Chapter 731 New Year's Eve Dinner
These were stewed and fried in advance by Qiao Jingzhen and the sister Xue Guixiang. The pork filling was also chopped yesterday and hung on the clothesline outside. It was cold and the pork filling was frozen.
Their task today is to wash vegetables, cook, and make bread and dumplings.
Lin Qingqing boiled pot after pot of hot water on the stove so that her hands would not get cold when washing vegetables.
In fact, the most important vegetables in winter are cabbage, radish, onion, potato, etc. However, when Wei Dabao came, he brought some spinach, celery, tomatoes and cucumbers, which were red and green and looked very pleasing to the eye.
In addition to these vegetables, she also brought a prepared chopped pepper fish with mushroom slices, a chestnut lotus chicken, a plate of fried lotus root, a plate of steamed rice cake with mandarin fish, a plate of golden shrimp balls, a large bowl of pig's trotters with peanuts, a large bowl of braised pork with preserved vegetables, a large bowl of steamed beef with rice flour, a plate of four-happiness meatballs, and a large bowl of sweet and sour pork.
Xue Guixiang didn't pay attention just now, but now that she opened the lunch box, she saw the various dishes inside.
Wow, there’s no need to prepare anything. Just what Wei Dabao brought is enough to make up a whole table.
These rare foods were given by the old lady of the Wei family.
The old lady's family was wealthy, and she had brought several shops as her dowry. Later, due to the turmoil in the political situation, the business could not continue. The rent from this shop alone could bring in a lot of money every year.
So every Chinese New Year and other holidays, the old lady would try her best to find ways to spend money on her children.
Especially Wei Dabao, her daughter, she is the apple of the old lady's eye and she is always willing to give her any good things.
The two brothers didn't dare to be jealous, because it was their fault that they failed to marry a woman.
Later, Wei Dabao married Wei Dalei, who worked in Jinning, and they settled down in Jinning.
Later, Wei Lizhong was transferred to work in the Jinning County Party Committee. The brother and sister lived close to each other, and neither of them thought about returning to Shijiazhuang.
Xue Guixiang felt embarrassed when she saw all the food: "Sister, you came if you wanted to, but you brought so much food with you. Who is going to eat whose food?"
Wei Dabao laughed and said, "Why should we divide the food between our two families? We can't finish all the food at my house, so why not share it with everyone?"
Xue Guixiang was polite for a few moments, feeling that the division between the two families was too clear, which made them feel alienated. She said to Lin Qingqing, "Your Aunt Wei brought a lot of dishes, so you don't have to prepare much. Just wash some spinach, stir-fry some tomatoes and eggs, and then wash some potatoes. I'll make some candied potatoes for little Tianci."
"Okay!" Lin Qingqing agreed while washing.
Here, Xue Guixiang had also prepared the dough and was chopping green onions on the chopping board.
We agreed yesterday that today’s dumplings would only be filled with pork and green onions, so they would taste better.
Xue Guiqin was used to doing housework at home and was good at making stuffing. In a short while, she had prepared a pot full of pork and green onion stuffing, which smelled very delicious.
Xue Guixiang and Wei Dabao sat down and helped Xue Guiqin make dumplings.
Wei Dabao heard from Xue Guixiang that Xue Guiqin had been staying there and refused to leave because her husband had another woman outside.
She came to visit occasionally these days and thought Xue Guiqin was a nice person.
It just so happened that she knew a man whose wife had died. The man was quite good, and she wanted to act as a matchmaker for Xue Guiqin.
But after hearing that Xue Guiqin hadn't divorced yet, she didn't mention the matter yet. She just secretly wondered when to bring them together. Lin Qing washed the vegetables and was about to put them in the wok to fry them when Xue Guixiang stopped her: "Don't do it, I'll do it later!"
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