Chapter Twenty-Three: The New Year Is Approaching
After letting his eyes adjust to the darkness for a while, Koizumi put away the hair dryer in his hand according to the light from the dormitory next door outside the window, and then used the prepared matches to light the candle that was fixed to the candlestick in the corner of the table.
Koizumi picked up the mobile phone that had been charged for a while, opened it and saw that the battery was only 20%, and then looked at the signal column, which was still empty.
It is estimated that in the future, communication will be difficult to recover, Koizumi thought, hey, I really miss the vast network resources, and I am really a little unaccustomed to the current days.
I wonder how people will communicate at that time. Flying Pigeon Biography? Or is it delivered by postman manpower? Koizumi thought whimsically for a while, ran through his hair with his hands, let it dry almost dry, then blew out the candle and prepared to go to bed.
A sleepless night.
After Koizumi was woken up by the punctual biological clock, he felt that it was even colder. After putting on warm and light down pants and a down jacket, I went to the bathroom to wash up, intending to wash the clothes and pants I changed last night.
With the cold tap water and his autumn clothes rubbing his hands, Koizumi suddenly thought: The power went out on the day of the big cold, and it has been several days, and Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching.
After finishing the work quickly, Koizumi returned to the dormitory, dried his clothes, and carefully looked at the calendar, and found that today was the twenty-ninth year of the year, and tomorrow was Chinese New Year's Eve. Koizumi entered the Taoyuan space, didn't care about the freshly made breakfast, and directly took out the hot white porridge and eggs that had been prepared before in the fresh-keeping warehouse, and filled his stomach with a big gulp.
While eating, Koizumi thought sadly: If it was before, she and her grandmother were preparing various New Year's foods: 28 handfuls of noodles and 29 steamed steamed buns......
This steamed bun is not like usual, it looks like it is ordinary and chubby, and it needs to be carefully prepared. As the saying goes, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, whoever steamed the best steamed bun will have a prosperous life in the coming year. Moreover, the steamed buns made should be returned to the relatives and neighbors who come to visit during the New Year's Festival. Therefore, it must be made to look good and delicious, so that it has face, and it is auspicious, and it is very particular.
When I was a child, Koizumi followed his grandmother like a puppy, and he liked to knead the dough into different shapes with his grandmother, and his grandmother would teach Koizumi while making it: the bergamot-shaped dough cake is "Fu", the peach-shaped bean bun is "Shou", in addition, you can also use the neighbor's name to make a variety of finely carved dough molds to make the doll cake of the five sons of the family, the harvest of the Pisces cake, the rich garden cake and other pasta.
Waiting for the steamed buns to be steamed, my grandmother would dip a small piece of red paper in some water, tie five sorghum stalks together, then dip them in the water-soaked red paper, and finally order them on top of the steamed buns that are about to ripen. Grandma dotted red dots on the steamed steamed buns, and she told Koizumi that it meant good luck.
In addition to steaming steamed buns, you should also steam some jujubes, stuffing, or flowers, all kinds of dazzling. If the steamed steamed buns crack open because the heat is too high, my grandmother will immediately say, "Look, the steamed buns are all laughing!" ”
After breakfast, Koizumi was busy in the space, in addition to being like her grandmother taught her, she also adopted the secret taught by her roommate Hua Zhen from the north, and kneaded a small piece of lard into the dough, so that the steamed steamed buns are not only white, fluffy, but also fragrant. At the same time, Koizumi also mixes a little orange peel silk to make the steamed bread more fragrant.