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"Everyone has performed very well recently, and you apprentices are also very good at getting started quickly. I hope that you will continue to work hard in the future, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and become a real doctor as soon as possible! Today is the Winter Solstice Festival, and the medical clinic is closed for a long time. I want to go home If you stay in the clinic, we can also make dumplings to eat at night, just to have a good time.” Bai Junzhuo, the young master of Renjitang, smiled warmly in the front hall to express condolences to the doctors and fellows.

Dongfang Yan twirled his beard and said with a cheerful smile: "My old man has just passed the hospital, waiting to eat dumplings at night."

"Xie Shaodong's family is sympathetic."

"Young master, I want to go home... My parents are looking forward to my return."

"..."

Several apprentices are from the city of Hezhou, and there are relatives at home who are waiting to go back for the festive reunion. Naturally, they don't want to stay in the medical clinic, so they stand up and ask for leave and prepare to go home.

As soon as Shen Ji stood up and called "Young Master", Bai Junzhuo said empathetically:

"You will stay in the clinic tonight for the winter solstice. It doesn't matter, you are all acquaintances, so don't be restrained."

Shen Ji was stunned for a moment, but after he came to his senses, he quickly said: "Thank you, Young Master, for your kindness, it's just me, I want to go home."

Bai Junzhuo still remembered that when they met for the first time, Shen Ji mentioned the embarrassment that he stayed at a friend's house and couldn't contact his brother, so he kindly persuaded him to spend the holidays in the medical clinic with integrity and comfort.After hearing Shen Ji's resignation, he was not angry, but congratulated:

"It seems that you have been reunited with your family, so go home. Come, this is a kindness from Renjitang. Take it, everyone has it." Bai Junzhuo picked up a red envelope and handed it to Shen Ji.

Shen Ji was a little embarrassed to pick it up, but after watching the other party give way, he took it with both hands, thanked him and left.

"Hey, Xiao Ji, come here!" Several apprentices were still standing in the backyard muttering around, and when they saw Shen Ji coming out, they hurriedly greeted him.

Shen Ji thought that he could rest for a long time, and was very happy in his heart. He trotted over when he heard the greeting, "Brother An, why haven't you left yet?"

"Take out your red envelope, open it and see how many are inside?" Chen Li urged him by elbowing him curiously.

In fact, as soon as Shen Ji received the red envelope, he knew it in his heart: the heavy feel and round shape should be copper plates.It was the first time he received income other than monthly money. He was really surprised, and of course he was very happy. Who doesn't like a generous boss?

"Oh, okay, I don't know how many..." Shen Ji took out the red envelope, surrounded by a few young people and roughly counted them.

"Your ones are also one hundred coins. It seems that the apprentices are all the same, and the doctors must be more than us!" Sun An said conclusively.

"That's for sure! Can a doctor be at the same level as an apprentice... at least it's worth a penny." Chen Li felt relieved seeing that the rewards of his companions were the same.To be honest, if everyone does the same job, which one of them gets more rewards, I will feel a little uncomfortable.

Feng Yuanshan is the most simple and honest, he weighed the string of copper plates contentedly, and said with a smile on his face: "Take this back to my mother, she will be very happy. Are you going back? Xiao Ji, are you with your brothers?" It's been a while, right?"

"Well, it's agreed, we brothers live together, let's go back!"

"Hahaha... The Young Master's family is really generous, giving out money every New Year's day..."

"I'm leaving first, and I have to go home to help butcher the sheep. Let's have dinner together with my family tonight."

Shen Ji couldn't wait to run to the side courtyard, and took Xiao Fei out from the stable—although it was a short walk home from the hospital, as soon as he had just learned how to ride a horse, he felt uncomfortable when asked to walk again. I always want to get on the horse and run a few laps.So he begged the steward of the hospital for a long time before he was given a place in the stable in the side courtyard.

"Let's go, go away Xiaofei, slow down, turn around...Okay, very good, bow your head..." This remote courtyard is really too remote, and you have to leave through the back door, and you have to toss for a long time every time, but Shen Ji didn't find it troublesome at all, and enjoyed it every time.

"Let's go to Nancheng, drive, drive..." Shen Ji was able to get on the horse proficiently, and he was holding a cowhide whip specially found for him by his elder brother. It seems that it is already a bit chic.

"The third brother has long agreed to spend the winter solstice with me, and the eldest brother also proposed to go home a few days ago, so at least we should prepare food for three people..." Today's market is extraordinarily lively, the winter solstice is For the important festivals, ordinary people can generously celebrate those few festivals throughout the year.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, Shen Ji struggled to tighten the reins, bought mutton, flour, glutinous rice flour, refined meat, sesame sugar, pork ribs and other materials in turn, and then hurried back home.He was so busy, it was only half an hour later, the winter was short, maybe after a while, the eldest brother and the third brother would be home.

The winter solstice is a good time for tonic, so Shen Ji decided to make stewed mutton with angelica.When he got home, he first took the horse into the stable and tied it up, prepared fodder and water for him, and then went into the house to get busy.

