During the New Year's Eve, how the underworld lived in the past is how they live these days.
All the ghosts were noisy, and many who could be reincarnated even chose this day to reincarnate. This has made the business of Jifu hot pot restaurant boom, and it seems a little too busy.
In the human world, Meng Xiaoni and Guifeng took their two children and met with their elders for two more days. They also went to visit the neighbors in the surrounding area.
The hot pot restaurant in the world is completely closed for the Chinese New Year holiday.
Qin Lingjun counted his days in detail, and felt that his life was about to reach a critical moment, so he sent a message to Meng Xiaoni and went to grab a meal.
Meng Xiaoni either ate at home, or went to Shennongjia to eat with ingredients and ghost phoenixes.
When Qin Lingjun came, she was also dragged to Shennongjia, and even claimed a tree house.
Meng Xiaoni pointed to the clusters of tree houses: "One day, every tree house here has an owner, and it will be lively."
Qin Lingjun nodded slightly: "Then the question is, why is there an ice slide next to the track? This is suitable for children, not for adults, right?"
Meng Xiaoni: "..."
Because it was built by Xiaobailong and decorated by Xiaolu.
Meng Xiaoni and Guifeng spoiled the children so much that the ice slides were not only not dismantled, but were reinforced by Guifeng.
"Just get used to it." Meng Xiaoni tilted her head, "Do you still want to eat?"
Qin Lingjun: "... eat."
The advantage of eating outdoors is that it is fun.
Meng Xiaoni made a pot of rice porridge with brown sugar as the staple food.
The main material of brown sugar yin rice porridge is glutinous rice. Glutinous rice needs to go back in the oil pan. After being fried, the glutinous rice will be soft and sticky to the teeth, but also crunchy and chewy.
Then boil a bowl of soup, add red dates, wolfberry, brown sugar, and finally pour in the fried glutinous rice just now.
After a little stirring, the porridge in the whole pot was mixed together, and after a while, there was a strong aroma.
The aroma is sweet and tangy, more appealing than a bowl of traditional broth.
After entering the mouth, the porridge is refreshing and can relieve the spiciness. It goes well with Meng Xiaoni's favorite spicy dishes or hot pot.
This time I still ate hot pot, but Meng Xiaoni didn't use Jiugongge, but ordered two copper pots.
One copper stove pot puts clear soup, and the other copper stove pot puts red soup.
The center and outside of the copper stove produce heat, and there is only one circle where the dishes can be served. It is most suitable for hot pot with shabu-shabu or frog pot. The beautiful frogs are one for each person, and they directly go down into the pot as the bottom of the pot, and boil the meat on top to eat other dishes, which is simply wonderful.
Xiaolu is a vegetarian, so she obediently held the clear soup pot with a dry plate, gnawed grass on the side, and ate it very happily with the brown sugar yin rice porridge.
The rest of the people, each with a frog, put a pile of meat into the hot pot by the way.
The waist slices with big blades are just like grabbing. If it's too late, it's gone.
Qin Lingjun, who has not been in Fengdu for a long time, knows how to eat better than Meng Xiaoni, and even made a bowl of Maonaohua himself.
Those who take the trouble to not eat, really do not eat.
Most people get goosebumps just by looking at it, and try to hide from the side, thinking that this kind of dish is simply anti-human.
However, people who like to eat can fall for just one bite.
The melt-in-your-mouth taste, coupled with the prepared sauce, makes you wonder whether you are eating meat or dessert.
Because of the heavy seasoning, Maonaohua loses the disgusting fishy smell, and the soft taste is almost rare in hot pot dishes. The hurdle of fresh fragrance is difficult for people who are keen on food to cross, and they don't want to miss it.
The bowl was adorned with chili peppers and sesame oil, which made Xiao Bailong a little tempted to try it: "Can I have a bite too? Just one bite."
Meng Xiaoni didn't care, but Qin Lingjun did.
Qin Lingjun said: "You can make a bowl and eat it yourself."
Xiao Bailong hesitated: "Then what if it doesn't taste good..."
Qin Lingjun: "Let your mother eat."
Meng Xiaoni is rarely a picky eater, but she really doesn't like this one, so she raised her hand and refused: "I don't, if it doesn't taste good, I'll give it to Guifeng."
Ghost Phoenix: "..."
What did he do wrong to eat Xiao Bailong's leftovers
Xiao Bailong felt that this decision was very thoughtful, so he imitated Qin Lingjun's technique, fiddled with it for a while, and came up with a bowl of Brainstorming.
The freshly baked mao nao hua is still steaming from the top.
Xiao Bailong was afraid that he would not like to eat it, so he took a small spoon, scooped up a small mouthful, and carefully put it into his mouth.
Next to Xiaolu looked at Xiaobailong nervously, for fear that Xiaobailong would overturn the car because he didn't like to eat.
The spoon enters the mouth, and the brain flower enters the mouth.
Xiao Bailong opened his eyes wide, slightly surprised: "Wow."
