Little wealth

After lunch at noon, they start making cakes in the afternoon.

It was a little hot in the kitchen, so they moved their things to the main room and placed the table at the door, just because there was a bit of wind blowing here, so it wouldn't be too hot.Now that the child is asleep and no one is making trouble, they can take advantage of this time to make cakes.

Prepare the ingredients for making the cake in advance, including eggs, flour, sugar and peaches. Josh is going to make a peach-flavored cake for the child. He has never made a cake before, and he doesn’t know if it will be successful. Let’s try try it.

Open the egg, then separate the egg white and egg yolk inside, stir the egg yolk evenly and keep it for later use, then it is time to beat the egg white.Beating egg whites is a physical activity, and the egg whites must be beaten until they are fluffy and solidified before use.

Chen Yan stood aside and watched, not knowing what Josh was going to do, nor how he could help.

"bang bang bang-"

After beating the egg whites for a while, his hands became sore. Seeing Chen Yan staring at him, Josh stuffed the bowl and chopsticks into his hands, "Come and help me beat the egg whites, just beat in this direction. Let me know when it's fluffy."

fluffy? "Oh, good." Chen Yan looked at the chopsticks and bowl in his hand, a little confused about what it means to beat the egg liquid until fluffy, but he still took the chopsticks and started beating.

Someone took over the egg white beating work, and Josh went to peel the peaches, peeled off the skin, dug out the core inside, then cut the peach flesh into small pieces, crushed it, and strained the peach flesh inside with gauze. Come out, leave the peach juice, and put it aside for a while.

Chen Yan beat the egg liquid very fast, his hands were often doing physical work, and beating a little egg liquid would not trouble him.After Josh went to finish other things, he came back and saw that Chen Yan had already beaten the egg whites, so he took it over, "Give it to me, I'll see if it's ready."

I took the bowl and tried it. When the chopsticks were inserted into it, it could stand up. The egg white was ready.

Add the beaten egg yolk and peach juice, then add the flour, and stir evenly while adding the flour, the flour will become a paste.

They made an oven in the yard yesterday, and the outside was covered with mud. It dried up after a day in the sun in the yard, and it happened to be used for baking cakes today.Pour the stirred batter into a basin and put it in the oven to bake.

The last time they bought four chickens from the town, they ate two and there were two left. Today they will kill one to make soy sauce chicken.

That is to say, their family kills a chicken from time to time for extra meals, while other families only kill a chicken for the whole family to eat during the Chinese New Year.

Anyway, their family does not lack the money to buy such a chicken, and they can't afford to eat delicacies from mountains and seas, but it is still okay to slaughter a chicken every now and then for the tooth-fighting festival.Josh planned to buy a few more chickens after eating the two chickens at home. The flock of chickens raised at home were not yet ready to be eaten, and they would not be able to kill them until the Chinese New Year at the earliest.

Domestic chickens are not good at this point. They grow too slowly. It takes at least half a year or more to raise chicks to the point where they can be killed and eaten.

Just as he was catching the chicken out of the cage, holding a kitchen knife in one hand, and thinking about where to start, Chen Yan walked over and took the knife in his hand.

"Let me do it." Chen Yan picked up the knife, the white knife went in, the red knife came out, and a live chicken was wiped off the neck by him. He even dared to kill such a big pig, let alone a mere chicken. up.

"..." Josh was silent for a while.

Well, he admits that he has never killed a chicken. Zhao Mutou killed the chicken and brought it to him the first two times.Now that someone came to help, he was relieved.

At this moment, half of the sun in the yard has passed, and they are killing chickens and plucking chicken feathers in the yard.

Clean the killed chicken, wipe it with the prepared sauce, put it in a basin to marinate for a while, and then cook, "Put this first, our cake should be baked, let's take the cake out and have a look .” Josh hasn’t forgotten that their cake is still baking.

Open the door of the oven, and the cake inside is really baked.

They took out the cake from the oven, and the baked cake was beautiful and exuded a fragrance, probably because he poured peach juice in it, and the baked cake was pink in color and smelled of peaches.The freshly baked cake is not edible yet, and will be decorated later to make it into a cake.

