Little wealth

This day, June 28, is the birthday of their son.

Getting up from the bed early in the morning, Josh asked the little guy while brushing his hair, "Nian Nian, do you know what day it is today?"

"Yeah?" The little guy was still tilting his head, blinking his big eyes and looking at him, as if he was waiting for his explanation.Josh couldn't help laughing, and told him, "Today is your birthday, you are two years old today, do you know that?"

"Yeah?" The little baby said again, what is two years old?

Looking at their son's appearance, Josh was quite sure that this kid didn't know what birthday was. "Birthday means that this day is the day you were born. Today is your two-year-old birthday, which means that you From the day you were born to now, except for the day you were born, it is now your second birthday."

But it seems that their son has no idea about birthdays. How on earth is he going to tell his son what birthdays are?

After thinking for a long time, he had no choice but to give up in the end, and resorted to his trump card against foodies, "I'll make you a lot of delicious food today, are you happy?"

"Eat, eat!" This time I understood, there are delicious things.

"Hehe, you little foodie." Looking happy, Josh couldn't help laughing.

With a comb in hand, I combed the little guy's hair, tied two small hairs on his head, then tied two small bows on the hairs with a red ribbon, and combed a few hairs with a small comb. Little yellow bangs.

A ray of sunlight came in from the open window, just as the light hit the child's face, the few little yellow hairs seemed to be dyed a light golden yellow.

Josh looked at his son who was getting more and more beautiful, and asked deliberately: "Whose little doll is this, why is it so cute?"

"Hee hee~" The little baby held her face with her two small hands, of course Nian Nian was the cutest.

"Hehe, you little clever ghost, you're not shy at all." Josh couldn't help but tapped the little baby's eyebrows lightly with his fingers, as if thinking of something, he found out a box of cinnabar and held it with his thumb. Pressed on it, aimed at the center of the son's eyebrows and covered it, forming a red mark.

Then he took a mirror to show their son, and asked solemnly: "Do you think this is okay? Does it look good? Does it look better than before?"

The little baby stared at herself in the small mirror, and wanted to reach out to touch the red dot between her eyebrows, "Beautiful~"

"Yes, it's the wine. But don't touch it, it will get confused soon." Josh quickly took the little guy's hand, tied his hair with a hair tie, and then took the child to went outside.

When they went out of the house, the child's father saw them, but just glanced at his son, but didn't say anything.

Early in the morning, the smell of cooking meat came from their kitchen. They smelled it in the yard, and people outside could smell it far away.

"You play outside, don't run out." Leaving the child outside to play, Josh went into the kitchen to look at the pig's trotters he stewed last night. Simmering over low heat, the pig's trotters in the casserole were bubbling.

As soon as the lid was lifted, the whole kitchen was filled with the smell of pig's trotters and soybeans. This pot of pig's trotters wasted a lot of his thoughts.

I tried to insert it with chopsticks, and it broke when I poked it. The skin has been stewed until it is very soft.

"Oh, who put this on the center of your eyebrows for you? Why do you look like a little brother?" As soon as Zhao Amu came, she saw her grandson in the courtyard. The grandson looks even more like a little brother.Needless to say, the redness between the grandson's eyebrows must have been given by the child's unreliable mother.

"Hee hee, nice~" Zhao Xiaonian still remembered that the adults praised him for his beauty all morning, so he covered his little face and ran away with a smile.

"What are you cooking this early in the morning? Why is it so fragrant?" Seeing her grandson running away, Zhao Amu followed the scent to find the kitchen.

Josh turned his head and glanced back. He was kneading dough in his hands and asked, "Am, have you forgotten that it's Niannian's birthday today. The pig's trotters are being boiled in the pot, and I'm going to make some for everyone. A bowl of pork knuckle noodle to eat."

When I was studying in the past, I heard my classmates say that my mother would cook a bowl of pork knuckle noodles for him every birthday, so in his impression, pig knuckle noodles are what he eats on his birthday.It's just that he is an orphan, and he doesn't even know when his birthday is. The date of birth registration is the day when the director of the orphanage brought him back, so no one knows when his birthday is.

He has always had a regret in his heart. He once imagined that if he had a mother, would his mother cook him a bowl of noodles on his birthday?So this kind of regret has always been in his heart, and it has been in the present.

Until he came here, after remembering that this day is the child's birthday, he has been thinking about celebrating the child's birthday, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for himself.He hopes that when his child celebrates his birthday in the future, he will remember that someone once cooked him a bowl of pork knuckle noodles.

Of course, for their son's birthday, there is not only a bowl of pork knuckle noodles, but also a lot of delicious food... When their son sees these delicious food in the future, he will remember that there was a person who loved him and gave him food every day. Cook a lot of different delicious food.

"Oh, that's right. I almost forgot if you didn't tell me." Aunt Zhao slapped her forehead and almost forgot my grandson's birthday. "What should I do?"

