Eating melons

It is impossible for me to help out. It is a matter of man's face. If I can't even prepare these tables of food, I will be laughed at.

Therefore, the most female comrades can do is help to light the fire, and they don’t do anything else.

As for why the fire needs to be lit, it is because that kind of big pot can be used to steam vegetables, which is very convenient.

Also, people in the south may pay more attention to clan members and family, so there are always a lot of relatives coming to visit during the New Year.

People go to pay New Year's greetings in groups, going to one house today and another house tomorrow. A banquet usually starts with at least two tables, and three, four, or five tables are also very normal.

That kind of gas stove can't cook so many dishes at one time. You have to use a big pot to cook them.

So in the countryside, people usually use wood stoves to cook at this time, while in the city, they just go to restaurants.

Anyway, every Chinese New Year, her grandfather and father would be busy in the kitchen, while she, her mother and grandmother would play cards in the living room.

When grandparents and grandparents-in-law celebrate the New Year together, there will be several tables of cards and mahjong at home.

During the first month of the year, the women in the family spend their days eating, drinking and playing cards.

So Wei Wei’s favorite thing in the past was the Chinese New Year. There was food, drinks, and fun, and she didn’t have to work. There was nothing more enjoyable than this, and she would receive this treatment no matter whose house she went to.

The most important thing is to be able to play cards and mahjong. If it were normal times, it would definitely not be allowed. This is the right of adults. But it is different during the Chinese New Year. Anyone can go and play a few rounds.

Therefore, if it were normal times, if Xiao Xuemu had to cook so many dishes by himself, she would definitely go to help, but today, she had no intention of helping at all.

Xiao Xuemu naturally knew about this custom in their place. As for how he knew it, it was because Wei Wei told him when they were preparing the food.

To be honest, if Xiao Xuemu didn't know that Wei Wei had no need to tease him about such things, he would almost think that Wei Wei didn't want to make him into a rice frame.

Because he had never seen this kind of custom before, let alone seen it, he had never even heard of it.

Although both men and women in their family can cook, there is no rule that stipulates who must cook. Although they usually eat in the cafeteria, his mother, sister and grandmother do most of the cooking at home.

Moreover, it seems that in most areas, men are the breadwinners and women are the homemakers.

It seems that there are very few men who cook. In fact, there are still many places that use the name of "Jun Ziyuan outsources the cooking" and all the cooking and housework are done by women.

Xiao Xuemu suddenly felt that Hunan Province was really a strange place. It cannot be said to be a strange place, it can only be said to be a different place, a magical place.

I don’t know if it’s the same in this era, but many of their ideas seem to be different from others.

This is the problem with preparing New Year’s Eve dinner, and it also applies to other places.

For example, regarding the issues of fighting and domestic violence that Wei Wei mentioned earlier, in other places, if one knew that their daughter was beaten by her in-laws, they would either ask the daughter to endure it, or her family would bring people to beat her up.

Only in Hunan Province do girls get to fight back on their own, and if they lose, they'll be scolded.

And Wei Wei’s previous boast of playing cards in the morning, beating boys in the afternoon, and beating men at night is also really amazing.

Judging from Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's skillful mahjong and card playing techniques, Wei Wei has played these things many times.

If Wei Wei hadn't been here when they were still relatively young, and Wei Wei hadn't said that their study pressure was very high, they were in school every day and didn't have much free time to play.

Therefore, it would be impossible to have such skills if it were not for teaching by example and habits developed since childhood.

There is also the issue of betrothal gifts that Wei Wei mentioned before. In their place, when marrying off a daughter, the dowry is usually equal to the amount of betrothal gifts, and sometimes even double the amount.

Families with less financial resources usually give all the betrothal gifts to their daughters. If they don't give it all, they will make up for it with equal value from other places. This really shocked him.

To be honest, he used to think that Wei Wei was like this because she was the only girl in the family, but he didn't expect that the situations Wei Wei described were common in their place.

He really didn't expect that in the future there would be a place where gender equality could be achieved, and boys and girls would be treated the same.

I just don’t know if it will be the same in other places in the future.

There is also the issue of marrying into the wife's family. He really didn't expect that in Hunan Province, marrying into the wife's family is just like marrying a daughter, and no one would look at it strangely. He really found it hard to believe.

Ever since he met Wei Wei, Xiang Province has almost become a mystery to Xiao Xuemu.

The New Year’s Eve dinner was Xiao Xuemu’s battlefield, but Wei Wei was not playing either.

While Xiao Xuemu was cooking, she prepared other things, such as snacks and drinks, which were all indispensable.

It would also be a good opportunity for Xiao Xuemu to see what her snacks and drinks usually look like.

Xiao Xuemu has known about her system mall for a long time, and they have been in contact for a long time, but Xiao Xuemu actually seems to have never tried the snacks and drinks in her system space.

The main reason was that Wei Wei hadn't thought about this, and she herself hadn't eaten snacks or drunk beverages for a long time.

I used to eat them often when I was with Jiang Qi, but I haven’t touched those things since I got together with Xiao Xuemu.

Compared to snacks and drinks, she was more interested in the fruits and vegetables grown by Xiao Xuemu.

There are more things outside now, everything is available. You can just pick whatever you want to eat. It is clean and hygienic. She didn’t even think about snacks and drinks.

All she drank during this period was fruit juice, all freshly picked and made, and she almost forgot about drinks.

However, Wei Wei was still a bit cautious when choosing. She decided to try the more stimulating and spicy things later.

She was afraid that Xiao Xuemu's stomach couldn't take it, so there was no need to make him suffer too much during the New Year.

Because the dishes that need to be stewed for a long time are almost done, they only need to be processed slightly.

For things like fish, you can put it in the oven, and the gas stove is a double burner.

Therefore, Xiao Xuemu cooked very quickly and it only took him more than half an hour to finish the meal.

As for the staple food, there are two kinds, dumplings and rice. The dumplings were wrapped before going to the educated youth institute and only needed to be cooked.

Therefore, this New Year’s Eve dinner can be said to be a combination of the north and the south.

I just came back from the Youth League Institute. Looking at this table of food and then looking at the food on the other side of the Youth League Institute, there is really a tragic contrast. The contrast is too obvious.

I won’t talk about the portions of the dishes they ate, because it was just two of them, so the portions were not particularly large.

One bowl of food is enough for three people at most, and most of the time it is enough for two people.

But in terms of quality, their meal was really better than the New Year's Eve dinner at the Youth League Institute.

Don't tell her that different times, different consumption concepts, and different things they own are all different.

Take this table of dishes for example, the people at the Youth League Institute were fully capable of preparing it.

Moreover, except for the crayfish, the other ingredients for these dishes can be bought at the Red Star Brigade, so it is simply a matter of not wanting to give them up.

Anyway, Wei Wei had made up her mind that when she was going to cook for the Chinese New Year next year, she would send Xiao Xuemu to ask what dishes they cooked and what dishes she needed them to prepare.

Let's discuss it first before taking it over, otherwise the people on their side will be taken advantage of.

If they still dare to ask for such a high price, then there is really no need to have any contact with anyone from the Youth League Institute anymore.