Chinese New Year's Eve, go home on vacation.

Xu San suddenly had a feeling of a civil servant.

After all, it is a Chinese person, although it is at a different time, but this root will not change.

I returned to Ping'an City earlier than usual, and when I looked up, Ping'an City was still so lifeless, lifeless, and there was no New Year's atmosphere at all.

Don't think about firecrackers, the sound of firecrackers can only be heard in the countryside far from the towns during this period.

Walking into the county seat, there are no pedestrians on the streets, and it is even more deserted than the lockdown some time ago.

Only the new Spring Festival couplets made Xu San feel a hint of the atmosphere of the New Year.

Locked, opened the door, and inadvertently turned back, only to find that the door was the same as his own, and there were no Spring Festival couplets.

He doesn't remember who lives at the door, but he still remembers that their family used to post Spring Festival couplets last year.

Looking up into the depths, there were no lights, no cooking smoke, and it was obvious that there was no one left in the house.

With the flames of war raging, who can guarantee that they will see the sun tomorrow.

Pushing open the gate, it is still the familiar shadow wall, and after turning around, there is the familiar yard and the vegetable greenhouse.

When the curtain was opened, a warm current came to the surface, and there were already sprouts of vegetables on the ground.

Squatting down, he grabbed a handful of soft dirt and touched the tender green shoots again.

Xu San didn't know what kind of vegetables these sprouts were, but he could feel the thin vitality of these sprouts.

Before leaving, he had told Ma Cuilan about the general usage of this greenhouse, but he didn't expect her to really grow vegetables in this greenhouse.

Raise your hand and touch the flue, it's a bit hot.

turned around and walked out of the greenhouse, looking at the wall of his house, the ladder was still lying there, echoing the ladder of Ma Cuilan's house was also lying there.

The yard is still so cold, but much cleaner than the last time I came back.

The quilt on the kang in the bedroom has been folded and placed on the kang.

It was still very cold in the room, but at this moment, Xu San felt a trace of warmth in his heart.

Boiling the kang, boiling water, and cleaning the dust on his body, Xu San lay on the bed and fell asleep.

A burst of heat hit, and Xu San turned over and sat up.

It was already completely dark.

What time is it?

Touching the darkness, he lit a kerosene lamp, poured a glass of water, and poured it down in one go.

Much more comfortable!

I put on my clothes, went to the yard, climbed the ladder up the wall, and climbed up the roof along the wall.

Standing on the rooftop, looking out at Heian Castle.

At this time, Ping'an City seemed to have regained some vitality, although there were no lights, but most of the people also turned on the lights.

It's rare, the devil didn't care about this today.

After watching for a while, the little girl Xu Dongmei came out of the house, tightened her clothes and ran to the ladder.

She expertly climbed the ladder and prepared to climb over the wall.

"Little plum!" Xu San shouted softly.

The little girl looked around, looking for the source of the voice, saw the black shadow, instinctively frightened, and shrank back: "Is it Uncle Xu?" ”

"It's me." Xu San agreed.

"Did my mother let me see you back?" As the little girl spoke, she stepped over the wall again and crawled towards Xu San along the wall.

The little girl's movements are very skillful, and she obviously doesn't do much in normal times.

Soon she climbed to Xu San's side, "Uncle, what are you doing on the roof?" ”

"I'm looking at Ping'an City!"

"What's so good about Ping'an City?"

"Today's peace is different from usual, because today is the New Year."

"Then I'd like to see it too."

"Okay, uncle is carrying you, so that you can see far."

"Oh, that's great." The little girl cheered and wanted to jump up to celebrate, but was stopped by Xu Sanyi.

What are you kidding, this roof is slippery, but you can't help but toss like this.

The little girl was very light, and it didn't take much effort for Xu San to put it on her shoulder.

Standing up gently, he carefully walked to the top of the roof: "Do you see clearly?" ”

"I saw it clearly, it's so beautiful, many people have lit up the lights, I didn't expect there to be so many people in our Ping'an City." The little girl excitedly grabbed Xu San's hair and said.

The little girl is only six years old, and Heian City has probably been occupied by devils since she can remember, so in her memory, she may not even know how to spend the year.

