The Chinese New Year is a big event, and the family should be neat and tidy.

When Su Zhan cleaned the room that belonged to the old man and his good brother, the two also arrived as promised, and pushed open the door of the Shen family in a hurry.

I haven't seen him for a while, and Cheng Daqian is obviously more proficient in the use of gold-based abilities, perhaps because the profession of dart master often has to deal with masters, and his ability has successfully broken through the second level in a short period of time, and the speed is like riding a rocket and rushing up.

However, the old man didn't dare to use it openly outside, so he used the excuse of "learning a good secret weapon" to let the blacksmith hit a few delicate knives with him, and from time to time he took them out to show off his hand and crossed the bright road in front of his brothers, which also led to the importance of his love knife that has never left his hand for decades to the second, which made the people in the dart game amazed.

The door of the Shen family's courtyard was knocked open, and as soon as the father and daughter looked at Cheng Xi, they noticed the difference in his waist.

"Daddy, you are"

Changed the style?

It's just a big old man with a small cloth bag pinned to his waist, which is a bit weird.

"My new knives are easy to use, aren't they?"

"Didn't you say that a manly man should use a big knife when he was old?"

It's only been more than ten days, and the big knife has fallen out of favor to the back line.

"You girl just can't be forgiving."

Cheng Daqian saw through the joke in her eyes, "Your father and my gold-based abilities can't be the same, thanks to these knives." ”

You don't dislike this thing, the girls chirp.

Cheng Xi nodded while curiously picking up a few knives that Cheng Daqian had touched, the knives were just a tiger's mouth long, the handle was small, the blade was extremely sharp, and it glowed with a cold light in the sun.

It's just a little familiar

"Dad, you won't name it Xiao Cheng Flying Knife, will you?"

"What Xiao Cheng Flying Knife - hey? It's weird, but if you really want to be famous, it has to be Lao Cheng Feidao! ”

Cheng Daqian's eyes lit up, "Girl, your proposal is good." ”

"Don't, I'll just say it casually, that's what you heard."

Cheng Xi didn't want to make the same style as Xiao Li's flying knife - if you want to do it, you have to make it more unique.

"Dad, how do you use this knife, let us see?"

"Look!"

Cheng Daqian waved his hand, and several knives on his waist flew out in an instant, flying out with an unstoppable momentum, and with a few clearly audible sounds of breaking the air in the air, they were steadily nailed to the wooden stakes a few meters away.

Penetrating.

"Wow!"

Everyone was amazed in unison, secretly thinking about how to use their abilities to defuse this thunderous blow.

"Dad, you're amazing!"

This trick is much more difficult to parry than it was more than half a month ago.

Not only was the speed of the sword fast just now, but the innate divine power of the Cheng family increased the strength to the maximum, and if it was placed in the last days, it was estimated that even the third-order gold system ability would be difficult to parry.

"That's, don't look at who Lao Tzu is, there are really few people who convince your father and me in the martial arts."

The martial arts of the entire Dayan River and Lake can make Cheng Daqian admire very few.

Cheng Xi looked at the wooden stake with only the handle of the knife left, and thought deeply.

Cheng Daqian was very proud when he saw his daughter's eyes adoring, and after showing off a flying knife stunt in front of people as usual, he turned back to find a sense of existence, and looked at the cold young man who entered the door and smiled vigorously.

"Fuguang Boy, what's your ability? Let's take a look at Uncle Cheng! ”

“.”

Fu-look confused-light slowly put a question mark on the door of his head.

Abilities?

That's something.

Why can't he understand?

And what's going on with the flying knife in Old Man Cheng's hand just now, why can't you feel the fluctuation of internal force?

"Ah, this, you don't know yet, do you?"

“.” What should he know?

Fuguang's face was puzzled, and the corners of his sister's slightly smiling mouth became even more confused.

He hadn't been back for more than a month, and it felt like years had passed, something must be wrong.

"Am I missing something?"

"Not really."

Cheng Daqian looked pityful, and even had a bit of a good show, "You can be busy this year~"

Although he likes to compete with others, this person can also be his own daughter or son-in-law, but he prefers to see how people take drugs to doubt their lives.

The rest of the people threw meaningful glances at him, and even Wangshu, who had always spoken little, did not fall.

"Brother, you may be busy this year."

Fuguang: "??? ”

Tell me clearly, what's going on?

No one in the Shen family answered his questions, after all, some things can only be more shocking from his own personal experience, so this year Yu Fuguang has not been peaceful at all.

