After returning to the Shen family courtyard, they dispersed. She didn't know if the others could fall asleep in excitement because of the unique opportunity of the day. Anyway, Cheng Xi closed her eyes and went to meet Zhou Xing soon.
It turns out that shopping is more tiring than training, both physically and mentally.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Shen family became lively. After breakfast, Qin Zheng came over with gifts and chatted about family affairs. The two of them also learned a lot about the Qin family.
"Uncle Qin and Aunt Qin came to Beijing? When?"
"They just arrived yesterday afternoon. Thanks to the escort from Hongwei Escort Bureau all the way."
"Don't you, the Qin family, have your own bodyguards? Why did you hire someone from the bodyguard bureau?"
"Now the name of the Hongwei bodyguard bureau is resounding throughout Dayan. Their skills are much better than my bodyguards. It’s also thanks to the fact that my parents still have some reputations in Lin’an Mansion. I heard that people have to queue up to hire someone from the escort agency. Especially during the Chinese New Year, it’s even more difficult.”
Such an exaggeration. ?
Cheng Xi was dumbfounded and turned his head to look at Shen Xingluo for confirmation. The latter nodded invisibly in confirmation.
I'm going~Uncles are awesome!
"The Hongwei Escort Agency has only gained a good reputation in the past year. In the past, it was only famous in Lin'an Prefecture. Now the Escort Agency not only escorts valuable escort items, but also provides letter delivery services. The speed is comparable to that of the official post station."< br>
Shen Xingluo lowered his head and explained, "Fu Guang is helping take care of it."
That's it.
“Add chicken drumsticks to him at noon.”
Deserves praise!
"Okay."
Qin Zheng took advantage of the opportunity and asked, "Do you have my share?"
"Then it depends on whether the gift you brought is heavy or not."
"It's heavy, it's too heavy!"
A wooden box with exquisite packaging and red silk appeared in front of the two of them. The young man of the Qin family was very discerning and opened it at the owner's instruction, revealing several transparent pieces. The raw jadeite appeared in front of several people's eyes.
Cheng Xi: "."
That's really heavy.
Jadeite with such good water quality is denser than marble, so it’s surprising that it is so light.
But why did he give this thing as a gift?
Cheng Xi thought of the jade hairpin with complicated patterns carved on his head and felt a little enlightened, but also a little unsure
Shen Xingluo's slender fingers had already picked up one of the pieces, and he was very satisfied.
"Thank you, thank you for your work."
"It's all a trivial matter. This was collected near the capital. The Qin family also has a caravan in southern Xinjiang. I will send more to Brother Shen when the time comes. A few dollars, you’ll be satisfied.”
Cheng Xi: “.”
Okay, she understands.
Shen Xingluo was not polite and accepted the gift casually.
"Since my uncle and aunt have returned to Beijing, we should go and visit. I wonder if it is convenient at home?"
"It is convenient and convenient, so I will definitely sweep the couch to welcome them."
Qin Zheng smiled brightly and said, "My parents I plan to return on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. I have a few uncles who have other connections in the house, so I have a lot of time these days."
The few chatted for a while, and Yu Heting, who also had no relatives in the capital, took Xiaoluobo with him. The head came too, holding some pastries in his hands.
This day naturally turned into a gathering of friends.
Beijing officials all have a 16-day holiday during the Chinese New Year, eight days each before and after the new year. During this period, the Holy Spirit will also seal the pen, which can be said to be good news for civil servants in Dayan.
The three men gathered in the study and chatted about court affairs at some point. Yu Hefeng's little friend was dressed in red like a New Year doll, and followed Cheng Xi like a baby. A little tail followed him from the living room to the kitchen, and then from the kitchen to the living room.
"Sister, what are we going to eat today?"
"What do Xiaofeng want to eat? Just mention it and let your sister Xingqi do it."
"Okay! I want to eat steamed shrimps with eggs, and some caramel cubes."
"They are all there, they are all there."
In view of the presence of outsiders, Shen Xingqi prepared the ingredients All of them were available in the Yan Dynasty at this time. Meat was indispensable in winter. The Shen family had no shortage of vegetables because they had a greenhouse, so lunch was very rich.
Not only Qin Zheng's mouth was full of oil after eating this meal, but even Yu Heting also let out an invisible sigh.
“Mrs. Shen and Miss Shen are really good at their craftsmanship. I’m ashamed to say that even if I had the recipe, I couldn’t make it taste like this.”
Shen Xingqi nodded secretly in her mind. In the past, she would have thought it was due to different skills, but since she had been to the apocalypse, she had guessed some of the facts.
The water at home is different from the water outside. This should be the key.
My brother and sister-in-law have a lot of secrets!
“My brother’s cooking is delicious.”
