It has begun to gradually enter autumn, the temperature is cooler in the morning and evening, and it is also a good choice to play hot pot at this time.

The soup base is bone puree, with a few pieces of corn and red dates on top, and the flavor is rich and fragrant.

The taste of the family is light, and they also bought a special hot pot basin, put it on the large round table, and then put the prepared fat beef, fat sheep, fish, prawns, meatballs and other ingredients on the table, and dinner begins.

Qiqi brought two small bowls and prepared some dipping sauces for Ning Yue and Ning Xue.

Ning Yue does not eat green onions, Ning Xue does not eat coriander, and Qiqi does not eat green onions and coriander.

As a picky eater, their own dipping sauce is up to them.

"Yue'er, do you want minced garlic?"

"I don't want it, the garlic is so spicy!"

"Cher, do you want Pepper?"

"I don't want it, the pepper is so spicy!"

"And peanut butter, what about tahini?"

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After asking, Qiqi finally poured some soy sauce into Ning Yue and Ning Xue's small bowl, and then dropped a few drops of peanut oil, even if they completed their dipping sauce configuration.

The two sisters think that Sister Qiqi is so powerful, and the tuning is better than the one that the eldest aunt usually mixes for them.

Qiqi herself doesn't like to add too much messy sauce, she added some soy sauce to her bowl, a few drops of peanut oil, and finally grabbed a handful of minced garlic and put it in, and her dipping sauce was ready.

At the beginning of dinner, everyone sat down and started to make hot pot, and Sika took Millie to Qiqi's feet, ready to eat and drink.

The thinly sliced beef and mutton can be eaten after being scalded in the pot for a while, and it is tender and fragrant.

Seeing Qiqi scalding a piece of fat beef, Sika hurriedly came over to rub it.

Qiqi blew it cold, twisted the beef and gave it to Sika to eat.

Millie is not idle, rubbing Qiqi is very diligent, although Qiqi does not give Millie meat, but Millie rubs it ten times, Sika will reward Millie with a red fruit.

Ning Yue and Ning Xue were very serious when they ate, Wang Huisu would use a big mesh spoon to scald a lot of meat at once, and then take it out and put it in the bowl of the two sisters, they would hold long chopsticks and concentrate on dealing with the food in their bowls.

Ning Xue ate a piece of beef and sandwiched the mutton into her sister's bowl, she felt that the mutton stinked and she didn't like to eat it. Ning Yue also sandwiched the prawns in her bowl into the Ning Xue bowl, she felt that it was troublesome to peel the shell to eat shrimp, and she didn't like to eat them.

While eating, Ning Xue asked Qiqi curiously: "Sister Qiqi, why are there little fat cows and little fat sheep when playing hot pot, but there are no little fat pigs?"

Qiqi thought about it carefully, but didn't know how to explain it.

When Wang Huisu on the side heard this, he smiled and said, "Little fat pig, they are all playing hot pot at the table!"

The clever Sika heard this, and quickly ran away from the table, watching the group of little fat pigs playing hot pot.

But from a distance, he saw Qiqi picking up a piece of hot fish, and Sika ran back.

Little Fat Pig is Little Fat Pig, I'm at the bottom of the table, not at the table!

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After dinner, Ning Yue and Ning Xue pestered Li Zhongqi to ask him to make lanterns.

Yang Yun laughed and said: "Call you to lie, I see how you make lanterns for Yue'er and Xue'er!"

Li Zhongqi was not convinced, so he said: "Hey, I really know how to make lanterns, I don't believe you ask Qiqi, did I ever make lanterns when I was a child." ”

Qiqi nodded seriously and said: "Yes, Brother Zhong Qi can make lanterns, at that time, he used Coke cans to make them, cut a few holes with scissors, then tie a rope, and then connect a wooden stick, and it's done." ”

Yang Yun chuckled, and began to damage Li Zhongqi again, "You can be regarded as a lantern, then I will too." ”

The old god Li Zhongqi said on the ground: "Why don't you forget it, my lantern can still be fireproof." ”

Ning Yue and Ning Xue were reluctant, and hurriedly ran to their grandmother to complain.

