Chapter 124: Have a Prosperous Year
The weight is heavy, so you don’t need to use too much effort. You can smash the pine shell open with a light hit.
Zhou Tiantian got the old lady's advice, and then she became happy. She held the weight and smashed the pine nuts one by one, waiting for them to smash them all and then ate them one by one. Well, it's delicious, it's so delicious.
Zhou Tiantian is skillful in her hands, and her white and tender little fat hands are flexible. Soon after, she took out a small handful of white pine nuts.
"Milk, I'll give it to you." Zhou Tiantian held the pine nut and wanted to give it to Old Mrs. Zhou.
The old lady was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Oh, it's my little Tianbao who is the most considerate. I spent so much time to scoop the pine nuts for my grandma to eat."
The old lady brought Zhou Tiantian over and kissed her granddaughter's tender and smooth face, "I can't eat so much milk, we are half of each of us."
The little granddaughter took it hard, and she would definitely be unhappy if she didn't want it. The old lady knew what her granddaughter was, so she reached out to take half of it, leaving the other half to Zhou Tiantian.
"I'll give you a piece of candy, just eat it with the candy. The pine nuts are sweet and fragrant." The old lady grabbed the candy piece and stripped off the candy paper and stuffed it to Zhou Tiantian.
Sweet candy and fragrant pine nuts, the two foods are mixed together to form a fragrant, sweet and intoxicating happy taste. Zhou Tiantian narrowed her eyes slightly and savored and enjoyed it carefully.
Old Mrs. Zhou looked at her cute granddaughter with a loving smile on her face.
When he saw the little granddaughter looking happy and satisfied, the old lady reached out and rubbed the head of Zhou Tiantian next week, "There are a lot of delicious food at home, so I can get whatever I want to eat.
I remember there are frozen pears in the warehouse? I will ask your elder sister to pick up some and put them on the cold water, which is delicious.”
This fall, the Zhou family made good returns. In addition to exchanging the work points for grain, there were still four or five hundred yuan left.
In addition to the salary of Zhou Anbang, Zhou Yongping, Zhou Yongqing, and Zhou Lili, as well as the money selling bean sprouts in winter, the family is still very well-off even if they spend a lot of money on Yongping's marriage.
Especially when I made a profit by selling bean sprouts these days before the New Year, the old lady was very happy and asked her daughter-in-law to buy more New Year's goods. This year, the family did prepare a lot of delicious food.
"Milk, do you have frozen pears at home? Oh, I have to say to my elder sister quickly." Zhou Tiantian's eyes widened when she heard that there were frozen pears.
She had heard of this thing for a long time, but she had never seen it before. It was said to be delicious.
Zhou Tiantian's personality is just what she wants to do to act immediately, so she hurriedly put on her shoes and went to the kitchen to find Zhou Lili, "Sister, our milk says there are frozen pears in the warehouse, so let's pick up some to take a look?" Zhou Tiantian looked at Zhou Lili with hope and said.
Zhou Lili was helping to pick up the onions when she smiled when she heard the little sister's words, and reached out to twist Zhou Tiantian's face next time, "Little greedy cat, are you greedy again? Let's take the basin and pick up frozen pears."
Frozen pear is a special fruit, which should be said to be unique to the Northeast.
At first it was because of a special variety of pears. When picked in autumn, it was sour and hard to put in the mouth, so it could only be placed outside and frozen.
Ordinary fruits will be very difficult to eat if frozen, but this kind of pear is completely the opposite. After freezing, take it back and use cold water to slow it down. Take a bite and it will be filled with sweet and sour juice. The flesh is delicate and white, and the taste is particularly good.
Later, people also put apple pears or flower-covered pears outside to freeze. The taste of these two types is also good, but compared with authentic frozen pears, it is still a bit worse.
Zhou Tiantian followed Zhou Lili and the other two to go to the warehouse with flashlights and found a flower basket in the corner of the warehouse.
"Oh, this year, not only frozen pears, but also frozen persimmons, this is also delicious." Zhou Lili shone into the basket with a flashlight and found that the red fruit inside was also frozen hard, so she quickly picked up some and put them in a basin.
"Frozen persimmons are more expensive than frozen pears. In previous years, we were reluctant to buy milk. I guess it was because the bean sprouts made money this year, and the aunt bought them as the boss." Zhou Lili was picking them up and muttering.
The two sisters picked up most of the basins of frozen pears and frozen persimmons and returned to the house, then found a large basin to store them, and added a lot of cold water.
You should not use hot water to freeze pears and persimmons, otherwise it will be too fast to slow down, and the outer skin will easily rot, and the inner core will still be frozen.
The cold water slowly opens up and melts inside. Just take a bite and absorb the juice.
After the two sisters finished their work, the dumpling fillings were prepared and the noodles were almost awake. So they moved the large panel into the house. The old lady led her daughter-in-law and granddaughters to make dumplings together.
There are many dumplings on New Year’s Eve, so naturally Zhou Tiantian cannot get started. Zhou Tiantian just sat next to him and watched.
The Zhou family still made dumplings the same way. The old lady picked up the pot with her own hands, and Xu and others divided the work and rolled the dough and made dumplings.
Because it was the dumplings on New Year's Eve, the old lady asked someone to prepare a cent of coins, candies, peanuts, dates, etc. to wrap them in the dumplings for auspicious purposes.
Zhou Tiantian looked at the coins with a penny and remembered the videos she had watched before. Some children tried to eat dumplings that had made money by taking a magnet to try it. Because the coins contain a lot of iron, the magnet must have responded.
If it is now, the magnet will not be easy to use. At this time, the coins contain less iron and more aluminum.
Moreover, most of the plates at this time were enamel plates. If you put the magnets on, you would be afraid that you would not have the money-related dumplings, but instead sucked the plates away.
When Zhou Tiantian thought of that scene, she felt it was very fun.
"Tiantian, you won't let you make dumplings tonight. Just use them as dumpling legs and help put the dumplings on the panel on the cover curtain, and they are neatly arranged."
Seeing that the young granddaughter was sitting there obediently, Old Mrs. Zhou hurriedly assigned a task to Zhou Tiantian.
The Zhou family has many rules. When making dumplings, one cover curtain and one cover curtain must be placed next to each other, and it is not allowed to be placed on several cover curtains at the same time.
Several people surrounded the panel, and those far away from the cover curtain would definitely not be able to put them on the panel first. The ones that Mrs. Zhou arranged for Zhou Tiantian were this errands.
Zhou Tiantian doesn't care. She sits there if she has work, but she doesn't have work. Besides, it's not difficult to put dumplings, so she happily came over to help, carefully placed the dumplings on the cover curtain one by one, and arranged neatly, so that the order should not be messed up.
I heard from Mrs. Zhou that if the order of dumplings on New Year’s Eve is chaotic, the marriages of children at home will be chaotic.
Zhou Tiantian didn't believe this, but the Chinese New Year was not easy to make the family unhappy, so Zhou Tiantian paid special attention, because she was afraid that she would make the wrong statement.
The old lady pulled the pot, Zhou Lili and Zhou Yanyan rolled the dough, Xu and others made dumplings, Zhou Tiantian helped to prepare dumplings, and the whole family worked together, so it was natural that it was not slow to make dumplings.
Start working from seven o'clock, and by nine o'clock, the dumplings were already wrapped.
"Oh, there are a lot of stuffing left. It seems that our family will be more abundant and more surplus next year." Old Mrs. Zhou looked at it and had already wrapped all the noodles, and about a small bowl of dumpling stuffing left.
Chapter completed!