Birthday cakes need to be refrigerated, otherwise the cake will turn into a creamy paste after an hour outside at the current outdoor temperature in Beiping.

Zhang Guanghang made a birthday cake, Wu Minqi finished carving the crane for Jiang Weiming's birthday, and Jiang Feng found a breakthrough point to complete Zhang Guanghang's side task. The three of them have their own gains, and after packing up their things, they will prepare for Taifeng Building.

The highlight of this morning is making zongzi, and there are few group activities to make zongzi in August.

Zongzi is a food in everyone's inherent impression that only the Dragon Boat Festival will be eaten, and everyone eats zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the zongzi disappears after the Dragon Boat Festival.

It was also the first time to make zongzi Jiang Feng in August.

Zhang Guanghang went to drive, Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi were waiting for him at the gate of Fenyuan, and after a while, instead of seeing the familiar Bentley, a silver Maserati appeared.

Jiang Feng: ???

Do you rich and handsome people like the new and hate the old so much? The old love Bentley has only been open for a long time, and it has a new love so soon.

But why does this new love look so dirty, Jiang Feng feels that a lot of dust has fallen on the body.

After getting into the car, Jiang Feng couldn't help but ask for a while, "Why did you change the car?"

"The previous one was sent for maintenance, this one was bought a few years ago, and I don't drive it much. Zhang Guanghang explained, "I haven't opened it for a long time, and the dust has fallen in the garage, and I forgot to wash the car yesterday, so I will go to wash the car first if you help me bring the cake over." ”

"Okay. Jiang Feng responded.

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Even if it is zongzi, there is a distinction between north and south.

As a representative variety of northern zongzi, Beiping zongzi is relatively large, generally quadrangular or triangular. The filling is mostly filled with red date bean paste, and a small part will be filled with preserved fruit.

There are more types of zongzi in the south, and the appearance is also more changeable, and the common ones are diamond-shaped, polygonal, cylindrical and cone-shaped. The types of fillings are also very varied, and in addition to the traditional meat dumplings and bean paste dumplings, the assorted rice dumplings and egg yolk meat dumplings that have emerged over the years are also very popular.

Jiang Feng remembered that when he was still in elementary school, there would often be an old grandmother pushing a small cart at the school gate to sell green leaf dumplings made of pure glutinous rice without any filling. The cone-shaped green leaf dumplings are packed with sticky rice when you peel off the outer layer of the rice dumpling leaves, and they become very delicious when you roll them in a pile of dipping sauce mixed with sugar and sesame seeds with a bamboo skewer.

The sweet glutinous rice is sticky and tight, and there is a hint of the fragrance of dumpling leaves, one dollar. At that time, as long as Jiang Shoucheng, Jiang Zaide and Jiang Ran had rich wallets, and they could eat five or six without stopping in one go.

If Chen Xiuxiu is added, and it coincides with the day of pocket money, the group of them will be able to spread the grandmother's zongzi round.

After Jiang Shoucheng and Jiang Zaide both went to junior high school, the grandmother's zongzi stall was rarely surrounded by a few big fat boys of the Jiang family.

I don't know when the grandmother's zongzi stall disappeared, just like many of the unsightly stalls that Jiang Feng had eaten when he was a child, they appeared quietly and disappeared quietly.

The old grandmother thought that he was the youngest, so he had no pocket money and could only afford a zongzi, so she peeled a small zongzi and gave it to him to eat, which caused him to not eat dinner that day, but Jiang Feng had not eaten Qingye zongzi for nearly 10 years.

"Alas. Jiang Feng sighed.

Just an hour after getting off the train, Jiang Ran, who was originally unkempt and was dragged home by his parents to wash and change clothes, felt like a new life when he heard Jiang Feng actually wrapping zongzi and sighing, and couldn't help but look at him.

"What is the little brother sighing for?" Jiang Zaide asked, holding chopsticks in his right hand and kept poking in the dumpling leaves, in a vain attempt to bury the large piece of meat he had just added with glutinous rice.

