The 80s Chronicle: Addiction To the Army’s Young Wife

In the blink of an eye, the biting cold wind roared in, carrying the important festival of the Spring Festival.

This Spring Festival, the Duke of Halls and his family also came all the way from the UK to experience the Chinese Spring Festival atmosphere at the Xu family.

Originally, Justin and his girlfriend came here, but the Duchess of Halls also missed her grandson. When she knew her son was coming, she also wanted to come to China to play with him. Then one by one got infected, and finally the whole family chartered a plane and came over. Fortunately, the Xu family has enough houses, otherwise they would be packed into a hotel.

They were obviously more interested in the Xu family's classic ancient villa than in the hotel.

But with so many people gathered together, the Xu family was completely full now, with not a single empty room.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Xu Ning went over to pick up the two elders of the Jiang family. Xie Zheng and Xu Rui were already helping in the kitchen.

After entering the door, Gao Xiulan carried the things she brought to the kitchen, while Mr. Jiang went to the living room to chat with Mr. Yao. Their planned entertainment activity on New Year's Eve was to play chess, whether chess or Go.

Duke Halls knew about Chinese Go, but he knew nothing about it. He just sat next to him and watched the two old men falling back and forth on the densely packed small square chessboard. He was confused and didn't understand at all. I knew what it meant to be here, and I wanted to ask, but I couldn't understand the language. Apart from simple greetings, the two old men knew very little about anything else, especially the Duke of Halls who spoke a lot of English. The old man's expression was the same as Duke Hall's expression when he looked at the chessboard, confused!

Seeing this, Xie Yang stepped forward to help both parties translate, so that next time they could communicate smoothly.

The Duchess sat with Qin Xuejuan, chatting and coaxing Ian in front of her. Although the two biological mothers rarely met, they often communicated via computer video when they had nothing to do, talking about interesting things that happened at home and their feelings. very nice.

In the kitchen, Xu Ning came back to take over, drove Xie Zheng and Xu Rui out, and accompanied the three Halls family members to chat. She and Joey were busy in the kitchen, and the old lady naturally didn't need their help. After all, As you get older, although you are in good health, you still need to be careful.

"Sister, I like this dish." Joey handed the plate to Xu Ning, "Xu Rui's cooking is also very delicious."

At this time, there was freshly cooked spicy chicken feet in the pot. The chicken feet were chickens raised in the space. Because there were many people in the family, she directly slaughtered more than thirty chickens this time. The family couldn't finish them all, so she gave them back to them. Familiar people gave many as gifts, but only seven or eight were left at home.

When Joey first came to China to settle down, he was actually resistant to many dishes, such as chicken feet and animal offal. However, after living here for several years, he ate almost everything. Before, he was extremely resistant to chicken feet. Joey was coaxed by Xu Rui to eat one, and then he fell in love deeply.

"My parents may not like it." Joey said with a smile, "But it doesn't matter, I can eat a few more."

Xu Ning handed two plates of chicken feet to Joey respectively, and she put the prepared meals in the thermos cabinet, "I will leave a few for you later. If they are not enough, let Xu Rui buy some from the market and we can continue. Do."

"Thank you sister!"

Because the Duke of Halls and his family were coming, Xu Ning naturally had to prepare some meals that they would not resist.

It doesn’t mean that you think it tastes good because other people have the same taste as you.

For example, Brother Zheng also likes to eat frogs, and told Xu Ning that it tastes very good, but no matter how good it tastes, she will never take a bite.

Another time Brother Zheng took her to dine at a specialty restaurant in the imperial capital. One of the dishes was snake soup. Not to mention eating it, her stomach turned when she saw the snake meat in it.

Xu Ning knows how to cook a lot of dishes. After all, when her children were young, she also put in a lot of effort to make the three of them eat well.

When I was studying abroad, I lived by myself for several years. I didn’t like foreign eating habits, so I cooked my own meals. The more I cooked, and I had some talent, naturally I became less and less able to cook. Come more and more.

Today at noon, there are dozens of people in the house, and it would definitely not be enough without twenty or thirty dishes. Fortunately, the table in the old house is a long table, and there are enough seats for the adults in the family, and there is another table for the children.

When Qin Zhao and Qin Xiang come over in two days, it will be even more lively.

Joey is not very good at Chinese cuisine. She didn't help much with today's dish. She was just helping Xu Ning in the kitchen. After the dish was ready, Xu Ning would give her a chopstick to taste. There were more than 20 dishes. When the food came down, she felt that she was half full.

