In Xu Ning, every household needs to steam steamed buns before the Spring Festival every year, including longevity peach steamed buns, fish steamed buns, etc. The steamed buns made by the old lady are particularly beautiful, at least in Xu Ning's opinion.

On New Year’s Eve, Xu Ning would eat one of the tails of the fish-shaped steamed buns, which means that there will be more than every year.

Steaming buns is a laborious job. When you eat steamed buns on weekdays, you only need to knead the dough and cut them into pieces and then steam them. However, the steamed buns during the Chinese New Year are different. They need to be kneaded for a long time until the dough reaches a certain flexibility before they can start to shape. Otherwise, if they are too soft, they will collapse quickly and steam them will be ugly.

The night before, the old lady kneaded a piece of dough and put it on. Before dawn, the dough was ready.

After waking up Xu Jianjun and his daughter, the three of them started kneading dough on the kang in the old lady's house.

Xu Jianjun is very strong, and he has been working hard every year for kneading dough every year. Xu Ning doesn't like this little strength, so he lets her watch from the side. If she hadn't asked her to go together the night before, the old lady wouldn't have called her to get up.

I saw the old lady pinched a piece of dough that Xu Jianjun kneaded. She felt that the softness and hardness were appropriate, so she took it over and kneaded it for a few seconds. Then she kept making it in her hand. Not long after, a peach-shaped steamed bun was ready. Then she picked up a cotton thread and made a mark on it. After the steamed bun woke up, she would use a blade dipped in wine to cut the trace. The steamed bun would crack a mouth, which meant that the longevity peach was ripe.

Fish-shaped steamed buns will stuff a date into the head to replace the fish's mouth.

Another type is to press a date directly on the dough, using the meaning of an old lady, which is to look at the pottery. Two pottery will be placed in each pot of steamed buns, so that these two steamed buns can be looked at the rest of the steamed buns so that they will not be steamed.

Xu Ning likes to eat this guy because the old lady will stuff brown sugar into it.

It takes two days to steam steamed buns. Steam two pots every day and dozens of large steamed buns, which is enough for their family to eat until the first month of the year. A glove steamed bun is about the size of Xu Jianjun's head. Their family of four eats at most one and a half meals, and Xu Ning can even panic for one quarter of it.

In addition, there are good wine and good food during the Spring Festival, so I naturally eat less steamed buns.

I especially remember that when I was a child, the steamed buns would become moldy on the surface until the Lantern Festival, which was caused by improper storage.

"Make a few more candy buns for Ningning this year." The old lady kneaded the snow-white dough in front of her and said with a smile.

Xu Ning nodded, "I like the candy buns made by my grandma the most."

After working hard for more than an hour, all the steamed buns were prepared, twelve longevity peaches, two look at the pot. This is the amount of a pot. If the iron pot in rural areas is not big enough, it would be really impossible to put it down.

Xu Ning asked to help burn the fire, but the old lady did not agree.

"You go to bed for a while, I'll watch the fire, so you can't burn it fine or vigorously, and the mouth of the steamed bun is not suitable."

Xu Ning had already gotten up and had no intention of going to bed again. He called Xu Jianjun and went out for morning exercises.

At this time, many chimneys in the village had already started to smoke. Breakfast was a little earlier. After all, the sky was still drizzling now, and it should be like their family, who all got up to steam buns.

"Look at the snow before the New Year." Xu Jianjun looked up at the sky. There was not a single star, and he felt a little dark.

"I like snow very much." At this time, the world felt particularly quiet.

Xu Jianjun smiled and said, "By the way, at the end of the year, my dad went to the county for a meeting. It seems that the county decided to build two high schools, No. 1 and No. 9 Middle School. It is estimated that Xiao Zheng and his team will move to the county to go to school in their third year of high school, and they may live in the school."

"County?" Xu Ning was a little surprised. There should have been news at this time of his previous life, but Xie Zheng finished his senior year here. "Isn't it good to be here?"

"It's not bad, it's just a multi-faceted consideration." Xu Jianjun analyzed to his daughter: "Where there are schools, business development will be very fast. The county also decided to vigorously develop the commercial economy, so he decided to build a school in an open area in the county. This will encourage the economy and the surrounding land prices can also rise. Our high schools here are the earliest in the county, so they are also the key development target. This is actually quite good, and living in the school can also make the children feel at ease."

