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Amidst the interlacing of toasts and chips, the New Year's Eve dinner is coming to an end.Everyone opened their bellies to eat, and each of them ate until their bellies were round.Even Xiaoxiao drank four bowls of porridge with water and pickles!
However, with everyone's fighting power fully activated, most of the dishes were basically left untouched.That is to say, it was brought out as it was and then returned to the refrigerator as it was.
But Du Heng was very calm, anyway, the rest of the dishes were all these dishes, and he was not allowed to leave if he couldn't finish eating.
This is also what Du's mother has been complaining about. Du's mother's hometown is in the province to the west of Du Heng's family.The rule over there is that they don't cook too many dishes during the holidays, even if they celebrate the New Year, it is no different from usual.If there are guests at home, add food temporarily and leave no leftovers.
The rule of Du Heng's hometown is to prepare a lot of New Year's dishes regardless of whether there are people or not. After a group of people finish eating, they collect the leftovers, and the next group of guests will leave and continue to collect the leftovers.Eventually the guests left and the family started eating the leftovers.
One year Du Heng ate leftovers until the Lantern Festival, would he talk nonsense about this?
Mother Du was very annoyed by this, saying that there is a problem with the local characteristics of the old Du's house, why do they cook so many dishes?When the guests come to eat fresh, the family can also eat fresh.
However, Du's father smiled and comforted her, this is a matter of etiquette.If the guests come to the door and only make a few dishes, they will be laughed at.
Du Heng used to think that what Du's mother said was reasonable, but now he seems to understand Du's father a little bit.This is indeed a matter of etiquette, just take Du Heng as an example.He has worked so hard to prepare for this reunion dinner.Although he knew that Xuanyu and the others would not mind, he still wanted to do more.
It seems that if you cook more food, your life will be more stable and richer.
While tidying up, Du Heng said to Xuanyu: "Xuanyu, tell me, should we cook one meal at a time for Chinese New Year next year, or cook more?"
Xuanyu was busy putting the dishes on the shelf of the refrigerator, he thought for a while and said: "I think it's all right. If you cook every meal, you will have to work every meal. If you cook more, you will usually be tired. I hope you can relax a bit."
Du Heng's smiling eyes became two slits: "I don't feel tired, I think I feel very good when I see everyone eating and drinking well."
After dinner, it became apparent that the cultivation world was not as good as his hometown.If this is in my hometown, after the reunion dinner, everyone will gather around the TV to watch TV programs.Speaking of those TV programs in my hometown, each channel has its own characteristics!
As soon as I turned on the TV, singing, dancing, and opera chatting, the whole family sat around the TV series, chatting, laughing, eating snacks and watching the show...
But in the world of comprehension, after eating, Du Heng could only stare at everyone.
Du Heng asked weakly: "Well, can I ask, are there any programs when everyone observes the New Year in the past? Or let me ask another way, what did everyone do to observe the New Year?"
Chonghua sat cross-legged on a chair, he thought for a while and said, "Meditate, or go to Beishan for a visit?"
Yun Zheng pondered for a moment: "Meditating and practicing, several people can learn a few tricks together."
Lao Dao said: "Sometimes I also play mahjong with Lao Yun and the others, but generally I practice more in meditation."
Jing Nan propped his chin lazily: "Shou Sui? What else can I do? Of course I'm going to sleep." Well, this one fell asleep.
Feng Gui thought for a while: "Meditate, or go to Beishan for inspection, or play mahjong with them."
Xuan Yu honestly explained: "...sleep."
Smiling: "Tweet Chirp Chirp~~" Du Heng didn't understand what he was talking about, so this speech can be ignored.
Look, what a barren and tasteless New Year's Eve!Du Heng sighed: "In our hometown, New Year's Eve is the most relaxing time for the family. Everyone will get together to talk, laugh, drink tea, eat and watch programs."
Look at the sky, there are still two hours before the New Year's bell rings, right?What are you doing for so long?Is it possible to meditate with everyone?
Feng Gui said: "What do you mean watching a show?"
Du Heng explained: "It's just singing and dancing."
Feng Gui said: "What's so good about this? Do you like this?"
Du Heng nodded: "Isn't this a way to pass the time? It's better than just sitting around."
Feng Gui clapped his hands: "It's not easy, Yun Zheng, go and order some puppets."
Du Heng was taken aback. Does the puppet also have singing and dancing functions?As expected of the richest man in the village, he will enjoy it! !
While Yunzheng was going to order the puppets, Du Heng asked: "Just now you said to go to Beishan for inspection, do you want to go for inspection this year? Will the inspection take a long time?"
Chonghua said: "It doesn't take long, and an hour is more than enough to go back and forth. There is a saint temple on the top of Beishan Mountain. Every year during the Chinese New Year, we will burn incense for the saint. If we don't burn incense tonight, we will do it tomorrow morning." go."
Only then did Du Heng know that there was such a thing on the mountain behind his house?
Xuanyu took a deep look at Du Heng: "It's snowing today, so I won't go up the mountain. We will go up the mountain to offer incense when the snow stops tomorrow, so you don't have to go, the mountain road is difficult."
What else could Du Heng say, he could only nod regretfully: "Okay!"
At this time Yun Zheng led the puppets into the yard.Some of these puppets are wearing silk and bamboo instruments, and some are dressed in silk and satin.It was like a live concert was held in the courtyard of Xuanyu's house.
The walls of the surrounding courtyards were illuminated with spiritual lights, and the courtyard was clearly illuminated.Du Heng and the others moved from the kitchen to the hallway. Some of them moved the chairs, and some of them sat on the floor.Eight people were quickly seated in the hallway, and even Little Wonton and Big Chaos squeezed into the crowd to watch the excitement.
Du Heng was sitting on a chair, and there was a formation under the eaves. Even if it was snowing outside, he could not feel the cold.Besides, he still held a warm smile in his arms.
Suddenly, there was a sound of plucking a string like an explosion of ice cracking.It's hard to say which puppet spoke first, but Du Heng heard a female voice that sounded like a warbler's cry, and that female voice seemed to explode in his head.He felt his heart slowly calm down, and the puppet in front of him seemed to have become a living person.A picture unfolded in front of his eyes, and he was immersed in the story unconsciously.
The mellow female voice whispered a story.The story begins with a shambling man walking alone in a snowstorm.Du Heng couldn't see his face clearly, he only saw the man on his way wearing stars and moon and wind and rain.
The man climbed over the hills, walked over the stream, and through the thorny woods, until at last he came to the hut in the woods.He has two spiritual pets, one is a skinny yellow bird covered in fluff, which looks a bit like a slimmer version of Xiaoxiao.There was also a skinny fox dog. Du Heng distinguished it for a long time, and finally determined that it was a fox.
Seeing the man coming back, two spiritual pets got out of the dilapidated house and rubbed into the man's arms.
The man's life is poor, he is a low-level rogue cultivator, he can't stand the rules and regulations of the big sect, and he can't bear to go out with other rogue cultivators to be deceived.He usually earns some spiritual stones by teaming up with his companions to go to the ruins to find some treasures.
Whenever he earned some spirit stones, he would go to the town to exchange for some pills.The two spiritual pets in the family are too weak, and the yellow bird cannot grow its feathers due to lack of aura.Because of malnutrition, the fox looks like a wild dog, with its hair standing on end.
Even if he bought the best nourishing pills, he couldn't make them smooth.Raising a spiritual pet is already very expensive, let alone he has two?Fortunately, the two spiritual pets don't mind, their relationship is very good, even if they are poor, they still live happily.
Du Heng looked at the man sitting on the threshold, he took out a bunch of balls from his arms and handed them to the bird and the fox.The fox and the bird kissed each other and ate small meatballs, and the man propped his chin and looked at them and smiled.
Du Heng looked at the apparently ordinary picture, but felt that his eyes were slightly moist.He thought he could understand this man's mood. The simple life became warm because of someone he could care about. Although the spiritual pet could not speak or change form, it was the man's family and his concern.
The man under the lamp took out a jade bottle cherishingly, and poured out two pills from it. The man said: "I bought you a medium-grade Peiyuan pill, one pill for each of you. After eating this, you will be able to Get better. I made an agreement with them. I will go to the Hunyuan Realm in two days. There are no people there. My luck is always good and I will definitely find a lot of treasures. I will buy you more and better pills then. "
Du Heng couldn't see the man's face very clearly, he only saw the gentle smile on the corner of the man's mouth when he said this.
