Siheyuan: the beginning to realize the freedom of cooking

05:30 in the evening.

Every family in the courtyard is preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.

In addition to this meal, at 12 o'clock at night, the family will usually eat dumplings together.

The third grandpa’s family in the front yard, after posting New Year’s reds to those who are willing to spend money in the courtyard, put the money into red New Year’s money bags.In this way, there will be lucky money for the children.

Lin Aijun and Shazhu's family in the middle courtyard usually eat together, so naturally they also gathered for the New Year's Eve dinner at this time.

Lin Aijun naturally collected all the chicken, duck and fish stored in the space, and Sha Zhu, the successor of the imperial chef, prepared a table of sumptuous dishes.

Although the Jia family lived a poor life, during the Chinese New Year, Qin Huairu still spent a lot of thought on changing the dishes to make the dishes as rich as possible.

There are not only fish and meat, but also several kinds of cabbage, cabbage mixed with cold dishes, spiced spicy cabbage, and stewed sauerkraut.

Compared with other houses in the courtyard house, it is much simpler, but it still has everything that should be there.

Bang Geng and Xiao Dang are very happy. Every year, Chinese New Year is the day they look forward to the most. Although Qin Huairu won't buy them toys, the children in the yard love toys, and sometimes they can play together.

The second uncle's family in the backyard also has a large population, but fortunately, the eldest son is already working, so the pressure is much less.

Xu Damao didn't have the New Year's Eve dinner in the courtyard, and took Qin Jingru to grandma's house to have the New Year's Eve dinner with Xu Fugui and his wife.Xu Fugui and his wife didn't want to see Qin Jingru, they thought she was a shameless girl, and even looked down on her rural status.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the children in the yard gathered together with small lanterns to play, and the stars were dotted in the dark night, which was really beautiful.

Qin Huairu leaned at the door of his house and watched Stickong, Xiaodang chased the third and fourth children of the Yan family, and the two youngest sons of the Liu family to play together.

After eating, the uncle also stood in the courtyard, hiding his figure in the darkness.

Looking at the few lively children in front of me, chasing each other, playing and laughing.

Every year at this time, seeing the neighbors buying toys and new clothes for the children, he feels mixed feelings in his heart.

There are no children in the family, and the husband and wife celebrate the New Year, and they also feel that their temperature is a few degrees lower than that of their neighbors.

The uncle's eyes flickered, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, put it to his lips, and took out a match.

A small cluster of flames suddenly lit up in the darkness. The old man brought the smoke close to the flames, took a few puffs, then threw the match in his hand to the ground, crushed it with his toes, and stamped it out.

The lit cigarette glowed in the darkness, which attracted Qin Huairu's sideways gaze.

She looked around and found that the door of Shazhu's house on the opposite side was well covered, and there were only herself and the uncle in the courtyard, so she quietly moved a few steps in the direction of the uncle.

Just as he was about to speak, Liu Guangfu, the second uncle's youngest son, took out a small firecracker from his pocket and approached the first uncle.

"Master, lend me the matches, I want to set off firecrackers." Liu Guangfu said.

Seeing this, Bang Geng felt envious in his heart, ran to Qin Huairu and said, "Mom, I want firecrackers too, please buy me some."

Qin Huairu looked at Liu Guangfu, then at Banggen, and said, "Good boy, once the firecrackers are set off, the money will be gone. It's too wasteful. Just follow Guangfu and just watch and have fun."

Seeing this, Xiao Dang stepped forward and grabbed Qin Huairu, and said in a childlike voice: "Mom, I want to play too, and I want to."

So, Qin Huairu knelt down, held Xiao Dang's shoulders and said, "Xiao Dang, you are too young to play with that. Besides, girls, playing with firecrackers is too dangerous. If your face is blown up, you will grow up in the future." It's not pretty anymore."

"Mom, please, buy it for me!" Seeing that Qin Huairu didn't agree, Bang Jian relentlessly grabbed Qin Huairu's arm, trying to attract his mother's attention from Xiaodang to him.

"Bang Geng, you are an older brother, take your sister to play with you. Don't even think about firecrackers, this thing is a waste of money, once it explodes, it will be gone." Qin Huairu still didn't agree to Bang Geng.

When the stick heard it, he was unhappy, and lay down on the ground, crying loudly.

"Mom, I want firecrackers, I want firecrackers, everyone has them, why don't I have them!"

Seeing this, Qin Huairu stepped forward and picked up the stick from the ground, and patted the dirt on his body: "You child, who did you learn from? If you don't agree with a word, you'll throw up and roll around!! It's the New Year's Eve, you don't like it !"

Bang Geng didn't listen to Qin Huairu's words, and continued to quarrel unrelentingly.

"I don't care, I just want firecrackers!!"

The crying sound seemed to be contagious, and Xiao Dang on the side also cried out.

"I want it too. If my brother has it, I want it too."

Seeing this, Qin Huairu frowned.

She understood the child's psychology in her heart, but she was reluctant to part with the money, so she suppressed her anger and didn't want to go online. After all, she didn't want to yell at the child on New Year's Eve.

"Great man, don't cry! Come on, grandpa will give you the New Year's money, you go and buy it."

The old man's voice suddenly came from behind.

When Qin Huairu heard the words and turned her head, she saw the uncle stuffing a ten-cent note into Banggen's hand.

Bang Geng was obviously stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the uncle, then at Qin Huairu, not daring to reach out to grab it.

"It's all right, stick, take it! This is the new year's money given by the uncle." The uncle patted stick on the shoulder.

"Mom?!" Bang Geng looked at Qin Huairu, without her approval, he still didn't dare to do it.

Qin Huairu looked at the uncle with complicated eyes, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and nodded towards Bang Geng, which was regarded as his agreement.

"Bang, thank you, uncle."

Only then did Bang Geng reach out to take the money from the uncle, showing a bright and innocent smile of a child, then reached out and wiped away tears with his sleeve.

"I have lucky money, I have lucky money."

Xiao Dang, who was watching from the sidelines, watched helplessly as his elder brother got the lucky money, and walked up to the uncle.

"Master, where's Xiaodang's lucky money?"

"You have it too, don't worry!" As he said, the uncle took another dime out of his pocket and stuffed it into Xiao Dang's hand.

"I also have New Year's money, I also have New Year's money."

After Xiao Dang took it, he also jumped up for joy, spinning in small circles on the spot.

"You two, quickly say thank you to the uncle." Qin Huairu looked at the uncle with a smile.

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Stick said proactively.

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Xiao Dang followed suit.

At this moment, Liu Guangfu lit a small firecracker, which exploded in the courtyard with a bang.

Qin Huairu rolled his eyes, lowered his body and said to Liu Guangfu: "Guangfu, let's set off firecrackers at the gate of the courtyard. It's not easy to clean them tomorrow."

Liu Guangfu nodded, and took a group of children to the gate of the courtyard.

Qin Huairu straightened up and smiled, pointed to the vegetable cellar, and walked in.

After the uncle was taken aback for a moment, he also followed.