Life is a Game

Jiang's house is very small. Although it is also a courtyard, its area may not even be 1/10 of that of Li's house, and because of the large number of children. When Jiang Chengde led his three sons into the living room and dining room, it seemed that this originally small space became even more cramped and cramped.

"Brother, you're back. If you don't come back, the dumplings are ready." Jiang Huiqin was leading her four nephews to sit at a small table making dumplings. The sizes and shapes of the wrapped dumplings are different, and it looks like round dumplings made by several people.

Jiang Feng went over to have a look and found that there were three kinds of stuffing, pork and green onion stuffing, sauerkraut stuffing and leek and egg stuffing.

"That's not good, you can eat ready-made ones when you get home." Jiang Chengde laughed.

The child lying on the edge of the table who looked the youngest, wearing a red padded jacket made of red cloth, showed off the bulging dumpling in his hand if it wasn't for the side.

"Father, the dumplings I make look better than Brother 5 and Brother 6!" Jiang Weiguo looked proud.

"What's so good about it? The skin will be stuffed by you. Those who don't know it will think that you are making pies, steamed buns or glutinous rice balls. Put less stuffing." Jiang Chengde is definitely not a parent who knows how to encourage and educate children. , pointing to the lunch box, "Huiqin, take the food inside to the kitchen to steam it. I'll stir-fry some cabbage again, why can I bring it to the kitchen after peeling the feet, after about two sticks of incense Let's have New Year's Eve dinner."

Jiang Huiqin, who was instructed, immediately put down the dough she had just received, patted the flour, took the food box, and walked to the kitchen with Jiang Chengde.

The kitchen is in the corner, separated from the main hall by a bedroom and a firewood room. To Jiang Feng's surprise, the kitchen looks about the same size as the main hall. Although there are many sundries and it looks a bit crowded, the area is really not small .

Jiang Chengde lit a few kerosene lamps, which made the kitchen look much brighter. The light from the kerosene lamp is definitely not as good as the light from the electric lamp. It is relatively dim and has smoky eyes, so it should not be placed too close.

But this darkness was just what Jiang Feng felt, and both Jiang Chengde and Jiang Huiqin were very used to this kind of light. Jiang Chengde said he wanted to stir-fry, but he didn't go to pick up a basket of cabbage in the corner that didn't look very fresh. Instead, he went to the back of the stove and bent over to look inside, and fiddled with it with a fire stick. for a moment.

Jiang Feng noticed that when the fire stick was fluctuating, there was a little fire in it, but it was not obvious, and then dimmed after a while, obviously it hadn't been long before it went out.

"The fire is out." Jiang Chengde said.

Jiang Huiqin just put the food box on the table, and was about to open it to see what dishes were inside, when she heard what Jiang Chengde said, she panicked and slapped her head hard with annoyed expression: "Oh, I was busy making dumplings just now. Forgot about kitchen work."

"It's all Xiao Qi's fault, he is the most noisy."

"It's Weiguo's fault." Jiang Chengde shook his head helplessly, and while the stove was still warm, he stuffed a handful of straw in to make the fire rekindle, and added a few more sticks of firewood, "It just went out, it's all right."

Jiang Huiqin stuck out her tongue, apparently trying to make a face but didn't make it, and opened the food box: "Brother, you scared me again, thinking... Wow, brother, you got rich."

What Jiang Huiqin opened was the food box that Boss Lu sent.

"Braised shark's fin in yellow, two-color prawns, and Wanfu meat, these are all Yongheju's dishes. If I remember correctly, Yongheju's yellow braised shark's fin will cost 6 yuan, and generally they don't do delivery!" Jiang Huiqin looked surprised.

"I know the price quite well. This is from Boss Lu." Jiang Chengde said, cut two cabbage, and removed all the big leaves on the outside, leaving only the fresh and tender cabbage heart in the middle.

"Boss Lu is rare and generous." Jiang Huiqin opened a food box, "Hey, bro, you even made willow-leaf jelly in clear soup."

