The little man on the apex

In the past few days after the year, the private school was on holiday, and Yuan Xi took the children to run around the village all day long, setting off a lot of small firecrackers.

Gouwa took apart the firecrackers one by one, lighted one quietly, and threw it at a child's feet to startle them.

All the children in the private school have been frightened by Gouwa, and even Yan Heyi was thrown firecrackers by Gouwa at his feet when Yan Heyi was studying in her yard. Yan Heyi was so angry that he caught him and asked him about homework for a long time.

There was only one person Gouwa didn't dare to provoke, and that was Xiaoyue.

Since the last time, Gouwa has almost become Xiaoyue's little guard, barking "auntie" all day long, quietly giving her any delicious food, which made the children joke that they should change his name to Goulegzi .

When this matter reached Zhao Jing's ears, his sword-like eyebrows immediately became sharper.

One day, Gouwa came home from outside, but was carried away by Zhao Jing covering his mouth on the way.

Zhao Jing brought him into Niu Er's house, but Brother Sheng didn't show up in the kitchen, and Niu Er was grinding a sickle in the yard, so scared that Gou Wa almost peed his pants.

Yuan Xi and Zhou Ziyu quietly hid in the room, lying behind the screen to watch the excitement.

I saw Zhao Jing with a straight face and clenched fists, somewhat similar to bandits, and Gou Wa stood in front of him with his neck curled up, like a little chick.

Zhao Jing threatened Gouwa and said nonsense, "I think when I went out to wander around, there was a lot of blood on the knife", and "Xiaoyue is my own sister, if any kid dares to play tricks on her , let him taste his own fist" and so on.

In the end, Zhao Jing pretended to let Gouwa sit down again, stuffed him with a bag of candies, and said that he was called here just to ask if anyone in the private school bullied Xiaoyue.

Gouwa shook his head like a rattle, repeatedly promising that as long as he was around, no one would dare to bully Xiaoyue.

After Zhao Jing let him go, Yuan Xi and Zhou Ziyu came out from behind the screen and sighed helplessly at the same time.

Zhou Ziyu frowned slightly, "Xiao Jing, I'm afraid this kid thought you asked him to help protect Xiaoyue."

Yuan Xi nodded, "Now, this kid is going to pester Xiaoyue even more."

"Ah?" Zhao Jing pinched Zhou Ziyu's sleeve with his fingers, as if seeking comfort, "I won't threaten others, just look at those bandits looking like this..."

Last time, the bandits were all caught up in the pot, and the government sent people into the mountain to search carefully to ensure that all the bandits in this area were wiped out. Looking back, the mountain has returned to its former tranquility.

Zhou Ziyu stood on tiptoe vigorously, and finally touched the back of Zhao Jing's head, "Okay, I think Gouwa is pretty good, so you can just wait and be an uncle with peace of mind."

"Brother uncle?" Zhao Jing opened his eyes wide, "Brother what? How old is Xiaoyue?"

He walked to the table a little irritably, then turned back, "No, I'm going to talk to him again."

"Here," Niu Er came in from the yard, and stretched out his polished sickle, "Use this, once and for all."

Outside, Gouwa sneezed solidly, wrapped his jacket tightly around his body, and quickened his pace to go home.

"Second brother—" Brother Sheng brought four bowls of sweet water on a wooden tray, "Don't keep scaring people with this thing, be careful of the bitch scratching you."

Niu Er quickly put the sickle by the wall, trotted and took the tray from Brother Sheng's hand, "Why don't you ask me to carry it over and burn it carefully."

"Yuyu—" Yuan Xi tugged on Zhou Ziyu's sleeve.

"Hmm, what's the matter, Xixi?" Zhou Ziyu immediately understood what Yuan Xi meant, and took his hand.

"Come here and lean on me, I'm tired after standing for so long."

Zhou Ziyu nodded, "Okay!"

Niu Er and Brother Sheng stared at them with their mouths slightly open, with expressions of seeing a ghost.

Zhao Jing helped Niu Er set up several bowls of sweet water, "Don't pay attention to them, these two people..."

He quietly pointed to his head.

"What are you talking about, Xiaojing?" Zhou Ziyu jumped up and patted the back of Zhao Jing's head.

Zhao Jing quickly picked up a bowl of sweet water, "Come on, are you thirsty?"

