Chapter 719
Another 1 years
Chapter 719 Another year
"It's delicious. Add some chopped cabbage and some pinched dough balls. Eat a bowl and your stomach will feel so good." Grandma Qin praised sincerely after finishing a bowl.
Qin Xiaomi smiled and served her another bowl: "Then grandma, please eat some more."
After fleeing the famine, my grandparents' stomachs were somewhat damaged, so my grandma usually doesn't eat much. Now that she has an appetite, I have to let her have another bowl of food.
The stomachs of Qin Xiaomi and the others were also affected when they first settled down, but since they were young, their stomachs were able to recover, and they are no longer a problem now.
"Okay, grandma, have another bowl." Grandma Qin ate the fish ball noodle soup and said, "Mrs. Guan and Nong are both simple eaters. They will definitely like this fish ball. I'll send ten kilograms to the Guan family later."
"Okay." Qin Xiaomi took note of it.
After the group finished lunch, they started cooking the second batch of fish balls.
Several women stood by the stove, kneading the fish paste mixed with powder into balls. Dong, dong, dong, the fish balls rolled into the pot one by one and then cooked slowly over the fire. When the fish balls floated up, they were cooked.
Of course, no family dared to let Qin Liupo do this job!
Qin Liupo was both happy and unhappy... She was happy because she didn't have to work, but she was unhappy because they actually despised her for being sloppy!
She was very angry, so she ate a lot of fish balls.
Qin Xiaomi: "Sixth Aunt, a normal person would eat two bowls, and this is your fourth bowl. Don't say anything. When you divide the fish balls equally, your family will be deducted two kilograms. The extra kilogram is a punishment. If you dare to make trouble, the deduction will be doubled."
Qin Liupo was so angry that she almost choked on the fish balls. She glared at Qin Xiaomi and wanted to scold her, but she knew how fierce Qin Xiaomi was, so she didn't dare to confront her and could only hold back her anger.
Grandma Qin said, "Sixth brother's wife, stop eating. Overeating is harmful to your health. Go and clean the pottery basin with a white cloth. You will use it to hold the fish balls later."
"Hey, I'll go clean the pottery basin now." Qin Liupo went to work happily... This job was the easiest and she didn't have to touch water. If she was picky again, Xiaomi would definitely give her a lesson!
A quarter of an hour later, the second pot of fish balls was cooked.
Qin Dashi's wife used a rattan colander to scoop the fish balls out of the pot and put them into a clean ceramic basin. When the basin was full, her daughter Ertao took the basin away and replaced it with a new one.
Nowadays, a large pot is used. One pot of fish balls can fill three ceramic basins.
"The new fish paste is here, continue to make the fish balls and cook them." Aunt Xu and Aunt Qiao came in carrying two large basins of fish paste.
The women from several families began to make fish balls again.
Grandma Qin tried the newly cooked fish balls and nodded, "Well, they taste just as good as the first batch. Second son's wife, take a lunch box and pack ten pounds of fish balls and have Second son send them to Guan's house."
"Hey." Aunt Qin went to the big cabinet in front and brought out all the food boxes in the house.
He went to call Uncle Qin and asked him to take Jiang Dalang, Qin Ying and others to deliver the fish balls.
"Ten catties for the Guan family, five catties for the family of clan leader Lu, five catties for the family of village leader Zhou, five catties for the old Song family, ten catties for manager Xue and his people, twenty catties for General Hua and his people, ten catties for Alan and his people, and twenty catties for the mountain people and soldiers." Grandma Qin counted the families to whom the gifts were to be given.
As a result, there were not enough lunch boxes at home.
There was no other choice but to send the fish balls for General Hua, Alan, and the mountain soldiers directly in basins.
The people who received the fish balls were very happy and gave gifts in return.
Especially Mrs. Guan, she came to see in person how to make fish balls.
"I'm just sitting around doing nothing at home, so I thought I'd come and see what's going on. I hope you don't despise me, my dear relatives." Mrs. Guan said with a smile.
Grandma Qin said hurriedly: "My family is looking forward to your coming home to add blessings to our family. How can we dislike you?"
