Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

The old lady laughed: "Three catties, five catties? What do you call that? You keep drinking it.

I tell you, just keep drinking and keep drinking, you won’t get drunk no matter how much you drink!

My father said that my grandmother had a special physique and she would get drunk when she drank.

Do you know what alcohol-running means? It means that no matter how much you drink, it's just like drinking water. When you're full, it's okay to go to the toilet..."

The old lady became happier and more excited as she talked. She told Han Zhaozhao many interesting stories from her childhood and many relatives she thought she had forgotten...

The grandparents and grandchildren were chatting animatedly when they heard a noise at the door. Han Zhaozhao went out to take a look and saw that it was Xiao Sanzi, Xiao Min and his brother!

There was a group of teenagers, about a dozen in total, who were the kids that often hung out in the alley.

As soon as they entered the room, Xiao Sanzi and his friends knelt on the cushion in front of the Eight Immortals Table and kowtowed to the old lady first.

The old lady laughed so hard that her eyes were invisible, and she quickly called the children to come forward and grab the food.

She also prepared red envelopes for lucky draws, wrapped in red paper with couplets on it, and gave one to each child, but no one knew how much money was in them.

Han Zhaozhao took the snack basket and helped Xiao Sanzi and the others share the delicious snacks.

This year she was in charge of the party and prepared several kinds of snacks: five-spice trichosanthes seeds, five-spice sunflower seeds, triple-steamed and triple-dried sweet potato, orange peel candy, peanut candy, and sorghum maltose!

There is such a wide variety of products, which makes the boys very happy!

They held their pockets full and chatted with the old lady for a while, such as: "Did you get up early today?"

"What kind of dumplings do you eat?"

“Did you make a lot of money from dumplings this year?”

"Your family set off a lot of firecrackers this year, and the whole yard is red!"

Anyway, I just say nice New Year words!

Although he is not very talkative, his mouth is always busy eating melon seeds, candies, and drinking jasmine tea!

Today, Han Zhaozhao’s family is also brewing jasmine flowers. Chrysanthemums are unlucky and cannot be drunk during the entire first month of the New Year!

When the ground was covered with melon seed shells and candy wrappers, the boys looked and saw that the baskets on the eight-immortal table were empty, so they said goodbye and went to the next house!

As soon as the boys left, Xiaolian, Xiaoyun, Xiao'e and Xue Ying also arrived.

The old lady accepted the "dun'er'an" from the girls and gave out New Year's money by counting the number of people.

Han Zhaozhao scooped out another basket of snacks and distributed them to his friends one by one.

"Zhao Zhao, we are going to Grandpa Guan's house to pay New Year's greetings. Do you want to go?" Xiaoyun asked her in a low voice.

Han Zhaozhao filled her two coat pockets and shook her head. "You guys go. I won't go! I'll stay at home today to help my grandma entertain the guests."

The girls didn’t like drinking tea, so they accepted the New Year’s money, packed some delicious snacks, and followed the boys’ footsteps to continue visiting every household to wish a happy new year.

When everyone left, the ground was covered with a thick layer of melon seed shells and candy wrappers, which had been stepped on by everyone and were sticky all over the yard.

In Beijing, this is called "stepping on the year"! You can't sweep today. The more people come to the door, the more they step on it, the better the omen.

The grandparents and grandchildren calmed down again. Han Zhaozhao thought about it and remembered that some time ago she became fascinated with carving and even carved a deck of mahjong tiles with scraps of materials!

Han Zhaozhao ran back to his room, pretending to rummage through the drawers, took out the mahjong tiles from the space, and also found a square piece of plaid coarse cloth.

The grandparents and grandchildren put the kang table in place and began to build the city wall.

Han Zhaozhao thought: This is good! People outside are tearing down the city wall, and they are building the wall at home. It can't make up for the regret, but it can be regarded as finding a balance in their hearts!

We played until lunch, and we still had vegetarian dumplings. This time, they were filled with leek, black fungus and eggs.

