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Chapter 748 Chinese New Year
When Jingru went back, Ou Mengmeng asked her to bring two large boxes of snacks. She couldn't go out to pay New Year's greetings anyway, so she asked her to bring back the New Year's gifts for her parents and second uncle's family.

In the afternoon, Ou Mengmeng, Banggan and Xiaodang were making dumplings. Looking at the stuffing, Ou Mengmeng thought of Mr. Lao She's essay, in which he and his mother and sister worked hard to wash and iron clothes before the New Year, and made a meal of dumplings for the New Year's Eve. Although their dumplings have more vegetables and less meat, they still feel happy because it is a family effort. Now she wants to find that text and read it to the children.

Because their dumplings are the same, the stuffing is prepared by Qin Jingru first. He takes out the meat from the shrimps and crabs that he took back, fry them with the eggs, chop them into pieces, add the meat filling, and add a lot of leeks that have been squeezed out of the water. . Really, Ou Mengmeng was not sure how much meat was in one dumpling.

But after thinking about it, she kneaded the dough and carefully rolled out the dough. She is from the south and is used to eating wontons. They don’t have the habit of eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year. But she had no intention of letting Bangge and the others change this. Fortunately, Qin Huairu knows how to make dumplings, and to be honest, looking at the configuration inside, although there is not much meat, it is really fresh.

While they were making dumplings, the sound of firecrackers was heard outside, which meant that every family had begun to eat New Year's dinner.

Banggan and Xiaodang were also very careful with their dumplings. They are both children who cherish things and know how important dumplings are. Ou Mengmeng didn't care about them. She just thought she was learning. She rolled out the dough, quickly wrapped a few, and then rolled out the dough. Although there was not much flour and filling, she still made nearly a hundred doughs. This was their dinner plus what they would eat for the next few days. What Ou Mengmeng was thinking was that Jingru would be back on the fifth day of the lunar month, and she would save the dumplings for another meal on the fifth day of the lunar month, so that Jingru could also taste the taste of her own fillings.

And they also assigned it every day, and the dumplings were eaten at midnight. Dinner is noodles cooked with leftovers from lunch.

At noon, I just finished braised pork and canned fruits. The hairtail fish was too thin, and the stir-fried river fish with green vegetables was considered a home-cooked dish in the Qin family, so no one touched it; among the four of us, only one of the four people ate one slice of rabbit meat, just to taste it, and everyone was curious whether this dish was good or not. eat. But before that, they ate two pieces of braised pork per person, and then they ate the relatively lean rabbit meat, which was obviously too bland.

Only Ou Mengmeng ate a few green vegetables, but there were still two whole Sixi meatballs left.

The Sixi meatballs were made because Jingru felt that the Sixi meatballs had to be big, otherwise they would not be festive, so one was as big as an adult man's fist. It contains crushed grain steamed buns and even though it contains a lot of meat, it is so solid that it can really be eaten as a staple food.

At the beginning, Ou Mengmeng didn't think too much, so she cut a meatball into four pieces and divided it into four pieces. After tasting it, she thought it tasted pretty good. She was thinking that from now on, they would buy two taels of meat every month. In this way, At least the children will be able to eat meatballs at least twice a month.

Ou Mengmeng didn't know how the two children would fare after eating two pieces of braised pork per person, but after finishing the braised pork, she was really tired of it and couldn't eat anything else. After drinking a small bowl of cabbage and rabbit bone soup and picking up a chopstick of rabbit meat, she felt that, indeed, fat is the most filling.

But she didn't dare to say that she was full, because then the children and Jingru would not dare to eat. Looking at the dishes on the table, she didn't feel reluctant to part with them. She wanted to eat them after they were cooked. After thinking about it, she cut another Sixi meatballs. She felt that if she didn't cut them, they would be embarrassed to take them. Sure enough, she cut it open and a chopstick was picked up from the stem. Obviously, this was his favorite taste. Also, apart from braised pork, this dish is the most meat-like. But if you think about it carefully, this dish can be considered a meat dish.

She hurriedly gave Qin Jingru and Xiaodang another piece, and gave her piece to Banggeng. When she finished eating, Jingru was the first to put down her chopsticks. She was really full. The multi-grain meatballs contained shredded steamed buns, and in fact, she thought, there was quite a bit of meat filling. They were really delicious.

Ou Mengmeng didn't dare to let her stop, so she quickly poured some canned fruit for her to eat.

As a result, when the children saw it, they immediately poured a bowl each and started eating happily. Waiting for the canned fruit to be finished, it was good, even the children were full. This is without even serving the white flour steamed buns.

So in the evening, it’s actually okay to eat steamed buns. However, Ou Mengmeng felt that it was a repetition.

After making the dumplings, she added some finely sifted mixed noodles to the white noodles and cut wide noodles. Then they stir-fried river fresh vegetables, added the green vegetables, and the bowl of rabbit bone and cabbage soup at noon, and made braised noodles. In the evening, the three of them had a delicious meal of braised noodles.

The rabbit meat, meatballs, hairtail fish, and white-flour steamed buns were placed in the kitchen cabinet, while the raw dumplings were placed on the platform above the kitchen to freeze. It's already freezing in the winter in the capital, so the dumplings are hung up with gauze curtains. There are still twenty dumplings in the kitchen for midnight.

Their family was bereaved, so they didn't go out when the cannons were fired in the courtyard. After thinking about it, Ou Mengmeng felt that it was too pitiful to lock up the children, so she took them out the back door and slowly went shopping. On the night of New Year's Eve, the alley was actually quite lively, with adults and children setting off cannon sticks in the alley. Ou Mengmeng also bought some and let Banggeng take Xiaodang away. At this time, Banggeng and Xiaodang did not have the cowardice of a single-parent family. On the contrary, they were very outgoing and confident. She hugged Sophora japonica and watched from a distance. Sophora japonica was giggling with laughter. Maybe she grew up next to her outgoing aunt, brother and sister. Her temperament was also full of optimism and she was silly and happy every day. I rarely cry. Of course, maybe Ou Mengmeng had little contact with her and had never met her.

The girls really played happily until Sophora japonica even yawned, and then she asked Banggian and the others to go back together. At home, Lou Xiaomo and Yu Yu were both there. Lou Xiaomo had the key to the courtyard door, and when they went out, the middle hall was closed but not locked. Knowing that Lou Xiaomo was coming, he would not take her Outside the door.

However, neither of them looked very good, and they looked like they were angry. Ou Mengmeng hurriedly waved her hands to the two of them, "Hurry up and turn on the radio to see what interesting programs there are. I'll take Sophora japonica to take a bath, and so will you. I boiled a lot of water today. Everyone needs to wash up well today. Don't waste your time this year." Bring the bad luck to next year.”

Lou Xiaomo also hurriedly turned on the radio. She had just moved here because she wanted to watch the New Year with Ou Mengmeng and the children.

Now Ou Mengmeng understands very well when she stops talking. During the New Year, don't bring bad luck to next year. So if you are so unhappy, don't let the children know. Lou Xiaomo also winked at Yu Yu, and the two of them started playing with Banggeng and Xiaodang. Although Banggeng was clever, he was so happy today. This was the happiest time he had ever had since he could remember. It’s Spring Festival. Where can I notice that the adult's expression is wrong.

Today, the group leaders came to inspect. They worked overtime yesterday and were busy early this morning. Sorry.