all the way

When Liu Xia and the others returned to their cave to talk with each other, Sun Chang'e and Liu Changqing also returned to their room.

Sun Chang'e went to the kang to lie down, and she felt uncomfortable after thinking about it, so she sat up again. No matter how she thought about it, she felt that if the festival was celebrated as she originally planned, the children would not have a very comfortable holiday.

Although there is a three-day holiday, the children have to leave at noon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. By the time of the real reunion night, the children have actually gone their separate ways. The children finally came back. Maybe they have to go back to live alone. Reunion Festival?

Isn't this so frustrating!

She said to Liu Changqing, who was leaning on the quilt and watching "John Christopher" with reading glasses: "I'm going out to discuss something with Xiumei, and I'll be back in a while."

Liu Changqing moved the book away: "Xiumei has been exhausted all day, what's the matter? Why don't we talk about it tomorrow?"

Sun Chang'e put on her shoes: "Xiaowei and Xiaorui are back, she must not be sleeping right now, don't worry about it, I'll hit it off as soon as I tell her about a little thing."

Sure enough, Xiumei didn't sleep. As soon as Sun Chang'e walked outside their cave, she came out in a jacket.

Just after Sun Chang'e said a few words, Xiumei understood her meaning, took her words and said: "I will still want to talk to you, mom, that's right, what's the matter, it's not all about it. People celebrate it by themselves, the Mid-Autumn Festival is such a big festival, and the country refuses to give it a holiday. If they don’t let it go, then let’s arrange it ourselves. Let’s advance the festival and ask them to stay home and have two more days of safe food. It's all to make up for the grievances they left outside all day long.

Let's make more delicious stuff, and tomorrow I'll make some steamed stuffed buns, Yao'er and the others can wait to see them eat, today's big time, they'll finish eating in one meal;

Candy cakes and vegetable corners are also made in advance, and they are told to eat whatever they want, and they will make dumplings at noon;

Later, let's have a banquet together, Yao'er buys a lot of sauced beef, and it won't spoil the next day, so let's have a big plate;

When the child came back from graduation, he brought preserved eggs, and now there are more than 100 miles left, and he really brought a plate;

Scramble an egg, shoot a cucumber, stir-fry a shredded pumpkin, and there are mooncakes in Chuaner. If you do a good job, you can almost set a table. If you don’t win, kill two more roosters and cook a pot with potatoes. , can also be the top thing.

At that time, our big family will sit in the yard and watch the moon be lively and lively. After eating, we will be reunited, isn't it all together? "

Sun Chang'e said: "That's what I mean. Then we have to get up early tomorrow morning, or we won't be able to do all kinds of things at noon."

Xiumei said: "Mom, don't worry about it, go to sleep; when Xiaohui comes back, I can free up my hands to work. I will soak Sophora japonica flowers and Yunjian vegetables in the morning when I get up early in the morning, and after breakfast Add some vermicelli, scramble an egg, and let’s start frying the vegetable corners;

When Yufang came up, let her boil some noodles and fry some sugar cakes, and the children could eat whatever they wanted after a while.

You have been cooking alone for several days now, and you still have to go to the corn pile, and you are always flustered. It’s too early for you to get up tomorrow, and Yufang and I will do it, and you will be at noon When making dumplings, it’s all right to help us roll out the skins. "

After Xiumei entered the house, Chang'e Sun turned around and came to the kiln in the main room again. She dug five or six scoops of noodles in the big rough pan, added water, and took out the leavened noodles. She was about to start kneading the noodles. After being pushed away, Xiumei walked in: "Oh, Mom, I didn't realize until I took off my clothes, the buns need to be baked first." She wiped her hands with a rag, and pulled the basin in front of her : "I'm only in my 30s, and I'm not old yet, so how come I have such a memory?"

Sun Chang'e pushed her: "The children are back, you can go back to accompany them, I am old and do not fall asleep, so I just order noodles..."

Xiumei didn't move, and began to stir the noodles: "Go to bed quickly, Mom, I'll make up with just a few noodles. Where are Xiaowei and Xiaorui talking, and Liu Kui also left Yao'er and their room together?" If you don't come here, I won't be able to sleep when I go back, if you don't go back, my uncle should come out to look for you in a while."

