I'm by no means a softie

"The minority obeys the majority" is a principle that many people are familiar with and default to. When there are disagreements about collective actions, most decisions are made based on this principle. It applies to various groups, including families.

For example, when it comes to eating dumplings for dinner, Li Peifeng, who considers himself the "head of the family," voted against it, but the other three were in favor, so he could only agree.

The whole day passed in a hurry, and everyone was busy in their own rooms. They didn't sit down to eat lunch together. Instead, they each ate some snacks and fruits to cope with the problem, leaving more expectations and stomach space. Dumplings tonight.

Li Peifeng originally thought of going downstairs to meet and prepare for the meeting at around four in the afternoon, but just after three o'clock, he received a WeChat message from his beloved mentor Zhao Qingge.

Three words, sonorous and powerful...

“Make dumplings!”

What a rush!

Li Peifeng looked at the time and saw that it was still early. He was in the mood for typing and didn’t want to interrupt it, so he pretended not to notice, pulled up the keyboard, and continued writing.

Who would have expected that half a minute later, it would come again...

Zhao Qingge: “Make dumplings!!”

Will eating later make you starve to death?

His thoughts were completely interrupted. Li Peifeng tapped the keyboard, snorted coldly, and still decided to pretend to be dead. He wanted to see what would happen if he never replied to the message.

Most Internet article authors have no emotions when coding, or in other words, they put all their emotions into the characters and world in the book during that time.

This can be called "focus time".

Especially successful Internet article writers, the more successful they are, the more ruthless they are, and the more successful they are, the more focused they are. Their children have a car accident, their parents are sick, their wife's water breaks...it doesn't bother them at all, let alone affect this group of coding machines that day. of updates.

Li Peifeng has this trend, which shows that he is really not a human being... No, he is one step closer to becoming a real internet writer.

"Dingling bell~"

Half a minute after Zhao Qingge sent the second message, Li Peifeng's phone rang with a WeChat ringtone. Yes, it was his beloved and beloved guide who called him.

You can't pretend to be dead. If you still can't hear anything, you should probably go upstairs and knock on the door.

Li Peifeng sighed and chose to answer the call: "Hello?"

“Didn’t you see my WeChat account?”

Lao Zhao's tone was very calm, and Li Peifeng was a little surprised: "Did you send me a WeChat message? Sorry, I didn't see it."

"Okay, then I'll say it again."

Zhao Qingge said one word at a time: "Make dumplings, go downstairs to make dumplings, do you hear me?"

I'll forget about making dumplings for you too. The one with Zhao Qingge stuffing is a bit old, but it has a strong texture and a long aftertaste. After steaming and cooking for an hour and a half, it is absolutely fragrant and tastes good. !

At this point, although he felt uncomfortable having his thoughts interrupted, Li Peifeng could only go downstairs and enter the living room to start organizing: "It's time to make dumplings. Everyone, please put down what you are doing and take your precious time to come out and help me with my work."

"Doing it so soon?" Huang Tianxuan was the first to open the door, slightly surprised: "It's only three o'clock, and I just ate an apple."

In order to avoid telling the truth and causing trouble, Li Peifeng said rationally: "Making dumplings takes time, not to mention that you guys don't know how to make dumplings, so it will take longer. If you make them now, it will be quick if you can eat them at 5:30."

Zhao Qingge was the second to leave the house: "What to do first?"

"You sit down first and ask Yue to come out."

Opening the door to the master bedroom, Wu Wenyue was sitting in front of the computer having a video conference. Fortunately, it was almost over. She hurriedly said a few words and got up and left the room, following Li Peifeng to the kitchen.

"How?"

Li Peifeng opened the refrigerator, looked at the ingredients at home, and said casually: "We can only make dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork. Add a little fat meat refining residue and put it into the stuffing. Wenyue, you are responsible for chopping the lean meat into minced meat.

Cut the fat into small pieces and make it into oil residue, then cut the cabbage into stuffing. First like this, then like this, and finally like that..."

After explaining the general method of making dumpling fillings, Wu Wenyue heard it very well and went to work with some vague understanding. Li Peifeng put the panels and flour on the dining table in sequence and prepared to start kneading the dough.

Huang Tianxuan pointed at herself and Zhao Qingge: "What am I doing with her?"

Li Peifeng squinted: "Don't ask me what you are going to do, ask yourself what you can do first!"

Huang Tianxuan sneered slightly: "You have become impatient after half a month, and you still want to hug me? You are so talented and daring to think."

Li Peifeng looked at her, then at Zhao Qingge, his eyes paused for a moment, then he lowered his head and started to play with the noodles, slowly drawing the shape of a flag with the flour on the chopping board, and said in a deep voice: "I don't dare to think about it anymore, this is the white flag I put up.

, our next topic!”

Huang Tianxuan raised her eyebrows and watched in silence as the white flag drawn with white flour was quickly covered with more flour.

"call"

Zhao Qingge let out a breath and shifted his gaze from Li Peifeng to the restaurant. Wu Wenyue was rinsing the pork to defrost it with concentration. Her eyes gradually became complicated, and she pursed her lips tightly without saying anything.

