Chapter 397 Taste is also a kind of soft-packed memory

Author: Yishan Xiuzhu

Grandma ate dumplings. The delicious food soothed her sadness and her tears stopped. At the dinner table, grandma ate dumplings instead of anything else.

The people in the yard didn't notice the old man crying. They were all focused on the vegetables and dumplings. They couldn't care less about the burning of their backs now. They never thought that someone could make dumplings so delicious.

Grandma was eating dumplings and sighed in her heart:

'I can still eat such delicious dumplings and miss my mother. I am so happy. One of my wishes has come true. I have lived to be ninety years old. It is worth it. After eating this delicious mouthful, I am still happy even without it.

It would be better if you could bury me at sea instead of trapping me and let me go home alone!'

Grandma sat silently eating dumplings, thinking about her lifelong wish to go home, but she couldn't find her way home.

Mother Hou looked at her mother's expression and felt inexplicably a little distressed. She felt unspeakably uncomfortable. It was clear that my mother was in great spirits, but she still felt very uncomfortable.

She was originally happy today, but my mother's crying made her feel that there was something she didn't say, and she felt as if her heart was being twisted.

Yun Xi was eating in the kitchen with three aunts who were cooking. When someone finished eating, they would come over to add more dumplings. The aunts were guarding the pot and holding bowls. On the left was the dining table and on the right was the dumpling stove.

The dumplings were being cooked continuously, and twenty of them were packed on a large iron plate. Originally, the dumplings were planned to be leftover for freezing. The auntie who helped the cook looked at the dumplings and said with a smile:

"I still want to keep such delicious dumplings. Believe it or not, I was told that there were leftover dumplings. Not even the dumpling soup was left."

Another aunt said:

"That's for sure, haven't you heard of it? As the old saying goes, it's good to turn the original soup into the original food. Just like me, when eating dumplings, I like to eat the skin and filling separately. In this way, I drink the soup with the dumpling filling, and there are crispy pickles in it. That's called

A fragrance."

After hearing this, the aunts all started to talk about their favorite ways to eat dumplings.

Some like to use chili oil as dipping sauce, some like to use vinegar, and some like to use light soy sauce and sesame oil. After eating the dumplings, everyone went to scoop up the dumplings and drink them as the aunt guessed.

After lunch, all the plates on the table were empty, and the food was also empty. They were all finished. After finishing the meal, Xiaoling swayed her body with a full belly, imitating the old man at a young age.

With a wooden toothpick in his mouth, he walked to the kitchen, looked at Yun Xi who was still preparing ingredients, sighed and said happily:

"Wow! Sister Yunxi, the food you cooked is so delicious. Fortunately, I listened to my mother this morning and didn't eat breakfast. And just now, I was lucky that I didn't listen to you and didn't eat snacks. Otherwise, I would have suffered a big loss. It's so good.

If you miss a bite of the food you eat, you will suffer a loss."

After finishing speaking, Xiaoling took the toothpick, bent down with a smile and immediately joined the battle, ready to continue helping the cook.

In the afternoon, we prepared croquettes, deep-fried and marinated whole chicken, chicken feet, and pig trotters.

Tiger-skinned chicken feet and tiger-skinned pig's trotters are the dishes ordered by Zhang Xia, so she must help Xiaxia do this.

Yunxi was preparing the seasoning ratio for making croquettes. While grabbing the seasonings, he said with a smile:

"Just eat if you like. I think you will like tomorrow's lunch more."

After saying that, Yunxi deliberately opened the lid of the stewed beef pot and pointed in the direction where Xiaoling was staying, to feast his eyes on this blind and confident blind man.

Although she got lost on the road, Yunxi felt very natural getting along with Xiaoling, and the two of them got along relatively happily. Although Xiaoling's words were a bit irritating, she was still a very cute sister.

Sure enough, Xiaoling smelled the aroma of braised beef, her nostrils were turned upward, and she stood up slowly, following the place where the aroma wafted.

"It's a pity that my appetite is too small and I don't have a big stomach. Otherwise, I would definitely eat a piece of beef from the pot. It's so delicious!"

After finishing speaking, he strode toward Yunxi with his hands on his hips, stared into Yunxi's eyes, and asked:

"Sister Yunxi, why are you so good at cooking? Can you take me with you when you leave?"

After thinking about it, I felt that this was not enough, so I coquettishly lay on Yun Xi's back, hugged her tightly with both hands and said:

"Hmm~ It's so annoying. I wish you were a boy. I definitely don't want any gifts or any material things. As long as you can give me food to eat, I will take good care of your daily life. Just cook.

I can wash dishes until the end of time."

As she talked, she closed her eyes and felt that Yunxi's back was so comfortable. Although she looked thin, she felt very safe on her back. She felt sleepy lying on it, maybe she was too full.

So I want to sleep.

Yun Xi's back feels really comfortable now. This soft feeling is really great. If he is really a man, maybe he will really agree.

Yunxi stood where she was, maintaining her original appearance, letting Xiaoling act coquettishly, and said with a smile:

"If you really follow me, I won't be lenient and let you cook a big banquet with me every day, don't worry."

He spoke to Xiaoling in a threatening tone, trying to scare this love-headed person. This speech seemed to have a bit of a love-headed personality in it.

Xiaoling remained the same as before, continuing to lie on Yunxi's back and ignoring her threats.

The aunt who was helping the cook looked at Xiaoling acting coquettishly and said with a smile:

"Ms. Ling, have you forgotten what you looked like when you were eating? Can I help you recall it?"

