Walk all the way

All over the world, the world is far and wide, colorful because of the differences, and close to each other because of the same.

When someone moved to the door, the door bell rang. The sound was clear and clear, but it was not as good as Xiaoxiao's crunchy and sweet immature voice.

"Uncle Jiang, Uncle Zhou, Aunt Ruoqing." Xiaoxiao came into the store with a bag of oranges first, greeted everyone warmly.

"Hello, Xiaoxiao~" Zhou Ruoqing smiled.

"Long time no see, Xiaoxiao." Jiang Chuanxu said with a smile, but at the same time, he didn't stop making dumplings.

After Jiang Chengxuan, Xiao Xiao stepped in, closed the door, and kept the cold out: "It's still warm in the room." As he spoke, he took off the scarf, and then took off Xiao Xiao's hat, scarf and schoolbag.

"Thanks to the invitation to eat dumplings, I bought some sugar oranges for you, they are super sweet, and I put them here." Jiang Chengxuan saw that he was busy, so he didn't say anything to try it now, and found an empty table and put everything down.

"Thank you." Jiang Chuanxu didn't say anything polite, and there was no need to say anything, after all, they were very close friends.

"Let me help you."

"Don't stick your hands, it's almost finished." Jiang Chuanxu said, "Peel some oranges for Xiaoxiao to eat, we can't finish eating so many oranges."

"Want to eat?" Jiang Chengxuan asked Xiaoxiao's thoughts.

Xiao Xiao nodded.

"Then uncle will peel it for you." So he grabbed some oranges.

Xiaoxiao snatched the orange from Jiang Chengxuan's hand: "Xiaoxiao peels it by herself."

Jiang Chengxuan couldn't help being stunned for a moment, came back to his senses, just smiled and patted Xiaoxiao's head, without saying anything.

While pinching the dumplings, Jiang Chuanxu asked Jiang Chengxuan, "Can Lin Xun come later?"

"I asked him, and he said that he should be able to get off work on time today."

"That's good, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to finish the dumplings made today." Jiang Chuanxu said with a smile.

"If brother Lin Xun can't come, you can let brother Chengxuan take him away." Zhou Ruoqing said, very cleverly.

Jiang Chengxuan smiled and said: "Hey, I like to hear Ruoqing's words." With a little anger in his eyes, "When did you come here? Don't you have class today?"

"I have no class in the afternoon."

"Then—" Jiang Chengxuan wanted to say something again, but suddenly felt that the question he wanted to ask next was not very good, so he immediately changed his words with a smile, "——it's pretty good."

However, Jiang Chengxuan's deliberate change of words was still noticed.Jiang Chuanxu asked with a chuckle, "What did you want to say?"

"I didn't want to say anything." Jiang Chengxuan shook his head, smiling harmlessly to humans and animals, it seemed that he decided to play dumb to the end.

Jiang Chuanxu smiled and stopped asking.Although Jiang Chengxuan looks frivolous and likes to deliberately tease people when he speaks, he still knows what to say and what not to say.

At this time, Zhou Tian, ​​who had been silent for a while, also said, "The last bit of dough, there is no more dough." Take out the last small ball of dough from the basin, put it on the large chopping board, sprinkle some flour, and start kneading.

Jiang Chuanxu stopped what he was doing, and measured the amount of remaining dough and stuffing: "Hmm...the stuffing seems to be a little too much."

"After I finish rolling these, I'll go and make some more. Let's wrap it all up. If I can't finish eating, I'll freeze it in the refrigerator."

"it is good."

"Do you have glutinous rice flour at home? I can make you some glutinous rice balls." Jiang Chengxuan asked.

"There is glutinous rice, but no flour." Zhou Tian also replied.

Jiang Chengxuan felt a little regretful, spread his hands and smiled and said, "Then there is no other way, and there is no chance to show off your skills."

"Do you want to eat glutinous rice balls? I can go to the nearby supermarket to buy some later." Jiang Chuanxu said.

"No, no, no," Jiang Chengxuan waved his hands quickly, and smiled helplessly, "I'm just talking, and I've already followed the Romans, it doesn't matter if I eat dumplings or glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice."

Hearing what Jiang Chengxuan said, Jiang Chuanxu seemed to remember something: "...I remember you mentioned that you are from the south..."

"Hmm..." Jiang Chengxuan nodded.

Suddenly Xiaoxiao handed over oranges and interrupted Jiang Chengxuan: "Uncle eats oranges."

