The kitchen in the countryside is also the stove room, the old house is a bungalow, the stove room is a separate small room, under the stove is placed dry firewood, and there is a lattice for dry leaves.

Now that the gas is installed here, usually Wang Huisu and her family come back to cook, they use gas for convenience, and grandma is still willing to use firewood, and the meals cooked by firewood feel more delicious.

These dry firewood are usually split by my uncle when he is free, and the dry leaves are swept by my grandmother, and there is straw here, which is not farmed at home, and the straw is sent by the neighbors, which is very useful for making a fire.

The biggest difficulty in wrapping zongzi is how to wrap zongzi to look better, if you just want to eat the taste, it is nothing to wrap in a strange shape, but some can't take it.

Wang Huisu has washed three or four catties of glutinous rice with rice loa, Qiqi is helping to wash bamboo leaves, the leaves are bought in the market, today's Dragon Boat Festival, many markets are sold, buy dozens of back, wash with warm water, simple shape of zongzi, basically two or three leaves are enough.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family in the countryside will wrap zongzi.

May 5, over the Dragon Boat Festival. The door is inserted, and the fragrance is full. Race dragon boats and eat fragrant rice dumplings.

This custom has continued for more than 2,000 years, and there are fewer dragon boat racing programs now, but wrapping zongzi is still indispensable.

The recipes of zongzi are different in each place, and the materials are also varied, and even the practices of different families in the same area are different.

Wang Huisu's approach is naturally to learn from Qiqi's grandmother, and there are not many materials to prepare, including glutinous rice, a little red beans, pork belly, salted duck eggs and shrimp.

After the glutinous rice is washed with a little red beans, add salt, dark soy sauce and other seasonings, if the pork belly is to be cut into pieces, simmered in a braised way, and then put the stewed braised pork into it when wrapping the zongzi, so that the boiled zongzi will be more fragrant, and the meat is soft and glutinous, and it melts in the mouth.

After everything was ready, Qiqi sat down with his mother and grandmother on a small low table, ready to start wrapping zongzi.

Three generations in the same house, Sika lying on a chair, watching them wrap rice dumplings with interest, it looked at Qiqi with suspicion from time to time with an excited face, and if Qiqi looked at it, it immediately changed to an encouraging look.

Not...... The seasoning of the ingredients and something, let Wang Huisu prepare, Qiqi only needs to help wrap the zongzi, and it will not affect the taste of the zongzi because Qiqi is not good-looking.

Sika also wants to eat zongzi, and when the time comes, he will pick the zongzi wrapped in his grandmother to eat.

"Have you washed your hands? Wang Huisu said.

"Wash it! Look how white my hands are!" Li Wanqi compared her little hands in front of her.

"Yes, yes, it is whiter than a pig's trotters, and at first glance it is a big lazy pig, where it looks like the hands of working people. "Wang Huisu is angry and funny.

"Sika is the big lazy pig. As he spoke, Li Wanqi stretched out his finger and pointed at Sika, who was lying on the chair.

Sika: "?"

I'm a cat, have you ever seen a pig that meows?

"The thing is like the owner, Sika is a big lazy pig just like you. ”

While everyone was talking, Millie was secretly nibbling on the bamboo leaves in the bamboo basket......

Take a bite, bumper, take another bite, bumper!

It's dry, it's not tasty!

"Millie, you can't eat this, you'll get stuck in your throat and die!"

Li Wanqi intimidated Millie and quickly took it away.

"Millie is like you, glutton, eats everything, I saw it gnawing on Sika's treadmill last time, and the big foolish cat is still watching, but fortunately I found out, otherwise your treadmill would have been gnawed out of a hole by it." ”

Qiqi: "......"

Speaking of this, Sika was a little weak-hearted, so let's keep this pot for Millie.

chatting, my grandmother has already begun to wrap the rice dumplings.

Her hands are thin, not as stable as when she was young, and her movements seem a little trembling, but she still wraps a triangular dumpling cleanly.

Before Li Wanqi started to do it, she picked up the zongzi wrapped by her grandmother and looked at it with admiration.

Triangle dumplings are a very simple way to wrap, one side is a triangle shape, grandma wrapped this triangle is even, it is already quite beautiful.

"It's so beautiful, grandma, you wrap another one, I want to take a closer look!"