Before Xiumei finished speaking, footsteps came from outside, and Chang'e Sun laughed, "Your uncle, that's true." She waved to Xiumei, "Then you and me, I'm going back to the house. "

Xiumei heard Liu Changqing's voice outside: "Why is it taking so long? I thought you fell into the toilet."

Sun Chang'e said, "I'm so unattractive? Tomorrow I want to make some buns for the children, but today I'm so dark that my face is covered in hair. Xiumei came over before we even started."

"Although you guys don't go to work in the field, you are not idle all day long. Cook for them normally and you will be hit. Don't make yourself so nervous; if we have electricity here, it will be fine. The kind of electric light with a hood, if it gets dark, you and the children will come out and I will..."

Hearing that there was no sound outside, Xiumei stuck out her tongue and laughed silently.

On the morning of the National Day, Liu Xia and Mao'er had a long sleep and didn't get up until after eight o'clock.

The cat actually woke up earlier, but he saw that Liu Xia was still fast asleep, so he lay quietly and watched his uncle sleep.

The more Liu Xia slept, the more uncomfortable Mao'er felt: Wang Hui's father is also a worker, so he enjoys leisure in the office every day, and if he doesn't want to go to work, he can take a day off just by telling the leader, but his uncle spends all day I have to get up early and work in the fields late at night. It was because my uncle didn't apply for a good school because of my delay.

What should I do next?Just let my uncle be like this for the rest of his life, even having to eat in the wild all day long?

The cat turned over lightly, and wanted to stretch out his hand to describe Liu Xia's face, but suddenly remembered what happened last time, so he put his hand down again: Uncle has an instinct, if he doesn't touch it, he will wake him up.

The bird chirping outside was melodious, and the cat listened to the singing of the bird, lying on its stomach quietly watching Liu Xia sleep.

As soon as Liu Xia opened his eyes, he saw the eyes of the cat who was only about half a foot away from him. The little guy's eyes were shining brightly, and he was not confused at all. It seemed that he had been awake for a while.

Liu Xia tapped the cat's forehead with his forehead: "It's so bright, why didn't you call me when you woke up? Your third uncle will laugh at me for being a lazy bastard in a while."

Mao'er grinned and rubbed Liu Xia's face: "It's a holiday today, just to sleep late. My third uncle laughed at you, and my uncle will definitely yell at him. Uncle, grandma and mother will definitely steam the buns." Yes, I can smell the fragrance."

Liu Xia turned over and just half-pressed the cat under it. He stared lazily for half a minute, then sat up all at once: "Get up for the hot buns."

As soon as the two of them left the house, they saw Liu Chuan sitting on the swing, Liu Lei on his lap, and Liu Yun riding on his neck. The two boys were each holding a big bun, eating deliciously.

Liu Chuan laughed when he saw the two of them: "The sense of taste is as sensitive as that of a police dog, and you get up when you smell the steamed stuffed bun?"

Liu Xia smiled, and whistled to the two little guys: "Good morning, you two scumbags."

Liu Yun held up the bun and called to him and the cat: "Uncle, brother, Xiangxiang Baobao."

The cat suddenly rushed up to the corn pile, and ran towards Yanagawa and the others: "Oh, come to eat baobao, come to eat savory baobao—"

Liu Yun and Liu Lei laughed loudly, trying to hide their buns in a hurry, but Liu Yun spilled the stuffing on Liu Chuan's head, and Liu Lei stuffed the buns into Liu Chuan's T-shirt.

Liu Chuan took out Liu Lei's rubbed buns, smiled and scolded Mao'er: "Mao'er, you brat, you won't be in a hurry if you don't provoke them for a while, right?"

The cat rushed down from the corn pile, yelled happily and ran around the swing, then went back to Liu Xia, and said innocently, "What's wrong with my third uncle? I just want to eat buns all the time. You yelled hard twice!"

Xiumei heard their voices coming out of the main room, she knew what happened with a quick glance, pointed to the cat and said to Liu Xia: "I told you he can't even fart, you still don't believe me, Do you know this time? Cat, don’t pretend to be stupid, hurry up to wash and come to eat, the second pot of steamed buns is out, there are chili and pumpkin shreds in the stir-fry, porridge in the boil, and rock sugar mung bean pear water, Eat whatever you want, if you don’t want to eat for a while, there are sugar cakes and vegetable corners.”