…

The process of making dumplings is complicated and requires no one person, but there are only two main steps, which are kneading the dough and chopping the fillings.

Although Wu Wenyue didn't know how to do the former, there was still no problem in chopping stuffing. Li Peifeng thought that the other party's sword skills were so superb that they could also be used at this time.

He himself acts as the main force in making dumplings, and is responsible for kneading and rolling the dough.

But the other two didn't just sit and watch them work as Li Peifeng said. After sitting for a while, Zhao Qingge and Huang Tianxuan went to the kitchen to help Wu Wenyue chop the stuffing. Do you know, do you understand, and can you really reach out?

Helping is not important, the most important thing is that it counts as participation.

"Duoduoduo~"

Wu Wenyue waved her two knives, and without blinking, she slashed at the pieces of meat that had been cut on the cutting board, from east to west, one hundred and eight cuts, then from south to north, and again.

One hundred and eight cuts, cross-chop stuffing, cold light radiating, fierce yet light, the originally small pile of meat slices gradually turned into meat paste...

Zhao Qingge looked on coldly: "The knife skills are good, but don't you have a meat grinder?"

"No." Wu Wenyue answered in a brisk tone, and the two knives stopped. Then the two knives clashed with each other and made a clanging sound. He threw the sticky meat on the blade onto the cutting board, then picked up the two knives.

Continue to chop.

The sound of the kitchen knife falling on the cutting board was so rhythmic that Wu Wenyue couldn't help but hum a song

She also heard the conversation between the three people in the restaurant just now. What they didn't dare to think about, what they gave up with a white flag... Good news, good news!

The dog finally smashed the south wall, and his head was bruised and bloody, and he was unconscious. He finally knew how to turn around. I can eat a few more dumplings today!

"Is the meat too sticky?"

Huang Tianxuan looked at her phone and said hesitantly: "I read on the Internet that when mincing meat fillings, you should add water while chopping. This will make the texture elastic and smooth, and on the other hand, it will not stick to the knife."

"Yeah?"

Wu Wenyue didn't have the slightest trust in the cooking skills of this wealthy daughter, but after hearing that the other party was searching on the Internet, she was a little unsure. In addition, it was also her first time to chop dumpling fillings, so she felt unsure, so she shouted loudly

Said: "Xiao Feng, do you need to add water when mincing the meat filling?"

"Add!" Li Peifeng, who was kneading the dough in the restaurant, responded: "Just add cold water, but not too much. Add it two or three times. If it feels dry when chopping, just add a little bit. Too much water will also affect the taste."

"Oh." Wu Wenyue said to Huang Tianxuan next to her, "Bring me a bowl to get some water."

Huang Tianxuan immediately took a bowl of water and poured half a bowl of the meat filling.

Wu Wenyue quickly stopped: "Enough is enough, I would rather have less than more."

Zhao Qingge glanced at the pile of fat slices cut off the cutting board, picked it up and walked to the stove: "I'll refine the oil residue."

"You will?"

“You can learn by watching videos.”

After Zhao Qingge finished replying, he put down the plate, took out his mobile phone and opened the browser.

But Wu Wenyue warned: "You don't have to look at it. First put the water in the pot and put the fat in cold water. After it boils, pour out the water. Put oil in the pot and put the fat in the pot. Just put it on low heat."

“Bleach it first?”

"Yes, do you know how to blanch water?"

"Wenyue, don't just talk, chop it!"

"Sister Xuan, please don't patronize me, the supervisor. I haven't cooked the cabbage yet. Why don't you get a knife and cut it?"

"Okay!"

'Duoduoduo' The sound of the collision of kitchen knives, the working sound of the gas stove and range hood, and occasionally the chat of three girls, all kinds of sounds blended together to form the final sound of fireworks in the world.

When Li Peifeng heard this, he kneaded his dough slowly. Although he still had strong regrets about the upcoming "separation" in his heart, he was also enjoying the last warm moment of reunion between the four of them.

Don't mention it next time when four people live together, it will be difficult to even sit down and have a meal together.

The lockdown will be lifted tomorrow morning, and if nothing else happens, the girls will pack up their luggage and leave without even having breakfast. This dumpling meal will probably be the last meal of the four of them living together.

"I know this world is as fleeting as dew, yet, yet."

Li Peifeng's hands while kneading the dough paused slightly, picked up the bowl, poured some water into the flour, and continued kneading, trying to knead the dough into a whole dough and knead all the distracting thoughts in his heart!

He really wanted to raise the white flag and give up. There is no such thing as five-in-one and four-in-one. He, Wu Wenyue, and Xu Manying can be together as three of them. They have work and life, and they have a harmonious relationship. No one can be separated from the other.

Like Dao'er, the reality is too harsh after all, and Huang Tianxuan is just a temporary passerby...

"I heard that love is a tragedy nine times out of ten, and relationships always make me suffer... why should I suffer, I should eat dumplings! I have to drink some today, white, nine cups!"

The depressed mood did not last long, and Li Peifeng thought of a way to make himself happy.