Yuan Xi sat down on the stool aggressively, took a big sip of sweet water from the bowl, and glanced outside, "I miss my brother..."

Zhou Ziyu walked around and put his hand on Yuan Xi's shoulder, "Brother is here."

Zhao Jing sighed hard, "I miss Mr. Yan too..."

-

Soon it will be the Lantern Festival on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. Yan Heyi has arrested Yuanxi and detained him in the courtyard to rub the Lantern Festival. He rubbed the Lantern Festival to the left and rubbed it to the right. The round Lantern Festival was ready, and each of them resembled Yuan Xi's head. As round as a melon.

After rubbing the Lantern Festival, Yuanxi asked Yan Heyi to teach him how to make glutinous rice balls. The euphemistic name is "the combination of the north and the south, and the world is one family". In fact, he is greedy. He wants to eat chewy bean paste Yuanxiao, but also wants to eat soft Sesame glutinous rice balls with stuffing dripping out.

Yuanxiao is to first make the bean paste stuffing into small balls, put it outside to freeze for a while, then prepare a bucket with glutinous rice flour inside, dip the bean paste balls in water, roll them in the glutinous rice flour, and the balls will roll more and more The bigger it is, repeat this five or six times, and the Lantern Festival will become.

For glutinous rice balls, first knead glutinous rice flour with water to form a dough, then divide it into small portions, press the small portions flat with your hands, and then wrap the stuffing in the same way as making dumplings.

Tuanzi put on a new dress and rolled around on the sunlit ground.

"Brother," Yuan Xi pointed at the dumpling, "cook this big Lantern Festival."

Yan Heyi stretched out her finger and poked Yuan Xi's face, "I want to eat this more."

"Okay," Yuan Xi was surprisingly easy to talk, and put his face close to Yan Heyi's mouth, "Eat, brother."

Flattered, Yan Heyi took a bite of Yuan Xi's cheek, and inadvertently ate a mouthful of glutinous rice flour.

"Yuanxi," Yan Heyi shook his head helplessly, "Why do you make glutinous rice balls all over your face?"

Yuan Xi smiled slyly, "Brother wants to eat, is it sweet?"

"Sweet," Yan Heyi recollected it with dignity, "It's cheese-flavored, fragrant and sweet."

-

On the day of Shangyuan Festival, Yuanxi ate a lot of Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls, and together with Yan Heyi, he prepared to go to the town to visit the Lantern Festival.

After meeting Zhao Jing and Zhou Ziyu at the entrance of the village, the four of them walked to the town.

Originally, I also wanted to ask Niu Er and Sheng Geer, but they were very secretive, saying that they had agreed before that they would go to the riverside where they made love to put lanterns on the Lantern Festival, and not mix with them.

Several people first went to the blacksmith's shop to find Chang Ying, and then went to Zhou Hongxi's house together.

The last time he fought against the bandits, Zhou Hongxi was prepared to do his best. Fortunately, even though Chang Ying arrived, he was not seriously injured. Although the wounds all over his body looked scary, they were just skin wounds. These days, it's almost better.

When they went, Zhou Hongxi was sitting in the yard making lanterns, each of them had a lotus lantern for him and Chang Ying, koi lanterns for Zhou Ziyu and Zhao Jing, rabbit lanterns for Yuanxi and Yan Heyi, All of them are done vividly.

After going out for a stroll, a few people went back to Zhou Hongxi's house for dinner. The lantern festival is only interesting if we go out for a stroll at night.

At night, the moon in the sky was frighteningly large, accompanied by the scattered lanterns on the street, reflecting the sky like daytime.

Holding a lantern in one hand and holding a sweetheart in the other, a few people walked through the street, and from time to time they went to small stalls on the side of the street to buy some strange snacks to eat.

"Why are the young masters and girls so well-born? The old man doesn't know who to look at."

The shopkeeper who sold the lanterns squinted his eyes and smiled, "Come and guess a lantern riddle. If you guess one correctly, you can get a sachet."

A few people were very interested, so they walked into the shed full of lanterns, and each lantern had a flower note with lantern riddles written on it.

"Bite off the ox's tail?" Chang Ying took off the flower paper, "Bit off the ox's tail... the ox's tail, boss, isn't that a word for "suggestion"?Notice? "

"That's right," the shopkeeper clapped his hands, "Young lady is amazing!"