The cat cheered and pulled Liu Xia to run over: "Let's brush our teeth first, I'll drink porridge later, you drink pear water, and I'll eat ten big buns."

It doesn't rain for a long time, the weather is dry, and people are prone to get angry.

Sun Chang'e often boils mung bean soup, and in autumn and winter, she adds a few pears. Mung beans clear away heat and pears nourish the lungs. Now that the conditions at home are better, she usually puts some rock sugar in it to make it taste better.

Liu Xia and Mao'er returned to the main room after washing, and saw three plates in front of the Bodhisattva on the window sill, a plate of steamed buns, a plate of vegetable corners, and a plate of sugar cakes. Yes, it seems that the oil on it is still sizzling, it should have just come out of the oil pan for a few minutes.

The cat asked Sun Chang'e: "Grandma, have you talked to the Bodhisattva yet?"

Sun Chang'e was using the steamed buns used for pancakes to burn red, and glued the straps of Liu Xin's sandals that had come off, and she didn't dare to be distracted from talking. Xiumei said: "I told you, you two can eat if you want. The sugar cake is a bit hot, don't call it burning your tongue."

The cat immediately jumped onto the kang, smiled and folded his palms together and bowed to the Bodhisattva: "After you finish eating, Bodhisattva, the rice cooked by my grandma and my mother is delicious, right?"

Xiumei said: "The Bodhisattva is a god in the sky, why haven't you eaten it? You are still showing off to the Bodhisattva!"

The cat first took a bun and handed it to Liu Xia: "Here, uncle, it's hot; the sky is full of fairy peaches, and there are no buns or vegetable corners. The Bodhisattva has never eaten it before. Our home is so delicious, she Definitely to be seen.”

Liu Xia ate three steamed buns, three vegetable corners, and drank two bowls of mung bean and pear water in the morning; Maoeryan had a big belly, so he only ate two steamed buns, two vegetable corners, and couldn’t eat a bowl of millet porridge up.

However, when the two came out after eating, one of them took another sugar cake that had cooled down and ate it.

Liu Wei and Liu Rui haven't woken up yet, and Chang'e Sun doesn't let Liu Xin call them. Liu Wei has to sit in the classroom at 05:30 every morning, and can't sleep until 10:30 in the evening. He is big, so during the rare holidays, the whole family wants to let him sleep as much as he likes.

Liu Xin especially kissed Liu Wei, Liu Wei couldn't get up, he struggled for a while, but decided not to go out to play with Liu Xia and Mao'er, just sat in the main room and waited for Liu Wei.

Liu Xia didn't see Liu Changqing, Liu Changchun, Liu Kui, and Liu Yu when he was eating, so he knew that they must have gone to the land. He wanted to go to the land with Mao'er to see what they were doing, and help him out. As soon as he said that, the cat immediately pulled him and wanted to run into the field.

As soon as the two of them ran downhill, they saw Liu Chuan coming up from the Fengxi River with wet hair and shirtless, holding a son in one hand, and Liu Lei was also holding a box, which should be shampoo.

There was still less than half of Mao'er's candy cake left. Liu Yun and Liu Lei saw it, and immediately left Liu Chuan and ran over. Liu Lei even threw away the shampoo: "Brother, brother, Xiangxiang."

The cat raised the candy high up: "Say 'brother is the best' and I'll give it to you two."

The two boys anxiously grabbed his trousers and hopped to reach Gao Er, shouting to each other: "Brother is the best, brother is the best, brother Liu An, brother is good."

Maoer proudly handed the candy cake to Liu Yun: "It's not too bad, Xiaolei is waiting, brother will get one for each of you." Then he said to Liu Xia: "Uncle, wait for me." After finishing speaking Just ran home.

Liu Chuan came over and shook his head vigorously, the water in his hair was flying around, he said to Liu Xia: "Don't go to the place, I want to help, my uncle and brother still say nothing; they are six o'clock I just went, I should be back soon, there is not much work in the field, you said that Fu Dong wanted a mat, they went to chop other people's houses, and they didn't want sorghum stalks, let's go back and tear the corn, early Put it away after finishing, or it should be covered again in case it rains."

The cat flew back with three candy cakes. Liu Chuan, Liu Yun, and Liu Lei each had one. Liu Chuan took off the jackets of the two little guys before letting them eat: "The candy is first-rate, it can't be washed clean, and it can't be washed clean. There's nothing wrong with my stomach, I'll put it in the river for a while and rinse it off."

