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Chapter 46 Buckwheat Sour Jelly

Within a few days of planting the melons and vegetables, tender yellow buds will emerge one after another. At this time, it will be almost the Qingming Festival.

The day before Qingming is cold food, and every household bans fireworks and eats cold food. Lily and Wintersweet began to prepare cold food and various things to eat during Qingming as early as the day before the cold food festival: cold food porridge, jelly, green rice...

Lamei whispered to Lily, "Qingsong said, the teacher in the school said that cold food needs to be 'pushed away', sister, how can you push the ring?"

Lily thought for a while, then burst out laughing. Legend has it that the Cold Food Festival is to commemorate "Jie Zitui", a minister who was famous for his loyalty during the Spring and Autumn Period.

She dared not disclose her considerable knowledge, but said: "I heard people say that 'Jingzitui' is a personal name."

Lamei stared wide-eyed: "Who is called such a name?"

She thought the name was really strange, and after reading it over and over for a while, the movements of her hands became slow, and Lily hurriedly urged her: "The rice is about to overflow!"

Lamei hurriedly stirred the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon, and removed two sticks of firewood from the stove to lower the fire so that the green rice wouldn't overflow.

To make Qingjing rice, you must first pound the leaves of the ebony tree to extract the juice, then wash and soak the glutinous rice in it until the glutinous rice turns green.Boil another pot of blackberry sap mixed with water, cook the rice like normal steamed rice until it is half-cooked, take it out and steam it in a steamer until it is fully cooked.

The cooked green rice has both the aroma of rice and the fragrance of blackberry sap. The rice grains are black and dark green, like small grains of jasper.It is chewy when eaten cold. If you crush the rice grains while it is hot, make them into rice cakes and put them in a ventilated and cool place, you can eat them for several days.

In addition to green rice, you can also make cold food porridge.Cook a pot of rice porridge, sprinkle a handful of peach petals when it is off the fire, it is peach blossom porridge.After cooling, Lily added various wild berries to the porridge. The porridge was thickened, and a layer of shiny rice oil formed on the surface. The milky white rice soup was filled with wild berries, which was beautiful and sweet.

Magnolia, Sophora japonica, which have thick petals and strong smell, are washed and dried, battered with flour and eggs, fried twice in the pan, and the fried petals are crispy and beautiful.When eating, you can sprinkle brown sugar, or sprinkle salt and pepper powder.

Green rice and peach blossom porridge are quite common, but fried petals are very rare for Lamei. She looked at it for a long time before she was willing to eat it.Lily sent her to several neighbors and Liu Yi's house to give some, so that she could take the opportunity to communicate with people.

Lamei is ashamed to see people, but the eldest sister sends her to do things, and she has to do it.She walked out the door slowly with her head down, first went to a neighbor's house, stood at the door for a long time and did not dare to call anyone, until someone from the house came out, saw her standing there, and asked her what she was doing, she twisted her hands and whispered: " My eldest sister asked me to deliver some food."

The neighbors took the food, boasted a few words, and distributed some of the green balls they made at home to Lamei. Lamei felt relieved and ran away after taking the green balls.

Several neighbors sent it down, and Lamei was sweating all over, feeling more tired than a day of farm work.But these neighbors all smiled at her, no one beat and scolded her like my mother did, and it was not like what my mother said, everyone despised her for being ugly and useless, and instead gave her gifts in return.

So when she finally had to cross half of the town to go to Liu Yi's house, she dared to walk in front of many people. Those people's eyes fell on her, and her first reaction was no longer to hide, but to lower her head Bite the bullet and move forward.

Xing'er called Lamei "Aunt Lamei". She was still young, and it was the first time she knew that flower petals could be eaten like this. She was so happy that she couldn't bear to put it in her mouth.

Li Caifeng saw what Lamei brought, and laughed: "I just said that Lily is kind, sure enough!"

I asked Lamei how it was made, and promised Little Demon Star to make it for her to eat in the future. Li Caifeng also took some things and put them in Lamei's basket, and asked her to take them back to eat with Lily, and said to Lamei: "Go back and tell your eldest sister Said, send some to Xiaofu and Sanping's home."

Lily is the bride, and Wang Xiaofu and Liu Sanping are younger uncles, so it's not easy to deal with them all the time, and she is hesitating whether to send them or not.Now that Li Caifeng spoke, it's okay, Lily sent Lamei to go again.

This time Lamei was unwilling: "They're all men... I won't go!"

Lily looked at her strangely: "In this world, apart from women, there are men. If you are afraid of men, how can you survive?"

Besides, Wang Xiaofu has been active in various villages all year round, so he may not be at home at the moment. Liu Sanping, Song Haonian and others go out to earn a living, and there are only Liu Lao and his father at home. They just want to arrange something, and there is no place to arrange it. .

Lamei thought, can an invisible man be the same as an ordinary man?

"Hurry up, I still make jelly here!" Lily didn't intend to be spoiled by Lamei, her timidity and introversion did not come from nature, but were forced out by Zhu.

If you naturally love quietness, it's okay if you don't like to see people. People can also praise a few words of chastity, tranquility and gentleness.Ke Lamei's problems will obviously affect her daily life in the future.If you don't say anything else, just say that you don't know how to greet people when you meet them, and you don't like them.

