After eating the glutinous rice balls, Lin Mo got dressed and went out with Cheng Yan. As for the rest of the family, they also formed a team in twos and threes to go out to play together.
The Ice Lantern Festival has been held in Yu country for a long time. At the beginning, every household made ice lanterns and put them in the yard. After that, it is placed in front of the gate for others to watch. On the second day of the new year, the one that others think is the most beautiful will be selected.
Now it has developed into an activity. The town will concentrate on placing large ice cubes for carving ice lamps, and also provide carving tools. Everyone can try it. After carving, you can choose to put it on the display area for exhibition, or you can take it home.
However, now the Ice Lantern Festival has a metaphor for expressing affection to a lover, and most of the people who come to enjoy this are young people.
Lin Mo stuffed one hand into the pocket of Cheng Yan's clothes, and walked together with his arm. It was still morning, not many people came out, and there were only a few ice lanterns displayed on the street. However, if you come out at night, you can see ice lanterns all over the street, with candles inside, and the lights shine like stars in the ice sculptures.
Cheng Yan walked beside Lin Mo, following his footsteps. To be honest, Cheng Yan didn't think these ice lanterns were attractive, but he was happy to accompany Lin Mo out to play.
"Want to play?" Cheng Yan asked when he saw Lin Mo looking at the ice cubes with eager eyes.
"Well, let's go and carve one." Lin Mo turned his head, raised his head slightly to look at Cheng Yan, and said expectantly.
No matter what it was, as long as it was what Lin Mo wanted or his request, Cheng Yan would never refuse, perhaps because he didn't want him to show a disappointed expression.
Cheng Yan nodded in agreement, and went to pick a moderate ice cube with Lin Mo, and took the tools to carve on the other side.
"What shape do you want?" Cheng Yan squatted in front of the ice, looked up at Lin Mo, and asked.
"Let's make a hollow palace lantern." Lin Mo also squatted down, thought for a while and said.
"Okay." Cheng Yan nodded, thought for a few seconds, and then began to knock on the ice.
Palace lantern? Some fragments flashed through Cheng Yan's mind. In his memory, the kid next to the boy begged him to carve a palace lantern, but it was a pity that he went to the military camp before he learned it.
Cheng Yan didn't let Lin Mo do it, and quickly carved it by himself. Since his memory recovered, Cheng Yan also knew how to mobilize the internal force in his body and how to use his martial arts correctly.
However, to carve ice lanterns with strong inner strength, and to turn off the lamps without getting up at night in bed, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit overkill.
Lin Mo squatted aside bored, so he carved a lotus out of small ice cubes knocked by Cheng Yan. Cheng Yan glanced at him and didn't stop him.
After the sculpture was finished, Cheng Yan moved it to the display area and put the candle inside the ice lantern. At night, someone will naturally light the candles inside.
"Let's take a look at it in the evening, and we'll move home tomorrow." Cheng Yan put Lin Modiao's lotus lantern next to the palace lantern, and put a small candle in the middle of the lotus.
Lin Mo glanced at the extremely ornately carved palace lantern, and then at Cheng Yan, feeling a little puzzled. But he didn't show it on the face, he nodded in response to Cheng Yan's words.
After that, the two went to see other things. On the first day of the new year, besides the ice lantern event, there were other festive activities. When it was almost noon, Cheng Yan, Lin Mo and the others went back to eat.
When they got home, Mother Lin and Mrs. Lin had already prepared the ingredients. The thick soup in the big hot pot in the middle of the table was bubbling upwards, and the fragrance in the thick soup filled the whole room. Lin Mo could smell the fragrance as soon as he walked in.
Cheng Yan and Lin Mo were the first to come back. It is estimated that the others are still playing outside, or they are just starting to rush home now.
Cheng Yan went to the kitchen to help bring the prepared ingredients, while Lin Mo stayed inside to warm up. Lin Mo stretched out his hands near the charcoal fire under the hot pot, and when his hands were almost warm, he picked up the plate and put some difficult-to-cook meat in to cook first.
When everything was almost ready, Lin Mo heard the voices of several children from outside the room.
"Huh? Fourth brother, you're back so soon." As soon as Lin Xing entered the room, he saw fourth brother sitting at the table. He thought that fourth brother and brother Cheng would play outside for a long time.
"Well, go and soak your hands in hot water, and you're ready to eat." Lin Mo glanced at them, then continued to stir the meat in the pot with a wooden spoon, and then picked up the lotus root and yam cubes on the side and put them in.
"I smell the delicious meat!" Xiaoya, who was carried into the room by Lin Xiu, turned her head and looked at the steaming pot, her eyes were full of light.
"Fragrant meat, let's go to the kitchen and soak our hands before eating." Lin Xiu went out with Xiaoya in his arms, and said with a smile.
When everyone sat down, the meat and other dishes in the pot were cooked. Sitting next to Lin Mo, Cheng Yan used a wooden spoon to scoop out a few pieces of soft boiled meat and some soft lotus root for him.
A warm house, a smiling family, a table of food, and the man beside him. Lin Mo listened to their somewhat cheerful conversation, and the depression in his heart was finally untied.
This is his home, and they are his family. Everything in the last days will be put down by him, buried in his heart, and locked up.
"What's the matter, don't you want to eat these?" Cheng Yan asked in a low voice seeing that he was holding the chopsticks but making no movements.
"No, I was thinking about something just now." Lin Mo came back to his senses, shook his head and smiled.
