Chapter 487 New Year
Wait until the Chinese New Year and then buy fresh pork.
Zhou Xiaomei nodded. After being together for so long, she had already gotten used to Liu Yinyin's generosity.
According to her idea, she originally wanted to buy some pork offal to make salty food, but Liu Yinyin said that eating too much of this stuff is bad for the body.
Zhou Xiaomei gave up the idea.
"Oh right..." Thinking of something, Zhou Xiaomei whispered, "Yinyin, how is Xiaofei doing recently?"
After their last chat, Chen Xiaofei went to Liu Yinyin's house to study every afternoon without fail.
"Very good." Apart from anything else, Chen Xiaofei's attitude towards learning is very correct. At least, he is studying seriously the knowledge taught by Liu Yinyin.
Liu Yinyin didn't think about training him to be outstanding, as long as he reached the passing level, it would be enough.
Zhou Xiaomei was relieved after hearing this: "This child... looks a lot more energetic these days, not as lifeless as before. Yinyin, you are really amazing."
Liu Yinyin smiled and said nothing.
Zhou Xiaomei was silent for a moment, then said, "Yinyin, I have something I want to trouble you with."
Liu Yinyin glanced at her and said, "Sister-in-law, if you have something to say, just tell me directly."
"It's like this..." Zhou Xiaomei said with a worried look, "Jingnan and Jingbei's grades are not very good. I was thinking, when they come back from vacation, can they also go to your place and study with you?"
Although learning is not valued much in this era, that is because most families are poor and cannot afford to go to school.
To be honest, there is no parent who doesn't want their children to study well.
Liu Yinyin was slightly stunned: "...Sister-in-law, Yanyan and Xiaofei are only learning first-year knowledge."
Fan Jingnan and Fan Jingbei, one is in the second year of high school and the other is in the fourth grade. No matter how poorly they perform in their studies, they don't have to start from scratch.
Zhou Xiaomei groaned, "They are doing their homework, you just need to keep an eye on them for me. If they were at home, they wouldn't sit down and do their homework obediently."
No matter how uneducated she was, she knew that teaching was not an easy job.
He would not shamelessly bother Liu Yinyin to give his two sons extra lessons.
Zhou Xiaomei thought that it would be hard for Liu Yinyin to take care of so many children by herself, so she added, "You help me take care of the two sons, and I will help you take care of the triplets."
"That's not necessary." Liu Yinyin shook her head. "Sister-in-law, ask Jingnan and Jingbei to come directly to my house, just like Xiaofei and the others, and come over every afternoon."
It's only one or two hours a day, so it doesn't matter if it's hard. Liu Yinyin has met the two children of Zhou Xiaomei.
There is no other problem except that I don't like studying.
Zhou Xiaomei was very happy: "Look at this... I don't know how to thank you."
Liu Yinyin said indifferently: "Sister-in-law, you always help me a lot."
"It's all small stuff." Zhou Xiaomei stood up and said, "I'm going to Dongpo Mountain to buy some meat. Your family likes to eat ribs, so I'll buy you two more."
At noon, Liu Yinyin made braised pork ribs, stir-fried lettuce with mashed garlic, and shredded radish soup.
The lettuce is grown in the plastic shed. Other green vegetables are also growing well, including strawberries. We should be able to eat strawberries next spring.
The staple food is white rice.
Liu Yinyin chopped two braised pork ribs and made a big bowl of it, which was quite a large portion.
Gu Yanyan grabbed the ribs with her little hands and chewed them until her mouth was full of oil.
Liu Yinyin picked up a piece of lettuce and put it in his bowl: "Eat more greens."
There is still one week until the Chinese New Year, and Gu Cheng has been very busy these two days.
He will only have a holiday two days before the New Year, for six consecutive days, and will return to the army to work on the fifth day of the New Year.
Gu Cheng: "I can't go back to my hometown for the New Year this year. I will go to the post office in two days to send some New Year's goods back to my parents."
Liu Yinyin said, "I should send some things back. My third sister-in-law gave birth to a child and I didn't have time to go back to see her."
A few days ago, a telegram came from my hometown saying that Huang Xiaoyue had given birth to a little girl.
The first baby was twin boys, and this one is a girl, which is great, as I have both a son and a daughter.
However, Liu Yinyin rarely mentioned this matter in front of Gu Cheng, so as to avoid making him jealous again.
It’s not that I don’t like sons, it’s just that people are like this. When they have a son, they want a daughter-in-law, and when they have a daughter-in-law, they want a son.
They all hope to have both sons and daughters.
Liu Yinyin actually felt a little regretful that she couldn't give birth to a daughter.
She and Gu Cheng have the same idea and don't plan to have any more children in the future.
None of the triplets are girls, so they are probably destined not to have a maiden name.
In order to send New Year's goods to Mr. and Mrs. Liu, I also have to send a few things to Huang Xiaoyue.
In the afternoon, Liu Yinyin packed out a big package.
What was given to Liu's father and mother was a can of maltose, a bag of flour, a bag of rice, a bag of White Rabbit milk candy, and a bag of snacks.
The bacon was not sent back to my hometown because they slaughtered the New Year pig and dried the bacon themselves.
Huang Xiaoyue was given a bag of brown sugar, a bag of red dates, a bag of millet, and a bag of milk powder.
There are children at home, so it is not convenient for Liu Yinyin to go out.
Two days later, Gu Cheng took some time to go to the town, and when he came back, he brought back a bag of glutinous rice.
We agreed before that we would make glutinous rice cakes to eat.
On the day of the holiday, Gu Cheng did not bother anyone else and only called Fan Zhenxing to come over to help.
After a busy day, I made more than 50 kilograms of glutinous rice cakes.
As before, each glutinous rice cake weighs about half a pound.
Liu Yinyin packed ten and gave them to Zhou Xiaomei.
Zhou Xiaomei muttered, "I've tried it once before, and it tastes good, but it's a pity that Zhenxing and I don't know how to make it."
Liu Yinyin: "Just buy some glutinous rice, and we'll make glutinous rice cakes together next time."
"Yes!" Zhou Xiaomei said with a smile, "The New Year is the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I will go to Dongpo Mountain to buy some food for the New Year. What should I bring back for you?"
Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll go with you tomorrow."
Gu Cheng is at home, let him look after the kids tomorrow.
There aren't many people at home, so we don't need to prepare many dishes for the New Year.
However, you should still buy more and stock up so that you can eat it during the first month of the year.
The next morning, Liu Yinyin went into the plastic shed, picked a handful of cabbage and cooked glutinous rice cakes.
The weather was cold, so the vegetables in the shed didn't grow very fast, but it was still a success in the end.
Liu Yinyin's family can eat fresh green vegetables in the cold weather, and everyone who sees them is envious.
For this reason, there has been a craze in the family compound recently to build plastic film sheds to grow vegetables, and Zhou Xiaomei's family is no exception.
"I should have believed you earlier." Zhou Xiaomei almost regretted to death. If only she had followed Liu Yinyin to build a shed and grow vegetables.
Now, we can eat fresh vegetables at home.
It’s not like now, when we have to wait a month or so before we can eat vegetables.
Liu Yinyin wondered, "You don't know, several people came to my house recently and wanted me to sell vegetables to them."