take a wife to support the family

Chapter 69 Zongzi and Calamus

The glutinous rice and reed leaves used to make zongzi are soaked early. Taiping County is located at the junction of the north and the south. Both sweet and salty zongzi are eaten. Not only must there be red dates and honey to make sweet zongzi, but also lotus seeds, bacon, and salted egg yolk to make salty Zongzi.

Glutinous rice is not easy to digest. Lily deliberately made the dumplings extra small and wrapped them with cotton threads of different colors to distinguish different fillings. White thread was used for white rice dumplings, red thread was used for red date dumplings, black thread was used for meat dumplings, and black and white thread was used for egg yolk dumplings.

Every family cooked zongzi and distributed them to neighbors. Lily went to deliver zongzi. Everyone who saw them said, "Hey, this looks really handsome!"

The neighbor's sister-in-law couldn't help but regret that her bag was too big, not to save raw materials, mainly because two kinds of zongzi were put together, one was only half the size of a palm, and the other was as big as a man's fist, which looked stupid.

Da Nian's appearance is delicate, his mind is clever, and the things he makes are also exquisite, which makes people greedy.

Lily said: "Our family is small, and we want to taste a little of everything. If the bag is too big, we can't finish it. It's a waste of food."

The neighbor's sister-in-law felt relieved, and secretly made up her mind to follow Lily's example and wrap some smaller ones next year, not to mention that she looked handsome herself, and the children in the family were very rare.

After wrapping up the zongzi, it was inevitable to send them to Liu Yi, Song Dagui, Liu Sanping, Wang Xiaofu, etc., and each family also gave gifts in return. In addition to the zongzi, there were also salted duck eggs, realgar wine, wormwood, etc.

Myolie wears colorful threads on her wrists, and the word "king" is painted with realgar on her forehead. She holds a small net bag woven with thread in her hand, and there is a carefully selected salted duck egg in the net bag. She is going to share with her friends Fight duck eggs.

Although Xing'er is young, she has already established herself as the leader among the children in Qingliu Town by virtue of the grasshopper cage and Lily's constant supply of new gadgets. She said arrogantly: "Aunt Lily, you and my mother Talk to me, I'm going out!"

This tone is obviously imitating Liu Yi: "Go talk to your sister-in-law, I'll go find Da Nian."

Xing'er instructed like a little adult, made Lily laugh, and answered her solemnly after laughing: "You go, your mother and I will be at home well."

Duck egg fighting is only done by children, pestering the adults to weave net bags to put salted duck eggs in. When meeting friends, the two will bump into each other with net bags. The one with intact duck eggs is naturally the winner, and the loser The other party will also eat the duck egg with relish, and turn around to pester the adults to give him a salted duck egg, without feeling that he is at a disadvantage.

"Since yesterday, she has been pestering me to weave net bags and pick duck eggs for her. It has annoyed me so much..." Li Caifeng is a well-known agile person. Some etiquette is even more two-faced, and will never be rude.

"Myolie will be promising in the future." Lily said with a smile.The two of them chatted and joked once, and she had to go to another house to give gifts.

The carpenter Liu Sanping’s mother is from the north, and she baked the Dragon Boat Festival buns at home: a circular bun with patterns poked out with chopsticks, and after it was baked, it was threaded with a rope for children to hang around their necks, eating and drinking. Just play, and the day will pass.

Liu Sanping was not married yet, and had no children at home. Aunt Liu shared some with the neighbor's children, and left one for Xing'er, so Lily ran to send the buns to Xing'er.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the official day, and the farm has a day off. Song Haonian hangs calamus and wormwood on the doors and windows of his house, and bury realgar along the walls and corners of the fence to prevent snakes, insects and centipedes from crawling into the house.

Bathing with wormwood can prevent mosquito bites, and can also cure common skin diseases. When the weather gets hot, Lily no longer uses peach blossoms to bathe, but uses wormwood instead. She often carries the slightly bitter fragrance of wormwood on her body.

Burning some dried wormwood on summer nights can also repel mosquitoes. Lily and her husband picked a lot of wormwood early on, and hung it on the door. These are fresh, and the stems are still bright green where the stubble is broken.

The tassels of the calamus are fluffy, like a cat's tail, Lily poked her fingers for a while, and Song Haonian laughed straight at the sight: "I'll get you a cat later?"

"Cats are wild, so it's not easy to raise. Let's talk about it later." Lily likes cats and dogs, but cats in the countryside are not easy to raise. If you are not careful, they will run outside and become wild cats. Prevent it from stealing meat.

The young couple chatted and laughed, and cooked rice dumplings to eat. The white rice dumplings are sweet and soft, and they are delicious when dipped in sugar or honey. The red date dumplings are sweet and blood-enriching, and are most suitable for women and children. It's not considered strong, so I ate an extra one on purpose.

The salty rice dumplings are full of ingredients, making them more attractive. The egg yolk rice dumplings are full of the salty aroma of eggs, mixed with the fragrance of glutinous rice, which makes the mouth water. The lean meat is not greasy or greasy, smooth and fragrant.

It was also the first time for Song Haonian to eat such a small rice dumpling, it felt very fresh and interesting, after eating seven or eight of them at once, Lily said to him quickly: "Eat slowly, don't overeat!"

