Bianshanhan [farming]

There are officers and soldiers in the border town from all over the country. Although there is no specific festival, the food is very good in the past few days. There is a lot of meat in the dishes, and there is a pot of stewed chicken on each table at noon.

Old Xingtou didn't care about stewed chicken, and everyone from the stables and cowsheds came to Jiang Liping and the others.

When the dumplings were about to be made, the night was already dark, and the kitchen work was over, so they also came over secretly with the iron pan, and met Chen Wen on the way, and they all knew what they were here for, and they knew each other tacitly.

Guo Dayong and the others also got started, and the dumpling-makers crowded into a pile, but Li Qingwen didn't go in, and took out the fish in the bucket to make a pickled fish.

The custom in his hometown in his previous life is that there must be fish during the Chinese New Year, which means that there will be more than every year. He also loves to eat fish, and his grandma cooks him various flavors in different ways...

Thinking of the past, Li Qingwen was a little dazed, it was already his second year here.

It's so fast, he has been busy all the time, and he has no time to think about it.

Although I still don't have a copper coin in my pocket, life is much better than when I first came here, and it will definitely get better and better in the future!

He was thinking about it when he suddenly saw a long shadow on the ground in front of him.

"Brother." Li Qingwen yelled before turning his head, and he saw Jiang Cong standing at the door.

"I'm here to get fish, you take a rest." Jiang Cong went into the back room, squatted on the ground and opened his mouth, and Li Qingwen put a bench under his buttocks.

Li Maoxian was not idle at all when he came here, he knocked and made a lot of seats and benches, not to mention, having these things really saved a lot of energy in normal times.

Jiang Cong's hair grew a little longer, and it would fall down when he was working. Li Qingwen raised his hand from time to time to push his naughty hair back.

"It's okay." Jiang Cong said, and hooked another bench with his foot to let him sit next to him.

A lot of candles have been made, but the smoke in the back room is heavy, and the pine lights are still used, not very bright.

Under the halo, Jiang Cong's eyebrows were straight and his nose was straight, and he was even more handsome than when he first met, and his serious appearance made people unable to help but look at him more.

Li Qingwen couldn't help it, sat on the bench, rested his face on his left hand, and tilted his head to look at his brother.

Jiang Cong finished packing one and turned to look at him. Li Qingwen smiled unconsciously.

Their legs were touching, Li Qingwen smiled, and Jiang Cong couldn't help but bend his lips. Both of their hands were dirty, or else they really wanted to rub this hairy head.

Although he couldn't rub it, Jiang Cong still took a second look.

Li Qingwen is too familiar with this look, "Brother, you rubbed it last time, my hair never fell out...".

Li Qingwen has a lot of fluffy hair on his head, which looks like an extra layer of fluff under the lamp. Jiang Cong, Li Maoxian, Li Qingrui, Li Qinghong, Jiang Liping...all of them like to rub Li Qingwen's hair, and the fluff is always fluffy Puffy.

Because of this, Ma Yongjiang gave him various nicknames. Of course, he didn't dare to speak out, for fear of being hammered to death by Li Qingfeng.

"If you don't dislike it, apply some oil..." Before he finished speaking, Jiang Cong saw the people around him pouted and said with a smile, "Just wait until these short ones grow long."

It has been growing for more than a year, and the long ones are still long, and the short ones are endless. After being wet, they can lie down, and when they dry up, they become even more fierce.

Li Qingwen thought about his hair for a while, then turned his gaze to Jiang Cong's head...

After a while, he said: "Brother, let me tie your hair so it won't fall apart in the future."

With Jiang Cong's approval, Li Qingwen went to find the hemp rope. It was a bit ugly, but there was nothing else that could be used.

Jiang Cong sat up straight, Li Qingwen used his fingers as a comb, pulled his hair back and tied it with hemp rope.

This way, it is really refreshing.

After piercing, Li Qingwen went to the front to appreciate his handicraft, but he was stunned after taking a look.

Without the cover of the hair, Jiang Cong's forehead was completely exposed, the brow bones were particularly prominent, the facial features were deeper, and the profile was sharp. At first glance, it seemed too stern.

After Jiang Cong finished handling the fish, Li Qingwen was still in a daze. Seeing him get up, he quickly stood up to scoop up water to rinse the fish.

There is a wall separated by a few miles in front of the noise can be heard, but the back room is very quiet.

After the dumplings in front were finished, Li Qingwen immediately prepared the ingredients for the fish, while Jiang Cong burned two pots at the same time, so there was no confusion.

Li Maoqun and Guo Dayong came to the back to chop the garlic, smashed it and divided it into three bowls, and poured soy sauce into the bowls.

It is a custom in Bingzhou to eat dumplings and dip them in this.

There are too many dumplings and not enough curtains, so they are placed on the wooden board one by one after wrapping.

