Chapter 61: Chinese New Year (1)

This day is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the graphite village is shrouded in thick fog early in the morning, and it is impossible to distinguish whether it is smoke or white fog, and the white snow on the grass, trees, and fields reflects the mountains in the distance, making the graphite village look like an ink painting. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There are laughter and laughter in the graphite village, there are few pedestrians on the road, and occasionally I meet a person who says to each other whether they are familiar or unfamiliar, "Have a lively New Year!". Every household in the village has already cleaned their houses, even the corners of the roofs are spotless, some families have already pasted New Year's pictures and Spring Festival couplets, and children are frolicking in their yards.

Qingfeng Valley is also dressed in a layer of white tulle inside and out, hiding the depression in winter, the weather is extremely cold in the morning, the children have not gotten up, Song is busy in the kitchen alone, and there is no intention to wake them up.

Xing Youliang opened his eyes and woke up his younger brother on the side,

"Youqian, get up, look outside. ”

Xing Youqian rubbed his eyes, saw that it was white outside, and thought he was dazzled, so he rubbed it vigorously,

"Wow, it's so beautiful, brother, let's go out and play, uncle, uncle, hurry up, let's go out and play." ”

Xing Youqian shook Fu Xiaojian, who was sleeping on his back, but Fu Xiaojian slept like a dead pig, and there was no response at all except for one snoring after another.

Xing Youqian was in a hurry to go out to play, gave up waking up his sleeping uncle again, and begged his eldest brother to dress him and shoes.

After Xing Youliang cleaned up for his younger brother, he went to the next room, but he didn't wake her up directly, because he knew how angry his sister was when she got up, no matter who she was, as long as she dared to wake her up in the morning, she would definitely not give you a good face. So he just let her fall asleep, put the clothes on her layer by layer, and then wrapped the harness around her and carried her on her back.

When I came to the yard, stepped on the thin snow, and took a deep breath of the cold and fresh air, it really smelled good. Xing Youliang saw that the Qingfeng Valley in front of the courtyard was all white, so pure, so quiet. His younger brother was running around in the yard, jumping, touching here and there, very excited, and then he remembered that this was the first time he had seen snow, not to mention his younger brother, even a thin layer was rare.

Xing Youliang gently stroked the layer of snow accumulated on the stone table, and it was cold and piercing, but he couldn't put it down, but unfortunately it didn't take long for it to melt in his palm.

"How to bring Yoyo out, be careful not to let her catch a cold. Song walked outside the kitchen with a small basin.

"Grandma, what are you doing?" Xing Youliang asked the Song family curiously who was about to enter the house.

"Beat the paste, make the paste, let's paste the Spring Festival couplets and New Year's paintings. ”

Xing Youqian, who was rolling in the yard, was excited when he heard the 'batter', and he didn't play in the snow anymore, so he followed behind Song's fart/stock, waiting for the paste to be made and eaten by stealing the paste.

"What are you doing, just follow me, have food, take your brother to the kitchen and eat breakfast, and warm it for you in the pot." ”

Xing Youliang really felt a little hungry when he heard the word 'breakfast', and took Xing Youqian to the kitchen. Breakfast is nothing unusual, green vegetable gruel, with a small multigrain nest.

When he was sitting on a stool eating, Xing Youyou woke up and was stimulated by the aroma of the food. After waking up, he made a fuss on the back of the torture food, asking to put her down.

Sometimes Xing Youliang really feels that his little sister is the same as a person, he will always give him a warm sweet smile when he is sad, and he will always wake up automatically when he has something to eat, such as now, he has pointed to the nest on the table and shouted,

"Pot, pot, want, want. ”

However, the punishment was not given to her, for fear that she would choke, so he only fed her a little porridge, which caused her a roll of the eyes, but she still finished eating it with a lot of face.

"Little sister is really good~" Xing Youliang stretched out his thumb and wiped off the gruel stains on Xing Youyou's mouth.

At this time, Song had already poured water into the small basin filled with flour and stirred, Xing Youqian stood on tiptoe on the stove and watched his grandmother stirring in the basin round and round.

"Youqian, look at how your grandmother did it, you should do it when you grow up, you see, this batter must be stirred evenly, there can be no gnocchi. ”

After Song stirred the batter, he added water to the iron pot, went to the stove and started the fire. Before the fire was boiling, I saw Xing Youqian stealing the batter.

"It's still raw, so I ate it secretly, didn't I just have breakfast?"

Xing Youqian secretly stuck out his tongue,

"Grandma, I haven't eaten enough. ”

"Wait for grandma to make hemp candy for you to eat, don't steal your mouth now, this is to be used to paste the Spring Festival couplets, you know?"

"Hmm. ”

After Song boiled the water, he poured the batter down and stirred it continuously until the batter was boiled, and the batter was ready. Song made the batter and put it in a jar to cool and wait until the afternoon.

"Grandma, hurry up and make hemp candy, you want to eat hemp candy~" As soon as Song put the paste away, Xing Youqian twisted Song to make hemp candy.

"Okay, okay, grandma will go to make hemp candy, and if you have food, you can call your uncle to take care of the child, and you will make a fire for me. ”

The family quickly divided the work and began to make hemp sugar, Song took out the white sugar from the jar and put it into the water in the pot, boiled it over low heat, and then poured in the maltose and boiled until the spatula dripped into a large/flaky shape. Take out a clean empty bowl, grease the walls of the bowl to prevent the syrup from sticking, and then put all the syrup in the pot into the bowl and flatten and compact. Cover it with a large bowl and put it on the snow in the yard to cool it quickly.

Xing Youqian saw that the hemp candy was ready, but he didn't eat it, and he was a little anxious.

"Grandma, when will I be able to eat?"

"You can eat it when it's hard, wait a minute. ”

Hearing his grandmother say this, Xing Youqian kept squatting obediently next to the bowl, waiting for him to become hard, but he didn't wait for the hemp candy to become hard, but waited for his uncle.

"What are you doing, Xiao Qian?" Fu Xiaojian pointed to the bowl on the ground and said,

"What's in it?"

When Xing Youqian heard his uncle ask, he felt panicked. Sure enough, without saying a word, the uncle uncovered the bowl on it. What is he going to do, how is he going to stop him?

"Grandma, grandma, and uncle steal hemp candy to eat. ”

Fu Xiaojian heard Xing Youqian call him his mother, and immediately covered the bowl again, patted Xing Youqian's head, and said,

"You stinky boy, when did you learn to sue, it's really not cute at all, am I stealing food, I'm just helping you see if it's hard. ”