Chapter 103: Wrapping zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival

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The next day, Yang Yun and Yang Yong first ground mung beans and red beans into watercress, and then took the two kinds of beans to soak in water. The beans need to be soaked for at least a day before they are shelled and steamed, and then rolled into flour and sugar to form a ball and keep it for later use. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and today we have to make the bean paste ball first, Yang Yun is afraid that she will not have time to make bean paste when she is busy tomorrow.

After Yang Yun finished soaking the beans, she hugged a wooden basin and took the family's clothes to the river to wash. Today, Yang Yun went to the river to wash clothes a little late, there were only two or three people by the river, Zhou Wan and Chun'er went home after washing. Yang Yun found a place to squat down to wash clothes, and before she could wash two clothes, she heard someone calling Yang Yun behind her.

Yang Yun stood up and turned around to see who called her, only to see Thursday Niang twisting her bucket waist towards Yang Yun.

"The girl of the Yang family, are you free tomorrow?" Thursday Niang walked up to Yang Yun and asked about her.

"What's the matter with you, who is free for the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow."

"Hehe, that's the case, didn't my Liangliang beat your Yang Xuan, there is a dragon boat race in the town during the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow, I want to invite your family to see the excitement, and by the way, please go to the restaurant for a meal, it should be for our family Liangliang's matter, and I will apologize to you." Thursday Niang suddenly changed her amiable smile and wanted to invite Yang Yun's family to the town for dinner.

"You yourself have already gone to my house to apologize, and my grandfather also said that the matter will be over, so there is no need to make amends for dinner, everyone is very busy during the Dragon Boat Festival, how can you have time to go to the town to play."

Today, the sun came out of the west, and this Thursday Niang is a very picky person, and she actually took the initiative to invite the people of the Yang family to dinner. Thursday Niang has nothing to do today, and she is either a traitor or a thief. beat Yang Yun to death, and she didn't believe that she would be so kind to invite the people of the Yang family to dinner.

"Don't go, the Dragon Boat Festival is really busy, our family doesn't go to the town to play, if you really want to invite our family to dinner, you can just invite it at home, why do you have to go to the town."

"Hehe, the things in the restaurant in the town are all good things, I'm afraid your family hasn't eaten it yet, I invite your family, but I sincerely want to make amends to you, miss this opportunity, your family may not be able to eat the good things in the town restaurant in the future." Phew! When I had never seen anything in a restaurant in my previous life? Thursday Niang's attitude of inviting people to dinner and wanting to make amends is really high. Anyone who sees it knows that she has no sincerity at all.

"Thank you for your kindness, you also came to make amends, please don't need to eat, we are very busy tomorrow during the Dragon Boat Festival, we don't have time to go to the town to play, you go to see the dragon boat race by yourself." Yang Yun directly rejected Thursday Niang's invitation.

"Phew! You dead girl, it's really shameless, I kindly invited your family to dinner, and you still don't appreciate it. Thursday Niang heard that Yang Yun was unwilling to go to the town to play, so she turned her face directly.

"Thursday Niang, do you ask Zhoujia Village what kind of axiom is that others must go if they invite someone to dinner, and your attitude seems to be sincere in inviting people to dinner. People don't want to go, but you turn your face, it's really a dog can't change eating, no matter how you pretend to be, you're mean. Let's go, I still have to do the laundry, you have to bother me again, I'm in a bad mood, and I'll say things that shouldn't be said if I'm not careful. ”

"You... You..."Thursday Niang was speechless for Yang Yun.

"I'm sorry, don't be ashamed of your face, don't eat and pull down, my mother has saved money, you give me a little care in the future, I know too much and be careful of getting into trouble." Zhou Niang saw that Yang Yun was not moved, so she twisted the bucket waist and left, Yang Yun didn't bother to pay attention to Zhou Niang's scolding, turned around and squatted down again to wash clothes.

How could Yang Yun go to the town during the Dragon Boat Festival, he had to get up early that morning to make zongzi, last night Yang Xuan asked his grandfather when he was eating, and his grandfather said that although the dragon boat race in the town was lively, there were children lost every year, and grandpa had clearly ordered that no one was allowed to go to the town during the Dragon Boat Festival. Last time, Yang Yun didn't listen to her grandfather's words, and ran to the town with Yang Yong to buy wine and come back to soak green plums, which caused Yang Yong to beat her grandfather. Yang Yun told herself to restrain her behavior and no longer disobey her elders.

If you dare to go to the town again this time, it will be as simple as kneeling on the washboard when you come back, and there will be no good thing for Thursday Niang to be so attentive today, and no one will invite Thursday Niang. Yang Yun is not a fool, she knows the secret of Thursday Niang, she has long hated herself to death, how could she be so kind to invite herself to dinner. Maybe it's a Hongmen banquet that will go and never return.

Yang Yun went home after washing her clothes, and told her grandfather about her mother being by the river on Thursday and inviting her family to dinner, and her grandfather told Yang Yun not to pay attention to her. Yang Yun naturally listened to her grandfather.

In the afternoon, the two kinds of beans have been soaked until they are soft and swollen, Yang Yun thought about the bean shells, then took the two kinds of beans separately to the pot and steamed them, and then used a rolling pin to roll out the steamed beans into powder, and the mung bean paste was all made into mung bean cake, and the red bean paste was mixed evenly with sugar, kneaded into a bean paste ball, covered with a clean cloth, and put it in the kitchen cabinet to make zongzi tomorrow morning.