When the family happily prepared the New Year's goods around the red-hot iron furnace, Fuguang drank the medicine bitterly with an ice cube face and felt the repeated torture of the world view and the three views.

Shattered, reshaped.

Shattered and reshaped.

When he finally awakened his ability and walked excitedly from the training room to the warm hall like spring, a large shelf of dumplings was wrapping the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and even Xu Lao and Cheng Daqian were covered with flour and were trying to shape the dumpling skin full of filling.

The two old men argued endlessly over who pinched the dumplings that looked good, Cheng Xi and Shen Xingqi talked and laughed, their sister-in-law's cold face was a little warmer, and Shen Xingluo, who was the head of the family, was silent but full of momentum to control the audience.

Fuguang: "."

Is this home no longer able to accommodate him?

Somewhat redundant.

"Coming?"

Shen Xingluo's hand didn't stop, he just raised his eyes and cast a glance, "What ability have you awakened?" ”

"Back to the master, it's the fire system."

Fuguang quickly came back to his senses, turned his hand to condense his ability, and a small golden-red flame burst out from the palm of his hand.

"What? Fire! ”

Cheng Daqian was so shocked that he almost threw away the half-pinched dumplings in his hand, "You kid has a face of ice cubes that can freeze people to death all day long, and it actually stimulates a fire-based ability?" ”

"Old man, it's indeed a fire-based ability, like a fake."

Fuguang twitched the corners of his mouth, his face was thin red.

He didn't know why he had awakened the fire ability, which was quite unexpected.

"Son-in-law, didn't you say that this ability has something to do with my own temperament?"

"Generally yes."

Shen Xingluo's eyes were also a little more surprised, and he looked Fuguang up and down, as if he knew him for the first time.

"Ability is actually a manifestation of the hidden factor in the body, and humans tend to be more prominent and talented in something because of what they are good at, and this aspect will be easier to activate when the ability is stimulated."

Therefore, Xu Lao stimulated the wood ability, Cheng Daqian stimulated the gold system, and the ice system inspired by Wangshu was more or less related to his own personality.

There are very few examples like Fuguang.

"Oops~"

Cheng Daqian believed, "I didn't expect that this kid Fuguang was just a little cold on the surface, but in fact, he was hot inside!" ”

If it weren't for today's episode, he would never have known.

Hearing this, everyone's eyes looking at him suddenly changed, and there was a bit of meaning in the joke.

Fuguang: "."

***

The New Year is approaching, and the capital is lively at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The hutong where the Shen family is located is connected to the most prosperous main street, and the family has experienced this liveliness firsthand, standing at the entrance of the alley, you can see the red lanterns hanging at the door of each shop, and in the evening, the candles are lit, and the firelight is connected into a line, lively and public.

Most of the people who can live in the hutong have small savings, the neighbors have also hung red lanterns, and the children have changed into brand new cotton clothes, jumping from one end of the hutong to the other, and their little faces are healthy pink due to exercise.

People come and go along the street shops, most of the guests are buying New Year's goods, from time to time a sedan chair passes by, and after a while, the noble girl of whose family walks down from above, the slender figure quickly disappears in the rouge shop, and the roadside vendors shout loudly as if they are louder.

"Sister-in-law, how is this yellow one?"

"It's pretty good, it should be perfect to make you a dress."

"Make one for my sister-in-law, too."

Shen Xingqi picked the color with great interest, planned the yellow one to his side, and selected a batch of dark gray cloth for Xu Lao at home, and Wang Shu silently paid for the payment in the back.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Cheng Xi took the two of them from the street all the way to the end of the street, and it took about a hundred taels to sweep cloth, firecrackers, pastries, and jewelry, and it was evening when they returned home.

The red lanterns hanging in front of the Shen family's small courtyard illuminated the way home, and the couplets just pasted on both sides of the wooden door were very festive.

The Shen family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was simple and hearty.

It's simple because in addition to a dozen plates of chubby dumplings on the table, there are a few green and refreshing side dishes, without any bells and whistles, and it looks very simple.

The reason why it is said to be hearty is because the dumpling filling has a lot of articles.

The vegetables in the small courtyard have been carefully cultivated by Shen Xingqi and Wangshu and are growing gratifyingly, and the wooden trough on the top is full of lettuce, spinach, oil wheat and other green vegetables, and the bottom layer is planted with a lot of leeks because it can contact enough soil.

The leaves of leeks are blue-green, wider and thicker than ordinary leeks, the false stems are very long, the color is white, the texture is soft and delicate, because it is cultivated by measures to avoid light, so the fiber content in the leeks is less, its taste is closer to the leek, and it is fragrant and tender after chopping and adding diced meat to wrap into dumplings.

