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At ten o'clock in the morning on New Year's Eve, Chen Liyu knocked on the door of Fang Xi's house with her son, and the door was opened in less than five seconds, revealing Mother Fang's surprised face.

"Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year, Auntie."

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year! Please come in."

Fang's mother enthusiastically let the two of them in, then turned her head and shouted to the kitchen: "Xiaoxi, don't mess with it, come out to greet the guests!"

Fang Xi poked his head out upon hearing the sound: "Aunt Chen, Ji Lingyang, Happy New Year!"

"Hey, Happy New Year." Chen Liyu took two bags from her son and handed them to Mother Fang: "I'm so sorry to bother you because it's the New Year's Eve. These are some New Year's goods."

"Look at what you said, I asked Xiaoxi to invite you here, so I will not bother you. Besides, our mother and I are so deserted on the night of the New Year's Eve, and the Chinese New Year needs more people to be lively." Mother Fang backed down twice She didn't push it, so she had to accept it. She put the things on the stool and turned to tell her son, "Xiaoxi, I will go to the room with you, Aunt Chen, to warm up. This..."

Ji Lingyang answered quickly: "Auntie can just call me Lingyang."

"Alright, the antelope, you will be with Xiaoxi."

"Ah."

After Fang's mother finished speaking, she dragged Chen Liyu into the room, and chatted enthusiastically while walking: "Sister Chen, I was born in 64, how about you?"

"I was in 61."

"Then the name 'Sister' is correct. Sister Chen, my name is Lin Jia, you can just call me by my name. By the way, Sister Chen, your accent doesn't sound like a local one. Where are you from?"

"My hometown is City X in the neighboring province."

"Coincidentally! My dad was originally from there, and he moved here after marrying my mom..."

The door slammed shut, leaving only two people in the living room.

Fang Xi sighed, and instructed Ji Lingyang: "You change your shoes first, then take off your coat, and come to the kitchen to help."

Ji Lingyang followed suit one by one, and when he entered the kitchen and saw a series of tools on the stove, he was immediately dumbfounded: "What are you doing?"

"Make egg dumplings, haven't you seen it before?" Fang Xi rolled his eyes at him, flicked his wrist skillfully, the egg liquid slid over the edge of the aluminum egg dumpling spoon, and after being baked by flames, a perfect shape was formed on the inner wall of the spoon. Hemispherical egg skin.Fang Xi picked up a small piece of meat and put it into the egg skin, tilted the spoon slightly, and used chopsticks to fiddle with one side of the egg skin, letting it fall to the other side, wrapping the meat inside naturally like a dumpling wrapper .After the overlapping egg skins are baked together by the hot air, pour the spoon into the plate next to it, and a standard egg dumpling will be out of the oven.

Fang Xi finished four or five egg dumplings quickly, took time to glance at Ji Lingyang, and asked, "Do you understand?"

"Why do I understand this?" Ji Lingyang was frightened before, but now he is a little gloating, he hugged his chest and laughed, "Hey, I didn't expect that you not only study well, but also cook well, you are really a 'good wife and mother'. "

Fang Xi: "Do you know what it feels like to be scalded by a red-hot aluminum spoon?"

Ji Lingyang: "..."

"It's rare for you to come here. It would be bad if I didn't leave you some souvenirs." Fang Xi pressed Ji Lingyang in his place, and forced the spoon into his hand, "Come, learn a little bit, and you can also be with others in the future." Bragging about being a cook."

Ji Lingyang has never touched this before, Chen Liyu always prepares the fish for him to eat, and removes the fish bone in the middle for him when cooking fish.He held up the spoon with trepidation on his face. He wanted to throw it away but was afraid of burning Fang Xi, so he could only shout verbally: "I won't do it! Why did I do this when I came to your house as a guest?!"

"Aunt Chen is here to be a guest, and you are here to be a cow." Fang Xi took the opportunity to press his head, and pretended to use his strength to take out a set of tea sets from the hanging cabinet next to him, "'Birth is not work. , It’s better to raise a pig.’ Have you heard this saying?”

"Of course I haven't heard of it!"

"It's okay, you'll hear about it today." Fang Xi brewed a pot of green tea and placed it on the tray along with the cup.

Before Ji Lingyang asked why, he heard the door open, and Lin Jia's voice came out mixed with the noise of the TV: "Son, make a pot..."

"Here we come." Fang Xi appeared at the door in a flash, and passed the tea tray over, "Be careful it's hot."

Lin Jia took the tray and praised: "Not bad, clever enough."

Chen Liyu wanted to reach out to pick it up, but was stopped by Lin Jia: "I'll just come, you go back and sit down."

Chen Liyu was worried about the two younger ones outside: "Why don't I go out and help out, how can the older ones let the children cook."

Lin Jia: "They are only allowed to work during the Chinese New Year. It's okay to study on weekdays. During the holidays, if you don't do something, you will grow up so tall. If you have a baby and don't work, it's better to raise a pig. You can't get used to it."

Chen Liyu: "This..."

