Manhattan Chinatown, MR-LI Restaurant. Although it was already ten o 'clock in the evening, the restaurant's reception work had already been completed, and the last wave of guests had already left ten minutes ago. However, the kitchen of the restaurant was still very busy.
It was not only to complete the finishing touches of the day, but also to prepare for an important festival. It was the Dragon Boat Festival.
Most people in China attach great importance to traditional festivals. Although some people don't really understand the meaning behind each festival, at least on the surface, they attach great importance to it. Because the various festivals in China are related to many delicious foods. Most people who liked good food would remember it.
Just like the Dragon Boat Festival, many third-generation China immigrants in the United States had no idea what the Dragon Boat Festival was. However, many elders in the family would come to Chinatown to buy Zongzi on this day.
The Zongzi served at MR-LI Restaurant was very famous in Manhattan's Chinatown. Because the restaurant's head chef, Master Wang, was from Zhejiang and he himself was from Chaozhou, he was very knowledgeable about Jiaxing meat dumplings.
At the same time, because Chaozhou was close to Fujian, it belonged to the intersection of Guangdong and Fujian culture. He had done some research on Guangdong steamed rice dumplings and Fujian Quanzhou meat dumplings.
Therefore, MR-LI's Zongzi was exceptionally good. It was even better than many famous dumplings in China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many Chinese tourists in New York City ate Mr. Li's rice dumplings and bought a few more boxes to bring back to China.
Therefore, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the restaurant would run out of stock of dumplings. Every year at this time, everyone in the restaurant would come to help wrap the dumplings. Even the lowly workers would help.
This year's task was even more arduous, because in addition to the number of Zongzi that they had, The owner of the restaurant, Li Jie, requested to make an additional seven hundred dumplings as a gift.
This made the restaurant even busier. However, even though Li Jie gave the order, he didn't just wait for everyone to do it. Instead, he personally helped out and sped up. Therefore, no one had any complaints.
Li Jie was going to make seven hundred more Zongzi. Of course, he wasn't going to eat them himself. He was going to give them to others. He did not need to worry about his relatives and friends. His grandfather, Li Rong, would take care of them.
But Li Jie still had friends. Especially with his identity as the Nightcrawler, he had made friends all over the world. These were all favors! When it came to favors, the most important thing was to pay attention to reciprocity. In order to maintain the relationship between everyone, some necessary things had to be done. He didn't even know if seven hundred dumplings would be enough to repay a favor.
He had prepared many different flavors of dumplings. There were candied dates, red beans, red bean paste, fresh meat with salted egg yolk, pork belly with dried plum vegetables, braised eggs with mushrooms, braised meat with shrimp and scallops, abalone and sea cucumber, and other different flavors of dumplings.
He spent the whole night working overtime to cook it in the restaurant's professional pressure cooker. Fortunately, it was delivered on the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival.
… …
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Jie used his identity as the boss of Marvel Comics to drive his broken Ford to deliver rice dumplings all over New York.
Stark Industries.
"What's this thing called?" Tony looked at the Zongzi wrapped in green leaves in disgust.
"Zongzi, a traditional China delicacy. I think you and Pei Bo can try it. " Li Jie delivered about five Zongzi to Tony and Pei Bo. Considering that they might not be used to it, he didn't give more.
The Zongzi steamed with good bamboo leaves exuded a fragrant smell. Pei Bo liked the smell. She said, "Can I try it now?"
Li Jie helped Tony and Pei Bo peel two Zongzi and said, "Of course!"
He chose a candied date Zongzi for Pei Bo, which was more fragrant and had a lighter taste, because Pei Bo had always been a light eater. Too greasy Zongzi wasn't her cup of tea.
For Tony, it was a spicy Zongzi with mushrooms with shrimp and scallops. Well, Tony, who had been told by Pei Bo to avoid eating, was very satisfied. It had been a long time since he had eaten such a spicy and meaty food. Recently, he had been eating oil and vinegar salad every day. He felt like he was turning into a rabbit.
