Grandma Su, who has cooked for a large family all her life, is very agile.
And because Su Manxiu was pregnant, she was full of energy, kneading the dough and chopping the stuffing, and she did it so neatly.
With Chen Zian's help, the speed is even faster.
Su Manxiu wanted to help, but they kicked him out.
"Go and have a good rest. This is all, my mother and I will do it." Chen Zian pushed Su Manxiu out and said.
Su Xiaotian watched the two people interacting like this, her eyes turned into crescents with laughter.
Grandma Su was extra generous today. She made pure white bread dumplings with a lot of meat. The round dumplings looked very pleasing to the eye.
The white and plump dumplings come out of the pot after rolling three times, and a rich aroma hits your nostrils.
When the dumplings were placed on the table in the living room, Su Manxiu became even more greedy and couldn't help but sip her saliva.
“Mom, it’s so delicious!”
"You kid, I've never seen you look so greedy." Grandma Su said with a smile.
He just smiled and shed tears.
Of the several children in the family, the one she ignored the most was Su Manxiu.
Just because this girl has been sensible since she was a child, she, as a mother, doesn't have to worry about anything. As time goes by, she is ignored.
"Zian, I feel relieved when I see you treating Xiu'er well. You don't know, among the children, the one I'm most sorry for is Xiu'er. She didn't enjoy happiness when she was a child. You have to treat her well in the future."
The more Grandma Su talked, the more uncomfortable she became, and tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Mom, why are you crying?"
Seeing Grandma Su burst into tears, Su Manxiu no longer cared about being greedy for dumplings, so she took Grandma Su's hand and asked.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just happy!" Grandma Su reached out and wiped away her tears.
"Show me, I'm so happy, my daughter can have a baby!"
This sentence was repeated over and over in Grandma Su's mouth many times.
Su Xiaotian felt that her grandma must have wanted to say these words today, but she felt that her aunt could not have a baby, so she was embarrassed to say it. Now that her aunt is pregnant, she feels confident.
After lunch, Grandma Su urged her to go shopping quickly, saying she had to go home in the evening.
Chen Zian hurriedly said: "Mom, you, third brother and Xiaotian will stay at home for one night, and someone will take you back tomorrow."
"The bullock carts in the brigade will go back soon. They will be home soon after dark. Why are we staying here?" Grandma Su waved her hands repeatedly.
She felt uncomfortable staying at her daughter's house, so it was better to go home.
Besides, I have to go home quickly and make the old man happy!
"Mom, I still want to eat the rice you cooked." Su Manxiu said with a smile: "I didn't eat enough of the noodles you cooked when I was a child, but I want to eat them now."
When she heard that her daughter wanted to eat the food she cooked, Grandma Su stopped talking.
When Xiu'er was a child, her family's conditions were poor and it was difficult for her to have a good meal. She gave in to her brother and sister and had the least amount of food.
Now she wanted to take this bite, and no mother would refuse.
"I'll make some noodles for you later. I'll make some more noodles, roll them out and cut them finely. You can dry them by yourself, and you can cook them when you want to eat them." Grandma Su said in a very kind tone.
After finishing speaking, he sighed again and said: "If you were like this when you were a child, you wouldn't be at a disadvantage. Children who cry will have milk to eat, and my mother knows that she has treated you badly, but my family was poor at that time and there was nothing we could do about it!"
"Mom, isn't this good now? I am living a good life. I have no shortage of white flour and can also eat white rice." Su Manxiu hurriedly comforted her own mother.
"Mom, don't worry, I won't let Xiu'er suffer. I will let her eat and drink well." Chen Zian also hurriedly expressed his position.
"I know Xiu'er is living a good life now, but my mother-in-law's heart makes me feel that I have wronged her!" Grandma Su said, wiping her eyes with the lapel of her clothes.
"Grandma, my aunt suffered a lot when she was a child. Now her life is good, and there will be better days in the future!" Su Xiaotian felt very uncomfortable seeing Grandma Su like this, and tried to comfort her.
"Oh, my sweet baby said that if my aunt has a good life, she will definitely have a good life." Grandma Su said while hugging Su Xiaotian.
"This kid has been lucky since he was a child." Su Manxiu also said with a smile: "I think that the life I am living now is the blessing brought to me by Xiaotian."
"Auntie, I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative." Su Xiaotian didn't want the atmosphere at home to be so depressing, so she said with a smile.
"Okay, let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative and also the department store." Su Manxiu agreed immediately.
"Lao San, go to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative later and tell Lao Li that we won't be going back tonight."
"You took Xiaotian with you before setting off in the morning. I heard that Mrs. Wang was coming to the county town. It happened that the bullock cart in the brigade was coming to the county town, so I followed her. We agreed to go back together at the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative at 3:30 in the afternoon.
