The Fu family's New Year's Eve dinner was a bit heavy.
There was a table full of chicken, duck, fish and meat, as well as hairy crabs and crayfish that Fu Baoer personally caught at Dongtian Mansion.
It only took Fu Xiuzhi a day or two to go from initial surprise to suspicion and finally to acceptance of some impossible things that appeared in the house from time to time.
Her mother was right. Don’t know what you shouldn’t know. Just cherish the good days.
Fu Baoer was very satisfied with the three elders' understanding.
The children are still very young, and it will take a few years for them to understand all this. But in the future, as their lives get better and better, they will just accept all this imperceptibly without any doubt.
Fu Yuanyou and Fu Yuanbei had never been to their hometown and had no idea what their family was like. They really thought that things were just as their grandparents said, that life in the countryside was much better than in the city.
"Don't be so reserved, just eat. It's New Year's Day, forget all the unhappy things!" As the head of the family, Fu Manshan was the first to cheer himself up and picked up a hairy crab for Jiang Fengxia.
Jiang Fengxia was not interested in this. In fact, in the era of food shortage, nothing was valuable except grain. When they had no food to eat, they would catch and eat hairy crabs.
"This thing is very prickly and difficult to eat. I won't eat it. You guys eat it." Jiang Fengxia picked up the crab and gave it to her daughter.
Fu Xiuzhi suppressed all her worries in her heart and took it with a smile: "I'm really greedy for this. When I was a child, I used to fish for it with my brothers in the back mountain, but none of them were as fat as this one!"
Fu Baoer thought proudly, since you grew up drinking the water from the magical river, of course you are fat. Not only do you have a lot of meat and fat, but eating it will also help you live longer!
"Grandma, I don't know how to eat it, how can I eat it?" Fu Yuanbei carefully picked up one with his fingers, not daring to put it in his mouth.
Jiang Fengxia looked at her grandchildren who were crying for food and sighed deeply. It would take a while to peel the crabs. "You guys eat other things first, I'll peel them for you!"
Fu Manshan also took one and said, "Old lady, you eat it and I'll peel it."
Fu Baoer took out his little bib and put it on his neck obediently, "Baoer, eat the shrimp by yourself."
She can't open a hairy crab, but she can definitely open a crayfish!
But Fu Baoer obviously underestimated the power of this group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals. His little hand was pierced by the shrimp shells several times and was bleeding!
Fu Xiuzhi took the shrimp from Fu Baoer with a smile and wiped her hands. "Come here, aunt, you guys should eat something else first. There are so many dishes, why do you have to eat these?"
Yes, steamed sea bass, stir-fried chicken with chili peppers, soy sauce duck, braised eggplant, pickled cabbage, lion's head...
Suddenly, there was a simultaneous "slurp" sound at the dinner table.
Fu Baoer picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks. Well, as long as it is not carp, it is delicious.
Since there were a few more children in the family, Fu Manshan had to set up another table and put two small tables together to barely accommodate all the people.
Fu Baoer was eating when she suddenly remembered something. She put down her chopsticks, grabbed her grandfather's hand, and walked towards the kitchen.
"Shh!" Fu Baoer observed for a moment, and seeing that no one followed him out, he placed a jar of wine on the ground like a magic trick, "Grandpa, drink!"
Fu Manshan was really happy. His love for this girl was not in vain. "My dear, you really understand your grandfather."
The grandfather and grandson came back with the wine. Jiang Fengxia smiled knowingly, this old man.
Fu Manshan poured a cup and said, "It smells so good!"
How many years old is this wine? Was it brewed by gods?
Fu Baoer muttered to himself, it’s just a thousand-year-old divine wine, not worth mentioning. Strictly speaking, it should not be considered wine anymore, but the nectar produced by our Dongtian Mansion.
Fu Baoer picked up his cup, took a sip of the fairy river water, and sighed comfortably, "Cheers!"
The babyish voice made everyone laugh, "Come on, come on, let's do it!"
Fu Baoer nodded with satisfaction. This is what it feels like to celebrate the New Year!
Seeing everyone's cheerful appearance, Fu Yuanbei felt a little bored. "I...I miss home. I miss my mom, my dad, and my grandparents."
As soon as the words came out, the whole table fell silent.
Alas, still a child.
Chengru and Chengjie looked at each other and felt a little depressed. They also missed their parents. They heard from the villagers that it was very cold on the dam. How could they celebrate the New Year? The food they ate must not be as good as at their grandparents' house.
"Mom, I want my mom..." Chengcai hadn't seen his mother for a long time. For some reason, he suddenly remembered her. His face fell and he was about to cry. Zhaozhao was quick to take his favorite duck leg and stuffed it into his hand.
"Eat, mom will be back after you finish eating." Zhao Zhao touched his brother's head.
Fu Chengcai held back his tears.
"It's okay, Beibei. You'll be able to see them when school starts," Fu Yuanyou said, helping his sister with her favorite spareribs. "Eat. You can't cry during the New Year, or you'll cry all year long."
Fu Baoer has always been curious about how Fu Tiancheng raised a little adult like Fu Tianyou, who is sensible, perceptive, and has a good personality, and is completely different from them.
Jiang Fengxia no longer disliked her granddaughter so much. "Good girl, don't cry. You can go back after the New Year."
"Grandma, can I come to your place again in the future?" Fu Yuanbei wiped her tears and asked cautiously.
Jiang Fengxia put the peeled crabs in her bowl, "Come on! Come on! Grandma, I owed you in my last life! Now that you've come to collect the debt in this life, how can I not let you come? Eat, little debt collector!"
Fu Yuanbei pinched the crab and took a bite of the exposed meat. "Delicious! So delicious!"
"I want some too! Milk!" Cheng Ru and Cheng Jie raised their bowls.
"We have them all! Don't be in a hurry! It's too hard to peel this thing." Jiang Fengxia opened the lid of a crab. "Here, eat this one first. This one has roe."
Fu Yuanyou followed suit and learned how to peel crabs by himself. After learning how to do it, he helped Chengcai and took the initiative to share the responsibility of taking care of his younger siblings.
Zhaozhao and Panpan ate the crab meat given by their grandfather in small bites, their eyes narrowed with satisfaction. The food this year was better than last year!
I really hope that we can get together like this every year to have the New Year’s Eve dinner. This is what everyone in the Fu family is thinking at this moment.
Fu Baoer held up her chin and suddenly thought of her relatives, but they seemed a little vague and she couldn't remember what they looked like. Thinking from another angle, she seemed to be one of the children who left home and wandered outside, but she was lucky enough to cultivate intelligence and become an immortal.
Although he was a bit unlucky, he was swallowed by the real dragon at the last moment.
But she met her grandparents, aunt, brothers and sisters in this life. Fu Baoer thought to herself that she did not have great wisdom or lofty ambitions. She just wanted to do her best to protect the people she loved and stay with them for the rest of her life. That was enough.
I want to grow up quickly, Fubaoer made his first New Year wish.
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