The elm money grew up, and the eldest concubine asked Brother Zhiyuan to bring a basket, which was light green and tender, and the shape was round and thin like copper coins. The brother and sister grabbed a handful and stuffed it into their mouths, with a hint of sweetness in the fragrance.

Mom said, "This year's elm money is so tender. ”

Grandma explained: "The cold elm is not old in February, and the elm is old in March. This year's solar term is early, and the elm money is tender. ”

People here call Qingming Festival the cold food, and the cold food in February and March refers to the lunar calendar.

At noon, my grandmother made mixed noodles and elm money nests, soft and delicious, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, the three brothers and sisters compare and eat, it is called a fragrant. Grandma sighed and began to remember the bittersweet thoughts.

When my grandmother was a child, she was young and yellow every year, and Yu Qian'er was the life-saving food for the poor. People use ninety percent of elm money to stir it into mixed noodles, put it in a pot and steam it into elm money rice, which is very smooth to eat and can also coax the belly. Even the dried elm money was swept up, soaked in water to soften it, and then eaten.

Seeing the sadness that Grandma said, Dad explained the medicinal value of elm money in order to ease the old man's heart. Yuqian strengthens the spleen and calms the nerves, clears the heart and lowers fire, relieves cough and dissolves phlegm, clears heat and water, kills insects and reduces swelling. It is mainly used to treat insomnia, loss of appetite, belting, unfavorable urination, edema, pediatric fever, burns, sores and other diseases, so it is said that Yuqian is also a good medicine for disease prevention and health care.

"Yu money is because of its shape is round and thin like a coin, so it is named, and because it is the homonym of 'surplus money', so there is a saying that there is 'surplus money' after eating Yu money" Grandpa's words are always an incisive summary.

You thought to yourself, what you don't know is that in later generations, Yuqian has a variety of ways to eat because of its disease prevention and health care effects, and it is deeply loved by consumers. In the spring, the elm is decorated with bunches of branches, and people will pick them while they are fresh and make a variety of delicious scoops. Rare is expensive, and Yuqian rice is extremely rare, and it has entered various high-end places and become a delicacy with a unique flavor.

February 24 of this year's lunar calendar is the Qingming Festival, and on the 21st, Zhang Ji Daji grandma went to buy goods and brought back a large stack of straw paper (paper made of wheat straw as raw material, mainly used as packaging, also known as wrapping paper). In the afternoon, there were many elderly people who came to buy them, and one person bought two sheets.

Yoyo was strange: "Grandma, why do you buy straw paper?"

"The day after tomorrow is the Cold Food (here the Cold Food and Qingming are combined) Festival, and everyone goes to the grave as fire paper (paper money). ”

It turned out that after the turmoil began, burning paper on the grave was included in the "four olds", and the graves were flattened as the "four olds", and no one dared to make and buy paper money for memorial services. In order to express their grief, people use wrapping straw paper instead of fire paper to go to the grave. Buy a few pieces of wrapping paper, cut them yourself to the size of fire paper, and twist them into paper money with scissors.

On the afternoon of the 23rd, the production team collected all the spinach left in the vegetable garden and distributed it to each family for cold food. The spinach has grown into a large one foot high, and the stalks are the thickness of fingers, but fortunately they are still tender and break when they are broken.

On the morning of the Cold Food Festival, my brother followed Baojing back and hugged a tender willow branch, inserted it on both sides of the door, and twisted a few willow flutes, whining and blowing. Yoyo asked for one, and it took a lot of effort to blow a little sound, and Didi (nong, one sound) had two cheeks bulging, and there was no sound at all, but he tried his brother's willow flute, and he still pestered his brother to not give up.

"The eggs are boiled. As soon as Grandma's words landed, Didi left his brother and ran to the kitchen. Grandma took out six eggs from the pot and put them in cold water to pull them out and give them to the brothers and sisters.

Yoyo quickly peeled one, put it in his mouth and took a bite, it was so delicious, many times more fragrant than the eggs with the smell of feed in later generations.

Yoyo put the egg to Grandma's mouth: "Grandma, you taste it, it's delicious." ”

"Grandma has eaten, you can eat. Grandma said, twisting her head to the side.

"Sister, I'll eat. Didi waited with her mouth open and waited for Yoyo to feed, and did not forget to hand the egg in her hand to her sister.

Hao Hao ran out and gave one to his grandfather, and when he saw that his grandfather didn't want it, he ate one separately with his grandfather. The remaining egg, tore off a small piece of Spring Festival couplet paper on the door, dyed the egg shell red, and put it in the pocket to play with the little friend.

Yoyo gave an idea: "Brother, you will win if you touch their big head with your small head." And experimented with his own and Didi's eggs, and happily his brother jumped up, and his father explained the truth to him.

For breakfast, we eat small rice and scrambled eggs with spinach, and the rice here refers to the thick rice that can stand up with chopsticks.

Grandma only put four eggs in the dish, but it was still very fragrant. This is the first time you have eaten eggs in nearly two months. Although you can eat freely in the space, you don't want to eat alone.

"Grandma, don't sell our eggs, let's keep them for ourselves. "Yoyo gives advice to grandma.

"I'm hungry for eggs. Grandma asked deliberately.

"Yes, I'm hungry. In order to improve the quality of life of the whole family, my sister gave up her reputation.

"Grandma, I'm hungry for eggs. "Didi follows her sister closely in everything.

"Okay, our eggs are kept for our own food, thousands of miles of officials are still for food and clothing, we are busy outside the world is not also for food and clothing, now the conditions are better, let's take care of eating first, the old and the young are important. Grandma generously agreed.

"The plan of the year lies in spring, which is the time when children grow their bodies, so they have to eat better. Grandpa followed and voted yes.

"Mom and Dad, in the future, you two elders and children will add a boiled egg to breakfast, which has high nutritional value. "Daddy's opening is jargon.

"In the future, our family will eat a boiled egg every morning, which is convenient and nutritious. Grandma squeezed her eyes at Youyou, and the two of them finally achieved their goal.

Uncle and grandma came to call Grandma Yoyo to go to the grave, and Yoyo wanted to follow, but was stopped by Grandma, saying that the cold food was Halloween, and the child was weak and afraid of attracting evil things.