Chapter 1292 Surviving in the last days of natural disasters (19)

It was snowing and freezing outside, but they stayed in a warm spring-like bunker. When they needed to eat and sleep, they worked in the morning and learned cultural knowledge and martial arts in the afternoon. They also went to the planting area on their days off and took good care of what they planted. of crops, and used a naive technique to draw their changes in the notebook every day.

The days passed by as the four children talked, laughed, and played.

 In a blink of an eye, another three months have passed.

　According to the date on the calendar, this day is New Year’s Eve, which is supposed to be a lively day for family reunions, ancestor worship, and farewell to the old and welcoming the new.

On this day in previous years, the dean would cook a pot of pure meat dumplings without vegetables and distribute them to each child's bowl. Everyone would sit around and eat while roasting the dumplings over a fire to keep the year coming.

 When it comes to Chinese New Year and dumplings, Xu Dong is greedy again: “I really want to eat the dumplings I made myself.”

 Xu Yin: “…”

If you want to eat dumplings, just say so. If you can't make the skin or the filling, you will lose.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xi also said that she wanted to eat the dumplings made by herself: "The dean's mother said that the dumplings on New Year's Eve must be chopped and stuffed by yourself to make them delicious. I even ate the lucky steel dumplings once!"

“I’ve eaten it before, too!” Xu Dong burst out laughing after finishing speaking, “Only Yin Yin has never eaten it.”

　　　…”

Ning Jin: “I haven’t eaten it either.”

Xu Dong waved his hand: "Oh, Brother Ning, you don't count. You didn't come for the Chinese New Year last year."

　　　…”

Xu Yin ignored the little cannonball, but stretched out her hand towards Ning Jin. The front leg meat of a Tibetan pig that grew up drinking spring water and eating mountain delicacies lay quietly on her open palm.

 “Rourou!” Xu Dong cheered in surprise, “That’s great! The gods also let us make our own dumplings to eat.”

 Xu Yin: “…”

 Boy! It’s my sister who is helping you!

So, on the night of New Year’s Eve, the children started to chop meat fillings and make dumplings.

Chopping a piece of meat filling took two young men a lot of effort. If Xu Yin hadn't taken advantage of the moment when one of them ran to the second floor to pick onions, the other was washing dishes in the kitchen, and the other was holding a recipe and studying how to prepare the filling, She picked up the kitchen knife and chopped it quickly a few times. She bet that the meat wrapped in the dumpling wrapper was still granular.

She also brought out the dumpling wrappers, otherwise she might not be able to make the New Year’s Eve dumpling meal in the middle of the night.

Even though Ning Jin carefully scooped out the noodles and added water according to the recipe, they still couldn't get it together.

 There is no other reason - the force is too weak and the dough cannot be kneaded.

Xu Yin walked up to her several times and wanted to say: Sister, come here!

 But the three friends didn't know whether they were worried that she would be tired or worried that she would waste flour, so they didn't let her interfere.

 In the end, she had to use the name of the gods to take out a stack of ready-made dumpling wrappers that she had rolled out before.

 At this point, the dumplings were finally made.

Xu Dong and Xu Xi found a few one-cent coins from the pile of supplies packed in the dean’s mother’s room and said they were to be wrapped in dumplings. Whoever eats the lucky coins will be lucky and auspicious for the whole year.

Seeing the two friends put the coins in front of the faucet and rinsed them before putting them into the stuffing to make dumplings, Xu Yin said: "..."

Are you not sick? Do you want to make yourself sick?

 He raised his hand and touched it, pretending to accidentally bump the coin into the boiling water pot. After several rounds of thorough detoxification, he could safely let them make the dumplings.

 The dumplings made clumsily by the young hands...emmm...how to say? It’s perfect if the skin doesn’t break and the fillings are exposed when cooking.

But even if the cooked dumplings were wrapped in skins and filled with fillings, and the fillings were a bit bland, everyone still had a great time eating them - not only did they chop the fillings and make the dumplings with their own hands, but everyone also got a lucky coin. .