Cheng Daqian has a heavy taste and loves this bite the most.

Cheng Xi prefers the modern taste of three fresh fillings, pork, shrimp, eggs mixed together, add an appropriate amount of seasoning and mix well, the taste is fresh and fragrant, very rich.

In addition, taking into account the rest of the Dayan natives at home, they also wrapped dumplings with cabbage and pork filling, which was highly praised by Xu Lao.

After a group of people took the genetic modification liquid and stimulated their abilities, the amount of food rose sharply, which is no longer comparable to ordinary people, and the amount that can be eaten with more than 20 dumplings for one person has soared directly to 50 bases, such as Cheng Daqian's stomach can even dry up to 70 in one go.

This also made Shen Xingqi, who was in charge of the kitchen, sigh, if it weren't for Su Zhan repeatedly telling her that the money at home was enough, she was afraid that she would have to take the embroidery out and find a shop to sell on consignment.

"It's time to eat!"

After a shout, Xu Lao took the lead to take the main position, and the rest of the people found a place to sit down.

The customs of the New Year in the Dayan Dynasty are very close to modern times, and you can eat dumplings after offering incense to the elderly on the New Year's Day.

Of course, before eating, it is inevitable to set off a firecracker and listen to the sound.

Cheng Daqian stood in the courtyard and hung a red firecracker on a tree, took a few steps back, and shouted to the side with full of energy:

"Brother Fuguang, it's up to you!"

With a wave of his right hand, a cluster of small flames flew towards the firecracker, instantly igniting a long print.

"Bang-bang!"

"Haha, this fire-based ability is really good!"

“.”

Brother Fuguang said he didn't want to speak.

Ever since he learned that he had awakened a fire-based ability, these people had made fun of him, and almost every word he said would bring the word fire, and he was embarrassed to find a crack in the ground to get into.

The sound of crackling firecrackers is not only the Shen family, as the sky gets darker and darker, other families in the alley also announce the opening of meals one after another, and the sound of firecrackers continues to sound for a long time before stopping.

Everyone looked at the sky, and the fireworks in the imperial city exploded in the sky, brilliant and colorful.

At this time, everyone in the Shen family had already eaten the dumplings that had just come out of the pot.

The appearance of the dumplings with leek stuffing is greenish, you can tell at a glance, the three fresh fillings are small, compared to the other two pocket-sized ones, the cabbage chop filling is the most normal, one bite is just right.

The dumplings with three kinds of fillings are all meat dishes, and they are just right with a few stir-fried seasonal vegetables.

It turns out that the Shen family's food is amazing, and most of the last hundreds of dumplings go into the stomachs of several people, if it were not for the custom of Chinese New Year's Eve rice every year, I am afraid that the last few in the small bowl would have to be solved.

"Sister-in-law, shall we play the leaf card?"

"Okay, bring two more paintings, and keep watch all night."

"Then I'll make a pot of tea."

After dinner, a few people sat in the living room around the iron stove to keep vigil together, and the sound of firecrackers outside rang out from time to time and never stopped, and I am afraid that few people wanted to sleep this night.

Xu Lao was idle, holding a book of medical skills in his hand, Cheng Daqian couldn't sit still, and pulled Fuguang to instill in him how to practice his abilities, and finally transferred from the living room to the training room.

Everyone has their own way of passing the time, 12 o'clock in the morning came soon, Cheng Xi also just finished the cards in her hand, she stretched her waist and moved her limbs.

"Isn't it time to set off firecrackers?"

"Leave it to Fumitsu."

Shen Xingluo answered, poured her a cup of tea to moisten her throat, "Are you sleepy?" ”

"It's okay, I've been in a lot of spirit after playing a few rounds of cards."

"I'll go to sleep after eating the dumplings, and wait."

“.” She's really not sleepy.

Isn't it just staying up late, and a modern soul can still lose in this regard?

Cheng Xi was soon slapped in the face.

As soon as the morning passed, the big tree in the courtyard of the Shen family was hung with firecrackers again, and after handing them over to Fuguang as usual, there was a crackling sound.

The courtyard was filled with a strong smell of gunsmoke, and the same firecrackers rang from the neighborhoods, mixed with the cheers of children.

"It's a new year!"

Even though Shen Xingqi is still a child, she can't help but sigh when she is happy to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, "I still remember that last year, when the heavy snow closed the village, there were few firecrackers in the village to celebrate, and it would be good to have a full meal." (End of chapter)