The couple, one carrying an empty backpack and the other carrying the child, walked towards the military compound. They put some New Year's goods inside when they were almost there.
After returning home, Su Yan took out a basket of Red Fuji apples, fragrant pears, sugar oranges and tangerines from the space. The basket of fruit weighed exactly 50 kilograms.
Five pounds of beef, ten pounds of pork, a leg of lamb, two chickens, two ducks, two rabbits and two turtles, two grass carps, one hundred eggs, and a large basket of miscellaneous small seafood, such as small squid, bamboo shrimp, hairtail, yellow croaker and scallops.
A basket of miscellaneous vegetables was also prepared, five pounds each of dried red dates, dried lychees, dried longans, and dried cherries, ten pounds of raw peanuts and melon seeds, and five pounds of cooking oil. Not a single bag of grain was taken.
"Lu Ting, do you think these New Year's goods are enough?"
Giving so many things to Lu's parents-in-law in front of Lu Ting means that her husband's family should give at least a quarter of it, let alone half, otherwise it would be embarrassing. What would Lu Ting think if they didn't give anything at all?
If you take too much, your mother-in-law will definitely give it away. They are only responsible for the parents-in-law, not their relatives.
"That's enough. Thank you Yanyan. The Lu family is blessed to have Yanyan."
"Lu Ting, you gave my mother two hundred yuan. Should I take some money to give to your mother for the New Year?"
"No, they have money. We will take it when they are old and have no money left."
Yes, her parents-in-law should have some money with them. It’s not that she is reluctant to spend the two hundred yuan, but if she takes the money and doesn’t give her second brother a penny, it would be a slap in their faces.
Compared with Lu Jin and Zhu Ting, the couple can be considered very generous. They prepared dishes and fruits for them during the New Year.
Thinking that she would have dinner at Lu's house on New Year's Eve and the first day of the New Year, Su Yan took out two pieces of salted duck, five catties of sorghum rice cakes and five catties of glutinous rice cakes from the space.
"Yan Yan, let's prepare lunch first. Put these in the space first. We'll borrow a cart in the evening and put them directly on the cart when no one is around, and then pull them over."
"good."
After buying so much seafood, I naturally had a full meal of seafood at home at noon, including steamed scallops with garlic, blanched bamboo shrimps, braised abalone, pan-fried yellow croaker, and stir-fried baby squid with green onions.
Su Yan sorted the remaining two baskets of small seafood and put them in the refrigerator to eat slowly next year.
In the afternoon, Lu Ting went to work, and Su Yan took the children to clean the house. Around three o'clock, the lady next door knocked on their door.
"Xiao Su, come out quickly."
"Auntie Zhou, what can I do for you?"
"The popcorn maker is here. Does your family want some popcorn? I'll give you a bamboo tube of rice or a big bag of popcorn. The popcorn can be used to make tea or rice candy."
"Has the popcorn maker arrived? Then I'll take the kids downstairs! Thank you, Aunt Zhou."
"You're welcome. It's almost Chinese New Year, so you can get a few more bamboo tubes of rice. The popcorn makers are here too, and they're pulling a popcorn machine on a cart."
I had popcorn and rice sticks at my grandma's house in my previous life. I wouldn't say they were very delicious, but I still miss them a little.
Unexpectedly, she would meet a popcorn maker so close to the New Year. Su Yan tied Lu Yiming to her back with a strap and went downstairs carrying ten kilograms of rice, half a kilogram of sugar, and two large woven bags.
When I went downstairs, I found that the yard was full of people, and there were so many people queuing up to get popcorn.
People had to queue up to get popcorn, but not so many people wanted rice popcorn sticks. Su Yan decided to get the rice popcorn sticks first. She handed five pounds of rice and half a pound of sugar to the person making the rice and popcorn, and then gave him fifty cents for processing.
Then he opened the woven bag, looked at the steaming popcorn coming out of the machine, broke it into pieces one by one with his hands and put them into a large woven bag.
Fortunately, Su Yan brought her own sugar. If those who didn't bring sugar were given popcorn, the comrades making popcorn would automatically add saccharin to their food. Those people had no idea about the harm of saccharin and said that it wouldn't hurt to eat a little.
Some people secretly said that Su Yan was pretentious, but Su Yan pretended not to hear. She didn't want her children to eat food containing saccharin.
After getting the popcorn sticks, Su Yan gave one to Lu Yiming to chew slowly, and then she lined up to get popcorn.
After the popcorn was ready, she took the popcorn and rice krispie sticks home and prepared to use the popcorn to make frozen rice candy.
The frozen rice candy made by Su Yan is not just as simple as adding some crushed peanuts and sesame seeds. She also added red dates, raisins, dried strawberries and kiwis, as well as dried almonds and walnuts. She made the frozen rice candy look like the unaffordable Xinjiang cake.
A large bag of frozen popcorn made from popcorn and various nuts weighs a total of twenty pounds. Su Yan plans to visit her parents on the second day of the Lunar New Year and bring some for her parents to try.
She tasted one piece and stopped eating. In fact, she was not very interested in the overly sweet pastry. She only enjoyed the process of making the pastry.
Around seven o'clock, after the couple finished their dinner, they used a borrowed cart to transport the New Year's goods to the Lu family.
Seeing that his eldest son and his wife had sent so many New Year's goods, Hua Min hurriedly took out the salary that had not been saved this month and handed it to Su Yan. Naturally, Su Yan refused to accept it.
Even if they don't spend the New Year at the Lu family this year, according to etiquette they still have to send chicken, duck, fish and meat to their parents before the New Year.
Generally, people give a grass carp, two chickens and a piece of pork as a gift. When paying New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, they also bring a few bags of snacks, or buy some cigarettes, alcohol, tea, etc.
Lu Jin, Lu Chen and Lu Yu were busy unloading New Year's goods from the cart. Hua Min saw the raw peanuts and melon seeds and said that they would be fried with sand at noon tomorrow.
"Yan Yan, I was planning to buy some peanuts and sunflower seeds tomorrow, but I didn't expect you guys to buy them in advance. Ask Xiao Yu to get some sand back for New Year's food at noon tomorrow.
We just happen to have some broad beans at home, which would be perfect for stir-frying. You guys must have spent quite a bit of money during the Lunar New Year, so why not give some of these fruits to your parents?
"Mom, we've prepared the New Year gifts, don't worry."
"Brother, where did you buy those fresh tangerines? How come there are still tangerines for sale in such a cold day?"
"Others store them in cellars ahead of time and sell them at a high price at the end of the year."
Lu Yu smiled and said, "Although eating fruit in cold weather will freeze your teeth, this orange is so sweet and delicious. I can eat several of them in one go. However, you can roast these frozen oranges over charcoal before eating them."
"Eat if you like, no one is stopping you."
When Lu Jin heard that oranges were delicious, he quickly took two from the basket and prepared to give them to his wife, but Hua Min quickly stopped him.
"Xiao Jin, Xiao Ting is still in confinement after giving birth. She needs to breastfeed Yi Lan. The weather is so cold, so it's better not to give her the oranges, lest Yi Lan get a stomachache."
Lu Jin paused, "Mom, these oranges are inedible. Can I bake some candied oranges for Tingting?"
"Your sister-in-law brought some sorghum and glutinous rice cakes. If Xiaoting is hungry, you can bake two for her. Rock sugar oranges will be sweeter if you bake them, but the taste will change."
Lu Jin didn't expect that women in confinement cannot eat this or that. Zhu Ting was very dissatisfied when she heard her mother-in-law's words in the room. It was rare to have fruit to eat during the New Year, but she didn't let her eat any at all. She was really stingy.
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