"That's good." After Mrs. Guan was polite, she was not polite at all. She treated the Qin family as her own home and had a lot of fun. At 3 p.m., Guan Shuli finished the trivial matters after the seal of Silifang, and came to the Qin family with Qin Cunquan to thank Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin: "Thank you for taking care of my grandmother."
Grandpa Qin said, "How can it be considered taking care of? Old Madam Guan has been taking care of our children for the whole afternoon today."
"No, no, Sister Xiaozhu said that we took care of Guan's great-grandmother for the whole afternoon." Xiao Fubao seriously corrected Grandpa Qin: "We played with her for the whole afternoon."
Jiang Xiaozhu yelled, "Fubao, you idiot, I've told you everything. This is our private complaint, don't tell anyone!"
Hahaha, the little ones' words made the adults laugh.
Madam Guan even waved her hand to call them over and hugged them one by one: "Thank you for your hard work, my dearest dears. You must be exhausted after taking care of me all day."
Little Fubao said: "Not tired, not tired. Sister Xiaozhu said that even if I am tired now, I will get lucky money made of gold on the first day of the new year, so it is worth it to be tired."
"..." Jiang Xiaozhu ran away, fearing that she would be scolded by her elder brother.
Hahaha, Madam Guan laughed so hard that she couldn't stop. She said to her little figure, "Don't run. Be careful not to fall. Remember to come to the Guan family to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the New Year. Grandma Zeng will give you double the New Year's money."
Guan Shuli looked at his grandmother laughing heartily and looked forward to his married life with Qin Xiaogu even more.
"Uncle Qin, Aunt Qin, is there any work I can do for you?" asked the clerk. In the countryside, when a prospective son-in-law comes to visit, he has to do some work.
But Guan Shuli was a scholar, and Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin were reluctant to let him do the work of carrying water and chopping wood. After thinking for a while, they said, "Help us calculate the money for the fish from several families."
"Okay." Guan Shuli was good at accounting and quickly calculated the money for the fish from several families and handed it to Grandpa Qin.
"Thank you for your hard work, Nongge." Grandpa Qin took some papers and went to distribute fish balls to several families and collect money for the fish.
The clerk Guan went along to help, collecting money and weighing the fish balls, and he was busy in a very professional manner.
Granny Qin Liu looked at it with a sour look on her face: "Even before they got married, Nong Ge'er is already so filial to his Yue family. Fifth brother, your family is so lucky to have such a good son-in-law like Nong Ge'er. Unlike my family..."
"Aunt Qin Liu, your family took ten kilograms of fish balls and ten kilograms of fried fish. The price of the fish is five hundred coins. You also need to add one hundred coins for the batter, oil, and the Han family's labor for killing the fish, a total of six hundred coins." Guan Shuli reported the bill with a smile, interrupting Aunt Qin Liu's words at the right time to avoid embarrassment for everyone.
Qin Liupo didn't finish her words because she felt suffocated.
But when she saw Grandpa Qin's cold face, she didn't dare to say anything more sour, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Oh, you are worthy of being a clerk, you are good at calculating accounts... Ying'er, hurry up and give me the money."
Qin Liupo, this miser, asked her three children to pay for the New Year's goods, while she and the sixth child did not spend a penny. She also said that they were already at an age where they had to live on the money their children gave them for their retirement.
Yingjiemei and the other two did not argue with her. They used their respective dividends to buy generous New Year's goods for their family.
"Fifth uncle, this is for you." Qin Ying smiled and handed six cents of silver to Grandpa Qin.
Upon seeing this, the clerk Guan drew a circle on the account paper to indicate that Qin Laoliu's family had already paid for the fish.
After working for a quarter of an hour, all the fish balls were distributed and the money for the fish was collected.
Several families said goodbye and took the fish balls back home.
Old Madam Guan was reluctant to leave her children behind, so Xiao Fubao and Qin Jingyi stayed and had dinner at the Qin family.
There were many people, and the atmosphere was lively. The little ones were entertaining, and the whole table was filled with the laughter of Mrs. Guan and the children. It was a very enjoyable meal.
After dinner, Mrs. Guan played with the children for another half an hour before the grandparents and grandchildren went home.
Although the wind was howling, Madam Guan's heart was burning with anticipation for the coming year. She said to her grandson, "Another year has passed. Grandma has a feeling that the coming year will be a good year."