It’s December 29th, one thousand and three years in the calendar of Dafeng.
Wu Dalong made some firecrackers and let the young boys take some to play with. Lu Xiaosan, who should have taken the firecrackers happily and put them into the snow, acted very indifferently and took them quietly with his little native dog in his arms. The basket containing several small firecrackers the size of a pinky finger was then handed back to Lu Xiaosi and Lu Xiaowu.
"Junior brother, you two can play."
Lu Xiaosan was unusually calm.
This made Wu Dalong very surprised. He stood on the sword platform of Xiaobai Sword Sect and looked at it suspiciously for a long time, and then looked at Lu Xiaoer aside. Although this young man likes to practice with his sword, he actually played a lot last year. Happy, but this year I don’t know why, so I shook my head and walked towards Xiaobai Waterfall with my sword on my back.
"No, uncle, I'm going to practice sword practice."
Wu Dalong scratched his head and stood in the snow with those firecrackers in a daze.
Instead, Lu Xiaoyi ran over with a sword.
"Uncle, I want to play."
Wu Dalong didn't care so much. He gave the remaining firecrackers to Lu Xiaoyi with a smile, and then turned back three times in the wind and snow. As he walked, he looked at the little native dog sitting quietly in the Jianping tree. Lu Xiaosan.
Could it be that this kid really grew up after memorizing some poems?
On the way back to Tianya Sword Sect, I happened to meet Lu Xiaoxiao who was coming back from the canyon. Because everyone was going to live in the Little Red Mansion tonight, Lu Xiaoxiao had to go up and do a lot of things. At this time, he happened to come down and bring some quilts up. .
Wu Dalong told Lu Xiaoxiao this weird thing.
Lu Xiaoxiao, who was well aware of Lu Xiaosan's habits, felt that something was wrong. After returning to the vicinity of Xiaobai Jianzong, he did not come out immediately. Instead, he hid under a laurel tree in the snow and quietly looked at Jianping. Several people.
Of course Lu Xiaoer was not here, but Lu Xiaoxiao didn't find it strange that this second disciple was at Xiaobai Waterfall every day.
Lu Xiaosi and Lu Xiaowu were in the snow flat. They planted firecrackers in the snow and squatted nearby. Lu Xiaoyi, the only one among the three who had entered the Tao, lit the sword fire and carefully lit the firecrackers. He covered his ears and ran away in embarrassment.
It exploded with a bang, causing white snow to fly everywhere.
I happily put firecrackers in another piece of snow.
And Lu Xiaosan.
This boy who usually likes to be naughty and mischievous actually held the little native dog and stood under a tree not far away with a smile, watching the three of them playing with firecrackers.
There was a hint of disdain in the smile on his face.
Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a long time.
Has this kid really grown up?
Lu Xiaobai was puzzled, so he walked back to Xiaobai Sword Sect, pretending to be surprised and looking at Lu Xiaosan under the tree.
"Hey, mistress, why don't you go play?"
"Ha." Lu Xiaosan smiled contemptuously while holding the little native dog. "It's just a kid's thing."
Of course, Lu Xiaoxiao didn't know that Lu Xiaosan was only thinking about the big firecrackers he made. Naturally, he looked down on Wu Dalong's tricks to fool children, and thought he really felt childish.
Lu Xiaoxiao frowned and looked at Lu Xiaosan for a long time, and then slowly relaxed. He felt that Lu Xiaosan had probably entered a psychological age group where he felt that he had matured, so he looked down on childish behavior.
After all, what man doesn’t like lighting firecrackers?
When I went up today, I saw Wu Dalong looking around. After seeing that no one noticed, he laughed and played with firecrackers on the courtyard of Tianya Sword Sect.
However, Lu Xiaoxiao didn't say anything. He just looked at Lu Xiaosan with a slight smile and said, "Then you can also play with the junior brothers."
Lu Xiaosan tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay."
Then he reluctantly put down the little native dog, walked over, took a firecracker from Lu Xiaosi's hand, held it in his hand and looked at Lu Xiaoyi and said: "Sister, please lend me the sword and fire!"
"..."
Lu Xiaoyi was speechless and resisted the idea of hitting Lu Xiaosan on the head, but still lit the firecrackers in his hand.
Lu Xiaosan held the firecracker with the fuse that was burning rapidly. He looked at Lu Xiaosi and Lu Xiaowu as if he had seen strong winds and waves before and said, "Junior brother, please be careful. This move is originally the secret skill of Xiaobai Sword Sect. It was first created in Well, Sword Immortal Lu Xiaosan..."
