The life of a peasant girl reborn

Chapter 329 Send Zongzi (3)
"This Miss Shen is quite special." Second Young Master He Jiale said looking at Shen Xuan's back disappearing in the crowd.

"Well, Ms. Shen has always been very special." Cao Jiajun's words fit the bill.

The three of them here were chatting, found a place to sit down, and waited for their respective sisters. Over there, Shen Xuan had already taken the maidservant and boarded the carriage back home.An hour later, he finally returned to the mansion, just in time to meet Mrs. Zhou and the others making zongzi.

"Grandma, uncle, mother, I'll help you make dumplings together." Shen Xuan said while looking for a place to sit down, ready to make zongzi.

"Why are you back? Didn't you just go out?" Zhou asked casually.

"I'm creating opportunities for my brothers. After the matter is over, of course I'll be back." Shen Xuan blinked at the three of them, and replied mischievously.

"You girl!" Grandma Shen replied with a smile on her face, regarding Shen Xuan's behavior.I am quite satisfied with the help given to my grandson.

Next, the four of them chatted and made zongzi.Shen Xuan saw the unchanging ingredients every year again, feeling a little helpless, and missed the zongzi with various flavors in the previous life.

"Mother, wrap them up first, leave some lotus leaves and bamboo leaves for me, I'll go to the kitchen to get some ingredients." Shen Xuan stood up and said after wrapping two zongzi.

After finishing speaking, regardless of everyone's reaction, he went into the kitchen and ordered the maid to do this and that.

Seeing Shen Xuan's busy figure, Aunt Shen said, "It seems that Xiao Xuan has a new way of eating."

"It's probably a mess again, let her do it." Zhou looked at Shen Xuan and replied humbly.

Half an hour later, Shen Xuan directed the two servant girls to bring out two pots of fillings and one pot of meat stuffing.A pot of salted egg stuffing.

"These can also be wrapped into zongzi?" Grandma Shen looked at Shen Xuan's movements, pointed at the two pots of fillings, and asked suspiciously, she had never seen zongzi made with meat.

"Well, grandma, don't worry, it's delicious." Shen Xuan replied without raising her head, continuing to move her hands.

"If it doesn't taste good, don't cry." Zhou looked at the two pots of stuffing, and picked up the lotus leaf to help Shen Xuan.Packing by hand, worried that the final taste would not be satisfactory, so I asked in advance.

"Don't worry, mother, it's absolutely delicious. Everyone will rush to eat it when it's out of the pot." Shen Xuan replied, full of confidence in her craftsmanship.

Hearing Shen Xuan's assurance, Grandma Shen and Aunt Shen looked at the second pot of stuffing, and started to help without saying anything.Fortunately, there weren't many stuffings in the second pot, so it wouldn't be a pity to throw them away even if they didn't taste good in the end, the two of them thought so.

After working for another quarter of an hour, all the fillings were used up. Shen Xuan made about 40 packets of fillings.Next, put it in the pot and start cooking.There is no need for the master to light the fire, Shen Xuan turned around and went back to the room, ready to have a good sleep, and told the servant girl not to call her for lunch, she was waiting to eat the zongzi.

Shen Xuan slept through lunch, and it was already [-]:[-] noon. At this time, the Shen brothers had already returned to the mansion, and Shen Xuan saw them in the front hall.

Seeing Shen Xuan's figure, Brother Dong jokingly said, "My little sister must have woken up from hunger. The zongzi was just cooked, and my little sister woke up smelling the smell."

"That's right, I got up when I counted the time." Shen Xuan didn't refute, but answered along the way.

Hearing Shen Xuan's answer and seeing Brother Dong's boring expression, Brother Chun and Brother Qiu who were sitting next to him laughed unkindly.

"Where are the grandma and the others? And the little brother?" Shen Xuan looked at the hot rice dumplings that had just been brought up, and asked aloud.

"I've got someone to call them, and I'll come here later. If you're hungry, eat first, be careful not to burn it." Brother Qiu replied, seeing Shen Xuan's greedy gaze at the zongzi, he ordered a sentence.

"It's okay, just wait a bit, it's still too hot anyway." Shen Xuan replied, the steam from the zongzi made her unable to do anything.

Not long after, the Shen family all showed up, sat around and started eating zongzi.The fragrance that filled the room tempted everyone's taste buds.

"Well, it's delicious." Brother Dong took a bite of the zongzi in his hand and commented aloud.The feeling in his mouth was different from previous years, which made him continue to ask, "Hey, why does it feel like meat?"

"Mine are eggs." Shen Shuoxing agreed, looking at the egg yolk on the rice dumpling in his hand, expressing his puzzlement.He took another bite of the zongzi and continued, "But it's quite delicious."

Hearing Dongge and Shen Shuoxing's answers, Zhou and the others, who had been worried all along, were relieved, and then they told about Shen Xuan's addition of two kinds of fillings.See Shen Xuan.Shen Shuoxing and Brother Dong looked satisfied.Delicious expression, which has not been eaten yet.However, the other Shen family members who had already been lured by the aroma expressed their dissatisfaction, quickly finished eating the rice dumplings in their hands, and began to look for the two kinds of rice dumplings with different flavors.

When the Shen family stopped talking, everyone more or less ate the rice dumplings with different flavors.Recalling the fragrance, everyone is satisfied in their hearts.After drinking a cup of tea and rinsing their mouths, the Shen family walked around the yard.Digest digest.

"Mother, what are you doing?" Shen Xuan looked at Zhou's act of flipping through those leftover rice dumplings, expressed her incomprehension, and asked aloud.

"Mother wants to find out how many zongzi are left with meat and eggs." Mrs. Zhou replied, seeing Shen Xuan's still incomprehensible eyes, continued to explain, "Mother wants to send some to He Fu."

"Ah? But this thing is worthless. Besides, the He family has a big business, why haven't you eaten it?" Shen Xuan couldn't turn her head at this time, and spoke out against it.

"You girl, our family's wealth is not as good as He Fu's, but people who want to come to He Fu have never eaten rice dumplings with this taste. Sending some over there can be regarded as a little bit of our heart. Not all of them , is etiquette less important than affection?" Zhou continued to explain.

"Except for what we ate, there isn't much left?" Knowing Zhou's purpose, Shen Xuan agreed to the arrangement, thinking about the number of zongzi, and reminded her aloud.

Hearing Shen Xuan's reminder, the Zhou family was speechless, because what Shen Xuan said was true, there were at most twenty dozen rice dumplings of this flavor left at home.Since it was given to the He Mansion, it had to be given to the Meng Mansion and the Cao Mansion. Adding the General Mansion, these zongzi were not enough for the four families to share.

Seeing Zhou's disappointed expression, she couldn't bear Zhou's worries about Brother Qiu's marriage, Shen Xuan suggested, "How about I make some stuffing and send it to them when it's cooked?"

"Now it's the end of the day. It will take two hours to cook, and it will be dark by the time it's cooked." Zhou expressed her concern.

"Why don't you send a few of the remaining zongzi to each family, let them taste the taste first, and ask them if they like it. If you like it, explain it to them, and we can make it by hand. If you don’t like it, we’ll waste the food by wrapping it up and sending it.” Shen Xuan suggested again after thinking about it.

(End of this chapter)