Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 108 Hot Pot
Shanqian Village, Zhao Wenmu's new home.

The entire first month of the new year is the time to visit relatives.

Of course, it is usually enough until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

This time is different from later generations. During the first lunar month, farmers basically have no work to do.

It's freezing cold, so I can't do farm work.

The commodity economy is very rare. Even if everyone wants to go out to work, they can't find a job.

Therefore, the whole first month is spent at home.

At the moment, visiting relatives is basically done by legs, and the speed of No. 11 bus determines that only one relative can be visited in a day.

Therefore, from the second to the fifteenth day of junior high school, everyone is basically visiting relatives.

It is precisely because only one relative needs to be visited every day, everyone has time to sit down and chat, and really connect with each other.

I don't want future generations, after the second day of junior high school, there are only four days left for the holiday.

Considering the time of returning to the city last time, there are actually only three days left for the holiday.

In three days, at least a dozen relatives have to be visited.

Every household is just entering the door, putting down gifts, saying a few words, drinking tea, and leaving.

It was only ten minutes before and after.

For a whole year, the time we meet is these ten minutes.

It's been so long that you don't even recognize each other the next time you meet!
In this day and age, gifts are mostly things like pastries and apples, and the host usually leaves two pastries or apples for fun.

If anyone left too many presents, they would be gossiped behind closed doors.

Therefore, ordinary people will not be greedy for such petty gains.

After visiting relatives for a long time, some old actors (steamed buns that have been stored for a long time) in the bamboo coriander are starting to turn black and moldy.

In this day and age, who hasn't eaten moldy steamed buns?

The Zhao family has bicycles, so it is more convenient to visit relatives.

Even so, the rhythm of one relative per day can only be maintained.

Zhao Wenmu really likes the feeling of not rushing on the road, and everyone is nestled in the house, around the fire, talking slowly about the family's short-sightedness.

It's warm and relaxing.

This is a slow-paced era.

But soon, this slow-paced life will be gone forever.

Sometimes it's impossible to say whether the change is good or bad.

That's how society develops.

It cannot be determined by one person's strength.

Because Zhao Jing has no relatives here, the pressure on the young couple to leave relatives is half that of others.

There was a record in Qing Gulu's "Qing Jialu·Xiao Nian Chao": "The third day of the first day is Xiao Nian Chao, no sweeping the floor, no begging for fire, no drawing of water, the same as the Sui Dynasty."

It means that you should have a good rest on the third day of junior high school.

After working so hard for so many days, Zhao Wenmu also felt a little tired.

So the two went to bed early in the night of the second day of junior high school, and didn't get up until the sun rose high in the third day of junior high school.

Immediately, the exhaustion was swept away, and the whole person was refreshed.

After kissing the humanoid pillow in his arms, Zhao Wenmu got up to make breakfast.

The "kitchen ban" has been lifted and he can now cook again.

How happy it is to prepare breakfast for my wife and daughter every morning!

Zhao Jing actually took away his happiness for so many days.

……

After visiting some important elders, Zhao Wenmu was at leisure.

Although in theory, you can visit relatives throughout the first month, but the later you go to visit, the relative means that the relatives are more distant.

Therefore, the three Zhao Wenmu brothers naturally went to a few uncles, aunts and uncles and aunts in a hurry.

Then there are some elders of Zhao Xuehai. Although these elders are farther related, but where their seniority is, they naturally have to go first.

Zhao Wenmu's grandparents have passed away for many years.

After these important relatives are gone, the others don't need to be in such a hurry.

As for Zhao Wenmu, basically not many relatives will come to visit.

Given his age and seniority, the relatives who came here were naturally to visit Zhao Xuehai and Liu Sufang.

Therefore, he quickly settled down here.

Of course, when visiting Zhao Xuehai's relatives, he also had to come forward to receive them, it was impossible to hide at home and not show his face.

"Daughter-in-law, is there anyone from our father today?"

Zhao Jing had just returned from the old house, and Zhao Wenmu, who was lying in the living room, asked casually.

"No, no one is here today."

