Chapter 696: Return to Ice City
After more than two days of the train rattling, Han Li once again stepped on the land of the Ice City, and when he got off the train, he was greeted by the cold wind and snowflakes flying in the sky.
Han Li tightened his scarf and walked out of the train station in the wind and snow, carrying the large bags and small bags prepared by his family.
It seems that the snow in Ice City has been falling for a few days, and the snowflakes that have fallen on the ground have been trampled on the ground, sitting on the bus to Garden Street, every time it starts and turns, it will slip and move sideways.
After Han Li got out of the car, he walked some distance before coming to the front of his courtyard, the couplets on both sides of the gate were very good, and there was not much snow at the door, these should be the fruits of Fu Weihong's labor.
Han Li took out the key to open the door and walked in, and after closing the door, he first put the large bags and small bags in his hand into the decomposition space.
The situation in the courtyard was similar, there was not much snow on the path, but the snow in the place was quite thick, but after Han Li walked along the way, all the snow and ice on the road disappeared without a trace, revealing those cyan stone slabs below.
The door of the two-story building in the middle of the courtyard is also pasted with couplets, and the windows are pasted with curtains, and there are also couplets on every window, even the balcony that protrudes a little outward.
Han Li originally thought that the yellow house in the green environment of summer and autumn would look good, but he didn't expect that in this white and cold season, the yellow house would actually give him a very warm feeling.
The doors and windows were red, green, and blue. The various colors of window flowers made Han Li's eyes feel much more comfortable, and he had the illusion of entering a garden full of Ling Han and Aoxue.
The first thing Han Li did when he opened the door was to light the fireplace and raise the temperature of the room, and then found tools to clean up the snow at the gate, and then went to the post and telecommunications office at the corner of the street to call Fu Weihong.
"Hey, who's you looking for?"
"Please help me find Comrade Fu Weihong."
"Wei Hong is looking for you."
"Hey, who's that?"
"It's me."
Han Li said something and Fu Weihong heard it, she was first overjoyed, and then thought of her cousin and said.
"My uncle and aunt have been working night shifts since the day before yesterday, so they handed over Xiao Weiyi to me during this time, and now she should finish practicing the violin at this time, and she is already on her way home with me."
"Then will you two go to Uncle Ling's house later, or go back to your house?"
"My uncle's side."
"I'll invite the two of you to eat together that night, it just so happens that I haven't seen that little girl for a long time, and you can save yourself from going back after eating, of course, if you don't want to go back after eating, we can live there."
Han Li's words made Fu Weihong's heart beat a lot faster, but she still said calmly.
"When I posted the couplet a few years ago, Xiao Weiyi still helped, and you should invite her to a meal, but it's snowing today to eat outside, right? After work, we bought good groceries. ”
"When you get off work, it's dark, it's freezing and snowing, you two just come over, and leave the food to me."
Han Li hung up the phone and walked out of the post and telecommunications office, and walked to the Dongfanghong shopping mall, which was the closest and most complete store to here, where he bought some red sausages, fresh pork liver, a few bottles of canned fruit, and finally bought some frozen pears and frozen persimmons before returning home.
When Han Li got home, another thin layer of snow had fallen in the courtyard, but it disappeared as he walked over, shaking off the snow from his body at the door.
At this time, the burning fireplace had already made the temperature in the room very good, and as soon as Han Li entered the door, he took off his thick coat, scarf, gloves, and hat.
I came to the kitchen with the things I had just bought from the mall, and brought the pork liver I bought this time, as well as the pork, beef, hairtail, and some mountain goods that I had just taken out of the decomposition space, and soaked them in the basin, and the other things were put on the bright side and ignored them, and it was Fu Weihong's sisters' business to turn these ingredients into food.
Han Li turned around and began to boil water, when the water boiled, he first made himself a cup of tea, and then poured the rest into the thermos, and then continued to boil the water, and after filling all the two thermoses, he boiled a pot of water and adjusted the damper of the stove, and he didn't care about it at all.
