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When Zhang Taiping finally finished work, Fan Ming also took time off, and suddenly felt that he was so hungry after jumping up and down in the afternoon, and smelling the aroma coming from the kitchen, his stomach growled a few times in disbelief, red He ran into the kitchen with a straight face.

"Sister Cai, what's for dinner? It smells so good." Fan Ming asked Cai Yazhi and Xing Rushui who were busy after entering the kitchen.

While talking, Cai Yazhi didn't stop to chop vegetables: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, tonight we will serve steamed rice dumplings and sweet-scented osmanthus cake, plus a few side dishes."

"Boy, zongzi and sweet-scented osmanthus cake, I like these." As he said that, his stomach growled uncontrollably, "I'm starving to death!"

At this time, Xing Rushui put a small pot of cool eggplant on the table and said: "Wait a little longer, the rice dumplings and pastries will be cooked. You go to clean the table and put the benches in place."

After Fan Ming came out, Zhang Taiping asked with a smile, "How's it going?"

While wiping the table, Fan Ming said, "It will be ready in a while."

Zhang Taiping stood up and walked out, Yaya and Tiantian afternoon carried the grasshopper cage and went out to play with the group of little dolls and have not come back yet, went out to find food.

The sky is full of stars, and it is a good weather, and the big field is brightly lit.When tidying up and leveling the big field, I put up the lights on it, just in case it rained suddenly at night or something happened.

Zhang Taiping walked straight to the big field, the lights were turned on, and at night it was a playground for children, and the most popular game was hide-and-seek.There are wheat stacks everywhere, easy to hide but hard to find, this is more fun, if you are found as soon as you hide, it will be boring.

When Zhang Taiping came over, Tian Tian was covering his eyes and counting, while a group of more than a dozen boys and girls kicked their legs and spread out to all parts of the arena, sneaking into the back of the wheat pile to hide.

After Tiantian opened her eyes, she saw Zhang Taiping standing in front of her. Just about to speak, Zhang Taiping put her finger to her mouth to signal her to keep quiet. Steadily followed behind Zhang Taiping, and found Yaya's hiding place.

Sensing that there was someone standing in front of her, Yaya just wanted to ask Yaya why she wanted to find her, but the two had agreed in advance not to look for each other.Zhang Taiping whispered: "Don't talk, it's Dad." Yaya immediately covered her mouth with both hands, with a surprised expression on her face, then let go of her mouth and whispered: "What is Dad doing here? Do you also play hide and seek? "

Zhang Taiping also said in a low voice: "Father came to ask you to go home for dinner, we left secretly, without letting them know, let them stay in the wheat stack for a while longer."

The two little girls also thought it was so fun, their eyes were bright and their cheeks were red.Zhang Taiping removed the awns from their bodies, put one on his shoulder with one arm, and strode away.After running far away, the two little girls giggled.

"Tiantian also ran away, no one was looking for, Heizi and the others hid until tomorrow morning. Hehe." Yaya stopped laughing and said.

"Then they won't go home for dinner?" This was Tian Tian's voice.

Zhang Taiping also smiled and said: "Don't worry, they will come out and go home by themselves when no one comes looking for them for a while."

After returning home, the meals are ready, and some home-cooked side dishes, rice dumplings are already cooked and put on the table, along with sweet-scented osmanthus cake.Zhang Taiping went to the back and invited the old man out, the family sat around the table, the old man hugged Yaya on his lap, with a rare smile on his face.

There are no zongzi skins, but Zhang Taiping bought them from the town. This is a specific plant with smooth leaves, and the fragrance on them does not affect the taste of zongzi.There are no authentic zongzi leaves, and some people use ordinary leaves instead. Although it is also possible, the steamed zongzi lacks a flavor after all.

There are two kinds of steamed dumplings this time: sweet and salty.The salty ones are minced meat, glutinous rice mixed with minced meat, steamed is also good, this way of eating is only now emerging.But Zhang Taiping still thinks that sweet tastes delicious, so it must be eaten from ancient times to the present.

Yaya peeled a rice dumpling for the old man. The yellowish japonica rice inside is dotted with small beans, raisins, and dates. They are not ordinary winter dates but candied dates. As long as Zhang Taiping dislikes winter dates, they will have a sour taste and make people spit out the dates. , There is no date pit in the bought candied dates and the dates are thick and edible.

The old man took a bite, tasted it and said, "Yes. Is there honey in it?"

Cai Yazhi nodded and said: "There is indeed honey, and there is also the peach butter that Brother Taiping scraped off from the peach tree in March."

The old man nodded and said, "Not bad."

Cai Yazhi immediately smiled brightly, it was not easy to get a compliment from the old man, if he could say it was good, then he really liked it.Cai Yazhi handed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake forward and said, "Grandpa, please try this sweet-scented osmanthus cake again. The sweet-scented osmanthus juice in it is also salted and sealed by Brother Taiping when the osmanthus tree was in bloom."

