dtnovels Chapter 421 Cooking
Chapter 421 Cooking
"Can you call me mother now?"
"A few days ago, Shen Ping came back to play with him, and I heard him call out for his mother. I didn't hear him. He was babbling all the time, and I didn't know what he was saying."
As soon as she finished speaking, the child started to make noises and looked around, curious about everything.
Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "Children are the most fun and especially cute at this time."
Zhao Sanniang put the child down on the ground and held his waist. He kicked his legs and looked very happy.
"It won't be fun when he grows up. When he can walk and run without support, he will be difficult to take care of."
Li Chunhong agreed: "Not only was the child difficult to take care of at that time, but when he got older, he would eat more. Now I just feed him some rice porridge."
She nodded: "Yes, Shen Ping brought back half a bag of rice during the Chinese New Year, and that's all we can feed him. We don't have money at home. If we had money, we could buy more good food. We can raise him in poverty."
Ji Wenhe took out the washed wild vegetables, chopped them up and put them in a bowl, then scooped the noodles in.
Zhou Xiaoyu clapped her hands: "Let me help you knead the dough. Do you want to cut some cabbage into it?"
"Yes, the wild vegetables were sent to me by Aunt Wang. There aren't many. This amount of pancakes won't be enough. I'll cut some cabbage and put it in."
She put down the knife, washed her hands, added some firewood to the stove, poured the cut winter melon in to cook, then turned around and asked.
"Aunt Zhao, can he eat winter melon? Rotten winter melon."
"You can eat soft winter melon. Sometimes I cook winter melon at home until it's soft, then crush it with a spoon and feed it to him."
"Okay then. When the bone soup is ready, I'll take out some more and you can feed it to him. Then give him some soup."
The little guy looked at her and exclaimed.
Ji Wenhe squatted in front of him, clapped his hands, and spread them out: "Come on, give me your hand."
He put his hand in her palm. The child at this moment was so cute that it would melt one's heart.
Zhou Xiaoyu said with a smile: "When you have a child, I'll let you hold it as much as you want."
"After hearing you say that raising a child is hard, I don't dare to have a child anymore."
Li Chunhong quickly said, "We can't give up the child. Sometimes it's easy to take care of it. I think we should not talk about the child in front of you in the future. If you really don't want the child, Rongshan will blame us."
Ji Wenhe smiled and returned the child to Zhao Sanniang: "No, I will definitely want the child."
At this time, Niu Guilan came in from the yard and said with a smile: "Wen He, is there anyone I can help you with?"
"No, Auntie, please sit down and rest while you wait for dinner."
"That's fine. I see Yuanshan driving his donkey cart out of the village. It's time."
Zhou Xiaoyu asked her: "Why did you run to Zhangjia Village so early in the morning? What's there?"
"Oh, you know I can't stay at home, so I just chat with them about other people's affairs. That's all for fun."
Niu Guilan looked at Ji Wenhe: "How is Yuanshan's marriage going?"
"I have chosen a girl. I am waiting for her father to come back from town to discuss the betrothal gift."
"Oh, Yuanshan is getting married soon. I think he will come over for the wedding next month."
"Yes, I'll ask you to come over then."
She chuckled twice: "Even if you don't invite me, I will come over. When our two children have their weddings, I will also come over to invite you."
"Okay, we'll definitely go there then."
Niu Guilan lowered her voice and said, "Wen He, I think you split up the family a little too early. After the split, if anyone in the village encounters problems, they will not only ask your family to come, but also Wenshan and Yuanshan."
"If you hadn't split up, I would have just invited your family to come over. Now, all three of you brothers have to pay for the gifts, which is a big loss."
"That can't be helped. We've lived together for so long that we're afraid of conflicts. If someone invites us, we'll go, regardless of whether it's a loss or not. We're all from the same village, and if someone invites us, we can't just say no, right?"
She nodded in agreement: "Speaking of this, the two sons of the headman have gone to town, and the two families are now separated. The headman is invited to handle village affairs, and his two sons will no longer have any contact with them."
Li Chunhong nodded: "Tao Xing'er and Jiang Hongxi's daughter and son got married, but they didn't invite us. But Liuyun got married in the village and invited us to the banquet."
"As long as it's held in town, they definitely won't invite us. They don't come back to celebrate the New Year now. I don't think they will come back in the future even if we take them to town to celebrate."
Niu Guilan was a little envious. Her family also wanted to buy a house in the town, but unfortunately they had no money.
Zhou Xiaoyu was mixing the dough and found that the water was a little less: "Wen He, pour me some more water."
Ji Wenhe walked to the side of the vat, took the ladle, scooped water into the basin little by little, and waited for her to say it was done before stopping.
Pour the water in the ladle into another basin and use it to wash the vegetables later.
After the meat is cut and the vegetables are washed and prepared, when the time is right, you can start cooking.
After chatting in the kitchen for a while, seeing that it was almost time, Li Chunhong walked behind the stove and said, "I'll light the fire, Wen He, it's time to cook."
"Hey." Ji Wenhe stood up and said, "Aunt Zhao, please take the child out to sit. The house smells of cooking fumes. Don't let the child choke."
"Okay, I'll take the kids out for a walk, and we'll go see the bride. She'll be here soon."
Zhou Xiaoyu and Niu Guilan also followed him out.
Li Chunhong used straw to start a fire: "Wen He, the puppet is almost finished. Will it be delivered by the end of the month?"
"If it can be completed before the end of the month, then send it over at the end of the month."
"Then tell me when you leave, and I'll go with you to Jinxiufang to get some silk threads to make."
"Okay."
I originally thought it would take until May, but I didn't expect them to be so quick and finish it by the end of April. It's just right that we will stop working on this batch after they finish it.
I made almost 80 yuan from the designs I made for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and with the designs I made for the Chinese Valentine's Day, I have saved a lot.
After deducting the betrothal gifts given by the two brothers and daily expenses from the money earned from selling the blind bear, there was still a little over thirty-one points left.
She planned to discuss with Shen Rongshan to give each of their two families ten taels of silver from the money earned from selling the blind bear, and she would save the money earned from selling the dolls and not share it out.
Counting the money I've earned in the past few months from the Qixi Festival, I have almost thirty taels in my hand, just counting the money earned from the puppet.
I'll deliver the goods at the end of the month and go to get the money next time. I should be able to make around 400 to 500 taels.
People will never think that they have too much money. In the past, they felt satisfied if they could earn ten taels of silver. Now that they have so much money in their hands, they want to earn more. It turns out that people are greedy.
Ji Wenhe prepared the meal on time.
Over there, Shen Wenshan came in with Ding Hongye. Villager Zhou Xiaoyu hurried in and shouted, "Wenhe, hurry up, are the dishes ready? Your Wenshan is back with his wife."