Eating melons and raising children in the period literature

It feels like we just passed Laba and it’s already Little New Year.

That day, Yang Qingqing's family all slept until they woke up naturally.

After getting up and eating the leftovers from last night, I remembered that today is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Little New Year.

In the north, eating dumplings is a must during the Little New Year, but now many families cannot afford it, so they can only eat dumplings for the sake of their own meaning.

Many families don’t make pure white flour dumplings, and each person can only eat two. There are no more. Children even only have one.

Yang Qingqing's family didn't have this worry. In the winter, no one came to visit them, and the dumplings tasted bland.

But there was a problem. She hadn't paid attention to the time before, and now there was no meat at home, so she couldn't make meat dumplings.

She thought it was impossible to make meat filling, so she just made dumplings with pure white flour.

In order to better integrate into life, Yang Qingqing has not made dumplings or steamed buns made of pure white flour or rice.

There are always several kinds of coarse grains mixed together, and the taste is really not good.

But it is much better than other families in the village. Now many families in the village only have one proper meal a day. Many of them eat sweet potatoes and potatoes.

So Wen Jing and the others had no objections and they all obeyed Yang Qingqing and ate whatever she cooked.

I also ate less snacks than usual in the summer, mainly because it was inconvenient for Yang Qingqing to go to the county town and she couldn't spend lavishly.

So she wanted to take this opportunity to improve the family's meals.

Then he went to the cellar to get a large cabbage and soaked a handful of black fungus.

To make the taste better, she took out a bottle of sesame oil and put it in a small corner of the cupboard.

She also picked a lot of the newly sprouted green onions that she had planted in a clay pot near the stove.

I originally planned to make dumplings with the garlic sprouts I sent out earlier, but then I thought about it and decided not to do so. I decided to save them for New Year’s Eve.

At this time, it is not easy to eat a handful of fresh vegetables. Yang Qingqing used her talent for farming and combined the experience of many people in later generations to grow vegetables on the balcony.

She planted some garlic sprouts and green onions in the house. She also planted chives, but the house was still a little cold, so the chives didn't die but didn't grow either.

She also learned how to grow bean sprouts from Zhao Xiaohua, so she has no shortage of mung bean sprouts, yellow bean sprouts, and black bean sprouts at home. She has grown as many as she can.

She had given out too much last time, so she took some for her colleagues while on duty, asked her second sister-in-law to bring some for her colleagues, and gave some to Zhao Xiaohua. She finally ate all the bean sprouts before they went bad.

This time, she learned from her last experience and only gave a little to each family, but it was enough for her family, including her second brother's family, to have a few meals.

So on the eve of the Chinese New Year, she prepared dumplings stuffed with cabbage, black fungus and radish, fried bean sprouts, stewed potatoes and fish fillets with cornmeal pancakes, so that she would have everything for the next morning.

Yang Qingqing first mixed a large bowl of dough, and then prepared the stuffing. After a while, it was already past three in the afternoon, and it was time to prepare dinner.

Yang Qingqing asked Wen Jing to go to her second brother's house to see if her second sister-in-law Mary Yue was home, as well as Wen Dan and the others.

Wait for her to come back so we can make dumplings

"Aunt, Second Aunt is not at home, only Wendan and the others are at home. I called them over. Wendan said her mother got off work at 4 o'clock this afternoon, so they didn't go to grandma's house."

"Okay, then we'll make dumplings tonight, and you guys can come and help. We'll have dinner later when your uncle and his family come back."

"Aunt, are we going to eat dumplings today? My grandma also said we were going to eat dumplings yesterday! She also said she would send us a bowl in the evening."

"Yes! We also eat dumplings. We'll make some later and cook them first. Can you and your sister take them to grandma's house?"

Yang Qingqing thought that with Zhao Xiaohua's personality, even though it was only one bowl, it would definitely not exceed two per person, and it had to be mixed noodles, so she would definitely not be willing to eat one more.

