Chapter 108 Hotpot

Author: Mahjong Jun

Chapter 108 Hotpot

Shanqian Village, Zhao Wenmu’s new home.

The entire first month of the new year is a time for visiting relatives.

Of course, it usually doesn’t take until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

This time is different from later generations. During the first month of the year, farmers basically had no work to do.

It's freezing cold and we can't do farm work.

The commodity economy is very scarce, and even if everyone wants to go out to work, they can't find a job.

Therefore, I stayed at home throughout the first month.

Nowadays, visiting relatives basically depends on your legs. The speed of bus No. 11 means that you can basically only visit one relative in a day.

Therefore, from the second to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, everyone basically visits relatives.

Precisely because we only need to visit one relative each day, everyone has time to sit down and have a chat and really connect with each other.

I don’t think about the future life. After the second grade of junior high school, there are only four days of vacation left.

Considering the time it takes to return to the city, there are actually only three days left during the vacation.

In three days, I have to visit at least a dozen relatives.

Every household just comes in, puts down gifts, says a few words, drinks tea, and leaves.

It only took about ten minutes.

For a whole year, the only time we saw each other was these ten minutes.

After a long time, everyone didn’t even recognize each other the next time they met!

In this era, most of the gifts are some dumplings, apples and the like. The host usually just leaves two dumplings or apples as a token of appreciation.

If someone leaves too many gifts, they will be gossiped about in secret.

Therefore, most people will not take advantage of such small advantages.

After visiting relatives for a long time, some of the old actors in the bamboo coriander (the steamed buns that have been left out for a long time) have begun to turn black and moldy.

In this day and age, who hasn’t eaten moldy steamed buns?

The Zhao family has bicycles, which is more convenient for visiting relatives.

Even so, we can only maintain the rhythm of one relative per day.

Zhao Wenmu liked this feeling of not being in a hurry, everyone staying in the house, gathering around the fire, talking slowly about the family's shortcomings.

Very warm and relaxing.

This is a slow-paced era.

But soon, this slow pace of life will be gone forever.

Sometimes, it's impossible to say whether the change is good or bad.

This is how society develops after all.

It cannot be determined by one person's strength.

Because Zhao Jing has no relatives here, the pressure on the young couple to visit relatives is half that of others.

There is a record in "Qing Jia Lu Xiao Nian Chao" by Gulu of the Qing Dynasty: "The third day of the Lunar New Year is the Xiao Nian Chao. No sweeping, no begging for fire, no drawing of water, just like the New Year Chao."

It means that you should have a good rest on the third day of junior high school.

After working so hard for so many days, Zhao Wenmu felt really tired.

So the two of them went to bed early on the night of the second day of the lunar month, and didn't get up until the sun rose high on the third day of the lunar month.

Immediately, I felt tired and exhausted, and my whole body felt refreshed.

After kissing the human-shaped pillow in his arms, Zhao Wenmu got up and went to make breakfast.

The "kitchen ban" has been lifted and he can now cook again.

What a blessing it is to prepare breakfast for your wife and daughter every morning!

Zhao Jing actually took away his happiness for so many days.

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After visiting some important elders, Zhao Wenmu felt at ease.

Although in theory, you can visit relatives throughout the first month, the later you visit, the more distant the relatives are.

Therefore, the three brothers Zhao Wenmu naturally rushed to the homes of several uncles, aunts and uncles and aunts in a hurry.

Then there are some of Zhao Xuehai's elders. Although these elders are more distantly related, they naturally have to go first because of their seniority.

Zhao Wenmu's grandparents have passed away many years ago.

Once these important relatives are gone, there will be no need to rush for others.

As for Zhao Wenmu, there are basically not many relatives coming to visit.

Given his age and seniority, the relatives who came were naturally visiting Zhao Xuehai and Liu Sufang.

Therefore, he quickly felt at ease here.

Of course, when visiting Zhao Xuehai's relatives, he would also have to come out to receive them. It was impossible for him to hide at home and not show up.

"Daughter-in-law, is there anyone from our father's place today?"

Zhao Jing had just returned from her old house, and Zhao Wenmu, who was lying on his back in the living room, asked casually.

"No, no one is coming today."

Zhao Xuehai's important relatives have also come, and there are not many relatives who have not come yet.

Zhao Wenmu looked at the time. It was half past eleven. What should have come normally had already arrived.

Most people won't come to your door after 11:30.

After all, the host family also needs time to prepare lunch.

It is very impolite for guests to come to the house too late, which will make the host busy.

It seems that there won't be any guests coming today.

He jumped up.

“Let’s eat spicy hotpot today!”

"What?"

Zhao Jing doesn’t quite understand what Malatang is.

"Today I'll treat you to Malatang worth 13 yuan."

Zhao Wenmu felt that he couldn't make spicy hotpot for 13 servings for 6 yuan.

With his endurance, 13 times a night is really difficult.

So he decided to treat Zhao Jing to a spicy hotpot for 13 yuan.

13-6 is a task that can be challenged.

Zhao Jing naturally didn’t understand this meme that only appeared in 2014.

Zhao Wenmu sometimes said some incomprehensible things, but she didn't care. She just wanted to eat new things anyway.

There is still some expectation in my heart.

The Malatang pot base is very easy to make, and even the crayfish base can be used directly without any problem.

Zhao Wenmu considers himself not such a lazy person.

So he cooked a pot of base ingredients very diligently. No, it can't be said that he fried a pot of base ingredients.

It must have been a pot of soup base.

Creamy and rich bone soup.

Wouldn’t it be delicious to use it to rinse ingredients?

What's more important is the dipping sauce. One is Zhao Wenmu's homemade sesame oil and spicy food, which is numb and spicy and makes people want to stop eating.

One is Erbajiang, a perfect ratio of peanut butter and sesame butter, with an appropriate amount of salt and other seasonings added, making it delicious and mellow.

Even if there are only two people, Zhao Wenmu never discounts food.

He used the copper pot he brought from the capital for shabu-shabu. Years ago, the old Zhao family gathered around it and had a delicious meal of shabu-shabu pork in the copper pot.

It is indeed a waste of soup base for two people to use such a large copper pot.

But there is no way, there is no suitable pot at home.
To be continued...