Cheng Yan nodded, and continued to help him with other dishes while eating. Just now he seemed to feel the sadness that passed away from Lin Mo, but seeing that he is in a good mood now, Cheng Yan thought to himself, it must be his illusion just now.
After lunch, the children in the family pestered other people to go out to play, and Lin's father, Lin's mother, and Mrs. Lin's sister-in-law also started preparing tonight's New Year's Eve dinner after lunch. In the morning, he and Cheng Yan went shopping around the street, Lin Mo doesn't want to go out to enjoy the cold wind.
Lin Mo and Cheng Yan stayed at home, Lin Mo went back to the room and lay down on the bed to read a book, Cheng Yan burned the earth dragon and went to the kitchen to help, but it was not long before Lin's mother pushed him out, saying that he was to accompany Lin Mo .
After Cheng Yan returned to his room, he stayed on the bed with Lin Mo and read a book. In the end, Cheng Yan half-lyed on the bedside reading a book, while Lin Mo slept soundly on top of him.
On the first day of the new year, as soon as the genius turned dark, the fireworks outside began to be set off one after another. In the room, it was dark without the lights on. Cheng Yan put his arms around Lin Mo, who was lying on him, and closed his eyes to rest.
The fireworks that sounded outside lifted into the air and dispersed, and the light from the fireworks shone in through the window, flickering on and off. Lin Mo, who was leaning sideways on Cheng Yan's body, was stimulated by the flickering fireworks. He turned his head and buried his face in Cheng Yan's chest, trying to block the light from outside.
The light was blocked, but the sound of fireworks rising into the sky reached his ears, and Lin Mo, who was not fully awake, was frowned by the noise.
Cheng Yan had already opened his eyes when Lin Mo was moving, squinting his eyes to adapt to the alternation of the darkness in the room and the bright lights of the fireworks outside, Cheng Yan touched Lin Mo who was woken up.
"Momo, are you going to wake up? We're getting ready for dinner, and we're going out to see the ice lanterns tonight." Cheng Yan put five fingers of his right hand into his hair, and straightened his long hair with his hands.
"Hmm..." Lin Mo raised his head and rubbed against his palm, half-opening his eyes, and replied vaguely.
When Lin Mo fully woke up, Cheng Yan lit the lamp. Lin Mo sat on the bed covered with a quilt, Cheng Yan stood by the bed and combed his hair, and went out after Lin Mo got dressed.
By the time the two of them passed by, everyone was already there. The two found a place to sit down, and waited for Lin's father and Lin's mother to bring everything over. After sitting down, everyone picked up chopsticks and started to eat dinner.
"Your third sister is going to have a baby, so it's not convenient to come over for New Year's greetings tomorrow. Our whole family will go there tomorrow." Mother Lin said.
The others nodded in agreement. Mrs. Lin hadn't returned to her natal home for the New Year for a long time because of some problems, and this year was no exception. She had no objection to going to Yan's home for New Year's greetings.
"Are you going to the third aunt's house tomorrow?" Xiaoya scooped up the meat in the bowl and was about to put it in her mouth, when she heard grandma's words, she raised her head and said in surprise.
She has been to the third aunt's house before, and the third aunt's house is very beautiful, there are many beautiful ladies and sisters, there are also many delicious pastries, and there are many interesting things.
"Yes, Xiaoya don't stay in bed tomorrow, or leave Xiaoya alone at home to look after the house." Mother Lin laughed.
"Xiaoya wakes up early every day, and Uncle Fifth is the one who stays in bed. Let Uncle Fifth stay at home tomorrow!" Xiaoya said.
Lin Xing, who was gnawing on the meat with his head down, raised his head in confusion when he heard it, "When did I stay in bed?"
"Today, I woke up and Fifth Uncle was still sleeping." Xiaoya said.
When Lin Xing heard this, he recalled the incident when Xiaoya climbed onto the bed and lifted the quilt this morning, "That's why you woke up early, and your fourth uncle didn't wake up when I got up today, why didn't you let your fourth uncle wake up?" Stay at home and look after the house?"
Lin Mo was chewing meat, when he heard the topic shifted to himself, he raised his head in a daze, before he could say anything, Xiaoya spoke for him, even though it sounded a bit rascal.
"No, Fourth Uncle wants to go to Third Aunt's house with Xiaoya!"
"What about your second uncle? He wakes up the latest, so you should let him stay at home?"
When Lin Xiu heard this, he looked up at Lin Xing with a gentle smile on his face. Lin Xing met his gaze, and his heart trembled. Too bad.
"Okay, just tell Xiaoya that it's a joke, you're serious." Mother Lin laughed.
In the laughter of the family, the dinner time on the first night of the new year is over. After Cheng Yan and Lin Mo got dressed, they went out to watch the ice lanterns at night.
At night, the ice lamps lit with candles are more dazzling. The candles are white and red, and a few are other colors. The ice lamps also reflect different colors of light under the light of the candles.
Lin Mo took Cheng Yan to the place where they placed the ice lanterns in the morning. Just as Lin Mo had thought before, red candles were lit in the gorgeous palace lanterns, and the candlelight seeped out from the hollows, making the hollow ice lanterns even more exquisite.
After wandering around with Cheng Yan in other places for a while, Lin Mo went back to the spot and asked Cheng Yan to take their ice lantern and leave, while he followed with his own carved lotus lantern.
Lin Mo didn't plan to come back tomorrow to take it away. Tomorrow they would go to Yan's house to pay New Year's greetings, and they might come back at night. Lin Mo was worried that after they came back, the ice lantern Cheng Yan carved for him would have been removed.