Xu Ning thought that if his family makes money in the future, his family will buy a few properties in a big city.

She likes houses. After all, she rented old houses in the city until her death in her previous life, and there was no house of her own.

Although there is this small farmyard in Xiangshan Village, Xu Ning has no good intention to come back and live there. She didn't know what the house was like after the Xu family was destroyed, and the left was abandoned.

When she died, it was said that the holidays in first-tier cities in China soared to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands per square meter. Now it will probably be very cheap. I don’t know if there is one or two hundred per square meter.

However, Xu Ning knew that twenty years later, the housing prices on their side would not exceed 1,000, and forty years later, it would only be 5,000 or 6,000 per square meter. This shows that there will be no bubble economy here for at least fifty years. This is also a benefit of small cities and prices are stable.

The Imperial Capital and the Demon Capital are two cities that are famous all over the world in the later period. If you have the chance, she really wants to build a home in these two cities.

Although this is quite a bit dreamy for Xu Ning, people always have dreams, but what if they come true.

Xiao Zhong and Huahua are both kind-hearted girls. Many times, Xu Ning is very hard to live alone. During festivals, she will be invited to their house to gather together. Xu Ning can't resist the two girls. She has been to Xiao Zhong's house. Her parents are both intellectuals, doing decent work, and have a decent attitude and decent etiquette. She is also very friendly and enthusiastic about Xu Ning. The elders in Huahua's family are the same. No wonder they can teach such two cute girls, but she has her own heart and she is not embarrassed to set foot again after only once.

If she has the chance in the future, she will still meet these two girls. She will use a good life to contact those two girls in this life.

"It's good to live in the school, and you can exercise your ability to be independent."

"It's okay to live with so many classmates in the summer. If you don't like to be clean, you will have a headache. And in winter, it may be very cold."

"I'm not that spoiled." Xu Ning looked at his father with a funny look.

Xu Jianjun felt so sad. Isn’t his precious daughter still so spoiled?

Well, thinking about these days, my daughter is indeed not spoiled, but he and his wife carefully hold her in their hands. They really feel a little reluctant to think that they will suffer such sin sooner or later.

After wandering around the village, the father and daughter went home.

The old lady is still in the kitchen at this time and is preparing flour.

"I'm back, don't sweat?" she asked looking at the two of them.

"We walked slowly, without running or sweating, grandma, don't worry." Xu Ning walked into the kitchen and saw grandma's actions, "Are you going to make dumpling soup?"

"Don't you like to eat?" If you don't like to eat, just make cut noodles.

“I love eating very much.”

Xu Jianjun went back to the house.

In the bedroom, Qin Xuejuan was awake and was quietly reading an English book in her coat.

"Awaken at dawn?" Go forward and stuff your hands under the quilt to warm it, "Look for a moment."

"I slept very well and I got up now. My child is old and I can't sleep well at night. It's better to get up and walk around."

Seeing this, Xu Jianjun hurriedly brought clothes for his wife and helped her dress.

"Oh, this child is troubled by you. I will definitely educate you when I am born." It's February of the Gregorian calendar, and it only takes more than two months to come out. Although the child is not in his belly, he can see how hard his wife works.

Because he feels sorry for his wife, he loves his children very much. Those who have worked hard to give birth to them do not need to be carefully maintained.

Qin Xuejuan opened her mouth and smiled, "Look, I'm so powerful. Ning Ning was so hard at the beginning, and she didn't see you scolding our daughter."

"How could I bear to give up this?" Xu Jianjun pretended to be surprised. "People say that his daughter is his mother's little cotton jacket. His father's lover in his previous life is our treasures. Of course, he has to fight to protect him."

Qin Xuejuan smiled and glared at her husband coquettishly, "If it's a son or my little lover in my previous life, I won't allow you to teach you a lesson."

"No, I don't. If it were my son, I would definitely have to teach you a lesson. Those who stole my wife would beat me up and beat me up."

"You guy..." Qin Xuejuan couldn't stop smiling, "I can't tell you."

As soon as she finished speaking, Qin Xuejuan noticed that the child in her stomach moved a few times, which made her breathe.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jianjun asked worriedly.

