After lunch, Shen Qingqing didn't waste a moment and immediately started cooking the New Year's Eve dinner. The previous home-cooked dishes remained unchanged, and a deluxe iron pot was added for stew.
Fish maw chicken soup is added with swimming crab meat and crab roe as the bottom of the pot. The color of the soup is as golden as gold, and the taste is even more refreshing. Not to mention eating it with hand-made fish balls, shrimp paste, and fresh beef and mutton, it is just a stone stew.
It can make people confused by its fragrance.
She has developed several ways to eat a tuna that is longer than an arm. Pan-fried tuna is served with secret sauce and two drops of sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing. The meat is tender and delicious with a faint floral aroma; tuna tofu cakes are added with
Bean dices and carrot dices are brightly colored and soft in taste, and the children are rushing to eat them...
The unused swimming crabs were made into spicy crabs by her. The swimming crabs were divided into two parts, coated in starch and fried in oil until red. Then she added the hot pot base and stir-fried. When it was served, she sprinkled the cooked sesame seeds on it for a spicy taste.
It's so enjoyable. Not to mention others, Shen Qingqing can hold them and chew them all day long.
There were not many sea urchins and abalones. Shen Qingqing dug out the former and made a steamed sea urchin egg, while the latter was mixed with chicken wings to make an abalone and chicken wings stew.
In addition, there are spicy stir-fried snails, garlic cat's eye snails...
After the meal, Shen Qingqing felt physically and mentally exhausted, but it was not from fatigue, but from holding back her saliva.
She hasn’t eaten seafood for a long time, and suddenly she was asked to make so many seafood dinners without being able to eat them secretly. It was really a test of one’s willpower!
The cooks were all so greedy, and naturally the others were no better. When people came and went from the kitchen, there were always people peeking in. The children didn't even play with firecrackers anymore, and squatted in a row outside the kitchen to eat.
saliva.
After waiting for a long time, I finally waited for the sentence "dinner is ready".
Meng Qiyu cheered, rushed into the kitchen and found her own small wooden bowl. She tiptoed and raised it in front of Shen Qingqing. She was so excited that she couldn't even speak, "Mom, eat big crabs, super big crabs!"
Shen Qingqing smiled and rubbed his face, "Don't worry, wait until mother brings the dishes to the table and everyone is seated before eating. Then mother will bring you a big bowl."
"Okay then." Meng Qiyu nodded obediently, moved aside, and watched his parents serving dishes one after another. After each dish, he clasped his fingers and muttered: "I want to eat this yellow one. Eat two big ones."
Spoon!"
"The green vegetable leaves are not delicious, so leave them to my sister."
"Hey, it's red and looks good. I want to eat two bowls!"
"..."
In Meng Qiyu's unique reputation for serving dishes, all the dishes were served, and two large tables were filled with colorful dishes.
Outside, Meng Qiyun was already ready and lit red firecrackers.
Amidst the "cracking" sound of firecrackers, everyone's face was filled with happy smiles.
Yuan Xudong proudly showed off to his wife: "How about it? I'll tell you that you are happy to come here to celebrate the New Year."
Mother Yuan smiled and glared at him, "If you can marry a wife as soon as possible, this year will be even more lively."
Ning held her husband with her left hand and her daughter with her right hand. Her smile was as gentle as water, "I hope our future days will be as prosperous and prosperous as the sound of firecrackers."
Qi Xingtang and Meng Qixue nodded at the same time, "I will definitely do it."
Zhang Xuan took Sister Qiao's arm and taught her patiently: "Don't eat anything you can't eat to avoid stomach pain. If you really want to eat it, wait until later..."
"When you get better later, master will buy some for you." Sister Qiao held her voice and imitated his speech. After imitating him, she patted the back of his hand like a grown-up, "Master, don't worry, I won't eat."
He looked into the distance and murmured: "Zhenshan, Qingqing made something delicious again today, but it's a pity that you can't eat it."
"But it doesn't matter, I'll help you eat your share. We're a family, everyone eats the same."
Meng Yuan took Shen Qingqing's arm and pressed a kiss on her forehead like a dragonfly, "Thank you for your hard work. Happy New Year's Eve."
Shen Qingqing looked at the bright smiling faces in the courtyard, grinned, and smiled a little silly, "This seems to be the most lively year I have ever lived. It is so lively that it feels unreal."
Meng Yuan clasped her palm, intertwined his fingers with hers, "Hold my hand."
Shen Qingqing subconsciously squeezed it hard, and a man's smiling voice immediately came to her ears: "Do you have a real feeling now?"
Before Shen Qingqing could answer, Meng Qiyu, who had been waiting in the main room for a long time with a bowl in hand, couldn't hold it in any longer and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Mother, can we start dinner?"
Shen Qingqing laughed, "Of course, let's go inside and eat. Don't stand in the courtyard."
"Phew, seafood feast, here I come!"
Yuan Xudong spread his arms and entered the main room like a hungry tiger. He warmly greeted everyone to find their seats and handed out bowls and chopsticks. Obviously, he did not regard himself as an outsider.
At the beginning, everyone could say a few polite words to each other, but when they got excited about eating, they lost all regard for etiquette. Those who peeled shrimps, those who rinsed meat, those who gnawed bones, those who gnawed on cakes...everyone's mouths were full of oil.
In comparison, Meng Yuan was quite restrained. He did not forget to help Shen Qingqing with her chopsticks during the whole process. He helped her pick vegetables and peel crab shells as usual.
Shen Qingqing was embarrassed, so she touched his arm and whispered: "Don't worry about me, you can eat it yourself. After a hard-earned seafood feast, you can't just take advantage of Yuan Xudong's pig."
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"That's right. If Yuan Xudong can buy it, so can we." Shen Qingqing smacked her lips and suddenly smiled: "Would it be too wasteful to eat like this all the time?"
"How can you say that what you eat is wasted? It's not wasted."
Shen Qingqing raised the red date milk on the table and said, "Here, let's have a drink and work hard to make money next year for the freedom of seafood."
Meng Yuan picked up his wine glass, clinked it with her porcelain cup, and said, "Cheers."
"You two are not kind. You drink wine secretly." Yuan Xudong curled his lips and looked at the milk in Shen Qingqing's cup with disgust, "Tsk, tsk, and the drink is still milk. Shen Qingqing, you can't do that."
"I can't stop your mouth after eating."
Shen Qingqing glanced at him, quickly drank the milk in the glass, and reached for the wine bottle in front of Meng Yuan, but was first held down by the man, "You can't drink, be obedient."
"One drink, just one drink." Shen Qingqing pointed her fingers to bargain with him. How could she, who had always been strong in her life, be willing to be looked down upon by Yuan Xudong?
Meng Yuan thought for a moment, let go, poured himself another glass, drank it all, and then said: "Okay, I'll drink it for you."
Shen Qingqing: "..." I was speechless.
Yuan Xudong really couldn't stand their display of affection in public, so he made a sound, raised his glass and said to everyone in the room: "Let's have a drink together to celebrate this moment of reunion."
"Come on, cheers!"
Everyone stood up with their cups in hand, and the children who were too short to drink were not left behind and were directly carried onto the bench by the adults around them.
"Ding!"
The crisp sound of the cups colliding and Shen Qingqing's cheerful voice sounded at the same time: "May we have this day every year, and this day every year!"
Then came everyone’s loud voices: “May we have this day every year, and may we have this day every year!” This chapter has been completed!