Chapter 1227 - Making Dus (1/2)

Chapter 1227: Making Dus

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During the new year festival, they visited relatives, had festive dinners, and the time passed quickly In a blink of an eye, it was the Lantern Festival

Fireworks were traditionally set off on the Lantern Festival throughout China, and Li Du’s hometoas no exception Every family would set off fireworks at this tiovern care of the environement was stricter The county ad off fireworks at hoather at the square, and the authorities would be the ones to set off the fireworks

Li Du saw the notice and said to Sophie, “I’ll take you to see the fireworks after dinner They are beautiful”

Ivana caes very fast She did not only speak Gerlish fluently, but she also spoke Mandarin When Sophie took lessons in Mandarin she would bring Ivana along

Ivana understood Li Du’s words and whispered, “Can I go and see the fireworks too?”

Children were always interested in fireworks

Li Du touched her head and said, “Of course, there is a children’s fireworks area Your father will take you there, and Aunty and Uncle will buy you a lot of fireworks later”

Ivana clapped quietly, her eyes shaping into beautiful crescents as she sh, money was so powerful that with little irl now looked like a pretty, blonde doll

She would be more beautiful in the future, not thanks to nature, but by artificialup, her skin and bones were constantly changing, so she would have to undergo plastic surgery every year, for better or worse

Li Du’s parents put a kneading board on the coffee table and took out the glutinous rice dough and the fillings that they had prepared beforehand to roll their own dus

There were many types of those, and their tastes were all different Therefore, Li Du’s father preparedbowls of them

Li Du came closer to see and asked, “Hey, how cos this year? I haven’t seen anything like this for a long tih school, his fa standard was relatively low

Li Du was his parents’ only child and they loved hiave him their best

Li Du’s father kne toblack sesame, peanut paste, red bean paste, crushed walnuts and sos, such as apple paste, pear paste and peach paste

However, Li Du’s favorite was dus stuffed with hawthorn cakes, a popular childhood snack for his generation It tasted soft and flaky with a sweet and sour taste and was very faly sweet and sour, while other traditional fillings, like black sesareasy and would soon make one feel sick

In this way, the fresh hawthorn cake filling was far superior

Later, when Li Du went to university, he didn’t eat hawthorn cake dus anymore In his heart, this was a taste reserved for the festival in his hometown

Li Du’s father, as usual, prepared hawthorn cake This was not difficult to do He only needed to smash the hawthorn into a paste and add some honey to make it a little sticky

Li Du went to roll the hawthorn cake Ah Meng placed its front claws on the coffee table and placed its head on its claws, looking with concentration on the red hawthorn cake without even blinking

“Do you want to eat it?” Li Du rolled a piece and showed it to Ah Meng

Ah Meng hurriedly opened itsit on the coffee table instead

The honey badger’s flexible foreli holes, but they were a bit too short to reach the coffee table top

This ers had a sweet tooth and were especially fond of honey That was how they got their name