"I'll just prepare it." Josh said while busy with the work at hand, "Let's have some noodles later, and I'm going to make him a small cake. Don't we have to give it to the workman at noon?" Do you cook? Just make do with a meal at noon, kill a chicken in the evening, make soy sauce chicken and stir-fry two dishes, it’s almost the same.”

There was already a pot of pig's trotters in the pot. The pig's trotters were bought yesterday, and there were two big front legs of pigs. This was only the amount eaten by their family, not including the lunch for the workers.

But there is no way, who makes their family have too many people, one pig's trotter is not enough for each person, and every time they buy two pig's trotters, it is enough to eat.

"It's fine, as long as you have arrangements." After hearing that there is already so much food, Zhao Amu doesn't have to worry about wronging her grandson.

"I'm ready to serve the noodles. You can put the table outside first. I can serve it when I cook it here." The water in the pot just boiled, and Josh threw the pulled noodles in, and used The chopsticks stirred twice.

As soon as the water for cooking noodles boiled, the bubbles would rise up. He added water to it twice, and after boiling for a while, the noodles that were put down were cooked.Take the cooked noodles, put a spoonful in each bowl, add a spoonful of soup on top, and then spoon in a spoonful of marinated pig's trotters and soybeans.

There are also eggs that are indispensable for birthdays. When Josh cooked eggs for his son, he cooked one for each of the family.

Lift the lid of the steamer, and take out the buns and eggs inside. There is a big bowl of eggs, a big pot of meat buns, and the freshly steamed buns are chubby, with a small opening on the top, and you can still see The stuffing inside.

Before he could call for someone to come and get it, someone had already come to take the noodles out.

"I'll come, I'll come." Zhao Hu, who came back following the smell, entered the kitchen and saw bowls of noodles on the counter, and went out with the bowls while swallowing.

"Go and call your brother back." Zhao Amu was looking at the table and grandson outside, afraid that the chickens at home would jump on the table to eat, so she said to her youngest son, "Did Brother Chen and your Uncle Chen come too? Invite them to come over and eat noodles together."

"Oh, I'll go right away." Zhao Hu said and went outside again.

When he came back, he was followed by his brother, butcher Chen and brother Chen.

"Come and eat noodles. Today is Nian Nian's birthday. I cooked pork knuckle noodles for you. Come and see how you like it." Although it was his son's birthday, Josh couldn't cook it just for his son. Let the adults watch the children eat.Since it's my son's birthday, of course I took the opportunity to cook a delicious meal for everyone.

"Well, it smells really good. We could smell it when we were outside just now. We were wondering if you were cooking meat at home, so it really is." Chen Butcher was not polite, and sat down on the stool. , took a pair of chopsticks, took a bite of the pig's trotters.

The pig's trotters stewed overnight are soft and delicious, with the aroma of soybeans, even the beans are full of soup, and the beans are fragrant and soft.

Butcher Chen took a bite of the pig's trotter, stewed it with the chopsticks in his hand, nodded, and said two words, "Delicious!" Besides delicious, he couldn't find another word.

"Haha, let's all sit down and eat." Zhao Amu also sat down and called the children to sit down and eat the noodles. He also took a bite, and it was indeed delicious.

"There are still pig's trotters in the pot. If you don't have enough, put them in." Fearing that everyone would be too tired of eating pig's trotters early in the morning, Josh brought out a large bowl of pickled cucumbers and put them on the table. Sit down in the seat given to him.

Seeing that everyone is eating noodles, even their son is eating pig's trotters, it seems that everyone likes to eat, "There is also cucumber here, if you get tired of eating, eat a bite of pickled cucumber."

"Hey, good." Chen Butcher ate the pig's trotters, and then went to put a piece of pickled cucumber into the bowl. One mouthful of cucumber and one mouthful of pig's trotter noodles were delicious.

Others also picked up cucumbers one after another, and ate the meat buns with their hands.

This meat bun is stuffed with shiitake mushrooms and pork. The skin is thin and filled with plenty of fillings, and the dough is soft. You can eat the savory, salty pork and shiitake mushroom stuffing inside with one bite.

There is only a big bowl of boiled eggs that doesn't seem to be popular with everyone.

"Don't you guys eat eggs?" Josh cracked an egg, peeled off the shell, and fed his son a mouthful.Their son likes to eat egg whites but not egg yolks. It just so happens that he likes to eat egg yolks, so the egg yolks ended up in his stomach.

"Eat, eat, eat, eat too." Knowing that today is her grandson's birthday, Zhao Amu stopped nagging her daughter-in-law to cook such a big bowl of eggs, and reached out to get two eggs for her two sons and Chen's father and son. Both share one.

There wasn't much lean meat on the pig's trotters, so Zhao He picked out the lean meat from the pig's trotters and gave it to his son to chew the bones and skin himself.Josh saw the extra lean meat in his son's bowl, put the skin into his father's bowl, and said, "You can eat it too, he can't finish this much."

The little baby's cheeks were bulging on both sides, she turned her little head to look left and right, and then smiled...