35, Chinese New Year

In the more than ten years of Qingfeng's life, he spent the New Year with his parents for the first time.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, I was still busy in Datong for four or five hours, others were busy greeting the New Year, this group was busy with delivery, today's delivery place is different from the past, most of the goods have been sent to the market, because eighty or ninety percent of the major shops have been closed for the New Year, the largest sales of strawberries in these days, that is, at the gate of major parks, the entrance of movie theaters, anyway, it is an entertainment venue, because the delivery locations are scattered, so the delivery time is longer, in order to stay with my father for a while, Qingfeng has been with him since the first delivery.

Medium-sized buses run in the streets and alleys of Guangzhou, cinemas in Guangzhou, generally on the top floor of large shopping malls, there are not many independent cinemas, the Spring Festival movies have been particularly popular in recent years, Feng Xiaogang is the guarantee of the box office, whenever his movie is released, the cinema line Spring Festival stalls will definitely make money, and Xu Zheng who came out later, anyway, there are more and more people watching movies in the cinema, and the strawberries of the Spring Festival are sold at a more expensive price. During the Spring Festival, people spend more than a dozen yuan or 20 yuan to buy a box of strawberries, which is much less than movie tickets, and those vendors are very thorough in their research, so the movie theater has a huge market for selling strawberries.

Another huge market is the playground, the playground in the children and young people go to more, strawberries are their favorite fruit, not to mention the morning is newly picked, especially fresh, those children see strawberries as if they see relatives, strawberry sales in the playground in the past two years, all the way bumpy, Li Chunsheng said, on the first day of last year in the playground, a boss pulled 2000 boxes in the morning, and pulled 7000 in the afternoon, so he did not let him stick to the end, so this year he ordered 15,000 boxes, Although the strawberries produced this morning have increased a lot more than yesterday, the enthusiasm of these vendors to order is much stronger than yesterday, although there are many places to run, where they go, the vendors want to order more goods, originally thought that they should run a dozen stores, but half of the run, a car of goods is all sold out. Because the wholesale price is not high, those traders in order to reduce trouble, are cash transactions, Li Chunsheng is prepared, to these bosses to deliver, unloading the physical work can not be done, their guys can completely help you unload, counting the quantity and collecting money is the most critical work, last year was the driver's points, Li Chunsheng collected money, and the two people were busy. This year is different, Qingfeng while ordering the goods, while calculating by heart, you can check out, unloading fast, the number of counts is also fast, the speed of collecting money is faster, so this year's first car, more than half an hour faster than last year, the second cargo is broken for more than half an hour, after the 5 cargoes are sent out, there is no inventory, and there is no need to ship to the airport today, less than 12 o'clock, easily prepare everyone to have a reunion meal.

People here, because they don't stay up late, don't keep the New Year, don't watch the Spring Festival Gala, have to rest early, prepare for the second morning, pick strawberries and pack strawberries, so everyone is busy from the early morning until noon as usual, so the reunion dinner is the dumpling at noon. Good

Qingfeng's mother Dai Xiaofeng, is a most capable rural woman, not only the work in the field is done quickly and well, the cooking is also fragrant and fast, this year because of Qingfeng together for the New Year, their family of 4 reunited for the first time, Dai Xiaofeng's heart not to mention how happy, the son of Chao Si Dusk, came here from his hometown thousands of miles away, making her work more relaxed. This dumpling, she put a lot of effort into preparing the dumpling filling.

First cut a cabbage, every year when cutting cabbage, she did not have such a heart as this year, first a batch of four cloves of cabbage, and then half of the cut into shreds, and then cut into dices, years of cooking and practice of knife work, so that the shredded cabbage cut out are transparent, diced cabbage, are smaller than soybean grains, could have been directly mixed into dumpling filling, in order to make the son eat more flavorful, two kitchen knives in the hand, and put these diced cabbage, on the board, repeatedly made half an hour, Those diced cabbages have become cabbage foam. Put it in a basin, gently sprinkle a little salt on it, stir it with chopsticks, and for 20 minutes, the salt has killed the moisture in the filling, she used a bean wrap cloth, filled a large bucket of cabbage filling, squeezed out the water inside, and then put these cabbage fillings into the stainless steel basin, the meat filling has already been fed in the morning, the cabbage filling is placed in it, a lump of it, she broke up these pictures, and the cabbage filling and the meat filling were mixed together.

Then, she put the cleaned leeks on the board, chopped them with a kitchen knife, cut them carefully one by one, and was very grateful, so that the relief was divided into several equal parts, and then chopped on the board for half an hour, and the leek segments were also turned into minced leeks, green leeks and white cabbage, plus red meat, mixed together to form a pink dumpling filling.

In order to make more fragrant dumplings for her son, she specially used raw peanuts, fried them, put them on the cutting board, rolled them with a rolling pin, and then sprinkled these peanuts in the dumpling filling, in the same way, also put in sesame seeds, and peppercorns, and then fully stirred the dumpling filling. A lot of condiments, she usually eats dumplings and she will use the finished product, but today, she is careful to make it with her own efforts, here is not only her labor mood, but also soaked in her deep love for her son, compensatory love, sorry love.

