After one whip and ten kicks, Sheng Xitai was still a little unsatisfied.
By this time, the dumplings in the pot were already cooked. Zhang Shuzhen filled the basin with dumplings and shouted to her children to come back and eat.
As soon as he heard that the dumplings were ready, Sheng Xitai didn't say that he had had enough fun, and ran back to the house, took off his shoes and got on the kang to eat dumplings.
Sheng Xiping and others were behind, entering the door with a speechless expression. Just as the dumplings were all in the basin, Sheng Xiping carried them directly into the house.
"Dad, let's change the rules in our family from now on.
The dumplings at Thirty'er's in the evening were eaten as usual, with a skewer on the plate. They were so watery that they made it uncomfortable to eat."
Sheng Xiping muttered while carrying dumplings into the room.
I don’t know how the Sheng family passed down this rule. Dumplings on New Year’s Eve must be served in a basin together with the dumpling soup.
Then each person gets a bowl and eats it with soup and water. Moreover, they are not allowed to dip it in garlic sauce or anything else, just eat it like this.
Sheng Xiping thought about eating dumplings like this because his family was too poor to eat dumplings during the New Year's Eve, so he came up with this trick.
The dumplings are in the bowl, and there is dumpling soup. They must have cooled slowly. If you want to eat the dumplings, you have to slowly eat them one by one.
After finally finishing the dumplings, I had to drink the dumpling soup as well.
Originally, I would feel full easily if I ate slowly, but with the addition of dumpling soup, I would not have to wait until I had eaten a few dumplings. Once I was full, I would naturally not be able to eat too much.
Moreover, those who eat dumplings with such watery soup are not allowed to dip them in garlic sauce and vinegar. I really can't eat much, and I feel very nervous after eating only a few.
Life was difficult in the past, so it’s understandable that I eat like this.
But now the Sheng family can't afford a meal of dumplings. They don't let anyone eat them during the Chinese New Year. Isn't that bad?
Sheng Xiping has never liked this way of eating, so he is happy to eat them out of a fishnet. The skin of the dumplings is dry and refreshing, and they are dipped in some garlic sauce, chili oil, vinegar, etc., and they taste good.
After not eating like this for so many years, Sheng Xiping almost forgot that the Sheng family still had this rule.
Looking at the dumplings in the basin, Sheng Xiping suddenly didn't want to eat them and felt tired.
He chopped up a big piece of meat in the afternoon. This way of eating can make people calm.
"Ah? Isn't it always the rule in our hometown? For New Year's Eve dumplings, we scoop them out of the water and don't eat onions and garlic.
You all ate it before, what happened?" Sheng Liancheng was confused by his son's words.
It was always like this when I was in my hometown. Over the years since I moved to the Northeast, Sheng Liancheng has changed many of his living habits, but this rule has never changed.
No one has mentioned it before, so why do you suddenly say you don’t want to eat like this?
"I have always said without hesitation that our family is not like this. We also eat dumplings on the plate during New Year's Eve.
In all these years of being married to you, how many times have you seen me eat more dumplings on New Year’s Eve?
In the past, when life was bad, I would eat dumplings all year round, and they would taste delicious no matter how I ate them. Can it be the same now?
Our family is short of food? You still have to do this."
Zhang Shuzhen came in with a bowl and gave Sheng Liancheng a blank look when she heard what she said.
"Yes, Dad, eating dumplings like this really doesn't taste good." Sheng Xian and others also agreed.
Even Sheng Xitai, who has always been the most voracious, looked at his father and nodded repeatedly. "Yeah, yeah."
Sheng Liancheng was stunned. No one had mentioned this before. He didn't know that his wife and children didn't like this method.
"Just for you to make dumplings. When I was a kid, this was the dumpling meal I looked forward to the most.
At that time, my grandfather served dumplings, one spoon per person, three or four dumplings. If we couldn't eat one bowl, we had to eat two or three bowls.
My father said, "Hey, Xiao Cheng came here and ate three bowls. It tasted good to me too."