While they were eating the Zongzi, Li Jie said to Tony, "Today is May 30th. June 1st is International Children's Day, and I want to organize an event. I hope you can attend as Iron Man. "
Now that Tony had licensed the Iron Man copyright to Marvel, it was understandable for him to attend an event arranged by the company.
"What event?" Asked Tony as he chewed on the meat dumpling. His beard was stained with gravy and glutinous rice, which was a little unsightly.
"It's about children, of course. I'll send you a PowerPoint presentation later. Bye! "Li Jie said as he left Stark Industries. He still had a lot of Zongzi to deliver.
At Osborne Group, which was three streets away from Stark Industries.
Harry and Peter also received Zongzi from Li Jie, and they got more Zongzi. Over the past few years, they had become more fond of the Zongzi made by Li Jie.
Without Li Jie's guidance, The Green Devils and the spiders skillfully found their favorite flavors and ate them. The spiders liked abalone and sea cucumber, while The Green Devils liked red bean paste.
While eating the dumplings, Li Jie also mentioned to Peter about the event on June 1. He expressed that there was no problem and that he would definitely participate.
Inside the Night Watchman base.
Li Jie brought more than fifty Zongzi here. Apart from Ceng Chu, nobody else in the base knew what they were.
"Is this food?" asked Mike suspiciously, stroking his beard.
"It should be food," said Old Dad, stroking his beard.
"It must be food," said Punisher Frank firmly, stroking his beard.
"You guys are so annoying! If you want to eat it, eat it! "Mindy was very unhappy with the old men's nagging. She had already picked up a Zongzi and handed it to Barbara (a SHIELD agent secretly appointed by Nick Fury and who had reached an agreement with Frank). At the same time, she also took one for herself. She was not picky about the taste.
Because it was almost Children's Day, and Mindy could still celebrate it at her age, Li Jie asked, "Mindy, what do you want as a gift the day after tomorrow?"
"Well, a butterfly knife made of Adamantium. It's best if it's seven inches long, double-edged or single-edged. Then decorate the handle with crocodile skin. "Mindy directly said what she wanted.
Well, this was not a gift that a girl of her age should like at all. Li Jie was a little hesitant to give it to Mindy.
In Canada.
As the editor-in-chief of Marvel, Li Jie contacted the professor and asked Blink to come to New York and bring the Zongzi back.
Wolverine Logen was a little curious about these things. Li Jie asked Blink to tell him that it was food and how to eat it. But Logen did not wait for Blink to explain how these things should be eaten. He took a bite.
He swallowed the Zongzi along with the Zongzi leaves. He chewed and said, "Why is the skin of this thing so hard? Is it because he failed? "
Well … Blink was a little hesitant to tell Logen that no one actually ate Zongzi leaves. But seeing that Logen did not care, Blink decided that she did not need to worry about Logen's stomach. After all, Wolverine should not be a problem as long as he was happy.
S.H.E.L.D..
Li Jie was not qualified to enter here, but he asked Captain Rogers to bring the Zongzi in. After all, Captain Rogers' copyright was also in his hands, and he was also his client.
Captain Rogers was a little surprised that Li Jie would send Zongzi to the Avengers during the Dragon Boat Festival, but he was also very happy to accept it.
In the Avengers' lounge, when Captain Rogers came in with a lot of Zongzi, the first one to smell it was Iron Fist. Iron Fist, who had trained in Kunlun, China for 20 years, was familiar with this smell.
"Zongzi? Captain, do you also celebrate the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival? "Iron Fist Daniel was a little surprised.
"No, this is a gift from Jason. He is the editor-in-chief of Marvel. This is a holiday gift for the Avengers. "Captain Rogers put fifty Zongzi on the long table and let the team members take it.
After Iron Fist opened a meat Zongzi, Luke Cage came over and said, "It smells good."
"It's really good." Iron Fist was very familiar with the smell of Zongzi. In fact, because he grew up in Kunlun, he was more used to Chinese food than American food.
"It's much better than the Zongzi made by Liu in Kunlun."
The vampire hunter, Blade, also took a Zongzi and asked, "Who is Liu?"
