MTL - The Sweet Stepmother and Her Cute Cubs-Chapter 142
Xiaoroubao is really heavy and restless. He always moves around and doesn't listen to what he says. Several brothers had to let him walk on the ground for a while, and then take turns to carry it for a while, which cost twice as much as usual. It took time to slowly arrive at the fish pond.
The weather is good this year, and the people who come to see the fish pond are even more crowded. Seeing this bunch of children from the Old Su family is so envious that their saliva is almost drooling.
It was the first time the three little cubs saw so many people, and they looked so cute. The enthusiastic and daring members couldn't help teasing them. Fortunately, they were not very afraid of life, and the elder brothers were very protective, saying You can talk and laugh, but you can't touch your younger siblings with your hands and feet.
At the moment when the shoals of fish jumped up from the fish pond, the faces of the working people who worked hard for a whole year were full of joy of harvest. The second time is spectacular, and it is still shocking to watch it again. The faces of these working people with the joy of harvest are also deeply engraved in the children's minds. If all places can be as smooth, happy and healthy as Sujia Village it is good.
This year is another year of great harvest. The members line up to divide the fish, and every family will share a few more catties. It is a veritable fat year to have fish and meat.
Su Weimin came up with Su Xiaoxiao's favorite big fat-headed fish, and the little meat bun was not afraid of tigers. He glanced and stretched out his small meat hand to grab the fat-headed fish's head. When he grabbed it, the fat-headed fish moved around and used its tail to draw water. He splashed directly on his face. The little guy was splashed with water and refused to let go. He kept saying: "Yuyu, slippery, numb, so good~~"
Although the little guy's articulation is not very clear, the greedy expression is enough to make the lively members laugh out loud.
Su Weimin quickly picked up Xiaoroudun to prevent him from getting his clothes wet.
The traditional customs of Sujia Village’s New Year’s Eve are actually the same for ten years, which is no different from previous years. Every family tries their best to use the best ingredients at home to make a table of New Year’s Eve dinners to reward their families who have worked hard for a whole year. Clothes, half a fish should be left on the dinner table to symbolize the year after the year. After dinner, go to the river to set off fireworks and firecrackers. On the first day of the new year, the cubs have to get up early to kowtow to their elders for profit, the whole family gathers together to drink morning tea, eat fried and so on, and so on.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't bring enough cloth, just enough to make a small coat or shorts for each cub, but after the new year's 30th new clothes, every cub finally put on "new clothes" , although it is worn inside, but the cubs are happy enough.
The happiest people in the warm winter are the cubs. The last time I came back was in the cold winter. They were often locked in the yard and couldn’t get out. This time is different. Father Tai is very generous. He gets up early every day to work. Bao takes the rice ball and bean bag to play almost all the fun places in the village every day.
On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Han Cheng came back with Xiaozhuzi, and the whole family was so happy that it seemed like another new year had passed.
Hancheng brought back a lot of things. We brought back two each of the pork belly with soy sauce and the big roast duck. The Beijing Ba Pies and the special snacks of the capital were filled with a big bag, and the old man and his wife Zhang Hongtu gave them to the children. The red envelopes made all the cubs in the family happy.
Li Yufeng hadn't seen Zhuzi for more than a year, so he sent him a red envelope, hugged the child and rubbed his head, sighing with emotion compared to his size: "It's the first time my grandmother saw you before she was at my waist, you immediately Taller than grandma." The children in the family are really growing taller than the other.
Zhuzi hugged his grandmother, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and said, "Grandma, the rice **** are growing fast. I'm one year older than him, and he's about as tall as me."
Li Yufeng smiled and said, "Dabao is a year older than you, aren't you about the same height as Dabao?"
"Dabao is still taller than me." What Xiao Zhuzi thought was that the rice ball grew the fastest, and was almost as tall as Dabao, who was two years older than him.
The whole family sent a big red envelope to Xiaozhuzi. When Dabao and Xiaobao went up, a big bear hugged him. Li Yufeng and Su Weimin, who were also smart and well-behaved in the hall, laughed so hard that they couldn't see their teeth, let alone Sujia Village, they probably couldn't find any happier grandparents than him in the entire commune.
Su Xiaoxiao looked at the things that Han Cheng brought back and couldn't help but ask him: "This year, I will send double elbows and roast duck? Why not leave it to Yali and Grandpa Zhuzi to eat?"