Du Heng thought, this man must be very gentle, he is so kind to spiritual pets, his heart must be very soft.
The three of them ate and lived together in a simple house in the mountains, and practiced together facing the rising sun, waving their arms, and went to the mountains to look for spiritual plants to exchange for spiritual stones.Noisy but extremely comfortable, until a few days later, the man was about to leave for the ruins.
The man stepped out of the gate with morning dew, and the little pets wanted to follow him, but he found them one by one from the road and drove them back home.
The man left, leaving a back view for the little animals at home. Every day, the two little animals took turns standing on the path up the mountain and staring at the mountain road...
Time passed day by day, and finally one day, a figure of a man appeared on the mountain path, and the man came back!They came back together with a small green snake with wizened chopsticks.
The man was in a mess and was covered in injuries. He scratched his hair and smiled foolishly: "I'm sorry, I didn't find the Lingbao. But I'll bring back a little friend for everyone!"
Seeing the little snake in the man's hand, the yellow chicken and the fox immediately exploded. They rushed forward and pecked the green snake out of the man's hand, tearing and biting it.
The picture came to an end, Du Heng turned around and saw Feng Gui frowning: "Don't watch this anymore."
Du Heng said: "It's very beautiful, let's continue."
Feng Gui vetoed with his hands in his hands: "No! Sing something pleasant."
The singing voices of the female historians were melodious, and their melodious voices quickly attracted everyone's attention.Du Heng looked sideways at Feng Gui, for some reason, he always felt that Feng Gui's eyes were full of loneliness.Could it be that the man has something to do with him?
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan again, but saw that Jing Nan was sleeping soundly with her head up and holding the little wonton.Amazing Jing Daxian'er, can he fall asleep with such a weird posture?
Du Heng turned his head to ask Xuan Yu, but he saw Xuan Yu was dozing off with his head down.Du Heng took a look at the courtyard, such a beautiful song, such a beautiful dance, how could Xuanyu fall asleep listening to it? ?
After a while, Du Heng himself fell asleep gradually amidst the melodious singing of the puppet.
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He had a dream, in which he was on his way with something in his arms.There was a fog all around, and a voice spoke to him in the fog: "Qing Heng, where are you going?"
Du Heng opened his mouth subconsciously. He wanted to speak, but his voice seemed to be suppressed and he couldn't speak.
He shook his hands anxiously, and the things in his arms fell to the ground, and then Du Heng also woke up.
He met Xiaoxiao's dazed eyes, and it turned out that he dropped Xiaoxiao to the ground when he was dozing off.Embarrassed, Du Heng reached out and picked up Xiaoxiao from the ground. He patted the snow on Xiaoxiao's body: "I'm sorry, my hands are slippery!"
Xiaoxiao is so considerate, he rubbed Du Heng's palm, and then nestled firmly in Du Heng's arms.
Xuanyu opened his eyes at some point. He looked at the puppets who were still singing and dancing in the courtyard and asked Du Heng, "Do you feel sleepy? If you are sleepy, take a shower and go to sleep."
He has already figured out Du Heng's biological clock. Du Heng is a person who goes to bed early and gets up early. He can fall asleep when he is lying on the bed. It is really embarrassing for him to watch the new year.
Hearing the word bath, Jing Nan woke up miraculously: "Hey? Take a bath? Let's go together! Fenggui, tell your puppets to stop for a while, let's go to your house to take a bath."
Du Heng: ... There is a bathhouse in his house, okay?
But when it comes to the environment of taking a bath, of course it's better for Feng Gui's home!So a group of people took small snacks and set off to Fenggui's Lingquan.
When Du Heng soaked in the warm spring water, he felt his troubles flew away.He looked to the left and saw Yunzheng and the others' muscular tendons, and glanced to the right and saw Fenggui Jingnan's strong abdominal muscles.
Du Heng looked down at his stomach, sorry, his stomach is as soft as Xiaoxiao's.After arriving in the village, he lived a very comfortable life. He seems to have gained weight...
The snowflakes are flying outside the Lingquan, and the warmth inside the Lingquan.Du Heng sat on the top step, pouring bath beans on his body.Just as he was about to hit behind him, someone took the bath beans from his hand.
Du Heng turned his head in surprise, but saw Xuan Yu appearing behind him.Xuanyu was standing on the next step, even so, his sight was on par with Du Heng.
Du Heng laughed when he saw Xuanyu, and Xuanyu was about to rub his back again.Xuanyu is really a good person. Every time he takes a bath at home, Xuanyu will help him make bath beans and rub his back.
Xuanyu's voice was a little low, and he said slowly: "Turn sideways."
Du Heng obediently turned sideways to reveal his white back: "Zhengchou can't reach the side of the shoulder blade, thank you Xuanyu." There is no way, with short hands, Du Heng can't reach his shoulder blade and the back of his heart every time.
Xuanyu was serious, it must be because the water temperature was too high, his cheeks and the back of his ears were slightly red from steaming.Xuanyu's palm curled up slightly, holding a fingernail-sized creamy bath bean in his palm.
He evenly smeared the bath beans on Du Heng's back and asked calmly: "The bath beans are almost gone, why don't you get a new one?"
Du Heng brushed his long hair and said with a smile: "Isn't this the last bit, don't waste it. I quite like the smell of this bath bean." It's just that after taking a bath, he looks like a big orange.
Xuan Yu replied: "Okay."
Xuanyu held the bath beans and wiped Du Heng's back twice, until Du Heng's back was covered with snow-white foam.The bath beans slowly melted in Xuanyu's palm, until finally Xuanyu's palm was flattened, and the last bit of bath beans was also wiped on Du Heng's body.
Du Heng exuded a strong orange smell, and his back was full of foam, Xuan Yu reached out and rubbed his back in the foam.The back was slippery, Xuanyu spread the foam evenly: "It should be spread evenly. I flushed."
Jing Nan and Feng Gui were chattering, Jing Nan picked up a bath bean and said to Feng Gui, "Come on, turn around, and I'll rub your back for you."
Feng Gui said helplessly: "Jing Nan, you smile like a bustard." Jing Nan slapped the bath beans on Feng Gui's back, and a good bath bean was flattened: "If I were a bustard, you would be a bustard." Girl in the building, turn around for me."
Xuanyu scooped up a spoonful of spiritual spring water and poured it on Du Heng's back. The warm spring water rushed the foam into the spiritual spring, and the foam quickly dissipated.The back of Du Heng's hand quickly became white and slippery.
However, Xuanyu took out a piece of loofah embedded in the cloth, and he pointed the side with the loofah to Du Heng's back.
Du Heng bared his teeth: "Ah, ah, be lighter, be lighter!!"
Xuanyu's hands are too strong, every time he rubs his back, it will be hot.I can only blame Du Heng for being too cruel to me, and I have to choose something different when rubbing my back.I don't know where he found an old loofah, but he turned it into a bath cloth. Of course, the effect of this thing is really good.
Xuanyu lightened his strength: "How about this?" Du Heng felt more comfortable: "Yeah, that's all."
The skin that Xuanyu rubbed just now was already red. Seeing Du Heng's back, Jing Nan sighed again: "Hurry up and build the foundation and form the alchemy. We are all innocent bodies, and you still have to rub the back."
Du Heng Bai returned to Bai, his current Bai and Jing Nan are not at the same level.Jing Nan and the others' skins were as moist and smooth as jade, and they couldn't get mud off at all.But Du Heng has not yet reached this level.
The corners of Feng Gui's mouth twitched: "If I had known that you were rubbing mud in my Lingquan, I would not have let you in."
Feng Gui, who is obsessed with cleanliness, has already climbed to the shore, and he will wait for Du Heng to clean up and wash before proceeding down.Otherwise, he felt that he would be stained by Du Heng's mud.
Yun Zheng and Lao Dao were happily soaking in the spiritual spring, with only one head sticking out of the water.Chonghua was still chewing while soaking his mouth, he sighed: "It would be great if I do this every time I observe the new year."
