Chapter 85: Currying favor with Mother Gu

Such a delicious dish for the New Year’s Eve dinner must be eaten with white rice, pure white rice. Gu’s mother steamed a big pot of it so that everyone could have enough.

Pure white rice is not often eaten at home. We only eat it two or three times a year, less often than meat. In most cases, even if we eat rice, my mother would make three-grain rice by cooking it with millet and corn bran. Corn bran is the largest, accounting for 50% of the total, followed by millet at 30%, and rice at 20%.

It is more accurate to say that rice and millet are paired with corn rather than saying that millet and corn crumbs are paired with rice.

During the meal, Changyi and Changan also sat at the table. Su He drew a picture and asked Gu's father to make a child seat. She saw it in a book.

Let Gu's father find someone to help.

With this chair, it is much more convenient to feed the child.

"Eat meat, eat meat, one for each of you." Mother Gu picked up a piece of mutton for each of the two babies.

The mutton was stewed very tender and both children could eat it.

I don’t know if it’s because of the health-enhancing pills they took, but they never had to worry about their two babies’ meals. They enjoy eating everything and will eat any dish.

Every time I eat, my belly is full.

Normally, after their meal, their mother would let them drink a glass of hawthorn water brought by Su He, and then play for a while. The children got hungry quickly, so after drinking a glass of milk powder and eating two pieces of cake, it was almost time for dinner.

It is said that the cakes that Third Sister Gu bought for Father and Mother Gu were all eaten by the two babies, and Father and Mother Gu did not eat any of them.

With these two grandchildren, even if Su He bought delicious food for Gu's parents, they would not eat it and would save it for the two babies.

The two babies are really the treasures of their family.

For the New Year's Eve dinner, the food and drinks had to be good. Gu's father and son Gu Jianhua had a few sips of wine, while Su He and Gu's mother drank soda, orange soda.

When buying New Year's goods during the Spring Festival, my mother bought about ten bottles and waited to drink them during the Spring Festival. In addition to drinking it herself, she also used it to entertain guests.

The wine was filled and the drinks were poured.

Before the meal started, Gu's mother wanted Gu's father to say a few words, but Gu's father refused. He muttered, "What did my family say?"

Gu's mother glanced at him and said, "Then I'll tell you."

Su He and Gu Jianhua looked at Gu's mother, who felt a little embarrassed. She cleared her throat and said, "Well... this year is over. I hope we will be better and better in the new year..."

At this time, Mother Gu paused for a moment and looked at the two babies. "I wish my two grandchildren grow up healthily and can help you get into college in the future and make you happy."

In response to what Gu's mother said, the two children said, "Nurse, eat." and raised the mutton in their hands.

Su He was a fan of support. She said, "Okay, Mom is right. Let's do it together."

The four of them clinked their glasses, not leaving out the two younger siblings, who bumped fists with them.

Everyone started eating.

Braised spare ribs, lamb and radish stew, chicken stewed with potatoes, stir-fried meat with mushrooms, and canned peaches were all delicious dishes. With just these dishes, Su He felt that he could finish four bowls of rice.

Others feel the same way.

But in the end, Su He ate three bowls, not big bowls but small bowls, and his stomach was full and he was almost full.

The first bowl was eaten with white rice and braised pork ribs, the second bowl was eaten with mutton soup, and the third bowl was eaten with chicken soup.

My god, they are all so delicious.

Gu's father, Gu's mother and Gu Jianhua, each had four bowls of rice. In the end, the rice was all finished. The two babies also ate rice. Each of them had half a bowl of mutton soup rice, two pieces of mutton, a piece of braised pork ribs, a few mushrooms and a canned peach.

My belly is also round after eating so much.

After dinner, Gu Jianhua, Gu's father, rested for a while and then went out to work again. He was not idle, so he fed the cows, chopped wood, fetched water, and did a lot of odd jobs at home.

Su He and his mother Gu did the same. They put the two babies playing on the kang while their mother chopped stuffing and kneaded dough to make dumplings, both for tonight and tomorrow morning.

There were no vegetables in this winter, so the dumplings were stuffed with pork and sauerkraut. Su Ho and Gu's mother made two large dumplings and estimated there were more than a hundred dumplings.

I was busy like this until the afternoon.

When it comes to dinner time, which is New Year's Eve, we eat three meals a day. On normal days, we only eat two meals a day. In winter, the days are short and there is not much work to do, so two meals a day are enough.

Dinner was just dumplings, no other dishes.

That was also delicious. The two children each ate three dumplings, and the rest of us had one plate each.

After half an hour of digestion, I was ready to take a bath.

Wash the two babies first, apply fragrant soap and make them slippery.

Children are so adorable, so small and so soft. Su He couldn't help but want to kiss them, her motherly love overflowing.

After giving the two babies a bath, I wrapped them in blankets and put them directly into the quilt to keep them warm.

Next it was Su He's turn to take a bath. Su He had taken a good bath half a month ago, and she didn't want to scrub her body on this day, so her body wasn't dirty and she just washed briefly before coming up.

Playing with the two babies on the kang.

By the time Gu Jianhua came out of the shower, it was almost seven o'clock and time to turn off the lights and go to bed.

After coaxing the two babies to sleep, Su He and Gu Jianhua also fell asleep in each other's arms, without doing anything else.

The next day, New Year’s Day, you have to get up early.

At just six o'clock, Su He heard the sound of Gu's mother busying in the kitchen. Meat had to be eaten on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

We had pork head and dumplings for breakfast.

After breakfast, everyone changed into new clothes and placed candies, peanuts and melon seeds in the living room in preparation for New Year's greetings.

But thanks to Gu's father, they didn't have to go out in the morning and just had to wait for the people from the second house to come and pay New Year's greetings.

The two babies woke up around seven o'clock. They were woken up by the loud sound of firecrackers outside.

While Gu's mother was dressing the two babies, she chattered with Su He.

"I wonder if the second wife will give the two babies New Year's money when you go to visit them this year?" Gu's mother was thinking about the New Year's money.

She gave birth to several children for the second wife for several years.

Su He said, "I think he will give it to me."

Gu's mother snorted, "If Zhang Xiuying dares not give it to me, I will tell everyone about her!"

Su He smiled. After comparing the New Year's gift money given by Gu's mother with the gifts brought by the second wife, it was not a loss. The second wife brought two cans of food, each costing fifty cents, a total of one dollar. Gu's mother gave seventy cents as New Year's gift money and still made thirty cents.

As if she had anticipated what Su He was thinking, Mother Gu muttered, "Before that old witch died, your father and I would go to the second house every year and give out countless gifts."

Although the children of the second wife also gave gifts in return, the New Year's gift money given was only 5% of what it used to be. The situation has improved in the past two years, and the son has started a family and got married.

She was also happy that the New Year's gifts for her children had increased.

Su He, "Mom, we can definitely earn it back."

"I feel like Second Aunt has been very good to you this year, and she is your sister-in-law when you go out with her."

Su He didn't have a sister-in-law like Aunt Gu, and she wasn't old yet, so she didn't quite understand why two people who were so incompatible when they were young would want to get closer when they got old?

Mother Gu didn't want to, but she said that Second Aunt Gu was clearly trying to curry favor with Mother Gu this year.