The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.
This is the first full moon night after the New Year, and there is also a custom of families watching lanterns and eating rice dumplings together.
After breakfast, my wife started to get busy and prepared to cook some dumplings for the construction team at noon.
In some places, it is customary to fill the glutinous rice balls with stuffing, such as black sesame, red beans, jam, etc.
Locals are used to eating it without fillings, and just putting sugar in the soup is enough.
In fact, we are used to living a hard life, so it is good enough to have dumplings to eat. How can we dare to hope whether there is filling in them?
Chen Wang and the little girl also helped, dividing the prepared dough into small pieces, rolling them into round shapes, and coating them with glutinous rice flour, and setting them aside for later use.
The members of the construction team are all hard laborers with big appetites, so the dumplings they prepare are not that delicate, but mainly focus on being large in quantity and filling.
Of course, considering that some people don’t like sweets, we also need to prepare multi-grain rice and a stir-fried dish to go with it at noon.
After the construction team finished work last night, the master and Chen Dazhuang came to Chen Wang to discuss something.
That is, the construction team comes to Chen Wang's side to work every morning, and goes to the master's side in the afternoon. In addition, the master and Chen Dazhuang will prepare a dinner for the workers.
In this way, the houses of the two families were built at the same time, and the construction team members also benefited from it as they could have two meals provided.
Of course, the daily wages are split equally between the two families.
Chen Wang thought this was a good suggestion and agreed readily.
At lunchtime, Lin Xiuqin cooked glutinous rice balls in a big pot on time, and then prepared multi-grain rice and fried some vegetables.
Chen Wangxian, his wife, the little girl and himself each had a bowl of glutinous rice balls, and then he called his master and Chen Dazhuang and made a bowl for each of them.
The master is always busy and often helps the construction team with things, even Chen Wang's side.
Chen Dazhuang likes to watch from the side when he has nothing to do, and sometimes he helps out.
"Xiaoyu, call everyone to come and eat the dumplings."
Chen Wang said to the little girl with a smile.
The little girl nodded and shouted at the top of her voice: "Uncles, come and eat the dumplings!"
When the members of the construction team heard the shouting, they stopped what they were doing, walked over talking and laughing, and lined up consciously.
"Today we have rice dumplings, whole grain rice, and stir-fried vegetables. You can eat whatever you want. We guarantee you'll be full!"
Chen Wang shouted loudly.
"Oh, the food is so good, this job is so comfortable!"
"Who says it's not? We can have a meal at Dazhuang's house this afternoon."
"We didn't prepare any glutinous rice balls at home today, so we're eating them here."
"Glutinous rice is more expensive than rice. It's only because Awang is willing to give it to us. So, I will never be lazy when working for him."
Zhao Youfu said with a smile.
This made everyone agree with it, and they also said a lot of good things about Chen Wang.
"Everyone, please stop saying these nice things. This is just the beginning, and it happens to be the Lantern Festival, so I'll prepare something better for everyone. You won't get such good food in the future. But I can guarantee that it's no worse than other restaurants, and I'll still give you the meat meal you promised me every week."
Chen Wang said this first with a smile on his face.
Otherwise, if the food was too good these two days and suddenly became worse later, someone might gossip about it.
"That's what we should do. We all understand."
"Yes, yes, yes, who eats like this every day? This is better than the food we have at home."
"Don't worry, Awang. We all see what's happening. As long as there's someone who stutters, we will definitely work hard for you."
"I get two meals a day, what else can I say?"
…
Everyone expressed their understanding.
Lin Xiuqin is not the cafeteria auntie. She serves food to everyone without any shaking hands. Every bowl is filled to the brim.
The bowls were so full that everyone had to drink a sip of the sweet soup first. After the warm sweet soup went down their throats, it seemed to dispel all the fatigue in their bodies instantly.
Add a big round dumpling to it, it’s so beautiful.
Everyone was laughing, chatting and enjoying the meal.
Chen Wang and his companions here were also standing together eating dumplings.
"Brother Zhuang, let's start going into the mountains tomorrow."
Chen Wang suddenly made a suggestion.
Chen Dazhuang was stunned for a moment, then nodded happily and said, "No problem, I've been bored for a long time."
"That's settled then, Master. Please take care of the construction site and help keep an eye on it."
Chen Wang looked at his master again and said something.
"Don't worry, I'll just watch over you, you guys do what you need to do."
Chen Jianjun solemnly agreed.
"Wife, why don't we hire someone to cook for the workers at noon? It won't cost much."
Chen Wang suggested to Lin Xiuqin.
The main concern is that she is pregnant and shouldn’t be too tired.
Lin Xiuqin smiled and shook her head, indicating that she would do it herself.
"That's it for now. If you feel tired someday, we can hire someone. The baby is the most important. Don't force yourself."
Chen Wang gave the instructions with a serious look on his face.
Lin Xiuqin smiled and nodded.
"Brother, I will help my sister-in-law."
The little girl said with a smile.
Chen Wang nodded with relief and said with a smile: "You also need to keep an eye on your sister-in-law and don't let her do heavy work. If there is anything I'm not around for, go find Master or someone else."
"I know."
The little girl nodded obediently.
After everyone on the construction team had eaten and drunk their fill, they went to Chen Dazhuang's house together.
The whole pot of dumplings was eaten up, there was no more stir-fried dishes, and only a little grain rice was left.
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