Xiaoxiao stealthily picked up an egg yolk cake, and he nodded while chirping: "Jiujiu!" Life with Du Heng in the village is really wonderful.
After everyone had finished soaking in the Lingquan, they returned to the living room of Xuanyu's house one by one.After a period of rest, everyone felt that they could hold some food in their stomachs again, but at this time, they didn't want to eat big fish and meat, but wanted to eat something plain and clean.
Especially Xiaoxiao, he drank a few bowls of porridge at night, although it was very delicious when served with water and pickles, he was not very hungry.Xiaoxiao moaned around Du Heng's legs, he opened his mouth and fluttered his wings, it was obvious that he wanted to eat something.
Du Heng asked Jing Nan with a smile in his arms: "Is Xiaoxiao's body okay? Can I eat?"
Jing Nan looked at it with a smile, and said, "There should be no problem, but you still have to be careful not to eat too greasy, so don't let him eat chicken feet and duck necks that are so spicy that they rise to heaven. Eat some noodles and soup. Classes are fine."
What's more, when I was soaking in the Lingquan just now, Xiaoxiao secretly ate several pieces of snacks!
Du Heng thought for a while: "Do you want to eat chicken noodle soup with a smile?"
At this time, as long as there is something delicious, everyone will come with a smile!Xiaoxiao drooled immediately: "Chirp!"
Smoke rose from the chimney again, and the puppets in the yard sang and danced very lively, but no one was watching in the corridor.Everyone gathered in the kitchen and stared at Du Heng making noodles.
The noodles are Longxu noodles that Du Heng has made long ago. The thin noodles are packed in small handfuls in a wooden box for storage.Each one is only as big as an adult's fist, but there are countless roots in one.
Jing Nan strolled to the side of the wooden box. He twisted a noodle and said, "It's so thin? It won't melt as soon as it's cooked, right? When did you cut this noodle? Why didn't we see it?"
They also ate a lot of Du Heng's noodles before, and they had never seen such thin ones. Jing Nan felt that Du Heng's noodles could be so thin that a needle could go through them.
Du Heng smiled and said: "Longxu noodles can't be boiled for a long time, and they will be cooked after a little blanching. This noodle is not cut out, but pulled out by pulling. This is already the simplest entry-level longxu noodle. Really elegant noodles have to be deep-fried. I think it’s troublesome, anyway, if there is a refrigerator to store it, it’s made like this, and it’s fine to take it out and cook it when you eat it.”
The water in the pot was already boiling, and Du Heng threw a handful of cleaned vegetable sprouts into it.The cabbage sprouts turn dark green after being boiled, and the color is very beautiful.
While he was blanching the vegetable sprouts, Du Heng took out eight medium-sized bowls.He added golden pork belly chicken fir chicken soup to the bowl, and the chicken soup was half a bowl full, because the chicken soup was still warm at this time because it was served out for dinner.After making the soup, he took out the vegetable sprouts from the pot and put them on the prepared plate.
At this time, he quickly threw eight balls of dragon beard dough into the wide water in the pot, and the dough sank to the bottom of the pot after entering the pot.Du Heng was not in a hurry, he prepared a strainer and long chopsticks and stood beside him. When the dough floated, he quickly scooped up the noodles, controlled the water, and threw them into the large bowl next to him.
The whole process was done in one go at a very fast speed. When Du Heng scooped up the noodles, he scooped them up along the middle of the noodles.When the noodles are placed in the bowl, they are not messy at all, and they are as neat as the noodles in the wooden box.
Du Heng put two blanched vegetable sprouts in each bowl.A stewed duck egg cut in half lay next to the dark green vegetable sprouts, filling a bowl full.The noodles are as white as jade, and the soup head is slightly yellow and the vegetables are green.It is obviously just a bowl of plain noodles without meat, but it makes people's index fingers move.
When Du Heng started to boil the water, the puppets outside began to sing a tune.When he shouted that his face was healed, the puppet song was not over yet.
Du Heng said with a smile: "The noodles are ready, come to the stove by yourself!"
Seeing the figure of Yaoxiu in the kitchen swaying, he turned his head and saw that there were only three bowls left on the stove.Xiaoxiao couldn't wait to transfer the bowl to the dining table, he squatted on the stove and ate the soup happily.
Xuanyu helped Du Heng bring the noodles to the table: "Sit down and eat."
Jing Nan drank the chicken soup: "Oh, it's really fragrant. How can this noodle be so thin?" Feng Gui was adding chili oil to the bowl: "Should it be cooked?"
Yun Zheng and Lao Dao ate the noodles with their heads depressed, they picked up all the noodles in the bowl with one chopstick.Seeing that all the noodles were picked up, the two burly men put down the chopsticks tacitly, and then carefully picked out a small chopstick and tasted it carefully.
Chonghua has already eaten half of the noodles: "It's delicious, but I don't feel full, that's all."
Du Heng said with a smile: "It was originally for everyone to eat snacks to satisfy their hunger, and when they have an appetite, they can eat other snacks."
Jing Nan sucked a chopstick of noodles: "I don't want to eat other dim sum, just this noodle, and two more bowls. Take a look at this bowl, it's too small."
Xiaoxiao also made a protesting chirping sound behind him. Du Heng looked back and saw that Xiaoxiao's bowl was empty.Xiaoxiao tweeted twice, he felt that the more he ate, the hungrier he became.
Du Heng ate the noodles calmly. He said slowly, "Do you really want to eat noodles? I wanted to cook seafood porridge. Do you really want to eat noodles?"
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Hearing that there is seafood porridge, although they have never eaten it, everyone chose seafood porridge tacitly.After all, everything you haven’t eaten is good, right?
Du Heng took a sip of the soup in a leisurely manner, and this is why he deliberately spared the noodles.He also thought about making a few more delicious and easy-to-digest foods. If everyone is full after eating noodles, everyone will be sleepy and dozing off again. How can they last until the New Year's bell rings?
Of course, there are no New Year's bells here.But at least for a while, right?
Needless to say, the soup of the dragon beard noodles, Du Heng cooked it with pork belly old hen and chicken fir bamboo shoots for an hour, and all the deliciousness was concentrated in a bowl of soup.There are too many things to eat at the reunion dinner. The charm of this pot of soup is covered by other ingredients, and it is only at this time that it shines.
Du Heng finished the stewed eggs and vegetable sprouts, and then finished the soup in the bowl.The sleepiness after taking a bath just now was diluted by the delicious taste, and Du Heng felt that he could have another bowl of seafood porridge again.Chonghua and the others sat in the corridor again, and the puppets were still singing and dancing hard.But after singing for so long, even if their voices sounded like heaven, everyone was bored.
Their eyes were now focused on Du Heng who was next to the casserole. The casserole in front of Du Heng exuded a spiritual light, and a scent of seafood wafted out. It didn't take long before they could drink a bowl of thick and delicious seafood porridge.
Lao Dao said happily: "I thought that the New Year's Eve dinner at night was already very satisfying, but I didn't expect that I would look forward to seafood porridge at this time."
When Du Heng's longxu noodles were cooked just now, Lao Dao ran the fastest.
Chonghua said meanly: "It would be great if we can still watch the New Year at Mr. Xuan's house next year. Then we don't need so many dishes. Mr. Du cooks one and we eat one."
As soon as the words fell, Xuanyu glanced at Chonghua, and all the hairs on Chonghua's back exploded.Xuan Yu said slowly: "Du Heng will be tired in that way."
Chonghua could only smile embarrassingly: "That's all I said, but the reunion dinner is actually quite delicious. Everything Mr. Du cooks is delicious."
The aura next to the casserole was intermittent, which proved that the formation was not fully activated.It's not that there is something wrong with Xuanyu's formation, but that making seafood porridge is not as good as making white porridge, and the process of seafood porridge is a bit complicated.
Du Heng took out a plate of shrimp shells and shrimp heads, which he peeled off when he made three-sided buns last time.He kept saying that he wanted to fry it into shrimp oil, but he never found a chance to fry it.Now I finally found the right opportunity.
Du Heng added a little soybean oil to the casserole, and he sprinkled a little shredded ginger in it.The shredded ginger was sizzling in the oil pan, Du Heng stir-fried it a little with a wooden spoon, and then poured the shrimp shells and shrimp heads into the casserole.