However, when Han Li left the kitchen, he took a small basket and a few plates from here, and when he came to the living room, he took out some Guoguang apples from the decomposition space that he had bought from the black market in Forty-Nine City.
In those plates were melon seeds, fruit hard candy, pine nuts, Iraqi dates, Cuban sugar cubes, and a little Sijiucheng pastry that Second Sister Han bought for him.
Iraqi dates: also known as dates and dates, they are one of the most important dried fruits in the tropics. It is the main food in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea desert, and China imported the most from Iraq during this period, so it is called Iraqi dates.
The Iraqi dates of this period are a lump of sticky together, and the appearance does not have the waxy skin of later generations, and it must be torn or cut when eating.
The upper-level leaders are worried that imported food will carry bacteria or viruses into our country, but the technology of this era can only be sterilized by high temperature.
Later, the technology was improved, and the imported Iraqi dates no longer need to be sterilized at high temperatures.
This makes Iraqi jujube look like a well-grained one, but it has an extra layer of waxy skin on the outside, and the taste is far less delicious than in the current era.
Because Iraqi dates have extremely high sugar content, they have played a great role in our country for a certain period of time, and it can be said that they have saved many people.
Later, China's products were gradually enriched, and there were some unreliable rumors in Shanghai, and the name Iraqi dates gradually withdrew from everyone's sight, but dates gradually entered everyone's sight.
Cuban sugar: This is the sugar imported from Cuba by China, it is a kind of crude sugar, which belongs to unrefined raw sugar, with low purity, many impurities, large moisture and light yellow color.
If it is not processed, Cuban sugar is yellow granulated sugar, which occupies all supply and marketing cooperatives, store counters, and shop windows for a long time, and after a little processing, it can not only become a large sugar block, but also its color and taste will be very close to brown sugar, which everyone understands.
After doing all this, Han Li sat in front of the fireplace and read a book with peace of mind, and there was a steaming teacup on the small table in front of him, which he would take two sips from time to time.
Not long after night fell quietly, Fu Weiyi's crisp voice came from the gate.
"The snow in the courtyard is so clean, sister, what delicious food did you say Brother Han prepared? If it's too bad, then I'll be blind to the fall I made when I helped him stick the couplet. ”
"What are you talking nonsense, who taught you this when you come to the door to be a guest."
"Sister, don't be angry, I'm just joking and saying it casually."
"Plug the door and hurry up, and next time you see if I can take you with me."
The two sisters walked in while arguing, patted the snow at the door, stamped their feet, and walked into the house.
"I'm back from work."
"Hmm."
"Brother Han, you're a little uninteresting?"
"What's wrong?"
"Why didn't you tell me when you settled in Ice City? If it weren't for my sister calling me by herself with the couplet on the door, I wouldn't have known you already had a house. ”
Han Li looked at the puffing trumpet enchantress, reached out and took an apple from the table and put it in her hand and said with a smile.
"I was negligent this time, and I will tell you next time, next time."
This apple attracted Fu Weiyi's attention to the table, she was now a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, seeing that there were so many delicious foods on it, where could she still care about questioning Han Li, she shouted happily and ran over.
"There are so many delicious things, and there are many things that I have never seen before, Brother Han, can I eat all of these?"
"Of course you can, but I have a lot of delicious food in the kitchen, you have to estimate your stomach, don't you run out of food when you eat."
Fu Weiyi heard Han Li say this, and walked towards the kitchen while eating a yellowish bergamot cake in his hand.
At this time, Han Li pulled Fu Weihong over and took her into his arms, warming her cold little hands, and just as he was about to ask if the other party would go back today, Fu Weiyi's voice came from the kitchen and interrupted the scene.
"Brother Han, how are we going to eat this beef?"
"You can eat whatever you want."
Fu Weihong heard his cousin's voice and gently pushed Han Li away, whispering in his ear.
