Chapter 1483 Happy Childhood

No words were spoken during the night. When I woke up in the morning, I saw a world covered in silver. The snow on the ground was more than a foot thick, and it had been snowing all night.

After getting up early in the morning and washing up, Yang Dongxu went to the kitchen to turn on the stove and other things.

Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya were both back. In order to add some popularity and fireworks to the house on the old side of the house, Yang's mother said that breakfast and other things should be eaten in the courtyard.

It happened that the house on the street was not far from the old house, and it was just a two-step walk in the morning.

I had steamed buns for breakfast. The buns were wrapped last night. There was no need to put them in the refrigerator in this weather. After wrapping them, I just found something to cover them and put them in the kitchen.

Turn on the stove to boil water first, heat the steamer, wait for the water in the pot to boil, take the steamer down and put the buns in. Grandpa, grandma and my uncle's family will also come to have breakfast.

So more than 20 baskets were steamed. The stove was originally used for steaming buns. It was a tin stove with three football-sized holes on the top. You could boil water in the ground and put the steamer on top. More than 20 baskets were divided into three pillars and were not very high.

In addition to the stove for steaming buns, Yang Dongxu turned on two other stoves. On the second stove sat a very deep bucket-like pot. It was the same pot that some breakfast vendors used to hold porridge and soup.

Some stewed food was cooked in the pot, such as dried tofu, peeled eggs, meatballs, pig's trotters and pig's head meat.

The base soup of the stewed pot was from Xiaomei Dandan Farmhouse, so it was full of flavor and the stewed food was very delicious.

Every day, just add appropriate seasonings, salt and water to ensure that the soup is full of flavor. You can throw anything you want to eat into it for stewing. For example, there are several large beef shank bones in it at this time.

After all, grandpa, grandma, old man Xuan and father-in-law are old. Even for people with good teeth like old man Xuan, it is a bit troublesome to eat meat.

So this year, I made a stew pot like this. I can just throw any meat I want into the stew pot and stew it until it is thoroughly rotten and you can eat it even if you have no teeth.

A few beef shanks are prepared for Dongjie and Xiao Wenchen, and of course, Yang Dongxu, a carnivore.

The stove for stewing meat uses coal balls, not wood for steaming buns. The fire under the stewing pot cannot be turned off, so it is most suitable to use a coal stove. Block the air inlet of the coal stove the night before, and the pot can maintain a certain temperature overnight.

The way to steam buns needs to be fast, so when you get up in the morning, it is faster to burn wood directly.

The third stove is also a coal stove, and there is also a deep barrel-shaped iron pot on it. Chicken soup is stewed in it. The authentic old hen soup is made with two old hens.

It is not the simplified chicken soup made from chicken racks bought by some snack bars to save costs.

The chicken soup was almost done last night, and it was kept warm on the coal stove overnight. Now you can drink it as long as you turn on the stove and grill it.

This is not to be drunk directly, but to be used to make egg soup. In Anhui Province, this is called "satang". Just beat an egg in the soup bowl, stir it with chopsticks, and use a spoon to scoop the boiled chicken soup to make it drink.

If you like coriander, put coriander, if you like dried shrimp, put some dried shrimp, or add a little pepper, and don't put anything else.

Eating steamed buns and drinking such a bowl of soup in the morning in the middle of winter, the taste is so good.

All three stoves are ready. Yang Dongxu couldn't go out for a run because of the snow, so Yang Dongxu first cleared a piece of land in the yard to practice boxing and exercise his body.

When he got up, Zhou Ya also got up to cook porridge. She had a lighter taste in the morning, so she prepared to cook some porridge and soup. Zhuo Qing'er sometimes drank porridge, and sometimes liked to drink satang, so she cooked more.

At this time, Yang's mother also came to help. Soon, Yang's father and his uncle also came over with a shovel to help sweep the snow.

The old house's courtyard was too big, so they didn't care about other things. They just cleared the snow on the way in and out and in the yard in front of the main house, and didn't do anything else.

Porridge is not porridge, so it only takes more than half an hour. When the buns on the stove are steamed, the porridge is also cooked. Then they shouted and started to eat.

No one else touched the things in the stew pot. Only Yang Dongxu and the two growing children each ate a beef shank bone happily, and they didn't feel disgusted in the early morning.

Then it was Grandpa Xuan who ate a few pieces of fat and tender pork head meat. Others either drank soup or porridge, and then ate the steamed buns to be full.

"Mom, let's make some vegetarian dumplings tonight and eat them tomorrow morning. I'm going to get fat again if I start eating meat in the morning." Zhuo Qing'er said to the mutton buns in front of him.

Although she was full, the mutton stuffed buns were so delicious that she couldn't help but eat two more. After just a few days back, she felt that she was beginning to gain weight on her face.

"What's wrong with being fat? You were too thin before." Yang's mother said with a smile.

In the eyes of the elders, children should be fat to be healthy. When she saw Zhuo Qing'er who was a little thin in order to maintain her figure. Yang's mother kept asking if Yang Dongxu abused her and didn't give her food.

