Chapter 92: Boredom
Lu Yu knew that the husband and wife were talking about the past, so it was inconvenient to listen to it, so he walked away. Lu Yu shouted to the sister and brother who were having fun: "I'm going back to burn charcoal and make a fire, you can't come." ”
"Come ......" Yan Xi'an won the snowball fight with his younger brother, and rushed towards Lu Yu with an excited face. On the tender face that is white and red, there are still a few unmelted snowflakes.
"Sister, let me smash it again, otherwise I'll be frozen outside." Yan Xiding was unconvinced, holding a snow ball in one hand, and rushed over with a shout.
"I don't care about you." Yan Xi'an put his two palms to his mouth and haha, and then pulled Lu Yu back to the house to make a fire.
Lu Yu didn't have any extra copper and iron pots at home to hold charcoal to make braziers, so he decided to build a fire pit around the hall. I went to the backyard and dug up a load of soil, built a square pit around the hall, took charcoal, and lit it in the pit.
The five of them sat around the fire and roasted the fire for a while, and Mrs. Yan said that she was going to make breakfast.
There is no fire in the kitchen now, it is very cold, Lu Yu asked Mrs. Yan to sit on the fire, saying that he is not afraid of the cold, just go and cook by himself.
Last time, he brought back a bag of corn flour from Lu Ming's house, Lu Yu originally planned to use these corn flour to make tortillas, but he thought that he had eaten tortillas for decades, although he had been eating rice recently, he didn't think about eating tortillas again, so he planned to use these corn flours to make something else.
After thinking about it, Lu Yu decided to make corn steamed buns, in fact, in addition to making corn tortillas and boiling corn paste, Lu Yu would not use corn to make other food.
Corn steamed bread and white flour steamed bread are similar, but with some flour, the flour sticks better and is tougher. Before making noodles, Lu Yu also added a few spoonfuls of sugar, and he liked to eat sweet steamed buns.
Halfway through the dough, add yeast, knead the dough until it is glossy, handy, and potty, and then wait for it to rise.
Fermentation is a slow job, and Lu Yu was worried that the Yan family would be hungry, so he used a little means to ripen the dough. Then knead the dough into the shape of steamed buns, and then put it in a steamer to steam.
Although Lu Yu was quick with his hands and feet, and used some small means, it still took more than half an hour to wait for the steamed buns to be steamed. Yan Xi'an came to the kitchen and urged Lu Yu several times, saying that they were all about to be hungry.
Of course, when urging Lu Yu, Yan Xi'an inevitably had to attack him.
Lu Yu couldn't help but think about it, why did this girl become a little female hooligan?
Although the cornmeal steamed bun is Lu Yu's first time cooking, the taste is not bad, sweet and glutinous. Lu Yu didn't stir-fry or cook soup, mainly because he didn't have time. If there is a plate of pickles or something, then the steamed buns will taste even better.
After breakfast, Yan Xi'an and his sister and brother added a piece of clothing, and pulled Lu Yu to go out for a snowball fight. Mrs. Yan sat by the brazier, making boots and hats out of crocodile skin.
Leather hats are easy to make, but making leather boots is very complicated, and there are many tools to be used. Pokes, nails, awls, pliers, these things, Lu Yu didn't have anything at home, he went to the village to borrow a few to find all of them.
Yan Xi'an and his sister and brother were laughing and playing in the snow outside, while Yan Jibai and his wife sat around the fire, sewing hats and making shoes, and talking. The sky outside the house is high and snowy, and the inside of the house is as warm as spring, Lu Yu looked at this scene, and suddenly felt very peaceful, warm inside and out, very comfortable.
The sister and brother played outside the house for a while, and the cold was a little uncomfortable, so they came back and roasted the fire for a while, and then pulled Lu Yu out to play. Lu Yu said that he would not have a snowball fight, and he would go to the backyard to build a snowman together.
Hearing Lu Yu's proposal to build a snowman, the sister and brother were surprised and delighted, and asked how to build a snowman.
In fact, Lu Yu had only heard of it, and he hadn't really built a snowman, but he knew how to build it, so the sisters and brothers pulled their father and called their mother again, and went to the backyard together.
Although the sun was shining brightly, the weather was not much warmer, and the thick snow did not melt in the slightest.
Lu Yu rolled a big snowball, Yan Xiding rolled a small snowball, and then piled the small snowball on the big snowball, and the outline of a snowman was formed.
Then use stones, tiles and carrots to fill up the facial features of the snowman, and then pinch the two stubby upper limbs, and the snowman is ready. Yan Xi'an said that the snowman was too ugly, and it looked like Xiding.
After the snowman was built, the five of them felt little interested and returned to the house. Today, because of the snow, Lao Gao didn't send his son over to study.
After being idle for a while, Yan Xiding felt a little bored again and said that he wanted to go out to play.
But the snow covers the world outside, and there is nothing to play besides snowball fights and building snowmen.
Yan Xi'an suddenly said, "Uncle, I want to go skiing." ”
"What do you mean by skiing?"
"It's just sitting on a plank and sliding on the snow. That's what my dad said. ”
Lu Yu said, "Is this okay?" Then I'll go find some planks. "Lu Yu's family has stored a lot of wood, and the last time the dragon crocodile smashed the gate, it was made up by taking some wooden planks for nothing.
Yan Jibai told Lu Yu: "Skis are not a flat plank, the front end needs to be warped, so that when the snow slides, it will not sink into the snow." ”
Lu Yu scratched his head, the plank is easy to find, but it is difficult to find the plank with warped at the front. Lu Yu decided to find a wooden board and bend it himself.