The taste was a bit beyond his imagination, and it was unexpectedly delicious.
Xiaolu was a little curious on the side: "Is it delicious?"
Xiaobailong nodded to Xiaolu: "It's delicious, the taste is a bit strange."
Not your average taste.
Meng Xiaoni saw that Xiao Bailong was so supportive of his behavior, and felt that she would not eat it either. Even when eating the spicy rabbit head, the brain will be eaten, but the feeling is completely different from eating a whole brain flower.
Eat less for pleasure, eat too much to hurt your sense of taste.
She picked up a frog leg and gnawed on the fat frog meat seriously.
Or this kind of real meat is more delicious.
After the hot pot was finished, Meng Xiaoni made a bowl of ice powder for everyone.
There were no fresh roses or sweet-scented osmanthus in winter, so Meng Xiaoni found some dried flowers and soaked them in, and then added some raisins, oatmeal powder, cocoa flakes, etc.
Humans are really, really weird creatures.
In the winter, stay in a warm place, eat a hot pot, and must be accompanied by iced desserts or drinks.
It seems that this is against the season, and seeing the occasional snow falling outside, I feel very refreshed.
It is a kind of comfort on the high mountain, blowing the mountain wind.
While eating ice powder, Qin Lingjun was talking about things: "The eighth day of the Lunar New Year is King Yama's birthday."
Meng Xiaoni suddenly said, "Ah, you want to celebrate his birthday?"
Qin Lingjun smashed his own ice powder, and mixed the food covered on the top to the bottom: "It's too much trouble to have a birthday every year."
That being said, she did not refute Meng Xiaoni's words.
Human beings have a short lifespan, and now that supplies are abundant, birthdays are celebrated every year.
Everyone in the underworld has lived for an unknown number of years, and every year is just a matter of meaning. It is almost not a big celebration to give something small. Only when there is a big year, such as a special year of the whole hundred, there will be joy and small activities in the underworld.
Meng Xiaoni emphasized: "For human beings, this is a ritual thing, not a troublesome thing."
Qin Lingjun recalled his fragile life: "It is true that I have lived another year and it is worth celebrating."
Meng Xiaoni laughed outright when she heard this.
Xiaobailong and Xiaolu were holding the bowls, and sat obediently by the side, eating, listening to the adults talking, and looking at them from time to time, looking very curious.
Listening to the conversation, Xiao Bailong saw that they didn't continue, so he couldn't help but raise his head: "Then, how do you plan to spend King Yama's birthday?"
Xiaolu followed suit and nodded.
Meng Xiaoni was also slightly curious.
Qin Lingjun has never been to the underworld so far.
She is different from Meng Xiaoni. Qin Lingjun's connection with the underworld is too close, and once he enters the underworld, he will face the possibility of being discovered at any time, which is much more dangerous than King Yama's going to the human world.
Could it be a birthday celebration
Qin Lingjun took two mouthfuls of ice powder, and said slowly, "How can I celebrate his birthday? Even if Lord Yan is on his birthday, he still has to go to work, so he can't just run around with us, right?"
Xiao Bailong sighed: "What a tragedy."
Qin Lingjun chuckled: "What you pay is what you gain. The King of Hades is so powerful in the underworld, he has nothing to do with the word 'death', he doesn't even need to enter reincarnation, and he doesn't need to experience any suffering in the world. With such benefits, you can go to work every day what happened again?"
That's not how power is used...
Meng Xiaoni followed suit with a laugh: "You mentioned it to us, so you don't want us to celebrate Yama's birthday, do you?"
Qin Lingjun: "...that's not what it means."
What does that mean
Listening to Qin Lingjun saying things like this for a while, and then like that for a while, everyone present was a little confused.
Guifeng realized something: "The eighth day of the Lunar New Year is King Yama's birthday, you want to send something to King Yama. Do you want to send it with us?"
After he finished speaking, he thought about the relationship between himself and those hell kings...
It seems that there is no turn to give gifts.
Qin Lingjun nodded: "Yes. I thought you would send something. I think I will refer to it and think about it."
Meng Xiaoni: "..."
She didn't even realize that it was a birthday present for Yan Luowang.
She and Guifeng never had the habit of celebrating birthdays before, so after they became humans, the Meng family would remember Meng Xiaoni's adoption day and celebrate it every year as her birthday.
Everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally Meng Xiaoni raised her hand and said, "I think it's enough to cook him a meal? And a cake to match."
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Yan Luowang took good care of Meng Xiaoni, but he didn't take care of Meng Xiaoni personally, and the two sides didn't know each other very well.
It seems that this is almost done.
Qin Lingjun: "...Then what shall I give?"
Everyone present was stunned, how could they know what Qin Lingjun was going to give away.
Meng Xiaoni thought for a while, and then offered a friendly suggestion: "You can give Yama what he likes. You should know what he likes."
Qin Lingjun didn't speak.
Qin Lingjun hesitated.
Qin Lingjun thought for a long time: "... like me, right?"
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