So she didn't want the elderly who had worked hard all their lives to have a hard time, so she helped them wherever she could.

This would not only help the elderly, but also make her second brother's family more harmonious, so why wouldn't she do it?

After a while, with the help of Wen Jing and the other children, they made a lot of dumplings. Yang Qingqing put a sieve of dumplings into the pot first, just in time to send some to Zhao Xiaohua and the others, and also to give some to Wen Jing and Wen Xuan.

Otherwise, the children would drool because of their greed, especially Wenyuan and Wendan, the two little foodies.

When Wen Jing came back, the bowl was not empty, but brought back the dumplings that Zhao Xiaohua promised to give to Wen Dan and the others.

Yang Qingqing thought it didn't look good, but she didn't dislike it. She grabbed one and put it in her mouth to taste it.

It tastes good, with sauerkraut filling. Although it is a bit choking, it is really delicious.

If Zhao Xiaohua used Yang Qingqing's ingredients to make it, it would definitely taste twice as good as what she made herself.

Yang Qingqing really admires these old people, who can use few ingredients to make the meals as varied and delicious as possible.

Yang Qingqing and her friends made more than 150 dumplings. When Yang Qinghe came back and saw the food on the table, he almost thought his sister was dead.

"Qingqing, you've used up all the noodles? Then what are you going to eat during the Chinese New Year? Not dumplings? Are you waiting until after the Chinese New Year to eat them?"

Yang Qinghe wanted to continue speaking, but was stopped by Ma Liyue.

"It's okay. When the New Year comes, our company will distribute flour. The amount is not much, but it's enough for us to have a meal. Don't listen to your second brother's nagging.

Qingqing, isn't this for us? What's the matter? You don't want to eat it? Save it for the New Year? It's just right for us to have one bowl each."

Yang Qingqing was quite happy to see her second sister-in-law on her side, but she knew in her heart that her second brother was just simply worried about Baimian, so Yang Qingqing still felt uncomfortable.

No one wants to prepare a table of food happily, only to be lectured. Even if there is no malice, it is not a happy thing.

Ma Liyue saw that Yang Qingqing was embarrassed, so she quickly pulled Yang Qinghe

Their family has basically been eating here for the past few months. Although they have brought a lot of food here, it is far from as good as what they eat.

She knew in her heart that there must be something wrong, but Yang Qingqing never said anything, and she pretended not to see it and never asked, just pretending not to know about Yang Qinghe's subsidy to Yang Qingqing.

Although I don't know exactly how much Yang Qinghe gave me, it's definitely not a lot. Of course, even if it's enough, it's impossible to buy whatever you want.

Not to mention that she used to work in the supply and marketing cooperative, even if she had always been there, we couldn't give them all the good things.

Yang Qingqing has guaranteed that she has never been to the black market, so she must have some other channels, although she doesn't know. But it should be safe.

Therefore, Ma Liyue did not have the filter of Yang Qinghe for Yang Qingqing, so she saw it more clearly and knew that there still needed to be a degree for them to get along.

"I see. Thank you, second sister-in-law. Don't worry, we still have some at home, which is definitely enough for us to celebrate the New Year. I will go to the county town in a few days to see if there is anything there? We can save it for the New Year. Let's eat quickly."

"Okay, I'll give you the money later, just in case you run into something good and don't run out of money. Your second brother and I haven't used our money in the past few months. I'll give it to you later. You can also buy some gifts for your sisters to thank them."

"Thank you, second sister-in-law. Second sister-in-law is the best."

Yang Qingqing glanced at Yang Qinghe as she spoke, and it was obvious that she wanted to look at him and then at you.

"Okay, you are both right. I talked too much. Be more careful next time. Eat your meal quickly! Don't be angry with me. It's not worth it."

Yang Qinghe didn't think much about it, he just felt that he might have been too ungrateful for what he said just now, but seeing how well the two sisters-in-law got along, he felt that it was worth it even if he was scolded a few more times.