Grandma can spoil these two sisters, and Li Zhongqi sighed and comforted: "Grandma will make you a few lanterns, which are guaranteed to look better than the ones you bought." ”

"Okay, okay!"

Grandma didn't brag like Li Zhongqi, she did know how to make lanterns, and when she was young, she stayed in a handicraft factory, just making lanterns and some knitted fabrics, like bamboo baskets and the like.

She got up and went to the utility room to find a few bunches of reed slivers, which were made of reed stalks, which could be used to wrap the rice dumplings when wrapping them, or to make some small utensils instead of bamboo strips.

In the past, people's lanterns were all woven lanterns, and after the frame was made, a piece of red paper could be pasted, and it was sold for two cents a piece at that time, which was particularly affordable.

Before weaving, the reed should be soaked in water for a while to allow it to absorb some water, and it will be more tough.

Grandma brought a small stool to sit in the yard, and started to make lanterns by the light of the door, Qiqi and Sika had nothing to do, so they followed Ning Yue and Ning Xue to watch Grandma make lanterns, and Millie also held a reed in her mouth to play in the yard.

Grandma hadn't done handicrafts for a long time, but the craftsmanship was not unfamiliar at all, she found a big wooden pier, used as a mold, and chatted with Qiqi and them, while using soaked reeds around the mold and began to weave.

The slivers are crossed with the slivers to form a prismatic small grid, the base is first done, and then the weaving starts from the base upwards, and finally all the slivers are gathered into a mouth and strung together, and a beautiful and light lantern frame is ready.

"Wow, grandma, you're so amazing, I've been watching it for so long, and I haven't seen how it's strung together, won't they fall apart?" Qiqi was surprised.

"It won't be scattered, it's still very strong, and the craftsmanship left by the ancestors can't be found now." ”

It took Grandma less than twenty minutes to weave a lantern frame, Ning Yue took the little lantern and threw it happily, it was really strong!

There were still a lot of reeds, and my grandmother continued to make lanterns, and she loved the process and let her find some of the feeling of being younger.

"Qiqi, there are still some big red papers in my room, in the drawer, you go and get a few out, I don't know where your uncle put it, you ask him. ”

"Uh-huh!"

Qiqi ran into the house to get the paste and the big red paper.

Soon, Qiqi ran back with a few pieces of red paper and a can of paste.

"Grandma, is this red paper going to be pasted on the lantern?"

"yes, do you know how to mush?"

Qiqi grinned and said, "Come on, grandma, I'm afraid it's bad, but I can write on paper!"

"Well, then you can write a few words, and I'll make a few more lanterns. ”

Grandma had itchy hands and made five lantern frames in a row, but when she was old, her hands, feet and eyes were not very good.

Qiqi brought a brush from her grandfather's desk, and she held it like a master and wrote on five pieces of red paper.

Big, ugly, and grandma laughed.

"Originally, the lantern could be sold, but after the word "you" was affixed, it could not be sold. ”

"I've been practicing calligraphy lately, and I'm not used to writing with a brush. ”

When the ink was dry, Grandma would paste it on the lantern frame, and finally paste the red paper around and cut off the excess.

While the paste was dry, my grandmother made five lantern cores out of wire, wooden boards, and iron nails, which were used to fix the red candles, and finally the lantern wicks were mounted on the lantern frame, and a small bamboo stick was tied with a small rope, and a beautiful lantern was ready.

"Grandma, you're so amazing!" Ning Yue and Ning Xue cheered, the two sisters like this kind of lantern they make by themselves, because the ancient lanterns in the TV series are like this!

"The word 'seven' is mine, the word 'month' is yours of the month, and the word 'snow' is yours of Xue'er. "Seventy-seven began to divide the lanterns.

Sika: "......"

Hey, hey, I don't want a lantern!

Besides, why don't you have my lantern?!

Sika looked at it and thought that two of the five lanterns belonged to Sika and Millie.

The remaining two lanterns are written with the word 'Fu', and these two lanterns will be hung at the door tomorrow, and there is a poem written on the two lanterns below.

"May People Last"

"A Thousand Miles to Chanjuan"

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