"Okay, let's get everyone started eating."

Joey put down the spoon and went to the living room.

"It's time to eat!" she said to everyone.

As soon as they heard about eating, everyone present lined up to go to the bathroom, while Xie Yang sat in the living room with the children.

Xie Zheng and Xu Rui helped to serve the dishes in the kitchen. Plate after plate of dishes was brought in, and the aroma quickly spread in the living room. Occasionally, someone's stomach could be heard rumbling.

This is not the first time that the Duke of Halls family has eaten Chinese food. When Xu Rui got married, they also ate here for several days. The food is actually common and has no geographical restrictions. Chinese food is one of the best. The land is vast and the resources are abundant. The ancient civilization of China has a lot of culture and traditions that have been passed down. Food culture is one of them. From the ordinary diet at the beginning, it has gradually evolved into the eight major cuisines today. Each cuisine has a profound heritage and is still evolving. of innovation.

Now facing a table full of food, all prepared by Xu Ning, everyone was not polite when using their chopsticks.

As pure British people, the Duke of Halls family had no idea about chopsticks. When Xu Rui got married three years ago, they came here and used chopsticks with great interest at first, but the result was disastrous.

This time Duke Halls seemed very confident and asked for a pair of chopsticks.

Not to mention, it does have that style.

"How is it?" Duke Halls said proudly, "It's amazing, isn't it?"

"yes."

The adults' side is not as lively as the children's side. As an elder brother, Xie Yang naturally has to help take care of guests from abroad.

Ian was sitting obediently next to his sister, Little Lemon, waiting for her to feed him. He was still young, and it was very difficult for him to eat alone. After all, he was only one and a half years old. Not to mention chopsticks and spoons, he could not hold them firmly without anyone. If you feed them nearby, you will probably eat a lot of food in one meal.

"Sister, Rourou!" Ian pointed to a plate of fish ball soup on the table.

Little Lemon made two fish balls for him and put them to the little guy's mouth with a spoon, "Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry."

"Yeah!" The little guy nodded, opened his mouth, and bit into half of it. Not to mention he was eating happily.

"Sister, eat, you eat."

Little Lemon rubbed the little guy's head lovingly, "Don't worry, Ian, do you want some water?"

The cute little baby raised his finger and pointed at the cup in front of Xie Huai, which contained juice.

He was still young and the juice was cold. Xie Yang poured a glass of hot orange juice from the glass thermos bottle next to him and put it in front of Ian.

"Drink this."

Several guests from the Halls family were not polite, just because when they came here, the elders of the Xu family and Joey told them that this was their home, so you were welcome.

They don't have so many twists and turns, so they can naturally relax here.

In addition, the children are very familiar with the three Xie Yang brothers and sisters, and they all can chat with each other. There will naturally be many topics to talk about when they get together, and they will not feel polite or offensive.

They liked most of the food in front of them, but they behaved very well when eating and would never do anything uncomfortable.

Children will not be able to resist seafood. The popped oysters are delicious and rich, and the fried shrimp balls are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

There were also Sixi Meatballs, which were full of meaty aroma. They were divided by everyone as soon as they were served. Xie Yang went to the kitchen again and brought out another plate.

The amount of food the children eat is actually about the same as that of the adults. After all, at noon on New Year's Eve, the adults gather together to drink wine while the children only eat vegetables and drink juice.

We all know that when people drink too much, they eat less food.

And even the very simple dish of sugar-stirred radish on the dinner table has become the children's favorite, especially after eating, a clear layer of soup will be left on the bottom of the plate, which is sweet and oozes with radish. The little bit of bitterness that came out had a unique taste, and it was immediately drank up.

This radish is easy to make. Just grate the radish into thin strips, sprinkle with sugar and stir it. It's very simple.

Clean and refreshing!

After eating a lot of big fish and meat, and occasionally eating a couple of shredded radish in water, the greasy feeling in the mouth will disappear.

After Ian was fed by Little Lemon, he went to find his father.

Little Lemon then began to concentrate on eating lunch.

Not long after Xu Rui started using his chopsticks, he was drinking and chatting with his three uncles when he saw his son staggering towards him like a little duck.

"Dad, you are full!"

He held his son on his lap and sat down, "Are you full so soon?"

"Uh-huh, sister, hello!" Ian can speak now, but most of the words are repeated words. A normal child can speak fluently at around three years old.

