Chapter 87 Pasting Spring Festival couplets

Because the vegetable market was not open on the 30th day of the new year, Lin Wei and her daughter went to the vegetable market again in the afternoon to check and fill in the gaps and bought all the dishes and seasonings needed for the New Year.

After returning home, Mother Lin began to mix flour, while Lin Wei and Zong Shao helped wash the lotus root and radish, cut the lotus root into pieces, and chopped the radish. Remove the fish bones and mince the fish meat for later use.

When Lin Wei and his wife’s fillings are ready, and the flour mixed with Lin’s mother is almost the same, she goes into the house and removes the coal stove, puts on the iron pan, pours the oil, and when the oil in the pan is hot, she starts to wrap the **** and wrap them. A good one throw one in the pot.

The wrapped round fell into the frying pan, and the sizzling sounded, and the enticing fragrance wafted out, entering the noses of the three children playing outside the yard.

After a while, the three children came in and asked, “grandmother, what are you doing?”

“Bang Yuanzi.” Mother Lin asked with a smile when she saw the eyes of the three children, “Is it fragrant?”

The three children did not hesitate: “Fragrant! Very fragrant!”

Mingming also approached and asked, “Grandma, can I have a taste?”

“You can’t be so close, be careful that the oil splashes on you,” Lin Mu stretched out her hand to move her grandson aside, and used chopsticks to change the Yuanzi in the pot. You try it.”

“Hey!” The three children responded in unison, standing aside and watching.

Seeing that the skin of the Yuanzi in the pot was fried to a golden brown, Mother Lin took out the Yuanzi one by one and put them into the rice-draining basket, then wrapped the new Yuanzi and threw them in to fry.

Mingming looked at her grandmother as if she had forgotten the three of them, wrapping the rounds one by one, and couldn’t help it: “Grandma! Are you okay?”

“Okay, alright! Cat!” Mother Lin threw the round ball wrapped in her hand into the frying pan and said to the three children, “Go and find some chopsticks.”

Obviously too lazy to move, he asked, “Can’t I use my hands?”

When Mother Lin opened her mouth, she wanted to say, “I won’t burn you to death.” But when she said it, she remembered that it was Chinese New Year, so she couldn’t say anything unlucky, so she changed her mind and asked, “Aren’t you afraid of being burned?”

Regardless of whether she is afraid of being hot or not, Rarity obediently entered the kitchen and came out with three chopsticks.

Mother Lin took the chopsticks and asked, “There are fish **** and radish balls, which one do you want?”

“Can I have both?”

Mother Lin: “No, you can only choose one.”

“Then I want a fish ball.” Mingming said, Rarity and Little Stone also chose a fish ball.

Inserting a chopstick into one, and handing the fish ball to the three children, Mother Lin said to her daughter, “It’s obvious that this child is like you and is greedy.”

Lin Wei glanced at Zong Shao, who was smirking, and resolutely refused to admit it: “I wasn’t greedy when I was young, right?”

“Aren’t you greedy? Then you can find out what I have hidden in my house to eat. You can find it out and eat it secretly. I’m afraid of being criticized. Every time I take your eldest brother and the second brother with you. It’s not that I don’t know, I have a big appetite, and every time I get angry, I can’t wait to beat you with a board!”

Mother Lin was talking about what happened after Lin Wei remembered. Although many years had passed, she had a good memory and still remembered it, so she couldn’t refute it for a while.

Seeing her silence, Mother Lin deliberately added, “I lock the cabinets in my room just to prevent you.”

“It’s so many years ago, why do you still bring it up?” Lin Wei muttered, pointing to Zong Shao and saying, “Anyway, save me some face.”

In fact, Zong Shao wanted his mother-in-law to continue talking, but he knew Lin Wei and knew that he would definitely be stared at by her when he said it, so he held back after thinking about it.

Mother Lin said with a smile: “What’s the matter, I know all the embarrassing things Xiaozong did when he was a child.”

Zong Shao was startled and asked, “How did you know?”

Mother Lin was puzzled and asked her daughter, “You didn’t tell him?”

Zong Shao also looked over, and Lin Wei remembered and said, “I forgot to mention it yesterday. My mother said that when I was born, your mother often brought you to my house to play.”

