The little man on the apex

Yuan Xi walked out of the house holding Aunt Gu's arm, with an excited expression on his face, he kept talking to Aunt Gu about Yu Bingchen's appearance, Yan Heyi followed quietly, and turned around to help Aunt Gu close the door .

"Ahhh." As soon as he reached the gate of the yard, Aunt Gu patted Yuan Xi's hand suddenly, "Auntie's hair is still messed up."

Yuan Xi stretched out his hand to fiddle with her, "Isn't this pretty good, it's more shiny than the big girl's hair."

Aunt Gu grabbed Yuan Xi's arm, turned around and hurriedly walked into the house, "This is impossible, I have to dress up carefully."

"Auntie, you are going to meet your lover, are you a little nervous?" Yuan Xi joked, tilting his head.

"Nervous?" Aunt Gu sat in front of the dressing table, opened a cabinet above, took out a delicate wide-mouth porcelain jar, opened it and smelled it, the room was full of fragrance, it was the sweet-scented osmanthus oil for combing hair, "That's not it , it’s not a little girl who hasn’t left the cabinet anymore, why are you nervous?”

Aunt Gu turned her head and said with a smile: "I just thought, I haven't seen you for so many years, I can't be sloppy, let him think that I have not had a good life these years, and make him take it lightly."

"Yes," Yuan Xi nodded hastily, "We must not lose to him!"

He took the wooden comb from Aunt Gu, dipped it in some sweet-scented osmanthus oil, combed her hair carefully, and then quietly hid a few white hairs from her temples inside.

Aunt Gu looked at Yuan Xi who was combing her hair carefully in the mirror, and she was in a daze for a moment, "If I married him back then and gave birth to a child as good as our Yuan Xi, I'm afraid I would have to wait to become a grandmother."

Yuan Xi squeezed Aunt Gu's shoulders, "You look so young, how can you be a grandmother?"

"I'm going to be old eventually!" Aunt Gu turned around and patted Yuan Xi's hand, "They all have gray hair."

Feeling sad for a while, Yuan Xi squatted down slowly, and pillowed her head on Aunt Gu's lap, "Even if you are seventy or eighty and full of gray hair, you are still the most beautiful old lady in Ping'an Village."

"You're clever, you're used to saying these nice things to coax me." Aunt Gu smiled until her eyes narrowed, and she stretched out her finger to lightly poke Yuan Xi's head.

"Aunt," Yuan Xi raised his face, and blinked his long and curly eyelashes, "If you want, I'll be your child, as long as you don't think I'm noisy, and you just want to have dinner."

"Sure, you gluttonous baby, even if you come to aunt's place for three meals a day, aunt won't beat you out with a broom."

Aunt Gu turned her head again and looked at Yan Heyi, who was sitting on a chair not far away and looked over here, "Brother is coming too, Auntie has prepared delicious food for you."

Yuan Xi hurriedly got up, ran over and pulled Yan Heyi over, smiled at Aunt Gu, "That's natural, this is your daughter-in-law!"

Yan Heyi blushed immediately, and smiled embarrassedly at Aunt Gu, then turned her head, and stared at Yuan Xi who was in need of a beating, she really looked a bit shy of a young daughter-in-law.

After combing her hair, Aunt Gu carefully arranged her hair in a bun, picked out a delicate brass hairpin from the dowry and put it on, and tossed and tossed in front of the mirror for a long time. When she was finally satisfied, she squeezed her wrist and kneaded it for a long time.

After finishing these, Aunt Gu went to the inner room again, and came out a moment later. She had changed all the clothes on her body, and she wore a sky-blue gown on the outside of the jacket. He looked extraordinarily energetic.

Yuan Xi went up to meet her as if seeing a fairy, and praised Aunt Gu non-stop, coaxing her cheeks to blush.

Aunt Gu hurriedly followed Yuan Xi and the others to Niu Er's house. When she reached the gate of the courtyard, she stopped and asked Yuan Xi to straighten her collar before taking a deep breath and entering the courtyard. .

