Regardless of whether Yuan'er is coaxing me to be happy or not, the touch in my heart is real. When the smoke had cleared, I asked the two children to follow me into the stove and taught them how to light a fire, and warned them that they should never play with the fire again without the presence of an adult. It's just that the smoke spreads over the house because the fire can't be lit, but what if the fire really burns the house? What if the two boys are injured? Before the two boys have absolute capacity to act, I firmly resist them playing with fire.

Next, the three of us mother and son have been nesting in the stove room, dividing labor and cooperating, chatting, kneading dough, and rolling dumpling skins. When Ah Ping walked in the door, he saw the white flour on our faces, and he was stunned at first, and then asked us with a smile what we were doing.

I didn't bother to explain to him, I just dragged people over as assistants, and it was naturally up to him to understand what we were doing.

It is rare for a family to get together in a simple stove room, and Yuan'er and Xiaoyue'er were assigned tasks by me, one is to knead the dough and the other is to roll the skin. It doesn't hurt if the dumpling skin is rolled thin, anyway, it is poured with water and boiled to eat by the father of the children. When Ah Ping came, he was in charge of lighting the fire in the stove, because I also made a basket of pastries and vegetable stuffed buns and steamed them on the pot.

It was busy until the evening, the steamer on the pot was steaming, and the dumplings here were almost wrapped. I called Ah Ping to come out and get out of the steamer, this kind of physical work is of course to let the man do it, but I was afraid that he would burn himself, so I found thick gloves and wrapped my hands with wet towels. The two children were brought to a safe place and waited, and when Ah Ping lifted the steamer from the pot, the heat rushed up from the bottom, and Yuan'er and Xiaoyue'er opened their mouths in shock.

After Ah Ping put the steamer in the designated place, he lifted the lid of the pot, and another burst of hot mist rushed out, and suddenly the entire stove room was shrouded in white mist, and Ah Ping was almost unable to see his figure.

Yuan'er's voice came from the side: "Little Moon, let's go to your Moon Palace, you quickly find out if there is Chang'e." ”

I have a black line, I don't know if it is Yun Gu or Xiaoxiao told him a mythical story, saying that there is a palace on the moon, and the palace is full of white mist fairy energy, and there is a fairy Chang'e living in it, this fairy raises a jade rabbit.

Then Yue'er's alias was Little Moon, so the two children were particularly fascinated by this Chang'e girl.

Of course, Chang'e can't be found, and Chinese New Year's Eve is not Chang'e's field, but the two silly boys had a lot of fun, shuttling in the fog, and finally Yuan'er hugged people and shouted: "Little moon is coming, I'll catch Chang'e for you." ”

I just thought I had caught Ah Ping, but I didn't expect Ah Ping's voice to suddenly come from the side: "Why do you want to come to me here?" ”

"Childe, General Li is back."

It's Yan Qi! Thinking about it, Yan Qi would dare to break in at will without notification. Yuan'er immediately recognized this voice when she heard it, and heard him say in the white mist: "Little Moon, it's over, Chang'e was scared away by Uncle Yan." ”

I couldn't help but smile and called them over, leaving space for Ah Ping and Yan Qi to talk about business. Pick up the dyed red that was boiled before, give Yuan'er and Yue'er a chopstick each, and ask them to go and put red on the pastries and buns.

This is one of the things I remember about the Chinese New Year, and it also goes back to when I was a child, helping my mother make dumplings. This is a folk tradition, and a little red means that this year is prosperous, and there can be great luck in the coming year.

Originally, I only needed to take the tip of the chopsticks and order a small circle on the pastry, Yue'er did it very seriously according to my instructions, but Yuan'er was a wild pie, and it was sprinkled directly, and some pastries were directly covered with a piece of pink. I nodded his head angrily and said, "You will be responsible for eating this piece later." Yuan'er thief smiled: "I love to eat steamed buns, and pastries are given to Xiaoyue." Xiao Yue'er listened to it but smirked and admitted: "Yes, A-Niang, I love pastries." ”

I was also speechless, Xiao Yue'er was eaten to death by his brother.

