Since December, the weather has been colder every day.

The southwest province has a basin terrain, the Qinling Mountains to the north and the Daba Mountains to the east, and the air convection is very unobstructed. The whole province lives in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with water networks and heavy moisture. When winter comes, the cold air sinks and cannot be vented outward, and the continuous drizzle never stops.

Such wet and cold weather is completely different from the dry climate in the north.

Northerners are very unable to adapt to this climate. Although the north is colder than here, the complete heating system makes the room always warm and comfortable. Southwest Province is regionally south, with no centralized heating system, and each household does not have the habit of heating the kang. When it is drizzling, coupled with the cold wind, the air conditioner passes through the cotton coat, it seems to be about to get into the bones.

Xiao Qiang couldn't remember where he was from his previous life, but from the cold that his hands were so cold that he kept trembling with his lips, he could be sure that he was not from Southwest Province.

"Don't always squat on the side. Look at you, your nose is about to flow out, and it will get hot when you get up. Really, you'd better say you buy vegetables and suggest you make hot pot. But I'm fine yet, you'll shrink into a ball first." Lin Yi came out of the vegetable market and put the mushrooms, tripe and lotus root into the vegetable basket in front of Xiao Qiang, complaining.

Xiao Qiang had been tutoring with her for less than two months, and she felt that there was nothing to teach.

Xiao Qiang had learned all these knowledge, but his memory was messy and he had no systematic sorting. So at first, he seemed to have nowhere to start when facing exercises, but as long as he stringed up the knowledge system, there was no problem dealing with the exam.

What's more, in high school courses, except for mathematics, physics, and chemistry, other historical, geography and politics are the test of memorization. Xiao Qiang has supernatural powers and can read textbooks in mysterious spaces at any time. It would be "don't be too easy" to do exercises.

Even for mathematics, physics and chemistry, after Xiao Qiang "swallowed" a collection of exercises into a mysterious space, there were only a few tricky and weird questions that could not be found. He could find examples from the collection of other questions, and he could solve them easily.

Moreover, as he repeatedly did the exercises, the speed of finding examples in the exercises was getting faster and faster.

Until now, Lin Yi has basically not explained much to him, but she still comes to his house every day to do homework and laugh. Both of them tacitly avoid the topic of ending the tutoring.

But there is one thing that Xiao Qiang's English has not improved.

This is also impossible. The so-called interest is the best teacher for learning. Xiao Qiang's consciousness has long been an adult. Lin Yi repeatedly told him that he only listened to how important English is in the future and never took it to heart.

As it turns out, he knew nothing about English in his previous life and lived just as freely as ever. Why did he not make any happy for himself?

Seeing that Xiao Qiang was not interested, Lin Yi still supervised him to learn English as usual, but he did not pay attention to his learning progress. So until now, he is still in the stage of "learning" English letters.

It's cold in winter. Xiao Qiang smelled the smell of hot pot from the building yesterday and couldn't help but salivate. Today, he also urged Lin Yi to come out to buy vegetables and go back to eat hot pot.

The hot pot is available as a thing that happened in the Han Dynasty.

A copper tripod was put on the fire, and the food was poured into soup, accompanied by various dipping sauces, cooked and eaten immediately. This not only maintained the delicious food, but also facilitated the literati and elegant guests to sit around the fire and talk about poetry and drink. Therefore, it quickly spread and became an elegant food culture.

After thousands of years of evolution, modern hot pot has different places. For example, Beijing’s mutton hot pot, Guangdong’s seafood hot pot, and Xiangxi’s dog meat hot pot are all changed with local dietary tastes.

Southwest hotpot also has a unique local feature, its characteristic is the word spicy.

In Xiao Qiang's memory, southwest hot pot was like local southwest dishes, and soon became popular all over the country and spread overseas. Its spicy flavor has made a great contribution.

It is precisely because of these two points that Southwest cuisine has become one of the four major cuisines.

However, in this era, even individual diets have been initially opened up, and competition is not fierce. Many people have not realized that Southwest hot pot will have such business opportunities. Southwest hot pot is just a holiday dish for their respective families. It is not a special dish, but enters the hall.

Because it is an ordinary family diet, there is not so much attention, and the method is relatively sparse, so the taste is naturally not as good as that of a special hot pot shop in the future. The only thing that remains unchanged is that even the air becomes hot and spicy.

Xiao Qiang had eaten Southwest hot pot in his previous life. Although he was so spicy that his tongue was stuck out and his mouth was numb, the feeling of pleasure was unforgettable for a long time.

Since there is no hot pot sold in the restaurant, he decided to do it himself and make a standard southwestern hot pot.

I feel happy to eat hot pot, but it is really troublesome to make a hot pot.

Don’t think that hot pot is just boiled in hot soup, which is very simple. There are many requirements for stir-frying ingredients. The soup ingredients need to be boiled with beef bones for a long time. Various ingredients also need to be taken care of differently. The complexity is that even the Wenling feels it is too complicated and I don’t know where my son learned such a troublesome method.

Trouble is troublesome, but the taste is really delicious.

"Wow, it's so numb!" Xiao Jianjun held a slice of beef with chopsticks. After hot for a while, he quickly picked it up and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he covered his mouth and screamed, "It's so spicy!"

