When you are accustomed to the prosperity of the world and have experienced life and death, you will find that, in fact, a light and ordinary life is what you want most.

The dark night of winter always comes exceptionally early, Xu Lang and Xiao Yueyue worked at the door for more than an hour, the sky gradually darkened, the father and daughter did not continue to sit at the door and watch the street like the old man in the countryside, the two people each carried their own small benches back to the house, and began to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

In fact, whether it is for Xu Lang who is in a foreign land, or for Xiao Yueyue, who grew up here, the New Year is more than them, in fact, it is no different from usual, the only difference may be that tonight you want to eat dumplings, you have to keep the New Year, you have to watch the uninteresting Spring Festival Gala, and of course, there are firecrackers at twelve o'clock.

The dough was already awake at noon, and now, as long as he rolls it out with a rolling pin and cuts it into small squares with a knife, as for the filling of the dumplings, Xu Lang has already prepared it.

In the kitchen, Xu Lang skillfully rolled out the dough with a rolling pin, then cut it into small squares with a knife and put it on a plate, while Xiao Yueyue came to the restaurant with a plate, sat on a chair, and began to wrap dumplings in a decent manner.

The dough is not big, enough for two people to eat, one big and one small, so after a few clicks, Xu Lang cut the dumpling skin, and then came to the restaurant with a plate, wrapping dumplings with Xiao Yueyue.

Holding the dumpling skin in the left hand, holding a small spoon in the right hand, holding a spoonful of dumpling filling, putting it on the dumpling skin, then putting down the spoon, folding the dumpling skin in half once, wrapping the dumpling filling in the dumpling skin, and then facing it once, bending into an arc, and then pressing both sides of the dumpling skin with your fingers, sticking with the stickiness of the dumpling skin itself, to ensure that when the dumplings are in the pot, they will not fall apart.

Xiao Yueyue is small, small, and has small hands, although the dumpling technique is very sophisticated, but, after all, she is still a child, the package is not fast, and Xu Lang is very fast, when he makes dumplings, he will put a coin in the dumplings, this is the custom here, wrap a coin in the dumplings, who eats the dumplings, it is a good sign to eat the coin, of course, there is not much meaning, just a festive picture, Xu Lang doesn't want to be lazy, anyway, just he and Xiao Yueyue, now idle is idle, do a little thing, It's also good to give Xiao Yueyue a little surprise.

In less than half an hour, the dumplings were wrapped, Xu Lang took the wrapped dumplings to the kitchen and put them away, and then began to clean up the mess, and Xiao Yueyue obediently went to the bathroom to take a bath after washing her hands, she was going to change into new clothes.

Actually, for Xiao Yueyue, she basically wears new clothes every month, so it is not unusual for her to wear new clothes during the New Year.

When Xu Lang and the others wrapped the dumplings, it was already completely dark outside, the lights of each house were lit, the street lamps on the road also emitted orange lights, the flaming red lanterns hanging in front of the neighbors also emitted festive lights, and occasionally the sound of firecrackers could be heard on the street.

Winter is cold, although this is not the north, but, at night, it still gives people a cold feeling, and the streets can always hear the sound of children laughing and playing, as well as the sound of firecrackers, with the explosion of firecrackers, and the screams of children, listening to the extraordinarily lively, it seems, this is the New Year.

There was a light on at the door of Xu Lang's house, and he didn't buy a lantern to hang it, not because he didn't have the money to buy it, but because he felt that it was unnecessary.

In fact, when Xu Lang first came here, during the first two years of the Chinese New Year, Xu Lang didn't even post door paintings and Spring Festival couplets.

Xu Lang just smiled and said, it's too troublesome and I don't want to post it.

Zhang Mei is a warm-hearted person, when she started, she thought that Xu Lang had just come here, bought a house, and brought a small child, and she was not rich, so she was reluctant to buy door paintings and Spring Festival couplets, so she took her own door paintings and Spring Festival couplets to Xu Lang and asked Xu Lang to paste them, but Xu Lang politely refused, which made Zhang Mei wonder for a long time.