 “We will be lucky all year round next year!”

Xu Xi carefully put the coins into Qiu Yi's shallow pocket. Judging from this posture, he would probably sleep with the coins. Xu Dong held the coin and turned it over and over. At first he was very happy, but at the end he said with tears in his eyes: "I miss the dean's mother."

These words became a tear gas, and Xu Xi, who was always prone to crying, also wiped away tears: "I also miss the dean's mother, I also miss Guangguang, Huihui, Nannan, Beibei... although Beibei always likes to make me angry. , but I am a sister, and I will let him do it in the future... wu wu wu..."

"I will give in to them in the future. Who makes me the elder brother... Wuwuwu!"

 The two children cried while talking. After talking, they burst into tears and couldn't stop crying.

Xu Yin had no idea about this. She didn’t know what happened to other people’s children. Anyway, her children had always been coaxed by Comrade Xiaojin in the past.

 But now he is still a child, so it’s good that he’s not crying, and there’s nothing he can do about this situation.

 The two of them stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

Just when Xu Yin was about to come up with her trump card - to move their birthday gifts to this time, Ning Jin suddenly had an idea: "Let's go up there to watch the fireworks."

"fireworks?"

 “Yes! There are fireworks during the Chinese New Year!”

The two wailing children finally stopped crying and laughed with tears on their faces: "Let's go watch the fireworks!"

This time they put on super cold-proof waterproof and windproof high-puff goose down jackets, which were a New Year gift from Xu Yin. They were supposed to wear new clothes on the first day of the first lunar month, but for the children, eating the dumplings means a good New Year. Now, it doesn’t matter whether I wear the new clothes tonight or tomorrow.

You help me and I help you put on your scarf, hat and gloves, and get warmly dressed and go up.

Xu Yin thought that if no one set off fireworks outside, she would take out some fairy sticks to fulfill her friends’ New Year wishes.

  Unexpectedly, there were actually fireworks, and it was a fireworks show organized by the government.

The underground warehouse of the fireworks factory was requisitioned and renovated by the government, and a small number of fireworks that could still be set off were cleared out. They simply set them off on New Year's Eve, hoping that people would still be full of hope for life in difficult times; that the natural disaster would dissipate soon, and that luck and blessings would surround everyone. .

　　People who have settled in the underground base are now wearing the warmest clothes, scarves, hats and thickest gloves. The winter clothes are not enough to make up the quilt, and they are bloated. They go to the ground to breathe and watch the fireworks.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, the temperature is estimated to have exceeded -40°. The breath you exhale will freeze into ice soon, and the eyelashes will soon be stained with frost, but I feel very happy to be able to take a breath.

 How long has it been since you saw the sky? Even though it's dark right now, with no stars or moon, I still feel beautiful.

Especially when the fireworks bloom, it feels like I have returned to every lively New Year’s Eve in the past.

　　It was just too cold, and soon I was freezing, so I quickly retreated underground.

But after all, on New Year’s Eve, everyone doesn’t want to sleep in a cramped bed so early. Even if the fresh air system is fully turned on, and there are patrols with guns on their waists to check the cleanliness every day, there are still people in the underground air-raid shelters that accommodate tens of thousands of people. The stock has an indescribable odor.

So many people stayed on the negative floor and refused to leave.

 This is the default trading area after the extreme cold comes.

 Even if you don’t have anything to trade, it’s better to stay a little longer.

People are so strange. When they first arrived, they wanted to hide on the Nth floor underground, but after staying there for a long time, they desperately wanted to get closer to the ground, even if it was very cold here.

Therefore, the entrance and exit of the air-raid shelter was very busy on New Year's Eve, and the noise even reached the welfare home not far away in the quiet night.

 “What’s going on over there? It’s so lively!”

Xu Dong stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction of the air raid shelter.

Xu Yin also wants to know.

 (End of this chapter)