The two little guys ate some stuffing when they ate the buns just now, and Liu Chuan ate all the skins. This time, they actually ate all the sugar cakes, but it was just like what Liu Chuan said, both of them drank the sugar all over their stomachs. .

Liu Chuan took the two little guys to the Fengxi River to wash. Liu Xia and Mao Er sat under the big oak tree and began to tear corn. At the same time, they all urged Liu Changqing and the others to come back quickly. They have been studying outside for several years. When he came back, every time Liu Xia was at home, he didn't want anyone to leave.

Now, the water in the Fengxi River in the early morning is already a bit chilly, but Liu Yun and Liu Lei have to be carried in and washed several times almost every day. I heard the happy laughter of the two and Yanagawa's scolding.

Liu Wei and Liu Rui came out of the house yawning, and seeing Liu Xia and Mao'er had already started working, Liu Wei was a little embarrassed: "Uncle, Mao'er, you didn't sleep much today?"

Liu Xia said: "I'm going to get up too, hurry up and eat, baby, there are a lot of good things to eat, just like Chinese New Year."

Liu Kui's voice came from down the slope: "What good things make you happy, baby?"

Liu Xia, Mao'er, Liu Wei, and Liu Rui ran down the slope together, and immediately saw Liu Kui driving the shaft, Liu Changqing, Liu Changchun, and Liu Yu pushing around the cart, and the sorghum poles on the shelf cart were piled high , Liu Xia felt that three cars would be enough.

Liu Xia and the others ran over to help push the cart together, and the sorghum poles were sent directly to Liu Changchun's yard below. It can be processed into sorghum bamboo strips after harvesting.

Although there was no rain for more than a month in the previous period, the grains of the autumn crops were very shriveled and not full, but the weather was good until mid-August, so this year's sorghum stalks are quite tall.

A large group of people walked towards Liu Changqing's house, and saw two little guys running naked by the river, one east and the other west, fighting guerrilla warfare with Liu Chuan, determined not to go home, but to play in the river.

Liu Changqing and Liu Kui walked to the riverside, they clapped their hands, Liu Kui called out: "Good boy, come back quickly and ask Grandpa to give uncle a hug, and see if my baby is full."

The two little Hades immediately ran towards Liu Changqing and Liu Kui, patting their stomachs to show off to them while running:

"Grandpa hugs, the belly can be round."

"Uncle hugs, uncle touches belly, can be round or round."

Liu Changqing and Liu Kui picked up the two of them and walked back. Liu Chuan carried their little clothes and said behind him: "It's more frustrating to take them for a while than to train in the recruit company for three days; you two listen to me, get off!" Once we don't come back for a month, let's see who will carry you two around at night."

The two little things were not afraid of Liu Chuan's threats at all, hugging their grandfather and uncle's necks and proudly bouncing their little buttocks: "Uncle is camel."

Liu Kui took a small gown and put it on for Liu Yun, but when he asked Liu Chuan for small trousers, Liu Yun twisted and refused to cooperate: "If you don't wear it, you don't wear it, it's not beautiful."

Over there, Liu Yu also helped Liu Changqing put on a gown for Liu Lei. Seeing that Liu Yun was not wearing pants, Liu Lei hugged Liu Changqing's neck and acted like a baby: "Grandpa, it's not beautiful if you don't wear it."

The cat ran to the corn pile in a hurry, squatted down and turned over a few times, as if it had taken something, and when Liu Changqing and the others walked up, he stopped Liu Changqing and Liu Lei: "Grandpa, tell Xiao Lei to come down, Xiao Lei has grown up." When you grow up, come on, baby, come down and play with your brother."

Children's feelings towards people are all based on instinct. Liu Yun and Liu Lei run away when they see a cat, which is a tacit expression of their special play with the cat. They know that the cat likes them and is teasing them , and they also teased and played with the cat in this way, and now it was rare for the cat to play with him in a serious manner, and Liu Lei immediately insisted on going down.

Liu Changqing put him on the ground, and the cat squatted in front of Liu Lei, and put the little thing in his hand on Liu Lei's penis with a smirk:

"Hey, don't wear pants? Look at what this is, bugs bite dicks—"

Liu Lei was so frightened that he jumped up and kicked his legs and yelled, "Cong Chong Chong Chong, Grandpa, Chong Chong bit the dick."