After watching it for a while, the little girl remembered her mother's instructions: "By the way, my mother said that I want to eat dumplings for the New Year today, just let me see if you are back?" If you come back, let me call you over for dumplings. ”

Gently put the little girl down, "Okay, Uncle will go over in a while." ”

The little girl sighed hot at her little hand: "You must come later." ”

Returning to the house, finding a set of relatively clean clothes, and carrying a bottle of wine, Xu San climbed over the wall and came to Ma Cuilan's house.

Pushing the door in, the room was steaming, and Ma Cuilan was sitting on the kang and wrapping dumplings.

Seeing Xu San enter the house, he greeted him, "Brother Xu, you are really back, come, drink saliva first." As he spoke, he poured Xu San a glass of water.

Xu San took a sip of the water cup and put it aside, "Sister-in-law is polite." ”

After washing his hands, Xu San was ready to come over to help: "What stuffing?" ”

"Cabbage pork!" The little girl replied excitedly on the side.

"And meat, today is a blessing!" Xu San smiled and wrapped a dumpling and threw it on the curtain.

The little girl looked at Xu Sanbao's dumplings, and couldn't help but want to come over and try them, but Ma Cuilan glared: "Next time you're wrapping." ”

"Let the kids pack a few, she just wants to have fun." Xu San pleaded with the little girl on the side.

"She doesn't pack it tightly, and she can't pinch it tightly! As soon as it is cooked, it leaks. Ma Cuilan said with a smile, and then continued to bow her head to catch the dough.

After wrapping a few more, Xu San asked, "Sister-in-law, have you packed the money?" ”

"Money? No...."Ma Cuilan smiled and shook her head, he remembered the custom of making money, but the money from the previous dynasty was no longer in circulation, and she didn't have it, and the current coins ......

Xu San took out a big ocean from his pocket, "Sister-in-law, catch up with a big skin." ”

Seeing Xu San take out the ocean, Ma Cuilan immediately stopped: "Ah, I can't help it, this ......"

"It's the New Year, ask for good luck."

Seeing that Ma Cuilan didn't move, Xu San picked up a piece of noodles by himself and drove the big dough, but his skills were not good, and the thickness of the dough was obviously uneven.

I soaked Dayang in shochu, picked up the dough, made some filling, and wrapped Dayang in it.

And just like that, a large dumpling was baked.

Ma Cuilan smiled, "Isn't this obvious at a glance?" ”

"Why did my uncle wrap such a big dumpling and put money in it?" The little girl asked curiously on the side.

"Because of the Chinese New Year! The purpose of making money is to ask for good luck, and to eat dumplings at the turn of the meridian period, if anyone eats this dumpling with money, who will hand in good luck. ”

After hearing this, the little girl stared at the large dumpling and kept her saliva: "That must be me." ”

The dumplings were quickly wrapped, Xu San looked at the dumplings and asked, "When are we going to cook them?" Is it now or will it be cooked again after a while? ”

Ma Cuilan looked at the little girl who was already a little sleepy, and hesitated a little.

Xu San smiled, "Does Xiaomeizi want to set off fireworks?" Although the devil won't let us set off firecrackers, it's okay to set off some fireworks in our yard. ”

"Fireworks? Firecracker? The little girl looked at Xu San with a blank eye, because she didn't know what these things were.

"It's fun, it's a must-have for the New Year!"

When the little girl heard that it was fun, her sleepiness immediately disappeared, "Okay, then I want to play, I want to play." ”

"Okay, uncle, I'll get it for you!"

Xu San didn't have any fireworks, his so-called fireworks were just a fuse exchanged with bullets and the county brigade, about more than 20 meters.

Take out half of it, and the other half he plans to put on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Cut into half-foot-long sections with scissors and tied to a wooden stick is a simple firework.

The fuse was lit, making a stabbing sound, flashing orange-yellow sparks, looking at the beating sparks, Xu San finally felt that he finally had a little bit of New Year's flavor.

"Haha, haha~" The little girl ran happily around the yard with a wooden stick, and Ma Cuilan followed closely behind, for fear that the bear child would set the house on fire.

The quality of the fuse rubbed by the county brigade is very good, the materials are uniform, the combustion is stable, and there is no broken head.