After sitting obediently on his father's lap for less than two minutes, Ian slowly climbed down and was about to walk outside.

Seeing this, Joey grabbed his son's clothes and put them on for him. Then he took him to the corridor outside the living room. He bent down and said to Huihui who was sitting on a large soft cushion with his eyes closed and concentrating, "Huihui, you have to work hard." you."

Huihui's ears twitched twice, then he opened his eyes, opened his mouth and yawned, whispered "woof" at Joey, stood up and stood next to Ian.

Joey then returned to the living room with confidence and continued eating.

Ian is a child and is wearing extra thick clothes. Although the wind is relatively strong today, the winding verandah here at Xu's house blocks most of the wind. There is still the warm winter sun above his head, so it doesn't matter. It's quite cold.

He put a small hand on Hui Hui's body and strolled around the courtyard.

At home, the children finished their meal quickly and came out with them.

"Huihui, Doudou, it's time for lunch." Xie Yang went to the kitchen, took out the lunch prepared for the two dogs, and placed it in the dog bowl next to the soft cushion where Huihui and Doudou were lying.

Doudou didn't know where he made the "woof" sound, and quickly ran over. When he saw the large meat bones in the dog bowl, his expression became excited at the sight of it.

Hui Hui whined at Ian beside him, brought Ian back, handed him into Xie Yang's hands, and then went over to eat his own.

The two dogs gathered together to eat. Xie Yang saw that they were not afraid of the cold and walked on the corridor to eat.

When making dumplings in the afternoon, several women from the Halls family also helped in the kitchen. Because there were so many people, the dumplings had to be made in large portions, otherwise there would not be enough.

We had hot pot in the evening, which has been the custom of the Xu family in the past few years. As for having to wait until midnight to eat dumplings, the Halls family had no problem with it. They just do as the Romans do. Of course they understand this. Besides, if you can't stand it, you can After dinner, we went back to the room to rest for a while. The old man and the old lady from the two families, Xu Jianjun and his wife, and Duke Halls all had a rest in the afternoon.

After Xie Zheng and Xu Ning had dinner, they cleaned up and washed the tableware in the kitchen before sitting down and continuing to make dumplings.

As for the rest of the family, they went to the square in front of the Forbidden City to watch the fireworks. The three-hour fireworks started from 8pm to 11pm, and the children all loved watching them.

As for the Spring Festival Gala, it will be replayed around the clock in the morning and afternoon on the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival Gala in recent years has not been very interesting. Many people will not stay in front of the TV. Of course, even if they go out, the TV at home will be on.

Spring Festival is all about eating, drinking and having fun!

"How many more do you have to make?" Xie Zheng has a very good skill in rolling out dumpling wrappers, which he has honed over the years.

"I've already made a lot of it in the afternoon until all this dough is used up."

Although it's the Chinese New Year, it's all about eating, drinking and having fun, but Xu Ning is always the busiest during the Spring Festival.

It’s not until the relatives and friends who came to pay New Year’s greetings in the first month of the year have left that I can have some free time, but then the company will get busy.

"I previously said that I would go to watch the Spring Festival Gala this year, but it seems I can only wait until next year."

At first, I didn’t know that the Halls family was coming to China to celebrate the Spring Festival. I originally planned to take my three children to see the event. However, I learned in the twelfth lunar month that the Halls family was coming. Only Xu Rui knew how to cook, and his mother cooked. The craftsmanship is still the same, just as ordinary as it has been for decades. The old lady is getting older, so naturally she can't let the two of them work in the kitchen, so Xu Ning can only give up.

"It happens every year. You can go again next year."

The two of them worked in the kitchen until ten o'clock before returning to the living room to rest.

At this time, two old ladies were also watching the Spring Festival Gala in the living room. On the TV, Zhang Xiaomin and a male host were introducing the next program.

"Oh, I came at the right time. Opera Singing. I like this show." Xu Ning poured herself a cup of hot tea and sat on the single sofa to wait for the next step.

Soon, a little girl playing a female role appeared on the stage. She looked to be only seven or eight years old.

The little girl sang an excerpt from Concubine Yu from Farewell My Concubine. It was vivid, and although it was raw, it made people happy to watch it.

Later, there were little Bao Zheng in The Case of the Beauty, and little Yang Zirong in Outsmarting the Tiger Mountain, both sung by little opera singers under the age of ten.

These are the new generation forces of the national quintessence of the future!

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