"Oh good..." Jiang Chengxuan took it, broke off a little and put it in his mouth, and continued: "After my parents passed away, I went back to China to take care of the funeral. My sister Yuanyuan passed the university entrance examination here, so I followed She came here to find a job, and stayed here with Yuanyuan. After Yuanyuan graduated, she also worked here, and our brothers and sisters settled in this city. Anyway, there are no relatives in my hometown. My dad is the only child. My mother is of mixed race, and some relatives of my natal family are also abroad." When Jiang Chengxuan said these words, his tone was flat and relaxed, as if he was telling someone else's story.But both Jiang Chuanxu and Zhou Tianyi knew how Jiang Chengyuan survived the most painful time when he passed away.I have to admire Jiang Chengxuan's inner strength.A foreign country has become a hometown, and a hometown has become a foreign country that cannot be returned.

"As for Xiaoxiao's father, he was born in the north, yes, but his parents were also policemen, who died early, and his father was also an only child, and his mother had a younger sister who married to the south, so she took Xun to raise her, so I said Xun grew up in the south. He also came back from the university exams and stayed here after graduation. Of course, the main thing is that he met my silly sister, Xiaoxiao’s mother, otherwise everything would be hard to say..." Jiang Chengxuan There was some sadness in the smiling expression, but Jiang Chengxuan took it back in a moment.

Jiang Chuanxu and Zhou Tianyi didn't know about Lin Xun's story before, and Jiang Chengxuan's ability to tell it now also shows that this is not a secret that cannot be told.It can be seen that although Jiang Chengxuan still mourns for his late sister—this is human nature—but now, everyone has really come out of that time, and is full of expectations and yearning for the future life.

Xiaoxiao pulled Jiang Chengxuan: "Uncle, I'm a little hot."

"Take off your coat."

Xiaoxiao nodded, without Jiang Chengxuan's help, she took off her coat, hung it on the back of the chair, and continued eating oranges.

Zhou Tian also got up, took the empty dough bowl, and went to the kitchen at the back. Jiang Chuanxu also followed to help.

Zhou Ruoqing finished wrapping the last dumpling skin, clapped her hands: "It's done!" and asked Jiang Chengxuan with a smile: "Brother Chengxuan, do you think the dumplings I made look better or Brother Chuanxu's?"

Jiang Chengxuan deliberately looked at the wrapped dumplings carefully, and said solemnly: "They all look good, yours are rounder, and your brother Chuanxu's is more delicate."

"Hahaha..." Zhou Ruoqing laughed, "Sure enough, it's interesting to chat with Brother Chengxuan." She suddenly lowered her voice, "By the way, what did you want to say just now? My brother and Brother Chuanxu are not here now, so tell me , quite curious."

"Want to know?" Jiang Chengxuan raised his eyebrows slightly.

"En!" Zhou Ruoqing nodded.

Jiang Chengxuan sighed, and said with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing, but you spend the winter solstice here, don't you need to go home to accompany your parents?"

"What am I supposed to do?" Zhou Ruoqing breathed a sigh of relief, "I already had dumplings with them at home at noon. Just now I said that I have no class in the afternoon, but in fact, I only have two hours of class this morning. After class, I will I went home and had lunch with them before coming here in the afternoon."

"Do your parents know you're here?"

"Yeah, I don't usually lie to them."

"Didn't they say anything?" Jiang Chengxuan's tone became serious.

Zhou Ruoqing shook her head: "Just tell me not to go back too late." After finishing speaking, Zhou Ruoqing couldn't help smiling, lowered her head and whispered: "Maybe we will be able to sit together and have a reunion dinner soon..." Suddenly He raised his head and smiled at Jiang Chengxuan, "Keep it secret~"

Jiang Chengxuan pretended to cough: "Oh, what did you say just now, the voice was too low for me to hear anything." Turning around, he asked Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, did you hear that?"

Xiaoxiao looked puzzled, so she said, "What did you hear?"

Jiang Chengxuan was taken aback, knowing that Xiaoxiao didn't pay attention to the chat with Zhou Ruoqing just now, and really didn't hear anything. "It's okay, you can continue to eat oranges." She smiled and patted Xiaoxiao's head.

After a while, the two came out of the kitchen with reconciled noodles, and everyone finished making the dumplings together.

The night outside the window has already arrived, and today is the longest day of night, and after that, it will be a long line every day.

The dumplings were cooked and served on the table, but Lin Xun hadn't come over yet.Jiang Chengxuan was about to call Lin Xun when the bell on the door rang and it was Lin Xun.

"Sorry, I'm a little busy." Lin Xun saw the cooked dumplings on the table and smiled, "It seems that I came at a good time."

"Okay, everyone is here, let's all take your seats." Jiang Chuan greeted with a smile.

The last time they sat together and had a meal like this was in summer.

"Why do you eat dumplings during the winter solstice?" Xiaoxiao asked suddenly.

The adults were stunned for a moment.

Zhou Ruoqing said first, "Eating dumplings during the winter solstice is to keep your ears from freezing."

Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes, she didn't seem to agree with Zhou Ruoqing's statement.

Zhou Ruoqing looked at Jiang Chuanxu: "As the only liberal arts student among us, Brother Chuanxu, you must know."