There was a crackling sound in the casserole, and white oily smoke came out of the pot.Du Heng carefully stir-fried the shrimp shells and heads until the soybean oil in the pot turned from golden yellow to slightly orange, and the shrimp oil was ready.
Because there were a lot of shrimp heads fried this time, Du Heng was afraid that it would be troublesome to pick them up.So before adding water, he picked out the crispy fried heads and shells from the casserole.There was only orange-red shrimp oil left in the pot, and the shrimp heads and shells were enough to fill a plate.Just a sprinkle of cumin and paprika makes a nice little snack.
Du Heng looked at Xiaoxiao habitually, Xiaoxiao's eyes were shining, and he was waiting for Du Heng's call to eat the shrimp head.Then Du Heng ruthlessly ignored Xiaoxiao: "Besides Xiaoxiao, does anyone eat shrimp heads and shells? It's very calcium-rich."
Xiaoxiao's face immediately collapsed, and he could only watch helplessly as Yun Zheng and the others carried away a plate of glowing red shrimp shells and shrimp heads.Listening to the sound of them eating shrimp heads, I smiled and sucked my saliva. This must be the best shrimp in the world, right?Xiaoxiao decided that if Du Heng fried shrimp oil again next time, all the shrimp heads would be his!
Du Heng mixed half of the pot of boiling water into the pot, and there was a layer of orange-red oily flowers floating on it.With this layer of oil flowers, the porridge will be more delicious.
At this time, Du Heng poured the washed Ling rice into the pot, and the formation was activated, and the rice in the pot began to roll up and down.Du Heng poured a little white wine into it, and then went to prepare other ingredients.
He took out a plate of shrimps from the refrigerator, as well as a winter bamboo shoot and half a chicken fir mushroom.He diced the winter bamboo shoots and chicken fir, and by the time he finished processing these ingredients, the rice grains in the pot had already swelled.
Du Heng poured chicken fir winter bamboo shoots and shrimps into the pot, and under the action of the array, you can see that the swollen rice grains are mixed with red shrimps and other two ingredients.Du Heng added some salt and pepper to it, and he took a spoonful of porridge from the pot and let it cool down: "Smile, let's try the taste."
Xiaoxiao flapped her wings and flew over. Everyone couldn't help but want to laugh at that small appearance.
After drinking the spoonful of porridge with a smile, Du Heng asked with concern: "How is it?"
Xiaoxiao tweeted twice, Xuanyu translated: "Xiaoxiao seems to have no taste."
Hearing Xiaoxiao's feedback, Du Heng took another spoonful of porridge, and this time he tasted it.Hmmm...it did lack a little salt.
Du Heng added a little more salt to the pot, Xiaoxiao was finally satisfied this time.Just when Xiaoxiao thought that Du Heng was going to use the casserole to make seafood congee a success, Du Heng resorted to his big move.
The shallots he had spent more than half a month growing were finally edible. Du Heng planted the tender shallots in a wooden frame and placed them on the window sill of the verandah.Now the chives are only seven or eight inches long, and they are so green and lovely.
Du Heng carefully cut a handful of chives, he did not expect to be able to eat chives made by himself on New Year's Eve, what a surprise.
Du Heng cleaned the shallots and chopped them into pieces. While the formation in the pot was still working, he poured the shallots into the pot.The chives are quickly integrated into the seafood porridge, and the green chives also add a little freshness to the seafood porridge.
Xuanyu asked: "Is the seafood porridge ready?" Du Heng smiled and nodded, and Xuanyu carried the casserole into the kitchen.
The demon cultivators under the eaves rushed in, and the kitchen was noisy: "Give me a bowl first, I want a big bowl!" "Xuanyu, have a bowl."
Suddenly Du Heng heard a long bell ringing, he looked up to the sky suspiciously: "Where did the bell come from?"
Could it be that there are really some New Year's bells in the demon world?
Chonghua snatched a bowl of porridge quickly with his eyes and hands, and he slipped onto the verandah and was drinking the porridge circling around the bowl: "Oh, is it New Year's already?"
Du Heng asked: "There was a bell just now... What is that?"
Chonghua said: "The demon god's subordinates will ring the ancient Donghuang bell every year when the old and the new change, to tell the people of the demon world that the new year is coming. The sound you hear is the Donghuang bell."
Du Heng exclaimed: "It turns out that the demon world also has New Year's bells, which is great."
The sound of the bell was simple and melodious, and there was only one sound, but it seemed to hit Du Heng's heart.Du Heng stood under the eaves of the corridor and felt the lingering sound, and he even hoped to hear it again.
Xuanyu walked to Du Heng with a bowl of porridge, and there was a wooden spoon on the porridge.Xuan Yu asked slowly: "Are you listening to the bell?"
Du Heng turned his head and his eyes sparkled: "Yes, I didn't expect the New Year's bell to ring in the demon world. By the way, Xuanyu..."
Du Heng showed his white teeth, and he smiled like a spring flower: "Happy New Year!"
With bowls in their hands, the demon cultivators responded to Du Heng with smiles: "Happy New Year!!"
The seafood porridge was boiled just right, and Du Heng fell in love with Xuan Yu's formation.With this formation, his cooking time can be greatly reduced in the future.It's just that this formation can only be engraved on the casserole. If it is engraved on the stove, it will conflict with other formations in the house.
At this time, the seafood porridge tasted a little hot, Du Heng put the porridge on the dining table, and he slowly waited for the porridge to cool down while stirring the porridge bowl.At this time, a spoonful of porridge appeared in front of him, and a shrimp was lying on the porridge.
You don't need to look up to know it's Xuanyu, Xuanyu said: "This bowl of mine is already warm, can you taste it?" Du Heng was not polite, he opened his mouth and ate the spoonful of porridge.
The shrimps are crisp and tender, the porridge is salty and mild, the taste of pepper is just right, and the winter bamboo shoots and chicken fir in the porridge are delicious.From Du Heng's point of view, this is a successful pot of seafood porridge, not worse than the seafood porridge he had before.The porridge made in the casserole is thick, and a sip warms the stomach to the heart.
Xuanyu said to Du Heng in a slow voice: "Thank you for your hard work, and thank you."
Thank you Du Heng for bringing them so many delicious foods and such wonderful memories, and thank you for coming to Yishu Village and becoming a member here.Du Heng smiled and narrowed his eyes: "It's good that everyone likes it."
At this time, Jing Nan walked into the kitchen with a bowl in his hand: "Du Heng, we are going to set off fireworks, do you want to come and see them?"
fireworks?Du Heng's eyes lit up: "You have to see it!" Didn't expect that there are fireworks in the demon world?
Everyone gathered under the eaves of the corridor, everyone held a bowl of porridge in their hands, except for smiling.Xiaoxiao held a stick of incense in his mouth, and he was standing beside the wooden box in the courtyard.
So strange!There is actually something in the world that can make Xiaoxiao put down the food in his hand. It seems that the charm of fireworks is not small!
Smiling and looking at Feng Gui with bright eyes, Feng Gui nodded: "Come on!"
Smiling and tilting his head, the incense in his mouth touched the lead wire exposed on the top of the wooden box.Only hearing the sound of barking, Xiao Xiaosong ran to the bottom of the corridor eaves.He ran under the eaves of the corridor with his front feet, and the fireworks in the wooden box shot up into the sky with his back feet.
Just listening to the sound of '咻咻咻', there are thousands of golden lights above the wooden box soaring into the sky.Those golden lights rose rapidly, and by the time the light dissipated, they had turned into golden spots in the sky.
Just when Du Heng thought they would disappear without a sound, the light cluster exploded, only the rumbling sound was heard.The ball of light turned into colorful fireworks, and the sky was illuminated by the continuously blooming fireworks.Who would have thought that a small ball of light could blow up so big?
The wooden box in the courtyard was buzzing non-stop, and the fireworks in the sky were blooming one after another.Du Heng looked up at the sky, his eyes were sore that he couldn't bear to blink.
The entire display of fireworks lasted for as long as a cup of tea, and there were two or three hundred fireworks emerging from a small wooden box.When the fireworks dissipated, there was a smell of gunpowder in the air.Although it is a bit suffocating, compared with the youth just now, this is not worth mentioning.
