Chapter 54 Dragon Boat Festival
That night, Qingxing and Zhang Zao'er stayed, and Li Dajun returned to the village.
At dinner in the evening, because there were two more people, Chunyu made two more dishes, which were just red dates and rice porridge and xiaolongbao, and fried a plate of leek eggs, a plate of shredded pork with green peppers, steamed a basket of fish balls, and stewed a fish head tofu soup.
It's just that I didn't expect Qingxing to praise it when eating, and Zhang Zaoer actually cried, startling Chunyu and Willow Branch. When I asked, I knew that she was thinking about her grandmother and brother, it turned out that she had never eaten such a hearty meal, and I felt sad when I thought that the two of them might be eating thick noodles and drinking wild vegetables and millet porridge at this time. Later, it was the spring rain that coaxed for a while before I cried and began to eat.
Early the next morning, before the Spring Rain and the others had time to go out, Li Dajun came. He really brought a boy about thirteen years old over, it was Zhang Zao'er's brother Zhang Huzi. Chunyu saw that although he was wearing patched clothes, he was very clean, and he was also very energetic, and he looked down and generous. It's just that it looks very thin, maybe it's because the nutrition is not good all year round and can't keep up, just like the previous Chunyu sisters and brothers.
"Dad, let's stay today, I'm going to let you go to Uncle Dongzi's house to do something." Chunyu said, his heart was already accepting Zhang Huzi's brother and sister.
"Okay, I'm also going to take Huzi to your Uncle Dongzi. Your mother said that she would ask Dongzi to help Huzi rent a place to live near our house, after all, you can't live in our house. Li Dajun said to Chunyu.
"......" Chunyu then thought that this was ancient times, and unmarried women in the family could not leave a foreign man to live at home, otherwise they would be gossiped about. She only thought about it at this time, and then she couldn't help but admire her mother, thinking that things were really comprehensive.
Chunyu and the others were just about to go out, so they packed up their things and went out with her father. As soon as I walked to the gate, I saw Guo Lin, who also came out of the courtyard.
"Brother Lin Zi, where are you going? Why haven't you gone to school yet? Chunyu asked hurriedly, she thought she had gone to the school.
"Oh, I'll go in a minute, I'll go to Yahang first." Guo Lin said with a smile that he was very happy to hear that Chunyu finally called him Brother Lin Zi. In the previous paragraph, I always felt very strange when I heard Chunyu call him Uncle Guo and Brother Guo, so I asked Chunyu to chat with Brother Lin Zi, but Chunyu was always embarrassed to call. I didn't expect to change my mouth today, and he was happy.
"What are you doing in the dental shop?" Chunyu asked.
"I just thought that my father and they wouldn't come to live there, and I couldn't live in three or four houses in this yard alone, so I thought I would go to the dental store to register and see if I could rent out one or two reads();." Guo Lin was embarrassed to say that he still thought it would be good to have more money.
"Oh, what a coincidence." Li Dajun heard Guo Lin say this, and hurriedly spoke.
"What's the coincidence?" Guo Lin was puzzled.
"That's the case...... Chunyu said to her family to rent a place for Zhang Hu.
"It's really a coincidence, then just let him live in my house." Guo Lin said with a smile.
"That's okay, I'll give you 300 wen a month." Chunyu said, isn't it better, it's closer to something, and it's more convenient.
"Whatever money you give, just live here." Guo Lin said busily.
"That's not good...... Chunyu was about to say Seeing Guo Lin's expression, he immediately turned his head and said, "That's it, you can eat at my house sooner or later in the future, and it can be regarded as paying for the room." ”
“…… That's fine. Guo Lin had no choice but to say, of course, he was very willing.
The matter was successfully resolved, and Chunyu asked his father to go to Uncle Dongzi to get a few jars of realgar wine, and they were going to start preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Mushroom leaves, glutinous rice, peanuts, red beans, pine nuts, red dates, etc. used to wrap zongzi all need to be bought in advance, and Chunyu also wants to make spiced or pork-stuffed zongzi. Moreover, it is necessary to soak glutinous rice and wash zongzi leaves in advance, so it is necessary to prepare in advance.
This Dragon Boat Festival, she also went to Xiangnuofang and mentioned to Uncle Qin that she could wrap more small and cute zongzi, and the filling should be more. In this way, it can be made into a zongzi gift bag, and a gift bag contains more than a dozen small zongzi with multiple flavors, which will definitely be welcomed. Uncle Qin also thought about it, and put a few kinds of snacks in the store that were not afraid of being spoiled in the summer into gift bags with the same packaging, which happened to be sold together with the zongzi gift bags, and also made those who went to visit relatives and friends during the festival more decent.
As the saying goes, "Qingming willows, Dragon Boat Festival wormwood", in the Dragon Boat Festival, but also on the door to insert wormwood and calamus, and every household is also to sprinkle and sweep the courtyard, there are also some particular will be the calamus and wormwood pomegranate garlic dragon boat flower and so on together, made into a simple straw man or tiger shape, called Ai people Ai Hu. They will also be made into garland ornaments, which are both beautiful and fragrant and used to drive away miasma, so they are very popular with big girls and little daughters-in-law, and they will compete to wear them on that day.
The next day, Chunyu let Li Dajun go home, because the Dragon Boat Festival was only a few days away, she wanted her family to come to the city for the festival. As for the grandmothers in the old courtyard and the fourth uncle and second aunt in the town, Chunyu will also wrap more zongzi before the Dragon Boat Festival, and then go to Xiangnuofang to get some pastries for his father to send over, of course, the silver money will also be sent back. Since Chunyu came to the city, he didn't even have time to go back to Shanpu Village.
When Li Dajun went back, Zhang Huzi also went back, because he was relieved that his grandmother wanted to go back to send some food and clothes. Chunyu paid him one or two pieces of silver in advance, and gave him an extra 500 wen, and asked him to buy more daily food for his grandmother. Chunyu's move made Zhang Huzi's brothers and sisters very moved, although they are all relatives, but they are also far away, it is good for Chunyu to see them like this.
Liu Zhi originally wanted to go back to spend the Dragon Boat Festival, but Li Dajun said that his mother said that Liu Zhi would stay in the city for a few more days to increase his knowledge, which also happened to be in line with Liu Zhi's intentions. She felt that although she was busy here every day, after all, she had also opened up her eyes and saved a lot of money of her own, unlike at home, where she couldn't get a lot of money in her hands except for cooking and feeding pigs every day.
Three days later, Chunyu's family came, and Chunsheng also gave them five or six days off because of the festival. The three younger siblings have not seen Chunyu for half a month, and they miss it very much, and Yang Yuemei also misses Chunyu very much, and as soon as they meet, they talk about Chunyu losing weight or something, so that Chunyu is very helpless, and it can be seen that he is fat and thin for only ten days. But this is also what her mother thinks about her opening a store and is tired of hurting her, so that Chunyu's heart is warm.