At 11:30 at night, the dumplings were wrapped. There were four large dumplings in total, enough for everyone to eat.
Everyone was making dumplings and chatting at the same time. They didn't feel tired at all. Instead, they felt that time was passing very quickly.
Wen Sitian and several elderly people went to the sofa to rest, while Xu Jianguo and Liang Chao started busying themselves cooking dumplings.
Two large pots were cooking at the same time, one containing cabbage and the other containing leeks and eggs.
Xu Jianguo held a large bowl of cold water in his left hand and a colander in his right hand, preparing to add cold water into the pot.
Regarding whether or not to add cold water when cooking dumplings, the customs in different regions of Longxia Kingdom are different.
Some people don’t add cold water when cooking dumplings at home. They just take them out after cooking for 20 minutes from the time the pot boils.
Some people cook dumplings at home and add cold water every time they boil the water, depending on the filling and the thickness of the dumpling skin.
Generally, dumplings with vegan fillings only need to be boiled twice with cold water added once.
If the dumpling filling contains raw meat, you need to add cold water twice and boil it three times.
In Xu Jianguo's memories of two lifetimes, his family always needed to add cold water when cooking dumplings. It was said that this was done to allow the dumplings in the pot to be heated more evenly. He was not sure whether there was any scientific basis for this, but it was passed down from generation to generation anyway.
After adding cold water, Xu Jianguo placed the empty bowl on the stove, then gently pushed the dumplings in the pot with the back of the colander, making them rotate in a clockwise direction. Then he covered the pot again and waited for the last time to boil before taking them out.
It was at this moment that the hourly time signal rang out from the radio in the living room.
The moment Xu Jianguo heard the voice, he called upon the system through his mind.
"System, release the South Korean Fushan and Magnesium Nianjiao. Silent mode of the No. 1 ordinary weapon, prepare to initiate the detonation procedure!"
[Ding, received, silence has been lifted, do you want to start the detonation procedure?]
"Yes, start!"
[Ding, detonation command being sent... Command sent successfully, countdown begins! Ten, nine... six, five... three, two, one! South Korea's Fushan No. 1 ordinary-grade weapon has been successfully detonated! Magnesium's Niuyue No. 1 ordinary-grade weapon has been successfully detonated!]
"Got it, thanks!"
[Ding, host, you're welcome! ]
After finishing the conversation with the system, Xu Jianguo suddenly felt a sense of comfort all over his body, but there was no expression on his face, and his eyes were still staring at the big pot of cooking dumplings in front of him.
Only after a large amount of steam came out from the edge of the pot did he lift the lid again, gently push the dumplings in the pot a few times with a colander, turn off the fire, pick up the plate that had been prepared long ago and start to serve the dumplings.
Liang Chao cooked a dish with leek and egg filling, so it was served a little earlier than Xu Jianguo’s dish with cabbage and pork.
As plates of steaming, plump white dumplings were brought to the table, everyone in the living room had happy smiles on their faces.
Whether adults or children, everyone is saying "Happy New Year!" to the people around them.
The five children also respectfully greeted the elders and received a lot of red envelopes as New Year's money.
Liang Chao was naturally not left behind. After the children greeted the elders, they also said "Happy New Year" to this uncle whom they met for the first time.
This made Liang Chao, who rarely showed any other expressions on his face, smile involuntarily, and he gave the red envelopes he had prepared long ago to the children.
His action surprised Xu Jianguo a little, but he didn't say much. He just looked at him with a smile and silently kept this favor in his heart.
What surprised Xu Jianguo even more was that the four old men and Grandma Deng actually gave him and Wen Sitian red envelopes, which moved the couple very much.
After all, the two have very similar family experiences. When they were young, they envied other children for receiving New Year's money, but they never expected that they would also receive New Year's money when they grew up.
After everyone greeted each other, they sat down at the dining table and started eating dumplings.
Before eating the dumplings, Xu Jianguo specifically reminded the children to be careful when eating and see who could eat the candy and who could eat the money.
When it comes to this kind of thing, Funiu and Lele are always the first to take the lead. As soon as the adults start to eat, they can't wait to start eating.
While the whole family was happily eating dumplings, chaos broke out in New York, Magnesium, and Fushan, South Korea. Fire trucks, police cars, military vehicles, and ambulances roared past, heading quickly towards the ports of the two cities.
Just ten minutes ago, Xu Jianguo gave the detonation order.
The ordinary-grade weapons hidden under the two ports detonated simultaneously. The thermobaric bombs with an explosive equivalent of 5 million tons generated a temperature of thousands of degrees at the moment of the explosion, directly turning the space within three kilometers from the center of the explosion into a vacuum state.
Whether it is people or buildings, when the bomb explodes, they are sucked towards the center of the explosion by a powerful force due to the vacuum, and then crushed by the violent shock wave in a devastating manner.
Buildings were razed to the ground, human bodies were directly vaporized, and the strong shock wave completely razed the two ports of the two cities to the ground.
Because the ship berths at Fushan Port were closer to the center of the explosion, several 10,000-ton cargo ships were directly pushed dozens of meters away by the shock wave and overturned on the sea. The containers on the ships were scattered everywhere, and some were even twisted into a spiral shape.
Because the explosion in South Korea occurred at around 1 a.m., the huge roar shattered all the glass in the houses outside the port. Even some buildings that were too close collapsed and were damaged to varying degrees, causing countless casualties.
The situation at New York Harbor was even more tragic. The explosion occurred at exactly noon, which was also the busiest time for the port. More than four thousand people were instantly vaporized without knowing it, leaving no trace of their bodies.
That is, five minutes after the explosions occurred in the ports of the two countries, the White House and the Blue Brick Platform received the news. Then the two countries immediately announced a state of emergency through news broadcasts and adjusted the combat readiness status to level four, which means that all military and police were on full alert.
After South Korea and the United States were defeated in the North Korea battlefield, they signed the Mutual Defense Treaty in October 1953, formally establishing a military alliance between the two sides.
Therefore, after receiving the report of the Fushan Port incident, Qingzhuantai of South Korea immediately notified the commander of the magnesium military base stationed in the country, and then the commander reported the news to the mainland of magnesium in a timely manner.
It was not until this time that the top leaders of the two countries learned what had just happened in each other's country, and from this they deduced that this was a premeditated and organized attack.
Soon after, the United States and South Korea adjusted their combat readiness level from level four to level three, meaning all combatants canceled their leave and returned to their posts, and the troops began to assemble.
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