Zong Shao raised his eyebrows: “Really?”

“Of course, then you will like Weiwei. Every time you come, you will hold her back and refuse to let go. Your mother wants to take you back, but you are not happy, hug Weiwei and cry.” Lin Mu said while frying Yuanzi. .

Lin Wei teased Zong Shao with a smile: “Wow wow cry.”

“And hold you and refuse to let go.” Zong Shao reminded.

Lin Wei’s cheeks were slightly warm, and she heard Mother Lin say, “If it wasn’t for the two of you, your mother and I would not order dolls for you, but we were just talking about it at the time, and we didn’t take it seriously. Who wants you to see it for yourself in the end? Right.”

Lin Wei listened to this not quite right: “Didn’t you guys arrange our blind date? What do you mean by our own eyes?”

“We asked you to see each other, but we are both enlightened parents. If you didn’t see each other, could Xinglan and I still force you to get married?” Mother Lin said confidently.

Lin Wei reluctantly said, “…Okay.”

Zong Shao is very sensible: “Mom is right, we are indeed the old shígG dujia who see the right eye.”

…

Because of his father-in-law’s suggestion, Zong Shao was much more honest that night, and Lin Wei didn’t stay up late, and got up early the next day.

The state-run restaurant was closed, so breakfast was more casual. Zong Shao boiled a pot of noodles and put a few eggs in it.

Mother Lin thought it was too extravagant to eat eggs for breakfast, so she didn’t plan to ask for it, but Lin Wei said she wanted to eat good things in the new year, and Zong Shao didn’t listen to her. decline.

Although Ruirui always disliked her father’s cooking skills, Mother Lin has always been very supportive. One is because she is not picky about her food, so she can eat it, and the other is because she thinks that a man like Zong Shao who can cook can Encourage him so that he can keep his passion for cooking and work harder in the future.

On this point, Lin Wei thinks the same as her mother, so she never forgets to encourage Zong Shao, and when he is on vacation, at least let his chef cook a meal.

Lin Wei felt that if it wasn’t for her continuous encouragement and the presence of the two little guys who were holding back Mingming Ruirui, Zong Shao would definitely lose confidence in his cooking skills, and then he would be spoiled.

Therefore, both mother and daughter finished the noodles cooked by Zong Shao very quickly, and praised Zong Shao enthusiastically and praised his cooking skills for making progress.

Listening to the words of his wife and daughter, Father Lin couldn’t help but eat two more mouthfuls of noodles, first eating quickly, then chewing slowly, afraid that he would not taste the taste. But after chewing the slow food carefully, Lin’s father still suspected that his wife and daughter were not eating a bowl of noodles with him.

Mingming was more direct, biting his ear to his younger brother and saying, “Grandma and mother’s mouths are weird too.”

Rarity agrees, and speeds up to finish the bowl of noodles.

Although my father’s noodles were not as delicious as my mother and grandmother said, they were not so bad. Anyway, he could eat two bowls at a time.

However, when his mother helped to add the noodles, he specially told Rui Rui that the New Year’s Eve dinner at noon would be richer, with chicken, duck, fish and meat, so after thinking about it, he gestured with his thumb and forefinger and said, “Then I’ll eat another one. Just order it.” They all went into the kitchen, and he must eat noodles on the second night.

Lin Wei had already discovered her younger son’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, so she didn’t embarrass him, and added a thin layer of noodles to him.

After eating the noodles, Rarity finally felt at ease and asked her mother, “Mom, when are we going to have lunch?”

“It’s after eleven o’clock, let’s see when it’s ready.” Lin Wei said.

Rarity snorted and happily left the kitchen to tell her brother the good news.

Mingming originally wanted to eat a second bowl of noodles, but after listening to his brother’s words, he decided to save more for lunch.

…

After breakfast, Zong Shao began to post Spring Festival couplets.

Mingming Ruirui saw it, ran over to join in the fun, and told Zong Shao whether he was crooked or not.

It was just fine at the beginning. When the curtains were attached to the door, the two brothers quarreled. One felt that they should go to the left, and the other felt that they should go to the right.