Lin Jia: "Come in, come in, this show is really good, don't miss it."

"boom."

Fang Xi returned to the kitchen and patted Ji Lingyang on the shoulder: "Did you hear that?"

Ji Lingyang: "..."

Fang Xi: "Go to work."

Ji Lingyang looked down at the spoon in his hand, then at the bright flames, and swallowed.

Seeing him not moving for a long time, Fang Xi urged, "Why are you in a daze, hurry up."

"I do not know."

"I can't do it after watching it five times, no wonder it took so much effort to teach you." Fang Xi seized every opportunity to bury him, "Forget it, I will take you to do it once, watch carefully, and teach you to make croquettes."

Speaking of which, Fang Xi lay on Ji Lingyang's back, holding his two hands respectively, leading him to scoop up the egg liquid, and roasting it on the fire. Talking about the essentials.Step by step is meticulous and serious, and there is no mistake.

After one egg dumpling was finished, Fang Xi straightened up and asked with a smile, "Are you done?"

"I will, I will." Ji Lingyang stammered.When Fang Xi snickered and turned around to make minced meat, his face immediately twisted into a ball.

What a fart!Just now, Fang Xi pressed on his back, covering his back so warmly, the back of his neck was so hot that he was sweating.Forget it, he was still holding his hand.Because he was facing the fire all the time, Fang Xi's hand was also very warm, wrapping it around his hand, it was like putting his hand into a hot water basin immediately after a snowball fight outside, the nerves that were so cold that they were stiff were instantly thawed, From the fingers to the wrists are all numb, itchy when touched.The most frightening thing was that Fang Xi couldn't speak well, and insisted on talking close to his ears. The hot wind kept blowing into his ears, until his brains were almost cooked!

Learning to make egg dumplings is like taking a sauna, if you can learn it, you will be a ghost!

In order not to let Fang Xi look down, Ji Lingyang scooped up a spoonful of egg liquid and held it on the fire tremblingly. Because he didn't know when it would solidify, he just hung his wrist and kept roasting it.

Next to him, Fang Xi set up the frying pan, mixed the minced meat, squeezed the balls with one hand and scraped them with a spoon in the other, and was ready to pour them into the frying pan. Looking at Ji Lingyang, the spoon hadn't left the fire yet.

Fang Xi frowned and kicked him: "Are you asleep?"

Ji Lingyang didn't dare to move at all, so he turned his eyes sideways to glance at Fang Xi: "When is the egg skin ready?"

"Egg skin?" Fang Xi almost smeared the meat on his face, "The egg is already cooked! Pour it out quickly!"

Ji Lingyang moved away while shaking like Parkinson, and flipped the spoon into the plate.

"pat"

A spoonful of egg liquid was smashed on the plate, forming a plump and round hemisphere.

Ji Lingyang: "..."

Fang Xi: "You eat this stuff yourself."

Ji Lingyang twitched his neck: "I can eat as much as I want, and I won't let you eat if you want!"

"Remember not to eat what I made."

"Then I don't have any egg dumplings to eat!"

"Oh, so you know you can't eat what you cook."

"You! Just wait, I don't believe I can't make a few egg dumplings in one afternoon!"

……

After five o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was completely dark, and the kitchens of every household were lit up, and the sound of cooking gathered in the empty streets to form a river exuding tempting aromas.

The two mothers drove their sons who had been busy all afternoon out of the kitchen, and cooperated with each other to cook the prepared ingredients into plates of delicious dishes.Salty and chewy sausages, pig ears, tripe, stewed beef assortment, crispy fried sweet and sour fish topped with seasoned tomato sauce, crispy roast duck lined up early in the morning, and Chen Liyu's specialty dish four Xi balls, Lin Jia's bean curd meat rolls, and even Fang Xi contributed a plate of sweet and crispy fried corn. Of course, adding Ji Lingyang's meatballs, egg dumplings, mixed mushrooms, bamboo shoots and stewed cabbage is indispensable.

Four people sat around a table and toasted together in the steaming heat.

"Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!"

After taking a sip of Coke, Fang Xi put down the cup, searched around in the stewed cabbage, and before Ji Lingyang caught him, he quickly picked up an egg lump from it, and asked the two adults: "Mom, Aunt Chen, what do you guess?" What's this?"

The two looked at each other, and shook their heads together: "I can't guess, is it meat wrapped in eggs?"

Fang Xi chuckled, and put the egg dumpling into Ji Lingyang's bowl: "You open it yourself for everyone to see."

Ji Lingyang gave him a sad and angry look, and under the expectant gaze of the two mothers, he split the egg in half.

Lin Jia was the first to react and slapped the table with a smile.Chen Liyu observed for a few seconds, then looked at the egg skin and minced meat floating in the pot, and laughed along with "噗嗤".

Fang Xi smiled and put the "egg dumplings" with skin and meat separated into Ji Lingyang's bowl: "Come on, you made this. Oh, you made this one too, and this, this. Don't just sit there and eat it quickly, don't eat it again." I can't even fit the bowl!"

