Chapter 692 Human touch
Hang Chen handed the basket filled with a basket of various snack bags back to You Ersao. When You Ersao saw so many things, she immediately said politely: "The things I brought are not enough money I have to carry back."
"It's not worth much, it's all beans and peanuts! There are many children in your family, and they are just sent by me. People are also here," Wen Xu said with a smile.
At this time, what I talked about was a kind of polite exchange. If you really want to calculate the value of this, it would be a bit vulgar. Besides, who is in Wenjia Village today lacks this little food? Not to mention now, even in the past, no one cares about these things. It was all the stingy people from the villagers who lost this person!
"Then I'll leave?" Sister-in-law You Er just asked her politely, knowing that Wen Xu is not bad, and she doesn't have to be polite to the New Year.
Just as Yu Ersao was about to turn around, Li Yumei came out of the kitchen, holding a bowl in her hand, which was full of meat balls that could not be piled up: "His second sister-in-law, slow down, the meat balls that just fried are the fruits of Erhua's labor!"
While speaking, Li Yumei walked to You Ersao, grabbed the basket with one hand and poured the round into the basket with the other hand.
There is no excessive consideration in the countryside. In the original situation, almost all the food used by each household were bamboo baskets, so there is no problem whether the meat balls were poured into the basket or not.
"Aunt, you..." Sister-in-law You Er said with a lot of laughter and cry.
Li Yumei smiled and said, "Your meat balls may not be as delicious as you cook this time, because we have a new laborer." As she said that, she pointed to Erhua, who was still holding a wooden pestle over there.
"Oh, Erhua can even work?" When Sister You Er heard Li Yumei say, she was amused when she saw Erhua, and at the same time reached out and touched a meat ball and put it in her mouth.
After biting this, I felt a refreshing smell of meat immediately exploded in my mouth, and the gravy suddenly oozed out along the corner of my mouth. In desperation, Sister-in-law You Er immediately bent her waist, raised her hand and wiped the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand.
I stood up again, and I was much more careful when I bite this time. I felt that the taste was so beautiful that even my eyebrows jumped up: "It's really delicious, I can hardly taste any ingredients. I bite the fried skin and it was full of meat pulp. It was so delicious. As soon as I bite it, the meat pulp flowed into my mouth and it was fresh and tender! Really, the rounds in the restaurant in the village are not as good as you do."
"Erhua has great strength, and has crushed all the fat meat into juice, and the fibers of the lean meat have been hammered open. The whole meat filling is really turned into a meat paste. How can people have such great strength and so much patience to mash meat like this," Li Yumei said with a smile.
"Thank you, aunt. I can't stay anymore. There is still something at home. The two wives at home are preparing for the festival. I have to go and watch a little, clumsy," said Sister-in-law You Er after eating a meat ball, stretched out her finger and insulted her mouth.
"Then go slowly!"
"Okay, aunt, please stay and stop sending me. What's the point of looking down and looking up? What's the point of doing so formally?"
The two of them just chatted and left the house. After saying a few words, Li Yumei sent You Er's sister-in-law out of the door and then turned back.
"I'll eat now, don't eat at noon?"
As soon as Li Yumei turned around, she found that Hang Chen was holding a fried fish and chewing it. Not only Hang Chen, but also Erhua threw down the work in her hands. She held a fried fish in her hands, stood up straight and tilted her head and ate.
While eating, Hang Chen said to Li Yumei: "Mom, it's really delicious, it's very fresh. Brother, can't it be that MSG is added, right?"
Wen Xu reached out and pulled a piece of fried noodles from the fried fish on Hang Chen's hand. This thing was like fried chicken legs for fast food. At this time, if you want to pull the skin, you must have the fish skin. Put the noodles and fish skin in your mouth. Wen Xu tasted it and shook his head.
"Not added! It's not the taste of MSG, it's the umami of river fish. Fish that can only be fried without feed or antibiotics. The second sister-in-law's level of fried fish is really amazing." Wen Xu said as he reached out to go to the fried fish that Hang Chen held in his hand and pulled off another piece.
Unfortunately, the girl turned around and gave Wen Xu a back of her head: "If you want to eat, go get it yourself, why do you eat me!"
At this time, Li Yumei came to the table and took out a fried fish from the wooden basin. She pinched both ends with her hands, splitting a fried fish from the middle. The small one with a part of the fish head was left for herself, and the larger one was given a little more meat to Wen Xu.
"Well, it's really good. I haven't eaten fried fish in a long time." Li Yumei also praised after taking a bite.
Wen Xu asked curiously after hearing this, "Auntie, do you also have fried fish in your hometown?"
"We don't call it fried small fish, we call it noodles. Fish is just a type. Even if it is wrapped, there are sizes. The larger ones are larger than this one. The smaller ones are small fish seedlings. They eat crispy and delicious food, like big fish, all of which are delicious!... At that time, everyone was poor, and the staple food was quite small, and there were very few rice. It was probably eaten in many places like this," said Li Yumei.
Li Yumei was just thinking about the bitterness and sweetness, and another voice sounded in the yard: "Is Daxu at home?"
When Wen Xu heard this, Lu Xiu, the wife of the third brother Wen Shida, came. He immediately rushed to the door and opened the door and said to Lu Xiu in the yard: "San Sister-in-law, what are you doing when you are out in this cold weather? Just call me if you have something to come over? Come in quickly, the yard is cold."
While speaking, Wen Xu welcomed Lu Xiu into the house.
When Lu Xiu entered the house, he was carrying a basket like You Ersao, and the basket was also covered with a piece of sand cloth.
"I don't know if your noodles and fruits were made in your house. I fried some of them myself in our house, so I thought of giving some to your house." Lu Xiu said as he opened the basket.
