The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 78

The taste of the new year is getting stronger and stronger, and Fang Yu and Lin Qiulai have almost prepared the food for the new year, except for the rice cakes.At the end of the lunar calendar, Linjia Village has the habit of making rice cakes and eating rice cakes. Every household grinds glutinous rice into powder and makes rice cakes as a traditional gift for relatives during the New Year. It is a "good mouth color" to wish relatives and friends to ascend every year.

Although Lin Qiulai has tools for making rice cakes at home, Fang Yumin doesn't know how to make rice cakes.She knows how to steam rice cakes, and she can make rice cakes with coconut milk and red bean rice cakes.But Fang Yumin only watched rice cake making on TV, and saw a few strong men beating each other vigorously, beating those balls of glutinous rice flour to death, so sticky that it could be stretched forever.

So, Lin Qiulai and Lin Xialai made up their minds and decided to make rice cakes at Lin Xialai's house together.Lin Qiulai and Lin Xialai brothers did the hard work of grinding flour and making cakes, and Fang Yumin and He Shi did the steaming of glutinous rice flour. As for the four children, they didn't hang around the stove, Mother stuffed some steamed cakes to eat, just to play in the yard.

Now Fang Yumin and He Shi are sitting on the bench with their four children, eating peanut candy and watching Lin Qiulai and Lin Xialai, two strong men performing rice cake making.

"Second sister-in-law, this rice cake is delicious when fried with kimchi." Fang Yumin suddenly remembered the Korean street food that is popular all over the country: Korean-style fried spicy rice cake.

"Really?" Mrs. He smiled and said, "We only use it to make rice cakes with soup, and sometimes we add some sugar to make them sweet. Xiaolian is better at cooking."

"Hehe," Fang Yumin felt embarrassed, saying that she has been making food all the time recently, and she has become a foodie: "It's not because you gave me chili peppers that I made so many kimchi."

"Third Aunt, the rice cakes will be ready in a while, you can fry rice cakes with kimchi for us to eat." Taohua raised her head and said to Fang Yumin.

"Okay." Fang Yumin squeezed Peach Blossom's face and said with a smile.There are all sons in the family, Fang Yumin put all her dressing experience on Taohua, and gave her a pink material, and designed cute clothes and hats for her to wear in the New Year.Of course it was her mother Ho who did the sewing.

Xiao Ming was very happy when he heard this, and he yelled at Lin Qiulai: "Father, mother is about to prepare the ingredients again, please work harder."

Lin Qiulai scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, you can call people, you are a boy, come and beat me too."

"Okay, I'll do it." Xiao Ming stood up and ran over. Xiao Yang and Xiao Hua hesitated for a while, then ran over to make rice cakes.

Two big men taught three little boys how to make rice cakes. Everyone had more fun than work, so they were happy.In the end, Fang Yumin and Taohua also went to the field to play, and several of them took turns playing, sweating all over.

After the rice cake is ready, dig it out and put it on the chopping board.Four adults and four children gather around a long chopping board to knead the rice cake into a round shape, or into a column shape, or knock out patterns with a printing board.Rows of white and soft rice cakes are laid flat on the bamboo plaques.

Mrs. He took out two chopsticks, dipped some red paint with Fang Yumin, and put a little bit of red paint on the rice cake. Such a beautiful rice cake was finished.

When you get up the next day, the rice cakes will harden and can be dug up one by one and stacked in bamboo plaques.After the Spring Festival, in order to preserve it for a longer time, the rice cakes must be soaked in water.To eat, just take it out of the water and cut off a little bit.

The freshly made rice cakes are still very soft, and you can taste the sweetness when you bite them directly.

Fang Yumin sautéed the garlic with lard until fragrant and poured the garlic on top of the soy sauce. It is also delicious to eat with rice cakes.If you like spicy food, put some chili sauce.

Xiao Ming still had rice cakes in his mouth, so he asked Fang Yumin, "Mother, didn't you say you want to make kimchi spicy rice cakes?"

