She wanted to help Ye Lingyu, but she was simply not cut out for cooking.
She had wasted a lot of ingredients in her efforts to learn to cook, but the food she made was barely edible, and even then, it depended on luck.
Forget about helping Ye Lingyu with cooking; it's better to just treat her even better.
Try your best to help her and lighten her burden.
Cheng Qingyan put in a lot of effort to prepare the meal.
That plate of blanched bok choy was made by her, but she put the bok choy in a pot to cook!
Before dinner, Meng Chuying returned with Wangcai and Fugui.
She and Cheng Qingyan were all wearing the new clothes they had bought earlier.
I played rather conservatively with my friends today, probably because everyone was wearing new clothes.
On New Year's Eve, the dishes on the dinner table were much more plentiful than usual.
Normally, the three of us share two dishes, but today, there are six dishes on the table.
One chicken, half braised and half made into chicken soup.
The fish I caught earlier, which I didn't finish eating, were kept at home, and today they had the honor of becoming my meal.
Wangcai, Fugui, and Jiutiao are also having a big feast today.
Although they are not usually starved, they have never eaten as much meat as they did today.
After lunch, we started making dumplings, using a mixture of beef and wild boar meat for the filling. I don't know if they'll taste good.
Cheng Qingyan remembered that when her maternal grandmother was alive, she liked to make dumplings with a mixture of beef and pork. The taste was much more fragrant than dumplings with pure beef filling. She just wondered if it would be different if she used wild boar meat today.
"Chu Ying, pick some scallions~"
Ye Lingyu kneaded the dough, Cheng Qingyan chopped the filling, and Meng Chuying went to the vegetable garden to pick scallions.
They only asked her to pull up some scallions, not how many. After pulling up a few, Meng Chuying squatted down next to the vegetable patch and asked the two people busy in the kitchen, "Sister Ye, Brother Cheng, how many scallions should we pull up?"
Cheng Qingyan replied, "Pull out as much as you can with one hand, but remember to peel it clean and wash it afterwards~"
"Okay!"
Since Ye Lingyu married into the family, this house has never been this lively.
This was the first New Year's celebration I spent here that felt like any other, a holiday just like any other ordinary family's.
Wangcai and Fugui teased Jiutiao together, which made Jiutiao so angry that it bristled.
The two puppies were having a great time, completely unaware that Kujo was already angry.
Enraged, Kujo slapped Wangcai on the head, and Wangcai immediately howled in pain.
Seeing this, Fugui, the little lackey, backed away. It seemed to be saying, "If you hit Wangcai, you can't hit me."
The people busy inside were unaware of what was happening outside.
Hearing the dog suddenly bark, Cheng Qingyan quickly asked, "Chuying, what's wrong? Why is the dog barking all of a sudden?"
Meng Chuying checked Wangcai's injury; it was just a minor cut, nothing else.
He breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "It's nothing. Kujo scratched Wangcai. Wangcai deserved it. Kujo gave him face, and then he took advantage of it and got beaten up."
Cheng Qingyan thought that when she was scrolling through short videos, she would always come across those videos where dogs were being naughty and cats were teaching dogs how to behave.
It has to be said that there's a reason why cats don't like playing with mischievous dogs.
"Where is Fugui? Is Fugui alright?"
Recalling Fugui taking a step back, Meng Chuying laughed and said, "He's quite the little devil. He was involved in the trouble he caused with Jiutiao, but he's good at reading people. After Jiutiao got angry, he hid to the side."
Cheng Qingyan praised, "Good dog, good dog."
Well, to put it another way, he probably just wanted to praise Fugui as a good dog.
The sounds of a knife clapping on the cutting board in the kitchen, and Wangcai's mournful whimpering in the yard. Listen closely, and you can also hear the remaining chickens in the coop "discussing the girl who disappeared today."
The warmth and life of everyday people are nothing more than this.
I don't seek fame or fortune; I'm content with a simple and happy life in a quiet corner of the world.
Free from the complexities of the modern world, Cheng Qingyan enjoyed a long-awaited, peaceful, and happy New Year in this time a thousand years ago.
If the past can be turned over, Ye Lingyu thought, letting go is not impossible.
For her and Cheng Qingyan, making a good life together is more important than anything else.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu got up early to pay their respects to the village chief.
As soon as they opened the door, the two families of Meng Xinyu and Meng Pingkang, with their children, walked towards their house from the village.
Meng Xinyu and Meng Pingkang, carrying their things, greeted Cheng Qingyan: "Happy New Year, Brother Cheng."
"Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a joyful and prosperous New Year. Brother Xinyu and Brother Pingkang, have you arranged to visit relatives together?" Happy New Year!
Meng Xinyu and Meng Pingkang laughed heartily, and the children also smiled.
Cheng Qingyan was puzzled. Had she asked the wrong question?
Meng Chuying carried Wangcai from home and saw a group of people gathered in front of Cheng Qingyan's house, so she quickened her pace.
Upon getting closer, they discovered it was Meng Sanbao and Meng Xiaodou; they really had come.
Meng Xinyu handed the gift to the bewildered Cheng Qingyan, saying, "I and Pingkang agreed to visit the three Cheng brothers to wish them a Happy New Year!"
Meng Pingkang nodded, waving the gift in his hand.
Cheng Qingyan truly didn't expect that, given her past character, someone would still be willing to come and wish her a Happy New Year.
"Quickly, please come in, please come in. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't expect you to be here to wish me a Happy New Year." Cheng Qingyan quickly invited them in, calling out to Ye Lingyu, who was tidying up inside.
"My lady, my lady, Brother Xinyu and Brother Pingkang have come to wish you a Happy New Year!"
Meng Chuying then entered the room and saw that Cheng Qingyan looked somewhat flattered, wondering if she had done the right thing.
Cheng Qingyan had a bad reputation in the village before, and no one had ever wished her a Happy New Year.
In the previous years, her and Ye Lingyu's house was deserted and quiet, and villagers would not bother to look into their house when they passed by.
When she went out yesterday, she mentioned that she would wish Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu a Happy New Year this year.
Meng Xiaodou and Meng Sanbao immediately said that they were also willing to come.
Meng Yueming also said she was coming, but she hasn't arrived yet.
She didn't expect that Meng Xiaodou and Meng Sanbao would actually bring their parents along.
Ye Lingyu was stunned for a second when she saw the guest appear in her home. Then she brought out the snacks she usually prepared and placed them on the table.
It's meant to give everyone something to do, so they don't just sit around doing nothing, and they can eat some snacks.
To be honest, their family and Meng Xinyu's and Meng Pingkang's families weren't close enough to exchange New Year's greetings.
Moreover, Meng Chuying's fall into the water had caused quite a stir. So seeing both families come today, she was a little puzzled.
As Meng Xinyu sipped her tea, she said cheerfully to Cheng Qingyan, "Brother Cheng, you have no idea how much you've changed lately."
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