Chapter 14 Winter Solstice

Li Shenxing's uncle's family runs a farm in Jeju Island, so Li Shenxing has no shortage of meat. Every week or two, his uncle will send beef and pork from Jeju Island, and sometimes there will be mutton, and fresh and expensive seafood.

I happened to receive fresh beef and pork yesterday, so today I went to my parents-in-law's house and brought a lot of them as holiday gifts.

Because in northern China, they eat dumplings on the winter solstice, when they were passing by the vegetable market at their parents-in-law's house, Li Shenxing asked Hyoly to wait in the car, and he went to the vegetable market to buy the ingredients needed to make dumpling fillings.

He plans to make dumplings with two fillings, pork, mushroom filling and pork, leek filling, and also make the dumpling skin by himself. He can also make some vegetable juice to dye the dumpling skin, which is delicious and beautiful.

By the time Li Shenxing came out of the vegetable market, half an hour had passed.

After putting the ingredients in the trunk, I opened the car door and sat in, and saw Hyori calling with her cell phone.

"Ne, Nei, he is back now. We will arrive later. That's it, OK, I know."

After Hyoly hung up the phone, Li Shenxing asked, "Did I call me?"

"Yes, seeing that we haven't arrived home for so long, I called and asked. I told her that you went to buy vegetables and make dumplings today."

"Driving here now."

Start the car and head toward your parents-in-law's house.

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After parking the car, Li Shenxing and Hyoly walked into the house with their things, knowing that they were about to get to the outside of the house and were just closed and not tightly closed.

When I arrived at the living room, my elder sister had already brought the child, and my father-in-law didn't go out to find someone to chat. A group of people at home were chatting while rubbing the glutinous rice balls needed for cooking red bean porridge.

"Ouch~! Our new son-in-law is here to walk~!"

Facing the elder sister sitting in front of the door, she saw Li Shenxing walking in immediately.

"Hello, sister, it's been a long time since we met. Youngshuo, do you two miss me?!"

Li Shenxing smiled and went forward to say hello.

"Hello, uncle~!" The older Yingshuo said hello to Li Shenxing loudly.

The younger Can really followed behind shyly and said in a low voice, "Hello, uncle~!"

"So good~!" Li Shenxing squatted down and took out two Transformers toys from the bag, "Look at what this is?"

"Wow~! Transformers~!" Yingshuo shouted excitedly.

Although Canzhen didn't scream, her eyes were shiny and staring at the toy in Li Shenxing's hand.

"Hey, this is a gift from my uncle. Do you like it?" Li Shenxing handed the Transformers to them separately.

"I like it~! Thank you uncle!" Yingshuo took the gift and thanked loudly.

"Thank you, uncle~!" Perhaps because of the toys, Chanzhen is not so shy now, and she also thanks Lee Shenxing loudly.

Li Shenxing smiled and rubbed their hair, "Go and have fun!"

The two children happily ran aside and started playing with the toy they had just obtained.

"Be careful, it's a waste of money to be bought for them again." The mother-in-law was happy to see how happy he got along with the child, but she still nagged him to spend money randomly.

"My mother is fine, I rarely see them once." Li Shenxing smiled and didn't care.

"I'm mom, I bought the stuffing for dumplings. Today I make authentic Chinese-flavored dumplings for you. In northern China, most of them eat dumplings for festivals. There are many types of stuffing for dumplings. Today I make pork, shrimp, mushroom filling and pork, leek filling."

Seeing that the meatballs they made were almost finished, Li Shenxing said to his second sister: "Second sister, please help me with the dishes. I will make the dough with the filling first."

"I knew to call me as soon as I came, so I came over and pulled me." My second sister stretched out her hand full of glutinous rice flour and signaled to Hyori.

But Hyoly turned around and pretended not to see him walking into the kitchen with Li Shenxing's footsteps.

"Oba, I'll help you."

"Ah, you stinky girl." The second sister hurriedly got up and chased Hyori into the kitchen.

The next second, the people in the living room heard the quarrel coming from the kitchen.

"Oh~! These two girls still love to quarrel. After so many years, they are not tired of it." The eldest sister shook her head and was speechless.

"They are not tired of being tired, I'm so annoyed." My mother-in-law said disgusted.

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"Wow~!!!" Everyone was amazed by Li Shenxing's craftsmanship.

Li Shenxing first rolled the awakened dough into strips, then cut it into small dumplings of about the same size, and then took the rolling pin and rolled out two pieces of dough at one time.

I took a dumpling skin, scoop a spoonful of fillings and put it in the middle. When he closed his hands and opened it, a wrapped dumpling appeared. It was not what everyone usually saw, it was round and cute.

On a whim, Li Shenxing used all the various ways to make dumplings that he learned.

Sunflower dumplings, triangle dumplings, four-corner dumplings, ingot dumplings, crescent dumplings, fish-shaped dumplings, etc. Finally, two rabbits were pinched out with dough.

"Safe walking is a clever hand, this rabbit is like real." My mother-in-law sighed.

After watching the fun, everyone started making dumplings together.

Li Shenxing looked at the two kinds of dumplings that had already made two large trays, so he took them to the kitchen to cook them, so that everyone could try some tastes first, and then made the sauce for dipping the dumplings.

When cooking dumplings, you have to boil three times before they will be cooked thoroughly. Boil water once and cold water once, three times in a row. When the dumplings float up, it means they are cooked thoroughly.

The sauce is not difficult to make. Li Shenxing first took out a soup bowl and put the garlic, scallion, chili powder, sugar and sesame seeds in it, then pour it in hot oil, add some water to soy sauce and boil it in the pot, and then pour it into the soup bowl. This is more fragrant and not too salty.

Li Shenxing did not put vinegar in the sauce. When he was eating, who would like to make it himself?

Use a colander to pick up all the dumplings and put them in a plate, put them on the dining table, and take out all the bowls and utensils to arrange them.

After the work was done, Li Shenxing shouted to the living room: "Stop it all, the dumplings are cooked, my parents will come and try the taste while it is hot."

"Oh~! Oh~! Eat dumplings~!" The first thing I compared were two children.

The adults also put down their work and got up to wash their hands and eat dumplings.

Li Shenxing specially left a small bowl of sauce without chili for the children in advance, and served them on a small plate and placed them in front of them.

Hyori first washed his hands and ran to the dining table, reached out and picked up an orange dumpling and put it in his mouth.

"Ah... hot! hot!..." Although he was hot, he couldn't bear to spit it out. "It tastes so delicious, the mushrooms have a strong flavor, and the filling is full and juicy, and it is very fresh."

Li Shenxing added a cool green dumpling to her, "Try this pork and leek stuffing."

"Yeah!" Khuri chewed heavily, and commented before he could swallow it: "Pork and leeks are delicious, but I prefer pork and mushroom stuffing."

At this time, the mother-in-law who came slapped her butt in her heart and scolded her: "Don't talk when eating, swallow it and talk, otherwise it will be difficult to drive."

"Ne, Alaso~!" Kyuri replied with a lip of his lips.

"I mom, sit down quickly, and it tastes better when it's hot." Li Shenxing pulled his mother-in-law to the seat and sat down, put the seasonings and other things in front of her.
Chapter completed!