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Only then did Su Laosan realize why his mother came in such a timely manner. It turned out that she came with Mrs. Wang.
"Mom, we are going to the supply and marketing cooperative later." Su Manxiu reminded with a smile, but there were tears in her eyes.
It's such a cold day, and my mother is wearing a cotton-padded jacket that's been around for many years. She must have been freezing all the way while riding in a bullock cart.
Grandma Su patted her head and said, "Look at me, I'm confused. Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative later."
Chen Zian still has something to do at work, so he will be busy in the afternoon.
Su Manxiu had already asked for leave and did not go to work at all. She accompanied Grandma Su and others to go shopping.
When she went out, she took some of the tickets she had saved at home. Only when she arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative did she realize that her mother had many tickets, which were more complete than hers.
"Mom, where did you get so many tickets at home?" Su Manxiu asked.
"As long as you know what you're supposed to know, don't ask about what you're not supposed to know. Your brother and sister-in-law haven't even asked."
Su Manxiu looked at her third brother and saw Su Laosan nodded.
He was also curious about where so many votes came from.
Su Manxiu thought about the few tickets and money her mother gave her when she married Chen Zian. She knew there was a secret, so she simply didn't ask.
As expected, Grandma Su came here for a big shopping trip. She bought a lot of all kinds of things, from food to clothes.
Su Manxiu discovered that she had bought so many things, mostly for the New Year and for the children at home. She did not buy them for herself, so she bought a blouse for Grandma Su and Grandpa Su.
She originally wanted to buy cotton-padded jackets, but Grandma Su said that it was already the twelfth lunar month, and it would be hot after the first lunar month, so it would be a waste to buy cotton-padded jackets.
He also said that his family had distributed cotton this year and made cotton-padded jackets to keep them warm.
In the end, Su Manxiu could only buy them blouses.
After that, Su Manxiu pulled some more cloth and said that he wanted to make clothes for his sister-in-law.
"If you have cloth coupons, make yourself some clothes. The baby is about to be born, so you have to make preparations. Your sisters-in-law will have clothes to wear." Grandma Su refused hurriedly.
"Zi'an wears uniforms and saves a lot of cloth money. I just buy cloth for my sisters-in-law to make clothes. It's my wish and Zian's." Su Manxiu said with a smile: "My sisters-in-law are good to me and my parents. I
Thank them."
It has to be said that Su Manxiu is a good person. With the cloth tickets, he does not think about making clothes for his brothers first, but thinks about his sisters-in-law.
"It's hard to be considerate of your child, but it's not a loss for your sisters-in-law." Grandma Su said with emotion.
If it were a younger daughter, I would only think that the subsidy would not be enough for her. How could I think of this?
Grandma Su remembered that Su Manxiu wanted to eat long noodles, and immediately washed her hands and kneaded the noodles when she got home.
She has been known far and wide as a clever wife since she was young, and is especially good at making noodles.
Long noodles are actually finely cut hand-rolled noodles coated with soybean soup.
During the Chinese New Year, local people will make long faces to greet guests, which means coming and going often.
Long noodles are easy to say, but not easy to make.
Good long noodles are chewy, smooth and refreshing, and have endless noodles.
The water for kneading the noodles should be warm water mixed with a little refined salt or alkaline noodles.
When it comes to the proportion of kneading noodles, everyone is different, and the kneading noodles are also different. Grandma Su is the one who is very enthusiastic about it.
When any family in the Red Heart Team wants to marry their daughter to make noodles, they are also used to asking Grandma Su to help make noodles.
After so many years, Grandma Su has never failed to make noodles.
Just by squeezing it with her hands, Grandma Su will know whether the dough is well kneaded and how long it needs to rise. This is all based on experience.
Grandma Su is very familiar with kneading, kneading and finally kneading the dough.
"It's because I'm old that I'm sweating all over after kneading so much dough!"
"Mom, let me do it!" Su Laosan said hurriedly.
Grandma Su looked at her son, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll watch from the side while you knead the dough."
Su Laosan is a very strong person, and under the guidance of Grandma Su, he kneaded the dough quickly.
The dough at this time is full of gluten, moderately soft and hard, smooth and does not stick to your hands.
"Third brother, put the noodles in a basin and cover them with a lid to wake them up. Go see if your sister has any other work at home and help her with it."
"Hey! I understand, mother!" Su Laosan responded hurriedly.
While the noodles were waking up, Grandma Su started making meat dumplings. There was still a lot of meat left over from the meat she bought in the morning. Grandma Su cut the meat into small dices and stir-fried it.
After the meat dumplings were fried and the noodles were ready, Grandma Su began to roll the noodles.
This is more of a skill job.
To make long noodles, you need to roll them into a square shape. Some people don't know how to roll them out, and they turn into a round shape.