"Snacks!" Fang Yumin poked Xiao Ming's round face, "Eating what's in the bowl and thinking about what's in the pot."

"Isn't that delicious made by mother?" Xiao Ming smiled and acted like a baby on Fang Yumin.

"Okay, I'll make something for everyone to taste." Fang Yumin also misses the sweet, spicy, spicy, soft and glutinous taste.

"Xiaolian, why don't you eat rice cakes at my house tonight. You make it, and I'll help you." He said with a smile, and Xiaohua and Taohua nodded quickly after hearing this.

"Okay." Fang Yumin thought for a while and said, "But the seasonings are all at my house, and it would be troublesome to bring them back home. Why don't we all go to my house to eat? Well, to celebrate today's rice cakes, my second sister-in-law and I will make them tonight." A rice cake feast."

"Okay, okay." The four children cheered, and now they are very obsessed with eating.Lin Qiulai and the two brothers didn't speak but just smiled and packed their things.

Lin Qiulai, Fang Yumin and Xiaoyang Xiaoming and Xiaohua Taohua carried the rice cakes and went home first. Lin Xialai had work to do at their house, so they will go there later.

Back home, Lin Qiulai took the rice cakes to the backyard first.Fang Yumin went into the kitchen to stew radish and big bone soup.Now the radish is so sweet that it can be eaten directly as a fruit, not spicy at all.The nutritional value of radish is comparable to that of ginseng, and the soup made with big bones is the best.Fang Yumin also put shiitake mushrooms in, it was very fragrant.

When Mrs. He came over, the two of them made rice cake feast together in the kitchen.Stir-fried rice cakes with Korean spicy cabbage, rice cake soup with bacon and Chinese cabbage, fried rice cakes with egg liquid, fried rice cakes with bacon, sweet potato rice cake soup and fried rice cakes with dumpling wrappers, etc. The aroma wafting from the kitchen made several little ones greedy They all circled around the stove.

"Okay, okay, go out and set the table, it will be ready to eat soon." Fang Yumin said while serving spicy kimchi and pickled cucumbers.

"Okay, let's go right away."

He watched the children go out with a smile, and then took out all kinds of rice cakes on a wooden tray.Fang Yumin filled the radish soup and brought it out.There is a table full of places, full of color, fragrance and taste.

After everyone was seated, Lin Qiulai raised his glass and said, "Come on, cheers. The children will replace the wine with soup. I wish everyone a happy new year and good health."

"Cheers! Happy New Year!" Everyone who brought wine glasses and soup bowls shouted happily.

"start."

"start."

The temperature outside has almost dropped below freezing, and it is estimated that the first snow since winter will fall soon.Lin Qiulai's house was unusually warm, full of laughter, completely isolated from the cold outside.Eight adults and children sat around the table, eating soft and delicious rice cakes, drinking delicious radish soup, laughing and talking about interesting things this year and the outlook for next year.

It was supposed to be dinner time, but Zhang Cuihua knocked on the door from Lin Qiulai's house: "Qiulai, is Qiulai at home?"

The smiles on the faces of the eight people froze, and they looked at each other.Lin Qiu came to see Fang Yumin, stood up and went to open the door.

Fang Yumin smiled and said, "Everyone, don't stop, eat quickly. My second sister-in-law and I have done so much."

After hearing this, He couldn't help laughing, she glanced at Lin Xialai and said, "Come on, don't stop you children, eat quickly."

Soon came the sound of Zhang Cuihua's fast and heavy footsteps, and before entering the living room, she heard her loudly saying: "Qiu Lai's daughter-in-law, why didn't your family give us rice cakes this year? Qiu Lai, you are useless, you If my daughter-in-law doesn't give it to you, she will send some, huh?"

Fang Yumin raised her eyebrows and asked He Shi: "Do you want to give rice cakes? Isn't it during New Year's greetings?"

