◎Second update◎
"Yes, Shanshan is really amazing."
Everybody praised Shanshan flatteringly, and her chubby face became rosy from all the praise, like a red apple, sweet and delicious. Her cheeks were plump, white with a hint of red, and the golden sunlight seemed to cast a halo around her.
Shanshan smiled, feeling a little embarrassed. Actually, she wasn't that great.
Liang Baozhen asked Shanshan to play outside with her grandmother while she and Xiaoya went to cook dinner.
Today is the first meal since moving, so we have to prepare it well.
Zhou Yun held Shanshan in her arms and sat on the swing. There was no one to push them, so they controlled the swing's swinging amplitude by themselves. Shanshan leaned in her grandmother's arms and listened to her tell stories.
"Once upon a time there was an old monk..."
A gust of wind blew, and the sweet-scented osmanthus buds were swept away, falling on Shanshan's braji. Shanshan gently twisted the sweet-scented osmanthus buds with her two fingers, and stretched out her hand to go to her grandmother's hair.
"Grandma, I'll give you flowers~"
A small pale yellow osmanthus bud was stuffed into Zhou Yunhua's white hair.
Zhou Yun asked Shanshan to bring the mirror. Seeing that Shanshan particularly loved looking in the mirror, Liang Baozhen gave the small mirror to her.
She looked at herself in the mirror. Her face was covered with wrinkles and her once jet-black hair had gradually turned into silver threads. However, the little flower bud in her hair was cute.
When was the last time you wore a flower in your hair?
It seemed like more than fifty years ago, my man picked a flower and put it in my ear.
Shanshan noticed that her grandmother was staring at the mirror and couldn't help but compliment her, "Grandma is so beautiful~ She is the most beautiful grandmother in the world~"
"Our Shanshan is just sweet-talking."
Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengya were preparing dinner by the stove. When they saw two people on the swing in the distance smiling, they started to smile too.
"Sister-in-law, Shanshan is the best at coaxing people in our family now."
"That's not true." Liang Baozhen washed the rice twice and poured it into the pot to cook. Then she continued, "Maybe I ate too much sweets when I was pregnant. Otherwise, how could Shanshan be so sweet?"
Xu Shengya smiled and agreed, "Maybe Shanshan got a lot of sugar in your stomach."
Xu Shengya is now a freshman in college. She is also a graceful young lady with two long braids, a plaid blouse, and beautiful features. She works skillfully now. She used to help her grandmother cook, and now she helps her sister-in-law cook.
Today's lunch was carefully prepared. Xu Shengjie brought over the cabbage, potatoes and carrots stored at home in advance. In addition, after Liang Baozhen arrived at the courtyard, she went to the nearby vegetable market to buy eggplants and beans.
Prepare to make bacon stew.
There are only four pounds left of the ten pounds of bacon smoked at home last winter. Four strips of smoky-yellow and flavorful bacon are now lying in the vegetable bowl, waiting for Xu Shengjie and Xu Shengwei to pull the wire.
They planned to put up three wires, two for drying clothes and one for hanging bacon and vegetables to dry.
Liang Baozhen picked out the four pieces of bacon in the vegetable bowl and chose the one with the most fat. She cut it in half on the chopping board, about half a pound of meat, and put the remaining half back in the bowl and served Xiaoya.
"Xiaoya, give it to your brother to hang up."
"good."
Xu Shengya had just taken an iron basin to collect water and put a cabbage, two carrots, two potatoes, a handful of beans and an eggplant into the basin, preparing to wash them. Now he had to put down his work and deliver the bacon first.
Liang Baozhen cut the bacon into dices, about the size of a thumb joint. The smoked bacon was already emitting bursts of salty aroma. She picked up a piece and put it in her mouth. It was salty and tasty, and the gravy was overflowing.
"mother!"
Shanshan appeared by the stove at some point and just happened to see her mother "cheating".
