early morning

The sun, which has disappeared for a long time, quietly rises from the east at some point, and the red light shines on the Kunlun Mountain, and the white snow is reflected against the snow, which is very gorgeous.

"Gaji!"

Xu Huai, who was dressed in plain clothes, pushed open the door and found that the blizzard had stopped, and the air was fresh and cold.

"It seems that those chaotic long worms have been cleaned up by the state, otherwise, the weather would not have returned to normal so quickly, and it would have suffered those who were affected. ”

Xu Huai looked at the weather that had returned to normal and muttered to himself.

Five days ago, when Han Shoucheng, the leader of the emergency command team, and a group of officers discovered that the newly developed Dongfeng No. 1 Express could cause great damage to the dragon hidden in the water, everyone was ecstatic.

Immediately afterwards, the military urgently passed the plan, concocted it in accordance with the law, and used a lot of manpower and material resources to map out the hiding range of the dragons in the remaining four lakes.

Then the twelve Dongfeng No. 1 express delivery rushed out of the sky and wiped out the remaining dragons, which restored the original climate and gave the country time to urgently dredge the rain and snow.

After a morning workout, the sun rose high, and the time came to seven o'clock, Xu Huai came to the kitchen with an apron around and prepared breakfast for the little girl.

Today, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, that is, the Lantern Festival in the traditional festival, on this day, every family in China has to eat a beautiful Lantern Festival in the morning, also known as tangyuan, which means that the family is reunited and happy, and will never be separated.

Looking at the dough that had fermented last night, Xu Huai remembered some historical facts recorded in ancient books,

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Zhao of Chu passed through the Yangtze River on the way back from the restoration of the country, and saw something floating on the surface of the river, the color was white and slightly yellow, and there was a red like rouge in it, and the taste was sweet. The crowd didn't know what this was, so King Zhao sent someone to ask Confucius.

Confucius said: "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the revival of the Lord who obtains it." ”

Because this day is the fifteenth day of the first month, every day in the future, King Zhao ordered his subordinates to imitate this fruit with noodles, and use hawthorn to make a red filling and cook it.

Over time, from generation to generation, the traditional custom of eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has also been handed down, and it has become a part of the essence of Chinese traditional customs.

"Bang, bang, bang"

In the kitchen, the sound of dough smashing against the panel kept sounding, from last night to this morning, eight or nine hours of fermentation time was already sufficient, but in order to make the rice balls more authentic, Xu Huai still kept kneading them with his hands, so that the fermentation factors could penetrate into the flour more.

A quarter of an hour later,

Looking at the dough that was soft and even, with the same color everywhere, Xu Huai put down his hand and began to knead the Lantern Festival.

Because the little girl likes bean paste very much, so generally every year during the Lantern Festival, Xu Huai basically wraps bean paste filling.

Tear some of the dough off appropriately, press it into a flat ball with your hands, then spoon up some of the bean paste filling that you put aside with a spoon and put it in, let the dough wrap the bean paste filling together, and rub it with both hands to make the flat dough become round.

The speed of kneading the Lantern Festival was very fast, and within a few minutes, on the panel in front of Xu Huai, there were thirty or forty Lantern Festivals of the same size.

then

Lift the lid of the pot,

Add water,

Start a fire and boil

Then put the Lantern Festival in one by one, and after seven or eight minutes, when the Lantern Festival that sank to the bottom of the pot floated to the surface of the water, it meant that it was cooked.

walked to the room, woke up the little girl who was sleeping lazily, and after some washing, the brother and sister sat down at the dinner table.

The Lantern Festival that had just been served from the pot was steaming, and the palm-sized bowl was like a fog.

When she woke up one night, she seemed to be a little hungry, and before the corner of the bowl was cold, she grabbed the steaming bowl with her hot little hands.

"Ahh

Xiaoxian was in pain, and the hot little hand was quickly withdrawn, and he immediately covered the lying finger with his other hand.

"Brother, it's so hot, Xiaoxian's hands are hot, blow it!"

The little girl said in a milky voice, and stretched out her hot hand in front of Xu Huai.

"Brother blows you. ”

Seeing this, Xu Huai pursed his mouth and acted as if he was blowing the wind, but in fact, he secretly mobilized the true yuan in his body, revealed it outside his body, and covered Xiaoxian's fingers that had just been burned.

After a while, Xiao Xian felt that the burning sensation on her fingers gradually disappeared, replaced by a burst of coldness.

"Hey, it doesn't hurt, my brother is so amazing!" Xiaoxian looked at his hand and said happily.

"You'll have to pay attention next time, but don't grab the bowl with your hands so directly, do you know, Xiaoxian?"

"Uh-huh, Fairy knows. ”

Hearing Xu Huai's instructions, the little girl's head was like a rattle, and she kept lit.

"Hurry up and eat, when you're done, my brother will take you down the mountain and go to the town to see the dragon lantern dance." ”

Xu Huai said while eating Lantern Festival.

"Okay, brother wait for me, Xiaoxian likes to watch the dragon dance lantern the most. Hearing that, the girl picked up the spoon and ate it neatly, for fear that Xu Huai would not take her to see the dragon dance lantern because she ate slowly.

"Xiaoxian, eat slowly, be careful of burning, don't choke, brother is waiting for you, don't worry. ”

Looking at a little girl who was eating Lantern Festival, Xu Huai felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart.

Although the huge Xu family is only left with their brother and sister, Xu Huai has never felt lonely, with this little girl, she is making trouble around from time to time, and there is a sense of fulfillment.

"Old man, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's been another year, and it's this day again, today Xiaohuai took the girl to the town to dance the dragon lantern, and when she came back, she brought wine and chatted with you. ”

More than three years ago, the old man also drove a crane west on the day of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month and passed away.

On that day, Xu Huai still remembers that every household under the mountain was bustling, and children were playing with firecrackers everywhere, but the Xu family, which should have been like this, ushered in a painful nightmare.

The little girl who was a few months old was still in her infancy, and was entrusted by the old man to Wang's house at the foot of the mountain.

Xu Huai, who was alone, handled the old man's funeral alone, according to the old man's instructions before his death, the funeral was simple, only Xu Huai and Wang sent his soul to him, and he did not invite friends from all over the world to have a beautiful funeral like other ancestors.