The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

After dinner, Yan Jiecheng took Yu Li and the children back to the courtyard. After all, it was New Year's Eve tomorrow, and the house had to be tidied up. Yu's father and mother didn't stop them, they just asked them to take them with them when they were free.

Children come and take a look.

When he got home, Yan Jiecheng changed out of his new clothes, fearing that they would get dirty when he went to clean up.

We sent the two children to Yan Bugui's house. Yan Bugui and his school had an early holiday, and the three aunts and two students Xie Di and Jie Kuang had cleaned up the house early and had nothing to do, so they could help look after the children.

Just as Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li finished cleaning up their home, it started to snow heavily outside. The two children were running around in the yard, clamoring to build a snowman. Yan Jiecheng looked helplessly from behind and couldn't stop them.

Yu Li was so angry that she walked over and gave them a massage. The two kids calmed down and returned to the house obediently. Yan Jiedai looked at Yu Li with admiration from behind. She still had to let her sister-in-law take action to deal with these two kids.

It was a cold day and it was snowing heavily. Yan Jiecheng was too lazy to cook, so he took out the copper pot he had bought from the flea market a few days ago.

The most suitable thing to eat in this weather is hot pot. She asked Yu Li to clean the pot, and Yan Jiecheng started frying the hot pot base. In this era, there was no place to buy hot pot base. To eat hot pot, you had to prepare the base yourself.

Prepare onions, ginger, garlic, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, and dried chili peppers, and take out a bottle of bean paste from the cabinet. Pour the oil into the pot to heat it up, then add the dried Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, and dried chili peppers and fry them, followed by the bean paste.

Heat up the red oil and put in the onion, ginger and garlic and the aroma will come out.

The two children who were standing at the door looking at the snow stopped looking and ran in.

"Dad, what are you cooking for delicious food? Let me try it."

Yan Jiecheng was afraid that the two children would eat the base and said quickly: "This is the seasoning, but you can't eat it. You two, don't move around and go find your sister-in-law to play with."

"Dad, you can't eat it secretly."

"I know, I will definitely call you two back when we eat. Go quickly." Yan Jiecheng said speechlessly.

After hearing Yan Jiecheng's assurance, the two ran out to play with Yan Jiecheng again.

Yan Jiecheng fried the base ingredients and put them aside, then went out to the cellar to get some cabbage, potatoes, two pieces of tofu, and a pound of mutton.

This pound of meat is definitely not enough for the four members of their family, so there is no way to add more vegetables and eat some steamed buns. This mutton is not easy to buy, so Yan Jiecheng woke up very early for just this pound.

I went to the vegetable market and queued up to buy it.

Wash the vegetables, cut the potatoes and mutton into slices, and cut the tofu into small pieces.

Take the copper pot that Yu Li washed and put it on the table. Put the base ingredients in, add water, put charcoal underneath and light the fire.

Yu Li went to call the two little guys and also called Yan Jiedai.

After several people sat down, Yan Jiecheng started putting vegetables into the pot.

It was also the first time for the two little guys to eat hot pot. They shouted happily and grabbed the chopsticks with their hands and put them into the pot.

"You two, don't move. Wait, daddy will put some for you." Yan Jiecheng quickly stopped her, fearing that they would be burned. After saying that, he took out the potato slices and cabbage from the pot and put them in their little ones.

In the bowl. There is also 28 sauce in the bowl as a seasoning. It is a sauce made of peanuts and sesame in a ratio of 28. It is usually put in cold dishes and other things at home.

The five people ate all the dishes Yan Jiecheng brought out.

After dinner, Yu Li cleared the table. Yan Jiecheng took out the tea leaves given by his mother today and made himself a pot of tea. The two children were also coaxed to sleep by Yan Jiedai and were carried into the hut by Yu Li.

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When Yan Jiecheng got up the next day, there were still snowflakes in the sky. It had been raining all night and it didn't stop. It looked like it would continue to snow until next year.

I washed up, took out the leftover hot pot soup from yesterday, made some noodles, and boiled two eggs for the two children.

The family had just finished breakfast when the elder came over to organize people in the yard to clear the snow. One person from each household was assigned.

Yan Jiecheng thought for a while and without saying anything, he took the broom and followed the uncle out the door.

When I came to the courtyard, I saw Shazhu, Xu Damao, Liu Guangtian, Yan Jiefang... all there.

Among the three uncles, the first one came out with tools and followed everyone to clear the snow. It wasn't that he wanted to work, but there was no one in her family. If he didn't come, he couldn't let the aunt come.

"Hey, look who is that? Why did you enter our hospital?"

"It looks familiar, who is this?"

"Look at you two, you don't even know this person? Isn't he the eldest son of the second uncle's family?"

Yan Jiecheng listened to everyone's discussion and looked up, but he didn't expect that it was Liu Guangqi.

How many years has it been since this guy got married and went to the third line? How could he be thinking about coming back today?

Liu Guangtian was stunned when he saw his eldest brother holding the child and pulling his wife. He quickly ran to the backyard to tell Liu Haizhong the news.

The uncle looked at Liu Guangqi who was standing at the door and walked over to chat with him.

After a while, the second uncle and his aunt ran over from the backyard. When the second uncle saw him, he punched Liu Guangqi. The second aunt quickly grabbed the second uncle and persuaded him.

In fact, the second uncle didn't really want to beat the eldest son. He just couldn't save his face. The eldest son ran away without saying a word after getting married. If he didn't react when he came back this time, he wouldn't let the neighbors in the yard laugh.

The second aunt said a few words, and the second uncle took the donkey down the slope and stopped. He kept a straight face and said nothing. He looked at the second aunt and took the boss to greet him.

The second uncle looked at the little girl in the arms of the eldest daughter-in-law and smiled at her. Although the second uncle also favored boys over girls, this was the first child of his old Liu family, and the child of the old family whom he had not seen for so many years.

The second uncle wanted to go over and take the child over but was afraid of affecting his image. He stood motionless with his hands behind his back as if he were a leader inspecting work, not to mention the temperament.

"Okay, Lao Liu, your eldest son is back too, hurry up and go home. There are still children. Don't let the children freeze in this cold weather." The elder saw Liu Haizhong's family standing at the door with unspeakable envy.

, quickly let their family go back, out of sight and out of mind. This person is always hanging around in front of his eyes, isn't he just trying to make himself angry?

When the second uncle realized what he was doing, he stopped pretending and hurriedly pulled the eldest brother towards the backyard, fearing that his precious granddaughter would soon freeze.

Everyone cleared the snow in the courtyard and went back. Yan Bugui laid out his own table and started giving people the couplets.

Because the old lady passed away this year, the first man and Shazhu’s family didn’t post anything during the Chinese New Year. This made Yan Bugui very disappointed, and he had to make a lot of money.

Although the old man's house no longer posted them, he still enthusiastically bought a pair and posted them on the door of the courtyard, which made Yan Bugui very happy.