Mrs. He said: "It is only given during New Year's greetings. When New Year's Eve worships ancestors, each family also prepares a chicken and rice cakes to go to the uncle's house. But Xiaolian, you used to give some rice cakes to your mother-in-law every year. This year you Did not deliver."

"Oh." Fang Yumin suddenly realized.Fang Xiaolian, you holy mother, Zhang Cuihua treats you like this and you treat her so well, what can I say about you?Now that I have become you, I have to ruin your reputation and become an evil daughter-in-law.

"Mother-in-law." Fang Yumin stood up when she saw Zhang Cuihua stepping in.

"Uh." Zhang Cuihua didn't seem to expect Lin Xialai's family to be here, her face was quite stunned, but when she saw a table of colorful rice cakes steaming hot and tempting, her two brows furrowed again Get up, and reprimanded: "How are you guys, hide here to eat and drink spicy food, don't care whether your parents are dead or alive. How did I give birth to you two unfilial sons!"

"Didn't uncle and sister-in-law cook for you?" Fang Yumin raised her eyebrows, "Xiao Lian just saw that every household is making rice cakes today, and uncle's must have made rice cakes too, and must have made delicious rice cakes, so she didn't call The father-in-law and mother-in-law come to eat. The mother-in-law is wholeheartedly for the uncle's family, and we all see this."

"Huh?" Zhang Cuihua was in a state of distress. Could she say that because Fang Xiaolian sent rice cakes every year, Hu asked Lin Chunlai to make only a few rice cakes?Can she say that they waited at home but didn't see Lin Qiu come to bring rice cakes, and Zhang Cuihua came to knock on the door?Can she say that she wants to drool when she sees the rice cakes on this table?
Fang Yumin winked at Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming immediately went to hold Zhang Cuihua's hand and said, "Grandma, we just started eating, why don't you eat with us. Mother also made carrot soup, which is delicious."

Zhang Cuihua looked down at her least favorite little grandson who often called him a short-lived ghost, but held her hand and said to eat rice cakes together at this embarrassing moment, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

The other three children also gathered around, you had a mouthful of grandma, and I had a mouthful of rice cakes for my grandmother, Zhang Cuihua was so moved that she sat down as well.

Mrs. He went into the kitchen to put carrot soup on bowls and chopsticks, and Fang Yumin boiled another pot of sweet rice wine out.Seeing that Zhang Cuihua is so strong, he probably likes to drink too.Sure enough, after a few glasses of wine, Zhang Cuihua showed her true colors, eating vegetables and drinking in big bowls.

Fang Yumin winked at Lin Qiulai, who was a bit listless, and everyone slowly returned to the previous topic, which was nothing more than the sowing and sweet potato flour processing in the spring of next year, and the children's learning problems.

Seeing that everyone no longer avoids her, Zhang Cuihua has mixed feelings.Her favorite and favorite, she wished to give everything to their eldest son and daughter-in-law, but in fact it was not good for her.In terms of food and drink, the Hu family is very stingy.

The second child will never be taken seriously, and Lin Xialai is an honest, logical Zhang Cuihua ignores their family.

In the past, Zhang Cuihua liked her youngest son, Lin Qiulai. Lin Qiulai was the smartest of the three brothers, but Lin Qiulai went against her will and insisted on marrying Fang Xiaolian, whom she disliked the most. Come together disgusted.After Fang Xiaolian's mother passed away, Zhang Cuihua went to Lin Qiulai's house every few days to make a fuss. For some reason, she didn't even like Xiao Ming.

Ever since Fang Xiaolian woke up from a faint, she stopped being obsequious to her, stopped compromising with her, and Zhang Cuihua didn't get any benefits, only then did she realize that among the three daughter-in-laws, Fang Xiaolian was the one who was the best and most filial to her. .

This room Zhang Cuihua's heart was churning, no matter how she looked at how Lin Qiulai's family was pleasing to the eye; that room Fang Yumin didn't notice that Zhang Cuihua looked at her much softer, she was still the same as before, as long as Zhang Cuihua didn't go too far, she didn't want to argue with the old man.