"Hey, why don't we put our chicken in this stove and roast it? Just add more fire to this stove, and it will save us from having to cook later." There was still some heat in the stove, and Josh thought of what they had killed just now. Let Chen Yan take the chicken out and put it in the oven to roast, which saves them the time to cook it later, and the taste of the roasted chicken is no worse than that of soy sauce chicken.

Chen Yan naturally had no objections, so he went to help get the chicken.

"Em~"

Hearing the voice of a child calling him from the room, Josh casually put the cake on the table and went into the room.

Sure enough, the little baby on the bed had already woken up, and he was lying on the bed holding Xiao Jiji. Josh knew at a glance that his son was awakened by urination, so he hurriedly carried him out of bed to pee, and took the sleeping baby with him. go out.

"This is Niannian's cake, do you like it?" There was a cake on the table, Josh put the child on the stool and sat down, and told him, "But we still need to add cream and fruit, after dinner tonight we Eat this again."

"Now." The little baby bit her little finger, wanting to eat now.

"It's not ready yet, let's not eat it now." Josh fed the child some water, fearing that the child would steal the cake while they weren't looking, so he put the cake on the cabinet and put it away.Seeing that the cake was gone, the little guy kept following his ass to grind him, wanting to eat the cake.

"Cake."

"Understood, wait a little longer."

Josh was really worn down by this little guy. Fortunately, the roast chicken in the stove was cooked in a short time. The skin of the roasted chicken was golden yellow, with a slightly burnt smell.

"Em." As soon as their son smelled the smell of meat, he forgot about any cakes, and looked at him eagerly with a pair of eyes, as if he wanted to eat.

"Hey, do you want to eat?" Seeing the little boy nodding his head abruptly, he continued to look at him after ordering, without crying or fussing, just staring at him and asking if he could.

In the end, Josh couldn't resist the child's longing eyes, and discussed with the child: "For the sake of your birthday today, let me give you a chicken leg to eat first, but we are special today, so we can't eat it." Can exceptions be made?"

Usually, their family eats until the whole family is together, but thinking that today is the child's birthday, he pampered the child for a while, first removed a chicken leg and put it in a small bowl, and let the child eat it first.

"Just sit here and eat, and then give the bones to Ah Huang." There is still work to be done in the kitchen, so he can't play with the child here.

The little baby got the chicken leg that he was thinking of, took a bite, and handed it to Eminem, "Eat."

"Give it to me? Then I'll have a taste." Seeing the child nodding, Josh leaned over and took a bite. The taste was a little mild, but it was okay. Children can't eat things that are too strong. It's just suitable for children to eat, "Well, it's delicious, let's eat it. You eat chicken drumsticks here, and I'll go and fry the vegetables. We will have dinner after your father and the others come back."

Seeing the child obediently sitting here eating chicken legs, he went into the kitchen.

There were him and Chen Yan in the kitchen, so Josh asked them, Ah Mu, to go outside, "Mum, Niannian is outside alone, or Ah Mu, you can go out and see him, just leave it to the two of us." gone."

"Hey, that's fine. I'll leave this place to you two. Call me if you have anything to do." Seeing that he was not needed in the kitchen, Zhao Amu went out to see her grandson.

The little grandson gave him the half-bitten chicken leg, Zhao Amu touched the grandson's head and let the grandson eat by himself.

***

The smell of cooking came from the kitchen, and the workers there also went back.

Zhao He paid the wages for the day to the workers, and went back home with his younger brother Zhao Hu and Chen Tuhu who followed him.

"I'm back, go wash your face and get ready for dinner." Zhao Amu said to the two sons who came back, and said hello to the in-laws, "The cooking is going on inside, and Brother Chen is also inside."

"Hey, good." Butcher Chen also washed his face and handles familiarly, so he found a stool and sat down, took a bowl of water and drank it, exhaling.

After a day's work, the men were all tired, and they were reluctant to move after sitting down.

Lately, dinner at their house has been a little slower than usual, but this night it was getting late, and it was still light outside when they were eating.