"I'm going to the kitchen to cook, and we'll go back after dinner, but when I get off work today, I'll take tomorrow morning's leave, and I'll bring you breakfast then."
Fu Weihong said this, what else could Han Li do, he could only grab her little hand and rub it and said softly.
"Don't go out to buy food in the morning, you come over, we cook together like last time."
When Fu Weihong heard Han Li say this, she immediately remembered the meal that the two of them had barely eaten last time that had taken them a long and long time to make, and she withdrew her hand with a blushing face, and slapped Han Li lightly, and went to the kitchen with her cheeks flushed.
In this era, there is no distinction between urban and rural areas, 99.9% of girls can cook, and only a very small number of boys from special families can cook, and they have to cook some simple meals when they are about the same size.
Fu Weiyi, a little girl, is naturally no exception, although she has not yet practiced in stir-frying, but she usually simply cooks, distills a steamed bun, and cakes.
Han Li had no intention of interfering at all, he brought some snacks to the sisters, fed a piece of pea yellow to Fu Weihong, who was busy with his work, and said a few obedient words before lying back in front of the fireplace and continuing to read.
It wasn't until Fu Weiyi came over to call him that he left in front of the warm fireplace.
On the table was a plate of cut red sausages, a plate of fried mushrooms, a pot of potato stewed beef, a pot of pork stewed vermicelli, a pot of pork liver soup, a full table, and some freshly pasted cakes.
Han Li praised Fu Weihong's craftsmanship as he sat down to eat.
During the meal, Han Li inquired about the situation of the Chinese New Year here in Bingcheng, and before Fu Weihong could speak, Fu Weiyi opened her mouth to introduce her situation during the Chinese New Year this year.
"I said, I said, my sister was very bored during the New Year, most of the time she sat in front of the stove reading books, nagging, I was different, in the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I made a small lantern out of cans and bottles early, and at night with the people in the courtyard carried everywhere to call people out to play.
In the end, when they all converged together, everyone began to perform the show, most of the boys sang the lines of Lin Haixueyuan and Lei Gang, there was no novelty at all, I sang (Gardener's Song) and (Xiao Erhei got married), and after singing, the uncles and aunts in the corridor all said okay. ”
After eating the meal with a smile and finishing the table, dishes and chopsticks were all cleaned up, Fu Weiyi was in front of the fireplace and didn't want to leave. Seeing this, Han Li smiled at Fu Weihong and motioned for them to stay tonight.
Fu Weihong didn't even think about it for three minutes, sighed helplessly, grabbed his cousin's coat and threw it over.
"It's still snowing outside, hurry up and get dressed and we're leaving."
"Ah, it's the two of us to go back, it's cold and slippery all the way, Brother Han's house is so big, sister, why don't we both stay today, tomorrow you go to work from here, and I'll go from here to practice, okay?"
"No, hurry up and get dressed, or I won't bring you here in the future."
At this time, Fu Weiyi was not willing to go back with her cousin, and when Han Li saw this, she took out a cloth bag and filled it with some snacks and handed it over, which made her smile a little more on her face.
"Or Brother Han, are you going to leave tomorrow? If I don't leave, I won't go to my sister after practicing, and I'll come to you directly. ”
When Han Li was about to speak, he noticed that Fu Weihong was glaring at him beside him, so he turned around and said in a long voice.
"Tomorrow? That's still unfortunate, I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, next time, how about being the first to contact you after I come to Ice City? ”
"Then let's talk about it."
At this time, Fu Weiyi didn't expect that Han Li wouldn't be able to contact her at all, so he happily dressed up, put on a hat, a scarf, and gloves and left with his cousin.
Han Li followed and sent the two of them out for a long time before returning, if he didn't have a bicycle, he would definitely send them to the family home where Fu Weiyi lived.
The next day, Han Li got up and practiced all the Xingyi Fist Fights and Spring Breeze and Rain Fights.
After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Han Li took off his clothes and got into the quilt again.
(End of chapter)