Tongtong, who was lying in bed, finally got up in the face of Chuchu's threat of doing nothing.
Outside the door, the sky is blue, like a canvas, the clouds are rolling and the sunshine is just right.
She was wearing a small cotton-padded jacket and felt warm all over.
Xue Yuantong's mood became cheerful. She liked the current weather very much. She remembered that after moving to Heba, there was freezing rain for several days on New Year's Eve one year, giving the entire New Year's Eve a cold and damp memory.
She stood in the courtyard and called: "Mom, I'm hungry!"
After shouting, she suddenly remembered that her mother had gone back to her hometown with Aunt Hua to help pack her things and would go home in the afternoon.
Her mother is not at home, and only the capable person Chu Chu is left to help with cooking, so she is controlled by others.
Sighing, Xue Yuantong washed up and tidied up, then ran to the kitchen of Chu Chu's house.
I thought that Chu Chu had been cooking like crazy behind her back, but unexpectedly, Chu Chu was sitting next to the stove where the heat had not dissipated, quietly reading the vocabulary book.
It was obviously just sitting there normally, but it contained a temperament that Tongtong would never be able to learn in his lifetime.
Xue Yuantong said in a cheerful tone: "Chu Chu, let me guess, you must be waiting for me to eat together!"
He is truly her best friend and will never leave her.
Xue Chuchu raised her face, glanced at her, and said, "I've already finished eating."
"Ah? Xue Yuantong was stunned. She took a few steps to the stove, opened the lid of the large pot, and a stream of steam rose. There were two large buns and two steamed buns on the steaming tray.
Xue Yuantong curled his lips: "Tch, Chuchu, where did you eat? You're a bad learner!"
Only Jiang Ning teased her like this before.
After Xue Chuchu made a joke, she stood up to serve the meal. The two girls sat in front of the chopping board, and the unburned wood in the stove gave off waves of residual warmth.
Tongtong grabbed the steamed buns with one hand and the chopsticks with the other.
She clamped a handful of shredded pickled vegetables and pork. Chu Chu was very good at cooking. The stir-fry was spicy, crispy and fragrant. Then she took a bite of the soft and chewy homemade steamed buns. Finally, she took a sip of the slightly sweet candied date rice soup. The taste was unparalleled.
, definitely the most beautiful enjoyment in winter!
"It's delicious, it's delicious!"
In addition, there are two pieces of steamed corn on the table, which is simple but not shabby.
After finishing the meal, Tongtong picked up the tea basket on the briquette stove, poured some hot water, and washed the pots and bowls.
Tongtong put his hands in his cotton pockets, called Chu Chu, and they went to the farmhouse to play together.
Xue Chuchu also rarely has leisure time. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, she had to wash the sheets and quilts, wipe the walls and dust, clean the yard and kitchen... and other trivial tasks.
Now that her mother is working at Changqingye, she is not so busy, so she has a lot of free time.
Tongtong took the lead, followed by Chu Chu, and the two of them walked leisurely to the farmhouse in the east.
Next door, Zhang Ruyun and Dongdong were playing badminton at the door. You danced and I danced, dancing like a giant monkey, full of energy.
Teacher Qian made an appointment with three or two friends, gathered at the table, basked in the sun, and played Landlords. It was very pleasant.
Teacher Qian caught a glimpse of the two women passing by. He raised his eyelids and his tone contained the teacher's sincere instructions: "Tongtong, tell me, you guys, after dinner every day, just wander around and play. Why don't you study when you have all this time? You have to improve yourself.
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"And Chu Chu, your family hasn't posted the couplets yet, right? Have the New Year's goods exploded? Rentongtong's family has fried small dried fish, burnt leaves, crispy meat and so on. What about your family?"
Teacher Qian came up and asked a set of critical questions.
Xue Chuchu remained silent and never had conflicts with others.
Today's Tongtong is different. Dongdong and Zhang Ruyun are playing even crazier. Why doesn't he say anything?
She looked at Teacher Qian, neither arrogant nor humble: "Uncle Qian, how much has your salary increased this year? Why do you drink tea and play cards every day and don't exercise? What should you do if your body collapses over time?"
Teacher Qian looked unhappy: "How old am I? What can I do with my old bones?"
Tongtong pouted: "That so-and-so is over sixty years old and still starts a business. Now he is making hundreds of millions a year! His descendants will enjoy the blessings. Teacher Qian, you have to make progress!"
Teacher Qian was filled with anger.
The old teacher who was playing cards with him next to him said helpfully: "Young lady, you talk all the time, but I don't know how many points you can get in your essay?"
Xue Yuantong was very stubborn: "Uncle, have you saved enough for your pension? How much living expenses will your son and daughter give you every month? Are you considering re-employing after retirement?"
The old teacher's hands trembled with anger and he shook off the cards.
Xue Yuantong left happily.