With a bitter face, Ji Lingyang stuffed the egg skin into his mouth, and grinned his teeth so hotly: "Flick the sleeves! Is there someone who roars the sleeves!"

As a result, the three of them laughed even louder.

After dinner, the four of them huddled together on the sofa to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and the coffee table in front of them was filled with various dried fruit snacks.

Lin Jia crossed her legs, and the trash plate was placed on her lap. She held melon seeds in her left hand, and put them into her mouth with her right hand. One "click", one "click", and the cracked skin fell directly into the trash tray. Even the effort to vomit is saved.

Chen Liyu was still a little reserved when she first came to someone's house, but Lin Jia kept urging her, so she also picked up the pistachios and peeled them.

Fang Xi stared at the chocolate and toffee, touched one every once in a while, and couldn't stop eating.

Ji Lingyang didn't like these things, he held the second treasure in his arms, and competed with walnuts wholeheartedly.Fortunately, Fang's family bought paper-skinned walnuts, otherwise he would have chopped his nails.It took a long time to peel off a small handful, and he picked out the whole walnut meat with the paper and handed it to Fang Xi.

Chen Liyu glanced at it, but said nothing.

Fang Xi picked up the walnut and poured it into his mouth, chewed it for a while, and swallowed it: "Not bad, a few more."

Ji Lingyang quit: "You don't even thank me!"

"I taught you how to make egg dumplings all afternoon, and I didn't see you thanking me."

"Hmph! If you want to eat it, peel it off yourself!"

"Thank you, why don't you just peel off quickly~"

"It's almost there."

The Spring Festival Gala is similar every year. All the songs that should be sung are sung, and all the dances that should be danced are also performed without delay. The cross talk sketches are still those old faces.

A few hours of chatting and laughing passed like that, and when it was approaching twelve o'clock, the four of them stopped talking at the same time, waiting for the host to start counting down.

"10"

"9"

……

"3"

"2"

"1"

"Ou!!!" There were cheers inside and outside the TV.

Almost as the first bell of the Year of the Monkey rang, the sky-shaking firecrackers sounded outside the window!The bright fireworks almost reddened the entire night sky, and a group of people holding fireworks and firecrackers poured out on the deserted street just now, running and screaming to welcome the arrival of the new year.

Lin Jia threw the melon seeds away, rushed to the balcony, picked up a big box and ran back, waved her arms: "Everyone get dressed! Let's go outside and set off a firecracker!"

Chen Liyu: "Now?"

Ji Lingyang: "Alright!"

Fang Xi: "My mother, when did you buy it?"

Lin Jia grabbed a firework stick and threw it on his son's head: "Whether you want to play or not, hurry up! Fireworks will be banned in the urban area next year, so you don't have to play if you want to!"

"Play! Of course I want to play!"

The four of them were all dressed up, and each of them ran out the door holding a bundle of fireworks.

When I got to an open place, I didn't bother to tell which one was which, so I grabbed one and clicked it, and there was a "rumbling" and "crackling" sound for a while.

Fang Xi took a bunch of lighters that were about to run away. He took a lighter, lit one and ran away, waited for a few bangs, and then took another one, and continued to run after lighting. Tired of running first.Fang Xi moved the remaining fireworks to Lin Jia's side, and found a place to sit and watch them play.

Ji Lingyang followed him without knowing what to do, and sat side by side with him by the flower bed.The two people looked up at the red, green and green fireworks in the sky, and they burst into a beautiful flower with a "bang", illuminating the night sky with a short life, and then quickly extinguished, turning into a cloud of gray smoke drift away.

Fang Xi turned to look at Ji Lingyang.The multicolored light shone on the already angular face, softening the boundary between the past and the future. For a moment, Fang Xi seemed to see Ji Lingyang ten years later. To die together, to hate the man who wished never to see him again.

"I thought of it." Fang Xi said suddenly.

Ji Lingyang tilted his head to look at him, and asked curiously, "What did you think of?"

"I thought, what is the third condition I want to mention."

"What is it?"

"I think……"

"Crack, crack, crack, crack!"

The sound of a series of firecrackers exploding covered Fang Xi's unfinished words. Not far away, Lin Jia rushed towards this direction with a [-]-ring firecracker, and she shouted as she ran, "What are you guys doing?" Can’t talk about it tomorrow? Hurry up and play!”

Even Chen Liyu raised a "golden cudgel" to the sky, "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Xiao Yang, quickly bring Fang Xi over to play." She happily waved to the two of them.

"Let's go over there, or my mother will throw firecrackers on us." Fang Xi stood up and reached out to Ji Lingyang, "Come on, let's go together."

Ji Lingyang stared blankly at Fang Xi, with a faint but warm smile on his face against the light.Ji Lingyang raised his arm and put his hand lightly on Fang Xi's.The moment they met, Ji Lingyang's heart was a little turbulent.

This will be the happiest year of my life.

Holding Fang Xi's hand firmly in his palm, Ji Lingyang smiled.