"It's not enough to eat, I'm not a baby." Song Haonian rubbed his stomach, and said, "I should send some to my parents, and I told you to tell my father-in-law and mother-in-law Send some too, have you sent it yet?"

Parents are not generous people, but after all, they are the parents who gave birth to him and raised him, so they still have to have the filial piety they should have.The father-in-law and the mother-in-law gave birth to a lily, and their hearts should not be chilled.

Song Haonian is a warm-hearted person, and Lily is not a cruel and unfeeling master, if he wants to live peacefully and beautifully in this town, it is necessary to leave favors.

She smiled and said, "Wait for you to tell me? I sent the zongzi and salted duck eggs to my in-laws early in the morning. My parents also asked someone to take them back."

Song Haonian should have taken the initiative to mention such things without waiting for her to ask her, since he didn't mention it, there must be a reason.Song Haonian understood after thinking about it: "What did parents give us back?"

Lily hesitated, and said honestly, "Half a salted duck egg."

What are parents doing!
Song Haonian's original good mood suddenly became depressed, and their Song family was not too poor to afford food. From his grandfather to his father, they had accumulated a lot of money.

However, both parents are picky people, and they are willing to show some dignity to outsiders, but they are extraordinarily stingy at home.Especially for his second son, he is almost like an enemy.

His daughter-in-law sent a basket of zongzi and duck eggs in a good manner, and even if a person who knows how to be polite returns a few zongzi, his face looks good, doesn't he?However, his parents could only return half a salted duck egg. I'm afraid that this half is the rest that Jin Bao didn't eat, so he really didn't know what to say.

Lily saw that his complexion was not good, she wanted to relieve him, and said: "My mother thought I was a loser, and asked Qingsong to send me a basket of wormwood, but Lamei and my father secretly stuffed some eggs in."

The mothers of the two of them are equal, no one is better than the other.But other people are different. Lily's father, brother, and sister are all sensible people, and they know how to love this married girl.

Song Haonian's eldest brother, sister-in-law, brothers and sisters are not fuel-efficient lamps, thank God if they don't make Niu Shi look good to him, he doesn't expect anything else.

When he was young, he was ignorant and asked his mother, "Mother, why don't you love me?"

Niu bulged his eyes and scolded him: "You little bastard! My mother was in pain for three days and three nights when she gave birth to you, so why would she care about you!"

Knowing that his father and mother are partial to each other, Song Haonian felt cold for a while, so he had no choice but to leave it alone and continue to live a good life with his wife.The two of them are of one heart, and the future will never be bad.

He took out two long-lived threads woven with colorful threads from his arms, and said, "Come on, I'll tie them for you."

Lily said with a smile: "Children only wear this, I'm too old."

Song Haonian said: "Don't talk when you are in the department." When his wife just married him, she was just like a baby, but now she has grown up a lot, but he is still willing to coax her like a baby.

Lily stretched out her wrist, which was thin and white. Song Haonian took the multicolored long-lived thread and wrapped it twice around her wrist, and tied a knot. This knot cannot be cut until the first rain falls after the Duanyang Festival. Throw in the rain.

The children of the Li family all inherited Zhu's white skin, no matter how tanned their faces were, their bodies were always as white as semi-solidified suet.

When Song Haonian gets excited, he tends to leave a few marks on her neck and waist. The first time he saw him, he was terrified, afraid that he would hurt his wife. Later, he realized that it was because of the extra white and tender skin.

Lily tied the longevity thread on Song Haonian as in the same way, the two of them looked at each other for a while, and after drinking some realgar wine, both of them blushed and their hearts beat wildly.

A few days later, this long-lived strand made a joke. First, Baihe went to Liu Yi's house to show Xing'er, and Xing'er yelled out, making Li Caifeng laugh.

Song Haonian was working on the farm, and when he was hot, he would roll up his sleeves and show his two strong arms, so that his companions would laugh at him when they saw the colorful ropes tied around his wrists: "You are married, how can you still be a man?" I am a little doll!"

Song Haonian blushed with laughter, but he was not angry, nor did he take off the colorful rope, it was tied by his wife herself, and others have not tied it yet!

Everyone knew that he was a newlywed couple, and they let him go after a laugh. Some people were quite envious, and asked their mother-in-law to weave a long-lived lace when they went home. His mother-in-law also said: "It's for babies, you Don’t you still want to wet the bed!”

This person is not convinced, why can't he wear it in New Year's Eve?
Song Haonian built water canals on the farm, and also learned a lot of farming techniques, and told Lily one by one when he came back.

He took the time to dig a few drainage ditches in his vegetable field. After Duanyang, there were even several white rains (Note 1), because the ditches were dug in advance, so the vegetable fields did not accumulate water and rot.

Now the raspberries in Xiaodonggou are gradually decreasing, unless they can only be picked on the high mountains deeper in Liushan Village by climbing dozens of miles of mountain roads, it is very uneconomical for Lily, and her income is much reduced.

Seeing that the melons and vegetables are growing slowly, and the new season's harvest is just around the corner, Lily becomes more and more happy, looking forward to the future.

(End of this chapter)