Compared with Zhuo Qing'er's thinness, Zhou Ya made Yang's mother very satisfied. In fact, it's not only men who get fat when they get older, women also get fat.

However, Zhou Ya can't be considered fat, but a kind of round and plump state. At this time, her body shape and temperament are a bit similar to Jiang Shan who sang "Water Village in Dreams".

When she smiles, she gives people a very friendly feeling. There is no need to put on a shelf, just sitting there, the feeling of elegance and dignity is ready to come out.

"You can't be too fat. I'm a fashion designer. If you're too fat, it will affect the customer's perception when I design for customers." Zhuo Qing'er stuffed a bun into her mouth and left the table with great perseverance.

In fact, she also likes to eat soup in the morning, but the buns stuffed with mutton in the morning are so fragrant that she can't resist. Add a bowl of chicken soup full of energy, and it's estimated that she will gain ten pounds during the Chinese New Year.

So she chose to drink porridge like Zhou Ya. Others drink porridge because they eat too much soup and change their taste occasionally. She drinks porridge simply because she doesn't want to get fat.

"Wenchen, have you eaten?"

A group of children ran into the yard. Rural children are very sensible no matter how they go to school. For example, when they came to play with Dongjie and Wenchen now, they saw that the Yang family was eating, and they just shouted in the yard and didn't go to the dining table.

"Damao, have you eaten? Come and eat something?" Yang Dongxu asked.

"I've eaten, uncle."

"Come on, come and gnaw on the bones." Yang's mother got up and greeted the children in the yard.

"I've really eaten, grandma. Little Wenchen, come out and play in the snow. We'll wait for you over there." Da Mao smiled and replied, then saw the wooden shovel that was used to clear snow under the corridor next to him, "Grandpa, let me use your wooden shovel to make a snowman."

"Just play next to it. Don't go to the mansion. Be careful not to slip in." Looking at the children carrying wooden shovels, Yang's father said hurriedly.

"No, grandpa, we're not stupid. Let's go, let's make a snowman."

"Let's go." A group of little brats shouted, and they started to make snowmen with wooden shovels.

"I'm full."

"I'm full too."

Dongjie and Xiao Wenchen, who were eating deliciously, suddenly couldn't sit still as if they had nails on their buttocks.

"Who wants to eat half-eaten bones after you've finished chewing them?" The little aunt slapped Dongjie on the back of his head without any hesitation.

Zhou Ya glanced at Xiao Wenchen, and Xiao Wenchen, who was happily preparing to run, immediately stopped.

Looking back, he had gnawed the bone clean, finished a bowl of soup, and finished a basket of buns. He breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "I'm done."

After noticing that Zhou Ya's eyes had moved away, he did not run off to play immediately, but turned to look at Yang Dongjie, "Uncle, eat faster."

"Here it comes, here it comes." Yang Dongjie quickly gnawed the few pieces of meat on the bone in his hand and swallowed it with his neck straight.

He threw the bone to the big dog that had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and the two of them washed their hands and faces first, then ran to the side.

A group of children over there had already piled up the belly of the snowman below, and were using a wooden shovel to pat it firmly, preparing to pile up the snowman's head.

"I'll go get the carrots for the snowman as a nose." Little Wenchen shouted.

"Get a few more. There's a lot of snow here, let's pile a few more." Dongjie waved his hand to signal him to hurry up, and he took the wooden shovel from a little kid and ran to a farther place to push the snow over.

When the two children ran out, Zhuo Qing'er followed them with more interest, and then Zhou Ya also went over.

The task of collecting the bowls was left to my mother and my aunt Yang Dongxu, who also slipped away soon.

"Ah"

After a while, Zhuo Qing'er's scream came from outside. It turned out that she originally wanted to build a snowman with the children, but she saw that the bamboo forest was so beautiful, so she went to play in the bamboo forest.

Many bamboos were bent by the snow on them, and they were indeed very beautiful in silver. As a result, as soon as he walked in, Yang Dongxu kicked the bamboo next to him and turned around and ran away.

Zhuo Qing'er screamed in fear when the snow fell, and then she began to chase Yang Dongxu from behind with gritted teeth.

The children saw that it was fun, and they all ran to the bamboo forest. Some kicked the bamboo to trick others, but they slipped and fell directly, and they tricked themselves.

After a while, the group of children who originally built snowmen turned into snowball fights. Among them, Yang Dongxu was the most powerful, and the wooden shovel in his hand was dancing vigorously.

Others throw snowballs by making a snowball, but he throws the snowballs with a hoe and a stick, and then throws them out. He is not angry with the enemy, and his taunting skills are fully activated.

He soon became a public enemy, and was chased and beaten by Zhuo Qing'er and Zhou Ya, two adults, and a group of half-grown children and little brats.

"You are so old, you already have a child, but you are still like a little kid." Seeing her son being besieged by a group of people, Yang's mother snorted.

If her son didn't already have a son, and his daughter-in-law was beside him.

She must have rushed over with a bamboo stick, so that Yang Dongxu could recall his childhood.

But although she hummed, she couldn't help but smile.