As Lu Xiaosan spoke, he caught a glimpse of the almost burned out lead, and his expression became panicked.
Damn, that’s a lot of nonsense.
However, although Lu Xiaosan was panicking in his heart, his face was still very calm, and he just said quickly: "Nine Heavens Xuansha, turned into divine thunder, and the brilliant power of heaven, led it with the sword!"
Then he threw the firecracker in his hand into the sky, drew his sword, pointed at the sky and sneered: "Thunder!"
There was a bang.
He was handsome as he was, but Lu Xiaosan delayed too much, and the firecracker exploded before it could fly very high, leaving the four of them disgraced.
Lu Xiaoyi raised his hand to wipe the dirt from his face and glared at Lu Xiaosan.
Lu Xiaosan wiped his face in embarrassment, looked at his senior sister and said with a smile: "Mistake, mistake, do it again, do it again."
Naturally, Lu Xiaoyi refused to give Lu Xiaosan any more firecrackers. Lu Xiaosan asked Lu Xiaosi and the others for one, but there was nothing they could do if Lu Xiaoyi didn't give him some.
Lu Xiaosan thought to himself, I, Lu Xiaosan, am so knowledgeable and talented that I can still be stopped by such a trivial matter, so he put the fuse of the firecracker on his own bell, then asked Lu Xiaosi to take his sword and put it on the ground. A sword struck down.
People who practice swordplay all day long have good eyesight after all. This sword was not smashed crookedly. The sword fire from the intersection of the two swords just ignited the fuse. He was just worried that he would not have time to pick it up and play with it, so Lu Xiaosan let it go. The firecrackers remained in place, making a crackling sound and burning the fuses.
But a yellow figure suddenly jumped out of the snow.
Lu Xiaosan was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the little local dog running towards him with a smile on his face, holding firecrackers in his mouth, and started running hurriedly in Jianping.
"Le Chaotian, what do you want to do!"
"Stop it!"
"Get out of here!"
The little local dog ignored him and happily skipped towards Lu Xiaosan with a firecracker in his mouth.
In the end, Lu Xiaosan was not able to escape the disaster. He tripped in the snow and had to lie down in the snow with his head covered. The little local dog chased him and spit the firecracker onto Lu Xiaosan's butt.
This time, Jiutian Xuansha really turned into divine thunder.
...
There are several rooms on the first floor of the small building. Except for one that Le Chaotian filled with musical instruments, the others are all empty. At first, Le Chaotian would come down to sleep, but later he was too lazy to leave. When I felt sleepy, I fell asleep directly in front of the stove on the second floor.
As for Nandao, he would sit on the corridor all day long, listen to the wind, drink wine, and practice sword-raising.
In short, it means that the world is in a hurry, but I am leisurely and calm.
Therefore, it only needs to be tidied up briefly before the young teenagers can move in.
Lu Xiaoxiao came back again with a smile on his face, sitting in the corridor outside the building and looking at the peach blossom corner downstairs, Le Chaotian was puzzled.
"Senior sister saw something and smiled so happily."
Lu Xiaoxiao hugged the quilt against the snow and told Lu Xiaosan about how the little local dog hurt her so much that her butt was swollen.
Le Chaotian stroked his hands and smiled.
"Wonderful, wonderful."
Nan Dao was a little curious while drinking wine.
"Senior Brother Wu's firecrackers are so powerful that they can swell his butt even through such thick cotton pants?"
"That's not true. I guess it's just an act. Lu Xiaosan's butt is very thick. If you don't give it a few hard spanks, there won't be any swelling at all."
Lu Xiaoxiao is very experienced.
"..."
The two people upstairs were speechless.
I probably feel it is a pity.
However, it is understandable that Lu Xiaosan had been beaten all year round and his buttocks were rougher and thicker. Otherwise, after he fell down, he would have had a free hand to cover his buttocks.
In the evening, the small building was finally tidied up. Lu Xiaoxiao also planned to ask Wu Dalong to come up. The two of them built a temporary kitchen downstairs. After all, cooking upstairs would easily make a mess and leave a lot of smell, but Le Chaotian thinks it's okay to stay upstairs.
"We can have hot pot. It's convenient and practical. Senior sister, you don't have to be busy all the time."
"Who eats hot pot during the Chinese New Year?"
