Chapter 340: Ice Lantern

Han Li walked in front, and a group of girls chatted about various topics in the back.

The dogs were on guard around everyone under the arrangement of Yamamoto's head dog, and the two lynx were still lying on their stomachs on the firewood stack.

However, as Han Li led everyone higher and higher, Hao Hongmin couldn't help but glance behind him.

This casual glance made Hao Hongmin feel a wave of regret in her heart, and she blamed herself for why she looked back so early.

Hou Yuhua walked the hardest because of her height, at first her roommate Zhang Shulan was pulling her, and finally Qi Zhaodi grabbed her other arm a little unbearable.

The environment is getting quieter and quieter, and the sound of sudden shoes stepping on the snow becomes clearer and clearer.

Just when someone couldn't help but speak, Han Li stopped and turned around and pointed in the direction he came.

"If you look back at where we live now, it's beautiful, it's like a dream world."

Everyone followed Han Li's fingers and looked back, and they saw that Shanghe Village was very beautiful at this time.

Everyone rubbed their eyes lightly, and they looked at the village in disbelief, was it really a place they hated and wanted to flee from all the time?

At this time, they stood on a high place, and the originally sparse courtyard seemed to become compact.

These houses are set off by the lights, as if white clouds from the sky are falling into this world.

The original unsightly house is extremely cute under the action of snow and wind, and now it has become fat under the hazy light.

Looking at the rooftops of the mountain, the outside of the house, and the walls of the courtyard are covered with snow, and the red lanterns are becoming more and more red.

The orange glow of the electric lights in the house shines through the windows, giving it a very warm feeling.

When the electric lamp and lantern pole in the house and the red lantern at the door are combined, it glows with a soft golden light, and the courtyard walls and fences seem to be inlaid with gold.

When the wind blows, you can occasionally see the smoke in the chimney swirling around under the light, like a child playing hide and seek.

The white and immaculate snow of the houses with lanterns hanging at the doors of the houses is endlessly transformed under the reflection of the red lanterns, and it feels as if it is covered with a layer of hazy colors, making people feel as if they are in front of them as if they are in front of an unreal fairy tale world.

"Is this really Shanghe Village?"

"It's so beautiful."

"Unbelievable, really unbelievable."

"It's so pretty."

"I'm dreaming like I'm dreaming now, it's much more beautiful than the books."

"Brother Li, how did you come up with the idea to watch it from here, it's so beautiful."

"No way, who let me have a pair of eyes that are good at finding beauty."

"It would be nice to have a color camera at this time, so we can keep this beautiful scene."

"There will be a day."

No matter how good the scenery is, everyone will have to go back here after a while, because it is too cold here.

When they came back this time, everyone looked at the original house and felt that they didn't seem to be so unbearable, and even the lights in the house seemed to have turned into warm colors, which made them feel a lot closer to each other.

At this time, many children in the village were playing on the street with homemade small red lanterns, and their lanterns were made of wicker, and there were cans and bottles pasted with a layer of red paper on the outside, and some of the small lanterns were actually made of ice.

However, everyone has been blowing cold wind on the mountain for a while, and now they just want to go home and warm up.

What made Han Li feel a little reluctant was that He Mi and the others were going back to their courtyard today, which made him a little reluctant to taste the difference, but the days ahead were still long, and he had time to slowly understand.

And it seems to be good to sneak, after all, the old saying is that a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as stealing.

I didn't sleep well last night, and today I was busy for another day, so everyone washed up on the kang very early in the evening.

The next day, Han Li returned to his previous state of life.

Since they don't have to open the door too early during the Chinese New Year, their family has added some morning exercises.

Han Li only needed to pull one person to start exercising first, and the other would quickly follow.

If there is no ploughing in spring, there is nothing to hope for in autumn, and if you can't afford it, there is nothing to do in the sun.

To put it simply, the plan of the year lies in the spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning.

Han Li thought that these words really made sense, and after he got up today, his whole person was refreshed, and even after he got into the courtyard, he felt very powerful when he started to pull his fists.

From the first day to the fifth day of the first lunar month, people go out to visit relatives and friends, and the second day of the first month is the day when their married daughters return to visit relatives.

But they are going back to the door in this case, but the dumplings on the first day of the new year and the second noodles on the first day still have to be arranged.

However, according to local customs, this second year of junior high school is a lot of noodles.

Today's noodles are made into dumpling noodles on the first day of the new year to roll noodles, and after this noodles are cooked, they are soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup noodles.

The noodles under Yun Yingying's hands are cut very evenly, and the fried sauce marinade fried by Yun Jingjing is very tempting.