"Aunt Gu is here." Brother Sheng was coaxing Brother Yu to build a snowman in the yard, when he saw Aunt Gu entered the door, he hurriedly got up to greet her, led her into the room, and quietly winked with Yuan Xi, She made a "Peixian" mouth shape in her mouth.

Yuan Xi nodded slightly, and Brother Sheng's eyes lit up in an instant, and he found an excuse to call out Niu Er who was still accompanying Yu Bingchen in the room.

Niu Er was blunt, didn't understand what was going on here at all, followed out in a daze, and went to the kitchen to boil honey water for Brother Sheng.

Yuan Xi and Yan Heyi didn't follow into the room either, they just stood behind the screen and listened with bated breath.

Aunt Gu kept silent, but Yu Bingchen was very pleasantly surprised. He kept calling Aunt Gu's name and talked about the events of the year from beginning to end.

At that time, Yu Bingchen really went back to his hometown to tell his parents, even the matchmaker was invited, and he was waiting to come to Peixian to propose marriage, but suddenly caught up with the war, the two countries banned entry and exit, and Yu Bingchen was arrested again , Pulling a wooden cart to transport the army rations.

Finally, the war subsided, but the ban was not cancelled. Instead, trade was banned, and he was not even allowed to go to the southern country to be a salesman.

After Yu Bingchen spoke earnestly, Aunt Gu asked softly, "Have you ever been married? Do you have any children?"

"Never." Yu Bingchen was a little excited, and coughed a few more times, "After my parents left, I have always been alone. I have never thought of others, and I only have you in my heart."

"Okay." Aunt Gu was silent for a while, and then she spoke with some pride, "I have a child and a virtuous wife."

Yuan Xi and Yan Heyi, who had their ears pricked up outside, looked at each other after hearing this, and tried their best to hold back their smiles.

Yuan Xi bowed his body and looked in through the gap in the screen.

I saw Yu Bingchen clutching the quilt helplessly, then raised his head again, with a gentle smile on his face, "It's okay, Peixian."

He called out softly, but changed his words again, "Gu...Miss Gu, I am content to see you again. Since you are married, I will not trouble you. When you feel better, I will go Go home."

"Well, does he... treat you well?"

Yu Bingchen asked hesitantly, then lowered his head and smiled and said, "Seeing that you are still as good-looking as you were back then, that person must treat you very well."

Aunt Gu teased him, "Who?"

Yu Bingchen said softly, "Your...husband."

"What kind of husband is there?" Aunt Gu couldn't help laughing, she turned around and waved to Yuan Xi who was behind the screen, "My baby, stop listening there, come in and let this Yu have a look."

Yuan Xi intentionally supported Aunt Gu, showing the aura of her mother's family, and said to Bingchen with a cold face: "Aunt Gu treats me very well, and treats me like my own child, so I naturally want to treat her well too." , if anyone dares to bully her, I will definitely beat that person until my own mother doesn't recognize her."

Yu Bingchen hurriedly cupped his hands towards Yuan Xi, "If there's something wrong with me, I'll leave it to you, Young Master."

"It's over, don't scare him," Aunt Gu patted Yuan Xi's shoulder, "If you scare him out of the way, where can I find such a handsome husband?"

Hearing this, Yu Bingchen suddenly smiled, "Peixian?"

Aunt Gu sat down by the bed, "When I came here, I wanted to beat you up and drive you out, but after so many years, you are still as handsome as before even though your hair has grown gray." .”

"And... the voice is still so nice, how can I be willing to drive you away?"

Yuan Xi was stunned when he heard it, and thought to himself: Aunt Gu must have been fascinated by his good looks back then, and she is still infatuated after all these years. Fortunately, she met someone with a conscience.

Aunt Gu talked to Yu Bingchen alone for a while, and then took him home. That night, Yuan Xi saw that the lights in the courtyard next door were still burning when he arrived, thinking that the two would reunite after a long absence. I'm afraid I'm going to talk all night.

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The next day was the winter solstice, Yuan Xi and Yan Heyi had been arguing for a long time about whether to eat dumplings or glutinous rice balls on this day, and finally both sides discussed that they should eat both dumplings and glutinous rice balls.