And the mung bean cake Yang Yun sent some to a few acquaintances, this time the fat family also sent a plate to the past, always thank the fat fat to help his relatives, and to help Yang Xuan in the back mountain, such a good child should be rewarded. This time Yang Yun's mung bean cake looked very beautiful, Yang Yun asked Zhou Limin to help her again, carved a few new stencils, this time there were patterns, and there were stencils of the moon and stars, so the mung bean cake printed was very pleasing.

On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, after Yang Yun got up, she soaked the glutinous rice in water first, and the glutinous rice soaked for an hour to wrap zongzi. Yang Yun also took out the colorful peace rope and wormwood sachet prepared earlier and gave them to her family.

"Sister, this peace rope is so beautiful, you are so beautiful." Yang Xuan likes the peace rope given by his sister very much.

"Sister, this sachet is so fragrant, Tianyou likes it very much." Yang Xuan and Kong Tianyou received the peace rope and sachet sent by Yang Yun, and they were happy and jumping around the dinner table, and anyone who watched the two children's sibling dance early in the morning would be in a good mood.

"Come here, my sister will help you put it on, put on this peace rope, Xiaoxuan and Tianyou will grow up safe and healthy." Yang Yun helped the two children put the safety rope on their wrists.

"Grandma, is the safety rope good-looking?"

"And me, Grandma Yang, do you think my safety rope looks good?" Kong Tianyou and Yang Xuan became beautiful in front of their grandmother after putting on the safety rope.

"It's good-looking, both of you look good in it." Hehe! Grandma has always been very loving, even if it is not good-looking, she will praise the child for being good-looking, of course, Yang Yun's peace rope is indeed very beautiful.

The two children went to Dr. Xu's house to study after breakfast, and when they left, Yang Yun also heard the two of them, discussing how to take the safety rope to Xiaobao and Chubby, they must not have such a beautiful safety rope. Yang Yun wanted to laugh when she heard it, these two boys love stinky beauty so much at a young age.

Yang Yun asked Yang Yong to finish breakfast, and then go to Zhou's butcher's house, buy a pig's head and some pork belly, and come back to make braised meat, the pork belly will be wrapped in zongzi at that time, Yang Yong also bought big bones and came back to cook soup, and today is a festival to cook a hearty meal to reward the family.

After Yang Yun cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, she took out the dried shiitake mushrooms and soaked them in water, Yang Yun planned to put bread mushrooms, pork belly, and red bean paste in the zongzi. Yang Yun remembered that the zongzi she ate in her previous life contained buns, shiitake mushrooms, pork belly, red bean paste, and a small quail egg and a shrimp. Some rice dumplings also have salted eggs in them. It's a pity that the materials in Zhoujia Village are limited, Yang Yun chose three materials, of course, there are these materials, and the wrapped zongzi is also very good.

Speaking of salted eggs, Yang Yun remembered that there were many eggs stored at home, and if the eggs were pickled into salted eggs, they could be stored for a long time. After the Dragon Boat Festival, find some ingredients to marinate the eggs into salted eggs. In the town and Zhoujia Village, Yang Yun has not seen anyone selling salted eggs.

After Yang Yong bought the meat back and forth, Yang Yun put on the ingredients five-spice powder, and threw the pig's head meat and pork belly into the pot and marinated them. After an hour, the braised pork has been marinated and flavored, and the glutinous rice is just right. Yang Yun scooped up the pork belly in the pot and drained the marinade, waited for the meat to cool slightly, and asked Yang Yong to cut the pork belly into small pieces of meat with a thickness of five centimeters, put it on a plate, and then remove the soaked shiitake mushrooms and cut them in half.

Yang Yun took out the dumpling leaves that had been dried a few days ago from the kitchen, took them back to the pot and boiled them in boiling water, and began to wrap the zongzi after the dumpling leaves cooled. First, fold two zongzi leaves into one, a half-arc funnel shape, put half a shiitake mushroom, pour a spoonful of glutinous rice, then put a piece of pork belly, then pour a spoonful of glutinous rice, and finally put a small piece of sweet bean paste rolled into a round shape.

Then wrap the zongzi firmly, and finally tie the zongzi tightly with a brown silk, and the zongzi must be tightly wrapped to prevent glutinous rice from leaking out. In addition to Yang Xuan and Kong Tianyou, the other four people in the family stayed at home to make zongzi and bundle zongzi one morning. The first wrapped zongzi is put in the pot and boiled with water, and it takes about an hour to cook it thoroughly.

At noon, Yang Xuan and the others came back to eat, and only then did they cook a pot of zongzi, and at noon, the family had a lunch with zongzi and bone broth and a plate of braised pig's head meat, plus two plates of fried vegetables. The family members expressed their love for the zongzi wrapped this time, Yang Xuan and Kong Tianyou ate two each, and Yang Yunbao's zongzi was of moderate size, not too big and not too small. Grandpa, they all ate three, and Yang Yun ate two herself.

The two little ones were already full after eating two zongzi, and when they wanted to eat the third, they stopped Yang Yun. Glutinous rice is inherently difficult to digest, and children's digestion ability is inherently poor, so how can they eat so many zongzi at once. (To be continued.) )