"It's not that you said you wanted to eat it. I was too busy at night and didn't have time. I made it in the afternoon and put it in the stove to simmer and forget it. I guess the taste and texture are a bit bad."

"It's okay, as long as it's made by brother, it's delicious." Jiang Huiqin said with a smile, took out a jar that was stuffy in the pot, and put the vegetables in it.

The jar was sealed with lotus leaves, and it looked a bit like a Buddha jumping over the wall, but if it was a Buddha jumping over the wall, the model of the jar was not right, so Jiang Feng couldn't guess what was in the jar for a while.

In the next second, Jiang Feng knew what was in the jar. Jiang Chengde uncovered the jar and poured all the soup in the jar into the pot.

It's sea cucumber and abalone soup.

Still the kind that was stewed very softly.

In addition to large pieces of abalone and sea cucumber, Jiang Feng also saw seafood such as dried shrimp and scallops. There are many ways to make sea cucumber and abalone soup, but it is rare to use Jiang Chengde's stewing method that only uses seafood without other ingredients. What makes Jiang Feng feel strange is that the soup is not fragrant, at least he didn't smell anything when he took off the cover, and he didn't smell any other dishes in his memory. Refreshing feeling.

It was only after pouring it into the pot and approaching that Jiang Feng could smell the unique fresh fragrance of seafood, and even a little fishy smell of seafood.

At least it doesn't smell like good soup.

It's not good looking, there are no other ingredients for embellishment, the soup made from pure seafood is very single in color, and it doesn't look like a delicious soup.

It doesn't look good and smells bad. Although it is very nourishing and nutritious, Jiang Feng feels that this soup is really not like Jiang Chengde's style.

Then Jiang Feng watched as Jiang Chengde took three small bowls, picked up the sea cucumber, abalone, and other seafood in the soup into the three small bowls and put them aside, leaving only soup and soup dregs in the pot.

Jiang Chengde covered the pot to let the soup in the pot boil, then threw the cleaned tender cabbage into the pot and quickly passed it several times like scooping water, took it out, poured the soup, and then spread a circle of lard on the pot , Pour the cabbage into the pot and fry it like a normal stir-fry, until the cabbage looks juicy and tender when it comes out of the pot.

Then Jiang Chengde chopped all the seafood in the bowl, mixed them with the previously discarded cabbage leaves, seasoned them to make dumpling stuffing filled with abalone and sea cucumber, and covered the dumpling stuffing with a cloth.

Jiang Huiqin's food is also ready.

Including this stir-fried cabbage dish, there are only five dishes in total, which is not as many as the number of people, but four of them are expensive dishes, which can be considered quite rich even if they are used as a New Year's Eve dinner for ordinary people.

Seeing that Jiang Chengde's cabbage was fried, Jiang Huiqin suggested: "Brother, there are so many dumplings on the menu today, let's order them later, eat the vegetables first, so that the cabbage doesn't get cold. You came back too late today, Wei Guo and Wei Ping just now While making dumplings, he kept shouting that he was hungry, and Wei Ping even ate the sauerkraut."

"I came back too late, the two of them couldn't stand the hunger." Jiang Chengde picked up the cabbage, and Jiang Huiqin put the vegetables back into the food box and picked up the food box.

"Let's go, have dinner first, and watch the year after dinner, have you taken all the dishes?"

"I took it. I put it on the table at first, but I put it on the cabinet because I was afraid that the bowl and chopsticks would hit me. Oh, by the way, I forgot to take my sister-in-law's pair. Brother, help me carry a food box. I'll go get a pair of bowls and chopsticks." Jiang Huiqin stuffed the food box with more dishes to Jiang Chengde, and went to a pair of bowls and chopsticks.

The two brothers and sisters carried the dishes and walked towards the main hall.

Before reaching the main hall, Jiang Huiqin shouted loudly: "Weize, Wei Jin, Wei Ming, Wei An, Wei You, Wei Ping, Wei Guo, quickly pick up the table and start eating!"