Today is their child's birthday, and the dinner they made was bigger than usual. The grilled chicken was cut into a large bowl, a whole piece of sweet and sour fish, shelled fried scallion shrimp balls, and today The leftover braised pig's trotters had a lot of peanuts left at the bottom, and they were all put into a bowl, which was also a big bowl.

"Everyone come to eat, don't sit still." Josh also made a potsticker emerald dumpling, stuffed with green vegetables, but fried with lard.Later, he also fried a water spinach and steamed eggplant. The steamed eggplant was topped with sauce, and finally he added two small bowls of pickles, and there was a table full of dishes.

"Hey, come here."

The two families sat down around the table to eat, Zhao He went to bring out a small jug of wine, and poured a bowl for everyone.

"Thank you Uncle Chen and Chen Yan, you have come to help every day. Since today is the birthday of the child, I would like to offer you a toast." Josh did not forget that Chen Yan and his father came to help with work every day, and sometimes Chen Yan would help them here. After finishing the work in the kitchen, he would go to the next door to help with the work.If you say that he is also a brother, but he doesn't have the self-consciousness of a brother at all. He runs outside all day, and his sun is almost as dark as that of men.

Chen Yan himself really didn't think there was anything wrong with him. He never regarded himself as a brother. When he was at home, he would help his elder brother in everything he did. No more work.

"Hehe, you should, you should, don't say that it's hard work or not." Chen Tuhu hurriedly picked up the wine and said, "I should toast you. Our brothers will need you to take care of them in the future."

"Our family doesn't speak two different languages, we all sit down and eat food, sit down and eat food." After everyone drank a glass of wine, Zhao Amu hurriedly called everyone to sit down and eat food.

The dishes on such a large table are mostly meat.

"Well, this chicken is really delicious!" Zhao Hu ate a piece of roast chicken, the outer belt was burnt, and he didn't know how this chicken was made, it was different from the chicken they usually eat.Josh smiled and said, "Oh, this, thanks to the oven you made yesterday, after I finished making the cake, I used that oven to roast the chicken."

"So it's grilled, no wonder it's so fragrant." Butcher Chen also likes to eat this chicken, especially the chicken skin, which is fragrant and crunchy.

"Cake?" Zhao Hu didn't know what a cake was, and he didn't see any cake on the table.

As if seeing his uncle's doubts, Josh said, "It's already baked, and we still need to frame it. We'll take it out after we eat." He was busy cooking just now and didn't have time to frame the cake, but the framed cake Cakes are faster, just wait until they have eaten.

"Okay." Zhao Hu ate faster once he heard that there was something else to eat after he was full.

The child had already eaten such a big chicken leg just now, and now Josh didn't dare to eat too much meat for the child, so he picked up a dumpling for the child to eat.The dumplings that had not been fried for a long time were still a little hot, so he broke a dumpling in half with chopsticks, and he asked the child to eat it with a spoon, "It's a little hot, blow it on yourself before eating."

"Hmm~" The little baby has a good appetite and eats deliciously.

But the chicken leg he ate just now had already made his stomach a little full, so after eating a little more, he made a fuss about going down to the ground to play.

"Then go and play, don't make trouble for us to eat." Josh had no choice but to carry the child down and let him play by himself.

A whole sweet and sour fish was eaten by them until there was only a fish head and fish frame left. Zhao Hu picked up the fish head and fish frame with his chopsticks, and he was able to chew with his head down.Chen Yan looked at the empty basin, then at the person who took the fish head away, and moved his chopsticks away a little unhappy to pick up other dishes.

"..." Josh, who happened to see this scene, couldn't help laughing, but luckily he couldn't hold it back.

As far as the food intake of their family is concerned, there will naturally be nothing left over from a table of dishes.

A big bowl was filled with the leftover bones, Ah Huang was gnawing on the bones with his head down, and he didn't even like the rice soaked in gravy in the bowl.

***

After eating, seeing that it was getting late, Josh quickly went to frame the cake, spread a layer of cream on the outside, and decorated it with fruit, took the cake out, and shouted : "Everyone come to eat cake, Eminem, Uncle Chen, you can go back after eating cake."

"Is this the cake you made today?" It was the first time Zhao Amu could do this when seeing a cake.

