take a wife to support the family

Chapter 102 Cooking Pot Fresh Fish and Goat

The next day, the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, was Song Haonian's birthday. When the two were discussing their marriage, Li Caifeng sent him a letter of horoscope, which was clearly written.

Opening her eyes early in the morning, Lily kissed Song Haonian on the face, and asked him with a smile: "It's your birthday today, what do you want to do?"

Song Haonian was not very happy to celebrate his birthday, he was not loved by his parents when he was a child, since his brothers and sisters celebrated their birthdays, but he was the only one who celebrated their birthdays, and after a long time, he lost interest.

It was the first time someone asked him what happened to his birthday. This was a novel experience. Song Haonian was taken aback before answering: "Just pass it casually, we don't pay attention to that."

Lily rubbed against him, "Anyway, it's a birthday, even if you don't want to celebrate it, it should be more grand."

Unexpectedly, Song Haonian was in the early morning when he was full of energy, so he told her to rub against her, and then turned over and pushed her down: "I just want to spend time with you."

There was fire in his eyes, full of aggression, and he looked straight into Lily's eyes.Lily's heart throbbed, she raised her head and kissed his eyelids.

Now Song Haonian couldn't bear it anymore, just because of the anger in the morning, he licked the lily all over, and ate it all up.

In the middle, Lamei came to knock on the door: "Sister, are you awake?"

Lily was startled, Song Haonian almost surrendered, the two looked at each other like thieves, savoring the pleasure of sneaking, Song Haonian couldn't help but continue.

Lily gritted her teeth tightly to restrain herself, and squeezed out a sentence: "I haven't gotten up yet..." He swallowed the words after that.

Lamei realized something outside the door, blushing and went to the kitchen to make breakfast, because she was too embarrassed, she almost stumbled over the kitchen threshold.

It's high in the sun, the young couple lie face to face in the quilt, Lily whispers to Song Haonian, "The clothes are cold."

Song Haonian scented her face twice reluctantly, put on his clothes and got up, holding Lily's clothes on the brazier to warm them up, "It's really warm now."

Lily just got up to dress herself, Song Haonian held her down again: "I'll do it."

She is like a little doll, as long as she stretches out her arms and legs, everything is properly arranged by Song Haonian.

When the two of them walked out of the room, Lamei was already reheating breakfast for the second time. Seeing that the elder sister had come out in full length, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Hurry up and eat."

The little girl still doesn't understand what it's like to get along with a husband and wife, she vaguely feels that the noise she heard in the morning is a good thing, and she's afraid that it's her brother-in-law beating her eldest sister, otherwise why would her voice change her tone?
Seeing that Lily's face was radiant and radiant at this moment, and she didn't look wronged at all, Lamei was really relieved.

From 23 to Xiaonian, there is no need to do work to make money, or do some needlework at home, or sit around the brazier to keep warm and joke around, which is a rare leisure time for farmers in a year.

Lily put a few pieces of charcoal into the brazier, put it under the salt-free environment to diffuse the smoke, and when it was hot, she carried it into the house, and said to Song Haonian and Lamei: "Come here to enjoy the fire."

Lamei didn't like to approach them at this time, she always felt that if she watched too much, she would get a needle's eye, so she said, "I'll go find my second sister."

She has a good relationship with Song Ermei. Lily was very happy to see that she had friends of her own, so she asked her to bring some sweet-scented osmanthus cakes: "Give it to Mrs. Dagui and Ermei. Remember to give it to elder brother, second brother, and Xiaofu when you go." Let everyone say, it's your brother-in-law's birthday, and you'll have time to eat in the next afternoon."

Lamei went out, and the young couple were warming up around the brazier. Lily was holding a pair of insoles. Looking at the size, Song Haonian knew that it was not her own. It didn't look like Lily would wear it herself. "For Lamei? Lamei's feet are so big." Big?"

He remembered that his sister-in-law didn't seem to have such big feet.

Lily chuckled, "For Qingsong."

It was only then that Song Haonian remembered that he had a brother-in-law who was rare to meet. The boy in his teens was not tall, but he had big feet, bigger than Lamei's feet.

A few clumps of orchids are embroidered on the insole, and the white background is lined with green lines, which is very bright.Song Haonian said jealously: "Daughter-in-law, why don't you make insoles for me?"

Lily put down her needle and thread, and looked at him curiously: "Are you still arguing with a child?"

It's rare for a big man to act like a baby, and it's really fun.

Song Haonian was a little embarrassed, he twitched a bit, and then became confident again: "You are my wife, and Qingsong wants to wear it, ask his wife to make it for him!"

How old is Qingsong, and he has to wait until the year of the monkey to marry a wife?

Lily lost her temper because of this man, she walked to the bed and lifted the mattress: "Isn't this yours?"

There were three or four pairs of insoles neatly placed on the bed, embroidered with more care and exquisiteness than Qingsong's pair, and now Song Haonian was satisfied: "Just treat me well!"

After he was satisfied, he began to feel sorry for Lily again: "Why do you do so much needlework, do less, you will feel dizzy."

It is really not good for the cervical spine and eyes to bow your head for a long time, so Lily urged him: "I see you brought chestnuts back, go and get some, let's roast chestnuts and eat them."

Song Haonian took a handful of chestnuts and put them on the table, Lily put away the sewing basket, and poked the fire with tongs.Make a small opening on the top of the chestnut - this is Song Haonian's job - bury it in the brazier, cover the top with high-temperature charcoal, and after a while, you can hear the sound of "poof", it is the chestnut that is being cracked, and the sweet smell It also slowly spread out.