Jiang Chuanxu smiled and said, "I know it's true, but it has nothing to do with arts and sciences..." His eyes turned to Xiao Xiao. Although he was only a child, it was the minimum respect to look at each other when he spoke. "Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is a custom in the north. This custom is left in commemoration of the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing's winter solstice."

"Zhang Zhongjing?" When Xiaoxiao heard this name for the first time, her eyes were full of curiosity.

Jiang Chuanxu continued to tell the story patiently: "Zhang Zhongjing was a man from the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. He was a famous doctor and once served as the governor of Changsha. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown to treat diseases for his neighbors. It was winter, and he saw that the villagers on both sides of the Baihe River were yellow and emaciated, suffering from hunger and cold, and many people's ears were rotten from the cold, so he asked his disciples to set up a medical shed and set up a big pot to make "Jiaoer Decoction for Dispelling Cold" on the day of the winter solstice. 'To treat frostbite. He boiled mutton, chili and some anti-cold medicinal materials in a pot, then fished out the mutton and medicine and chopped them, and made ear-shaped 'Jiao'er' with bread, cooked them, and distributed them among the Each person who asked for medicine had two 'Jiao'er's' and a large bowl of broth. People ate 'Jiao'er' and drank 'Quhan Decoction', they were warm all over, their ears were hot, and their frostbitten ears were healed. Later, people followed the example of 'Jiao'er' and wrapped them into food, that is, 'dumplings'."

Xiaoxiao seemed to understand, but she could see that she liked these little stories she had never heard of before: "This Zhang Zhongjing is really a good doctor."

"Of course, that's why he was called the 'medical sage' by later generations." Jiang Chuanxu smiled, "But the winter solstice does not have to eat dumplings, northerners eat dumplings, southerners eat glutinous rice balls, and some places drink Mutton soup, some places eat glutinous rice."

Xiaoxiao nodded seriously: "So just now you said whether you want to buy some glutinous rice balls because uncle is from the south, and according to the custom, he wants to eat glutinous rice balls."

"Xiaoxiao is really smart." Jiang Chuanxu praised.

"This just shows that our country is vast and rich in resources." Jiang Chengxuan said, "I have a say in the differences between the north and the south. Although I went to university abroad, I lived in the south before I went to university. For example, the Dragon Boat Festival, The rice dumplings I ate when I was a child were all stuffed with meat, which was salty and fragrant. When I came to the north, I found that most of them were filled with sweet stuffing. Another example is that when it snows in winter, the snow in the south is basically short-lived, while in the north, you can push snowmen to have snowball fights .Speaking of which, I have to complain about why only the north provides heating? When I was a child, I thought it was not easy for people in the north to survive the winter in an environment of more than ten degrees below zero. Later, I learned that there is something called heating in the north. You can wear shorts at home. Let's eat ice cream."

"There are also public baths, which are rare in the south," Lin Xun interjected, "There are also separate rooms. I think I was really shocked when I came to school here." He shook his head with a smile.

"It's interesting to have different food, clothing, housing and transportation on one side of the country." Zhou Ruoqing said, "Didn't it snow in the last half month? My roommate has a southern girl who has never seen snow. To borrow a sentence from the Internet, have you ever seen snow?" The southerners are much more fun than watching the snow."

"Father, uncle..." Xiaoxiao pulled the two sitting on both sides of her, "You all grew up in the south, but Xiaoxiao has never been to the south..."

Jiang Chengxuan and Lin Xun looked at each other with complicated emotions.

Jiang Chengxuan patted Xiaoxiao's head, smiled softly and said, "Will I take you to the south for next summer vacation?"

"I don't want to play," Xiaoxiao said, "I just want to see the place where you, dad, and mom used to live..."

"Okay, I promise you." Lin Xun said, "Father strives to go with you too. It's true that I haven't seen my aunt for many years. The last time was when Xiaoxiao was born..."

"You have to keep your word, pull the hook." Xiaoxiao stretched out her little finger, and pulled the hook with Jiang Chengxuan and Lin Xun, then happily continued to eat the dumplings in the bowl.

"Who doesn't have enough food, I'll continue to feed you." Jiang Chuanxu asked with a smile.

"Me, me, me~" Zhou Ruoqing said, "Eat some more."

"what about you?"

Lin Xun said, "I have enough."

"I'm the same as Ruoqing." Jiang Chengxuan said.

"Xiaoxiao also wants..." Xiaoxiao hadn't swallowed the dumplings yet, "The dumplings are delicious!"

Zhou Tian also gave a rare smile: "Thank you, Xiaoxiao." Then he said to Jiang Chuanxu, "I'm going to order the dumplings, you are delicious." After speaking, he got up and went to the kitchen without waiting for Jiang Chuanxu to refute.

The existence of differences is not to eliminate them. It is precisely because of differences that life is colorful and history is profound and long-standing.