"Yeah, this is not Nian Nian's birthday, I made a birthday cake for him, and I will make one for you next time, Eminem, on your birthday." I don't want to sing any happy birthday songs here. After everyone was still there, Josh went to get a knife and cut the cake.

A small cake, after one piece was given out to each person, there were two pieces left.

"Anyone else didn't get it?"

"Take it all, take it."

"Oh, all right."

The adults eat it directly with their hands, but their son puts it in a small bowl and asks him to eat it with a fork.Seeing that everyone got the cake, Josh also made a cake for his son, so he took a piece and tasted it.

"Mmm, it's delicious!" It was Zhao Hu's first time eating this kind of cake. It was fluffy and soft, and it was fragrant and sweet when he bit into it, with a hint of peach flavor.

Zhao He took a bite, and he didn't know what the white thing was, it was a bit sticky and greasy. To him, it wasn't too bad, but it didn't suit his taste very much.But knowing that Fu Lang specially made things for his son's birthday, he didn't dare to say anything, and just stuffed the things into his mouth in two or three bites.

"Whoever wants it, take it yourself. There are two more here." Josh glanced at the man who quickly stuffed the cake into his mouth. Don't think that if you don't make a sound, I don't know that you don't like this cake. up.

In fact, he has long known that this man doesn't like sweets very much, he doesn't even like the smoothies they usually make, unless the boiled red beans and mung beans have no sugar, this man will drink a big bowl.

But seeing that other people liked it very much, he knew that their cake today was quite successful.

"I don't want it anymore, I don't want it anymore, I'm too full." After eating, Zhao Amu felt that her stomach was about to burst after eating another piece of cake, so she kept saying not to eat it, and let other people eat it.

Butcher Chen also said he was full and didn't want to eat.

"Xiao Hu, Ah Yan, each of you eat a piece, or you won't be able to eat it if it breaks tomorrow." The child is still young, so Josh won't let the child eat too much. Today's food has already exceeded the amount .

The last two pieces of cake went into the stomachs of Chen Yan and Zhao Hu.

"Let's go back first, and come back tomorrow." After eating, Zhao Amu took her youngest son back to the old house.

Chen Tuhu also took his brother back to their house, and the four of them went out together.

Every day at dusk and sunset, there are more sparrows on the tree in their house than in the daytime. Presumably, the sparrows that flew out to feed during the daytime have come back at this moment in the evening, chirping on the branches. After arguing for a long time, it slowly stopped when the sky darkened.

While it was still visible from the outside of the house, Josh fetched water to bathe the child in the yard, stripped the boy naked and put it in the basin to soak, and took advantage of this time to clean up the things in the house. Only then came out to pick up the son who was soaked in the water.

After the whole family took a bath, it was completely dark.

It was hot in summer, they didn't go to bed so early at night, they just sat in the yard to enjoy the shade, talking, usually he was the one talking, the man next to him was listening, and occasionally would respond to him.Since the two of them talked about it last time, the relationship between them has become a step closer than before.

Josh felt that there was nothing to quarrel between the two of them, they negotiated with each other about anything, and most of the time their family, Zhao Mutou, listened to him, and he did whatever he said, not even a word to refute him.

However, he still enjoys the current life very much. His family is not said to be very rich, but he has been working hard in a good direction.The child is obedient, and the child's father is a gentle and tolerant person who treats them very well. He is very kind to their father and son and to the family.

"I never thought about what kind of person I would be with..." Looking at the stars in the sky, he turned his head and glanced at the man sitting beside him. Josh smiled at the man. He never thought about what kind of person he would spend his whole life with, until he met this man, he felt that it would be okay to spend his whole life with this man.

The man looked at Fu Lang who was smiling at him, and waited for Fu Lang to continue talking.

The child in his arms had fallen asleep at some point, with two little hands hanging down by his side.

Josh looked down at the little brat lying on his chest drooling, didn't say what was left to say, just said, "Niannian fell asleep, I'll take him back to sleep in the room first." The child went back into the house.

The man at the back saw the back of Fu Lang carrying the child back into the house, so he stood up and packed up the tables and chairs outside...