"He is a chef. He graduated from New Oriental, the highest school for chefs in China. He is the youngest chef in the history of China. He used to be a chef in a restaurant in Guangdong and made a name for himself in a dessert competition in Guangzhou. He was best at cooking Sichuan cuisine. It was said that his mother ran a state-owned restaurant in Sichuan. It was called Ju something Lou, but I forgot. His Mapo Tofu is very delicious! But he is not good at making Zongzi. "Iron Fist briefly explained Liu's legendary experience.
Captain Rogers clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, the day after tomorrow is Children's Day. Jason hopes that we can participate in some activities organized by Marvel, mainly for children. "
No one had any objections to this suggestion.
Kamateki.
Li Jie directly teleported here through the New York Sanctum, and he also brought the largest number of Zongzi with him. Considering the number of practitioners in Kamateki, even if each of them had one Zongzi, there would be hundreds of them.
Li Jie found a large cardboard box in the kitchen, put a large snakeskin bag on it, and brought hundreds of Zongzi to Kamateki.
Under Ancient One's surprised gaze, he took out the Zongzi and said to Ancient One, "Zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival!"
"Hahaha!" Ancient One had not laughed so happily in a long time, even though they were just Zongzi. He asked Wang to move the Zongzi to the kitchen, so that Kamateki would have Zongzi for lunch.
"Oh, yes, there's a small box inside for Loki of Asgard. I might have to trouble Ancient One to make a trip, "Li Jie said while Ancient One was in a good mood.
"Oh? Why do you want to send Zongzi to Asgard? "Ancient One looked at Li Jie with a smile.
"It's not strange to be too polite! Loki gave me a Thunder Sword! "Li Jie expressed that he was a simple child, and his thoughts were simple.
Ancient One smiled and did not say anything, but he did communicate with Odin to open the Rainbow Bridge. He went to Asgard to deliver the Zongzi.
"Zongzi? What is this? " Odin and Ancient One had known each other for many years. They had a good relationship and had given each other many gifts, but this was the first time they had given each other food.
"This is a gift from Li Jie, who helps to discipline Thor. His family made Zongzi. I tasted it and it tastes good, "Ancient One said to Odin.
"This pile is for Luo Ji."
Odin looked at his old friend and blinked, but Ancient One pretended not to see it. After saying this, he turned around and left. Odin summoned the Valkyrie to bring the Zongzi to the frontline for Luo Ji.
At the frontline of the Elven Kingdom.
"Such an ugly thing can be a gift?" Luo Ji disliked the plain Zongzi very much. Think about it. She was the most favored second princess of Asgard, who even used Golden Wool as a carpet and wore artifacts as her clothes. She really didn't like Zongzi.
But Valkyrie still said, "This was sent by the Nightcrawler from the mortal world. He said it was some special food for some festival. After all, he troubled Ancient One to cross the Rainbow Bridge to deliver it. And I ate one before. It tastes good. "
Luo Ji shook her head helplessly. "Then leave one. Give the rest to the other Valkyries. I think they haven't eaten it before. "
Valkyrie accepted the order and left. Luo Ji looked at the lonely Zongzi on the table and smiled silently. Then she walked to the map. She still had a lot of things to do!
… …
June 1st, International Children's Day. This day was a holiday for children all over the world. No matter where they were, the children should have a happy day on this day.
The children in Santa Maria Hospital should celebrate this day too. This was a hospital specializing in children's leukemia. Leukemia wasn't a terminal disease. As long as they found a suitable bone marrow, they could be cured. But some people were unlucky and couldn't find a suitable one.
Most children with leukemia lost their vitality because the pain made them unable to run, jump, or play.
Most of the time, they didn't have the liveliness and playfulness of ordinary children. But today, all the children were looking out the window. Some children kept asking the nurses or parents around them, "Is Iron Man here?"
Yes, this was one of the activities Li Jie had arranged for today.
When all the children were looking forward to it, Tony Stark, dressed in a suit, pushed open the door and walked in. He smiled and said, "Happy holiday, children!"