It's not that Fang Yumin's heart is so kind, it's just that people will grow old one day, and her sons will see how she treats Zhang Cuihua now.Right from wrong is clearly distinguished from black to white, and when it is time to perform filial piety, she must also do it. Only in the future can she and Lin Qiulai enjoy the blessings of their children and grandchildren.

Zhang Cuihua suddenly picked up a piece of rice cake fried in egg liquid and put it into Xiao Ming's bowl, and said in a very gentle tone: "Xiao Ming, this rice cake is delicious, eat more."

Then, while everyone was stunned, they gave Taohua, Xiaohua and Xiaoyang one by one. When they looked up and saw everyone looking at her with their mouths open, Zhang Cuihua felt a little embarrassed. She coughed twice and said: "Look What are you doing with me, will you let me eat like this?"

"No. You eat what you eat." Fang Yumin came back to her senses and said with a forced smile.Oh my god, did Zhang Cuihua change her character because of rice cakes?
"Ahem." Zhang Cuihua cleared her throat, and praised with great difficulty: "Qiu Lai's daughter-in-law cooks good dishes, delicious."

"Thank you, mother-in-law." Fang Yumin was still quite skeptical. She didn't believe that Zhang Cuihua would change after eating a meal of rice cakes.Now that Zhang Cuihua is showing his favor to her, she will not refuse.

It was a complete meal.Lin Qiulai and Lin Xialai were ordered to accompany Zhang Cuihua, Mrs. He helped Fang Yumin clean up, Xiaoyang and Xiaoming taught Xiaohua Taohua to play poker, originally they wanted to play 24 cards, but Xiaohua and Taohua had never studied mathematics, so they played poker. Not coming.

Fang Yumin thought about it, and then made another pot of pickled vegetable Jinbai rice cake soup.Since the mother-in-law ate rice cakes at home, the father-in-law should also prepare a portion.

While washing the dishes, Mrs. He said, "Grandma seems to be determined to treat you well."

Fang Yumin sneered: "I don't expect her to treat us well, I just hope that she doesn't come to make trouble."

"My sister-in-law's natal family has some money, but she is stingy, and my mother-in-law probably won't get any benefits from following her. But you, you are so poor that you don't even have meat to eat, and you still have to save it for her."

"I'm stupid." Fang Yumin said with a smile: "I finally came back to normal, do you think I will be stupid again?"

"Hey, you are very shrewd!" Mrs. He cast a sidelong glance at Fang Yumin, and couldn't help but smile.

"Xiaohua will be eight years old next year, right? You should send him to school."

"The family is a little looser this year, and I want him to go to school." He sighed and said, "You also know the situation in my family. The tuition fee of 400 Wen a year is really difficult to afford. Peach Blossom is still young, and the work at home has to be done. Someone has done it, otherwise he would have been sent to school long ago."

Fang Yumin nodded and said nothing more.

Lin Xia came home after sitting with his family for a while, and Zhang Cuihua also got up to leave.Only then did Fang Yumin bring out the pot of rice cakes: "Mother-in-law, this is rice cake soup, take it back and let your father-in-law taste it too."

Zhang Cuihua looked at the big pot of rice cake soup that was still bubbling hot, then at Fang Yumin, and nodded.

"Mother, wait a moment, I'll take you home." Lin Qiulai took the food box and put the casserole in it.

Fang Yumin thought for a while, and said to Zhang Cuihua: "Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, maybe you don't like to hear it. You and your father-in-law are getting old and can't stand the cold. Don't give the children everything to wear and eat. Uncle and sister-in-law will take care of it." Take care of the children, and you two don’t need to worry about it.”

Zhang Cuihua glanced at Fang Yumin, but didn't even refute, and even said "Hmm".Fang Yumin, who was already ready to be yelled at, blinked and sighed in her heart: You are really amazing, Nian Gao!

(End of this chapter)