The other pots were all stewed with meat, Li Qingwen used the only iron pot to make fish, and the pot brought by the kitchen staff cooked dumplings.

It was estimated that it was midnight, and the New Year's Eve dinner that had been prepared for a whole day finally started.

The dishes are very simple, a pot of stewed big bones with sauerkraut, a pot of stewed meat, a pot of sauerkraut fish, a pot of pheasant stewed with mushrooms, and a pot of roe deer meat in sauce. Each serving is very solid, and the stewed meat and bones are still outstanding.

Rice is dumplings, dumplings with sauerkraut and oil residue and dumplings with meat stuffing.

It's a bit crowded to sit seven or eight men on a kang table, but this time the picture is full of excitement.

The dishes were served at the same time, and everyone picked up their chopsticks in unison. This time, Chen Wenxue behaved himself and stopped talking.

Guo Dayong had eaten enough sauerkraut, and there were no sauerkraut dumplings on the table, so he picked up a meat dumpling immediately after starting the machine, no matter the steam was still on top, he bit it down, first there was a broth with oil stars floating in it, and there was A huge meatball made of porcelain.

Regardless of burning his mouth, he bit down the meatball, and a puddle of saliva came out of Xiang's mouth.

As he ate, his eyes became hot for some reason, and he suddenly said, "I ate more meat this winter than my grandfather ate in his entire life... This trip is really worth it!"

The folks beside him all nodded in agreement.

Li Qingwen only felt that these words were familiar, as if someone said it during Chinese New Year last year...

"Let's earn money here, so that everyone in the family can eat meat!" Someone shouted.

After shouting, everyone ate more vigorously!

The food was on the rise, and there were guests, Zhou Fengnian and his two guards.

The room fell silent immediately, Jiang Liping and the others put down their chopsticks, just as they were about to go to the ground, Zhou Fengnian took off his cloak and said, "Don't move, don't move, just keep eating, do you mind adding me?"

How could everyone say they minded, and hurriedly moved their buttocks outside the table, forcing out a space, Zhou Fengnian was not polite, and sat in the middle of the kang.

"It's late at night, and you're the most lively here." Zhou Fengnian took the chopsticks handed over by Jiang Liping, and said with a smile, "Don't blame me for coming here uninvited. Can't sleep at all."

Everyone in the room laughed, Lao Sun picked out a good bowl to hold dumplings for him, Zhou Fengnian saw that there was no wine on the table, and asked his guards to get the wine.

One of his guards had already sat at another table, and the other one was a step too late and had to take on this drudgery. Gao Yubao asked two people to fetch wine with the guards.

Sir General Can't eat their leftovers, even though Zhou Fengnian said don't bother, he quickly put down the dishes and refilled them.

Of course, there was nothing left in their pot, they just went to the back and turned the dishes...

When the wine came, Chen Wen poured wine for Zhou Fengnian, Zhou Fengnian said: "You guys are treating each other more favorably than others, call Chen Wen not me, he eats a lot more than me."

"My lord is wrong, I came here by myself." Chen Wen admitted with a smile.

The non-drinkers at Zhou Fengnian's table changed seats with those who liked to drink at other tables, and then continued to move their chopsticks, eating what they should eat and drinking what they should drink.

After drinking for three rounds, the unnaturalness of having a different identity at the beginning gradually disappeared, everyone let go, and the voices were as loud as before.

Ma Yongjiang saw that Li Qingfeng's mouth was covered with soy sauce, and it seemed to be very delicious. He also dipped the dumplings into the soy sauce bowl, and accidentally poked two pieces of crushed garlic. When he put it in his mouth, it was spicy to his tongue.

Hu Lichuan told him to be jealous to relieve spicy food, so Ma Yongjiang went to pour some vinegar, dipped the dumplings in vinegar, and was surprised, it tasted even better!

After Li Maoxian finished eating a bowl, Li Qingwen was about to move when Li Qinghong held him down, "Sit down, I'll serve it."

At this time, everyone was [-]% to [-]% full, not as busy as before, and they were all talking to each other. Although Li Qingwen didn't put down his chopsticks, it was almost the same. He asked, "Dad, do these dumplings taste the same as the ones at home?" ?”

Li Maoxian was taken aback, and said with a smile: "The taste is almost the same, but it is much more fragrant. The oil and water in one can match a bowl of ours..."

Thinking of his son not staying at home for a year after he got well, he felt a little uncomfortable, but Li Maoxian knew that his son lived happily here and did not suffer any grievances.

Thinking about it this way made me feel better.

Li Maoxian was fine, Li Qingwen felt a little sour after asking, wondering how mother and elder brother were doing at home...

As soon as the corner of his mouth drooped, Li Maoxian said: "Don't worry about the family, your mother is very capable, every time I go out, I feel at ease about the family."