"This one is very simple, then you look at it......"

Qiqi looked like a curious baby, and came to her grandmother to see her way of wrapping zongzi.

I saw my grandmother take out three bamboo leaves from the bamboo basket, stack them together, and arrange them from left to right.

"When arranging, don't row this zongzi leaf too open, otherwise when cooking, the glutinous rice will rise, and the rice will leak out of the gap. ”

"Use the head side of the dumpling leaf to wrap it inward into a funnel shape, just like this, it's very simple. ”

Grandma explained carefully, she spoke very slowly, and Li Wanqi listened while taking out three bamboo leaves from the bamboo basket and wrapping them in her way.

Wrapping zongzi has nothing to do with cooking skills, more is the work at hand, a bit like origami, Qiqi origami is still quite powerful, try to roll twice, and a beautiful funnel shape comes out.

Then it is to fill the funnel with ingredients, Qiqi learned from his grandmother's practice, first filled two tablespoons of glutinous rice, then put a piece of braised pork belly, put in an egg yolk, put in a few shrimp, the material is full, and finally cover with some glutinous rice.

"That's it...... Turn the leaves over and cover the bottom of this funnel, and then wrap around like this......"

Qiqi studied very seriously, and it was indeed not difficult, and soon she also wrapped out a triangular meat dumpling, and finally wrapped the bamboo leaves firmly with thin bamboo strips, and a beautiful zongzi was wrapped like this.

Li Wanqi was very proud, looking at the zongzi in her hand, the more she looked at it, the more cute she felt, and she really wanted to eat it in one bite.

"Sika, look, are the dumplings I wrapped looking good?"

"Meow. ”

Sika looked at the zongzi that Qiqi was dangling in front of his eyes, not to mention, it was wrapped in a decent way.

After the success of wrapping zongzi for the first time, Li Wanqi will wrap zongzi much faster, in the small stove room, three women who have a common bloodline, but were born in different generations, have many common topics on this small zongzi.

"Are we only making meat dumplings today?"

"Wait a little longer and make a few more jujube dumplings. ”

The meat dumplings are salty, the jujube dumplings are sweet, and in the Jiangnan area, the jujube dumplings are still very popular.

The method of jujube dumplings is the same as that of meat dumplings, but the material has become a big red jujube, and glutinous rice does not need to be seasoned, when eating, if there is honey, use chopsticks to fork a jujube zongzi, dip some honey to eat, the taste is particularly sweet, wrapped in bamboo leaves, glutinous rice tastes like there is a strong fragrance of bamboo leaves.

"When I was a child, how could there be so many materials for the zongzi, we used to just put a piece of pork belly at most, and we could eat the meat zongzi, not to mention how happy we were. Wang Huisu said with a smile.

"In this way, I look at the current zongzi, there are all kinds of fillings in it, and I also ate fruit zongzi with Yueyue last time, but it doesn't seem to be very delicious. Li Wanqi said while wrapping the zongzi.

Grandma was curious: "Fruit dumplings? What fruit dumplings, I haven't heard of them." ”

"It's pineapple dumplings and grape dumplings. ”

"Pineapple grapes are cooked in rice dumplings, it must have tasted weird. Wang Huisu said with a smile.

"No, pineapple grapes are all raw, I heard the master say, it seems that the glutinous rice is steamed first, then pineapple juice and grape juice are added, and then the pulp is put in when wrapping, not hot, the zongzi are chilled. ”

Grandma also raised her eyes, she sighed: "When I was a child, there was no meat in zongzi, just glutinous rice seasoning and wrapping, which was also delicious." ”

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Sika listened quietly to their chat, lying on the chair at the door of the stove room, it didn't rain on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the sun came out after noon, and the afternoon sun just fell on the door of the stove room, Sika lay on the chair, basking in the long-lost sun.

After Millie was forbidden to eat bamboo leaves, she didn't know where to hide, when the pile of dry leaves in the stove room moved......

Sika watched as Millie spun out of the pile of leaves, and she looked at everyone curiously, and then turned to the pile of leaves.

Sika: "......"

Stupid Millie, have you ever eaten bunny dumplings?

If Qiqi finds Millie dirty, she will definitely be caught and take a bath.