He had prepared candy, pastries, toys, and comic books for all the children, but the children were still disappointed. They wanted to see Iron Man, not Tony Stark.
The children didn't hide their feelings. They wrote their disappointment directly on their faces.
The adults weren't the same. After all, as the world's richest people, it was already very good for them to take time out of their busy schedules to participate in this kind of activity. They couldn't ask for anything more.
Seeing the children's disappointed expressions, Tony knew very well why they were here. After receiving Li Jie's PowerPoint, he didn't sleep for two nights. He worked overtime to make some special toys.
He whispered softly, "Jarvis."
As soon as he said this, a team of special Iron Man armors flew into the room from the balcony outside the window. They were very small, completely different from the armors of adults. This was a team of children's versions of Iron Man Armors.
"I know what you're looking forward to! Children! " Although Tony was tired, he had a smile on his face. "You want to see Iron Man, but instead of looking at Iron Man, why don't you become Iron Man yourself?"
While Tony was talking, the hatches of the children's versions of Iron Man Armors had already opened and were waiting to be driven. The children, who were already excited, burst into loud cheers.
… …
At the Southern Cross Welfare Home.
Iron Fist and Luke Cage were performing on stage. Well, they had only practiced for two days, so their performance was still very rusty. But the superhero performance still attracted a lot of children.
It was a story from a comic. The general content was the story of Iron Fist encountering all kinds of difficulties in his training and then overcoming them. Luke Cage put on ugly makeup to pretend to be the villain, the big boss.
Daniel the Iron Fist and Luke Cage were both people with real Kung Fu. Although their lines weren't good enough, the fighting scenes were very good. A group of children in the audience cried out in surprise.
… …
At Queens No. 4 Elementary School, Spider-man Peter Parker was telling his story to his little fans.
As the star of Marvel, Spider-man's comic won the most audience with its ease and humor. At the same time, the artists used Spider-man's main body as a variation and created a children's comic of Spider-man.
It also attracted a lot of children to become an audience. Spider-man had truly become a super idol of all ages.
… …
At Erlanta Girls' School, White Tiger, a member of the Avengers, not only brought the girls holiday candy, but also taught the children some simple self-defense skills and self-protection awareness.
The United States was a disaster area for underage sexual assault, especially sexual assault cases of young girls. White Tiger used her female advantage to explain and protect herself to the girls.
Then she interspersed a little anecdote about the Avengers, which made the girls feel very good.
…
Blade went to another school and participated in the school's June 1 event. Although he was super cool and didn't want to talk, the children were still very happy.
Because sometimes this kind of super cool image was also very attractive.
…
Captain Rogers was the busiest, and Li Jie arranged a lot of activities for him. Whether it was a speech, a performance, or something else. He needed to go to various schools and children's organizations to do publicity.
At the same time, he had to go to a special school for troubled teenagers to give a speech.
Even with Captain Rogers' super strong physical strength, he felt a little tired after running all day today.
As the organizer of the event, Marvel editor Jason Li Yao had been on the scene. He handed a bottle of Gatorade to Captain Rogers, who looked a little tired, and said, "Are you okay?"
"Actually, I feel pretty good." Captain Rogers took a big gulp of sports drink. "Your idea is good. Doing this will actually bring us closer to the children and the people."
Li Jie smiled. "I don't want this to be just an image project, Captain. This may be a long-term job in the future. The world is cold and lacks role models. We need to set an example for the world. Because this is the true meaning of a hero! "
"It's not how many villains we defeat, or how many times we save the earth. It's to act as a lighthouse when everyone loses their direction, to point the way for everyone in the darkness. "Li Jie's words made Captain Rogers listen attentively.
"No matter how rough the road ahead is, we must hold firm faith and unrepentant perseverance. Become a sharp sword that cuts through the darkness, become a bright light in the fog. This is much harder than defeating a few villains. "
Rogers echoed, "Yes, it's much harder."
"But in the end, people still have to do these things. Otherwise, why does the world need heroes?" Li Jie looked at Captain Rogers with a smile on his lips.
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