Chapter 114: Inviting My Aunt and Her Family to Celebrate the New Year Together (Page 1/2)
If it weren't for his father-in-law, how could Mr. Lu come to visit his son's home in person?
Xiao Ya fully approved of Lin Man's behavior. Since they were not related in any way, it would not be impolite to accept someone's gifts and give them some gifts in return.
In the following days, whenever Huo Li was free during the day, he would go to the sanatorium to play chess, chat and drink tea with Lu Zheng, and come back to eat at mealtime.
Xiao Ya stayed at home with Lin Man every day. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching, Lin Man asked Huo Qingci to take her mother-in-law to the farm to visit her aunt and bring them some food and dried seafood.
While they were away, Lin Man started preparing New Year's goods, including three pounds of each of dried meat, preserved fruits, melon seeds, peanuts, candy, and biscuits, as well as two pounds of dried abalone, sea cucumber, and fish maw.
One hundred kilograms of rice, fifty kilograms of glutinous rice, twenty kilograms each of flour and noodles, and five kilograms each of glutinous rice flour and rice flour.
Ten pounds of peanut oil, two pounds of sesame oil, one bottle each of soy sauce, oyster sauce, aged vinegar, cooking wine, and chili oil, and three packets of marinade ingredients...
He prepared a lot of things and asked Huo Qingci to put them into his own space at night.
In the afternoon, Xiao Ya came back from the farm with a gloomy face. Huo Qingci was not there, so Lin Man had to secretly ask Huo Qinghuan, "What's wrong with Mom? Why are you unhappy after coming back from the farm?"
"Sister-in-law, during the last typhoon, my aunt's roof was blown away."
"Ah, are they okay?"
"My uncle was very unlucky and his leg was broken. Now my aunt is working in the fields with my cousins to earn work points, while my uncle cooks at home. Today, my aunt hugged my mother and cried for half an hour."
No wonder my aunt and her family didn't have time to come over to play. It turned out that my uncle was injured again. When people are unlucky, even drinking cold water will get stuck in their teeth. Lin Man didn't expect her aunt and her family to be so unlucky.
In the evening, Xiao Ya discussed with Lin Man, "Man Man, can you invite my sister and her family to come over for the New Year this year? I'll pay for the New Year's shopping."
"Mom, let them come. It'll be more lively with more people. If there's no place to sleep, I'll ask Qingci to get two straw mats and spread them on the floor. You don't have to buy New Year's goods. I'll ask Qingci to buy them."
"Qingci has to go to work, so I'll go buy it!"
"Mom, he has a bicycle, so it's very convenient for him to buy things."
When Huo Qingci came back that night, Lin Man asked him, "Is your uncle's leg broken?"
Huo Qingci nodded and said, "Well, during the last typhoon, the roof of their house was blown off by the wind, and my uncle broke his leg when he tried to save my little cousin.
If we hadn't gone there this time, we wouldn't have known that this had happened to them.
This time I went over and removed the splint on his leg, applied medicine to him, and used my healing powers. The fracture should heal slowly, so don't worry too much."
"Your mother said the farm will be closed for three days for the New Year and she wanted them to come over to celebrate, so I agreed."
"Just agree to it. I'll bring back some more food when the time comes."
Lin Man brought Huo Qingci into her space, "Here, the New Year's goods are ready. You should find a way to transport these things back in the next two days. I will prepare some fresh seafood in a few days."
"Manman, thank you."
"What's there to thank me for? My aunt is your mother's biological sister. It's a good thing that the two sisters have a good relationship. I can help my aunt when she's in trouble, right? Life has its ups and downs, and everyone has their low points."
Besides, Lin Man felt that Xiao Rong and Liao Hongyuan were good people, gentle and polite. Even when their lives were in desperate situations, they did not give up on themselves or blame others.
I heard that many people couldn't stand the humiliation and were forced to commit suicide, but at least the couple persevered. Lin Man felt that they deserved her respect.
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In the next two days, Huo Qingci brought back a bunch of New Year's goods one after another, and Xiao Ya was busy cleaning the house.
Seeing that there were fifty kilograms of glutinous rice at home, Huo Li discussed with Huo Qingci, "Why don't we just steam the glutinous rice? The weather here is good anyway, and you happen to have a steamer at home."
"There are no large wine barrels."
"It's no big deal to buy one!"
"Okay, then I'll buy an extra 50 kilograms of glutinous rice tomorrow."
When Lin Man heard that they were going to make rice wine, she felt that fifty kilograms of glutinous rice was a bit too little, because one hundred kilograms of glutinous rice could only produce more than twenty kilograms of rice wine at most. She decided to take out another hundred kilograms of glutinous rice. Since she was going to make it, she might as well make more.
The remaining lees can not only be used to cook sugar water, but also to make lees fish and lees meat, and can be fed to pigs after the meal.
The five pigs in the space weighed one hundred and eighty kilograms, and the four small ones weighed only one hundred and forty to fifty kilograms each. They obviously ate the same food, but I don't know why one of them always stood out.
"Qingci, let's kill a pig in the space tomorrow to celebrate the New Year!"
"Okay, if you want to kill something, kill that castrated pig. It grows very fast. The other three sows and one boar don't grow as fast as it."
She asked why that pig grew so fast, and it turned out that it was the only one that was castrated.
Now you don’t have to buy New Year’s goods, seafood, chickens, ducks, geese, meat or vegetables. You can celebrate the New Year without spending a penny.
The next day at noon, Huo Qingci brought back another 100 kilograms of glutinous rice. In the afternoon, he asked someone to deliver a large vat, and started soaking the glutinous rice in the evening.
On the third morning, they got up at four or five o'clock to steam glutinous rice, one steamer after another. Lin Man knew that the family was steaming rice wine today, so she got up early to help.
Huo Qinghuan didn't go anywhere these days and was preparing food for the New Year.
At night, Huo Qingci boiled water in the space to slaughter a pig. The pig-killing hook, knife, and stairs were all found by Lin Man from the space warehouse.
Of course, you can't finish eating a pig during the New Year, so Lin Man asked Huo Qingci to salt part of it to make bacon, keep the rest for the New Year, and refrigerate part to eat whenever you want.
On the 29th day of the lunar year, Huo Qingci specially borrowed a car and went to the farm to pick up his aunt and her family to celebrate the New Year with them.
Liao Hongyuan didn't agree at first, so Huo Qingci brought up his grandfather Huo Li, and they finally agreed because of his kindness.
Xiao Rong's eyes were red as she took Huo Qingci's hand and said, "Qingci, thank you, auntie. This is the first New Year we've spent together outside.
If it weren't for you, our family would have just made do with a few meals. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but without tickets, there's a lot we can't buy. All we have at home are some vegetables and the dried seafood you sent us."
"Aunt, everything will be over. I'll send you some tickets later. This time, Sijie can just stay at our house. Manman is going to give birth at the end of the month."
Liao Sijie asked quietly, "Brother, my aunt is here. Should I still go over and help my cousin's wife take care of the children?"
"Of course. Your aunt can only stay here for a few months. She will go back to work after the baby is a hundred days old."
"Oh, I see."
Liao Sijie knew that her father had been unable to do physical work for a while, and the family savings were dwindling. Since her cousin asked her to help take care of the children, she naturally agreed.
She could earn twenty yuan a month, which would make her parents much more relaxed. If she earned work points on the farm, she would definitely not earn twenty yuan a month.
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