Feng Gui drank it slowly
Amidst the interlacing of toasts and chips, the New Year's Eve dinner is coming to an end.Everyone opened their bellies to eat, and each of them ate until their bellies were round.Even Xiaoxiao drank four bowls of porridge with water and pickles!
However, with everyone's fighting power fully activated, most of the dishes were basically left untouched.That is to say, it was brought out as it was and then returned to the refrigerator as it was.
But Du Heng was very calm, anyway, the rest of the dishes were all these dishes, and he was not allowed to leave if he couldn't finish eating.
This is also what Du's mother has been complaining about. Du's mother's hometown is in the province to the west of Du Heng's family.The rule over there is that they don't cook too many dishes during the holidays, even if they celebrate the New Year, it is no different from usual.If there are guests at home, add food temporarily and leave no leftovers.
The rule of Du Heng's hometown is to prepare a lot of New Year's dishes regardless of whether there are people or not. After a group of people finish eating, they collect the leftovers, and the next group of guests will leave and continue to collect the leftovers.Eventually the guests left and the family started eating the leftovers.
One year Du Heng ate leftovers until the Lantern Festival, would he talk nonsense about this?
Mother Du was very annoyed by this, saying that there is a problem with the local characteristics of the old Du's house, why do they cook so many dishes?When the guests come to eat fresh, the family can also eat fresh.
However, Du's father smiled and comforted her, this is a matter of etiquette.If the guests come to the door and only make a few dishes, they will be laughed at.
Du Heng used to think that what Du's mother said was reasonable, but now he seems to understand Du's father a little bit.This is indeed a matter of etiquette, just take Du Heng as an example.He has worked so hard to prepare for this reunion dinner.Although he knew that Xuanyu and the others would not mind, he still wanted to do more.
It seems that if you cook more food, your life will be more stable and richer.
While tidying up, Du Heng said to Xuanyu: "Xuanyu, tell me, should we cook one meal at a time for Chinese New Year next year, or cook more?"
Xuanyu was busy putting the dishes on the shelf of the refrigerator, he thought for a while and said: "I think it's all right. If you cook every meal, you will have to work every meal. If you cook more, you will usually be tired. I hope you can relax a bit."
Du Heng's smiling eyes became two slits: "I don't feel tired, I think I feel very good when I see everyone eating and drinking well."
After dinner, it became apparent that the cultivation world was not as good as his hometown.If this is in my hometown, after the reunion dinner, everyone will gather around the TV to watch TV programs.Speaking of those TV programs in my hometown, each channel has its own characteristics!
As soon as I turned on the TV, singing, dancing, and opera chatting, the whole family sat around the TV series, chatting, laughing, eating snacks and watching the show...
But in the world of comprehension, after eating, Du Heng could only stare at everyone.
Du Heng asked weakly: "Well, can I ask, are there any programs when everyone observes the New Year in the past? Or let me ask another way, what did everyone do to observe the New Year?"
Chonghua sat cross-legged on a chair, he thought for a while and said, "Meditate, or go to Beishan for a visit?"
Yun Zheng pondered for a moment: "Meditating and practicing, several people can learn a few tricks together."
Lao Dao said: "Sometimes I also play mahjong with Lao Yun and the others, but generally I practice more in meditation."
Jing Nan propped his chin lazily: "Shou Sui? What else can I do? Of course I'm going to sleep." Well, this one fell asleep.
Feng Gui thought for a while: "Meditate, or go to Beishan for inspection, or play mahjong with them."
Xuan Yu honestly explained: "...sleep."
Smiling: "Tweet Chirp Chirp~~" Du Heng didn't understand what he was talking about, so this speech can be ignored.
Look, what a barren and tasteless New Year's Eve!Du Heng sighed: "In our hometown, New Year's Eve is the most relaxing time for the family. Everyone will get together to talk, laugh, drink tea, eat and watch programs."
Look at the sky, there are still two hours before the New Year's bell rings, right?What are you doing for so long?Is it possible to meditate with everyone?
Feng Gui said: "What do you mean watching a show?"
Du Heng explained: "It's just singing and dancing."
Feng Gui said: "What's so good about this? Do you like this?"
Du Heng nodded: "Isn't this a way to pass the time? It's better than just sitting around."
Feng Gui clapped his hands: "It's not easy, Yun Zheng, go and order some puppets."
Du Heng was taken aback. Does the puppet also have singing and dancing functions?As expected of the richest man in the village, he will enjoy it! !
While Yunzheng was going to order the puppets, Du Heng asked: "Just now you said to go to Beishan for inspection, do you want to go for inspection this year? Will the inspection take a long time?"
Chonghua said: "It doesn't take long, and an hour is more than enough to go back and forth. There is a saint temple on the top of Beishan Mountain. Every year during the Chinese New Year, we will burn incense for the saint. If we don't burn incense tonight, we will do it tomorrow morning." go."
Only then did Du Heng know that there was such a thing on the mountain behind his house?
Xuanyu took a deep look at Du Heng: "It's snowing today, so I won't go up the mountain. We will go up the mountain to offer incense when the snow stops tomorrow, so you don't have to go, the mountain road is difficult."
What else could Du Heng say, he could only nod regretfully: "Okay!"
At this time Yun Zheng led the puppets into the yard.Some of these puppets are wearing silk and bamboo instruments, and some are dressed in silk and satin.It was like a live concert was held in the courtyard of Xuanyu's house.
The walls of the surrounding courtyards were illuminated with spiritual lights, and the courtyard was clearly illuminated.Du Heng and the others moved from the kitchen to the hallway. Some of them moved the chairs, and some of them sat on the floor.Eight people were quickly seated in the hallway, and even Little Wonton and Big Chaos squeezed into the crowd to watch the excitement.
Du Heng was sitting on a chair, and there was a formation under the eaves. Even if it was snowing outside, he could not feel the cold.Besides, he still held a warm smile in his arms.
Suddenly, there was a sound of plucking a string like an explosion of ice cracking.It's hard to say which puppet spoke first, but Du Heng heard a female voice that sounded like a warbler's cry, and that female voice seemed to explode in his head.He felt his heart slowly calm down, and the puppet in front of him seemed to have become a living person.A picture unfolded in front of his eyes, and he was immersed in the story unconsciously.
The mellow female voice whispered a story.The story begins with a shambling man walking alone in a snowstorm.Du Heng couldn't see his face clearly, he only saw the man on his way wearing stars and moon and wind and rain.
The man climbed over the hills, walked over the stream, and through the thorny woods, until at last he came to the hut in the woods.He has two spiritual pets, one is a skinny yellow bird covered in fluff, which looks a bit like a slimmer version of Xiaoxiao.There was also a skinny fox dog. Du Heng distinguished it for a long time, and finally determined that it was a fox.
Seeing the man coming back, two spiritual pets got out of the dilapidated house and rubbed into the man's arms.
The man's life is poor, he is a low-level rogue cultivator, he can't stand the rules and regulations of the big sect, and he can't bear to go out with other rogue cultivators to be deceived.He usually earns some spiritual stones by teaming up with his companions to go to the ruins to find some treasures.
Whenever he earned some spirit stones, he would go to the town to exchange for some pills.The two spiritual pets in the family are too weak, and the yellow bird cannot grow its feathers due to lack of aura.Because of malnutrition, the fox looks like a wild dog, with its hair standing on end.
Even if he bought the best nourishing pills, he couldn't make them smooth.Raising a spiritual pet is already very expensive, let alone he has two?Fortunately, the two spiritual pets don't mind, their relationship is very good, even if they are poor, they still live happily.
Du Heng looked at the man sitting on the threshold, he took out a bunch of balls from his arms and handed them to the bird and the fox.The fox and the bird kissed each other and ate small meatballs, and the man propped his chin and looked at them and smiled.
Du Heng looked at the apparently ordinary picture, but felt that his eyes were slightly moist.He thought he could understand this man's mood. The simple life became warm because of someone he could care about. Although the spiritual pet could not speak or change form, it was the man's family and his concern.
The man under the lamp took out a jade bottle cherishingly, and poured out two pills from it. The man said: "I bought you a medium-grade Peiyuan pill, one pill for each of you. After eating this, you will be able to Get better. I made an agreement with them. I will go to the Hunyuan Realm in two days. There are no people there. My luck is always good and I will definitely find a lot of treasures. I will buy you more and better pills then. "
Du Heng couldn't see the man's face very clearly, he only saw the gentle smile on the corner of the man's mouth when he said this.
