Chapter 57 Making Rice Cake
Jiang Cuihua said angrily, "I have a boy at home, but I was just asking casually. We haven't even started yet. Don't tell anyone, or people will misunderstand you."
"Well, why would I tell anyone this if I have nothing to do?" Huang Damao's wife and Jiang Cuihua were related to each other, so she spoke frankly, "However, if you want to marry into the Huang family, you still have to think carefully."
"What's wrong?" Jiang Cuihua's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly asked, "Is there a problem?"
Huang Damao's wife: "Hongxia is a good girl, hardworking and capable, but her parents..."
Huang Damao paused, and under Jiang Cuihua's anxious gaze, he continued, "Let me tell you this, if you want to marry his daughter, first of all, you have to prepare a lot of gifts, at least more than one hundred or nearly two hundred yuan. His family also used this method to marry the first two daughters.
Second, you have to give him some gifts during festivals, and they have to be good, otherwise his family will be unhappy."
Jiang Cuihua felt cold at hearing this, and said with a sigh: "This is a bit unreasonable."
The requirements are so high that not many families in the countryside have such conditions, and even if they do, they may not be willing to do so.
You can't empty your family's savings just to marry a daughter-in-law.
Although giving gifts during festivals are customs in the countryside, it also depends on the situation. If you have money, give more; if you don’t have money, give less. Any amount is a token of your thought.
If you insist...it would be a bit inappropriate.
"That's right." Huang Damao's wife exclaimed, "Anyway, ordinary families may not look down on them."
Huang Damao's wife had thought about introducing a boyfriend to his second daughter before, but the man thought she was poor and rejected her directly. He also said behind her back that she had bad intentions.
After leaving Huang Damao's house, Jiang Cuihua felt completely depressed.
Liu Yinyin knew that she was backing out.
Well, she had just worried for nothing.
I rode my bike back home in a hurry. The house was very quiet.
Liu Yinyin tiptoed into the room and took a look. Both the father and son were asleep. Gu Yanyan was lying on his father's chest, sleeping like a piglet.
Liu Yinyin didn't disturb them. She moved a small stool and sat in the yard to peel persimmons.
It is not difficult to make persimmon cakes. Just peel the skin, hang it on a rack to dry it, and pinch it.
After it’s dried in the sun, put it in a bag and cover it with icing sugar. You can eat it after a while.
The persimmons they bought were hard and durable. Liu Yinyin had an idea and smuggled another two kilograms out of the system.
Liu Yinyin found that Gu Cheng was sometimes quite careless and had no idea how many things were in the kitchen.
Sometimes she poured some oil into the oil can, and sometimes she added some salt into the salt can, but Gu Chengcheng never suspected anything.
Half of the persimmons are used to make persimmon cakes, and the other half are kept for eating.
When Gu Cheng came out holding the child, Liu Yinyin had just finished peeling the persimmons.
"You go feed the baby." Gu Cheng handed Gu Yanyan, who was licking his hands with hunger, to Liu Yinyin and said, "I'll go make dinner. What do you want to eat?"
Liu Yinyin smiled with her eyebrows curved: "It's all right, I like whatever you cook."
Gu Cheng smiled slightly and said, "By the way, I've baked a sweet potato for you in the oven. Remember to eat it."
There is a fireplace in the room, which makes it very convenient to bake something. Liu Yinyin likes to bake sweet potatoes and eats one or two every day.
After feeding the child and eating the sweet sweet potatoes, Liu Yinyin suddenly had an idea and wanted to make some glutinous rice cakes.
Just think about it, the glutinous rice cake is sizzling in the stove, it is enjoyable just to watch it.
In such a cold day, it would be a great blessing if I could have a bite of glutinous rice cake.
Ciba Liu Yinyin can also be purchased from the system.
But happiness is better shared with others than happiness alone, so I have to make some glutinous rice cakes myself so that everyone can have a taste.
There is no glutinous rice at home, so I have to go buy some.
Liujia Village does not grow glutinous rice, but other villages do.
There is always someone in the village who has the connections to get glutinous rice.
So, after some twists and turns, Liu Yinyin bought ten kilograms of glutinous rice, plus the ten kilograms she smuggled out of the system.
A total of twenty kilograms of glutinous rice were used to make glutinous rice cakes.
When Jiang Cuihua heard that she was going to make glutinous rice cakes, her brows wrinkled so much that they could kill a mosquito: "Look at you, how can you be so troublesome? We have white flour and white rice at home, but it's not enough. Why do you want to make glutinous rice cakes?"
In fact, those in the village who have the conditions will try to make some glutinous rice cakes or rice cakes to eat during the Chinese New Year.
But that’s only a small number of people.
"Just make it if you want to eat. It's okay anyway." Liu Yinyin said nonchalantly.
During the cat winter, life is dull and comfortable, but it is also a bit boring.
We have to find something to do. Liu Yinyin even wants Gu Cheng to get some more wool so that she can knit a sweater to kill time.
On New Year's Eve, Gu Cheng started his annual leave and rested for three consecutive days.
Liu Mingyuan also came back to celebrate the New Year.
Both families were free people, so they got up early in the morning and started working.
The men made tofu and glutinous rice cakes.
Women make dumplings, and eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year is a custom.
Liu Yinyin's family has a lot of flour, several pounds of pork, and shrimp.
So, she planned to make more dumplings at one time.
When it’s cold, you can freeze it outside and eat it slowly.
It comes with three kinds of fillings: cabbage and pork, shrimp and radish, and leek and egg.
Liu Yinyin made about a hundred dumplings of each kind! Her hands were sore from working so hard.
The men were done too.
The tofu was made by two families in one block, and three plates were made.
Liu Yinyin's family had one plate of tofu, so the Liu family made two more plates.
Twenty kilograms of glutinous rice produced fifty-five glutinous rice cakes, each of which was the size of a palm.
Liu Yinyin gave ten to the Liu family and kept the rest for herself.
Glutinous rice cakes can be preserved for a long time if soaked in water.
For the New Year’s Eve dinner in the evening, Liu Yinyin cooked a pot of dumplings and stewed sauerkraut and tofu soup.
Liu Yinyin finds it troublesome and rarely makes dumplings at home.
It's nice to have a meal like this occasionally.
Winter goes and spring comes, and another year has passed. After the New Year, the weather becomes warmer day by day.
There were few heavy snowfalls last year, and wild vegetables only start to grow on the mountain in early March in previous years.
Wild vegetables were ready to be dug in mid-February this year.
At this time, little Gu Yanyan had just turned 100 days old.
A child who is over three months old is more difficult to take care of than before. In the past, I just had to be with him, but now not only do I have to be with him, but someone also has to talk to him.
This child hums when he can't hear any sound.
He is simply a little ancestor!
There was no other choice, so Liu Yinyin bought a few books and read them to him whenever she had nothing to do.
Later, she found it too troublesome and directly asked her little niece Liu Zhizhi to talk to him.
Liu Zhizhi will be eight years old after the Chinese New Year. As a girl of this age in the village, she can definitely help take care of her younger brothers and sisters at home.
Of course, Liu Yinyin didn't dare to really let her take care of the child, she just asked her to talk to Gu Yanyan.
After all, they are all children, and they have more common language with them than with her as a mother.