Seeing that Geng Ailing was interested, Zheng Zening couldn't think of any other reason to refuse, so he could only agree to be the child's godfather first. Could he remove the word "godfather" and work harder in the future?
After Zheng Zening left, Fan Hua said thoughtfully, "Sister Ailing, do you think we should also send some New Year gifts to the Zheng family?"
"We should send some gifts. Their family has helped us a lot, as well as Su Wen and her husband, and... and Director Xie. We should all prepare some."
Geng Ailing seemed to suddenly think of something and continued, "By the way, there are also Aunt Chu and Yang Zhicheng, our new neighbors who moved in next door. They've always brought us food since they moved in. A few days ago, Aunt Chu even enthusiastically helped me out when I was hauling coal. This mother and son are really nice people, much better than that neighbor Cai Ronghua!"
Since Cai Ronghua was sentenced, the newspaper took over Cai Ronghua's house and gave it to editor Yang Zhicheng.
Yang Zhicheng is from the countryside and has been working at a newspaper for many years. He has been waiting for the newspaper to allocate him a house. His grandfather died when he was a child, and he was raised by his mother Chu Qiuye alone.
Chu Qiuye is a hardworking and warm person. He also likes to cook and often shares his food with Fan Hua and Fan Hua. The two families get along very well.
Fan Hua nodded. "I think they are nice too, very warm and sincere. I was thinking of asking Aunt Chu if she could come over to help look after my baby when I have one!"
"Isn't it enough for you to have my help?" Geng Ailing asked.
"I'm pregnant with two babies. You'll definitely feel exhausted if you help alone. Besides, we don't have much experience taking care of children. We don't know a lot of things. After we get into college, we can't stay at home to take care of the babies alone. We still need to find someone reliable to help."
Geng Ailing thought Fan Hua's words made sense, nodded, and asked, "Then what kind of New Year gifts should we give them?"
Fan Hua sat in front of the sewing machine, holding her chin and thinking, I really need to think about what to give her, and it would be best if it is something original.
Tufan Hua's eyes lit up, "Why don't we make some delicious food ourselves, something they haven't eaten before."
"What kind of food have they never eaten?" Geng Ailing asked.
"Come on, Sister Ailing, let's go to the black market."
So Geng Ailing got on a second-hand human-powered pedal tricycle that Fan Hua had bought on the black market not long ago, and set off with Fan Hua, who was pregnant.
Fan Hua bought this secondhand tricycle on the black market two months ago for 150 yuan. She figured her belly would get bigger, and her current condition would make it harder to walk, making travel very inconvenient. She also knew she'd need to take both children out frequently after the birth, so she decided to buy the tricycle.
The happiest person to learn to ride a tricycle is Geng Ailing. She has poor balance and had trouble learning to ride a bicycle, but she got the hang of riding a tricycle very quickly.
Later, she became Fan Hua's exclusive driver. Even when she went out, she habitually rode a tricycle. Their bicycles began to gather dust in the corner.
After going to the black market, Fan Hua first bought a few chickens, starch, seasonings, and sugar. Later, she asked Geng Ailing to take her to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some peanuts, small gourd biscuits, milk powder, and corn oil...
Fortunately, Zheng Zening had just given them a lot of tickets, so they could buy these things.
Geng Ailing thought Fan Hua was picking out New Year gifts. "Lihua, do we need to buy so many things? And you didn't buy too many of each. Who are you planning to give this jar of malt sugar to?"
"These are the ingredients. They will need to be processed after they are brought home. The New Year is coming soon, and I plan to make some special food for them." Fan Hua said with bright eyes.
"Why do we need so many kinds of food? It's too luxurious!" Geng Ailing couldn't help but sigh.
"You'll know when it's ready. I bet you've never tasted it!"
After returning home, Fan Hua started to prepare food...
She first asked Geng Ailing to help kill the chicken and cut the chicken legs and breasts into the required size, marinated them with seasoning, and then mixed them with flour and starch to make a paste, and finally fried them in a pan...
In a short while, plates of golden crispy chicken legs and popcorn chicken were ready!
Geng Ailing was drooling with greed. After eating a piece of popcorn chicken, she exclaimed that this was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten in her life!!!
Fan Hua smiled and used paste to make large white paper into paper bags. In order to make them look better, she also cut some festive patterns with red paper and pasted them on them, which instantly made them look a lot more festive.
After the crispy chicken legs and popcorn chicken have cooled down, place the popcorn chicken in bags according to their portions.
After finishing these, Fan Hua started making the internet-famous nougat and snowflake crisps with the remaining ingredients...
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: What a pity, she couldn't buy marshmallows and butter, so she could only use malt sugar to make a marshmallow-free version of snowflake crisps.
After the finished product was ready, she thought the taste would be greatly reduced, but it was surprisingly good, only a little bit sweeter than the ones she had made before she transmigrated into the book. However, she felt that these foods would be very popular among people in this era who generally lacked oil and water in their stomachs.
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