On the last day of February, an old man passed away.
Bing Xin, the century old man, left this world forever on this day at the age of 99.
Bing Xin was born in 1900 and died in 1999, witnessing a whole century of changes.
Bing Xin passed away at around 9pm on the 28th. The relevant reports appeared on the Internet after 10pm, while the news on TV was reported on the morning news the next day.
When the family saw this news while sitting together for breakfast, my grandfather felt very regretful: "Grandma Bing Xin is gone! What a pity."
"Yes!" Grandma just saw the host finished telling the time of old Bing Xin's birth and death, and said, "It would have been better if old grandma Bing Xin had been born one year earlier and died one year later."
"Why?" Grandpa was puzzled.
"Then we can witness three centuries." Grandma said.
"..."
Ma Xiaolong almost spat out the porridge with a mouthful. He finally swallowed it down and said with a smile: "Grandma is right. If that happens, Grandma Bing Xin will not be a century old person, but a third century old person."
"That's right!" Grandma said happily: "My eldest grandson can still talk."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh. What a sad thing, but grandma turned it into a happy thing.
After breakfast, Ma Xiaolong went to the base office building and met with the person in charge of the base to discuss some follow-up development matters.
The development of the base is much better and faster than expected. As a result, some infrastructure facilities cannot meet the requirements, such as corresponding highways, bus stations, and standardized fleets and drivers. These will affect the outside world's perception of the local city appearance.
view.
The superiors also attach great importance to this matter, but some aspects still require the person in charge of the base to interview the people above and propose the subsequent development of the base and related supporting needs. These need to be solved by the people above.
As the top leader, Li Yuanchao is also actively preparing for this meeting. As the top leader who came by air, what is the purpose? Isn't it just beautiful political achievements? In this era, development is the last word.
What do you need to develop? The leadership above is only one aspect. The most important thing is long-term planning, and... money!
If you don’t have money, develop a hammer!
As Li Yuanchao's biggest reliance, Ma Xiaolong's scientific research base is directly related to his future.
On the other hand, Li Yuanchao's wife Sun Yan is also ready to meet with the person in charge of the scientific research base. She wants to contribute to the construction of local infrastructure. On the one hand, accelerating urban construction will allow her husband to have more
Political achievements, on the other hand, can also earn a small amount of money.
The couple is gearing up and preparing for a big fight. As their child, Li Xin has had a very hard time this year.
In just twenty days, I lost five or six kilograms, but the effect was very good. With hard work and hard work, I finally caught up with my study progress in the first half of the second grade of junior high school.
According to this progress, it only takes another three to five months to catch up with the learning progress of high school.
The sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man was resisting. This devilish method of studying not only did not make him suffer from fatigue, but also made him develop the habit of not studying and feeling uncomfortable. During this period, apart from eating, drinking, sleeping, and sleeping, he did almost nothing
I gave up all entertainment and social interactions and completely focused on studying.
The results are gratifying, but Li Yuanchao and Sun Yan are also really distressed. The child who has been a little devil for ten years suddenly changes his ways and changes his past. Is this a distortion of human nature? Or is it a loss of morality?
No, this is none of this, this is...
"Peerless martial arts, I must learn peerless martial arts..."
Li Yuanchao and Sun Yan had dark expressions on their faces every time they heard Li Xin's babble in his sleep.
Martial arts novels are very harmful to people.
…
In the last few days of the winter vacation, Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha returned to their home on the riverside. Zhang Chiling and Chen Jun also came back. The villa was left to Grandpa, Grandma and Ma Xiaofeng, three people who wanted to enjoy themselves.
Zhang Chiling and Chen Jun still lived in the house opposite each other. Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha rarely enjoyed the sweetness of their world for a few days.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, grandpa, grandma, Ma Xiaofeng, Ma Qiangsheng, and Liu Ying all came back. After today, the family had to go their separate ways again. Before that, there was always a reunion dinner.
Early this morning, Ma Xiaolong shook hundreds of Yuanxiao with his own hands. There were two flavors, one with five kernels and one with fruit. He cooked them in a pot and shared them with everyone. They were sweet, soft and glutinous, and the soup was very delicious.
It's very viscous and feels very comfortable in your stomach when you drink it.
"It's so delicious." Ma Xiaofeng ate twenty yuanxiao by herself and said, "The yuanxiao made by my brother is much more delicious than the ones sold outside."
"It's delicious, so don't eat too much." Ma Xiaolong said, "It's a calorie bomb. If you eat too much, you'll get fat easily."
"I'm not afraid of getting fat." Ma Xiaofeng said: "I'm not like my sister-in-law and Xiaojun. In order to become a big star in the future, I have to manage my figure. Eat delicious food first before it's mine."