Lily's fingers are thin and white. If it weren't for the rough palms, they would not look like the hands of a peasant woman, but rather like a lady who can read and write.

Song Haonian watched Lily poke the fire nimbly, and his heart started to itch again, he rubbed her hand a few times, held her fingertips and licked her nails.

Lily struggled lightly: "Don't make trouble."

He kept kissing from the tips of his fingers to the back of his hand and then to his wrist. His wrist was also thin and white. I rested my affectionate thoughts.

When the chestnuts are roasted, they are turned out of the ashes and eaten after blowing off the floating ash.Lily's hands were weaker, and it was difficult to peel them. Song Haonian quickly peeled several of them. He didn't eat them himself, and fed them to Lily one by one.

The freshly roasted chestnuts are hot, and the taste can only be tasted after rolling in the mouth a few times. The sweetness is rich and the aftertaste is long.Lily rolled her eyes contentedly: "You eat too."

"You eat first, I'll talk about it later." Song Haonian was happy to feed the lily, and it didn't matter whether he ate it or not.

At noon, Lamei came back and said, "I've told Brother Liu Yi, Brother Dagui, Brother Sanping, Brother Wuping, Brother Pingan, and Brother Xiaofu. We'll come to the birthday banquet at noon."

As soon as she said it, it was a string of "brothers", which amused Lily.

"It's a birthday banquet..." Song Haonian muttered softly, "Just do whatever you want."

Lily didn't want to have a birthday party at home either, her plan was to gather Song Haonian's sworn brothers together a year ago, so that everyone could kiss each other.

Among the things Song Haonian brought back this time were a sheep and a few fish.

Mutton is delicious, but it tends to smell bad if it is not cooked properly. Ordinary people can neither afford it nor be willing to cook mutton.Fish is the most fishy thing, with many thorns and no oily water. Rural people regard fat meat as a treasure, and they don't want to eat fish unless they have to.

The combination of these two fishy and smelly things is a word for "fresh" - fresh fish and sheep.

Lily asked Song Haonian to break open the lamb cavity, take out the ribs and chop them into pieces, wash them with water.

The fish has been dissected and washed, and salted to dry for a few days. Although it is not very fresh, it is better than nothing.Scrape off the remaining fish scales, rinse the internal dirt, wash until the fish is white and tender, without a trace of blood, and chop into pieces similar in size to mutton.

Blanch the mutton in hot water first, and decant the blood.Put oil in the pan, heat it together with ginger slices, pour in the fish meat and fry until both sides are slightly yellowed, add water, scallion knots, and peppercorns to cook together.

After the water boils, pour in the mutton pieces, first boil on high heat, and then simmer on low heat. While cooking, keep skimming off foam with a spoon to keep the soup clean and milky white.

Lamei sniffled and disliked it when Lily was cooking the fish: "It smells so bad!" Now she inhaled while burning the fire, "Why is it so delicious!"

Lily sent her to open a yellow mud-sealed jar in the cellar, and took out a few more apples, pears, and pomegranates that had been saved around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and by the way, some sweet potatoes to make shredded sweet potatoes.

Lamei ran to fetch the fruit, Song Haonian came over to tell Baihe how hard it was, and told her not to bother her too much, my brothers don't pay attention to this.

Lily said: "Besides my own brother, you should have the proper etiquette. If you go to your eldest brother's house, sister Caifeng will give you leftovers, what do you think?"

Li Caifeng is a shrewd person, she has never done anything disrespectful, and gets along well with her brothers, Lily can't be too far behind her, with her guidance, etiquette is also good.

Lamei is much more awake now, Lily only told her about the fruits and sweet potatoes, and she brought out two cabbages on her own initiative: "Since we are going to cook, one sweet potato is definitely not enough, let's add another cabbage."

Lily praised her smoothly: "That's the reason, you saved me so much trouble!"

After being affirmed, Lamei happily cut sweet potatoes and soaked them in water, washed cabbage and cut them into thin strips one finger wide, so that they can be cooked later.

In the afternoon when all the brothers came one after another with presents, Lily had already asked Song Haonian to borrow a big table and a dozen bowls from a neighbor's house.The men sit at one table and drink, and the women arrange another table.

The steaming fresh fish and sheep are placed on the table, the soup is milky white, rich in aroma, with a few tender green onions floating on top.A full plate of fried cabbage with oil residue is a solid weight for a country family.The whole egg is beaten into warm oil and fried until fluffy and soft. Sprinkled with salt and pepper, it is another mouth-watering dish.

The white rice is served in a wooden basin, and everyone can add it as they like.If you don’t want to eat rice, you can choose pumpkin and sweet potato pancakes or steamed stuffed buns brought by Li Caifeng from home.

The shredded sweet potatoes had to be eaten while they were hot, and they were served last. Lily took off her apron and greeted everyone to eat. On the man's table over there, Song Haonian held up the wine glass and thanked all the brothers for celebrating his birthday.

For the second glass of wine, he crossed the table, respected Lily and said, "Daughter-in-law, without you, I wouldn't be where I am today. You treated me well, and I remember every penny."

Li Caifeng and Dagui's sister-in-law coaxed Lily to drink. Lily's face turned red, and she was already drunk before drinking.

(End of this chapter)