"Who said you can't have hot pot during the Chinese New Year? Wouldn't it be beautiful if the stove is a little brighter, the whole building is filled with fragrant fragrance, and the place is filled with red and blazing fire?"
Le Chaotian is naturally thinking about all kinds of hot pot.
After staying in Lingnan for a while, Le Chaotian was able to accept some soup base filled with dried red peppers.
Lu Xiaoxiao was naturally a little excited. After all, he was busy during the New Year, so eating hot pot was indeed a good idea.
"Then I'll ask Lu Xiaoyi and the others."
When Le Chaotian heard this, he knew he had a chance to win.
After all, teenagers cannot resist the temptation of hot pot.
In the Tianya Sword Sect, Wu Dalong was checking the ingredients. Naturally, there was no fresh cabbage, but there was still some meat, and there were also meatballs. After all, it had been snowing heavily for days, so just bury them in the snow without worrying about them spoiling.
As for the vermicelli and bacon that can be stored for a long time, there is no need to worry.
Just no fish.
There are plenty of fish every year, so it would be impossible to live without fish during the Chinese New Year.
When Wu Dalong walked to the small building and said this, Le Chaotian also slapped his leg.
Yes, how can we do without fish?
So Le Chaotian, who was always too lazy to go out in the heavy snow, found those fishing rods from before.
Fishing is impossible without the human fishing saint Lu Xiaosan.
Le Chaotian asked Wu Dalong to make a few fishing rods on the spur of the moment, then ran to the Xiaobai Sword Sect below the canyon and called the five little ones up together.
The group of people braved the wind and snow and walked toward the snow stream behind the canyon.
The streams in the mountains were piled up with snow, but the clear stream flowing from the sky had not yet frozen and was still gurgling.
There was no fishing in Nandao today. I held an umbrella by the stream and fished very seriously.
The person fishing today is Lu Xiaoer. Because he helped Lu Xiaosan make the big firecracker thing, he has never come up to see Le Chaotian. Now he was pulled up to fish. He just swung the fishing rod, put on his hat, and then sat cross-legged. He continued to cultivate his sword intent by the snowy stream.
Lu Xiaosan's butt was naturally not swollen, and he sat next to Le Chaotian swaggeringly holding the little native dog in his arms.
"Sure enough, Uncle Master will only think of me if he wants to eat fish."
Lu Xiaosan said very proudly.
Le Chaotian did not argue, but said with a smile: "The third nephew is naturally the best nephew in the world."
Lu Xiaosi and Lu Xiaowu were probably still thinking about the remaining firecrackers in Jian Zong - because they were worried that Lu Xiaosan would take them away, they hid those firecrackers under a certain tree in Jian Zong. I'll dig it out tomorrow.
While the two were thinking, they looked at Lu Xiaosan who was also feeling guilty.
The young boys each have their own evil intentions.
Lu Xiaoyi was the only one, fishing quietly and conscientiously.
She wants to catch a big grass carp.
It was the fish I had eaten in my imagination that day, with scales like snow and a back like a mountain.
As for Lu Xiaoxiao and Wu Dalong, they shouldered the responsibilities of senior brothers, sisters, masters, and uncles. They were chopping meat fillings in the small building and preparing to make some big meatballs.
Such snowy scenery is naturally not limited to this place.
There are people everywhere in Lingnan.
Even Tingfeng Yin and Gu Shanhong took some disciples to cook wine and fish leisurely on Tingfeng River.
As for some sword sects that have their own fish ponds, such as the Xiaojiufeng Sword Sect, they greet the disciples who have not gone home for the New Year, use their swords to form nets, and catch fish in the snowy and ice ponds.
...
In the old dog town.
Cao Weiying was drinking wine by the Jian Lake, and the boat was idle by the lake.
When Chen He walked over, Cao Weiying looked very strange.
"Why do you two like to come here so much?"
Chen He was stunned for a moment and said, "What's the matter?"
Cao Weiying drank peach blossom wine and said slowly: "You and Nan Dao, you come here tomorrow and he comes tomorrow. Anyway, we never bump into each other."
Chen He shrugged and said, "How did I know?"
"What are you doing here today?"
Cao Weiying didn't dwell on this matter, she just asked casually when she had nothing to do.
Chen He took the wine gourd from Cao Weiying and took a sip, feeling a little surprised.
"Your wine is good, give me some."
