Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

Chapter 33 Busy New Year (2)

 After the lard was cooked, Zhao Yuzhen began to chop meat and prepare to fry some meatballs.

Zhao Yuzhen chopped half fat and half lean rib meat into a paste, mixed it with some flour, eggs, chopped green onion, peanuts, **** and salt. The fried meatballs were medium-sized, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Some people buy less meat and just chop some radishes or cabbage and put them in to fry some vegetarian meatballs, which is also delicious.

This year, the Zhou family killed a pig to celebrate the New Year. There was a lot of pork, so Zhao Yuzhen planned to fry some pure meat **** for the children to eat.

 It is rare for the family to have a meal of meat, and the children are still short of oil and water in their bellies. Just now, the eldest and the youngest were rushing to eat the oil residue. Zhao Yuzhen was happy and a little sad to see that the children ate so deliciously.

If he were not poor and rarely ate meat, how could his children be so greedy? It’s not like being a mother either!

 She decided to fry more meatballs for her children to enjoy.

After the meatballs were out of the pot, Dabao and Xiaobao, who had been wandering around for a long time, came back in time after almost digesting the oil residue in their stomachs. They were all happy to see Zhao Yuzhen frying the meatballs.

Children’s favorite meatballs. If you can still eat the meatballs in normal times, you can’t eat meatballs before the Chinese New Year.

How else can we say that children love celebrating the New Year! I just love Chinese New Year because of the delicious food! Not to mention the new clothes, lucky money, etc. that will be given during the Chinese New Year.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, all the brothers and sisters of the Zhou family had their mouths full of food and were satisfied.

 The next day, Zhao Yuzhen started steaming steamed buns and steamed buns again. These noodles have to be eaten until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so I borrowed the big steamer from my uncle's house to steam them.

 In previous years, there were more solid steamed buns and fewer stuffed buns. This year Zhao Yuzhen made a lot of vegetable and meat buns, and made some triangular sugar corners with brown sugar. They were steamed in a three-layer steamer for most of the day.

Father Zhou helped chop the meat and stuffing, Zhao Yuzhen was busy kneading the dough and rolling out the bread and buns. Dabao stopped going out to play when he saw the bustle at home, so he was making trouble nearby. Zhou Xiaoyun was willing to help but saw that his younger brother and sister were not taken care of, so he paid attention to Dabao.

“Brother, you see, Xiaobao and Erya don’t listen to me either. You are the oldest, and Xiaobao and Erya are willing to listen to you. They must be happy if you take them out to play.”

With a few words, he coaxed the vain Dabao to take Xiaobao and Erya to play outside the house. Zhou Xiaoyun washed his hands and came to help.

Zhao Yuzhen picked up the steamed buns one by one on the table to cool down, and was surprised to see Zhou Xiaoyun making the buns in a decent way.

Zhou Xiaoyun had small hands, so he made the dough smaller, kneaded it and kneaded it into a thin crust, used a small spoon to scoop out a small spoonful of filling and put it in the middle, then pinched out small pleats along the edges with his hands. It is best to close them up and make them with your hands. With one ball, a cute and exquisite bun is ready.

 Zhou Xiaoyun was still a little unfamiliar at first, but after the two of them got together, all the memories of his previous life came back.

The movements are becoming more and more proficient. Although not as fast as Zhao Yuzhen's bag, it is almost as fast as Zhou's father. The buns she makes are also good-looking, neither flat nor crooked, very neat and compact.

With Zhou Xiaoyun’s help, the process went much faster. By the afternoon, all the steamed buns, buns, and candies were out of the cage.

The steamed buns are big and strong, and the triangular sugar corners are very cute. There are many small and exquisite things in the buns, all of which are made by Zhou Xiaoyun. Zhou Xiaoyun is intoxicated with himself. Not to mention, the most popular ones are the smaller ones made by Zhou Xiaoyun.

Lunch was of course delicious meat buns, and Dabao ate five of them by himself.

Zhou Xiaoyun actually likes to eat candy horns. The brown sugar inside the bread turns into sugar water. It is sweet, hot and fragrant when you take a bite. You have to eat it slowly. Zhou Xiaoyun was not a big eater, but he ate three meals before he stopped talking.

When the cage was returned, Zhao Yuzhen put a few steamed buns into the cage and asked Zhou Xiaoyun and Dabao to carry them back to the uncle's house.

Dabao didn’t understand why he put the delicious buns in the basket and muttered something.

Zhao Yuzhen rolled her eyes at her son: "How can you return a borrowed cage empty? Of course you have to put some steamed buns in it. Have you eaten so many steamed buns today that you haven't had enough yet?"

Such kind of loving criticism was never taken into consideration by Dabao. He smiled and carried the basket to his uncle's house with Zhou Xiaoyun.

The uncle was busy making tables and chairs. Aunt Shen Huafeng saw Dabao Zhou Xiaoxia coming with a basket and quickly took it over and invited the two of them to play at home.

The cage was heavy or light, but Dabao was so big and strong that he didn't realize it, but Zhou Xiaoyun was out of breath. Fortunately, he arrived in just a few steps, which made Zhou Xiaoyun very tired.

Zhou Xiaoxia brought a glass of water for Zhou Xiaoyun to drink. Zhou Xiaoyun felt less tired and better after taking a few sips.

Auntie put away the steamed buns and steamed buns in the basket. When she saw two very small steamed buns inside, she smiled and asked, "Hey, why are there such small steamed buns this year? What a dexterous hand."

Before Zhou Xiaoyun could say a few words of humility, Dabao on the side rushed to reply: "Aunt, you have really good taste. These two are from Da Ya. My mother and my father have bigger bags than this one. Da Ya's The packaging is so beautiful that I can’t bear to eat it.”

 In fact, Dabao felt that the steamed buns were big and had a lot of meat filling, so he ate five large meat buns in one sitting at noon. If he had eaten the smaller ones, he would have eaten at least seven or eight.

The aunt was very surprised. She looked at the two buns for a while and saw that they were as big as a child's fist. The pleats on them were neatly kneaded and very cute. If Dabao hadn't said it, how could he have thought that this was done by a six or seven-year-old child?

Zhou Xiaoyun was a little proud of Auntie's praise, but she spoke modestly without showing any trace of pride on her face, which aroused Auntie's heartfelt admiration and love.

Zhou Xiaoxia immediately looked at Zhou Xiaoyun with admiration. She still doesn’t know how to make buns! Zhou Zhihai took a few bites of the buns while everyone was talking and was not paying attention. While eating, he thought how delicious it tasted!

 (End of this chapter)