After the snow fell, she brought her grandparents back once, and until the New Year, Shen Anning had been at home with her younger brothers and sisters preparing food and drinks for the winter and the New Year.
This year, the sticky rice dumplings from the two educated youth sites and the homes of several aunts next door were made at Shen Anning's house. Because Shen Zixi was young, but she wanted to go out and play with Shen Anning, everyone was reluctant to let her get cold on the road, so they moved all the things to Shen Anning's house.
Several male educated youth took Shen Anyu and several little boys to the mountains every day, and they could get some game from time to time.
Yang Zhengcheng was being a little cunning this year. He wanted to let a few female educated youth and aunts take away Cao Yu and Zhao Jie's share as well. So when everyone was taking out food, others only took out thirty or forty kilograms, but he was the only one who took out a hundred kilograms of food at once.
Zhao Aiguo understood what he meant when he saw the big pocket, and directly reached out to hold it down. "Yang Zhiqing, you know that the quarrel between the two sides is not good. If you are willing to help, we have no objection, but you can't implicate us as well."
"What do you mean by that? How did it cause trouble for you? I have a big appetite, so is it not okay for me to eat more?"
Zhao Aiguo and Liu Cheng didn't want to say anything more. They closed the door and said, "Then we'll make it ourselves this year. It doesn't matter how you make it. Don't bother them."
Yang Zhengcheng was dumbfounded. Seeing several people carrying food bags and heading into the house, he quickly stopped them and said, "Well, I'll only pack 40 kilograms."
Regarding this matter, Zhao Aiguo asked everyone not to say anything nonsense in front of the female educated youth, so as not to upset the girls.
For ten days in a row, she opened her eyes every morning and looked at the snow-covered scene outside the house. Her hands trembled when she thought about making so many sticky rice dumplings during the day.
Shen Zixi is also impatient. In the first one or two days, he was still interested and looked forward to making sticky rice dumplings. He could sit on the kang with a few doughs in his hands and play quietly for a whole morning.
Yawning, although still a little sleepy, Shen Anning forced himself to sit up, put on his cotton jacket and military coat, and went to the outer room to pour the boiling water on the coal stove into the kettle.
"Auntie, Auntie."
Hearing the noise in the room, Shen An Ning stretched his head to look over, only to see Xixi sitting on the kang with a chicken coop hair, looking unhappy.
"What's wrong? Why are you unhappy just after getting up today?"
I touched the little guy's back and hands, and they were quite warm.
"I don't want to play with noodles anymore. My hands hurt. Auntie, how many more days will we have to make bean buns?"
Shen Anning was a little bit amused.
When I was having fun, I was excited and chatty, but these days I got bored and changed. "Today is the last day. We can finish the work in one morning. Be good. When the weather gets better in two days, I will take you to the mountains to play, okay?"
After coaxing the little one, the family sat together and had just finished breakfast when another group of people came. Because the female and male educated youth had to go back home for the New Year this year, they packed less. Thinking that they could rest after finishing the work, the group of people were like chicken blood, and the work that was supposed to be completed in the morning was shortened to half the time.
Looking at the bamboo curtains on the kang, Shen Anning felt very accomplished, "Okay, our family's is also wrapped up, everyone go back and rest, the aunts have worked hard these days."
Xu Hongxia looked at the huge amount of sticky rice dumplings and said, "An Ning, let me stay and help you. There are so many of them, they'll take a while to steam."
"No need, An Yu is at home, he is lighting two pots at the same time, it is very fast, let's go back, Xinrong and the others will be returning to the city in the next few days, hurry back and clean up, the aunts have been busy for so long, let's take a break."
Seeing that Shen Anning and her younger brothers and sisters could really do it well, everyone was not polite. They didn't use any strength when wrapping it just now, and their arms are still sore.
"Okay, then everyone will go back. An Ning, if you need anything, just go out and tell them."
"Okay." After seeing off the aunts and the educated youth, Shen Anning, An Yu and An Xuan were also busy.
The amount she packed together was only enough for the four people in the family to eat for the winter. She also had to send food to the farm, grandparents and the cowshed, so she had to pack at least another 50 kilograms. Fortunately, she had a lot of food stored, so she could eat whatever she wanted.
The kitchen became the battlefield.
Shen Anning moved the things to the kitchen, Shen Anyu was in charge of lighting the fire, and An Xuan took Xixi to eat while roasting the fire, roasting some sweet potatoes and steaming some corn. The two of them fed themselves in a short while.
Shen Anning looked at the burping aunt and nephew, "You just finished eating, you are not allowed to sit down, stand up and walk around twice first."
Before the Chinese New Year, I took some time off and took advantage of the good weather. Liu Jiaman had asked her to go to the farm to buy meat. On the 28th day of the lunar year, I took Xixi with me, carrying a backpack and riding on a sled owned by a villager.
Time was tight, and there was no chance to reminisce with her parents, brother and sister-in-law. Shen Anning delivered the things she brought to the adobe house, asked them to hug Xixi, and then hurried to the threshing ground to buy meat. She had just separated from the villagers and still found an excuse to go see Liu Jiaman.
Everyone knew that she had friends on the farm, so no one suspected anything.
When Shen Anning found Liu Jiaman, she saw her walking towards the infirmary.
"Jiaman."
"Hey, An Ning, I just saw someone from Wangtu Village. He said you should go find me first. There aren't enough people selling meat in the threshing ground today, so I'm going to help my dad. Come on, I saved all the lamb ribs for you."
After taking over Shen Zixi, Liu Jiaman walked very fast, as if she was going to fly. This made Xixi very upset. She was bouncing around, and the little guy spoke incoherently, with a different voice. The look in his eyes when he looked at Shen Anning was full of signals for help.
Shen Anning, who had to jog to catch up, could only silently support Shen Zixi's butt and Liu Jiaman's hand, "Jiaman, don't worry, we came late, and everyone on the farm has almost bought it. I'm not afraid of cutting in line blatantly."
"Yeah, why am I so anxious?"
Just now, Liu Jiaman was so excited that she didn't feel tired at all while holding Shen Zixi, who weighed nearly 30 kilograms. Now that she slowed down, she changed hands several times, looking at the fair and tender little guy, and secretly rubbed her hands several times.
"Aunt Jiaman, are you tired?"
"Auntie is not tired. Xixi is so pretty. Auntie is very happy holding her."
Looking at the stubborn Liu Jiaman, Shen An Ning did not stop her. There were still many people standing on the threshing ground, but Shen An Ning followed Liu Jiaman and went directly into the inner circle. He ordered a lot of lamb ribs, mutton, pig's trotters, and ribs, filling almost half of the backpack.
Fortunately, it was blocked by the table, otherwise I don’t know how many people would have suffered from conjunctivitis.
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