happy fisherman

Chapter 119

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It was already noon when the full boat came back from the town. Normally, he would come back to eat if he went to town alone, not to mention that all the shops in the town are closed now, and there is no place to eat, so Bai Beibei left it for him. Meals are hot in the pan.

Speaking of this, Bo Beibei is also very helpless. Now that the family is not short of money, my brother is reluctant to part with the few copper coins every time he insists on coming back for dinner. It is useless to persuade him several times.

As soon as Bai Beibei brought the food to Manchuan to the dining table in the tea shed, Yuzhu came. Seeing that Manchuan hadn't eaten yet, Yuzhu couldn't help but ask lightly, "Why are you eating now?"

"Sister Yuzhu, my brother went to town and just came back."

Bai Beibei glanced at his brother who was silly when he saw Sister Yuzhu, and hurriedly explained something for him. I don't know if he heard what Sister Yuzhu said?
Bai Beibei didn't bother the two of them, and went into the house after greeting Yuzhu.

Man Cang and Liu Bao went out to play, and Feng Shi and Widow Liu were steaming rice cakes in the kitchen.

Bai Beibei went into the kitchen and watched from the sidelines. In her memory, rice cakes are steamed at home every Chinese New Year, but not much is steamed. This year, Mother and Aunt Liu have already steamed two large pots and are still steaming.

"Mother, can you finish steaming so many rice cakes?"

For Bo Beibei, it’s just steaming after eating. It’s too wasteful to steam so much at once if you can’t finish it.

"Your aunt has to take care of your sister Meisha, so she doesn't have time to steam rice cakes, so I just steamed a piece of your aunt's and second aunt's." Feng said, otherwise she would not have steamed so much at one time.

Bo Beibei suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Mother, besides steaming rice cakes every Chinese New Year, don't you also steam vegetable cakes?"

In my memory, the taste of the vegetable cakes steamed by my mother is very memorable.

Feng glanced at her daughter and said with a smile, "Vegetable cakes are only eaten at night on New Year's Eve, have you forgotten?"

"Yes, miss, we only eat vegetable cakes on New Year's Eve." Widow Liu also said.

This vegetable cake is actually steamed with sticky rice flour mixed with pickled vegetables or shredded radish. It is a kind of salty cake used to fill the stomach. It is not seen on the dining table of the rich.

Feng smiled and said: "We used to make pickled vegetable cakes, this year we will make more garlic vegetable cakes, let's see how it tastes?

Some garlic was planted in the field behind the house a while ago, just in time to eat it during the Chinese New Year. Garlic vegetable cakes should taste much better than pickled vegetables.

"Okay." Bo Beibei frowned, and said again: "Mother, do you want to invite uncle and uncle to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve?"

"Of course the reunion dinner is going to be eaten, but your sister Meisha can't blow the wind while sitting on confinement. I have already told your uncle and second aunt that this year's reunion dinner will still be eaten at your uncle's house."

Since we separated, we have a reunion dinner in Dafang every New Year's Eve, and this year is no exception.

Thinking of this reunion dinner, Feng's face darkened, and his throat was a little astringent, if only the child's father was still there?

Seeing her mother talking, Bo Beibei suddenly felt sad and sad. She didn't know if she thought of her father, so she pursed her lips and changed the subject: "Mom, are we going to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year?"

For the father whom he had never met, Bai Beibei really didn't have much feeling.

"Except for your grandparents, we don't have any relatives who want to leave. During the Chinese New Year, we just run around the village." Feng didn't think much about her daughter. She thought that her daughter was still young and forgetful. His father passed out again when his father had an accident, so he forgot some things.

Of course, Bo Beibei knew that the folks in the fishing village would visit each other during the Chinese New Year. She was just wondering why there were no other relatives besides grandparents. What about those relatives on her father's side?
Seeing that her mother didn't want to say more, Bai Beibei didn't ask any more questions.

It was the end of the year, no one went out to sea, and there were too many people walking around. Yuzhu was worried that it would cause gossip and did not dare to stay in the tea shed. After chatting with Bai Manchuan, she picked a piece of silk and satin at random and went back.

Although they met for less than a quarter of an hour, Yuzhu and Manchuan were already satisfied.

The Feng family steamed the rice cakes and asked Bai Beibei to deliver them to the second room of the eldest room, and Bai Beibei carried the rice cakes to the second room first.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a man in his 40s, about [-] years old, about the same age as Bai Dinghai, talking to Bai Dinghai in the hall.

Bai Beibei recognized this person, this person was Bai Dalang who had played with his uncle since childhood.

Bai Beibei put a pot of rice cakes on the table, and smiled at Bai Dalang, "Uncle Da Lang is here too? Just right, try my mother's steamed rice cakes."

"Da Lang, Feng's craftsmanship is good, let's try it." Bai Dinghai also said.

"Hehe, I've heard that Manchuanniang's craftsmanship is good, so I'll try it." Bai Dalang said with a smile.

Bai Beibei opened the lid of the pot, and Bai Dalang looked at the rice cakes in the pot in surprise: "There are also red beans?"

Bai Dalang said as he picked up a sliced ​​rice cake and put it into his mouth, chewed it, and said, "Mmm, it's really sweet and fragrant!"

Generally, it would be good if more sugar is added to steamed rice cakes. Feng’s rice cakes not only contain enough sugar, but also red beans, which are of course delicious.

"Eat more if it tastes good." Bai Dinghai said with a smile.

"One piece is enough." Bai Dalang sat back after eating a piece of rice cake.

"Dalang, is there something you want to see me today?"

The two were young, and Bai Dinghai saw that Bai Dalang's smile was full of preoccupations, and he concluded that there must be something wrong with Dalang coming to him.

Only Bai Dalang sighed, and then said shyly: "Dinghai, I feel blushed when I say it, I came to ask you to borrow money today, my second boy had a high fever a while ago, in order to hire a doctor for him I spent all the money at home, and it will be two days before Chinese New Year, and there is no food at home, and my daughter-in-law is at home wiping tears all day long."

He was also forced to go through this, that is to say, he knew Bai Dinghai's character, and the two of them were young, otherwise it would be strange if the old Chinese New Year came to borrow money and they were not beaten out.

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?" Hearing this, Bai Dinghai reprimanded displeasedly: "I can't get away to see you because of Meisha's affairs, you should have told me about this a long time ago!"

Bai Dalang sighed again: "It's not because I heard about Meisha that I didn't dare to disturb you anymore, but if this year can go on, I won't come to you at this time."

"You just want to save face and suffer!" Bai Dinghai cursed, then got up and went back to the house, presumably to take the money.

As soon as he heard that Bai Dalang came to borrow money, Bo Beibei stared at him vigilantly. When he saw his uncle get up and go back to the house, there was gratitude and embarrassment in his eyes, and then Bo Beibei took it back. Looking at her, it seems that she really encountered a difficult situation, and it wasn't her plan to cheat her uncle out of money.

(End of this chapter)