Another person laughed loudly and said:

"We can't forget that the scene where Miss Ling was eating just now was a bit aggressive. She forked two dumplings with one chopstick, and finally she was so anxious that she forked three or four dumplings with one chopstick. The last thing on the table was Miss Ling who was able to eat."

Everyone looked for evidence to prove that Xiaoling was dishonest and even said that she had a small appetite and she ate the most at the dinner table.

Amid the roars of laughter from everyone, the kitchen was only busy in an orderly manner.

What I cooked for dinner was a stew. After frying the potatoes, they were stir-fried with cabbage, fried tofu, and fried beans. After the mixed vegetables were fried, no one filled a bowl, and they were eaten with steamed buns.

Yunxi also made two cold dishes: vinegared peanuts, vermicelli mixed with spinach, and a mung bean glutinous rice soup.

There were more people at dinner than at lunch, and there were even three more tables. Still the same feedback and the same CDs.

After dinner, the water-heating stove in the kitchen was turned on and the constant temperature was turned on to ensure that everyone could drink hot water at any time.

Yun Xi and the kitchen helpers were also arranging the cooked meat preparations, the fried chicken legs and meatballs, the fried pig's trotters and the cooked beef, pig and mutton, and began to arrange them.

In a large basin on the kitchen floor, there are fried meatballs and chicken legs, and there is also a large basin of fried pig's trotters. The two basins are buckled together to prevent small animals from eating them at night, just in case.

, there is a brick on top, so even the night owls passing by cannot eat it.

After all the preparation work was done and the kitchen was tidied up, the aunts who helped cook were the last to go home. It was already 11:30 pm.

The house was still full of people, including relatives and friends staying over for the night.

On the kang in the main house, relatives and friends were drinking hot water. Some people were lying on the kang and listening to chatting, some were leaning on the windowsill, others were eating melon seeds, and a few were chatting with each other.

On the small bench on the ground, people were sitting and chatting. Relatives gathered together and chatted about recent changes and life.

No one was playing with their mobile phones, they were all gathered together for the wedding, and then chatted about things in life together.

On the bed, Hou Liang's grandmother had already fallen asleep. The old man went to bed early at night and couldn't stay up. He could still fall asleep listening to other people chatting.

In the wedding room, Yunxi, Zhang Xia, two mothers, and two younger sisters were added, who are Hou Liang's cousins. That's right, they will sleep on the kang together tonight.

Mother Hou was the inspector before going to bed. She first went to the room where everyone was chatting and sent everyone back to their own rooms. There were five or six people in one room, and the men and women lived separately.

At this time, on the poplar tree outside the gate, a man dressed in black and wearing a hat was already watching everything in the yard, just waiting for an opportunity.

After the man saw the people in the yard walking away, he quietly climbed up the thirty-year-old poplar tree at the gate in the dark. Behind the thick branches, he couldn't see or find it at all. In the fork of the tree in the middle, there was something hidden.

A thin, but very agile man stared at everything in the yard, waiting for them to rest.

Mother Hou checked that the door was locked, looked around the yard, and found that everything in the kitchen had been powered off, all the food was put away, and the warehouse door was closed. She released the tethered little flower dog and took charge of patrol.

The final process is to turn off the lights in the yard and go back to the house to sleep.

After checking everything, we returned to the room where we slept.

After I went back, I looked at the time and saw that it was already twelve o'clock. I was already sleepy. I had to get up early the next day. There were still many things to do in the morning.

When everyone was ready to go to bed, the light bulb in Hou Liang's house was still the old pull-box lamp. Hou's mother grabbed the rope that pulled the light and said:

"Turn off the lights and go to sleep."

After saying that, he pulled down the light cord, and with a crisp sound, the room became pitch black, and the thick curtains prevented even the moonlight from penetrating.

Zhang Xia suddenly sat up, facing the direction where Hou's mother was sleeping, and said:

"Oh, no, Mom, turn off the lights. Put the gifts and hardware that will be laid out tomorrow, as well as my mother's dowry, under my quilt. I always feel panicked and uncomfortable."

Zhang Xia sat up and felt her heartbeat, but she still felt uncomfortable.

When getting married locally, there is a process, which is to go through the gift list, which depends on the bride price given by the man and the dowry given by the woman. These money are kept at home, waiting to be displayed tomorrow.

The betrothal gift doesn't matter. Hou Liang's family gave him 300,000 yuan, and he has already saved more than 260,000 yuan. The remaining money will be a formality tomorrow, and he will show everyone 36,000 yuan. That is his betrothal gift, because Hou's father likes it.

He kept a low profile. He didn't want others to talk about the bride price. People in this village basically started with a bride price of 180,000 yuan. Father Hou didn't want to be the one to make a show of it.

The hardware is also of the normal gram size, and there is also a diamond ring and a new bedding.

What worries Zhang Xia is her mother's dowry. The man can keep a low profile, but as a woman marrying a girl, her mother's family is here to support the scene. There is no need to be low-key. They just want to show their strength to the man's family.

Mother Zhang's dowry was two pairs of 50-gram gold bracelets, which added up to one hundred, and two pairs of small gold bars, both weighing one hundred and two (one), four in total, and a jade bracelet worth five figures.

There were ninety-six thousand in cash, and finally two sets of chopsticks and water cups made of silver.

Mother Hou looked at Zhang Xia and said in a low voice:

"It's okay. Mom has hidden everything for you tomorrow. Just sleep peacefully. When the gift list is over tomorrow morning, Aunt Hou Liang will take care of you. She will be in the house. After the ceremony is over at noon, you
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