The zongzi were all wrapped in a hurry under the work of the three of them, and they were all wrapped in 30 meat dumplings and 16 jujube dumplings.

There is a large pot in the stove room, which used to be used to boil water for bathing, but now a water heater is used, and this large pot is the most suitable for cooking zongzi.

Wang Huisu was washing the pot, and Li Wanqi helped her grandmother outside to rest, and soon she ran back again.

"I'll light the fire!"

"It's good to use you to light the fire, put on the firewood and let it cook slowly. ”

"Then I'll make firewood!"

Qiqi has a very strong interest in making fire, Wang Huisu added a lot of water to the pot, and then put the forty-six zongzi into the pot together and covered it.

Li Wanqi began to make a fire, there were some straws on the pile of dry leaves, and it was best to use straw to make a fire, she had learned to make a fire, so she tore off a handful of straw and stuffed it into the furnace, picked up a match and scratched the purple skin on the box.

After striking three matches, she lit the stalks.

"Put some dry leaves in it, the charcoal fire will be a little more resistant to burning, and the dry wood will be easier. Wang Huisu didn't leave, and watched Qiqi make a fire from the sidelines.

"I know. ”

Li Wanqi took the tongs and picked up a handful of dried leaves from the pile of leaves, and at this time, a little rabbit jumped out of the pile of leaves, which startled Qiqi and Wang Huisu.

"Ah, Millie, what are you doing in the pile of leaves! dirty! Get out and play!"

"Goo!"

Millie looked at Qiqi's 'surprised' look on her face, and was very happy, she had recently become addicted to playing hide and seek with Sika, and always wanted to hide so that others could find her.

After being found by Qiqi, Millie happily went to rub Sika.

Sika shook off the dust that Millie rubbed over, and used the aura to shake the dust off Millie's body, which really didn't make the cat worry.

Li Wanqi was still trying to make a fire, Wang Huisu was watching her with a funny face, Qiqi was so embarrassed that she didn't light the firewood.

"Have fun, don't waste time, I'll do it. ”

Qiqi had to obediently give up the throne of the fire to Wang Huisu, only to see that she put some dried leaves in the stove, picked the remaining ashes of Qiqi's burning with tongs, and blew lightly, and the fire burned. She took some dried bamboo chips and put them in the stove, and the dried bamboo chips caught fire very quickly, and suddenly the fire became very vigorous. Wait until the end to pick up a large piece of dry firewood and stuff it in, and the more difficult dry firewood will burn easily.

"Oh, you didn't tell me to use bamboo chips to start the fire, otherwise I would definitely be able to burn it!" Li Wanqi said unconvinced.

"The bamboo is right under your feet, and you won't use it yourself. ”

After Wang Huisu finished lighting the fire, he got up and cleaned up the stove.

Qiqi sat down happily on the throne of the fire, and from time to time he stuffed a wooden branch into it, and watched as the branch burned in the fire and finally turned to ashes.

The firelight imprinted on her fair face, which looked a little red, and her eyes reflected the dancing flames, and her eyes were full of excitement.

The zongzi are boiled for three to four hours, during which Wang Huisu also opens the lid and gently turns the zongzi to make it cook more evenly.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the zongzi are out of the pot.

Wang Huisu took a big scoop and fished out all the zongzi and put them on the bamboo weaving to cool.

There was white gas bubbling from the zongzi, Sika's little nose moved, and he could already smell the aroma, but most of the aroma was firmly locked in the zongzi leaves, and now he could smell a very strong bamboo fragrance.

"Can you eat it?" asked Li Wanqi, pointing to the zongzi.

"Be careful of the burn. ”

"It's fine!"

As she spoke, Li Wanqi picked out a meat dumpling, which she wrapped, and she deliberately tied the bamboo rope in a knot that twisted around, just to taste the taste of the dumpling she wrapped.

Qiqi carefully untied the zongzi, scalded it until it changed hands, the zongzi leaves opened, and a rich aroma penetrated from the nose.

"It's so fragrant! It's worthy of the rice dumplings I wrapped in my own hands!"

Before she had even eaten it, she became complacent.

Qiqi puffed out his small mouth and blew and blew, and then he took a bite lightly.

