Qing Jialu

The next day will be New Year's Eve, which is a big day to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.Everyone got up early in the morning and actively cleaned up the room.Sticking window grilles, writing couplets, hanging lanterns... Under the command of Kapok, everyone arranged this temporary home very festively, and it immediately felt like a new year.

But furnishing the house is not enough, we have to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, which can be difficult for a group of old men who are far away from the kitchen.When Kapok saw this, it was not difficult for everyone. He slightly changed the traditional must-have dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, and said to everyone: "It's the first time everyone is out for the New Year, so let's not pay too much attention. Hibiscus and I will prepare a few hard dishes, and the staple food Just eat dumplings."

"It's good to eat dumplings." Shen Jia raised both hands in agreement, "Just yesterday the village chief gave pork, and Aunt Zhang gave cabbage, so we can have pork and cabbage stuffed dumplings."

"Okay, that's it." Kapok agreed, "Then... who can make dumplings?"

As soon as this remark came out, except for Kapok and Hibiscus, everyone else looked at me and I looked at you, and they all bowed their heads in silence.

Kapok had already expected this kind of result, and he really couldn't expect these men to know how to make dumplings.

Mu Mian said with her hips on her hips: "My sister and I only have two hands. It is impossible to cook and make dumplings at the same time. You must contribute."

"I'm willing to learn, Kapok, please teach me how to make dumplings." Ouyang Xing was the first to recommend himself.

"I've actually seen other people make dumplings, and I know a little bit." Shen Jia also said.

"I can chop vegetables and chop meat." Doctor Fan thought for a while, and finally thought of something he could do.

"I can meet." Wei Mo finally said.

Kapok liked everyone's active working attitude very much. She nodded and said, "Very well, then we will divide the work and cooperate."

So, Dr. Fan went to chop the meat, while Du Huan was cutting the Chinese cabbage.Wei Mo has great strength, so he was entrusted with the task of making dough, while Ouyang Xing learned how to roll dumpling wrappers from Kapok.

Shen Jia and Xiao Yi were in charge of making the dumplings at the end, and they were fine for the time being, playing with Nuan Nuan in the lobby.

"It's been a long time since so many people celebrated the New Year together. I used to spend it alone, alone." Xiao Yi looked at everyone busy in the kitchen, and was filled with emotion for a moment.In the past, the New Year was spent in the palace. Although the Forbidden City was very large, it was too deserted.

While teasing Nuan Nuan, Shen Jia retorted: "Didn't I celebrate the New Year with you? You won't forget, right?"

"You said that time." Xiao Yi looked at Shen Jia with a smile on his face, "How could I forget, after all, it was the first time for us..."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Shen Jia hurriedly coughed a few times, interrupting Xiao Yi's unspoken words, "The child is here, don't talk nonsense."

Xiao Yi saw that Shen Jia's face was blushing, and teased him with a half-smile, "I thought you forgot."

"In the future, I will accompany you to celebrate the new year, and you can also invite everyone to enter the palace to celebrate the new year together. It is guaranteed to be lively and lively, and the atmosphere will be enhanced."

"That's a good proposal, I agree."

Shen Jia glared at Xiao Yi, then looked at King Su who was beside him, "Your Highness, you haven't celebrated the New Year with a group of people before, have you?"

King Su nodded obediently, "In the past, only my mother and concubine were the only ones watching the New Year's Eve. It was really deserted. And we had to observe the rules in the palace, so it couldn't be fun."

"You can have fun this year, in the fields and countryside, you can go wherever you want." Shen Jia said.

"Really?" King Su's eyes lit up, and he looked at his second brother cautiously.

Xiao Yi nodded, as a tacit consent.

Shen Jia said, and handed Nuannuan to Su Wang, "Take your sister out to play, and I will ask you to come back for dinner after the dumplings are made."

"Understood." After hearing this, King Su happily took Nuan Nuan out to play.

"Sister?" Xiao Yi's ears were sharp, and he immediately corrected the mistake, "Is the seniority wrong?"

"Ah, it seems to be oh, so what should it be called?" Shen Jia thought for a long time, and finally waved her hand, "It doesn't matter, if the seniority is chaotic, just chaotic, don't worry about it!"

Xiao Yi, who was demoted for no reason: "...I care, you did it on purpose."

Shen Jia laughed loudly: "You can see all of this."

After Dr. Fan and Du Huan finished chopping the meat and vegetables, and Mu Jin helped mix the stuffing and seasoning, the dumpling wrappers over there were also rolled out.Xiao Yi and Shen Jia washed their hands and began to learn how to make dumplings under the guidance of Mu Mian.

I saw kapok's skillful hands gently pinching, pinching, and wrapping, a small and exquisite dumpling was wrapped.

Shen Jia and Xiao Yi looked at each other, what did kapok do just now, why did it wrap it up?

"Do you understand?" Kapok asked intimately.

The two shook their heads blankly.

Kapok sighed inwardly, and said patiently, "I'll slow down and demonstrate again."

So, one time, two times, three times... At the end of the unknown number of times, Shen Jia and Xiao Yi finally made a strangely shaped dumpling.Although the appearance is a bit ugly, but after all, there is no broken skin, and it is enough to eat.

Kapok knew that he shouldn't have too high demands on them, so he pretended to be blind, and encouraged him: "Very well, just leave it at that, I'll go to other things."

After the kapok left, Xiao Yi was quite frustrated, "I think learning the bird gun is easier than making dumplings. How can the kapok make it so well and quickly?"

Shen Jia expressed the same feeling, "I also feel that making dumplings is much more difficult than writing articles by heart."

"It seems that I have found something that neither of us is good at." Xiao Yi teased with bitterness.

Shen Jia looked serious, "No, I must learn how to make dumplings. From now on, I will practice making dumplings every day for you to eat."

Xiao Yi was moved when he heard it, but when he saw Shen Jiabao's crooked dumplings, his emotion disappeared without a trace.

"You don't have to, you'd better eat it by yourself." Looking at the shape of the dumplings, Xiao Yi lost his appetite.

Shen Jia: "..." I was disgusted.