Of course Cao Weiying is not a stingy person, "You can go to the wine shop in town later. It's the first wine shop you enter."
"Okay." Chen He returned the gourd to Cao Weiying, and then talked about his purpose.
"I'll come to town and buy some tofu."
Cao Weiying was stunned for a moment, looked at Chen He and said, "Don't you have your own tofu in this world?"
Chen He said with a smile: "The tofu in that town is not good, but I can't say it is not good. I tasted it and it was just not tender enough. The tofu here is more tender."
In fact, at the beginning, the tofu in Laogouzhen was so mushy without even realizing it.
Until Chen He asked them to improve it over and over again, the tofu they made was white and tender. Teppan tofu naturally needs tender tofu to be delicious.
Cao Weiying looked at Chen He strangely and said, "What a businessman from both worlds."
Chen He smiled softly and said, "Isn't it possible?"
Cao Weiying leaned against the peach tree and drank wine and said, "Of course you can, but you can make some for me when the time comes."
"no problem."
"You know where the tofu shop is, just go there."
"Um."
Chen He crossed the sea of flowers and walked towards the town.
Cao Weiying sat by the lake for a while, but then stood up and looked back at the town. The town was still peaceful. After the wind and snow were sent away, only some snow remained on the eaves and the town. in the corner.
It's like a spring dream with spring snow and spring scenery.
Is the small town celebrating the New Year?
Cao Weiying suddenly thought of this problem.
Maybe not.
Cao Weiying sat under the peach tree and thought for a long time, then hung the gourd around his waist and walked towards the town.
Of course the human world has to celebrate the New Year.
So when this young man in green clothes passed by the old dog lying down at the entrance of the town and stepped on the streets of the town, the town instantly became lively. This liveliness was not only in terms of sounds, but also in terms of colors.
As Cao Weiying walked along, the two sides seemed to be blooming one after another as if the spring breeze had come overnight. Red lanterns were hung high. Some people began to come out and stood at the entrance of the courtyard with red couplets and couplets with white heads pointing upward. There are some pairs written neatly on it in thick ink.
For example, the first couplet is about peace and security for thousands of years, and the second couplet is about joy and joy for tens of thousands of years.
As if it had been prepared for a long time, the excitement only started when a young man in Qingshang who was drinking by the lake suddenly realized this problem.
Night falls towards the world.
As Cao Weiying walked along the long street, the world began to light up brightly, from under the eaves to the wet streets, and also lit up the snow in many corners.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve.
When Cao Weiying passed by the wine shop, Chen He happened to drink a bottle of wine and walked out in a daze.
"What happened? Why is it suddenly so lively?"
Chen He looked around at the small towns that were ordinary when he walked in, but changed their appearance after drinking.
Cao Weiying just smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just suddenly realized that the New Year is coming to the world."
Chen He was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't it true that the New Year hasn't been celebrated in Laogou Town yet?"
"No."
The grass stopped for fireflies, but the pictures of flowers in full bloom still spread forward, until the whole town began to become lively.
"This is their first year."
Chen He stood in the small town in a daze, looking at the beginning of this world with the young man in Qingshang beside him.
After a long time, Cao Weiying turned to look at Chen He and said, "What are you still doing here?"
Chen He was shocked and dazed.
"What should I do?"
Cao Weiying took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Go buy your tofu and make sizzling tofu for your new friend! Otherwise, others will close the stall later."
Tianshang Town suddenly changed from day to night, and the tofu sellers probably had to close their stalls and go back to posting couplets.
"..." Chen He was speechless.
The two walked along the long street towards the tofu shop. The stall was indeed being closed. Chen He arrived in time and even bought four pieces of tofu and two extra pieces of tofu because of the Chinese New Year.
Chen He stood on the street with tofu in hand, watching the lights all over the town, and said curiously: "How do you know I have a new friend?"
Cao Weiying said with a smile: "Because you didn't ask Nan Dao today - I will tell him the truth about your preference for the new and the old."
"..."
Chen He sighed, looked at the prosperous and lively town, and said softly: "It is indeed Old Dog Town."
The implication is that Cao Weiying is indeed an old dog.
Cao Weiying chuckled softly, holding the wine gourd and walked forward.
"It doesn't matter, sometimes I just turn into a crane in my dreams."
If I were a dog, you wouldn't be able to escape.
Chen He chuckled softly, carrying the tofu and heading out of the town.
Still didn’t ask Nan Dao.