"I want to eat green leaf dumplings. Jiang Feng said, "It turns out that the old grandmother at the entrance of our primary school sold the green leaf dumplings." ”

"Qingye zongzi?" Jiang Shoucheng also joined the discussion, "You're talking about white zongzi, the kind that you eat without stuffing and sugar?"

"Yes, it's white zongzi, I feel like I haven't eaten that kind of zongzi for a long time. Jiang Feng said.

"If you want to eat it, you can wrap it yourself without meat, and remember to make a mark when you finish wrapping it, so that I don't eat it by mistake." Jiang Zaide said, continuing to fight with the hand-to-hand in the dumpling leaves.

"Brother De, don't get it, if you can't wrap it in, let's change it to a smaller one." You've been wrapping this zongzi for five or six minutes, when will we finish wrapping it at your speed!" Jiang Ran couldn't stand it.

Jiang Zaide was unwilling to give up the meat in his hand, and struggled to the death, "Who said you can't wrap it in, give me a few more minutes and I'll wrap it in!"

Jiang Ran shook his head helplessly and bundled out an extremely ugly zongzi.

"Your rice dumplings are too ugly, look at me. Jiang Shoucheng picked up a zongzi that he had just wrapped and Jiang Ran's zongzi that was ugly by half a catty and eight taels, and laughed in fifty steps and a hundred steps.

Jiang Feng ignored the two cousins' rookie chickens pecking each other, hesitated for a few seconds between the green leaf dumplings and the meat dumplings, and put a piece of meat into the dumpling leaves very heartily.

Although the green leaf dumplings are his childhood memories, he chooses meat dumplings.

Today, all the raw materials for these zongzi are prepared by Grandma Jiang.

The glutinous rice is soaked overnight in advance, and the meat is also marinated in large pieces of fresh meat, even if it is not wrapped in zongzi and freshly cooked, it is extremely delicious.

Grandma Jiang, as the leader of the Jiang family's zongzi wrapping industry, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the zongzi of 18 members of the Jiang family are made by Grandma Jiang, and it has been like this every year for more than ten years, which is also the reason why several juniors of the Jiang family, including Jiang Feng, are not good at making zongzi.

For a long time, Grandma Jiang has been a benchmark in the Jiang family's zongzi business, and even the old man is ashamed of his opponents, although it is largely because Grandma Jiang does not let the old man make zongzi, Grandma Jiang is very good at solving the enemy from the root.

But today she met an opponent.

Chen Suhua.

Since Professor Li and his wife moved to Beiping, the two of them have lived a leisurely life as retired old people.

Professor Li drinks tea every day, reads the newspaper, plays with his mobile phone, walks and plays chess, occasionally reads papers, and cares about the latest research trends.

Chen Suhua raised chickens, raised pigs and vegetables, cleaned housework and knitted sweaters, treated the Li family's old house as a farm compound, and was addicted to breeding and planting.

Grandma Jiang is very close to the Li family these days, raising chickens, growing vegetables and weaving sweaters with Chen Suhua every day, Chen Suhua also fell in love with listening to Huangmei Opera under the infection of Grandma Jiang, and the two have become elderly sisters.

Sisters, it's used to compete with each other.

As Grandma Jiang and Chen Suhua started a war without gunpowder on the matter of making zongzi, Jiang Feng and the others were gradually deprived of the right to make zongzi, and Jiang Zaide could only give up the impossible to wrap zongzi with hatred and do nothing with everyone.

began to watch Grandma Jiang and Chen Suhua make zongzi.

In fact, the employees of Taifeng Building basically don't know how to wrap zongzi, just to make a fresh, can be wrapped like Jiang Ran is already very good, at least the zongzi are not scattered, as for whether it will be scattered when cooking, they can only do their best to obey the destiny of heaven.

Jiang Feng noticed that Ji Yue had already started talking to Zhang Guanghang, and pretended to show him the comic he had just finished yesterday. The two old men and Professor Li sat at the table of four people drinking tea and chatting, the atmosphere was very pleasant, and the smile on Jiang Weiming's face never disappeared.

