OBS Chapter 371 New Year's Entertainment
Chapter 371 New Year's Entertainment
She spent a long time arranging the bowls one by one, but felt that no matter how she arranged them, they didn't look good. "I should have bought some plates and dishes earlier."
The cheapest ones don’t cost much. Nowadays, we serve dishes in bowls at home. If we can’t afford it, we have a few clay pots. But we have nothing to serve these melon seeds and snacks, so it seems we need to get some new bowls and utensils.
Zhou Xing brought out the rice candies and rice cakes she had made at home and placed them on the small table.
Zhou Mai and others took out the few walnuts and chestnuts that were left at home.
In this way, the small kang table was filled with a variety of items, which really looked like the grand occasion only seen in a wealthy family.
The old man's teapot and teacups were squeezed so tightly that he couldn't even get out.
Li brought in a pile of firewood from outside and saw that the kang table was already full. She couldn't help laughing and said, "Why did you take all these out? If others saw this, they might wonder if we got rich somewhere."
As they were talking, someone called outside the door. Qian came in with her two children.
It's New Year's Day, and you're just sitting around doing nothing anyway, so you should take a walk after dinner.
Li warmly invited the person into the house, made way for the kang and said, "Go up and sit down. I'll add some more firewood."
In order to save firewood in winter, usually only one kang is burned during the day and two kangs are burned at night. The whole family sleeps in one bed, which is more comfortable than sleeping separately.
Qian was holding a bowl of homemade fried rice candy in her hand. When she saw the small kang table full of food at Zhou's house, she felt a little embarrassed. She couldn't put down the food in her hand. She didn't expect that Zhou's family would be so willing to spend money and buy so many New Year's food! The rice candy in her hand looked particularly shabby.
Zhou Guo took it with a smile, "Aunt, this rice candy is fried well. It looks different in color from ours. I wonder how they fried it?"
Li smiled and said, "You may not know, but Aunt Qian's skill in making fried rice candy is one of the best in the village. I learned it from her."
This is something that most people don’t know. “Really? Let me try it.”
Everyone came to try it, you took a piece, I took a piece, and in the blink of an eye, the big bowl of fried rice candy was empty.
Gone!
Qian was dumbfounded holding the empty bowl!
If this bowl of rice was left at their house, the kids would eat it for two days, and it would be gone?
Wang Changsheng was very happy, because the fried rice candy made by his mother was really delicious. Although the Zhou family had a lot of food, this bowl of fried rice candy was a rare delicacy for them. He was very happy that the Zhou family liked it.
Li pulled her to sit down and said with a smile, "Don't be surprised. We have many children in our family. We don't have much food. How can we prepare enough for them? The little ones are eating me out of money. Fortunately, I have a master at home. Otherwise, I, a woman, would have to eat grass roots and wild vegetables every day."
Qian came back to her senses from her shock and couldn't help but pat her hands comfortingly. She said sincerely, "I originally thought that what you said was a bit exaggerated, but now it seems that the children can really eat. It's really hard for you. If it were me, I would definitely not be able to raise them."
Eating is like a swarm of locusts passing through. How can one endure this?
Li glanced at the old man who was drinking tea and eating melon seeds, and said with a smile: "We have the help of the master in our family, otherwise I would really call on God."
Several boys in Zhougu couldn't sit still. After eating some melon seeds and some snacks, they went out with the snacks in their hands.
Zhou Su was going to find playmates in the village. He made several good friends here and called his two followers, Li Lai and Li Wang, away. When they left, Wang Changsheng and his sister followed them.
There was a loud noise and suddenly Zhou Mi, Zhou Xing and Zhou Guo were the only ones left in the room.
The three of them stared at each other.
Zhou Xing said: "Why don't you two go out with them?"
Zhou Mi looked at Zhou Guo, "Why don't you go out?"
Zhou Guo raised his eyebrows, "Why don't you go? My second brother has already gone."
Zhou Mi shook his head, took a look outside, and said, "It's too cold. Besides, I don't like playing with them. They are so picky that they won't even give them one more fish."
The three of them could only sit there and drink tea, eat some snacks and crack some melon seeds.
After a long time, blisters appeared on Zhou Guo's tongue. They drank up both pots of tea and could not sit still. It was too boring.
I couldn't help but look at the old man next to me and asked sincerely: "Master, isn't it boring for you to sit there like this?"
The old man was eating melon seeds elegantly. Hearing this, he looked at her curiously, "Why, do you have any fun?"
He couldn't go into the mountains. All the shops in the town and the county were closed during the New Year. He didn't know any old men in the village. Where else could he go except staying at home and cracking melon seeds?
Zhou Guo sighed, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and said, "I'm going to go out for a walk."
Although blisters appeared from cracking the seeds, the melon seeds were right in front of me and my hands and mouth were out of control, going against my brain. I felt like I couldn't live without cracking the seeds.
Zhou Xing shouted from behind, "It's cold outside, come back early."
"Got it." Zhou Guo waved his hand and went out.
She wandered around the riverside, fields, and back hills where she usually picked wild vegetables, but didn't meet anyone. She also didn't know where all the children in the village had gone, so she had to return dejectedly.
At home, Qian and Li didn't know what to say anymore, they were chatting happily.
The old men were still the same as before, even their postures seemed to have not changed, except that there seemed to be more melon seeds in some of their bowls than when they left, as if they had added another bowl.
Zhou Guo took off his shoes, sat on the kang, and slapped the table and said, "Master, sister, third brother, shall we play cards?"
"What cards?" Zhou Xing and Zhou Mi looked curious and a little excited. "How do we play?"
It's really boring to have nothing to do, it seems like it's suffocating me.
The old man raised his eyebrows, "Do you know how to play cards?"
Leaf cards? What is that? Dao Zhouguo nodded.
Then, the old man watched her take out several handfuls of dry yellow leaves from her bag.
Old man: "..."
Zhou Xing and Zhou Mi widened their eyes. "Is this the card you mentioned? The leaf?"
Zhou Guo took a piece of black charcoal and painted on the leaves with great interest. Hearing this, he said, "What's wrong with the leaves? These are all carefully selected by me in the back mountain. Many of them were dug out from the snow pile. Many of them are rotten. In order to collect these, I almost searched the entire back mountain."
It’s not easy to find a complete leaf after snowing for so long.
It took me a while to arrange all the leaves into characters, and a deck of playing cards made of leaves was born.
She drew a card, and the old man and the other two looked at one at a time. There were only "one, two, three, four" written on it, and they couldn't understand what the card was or how to play it. There were peaches and squares drawn in the middle, in strange shapes, and they didn't know where they saw it from.
Zhou Guo held the playing cards made of leaves and explained the rules to them, "...there will be a punishment for losing. Well, it's washing dishes. Whoever loses has to wash the dishes."