But among the children in the family, only Jin Miao is the happiest, because he is the only one who has ever been hungry. It's a luxury to eat four meals a day.
Although Suwan was also hungry, she was not very old at that time and had no clear memory. She had been following Shi Xiaorui in recent years. To say nothing else, at least she had no problem in eating and clothing.
Lu Xilan and Lu Ming don't care at all. They don't lack food or drink, and sometimes they have snacks. If they are all sandwiched together, they don't know how many meals they can eat in a day. Of course, they don't care about the supper.
Especially when Lu Xiran ate too many snacks in the evening and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, she didn't feel like eating all day.
When Shi Xiaorui went to see it again, they had changed a new game, "eagle catches chicken".
Although there were not enough chickens, the backyard space was not big enough. On the contrary, it was just right. Lu Xilan was at the forefront of the team, stretching his arms hard to block the rooster in front of Jinmiao. Behind him, Lu Ming grabbed her clothes. Su Wan was very happy with her reluctance, and her face was flushed with laughter.
The black dog was driven out of the kitchen. Shi Xiaorui found that his stomach was bulging, so he lay down in a corner to watch them play, but he didn't surround them. He was afraid that he would be trampled on.
In the kitchen, Shanxia and they are still preparing.
While making dumplings a little clumsily, Xin Meng complained to Shi Xiaorui, "why do you want to eat dumplings on New Year's Eve? We don't have such a custom there. Is this dumpling too difficult to make?"
Shanxia said, "the customs are different everywhere. You don't eat dumplings, but we do. I don't remember anything else now. I still remember the taste of dumplings clearly."
Her hand movement is much faster than that of Xinmeng. Distracted talking to Xinmeng doesn't delay her hand movement at all. Her hands are wrapped with dumpling skin, and she doesn't see how she moves. A very beautiful dumpling with Frill is formed, and she puts it in the plate beside her. This plate is made by her, and each one is round.
In addition, what's on the plate must be Xin Meng's works, not only in quantity, but also in appearance, that is, the stuffing inside is barely allowed to leak out.
Shi Xiaorui had not made dumplings for a long time. She washed her hands first, and then got together to help: "what kind of stuffing?"
Shanxia said: "I originally planned to make some mutton or egg stuffing, but I was afraid that everyone would not get used to it, so I prepared the simplest one, pork and scallion stuffing. Before I bought less scallion, but fortunately there was still a little in our flowerpot, which just came together."
There are only a few fillings left. After all, there are not many people in the family. Now there is no way to keep the food fresh. The food can be kept for one day at most. If it is put again, it may be broken.
Shi Xiaorui didn't help much. Just after helping to make two dumplings, the project was completed.
And she also overestimated her proficiency, making two dumplings is enough time for Xinmeng to make four.
Dinner will be ready soon.
The sweaty kids in the yard ran into the dining room, and the food on the table was waiting for them.
There are all kinds of dishes on the table for the Chinese new year, so the whole table is still a little too big to put. Several cold dishes have to be put on several other big plates.
We had a big dinner together, and there is no entertainment these days. After chatting together for a while, it seems that there is nothing to do.
Shi Xiaorui is very much like going back to bed. Unfortunately, today, according to this custom, she has to keep the new year's day as much as possible all night. The children are full of energy, but Shi Xiaorui and Shanxia, who have been busy all day, can't hold on any longer. When they arrive at the time when they want to sleep at night, they can't help feeling sleepy all over.
Shi Xiaorui persisted for a while, and soon became a bit sleepy, because she had been busy these two days, and it was easier to feel sleepy after she had enough.
It's time for the props to come on!
Of course, it's not cigarettes or anything. Shi Xiaorui always keeps away from such things that will do harm to her body.
Shi Xiaorui took out the playing cards and the horse crane.
Playing cards needless to say, with Shi Xiaorui's painting level, there is no way to draw images like King clowns. She can only simply write numbers and letters, and then draw red hearts or squares in the middle. At this time, there is no suitable paper for playing cards. In order to prevent cheating, Shi Xiaorui specially glues many pieces of paper together, so that the words on the paper will not be exposed.
Ma Diao is the predecessor of mahjong. Shi Xiaorui, who is also a provincial player, can do it by himself after knowing the rules.
As long as you don't gamble, it's OK to play occasionally.
Shi Xiaorui grabs a handful of copper coins for everyone to make chips at the beginning. After talking about the rules, everyone starts to play in several waves.
Shi Xiaorui and Lu Shao play mahjong together with Qujiang and Lu Ming, because it's the first time for several people to get in touch with this. Although Shi Xiaorui has played mahjong several times, the way of playing mahjong and mahjong is not exactly the same as that of mahjong, so everyone's speed of playing cards is very slow for a while. It takes half a day to decide what cards to play.
But the most important thing is that Lu Ming seems to be too serious. She is careful as if she is doing her homework. Shi Xiaorui usually plays cards by intuition. She can feel which one she wants. Lu Shao and Qu Jiang basically play with her. However, since Lu Ming is so serious, everyone is not happy. She is too perfunctory. When she thinks about it slowly, she also feels a lot of fun.
On the other hand, Lu Xiran inherits Shi Xiaorui's intuitive playing method and is playing cards with Jin Miao and Su Wan. They all know which Arabic numerals are bigger or smaller. The most common playing method Shi Xiaorui teaches them is to fight landlords. Of course, Lu Xiran is duty bound to become a landowner in the first game. Now she doesn't have to think about how to help her teammates, He who comes up will fight directly.
Moju and Shanxia also got together. Shanxia and Xinmeng are good at playing horse crane. In the past, they used this method to pass the time. Moju and Xiaying had less contact with each other, but they also learned very fast. Several of them played cards faster than Shi Xiaorui.
Ma Diao and playing cards display their long tested charm. When they are empty in their hands, Shi Xiaorui finds that it has been a long time, and her chips of at least 20 to 30 copper coins have been used up.
Another look, there are almost half of the copper coins left in Qujiang, and there are about seven or eight left in Lu Ming. All the copper coins have been won by Lu Shao. He put the copper coins in a pile of ten and placed them neatly beside the table.