Liu Changqing hurriedly hugged Liu Lei again, patted his back to comfort him: "Don't bite the dick, baby, don't bite, don't be afraid." After speaking, he put his big hands around the cat's head and said: "Baby, look at you Scared Xiaolei, what will you do after being so mean all day long?"

Liu Yun, who had already got off the ground just now, saw Liu Lei's appearance, and didn't let Liu Kui hug him again. Instead, he ran away with his bare buttocks until he reached the door of the main room, feeling that he was far enough away from the cat and safe enough. Cai covered his penis with both hands and said, "If you don't wear panties, Chong Chong won't bite your penis."

Liu Yu said to Liu Chuan: "Third Brother, I have decided to have a child after the age of 30, whether it is Nier or Haier, at most one."

Liu Chuan immediately changed the frowning expression he had when he was looking at the two little Hell kings just now, and said to Liu Yu with a happy smile: "It's not Li Xiaoyu, it's just that they are annoying people and they will have a headache for a while, most of the time I feel happy when I think of them, in fact If I don’t see them for three days now, I can’t think about it, but when you have a child, you will know, and if no one persuades you, I guess you will also want to have two more.”

Liu Yu grinned: "Just like these two scumbags and cats? Let's forget it, one of them will die."

Liu Changqing, Liu Kui and the others went to eat in the house, while Liu Chuan, Liu Xia and Mao'er sat under the tree and continued to tear corn.

This year's corn cobs are still very small. On the way to Sandaohe, Liu Xia picked up cornfields near Rongze. Most of their corn is half a foot long, and theirs are usually about the size of a small fist. Almost, Toudaopo is better, which is about half of others, and this part is very small.

Liu Xia looked at Liu Chuan who had been tearing up the corn with a smile on his face, thinking that this year the third brother would have to find someone to buy food, and the eldest brother would have to ask his grandpa to sue his grandma for relief food, which made him a little uncomfortable.

The cat hadn't thought of this yet, and was always in high spirits.

Liu Changqing and the others came out after eating, and as soon as they saw Liu Xia and Maoer tearing corn, Liu Kui immediately came over and shouted at them: "It's just this little thing, you two are not needed, Yaoer, let's take the boy to play, Li It's cooked with goji berries, go find them and eat them."

Liu Wei also led Liu Rui and Liu Xin out of the main room, and Liu Wei called Liu Xia: "Uncle, my grandfather said that I should not let me sit and do my homework all the time, he told you to lead me to play, let's go there Are you looking for ripe pears to eat?"

Liu Xia looked at the cat's eagerness to try, and stood up: "Hey, let's take a slingshot, it's best if the pears grow on the highest branch, if they can't reach them, shoot them down and eat them."

The cat ran into their cave and came out with a slingshot. When Liu Yun and Liu Lei heard that they were going to eat pears across the river, they hugged Liu Wei's leg tightly.

Liu Xia went over and carried Liu Yun on his shoulders, and Liu Wei carried Liu Lei on his back. Maoer tried to hit it with a stone first, and a persimmon with two leaves was knocked off. He waved his hand: "Go, let's go!" Let's go eat that tall-topped tree, which is the sweetest."

A group of people went to the other side of the river in a mighty way. Liu Yu looked at their backs and said: "I heard Brother Xiaojun go back and say that our youngest son has to be like us all day long, working in the wild all day long, no, it is worse than us. Hard work, we can still make up our own minds, we can take a day off if we really panic and don’t want to go, our youngest not only doesn’t have Sundays, but usually we can’t even go home, we always leave before dawn, and we can only go back on the second watch. Without seeing the sun, I can't even eat a meal.

I don't feel good when I hear it, my child goes to a good university, how can he end up working in the fields like our old farmers? "

Liu Chuan thought for a while before saying: "There is a big difference between Yaoer and us. Our Yaoer is really hard at work, harder than me and our family, but do you know how much our Yaoer's monthly bonus is? "

Liu Yu looked at him.

Yanagawa said, "It's about the same as your annual salary plus bonus."

Liu Yu stared at Liu Chuan dumbfounded.

Liu Changqing said: "When you're young, it's okay to do more work and be a little tired. I don't think Xiaoxia himself feels too hard. That's right. Although the boy is still young, he is very sensible."

