The atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, today is the 22nd day of the lunar month, and my parents have prepared the ingredients needed to fry the New Year's goods early.
After breakfast, my parents started to prepare fried New Year's goods.
In our place, we fry lotus root balls, radish balls, small fish, and a kind of dough and fruit sticks called banana leaves, which need to be fried.
My father washed and peeled the lotus root by the pool, then used a blender to break up spices such as green onions, ginger and garlic.
Since my mother's cooking skills are not as good as my father's, my father completes the preliminary preparations, and my mother is only responsible for lighting the fire and watching the heat.
As for my brother and I, we are responsible for cleaning the house.
It didn't take long for the aroma of croquettes wafting through the air.
I was about to go to the kitchen for a few when I heard a knock on the door.
When I opened the door, it turned out to be my aunt. She smiled when she saw me, I let her in, and I went to take my mother's place to light the fire.
My mother and aunt chatted in the yard.
Sister-in-law, you came just in time, our family is making croquettes, and we will eat more after they are fried. My father said.
The eldest lady seemed to sigh, "That's what I'm here for today."
This New Year's scene is for our family, you know, this year they didn't go home for the New Year, and they didn't give us money to buy some New Year's goods.
I'm alone with two children, and I really don't have time to fry these New Year's goods.
So I took some noodles today, and I hope you can help me fry some meatballs. ”
Auntie's words surprised me. The big lady with teeth and claws in my memory has become so decadent now.
In February, my dad came out of the kitchen and said, "Sister-in-law, what do you say?" Our house is going to blow up a lot, and I'll decorate it for you to take away. We can't ask for these faces. ”
After chatting for a while, my mother packed a pack of fried meatballs and gave it to my mother, who thanked her again and again, and then turned around and went home.
When I was a child, I remember that the standard of living of my eldest mother's family was much higher than ours.
At that time, my uncle was working on the construction site, and he was still a contractor, and he had some power in his hands. A few months' wages were more than my father's earnings in a year.
Because the uncle can make money, the vanity of the eldest mother swelled.
At that time, our family had a luxury of white rice, and we didn't have too high requirements for what we ate.
Usually, the eldest lady always smiled in front of our bastards and said that she made a pot of rice, but my cousin didn't want to eat it after two bites.
She had no choice but to feed the rice to the dog and steam the buns for her cousin.
Whether she said it really or not, we don't know, but she always tried to humiliate others with a nonchalant tone.
The list goes on. In those years, the adults in the family would go to the market together, but the eldest mother always took the children alone.
I remember one time, my brother and I were playing with my cousin, and my mother came and said she wanted to take us to the market, and my cousin wanted to go together.
As soon as the eldest mother heard that her cousin was also going, she said let's go together.
When he got to the street, the cousin shouted that he was hungry and wanted to eat.
My mother said to buy pancakes to eat, my mother didn't want to spend money to buy us food, but when she saw that my cousin was hungry, she couldn't bear to watch him not eat.
My mom bought a pancake and divided half of it between me and my brother.
The eldest lady generously added dog meat to her cousin's biscuits, making her cousin's biscuits full of meat.
The eldest lady said: "It's too dry to eat the baked cakes, you add some meat to them, can they eat a baked cake to be full?" ”
My mom said, "They have already eaten in the morning, they are not hungry, and they don't like meat. ”
My brother and I were incredulous when we heard this.
My brother was just about to say that he likes meat, but my mother quietly pinched him, and he didn't squeak.
There are many more such things. During that time, the life of the people in the village was getting better day by day, but the life of the eldest lady's family did not seem to be getting better.
After the eldest mother left, my father told my mother that we could help my mother if there was anything in the eldest mother's family in the future. He also admonished us to be kind to others and leave a glimmer of life for ourselves.