"Maybe this little guy was unhappy when he heard you were going to beat someone up, and he was protesting in my stomach." Qin Xuejuan stroked her lower abdomen, "Don't say anything more."

"Okay, I won't say it." Xu Jianjun nodded, but looked at his wife's belly silently. He lit his index finger twice, and said in a lip shape: "When you come out, I'll see if I won't beat you up."

The couple got up and washed up, and breakfast was ready.

I steamed steamed buns for two days and killed the last pig in the pigpen. It was very close to New Year's Eve.

During this period, the people in the village walked frequently, and they were all close friends from neighbors who had good relationships to give each other New Year gifts. You give me some bacon, I give you some dried fruits, and interact with each other.

The children are also very playful. Although the weather is cold outside, you can always see some children jumping lattice and rubber bands in alleys or streets. Now they also have chips like candy in their hands, which makes them even more booming.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the old lady took out three tablets of the Xu family and placed them on the altar in the middle of the main hall. There was also a large painting on the wall. In the middle were two well-dressed couples, which represented the two ancestors of the Xu family.

Usually, this painting is kept carefully by the old lady, and it will only be hung during the Chinese New Year. Usually, such a painting can last for more than ten or twenty years, and it can be kept carefully for decades.

In the countryside, girls do not go to the grave or kneel down. Xu Jianjun kowtows to his ancestors every year. I wonder if he will add a boy to him in the future.

On New Year's Eve, the Xu family had a simple lunch, and then the grandparents and grandchildren sat in the kitchen to prepare dumplings.

Dumplings need to be made two meals. In the middle of the night, the New Year’s Eve dinner and the morning of the first day of the New Year, you have to eat dumplings. As for dinner, it is a very sumptuous dish.

The old lady was cutting meat while Xu Ning chopping cabbage, Qin Xuejuan prepared onions, ginger, garlic, etc. for later use. As for Xu Jianjun, he took a broom and shovel to clean up the snow at home and outside the home.

A few days ago, it snowed a whole day and a night. Although it was not heavy, it was still a pile of three fingers of snow. If you didn't clean it up, the young people in the village of the first lunar month came to pay New Year's greetings. They would make jokes when they saw it. Besides, there was a pregnant woman at home, so how could they feel at ease?

At 4:30 pm, Grandma Gao next door walked in with a springy look on her face.

"Chunhua, don't forget to come to my house to play after dinner. Let's stay together."

"I can't forget it." Yu Chunhua said: "Have you finished making dumplings at home?"

"Just finished my busy work, Xiao Zheng's child helped me roll out the dumpling skin, which was very brisk. I'm going back to cook now, so I'll go early tonight." After that, he left with his arms shaking.

Tonight, Xu Ning personally cooked the dishes, cabbage and tofu, braised carp, sweet and sour pork ribs, braised pork bones, cold spinach, chicken vermicelli, and six dishes filled with full servings.

Such dishes were not eaten every day in the old society by landlords, but now rural people do not eat them often. Meat is usually made by guests at home or during festivals. Usually, every household is usually full of cabbage, cabbage, or cabbage.

The dishes were served as the pot. At six o'clock in the evening, the whole family sat around the dining table.

The old lady said something in a nagging way, saying that it was for the deceased old man to hear it. Then she looked at the three juniors in front of her and smiled and said, "Okay, get up the chopsticks."

Because I have to take care of Qin Xuejuan, the food at home tastes lighter, but even so, the whole family is smiling.

After dinner, the old lady went back to pack some melon seeds, fruit candy cubes, etc., and then took them to the family and went to the next door.

When they arrived at the Jiang family, they had already finished their supper. When they saw the Xu family coming, Grandma Gao warmly called their family to go to the kang to warm up.

Mr. Jiang’s house is very spaced, which is much spacious compared to the Xu family’s house, so their kang is also very large. Seven people don’t seem crowded at all when sitting on the kang, and it’s even OK to play the royal family with two tables of cards.

The royal family had no choice but to play mahjong until midnight.

The little gambling is fun. The two families don’t play money, they play like children, and the gambling money is just candy.

Xu Ning curled his lips and smiled. No wonder his grandmother had to carry a bag of candy when she went out.

Qin Xuejuan sat on the hot kang, leaning against the folded bedding and watching Xu Jianjun and the others play cards, while Xu Ning chatted with Xie Zheng every sentence.
To be continued...