When Chen Yi took the bowl back home, Shuying was rolling out dough on the table in the main room. The boy put down the bowl and climbed onto the table very attentively, saying that he wanted to help her make dumplings.
"Not going to play?"
"I want to make dumplings!" Chen Yi said in a baby voice.
Seeing that the little guy really wanted to make dumplings, Shuying first grabbed the child's little paws and took him to wash his hands. After the water on his hands dried, he took a dough sheet and taught the child how to make dumplings.
She taught the simplest Yuanbao dumpling. Just wrap the filling in the dough, pinch it tightly and fold it in half to make a Yuanbao dumpling. It is very simple and looks good.
Chen Yi's eyes widened. He liked Yuanbao dumplings very much and learned how to make them very seriously. However, the little boy was greedy and put too much filling in them. The filling overflowed and the dough became rotten. Chen Yi was so anxious that he kneaded the dumplings into a ball again. It was a horrible sight.
Shuying, who was rolling out the dough, took a look and decided to let the boy eat the dumplings by himself, saying, "Take your time, there's no rush!"
In the afternoon, Mrs. Gao also had to roll out dough to make dumplings, so Shuying had to speed up the process.
Roll out the dough before lunch.
After she had rolled out the dough, the kid had made quite a few dumplings in various shapes and forms. But forget it, as long as they are edible without revealing the fillings.
These dumplings were not enough for two people, so she made a dozen more.
Chen Yi obviously thought that the dumplings made by his auntie were much better looking than his.
"Auntie, give all these to uncle! We'll eat the ones over here!" Chen Yi immediately pointed at the dumplings he made and asked, "When are we going to cook dumplings?"
Many of the dumplings made by this child have the filling exposed and the skin broken, so they must be boiled first. Shuying pursed her lips and smiled, "I'll cook them later. These are the dumplings you worked hard to make, so you must taste them yourself. Auntie will make half for you, and leave the other half for your uncle to eat in the evening?"
Chen Yi frowned and nodded in agreement.
Shuying wanted to laugh, thinking, this kid is actually throwing away the dumplings he made himself?
At lunch, while the water was boiling, Shuying picked up some broken dumplings and ate them. She also ate a lot of the other dumplings she had made.
I counted the number and cooked eight for the children and twelve for myself.
The dumplings she made were neither too big nor too small.
Dumplings are easy to cook. When the dumplings float on the water, put the tree shadows into the bowl, add soup, and put some green onions. It looks very beautiful.
Turn off the fire and serve two bowls of dumplings on the table. Chen Yi has already smelled the fragrance of the dumplings. She washed her hands, ran in from the backyard, climbed onto the table and couldn't wait to eat the dumplings.
I put the things on the tree-shaded table aside and sat the children at the table to eat dumplings.
She has made dumplings with both kinds of fillings in the bowl. Compared with the cabbage and pork dumplings, she prefers the mushroom and shrimp dumplings. They are particularly fresh and fragrant and taste very good. The soup is also delicious.
Chen Yi likes both kinds of dumplings. After tasting the delicious dumplings, he stopped talking and just focused on eating until he was sweating profusely.
Shuying wiped the child's sweat while eating and asked him to eat slowly.
At first she was worried that the child would not be able to finish such a bowl of dumplings, but she did not expect that after a while the dumplings in the child's bowl were eaten up cleanly, and even the soup was drunk up.
Chen Yi ate with a satisfied look on his face: "It's so delicious! Auntie, can we have dumplings for dinner?!"
Shuying touched the child's bulging belly. He was so full, yet he still wanted to eat?
But today was the day for eating dumplings, so she prepared more fillings and kneaded more flour, especially to make more dumplings. She was too lazy to cook dinner, so the three of them just ate the dumplings.
Chen Yi was particularly happy to learn that she could have dumplings for dinner again.
Shuying fed the last dumpling in the bowl to the child and let him go to the front yard to digest the food.
After washing the dishes, she went to Gao Dasao's house next door to return the rolling pin.
The Gao family had not had lunch yet. Mrs. Gao was preparing the stuffing in the kitchen. The three brothers were also in the kitchen. Gao Zhigao complained to his brothers about why his mother did not buy more pork, and also complained about mixing salted vegetables with the pork in the stuffing, and was scolded by Mrs. Gao.
Gao Yuan has a great appetite and he is very satisfied with white flour dumplings. Seeing his mother preparing the stuffing, his saliva is watering and he keeps asking his mother when they can eat dumplings. Gao's wife is getting a headache from all the noise and she quickly asks the three chattering brats to go out. If they don't go out, they won't be able to eat dumplings at night.