"Wow, woof!" Xiao Tu ran in excitedly, followed by Da Wu, Xiao Wu, and their big dog Ah Huang.

"You guys are here, what did you do today?" When Shen Ji used to go out to do errands, he could only lock Xiaotu at home. After he became familiar with him, Shen Ji confidently handed over Xiaotu to Dawu and Xiaowu to take care of him.Anyway, there was a dog hole by the courtyard gate, so Xiaotu could find his way home if he wanted to go home.

"Brother, we are going to have a snowball fight today. My mother is cooking sweet and sour fish again today. Come to my house for dinner, brother." Xiao Wu warmly invited.

Shen Ji grabbed some walnut cakes from the earthen pot and distributed them to the two children. He politely declined, "Today is the winter solstice and the festival. Everyone should stay at home for dinner. It is a day for family reunion. ,Understand?"

After the two children wandered around his house and lost interest and left, Shen Ji began to make stewed mutton with angelica.

Slice the mutton and ginger first, wash and break the angelica for later use.Mutton must first be blanched in boiling water.After picking up and draining, put a little oil in the hot pan, saute the ginger slices, add the angelica and mutton and stir fry, add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil, add cooking wine and simmer on a low heat, you can ignore it for now.

The next thing is to make dumplings. Shen Ji threw the hard frozen pork into warm water to defrost. He started busy kneading and kneading the dough. When the dough woke up, he could start mincing the meat. Actually, the meat thawed When you can use a knife, chopping meat is the most labor-saving and convenient, just like chopping radishes.

He forgot to buy cabbage. He only had a few sauerkraut, which he washed and shredded. He decided to make two kinds of dumplings, one with pure meat filling and one with sauerkraut meat filling.After carefully mixing the two pots of fillings, the next step was to roll out the dumpling wrappers. I was so busy that I wrapped them while rolling out the wrappers, completely oblivious to the fact that the sky was getting dark.

"Brother Ji, brother came back late, have you already prepared dinner? You are really capable!" After finishing his work in the barracks, Mu Dong hurried back, preparing to spend the winter solstice with Shen Ji, the memory of the last festival together It was almost ten years ago, which is really emotional.

"Brother, you're back, it's getting dark, no wonder the more I get wrapped up, the more I can't see clearly..." Shen Ji went to light the lamp suddenly, thinking involuntarily why the third brother hasn't come back yet?

Mu Dong took off his cloak, wiped his face and washed his hands, appeared in the kitchen again, and volunteered to say, "Let me wrap it together too, it will be quicker, I'm just worried that my wraps will fall apart."

"It's okay, let's eat steamed dumplings, they won't be scattered, so wrap them however you want." Shen Ji moved quickly, and the rows of white and fat dumplings were neatly arranged.

It wasn't until the dumplings made by the Shen Ji brothers were steamed on the tray, and when they were about to fry the glutinous rice balls wrapped with sesame seeds, that Jiang Feng came back, and he was not alone, he also brought Zuo Zhen with him.

In fact, Zuo Zhen was very embarrassed. According to the usual practice, Zhou Bo took them to eat dumplings as a holiday, but today Sun Zhihai also attended... Jiang Feng didn't want to see his second brother feel uncomfortable, so he used the excuse of Shen Ji Invited the two of them to spend the winter solstice together, and left after only drinking a glass of wine and saying hello.

"Third brother, third child! I won't go, I, I have something to do when I go back, really! You can go by yourself...Jiang San'er..." Zuo Zhen smiled wryly and repeatedly declined, but Jiang Fengquan pretended not to hear, He insisted on dragging him to the market to buy a few catties of good wine, Zuo Zhen bought a delicious roast leg of lamb just out of the oven, he felt that he couldn't beat Jiang Feng.

"Second brother, you are really serious. Didn't you promise to spend the winter solstice together a few days ago? Why did you forget it in a blink of an eye? Let's go."

"But you are going to live with Shen Ji, why should I join in the fun? Is that appropriate?"

Jiang Feng gave him a gouged look, and holding back his anger, he said, "Then wouldn't it be great for us to spend the winter solstice together? Shen Ji, you still don't know him? Could it be that he doesn't welcome you? Now I want to have a meal with my second brother." It's so hard to drink, bro, I'm so sad..."

So Zuo Zhen had no choice but to follow up honestly, and dismissed his brother unceremoniously: "OK, let's go, since you and Shen Ji got back together, you have become more and more eloquent. Hey, what did you eat!"

"You'll know if you go."

"..."

Shen Ji, who was wrapping glutinous rice balls with his ears open, heard the knock on the door, immediately dropped the glutinous rice balls in his hand, and ran outside. Mu Dong remained unmoved and continued to sit upright, trying hard to make a Round sesame glutinous rice balls without breaking the skin.