Han Cheng hadn't seen his wife for many days, and there were so many people that it was difficult to hug her, so he only replied softly: "I have already eaten these in my 30s, and the old man asked someone to buy them again and let me bring them back."
"Is his old man okay?" Su smiled and asked.
Han Cheng nodded: "Everything is fine, his body is very tough, but Zhuzi is a little unhappy when he came back with me so early."
Su Xiaoxiao could imagine that scene and smiled.
"Zhuzi changed his name to Xiuyuan, Zhang Xiuyuan." Han Cheng said.
Su Xiaoxiao read it silently and nodded: "It sounds good, it fits Zhu Zi's character, are we going back tomorrow?" This name really fits Xiao Zhu Zi's temperament.
Han Cheng nodded: "Yes, I have to go to work on the sixth day of the new year."
Su Xiaoxiao frowned: "Zhuzi will leave after staying for one night. Father and mother must be reluctant. If you go back first, I will take the children to stay for a few more days, and then take the train back."
"No!" Han Cheng said in a tough tone, shaking his head, "You haven't experienced the Spring Festival, so I don't know how crowded it is. The small meat buns and small dumplings are still small, so I don't worry."
Su Xiaoxiao had never eaten pork or had seen pigs run. In her past life, she had seen from the news that the army of Spring Festival travel was densely packed from south to north. Think about it and forget it.
After Xiao Tangyuan hugged his brother Zhuzi, he also missed his father very much. "Dong Dong Dong" ran over and hugged his father's long legs: "Baba oh~~"
Han Cheng bent down and picked up his precious daughter and rubbed her forehead with his forehead: "Daughter, do you miss your father?"
Xiao Tangyuan raised the little pear vortex and nodded: "I think~"
Han Cheng kissed her cheek: "Good, Dad misses you too."
Xiaoroubao is different. The perception of food is probably the talent of every foodie. Just as Su Xiaoxiao picked up the roast duck, Xiaoroubao ran straight to the roast duck and opened his mouth to bite the duck’s head—
It was too hard to bite, so he released his mouth and took a second bite.
Su Xiaoxiao pinched Xiaoroudun's face: "Let go of your mouth, the duck is still cold, you have to get it hot before you can eat it, otherwise it will hurt your stomach."
The little meat bun loosened his mouth, and the saliva was still dripping on it: "Ma Ma, it's fragrant~~" Su smiled and sighed. Although she likes to eat, she is not so greedy. The small rice ball has a big appetite and likes to eat, but He is not a glutton, why did he give birth to such a snack food as Xiaoroubao.
"It's Xiangxiang, but it's not time to eat yet. Let's eat together at noon, okay?"
Xiaoroubaoba stared at the roast duck, but he was a good boy who obeyed his mother, so he still nodded: "Okay~~"
To eat roast duck at noon, and eat pork with sauce at night, Su Xiaoxiao processed it in the most traditional and authentic way.
The roast duck at noon is served with homemade spring pancake and shallot sweet sauce. There is no cucumber in this season, so it is eaten with lettuce to relieve tiredness.
In the evening, the sauced elbows were reheated, and the spring cakes that were specially made at noon were rolled with slightly blanched bean sprouts and leeks to eat together.
Not to mention Su Zhenzhong and Su Zhenhua's husband and wife, even Su Weimin, who has lived for most of his life, is the first to know that there is such a way to eat roast duck and elbows. It is also thanks to his son-in-law and Zhuzi.
The days of reunion always pass very fast. Li Yufeng knew that Hancheng was going back to work tomorrow. In the afternoon, she took the children to dig a large load of sweet potatoes in the private plot. The children took the pillars to make sweet potato nests in the private plot. Pick up the sweet potatoes and put them directly into the trunk of the car.
Han Cheng frowned as he looked at the two baskets full of large and fresh sweet potatoes: "Mother, this is too much, keep it at home to eat, I can't have that much."
Li Yufeng shook his head: "Not much, not much, rice **** like to eat fresh sweet potatoes, he can eat two per meal, and small meat buns also like to eat, there are many children in the family, he cooks ten or eight a day, and he eats them in half a month. ."
Han Cheng had no choice but to watch Li Yufeng fill half of the trunk with sweet potatoes.
When the sweet potatoes were finished, Li Yufeng said again: "Hancheng, don't close the car door yet, I'll pack the other things together."
Han Cheng felt that every time he came back, he was like a devil entering the village, sweeping a cart of supplies back.