Liu Ying chuckled and said: "You're right, what you eat is yours. Xiaosha and Xiaojun are too concerned about their bodies. They have to control their eating habits. It's so painful."
Zhu Sha and Chen Jun looked helpless when they said this. They didn't want to. It was all because Ma Xiaolong said last summer that they should start learning body management, which made them lose a lot of fun in enjoying delicious food.
"It's all your fault!" Zhu Sha glared at him with a resentful look.
Ma Xiaolong spread his hands: "Can you blame me? You want to be a star, but you don't want to manage your figure. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"
"But we can't eat many delicious things." Zhu Sha complained: "Do you know the pain of not being able to eat fried skewers and drink carbonated drinks?"
"It's not that I don't let you eat it, it's just that these things are too high in calories and too sweet. It's easy to eat too much accidentally. How can you not get fat?" Ma Xiaolong said: "I'm doing this all for your own good."
"Don't listen, don't listen, that bastard is chanting sutras."
"..."
Liu Ying still felt sorry for her daughter-in-law and said: "Xiaolong, haven't you researched a lot of medicines? Is there any medicine that can prevent you from getting fat no matter what you eat?"
"Well..." Ma Xiaolong touched his chin and said, "It really does."
"Really!?" Zhu Sha and Chen Jun's eyes lit up.
"Indeed, it does, but it also has shortcomings." Ma Xiaolong said.
"What shortcomings?" Cinnabar asked.
"Eating something is not easily absorbed and will increase the amount of stool." Ma Xiaolong looked at her and Chen Jun and chuckled: "To put it simply, if you eat more, you will have more bowel movements."
"Bah~!" Everyone was eating Yuanxiao! These words made everyone feel sick, and they all looked at him angrily.
Ma Xiaolong shrank his neck and said, "You can't take this medicine often, otherwise it will lead to malnutrition. Taking it once every three days is enough."
"That's not bad." Liu Ying said: "There are many weight-loss drugs on the market now, but they are basically useless and they tend to rebound. You can't do this, right?"
"Definitely not." Ma Xiaolong said: "My sister-in-law bought a pharmaceutical factory years ago, and I passed this prescription to her later. Now the people's lives are getting better day by day, their food is getting better and better, and there are more and more fat people every day.
There will definitely be many fat people who will worry about losing weight in the future. With this weight loss drug, they will no longer have to worry about obesity."
"This is good." Grandpa patted his general belly and said, "I gained more than ten kilograms in the past year. I will give me some weight loss pills later, and I will lose my belly no matter what."
"Okay." Ma Xiaolong nodded: "I will boil a pot of ointment in a while and roll it into honey pills, which are easy to swallow. Take some with you when you leave, and ask me for it after you finish eating."
"Okay." Grandpa said cheerfully: "Our little dragon is really a little Dingdang, he will always answer any request."
"It's true." Grandma smiled and said, "There is nothing that my eldest grandson can't do. Our family is really grateful to have Xiaolong."
Everyone nodded.
Ma Xiaolong couldn't bear such flattery, and listened to it for a long time with a smile on his face. When no one praised him anymore, he rushed into the kitchen and boiled ointment.
After working hard for two or three hours, a pot of ointment was baked, and then rolled into honey pills one by one, wrapped in honey pill paper, and sealed in a plastic bag.
A bag of ten pills can last for a month.
A total of thirteen bags were sealed and kept in the refrigerator to be taken out when you want to eat them.
Finally, I took out a few bulk honey pills for everyone to try.
"Can this thing help you lose weight?" Liu Ying frowned as she looked at the honey pill the size of her little finger. She recalled the fear of taking traditional Chinese medicine pills when she was a child.
It's bitter and astringent, and tastes worse than shit.
"The main thing is to prevent people from getting fat. Weight loss is a side effect, but there is no problem in losing three pounds a month." Ma Xiaolong said: "One pill at a time, once every three days."
"Is it bitter?" Liu Ying looked confused: "If it's too bitter, I'm afraid of vomiting."
"It's definitely bitter, but don't taste it, just swallow it with water," Ma Xiaolong said.
"This..." Liu Ying looked at the size of the honey pill and hesitated: "It's too big, I can't swallow it."
"That's easy to say." Ma Xiaolong flattened the honey pills on the cutting board, cut them into a dozen small pieces, and said, "You can swallow them now."
"..." This is really a good idea.
"Your mother is just squeamish." Grandma looked disdainful, threw the honey pill into her mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it. Maybe she felt it was a bit bitter, so she drank two more mouthfuls of water and said, "Isn't this the end of the meal?"
