Volume 4 The Rising Star of the Imperial Capital 124 Anniversary 01
Time is approaching every day, and the streets of the imperial capital are gradually revealing a festive atmosphere. Fields, Glowstones, and the Mad Alchemist have all put up notices asking residents who need to purchase New Year's supplies to step up. Because of the decision of the three stores, the holiday will start three days before the New Year's celebration, and the holiday will continue until the whole week after the New Year's celebration. Therefore, it is best to buy something now, so as not to wait for the real time of the New Year's celebration, and when it comes to the holidays, it will be outdated.
This is the envy of the guys in the other stores in Zion. The three stores related to Xu Zheng, no matter which one, always have the best reputation, the most generous remuneration, and even dividends and the longest vacation.
Wanderers, adventurers, mercenaries, and merchants from afar are all rushing back, and the imperial capital is more lively than ever. At this time, Xu Zheng found that no matter in a different time and space, the Chinese New Year is always the same, full of liveliness, smiling faces everywhere, and a peaceful and joyful atmosphere everywhere.
Three days before the New Year's celebration, all three families had a holiday. Maika was back at home, just to hang out here every now and then. Camilla and Xiaochu couldn't go back, so they stayed in the imperial capital and waited for the New Year. The wood is still the one hundred and one expression, the demon girl has celebrated a large-scale human festival for the first time, and she is so excited that she is looking forward to the arrival of the New Year more than humans, and she yawns during the day and looks a little more energetic than usual. Havana also left for home a week ago, and as soon as this guy who Xu Zheng was a little afraid left, Xu Zheng was completely relieved and began to make fireworks and study the mysterious stone ring with all his energy. After this period of crazy scrambling, Xu Zheng rushed to make fireworks all over the room, and he planned to go crazy during the New Year.
After Aunt Lucina closed the shop, she only did two things, one was to marinate the wind chicken, and the other was to weave scarves. Everyone followed to help, and after a period of hectic results, the wind rooster hung a whole row under the edge of the house like a military parade. The scarf was knitted one after another, and the posture was watched. There is a momentum of one per person.
If there was no Xu Zheng, the New Year celebrations of the Ban Deduan family and the Samuel family would have passed as usual. This year, there is one more Xu Zheng, and there are too many changes in the annual celebration.
First of all, this kid is whimsical and says that he wants to make a mixed version of the New Year's celebration. Farewell to the old and welcome the new year, and there is also a leftover egg festival called mixed together.
Xu Zheng's restlessness, everyone has seen it, so they don't bother to pay attention to him and let him toss. A group of young people were very excited and tossed with Xu Zheng.
A group of people rushed to the outside of the city to cut down trees first, picking and picking and picking saplings that Xu Zheng thought were suitable for the leftover egg tree. Disappointed. But I was surprised to find that George 1 to 3, and York's green and green still look like Christmas trees. So the four tree people were entrusted with the important task, and as the otherworldly version of the leftover egg tree, the scenery was a handful.
The process of decorating a Christmas tree is especially interesting. No matter what trinket or gadget you like, you can hang it up. In just one afternoon, the four tree men were covered with miscellaneous things. Eighty percent of it comes from the Ogma girls. From a distance, the four tree people really taste like the Christmas tree, very gorgeous, very rich, very festive, huh...... It's also gaudy...... In short, overall, the colorful class is very good-looking.
They even wanted to carry a tree to the girls' salon. This frightened Xu Zheng, you know. The four tree people, except for the one raised by York, are all eccentric guys, and there is no guarantee that they will do any amazing things when they are bored. From the current experience, it is impossible to make them stay honestly for half an hour without moving, who knows if they will be able to withdraw and run around in the Ogma Academy as soon as they are happy?
This makes Xu Zheng very depressed sometimes, although he is called a tree man, and the common point with human beings is that there is a character in his name, and the others are completely different, why do he also contract ADHD? The appearance of the three tree people is obviously ADHD! Therefore, Xu Zheng resolutely refused.
In this way, they almost showed their feet, and the three tree men named after George had a strong sense of autonomy, and whenever they felt that the position of the jewelry hanging on their bodies by the girls was not to their liking, they would always quietly take advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention, and move it to a position that they were satisfied with. The furry bear hanging at the bottom of the tree ran to the top of the tree for no apparent reason, and anyone who encountered this kind of thing would be at a loss. Every time this kind of thing happened, Xu Zheng could only laugh dryly, saying that he put it himself, which caused the eyes of all the girls and once jumped to the most unpopular guy.
Then there are the rice balls.
How can you eat without dumplings, also known as New Year's Festivals? In particular, Xu Zheng, who has been lying in bed for more than 100 years, misses this thing very much. But Cheng'an didn't give birth to this, Dane favored Xu Zheng again, seeing that Xu Zheng was thinking tightly, he asked if he needed glutinous rice, so he deliberately sent a caravan to the overseas Western Continent, and brought back glutinous rice from there, and Xu Zheng was busy again.
First, the rice milk is ground and dried into glutinous rice ball powder for later use. I found sesame seeds, peanuts, lard, honey, and sand grains to grind and make fillings, and waited for the New Year to come and serve them to everyone to taste.
