Chapter 151 A lot of worries
New Year's Eve arrived a few days after the pork was distributed. Since there were many ready-made dishes at home that could be eaten as long as they were heated, Xia Chan and the others did not start preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner so early.

After Xia Chan and her brothers finished breakfast, they went directly to skate on the small stream. Last year during the New Year, Xia Chan and Xia Qi went to skate on the river in the village. As a result, Xia Baozhu tampered with her, causing Xia Qi's face to be skating. Got a scar.

Scar removal medicine is applied every morning and evening, but the scar is still there. They look at it every day, but there is no sign of the scar fading. Xia Chan knows that the process of scar removal is long, so every time Xia Qi wants to give up , she prevented him from giving up.

If one year doesn't work, then two or three years...

She didn't believe that the scar removal cream sold on the 'Crossing Mall' was ineffective. As long as she kept using it, the scars would gradually fade away.

The five brothers and sisters stood on the ice and slid upstream. Xia Chan squatted on the ground, and Xia Qi grabbed her hands and pulled her to slide. I guess children in the country have been playing this since childhood, so everyone played it very crazily. The movements looked a bit dangerous, and others would probably be scared if they saw it, but they were very satisfied with the game.

Xia Chan seldom saw his brothers being childish, because having lost their parents early, they had to grow up and carry their own world. They had neither the time nor the right to be childish, because if they were, they would be gnawed until not even a bone was left.

Now seeing their childish appearance and their heartfelt smiles, Xia Chan is also very happy.

Although she was not sure whether she had changed the fate of her brothers and herself, as long as they were alive, they would live every day well and never leave any regrets for themselves.

The five siblings skated for a while, then went to their parents' grave to pay respect to them, and then went home. When they got to the door of their house, they saw a village woman holding a child and standing outside her house with an anxious look on her face. "Xia Chan, my child has a fever, and the clinic doesn't have any medicine to reduce the fever. Please take us to the hospital. I've already told the team leader."

"Okay, wait for me." Although she was not familiar with this person, he was also a villager. Now that he was in an emergency, she couldn't just ignore him, not to mention that he had already told the team leader.

The captain has agreed to let her drive the tractor to the hospital.

Xia Chan returned home and quickly went to the bathroom. After closing the door, she slipped into the hotel suite. Then she went to the "Crossing Mall" and bought antipyretic medicine for children. She just remembered that the antipyretic medicine of this era was Analgin, but it had serious side effects and was banned later.

Xia Chan bought the medicine and hurried out. Then she went to the door and handed the antipyretic medicine to the woman, saying, "It's winter now. Not only is there a shortage of medicine in the clinic, but it's also very likely that the city's hospitals are also short of medicine. I got medicine from the hospital when I felt unwell this year, and they just happened to have antipyretic medicine. Let the child take it, and then take him to the clinic and let Doctor Song or Doctor Jiang come to observe him."

"Xia Chan, thank you." The woman eagerly took the antipyretic medicine from Xia Chan's hand and fed it into the child's mouth. After thanking Xia Chan, she hurriedly carried the child down the mountain.

Xia Chan sighed and then closed the gate.

She had no intention of getting married, not only because she didn't want to be pressured by her parents-in-law and didn't want to have a lot of trouble, but also because in this era, if you get married and don't have children for a year or two, people will doubt the health of both you and your spouse and then point fingers at you. If you have children, but in this era, medical technology is not good and medical supplies are in short supply, once the child gets sick, it may be...

Even if you are not sick, raising a child is very hard and painful. It can be said that mothers collapse during the day and slowly heal themselves in the dead of night.

She has a friend in the 21st century who got married early. She was less than 30 years old and her child was already in primary school, but she looked as haggard as a 40-year-old. However, other women in their 40s are glamorous and beautiful, but she has no energy at all.

The child's grades are not good. He procrastinates for several hours every day on his homework. It is something that can be finished in half an hour, but he has to delay it from the time he gets home from get out of class until late at night. The couple is really worried about their child's studies.

Taking all aspects into consideration, Xia Chan has no intention of getting married.

If you meet a husband who treats you badly and doesn't understand you, and who pushes all the problems of managing the household, being filial to his parents, taking care of the children, tutoring their studies... onto you, then that would be a real hellish life!
Xia Chan's friend who got married early has a pretty good husband. He picks up and drops off the children every morning and evening, takes the children out to play on weekends, and most of the time he is the one who supervises the children while they do their homework. How many fathers can do this?
Many fathers feel paralyzed as soon as they get off work. Women are already busy taking care of the children, and now they have to take care of an "old son".

It is because she has seen through human nature that Xia Chan has many concerns, and if anyone wants to make her suffer, don't even think about it. If she really gets married and has to live like this, even if she can't get a divorce, she will run away and will never waste her good life.

After that, the five brothers and sisters began to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. Because they wanted to fry meatballs, Xia Chan brought in the semi-finished takeout products she had bought earlier. She fried chicken fillets, crispy bananas, pumpkin pie, taro sweet potato balls and other things, and after frying they took them out and put them in a small bamboo basket.

The brothers had never eaten these things before, and they kept surrounding Xia Chan. They ate whatever Xia Chan fried, so these things were quickly eaten up. Xia Chan also ate some, but she had to save her stomach for the New Year's Eve dinner, so she didn't eat much.

After frying these semi-finished take-out products, Xia Chan gave the position of chef to Xia Qi, and asked him to fry the meatballs and radish balls. After the balls were fried, Xia Chan asked Xia Qi to fry the cut fish pieces. The fried fish pieces taste better when stir-fried in the pan and the fish meat is not easy to fall loose.

The oil used for frying food is put into a lard basin. You can add a little of this cooked oil when cooking dumplings or noodles, and it tastes good.

Towards evening, Xia Chan brought back chicken stewed with mushrooms, pickled fish, and mutton soup from the ice tank in the yard and heated them on the stove one by one. Other dishes on the New Year's Eve dinner included scrambled eggs with leeks, shredded potatoes with vinegar, stir-fried bacon with beans, stir-fried meat with chili peppers, three fresh vegetables, pork with bamboo shoots, stir-fried water spinach, and steamed crucian carp.

This steamed crucian carp is not for eating, but for presentation.

Including the meatballs, there are a total of twelve dishes.


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