The fungus was not received until the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. The packages from her aunt and her grandfather's house arrived at the same time.

Both families sent a large package of Northeastern specialties, including black fungus, various dried mushrooms, and hazelnuts. Her aunt's family also sent a roe deer leg.

Her grandparents sent her a large bag of pine nuts and a ten-year-old wild ginseng, which they gave to her to make medicinal wine with milk.

Han Zhaozhao sighed, her grandfather was so thoughtful, even though they had only met a few times, the old man still remembered that his in-laws loved drinking!

He is kind of reciprocating. This side sends him pills, and he sends medicinal herbs here. It seems that as people get older, they pay more attention to their health!

Now she felt relieved. She only had these few relatives. If they could live a few more years, they would be with her for a few more years.

Although her grandfather lives far away, she knows that someone truly cares about her, and the blood relationship will not be broken. When they think of their relatives far away, their hearts will be warm.

The wild wood ear mushrooms in Northeast China are really good. After being soaked, they are big, thick and fleshy. Chop them into pieces and mix them with the leek stuffing. Then add some chopped eggs and put them in.

It does not have the oyster sauce, cooking wine, MSG and thirteen spices of later generations. It only adds oil, salt and five-spice powder, which makes people drool.

"Zhao Zhao, I've always said that you have the best luck in our family! I've lived for most of my life, and I've never eaten leeks in winter!

This year when I was at work, I thought you were alone at home and couldn't prepare for the New Year. Unexpectedly, you really gave me a big surprise.

No wonder your Grandpa Guan always said that children are like young eagles and must be allowed to fly solo when the time comes.

If you don’t leave adults, you will never grow up and will never be able to take care of things.

Look at you, you are in charge of most of our family affairs in the second half of the year. I think you manage them better than I do!"

Han Zhaozhao was enjoying eating one dumpling at a time. After swallowing the rice in his mouth, he started to sing.

"Grandma, I am just copying you, but I learned all this from you. I have been influenced by you since I was a child. You taught me well!"

The old lady was delighted by the compliment and responded, “That’s right, not only do I teach well, my granddaughter learns even better!

My granddaughter is really smart. She can learn anything well and can get things done without getting bored. With this kind of thinking, what can't she achieve in the future?

Grandma is thinking, my granddaughter is so sensible and capable, I will have plenty of happy days in the future!"

Seeing that the old lady was happy today, Han Zhaozhao made big promises for her, such as getting 100 points in the exam, being filial to her when she grows up, marrying a son-in-law, and giving birth to a bunch of great-grandchildren for the old lady to play with...

Although I also think that my granddaughter is just trying to make me happy, there is nothing to her words.

But it was New Year's Day, and the granddaughter was so thoughtful and treated her like a child, that the old lady couldn't help laughing.

In the afternoon, Director Zhang came to pay New Year's greetings, and the Qian family, the Niu family, the Zhang family, the Li family, the Xue family...

Several heads of households who often visited the old lady came to sit with her, drink tea and chat for a while, and then went their separate ways.

Finally, Grandpa Guan also came, and the third child came a second time after running enough.

Now there were enough people, the two old men and two children started chatting, eating snacks, drinking tea and playing mahjong.

It was almost dark before Grandpa Guan took his third son back to the slum.

The dinner on the first day of the Lunar New Year was simple, and the grandparents and grandchildren started eating leftovers!

Heat up the leftover dishes from New Year’s Eve, and the leftover dumplings from the morning and noon, and try to eat them in the evening.

The grandparents and grandchildren tried their best to eat, but they still couldn't finish it. The first reason was that there were too many dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, and the second was that they had done nothing all day and had been drinking snacks and tea non-stop, so there was really no room in their stomachs for more!

The old lady smiled as she cleared the table, "I was thinking of eating the leftovers tonight and cooking something new tomorrow.

I didn't expect that I would be so full that I couldn't finish my meal! Oh, in previous years, I would never have thought that there would be a day when I would be so full that I couldn't finish it.

This year, life will definitely be better, and we won’t be hungry anymore!”