After she walked away, she said to Chu Chu: "I just discovered why the elders liked to ask questions when I was young. If I could just grab an old man and ask questions, I would be very happy."
Xue Chuchu couldn't help laughing when she thought of the scene just now.
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The two of them continued to go east. At around 9 a.m., the entrance to the farmhouse was still very lively, and there were bursts of noise.
Xue Yuantong put his hands in his pockets and walked into the lobby of the farmhouse. Yang Fei renovated it twice. The lobby was laid with ceramic tiles and was clean and bright. The standing air conditioner continued to send out warm air. In the corner of the lobby, there were actually three arcade machines.
Customers waiting for packaged meals, or men picking strawberries with their wives and children, who were a little bored at first, saw the arcade machines and immediately gathered around with interest to watch the masters playing King of Fighters 97.
In the center of the crowd, Yao Yiyao's father, Yao Haikuo, killed his opponent. He patted the button and said with a smile: "Little brother, you have to practice again."
The man in his thirties who he called his little brother looked at him twice and said with a livid face: "Brother, you beat me really dirty!"
After saying this, he threw out 20 yuan and left unhappy.
Yao Haikuo slowly put away the money, feeling quite good, not because of the money, but because he had found his once young and passionate self after a long absence!
"Who else?" He took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, but did not light it.
The King of Fighters 97 is very popular in China. It was released in 1997. A large number of domestic players born in the 70s, 80s and even 90s have played this game.
The audience of Yang Fei’s Farmhouse is that most of the customers are born in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of them grew up playing in arcades. Who hasn’t brag about their gaming skills?
However, among the guests in the hall, no one dared to challenge him.
Lin Zida, who was hanging out at the farmhouse, had not returned to Ancheng today. He sat down and said, "Uncle, I won't let you!"
After saying that, he selected the strongest lineup of Yagami, Kagura, and Big Pig.
Yao Haikuo chose a bun, he was full of defense, and he made waves. When the opponent jumped, he immediately stumbled.
Senior player Lin Zida was shocked to be sent away after being beaten three times.
He was stunned for a while and asked: "Uncle, how did you get out of the arcade in the first place? Didn't you get beaten?"
Yao Haikuo is very calm. He was born in the 1970s and was considered the oldest group in arcade halls. After abusing children, they often dared to get angry but dare not say anything.
He accepted another twenty yuan and felt even better. Originally, he just wanted to make some food to go home for the New Year, but who knew he would get such a harvest!
Yao Haikuo continued to yell, but no one wanted to fight him.
Yao Haikuo thought for a while, took out his mobile phone, opened Kuaishou, took videos around, and sighed: "I'm old, people think I'm old, but they don't want to play games with me, ugh!"
The surrounding guests' mouths twitched. Two challengers in succession were defeated by Yao Haikuo's turtle flow. One person threw out twenty yuan and left the venue angrily before the game was over.
There's really no one around now.
Yao Haikuo had no choice but to say: "If we lose twenty, if we win two hundred, who will come?"
While people were discussing, a clear voice sounded: "Uncle, are you sure?"
After the words fell, everyone looked around and saw that it was a little girl.
Yao Haikuo recognized Xue Yuantong. He was shocked at first. He and his daughter came to Heba before and were threatened by thugs from the Wu brothers. If Jiang Ning hadn't helped, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
The little girl in front of her has a good relationship with Jiang Ning.
Yao Haikuo thought to himself: 'Anyway, no one is fighting me, so I just happened to lose to the little girl as a return gift.'
After making up his mind, Yao Haikuo said cheerfully: "Girl, a hero no matter how young he is!"
Xue Yuantong occupies another arcade machine, and the two arcade machines fight online.
Xue Chuchu took out a wet wipe and wiped the joystick button for her.
Xue Yuantong chose Chizuru, Iori, and Kusanagi Kyo.
As soon as the character was selected, someone next to him immediately said: "You obviously don't know how to play games. If you choose Qianzhe, won't you be restrained by Baozi?"
"It's over, it's gone!" the guest pointed condescendingly.
Yao Haikuo thought: 'No, I have to act more realistically. Why do I have to beat Qianhe first!'
So, he continued to behave obscenely, and ended up being slapped to death by Chizuru's big mouth.
One guest laughed and said: "Hahaha, brother, are you playing us?"
Yao Haikuo frowned deeply and carefully operated the second and third roles, only to be penetrated by one and three.
He took a breath of cold air and couldn't believe it.
The guest next to him tutted: "Damn, you look so good, I'll do it!"
He pushed past Yao Haikuo and went on to play against him. After being beaten three times, he was depressed and lost twenty yuan.
After a few games, Xue Yuantong made three hundred yuan.
An uncle said with a dark face: "Little girl, you'd better stop playing games in the future."
Xue Yuantong was confused: "Why?"
Lin Zida: "Because it will hurt the adults' self-esteem."
