"Hehe, the leaves of wormwood can also make a lot of food!" The old man said with a smile as they walked towards the mountain,

"It can be a youth league, right??" Zhang Feng remembered a variety show he just watched not long ago, and someone had done it on it.

"Hey, Xiao Feng actually knows?" The old man was very surprised, because there was almost no wormwood to eat locally.

"I also saw it on TV. Zhang Feng said with some embarrassment, if it was before, Zhang Feng really didn't know at all.

"Hehe, yes, wormwood can not only be made into all kinds of Qingtuan, but also can be made into glutinous rice and green glutinous rice with glutinous rice noodles, Qingming fruit...... Wait a minute. The old man nodded with a smile.

"What is Qingming Fruit???Grandpa??

Qingming fruit is a rice noodle soft dim sum made by collecting mugwort in the field, washing, pounding, squeezing, and extracting juice, mixing it with dried water mill glutinous rice flour and rice flour, and then wrapping it into a skin.

Legend has it that one year, during the Qingming Festival, Chen Taiping, the right-hand man of Li Xiucheng, the "loyal king" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was pursued by the Qing soldiers.

Chen Taiping was not caught, and the Qing soldiers did not give up, so they added troops to the village and set up posts, and everyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Chen Taiping.

After returning home, when the farmer was thinking about what to bring for Chen Taiping to eat, he walked out of the door, stepped on a clump of wormwood, slipped and fell, and when he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were dyed with green colors.

He immediately took it to heart, and hurriedly picked some wormwood and went home to wash it, boil it, squeeze the juice, knead it into glutinous rice flour, and make it into rice balls. Then put the green dumplings in the grass and mix with the sentinels at the entrance of the village.

Chen Taiping ate Qingtuan and felt that it was fragrant, glutinous and non-sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing guard post and returned safely to the base camp. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping army to learn to be a youth league to protect themselves against the enemy. The custom of eating Qingtuan spread.

"Isn't Qingming fruit and glutinous rice and green glutinous rice almost the same??" After listening to the story told by his grandfather, Yiyi asked again.

"Hehe, it's pretty much the same, they all use the same materials, but the names and shapes are different. The old man said with a smile.

For his old man, if he wants to be a successful chef, if he doesn't know about the flavors and snacks of various places, how can it be possible.

Therefore, in the past, the old man would take a month or two every year to experience various food gathering places and exchange food experiences with local chefs.

No matter how busy the business is, the old man's communication has never been interrupted, which is why the old man's cooking skills can reach such a high level.

However, since his retirement, the old man has never gone out again, and only occasionally communicates with friends from other places on the phone.

"Old man Liu, Xiaofeng, are you going up the mountain to pick wormwood??" At this moment, Master Ran Shan was holding a large handful of wormwood from not far away, and greeted everyone with a smile.

"Yes, if you go for a walk in the mountains, you should take a walk. The old man said with a smile to the running mountain master.

"Master Runshan, you are also here to pick wormwood?"

"Hehe, isn't tomorrow the Dragon Boat Festival, this thing is indispensable in every household!"

In the countryside, the festive atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival is even stronger, mugwort, calamus, and zongzi should be had, these are almost essential, because this is something that has been handed down by everyone for thousands of years, and it has been the case for generations.

"By the way, I don't know where there is calamus in our village?"

If you want to say who is most familiar with the mountains in the whole village, of course, it must be the master of the mountain, he has been wandering around the mountains all his life, where there are medicinal materials, where there are mountain treasures, all are clear.

"Hehe, I said that you kid is really confused! How can there be calamus in this mountain, aren't there a lot of paddy fields at the entrance of the village?"

Calamus generally grows in swamps and other places with plenty of water, so there is a lot of growth along the Tabang River at the entrance of the village.

It's just that everyone usually doesn't pay much attention to it, so I don't think about it for a while.

After such a reminder from the mountain master, Zhang Feng suddenly realized, and finally had an impression, thinking carefully about the riverside and paddy field at the entrance of the village, there are a lot of them, but he usually doesn't care too much.

"Hee-hee, madman, you often walk by the river, but you don't even know it!" Seeing Zhang Feng so confused, Yiyi said with a smile,

"Hehe, isn't it dark under the light, did I forget it for a while?" Zhang Feng also touched the back of his head embarrassedly.

……

"Hehe, then you're busy, I'll go back first!"

"Okay, run the mountain, you go slowly!"

"Goodbye to the mountain man!!"

Seeing everyone's slow and logical appearance, Ran Shan Ye smiled and shook his head in his heart, as a rural person, Running Mountain Lord is not so leisurely, his temperament is naturally anxious, even if he is casual by nature, as long as he often does farm work, he will also exercise his acute son.

Everyone waved goodbye to the running mountain master, and began to cut wormwood, the wormwood hanging during the Dragon Boat Festival needs to be very long, about one meter or so, so that it needs to be cut from the roots.

"Grandpa, these should be enough, right??" Yiyi secretly counted, and everyone had already cut more than a dozen roots.

"Hehe, okay, these wormwoods are enough, but let's pick some mugwort leaves and go back, and then your grandmother and I will make glutinous rice and green glutinous rice for you!" The old man looked at his granddaughter and Zhang Feng, and said with a smile.

"Hee-hee, thank you grandpa!!" Yiyi hurriedly smiled and said happily, the snacks made by the old man were very delicious.

Zhang Feng is also very happy and curious, he has never eaten food made of wormwood.

Although I have known since I was a child that wormwood has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, some villagers even pick wormwood in summer and drink it as a herb, but they have never eaten it at all.

In the end, the grandparents picked a large bag of wormwood, and then they went home satisfied.

After putting down the wormwood, everyone continued to set off and walked towards the Tabang River at the entrance of the village, because there was still the cattail grass that everyone needed.

"Ah, grandpa, this is the calamus?" came to the riverside, and when Yiyi saw the lush calamus by the river, he suddenly looked familiar.

"Hehe, how is it? Very familiar, right?" the old man asked with a smile.

"yes, it seems like I've seen it somewhere!" Yiyi pursed her mouth, thought about it, and couldn't seem to remember where she had seen it.

"You girl is really, aren't there many green belts in our community?" Grandma Liu glanced at her granddaughter and shook her head with a smile.

"Hee-hee, didn't I forget......"

Yiyi stuck out her tongue with a smile and made a grimace at everyone, which was so cute.

"Huh...... You girl...... grandparents couldn't help but laugh.

Seeing this, Zhang Feng felt a warm current flowing through his heart, and felt that such a day was a kind of happiness.