While she is still young, she can change if she can. Country girls don't have the capital to be hypocritical. Lamei doesn't have Lin Daiyu's life, so she has to turn herself into Grandma Liu to live well.

Sorghum, peas, buckwheat, rice, and soybeans can all be used to make jelly. Among them, buckwheat jelly is the simplest. Just as Lily bought buckwheat noodles at Jishang, she decided to make buckwheat jelly.

First knead the dough into a ball and put it in a cloth bag.Let the boiled water cool down, put the noodle bag in and rub it vigorously, and rub out the starch inside like washing clothes.

When Lamei came back from sending the fried petals, she saw that the elder sister was sweating profusely rubbing the starch, so she washed her hands and stepped forward to help.

Lily saw that she looked relaxed, and said with a smile: "No one has eaten you!"

Lamei didn't answer, the families she went to deliver the fried petals were all on good terms with Song Haonian's family, so naturally they wouldn't show her face, which gave her a little confidence in communicating with people.

However, the habit accumulated over the years cannot be changed for a while, as long as there is a chance, she will still shrink back, it just depends on whether Lily will give her a chance to shrink her head.

The dough has to be washed for more than an hour, until there is no more white starch in the cloth pocket, leaving only a mass of gluten with many gaps.Lily put the starch water rubbed aside, and first dug out the gluten and steamed it in a drawer.

The gluten is full of elasticity, and the pores can be soaked with many seasonings. After steaming, it is delicious whether it is eaten cold or fried with salt and pepper powder.Dry it in a ventilated place, and it can be stored for a long time. Throwing a few pieces in every time you cook soup is also considered a delicious meal.

After the washed starch is left quietly for half an hour, the layers are slowly separated, the upper layer of transparent water is skimmed off, and then the bottom starch slurry is stirred evenly, poured into the pot and slowly boiled until it becomes translucent and ready to be released from the pot.

Lily was afraid that the jelly would be burnt, so she deliberately added a lot of water to the pot and boiled it slowly. It would take more time to cook the jelly, but the jelly would be crystal clear without any black impurities.

When the translucent powder leaves the pot to cool, it will solidify and become a translucent solid according to the shape of the tub.Then let it cool completely, then it is ready to eat.

Cut off a piece with a bamboo knife, then divide it into small pieces and put them in a bowl, pour the dipping water made with autumn oil, vinegar, garlic paste, garlic sprouts, green onion, pepper powder, etc., it is sour and fragrant.

After eating a bowl of Lamei, she still wants to eat it, but Lily refuses: "You can't open the fire tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and you will get tired of eating it cold. You can drink a bowl of soup while you can still eat hot food today."

Then he took Lamei's rice bowl and gave her two spoonfuls of gluten soup with ash vegetables. A spoonful of lard was added to the soup, which made the ash vegetables smooth and the soup was very delicious.

When clearing away the dishes after dinner, Lamei asked, "Sister, I have to go to the grave the day after tomorrow."

Lily was taken aback, she was not from this world, and she didn't care much about her ancestors.The eldest girl is a married woman, so she doesn't have to go to the Li family's grave, and Song Haonian lives alone, if it wasn't for Lamei's reminder, she really couldn't remember it.

The thought of dealing with her in-laws gave Lily a headache.She can live her own life happily, but her in-laws' family is more troublesome than her mother's family. Just a little sister-in-law, Song Xiuxiu, is hard for her to deal with. If her mother-in-law is naturally dominant, she dare not imagine the scene .

As far as Lamei has seen these days, her elder sister is smart and capable, and nothing can trouble her. Suddenly seeing the smile on her face disappear, Lamei is also a little panicked: "Sister, what's wrong with you?"

If the eldest sister and mother-in-law fight, she will definitely help the eldest sister, because she is afraid that she will not be able to help, and the eldest sister is not capable of fighting.Qingsong is still young, but the Song family has several sons...

Lily didn't know that Lamei had already started to compare the "combat strength" of the two. She rubbed her forehead and said, "You reminded me right, I have to buy some joss stick paper money to send back tomorrow, otherwise I'm afraid I'll be blamed when I come back during the New Year."

Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law didn't like her in the first place, if her husband hated her no matter how capable she was, it would be difficult for Lily to live a happy life.

Lamei volunteered: "Sister, don't worry, I will take good care of the house!"

Lily got worried, and slowly settled down, seeing Lamei's serious face, she couldn't help but smiled and said, "That's my mother-in-law, what are you afraid of?"

No matter how powerful a person is, he can't control his daughter-in-law's natal sister.

Lamei shrinks her neck. She can live her current life thanks to her eldest sister. If her eldest sister has a bad life, she will not have a good life either.What she was afraid of was that the Song family thought she was free, and forced the eldest sister to send her away. With the identity of her parents-in-law, she would be left there, and the eldest sister would have no way to keep her.

The two sisters have their own concerns, Lily is okay, but Lamei is younger, she can't hold her breath, and turned over several times.Lily couldn't pretend to be asleep anymore, so she patted her on the back: "Don't be afraid, I'll take care of things, and you take good care of my house." Then Lamei slowly fell asleep.

In the yard, the black tiger whimpered from time to time, while Heizi remained silent, barking once or twice to warn it not to bark indiscriminately and disturb people's sleep.

Qingliu Town and the continuous sound of Baishui River sink into a quiet and sweet dreamland.

(End of this chapter)