Qi Shi and his party did not enter the weeping flower door, they heard two howls one after the other, bluffed, and then ran out of two meaty dundun, very sturdy puppies, Hajilan picked up a closer look, only to see the dog's dark brown eyes, the ears are separated backwards, a large feather tail behind the back, and then look at the striped bands on the face, this is clearly an Alaskan Malamute. When Qi Buchen saw this kind of dog for the first time, he didn't dare to get close to it at first, but he found that the puppy was very enthusiastic and lively, so he was bold enough to reach out and touch the one on the ground. At that moment, Eruri took the lead and approached, and the dog on the ground immediately approached him happily.

At this time, Mama Shulu and the little girl ring also came to the front, and Mama Shulu said: "This dog is running too fast, it is really silly and gratifying." After speaking, when he saw Qi Shi and his party, he immediately greeted Qi Shixing.

Qi Shi looked at the two puppies and said, "This dog looks noble, close but not excessive, and its barking is a bit like a wolf's howl...... It looks like an Alaskan Malamute. When the dog grows up, he pulls the plow and runs very fast. ”

The three Erluli brothers and sisters liked it more and more, and began to discuss who raised the dog, but there was no result for a long time. Qi Shi stopped with a smile: "Okay, I don't know where these two puppies came from, so let's discuss the ownership?" Maybe it was brought by someone who came to pay New Year's greetings. ”

When the three Erluli brothers and sisters heard this, they all looked at Mama Shulu on the side, and Mama Shulu smiled and said, "These two puppies came with Jingli's return gift." ”

The three Eruri brothers and sisters were overjoyed, and they all turned their heads to look at Qi Shi, who said with a smile: "How can you have time to play with this thing, the left and right are kept at home, just look at it, and it is only serious to come up with a name first." ”

Erluli lowered his head in disappointment, looked at the children with a lot of disappointment, Qi Shi said with a smile: "I'll take a look, yo, these are two males and a female, well, let's talk about it after the paparazzi." ”

The three Eruri brothers and sisters gave up, and began to discuss the dog's name again as they walked, and finally decided that the male dog should be called Arsaran, which means lion in Manchu, and the female dog was called Amber. Because Hu San'er, who is a miscellaneous worker, is a good hand at raising dogs, and he is diligent and studious, he specially handed over this errand to him, and cleaned up the sundries in a small yard next to the horse number in the front yard, and specially vacated them to raise these two puppies.

As soon as I entered the upper room, I saw that the Nalan clan was busy, and a group of people below were reporting and waiting to show them. The Nalan clan saw Qi Shi enter the door and hurriedly greeted him, and then ordered Mama Shulu to arrange for someone to set the meal and serve the food, and waved his hand to let the people who reported and waited for the show to step back and deal with those daily affairs tomorrow.

Seeing the colorful candles on the table, Erluli asked curiously, "Eniang, what is this?" ”

Nalan touched Eruri's head, Eruri muttered 'My son has grown up, Eniang don't touch her head like Hajilan' while turning her head away, looking at such a cute Eruri, Nalan smiled and said: "This is a scented candle sent by Beijing, I heard that this kind of candle has been popular in the capital since autumn, but the price is expensive, only wealthy families can afford it, compared to ordinary candles, there is more color and fragrance, but it is very popular with large families." There is no such new thing in Chahar City, and your mother Guo Luo specially sent someone to send it, and it is also equipped with this lampshade made of glass. ”

It happened to be late, so Nalan asked people to light the red, yellow, blue, and green candles on the lampstands around the room, and then cover the glass lampshade, and the whole room exuded a faint fragrance of flowers, reflecting a circle of red, yellow, blue, and green light, like a dream. The three Eruri siblings looked at the candles that reflected different colors and gave off a faint fragrance, and they all said that they liked it. After setting the meal, Mama Shulu went into the main room and told her that it was time for dinner, so the Qi family happily finished their dinner while discussing dogs and scented candles.