Han Cheng had no choice but to go to Su Xiaoxiao: "Mother is moving things into the car, you can watch it. I'm afraid she will put all the cured fish and bacon in the house again. I can't persuade her."
Su Xiaoxiao put down the book and reached out to Hancheng.
Han Cheng walked over and hugged her head and rubbed it: "Come on, in case she shoves her hands and feet under the chair and can't find it after waiting."
Li Yufeng had done this, for fear that they would stuff it under the chair if they didn't want it, and told them when they were driving, it would be too late to take it down.
Su Xiaoxiao hugged Han Cheng's waist and rubbed: "Comrade Han Cheng, there are really not many good son-in-laws like you who don't want her parents' dowry and don't take her parents' things."
Han Cheng bowed his head and kissed her: "There are not many parents who can raise a good daughter like you, and it's too late for me to repay them."
Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Then give me a kiss, and I'll help you stop my mother's hand from carrying things into our car."
Han Cheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, pinched her face, and kissed her on the lips: "Is this your family or my family?"
Su Xiaoxiao bent her eyes to look at him: "Our parents' family."
As expected by Han Cheng, when Su Xiaoxiao went out, Li Yufeng was looking for a place to stuff it with a piece of bacon in her hand.
"Mother, stop, I told you not to keep the bacon at home, why did you give it to me?"
Li Yufeng said, "Where is this for you? I'm here for Xiaoyuer. He came to our house with a whole cured duck last time. What's wrong with giving him two pieces of cured meat? Xiaoyuer has a good personality. , I miss him a little bit."
Su Xiaoxiao said: "I gave him half of the cured fish you asked him to take back last time, mother, the army is really not short of meat, you can keep it for your family to eat. Very rare, we think that precious things may not be in the eyes of city people, such as white rabbit toffee, which is very precious here, right, but Xiaoyuer eats it every day as a snack, he may prefer your freshness like rice **** These sweet potatoes dug up."
The kindness of dripping water is referring to people like Li Yufeng. In fact, every time Su Xiaoxiao brings back the local specialties of the army from home, he will give Zhou Yuhua's family a copy. Zhao Xianfeng's family is really not short of meat, but he likes it very much. This kind of farmer's dry goods.
"Really?" Li Yufeng was dubious.
Su Xiaoxiao nodded: "Really, mother, you have lived in the army for so long, don't you know who their family is?"
Li Yufeng thought about it as well: "Then I will dig a load of sweet potatoes and come back, then you can help me get them for the little fish to eat, that is, my grandmother dug them newly, very floury, and small rice **** are especially fond of them. "
Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help her forehead: "Mother... these are enough, I will divide a part of it when the time comes."
Li Yufeng waved his hand: "Not enough, this is not enough for our family to eat rice balls, and small meat buns, so he can eat two a day."
Su Xiaoxiao had no choice but to watch her mother pick up the basket to dig sweet potatoes again.
The happiest person who fills most of the trunk with sweet potatoes is the rice ball: "I like the sweet potatoes grown by my grandma the most!"
The small rice ball made Li Yufeng see his teeth out of sight. If Su Xiaoxiao didn't hold her down, Han Cheng said that he was overweight again, and Li Yufeng wanted to dig another load and come back to fill the entire trunk.
Early the next morning, Su Xiaoxiao's family set foot on the way back to the army with a truck full of supplies.
Separation is always sad, Dabao and Xiaobao are crying, and even the two old people are red-eyed.
Xiao Tangyuan took grandma's hand and pulled her to the car: "Grandma, let's go~~"
Li Yufeng's tears fell instantly, she squatted down and hugged the small dumplings and said, "Good girl, go back with mom and dad first, and see you when grandma is free."
Xiao Tangyuan shook her head and put on the braid that her grandma had tied for her in the morning: "No, let's go together~~"
Su Xiaoxiao picked up her daughter: "Okay, little dumplings, say goodbye to everyone, and we will come back when we are free."
The small dumplings have a flat mouth and say goodbye to everyone in grievances.
Even Liang Hongmei's eyes turned red when she looked at that pitiful little appearance. She liked the little girl so much.
The sensible cubs are even more reluctant. They really like the life in Sujia Village, but they all know that there is no way. Parents have to go to work and they have to study. If they don't live in the same place, they can only endure it again and again. Separation and longing for reunion.
The car started, and Xiaobao ran after a few steps: "You remember to write to us!"
Dabao also chased after him: "Take care!"
Onigiri and Pillar poked their heads out of the car window: "We will, and we will miss you, so take care of you..."
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