Xiao Qiang smiled and looked at his father calling spicy food while stretching his chopsticks towards another piece of beef.

That day, he and Lin Yi were driven out for dinner by their mother. They were still worried that they didn't know what happened to their father. After sending Lin Yi home, they returned to the military district and stayed downstairs for a long time before going upstairs to open the door.

Who knew that as soon as he opened the door, he saw his parents sitting on the sofa, holding hands, looking at him with a smile. There was no trace of depressedness on his father's face, and he returned to the calm and capable father he was used to.

The next day he asked his mother quietly, but she didn't say anything, just touched his head: "Your dad is a man! You can't knock him down! You have to want your dad to study and be a man who stands tall and upright!"

From my mother's eyes, he could see her mother's deep love for her father.

"Dad, come and eat a piece of fresh lotus root. It's the right time to eat it, it's crisp and sweet." Xiao Qiang picked up a piece of lotus root slice and put it into the dipping sauce in front of his father.

"Where did you learn it from? I haven't eaten it in other people's houses, and it tastes really good. But it's too troublesome to make it. Look at the beef, it's so thin and after being scalded, it's not enough to squeeze my teeth." Xiao Jianjun complained, and then extended his chopsticks to the beef plate.

Lin Yi smiled with a pursed lips. Compared with Xiao Jianjun, who likes to eat meat, she prefers enoki mushrooms. They taste delicious and refreshing, and are much more delicious than meat.

She was not that strange that Xiao Qiang knew this way.

When Xiao Qiang was fine, he either talked about the national scenic spots and customs, or snacks from all over the country, including the colors, fragrances, historical origins, and everything, and often heard her swallowing.

Anyway, she never figured out this boy, as long as he brought surprises to himself from time to time, that would be enough.

"Why don't you help Ayi pick up food, just eat it yourself!" Wenrong knocked Xiao Qiang's head with chopsticks, handed the fish fillet he had just burned to Lin Yi's dipping dish, and said with a smile, "Don't just eat vegetarian dishes, eat more meat. Look at your thin and small figure, you just eat less meat."

"Mom..., this hot pot is fun in this hot pot process. You can burn whatever you like. What is the difference between you and being in a restaurant!" Xiao Qiang picked up a piece of beef with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth.

Xiao Jianjun slapped him in the back of the head: "Little bastard, dare to talk back to your mother! Be careful that I will slap you!"

Xiao Qiang almost poked his chopsticks into his nostrils. Wenrong was so scared that he quickly held his face and complained: "Old Xiao, just scold me, what if you do, what if you hurt Xiao Qiang?"

Xiao Jianjun glared at Xiao Qiang and ate it with awkwardness.

Xiao Qiang laughed and said, "Dad wants to flatter Mom, but he ends up slapping the horse's legs..."

Lin Yi looked at Xiao Jianjun's appearance of eating turtles, her shoulders shrank and shrank, she wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and she endured the pain.

Xiao Jianjun's dark face turned slightly red: "Fuck, I'll flatter your mom... Just kidding, your mom was chasing me first, so how could your dad flatter your mom?"

"Nonsense! You didn't wait at our doorstep every day, and everyone in the unit knew about it. Will I marry you?"

"I went to your unit to give a report. If you hadn't smiled at me, I would have waited for you every day..."

...

Xiao Qiang looked at his parents and said something, and used all the trivial things he had met and fell in love with, and grimaced at Lin Yi. Suddenly, he felt that the air seemed to be hot and full of warm smell.

This is the warmth of home.

"Xiao Qiang, someone is knocking on the door." Lin Yi gently pulled Xiao Qiang's sleeve and woke him up from his stupid smile.

Someone was indeed knocking outside the door.

"I'll go open the door!" Xiao Jianjun quarreled, but rushed to get up, "Maybe the military region has something to look for me."

"You little adviser, it would be strange if you find something!" Wenrong whispered, afraid that people outside would hear it, so he did not let go of the volume.

Xiao Jianjun didn't come in for a long time, and the few people were a little surprised.

"Xiao Qiang, come out." Xiao Jianjun's voice came from outside the house, his tone was very hesitant.

Xiao Qiang put down his chopsticks and looked for him?

Is it a school?

There was a little warrior standing outside the house, very handsome, and he had never seen it before.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Xiao Qiang was puzzled.

"You are Xiao Qiang, right?" The young soldier saluted him, making Xiao Qiang helpless and didn't know how to repay the gift. "I am the guard of the commander of the military region. The commander is looking for you and I want to ask you to verify some situations."

"Commander is looking for me?" Xiao Qiang was really scared and pointed at his nose, "What is the Commander looking for me? I am just a middle school student!"

The little soldier smiled: "Then you may be the most special middle school student... Not only the commander is looking for you, but the political commissar is also waiting for you, but there are some other leaders. Your name, the number one and two leader have been talked about many times. Today, several leaders are free, so I want to invite you to chat."

Xiao Qiang looked at his father, and he looked confused. Turning back, his mother and Lin Yi both heard the sound. Several people looked at each other, but they didn't know how to mobilize so many leaders for Xiao Qiang.
Chapter completed!