Du Heng thought, this man must be very gentle, he is so kind to spiritual pets, his heart must be very soft.
The three of them ate and lived together in a simple house in the mountains, and practiced together facing the rising sun, waving their arms, and went to the mountains to look for spiritual plants to exchange for spiritual stones.Noisy but extremely comfortable, until a few days later, the man was about to leave for the ruins.
The man stepped out of the gate with morning dew, and the little pets wanted to follow him, but he found them one by one from the road and drove them back home.
The man left, leaving a back view for the little animals at home. Every day, the two little animals took turns standing on the path up the mountain and staring at the mountain road...
Time passed day by day, and finally one day, a figure of a man appeared on the mountain path, and the man came back!They came back together with a small green snake with wizened chopsticks.
The man was in a mess and was covered in injuries. He scratched his hair and smiled foolishly: "I'm sorry, I didn't find the Lingbao. But I'll bring back a little friend for everyone!"
Seeing the little snake in the man's hand, the yellow chicken and the fox immediately exploded. They rushed forward and pecked the green snake out of the man's hand, tearing and biting it.
The picture came to an end, Du Heng turned around and saw Feng Gui frowning: "Don't watch this anymore."
Du Heng said: "It's very beautiful, let's continue."
Feng Gui vetoed with his hands in his hands: "No! Sing something pleasant."
The singing voices of the female historians were melodious, and their melodious voices quickly attracted everyone's attention.Du Heng looked sideways at Feng Gui, for some reason, he always felt that Feng Gui's eyes were full of loneliness.Could it be that the man has something to do with him?
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan again, but saw that Jing Nan was sleeping soundly with her head up and holding the little wonton.Amazing Jing Daxian'er, can he fall asleep with such a weird posture?
Du Heng turned his head to ask Xuan Yu, but he saw Xuan Yu was dozing off with his head down.Du Heng took a look at the courtyard, such a beautiful song, such a beautiful dance, how could Xuanyu fall asleep listening to it? ?
After a while, Du Heng himself fell asleep gradually amidst the melodious singing of the puppet.
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He had a dream, in which he was on his way with something in his arms.There was a fog all around, and a voice spoke to him in the fog: "Qing Heng, where are you going?"
Du Heng opened his mouth subconsciously. He wanted to speak, but his voice seemed to be suppressed and he couldn't speak.
He shook his hands anxiously, and the things in his arms fell to the ground, and then Du Heng also woke up.
He met Xiaoxiao's dazed eyes, and it turned out that he dropped Xiaoxiao to the ground when he was dozing off.Embarrassed, Du Heng reached out and picked up Xiaoxiao from the ground. He patted the snow on Xiaoxiao's body: "I'm sorry, my hands are slippery!"
Xiaoxiao is so considerate, he rubbed Du Heng's palm, and then nestled firmly in Du Heng's arms.
Xuanyu opened his eyes at some point. He looked at the puppets who were still singing and dancing in the courtyard and asked Du Heng, "Do you feel sleepy? If you are sleepy, take a shower and go to sleep."
He has already figured out Du Heng's biological clock. Du Heng is a person who goes to bed early and gets up early. He can fall asleep when he is lying on the bed. It is really embarrassing for him to watch the new year.
Hearing the word bath, Jing Nan woke up miraculously: "Hey? Take a bath? Let's go together! Fenggui, tell your puppets to stop for a while, let's go to your house to take a bath."
Du Heng: ... There is a bathhouse in his house, okay?
But when it comes to the environment of taking a bath, of course it's better for Feng Gui's home!So a group of people took small snacks and set off to Fenggui's Lingquan.
When Du Heng soaked in the warm spring water, he felt his troubles flew away.He looked to the left and saw Yunzheng and the others' muscular tendons, and glanced to the right and saw Fenggui Jingnan's strong abdominal muscles.
Du Heng looked down at his stomach, sorry, his stomach is as soft as Xiaoxiao's.After arriving in the village, he lived a very comfortable life. He seems to have gained weight...
The snowflakes are flying outside the Lingquan, and the warmth inside the Lingquan.Du Heng sat on the top step, pouring bath beans on his body.Just as he was about to hit behind him, someone took the bath beans from his hand.
Du Heng turned his head in surprise, but saw Xuan Yu appearing behind him.Xuanyu was standing on the next step, even so, his sight was on par with Du Heng.
Du Heng laughed when he saw Xuanyu, and Xuanyu was about to rub his back again.Xuanyu is really a good person. Every time he takes a bath at home, Xuanyu will help him make bath beans and rub his back.
Xuanyu's voice was a little low, and he said slowly: "Turn sideways."
Du Heng obediently turned sideways to reveal his white back: "Zhengchou can't reach the side of the shoulder blade, thank you Xuanyu." There is no way, with short hands, Du Heng can't reach his shoulder blade and the back of his heart every time.
Xuanyu was serious, it must be because the water temperature was too high, his cheeks and the back of his ears were slightly red from steaming.Xuanyu's palm curled up slightly, holding a fingernail-sized creamy bath bean in his palm.
He evenly smeared the bath beans on Du Heng's back and asked calmly: "The bath beans are almost gone, why don't you get a new one?"
Du Heng brushed his long hair and said with a smile: "Isn't this the last bit, don't waste it. I quite like the smell of this bath bean." It's just that after taking a bath, he looks like a big orange.
Xuan Yu replied: "Okay."
Xuanyu held the bath beans and wiped Du Heng's back twice, until Du Heng's back was covered with snow-white foam.The bath beans slowly melted in Xuanyu's palm, until finally Xuanyu's palm was flattened, and the last bit of bath beans was also wiped on Du Heng's body.
Du Heng exuded a strong orange smell, and his back was full of foam, Xuan Yu reached out and rubbed his back in the foam.The back was slippery, Xuanyu spread the foam evenly: "It should be spread evenly. I flushed."
Jing Nan and Feng Gui were chattering, Jing Nan picked up a bath bean and said to Feng Gui, "Come on, turn around, and I'll rub your back for you."
Feng Gui said helplessly: "Jing Nan, you smile like a bustard." Jing Nan slapped the bath beans on Feng Gui's back, and a good bath bean was flattened: "If I were a bustard, you would be a bustard." Girl in the building, turn around for me."
Xuanyu scooped up a spoonful of spiritual spring water and poured it on Du Heng's back. The warm spring water rushed the foam into the spiritual spring, and the foam quickly dissipated.The back of Du Heng's hand quickly became white and slippery.
However, Xuanyu took out a piece of loofah embedded in the cloth, and he pointed the side with the loofah to Du Heng's back.
Du Heng bared his teeth: "Ah, ah, be lighter, be lighter!!"
Xuanyu's hands are too strong, every time he rubs his back, it will be hot.I can only blame Du Heng for being too cruel to me, and I have to choose something different when rubbing my back.I don't know where he found an old loofah, but he turned it into a bath cloth. Of course, the effect of this thing is really good.
Xuanyu lightened his strength: "How about this?" Du Heng felt more comfortable: "Yeah, that's all."
The skin that Xuanyu rubbed just now was already red. Seeing Du Heng's back, Jing Nan sighed again: "Hurry up and build the foundation and form the alchemy. We are all innocent bodies, and you still have to rub the back."
Du Heng Bai returned to Bai, his current Bai and Jing Nan are not at the same level.Jing Nan and the others' skins were as moist and smooth as jade, and they couldn't get mud off at all.But Du Heng has not yet reached this level.
The corners of Feng Gui's mouth twitched: "If I had known that you were rubbing mud in my Lingquan, I would not have let you in."
Feng Gui, who is obsessed with cleanliness, has already climbed to the shore, and he will wait for Du Heng to clean up and wash before proceeding down.Otherwise, he felt that he would be stained by Du Heng's mud.
Yun Zheng and Lao Dao were happily soaking in the spiritual spring, with only one head sticking out of the water.Chonghua was still chewing while soaking his mouth, he sighed: "It would be great if I do this every time I observe the new year."