Maybe it's because of the morning exercise, the three of them ate a lot, Yun Yingying said while eating.

"Brother Li, wait a minute, we're going to go to Sister Hongmin and show them off, I heard that the commune will be very lively today, we want to go over and have a look."

Playing New Year, February, and March, there will definitely be a lot of excitement these days, and Han Li agreed without even thinking about it.

"If you want to go, we can go, but it's very cold this day, so you must bring all your clothes, hats and scarves."

While they were talking, Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying came over with Meng Zaihong.

"You guys ate breakfast late enough today, Sister Yun, hurry up and finish eating, let's go to the commune to see what's going on."

"You sit down first, and we'll be done eating here in a minute."

"Is it just a few of you?"

"No, we were the first to come to your house, Sister Hongmin, you sit down and rest, I'll go see how the others are preparing?"

After eating, when Han Li sent them to the door, he found that all the female intellectuals in Shanghe Village had been dispatched.

This made Han Li's idea of taking the opportunity to go to He Mi to communicate his feelings was frustrated, he felt that he had miscalculated a little, if he had known that they were going out to play today, he should have spoken to He Mi, but now he could only watch a group of female intellectuals giggling towards the distance.

When Han Li returned home, he first went to check the degree of precipitation of the ointment and found that it would take some time before he could proceed to the next step.

Han Li couldn't read the book as he sat at his desk today, he thought of the lanterns that the children were carrying when he came back last night, especially the light emitted by the small lanterns that were frozen into them was particularly dazzling.

Han Li could have used the decomposition to directly get the ice lamps he wanted, but those were too smooth and a little eye-catching.

So Han Li went to the courtyard and took out iron buckets, basins, enamel cups, cans and bottles and other utensils and began to fill them with water.

And put a little red ink in the water, and all of this water is dyed red.

If you freeze it outside for a while, it will become an ice lump, but you can't let them freeze and freeze through, you only need a layer on the periphery to freeze it, and then you can polish and trim it a little, and they will become beautiful ice lamps of different sizes.

At that time, the small ice lantern can be tied with a rope for the wife to carry out to play, and the slightly larger one can be placed in all corners of the yard, and it will be very beautiful after being lit at night.

After Han Li froze all the utensils in his house, he took out the key to He Mi's house and went over there to make ice lanterns.

Han Li waited for the freezing process to pass the time by reading a book, and more than four hours had passed in the blink of an eye.

There are a lot of ice lanterns placed in the corners of Han Li's house and He Mi's house, and due to the limitations of materials, there are only two colors: red and transparent.

The candles that Han Li had obtained in the Forty-Nine City were now also useful, and all of his ice lamps were thrown into the candles, and some of the candles were kept in He Mi's house for backup.

After doing all this, Han Li sat back at the table and picked up the teacup and drank it slowly.

It didn't take long for the sound of the group of female intellectuals chirping outside.

The others almost went back to their respective homes, and the Yun sisters brought He Mi, Qi Zhaodi and Hou Yuhua to their homes.

At first, they didn't really notice the ice lamp in the courtyard, but they found it in the doorway when Yun Jingjing ran to the toilet.

"Is this an ice lantern?"

"Ice lanterns?"

"Really, there are a lot of ice lanterns in the yard."

"This must have been made by Brother Li at home today."

"It would be beautiful if you ordered it all at night."

While they were talking as they looked at the ice lanterns in the courtyard, Han Li walked out of the house.

"When I come back from this cold day, hurry back to the house to warm up on the kang, and it's not too late to see this ice lamp when it's lit at night."

"Brother Li, did you do this today?"

"Yes, it's very simple to do this, just look at the water and don't let it freeze, isn't our house the key to the Mi family, I felt very fun at the time, and froze their buckets into ice lamps, and made several Xiaoice lamps that can be carried, you can carry them out to play together at night."

He Mi looked at Han Li and smiled without speaking, while Hou Yuhua asked a little uncertainly.

"Brother Han, do you really have one of me?"

"Well, I've made several of them, and everyone has pretty much a share."

With new things, everyone is naturally looking forward to getting dark soon, and everyone will gather again after dinner.

Each person carried a red ice cube in his hand to make a sunken Xiaoice lamp, and lit candles in it to play with the children on the street.

But even if there is a sense of freshness, in the end, a little older is not as good as a child's frost resistance, and there is no tireless excitement of children, so everyone played for a while and then dispersed.

After returning home, Han Li went out to walk the dog, he wanted to see if he could find a chance to communicate with He Mi alone.

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