When it was time to make dumplings, Yan Heyi was troubled again. Dumplings are not often eaten in this area. Occasionally, when I eat wontons, I always roll out a large piece of dough and then cut it into suitable sized wonton skins. Great for making dumplings.

Yuan Xi, the young master Jiao who grew up with his mouth open, only once during the winter solstice, his mother came into the kitchen for an unprecedented time and made it herself. He followed curiously, but he was just beside him, holding a dough Children pinch small animals to play.

Under Yan Heyi's coercion and lure, Yuan Xi asked brother Yu to pinch his legs, while carefully recalling the situation at that time, "At that time, my mother thought I was annoying, so she grabbed a piece of dough for me."

"I first pinched a sparrow, then pinched a koi carp, and then I gathered several pieces of dough from my aunt, and stacked them together to pinch a rabbit."

He blinked his round eyes, which seemed to be filled with two puddles of water, "Brother, I really like rabbits, and I asked the embroiderer to embroider all kinds of rabbits on my clothes before. "

"I also have a set of jade-carved rabbits, which are just like the real thing, very cute, among them..."

"Cheng Chengcheng, brother, I think! I'll think carefully!"

Yan Heyi raised his hand at him, Yuan Xi quickly shrank his neck to beg for mercy, and after drinking another bowl of honey water that Yan Heyi made for him, he slapped his thigh in a fuss, "I remember!"

"Knead the dough, knead it into long strips, cut it into small doses, then press it lightly, flatten it, then roll it with a rolling pin, roll it into a round shape, and finally wrap the stuffing in it. That's it."

Anyway, the process is probably remembered.

Relying on her outstanding culinary talent, Yan Heyi finally successfully completed a series of processes of kneading, kneading, cutting, pressing and rolling after rolling out several strange-shaped dumpling skins. The dough was turned into a regular round dumpling wrapper, and the dumplings with two curtains were carefully wrapped.

Looking to the side, the "Animal Kingdom" created by Yuan Xi and Brother Yu has also been completed, and it is arranged in a row on the stove, such as flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water. It seems to have everything, but none of them can tell what it is.

Both guys had some flour on their cheeks, and they looked more like two glutinous rice balls. Yan Heyi pinched one with each hand, and the two guys came over grinning, and printed two pairs of white handprints on his apron.

He was already very satisfied, after all, it was worthwhile to get some more dough for these two troublemakers to sit down for an hour.

At noon, the dumplings and glutinous rice balls were all in the pot, and the "animals" made by Yuan Xi and Brother Yu were also steamed. The three of them sat in front of the stove and waited to eat.

The dumplings were filled with cabbage and pork, while the glutinous rice balls were stuffed with sesame seeds and peanuts. Yuanxi and Yan Heyi didn't argue any more, and they both ate a lot of dumplings and glutinous rice balls.

Brother Yu likes to eat dumpling stuffing, Yan Heyi saw that he poked open the dumplings in his bowl with chopsticks, stuffed the stuffing into his mouth, chewed with satisfaction, then quietly picked out the skin and threw it to the side Looking forward to the group.

When he threw it, he would lower his head and glance at Yan Heyi from the corner of his eye. Yan Heyi pretended not to see it, but was still eating the dumplings in his bowl seriously.

Anyway, the dumpling took one bite at a time, and they ate with great joy. Brother Yu's picky behavior, it's not too late to correct it during class.

When I was ready to go to bed and take a nap after eating and drinking, someone suddenly shouted at the gate of the courtyard. When I came out to see, it was the butler Yu, "Mentors, my master is back. Let us pick up the young master and go home. I will give the two gentlemen a few days. Sorry for the trouble, the master specially prepared a small gift to thank you."

Brother Yu pouted in an instant, and grabbed Yuan Xi's clothes without letting go, but Yan Heyi hurriedly packed Brother Yu's suitcase after pouring tea for the housekeeper.

Yan Heyi: It's tears when I say it, Yuanxi and I haven't been intimate for almost ten days...

Yuan Xi silently lowered his head and bit his lips, but there was an imperceptible shyness on his face.