"..."
"Grandma is still better." Ma Xiaolong picked Brother Thumb up, turned to look at everyone, and said, "Much better than them."
"Humph! Stop looking down on people!" Ma Xiaofeng couldn't stand the stimulation, so she threw the honey pill into her mouth and chewed it twice. She looked strong at first, but after three seconds she turned into a bitter look: "I can't...water! Give me this.
I water!"
"Hahahaha..." Everyone laughed, but they stopped laughing quickly because they hadn't eaten yet!
"Forget it, I won't take it." Ma Qiangsheng put down the honey pill: "I usually work a lot, so I don't need to lose weight."
"I won't eat either." Zhang Zhiling smiled and said, "I think my weight is pretty standard now."
Ma Xiaolong glanced at it and nodded: "You really don't need to eat. If you gain one point, you'll be fatter, if you lose one point, you'll lose weight. That's just right."
Zhang Chiling smiled like a flower: "I know how to say nice things."
"Then I..." Liu Ying was about to follow the crowd.
"You have to eat it!" Ma Xiaolong pointed to the crumbs and said, "They have been cut into pieces for you."
"..."
There was no other way, so Liu Ying bit the bullet and took more than a dozen honey pills in three portions with water, but her throat was too small.
Like my grandma, my grandpa happily threw the honey pills into his mouth, chewed them up, and ate them into his stomach. After drinking a few mouthfuls of water, he was fine. At first glance, he looked like a serious poor man who had chewed tree bark and grass roots.
Zhusha and Chen Jun looked at each other, threw the honey pills into their mouths, and swallowed them hard with water.
"Not bad." Ma Xiaolong clapped his hands: "I cut the size of the honey pill in half according to the size of my throat. As long as I overcome the psychological barrier, I can definitely swallow it. Isn't it bitter?"
"It's okay." Zhu Sha felt the taste in her mouth and said, "It has a bit of honey sweetness."
"This is honey pill." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile: "With honey added, it must be sweet."
Turning to look at Chen Jun: "Xiaojun, how are you?"
Chen Jun covered his mouth and retched twice, then waved his hands: "A little nauseated."
"It seems that your esophagus is a little thin." Ma Xiaolong patted her behind a few times, and forced the nausea away: "Are you feeling better?"
Chen Jun sighed and said, "Much better."
"It seems that you can only cut it into pieces and eat it in the future." Ma Xiaolong said: "If that doesn't work, I will make the honey pills smaller and wrap them in a capsule shell, so that I won't taste the bitter taste."
"You should have done this from the beginning." Liu Ying complained: "Look at Xiaofeng's pain."
Ma Xiaofeng: "???"
"Okay!" Ma Xiaolong rubbed Ma Xiaofeng's head and said, "It was my fault. I learned my lesson and won't do this again in the future."
"It's good to eat some, but you will blame others every day." Grandma was not happy and gave Liu Ying a lesson: "Don't eat if you have the ability, otherwise you will get fat to death."
"..." Facing her mother, Liu Ying could only shrink to one side and act like a quail.
"Ahem! I'm going to cut some mutton. Let's boil the mutton and eat it tonight." Ma Xiaolong went into the kitchen to hide.
"I'm going to help my brother." Chen Jun also ran out.
"I'll go too." Zhusha slipped away.
Ma Xiaofeng ran upstairs: "I'm going to play on the computer for a while."
"..."
Shabu-shabu-shabu is not as troublesome as preparing stir-fry. Most aquatic products stores have ready-made frozen mutton slices, hot pot base and dipping sauce. You only need to buy some potatoes, vermicelli, cabbage, tofu and other hot-pot dishes, and you are all set.
Already.
But if you want it to be delicious, you still have to buy fresh lamb meat and cut it yourself. Only when you rinse it will it be tender.
With Ma Xiaolong's cooking skills, the hot pot base and dipping sauces are all prepared by himself.
Then cut some potato slices, lotus root slices, and old tofu into pieces, and put half of it in the freezer layer of the refrigerator. It will be frozen tofu when you eat it at night.
Frozen tofu absorbs more juice and has a richer texture than fresh tofu.
Then wash some lettuce, lettuce, and cabbage and tear them directly by hand, soak the vermicelli in water, and it's almost ready for shabu-shabu.
Finally, make some dumplings, and the staple food is complete.
In the busy evening, the whole family sat around the dinner table and ate steaming mutton-boiled meat. The adults drank, and Zhang Chiling drank with a few children, chatting and laughing, and the three children (Ma Xiaofeng:???
) performed their talents and won rounds of applause.
The Lantern Festival is so joyful.
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