Although Zong Shao stood on the stool and didn’t need to raise his hands too high, he was also made impatient by these two stinky boys and asked, “Is it left or right?”

“left!”

“right!”

The two brothers didn’t have the same heart at all, so Zong Shao had to call Lin Wei, who was busy in the kitchen, to come out to help. Lin Wei looked at it and said, “Isn’t this right? What else is there to do?”

Zong Shao fixed the curtains and got down from the chair. A child gave a brain break: “Are you helping me, or are you here to cause trouble for me?”

Obviously Ruirui was still tilting his head and said, “But I just think it should go left/right.” At this moment, the two of them had a tacit understanding.

Zong Shao: “…On the eighth day of the new year, I will take you to see your eyes.”

Lin Wei smiled and asked, “Is the back door posted?”

“No, you can take a look at it for me again, these two little **** are unreliable.” Zong Shao went into the room, picked up the couplet and went to the back door.

Mingming was very dissatisfied with his father’s words: “We are not little bastards!”

Rarity also said, “We’re pretty reliable!”

Ask for help spontaneously.

Lin Wei was afraid that Zong Shaozhen would beat up the two children, so she followed. But this time, the eyes of the two children are fine, and they have a tacit understanding, and the couplet will be pasted after a while.

After pasting the couplet, he clearly asked, “What is this, Mom? Why did Dad put it on the door?”

“This is the Spring Festival couplet. At first, it was posted to eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits, but gradually it became a custom.” Lin Wei explained.

Mingming suddenly realized, and asked, “What is a custom?”

“Customs are the customs and habits left over from the past,” Lin Wei explained in advance, afraid that her son would ask herself what customs are, “In other words, when parents were young, grandparents, grandparents, grandparents did this. So now mom and dad do the same.”

Mingming immediately raised his hand and said, “I understand, my brother and I will do the same in the future!”

Lin Wei smiled: “When you grow up, it’s up to you whether you want to do it or not. Mom and Dad will be old, but they won’t be able to control so much.”

“Can Mom and Dad take care of us when they get old?” Mingming’s eyes rolled.

Lin Wei reached out and rubbed his head: “Don’t worry, we can take care of you for decades before we get old.”

Mingming’s eyes were blurry: “Decades!”

Lin Wei laughed, and Zong Shao, who came down from the second floor after posting the word “Fu”, heard her laughter, turned to the backyard and asked, “What are you talking about?”

Lin Wei repeated the conversation just now, and joked with her son: “He thought we were going to get old soon, and we couldn’t control him. When I said that we could control him for decades, his face collapsed.”

Zong Shao looked down at his son and asked, “If my mother and I leave you alone, what would you most like to do?”

The obviously collapsed face immediately recovered: “That’s a lot.”

“Oh? Tell me?”

Mingming looked at his father and then at his mother: “Can you say it?”

“Can.”

“Did you say you can avoid being beaten?”

“Don’t beat you.”

Mingming clenched his fingers and counted: “Then I don’t want to go to school, I don’t want to go to class, I don’t want to do my homework, I want to play, eat, sleep at night, and brush my teeth in the morning…”

Lin Wei covered her eyes, feeling that she didn’t see anything.

After Zong Shao clearly finished counting, he gave way to the door and said, “Go in.”

Mingming thought that Zong Shao wanted him to go in and be beaten, and he was shocked and said tearfully, “You guys just said you wouldn’t beat me!”

Zong Shao’s voice is rare and gentle: “I won’t beat you, let you go upstairs and have a good sleep.”

Mingming looked up at the sky and asked inexplicably, “But it’s daytime, and we haven’t eaten lunch yet, why should I go to bed?”

Except during the Chinese New Year, Lin Wei was always taken by Lin’s father to go fishing, and she couldn’t make up for her sleep at noon. When she had time, she would take a nap after eating, and she even developed the habit of taking naps.

But obviously it’s not the kind of child who can’t tell the time, sleeps whenever he wants, and has no principles. He sleeps during the day, and he has to eat after lunch, and he won’t sleep at other times when he is sleepy!

However, what the father and son said was not the same thing at all, Zong Shao said: “I want to tell you that there is everything in a dream.”

Playing and eating all the time, not sleeping or brushing his teeth, he really dared to think!

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