Yu Hefeng’s little friend had a different opinion, “My brother is also amazing!”
"Since Xiaofeng said it was delicious, Brother Yu's craftsmanship must be good."
Yu Heting laughed and reached out to stroke his brother's furry hair lovingly, feeling very happy.
In the afternoon, several colleagues from the Lin'an Prefecture came to visit the Shen family. After Cheng Xi made the tea, he left it alone. With Su Zhan and Fuguang on his left, he simply got down to business.
——Teach Shen Xingqi and Wang Shu how to learn modern knowledge.
Took out the tablet, clicked on the early education class Chinese lesson that the system downloaded, and placed it in front of the two of them.
Soon a soft girl's voice sounded like a baby in the video:
"Come and read with me, 1 is like a branch, thin and long, 2 is like a duck floating on the water, 3 is like a small ear. , 4 is like a small flag blowing in the wind "
Shen Xingqi: "."
Wang Shu: "."
Cheng Xi: "Hahahahahahaha O(∩_∩)O~~~~ ”
The two of them were speechless for a long time, and finally broke through their shame and read along with the childish voice in the video.
Cheng Xi has no choice. If he wants to learn modern knowledge, he can’t just let her teach him. He doesn’t have that much energy, right?
And professional things must be done by professionals. The teacher in the video is a serious certified teacher. He has experienced many practical tests, and his strength is very good.
What's more.
Some things have a subtle influence, such as modern thinking.
Learning from early childhood is the key!
***
The lunch at noon on the second day of the lunar month was like a signal. Since Qin Zheng and the Yu brothers left, the Shen family had no other guests who needed to entertain guests. Shen Xing Qi, the chef, is about to lose his job.
The reason has to start with the large and small bags bought from Interstellar Supermarket.
I tried a fast food meal, and everyone seemed to have opened some kind of magical door. Even the main meals were not delicious. Today, instant noodles, and tomorrow, various flavors of self-heating rice and self-heating hot pot, all eating Taking turns, I didn’t want to eat stir-fried vegetables for several days in a row. Even snacks such as French fries, spicy slices and chicken feet were well received.
Cheng Xi tried to persuade them many times to no avail, so he simply let them go.
Isn’t it just a novelty? After trying it all, the excitement will naturally fade away.
However, she misjudged the influence of modern cuisine and was quickly slapped in the face.
After Shen Xingluo took her to visit the elders of Du Mansion, Jiang Mansion and Qin Mansion one after another, the house still did not have any serious fire. As soon as she entered the door, she saw several people gathering around the iron stove to eat French fries.
Cheng Xi: "."
Speechless again.
Seeing that his wife was about to get angry, Shen Xingluo made a decisive decision.
"Xingqi has been studying very effectively these past few days. Do you think you should ask your father-in-law and the others to join us?" "!"
So the shameful duo In an instant, the smile on Cheng Daqian's face disappeared visibly, and not even the hot strips could save him.
The Chinese New Year was spent learning modern knowledge day by day. Occasionally when they were tired of studying, Cheng Xi would take them to the apocalyptic plane and bring back several large plastic bags of fast snacks to increase their inventory.
Unfortunately, Zhuang Xuan never returned to the base during this period, and followed Team Xu on missions at the base.
In a blink of an eye, the ninth day of the Lunar New Year is here, and Shen Xingluo is about to go to work. In order to match his time, the Shen family's breakfast is scheduled to be just before dawn.
The letter sent by Cheng Daqian received a reply. The chief escort thought that he just wanted to get closer to his daughter and son-in-law, so he agreed. However, the matter of supporting Guang was a bit troublesome, and there were a lot of things waiting for him outside.
“In the future, you and Su Zhan will take turns staying in the capital, and don’t forget to train a few more assistants.”
"Thank you, sir."
Fu Guang was happy, with a smile on his cold face.
Wang Shu knew that his brother would not leave Beijing in the short term, so he took over the job of preparing Su Zhan’s luggage. He also took great care to download and pack the modern teaching videos, and stuffed a few more solar chargers into the space Newri. device.
Su Zhan: "."
***
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.
When Cheng Xi woke up in the morning, he felt the sun shining on his face for a moment, making it warm. His brain was hazy for a while before he remembered that Shen Xingluo had a rest today and didn't need to get up early.
This gave her a long-lost feeling of working from nine to five.
“Are you awake?”
“Well, what time is it?”
"8:20."
Shen Xingluo likes modern precise timekeeping methods. In the past few years, whenever he wanted to know the time, he would look at the Arabic numerals displayed on the system.
He put down the book in his hand and tucked in the quilt of the people around him.
“Are you still sleepy?”
“No, I promised Xingqi to make Lantern Festival with her today.”
"It's still early, you can sleep a little longer."
"Do you think I'm a pig?"
