CH 108

PREVIOUS

NEXT

Time passed quickly, and the excitement of Fourth Wang’s family continued. Zhulan’s family had more children, and life was lively, and it was New Year’s Eve in a blink of an eye.

Zhulan and Zhou Shuren spent the first New Year in ancient times with different meanings. Early in the morning, Zhou Shuren took his son and grandson to worship the ancestors first, and when they came back, they took out the red paper they bought early to write Spring Festival couplets.

Zhulan also discovered new skills. She can cut window grilles according to Yuan’s memory, and she cut them in style.

After the window grilles and the couplets were finished, Zhulan took her daughter-in-law and daughter to prepare lunch. Zhulan’s family ate one more meal than other families.

Hot Pot, Zhulan, and Zhou Shuren surely missed it. The hot pot had been around for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, the way of eating hot pot was elaborate. Northerners liked it very much in winter, but they mainly stew randomly. Hot pot in winter was very popular in this fictional dynasty, so it was not out of the ordinary for the two to eat hot pot. The restaurants in the county will offer Hot Pot every winter.

To eat hot pot, the couple bought a large ceramic pot and charcoal and came back. Zhou Shuren went to the restaurant to buy a charcoal base for the restaurant’s hot pot, the meat in the pot, and the mutton that Zhulan had never been willing to eat. Unfortunately, he couldn’t buy beef.

The family had more people and so they cut a lot of pork slices. During the Chinese New Year, the family bought five grass carp weighing more than three catties. Zhulan asked Li to slice a grass carp to cook the pot. The vegetarian dishes were simple, only frozen tofu, tofu, radish, cabbage, and potatoes.

The soup base was chicken soup and big bone soup. Zhulan and Zhou Shuren didn’t even think about the sauce, the hot pot in the restaurant in the county did not have sauce. There were chopped green onion and chili flakes at the top.

In fact, to put it bluntly, there was a lot of difference between this hot pot and modern-day hot pot. According to Zhulan, the hot pot in a restaurant is just a stew pot.

There were many members in the family, and there was no time to have individual hot pot. The two pots were neatly stacked and stewed directly over a charcoal fire.

The whole family sat down for lunch, and when the lid of the hot pot was lifted, both the adults and the children started drooling. The eyes of the children were all on the meat, no, it should be said that except for Zhulan and Zhou Shuren, the whole family was staring at the meat dishes.

This is the first time that they were so generous during the Chinese New Year, and they had so much meat!

Zhou Shuren moved his chopsticks, and couldn’t stand the eyes of his sons, so he coughed, “It’s delicious, let’s move your chopsticks!”

As soon as the words fell, the chopsticks were flying.

The whole family had never eaten hot pot, only heard of its name. They never dared to expect it, and today their dream came true.

Zhulan and Zhou Shuren were the head of the family. Zhulan controlled herself while eating. She had long stopped eating meat. Instead, she liked to eat something refreshing. The two of them ate tofu and cabbage the most. In the beginning, no one touched the fish slices, only Zhulan and Zhou Shuren did.

Later, seeing how delicious they were, the eyes of the sons lit up after trying it, but it was a pity that the amount of one fish, one chopstick per person, and it was gone.

Li Shi’s eyes were full of tears, it was so delicious, she picked it up for the children while eating.

Zhao Shi’s speed was not slow, because she only took care of her daughter, so she ate more than Li Shi. Zhao Shi felt that she was blessed, that she had confinement before the Chinese New Year, and there was no shortage of delicious food.

Because Zhulan took care of Jiang Du, Xuemei only needed to feed her daughter, and she ate a lot. Ever since she returned to her natal home, Xuemei had long accepted the fact that her mother had good food. For lunch, she cut eight catties of mutton and pork. There were also five catties of fish. Whose New Year was so extravagant!! If it is not good for a married woman to bring her husband to live in her mother’s house for a long time, Xuemei would like to live with her children here for a long time.

Jiang Sheng at the next table was embarrassed to eat for free from the beginning but gradually became natural. The in-law’s family really did not dislike their family, especially these days. Not only was he copying books to make money but also reading books brought back by his father-in-law. Don’t talk about his son and daughter, even he did not want to leave his in-law’s house!

A hot pot meal was so lively that everyone was fighting it for a piece of meat.

Zhulan smiled, it was lively, the more lively it was, the more emotional it would be. No matter if they were blood relatives or strangers, they had to get along with each other to have a deep relationship. It seemed that Changlian didn’t target Rong Chuan anymore.

After eating hot pot, the whole family was warmed up, and both the children and adults were drowsy.

T/N I so want to eat a Chinese Hot Pot!! And Korean BBQ. I ate fondue, guessing hot pot is like it only a soup base unlike a cheese base in fondue.