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Chapter 21 Glutinous Rice Yuanzi and Yu Ruyi
The wind blew the coffin creaking, lightning flashed and thundered outside, and the banana leaves outside the window trembled wildly after being hit by bean-sized raindrops.

Xiangli went to close the window a little bit, then took a small stool and went to Jiang Shaoyan and sat down with her, watching the heavy rain drifting outside, while rubbing glutinous rice balls with Jiang Shaoyan.

The two jars of rice wine in the wine cellar of Jiang's Bieyuan Jiang Shaoyan had her eyes on the first day she came. They are not so much rice wine as fermented glutinous rice or fermented glutinous rice.For the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the distinction between these two things is not so clear, and it all depends on personal preference.

Fermented glutinous rice has been around for a long time, and it can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. There is a record in "Dazhu County Chronicle": "Sweet wine is also made from glutinous rice and eaten with glutinous rice, so it is called fermented glutinous rice. .”

Jiang Shaoyan tried to boil eggs with fermented glutinous rice, and felt that the two jars of fermented glutinous rice tasted good, so she didn't ask anyone to go to the rice wine shop in the city.

The so-called fermented glutinous rice boiled eggs is also very simple, boil water and eggs, add a few spoonfuls of fermented glutinous rice and white sugar, and you can cook eggs with fermented glutinous rice overnight.Jiang Shaoyan simply took it for breakfast and filled her stomach before preparing for the snacks to take to Guangming Temple - glutinous rice balls.

The soft and glutinous glutinous rice balls are simple and delicious. Of course, for a person like Xiangli who rarely cooks, it is also fun.At this time, she was having a great time rubbing the balls.

Jiang Shaoyan looked at the Yuanzi rolling in the glutinous rice flour, and the "rest of life" of these Yuanzi had already appeared in her mind.

The fermented glutinous rice and glutinous rice balls were boiled together, adding a few soaked goji berries and adding sugar, which was different from the thick and colorful diet of the time.

In addition to the light fermented glutinous glutinous rice balls, Jiang Shaoyan also prepared glutinous rice balls with red bean paste. Soft bean paste is boiled with a little water to make a thick bean paste water. Add red beans and red dates that have been cut in half and pitted. It is a bowl of red glutinous rice balls Bai Xiangyi's glutinous rice balls with red bean paste are ready.

Glutinous rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice and glutinous rice dumplings with red bean paste, one is slightly sweeter and the other is slightly heavier.In Jiang Shaoyan’s view, there are many people who like sweetness, but everyone’s acceptance of sweetness is different, some are light and some are heavy. It’s hard to say whether this Zen Master Huijue is light or heavy. Try it. Only then can we know.

Glutinous rice ball snacks are very simple. When the ingredients are prepared, they will be cooked in the pot. After Jiang Shaoyan arranged the balls, wolfberries, red bean paste and other things, he looked outside at the gloomy sky.

The poet Du Mu's phrase "there are many rains during the Qingming Festival" is really correct, but here in Dazhou it is not a spring breeze and a light rain, but a torrential rain.

The raindrops of the heavy rain outside continued to hit without any signs of easing up. It took less than half an hour for Jiang's Bieyuan to go to Guangming Nunnery. It was too early, so you can wait a little longer.

Everything is ready, Jiang Shaoyan, who has nothing to do right now, looked around the kitchen and saw a basket of fresh melons and fruits on the kitchen stove, probably brought over last night, after thinking about it, she went to pick some fruits to prepare A bowl of fruit soup to eat.

Xiangli was on the sidelines, peeling the apple with a small knife, although he was stuttering, he was very happy.She herself couldn't explain why, but she always felt that she rolled up her sleeves to fight with her young lady like this, and every time she learned something, she felt unreasonably happy in her heart.

She is not good at peeling apples now, but Xiangli thinks that one day in the future, her apples will be peeled like Miss, only a thin layer of skin is removed instead of the flesh.

After peeling the apples and peeling the fragrant pears, "the fragrant pears are here to peel the fragrant pears", this sentence is a bit of a mouthful, Xiangli repeated it over and over again, silly and happy.Jiang Shaoyan also laughed, she liked these days very much.

While cutting the peeled pear fruit into small pieces of similar size, while looking at the heavy rain outside the window through the slightly covered window, Jiang Shaoyan hummed an out of tune song: As long as it is not in the rain, watching the rain inside the house is always Soothing.