After the meal, Nalan asked someone to clean up the dishes, and the family returned to the main room from the dining room, and when they sat down and gossiped about homely things, Nalan told Qi Shi about the return gifts of each family in Beijing, and handed Qi Shi a few letters from Beijing with the return gifts, and then gave them the New Year's money that the elders of the family gave to the three brothers and sisters of Eruri, Eruri took it with a smile, muttering that this year's New Year's money is so rich, Qi Buchen and Hajilan also took it happily, Hajilan smiled and thought that it was still good to be a child, At least for now, the New Year's money is soft! The family gossiped a little more and went back to their own yards.

Qi Shi's family spent the New Year in this happy atmosphere. This year is better than before, not only the Qi family reunited for the New Year, even the poor people walking on the road have better faces, and many people take advantage of the New Year to go out shopping in neat and clean clothes. This year, the potatoes, corn and peanuts planted in Chahar were successful, and the Fu Yin Li Bingjun took the lead, on the one hand, to promote the planting method to farmers, and on the other hand, to teach people to make a lot of food snacks using these crops as raw materials, so there are many stalls selling snacks on the street, some selling peanut candy, some selling vermicelli soup, some selling boiled corn, some selling potato cakes, many people buy to eat, and even the poor will spend one or two dollars to buy some sugar cubes for their children to enjoy.

When the Lantern Festival is over on the fifteenth, Chahar City not only has lanterns to see, but also ice lanterns to watch. Erluli had already told Qi Shi that he would take him and his two sisters to see. But the Nalan clan said that they had to deal with some things and didn't go.

Among the maid servants in the family, a few of them have already obtained permission from the hostess Nalan because they usually have excellent appearances, and they can go out for half an hour at night to see the famous lanterns and lanterns in the city.

Jing'er and Que'er had already been promised by Hajlan that they would take them to see the lights together, and now Que'er walked up and down in front of the other girls triumphantly, talking about the night light market, which caused the others to roll their eyes.

After dinner, Qi Shi set off with his children. The first thing they went to was a restaurant on a street next to the downtown area in the city center, and Qi Shi had already booked a private room on the second floor of the restaurant. Qi Shi and they sat by the window, and they could see all kinds of lanterns on the street below over the railing by the window.

Hajlan looked through the window, and saw that these lanterns were made of thin bamboo strips, most of which were flowers, birds, insects, fish or animals, such as tigers and deer, and then covered with bright colored paper or silk cloth, and then used a paintbrush to make some decorations, made shapes, and then lit one or several candles inside. Merchants use four-wheeled carts to install lanterns, and then drag cows, horses or donkeys to walk slowly, so that people around can clearly see their beautiful lanterns.

Such lamps are really beautiful in the eyes of Qing Dynasty natives like Que'er, and their eyes are sparkling when they see them. But for Hadjiran, it's nice and interesting, but it's not so big that she can't take her eyes off it. Hajlan looked at it for a while, and saw that the next lanterns were all old, and there was nothing better and new, so he turned his head to drink tea and eat snacks. The dim sum was a small shortbread filled with bacon, and the other was a small dumpling stuffed with cabbage and pork.

More than an hour later, Qi Shi took the three Eruri brothers and sisters to the place where the ice lanterns gathered. I saw the light of the candle flame in the ice looming, and the ice cubes through it came out, reflecting like a dream in the night, and the white ice cubes were reflected, which was really a glass world carved by ice and jade.

When he returned home, Nalan had already ordered someone to cook rice balls with various fillings, in addition to the traditional rice balls with sesame and lotus paste and peanut filling, as well as mung beans and pork.

She smiled and said, "Are the lanterns looking good today?" It's cold outside, isn't it? Eat a bowl of rice balls to warm up your body. ”

Hajlan was curious about the two new fillings, took the bowl with a smile, ate a few bites, and felt that the mung beans were good, and the meat filling tasted like meatballs, with only one more layer of glutinous rice skin, and the rice balls with sesame lotus paste and peanut filling were authentic and delicious.

Hajlan ate the rice balls, looked at the family sitting together, and his heart was warm, as if he felt the slightest smell of the New Year in the air.