The dough rolled out by Grandma Su is always square and square.
The last step is to cut the noodles. The noodles cut by Grandma Su are thin and well-proportioned. After shaking them out, the roots are clear, thin and continuous.
Grandma Su rolled out and cut all the noodles in one go, and hung them up to dry except for those for dinner.
Su Manxiu stood aside and watched, and Su Xiaotian also watched with interest.
Later in my last life, there were noodle presses, and this traditional craft was gradually no longer used.
After a new life, Su Xiaotian was very interested in watching Grandma Su making noodles.
"Mom, you are tired, please rest first."
"It doesn't matter, your third brother kneaded the noodles, and I didn't bother." Grandma Su said with a smile: "The noodle lady has rolled it out, and the meat dumplings are also fried. When you want to eat, just make the soup yourself.
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In the evening, when Chen Zian went home, he ate Xiangpengpeng's long noodles.
The aroma of minced meat and eggs permeated the small house, and even the neighbors were attracted by the aroma.
If Chen Zian hadn't always been so cold, people would have come to check in on him.
"Mom, the noodles you make are so delicious!" Chen Zian said after eating four bowls of noodles in one go.
"As long as you are willing to eat." Grandma Su said happily.
Su Xiaotian also ate the second bowl, but she couldn't help it. Long noodles are about more soup and less noodles, so she wasn't full after one bowl.
"My dear, are you hungry too? When we get home, let's roll out some more noodles so that we can eat enough during the Chinese New Year." Grandma Su looked at her little granddaughter with a doting look on her face!
The next day, Chen Zian was still busy and sent the driver to take the Su family home.
Everyone in the family was shocked when they found out that Su Manxiu was pregnant.
When you married into Lao Wang's family, how many years had you not had a baby? How long did it take to marry Chen Zian? How did you get pregnant?
"My dear, Sister Taohua said before that the child in the little widow's belly is not Wang Gouzi's, but I still don't believe it." Wang Xianghua patted her thigh and said.
"Have Taohua told you before?" Grandma Su asked in surprise.
"Sister Taohua said that she inquired about it and found out that the young widow had good relations with several people, and that the child was most likely not from Lao Wang's family. I didn't believe it, so I didn't go home to tell her."
At first, Wang Xianghua thought that it would be better not to talk about Wang Gouzi's troubles, so as not to upset the rest of the family.
Qi Liangying said with a smile: "Thankfully, we got divorced by mistake, otherwise our girl would have been delayed her whole life."
"My eldest sister is old. It's hard to conceive a baby. I don't know if my brother-in-law will take care of it!" Liang Xiu said worriedly.
Chen Zian is a man, and he is also a rough man who has served as a soldier. He is probably not good at taking care of others.
"How about I take care of it?" Grandma Su said hurriedly without caring about anything else.
Grandpa Su said: "Don't go. If there is a need, they will talk to us."
After all, she is a married girl, so why did she take the initiative to visit her?
Grandma Su nodded.
"Mom, our family has distributed a lot of millet this year, why don't we keep it for my eldest sister to use during confinement?" Qi Liangying asked.
If Qi Liangying had her own little thoughts before, she would definitely be reluctant to let go.
But Su Manxiu married an official, and the relationship was good, which was also good for her family.
Besides, the family is not short of food now, and her parents-in-law have also said that they have saved some money for their children's marriage, so she has nothing to be reluctant to part with.
Qi Liangying, the stingiest person, even spoke up, and Wang Xianghua, who was heartless, and Liang Xiu, who was generous, had no objections.
Grandma Su was very satisfied with the generous behavior of her daughters-in-law. She repeatedly said that the old Su family was lucky to have such good daughters-in-law.
"By the way, I was so happy that I forgot about it. You girls have given you a piece of clothing. You can take it back and make it yourself." Grandma Su took out a few pieces of floral cloth from the bag and said to her three daughters-in-law.
"My eldest sister is just getting married, so she should wear better clothes, why are they all given to us?" Liang Xiu said, touching the fine fabric.
This is much better than the cloth weaved in the countryside. It will definitely look good when made into clothes!
The other two people also expressed their refusal to take it.
"Xiu'er has already bought it, so don't be polite. When the Chinese New Year comes, you will all wear new clothes and go back to your parents' home. It will be decent." Grandma Su said cheerfully.
The daughters-in-law didn't say anything at all.
Su Laoer asked: "Mom, Xiu'er was only given to three sisters-in-law? Not three brothers?"
Grandma Su glared at him and said: "How many cloth coupons can your sister have? These are all saved by your brother-in-law. You are a grown man, why do you wear something so easy?"
Su Laoer was scolded by his mother and took a step back with his hands folded, not daring to speak.
"Old man, my daughter bought this for you, and these few pieces belong to several children..."
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