Chapter 993

It was freezing to death outside. Although I was wearing a thick cotton padded jacket, the cold still penetrated into the bone seams.

Li Changting guards the stove and asks Xu Qing to enter the space quickly.

"Then it's up to you outside." Xu Qing put some frozen meat on the table into the space, and then into the space.

In the middle of the afternoon, Xu Qing put the cooked food in the steamer and warmed it on the outside pot. After taking out what he should take, Li Changting went out to call someone. He sent someone to invite Li Jinmei and Xu Ying.

The house where the new year's Eve dinner is held has been warmed up by the Kang, with tea, snacks and fruits.

After Li Jinmei, Cao Laoliu, Xiao Meizi, Xu Ying and Hao Wei came, Xu Qing, Li Changting and Duanmu Xiang came with their families.

"It's snowing outside again. Are you cold?" The snow covered Xu Qing's boots. Fortunately, just a short distance, his trousers didn't get wet.

"It's not cold. Come and sit down." Li Jinmei beckoned, "although it's only a short way, it's very cold to walk. It's not cold to sit on the Kang for a while."

Xiaomeizi holds the little dragonfly on the warm Kang, takes off the little dragonfly's boots and tucks her into the warm quilt.

Both Li Jinmei and a Ying are very rare about Shen Bao, who has been only seven months old. However, Shen Bao is more delicate. After being hugged twice by a strange aunt, she flattens her mouth unhappily.

A Ying is sitting in the innermost part with a soft pillow. Shen Bao is sitting next to her, with a quilt on her leg. Under the tiger's head cap, her big black eyes are rolling around.

Little plum and little Dragonfly have been playing together, and they are whispering in the corner.

Little dragonfly is old enough to talk, but she is not familiar with the world. Sometimes she will say something that she should not say, such as space.

Xu Qing and Li Changting have never consciously mentioned the word "space" to or in front of the little dragonfly. They usually use the word "home" or "vegetable garden" instead.

In addition, even if the little Dragonfly says that she ate strawberries yesterday and fell in the field the day before yesterday, Xu Qing can always find a way to explain other people's doubts.

People here don't even have the concept of space. They don't need to explain much. They can make up a reasonable explanation by themselves.

When the little dragonfly is two years old and is old enough to remember things, Xu Qing plans to teach her what to say and what not to say.

So when xiaomeizi heard that she broke 50 pieces of corn this morning, she was full of doubts. However, xiaomeizi quickly said that hemp used these corn to grind and boil, and cooked delicious corn juice.

Xiaomeizi pick eyebrow, fifty corn? How much corn paste does that have to grind! Her mother usually boils a corn paste, also uses four or five corn at most.

"Are you sure it's fifty?" Asked little plum incredulously.

"Ang ~" the little Dragonfly answered with certainty, "I counted it."

Xiaomei was a little surprised: "you can count from one to fifty!"?! How wonderful

The praised little Dragonfly smiles, and then Meizi's attention shifts from corn to counting.

The little dragonfly was so elated that she broke her fingers and began to do one, two, three, four, five

When xiaomeizi heard her count to 20, she was about to praise her. Then she heard that the number behind her was like horseshoe saya's running, and it was thirty, forty, fifty.

Now Meizi knows how to count the fifty corn.

Here, Xu Qing talked about her and Li Changting's sailing with Fu Xitang's fleet. Of course, they saved the danger. They only talked about the interesting things along the way. It was almost dark before they knew it.

It's getting dark early in winter. Xu Qing orders her servants to go to the kitchen in her yard to bring the dishes and drinks.

The food came over with the steamer. There was no heat on the way. It was still hot when it was taken out.

Xu Qing and Li Changting light a few small stoves on the dining table, and put some large portions of meat and vegetables in casseroles on the small stoves to simmer, so that they won't be cold for long.

Several men helped quickly put the food, dishes and chopsticks on the table, and the people retreated. Li Changting ran to the yard to light firecrackers, and then turned back when the firecrackers rang out.

Xu cleared the door of the house and counted the dishes on the table. Seeing that there was no mistake, he asked everyone to have dinner.

The table is next to the warm Kang, where it is the warmest. Xu Qing pours a bowl of fresh corn juice for everyone, and Li Changting pours the wine.

After everyone raised their glasses to drink, Xu Qing asked everyone to eat. They never pay much attention to etiquette, but they may pay more attention to food than other people.

Everyone ate the rich dishes on the table and exclaimed that Xu Qing was the best cook, especially the stewed pig feet. Even Hao Wei, the chef, had to lean back.

At the dinner table, we talked about the unfinished follow-up of Xu Qing's voyage to the sea. During the meal, we listened to the story while eating, and then told each other what we had seen, heard and experienced in the past year.

After drinking half a pot of fruit wine, Xu Qing was a little drunk. His cheeks were red like ripe cherries. He was thinking about things in a daze. Suddenly, he was blown by the cold wind outside the room. Suddenly, he was excited and the whole person was awake.The heat on his face gradually faded away, and Xu Qingcai remembered what he was just thinking.

"I just want them to make do with one night here. Why are they all gone?"

"No, it's a mess here. It's too cold to live here. Go back quickly." Li Changting explained.

Duanmu Xiang wrapped his daughter-in-law and children in a quilt and left with a person in his arms. When he came to the door, he urged Xu Qing to hurry up.

Li Changting put out the fire in the room, picked up the sleeping dragonfly and led Xu Qing back to his yard with a lantern.

Because of the warm Kang burning in the room, Duanmu Xiang added some firewood to it. When Xu cleared the door, everyone entered the space.

Just a few steps away from the drowsy few people are frozen can no longer wake up.

Li Changting took the little dragonfly to her own room. When he came out, he was sweating. He quickly took off his heavy clothes.

Xu Qing cooked a small pot of sobering tea, and it would be more comfortable to have a sleep after drinking it.

There will be new year's greetings tomorrow morning. Xu Qing asked them to go to bed early.

The next day, the snow was still falling outside, which was thicker than yesterday. Li Changting took the frozen dumplings and rushed back to the space.