When the freshly cooked dumplings came to the table, Li Maoxian gave Li Qingwen some of the warm ones in his bowl, "Eat more, son."

She was almost full and couldn't sit still on the kang. Someone went down for a walk. Zhou Yao was still gnawing on the bones, and pointed to a wooden box next to her table with her chin, "If you feel uncomfortable, you can eat some of this."

Today's Chinese New Year, Zhou Yao can't squeeze with men, so she can only have a small table by herself, and she enjoys eating alone.

People at many tables dispersed. Some people at Jiang Liping's table drank too much, wept bitterly, with snot and tears.

Even though the days here are better than at the beginning, but after all, I am guilty and unable to go home, and I am thousands of miles away from my relatives. At this moment, I can't suppress the feeling of longing in my heart.

Jiang Liping asked someone to carry the crying one down, and said to Zhou Fengnian, "I made my lord laugh."

Zhou Fengnian also drank a lot, his face turned red, he waved his hands and said: "Anyone is unhappy in his heart, and it is good to cry out. You see, I am leisurely and carefree, but I am not. I came to this place to hide from disaster. It's... well, it's all difficult, it's all difficult."

"Don't think that it's miserable for you to fall here... Some places are more dangerous. If you accidentally lose your head, you will know in a few years..."

Drinking while complaining, but getting more and more sober, is really helpless.

One of the guards heard Zhou Fengnian's words and came over and said: "My lord, you should be happier when you're drinking, because it hurts your health."

"I know you are afraid that if I say too much, it will be true!" Zhou Fengnian raised his red eyes and said, "I am eating, drinking and having fun in the capital, and I don't recruit anyone, and I am forced to This place where the bird doesn't shit, you have to keep your mouth shut, you're almost useless!"

The guard stopped persuading, and smiled wryly with Jiang Liping and the others. Chen Wen and Lao Sun began to persuade Zhou Fengnian, don't think so much, drink!

Li Qingwen had finished eating long ago, and was a little sleepy. The wine table was still there, so he leaned on Li Qinghong and nodded non-stop.

Jiang Cong leaned over and touched his forehead, and told him to sleep in another room, it was a bit noisy here.

Li Qingwen shook his head while yawning, "If I'm really sleepy, this little movement is nothing."

Jiang Cong tore off the pillow and quilt and let him lie down.

Li Qingwen was really sleepy, he closed his eyes and fell asleep after a while.

He didn't know if he was asleep, but these people are still talking about business after drinking like this!

They all slept late, and on the second day, some people got up as usual, and most of them lay down for a while. When it was almost noon, Li Qingwen was the only one in the whole room who was still under the covers.

Even Li Maoxian didn't call him, he should eat and sleep at this age.

Ma Yongjiang is very envious, but he has to practice, and he can afford it no matter how reluctant he is.

I thought there should be some left over after making those dumplings, but in the end there were only a few dozen left, that is to say, it was enough to eat.Of course, if Zhou Fengnian and the others didn't come, there might be an extra three to five catties left.

After the new year, the day of patrolling is getting closer and closer, and Li Maoxian's going back has to be discussed carefully.

People who have traveled back and forth between Border Town and Bingzhou think that snow is better, but last time Li Maoqun and the three brothers went back together, this trip may only be Li Maoxian.

Li Maoqun and Li Qingwen wanted to farm here, so they couldn't run back and forth. Li Qingfeng felt that he had just arrived and had done nothing, so he didn't want to go back like this. Li Qinghong wanted to help his younger brother farm, but he was worried that his father would go back alone...

Guo Dayong and the others have worked so hard to come here, so naturally they have to do something here.

Jiang Cong had already inquired clearly about when and where the guards would leave the border town, and there were two groups of people who seemed to be quite reliable. Of course, it depended on Li Maoxian's plan.

Li Qingrui and Mrs. Chen were at home, and Li Benshan and his family were there to help. Li Maoxian didn't worry about his family, he cared more about whether his youngest son's land was well planted.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Maoxian decided not to leave for the time being, until the beginning of spring when the land was planted.

He had traveled such a long way, and he couldn't just take a look and go back.

Li Maoxian will stay for another six months. Although Li Qingwen and his three brothers are conflicted in their hearts, they are all very happy.

Jiang Cong was also a little relieved.

We had a dumpling meal during the Chinese New Year, and everyone couldn't forget it, so Li Qingwen asked them to chop the stuffing, wrap the dumplings and put them on the outside to freeze, and bring them with them when they went out to patrol, just find a jar and put some snow in it, and they can eat it after cooking, it's not too bad trouble.

At the thought of patrolling, Ma Yongjiang collapsed on the kang weakly, Li Qingfeng looked at him impatiently, "Why are you so afraid of this, don't be so scared, I will go for you."