The twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Dahua was awakened by the sound of chopping meat. She got up, put on her clothes, rubbed her eyes, and walked to the kitchen. "Mom, what are you going to do today? Here I come."

"But the noise of chopping meat is too loud and woke you up?" The sound of chopping meat suddenly stopped, and a voice from the kitchen responded to Dahua, but it was not from Gu Qingqing but from Li Xin.

When Dahua heard that it was not her mother's voice, she quickly took her hands away from her eyes. Then she saw clearly that only Li Xin was in the kitchen. "Hey, why are you here? Isn't my mother here?"

Li Xin kept looking up at Dahua, "Aunt went to the cellar to get meat and tofu, and uncle went to fetch water."

Dahua followed with an "oh", walked to the opposite side of Li Xin, and stretched out her arm to him, "Give me the knife, I'll do it."

"No need, I'll do it. Your hands will get sore if you do it yourself." After Li Xin said that, the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the chopping board was heard again in the room.

Seeing that Li Xin didn't give her the gift, Dahua didn't say anything more and stood up and walked towards the cellar.

Just then she saw her mother coming up from the cellar with a basket, so she hurried over to help take the basket, and then she whispered, "Mom, why didn't you wake me up? I saw Daxin was already up."

Gu Qingqing looked at the sky and saw that it was not yet 7pm. She smiled and said, "Isn't it still very early? I was planning to call you at 15:30."

"Mom, you have to call me early tomorrow, otherwise Daxin will start working and I, as a girl, will still be sleeping in."

Dahua said somewhat unhappily.

Gu Qingqing originally wanted to say that it was nothing, children should get enough sleep before getting up, but she changed her mind when the words came to her lips, "Okay, in the future, as long as I see Daxin get up before working, I will wake you up, okay?"

Dahua has that kind of competitive spirit, but her competitive spirit is not about material things or other things, but that she cares about not working as hard as Li Xin.

In her eyes, she is the eldest in the family, and the eldest should shoulder the responsibilities that her parents are too busy to handle.

Sure enough, after Gu Qingqing said this, Dahua immediately smiled. Her little face, which had just woken up, looked like the rising sun in the sky, bright and warm.

Croquettes.

The radish balls were fried until golden yellow, and the air was filled with the burnt aroma of food. The fried balls were scooped into a basin, like a small golden mountain rising from the ground.

Because there were not many people in the kitchen, and deep-frying would inevitably cause the food to jump, except for Daxin who was in charge of making the fire, Dahua and Erhua were not in the kitchen.

Dahua was washing Sanhua's diaper with hot water in the house, while Erhua was acting as a little mouse.

From time to time, she would sneak into the kitchen to steal a couple of meatballs. When her mother looked at her and said, "I saw you," she would immediately stop and run away giggling, still humming "hot, hot" in her mouth.

After she fed the meatballs in her hand to her sister, she slipped into the kitchen again like a little mouse.

When she came in again, the big bowl containing the meatballs had been moved to the other side by Gu Qingqing. There was a big bowl on the table with some fried meatballs in it. It was just the right temperature to eat without burning your hands or mouth.

Erhua naturally didn't know what her mother meant, and still treated herself as a transparent little mouse. Seeing that her mother didn't look at her after she took the things, she didn't leave, but made faces on the side to try to attract her mother's attention.

As a result, at this moment, Gu Qingqing suddenly turned her head to look at her, and with an expression that everything was under my control, she shouted, "I saw you."

"Ahhh! Mother can't see me and can't see me." When Erhua saw that she was caught, she clenched the meatball in her hand and ran out again with a giggle.

This time, Wen Wuyan was found cleaning the snow in the yard, and he raised his little hand and wanted to feed the meatballs to his father. "Dad, lower your head, this is for you. Mom fried it so deliciously."

"Dad has already eaten, you should eat it while it's hot."

"No, no, give it to Dad. I just ate it." Erhua stood on tiptoe and tried hard to reach Dad's mouth.

After successfully feeding her father a meatball, she grabbed another one and ran to Old Yang who was also busy, raising her arm again, "Grandpa Yang, this is for you. It's so delicious."

Old Yang bent down and let Erhua feed him the food. Then he made an exaggerated expression, "It's just like Erhua said, these meatballs are delicious."

Although he was clearly praising Wanzi, Erhua was extremely happy. He just said "I'm on my way" and ran to the kitchen.

Dahei, however, ran faster in front of her and circled around her. Seeing Erhua stop, Dahei stretched out his tongue and wanted to lick Erhua's hand.

Erhua quickly raised her hand and shouted to Dahei, "You are not allowed to lick my hand. If my mother sees it, she will not want my hand anymore."

woohoo~

"Do you want to eat?"

Woo~

"Then come with me and I'll help you get it." Erhua said to Dahei.

Two figures sneaked towards the kitchen, but Dahei didn't dare to go in when he reached the door, so Erhua was the only one who broke into the kitchen alone.

Gu Qingqing caught a glimpse of Dahei at the door and knew that it had reached some kind of agreement with Erhua. When Erhua successfully "stole" two more meatballs, Gu Qingqing spoke up, "You can only give Dahei one, and you are not allowed to eat more."

Erhua was caught and was shocked. Then he blinked his eyes and pretended to be innocent and said, "Mom, I'm not giving it to Dahei. I'm...I'm..." Erhua looked left and right and suddenly his eyes fell on Li Xin. His voice immediately increased several times, "Mom, this time I'm giving it to brother Daxin."

Erhua ran to Li Xin and didn't care about his refusal. She stuffed the food into his mouth and said, "Brother Daxin, these two meatballs are for you."

Erhua has a lot of flavor of selling stolen goods.

Dahei, who was watching this scene outside the door, was so anxious that he jumped up and down.

Gu Qingqing couldn't bear it anymore, so she pinched one and threw it out the door, scolding them with a smile, "You are all greedy!"

In the morning, we fried meatballs and lotus root boxes at home. At noon, I asked Dahua to cook some rice soup in another pot with meatballs and pickles.

In the afternoon, I fried some sesame leaves, small oil cakes and crispy meat with leavened dough.

Just as Gu Qingqing was about to announce the end of today's frying series, Niu Yuzhu arrived.

"Brother Wuyan, have you cleared all the snow in the yard?"

"It looks like it won't snow anymore, so I thought I'd clean it up to avoid the snow melting and getting all over the yard when the weather is nice after the New Year." Wen Wuyan replied.

Then he asked, "You're not busy at home? Why did you come here?"

Niu Yuzhu smiled and gestured to him with the basket in his hand. "My sister-in-law and I went back to Luojia Village today. My mother-in-law made some tofu and brought some back to us. My sister-in-law is at home helping my mother make something, so she asked me to bring some over."

Wen Wuyan didn't hesitate to take the basket and led him to the kitchen. On the way, he didn't forget to tease him, "You still call me sister-in-law?"

Niu Yuzhu was rarely shy. He raised his hand to scratch his head and smiled, "I'm used to being called that. I'm slowly changing."

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