Chapter 115 New Year 2
"Wife, let me take you back to your room to sleep." Gu Yan said as he stood up.
Li Wanqing was getting more and more sleepy. Before she finished her meal, she had already nodded her head several times and almost hit the table.
Li Wanqing didn't try to be brave. She was really very sleepy and could hardly open her eyes.
Li Wanqing let Gu Yan help her into the house, took off her shoes and lay her down on the kang, and Gu Yan pulled the quilt to cover her.
Li Wanqing knew everything Gu Yan did, but she just couldn't open her eyes.
Gu Yan watched Li Wanqing fall asleep, then went out to continue eating.
After dinner, I wash the dishes, then make wontons and steam buns.
Gu Yan made a total of 350 wontons, 120 steamed buns, 50 steamed buns, and 50 flower rolls.
Gu Yan was used to doing housework and his hands and feet were quite nimble, but even so, it took him more than three hours to wrap everything.
Now that everything is wrapped, it’s time to make dinner.
We eat dumplings on New Year’s Eve. They were all wrapped and ready yesterday.
Gu Yan boiled the water and went into the house to call Li Wanqing to get up.
Li Wanqing in the room was actually awake, but she was just too lazy to move.
Seeing Gu Yan come in, Li Wanqing smiled at him lazily: "Are you done? Thank you for your hard work, my husband."
Gu Yan looked at his young wife who was acting coquettishly towards him on the kang, and the pain in his sore arms and wrists instantly disappeared.
"It's not hard. Wife, please get up and wake up first. I've boiled some water and will cook dumplings in a while."
Gu Yan first stood on the ground for a while to dispel the cold, then sat on the edge of the kang and kissed Li Wanqing on her rosy face.
"Oh, you're so annoying. What are you doing?" Li Wanqing said coquettishly.
"What do you want me to do? My wife asked me to kiss her to satisfy her craving." Gu Yan said as he kissed her.
Ever since they knew that Li Wanqing was pregnant, the two had never been intimate again. Gu Yan was a young man in his twenties, who had good food and drink every day and his wife was by his side. Only Gu Yan knew the sweet torment he felt.
The two of them stayed in the house for a long time, and finally Li Wanqing said she was hungry, so Gu Yan reluctantly went to cook dumplings.
"Gu Yan, did you wrap all these? You are so awesome. I love you, muah." Li Wanqing tasted the sweetness of sweet talk, and now she can say sweet words at will.
Sure enough, Gu Yan was energized by the praise. Now, even if he was asked to make hundreds of buns and wontons, he could do it overnight.
"Wife, wait a minute, I'll make a few more side dishes. I remember you like cold shredded chicken, and we have chicken at home, so I'll make one for you.
Add some cucumber and pork head, and some tomatoes with sugar. "Three dishes sounds odd, but during Chinese New Year, there has to be an even number," Gu Yan thought for a moment and added another: "Let's also make some scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts. We can eat the raw garlic sprouts now, so it'll be fresh."
Gu Yan was as excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. While dumplings were cooking in the big pot, he started to busy himself with cooking over there.
Originally, dumplings don’t need to be eaten with other dishes. At most, you can just clean up the leftovers from lunch.
Wasn't this a confession from his wife? The more excited he was, the more he wanted to show off in front of her.
If Gu Yan wanted to show off, Li Wanqing would certainly not stop him. She didn't lack this little thing, so she would fully support any man who wanted to show off.
"Okay, do you want to fry some peanuts? They're the best to go with wine." Li Wanqing said.
"No, these four dishes are enough. We can't finish any more." Gu Yan answered while cooking.
Except for the shredded chicken which is a little more troublesome to prepare, the other four dishes are quick dishes, especially the tomatoes with sugar and the cucumbers with pork head, which you can just cut and mix.
Half an hour later, the dishes were ready and the dumplings were served.
Gu Yan and Li Wanqing sat on either side of the table. Li Wanqing poured some wine for Gu Yan. A man has been busy all day, so he should be rewarded appropriately.
"Husband, come here, I'll fill your glass. Today is an exception, you can drink as much as you want." Li Wanqing picked up another piece of pork head with chopsticks for him.
At noon, Gu Yan didn't dare drink too much because he was thinking about making wontons and steaming buns in the afternoon.
Now it’s fine. I go to sleep after dinner at night, and it’s okay to drink a little more.
This time Li Wanqing didn't feel sleepy, after all, she had slept enough in the afternoon.
She was also afraid that Gu Yan would feel sad. After all, they did not go to Gu's house to celebrate the New Year this year. With her by his side, Gu Yan should not be sad.
If Gu Yan knew about Li Wanqing's worries, she would tell her.
She was completely overthinking it. Even when he spent the New Year at Gu's house before, no one in the family would take the initiative to talk to him.
Wouldn't it be better for them to celebrate the New Year together now?
It’s a pity that Li Wanqing didn’t know what Gu Yan was thinking, otherwise she wouldn’t have to rack her brains to chat with him, for fear that he would have wild thoughts. However, Gu Yan also enjoyed Li Wanqing’s company.
After dinner, Gu Yan washed the dishes as usual, and Li Wanqing wanted to stay by his side.
But this time Gu Yan disagreed: "Wife, please go inside first. It's very cold outside."
"It's okay, I'll wait for you. We'll go back together later." Li Wanqing just wanted to accompany Gu Yan and not let him be alone on New Year's Eve.
Seeing that Li Wanqing insisted on accompanying him, Gu Yan could only speed up his movements.
Fortunately, there were not many dishes and they were washed quickly: "Okay, let's go back to the house." Gu Yan said as he took Li Wanqing's hand, walked out of the wooden house, and turned around to lock the door.
It has to be locked, not because I'm afraid of thieves, as there's no one in the deep mountains and forests. But I'm afraid of wild animals running in.
After returning to the house, the two men did not go into the inner room. Instead, they lit the iron stove and sat near the entrance of the cave.
The cotton door curtain was half lifted up, just looking outside.
It was pitch black outside, and Gu Yan didn't know what to see, but since his wife wanted to see it, he accompanied her.
Li Wanqing got used to it in modern times. After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, she would sit on the sofa and wait to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
Although the programs of the Spring Festival Gala are getting worse and worse, it's like I've gotten used to it.
It seems like the Chinese New Year would not feel like it if we didn’t watch the Spring Festival Gala. Watching the Spring Festival Gala has become a kind of ritual.
Now that she has traveled to ancient times, she definitely won’t be able to watch the Spring Festival Gala. However, Li Wanqing didn’t want to stay in the kang either, so she wanted to sit here and look outside.
"Oh~." Snowflakes started floating in the sky again without anyone noticing. Li Wanqing looked at the gloomy sky and sighed melancholy.
"Wife, what's wrong? Why are you unhappy?" Gu Yan asked worriedly as he looked at Sixiang'er who suddenly became depressed.
"It's okay." Li Wanqing shook her head and said.
She just felt a little sad suddenly, thinking that she was a newly graduated college student in modern times and had a bright future.
Unexpectedly, an accident led me to travel back to ancient times. Fortunately, there was a space, and the man I married in a hurry was also good, and now I am pregnant.
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