"Mom, I want to eat it too." Shanshan made a friendly deal with her mother, "If Shanshan eats it, I won't tell Dad that Mom will eat it secretly."
Liang Baozhen: "...You are such a clever little ghost."
But what am I afraid of? If the cook doesn't steal the crops, he won't harvest them!
She is righteous and upright.
But Shanshan didn't think so. She saw her mother eating meat secretly. She opened her mouth wide, revealing rows of white teeth, waiting for her mother to feed her.
"It's too salty for you to eat it like this." The bacon was marinated with salt and it was smoky and spicy. Shanshan was too young to eat it directly.
"Yeah~" Shanshan refused, "It's not salty, Shanshan is very capable, Shanshan can eat anything."
Liang Baozhen was so annoyed by her girlfriend that she cut one-third of the diced bacon into pieces the size of a fingernail and fed them to Shanshan.
As soon as Shanshan's little mouth touched the meat, she began to chew it with relish, "Mmmmm~ Great!"
Shanshan was in a good mood after being fed by her mother and decided to help her mother with work.
She looked at the many vegetables in the iron basin and became interested.
"Mom, let me help you wash the vegetables."
Liang Baozhen was busy and had no time to reason with her daughter. She simply put the dish Xu Shengya had prepared on the floor and said, "Then wash it carefully, just like your mother bathes you. Wash it thoroughly."
Shanshan nodded. She understood. She was good at taking a bath!
Looking at the vegetables of various shapes in the basin, Shanshan frowned. Why do these little guys look so strange? She is still the prettiest.
Holding a round potato, she rubbed it back and forth with both hands, holding the potato in her small hands and washing it very seriously.
When Xu Shengya came back, she saw her little niece squatting on the ground washing vegetables.
"Why is Shanshan here to wash the vegetables?"
Liang Baozhen was busy, and without turning her head, she said, "She's playing."
Xu Shengya took Shanshan to wash vegetables together. She was quick. After washing the cabbage and carrots, Shanshan was still washing the potatoes. When she finished washing the eggplants, Shanshan was still scrubbing the potatoes.
Shanshan held the poor potato and washed it for a long time. Xu Shengya looked at her niece who was very serious and attentive, and felt a little worried. If she continued washing, would the potato skin be washed away?
"Okay, Shanshan, the potatoes are clean, give them to me."
Shanshan looked at the potatoes she had washed, they were beautiful and clean, then she handed the potatoes to her aunt.
She felt that she had finished the important task for her mother, so she ran over with her braids swinging to help her father and uncle.
"Dad, little uncle! Let me help you..." Shanshan looked at the tall wire rope, stood on tiptoe and stretched out her hand to touch it, but alas, it was out of reach!
I still won’t help.
Liang Baozhen filtered out the rice soup from the half-cooked rice, poured the remaining rice into a colander, and put diced bacon in it. Xu Shengya helped to cut the vegetables, diced them all and put them on the rice.
There is a layer of smoky yellow diced bacon, white and green cabbage, orange diced carrots, green segments of beans, and light yellow potato chunks, and another layer of colorful food.
The bacon and rice were put back into the pot and put on the stove to be steamed.
White steam kept coming out from the gap in the pot lid, along with the aroma of bacon and vegetables, and floated in front of Xu Shengjie who was busy in the front.
"Shanshan, what good things did mom make?" He looked down at his daughter, who was making a desk. The desk from the bedroom could not be brought over, so he planned to make a desk for his wife and sister, after all, they were both college students.
"Layou rice." Shanshan moved her little nose and smelled the fragrance that came from her nose. It smelled so good~
The family had their meal at the mahogany round table in the yard.
Xu Shengya came out holding six sets of bowls and chopsticks and placed them one by one. Liang Baozhen opened the lid of the pot and saw that the rice, vegetables and meat were cooked. White steam was rising. Just as she was about to take the basin with a handkerchief, she heard Xu Shengjie's voice.