When the three Gao brothers were walking out of the house with their heads down, they saw Shuying coming in. Gao Xiangxian hurriedly asked, "Auntie Yang, what kind of fillings do you use for dumplings?"
Shuying replied "pork and mushrooms" and "pork and cabbage", and asked, "What's the matter?"
The three brothers of the Gao family yelled, but before they could say anything, they were driven out of the kitchen by Gao's wife.
Mrs. Gao was scolding the three brats, "It's good enough to have white flour dumplings to eat, but you're still picky. You really like the three brats!"
After the three Gao brothers ran out of the door, Shuying returned the rolling pin to Mrs. Gao and looked at the stuffing she had prepared: one portion of pickled vegetables and pork and one portion of leek and egg.
Especially the pickled vegetable and pork stuffing, which was mostly pickled vegetables with very little pork. No wonder Gao Zhigao was unhappy and nodded his head to the two brothers just now.
When Mrs. Gao saw that Miss Yang returned the rolling pin so quickly, she told her that there was no need to rush and that she still had time to make dumplings, so why should she be so polite to her? If she really needed it, she would ask her for it.
Shuying smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, I have already rolled out the dough!"
"Okay then!" So, Mrs. Gao also asked her if she really made dumplings with mushroom and pork filling or cabbage and pork filling?
After getting Shuying's response, Mrs. Gao sighed that Yang's sewing hands were too big.
If she was asked to make meat-filled dumplings, she would not do it.
The two talked for a while, and Shuying went back to her yard first. Mrs. Gao knew from the way she walked that the couple had been through a lot last night. No wonder they couldn't get up early in the morning.
In the afternoon, Shuying continued to make dumplings. This time, she did not let the children help, and let the children go into the house to read comic books.
Chen Yi did not go into the house to read the comic book. Instead, she took the comic book and lay in front of Shuying, reading the comic book while watching her make dumplings.
In the evening, Shuying steamed a basket of dumplings and boiled another pot of dumplings.
Knowing that her man likes spicy food, she picked up a small bowl of chili peppers and prepared two dipping sauces, one that was sour but not spicy, and the other that was sour and spicy. Her man would definitely like it.
When Chen Xi came back, dinner was ready.
He took a quick shower before going to the table for dinner.
A family of three having dinner.
These dumplings are all we had for dinner.
Chen Xi had no objection.
When the man came to the table, Chen Yi ate dumplings without even raising her head. It was obvious that the child liked dumplings very much.
Shuying also taught the children how to dip the food in a sour, non-spicy sauce. Chen Yi followed suit and ate it with eyes wide open: "So delicious! Auntie, so delicious!"
"As long as it tastes good!" Shuying asked the child to eat slowly. There were enough dumplings and he could eat as much as he wanted.
While eating dumplings, Chen Yi was telling his uncle which dumpling he made, saying how amazing he was. Chen Xi glanced at the plate of dumplings of various shapes in front of him and fell silent!
Seeing the man's silent look, Shuying smiled and said, "Our kids have worked really hard to make dumplings today. Eat more!"
Chen Yi's cheeks were bulging with food, but he didn't forget to agree: "I made it with great effort, uncle, eat more! I'll eat what auntie made!"
The adult and the child were talking non-stop. Chen Xi was not happy that his wife's attention was all on the child, so he picked up a dumpling and fed it to her mouth. While the child was busy eating, she took a small bite and left most of it, and the man stuffed it into his own mouth.
The shape of the dumpling is a bit ugly, but the mushroom and meat dumplings are filled with shrimps, which makes them taste very fresh, fragrant and delicious. Chen Xi's eyes lit up when he ate them.
He just felt that the white flour dumplings made in his home were much more delicious than any dumplings he had eaten before.
He loved it very much, so he took another dumpling, dipped it in the hot and sour sauce and fed it to his wife.
This time Shuying didn't eat it and let him eat it by himself.
Chen Xi didn't move his chopsticks, so Shu Ying had to take a small bite and stuffed the remaining half into his mouth as usual. It must be said that the sour and spicy dipping sauce was very much to his liking.
The man praised in a deep voice: "This dipping sauce tastes very good!"
Next, Shuying saw that her man would dip the dumplings he ate into the spicy and sour sauce, and it seemed that he really liked it.
Shuying thought the hot and sour dipping sauce was too spicy, so she followed the child to try the dipping sauce which was only sour but not spicy.
Halfway through the meal, Gao Zhi from the Gao family next door brought over a plate of dumplings.
According to Mrs. Gao, you can try the dumplings with other fillings made by her family. The dumplings with salted vegetable and pork and leek and egg fillings are also good.
Shuying took the Gao family's dumplings to the kitchen and put them on a clean plate. She also returned a plate of dumplings for Gao Zhi to take back.
