"Mr. Fang, even if you want to withdraw, are you so anxious now? You can't even wait until tomorrow, but have to tell me tonight?"

"We can discuss this matter again, right?"

Xu Mingjing didn't listen any further and returned to her room in silence.

She believed that these must have been done by Wei Zhiqian!

Because of Wei Zhiqian's words, these people didn't even dare to spend the night, and they quickly cancelled the cooperation.

Later, Xu Mingjing learned from Yuan Zhengwen that Yuan Yi had lost one-third of his business.

Exactly the same as Wei Zhiqian said.

When he said one third, it really was one third.

Of course, this is all later.

*

In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival, New Year’s Eve.

On this day, there were many things to do at the old house, so Wei Zhiqian was rarely able to come to see Tan Mo.

But it has been like this in previous years. Tan Mo knows that Wei Zhiqian is particularly busy on this day and the first day of the new year every year.

Probably because we saw each other every day before.

Even though she hasn't had her vacation yet, she is still at Kyoto University.

But I can meet Wei Zhiqian every night and live with him.

Unlike now, when I am on vacation, I have fewer opportunities to meet Wei Zhiqian than before.

Although it is a lot, in Tan Mo's opinion, even seeing him every day is not enough.

But on New Year's Eve, Wei Zhiqian was nowhere to be seen the entire day.

It is even less visible at night.

Tan Mo sighed, and really wanted to say Happy New Year to his uncle in person at 12 o'clock.

However, Tan Mo could not be depressed for too long. The family became busy and she did not have much time to think about Wei Zhiqian.

Since the morning, Tan Jinqi has been writing Spring Festival couplets in the study.

In addition to Spring Festival couplets, many characters for "Fu" (blessing) must also be written.

Tan Jinqi wrote a few pieces of paper and then rubbed his wrist.

Xu Mingzhen said that he had a beautiful handwriting and it should not be wasted.

The ones you write yourself are different from the ones you buy outside. The ones you write yourself are naturally unique and more meaningful.

When you put it outside, people will be envious and won’t be able to buy it.

Tan Mo also said on the side: "I like reading big brother's handwriting the most."

So, Tan Jinqi rubbed his wrist and continued to work hard to write the word "Fu".

And Tan Jinyi was not idle either.

Xu Mingzhen assigned him a task and asked him to draw a new family portrait.

Tan Jinyi paints a new family portrait every year.

Tan Mo said: "Our family portrait is different. Others' family portraits are photos, but ours are paintings."

Tan Jinyi's oil paintings are very detailed and realistic. When you look at them with a magnifying glass, you can even see the fine texture of the skin.

Many people who don’t know the story would be unsure whether it is a painting or a photo after just one look.

Xu Mingzhen said that every year the four siblings grow one year older, they will have a different new look.

As for Tan Wenci, she gets one year older and has new wrinkles on her face every year.

So the family portrait every year also needs to be updated.

Every time the Chinese New Year is approaching, Tan Jinyi starts to get busy, trying to finish the family portrait before midnight on New Year's Eve.

Tan Jinsheng was not assigned such a task. Xu Mingzhen couldn't ask him to compose a song for his family every year.

So, the task of making dumplings was done by Tan Jinsheng, Tan Mo and Aunt Guo together.

Tan Jinsheng is very skillful, he learns quickly and makes the wrappers quickly.

At the age of 14, he was already very skilled in making dumplings.

What the Tan family didn't expect was that Tan Mo, who could learn anything quickly, had no talent at all when it came to making dumplings.

However, they didn't know whether Tan Mo had no talent in cooking or just had no talent in making dumplings.

Anyway, they can't let Tan Mo cook, right?

Tan Mo Bao’s dumplings have a normal amount of meat filling placed in the middle of the dumpling wrapper.

No matter how hard she tried to pinch the dumpling wrappers, the filling would always leak out and she couldn't wrap it up.

But in fact, she didn't put too much stuffing.

In order to wrap the filling tightly, if some filling leaked out from one side, she would pull the dumpling wrapper on that side.

The filling leaked out from one side, so she went to pull the dumpling skin from the other side.

The dumpling skin is thin to begin with, and it will break if you pull it too much.

So Tan Mo tried to put less stuffing in.

But she put in too little, only as big as a fingernail at most. What she made was not dumplings at all, but just a lump of dough that was inedible.

But Tan Mo really wanted to join in the Spring Festival labor.

The whole family is busy, and she is the only one with nothing to do. How awkward it is.

There was no other way, so Aunt Guo thought of a solution.

There are various fillings for dumplings during the Spring Festival.

In addition to normal fillings, you can also fill it with rice cake filling, which means getting taller every year.

The filling is made of red dates, which means attracting wealth and treasure.

The brown sugar filling means prosperity.

The filling is made of chestnut, which means early establishment of children.

The Tan family doesn't care about having a son early.

However, chestnuts were prepared according to custom.

Whether it is rice cakes cut into squares, dates, brown sugar cubes or chestnuts, they are all whole and there is no need to worry about them falling apart.

You can talk about how to wrap the ink casually without tearing the skin.

So although this kind of filling may not be delicious, it is also eaten to bring joy and good luck during the Spring Festival.

There are not many dumplings with this kind of filling, and whoever eats it will receive good blessings for the coming year.

These easy-to-make fillings were all given to Tan Mo to make, and since the quantity was small, there was no need to worry about tiring her out.

However, in contrast, Tan Jinsheng skillfully picked up a handful of meat filling with chopsticks, and then picked up some shrimp from another glass bowl and placed it on top of the meat filling.

Then overlap the four fingers of both hands and place the dumpling wrapper filled with meat filling in the palm of your hand.

Hold the edge of the dumpling wrapper with your index finger, fold it in half, and then pinch it gently.

The dumpling with meat filling was squeezed into shape in the palm of my hand, and it was plump like the belly of a gold ingot.

On both sides of the dumplings, two ears like ingots were pinched out by the tiger's mouth.

The plump white dumplings were formed in Tan Jinsheng's beautiful hands in just a few seconds.

Tan Mo pouted, picked up a piece of rice cake and put it into the dumpling wrapper.

She couldn't hold a fat dumpling in each hand like Tan Jinyi did.

You can only use your fingertips to pinch the edges of the dumpling skin carefully.

Because he didn't have to worry about the filling showing through, Tan Mo was finally able to follow the method in the video tutorial and wrap the edges of the dumplings to look like two braids.

It just happens to be different from dumplings with normal fillings.

Although the fillings on Tan Mo's side are few, Tan Mo's bag is slow to come out.

Aunt Guo, Tan Jinsheng and Xu Mingzhen worked together to finish wrapping the dumplings, and Tan Mo had just finished wrapping the part he was responsible for.

Aunt Guo took them all to the kitchen.

Just wait until midnight to cook and eat.

Aunt Guo was cleaning up, and Tan Mo went to wash the flour off his hands, then sent a WeChat message to Wei Zhiqian.