Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 301 Dumplings
The news that Wang Yaozhen was bestowed to marry Yue Palace quickly spread, and Wen Guogong's Mansion also knew about it. Mrs. Zheng said to Mrs. Zheng with a smile: "That child Yaozhen is also a lucky one after all!"

Mrs. Zheng nodded in agreement, but her mouth was only busy responding to the babbling of the little grandson in her arms.

Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief when she heard about this, and said to Zheng Jingyan: "Although I don't agree with the royal family giving marriages to people every now and then, and I don't ask people if they are willing, but anyway, the queen's move is profound. It suits me, I remember her love - don't worry about sister Yaozhen coming to pester my husband all the time!"

Zheng Jingyan was flipping through a book, and replied casually: "Sometimes, before giving a marriage, you will ask the relevant people. Maybe Yaozhen is willing to marry into the Yue Palace!"

"How do you know? Didn't Yaozhen just want to marry you all this time? Why is she willing to be the side concubine of King Yue?"

"This... It's better not to talk about other people's private affairs?"

"Say it, my dear husband!"

It has just entered May, and the weather is a bit stuffy. Zheng Jingyan and Yiqing moved the concubine Xiang's bamboo couch to enjoy the shade under the grape trellis in the courtyard. Yiqing coaxed Zheng Jingyan to talk, and threw herself into her arms, blowing like orchids in her ears. , Zheng Jingyan dropped the book in his hand, put his arms around the man and asked for a long and passionate kiss, and then told her about the incident between Wang Yaozhen and the King of Yue.

Yiqing pointed at Zheng Jingyan in surprise, and said sourly: "You know this! But you are still willing to make a private decision with her for life and take care of her for several years. How much do you have to love her?"

Zheng Jingyan grabbed her hand and said, "I didn't know before, it was the convicted Mrs. Linyang Hou who told me later."

"You repeatedly refused to accept Wang Yaozhen, is it because she concealed her love history with Yue Wang from you, and you can't forgive her?"

Zheng Jingyan smiled earnestly: "Don't guess, from the time I recognized you, I put all my heart and soul into you! I also explained to her at the time that since I have no fate, she can find someone else if I get married. People! Whether she has that matter or not, it has nothing to do with me! However, if I knew that she had a relationship with the King of Yue at the beginning, maybe we would not have that agreement, but I will always help her and take care of her , this has nothing to do with love, but...she is the daughter of Wang Yaozu, the Qin Palace was supposed to support and buy property for her, and her expenses are all with money from the small treasury!"

The words were explained very clearly, Yiqing listened to An Xin, but pretended to be unwilling to hum, Zheng Jingyan flirted with her amusedly, and then used his most common and effective method recently, to see if there was no one around, Swipe and pull open the blouse, grab her hand and put it against her chest and say, "Come and touch your favorite short ribs—it's growing meat again!"

Sure enough, Yiqing burst out into a smile, looking at that bright and sweet smile, Zheng Jingyan felt that the world was a little brighter, he leaned over and took Yiqing into his arms, closed his eyes and sighed contentedly:

"What is eternal, what is eternal? I just hope that you and I can be like this in our lifetime, staying together safely, inseparable!"

After hearing this, Yiqing didn't answer, but hugged his thin waist tightly.

Another two days passed, and the next day was the Dragon Boat Festival. Like Jiangnan, there is a custom of eating zongzi in Beijing. As early as in the weekdays, Yiqing reminded the kitchen mother Zhang to collect the ingredients needed for making zongzi. Take care of soaking and washing, spend half a day to wrap the rice dumplings, put them in a pot at night to boil on high heat, and then simmer slowly, and you will have hot and fragrant rice dumplings early tomorrow morning.

Yiqing didn't know how to make zongzi in her previous life, but she ate a lot of zongzi with delicious fillings and exquisite styles. After coming to this dynasty, her mother was sick and living in poverty, so she had to do many things by herself. The two sisters prepared things for the New Year, and Yiqing was able to make delicate and cute rice dumplings with delicious fillings when she was ten years old.

Last year, I was in no mood to do this because I was sick because of pregnancy. This year, I will make a batch of zongzi with my heart. People in the south of the Yangtze River celebrate the festival mostly for the joy of the children in the family. Food to satisfy their hunger.

Yiqing thinks of Bao'er, and her heart softens. She is already a mother. Even if the child doesn't know how to eat, she still has to prepare delicious seasonal food. Let him have a look and smell, so that the joy of the festival The atmosphere accompanies the baby to grow up.

The main ingredient is precious Lingnan glutinous rice, which is white and round with pearls. A large pot is placed under the corridor, and beside it are more than a dozen large porcelain pots filled with stuffing, such as red dates, peanuts, lotus rice, Chestnuts, mung beans, red beans, soy sauce, ham, salted egg yolk, pork belly, shiitake mushrooms, shrimps, etc. The leaves of rice dumplings and the thin straw cores were all scalded by Yiqing from Xiafu. With a faint fragrance, Yiqing, Zhang's mother in the small kitchen and a few girls washed their hands, sat around in the open and bright place under the porch and made rice dumplings. Except for Zhang's mother who was also handy, she wrapped rice dumplings as quickly as Yiqing. The clever girl seemed clumsy at this time, she had broken the bag several times before she could be considered a teacher, but she could only barely make it into a good bag, without missing the rice grains or the stuffing.