Finally turned out a few wooden planks with a slight curvature in the front, Lu Yu put them on the fire and roasted them a little, and then broke them hard, and the planks were really bent by him. Of course, Lu Yu added a little dark energy to his hands, otherwise there was no way to bend this dry plank.
After the "skateboard" was done, the sister and brother held a piece and put it on the snow outside the house, shouting that Lu Yu pulled them to skate. In fact, Lu Yu himself also wanted to try it out.
The sister and brother each stood on a wooden plank, and Lu Yu led the two with two cloth belts and slowly slid forward. Yan Xi kept urging Lu Yu to run faster.
Lu Yu didn't dare to run too fast, there was nothing on the handmade skateboard that could be grabbed by the two, and if the two of them ran too fast, the two of them would easily fall down.
Slowly sliding from the village to the outside of the village, Yan Xiding has always been addicted, and wants Lu Yu to run faster. Lu Yushen stepped on the thick snow with one shallow foot and one foot and said as he ran: "You kid, you have to make a little bit of an inch." ”
Yan Xiding grinned, Yan Xixin hurt Lu Yu with peace of mind, and scolded: "Xiding, why don't you come down and pull us." ”
"I can't pull it." Yan Xiding said: "Uncle Da Yu, you don't want people to pull it yourself, can you slide and move?" ”
Lu Yu said: "It should be possible." ”
"Then I'll come down, Uncle Da Yu, you slide quickly and I'll take a look." Yan Xiding jumped off the plank, and the snow immediately reached his knees.
Lu Yu stood on the skateboard, the skateboard didn't sink at all, he lifted Yan Xiding on the skateboard again, and said, "Xiding, you hold on to me, I'll take you to skate together." ”
Skiing requires ski poles, but where does Lu Yu have this thing, and he doesn't prepare a wooden stick or anything.
Let Yan Xiding stand firm and hold on to himself, Lu Yu launched a dark force under his feet, and the wooden board really carried the two of them forward and slowly slid forward.
"Wow!" Yan Xiding exclaimed, and urged Lu Yu to speed up.
But at this time, Yan Xi'an was not happy, and she shouted from behind: "You are not allowed to leave me, I will also go up." ”
A plank is not big enough that if all three people stand on it, the plank will sink into the snow. Lu Yu stopped, put the two planks together, he stepped on one with one foot, and asked the siblings to stand facing him one after the other, so that they could hold on to themselves, and they also stepped on the two planks with two feet.
The three of them stood on the two planks, and Lu Yu tried his best to reduce his weight to the lightest, and the planks only sank slightly, and did not sink into the snow.
"Hurry up, it's time to go." Lu Yu was once again full of energy, and the two planks drove out at the same time. Yan Xi'an stood in front of Lu Yu, Yan Xiding stood behind him, and the sister and brother grabbed Lu Yu's clothes tightly.
The skateboard drove faster and faster, and the siblings listened to the wind whistling in their ears, and the scenery on both sides moved forward and backward quickly, and they couldn't help but be nervous and excited.
drove too fast, the ears of the three people blown by the cold wind hurt, Yan Xiding wittily put his head on Lu Yu's back, and Yan Xi'an buried his head in Lu Yu's chest more wittily.
Lu Yu's heart moved, and he reached out and gently touched Yan Xi'an's head. Yan Xi'an had long hair and combed a tassel bun, her hair was black and slippery, and when she touched it lightly, Lu Yu felt that her fingers seemed to be slippery.
Yan Xi'an suddenly raised her head, looked at Lu Yu with a smile, her big round eyes flickered, and she said softly, "Uncle, what are you doing?" ”
Lu Yu's increasingly tender face turned red, and Yan Xi'an sneered again when he saw that he looked cramped.
Heaven and earth are everywhere white, Lu Yu stepped on two wooden planks, carrying the sister and brother in the snow, and before he knew it, he had arrived in Dunlin Town. When he arrived in the town, Lu Yu thought that it would be better to simply go to Lu Ming's house to have a look.
In the courtyard of Lu Ming's house, the snow was so thick that it almost became a snow pond, and there was no way to even open the courtyard door. Lu Yu finally carried the sister and brother into Zhang's house, and saw Lu Ming's family around the brazier again.
Lu Ming was very surprised and asked why his brother came over at this time.
"Come and have a look." Lu Yu looked at the not very strong flames in the brazier and asked Lu Ming, "Is there no firewood at home?" ”
"It's not much, I'm going to go up the mountain to chop wood when the snow melts."
Lu Yu nodded, thinking, "The weather is so cold, when will this snow melt?" He decided to brave the snow tomorrow to go up the mountain and chop more firewood to burn charcoal, which would certainly not be enough at home for this winter.
After a fire at Lu Ming's house, Lu Yu left with his sister and brother again. All the way back to Yangshan Village, it was already noon.
Mrs. Yan made lunch, and after eating, Lu Yu carried a shovel to the backyard to clear the charcoal cellar that had not been used for nearly a year.
The old charcoal slag in the charcoal cellar was cleared out, and the smoke hole above the cellar was cleared.
The sunny sky suddenly became cloudy again, and the sun hid behind layers of dark clouds.
After a while, snow fell in the sky again.
When Yan Xi'an and his sister and brother saw that it was snowing heavily, they were all overjoyed, and they rushed out of the house with a cry of joy and rushed into the snow again. Lu Yu shook his head, and suddenly felt that they were very good, carefree, and happy.