"I'll do it, be careful."
Liang Baozhen handed him the handkerchief and said, "Use this."
The family sat at the table, drooling at the red, yellow, white and green dishes in the bowl. Liang Baozhen poured some soy sauce on it.
Xu Shengjie took a rice spoon and broke up the layers of rice, meat and vegetables and stirred them vigorously. After a while, the soft white rice was added with a light sauce color. The rice, vegetables and diced bacon were mixed together, with bright and beautiful colors and overflowing aroma.
Xiaoya took the rice spoon and added a bowl for each person in the family.
Xu Shengjie remembered something and told his brother, "Xiao Wei, bring the rice soup bowl over. It's next to the stove."
"good."
Each person has a bowl of rice and a bowl of rice soup. It looks simple, but you will know how delicious it is after taking a bite.
Shanshan was holding her own special little spoon, which Xu Shengjie bought for her when he went to Guangdong City. There was a small strawberry on the handle of the spoon, and Shanshan liked it the most.
With one spoonful, the rice was mixed with a few diced bacon, wrapped with potato cubes, chopped cabbage and a few diced carrots, with a small piece of string beans mixed in the corner.
Shanshan opened her mouth wide and put a spoonful of food into it. Her little mouth was filled with the salty aroma of bacon instantly. The gravy of the fat burst out with a fishy aroma and a sense of satisfaction. As she kept chewing, the sweetness and freshness of the vegetables infiltrated the meat flavor. The mixture of various flavors was so delicious that Shanshan squinted her eyes.
"Come, let's have a bowl of rice soup to celebrate moving into a new home."
Xu Shengjie was the only one drinking in the family, so everyone just drank rice soup. Everyone followed Shanshan's lead and raised their bowls to her for clinking.
Shanshan took another sip of the thick rice soup with a strong rice aroma and was very satisfied.
That day, Shanshan ate so much that her belly was bloated and she felt like a piece of bacon hanging on a wire rope.
Because she had just moved, she was afraid to sleep alone and still slept in the same room with her parents at night, but she slept in her own small wooden bed. Her mother said that smart children must start practicing sleeping alone.
Shanshan thought she was amazing in her dream, but in her dream she tasted like bacon, so delicious and fragrant.
After settling down in their new home, the Xu family slowly put the courtyard in order, tidied up the rooms, put clothes into the closet, and the desk that Xu Shengjie made for his wife and sister was hung out in the yard to dry for a while before being put into the house.
Several waves of guests have come to the new house. A few days ago, Cheng Caili and Liu Nianhua's families came to visit and have dinner. Today, Liang Baozhen's eldest sister and second brother's family also came.
Liang Baozhen, her eldest sister and second sister-in-law were busy in the kitchen together and got the flower seeds that her second brother had asked her to get.
She plans to plant some flowers and vegetables in such a big yard.
Liang Baojun's workplace is right next to the city's largest flower market.
"There are roses, roses, and some other miscellaneous things. I can't tell them apart." Liang Baojun was not very familiar with flower seeds, so he bought some for his sister.
"Very good, thank you, second brother. How much is it? I'll give it to you later." Liang Baozhen brought the steamed sea bass to the table.
"We come here to eat and drink for free, but you're still charging us for the seeds?" Liang Baojun shook his head and patted his sister's head, "You're still being so polite to your brother."
"That's different." Liang Baozhen winked at him. "I'm just worried that you've handed over all your wages to Shu Ping. How can I refuse to give you your own pocket money to buy seeds for me?"
Xu Shuping laughed when she heard the brother and sister bickering.
"Baozhen, don't listen to him, he has private money!" Xu Shuping found that this man had some money in his pocket.
"Really?" Liang Baozhen went over to ask, "Brother, you men must communicate, right? Did our Sheng Jie hide it?"
When Shanshan saw her mother asking her uncle mysteriously, she also walked over on her short legs, raised her ears and eavesdropped.
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