Liu Kui laughed: "Xiao Yu, back then your uncle didn't allow you to drop out of school, and always wanted you to go to college too, but you couldn't make it through all the trouble, now you know the benefits of going to college, right?"

It took Liu Yu a long time to pat herself on the forehead: "Damn, I, I, if I have a baby, no, no matter whether it is Nier or Baer, ​​if he dares to tell me that he can't go to school, his legs will be discounted."

Liu Changchun smiled and said slowly: "Then should I discount your legs today?"

Liu Yu scowled and said, "Uncle..."

Sun Yufang was making noodles with dumplings, Xiumei was chopping vermicelli, and Sun Chang'e and Xiaohui came out to pick up a few green onions and chop them into the dumpling stuffing. Whoever wants to eat dumplings is fine.

As soon as Sun Chang'e came out of the house, she instinctively glanced into the distance, and immediately pointed to the opposite side and yelled: "Hey, look at that little turtle, Yao'er, and see where he is leading the children to do! "Liu Kui Liu Chuan, you two go over and take off his pants, and beat him up with bare buttocks, seeing that he is so old and in his 20s, do you know how ugly he is?"

Su Xiaohui looked in the direction of Sun Chang'e's finger, and saw seven people, big and small, tall and low, on a branch of the big pear tree on the opposite side of the mountain. Row, are urinating into the distance together.

Liu Chuan stood up, put his hands around his mouth in the shape of a trumpet, and shouted to the opposite side: "Pay attention to the direction of the wind, and follow the direction of the wind at any time. Anyone who dares to pee on his pants and come back will be beaten!"

Sun Chang'e was so angry that she pointed at Liu Chuan, but she didn't say anything. She said to Su Xiaohui, "Let's go, let's ignore this group of little turtles. Each of them will grow to a hundred without a single shape."

It was time to eat at noon, and Liu Xia led a group of little guys to run home with a half-woven bag of pears.

Liu Yun and Liu Lei competed to show merit to Liu Changqing and Liu Chuan, and danced and danced: "Urine high, urine high, brother Liu An said, give birth, you can have more children, you can have more."

When eating dumplings, Su Xiaohui sat in front of the coffee table ahead of time, and showed her special liking for the two fish. Liu Yun and Liu Lei immediately brought their little Ou, which only contained one dumpling, and asked Yuyu to carry their little fish on their backs. Ou just ate.

Su Xiaohui looked at Xiumei, smiled secretly, and put the two little Ou on the fish's butt as required, and Liu Chuan also brought dumplings to help her greet the two little Hades.

Su Xiaohui secretly asked Liu Chuan: "Are you just like them before, just put it on a tree, um, that?"

Liu Chuan blew half of the dumpling and stuffed it into Liu Lei's mouth, and replied solemnly: "Of course, didn't you listen to our baby? Urine is high, you can have many babies, you can have many babies, or we are just two Well, it’s all practiced by standing on a tree and peeing high!”

Su Xiaohui gritted her teeth and said: "I didn't know you were so thick-skinned before, and you actually instructed them to urinate in front of so many people. You are already thirty, why don't you know ugly?"

Liu Chuan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you are thick-skinned, what matters is that we are born together once, this is not something you can brag about, this is definitely true strength, don't you think?"

Su Xiaohui blushed, seeing that the family didn't pay special attention to them, she twisted Liu Chuan's ears hard: "The children are all here, so stop talking nonsense."

Liu Chuan jumped up holding the bowl: "Hiss, Xiaohui, you really..."

The whole family looked at him, and Chang'e Sun asked, "What's wrong with you, baby? There's dust in the dumpling? Is it hurting your teeth?"

Liu Chuan immediately shook his head: "No, no, it's...it's Xiaohui who told me that she wants another Nier, hehe, I'm a little..."

Sun Chang'e nodded: "Middle, we have a group of bald-headed children. I have wanted a granddaughter for a long time, and the child is more than two years old. If Xiaohui is pregnant now, the child will be three years old when she is born, and she will play tricks on her own." , your sister-in-law and I just have time to take care of our little one."

Su Xiaohui looked up at the sky silently. The sky was as blue as washing, and there was no sign of black snow. She took a deep breath and stuffed a whole dumpling into her mouth.