"Thank you, Aunt Yang!" Gao Zhi said with shining eyes.
Shuying touched Gaozhi's head and told him to go back and eat his dumplings.
Shuying put the dumplings from Mrs. Gao's house on the table and let the big and small ones taste them.
The dumplings at Gao's house were yellowish in color, probably because they were mixed with cornmeal. Chen Yi tried one out of curiosity, and it turned out to be a salted vegetable and pork dumpling. Chen Yi took a bite and stopped eating: "Xiaoyuan's dumplings are not as delicious as ours!"
Chen Xi also tried one, and it certainly wasn't as delicious as the one his wife made, but it was just a white flour dumpling after all, so it couldn't be that bad.
The man finished the dumpling in one bite, and with a stern face, he ordered Chen Yi to finish the remaining dumplings.
Chen Yi wrinkled his face and dipped the dumpling in the sauce before finishing it. After that, he only ate the dumplings from his own home and did not even touch the dish of dumplings from Mrs. Gao's home.
Shuying tasted one and finally understood why the child didn't like dumplings stuffed with salted vegetables and pork.
Before mixing the pickled vegetables and pork with stuffing, it is best to add oil and bean paste and stir-fry them. They will be especially fragrant and taste great when used to make dumplings. If there were not many pickled vegetables at home, she would also like to make some dumplings with pickled vegetable and pork stuffing.
But after all, it is a white flour dumpling with pork inside, so it can’t be said to be bad, but the taste is indeed average.
However, the dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs from Mrs. Gao’s house tasted quite good, and Shuying ate a few more.
In the Chen family's yard, a family of three was having a lively time eating dumplings. The Gao family next door was also enjoying dumplings.
After all, they are white flour dumplings, which are very rare to eat on weekdays, but the two brothers Gao Tuan and Gao Xiang and Gao Yuan still love to eat them very much.
Gao Zhiduan ran into the house with dumplings and was satisfied when he saw a plate of dumplings in front of his seat. He put the plate of dumplings on the table and hurriedly said, "Mom, I'm back!"
Mrs. Gao saw the boy coming back with the dumplings and asked hurriedly, "Why didn't your Aunt Yang take our dumplings?"
Gao Tuan noticed that the dumplings were different from his own, and they should have been sent back from Yang Meizi's home. Gao Tuan really wanted to try his brother and sister-in-law's dumplings craftsmanship, so he quickly picked up one to taste.
Gao Tuan bit half of it and found that the filling was mostly meat. It tasted really good and fresh, and his mouth was full of the umami flavor. It was so delicious that he swallowed it with his tongue. It was much more delicious than the dumplings at his place. Chen Tuan was really lucky.
Gao Zhi tasted a dumpling from Aunt Yang's house and wiped the grease off his mouth before he could reply to Gao Dasao: "This is Aunt Yang's dumpling! It's much better than ours!"
The Gao brothers all knew that Aunt Yang was an excellent cook and her dumplings must be delicious. So the four of them, father and son, were scrambling to eat a pile of dumplings.
Gao Tuan saw that the four of them, father and son, had eaten up the whole plate of dumplings, with only two dumplings left. He didn't care that his third son spilled them, and he quickly put them into his wife's bowl.
Mrs. Gao tried one and it tasted really good, but there was so much meat filling that her flesh hurt after eating it.
Seeing that her third child was still clamoring to eat Yang Meizi's dumplings, Gao Dasao put the last dumpling into the boy's bowl and said angrily, "We made so many white flour dumplings, and you're still making trouble? If you make trouble again, you are not allowed to eat white flour dumplings! I'll eat your sweet potatoes!"
After Mrs. Gao said that, Gao Yuan really didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and the other two brothers also ate their own white flour dumplings obediently.
Their white flour dumplings are not as delicious as Aunt Yang’s, but white flour dumplings are very rare and we only eat them twice a year at most.
When Mrs. Gao was educating her three little brats, a fierce quarrel suddenly broke out in the Fang family next door.
Gao Tuan and his wife Gao Dasao looked at each other. Just as Gao Dasao was about to say something, Xia Lina's sharp cry rang out, which scared Gao Dasao.
Mrs. Gao thought that she had heard Deputy Tuan Fang and his wife quarreling many times before, but she had never heard Xia Lina cry, so she quickly asked Tuan Gao to go and take a look.
Mrs. Gao heard the quarrel in the Fang family and Xia Lina's crying, as well as the shadows of the trees in the Chen family's yard. She was afraid that something might have happened, so she asked her husband to go and see what was going on.
No matter how dissatisfied she was with Xia Lina, they were neighbors after all, and if anything happened to Deputy Tuan's family, it would not be good for her family.