Golden Fishing Village

The fishermen's area around Hongyang has had the habit of eating rice dumplings since ancient times.

The locals eating rice dumplings have nothing to do with the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. The main reason is that they are simple and easy to carry. In the autumn when the farmland has a good harvest and at other times they go fishing at sea, rice dumplings are a very suitable food.

Another kind of food is steamed buns, but steamed buns require fillings and oil, and making them delicious requires quite a lot of ingredients. Zongzi is different. Local zongzi don’t have as many flavors as they do now. Most of them are made with steamed glutinous rice and sprinkled inside. Add white sugar and brown sugar to make sweet rice dumplings, and steam them with salt water to make salty rice dumplings. You can eat them after pulling them apart.

As for the rice dumpling leaves, it’s even simpler. The local rice dumpling leaves are not valuable because there are a lot of reeds growing in Ambergris Lake. The surrounding farmers use these reed leaves to make rice dumplings.

After Ao Mudong opened the basket, Ao Muyang looked down at the contents in a daze: "What is this? Brick rice dumplings?"

"Fang Zongzi." Ao Mudong laughed, "Longtou, you really have little experience and are very strange. You have never eaten rice dumplings like this, have you?"

Ao Muyang said: "I am so disappointed with you. I have actually eaten it. This is how rice dumplings are made in Guangdong and Guangxi. I just haven't seen them in Hongyang. Your wife is very knowledgeable and knows how to make square rice dumplings, which are rare in the south." way of packaging.”

Ao Mudong asked: "What does it mean to be knowledgeable and knowledgeable?"

Ao Muyang sighed: "Go back and study more. Your culture is not a good match for your wife."

Ao Mudong said unwillingly: "What? My wife making rice dumplings like this has nothing to do with southerners. This is how it is in her hometown. They are busy working in the farmland from spring to autumn. In order to facilitate the work, they use bamboo leaves, lotus seeds, etc. The rice is wrapped in leaves and cooked and taken to the fields for lunch. These square rice dumplings are large and can be eaten by one person, so it has nothing to do with the Guangzhou rice dumplings you are talking about. "

Ao Muyang suddenly realized that this was the case.

The best leaves for making rice dumplings are bamboo leaves, which have the fragrance of bamboo, but the reed leaves produced in Ambergris Lake are not inferior to bamboo leaves. Bamboo has been on Dalong Mountain since ancient times, and if you want to harvest bamboo leaves, it is also there.

Reed leaves are wider and thicker, which is very suitable for making sweet rice dumplings, because its juice has a light sweetness, which is very fresh and plant-like.

Ao Muyang didn't have much snacks when he was a child. His friends would go to the lake to pick reed sticks and bite the juice inside. At that time, the adults lied to them and said they were small sugar cane. The children really believed it because they really didn't have much sugar cane to eat when they were young.

The rice dumplings sent by Ao Mudong come in several flavors, including the seafood flavor he mentioned.

The Hongyang fishermen have been making seafood rice dumplings for a long time. At first, it was difficult to sell the damaged sea fish, so the fishermen had to keep them for themselves.

They cut off the fish meat and cook it with rice. When eating, one bowl of rice per person is enough, and there is no need for any dishes.

Sometimes they had to work at sea and could not use porcelain bowls to hold rice. Before the reform and opening up, fishermen did not have many plastic bags, so they used reed leaves to wrap them in the shape of rice dumplings. This is the origin of local seafood rice dumplings.

The one Ao Muyang opened was not a seafood rice dumpling, but a pork and mung bean rice dumpling. After opening the rice dumpling leaves, hot steam came out, and the mellow and sweet taste quickly attracted the general and the Lang brothers.

The rice dumplings are plump and juicy. Ao Mudong’s family uses semi-fat and lean pork belly, mixed with fresh peas and mung beans in spring, which looks delicious.

Ao Muyang took a bite and felt the fragrance in his mouth. He nodded and said, "It's delicious."

Ao Mudong said happily: "Then it's decided. Fresh fat pork, fresh peas and mung beans, and fresh rice will definitely be delicious."

Ao Muyang said while chewing: "It's just summer, and the rice has only been planted for more than a month. Where can we get fresh rice?"

Ao Mudong said: "My wife's hometown is here. I'm getting married. Aren't I going to get married? Her family tried to send some things for dowry, including rice, silk, clothes, shoes and hats. It's a lot of mess."

Ao Muyang asked: "If you get married, can your wife's people come over?"

Ao Mudong shook his head and said: "If they can't get through, they won't be able to leave the country. When the time comes, my aunt Jin Huizi will be the woman's representative. Alas, their fucking country."

Listening to what he said, Ao Muyang couldn't help laughing.

Ao Mudong asked inexplicably: "Why are you laughing?"

Ao Muyang asked: "Why do you call your wife Jin Huizi? Should I call you aunt or cousin?"

Ao Mudong pulled his clothes uncomfortably and said, "This, this, this, please name me."

"What will you call your child when you have one?"

"Wo Ri, Longtou, you just eat quietly when you eat. Don't you know that you don't talk when you eat or sleep? Why are you talking so much?" Ao Mudong walked away with his hands behind his back.

The general waggled his tail and licked the rice dumpling leaves on the ground. Lao Ao looked at it pitifully and handed him half a rice dumpling, and the general started eating it happily.

The second wolf took his place and licked the rice dumpling. Lao Ao had to take out a new rice dumpling and give it to him and the big wolf separately. But the second wolf didn't even look at it and continued to lick the rice dumpling leaves. The leaves licked with his rough tongue and made a crackling sound. …

The Dragon Boat Festival is very close. Ao Muyang used to buy rice dumplings to eat, but this year he simply made rice dumplings at home. Because the sea was safe recently and the fisheries were safe, he just stayed at home.

He doesn't make any seafood-filled rice dumplings, which he has eaten in abundance since he was a child.

Song Qiumin gave him some dried prunes and vegetables, so he made rice dumplings with dried prunes and vegetables.

Glutinous rice is needed to make zongzi. When he cooked the glutinous rice, he first put a thin layer of fatty pork against the bottom of the pot. The cooked glutinous rice was shiny and covered with lard.

He added prunes and stewed pork belly pieces, wrapped them in rice dumpling leaves, and the resulting rice dumplings were juicy and fragrant.

After Lu Zhizi came back, she ate the rice dumplings he made and praised them full of praise. She thought they were delicious and wanted to take some to make Dragon Boat Festival gifts for her students, so Ao Muyang had to stay at home and make rice dumplings with all her might.

The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, while he was making rice dumplings, someone shouted at the door: "Boss, are you at home?"

The general and the Lang brothers who were lying next to him watching him make rice dumplings suddenly ran out. Ao Muyang heard the voice of the old twister and shouted: "Come back!"

The general and the Wolf brothers ran back again.

When he walked to the front yard and saw Chen Dongwa standing cautiously outside the door, he waved: "Master Chen, just come in. My dog ​​doesn't bite. What can I do for you?"

Chen Dongwa rubbed her hands and looked at him in embarrassment and said, "I'm not going in. Leader, I want to talk to you about something. I want to see if I can help you."

Ao Muyang asked: "You talk first, don't be in a hurry, come in and have a sip of tea."

Chen Dongwa walked to the door of the living room and looked inside, then looked at her feet covered in sand and crushed seaweed and said, "Forget it, leader, I won't go in, I'll just sit here and walk."