Make a new one, the little girl jumped to begg, Xu San put the wooden stick in her hand: "Is this okay for my mother?" ”

"Good!" The little girl picked up the wooden stick, turned around and handed it to Ma Cuilan: "Mother, let's play together." ”

Xu San lit the fuse in Ma Cuilan's hand, the spark beat brilliantly again, she was a little scared and tried to stay away, but in the end, under the encouragement of Xiaomeizi, she shook the fireworks in her hand.

The orange-yellow sparks, with the light, cut through the darkness and brought people the light of longing......

The fuse is only more than ten meters, even if you save a little play, you can't help the little girl toss.

Leaving a little, the three of them returned to the house.

"Sister-in-law, what kind of vegetables you planted in my greenhouse, I think they have sprouted." It's okay to be idle, so Xu San asked about his own greenhouse.

"Little cabbage and oily wheat cabbage, I just have seeds here, so I planted them first, these vegetables are ripe quickly, and they can be eaten in about a month, in the early spring of this year, the cucumbers and eggplants you said, even if you don't use your greenhouse, you can plant them in a month."

Xu San was thoughtful, she probably understood Ma Cuilan's idea, and she would be able to plant normally in a month, so that the greenhouse would not be wasted.

"I don't know how to grow vegetables, it's all up to my sister-in-law."

"Uncle, uncle, I planted those vegetables, and I watered them!" The little girl accosted her on the side and asked for credit for herself.

"Okay, Xiaomeizi is the most well-behaved, uncle will invite you to eat meat later, a large piece of meat."

"Really?"

"Really!"

In the following time, the two discussed how to rationally use the greenhouse to grow out-of-season vegetables.

Ma Cuilan doesn't know what scientific planting is, but he is still very clear about the growth cycle of vegetables.

As for Xu San, he is basically a farmer blind, and the only food he can provide is how to make it delicious.

Time passed quickly, and the bangzi of the third watch finally rang.

The little girl who had already begun to nod her head immediately came to her senses after hearing the sound of bangzi and began to help Ma Cuilan prepare dumplings.

"Sister-in-law, you are busy first, I'll go back and get two dishes, and I'll come over in a while."

"Have meat!" The little girl reminded Xu San on the side and told him not to forget his promise.

In the warehouse, Xu San selected two dishes in a bunch of "delicacies", squirrel Guiyu and Dongpo elbow, which are really hard dishes, but I don't know how the system is doing.

Product name: Squirrel Guiyu

Product category: food

Product function: Replenish stamina (can be strengthened)

Special Function: Makes the mood happy after consumption (can be strengthened)

Manufacturer: Red Sun Film and Television Props Co., Ltd

Note: Beware of fish bones

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Product name: Dongpo elbow

Product category: food

Product function: Replenish stamina (can be strengthened)

Special Function: Makes the mood happy after consumption (can be strengthened)

Manufacturer: Red Sun Film and Television Props Co., Ltd

Note: Eat elbows first

Without strengthening, Xu San directly took out the two big dishes, leaned on the wall, and called the little girl to take it.

The products produced by the system must be high-quality, just by looking and smelling, Xu San felt that these two dishes were definitely the level of a five-star chef.

The little girl carefully took the dish and put it on the table, and then couldn't help but stretch out her little hand and dip it in a little squirrel fish soup and put it in her mouth.

The delicious taste instantly explodes in the mouth, starting from the tip of the tongue to the base of the tongue, then to the throat, and then disappearing...... There is too little soup......

The little girl peeked at it, her mother was cooking dumplings, and Xu San was twisting her head to look at the applique on the window.

Seeing that no one noticed, the little girl stretched out three fingers this time, strained it, and then quickly put it in her mouth.

This time she finally experienced the full taste, and after the delicious soup flowed through the saliva into her stomach, it produced an indescribable deliciousness that was extremely pleasant!

The little girl closed her eyes and looked intoxicated, and she was in a happy state for half the day.

It wasn't until Ma Cuilan called her to serve dumplings that she reluctantly left the table.

The dumplings were brought to the table, but the little girl didn't even look at them, and stared at the squirrel Guiyu with her two eyes.

"Hey~" Ma Cuilan sighed softly, this troubled world is really bitter for children. She's grown so much, this is probably the first time she's eaten such a big fish, right?