With a sense of accomplishment, Yiqing lined up the delicate and lovely zongzi she made, and formed a string after making twelve. Seeing Huayu's crooked zongzi, she laughed first. Consolingly: "Practice makes perfect, it will look better if you wrap it a few times."

Then he hit again: "Isn't this too ugly? When I wrapped it for the first time, I didn't wrap it like you!"

Huayu couldn't laugh or cry, so she could only stare at Yiqing's hand and study harder, so she must make a beautiful one.

When Zheng Jingyan returned to Yuhui Courtyard, Yiqing and the others had finished wrapping the zongzi and were cleaning them up. Seeing the radishes and green zongzi, Zheng Jingyan was surprised: "Is this how uncooked zongzi are? many?"

Yiqing smiled and said, "Our rice dumplings have special fillings. I can assure you that there is no other restaurant in the capital that can make such delicious rice dumplings! I made more because I want to give some to relatives and friends besides our own family. How many do you want to give, my husband can see who you need to give to, how many there are."

Zheng Jingyan hurriedly asked, "Is it really delicious? What kind of fillings and flavors are there?"

Yiqing pinched her fingers and said, "Red dates and lotus seed dumplings are sweet and soft; mushrooms, shrimp and pork dumplings are sweet and fragrant... Chestnut and ham dumplings are fragrant and soft, neither sweet nor greasy, salty and fresh..."

"Okay!" Zheng Jingyan said with a smile: "These zongzi, except for the one stuffed with pork, other red dates and lotus seeds, chestnut ham, red beans, etc., pack two of each, and I will send them to the palace early tomorrow morning for the emperor and empress to taste! I saw the queen today, she said she wanted to eat zongzi, but she was too tired to eat it, she should be able to eat some of our zongzi, right?"

Yiqing nodded and said: "You can try the one with vegetarian filling, or I'll make some cold rice dumplings for her, that's real halal food, hot or cold as you like, add some soy sauce or powdered sugar, it's very suitable for light taste people."

"You want to pack it yourself? Doesn't it make you suffer?"

Cuixiang said: "My lord, most of these rice dumplings are made by the young lady!"

Zheng Jingyan looked at Yiqing: "I know you are capable, there is nothing you can't do, and you don't have to do everything yourself, if you are exhausted, I will punish those around you!"

Yiqing just washed her hands, flicked the water drops on her hands, and said with a smile: "making zongzi is fun, why are you tired? Don't worry, husband, you go to change clothes first, and I'll make some for your cousin right now." Cold rice dumplings—the food made for her, you really have to do it yourself, watch it from beginning to end, you can't be sloppy at all!"

Zheng Jingyan looked at the baskets of zongzi carried away by the maidservants, and hesitated: "I didn't know you just made so many zongzi, otherwise, you should go and rest. If you don't make any more, I didn't make a promise!"

Yiqing said softly: "It's okay, Ah Yan, I'll be ready soon. The empress is upset and not feeling well. You are her cousin, so you should have cared more."

Zheng Jingyan stretched out his hand to lick the hair on the temples beside her ears, and said, "Then, let's pack three or four, and she won't be able to eat a lot."

Yiqing nodded, and asked again: "Ayan, I also prepared some zongzi for the Xu family. Of course, I asked you whether I would send them. In the past, the Xu and Zheng families had no contact, but after Bao'er was born, Although no one from the Xu family came over, they gave Bao'er two gifts one after another, both of which were extremely heavy, I think it's a bit impolite for us not to go since he's here, don't you think?"

Zheng Jingyan looked at Yiqing with a smile and said, "If it was a zongzi made by an ordinary person, I wouldn't dare to give it away. The Xu family is a century-old family and a noble family. I heard that their family is famous for their food. I eat it." The dim sum made by Guo Xu’s family is almost the same as that of the imperial dining room in the palace! But my daughter-in-law of Zheng’s family is a self-proclaimed gourmet, and her craftsmanship is also good, I believe you! Then the first gift we gave to my grandparents’ family was Dragon Boat Festival dumplings !"

Yiqing smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you down, our rice dumplings are absolutely popular!"

Seeing that Zheng Jingyan's summer shirt was soaked in sweat, Yiqing urged him to take a bath and change clothes, and asked Cuixiang to boil a pot of mountain spring water for the Duke, while she went to make cold rice dumplings, while measuring rice and soaking brown leaves. While thinking about the grievances between the Xu family and the Zheng family for so many years, in fact, the matter has long been in the past, but the two families have never been in touch, then Mrs. Xu is really as stubborn as an old cow.

On the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Mrs. Zheng sent a message the night before: Some of the freshly baked zongzi should be picked and sent to the ancestral hall for offering, and then they can be distributed and eaten.So when the weather was twilight and the sun was clear, she asked Mama Zhang to cook rice dumplings, put three strings of steaming rice dumplings into a food box, and send them to the ancestral hall. After it was burned, a new one was added, and then I walked back.

Yiqing picked out a few strings of zongzi and asked Mama Chi to send them to Anhetang and Qingxinyuan, and put away the gifted zongzi separately, and let Huayu and Mama Zhang distribute the rest, and Yuhui was the first to be assigned. In the courtyard and Hanjin courtyard, everyone couldn't wait to peel off the palm leaves and take a bite while it was hot. It was really delicious, sweet and unusually delicious. The girls and servants ate with smiles and were very happy.

Zheng Jingyan also ate two of them and was full of praise. Yiqing bit the warm rice dumplings and squinted her eyes with a smile.

(End of this chapter)