Sheng Liancheng recalled that before, he didn't think there was anything wrong with eating dumplings like this. It was pretty good.
“That’s because my family used to be poor, and if one person fooled the children, it would be nice to tell others.
When I said I ate three bowls of dumplings, others thought it was a lot, but in fact I ate less." Zhang Shuzhen snorted.
"Why don't you tell me, how many times a year did you eat dumplings at that time? How much meat was in one dumpling?
Do you need to taste it? How much meat is in our dumpling today?
If you are willing to eat like this, then you can eat it yourself. We are not the same as you. We will put it on the plate."
In the past, when her children were young and life at home was not good, Zhang Shuzhen thought it would be okay to fool her children like this.
Now that my son is so old and is about to get married, some rules should be changed if they need to be changed.
Otherwise, if Zhou Qinglan gets married next year, she will be like this during the Chinese New Year, and the new daughter-in-law will definitely not be used to it.
Sheng Liancheng still didn't believe it, so he scooped out a few dumplings from the basin, picked them up and took a bite.
It's quite delicious. How could my wife and children be so worried about it?
Sheng Liancheng didn't believe in the evil, so he ate four of them in a row, and the fifth one was really not that good.
The half of the meat in the dumplings was mixed with oil and meat soup when Zhang Shuzhen mixed the stuffing. Wouldn't that be delicious?
While Sheng Liancheng was eating dumplings, Sheng Xiping had already gone to get a pile of plates and a pair of sieves, and Zhang Shuzhen knocked the dumplings from the basin onto the plate.
It's just that after the dumplings were soaked in a basin for a while, the dumpling wrappers were no longer so chewy, so they started to squeak.
On the other end, Sheng Yunfang hurried to the kitchen and brought the garlic sauce. It was for eating jelly in the afternoon, but it could also be used for dumplings at night.
Sheng Yunfang took the garlic sauce, and Sheng Yunfei took the vinegar bottle. The two sisters cooperated quite well.
"There is no more chili oil. If you are jealous, pour it yourself."
Sheng Yunfei put the vinegar bottle on the table, scooped some garlic sauce from the garlic sauce bowl into a small dish, poured some vinegar on it, and started eating.
In this way, Sheng Liancheng ate the dumplings with soup and no garlic sauce, while everyone else ate the dumplings without soup and dipped in garlic sauce and vinegar.
As a result, after Sheng Liancheng managed to eat seven or eight, he really couldn't eat anymore.
When he looked up, he saw his wife and children dipping in garlic sauce and vinegar. The food was delicious, but Sheng Liancheng was so envious.
"Daughter, give Dad a small plate, and I'll dip it in some garlic sauce and vinegar."
When Sheng Liancheng opened his mouth, everyone in the room laughed.
"How's it going? Let me just say, things are different now. Life is not that hard. Don't fool your children with those old rules." Zhang Shuzhen couldn't help but shake her head.
"Don't even look at it, have we eaten any meat at home these days?
The meal in the afternoon was all about meat, and the dumplings in the evening also have a lot of meat in them. It’s strange that you don’t get tired of it if you eat it this way.”
We are an old couple after all, Zhang Shuzhen said without stopping, and quickly fished out a plate of dumplings for Sheng Liancheng.
I brought him another small plate, scooped out a spoonful of garlic sauce, and poured some vinegar.
"I'll fish out these remaining dumplings quickly. If they're soaked in that soup, they won't be edible."
As Zhang Shuzhen said this, she picked up the plate and strainer, took out all the dumplings in the basin, poured the dumpling soup, and poured it into the plate.
Sheng Liancheng took the dumplings, dipped them in garlic sauce and vinegar, took a bite, and nodded involuntarily, "Well, it still tastes so good."
This was the case at my parents-in-law's house in the first year of my marriage. According to the rules of my parents-in-law's hometown, the New Year's Eve dumplings are eaten with soup, and garlic sauce and vinegar are not allowed. I seemed to have only eaten four or five, and I couldn't eat them anymore.
. Starting from the second year, the rules at the parents-in-law’s house changed, and it became the same as usual, eating from the plate.