The noodles that had been alive before making the stuffing were already very tenacious after waking up for two hours. She kneaded a lump of noodles, put it on the panel, after the thin noodles, repeatedly kneaded, the rate of kneading the dough was very high, soon this aspect, was let her knead round, and then kneaded into a long strip, after such a long time to do a good line, in her hands it seems to be a work of art, white and moisturized, after she made a note, took out the rolling pin, began to roll the dumpling skin, each dumpling skin in her hand, quickly turned up, after a circle, took out her fingers, flew to the pot lid, The speed at which she rolled the skins was also amazing, and in a short time the stacks of dumpling skins were ready.

Making dumplings is her forte, her daughter Liu Xiaojuan has asked to help her make dumplings several times, but she politely refused, because she wants to wrap all these dumplings by herself, this thoughtful rural woman, to wrap all her feelings for her son, to wrap in these dumplings, a mother has not seen her son for more than ten years, suddenly a 1.8 meter tall son came to her face, that joy, that sweetness, that feeling of drunkenness, gave her endless strength. Over the years, there have been many fancy outbreaks, she is no longer familiar with it, because of the relationship between part-time work, eating is like a war, cooking is mainly fast, so the kung fu of squeezing dumplings, she is very skilled, but today she has no way to care, carefully wrapping the lace of each dumpling, there are ingots, pigs, and rabbits, anyway, all the shapes she thinks of, all to a point, put on the pot lid, these dumplings themselves are a landscape, although you don't eat into your mouth, Even a glance at it will make you linger and salivate.

When she finished wrapping the last dumpling, there was still an hour before 12 o'clock, and in this hour's time, she took out all the vegetables, all the meat, prepared the same, fried them the same, put them on the table, and then covered them with a plate, for fear that the fragrance would lose and the heat would dissipate, and more than two dozen dishes had already fallen three layers on the table. It is said that eating dumplings should not prepare so many dishes, but her joy can only be expressed through these dishes.

After a few hours of busyness, a New Year's reunion dinner has been placed on the table. When the last minibus drove into the base, she relied on her feelings, sat on the water, and put the dumplings in the pot.

Li Chunsheng and his son Qingfeng entered the room with relaxed steps, the first plate of hot dumplings had been placed on the dining table, and when the two of them finished washing their hands and sat at the dining table, the second pot of dumplings was also out of the pot. The small dining table really can't fit the second pot of dumplings, so it can only be placed on the kitchen table.

Qingfeng sat next to the dining table, looking at the colorful dishes, seeing the hot dumplings, admiring the various shapes of these dumplings, and then looking at the wrinkled face of the father, looking at the slight beads of sweat oozing from the mother's face, the sweet smile, the feeling of the family that had not been seen for a long time, surrounded it, this is the feeling that I have been looking forward to for many years, and it is the most grand stage today.

Eating with my parents, my mother, and my sister, how many times have I fantasized, today this scene is in front of me, I was looking forward to this scene at home in the mountains, and to my surprise, it was in a big city more than 1,000 miles away from the mountain's hometown, and the family reunion was realized. Every festive season, I miss my relatives, because I have to help my grandparents do a lot of farm work, and my thoughts about my parents pass by in a flash, and when I really think of them, they are those festivals that should be reunited but not reunited. Recalling the past, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most deserving festival of reunion, but for more than ten years, moon cakes have been reunited with human beings, and every year when they see round moon cakes, they will think of their parents, have they eaten moon cakes? Every Spring Festival, it should be the day for everyone to eat reunion dinner, for more than ten years, are accompanied by the grandparents who have been old to eat this meal, although the dumplings made by grandma are also very delicious, grandma's fried dishes are also very sweet, but today's meal is special, because every bite of food, every dumpling, are soaked in mother's love, soaked in family reunion.

A left-behind child in the mountains more than ten years ago, a lonely teenager over the years, a young man who was admitted to the best high school in the province with his own efforts, today reunited with his parents in a land far away from his hometown, which can't help but make Qingfeng's heart surge, thoughts, Qingfeng, who usually never drinks, today picked up the cup and solemnly toasted his parents with a glass of wine, this glass of wine is very heavy, there are more than ten years of separation, there are more than ten years of missing, and there is also this year's reunion, the strong liquor stimulates him, making him more excited very, Looking at the happy smiling faces of his parents and his parents, he was intoxicated, and the scenes in his dreams appeared again and again, which made him feel how much emotion and happiness he had.

Mom and Dad only accompanied themselves to babble, faltering, did not see his hard work under the lamp, sweating with his grandparents in the farmland, they did not see his joy at getting the certificate, the pride of getting a full score, and the elation of getting the best high school admission book, but today he experienced the bitterness of their hard work, but also realized the hard work of their uprooting, and saw, their figure of struggle in the city, how could he not let him feel a lot of emotion?

After eating this reunion dinner, a family of four sat around the black and white TV, making up for the regret of not watching the Spring Festival Gala together at night for 30, beautiful dance programs, cheerful singing and dancing programs, and beautiful language programs, so that the laughter of the four of them was condensed together, and slowly spread in this humble base. Although they have been in contact for more than a day, their hearts have already been connected.