When the third year, Xu Lang finally bought the door painting and the Spring Festival couplets to paste, which did not seem so out of place, in fact, it was not that Xu Lang didn't want to paste, but because of some reason, he didn't want to paste.

After Xu Lang cleaned up the restaurant, he turned on the gas stove and boiled the water, and turned on the TV at the same time, the hosts in the TV were wearing festive clothes and saying auspicious words, and every station was playing the Spring Festival Gala, it seemed that everyone was happy for the arrival of the New Year.

Xu Lang sat on the sofa, his eyes did not look at the TV, but looked at the night outside the door, his eyes were a little confused, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Goo Dong Goo Dong"

I don't know how long it took, a sound of boiling water came from the kitchen, interrupting Xu Lang's thoughts, he stood up, walked to the kitchen, and began to make dumplings.

After the dumplings were finished, Xu Lang took the spoon and gently stirred it in the pot a few times to ensure that the dumplings did not stick to the bottom of the pot, he looked at the blue flames, watched the white dumplings rise and fall in the pot, his expression was a little sad, I don't know what to think, Xu Lang let out a long sigh.

"Hey......"

"Why are you sighing again? Always sighing, easy to get old. A milky voice came from Xu Lang's side.

Xu Lang turned her head, looked down, and found that Xiao Yueyue didn't know when she had finished taking a shower and put on new clothes and stood beside Xu Lang, at this moment, she was tiptoeing, holding Xu Lang's hand with one hand, looking at the gradually boiling pot, a pair of black grape eyes were full of longing.

Xu Lang smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and rubbed the little girl's head, and asked with a smile, "Hungry?" ”

Xiao Yueyue shook her head and said, "A little." ”

"It's going to be good right away, you prepare some vinegar and put it on the table." Xu Lang commanded.

When Xiao Yueyue heard this, she immediately let go of Xu Lang's hand and immediately began to prepare.

Xu Lang looked at Xiao Yueyue's lively back, his eyes subconsciously narrowed, revealing a knowing smile.

After a while, the dumplings were cooked, Xu Lang took out three bowls, filled three bowls of dumplings, and brought them to the table, and Xiao Yueyue had already prepared them with chopsticks.

After Xu Lang brought the dumplings, he returned to the kitchen, picked up another pot, and began to pour oil and stir-fry, the dishes were already ready, Xu Lang only needed to fry them now.

With the jingle bell, after the sound of a shovel hitting the bottom of the pot sounded, several plates of dishes with full color and fragrance were fried, and after the dishes were fried, Xu Lang put the pot of cooking dumplings on the gas stove again, and continued to cook on a low fire.

The dishes were served on the table, Xu Lang sat on the main seat, Xiao Yueyue had been sitting obediently in the position and waiting for Xu Lang, she did not eat in advance.

After Xiao Yueyue saw Xu Lang coming, she looked at Xu Lang with chopsticks, tilted her head and thought about it, and asked, "Won't you have a drink for the New Year today?" ”

Xu Lang was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xiao Yueyue and said with a smile; "Do you want to drink?"

Xiao Yueyue's eyes rolled, then she nodded very sincerely, looked at Xu Lang cautiously, and asked, "Have a little drink?" ”

Xu Lang nodded helplessly and didn't say anything.

Seeing Xu Lang nodding, Xiao Yueyue suddenly smiled, immediately jumped down from the chair, ran to the side of the cabinet, took the bottle of Wuliangye on the cabinet, handed it to Xu Lang's hand, and then turned around and brought two wine glasses, one large and one small.

Xu Lang poured himself a full glass of liquor, poured a small half a glass for Xiao Yueyue, and then covered the wine bottle and put it aside.

Xiao Yueyue climbed the chair again and sat down, she picked up the wine glass in front of her, raised the wine glass, and said to Xu Lang: "I wish Dad, a happy new year." ”

"Happy New Year to us Xiao Yueyue."

The wine glasses of the two people touched lightly together, and then, Xu Lang took a big sip, and Xiao Yueyue took a small sip slightly, her pink little face suddenly became red and fluttered, like a ripe little apple, very cute.

After Xiao Yueyue drank a small sip of wine, she immediately stuck out her tongue, picked up her chopsticks, and began to eat dumplings.