As soon as the eldest sister-in-law Zhuang Fangtao lifted the door curtain and came in, she saw Li Xingsheng showing off his foreign gadgets again and immediately laughed: "Oh my, aunt, don't listen to this kid's bragging!"
She was still holding the steamer basket, the aroma of steaming buns filling everyone's noses. "Ever since the day he decided to come back, this brat has been planning how to show off in front of his cousin!"
She put down the steamer, slapped her thigh and laughed, "Remember? It's about that time when Mingyuan hung his pants on a tree when we were kids!"
Then he winked at Li Xingsheng and said, "You're such a grown-up, and you still hold grudges!"
Li Guifang perked up when she heard that. "That's right! At that time, Xingsheng was flopping around in the pond with his bare bottom, crying like a pig being slaughtered!"
The two sisters-in-law burst into laughter, completely ignoring Li Xingsheng's red face next to them.
Li Jianguo shook his head. "This kid has been like this since he was little! Last time in Haicheng..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Xingsheng interrupted him with a hasty roar: "Dad!"
The laughter in the room suddenly became even louder.
Li Mingyuan suppressed a laugh and deliberately raised an eyebrow at Li Xingsheng: "How about... let's go swim a couple of laps in the pond some other day? I promise I won't get your pants hung this time!"
"Li Mingyuan!"
Li Mingyuan and Li Xingsheng were born in the same year, but Li Mingyuan was a few months younger.
At that time, the factory was very busy, so I left the children at my mother's house. When the two brothers were young, they stayed together almost every day.
Li Xingsheng pesters Li Mingyuan to be his older brother every day, so the relationship between the two brothers is naturally better than that of other brothers and sisters!
It was not until the second aunt Gao Xiuhong and the third aunt Luo Chunxing brought in some delicious dishes that they stopped teasing the two brothers.
"Eat, eat!" Zhuang Fangtao wiped the tears of laughter and stuffed the buns into everyone's hands. "If you don't eat it now, it will get cold!"
She turned her head to look at Li Xingsheng who was still standing there, and added,
"Some people, if you don't eat, Mingyuan won't be your brother anymore! Hey, do you want to take off your gold watch and eat it with porridge?"
Everyone in the room was laughing so hard that even the most steady Li Jianguo choked on his tea.
Li Xingsheng put away the recorder awkwardly, mumbling, "I'm Li Mingyuan's brother..."
This caused another round of laughter. Everyone laughed at you, but you are the funniest!
Zhuang Fangtao nudged Li Guifang and lowered her voice, "See? These two are the same! When the elder one first bought a bicycle, didn't he ride it around the village eighteen times?"
Li Jianguo happened to hear this and immediately got angry: "That's what I call testing the new car!"
Everyone was laughing while eating breakfast in the house. Just when they were halfway through their breakfast, they suddenly heard the sound of a tractor rumbling outside the yard.
Then came Li Jianjun's signature loud voice: "Brother! Come and help me! There are too many things!"
Everyone in the room stood up at once. Li Guifang didn't even bother to finish the half-eaten bun in her hand and ran out with everyone else.
There was a mountain of New Year's goods piled up on the back of the tractor parked at the gate of the yard, and Li Jianjun and Li Jiandang were unloading them.
"Oh my God!" Li Guifang stared at the mountain of New Year's goods, her eyes widening. "Are you bringing the supply and marketing cooperative back here?"
Li Jiandang poked his head out from the pile of New Year's goods, his face still covered in flour: "I'm here! Come and try this!"
He held up an oil-paper bag and said, "This is a time-honored walnut pastry from Haicheng. I waited in line for two hours to buy one!"
When the children heard there was something delicious, they immediately gathered around. The little monkey hurriedly tore off the oil paper, and the rich aroma of walnuts immediately wafted out.
"Slow down! Don't choke!"
Li Guifang said this, but she couldn't help but take a piece.
The puff pastry melted in her mouth, sweet but not greasy, and tasted exactly as she remembered.
Li Jianjun pulled out a net bag from the pile of New Year's goods, which contained several tin cans: "Sister, I remember you loved to eat this the most!"
Li Guifang took it and saw that it was canned yellow peaches. Her eyes suddenly became hot.
When she was a child, her family was poor and she could only get a small piece during the Chinese New Year. She was always reluctant to eat it and would pick up the pieces bit by bit with the tip of her chopsticks to taste it.
"Jianjun, do you still remember..." Her voice was a little choked.
"Of course not!" Li Jianjun grinned, revealing a row of white teeth. "Last time you wrote to me saying you wanted this, I went to the Friendship Store to buy it. It's authentic United Continental stuff!"
Li Mingyuan helped carry things downstairs, his nerves growing more and more tense. Besides the usual New Year's goods, there were boxes of Tsingtao beer, beautifully packaged candies, and biscuits with chicken intestines printed on them...
How much does this cost!!!
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As soon as breakfast was over, my aunt chopped the dumpling stuffing and added some sesame oil, and the aroma immediately came out.
Li Guifang rolled up her sleeves and sat around the eight-immortals table with her two sisters-in-law, with the kneaded dough and bowls of stuffing in front of them.
"Guifang's dumplings are still so pretty."
Second Aunt Gao Xiuhong picked up a dumpling that looked like a gold ingot and said, "Look at the folds, they look like the hem of a little girl's skirt."
Li Guifang smiled and stuffed an extra spoonful of filling into the dumpling wrapper. "Sister-in-law, do you remember? Our mother taught us step by step. She said you have to make eighteen folds to pass."
Aunt Zhuang Fangtao paused as she kneaded the dumplings, and a smile formed in the corners of her eyes. "That's right! Because of this, my mom has to keep an eye on me every time she makes dumplings."
She nodded at her third aunt Luo Meixiang and said, "Back then, Fengzhi got hit with a broom quite a few times. One time, she made dumplings like the ones Meixiang is making now..."
"Speaking of this girl, she came back a few days ago and said her son was taking her to Beijing for the New Year. She just wandered around and left without even having dinner at home!"
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