farmer's wife

Chapter 48

"Delicious!" Xiao Jian stared at the sweet egg cake with bright eyes, and finished eating a small one in three strokes.

Licking the bread crumbs on the corner of his mouth, he looked at the big plate in Fu Yan's hand again.

The small cakes stacked on the plate are like a pagoda exuding seductive charm, making him want to bury his head in it and eat it.

This is the first successful test of chicken cakes, not many, less than ten in total.

Fu Yan picked out another five or six chicken cakes, took another bowl and plate to serve to Xiao Jian.

"Handle carefully, this is your snack for today."

Snacks should be eaten in moderation.

Xiao Jian carefully carried the plate, and placed the egg cake beside the calligraphy practice table.

He was also happy just smelling the vaguely scented food aroma.

Practice a big character, and eat another reluctantly.

Five or six chicken cakes were actually eaten by Xiao Jian for two days with care. Fortunately, the food can be stored without spoiling.

After seeing off the happy Xiao Jian, Fu Yan picked up a chicken cake and stuffed it into Xiao Lie's mouth.

"Brother Alie, try it too, and see if my craft can open a shop?"

"It's delicious, and it tastes different from the pastries I've eaten before."

Fu Yan: "I also have other snacks, I will make them one by one for you to try in the future!"

"it is good."

With the support and affirmation of the two brothers Xiao Lie and Xiao Jian, Fu Yan's confidence doubled.

She went back to the front yard and continued her embroidery work, thinking about the dim sum recipes in her mind.

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When Aunt Zhang greeted Fu Yan early in the morning, Fu Yan had already woken up and was embroidering in the house.

From morning to night, she rushed to the embroidery work, and she had already completed nearly half of it.At this speed, it is estimated that the work can be completed ahead of schedule.

"Aunt Zhang, sister-in-law, wait a moment, I'll change clothes and come."

Fu Yan put down the embroidered cloth, quickly changed her clothes, and went out with the prepared basket.

When the group of them reached the river, there were already daughters-in-law and aunts beating leaves in the reeds.

"Aunt Zhang, did you bring your daughters-in-law here this year?"

"Yes. This is Ariel's new wife, Fu Yan."

Aunt Zhang introduced Fu Yan to everyone and took her to get acquainted with the women in the village.

Fu Yan greeted them one by one.

Because the leaves in some places were gone or were occupied now, Aunt Zhang took them to the east where there was no one.

"Let's stay here, everyone spread out, and we'll go back when the sun gets bigger."

Aunt Zhang turned around and told Fu Yan, who was hitting zong leaves for the first time: "A Yan, remember not to walk into the river, just pick the leaves on the bank, and forget it if you can't reach it."

Fu Yan nodded: "Auntie, don't worry. I will write it down."

They spread out to occupy a piece of land, Fu Yan took out the prepared veil and wrapped it around her face and head, only her eyes were exposed.Wearing a pair of homemade coarse cloth gloves.

Now that Fu Yan is here, she is not twitchy. Although she is not afraid of bugs, she can wrap up tightly to avoid being bitten by bugs, so she doesn't care about her image.

Fully armed, Fu Yan went down the river bank with a basket on her shoulders.

Fu Yan carefully selected emerald green and intact leaves with the same width and size, grabbed the reed pole with one hand, and beat the leaves with the other.Wait for five or six pieces to accumulate in the palm of your hand, and then place them in the basket on your arm.

At the beginning, the muddy ground under my feet was not yet soaked by the river water, but the ground became muddy as I walked down, and my feet sank after standing for a while, making it difficult to walk.

Fu Yan focused on the action at hand, accidentally walked too deep and almost fell down.She let out a small exclamation, and grabbed the reed in her hand to stabilize her figure.

"A Yan? What's the matter?" Wang Shu, who was closest to her, heard Fu Yan's exclamation, looked up and asked in a distant voice.

Fu Yan took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and replied, "Sister-in-law, I'm fine."

"It's fine, the ground is wet here, take your time."

Learning from her experience, Fu Yan paid attention to her feet.

After repeated picking in this way, when the sun came up, the baskets in everyone's hands gradually became full, so they returned to the shore one after another.

Fu Yan took off her veil and gloves, and handed the basket to Aunt Zhang, asking her to take a look.

Aunt Zhang flipped through the zong leaves that Fu Yan picked: "Yes, these are enough. Let's go back then."

Everyone walked back while talking.

Back in the yard, Fu Yan found a large wooden basin, poured the leaves in the basket into it, rubbed and washed them first, then poured them into boiling water for a while to sterilize, took them out and soaked them in the cold water of the wooden basin again.

When making lunch at noon, Fu Yan also prepared the ingredients for making zongzi.

The fillings of the rice dumplings here are either nothing, or some peanuts grown in their own fields. If you have money and wealth, you can also weigh some candied dates, meat and the like.

The Xiao family are not picky eaters, they can eat both salty and sweet food.

Fu Yan prepared candied dates, pickled pork belly and common peanuts.

After eating, both Xiao Lie and Xiao Jian ran to the courtyard to help Fu Yan make rice dumplings.

"Look at it, first take two or three leaves and overlap them, and then roll them inwards into a funnel shape."

Fu Yan taught the two brothers how to shape the leaves first.

"Okay, then scoop up glutinous rice and pour it in. Hey! Don't have too much, just more than half of it."

Seeing that Xiao Jian filled the leaf tube all at once, Fu Yan stopped him and asked him to pour the rice back.

"Take two or three candied dates or pieces of meat and put them in. Five or six peanuts should be put in. Finally, scoop out the rice and cover it. Cover it with the remaining leaves, roll it up, and tie it up again. That's it."

The three of them showed off the zongzi they made. Fu Yan's was a delicate and small triangle; Xiao Lie's was filled with too much rice, which deformed the zongzi;

"It's okay, it's okay, Ah Jian just practice again." Seeing the child holding the damaged zongzi helplessly, Fu Yan hurriedly comforted him.

Being small and weak, Fu Yan didn't expect Xiao Jian to make a few rice dumplings, so he just invited him to participate in this family activity.

"Yeah, Ah Jian is coming again!" Xiao Jian was not discouraged, and tried again after tearing apart the zongzi.

After wrapping a few, Xiao Lie gradually mastered the technique, and his speed slowly increased.

After making a few of the three kinds of zongzi, Fu Yan took them to the kitchen to cook and taste the taste.

After the zongzi is cooked, when the zongzi leaves are peeled off, the fragrance of grass and trees mixed with glutinous rice wafts out.

Candied date dumplings can also smell a sweet smell.

The smell of meat dumplings is even more overbearing, and the smell of meat seems to have a hook, hooking the mouth and tongue.The marinated meat is soaked in white and soft glutinous rice, and when you break it apart, you can still see the distinct texture of the meat.

Take a bite and die!

It's no worse than Fu Yan's braised pork!

"Sister-in-law! Let's eat zongzi tonight!" Xiao Jian couldn't get enough of it after eating.

"Hahaha, okay, I'll serve you some sugar water."

After tasting the taste, Xiao Lie and Xiao Jian's enthusiasm for making rice dumplings is even higher, they are all delicious!

Xiao Lie: "Ah Yan, how many rice dumplings do we want to make?"

(End of this chapter)