Chapter 13 New home, new atmosphere
"Mom, this, is this for dinner?"
Isn’t it really the Chinese New Year?
No, there are no thin flour pancakes to eat during the Chinese New Year.
Shui had already found a reason early in the morning, "The first meal in the new home must be a new atmosphere, of course! Come on, go to the spring pool to wash your hands first, everyone has a share."
The five little ones took a deep breath and ran happily to wash their hands.
After all, they are children, the oldest is only eleven years old. Who can resist in front of delicious food.
Fan Jin looked at the cheerful children with a slight smile on his lips.
He did not follow the children to wash their hands, but first put the picked mushrooms and grain together.
Looking at the sack that was more bulging than before he left, his eyes darkened slightly, and then he shook his head and turned into a calm smile.
After gathering the thatch that the children had cut before and arranging it, he went to the spring to wash his hands carefully.
When he returned, he saw one large and five small ones with stoneware bowls in their right hands and white flour pancakes in their left hands. They looked at him expectantly with big eyes.
There was no table, and seven people sat on the floor around a large knee-high stone.
"Why didn't you eat?" he asked softly.
"Dad, mother said, the whole family should eat together!" Fan Hu, the youngest, repeated what Shui Qing said as if he was taking credit.
The smile on Fan Jin's lips deepened a lot.
He stroked the hem of his gown and sat in the empty seat specially reserved for him next to the big rock.
A bowl of egg drop soup with more eggs and less loofah was placed on the big stone in front of him. There were more than ten thin white flour pancakes placed in the bamboo basket in the middle.
Looking at the bowl full of eggs, he naturally thought that his wife and children were reluctant to eat them and had saved them for him.
Pursing his lips, he said to the two daughters beside him: "Yan Qiu, Xing Hui, there are too many eggs in Daddy's bowl. I can't finish them. Let me share some with you."
"No, dad, look at the eggs in our bowl, there are more!" Fan Xinghui said excitedly.
This was the first time she saw so many eggs!
In the past, the eldest sister cooked the meals, but precious foods like eggs were hidden in Grandma's house.
During the New Year and festivals, or once in a while, Grandma would take it out and make it herself, never letting the eldest sister get her hands on it.
When it was ready, she and her eldest sister didn't get a share. Even the soup without egg drops didn't get their turn. The only ones in the family who had eaten eggs were their father and three younger brothers.
The amount given to my younger brother was only a small piece.
Fan Yanqiu held the stoneware bowl and looked at the eggs covering the loofah inside. He said to his father with a nasal voice: "Dad, look, there are so many eggs. You no longer have to share your share with me and my little sister." ”
In the past, daddy would divide his share between her and his little sister, but this also made grandma unhappy.
Dad has always been unhappy with Grandma, and she and my little sister also accounted for a large part of the reason.
Fan Jin looked at the excited expressions of his two daughters and was freed from the hard days in the past. He said gratefully to Shang Shuiqing: "Well, we all have something to eat. Your mother is very willing to give up."
"Yes, mother is so good to us!"
"Mom is so willing to give up. I just counted the eggs and she used five eggs to make egg drop soup!"
"It turns out that five eggs make so much egg drop soup."
The five children had a heated discussion.
Fan Jin raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Shui Qing with confusion in his clear eyes.
The children have never been exposed to eggs, but he knows that five eggs cannot make such a full pot of egg drop soup...
Shui Qing sat steadily, with a normal expression, and said to the five dolls: "Everyone is here, let's eat!"
"Wow!"
The five little ones cheered, eagerly biting into the noodles and sipping the egg drop soup.
Woohoo, so delicious!
The outer shell of the white flour pancake is charred and crispy, but the inside is fluffy and soft, not as hard as the black flour bun.
My throat doesn't hurt when I swallow it!
Still very soft.
It turns out that this is what white noodles look like. No wonder all the rich men eat white noodles.
The egg drop soup is even more delicious.
It's fragrant and sweet, and even the loofah inside is much more delicious than what I've eaten before.
It's not a green air, but a light fragrance.
The eggs are so smooth that you don't need to chew them, they just slide right into your belly.
"I really want to be able to eat white flour and eggs every day from now on." Fan He drank the soup in the stoneware bowl with the white flour pancakes until every drop was left, and said with satisfaction.
Fan Jiang, who is one year older, said: "What are you thinking about? It's good to have just one meal, and you can eat it every day? Then you have to live in poverty."
What kind of family can we eat white flour and eggs every day?
The other four children thought it right. How could they eat white flour and eggs every day? Even in their dreams, they would not dare to do this!
However, there are so many eggs and white flour pancakes to eat tonight.
And they thought they could finish all the pancakes, but they didn't expect that after drinking the egg drop soup, they felt full after eating only one pancake.
Eggs are nutritious, and nutritious things are indeed filling!
Shui Qing was originally worried that the five babies would be full at once, so he kept an eye on them and prepared to remind them when they ate too much.
Unexpectedly, the five dolls were more sensible than she knew.
Once you feel full, stop eating.
According to what the children said, they are satisfied when they are full, and eating to full is a waste of food.
She smiled and promised: "In the future, we will not only have eggs to eat, but also meat."
With the shopping mall, she said these words with confidence.
The five children immediately asked with bright eyes: "Are there eggs and meat? Is it fat meat?"
"Big fat fat meat?"
"Brother Dazhu used lard to mix rice before, and Ersansizhu also ate it. It smells so good. I, I..." Fan He wanted to say that he wanted to eat it too, but he swallowed it back silently.
The food tonight was already very good, he couldn't be too greedy and not know how to be satisfied.
Mother and father are also very hard.
Compared with big fat meat, Shuiqing prefers to eat lean meat, but she understands that the children want to eat big fat meat.
People who lack oil and water prefer fat meat.
As for lard mixed rice, this wish is easier to satisfy.
She responded generously: "Okay, tomorrow your father will go to the city to buy fat meat and we will boil lard.
Not only can we eat lard mixed rice, but also pork!"
"Wow" Several small children cheered.
The older Yan Qiu and Xinghui just laughed happily.
After the separation, grandma didn't give Dad a penny. Even if Dad gets the job of copying books in the city tomorrow, he will only be paid after copying them.
But why say something to spoil the fun when the family is so happy?
Fan Jin glanced at Shui Qing carefully and quickly.
Shui Qing pretended not to see it.
There was no money at home, but they could earn it.
She couldn't not eat the food in the shopping mall, right? What's the difference between that and begging with a golden bowl?
As long as she took it out to use, there must be someone to cover it.
In this family, except for the soft, well-behaved and capable Fan Jin, there is no one more suitable to cover it
Shui Qing's family didn't even have a table, they gathered around a big rock and happily ate the most sumptuous meal in their lives;
The old Fan family was also having dinner over there.