The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2175 Text

Chapter 2104

The author continues to narrate what happened the day before this year's New Year's Eve and continues to record his life.

That day, while having lunch and watching TV, I heard a noise in the kitchen. The carp was shaking in the basin again, making some movements, but it could no longer jump up. My family became interested and said they would go to the kitchen to tidy it up. They put the basin on the kitchen countertop and shook it. The carp could move, but gradually it could not move anymore. My family took a short video with their newly bought mobile phone and said that the live fish they bought was still moving. Before last year's New Year's Eve, I bought fresh shrimps in a big supermarket. The shrimps were alive, but they were all tilted and looked like they didn't have much vitality. When I got home, my family put the live shrimps in a basin and added cold water. The shrimps stopped moving. My family posted a short video on their Moments saying that the shrimps they bought were alive, but they stopped moving after adding water.

After lunch, I watched some TV news. There were still fights in several places in foreign countries, and some were planning negotiations. It was the Chinese New Year in China. It was estimated that during the 40 days of the Spring Festival this year, the total passenger flow would reach several billion. The travel volume was very large. Some went home for the New Year, and some took the New Year holiday. There were many tourist attractions to choose from. There were famous places for tourism and vacation in the southeast, northwest, and some scenic spots would be decorated to suit the New Year. People chose to travel by plane, train, and car. The transportation in big cities was well developed. Some of them were very fast, and some of them were reasonably priced. You could choose whatever you wanted.

When the author was washing the pots and dishes in the kitchen, he saw the large stainless steel basin, which had been placed on the balcony. The carp moved once again, and then stopped moving. After washing the pots and dishes and wiping the countertops, the author finished the housework and went back to the room to rest and have a good sleep. In the evening, he had to work on the important task of writing and serializing the story of Xinglian. He got up early that day and had completed the task of revising the recent chapters of the work, which reduced the pressure of completing important tasks in the evening.

At around 7pm, we went to the living room to eat fruits and snacks. My family had already prepared some raw materials and taken out some frozen foods. The black pork dumpling fillings were already mixed with salt and thirteen spices, waiting to be made on New Year's Eve. We added chives and shrimps. We simply used some food and the next day was the Chinese New Year. My family went home before the Little New Year this year and cleaned the house thoroughly several times. We also bought many pots of flowers and hung red lanterns to keep it neat and tidy to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

Because I had to prepare New Year's Eve dinner at noon and afternoon, and watch the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala at night, I really had no free time. So after serializing the new chapters at midnight, I could only stay up late to continue to complete important tasks. It took me more than two hours to complete the task of modifying the text of the recent chapters of the Star Lotus Story. I also wrote a little bit and went to bed at around two in the middle of the night. When I woke up at nine in the morning, I got up and wrote a little before washing up. I had to hurry up and complete as much as I could. I could push the remaining tasks to the evening. If I couldn't squeeze out the time, I could only complete them the next day, but I had to do as much as possible for the tasks of the day, and I couldn't do nothing. Over the years, the author has important tasks to complete every day, and he is very persistent and persevering.

As for the basic tasks of several softwares, I could only complete the most basic task that day, the task of watching ads on the mobile browser. I couldn't watch many of them, so I will watch them when I have time. It's already very good to be able to complete the most basic tasks of several softwares that day.

After a quick wash and breakfast, I went back to the room and lay down for a while, continued writing on my mobile phone, and completed the most basic tasks of several software. Because time was too limited, I didn't read the online information and push notifications of the browser software and graphic software.

For breakfast that day, I had cream pastries and drank coffee. Before the Chinese New Year, my family spent more than 100 yuan to buy a gift box of pastries at a pastry shop. They were also like the loose pastries and paper gift boxes I bought. They asked the clerk to pack the pastries selected by the customers, instead of letting the clerk put them in randomly and not crowd the pastries in the paper box. It was enough to spend just over 100 yuan. The pastry shop we went to sells Beijing-style gift boxes, cooked fresh meat, frozen dumplings, pickled vegetables, and longevity peaches with red bean paste. There are many types of goods for sale, but pastries are the main products. Every time I go to that pastry shop, I can see some customers buying goods. During the New Year holidays, you may have to queue up to check out and wait for the clerk to weigh and calculate the money electronically. I often see some customers buying gift boxes, and there are also some who buy pastries worth hundreds of yuan. Once, I heard the male clerk talking to an old man, saying that the total price of the goods purchased was more than 1,600 yuan. It was really a lot of money. I guess he bought a lot of cooked food and pastries at one time, which can be used for a period of time. The snacks and desserts I bought before the Chinese New Year were thoughtful of my family, so most of the cakes and pastries were filled with cream. The others included a few of each: pumpkin cakes, ox tongue biscuits, hawthorn pot cakes, jujube flower cakes, and wedding cakes.

Sometimes, when the family didn’t go to the fast food restaurant to buy breakfast, they would use pastries, boil water, and make coffee for breakfast.

Most of the time during this period, I had breakfast burgers and a cup of coffee. My family went to fast food restaurants to buy breakfast and brought it back, which was also hard work.

In February of this year, in addition to hamburgers and coffee, my family would also order two fried dough sticks, or fried eggs and hash browns, etc. at the breakfast shop to increase the amount of breakfast. Sometimes, we would eat some fruits, and the amount of breakfast was okay.

Because some dishes for this year's New Year's Eve dinner don't require much preparation, my family didn't rush us this year and didn't rush to cook. We plan to have the New Year's Eve dinner at around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, so there's plenty of time to cook the dishes.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, we start cooking, and then make dumplings while watching the evening show live. This year, we will add colored dumpling flour to the dumpling dough, so we will make colorful dumplings, which is popular in recent years.

The glass tabletop of the mahogany coffee table in the living room of my home has been wiped clean. The multiple plastic placemats on the tabletop have been removed, leaving only the glass tabletop, which looks brighter. On the tabletop are sparkling wine, cola drinks, green bottles of mineral water, large bottles of red wine, small cream cakes, and ten dinner plates, which must be filled with food. This year's New Year's Eve dinner must have ten dishes, which means perfection. This is the author's suggestion, hoping for perfection, peace and prosperity.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner includes vegetables fried in a honeycomb iron pan with Chinese sausage slices, black tiger shrimp steamed in a steamer, seafood soup cooked in an electric rice cooker, four-happiness meatballs cooked in an intelligent pressure cooker, and two pounds of spare ribs. After the spare ribs are cooked, they are fried in an iron pan with sweet and sour spare ribs. There are ten dinner plates on the coffee table in the living room, and many pots and pans in the kitchen are also used. Picking and washing vegetables and putting side dishes, cooking requires several pots. This is the scene of a family New Year's Eve dinner, which takes several hours to complete.

If you prepare the New Year's Eve dinner at home, cooking it entirely at home instead of ordering takeout and plating it, then it will probably be the most labor-intensive table of dishes of the year. After eating, cleaning and putting it away will also be quite troublesome, as there will be a lot of kitchen utensils and tableware to clean up, and some housework is not easy to complete.