Xiaoxiao stealthily picked up an egg yolk cake, and he nodded while chirping: "Jiujiu!" Life with Du Heng in the village is really wonderful.
After everyone had finished soaking in the Lingquan, they returned to the living room of Xuanyu's house one by one.After a period of rest, everyone felt that they could hold some food in their stomachs again, but at this time, they didn't want to eat big fish and meat, but wanted to eat something plain and clean.
Especially Xiaoxiao, he drank a few bowls of porridge at night, although it was very delicious when served with water and pickles, he was not very hungry.Xiaoxiao moaned around Du Heng's legs, he opened his mouth and fluttered his wings, it was obvious that he wanted to eat something.
Du Heng asked Jing Nan with a smile in his arms: "Is Xiaoxiao's body okay? Can I eat?"
Jing Nan looked at it with a smile, and said, "There should be no problem, but you still have to be careful not to eat too greasy, so don't let him eat chicken feet and duck necks that are so spicy that they rise to heaven. Eat some noodles and soup. Classes are fine."
What's more, when I was soaking in the Lingquan just now, Xiaoxiao secretly ate several pieces of snacks!
Du Heng thought for a while: "Do you want to eat chicken noodle soup with a smile?"
At this time, as long as there is something delicious, everyone will come with a smile!Xiaoxiao drooled immediately: "Chirp!"
Smoke rose from the chimney again, and the puppets in the yard sang and danced very lively, but no one was watching in the corridor.Everyone gathered in the kitchen and stared at Du Heng making noodles.
The noodles are Longxu noodles that Du Heng has made long ago. The thin noodles are packed in small handfuls in a wooden box for storage.Each one is only as big as an adult's fist, but there are countless roots in one.
Jing Nan strolled to the side of the wooden box. He twisted a noodle and said, "It's so thin? It won't melt as soon as it's cooked, right? When did you cut this noodle? Why didn't we see it?"
They also ate a lot of Du Heng's noodles before, and they had never seen such thin ones. Jing Nan felt that Du Heng's noodles could be so thin that a needle could go through them.
Du Heng smiled and said: "Longxu noodles can't be boiled for a long time, and they will be cooked after a little blanching. This noodle is not cut out, but pulled out by pulling. This is already the simplest entry-level longxu noodle. Really elegant noodles have to be deep-fried. I think it’s troublesome, anyway, if there is a refrigerator to store it, it’s made like this, and it’s fine to take it out and cook it when you eat it.”
The water in the pot was already boiling, and Du Heng threw a handful of cleaned vegetable sprouts into it.The cabbage sprouts turn dark green after being boiled, and the color is very beautiful.
While he was blanching the vegetable sprouts, Du Heng took out eight medium-sized bowls.He added golden pork belly chicken fir chicken soup to the bowl, and the chicken soup was half a bowl full, because the chicken soup was still warm at this time because it was served out for dinner.After making the soup, he took out the vegetable sprouts from the pot and put them on the prepared plate.
At this time, he quickly threw eight balls of dragon beard dough into the wide water in the pot, and the dough sank to the bottom of the pot after entering the pot.Du Heng was not in a hurry, he prepared a strainer and long chopsticks and stood beside him. When the dough floated, he quickly scooped up the noodles, controlled the water, and threw them into the large bowl next to him.
The whole process was done in one go at a very fast speed. When Du Heng scooped up the noodles, he scooped them up along the middle of the noodles.When the noodles are placed in the bowl, they are not messy at all, and they are as neat as the noodles in the wooden box.
Du Heng put two blanched vegetable sprouts in each bowl.A stewed duck egg cut in half lay next to the dark green vegetable sprouts, filling a bowl full.The noodles are as white as jade, and the soup head is slightly yellow and the vegetables are green.It is obviously just a bowl of plain noodles without meat, but it makes people's index fingers move.
When Du Heng started to boil the water, the puppets outside began to sing a tune.When he shouted that his face was healed, the puppet song was not over yet.
Du Heng said with a smile: "The noodles are ready, come to the stove by yourself!"
Seeing the figure of Yaoxiu in the kitchen swaying, he turned his head and saw that there were only three bowls left on the stove.Xiaoxiao couldn't wait to transfer the bowl to the dining table, he squatted on the stove and ate the soup happily.
Xuanyu helped Du Heng bring the noodles to the table: "Sit down and eat."
Jing Nan drank the chicken soup: "Oh, it's really fragrant. How can this noodle be so thin?" Feng Gui was adding chili oil to the bowl: "Should it be cooked?"
Yun Zheng and Lao Dao ate the noodles with their heads depressed, they picked up all the noodles in the bowl with one chopstick.Seeing that all the noodles were picked up, the two burly men put down the chopsticks tacitly, and then carefully picked out a small chopstick and tasted it carefully.
Chonghua has already eaten half of the noodles: "It's delicious, but I don't feel full, that's all."
Du Heng said with a smile: "It was originally for everyone to eat snacks to satisfy their hunger, and when they have an appetite, they can eat other snacks."
Jing Nan sucked a chopstick of noodles: "I don't want to eat other dim sum, just this noodle, and two more bowls. Take a look at this bowl, it's too small."
Xiaoxiao also made a protesting chirping sound behind him. Du Heng looked back and saw that Xiaoxiao's bowl was empty.Xiaoxiao tweeted twice, he felt that the more he ate, the hungrier he became.
Du Heng ate the noodles calmly. He said slowly, "Do you really want to eat noodles? I wanted to cook seafood porridge. Do you really want to eat noodles?"
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Hearing that there is seafood porridge, although they have never eaten it, everyone chose seafood porridge tacitly.After all, everything you haven’t eaten is good, right?
Du Heng took a sip of the soup in a leisurely manner, and this is why he deliberately spared the noodles.He also thought about making a few more delicious and easy-to-digest foods. If everyone is full after eating noodles, everyone will be sleepy and dozing off again. How can they last until the New Year's bell rings?
Of course, there are no New Year's bells here.But at least for a while, right?
Needless to say, the soup of the dragon beard noodles, Du Heng cooked it with pork belly old hen and chicken fir bamboo shoots for an hour, and all the deliciousness was concentrated in a bowl of soup.There are too many things to eat at the reunion dinner. The charm of this pot of soup is covered by other ingredients, and it is only at this time that it shines.
Du Heng finished the stewed eggs and vegetable sprouts, and then finished the soup in the bowl.The sleepiness after taking a bath just now was diluted by the delicious taste, and Du Heng felt that he could have another bowl of seafood porridge again.Chonghua and the others sat in the corridor again, and the puppets were still singing and dancing hard.But after singing for so long, even if their voices sounded like heaven, everyone was bored.
Their eyes were now focused on Du Heng who was next to the casserole. The casserole in front of Du Heng exuded a spiritual light, and a scent of seafood wafted out. It didn't take long before they could drink a bowl of thick and delicious seafood porridge.
Lao Dao said happily: "I thought that the New Year's Eve dinner at night was already very satisfying, but I didn't expect that I would look forward to seafood porridge at this time."
When Du Heng's longxu noodles were cooked just now, Lao Dao ran the fastest.
Chonghua said meanly: "It would be great if we can still watch the New Year at Mr. Xuan's house next year. Then we don't need so many dishes. Mr. Du cooks one and we eat one."
As soon as the words fell, Xuanyu glanced at Chonghua, and all the hairs on Chonghua's back exploded.Xuan Yu said slowly: "Du Heng will be tired in that way."
Chonghua could only smile embarrassingly: "That's all I said, but the reunion dinner is actually quite delicious. Everything Mr. Du cooks is delicious."
The aura next to the casserole was intermittent, which proved that the formation was not fully activated.It's not that there is something wrong with Xuanyu's formation, but that making seafood porridge is not as good as making white porridge, and the process of seafood porridge is a bit complicated.
Du Heng took out a plate of shrimp shells and shrimp heads, which he peeled off when he made three-sided buns last time.He kept saying that he wanted to fry it into shrimp oil, but he never found a chance to fry it.Now I finally found the right opportunity.
Du Heng added a little soybean oil to the casserole, and he sprinkled a little shredded ginger in it.The shredded ginger was sizzling in the oil pan, Du Heng stir-fried it a little with a wooden spoon, and then poured the shrimp shells and shrimp heads into the casserole.