After undergoing the transformation of [Stone Liver and Fighting Gall] and other internal organs, he felt that when he was not in a bad mood at all, he could face no matter how bad things happened, and he could face completely unsolvable difficulties.

, Li Peifeng also vowed: "I allowed myself to take a step back, temporarily stop moving forward, and temporarily become a big waste!"

More than half an hour later, Li Peifeng had mixed the noodles, and the dumpling fillings were completed with the concerted efforts of the three girls.

"Listen to me, making dumplings is very simple. First fill them with fillings, and then fold them like this..."

Before officially opening the package, Li Peifeng took the lead in picking up a piece of dough, filled it with some stuffing, and explained it while wrapping it, trying to teach the other three.

They are not stupid, and it is indeed not difficult. The three girls learned it one after another, and everyone worked together to finish the work early.

"Is it time yet?"

"Twelve minutes... is enough, the meat filling is cooked."

"Open the pot!"

"Bring up the soy sauce and vinegar."

"You want vinegar for cabbage stuffing?"

"Just for this dumpling stuffed with vinegar!"

Before five o'clock, the first pot of cabbage and pork dumplings came out steamingly hot.

The person holding the cutlery took the cutlery, and the person holding the dumplings filled the dumplings. Li Peifeng fried another dish and added a tomato and egg drop soup. The four of them finally sat down formally.

A few of the dumplings on the plate were oddly shaped, some were long, some were round, and two had their fillings exposed. These were the necessary costs for the three girls to transform from novice dumpling makers to experts.

"Who made this?" Wu Wenyue picked up a dough ball and said with a smile, "Is there no stuffing in it? Why is it wrapped like this?"

Zhao Qingge said calmly: "Tianxuan made it happen."

Huang Tianxuan looked indifferent: "The stuffing is exposed, let me take it all out and rub it... If you don't want to eat it, give it to me!"

"Here it is, don't throw it away."

"By the way, I forgot to put the coins!"

"They are all used to put coins during the New Year. There is no need for the Winter Solstice. I'm going to start!"

The three girls each used chopsticks, but Li Peifeng looked out the window. The winter night came very quickly. It was already dark at five o'clock. The snowflakes outside the window had not stopped since the morning and seemed to be even bigger. Under the indoor light,

, dots of crystals outside the window flew past like feathers, meeting briefly and then parting in the blink of an eye, as if the whole world was melting.

"I'll have a drink."

After saying this, Li Peifeng hurriedly got up and rummaged around the cupboard, and finally found a bottle of osmanthus wine that he brought specially when moving. He took another wine glass and sat back at the table. He only poured himself a glass and drank silently, his expression

Although I enjoyed it very much, I couldn't hide the trace of sadness in my eyes.

"What's wrong with you?"

Wu Wenyue seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "The blockade of the community has been lifted. We will go home tomorrow. You can also go back to sleep on the big bed in your master bedroom. Why aren't you still drinking happily?"

"My unhappiness has nothing to do with that."

"What?"

Li Peifeng took a mouthful of dumplings and drank another sip of wine, feeling even more sad: "Yue, did you not mix the dumpling fillings thoroughly?"

"?"

Zhao Qingge coughed dryly: "I ate something very salty just now."

"The ones I ate were bland..."

Huang Tianxuan didn't believe in evil, so she picked up a new one, took a bite and nodded slightly: "It's not mixed well."

Wu Wenyue felt a little guilty: "That's not right, I remember I mixed it up."

"It was mixed, but not evenly." Huang Tianxuan emphasized: "I saw you only stirred it twice and then stopped."

"Then why didn't you remind me?"

"I didn't know you didn't mix it thoroughly. You should have tasted it at that time."

Li Peifeng reconciled: "Okay, let's eat, that's it this time, be careful next time, if there is a next time."

Wu Wenyue nodded in agreement: "When Man Ning's isolation is over, the three of us can make it again. She likes to eat mutton stuffing."

There was no sound except the clinking of bowls and chopsticks on the dinner table. Three or four seconds later, there was a man's steady voice: "Okay."

At seven o'clock, after dinner, Li Peifeng drank a bottle of white wine, added water twice, and returned to the attic with a slight alcohol smell.

I lay on the bed for two minutes to break away from other thoughts and start to formulate ideas. After I had my thoughts, I was about to sit in front of the computer and type words when there was a knock on the door.

"Click"

"Code?"

Wu Wenyue came in. Uncharacteristically, she was not wearing pajamas. Instead, she was wearing a short black windbreaker. She was not wearing culottes, but a pair of black silk wrapped around her long legs. She was wearing a style where her lower body was missing...

"I was planning to get the code."

Wu Wenyue sat on the edge of the bed, placing her hands on her legs a little uncomfortable, but her face was quite calm: "Wouldn't it take up your time to chat?"

Li Peifeng sighed softly: "The chat was delayed. The chat took too long. You can do anything else. It will end in half an hour at most."

Wu Wenyue held back her laughter and asked knowingly: "...But I just want to chat, what else are you talking about??"

Dumplings, Jiaozi.

Li Peifeng actually knew what Wu Wenyue wanted to do next while eating. He had dumplings for dinner, so naturally he wanted to have sex in the evening!