriously: "Xiaofu is not stupid!"

Erhu also said, "Stupid."

Xiaohu said: "Not stupid!"

Erhu is a fence-sitter: "Well, not stupid."

Dahu: “Just stupid!”

Xiaohu: "Not stupid!"

The three little guys started quarreling. The main forces were Big Tiger and Little Tiger, while Second Tiger was trying to smooth things over.

"Okay, okay, stop making noise." Old Man Su's tears had been wiped away by the three little guys.

After he calmed the three people down and thought about continuing to sadly remember his wife, he found that his emotions were incoherent!

"They weren't so noisy before." Wei Ting seemed to be talking to himself, or to Su Xiaoxiao beside him.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at the three little ones who were no longer arguing but kept sticking their tongues out and making faces at each other, smiled, and said, "Arguing? I don't think so."

Without their chattering, this New Year would be so lonely.

At night, Su Xiaoxiao took out the big red lantern she made and asked Wei Ting to hang it up.

Su Ergou cut a basket of bamboos from somewhere, built a pile of firewood in the open space in front of the door, and threw the bamboos in one by one.

The burning bamboo made a crackling sound, like firecrackers.

The three little ones had never seen firecrackers before, and their first reaction was fear. They jumped into Su Xiaoxiao's arms.

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "It's okay, they are firecrackers, very fun."

As she spoke, she threw one into the fire herself.

When Sanxiao saw Su Xiaoxiao also playing, he was no longer afraid.

"More firecrackers! More firecrackers!"

The three of them ran over and took Su Ergou's hands and said.

"Okay!" Su Ergou said, "Just watch."

"Hey, hey, hey! What's that thing you threw called? Let me do it!" Old Man Su decisively snatched the bamboo from Su Ergou.

(End of this chapter)