Zhao Xuehai's important relatives have already been here, and there are not many relatives who have not come yet.

Zhao Wenmu looked at the time. It was 11:30, and what should have come had already arrived.

Most people will not come to the door after 11:30.

After all, the host also needs time to prepare lunch.

It is very impolite for guests to come to the door too late, which will make the host family in a hurry.

It seems that there will be no guests coming today.

He turned over in a jerk.

"Let's eat Malatang today!"

"What?"

Zhao Jing doesn't quite understand what Malatang is.

"Today I'll treat you to Malatang for 13 yuan."

Zhao Wenmu felt that Malatang for 6 yuan and 13 times could not be done.

With his stamina, 13 times a night is really difficult.

So he decided to invite Zhao Jing to eat Malatang for 13 yuan.

13-6 is a task that can be challenged.

Zhao Jing naturally couldn't understand this stalk that only appeared in 2014.

Zhao Wenmu sometimes said some inexplicable things, but she didn't care, since she wanted to eat new things anyway.

There is still some expectation in my heart.

The bottom of the spicy hot pot is still very easy to make, and there is no problem even using the bottom of the crayfish directly.

Zhao Wenmu thinks he is not such a lazy person.

So he diligently fried a pot of bottom ingredients, no, it can't be said that it was a pot of bottom ingredients.

It should be a pot of soup base.

Milky white rich bone broth.

Is it delicious to use it to rinse the ingredients?

What's more important is the dipping sauce, one is Zhao Wenmu's homemade sesame oil chili, which is so spicy and spicy that people can't stop it.

One is Erba sauce, the perfect ratio of peanut butter and sesame paste, with the addition of appropriate amount of salt and other seasonings, it is delicious and mellow.

Even if there are only two people, Zhao Wenmu never discounts food.

The shabu-shabu uses the copper pot he brought from the capital. Years ago, the old Zhao family surrounded it and had a delicious meal of shabu-shabu in the copper pot.

It is indeed a waste of soup base for two people to use such a large copper pot.

But there is no way, there is no suitable pot at home.

The small milk pot of later generations would be very suitable, but unfortunately there is no such thing.

The ingredients are quite rich, including frozen tofu, pork blood, potato slices, lotus root, bean sprouts, fungus, vermicelli, pork balls and fish balls.

All are handmade by Zhao Wenmu.

The pork balls were fried years ago.

It is better to make spicy soup with fried meatballs.

After a while, Zhao Jing ate until her forehead became shiny.

Now she is more and more able to eat spicy food, and she likes the oily spicy food very much.

"Little brother, are these things worth 13 yuan?"

She thought that when Zhao Wenmu invited her to eat Malatang for 13 yuan, he planned to sell Malatang at the crayfish restaurant.

As far as these ingredients are concerned, it is obviously not worth 13 yuan.

"Daughter-in-law, eat 13 yuan Malatang, I will toss 6 times tonight."

Zhao Wenmu whispered into Zhao Jing's ear.

"Then can I only eat 6 yuan?"

After tossing and tossing 6 times, it’s not bad, do you still need to sleep!

"Eating 6 yuan is 13 times, you choose yourself!"

As Zhao Wenmu said, he picked up a fish ball and put it in Zhao Jing's bowl.

Zhao Jing was almost choked, and she quickly drank a few sips of water.

Looking at the fish balls in the bowl, Zhao Jing didn't like eating them, and she didn't like putting them back.

I don't know how to measure this fish ball.

"Ha ha…"

Seeing her pitiful appearance, Zhao Wenmu picked up some slices of pig's blood for her.

Zhao Jing stared at the account and couldn't figure it out, so she just got upset and started eating.

……

The winter wind is bitter, whirring and beating the branches.

Even the watching moon hid behind the clouds.

In the water tank, the fish swim happily, hitting the edge of the tank again and again, just like a carp about to cross the dragon gate and turn into a flying dragon.

Occasionally, firecrackers sounded not far away.

There is also the whistling north wind, bringing the concerto of fish and water to the distance.

(End of this chapter)