The old man tasted a piece, but nodded and didn't comment. Cai Yazhi had only done it once before and was inexperienced. Although there was Xing Rushui to help, he still couldn't match the level of Zhang Dashuai's grandma, so the old man just nodded and didn't say anything. .

After the old man tasted it first, everyone started talking and laughing. He is not a big family, so there is no rule of keeping his mouth shut. Isn’t the so-called eating together a reunion and warmth? If you can’t talk and laugh at will, then the so-called It is meaningless to eat at the same table.

Fan Ming doesn't care about ladies or not at the moment, she has been starving for a whole afternoon, like a starving ghost, whether it is sweet-scented osmanthus cake or sweet zongzi, she just stuffs it into her mouth, which is quite like Zhu Bajie. The demeanor of swallowing ginseng fruit, seeing Xing Rushui next to him was angry and funny, but he didn't stop him.

On the contrary, the old man said: "These two things are heavy to eat. Although adding honey can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, if you eat too much, you will also suffer from indigestion."

Fan Ming slowed down after hearing the old man's words. She is still the old man's patient, and she doesn't have to listen to other people's words, but the old man's words must be obeyed.

In this kind of atmosphere, Zhang Taiping will definitely not forget the wine. He poured it out of the gourd and served it in a jar. He hasn't tasted it for a long time. He doesn't know how much the wine has changed in this magical gourd.

Regardless of the size of the person, they first poured a small glass. This wine is brewed from some kind of fruit that Zhang Taiping uses, so it is always a little dark red, but it is very clear. This color is a bit attractive in the white fine porcelain cup. .Shake it a little, and the tangy aroma of the wine will escape. When it is calm, there is no smell at all, which shows that this wine has reached the point where it has returned to its original nature.

The old man picked up the wine glass and looked at it, then sniffed it lightly, then took a sip and closed his eyes slightly to enjoy it.It feels as if the lubricated wine is detonated as soon as it touches the tip of the tongue, and the mellow flavor and aroma suddenly spread out, as if the previously hidden power and bide time only burst out at this moment.The feeling of bursting seems to be the feeling directly in the brain, which makes people feel enlightened.The old man didn't know what it was like to be enlightened, but it didn't prevent him from enjoying the pleasure of lightening his mind at this moment.

The liquid lingered on the tip of the tongue and then flowed down the throat, but actually exploded in the stomach without giving off a spicy feeling.A hot current quickly started from the stomach and flowed through the whole body, making people feel as if the bones of the whole body were lightened.

The old man opened his eyes and drank the rest of the cup. He didn't speak, shook his head and didn't know if it was a compliment or something else. He just poured himself another cup.

Others can only drink like water, but they stop after drinking two or three glasses.As for Cai Yazhi and Fan Ming, they couldn't drink too much at all, their cheeks flushed like peach blossoms after a glass of wine, two of the three little girls simply fell down, and one was drunk and dazed.Zhang Taiping wasn't worried about their performance, because it was one aspect of their alcoholism.On the other hand, it has the effect of clearing the eyes and calming the nerves. After drinking it, you can sleep soundly for a night and feel more energetic tomorrow morning.

Seeing that the old man had a good drink today, Zhang Taiping drank a few glasses with the old man, served a few side dishes as appetizers, and didn't say anything, you took a glass and I didn't have much effort to eat a glass with half a jar.

"The effect of this wine is good." After drinking almost, the old man gave a comment, put down the Yaya in his arms, and went into the back room.

After the meal, Zhang Taiping said to Cai Yazhi: "Give these zongzi and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to Mr. Li and Mr. Tang."

Cai Yazhi nodded and said: "That's exactly what I mean." Seeing Zhang Taiping going to the courtyard to cool off, he said, "You should send it there, my face is too hot, the fairy must be so red gone."

Zhang Taiping saw that it was so red that it was about to bleed, and said, "Okay, I'll send it there, you can go to bed early, and the table will be cleaned up tomorrow morning."

I carried some zongzi and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in a basket and came to Mr. Li's house. Only Mr. Li's wife was washing the dishes in the house, but the two old men were not there.Zhang Taiping asked: "Aren't Uncle Li and Uncle Tang here?"

"Marshal, they went to the village chief's place to have a rest and chatted with someone. What's the matter?" Mr. Li's wife put down the dishes and wiped her hands and asked.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "It's nothing. Tomorrow's Dragon Boat Festival, I steamed some rice dumplings and cakes in the evening. I'll send some over."

She was a little surprised and just wanted to say no, but Zhang Taiping didn't give her a chance, put the basket in his hand, turned around and left.Regardless of the yelling behind him, he said, "Come pick up the basket tomorrow."

Mrs. Li had no choice but to accept the basket, and she couldn't chase it back, because she didn't know what to do.She was also used to living in the city, so she couldn't reflect on such incidents of neighbors giving things away for a while.