The Qi Xiaoduo incident left a faint shadow in the young Li Huatong's heart, which could not be erased for a long time. She had been sullen and couldn't keep her spirits up. On the one hand, Li Huatong felt that she didn't do her best because she was busy with work and ignored Qi Xiaoduo, feeling guilty, and on the other hand, she had doubts about love. What is love? Is it worth Qi Xiaoduo's life to gamble? Li Huatong was a little dazed.

Maybe he has read too many romance novels, Li Huatong is pessimistic about love from the bottom of his heart, thinking that too deep love is difficult to last for a long time, and it will even kill people.

One example is Bao Dai's Love. When he was young, Li Huatong read Shu Wu's "Le Jun on Love", and suddenly had a strange idea: If the two heroes and heroines in "A Dream of Red Mansions" Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu finally united after some ups and downs, would they live very happily? People always sigh that Sister Lin and Brother Bao love each other so much, but they are not united, which is really a great regret and tragedy. And if you think about it carefully, even if they get married, according to the character of Bao Dai and the extraordinarily deep relationship between them, it seems that it is decided that the two of them will never be united, and even if they do, they will never be happy. Baoyu is a boy who stretches out his hands for clothes, opens his mouth for food, is kind-hearted, and cherishes the fragrance and pities the jade, and he does have a sister Lin in his heart, which is well known. But he has been in the group of daughters for a long time, playing with girls all day long, and there are attackers and Qingwen, which makes it difficult for you to conclude that he is a person who is loyal to love. He was born into a noble family, so he naturally did not know the hardships of life, he had been with women for a long time, and lacked the masculinity of men, and he was even more pitiful, perhaps the most suitable gardener to be a gardener. And our sister Lin, because of the fall of the family road, her personality has become withdrawn and well-behaved, although she was born smart and beautiful, but she is sentimental, jealous, and lacks the tolerance and reasonableness of women. Not to mention anything else, just this point, although she and her brother Bao have a heart-to-heart, they can be regarded as a pair of enemies. Brother Bao cherishes the fragrance and cherishes the jade, and is naturally considerate to Sister Lin, which makes Sister Lin's heart move frequently. However, it's a pity that there is more than one incense and jade in the world, Sister Lin, whether it's a girl, Baochai, or even Qingwen and Raider, Brother Bao only loves to play rouge and other things when he was a child, and he is also a full Chu Liuxiang when he grows up. Therefore, the two of them are just playing in love, if they are serious, if we have to let our sister Lin marry Brother Bao, won't we have a good show to watch every day? Sister Lin is afraid that she can only wash her face with tears and live hard, and it is inevitable that there will be another resentful woman in this world. If you want to stop quarreling and live a peaceful life, there is only one way, and that is to lock up Brother Bao like a tiger in a zoo, and don't let him contact with the outside world. In that case, Jia Baoyu, who is used to being presumptuous on weekdays, must be a hundred unwilling. Anyway, Li Huatong felt that he was too stupid to think of any good way to let this little couple who were in love live lovingly.

Carefully analyzed, Bao Dai's tragedy is not only a social tragedy, a family tragedy, but also a personal character tragedy, which cannot be analyzed simply from one aspect. Or Lao Cao is smarter, knowing that these two can only play in love, and can't really get married, so at the end of the novel, he simply let them leave the rolling red dust, one angrily became a monk and became a monk, and the other died with hatred and went to another world, but left this eternal love story of eternal love and sadness to the sentient beings in the rolling red dust to taste slowly.

Another example is the love affair between Anna and Volensky. Li Huatong has read "Anna Klenina" over and over again. Of course she loved, for him, she gave up her family and beloved son, but in the end, she still chose to commit suicide because she couldn't bear Volensky's neglect. Anna, who is the embodiment of beauty and wisdom, how can she give up her precious life for love?

Confusion and disappointment in love made Li Huatong almost depressed. is approaching the New Year's Festival, although he is a little reluctant, Xu Ruobin still proposes that Li Huatong go back to his hometown to accompany his parents for the New Year, and by the way, he also relaxes. And he himself has to stay in Luochuan to work overtime because of the special nature of his work.

It was Li Huatong's first Spring Festival holiday after joining the work. She returned to her hometown with a confused heart, hoping that the hometown where she was born and raised would give her strength and heal her heart.

Seeing their daughter come home, the parents were naturally very happy. Don't think about it, the intelligent Li Huatong soon smelled the familiar fireworks for a long time, and was coerced into the strong New Year's atmosphere in his hometown.

Even more than 20 years ago, the smell of the New Year in the countryside seemed to be stronger than in the city. According to the customs of the hometown, about the eighth day of the lunar month, the New Year's procedure has been entered one after another. In the first half of the lunar month, each family has to make their own vermicelli, a basket of long round sweet potatoes, turned into slender and long vermicelli like magic, hanging on the wire, experiencing a night of cold wind, into a beautiful ice waterfall. After that, it is necessary to grind the tofu, which needs to be soaked in soybeans the night before, and then soaked into a bucket of plump beans the next day, and then put on the scalper at home, blindfold it with a piece of cloth, and gently wave the whip, and it will consciously push the stone mill in a circle. Not necessarily adults, children can also do, every once in a while, with a spoon, scoop some beans from the bucket, add some water, pour into the round hole in the middle of the stone mill, with the rotation of the stone mill, the white bean juice flows from the stone mill to the stone trough below, the stone trough is naturally high and low, and the bean juice will eventually flow to the low side and flow into the iron bucket below the exit. The bucket is full of bean juice, and the child will call for the adult to change the bucket. Buckets of bean juice were carried home with a flat pole, and the family had already set up a cross-shaped tofu rack, and the four corners of the coarse cloth were firmly trapped at the ends of two wooden sticks, and below was a big iron pot, and the fire under the stove was already burning. Buckets are poured in, holding the two corners of the shelf, turning the shelf up and down, the bean dregs are slowly filtered out, and the fine white bean juice flows into the pot, the process is quite fine, and one less step will affect the taste of the tofu. For rural people, the biggest reward before tofu is made is that they can eat the fragrant tofu brain. Steaming out a big bowl, putting the sauce in it, and drizzling it with cooked oil, it couldn't be more delicious. Naturally, most of the bean juice will be turned into whole pieces of solid tofu for the family to enjoy during the Chinese New Year.

said that people in the city are exquisite, and Li Huatong somewhat disagreed. From the middle of the month, sweeping the house is the first major event. The farmer's family has to sweep away all the dust accumulated for a year. The whole family was mobilized, men, women and children went into battle, from the beams of the house to all the large and small objects in the house, all had to be moved out, and all had to be passed through with clean rags. After sweeping the house, steamed buns are also an important livelihood project, it takes a day or two days, the buns that a family of several people want to eat for the New Year should be steamed out, and the most important thing is that there are buns and wontons to be used by relatives, and they must be made with heart and good-looking. The hostess of the family should be aware of it, plan carefully, and calculate the number of buns, buns and wontons that the family will eat during the Chinese New Year, as well as the number of big buns, small buns and wontons to bring to the house of the seven aunts and eight aunts when visiting relatives. Because, once the steamed buns are finished, they will not be steamed again until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

to be continued