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Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan, who set off early in the morning after paying homage to General Zhao, happened to encounter the heavy rain, and the group was completely soaked by the heavy rain. Fortunately, there was a wild temple on the side of the road, and everyone hid in to avoid it. rain.

"Chongyan." Lin Yan handed Ji Chongyan a sweat towel to wipe off the rain on his head and body.

They set off from Hedong this time with a total of two carriages, one with the things they needed, and one with Nanny Chai in it.There was lightning and thunder outside, but Nanny Chai in the carriage was snoring like thunder.

Elderly people are always like this, when they feel light for a while, they wake up when there is a little movement, and for a while they can't wake up when they are struck by thunder.

Therefore, right now everyone is sheltering from the rain in the wild temple, while Chai Momo is snoring in the carriage.

It rained heavily when he went out. For some reason, Lin Yan felt a little uneasy. He always felt that going to Baoling to meet the Zen Master Huijue who had heard that the sword was taking a slant might not make Ji Chongyan get what he wanted.

After all, the sword is on the wrong side, can Nanny Chai stand it at such an age?I have heard a lot about Zen Master Huijue saving people before, but I have never heard that Zen Master Huijue rescued a person like Mother Ruchai who was hit hard on the head and didn't remember anything!

Although Ji Chongyan on the side didn't speak, judging from the expression on his face, he didn't seem to be in a good mood.

Lin Yan remembered that it seemed that this was not the only thing that troubled Chongyan. If he remembered correctly, last night the steward of the ancestral house handed Chongyan a letter from Chang'an.

Judging from Chongyan's expression at that time, it should not belong to the Duke and Mrs. Guo. Apart from these two, the only one who can send Chongyan a family letter is the elder of the Ji family.

At that time, the elders of the Ji family seldom sent any letters from the family. Not only did Ji Chongyan hate the elders of the Ji family because of various things, but the elders of the Ji family were not very close to his son who could be a backer, and he even sighed more than once, "It's a pity that Ji Chonghuan is not His son" and so on.

After all, apart from being gentle and gentle, the only thing this Elder Ji likes is reciting poems correctly. Although those poems of Elder Ji are erotic poems, they can still be regarded as poems, and they share similar interests. Therefore, the relationship between uncle and nephew not bad.

Mr. Ji, who rarely sent any letters from home, suddenly sent a letter from home. It is impossible to miss his son suddenly, and it is likely that he caused trouble again.

In other people's family, it is the son who makes troubles and the father helps to solve them. When it comes to Chongyan, it is the father who makes troubles and the son helps to solve them.

"Master Ji, do you need help? I can go to Master Tongji and ask." Lin Yan thought for a while and said.

He went up to the peak of Master Qing Ji of Dali Temple. If there is serious trouble in Chang'an City, Dali Temple must be invited to dispatch, so Lin Yan's greeting in advance will definitely help.

"It's not yet the time to invite Dali Temple to dispatch." Ji Chongyan shook his head at Lin Yan, declined his kindness, and mentioned Mr. Ji with a bit more sarcasm in his tone: "It's really going to the point where Dali Temple is dispatched, my grandfather Grandma was the first to spare him."

That's true.Lin Yan nodded: The Duke and his wife are still reasonable.

"It was he who was drunk and made a bet on my Jade Ruyi, but he lost the bet. He couldn't find Yu Ruyi at home, so he wrote to me and asked me where Yu Ruyi had gone." The contents of the Grand Master's letter have been recounted.

Lin Yan couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this, then paused, his expression suddenly changed: "That Yu Ruyi..."

Before he could finish speaking, Ji Chongyan nodded and said with a sneer: "It's the engagement token he gave to my mother back then. It was originally his thing, so it's not impossible for him to take it back now. It's just unfortunate, "Ji Chongyan said as he stretched out his hand to untie the purse at his waist, and picked out the palm-sized Yu Ruyi from a stack of banknotes. This jade Ruyi was tied with a braided colored rope, which seemed a bit inconsistent with him. Ji Chongyan said, "I take this jade ruyi with me."

While speaking, he subconsciously took Yu Ruyi up to his nose and sniffed it, and then murmured "It's no longer smelly".

Lin Yan didn't ask any more questions. Although they were close friends, they also had their own secrets, so it was inconvenient to ask more.

However, now that Yu Ruyi is in Chongyan's hands, she cannot return it to Master Ji.

"Far water can't quench near thirst," Ji Chongyan said, with a dark light flashing in his eyes, "right now, he has to go and get his good nephew's Yu Ruyi."

(End of this chapter)