"Haha, I have to finish dinner before you come here. You have been waiting for a long time. What are you carrying in your hand, second brother? It smells so good, come in, come in and sit!" Shen Ji ignored the glutinous rice flour in his hand , opened the door with a quick slap, and was very happy to see the third brother and the second brother. I didn't expect that the first festival in Hezhou could be so lively.

"Xiao Ji, I'm really sorry to bother you... This is a roast leg of lamb, especially many people buy it, so the taste should be okay." Zuo Zhen exchanged greetings as he entered the house.

"Second brother, you are really, what are you doing so politely? We are so familiar. I am happy when you come here. I am only a few of you friends here. Sit down quickly and give me the roast leg of lamb. Wow, it is really delicious. , dinner will be ready soon." Shen Ji took the still warm roast leg of lamb and put it on the dining table.

Mu Dong originally thought that it was Jiang Feng who came, so he didn't care, but then he heard the voice of a third person, and now he had to come out to greet him.

"Oh, it turns out that General Mu has also come back to celebrate the winter solstice... I'm really sorry, your family is reunited, but I..." Zuo Zhen felt even more embarrassed when he saw Mu Dong, and hurriedly expressed his apology.

Mu Dong quickly responded: "You can just call me Mu Dong. Brother Zuo, don't say that. We are all brothers in the same camp. I have spent all these years with everyone no matter what festival. We are a family. Come on!" Please sit down, it's fine if someone comes, how dare you let brother Zuo spend money?"

Jiang Feng took the initiative to go in to help Shen Ji, and after bringing out a big steaming pot of stewed mutton with angelica, he went back and brought out braised pork ribs and several large plates of dumplings.

Shen Ji set up the bowls and chopsticks, and greeted warmly, "Eat quickly, everyone, chat while eating, I'll get the dagger out and eat a piece of mutton." After finishing speaking, he went back to the house to get the dagger Mu Dong gave him.

"Come on, let's have a toast, and wish you all the best in the future!" As the host, Mu Dong should pour wine and toast to start the feast, Jiang Feng and Zuo Zhen then returned the salute.

Shen Ji also drank a small glass of wine. He knew that the dagger given by his elder brother was sharp, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity to prove it. He was always worried that he would accidentally make a cut.This is all right, a piece of barbecue is just right!After washing and drying, he took the dagger and carefully sliced ​​off a large and thin piece of meat. He felt that it was extremely sharp, and then he became interested, and he put a lot of pieces on the plate for everyone to eat.

"Okay, don't mess with it, you can eat quickly." After Jiang Feng urged in a low voice, Shen Ji put down the dagger and sat down to eat.

Just when the cups of wine were mixed and the wine was hot, and the few people were eating, drinking, and chatting, they were very happy, and suddenly there were low and long horns outside——

"Oops!"

"problem occurs!"

After Mu Dong, Jiang Feng, and Zuo Zhen looked at each other in surprise, they immediately sank their faces, put down their wine glasses and chopsticks, stood up, and quickly grabbed their outer robes and cloaks to put them on.

"Brother Ji, elder brother has to rush back to the camp immediately, you have to be careful at home, don't run around, you know?" Mu Dong rushed into the bedroom, and after a while, he came out fully dressed, and eagerly explained a few words to Shen Ji .

"What, what's the matter? Is something wrong?" Shen Ji didn't understand how to eat well, and the faces of the brothers changed when they heard the sound of the horn.

Jiang Feng ran over and gave him a strong hug, kissed his forehead lightly, and told him softly: "The sound of the horn just now represents an enemy attack, and the whole city will be under martial law. You don't have to be afraid. If you have anything to do, go to Yong'an Inn to find Uncle Wang." , Remember? The third brother has explained everything."

"Don't be afraid, Xiao Ji, you'll be fine if you don't run around. The third child has to go, we have to go back to the mansion immediately!"

"..."

After Shen Ji nodded nervously, the three of them ran out quickly. As soon as the horse was led out of the door, they immediately got on the horse, whipped the whip hard, beat the horse sharply and galloped away.

Wearing only a single robe, Shen Ji hurriedly chased the three elder brothers to the gate of the courtyard. After seeing their figures disappear, the low and majestic horn sound continued to be heard in the night sky, which was very clear and peaceful in the winter snowy night. ... infiltration.Shen Ji was shivering all over from the cold. When he came back to his senses, he saw the darkness around him, so he stood outside by himself. A little scared, he immediately closed the courtyard door, then ran back to the house, and fastened the door firmly.

His heart was beating fast, and he turned around to look at the dinner table: there was still a lot of food left, the wine glasses of the three brothers were still full, and there was still more than half of the plate of mutton he carefully sliced, not to mention the wrapped glutinous rice balls , I originally planned to cook a few pieces for each person after dinner and chat to digest food. It seems that there is no need for it now...

Shen Ji leaned against the wall motionless, recalling the lively scene of relatives and friends sitting together to celebrate the winter solstice a moment ago, he let out a long sigh.

—I’m the only one left.