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After Jiang Ning arrived in Yuzhou, he did not return directly to the Heba bungalow. He took out his spirit boat and flew to Qingyu Lake.
A hundred meters above, looking into the distance, Qingyu Lake is like a bronze mirror, and even further away are the green mountains shrouded in clouds and mist.
The spirit boat flew through the security patrol area set up by Changqingye, then flew through the steel wire mesh, and finally flew over Qingyu Lake.
Although it is winter, Qingyu Lake is like spring all year round, warm and comfortable.
As soon as the wild ducks in the reeds in the shallow water flew up, they formed a group and cheered in large numbers.
A leaf spirit boat slowly fell down from the air onto the lake, creating a layer of ripples. The clear lake water reflected the blue sky, white clouds and green mountains, making it feel like you were in a fairyland.
Jiang Ning's consciousness swept over, and flowers bloomed, attracting butterflies and bees to look for food. The cold wind became much gentler, and the sea of flowers swayed.
The only thing not so beautiful is the quacking of wild ducks in the distance.
The next second, the spirit boat seemed to be moving on a mirror and suddenly slid to the shallow beach.
A few irritable male ducks were fighting together, pecking their beaks, flapping their wings, and kicking their legs, as if the whole Qingyu Lake was cheering for them.
On the side, there was a delicate little female duck, watching everything, combing her feathers slowly from time to time, and looking around again, looking for a more courageous male duck.
Jiang Ning frowned: "Stupid!"
The invisible spiritual power stretched out in an instant, grabbed a few fighting male ducks, and refined them all in an instant!
The environment of Qingyu Lake is so perfect that the wild ducks are so happy every day. Jiang Ning will slaughter a batch every once in a while and give them to Shao Shuangshuang as employee benefits.
The little mother duck was frightened and looked around at a loss, not knowing the truth.
Jiang Ning grabbed the little female duck and said: "Monster, causing trouble to the ducks!"
However, Jiang Ning has always been kind and he values equality. Even if the little duck is a creature in his territory, he still respects the other person. He is the ultimate "equal person" in the social sense.
To be fair, Jiang Ning and the little duck played rock-paper-scissors, but the duck came out with paper and he came up with scissors.
Little duck, send.
Afterwards, Jiang Ning Yuzhou continued to inspect Qingyu Lake and found a few ducks that were fighting crazily because of territorial disputes: "It's ridiculous. In the whole world, there is nothing but royal territory!"
He killed all the wild ducks.
There were too many ducks, and it was difficult for Tongtong to eat them, so Jiang Ning only kept the duck legs, feet, and wings, and sent the whole duck body to Huqishan Villa.
Jiang Ning set up an open-air copper pot in the Lingzhou. After simple processing, he poured oil and fried the duck legs, feet and wings until they were golden and crispy.
During this period, he fished sixty beetles from the clear lake, new bamboo shoots from the mountains and forests, and found eggs from bird nests.
Combined with cooking wine, chili pepper, star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon and other spices, a delicious and spicy wild duck stew is made.
‘Cook it slowly, the more it cooks, the more delicious it will be.’ Jiang Ning thought.
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River dam.
Xue Chuchu found that the arrangements in the Strawberry Garden were very orderly, and she felt that she could not help, so she refused Yang Fei's invitation.
There is no free meal in the world, Xue Chuchu has always thought so.
On the way home with Tongtong, she suddenly received a notification on her cell phone. It was Jiang Ning.
She took a look, and what she meant specifically was that Jiang Ning had arrived at the station and needed her to ride a scooter to greet him, but she couldn't tell Tong Tong because he wanted to go home secretly and scare Tong Tong.
‘Scare? Isn’t it a surprise?’ Xue Chuchu had a clear insight, but it was also a bit funny.
"Chuchu, why are you laughing?" Tongtong asked curiously.
Xue Chuchu immediately stopped smiling and returned to her usual cold expression.
She said calmly: "Tongtong, I'm going to the city to buy some things."
Tongtong: "Can you take me with you?"
Xue Chuchu declined: "It's too cold."
Tongtong was proud: "I can withstand the cold."
Xue Chuchu pursed her lips: "No need."
Tongtong suddenly came closer and asked suspiciously: "Chu Chu, are you hiding something from me? Are you telling the truth?"
She continued: "If you lied to me, there is delicious food for lunch, and you are not allowed to take a bite."
This promise was too vicious, and Xue Chuchu would definitely not be able to agree to it, because every time Jiang Ning came back, he always brought delicious food at noon.
Xue Chuchu asked: "If I really don't eat a bite, can you bear to let me go hungry?"
Tongtong said innocently: "I won't let you go hungry, but do you have the heart to hide it from me?"
Xue Chuchu: "If I have the heart to hide it from you, but you find out, will you still let me starve?"
Tongtong slapped her hands and smiled brightly: "So you must be hiding it from me!"