There was a sound of footsteps behind me, and I looked around at the area that had almost dispersed, and I didn't see Yan Qi's figure, so I raised my eyebrows and asked, "Is there something?" He shook his head, "It's okay, Li Jinglong is injured and will go back to Beijing to recuperate first." ”

Li Jinglong was the commander of the Southern Army, but now he has returned to Beijing due to injury, I am afraid that the war has entered the white heat and the Southern Army is in decline. Since Ah Ping's tone is not to talk about much, I will no longer ask, and I don't want to disturb those worries from the outside world on such a night, so I changed the topic: "You can prepare to cook dumplings, I am afraid that the water in the outer pot will not be boiled before, I will add fire to you to make dumplings?" ”

Ah Ping shrugged, "As long as you're not afraid that I'll rot the dumplings." ”

I pursed the corners of my lips and smiled, "If it's cooked, it's all yours." ”

When the dumplings came out of the pot, some of them did break because the skin was too thin, so the filling of the vegetables and meat fell into the bowl, and I watched him put almost all the dumplings that were not so good into a large bowl and put the good ones into a small bowl.

Looking at this detail silently, I suddenly found that Ah Ping had become a father, and he would unconsciously leave the good ones to his children and the bad ones to himself. It seems to be a very common thing for a family to sit around the table and eat dumplings, but I think it's very good, it is difficult to have the taste of home in the palace, and it is also because it can only be experienced in this environment, and the most important thing is to take two children to experience this ordinary and simple life together.

The dumplings made by myself are the most fragrant, not to mention that Yuan'er is big, even Xiao Yue'er doesn't need me to feed it, and is eating it alone with a spoon. When I took a bite into the dumplings, I was stunned, why are there impurities in the filling? When he spit out the foreign object on the table, it turned out to be a white porcelain flower. Before I could look up and ask, I heard Yuan'er and Xiao Yue'er cheering: "It's A-Niang who has eaten it, it's A-Niang who has eaten it." ”

I was a little confused and didn't understand what was going on.

I saw Ah Ping pick up the golden moon from the table, and the corners of his mouth hooked an arc: "This set of acting skills is really clumsy, it doesn't have the demeanor of my father back then, if it weren't for my father to assist, you two can hide it from your aunt?" ”

Yuan'er gave his father a thumbs up without hesitation: "It's still my father's power, so that A-Niang ate the orchid without noticing." Xiao Yue'er followed suit: "My father is the most powerful." ”

I couldn't laugh or cry, and suddenly realized that their father and son had set up a game for me, so that I could eat this white orchid in the dumplings that everyone made by themselves. But what is the significance of this?

Xiao Yue'er couldn't hide it and said it first: "Auntie, my brother said that this flower is a lucky flower, and whoever eats it will have good luck that year." Yuan'er hated the iron and tapped Xia Yue'er's head and said, "It's not me who said it, it's a legend." In short, this flower can only be eaten by A-Niang, otherwise the father ......"

"Yuan'er, you can take Yue'er to the side to play." Ah Ping cut off Yuan'er's words lightly and sent the person away. By the time the two children stepped aside to make pastries and buns to eat, Ah Ping had already wiped the white orchid with a cloth towel and handed it to me.

I took my hand and rubbed it lightly on my fingertips and asked, "What is this for?" ”

"It's for you."

"Is there any special significance?" I won't take it seriously as the two children said that they are lucky, it's a bit cliché, but I love clichés, I will be surprised, there are surprises, and they are designed by him and the children.

He said: "When I saw it in a pile of tributes, I immediately remembered you, saying that it was carved from a special Buddha stone in Tianzhu. ”

"Why did you give it to me in this way?" It's an old husband and wife, won't you order something if you want to give me something?

"You open the flower and look at it."

Hey? Is there something else going on within? I looked closely, and found that there was indeed an imperceptible gap in the middle of the orchid, and gently broke the flower and opened it in half, and my eyes lit up, and I looked at the angular round stone in amazement, is this a diamond?

"Doesn't that feel chic? I'll make a hole in that and I'll put a rope on it for you later. ”

It's very chic, but I doubt he knows if the cobblestone here is a diamond, and it's an extremely rare blue diamond. Diamonds may not be well known in this era, but the craftsmanship is exquisite, and the blue diamond is the size of five carats, and it is fixed to the bottom of a white orchid, like a blooming orchid with a blue bud hidden in it.

I didn't care much about cherishing jewelry, but I fell in love with this orchid at first sight, and when I heard him say that he wanted to wear it with a rope, I immediately urged and asked, "What about the rope?" Wear it for me now. ”

He actually took out a transparent thread from his sleeve, not the kind of cloth rope but similar to a fishing line, and it was effortless to pass through the hole, only to see that his fingers were flexibly knotted, and when it was unfolded, it was also in the shape of an orchid.

I was really surprised: "How long have you been practicing?" ”

"Where do you need to practice? Just take a look at it. ”

I didn't feel awkward when he said this proudly, and motioned for him to put it on for me. There is a person who treats himself as gentle as a princess, and I am afraid that it is the wish of every woman. The white orchid hung cool around my neck, and it matched the pearl chain I was wearing.