There was a crackling sound in the casserole, and white oily smoke came out of the pot.Du Heng carefully stir-fried the shrimp shells and heads until the soybean oil in the pot turned from golden yellow to slightly orange, and the shrimp oil was ready.
Because there were a lot of shrimp heads fried this time, Du Heng was afraid that it would be troublesome to pick them up.So before adding water, he picked out the crispy fried heads and shells from the casserole.There was only orange-red shrimp oil left in the pot, and the shrimp heads and shells were enough to fill a plate.Just a sprinkle of cumin and paprika makes a nice little snack.
Du Heng looked at Xiaoxiao habitually, Xiaoxiao's eyes were shining, and he was waiting for Du Heng's call to eat the shrimp head.Then Du Heng ruthlessly ignored Xiaoxiao: "Besides Xiaoxiao, does anyone eat shrimp heads and shells? It's very calcium-rich."
Xiaoxiao's face immediately collapsed, and he could only watch helplessly as Yun Zheng and the others carried away a plate of glowing red shrimp shells and shrimp heads.Listening to the sound of them eating shrimp heads, I smiled and sucked my saliva. This must be the best shrimp in the world, right?Xiaoxiao decided that if Du Heng fried shrimp oil again next time, all the shrimp heads would be his!
Du Heng mixed half of the pot of boiling water into the pot, and there was a layer of orange-red oily flowers floating on it.With this layer of oil flowers, the porridge will be more delicious.
At this time, Du Heng poured the washed Ling rice into the pot, and the formation was activated, and the rice in the pot began to roll up and down.Du Heng poured a little white wine into it, and then went to prepare other ingredients.
He took out a plate of shrimps from the refrigerator, as well as a winter bamboo shoot and half a chicken fir mushroom.He diced the winter bamboo shoots and chicken fir, and by the time he finished processing these ingredients, the rice grains in the pot had already swelled.
Du Heng poured chicken fir winter bamboo shoots and shrimps into the pot, and under the action of the array, you can see that the swollen rice grains are mixed with red shrimps and other two ingredients.Du Heng added some salt and pepper to it, and he took a spoonful of porridge from the pot and let it cool down: "Smile, let's try the taste."
Xiaoxiao flapped her wings and flew over. Everyone couldn't help but want to laugh at that small appearance.
After drinking the spoonful of porridge with a smile, Du Heng asked with concern: "How is it?"
Xiaoxiao tweeted twice, Xuanyu translated: "Xiaoxiao seems to have no taste."
Hearing Xiaoxiao's feedback, Du Heng took another spoonful of porridge, and this time he tasted it.Hmmm...it did lack a little salt.
Du Heng added a little more salt to the pot, Xiaoxiao was finally satisfied this time.Just when Xiaoxiao thought that Du Heng was going to use the casserole to make seafood congee a success, Du Heng resorted to his big move.
The shallots he had spent more than half a month growing were finally edible. Du Heng planted the tender shallots in a wooden frame and placed them on the window sill of the verandah.Now the chives are only seven or eight inches long, and they are so green and lovely.
Du Heng carefully cut a handful of chives, he did not expect to be able to eat chives made by himself on New Year's Eve, what a surprise.
Du Heng cleaned the shallots and chopped them into pieces. While the formation in the pot was still working, he poured the shallots into the pot.The chives are quickly integrated into the seafood porridge, and the green chives also add a little freshness to the seafood porridge.
Xuanyu asked: "Is the seafood porridge ready?" Du Heng smiled and nodded, and Xuanyu carried the casserole into the kitchen.
The demon cultivators under the eaves rushed in, and the kitchen was noisy: "Give me a bowl first, I want a big bowl!" "Xuanyu, have a bowl."
Suddenly Du Heng heard a long bell ringing, he looked up to the sky suspiciously: "Where did the bell come from?"
Could it be that there are really some New Year's bells in the demon world?
Chonghua snatched a bowl of porridge quickly with his eyes and hands, and he slipped onto the verandah and was drinking the porridge circling around the bowl: "Oh, is it New Year's already?"
Du Heng asked: "There was a bell just now... What is that?"
Chonghua said: "The demon god's subordinates will ring the ancient Donghuang bell every year when the old and the new change, to tell the people of the demon world that the new year is coming. The sound you hear is the Donghuang bell."
Du Heng exclaimed: "It turns out that the demon world also has New Year's bells, which is great."
The sound of the bell was simple and melodious, and there was only one sound, but it seemed to hit Du Heng's heart.Du Heng stood under the eaves of the corridor and felt the lingering sound, and he even hoped to hear it again.
Xuanyu walked to Du Heng with a bowl of porridge, and there was a wooden spoon on the porridge.Xuan Yu asked slowly: "Are you listening to the bell?"
Du Heng turned his head and his eyes sparkled: "Yes, I didn't expect the New Year's bell to ring in the demon world. By the way, Xuanyu..."
Du Heng showed his white teeth, and he smiled like a spring flower: "Happy New Year!"
With bowls in their hands, the demon cultivators responded to Du Heng with smiles: "Happy New Year!!"
The seafood porridge was boiled just right, and Du Heng fell in love with Xuan Yu's formation.With this formation, his cooking time can be greatly reduced in the future.It's just that this formation can only be engraved on the casserole. If it is engraved on the stove, it will conflict with other formations in the house.
At this time, the seafood porridge tasted a little hot, Du Heng put the porridge on the dining table, and he slowly waited for the porridge to cool down while stirring the porridge bowl.At this time, a spoonful of porridge appeared in front of him, and a shrimp was lying on the porridge.
You don't need to look up to know it's Xuanyu, Xuanyu said: "This bowl of mine is already warm, can you taste it?" Du Heng was not polite, he opened his mouth and ate the spoonful of porridge.
The shrimps are crisp and tender, the porridge is salty and mild, the taste of pepper is just right, and the winter bamboo shoots and chicken fir in the porridge are delicious.From Du Heng's point of view, this is a successful pot of seafood porridge, not worse than the seafood porridge he had before.The porridge made in the casserole is thick, and a sip warms the stomach to the heart.
Xuanyu said to Du Heng in a slow voice: "Thank you for your hard work, and thank you."
Thank you Du Heng for bringing them so many delicious foods and such wonderful memories, and thank you for coming to Yishu Village and becoming a member here.Du Heng smiled and narrowed his eyes: "It's good that everyone likes it."
At this time, Jing Nan walked into the kitchen with a bowl in his hand: "Du Heng, we are going to set off fireworks, do you want to come and see them?"
fireworks?Du Heng's eyes lit up: "You have to see it!" Didn't expect that there are fireworks in the demon world?
Everyone gathered under the eaves of the corridor, everyone held a bowl of porridge in their hands, except for smiling.Xiaoxiao held a stick of incense in his mouth, and he was standing beside the wooden box in the courtyard.
So strange!There is actually something in the world that can make Xiaoxiao put down the food in his hand. It seems that the charm of fireworks is not small!
Smiling and looking at Feng Gui with bright eyes, Feng Gui nodded: "Come on!"
Smiling and tilting his head, the incense in his mouth touched the lead wire exposed on the top of the wooden box.Only hearing the sound of barking, Xiao Xiaosong ran to the bottom of the corridor eaves.He ran under the eaves of the corridor with his front feet, and the fireworks in the wooden box shot up into the sky with his back feet.
Just listening to the sound of '咻咻咻', there are thousands of golden lights above the wooden box soaring into the sky.Those golden lights rose rapidly, and by the time the light dissipated, they had turned into golden spots in the sky.
Just when Du Heng thought they would disappear without a sound, the light cluster exploded, only the rumbling sound was heard.The ball of light turned into colorful fireworks, and the sky was illuminated by the continuously blooming fireworks.Who would have thought that a small ball of light could blow up so big?
The wooden box in the courtyard was buzzing non-stop, and the fireworks in the sky were blooming one after another.Du Heng looked up at the sky, his eyes were sore that he couldn't bear to blink.
The entire display of fireworks lasted for as long as a cup of tea, and there were two or three hundred fireworks emerging from a small wooden box.When the fireworks dissipated, there was a smell of gunpowder in the air.Although it is a bit suffocating, compared with the youth just now, this is not worth mentioning.
Feng Gui drank it slowly
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