After three hours of stewing, the glutinous rice becomes soft and glutinous, the aroma of the materials inside all penetrate into the glutinous rice, as well as the fresh aroma of bamboo leaves, the large piece of pork belly, the fat meat is about to melt in the glutinous rice, take a bite, fat but not greasy, as well as shrimp, salted duck eggs and a few red beans between the glutinous rice, each ingredient, after this three-hour stew, will give full play to the taste.

"Good...... Delicious!"

The zongzi are still a little hot, but Qiqi can't help but feast, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, eating the zongzi made by himself, this festival is super fulfilling.

"Meow!"

Li Wanqi sat on a small stool eating zongzi, and Sika jumped into her arms, blatantly opening his mouth to gnaw on the zongzi in her hand.

"Oh, it's hot, you can wait a minute. ”

Li Wanqi pulled out a dumpling leaf, took a small bite of zongzi, pork belly, egg yolk, and shrimp, and put it on the dumpling leaf to cool.

That's good!

In the future, if Qiqi can't make money, he can push a cart to sell zongzi.

After eating this zongzi, the zongzi on the bamboo weaving is also much cooler, Qiqi picked it up and ran out to take it to grandma to eat, grandma has a bad mouth, so the soft glutinous zongzi is the most suitable for her to eat.

After coming back, Qiqi ate another one, and after eating two in a row, she felt that she didn't have to eat dinner anymore.

Time flies quickly, after a busy afternoon, and then you are satisfied with eating the zongzi you made, it is already six o'clock in the evening.

When Li Yumin returned from the Air Force, he sneakily put away the empty bucket and washed his hands to eat zongzi.

My uncle also came back, and when he heard that it was a dumpling wrapped in Qiqi, he also praised it.

After dinner, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and after a fulfilling Dragon Boat Festival, Li Wanqi's family also needed to go back to the city.

"You can take these back to Xiao Xin and them to eat. ”

"Don't have so much, Ah Ping also does it at home, just bring a few to try, let Qiqi take it back to eat, she likes to eat zongzi." ”

Wang Huisu and the others were packing up their things and preparing to go back, and Qiqi said goodbye to her grandmother.

"Grandma, you have to pay attention to your body, don't sit outside for too long, you can go to the village for a slow walk. ”

"Okay, Qiqi, let your dad drive slowly, if you want to eat zongzi, come back, grandma will make it for you." ”

"Uh-huh!"

Holding her grandmother's thin hands, Qiqi's heart also felt tight, her grandmother was really old, and when she sat outside today, she was so distressed.

"Mom, let's go back, you have to pay attention to your body, tell my brother if there is anything, I will come back to see you at any time." ”

"What's the matter...... Let's go back, it's too late. ”

"Then let's go. ”

Li Wanqi's family got into the car, and her grandmother was still standing under the dim incandescent lamp in front of the door, she couldn't see Wang Huisu and Qiqi in the car, so she just watched the lights on the car until the car drove out of the village, and the lights were no longer visible......

After a busy day, Li Wanqi was a little sleepy, so she fell asleep in the back seat, Millie also slept in her arms, and Sika, as usual, leaned on the window of the car, looking at the retreating scenery outside.

When I returned to the community, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.

Li Wanqi called Su Qinglime.

"Sister, are you in the community?"

"Ah, I just came back, what's wrong?"

"I went back to my hometown today and wrapped the rice dumplings, they are super delicious, I'll take a few for you and Sister Xiao Nan to taste!"

A total of 46 zongzi were made, in addition to the ones that were eaten, I kept some for my grandmother and gave some to my uncle to bring back, and Qiqi also brought back more than 20 pieces.

When she was in the car, she picked out six meat dumplings and two jujube dumplings in a bag, and when she got out of the car, she carried them over to Su Qingling and Zhang Nan.

The weather is not cold, and the zongzi are still slightly warm, so there is no need to heat them up.

In the living room of Su Lime's house, Su Lime and Zhang Nan each had a meat dumpling, Zhang Nan praised while eating: "The taste is very good! I also bought two zongzi today, so expensive, six yuan a piece, there is a piece of fat meat in it, and it is not delicious, you have thrown it dozens of streets with this taste!"

Su Qinglime also smiled: "I didn't expect you to wrap zongzi in Qiqi." ”

"Hahaha...... It's delicious, wrapping rice dumplings, it's super easy!"

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