My Courtyard Refuge

: The Panda Pavilion

In the afternoon, Mama Xu is going to fryFor fish balls, the whole family will join in the battle.

There are many ingredients for fish balls, including fish, pork, flour, cornstarch, tofu, eggs, onion, ginger, garlic, and other condiments.

Pork is easy to deal with. The frozen meat that I just bought in the morning, Xu Ma picked out a few pieces of the best pork belly and defrosted it. This kind of meat is most suitable for making fish balls.

The second is the fish meat. The small miscellaneous fish left over from before are used. All the small hairy fish are selected. There is no need to stab them, and they are directly minced with a meat grinder.

After solving the two main ingredients, the rest is simple, and it takes no effort at all.

Helping Xu’s mother to make fish and pork into minced meat, Xu Dong couldn’t stay any longer, and went shopping with the two sisters Ke Ke and Xiao Xu.

As for Ma Lingling, she insisted on staying and helping her grandma fry fish balls.

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As the Chinese New Year is approaching, the streets are very lively, and there are people who come out to buy New Year’s goods everywhere. Some entertainment venues have also chosen to re-open to take advantage of this crowd.

The first place Xu Dong went to with his children was Panjiayuan. Before the Chinese New Year, Panjiayuan almost became the busiest place in Yanjing.

However, the security measures here are also stricter. Entering the park requires not only real-name registration, but also security checks.

As soon as they entered the park, the children were dazzled by all kinds of snacks.

“Dad, I want to eat cotton candy.” Lele said, pulling her father’s hand.

Ke Ke and Ma Xu also looked eager.

“Okay, Dad will buy it for you.”

After Xu Dong finished speaking, he took the three little guys and squeezed to the door of the shop selling cotton candy.

After queuing for more than ten minutes, the three of them finally got a fancy marshmallow, but the price was a bit expensive, 100 yuan for each.

Even after adjusting for inflation, the price is impressive.

“Is it sweet?” Xu Dong asked with a smile.

“It’s so sweet, Dad, you should try it too.”

Coco held up the marshmallow and stretched it out to his father’s mouth. Xu Dong took a small bite symbolically, and then gave a thumbs up:

“It’s really sweet.”

After walking all the way, the three little guys finished eating marshmallows, fried tofu, iron plate squid, grilled gluten, octopus balls and other snacks.

Xu Dong also took the opportunity to buy some Spring Festival couplets.

As for other things, because there are too many people here, he has to watch the three little guys all the way, and he can’t spare his hands at all.

After walking around the whole Panjiayuan, Keke and Lele were holding a bird cage when they left.

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This is a newly bought pet for the two of them.

In Coco’s cage is an orange canary with bright feathers and a beautiful appearance;

Lele raised a starling, because the shop owner told her that the starling could talk when he was raised, and the little guy fell in love immediately.

It’s a pity that I didn’t see any parrots for sale, otherwise Xiao Lele would definitely choose parrots.

Originally, Xu Dong asked his nephew to choose a bird as a pet, but Ma Xu was very sensible and knew that he couldn’t take it back to Luyang, so he directly refused.

“You two must take good care of the bird cage. If the little bird is killed by Huahua, don’t cry then.” Xu Dong reminded as he walked.

“No, Huahua is the most obedient.” Lele pouted.

Compared with starlings, the little guy still likes Huahua a little more. After all, she has been together for more than a year, and even the name “Huahua” was chosen by her herself.

“Father won’t lie to you. If you don’t believe me, go back and ask your mother. Your mother must have said the same thing.”

Lele finally panicked now, he hesitated and said, “Then…then I’ll be more careful.”

“Huahua should be locked up. Before that, Huahua stole dried fish dried by grandma!” Ke Ke helped out.

“No, grandma said that Huahua wants to catch mice, so she can’t be locked up, otherwise she will give Huahua away.”

Ma Xu also took the opportunity to interject: “You can hang the bird cage in the glass room, so Huahua can’t get in.”

“Hey, brother Xiaoxu, you are so amazing, why didn’t I think of such a good way!” Lele said in surprise.

Xu Dong was also a little impressed.

I have to admit that this big nephew seems to have a faster brain than others, and he doesn’t even think about it himself.

Maybe it’s genetics!

The brother-in-law graduated from a prestigious university, the elder sister is not bad, she graduated from a second university, and the eldest niece’s academic performance has always been among the best. Now with the addition of Ma Xu, this family is all smart people.

“I just thought of it too.”

Ma Xu waved his hands modestly, but looking at his stinky fart, it was almost equivalent to telling others, come and praise me!

Smiling and shaking his head, Xu Dong took the children to the parking lot.

The next stop is Yanjing Zoo. Keke and the others have been clamoring to see giant pandas since the beginning of the winter vacation.

That is, at the beginning of last month, the Crouching Tiger Giant Panda Research Center in Shuzhou officially moved to Yanjing Zoo, accompanied by more than 300 giant pandas.

The reason is not difficult to guess, because of the drought, a large area of ​​bamboo in the reserve has died, and if they don’t leave, the giant pandas will starve to death.Yanjing Zoo is located between the West Second Ring Road and the West Third Ring Road. It is not too far from Panjiayuan. It takes more than half an hour to drive there.

After getting off the car, Xu Dong found that almost all parents brought their children here, and there were not a few of them like him.

After buying the tickets, the children’s ticket is 1 yuan, and the adult ticket is 100 yuan. They are all old routines. Xu Dong can guess the good plan of the park with his eyes closed.

After entering the park, all the tourists went straight to the Panda House. It seems that everyone came with the same purpose.

After arriving at the Panda House, Xu Dong found that he had been cheated. There was an extra charge here, so he had no choice but to pay another 100 yuan.

Now I finally entered the Panda Pavilion.

The area of ​​Yanjing Zoo is limited. In order to accommodate more than 300 giant pandas, the zoo had to build a new 20-storey building on the original site of the old Panda House, and officially named it Panda Building.

The Panda House only occupies the bottom five floors of the Panda Building, and the other floors are used to cultivate bamboo. After all, no matter how hard it is, you can’t suffer from pandas.

After visiting the Panda House, the three little ones couldn’t get enough, so Xu Dong had no choice but to take them to the souvenir shop next door.

In the store, he not only bought panda dolls, panda-style sun visors, panda hair cards and panda commemorative coins for the children, but also donated 1,000 yuan to the panda house.

In the end, the three of them were finally allowed to leave the zoo with him.

On the way home, Lele kept acting like a baby.

“Father, I still want to see giant pandas, when shall we come over again?”

Xu Dong smiled and promised: “When you and your sister have learned how to play the violin, let’s come and see the giant pandas.”

The two sisters, Ke Ke, have been studying with their violin teacher for a week, and the class was officially suspended until yesterday.