Wen Xu was shocked by a basket of small fruits when he saw it. Wen Xu knew how to make the simple crispy fruit. He could fry the noodles in the pan, but cat ears and snow cakes filled with bean paste, such things were not something Wen Xu could do.
"San Sister-in-law, I didn't expect you to have this skill!" Wen Xu pinched a cat's ear and threw it into his mouth.
Cat ears are commonly known as Wenxu's hometown. The name of cat ears may come from the fruits, like cat ears, which are usually wrapped in rock candy. However, Lu Xiu improved it and filled it with honey. Although it is not as good as Wenxu's black honey, it is also very honey. It smells of osmanthus from his mouth. When he ate this thing, he first bite a layer of fragrant glutinous rice flour, and then heard a crisp sound. After biting through the shell, the bees inside flowed out.
When Lu Xiu heard Wen Xu praise and said with a smile, "My father used to make this. During the holidays or during the big market, he would make some to sell on the street. In the past, we children always ate it secretly, but when they were discovered, they would be beaten. When they were young, they thought this thing was the best food. Now they thought it was too sweet with rock candy. I changed it to honey. Your third brother said it tasted good and asked me to give you some to you. Knowing that you have a mouthful. If you can eat it, I will also give some to my second sister-in-law and their families."
"It's delicious, really delicious! It tastes like the taste I ate when I was a child, but it's better to make handmade. Now it's all machined and lost its original taste. Thank you, my third brother and third sister-in-law, I can only give you some vulgar things here! You know, I'm a lazy guy." Wen Xu quickly stretched out his hands to take the basket, turned around and gave it to Hang Chen.
"Oh, your family also fried a little fish? This little fish was very fried. It seems to be similar to my second sister-in-law's skills!"
"Where is the one we fried at home, it was sent by his second sister-in-law. We didn't have this matter!" Li Yumei said with a smile.
"I can't fry this thing either. Our head said that the second sister-in-law in the whole village was the best fried thing. Before he finished speaking, the second sister-in-law brought it to him..." Lu Xiu said with a smile.
Hang Chen was already ripe, so he got a basket of gifts and put them in Lu Xiu's basket, and handed them to Wen Xu's hand.
Wen Xu didn't answer at all: "There is no sign of such a young child, so I'll send it back to my third sister-in-law!"
"Okay!"
Hearing Wen Xu say this, Hang Chen immediately happily carried the basket.
When Lu Xiu heard this, he immediately said, "No, no! I'm all polite! I'm not from ten or eight months old. Now I have to learn from your wife Shang Zhen every day and walk more and exercise more to enhance my physical fitness!"
"If you are strolling around, you will be sent to you. Just ask Hang Chen to deliver this thing to you. Just do me a favor. Seeing her a big head around the morning, I quickly sent her away," Wen Xu said jokingly.
"Do you think I want to see you!" Hang Chen curled his lips: "San Sister-in-law, is Shengnan at home?"
After asking, I saw Lu Xiu nodding, carrying a basket and then went out.
When Lu Xiu saw her go out, she thanked her again and followed her back.
In the next few hours, even when I had lunch, I didn’t lose anyone. This one gave me some or the one gave me one. When I woke up in the morning, I still didn’t have anything for the New Year. In the evening, I found that there was no need to buy anything this year. From melons, fruits, pears, peaches, and bacon and sausages, there were a lot of piles in the living room.
The consequence was that Wen Xu had bought a lot of snacks, and Erhua had been stalked for a day, Dahua served a plate for a day, and put on half a pig's meat balls, but none of them left in his house, and they all went to someone else's house as a gift. Finally, after dinner, Li Yumei had to take out the pork belly in the refrigerator and fry a pot of meat balls, radish rounds and so on.
"The New Year is really full of New Year atmosphere. It's so enthusiastic. It's a bit like the New Year before. Every household is traveling diligently and quickly. It's not like the neighbors now. It's not that neighbors have never met each other. Every family has a day. It's a day. It's not that the evening party is full of New Year, but there is no human touch." Although Li Yumei had been blowing up all day today, she was very energetic and kept praising the human touch of New Year here in Wenjia Village.
Shi Shangzhen smiled and said, "The village is so big, and it's naturally a little lively. The atmosphere of the festival in the city can be compared with that in this place. It's all about sweeping the snow in front of the door! This year, our village also has to have a bit of human touch. For those who celebrate the New Year here, the village has sent some things! If there are children here, we have prepared a small light pet for them, so that those who celebrate the festival in our Wenjia Village can also feel the human touch."
Having said this, Shi Shangzhen said to Wen Xu: "By the way, tomorrow, you will have a task for you in the village in the morning!"
"Give it to me?" Wen Xu asked curiously: "What tasks can I have?"
"What task do you have? Your task is to hang up lanterns with all the men in the village. During the Chinese New Year, our village will also bring him a city that never sleeps. Not only on both sides of the main road, but also trees like the entrance of the village must be decorated and hang colorful lanterns!..." Shi Shangzhen said.
When Wen Xu heard that this was the case, he immediately nodded and agreed.
Shi Shangzhen looked at Xiao Yao again: "Xiao Yao, don't run around tomorrow. Go to the great-grandfather and ask the great-grandfather to write some lucky characters, as well as attract wealth and treasures. Just write two characters if you don't have more of them."
"Why bother the old man? This thing is sent to you, including couplets, Yan Dong, at home." Wen Xu said the couplets and other things, all of which were given by the telephone department.
Wen Xu thought about what to do if there was one.
"This is a tradition at home. You can't write couplets, but you can attract wealth and treasures, and the word "Fu" on the door of the house must be written by my grandfather," Shi Shangzhen insisted.
Wen Xu didn't say much when he heard this and said to Xiao Yao: "This is what you will do tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!