The little girl looked at her mother and sighed, thinking, I was seen stealing food?

picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish meat for his mother, and put it in his mother's bowl, "Mother, hard work!" You eat first. ”

Ma Cuilan looked at the fish in the bowl, and then looked at the little girl: "Did you clip it to Uncle Xu?" ”

After listening to her mother's words, the little girl clamped another piece for Xu San, and then clamped a piece for herself, and then looked at him with blank eyes, as if to say, "Move the chopsticks, move the chopsticks!" ”

Ma Cuilan looked at the two dishes on the table, and estimated whether he made them, so she said, "Brother Xu, this has cost you money again, these two dishes cost a lot of money, right?" ”

"It's not expensive, I got these two dishes from the pier in the team, I don't need money! I'm just going to bring it back and warm it up. Well, it should be 12 ..... by now. It should be the time when the meridians intersect, and we have more than every year. With that, he ate the fish in the bowl.

There was almost no need to chew it, so Xu San swallowed it.

Xu San couldn't find an adjective, anyway, he felt that it was the most delicious fish he had ever eaten in his two lives.

Then, Ma Cuilan also moved the chopsticks, although it was delicious, but he was much more reserved than Xu San and the little girl.

Ma Cuilan felt that there were two wolves in front of her, a big wolf and a small wolf, two pairs of chopsticks flying up and down, and after a while, a fish was eaten only with a head and a tail, and a smooth fish bone.

If it weren't for the fish head being too ugly, it is estimated that the little girl would not even let go of the fish head.

The fish is finished, and there are elbows.

So the little girl's chopsticks stretched out towards her elbow.

"Smack"

The little girl's chopsticks were hit by her mother: "I haven't eaten dumplings yet, how can I not eat dumplings during the New Year?" ”

"Oh." The little girl took back her chopsticks, picked up a dumpling, then rubbed her round little belly, ate it in one bite, and swallowed it after only two bites.

Ma Cuilan saw the little girl's performance, so she pretended to be angry, "What's the matter, aren't the dumplings made by my mother bad?" ”

"It's delicious, it's delicious, the dumplings made by my mother are the best." The little girl blinked and said nonsense.

Xu San held back his pleasure and threw a piece of elbow skin into his mouth.

Eat elbows first.

This elbow skin has a different taste from fish, fat but not greasy, soft and smooth, just press with your tongue, and it will turn into sticky juice all over your mouth.

And after swallowing, there is a sense of fullness from the soul to the body.

The little girl ate another dumpling here, but her eyes were still fixed on the elbow on the table.

"If it's delicious, you can eat more!" Ma Cuilan said, and sandwiched the dumplings that were several sizes bigger into the little girl's bowl.

"Ahh The little girl had a bitter face, looking at the big dumplings in front of her, she now felt that if she ate this large dumpling, her little belly would not be able to fit her elbows.

"Didn't you say you were going to eat this dumpling with money?" Ma Cuilan still pretended to be angry and stared at the little girl.

The little girl didn't dare to resist, so she could only stare at the big dumpling viciously, and finally picked up the chopsticks.

The big dumpling was eaten, and the little girl sat down on the chair.

She really couldn't eat anymore, and now she could only sigh at her elbows.

glanced at Dayang on the table: "Uncle Xu, give you money." The little girl handed the money to Xu San.

"Whoever eats this money will be theirs." Xu San didn't ask for it.

"Then what do I want so much money for?" The little girl asked curiously, although her concept of money is very vague now, she knows that Dayang is very valuable, even if her mother is tired for a month, she can't earn so much.

"You can save it for a dowry."

"What is the dowry?"

"You'll find out when you're older."

In the end, except for the bite that Xu San started to eat, no one moved the chopsticks, Ma Cuilan and Xu San tacitly left the elbow to the little girl.

The well-fed little girl began to move on the ground, digest food, prepare for the New Year, and then go out to let go of the last fuse.

Ma Cuilan put down her chopsticks, stood up, and arched her hand: "Brother Xu, Happy New Year!" ”

Xu San also stood up, "Sister-in-law, Happy New Year!" ”

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Seeing her mother start to pay New Year's greetings, the little girl immediately followed her mother's instructions and swallowed her head: "Mother, Happy New Year!" Happy New Year Uncle Xu! ”

"Little Plum also has a good New Year!" Xu San smiled and took out a two-cent red envelope from his pocket and handed it over.