Ao Muyang's low mood is that after Lu Zhizi left, he became a loner again.

After a while, the sun basked for a while, and when the warmest noon had passed, he put on his clothes again and prepared to leave.

He got up and looked at the general and was about to wave, when he was shocked to find that there was money in the bowl in the general's mouth, a five-cent steel hammer, and a few green bills of one yuan......

"Is this money for eating?" Ao Muyang was stunned.

The words of the person next to him made him even more stunned: "You're not a beggar, seeing that you wear so little, I thought you were begging for money with a dog." ”

The general wagged his tail and ran in front of the man who spoke, craned his neck and handed over the plastic bowl of stinky tofu.

The man took back the money he had prepared, and hurried away with the child, muttering: "The heart is broken, and at a young age, he came out to pretend to be a beggar to cheat money." ”

Ao Muyang couldn't cry or laugh, who pretended to be a beggar, wasn't he just a little depressed?

Winter is scarce, and soon the winter solstice will come.

Ao Muyang gave Zhong Cang a leave in advance and asked him to go to the hospital to accompany his wife.

Zhong Cang's wife's name is Wang Xia, a very simple woman, with a gentle temper, who doesn't like to talk and likes to smile, which is quite similar to Zhong Cang.

The cost of the operation was in place, and the hospital quickly arranged surgery for her, so that she was expected to be able to go home for the Chinese New Year and not have to stay in the hospital all the time.

The Hongyang region attaches great importance to the winter solstice festival, and there is a local proverb called "Chinese New Year's Eve is bigger than thirty nights, and small New Year's Eve is older than New Year's Day".

Families with large populations generally start preparing for the festival on the eve of the New Year, and the reason for this is that the local migrant workers basically return to their hometowns in the New Year, and the fishermen also stop their boats before the New Year, ready to rest for a few days to welcome the New Year.

The local custom is to eat dumplings in the New Year, and the night before the winter solstice, it has become an activity for the whole family to get together to make dumplings, which leads to the fact that most of the local youth, both men and women, have the unique ability to make dumplings with one hand.

Ao Fugui came to call Ao Muyang to make dumplings together in the past, Ao Muyang didn't like to stay at other people's homes in this kind of reunion festival, and the reunion of other people's families made him feel more lonely.

So he refused Ao Fugui's invitation and stayed at home to make dumplings one night in advance.

Ao Zhibing had no one at home, so he also stayed, and the old and the young gathered a table.

The old man pays a lot of attention, Ao Muyang means that the two of them can make some dumplings together, but the old man picked up the shelf and said: "This is not good, the rules left by the ancestors cannot be broken, this is the end of the year, we want to finish the beautiful show." ”

So Ao Muyang went to stir the stuffing, and the old man Ao Zhibing went to prepare some things.

Ao Zhibing went home and took two round bamboo plaques, which are called Puluo in the local dialect, which are specially used to put dumplings and Lantern Festival.

Pu Luo took too long, and even a layer of pulp appeared on it, and the light illuminated the hall.

The old man put some lettuce leaves on it, and Ao Muyang put it on the vegetable leaves after wrapping the dumplings, which has a meaning, the homonym of 'lettuce' is 'making money', and getting it is the meaning of making a fortune.

In addition, brown sugar and honey are also put on it, which also has a meaning, called sweet honey, and 10 pairs of new chopsticks, which means "perfect".

The old man prepared these things very seriously, Ao Muyang laughed beside him, not to mention, after someone was so busy, the atmosphere of the family festival came.

He steamed a big mackerel and prepared to wrap dumplings stuffed with fish and meat, which is also a local specialty, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, the local fish dumplings, fish buns, sea vegetable dumplings and so on are very famous.

The steamed mackerel exudes a fragrant aroma, and after it has cooled slightly, he uses a knife to slice the meat from it, and the fish has no bones except for the main bone in the middle, and the fish is rich enough to make dumplings.

Ao Muyang adjusted the filling, and the old man also made noodles.

He rolled the skin and made dumplings, and the old man rubbed other things next to him, such as gold ingots, rice tools, puppies, etc., and people who didn't understand thought that the old man was still childlike after seeing it, but in fact, this is also a local custom.

Ao Zhibing pinched the dough and muttered in his mouth: "Pinch a gold ingot, pinch a silver dollar cake, and make a lot ......of money; pinch a rice pestle, pinch a rice mortar, the five grains are sweet and salty; pinch a puppy, pinch a big dog, and watch the house and nursing home to keep it safe."

The general and the overlord flower lay on the sofa, and the old man chattered for a while, so he kneaded the dough according to the way they both.

On winter nights, the sun sets early, and the sky quickly darkens.

I didn't eat the dumplings that night, but I had to eat them in the morning, and when it was still dark, the sound of firecrackers crackled.

Ao Muyang got up and set off firecrackers, and then the old man put dumplings, and the division of labor was clear.

As soon as the firecrackers rang off, the house suddenly became chaotic.

The general and the overlord flower ran around, Ao Muyang thought he was scared, but when he looked back, he felt that these two bear children were excited.

The Führer was really afraid of the sound of firecrackers, and got into the bed and only showed his ass outside.

The queen stood at the head of the bed, and when the firecrackers sounded, she cried out, "Quack, quack!"

Ao Muyang wrapped several kinds of stuffed dumplings last night, the leek shrimp dumplings were his, the sea vegetable tofu dumplings were Ao Zhibing's, the fish-stuffed dumplings were the Führer's, and the mutton and beef stuffed dumplings were the general's and the overlord's flowers, and the queen found that there was no own, so she took a dumpling and pecked it there a few times, and threw it away when she felt that it tasted bad, and continued to rattle with the sound of firecrackers.

After the New Year, there are only a few days left before the New Year, and at this time, there will be more temple fairs and annual meetings.

Ao Muyang hadn't had such an experience for several years, so he asked a few people to go to the town in advance to catch up with the New Year's fair.

The town's annual fair was at the root of the year, and it would be fine, so he went out to sea again to the fishing grounds.

As soon as he stopped the boat at the fishing grounds, the tiger suddenly came out of the water with a big fish in its mouth.

Ao Muyang was shocked when he saw it: a bluefin tuna!

"Are you taking the fish from our fishing grounds to disaster?" he asked, stunned.

On closer inspection, he found that it was not right, the fish was smaller, just over a meter long.

Suddenly, he understood that the fish did not leave, and the tiger had a harvest again!

It's a pity that this fish is dead, I don't know if it was hit by a tiger or suffocated, as long as it falls into the tiger's mouth, the tuna will definitely not survive.

Looking at the tiger showing off his might around the sea fishing boat, Ao Muyang smiled and threw a piece of beef down.

Although this tuna is dead, it is still valuable as a precious seafood.

He went to the float to take a look, and found that the fish and squid hanging underneath were gone!

Seeing this, he was a little regretful, he was still too impatient, and the tuna catching method proposed by Lu Zhizi was very useful, and it really attracted a group of tuna.

So he hung squid and fish meat on the hook under the floating debris, and then stayed in the adjacent sea, trying his luck and trying to see if he could run into another school of tuna.