Cheng Xi just grunted, and as soon as he finished speaking, he felt The hand reaching for the bedside table froze, as if it was stuck.
She was confused and looked towards the cabinet along her handwriting. A familiar wooden box came into view.
That was the box where the hostas were placed last time.
"You prepared another gift?"
".Hmm."
"What is it?"
"."
Shen Xingluo pursed his lips , did not answer.
Cheng Xi's curiosity was aroused. He lifted the quilt and reached out to pick up the wooden box into his arms. He opened the box with interest.
I saw a violet, chubby, fist-sized piglet placed inside. It was beautifully carved, naive and cute, cute and energetic, and there was a piece of red emerald under its limbs and belly as a place mat. .
“.”
Pig?
Why pig?
Shen Xingluo coughed lightly, "You are a pig."
Cheng Xi: It turns out you are still a pig.
“I didn’t prepare a gift for you this time.”
Cheng Xi felt like she lost again, “How about I carve a zodiac dog for you?”
One year older than her.
"No need."
Shen Xingluo's dark eyes gradually deepened as he looked at her, "The return gift last time was good."
Huh?
What?
Before Cheng Xi had time to recall what the last return gift was, she felt a warm touch on her lips. A big hand took hold of her waist and she fell into the other person's arms. After a moment, she was deprived of her. air.
This time the kiss was even longer and longer than the last time. Shen Xingluo seemed to have an extremely keen sense of everything, and his ability to draw inferences from one instance put everyone to shame. The other party was quickly defeated.
"Have you gone to study somewhere?"
Is this an ancient person? Are you sure you haven't watched the DVD?
After a long time, Cheng Xi stared at him feebly and asked for an explanation.
Shen Xingluo lowered his eyes and stared at her glossy lips, which gradually deepened. His Adam's apple rolled twice and finally couldn't resist the restlessness. He lowered his head and kissed her again. The pair of lips in his arms exuded a trace of anger. His eyes became luminous again.
*
——I am the dividing line of river crab——
*
All the raw materials for making Yuanxiao have been prepared in the kitchen.
While preparing the ingredients, Shen Xingqi frequently cast doubtful glances to the side.
Why were her sister-in-law's lips so red and swollen after not seeing her all night?
The only spicy food we had last night was the spicy cabbage pickled years ago, and it wasn’t that spicy!
In the morning, it’s rice porridge with xiaolongbao.
Strange, really strange.
“What are you thinking about? Have you ground the black sesame seeds?”
"Oh, oh, okay, here it is!"
Shen Xingqi was brought back from her wandering thoughts, lowered her head and started busy.
Yuanxiao is a very representative traditional food. It is not too difficult to make and is nutritious and healthy. It is not new in this imaginary Yan Dynasty, but the taste when bought is always a bit different. .
The three of them began to make ingredients such as white glutinous rice flour, black sesame seeds, cooking oil, fine sugar, and crushed peanuts that were ground into fine powder.
There are two kinds of Yuanxiao stuffings today, black sesame stuffing and peanut stuffing.
In fact, Cheng Xi really wants to try the durian-flavored Yuanxiao. The durian trees planted in the space are in the season of maturity, but the taste is a bit strong. People who love it to the core and those who avoid snakes and scorpions are almost one to one. For the sake of reputation among the neighbors, I finally gave up the idea.
Well, if you want to eat in the future, you can enter the space.
Secretly, turn on the stove.
Light the stove, stir-fry the black sesame seeds and peanuts and then grind them into fine powder. Remove the film from the pork suet and mince it. Add white sugar to make the filling without adding so many seasonings. .
Shen Xingqi brought a clean large porcelain basin, took out an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and added spring water to knead it into glutinous rice dough, then divided it into equal-sized glutinous rice dumplings, added an appropriate amount of filling and wrapped them up.
A Lantern Festival is completed in three or two strokes.
Strictly speaking, what the Shen family makes is not Yuanxiao but Tangyuan. After all, Yuanxiao is mostly rolled out, and there is no need to make glutinous rice into glutinous rice balls.
However, several people felt that the rolled-out Yuanxiao was not as firm as Tangyuan and had a different texture, so they unanimously adopted this method.
The three of them are all good hands in the kitchen. After a while, a large pot of glutinous rice balls was ready. The ones filled with black sesame seeds were placed on the left, and the ones filled with crushed peanuts were placed on the right. They only needed to boil the water. Put the Yuanxiao in and cook for a while before eating.
Of course we can’t just eat Yuanxiao at noon, the three of us also made some refreshing side dishes.
"Bring some to Su Zhan, too. Will he leave after sixteen?"
"Yes."
Wang Shu prepared a bunch of things for him yesterday, all of them Stuffing it into a space Newry would almost send the person away.