Then, the annual celebration really came.
According to custom, Comrade Mu Chu took the knife and slaughtered a whole pig, and Lucina and Carlo dismembered it with ease and served it on the table as a home-cooked meal. There are a lot of pigs, stewed, burned, boiled, fried, fried, steamed, boiled, and all kinds of dishes are made. Xu Zhengte likes the half-fat, half-lean pork diced and stewed with potatoes into a pureed soup. It is fragrant and strong in the mouth, and you can also tear the bread into pieces and dip it into pieces, which is really refreshing.
Samuel's family had a state banquet and did not eat with Xu Zheng at Lucina's house. Xu Zheng, the second prince, was quite incompetent, completely ignoring the state banquet, hiding in Lucina's house to eat bread and drink potato soup, watching a table of people laughing and laughing, he was smiling so much that he was grinning outside with white teeth, and he was so happy that he was all nonsense.
After dinner, it's still early, and the traditional project, the distribution of gifts, begins. Everyone gave gifts to each other, and Xu Zheng got a scarf woven by Lucina. The handmade small bow sent by the big and small classes is about the size of a palm, and it is so cute. Angel stole a small magic notebook from somewhere and gave it to Xu Zheng. A small warrior doll given by Ruki. The wildebeest cub given by Uncle Hughes. The mercenary badge given by Uncle Harris is claimed to be common to the whole continent, and in case of emergency, no matter which mercenary guild it is, it can be exchanged for some money for emergencies. Maika sent home-grown maltose, which was sweet and sticky, with a sour taste of poor workmanship, but it was really delicious. The new wine developed by Lao Bangjia sent by Xiao Bangjia, Xu Zheng tried it, and the taste was really bad. Camilla gave Xu Zheng a strange tooth, claiming that it was pulled out of his mouth when she fought with a demon when she was a child. She also dared to fight demons, and she also pulled out other people's teeth, it seems that the demon girl is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Camila asked Xu Zheng to carry this thing with him, which could increase the resistance of dark magic.
Of all the gifts, Quincy gave the most bizarre, a quenched dagger, with a blade like water ripples, glowing with the blue-green light of fireflies, which was not ordinary at first glance. The bad uncle laughed heartily and told Xu Zheng: Whoever provokes you, just stab him with this dagger, you don't have to use too much force, you can kill him if you cut a little oilskin...... Embarrassment. The most valuable thing is the wooden leopard-headed figure given by Xiao Chu, this wooden statue looks like it has been going for a long time, and it has been touched by people to shine with an oily luster. Xiao Chu told Xu Zheng that as long as he held this, he could pass through all the leopard tribes at any time, and he could ask for help unconditionally. The most touching gift came from Carlo, a simple wooden board on which a story was imprinted in the form of a brand, not very clever in technique, but the content of the expression was intuitive. There is a small figure in the painting, wrapped in animal skins, coming out of the woods. Outside the woods, there were five people, young and middle-aged, four men and one woman, two battles, two bows and one thief, who were concentrating on the little man who came out of the woods.
Xu Zheng looked at this painting, and his eyes suddenly turned red. The past is coming back to us bit by bit, and the events of the past life seem to have become very distant, but the encounter that came out of the woods is as clear as if it had just happened, like this imprinted woodblock painting.
The beginning of all good things is the encounter with the Lulu family. And the most memorable day is the day when we came out of the woods and met. The two encounters have created today's Xu Zheng and the current happy life. Why didn't Xu Zheng feel in a mood for a while, and he couldn't make a sound?
Suppressing his excitement, Xu Zheng laughed in a trembling voice: "It's a mistake, I didn't carry a big sword at that time." ”
"Really?" Carlo looked at it and said with a smile, "Your big sword is so tight that it was drawn straight up." Hehe, the things I used to do when I was a child, and now I paint them again, and the technique is worse than back then. ”
Xu Zheng squeezed it tightly and said excitedly: "I like it very much! There is no better gift than this." ”
Luki was immediately dissatisfied: "What do you mean? It means that I am not good? I saw that you liked those dolls so much, so I specially asked someone to make one for you." I don't know the hearts of good people!"
Xu Zheng hurriedly said: "I like it, I like it!"
"Really, I think this doll is chubby, a little silly, and cute. I ordered two, one for York, and one for you. It looks like York. ”
This girl is so nasty...... Xu Zheng and York both looked at her with black lines on their faces.
Lucina looked at Xu Zheng and said, "Xiao Zheng, where is your gift?"
"My?" Xu Zheng pretended to be dazed.
Lucina said, "Don't you know the tradition here? During the New Year's celebration, gifts are exchanged to each other, which represents blessings and prayers, and sends hope and happiness. Hey, hey, those rings and bracelets you gave before the New Year's celebration don't count. Didn't you forget?"
Xu Zheng was happy and said, "How can I forget it? My gift, don't take it now, and I'll surprise you at twelve o'clock at midnight." ”
Everyone looked at each other and came to this trick again......
Xu Zheng saw that everyone was glaring at him unhappily, and he didn't see the thick skin, and said with a smile: "It's still early, I'll teach you how to make dumplings." ”
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