Su Yun subconsciously wanted to say what she meant. When she opened her mouth to answer, she saw Xiao Lin's disapproving profile, and she took back her words in time.
It was impossible to build a snowman or anything like that. Even when she came out to see the snow, she had to coax Xiao Lin into nodding her head. She didn't dare to think about unnecessary things.
"No, it's too cold."
Su Yun answered seriously.
Zhao Meiyu felt that it was very boring, so she sighed and built a snowman in the yard. Su Yun seemed serious, but she kept glancing towards Zhao Meiyu and their yard.
After looking at it twice, he seemed to be afraid of being discovered by Xiao Lin, so he quickly looked back and looked down at the toes of his shoes.
This was more obvious than her intention to build a snowman.
His wife...
Xiao Lin chuckled and shook his head. He used a shovel to quickly separate the piles of snow. Not long after, he used the shovel to make two snowmen. The two snowmen, one large and one small, looked like she and Xiao Lin.
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Su Yun groaned and raised her feet to come over.
"Slow down, be careful."
Xiao Lin turned back a few steps, holding Su Yun's hand and walking forward slowly. Su Yun picked off the leaves from the courtyard wall and stuck them on the snowman's head and body, decorating the two snowmen, one big and one small, beautifully.
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"Does it look good?"
She tilted her head and looked at Xiao Lin and asked.
Xiao Lin hummed, "Not as good-looking as my wife."
This person never forgets to praise her? Su Yun gave him a look, walked to the door and looked at Zhao Meiyu, who also had two snowmen piled up in their yard. She smiled and kneaded the snow on the wall into a snowman.
A little snowman shape.
"My wife has to go back and warm herself by the fire."
Xiao Lin was afraid that she would freeze, so he just made a snowman as big as an egg and asked her to go back and warm herself by the fire.
Su Yun glanced at Xiao Lin and did not insist on staying in the ice and snow. She said hello to Zhao Meiyu and let Xiao Lin help her into the house to warm up by the fire.
After the first snow falls in early winter, the sky and earth are often completely white. In this pure white sky and earth, time also becomes faster.
Almost in the blink of an eye, it is already the last few days of the twelfth lunar month.
The heating that Su Yun had been looking forward to was also turned on two days before the New Year. Su Yun, who originally had to dress like a bear in the house, was finally able to take off her thick clothes and put on an autumn jacket.
Long maternity dress.
"Daughter-in-law, put your socks on first."
Xiao Lin knelt on one knee and put comfortable cotton socks on her feet with concentration, and then put her into the mille-layer cloth slippers sewn by Mrs. Xiao herself.
Su Yun is now almost eight months pregnant. Her belly is so big that she can't see the tips of her shoes when she stands. Her body is so heavy that it is difficult to walk down the stairs.
Xiao Lin has arranged other work early and is now with Su Yun 24 hours a day to prevent her from having any surprises.
Su Yun had just put on her shoes when Zhao Meiyu's voice came from outside, "It's snowing so heavily. I wonder if it will clear up during the Chinese New Year?" After the words fell, Zhao Meiyu had already opened the door and came in.
Her belly is more than three months old, and her lower abdomen is slightly protruding.
They originally planned to go back to celebrate the New Year this year, but they were delayed because of their pregnancy. Since neither family would go back to their hometown to celebrate the New Year, they had agreed early to have the New Year's Eve dinner together at Su Yun's house.
Their family, including Zhao Meiyu and his wife, as well as Lao Hu and Wang Yufen, had a New Year's Eve dinner together.
Zhao Meiyu came here now with the intention of grinding tofu with Mrs. Xiao. In their hometown, no matter whether the conditions at home were good or bad, they would try their best to soak the soybeans and grind the tofu on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.
When Su Yun was at Old Su's house in Zhaojiacun, she did all this work. Today she couldn't do it even if she wanted to, so she could only watch Mrs. Xiao and Zhao Meiyu do it.
First, take the soybeans that have been soaked in hot water overnight and take them out of the bucket. After draining the water, take them to the stone mill. One person adds beans to the stone mill, and the other person slowly turns the stone mill.
Crush the soybeans and squeeze out the white pulp...
Mrs. Xiao and Zhao Meiyu are both good at work, and it didn't take long for them to grind a bucket of beans. They put a large iron pot on the earthen stove in the backyard and poured the ground soy milk into the pot.
The fire is simmering slowly.
When the slurry in the pot boiled, bursts of rich soybean aroma wafted out. Su Yun was so enticed by the aroma that her index fingers twitched, and she watched eagerly as Xiao Lin asked him to ask for some soybean milk for her to drink.
No, specifically this is not called soy milk, but tofu pudding, which is something that can be made into tofu by pressing dry the water.
Xiao Lin went to get a big bowl and brought it over. Su Yun took out a small bowl and put it to her mouth to drink.
Zhao Meiyu, who had already wrapped the tofu and pressed it with stones, came over with some chopped green onions.
"Xiaoyun, do you want to try the northern way of eating?"
There is a difference between eating tofu pudding in the north and in the south. Su Yun's adaptability has always been pretty good, but the only thing she can't do is add salt and green onion brine to the tofu pudding.
She can't eat this taste.
Wrap the drained tofu in the softest gauze, and drain the water thoroughly after two hours. Mrs. Xiao saw that the time was almost up, and asked Xiao Lin to move away the big rocks that were pressing on it.
Making tofu is a bit particular. If you drain the water too quickly, the tofu will taste very old. If you drain it too quickly, the tofu will have too much water, which will be too fragile when making stuffed tofu.
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It may seem like a simple thing, but it takes patience, care and experience to do it.
Of course, Mrs. Xiao has been her whole life, and she controls this time very well. When the tofu was cut out, Su Yun tasted a piece and it was not too tender but not too old.
The taste is just right.
She narrowed her eyes in enjoyment, "Grandma, the tofu you make is delicious. I feel like I can eat ten of them."
Old Mrs. Xiao laughed. For the elderly, the happiest thing was that the things she made were liked by them. Her wrinkled face was full of smiles.
"If you like to eat, eat more. Grandma can do as much as you want."
"Shall we have braised tofu for lunch? You can add some pork ribs or pork belly." Su Yun suggested.
"Okay, I'll buy meat in a moment."
Xiao Lin nodded in agreement.
Since the beginning of winter, whenever it snows, Xiao Lin has taken over the task of buying vegetables at home. It is impossible for him to let Su Yun go to the vegetable market, and at the same time, he is not willing to let Mrs. Xiao go out in the heavy snow.
Wife, daughter and children are important, but the body of the old lady is equally important.
He has spent a thousand yuan to buy a refrigerator from Xiangjiang. The time should be coming soon. By then, there will be a refrigerator at home, and the old lady will not have to buy groceries every day.
Refrigerators at this time were definitely a luxury item. A refrigerator cost one thousand yuan, and it would take an ordinary family many years to save enough. So it is not an exaggeration to call it a luxury item.
Xiao Lin earns money to improve his family's life, so one thousand yuan can make his family's life quality better, and he is not reluctant to part with it.
There's something you can't think about, but it will come to you as soon as you think about it.
No, Xiao Lin was only thinking about the refrigerator in the morning. After they had lunch, Xiao Lin's company called him to tell him that the refrigerator had arrived.
Xiao Lin helped Su Yun to the room and let her take a nap. Then he put on his coat, took the car keys, and went to the company's temporarily rented factory to unload the refrigerator. On the way, he unexpectedly met Chen Shennan and Chen Jinzhou.
The father and son walked forward in a hurry, as if there was something urgent.