Two years ago today, the fifteenth day of the first month of the year of Gengzi, was the first Lantern Festival I spent in the army.
That morning, the captain and I were checking the health order in the camp as usual, the captain was a careful person, usually very concerned about the lives of the soldiers, walked to the door of the canteen, met the chief secretary head-on, communicated a few work matters and was ready to leave, suddenly thought of something, turned around and stopped the director and asked: "How is the lantern festival arranged for everyone today?" ”
"Captain, originally today was set for everyone to set a lantern, but recently this epidemic, the delivery company can not send today, I want to think of a way, try to let everyone eat a bite of hot Lantern." The secretary frowned and prepared to find a way.
Before the chief secretary could go out, the captain said, "If you can't send it, let's pack it ourselves." ”
"Captain, no one has wrapped tangyuan, and the logistics class does not have glutinous rice noodles and black sesame seeds, how can this be done?" The secretary-general said with some trepidation.
"If there is no condition, we will create conditions!"
After saying that, he took the chief of staff into the logistics class, and after a while, the captain came out with great interest and said: "Platoon leader, get up in the afternoon and assemble, everyone comes to pack the Lantern." ”
Although I looked puzzled, I still suppressed my curiosity. When I got up in the afternoon, just after the troops had assembled, I saw that the captain had already unfolded his hands and feet in the canteen, and the cooker also put all the ingredients on the table, just two things - brown sugar and white noodles, I finally understood that the captain's tangyuan was actually brown sugar dumplings.
The captain said: "As soon as the Lantern Festival passed, the year passed, last year everyone was very hard, and now there is an epidemic, although the conditions of the squadron are simple, but this festival we still have to pass, there is no glutinous rice noodles, we use white noodles, relatives are not around and comrades-in-arms, 'dumplings' wrapped into a circle, we can 'reunite'!" ”
The big guys were interested at once, slowly groping, taking out a small piece of noodles from the basin, rubbing it in the palm of their hand, and then using their thumbs to press a nest on the round dough cake, put it into the brown sugar block, and then seal the heart, rub the circle, and the Lantern is done.
Because everyone had no experience, many of the Lanterns that day were broken, but everyone ate with taste. When I took a bite, I only felt the sweetness bubble up to the tip of my tongue, full of fragrance, and sweet into the bone marrow. Everyone even "drank" the bowl of Lantern with skin in soup, and after the fifteenth day of the first month, the special bowl of Lantern has always remained in my memory.
That night, I stood up to the biting cold wind and walked on the quiet duty passage, looking back, the camp stood alone in the desolate land, there was no festive noise, there was not even a car on the road next to it, only the dark sky on the winter night, the silent moonlight in the cold, the white frost on the ground and the sentries on duty in the moonlight...
Editor-in-Chief: Shu Zhengjun
Editor-in-Chief: Wang Tao Cheng Ming
Duty Editor: Pang Hexing Zhang Mengxi
Author: Chen Chuang, Zhang Xuyang, Zhang Zeying
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