Yuan Xi also picked a flower note, "99..."

His eyes flickered, "It's the word 'white'! "

"Yes," the shopkeeper nodded, "Young Master also guessed right."

Zhou Ziyu scratched his head, "Yuanxi, 99...why is it the word "white"? "

Chang Ying didn't understand either, "Yeah, does it matter?"

Yuan Xi raised his face, "Does brother know?"

"Well," Yan Heyi smiled slightly, "99, that is, there is only a difference of one hundred, and the word "hundred" is removed by one, which is the word "white". "

"That's right," Yuan Xi took Yan Heyi's arm, "Brother is the same as I thought."

Then he made a few more guesses, most of which were Yuan Xi's first reaction, and Yan Heyi deliberately let him go, so he didn't say much.

Chang Ying's guess was also very accurate. Although Zhou Hongxi's reaction was a bit slow, he also won two prizes. Even Zhao Jing, who didn't understand poetry, guessed an anagram correctly.

Unconvinced, Zhou Ziyu pouted and picked another flower note, "Don't say it sooner...don't say it later..."

He scratched his head, "What kind of word is that?"

Yuan Xi asked him in a low voice, "If you don't talk about it in the morning or at night, when should you say it?"

"Hmm..." Zhou Ziyu thought for a while, "That's... at noon?"

"That's right," Yuan Xi continued to remind, "Take the word "午" for noon, and say it, it means words..."

"Oh!" Zhou Ziyu suddenly took a deep breath, "It's the word "Xu"!right? "

The shopkeeper brought him a sachet, "Guess right!"

After guessing the lantern riddles to their heart's content, a few people went to the river to set up blessing lanterns. After the lanterns were lit, they were wandering in the street when they suddenly heard a brother next to him yell.

"Ah—let me go!"

Before a few people could react, Zhou Hongxi rushed over and pulled the yelling brother out of the arms of a drunk homeless man.

Chang Ying casually picked up a stone from a small stall next to the shed, and threw it on the shoulder of the homeless man who was about to escape.

The homeless man was knocked to the ground by a stone, and several people quickly surrounded him.

"Huh?" Yuan Xi bent down and looked at the homeless man, "He's an old acquaintance."

Zhou Ziyu also remembered, "This is the homeless man who wanted to hug me in the woods that time. It was Yuanxi who saved me."

"It's him?" Zhao Jing gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

Zhou Hongxi quickly grabbed Zhao Jing's arm, "Don't be impulsive, I'll take him back to the Yamen, and he will be punished according to the law."

He swiftly pulled out a hemp rope from his waist, tied the homeless man's wrists behind his back, and said with some helplessness: "It seems that I have to deal with this temporary business."

Chang Ying wiped away tears from the molested brother, "Brother Hongxi, let me go with you."

The two took the homeless man to the yamen with that brother, and the remaining four continued to visit the lantern festival.

There was a sound of gongs in front, and people surrounded several times, it was the lion dance troupe formed by members of the Zhou team that was performing. Zhou Ziyu took Zhao Jing's hand, turned to them and said, "Let's go and have a look together." Come on, it's so lively."

Yuan Xi and Yan Heyi were in Zhou Yuanwai's mansion, and Brother Yu had dragged them to watch the lion dance several times. They could even tell when and which stake the "lion" would be on, so they didn't follow.

The two walked around the street for a while, and when they looked up, they saw the stone bridge in the town. Yuan Xi held Yan Heyi's hand and ran up the bridge.

The shops by the river are brightly lit, tremblingly reflected in the water.

The stone steps on both sides of the bank were full of men and women who came out to pray for blessings and set off lanterns. All kinds of lanterns came from afar, floated across the Lanxi River, and floated unsteadily from one side of the bridge to the other side of the bridge, as if on the ground. Created a heavenly river.

Several dolls with croissant braids ran up to the bridge, all holding exquisite lanterns in their hands, playing and chasing on the bridge.

Yan Heyi tightened the rabbit fur scarf around Yuan Xi's neck, couldn't help pinching his chin, lowered her head and kissed him on the lips, "Yuan Xi, the fireworks will be set off soon."

As soon as the words fell, the fireworks exploded in the sky. Yuan Xi raised his head and put it around Yan Heyi's neck, with his lips slightly parted, he kissed him gently.