Wu Minqi and Ji Xue didn't know where to go, Wang Xiulian and Jiang Feng's eldest aunt, second aunt, fourth aunt and fifth aunt got together, each holding a cucumber in their hands, and had a tea party while gnawing on it, while Jiang Jiankang and several of Jiang Feng's uncles got together to brag.

"Brother Ran, I noticed that you have lost a lot of weight recently. Jiang Feng looked at Jiang Ran carefully, and saw that Jiang Ran's body size was estimated to have lost less than 200 pounds.

"I'm so busy reading all kinds of literature and materials, applying, submitting forms, and writing papers that I'm about to die suddenly, and I don't have time to eat and order takeout every day, can I not lose weight!" Jiang Ran said.

Jiang Feng: ......

How did he think that Jiang Ran's tone just now was not like complaining, but also a little proud.

"A normal diet and the necessary rest are still needed, otherwise you will be as straight as Brother De did last time... I almost fainted. Jiang Shoucheng made a sharp turn and turned his words around, and almost missed his mouth.

Jiang Shoucheng silently moved two steps to the side, they were now too close to Comrade Wang Xiulian's concubine chatting place.

"What happened to Brother De last time?" Jiang Ran asked.

Jiang Feng & Jiang Shoucheng & Jiang Zaide: ......

The three of them silently moved two steps to the side, and Jiang Ran didn't know why, so he also moved two steps with them.

"Brother De, you are the party concerned, you tell Brother Ran yourself. Jiang Feng handed the microphone to Jiang Zaide.

Jiang Zaide: ......

"Last time, last time it was because alas, the current customers, you know, are more difficult to do. There are many requirements for this high price, and I kept revising the draft last time, causing me to stay up late and stay up late every day. Then this mental state was not very good, I always felt a little dizzy, and then I went to the hospital for examination. The doctor told me that it was fortunate that I came in time, otherwise if I stayed up all night like this, I might have fallen to the ground and died suddenly, don't you see I'm on vacation now?" Jiang Zaide began to make up the story, "Shou Cheng knows about this, he met me in the hospital." ”

"Yes, yes, Brother De had a little low blood sugar some time ago. Jiang Shoucheng nodded in agreement.

"Brother Cheng, aren't you in the emergency room?" Jiang Ran said that although he didn't like it, he also swiped the circle of friends.

Jiang Shoucheng: ......

"Didn't I just recently go to the emergency room? I wasn't in the emergency department some time ago. Jiang Shoucheng said.

"Didn't you go to thoracic surgery some time ago?" Jiang Ran said that his memory was actually quite good.

Jiang Shoucheng: ......

"We happened to run into each other, and I went to the clinic to deliver something. ”

Jiang Ran wanted to continue asking, but was interrupted by Sang Ming, who came out of nowhere.

"Everyone, do you want to play mahjong?" Sang Ming had a mysterious smile on his face, and that smile made Jiang Feng feel that he was not here to ask if he wanted to play mahjong, but to ask, "Brother, do you want a piece?"

"Where did the mahjong come from in Taifeng Building?" Jiang Feng said that not to mention Taifeng Building, even their family does not have mahjong.

On the contrary, there is a pair of Li Zhai, and occasionally Grandma Jiang and Chen Suhua will rub hemp together with the old ladies in the surrounding courtyard houses for entertainment.

Grandma Jiang has been playing mahjong in Beiping recently.

"I brought two mahjong pairs with me when I came today, just because I was worried that we would have nothing to do by then. Look, isn't this going to come in handy?" Sang Ming looked proud, "I, Zhang Weiyu and Qi Roushu are missing one of the three mahjong in Shudi, so you can't come?"

"Come!"

"By the way, do you know how to play mahjong in Shudi, do you need me to tell you the rules?" asked Sang Ming.

"No need, I've played Shudi mahjong. Jiang Feng said, it's time for you to see the real mahjong skills.

When I was a freshman, the classmates in other classes were playing Glory of Kings and meeting in the King's Canyon every day. Only the classmates in their class were addicted to Shudi mahjong in QQ mahjong, and they met in room No. 1 every day.

It's not for nothing that he has watched Grandma Jiang play mahjong all these years!