Chapter 67
Shi Ye gave the rolling pin to Jiang Zhinian and went to the kitchen to prepare the filling for the dumplings.
"Can I have chicken, mushrooms, and corn?"
Because Jiang Zhinian was pregnant, the family had stockpiled a lot of chicken. When he was searching for the recipe for stuffing, he simply looked for chicken stuffing.
"Sure." She is not picky about food. She will eat dumplings with any filling as long as they have meat.
When the dumpling wrappers were almost rolled out, Shi Ye came out with the fillings.
"I mixed it according to the ingredients on the Internet and added some black pepper."
Jiang Zhinian's dough wasn't rolled out very evenly, but it was definitely enough for making homemade dumplings.
"What shape should we make our dumplings in?"
She also made some preparations and learned several wrapping methods in advance.
"Free play."
Shi Ye felt that with their skills, it would be difficult to make dumplings of the same appearance. Anyway, he didn't care about the taste when eating them himself.
Two people stood next to each other, carefully wrapping dumplings of various shapes.
The lively Spring Festival Gala was still being broadcast on the TV beside me, like some kind of indispensable and special background music, telling the world loudly that in this small house, a family was happily celebrating New Year's Eve.
"How can your dumplings stand up?" Jiang Zhinian looked at the limp dumplings he had made, feeling a little distressed. "Why did mine all fall down?"
Shi Ye walked behind her, holding her hands and pushing her hard: "Pinch it like this."
With Shi Ye's help, the freshly baked dumplings stood upright, and Jiang Zhinian felt a little proud.
"It's better to stand..."
She just turned her head to flatter someone when Shi Ye, who was standing behind her and hugging her, suddenly bent down and kissed her.
Jiang Zhinian was stunned. She was still wrapping dumplings, so why did Shi Ye suddenly attack her?
Shi Ye was calm and composed, and simply explained: "This position is very convenient for kissing."
After saying that, he grabbed Jiang Zhinian's hand and continued to wrap another dumpling.
Because the number of workers making dumplings decreased from 2 to 1.5, the efficiency dropped significantly and all the dumplings were not finished until after 10 o'clock.
After completion, although there were some mixed results, I still felt a sense of accomplishment.
"I'm going to cook some dumplings. You can have some."
Jiang Zhinian was actually a little sleepy, but she still wanted to try to stay up until 12 o'clock.
"I'll eat six."
She ate a lot at night, so she just wanted to have a few bites for good luck.
"Well, we can eat the rest tomorrow morning."
Jiang Zhinian watched Shi Ye go to the kitchen. He wanted to follow him, but he felt too sleepy and ended up falling onto the sofa like a sleepwalker.
When Shi Ye came out after cooking the dumplings, he saw Jiang Zhinian sleeping soundly.
He covered the dumplings with a bowl, walked over to Jiang Zhinian, turned down the TV volume, and covered her with a thin blanket.
…
Jiang Zhinian was awakened by the sound of fireworks. She woke up in a daze and found that the room was dim, with only a small lamp on by the dining table.
Shi Ye sat cross-legged at her feet, reading a paper on his iPad. When he saw Jiang Zhinian wake up, he put the iPad aside.
"Still sleeping?"
Jiang Zhinian shook his head: "What time is it?"
"It's almost 12 o'clock, someone is setting off fireworks downstairs, wait for the countdown." He took the remote control and turned on the TV. The host was saying the last lines before the countdown.
Jiang Zhinian sat up, leaned on Shi Ye's shoulder, and silently began to count down following the clock on TV.
"Ten, nine, eight..."
Every sound penetrated from her ears to her heart, and she was silently looking forward to a brand new and bright New Year.
"Three, two, one!"
Jiang Zhinian let go of Shi Ye's arm and turned sideways to say Happy New Year to him at the right moment, but a big hand grabbed her face first, exerting a little force.
The "Happy New Year" that she didn't have time to say was instantly drowned in the kiss.
On TV and outside the windows, everyone was shouting "Happy New Year" loudly, and fireworks were set off high in the sky, dazzling and beautiful.
Lively and festive, all those emotions that had been blocked out in previous years suddenly flooded into my mind.
Only one line of words appeared in Jiang Zhinian's mind.
May this day come to you every year.
…
While eating dumplings, Jiang Zhinian's sleepwalking brain suddenly woke up.
"Shi Ye, I forgot to put the coin in."
In fact, she has always been looking forward to the scene where she bites a coin while eating dumplings, just like in TV dramas, and feels that she will have good luck in the coming year.
Shi Ye poured a small dish of vinegar on the table: "There are no coins, but there are other things."
Coins are somewhat dangerous. He had heard from his seniors during his rotation in the emergency room that during the Chinese New Year, there were always a few people who accidentally swallowed coins and got them stuck in their esophagus and had to come to the hospital for emergency treatment.
But he knew that Jiang Zhinian cared about the "lucky start", so he secretly processed the dumplings again after cooking them.
Jiang Zhinian became happy again when he heard it: "What is it."
"You have to eat it yourself."
Jiang Zhinian began to savor each dumpling carefully, but unfortunately, after eating seven or eight in a row, there was still no more.
Just as he was about to fight for the next one, Shi Ye suddenly paused and looked at Jiang Zhinian: "I got it."
Jiang Zhinian was not too disappointed. She was a little unlucky girl with very low luck. From childhood to adulthood, she had never won even a second bottle with a very high chance of winning.
When she was in high school, she went to buy drinks with her classmates. She took two bottles, one for her classmate and one for herself. As a result, her classmate's bottle won, but hers didn't.
Feeling happy for Shi Ye, she bit open the dumpling in her mouth, and then... her teeth snapped shut. Something...
"What's this."
"Can't you taste it?"
"It seems to be... White Rabbit Milk Candy?"
"Um."
During the New Year, satisfy the children’s desire for sweets at home.
Jiang Zhinian swallowed the dumpling, then picked out the candy and put it into his mouth. The sweet milky flavor instantly filled the air.
It was the thing she wanted to eat most in her childhood.
"Shi Ye, did you eat peanut candy when you were a child?"
"Yes."
When she was little, the welfare home only had two kinds of candy, one was White Rabbit candy and the other was peanut candy.
Pepe doesn't like peanut candy, so I always exchange it for White Rabbit candy.
In the end, all her White Rabbit candies were replaced, and she only had peanut candy to eat.
However, before Miaomiao was adopted, she would secretly share some White Rabbit candies with her. The two of them would then hide in the corner of the stairs, pretending that they had lots of candies.
"Shi Ye, can I have another one?"
"No." Shi Ye put down his chopsticks and took out a handful of candy from the drawer and stuffed it into Jiang Zhinian's hand under Jiang Zhinian's expectant gaze. "But you can have one every day."
Jiang Zhinian happily counted the candies in her hand and found that the amount was just enough for her to eat until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
"Brush your teeth carefully after eating candy..."
Before he could finish his words, someone suddenly knocked hard on the door.
"Doctor Shi, Doctor Shi—"
Shi Ye got up and opened the door. It was the aunt from the stir-fry restaurant downstairs.
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