Full of food and color

Chapter 52
In the early morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Wang woke up a few children early and sent them to play in the yard, discussing with Chen Tiegui about going back to her natal family. , Chen Tiegui meant that the situation at home was not good, and it would be fine to prepare less gifts when going back, but Mrs. Wang was a face-saving person, and felt guilty towards her natal family, so she didn't want to be too shabby no matter what.

Mrs. Wang rummaged in the low cabinet for a while, and suddenly remembered that there was still an elbow left over from the meat that Fenglan sent in the first year of the year, so she took the elbow to her natal family.All the eggs I had saved up were sold a few years ago, and there was nothing to sell at the moment, so I divided most of the steamed buns from Cui Fen’s dim sum and tea, and took the two-foot cotton cloth that Shuangxi gave to Baozhu. He took it out, looked left and right, thought that this year's money is tight, and this cloth will be saved until the end of the year to make new clothes for Baozhu, so he put the cloth back.

Mrs. Wang let out a long sigh, walked into the yard, went into the chicken coop, took out a big hen and slipped it out. When Chen Tiegui saw it, he curled his lips, "This time you are satisfied, this gift is not good. It’s so thin, there are only ten hens in our family.”

Wang's heart is not comfortable, but think about it, Hao Lai is also taken for his family, don't parents always miss him?
Mrs. Wang packed up her things, and after a while, the family of five went to Zhangjiacun on a scooter.

As soon as the cart stopped in the yard, Mrs. Wang and Li opened the curtain and went out of the house, yelling at Mrs. Wang: "You son, mother prepared everything yesterday, but I didn't see you! Even the mother forgot about the separation of the family, and she didn't even come today!"

Baozhu saw that Mrs. Wang and Li were getting fatter than last year. Although she was cursing, her face was full of joy to see her daughter and son-in-law. Grandpa Baozhu, second uncle and younger uncle also came out to greet Mrs. Wang.

Grandpa Baozhu saw that Mrs. Wang brought a hen, and sighed repeatedly, "I am too poor to open the pot, so why do I have a hen, and my mother and father can't eat a few eggs?"

Chen Tiegui followed the two brothers-in-law into the main room, leaving Mrs. Wang with a few children to talk to her parents in front of the chicken coop. Mrs. Wang smiled and untied the rope, and put the chicken into the coop, "Again If you are poor, you can’t lose your parents, let’s talk about how many of them I still have.”

Mrs. Wang called Runze over and asked, "I heard from your mother that you have entered school. What have you learned this year?"

Runze replied sternly, "Mr. teaches reading and literacy. After learning the Three Character Classic, I will learn the surnames of hundreds of families after the New Year."

Seeing Runze's earnest appearance, Mrs. Wang and Li curled her lips and asked Runze to recite a few words. Runze smiled and recited aloud. The cheerful Chen Tiegui poked his head out of the window and praised his son, " Good boy, father will continue to read for you after the new year, and you will be able to read a scholar in the future!"

After entering the house, the family talked again, Wang Lishi hugged Baozhu for a while and kept shouting, and after a while, she let Baozhu play on the ground by herself, calling Runze to come to her.

Among the three dolls, Wang Lishi loves Runze the most. At the beginning, he asked Runze directly about the school, and now he asked Runze what he would like to eat. Runze subconsciously glanced at Baozhu, and said to Wang Lishi, "Eat eggs! "

Mrs. Wang and Li glanced at Mrs. Wang, "I knew that you don't usually make eggs for your children! I said it a long time ago, you should eat and drink, don't lose a few children."

Wang smiled and didn't say anything. After a while, Miss Baozhu brought a basin into the house, "Sister, brother-in-law and a few children have some eggs with soy sauce. I just cooked them this morning."

Mrs. Wang took the basin and gave each of the three children an egg. She held the pearl in her hand and looked at it carefully. It looked a bit like a tea egg from her previous life. She peeled off the skin and tasted it. There was a smell of soy sauce, and it was far inferior to tea eggs, but seeing the two brothers eating with gusto, I couldn't help but raised my head and asked her mother, "Tea, eggs?"

Wang smiled, picked up Baozhu, and blamed: "My child, I don't know where I heard this new word. Tea can't make balls. These are soy sauce balls made for you by your little concubine."

Baozhu nodded obediently, and had a clue in her mind. In this way, although there are soy sauce marinated eggs in this era, there are no tea eggs. Speaking of which, the method of tea eggs is not complicated, and the ingredients only need star anise and cinnamon With Zanthoxylum bungeanum, after thinking about how to make tea eggs, Baozhu had a small idea in her heart, but she couldn't tell her parents about it in advance, and it would take a lot of money to make it without anyone noticing. thought.

In the next few days, Baozhu was thinking about the tea eggs every day, and every morning when she got up early, she wandered around the chicken coop, and when she opened her mother's small cabinet, she looked through the eggs in the basket, eager to try.

Mrs. Wang also noticed that there was something wrong with Baozhu, so she asked Chen Tiegui when she was busy: "Look at our daughter, she is very mysterious these days, and I don't know what to do?" I'm old, but I don't take it seriously: "Let the baby go, it's more lively to look at it this way, our Baozhu baby is much more obedient than his peers, what big things can we play?"

Wang thought about it too, which child is not naughty at this age?It's not a good thing if the baby is too quiet.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Chen family had saved more than 50 eggs in a small basket. Mrs. Wang took out the basket from the low cabinet and saw Baozhu's big eyes rolling around. On the table, take out the rest of the eggs to Chen Tiegui to sell outside.

Baozhu watched her mother enter the kitchen with the egg, knowing that the opportunity had come, she kept tugging on Runsheng's cuff, Runsheng was confused and was pulled by Baozhu to help, only knowing that her sister had to do better than Xiaojinjin. Delicious soy sauce eggs, I was afraid and looking forward to it in my heart, but at the age of Runsheng, I knew something about it. I knew that what I and my sister were going to do must be a bad thing to be scolded by my mother, and I also raised objections to this. But seeing that my sister was upset, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and help my sister "do bad things" together.After stopping for a while, she saw her mother come out of the kitchen and went to the vegetable field outside her yard. When she hurried into the kitchen, she saw that the boiled eggs had been put into cold water by her mother to freeze, and Baozhu hurriedly prepared them secretly. Sprinkle good tea, star anise and cinnamon into the pot. Runsheng helped take the soy sauce and salt. Baozhu directed the second brother to pour in the right soy sauce and salt, and cracked each egg, breaking the eggs one by one. Put it in the pot.Then he smiled and asked Runsheng to watch at the door of the stove, while he lit the torch that his mother had just put on the stove, ignited the flame and added firewood. After a while, the pot boiled away. Baozhu covered the pot with satisfaction, and if nothing else happened, the tea eggs would be ready to cook on low heat for another hour.

Baozhu was not worried that her mother would be suspicious. The tea was collected by tricking her elder brother. Star anise, cinnamon and soy sauce were also common condiments in the kitchen. It is inevitable to be scolded, but Baozhu thinks about it, she is quite confident in her cooking skills, her mother tastes a tea egg, maybe she won't care about her own foolishness?

(End of this chapter)