In the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Yan was woken up by Xu Suzhen early in the morning.

Half-asleep and half-awake, she put bitter gourd cream on herself, and applied a thin layer of lipstick, Xu Suzhen had already helped her pull a Suiyun bun. A silver hairpin is inserted on it, forming a pair of butterflies fluttering among the flowers, and the slender antennae are inlaid with four very small coral beads, which tremble and tremble with the action, which is really endearing.

Zhu Yan looked at the figure in the mirror, and didn't feel distracted, it turned out that there was such a big gap when she dressed up well.

When I arrived in the courtyard, the flowers and trees became more and more luxuriant, and a tall red crape myrtle tree bloomed colorfully.

"I'll hire a car on the side of the road, you can wait." Xu Silk Zhen said and walked out of the yard quickly. Today's Dragon Boat Festival, there are many people visiting relatives and friends, who doesn't want to hire a car to decorate the façade, if it's late, he and Zhu Yan have to walk to Xu's house.

Zhu Yan turned around and looked at the corridor, it was rainy during the Qingming Dynasty before, and the gray-white mottled chalk peeled off several pieces, and it didn't look desolate. However, Xu Suzhen hung a few bunches of calamus and wormwood on the door frame, adding some festive atmosphere to the dreary old house.

There was a faint smell of rice in the stove room, and Zhu Yan slowly paced into it—it wasn't that she wanted to learn from those young ladies who twisted Nini's posture, wearing such delicate clothes, she was afraid that she would break up her hair bun with a move, wouldn't it be a great foreign appearance?

The round lid of the pot is lined with a thick linen cloth, and white steam is billowing out from the edges, steaming the stove like a fairyland.

Zhu Yan squinted slightly, reached out to open a pot lid, and a fragrance of reeds and the soft fragrance of glutinous rice rushed together. From time to time, in the hot water with a few large bubbles, there are a few large emerald green rice dumplings, which are not yet fully ripe.

Straw rope, triangular rice dumplings, childhood memories of her previous life woke up like a dormant little snake, and quickly gnawed on her heart. His heart shrank slightly, and he subconsciously put down the lid of the pot.

In the past, only grandma would make such delicate triangular zongzi, she liked to wrap white rice zongzi, and after cooking, it was full of white sugar dipped in a bowl of sugar, which was the most delicious kind of zongzi in her memory. It's just that later, when she studied abroad, she rarely went back to the distant countryside, and she never ate that kind of zongzi again.

There were drops of water sliding down his cheeks, and Zhu Yan subconsciously wiped them, but he didn't know whether the hot steam condensed on his face, or tears flowed down.

"Sister Yanzi......" A childish voice came from the courtyard, Zhu Yan came back to his senses and walked out of the stove room quickly.

A group of children are huddled in the courtyard, some are teasing Wang Ximing's dog, some are happily shaking the crape myrtle tree, and some children leaned over to pick hydrangeas full of aprons......

But when they saw Zhu Yan coming out of the steaming stove room, the children all stopped their movements and looked at her with wide eyes.

“…… Sister Swallow must be a fairy in the sky, right?! As soon as the child with the hydrangea loosened his hand, the colorful flowers fell all over the ground, as if the paint had been accidentally knocked over and stuck to the ground.

Zhu Yan was also stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and subconsciously touched his face. Fortunately, Xu Suzhen said that her skin is white and smooth, and she doesn't need to put on other rouge gouaches, as long as she applies bitter gourd cream to take good care of it.

The child Zhu Yan has seen several times, his nickname is Mingzi, and he is the leader of these naughty children in Liumeng Village. He was the one who told Mrs. Sùbian about Zhu Yan's assertion about skinlessness before.

Zhu Yan had promised to give the children some small gifts in return for "passing on the news", but now that it is the Dragon Boat Festival, they are naturally crowded into their own yards.

Zhu Yan was prepared, took out a stack of small sachets from his sleeve, and shook them in front of the children. A group of kids rush up to snatch their favorite color.

"Wait, be quiet!" Akiko spoke, looking like a leader.

Zhu Yan pursed her lips, what is called a small ghost, this time she has understood.

Mingzi jumped up the steps, looked condescendingly at the group of "little brothers" under him, and waved his little hand, "Take out the gift we gave to Sister Yanzi first!" ”

The children pulled out a nicely wrapped package from their sleeves and shook it open, revealing all kinds of shells, corals, and even ...... The only bone of the squid fish......

Zhu Yan blinked, Bailang Town was near the sea, but she never expected that the children would go to the beach to pick up these things in person in order to give her gifts.

"Sister Yanzi, my mother said, you have been treating the villagers recently, we don't have a high mountain and deep forest here, we can't dig ginseng Ganoderma lucidum Poria cocos seeds to give to you......" Mingzi raised her head and looked at her seriously with a pair of bright eyes, "I heard the old fisherman by the sea say that the bones of the squid are a good thing, so we will go to the beach to pick them up." There are also these shell corals, so my sister will keep them as if they were good-looking. ”

Zhu Yan blinked again, trying her best not to let her tears fall.

The inner shell of the squid, which is called "sea clam" in traditional Chinese medicine, is ground into powder, which is not only a good medicine for external injuries to stop bleeding, but also has a miraculous effect on vomiting blood and leaking the qi and blood in the body. Compared with such a valuable gift, she felt that her sachet was too inferior.

"Thank you, my sister is very happy." Relieving himself, Zhu Yan reached out and handed a handful of sachets to Akiko and asked him to distribute them to the children.

The sachets are bright red, apricot and soybean green, and the shape of a triangular zongzi. The satin is pressed with thin gold threads, and the silk threads of five colors are tied on it, which are all made of satin trimmings by Zhu Yan.

The rich aroma came out of it, and Akiko took a hard breath and grinned, "What good things did Sister Swallow put in it?" ”

"Sister, think about it...... There are angelica, cloves, peppermint, atractylodes, sweet rosin, mugwort leaves, herbs, borneol......" Zhu Yan deliberately said slowly, seeing that the children listened carefully, not only smiled, "Take it with you, but you don't have to be afraid of being bitten by poisonous mosquitoes in summer." ”

The children got the sachets, and they all couldn't wait to wear them on their bodies, happily jumping around the courtyard.

Mingzi was still holding a small bottle in his hand, and stood on tiptoe to look at Zhu Yan, "Sister Yanzi, my mother said that the Dragon Boat Festival should write the word 'king' on the forehead, so that any evil devils and bad luck will be gone!" My sister has been sick for a long time before, and she can't play with us, so Akiko will also write you the word 'king' so that you won't get sick again, okay? ”

Zhu Yanwan smiled and slowly leaned down.

Feeling his immature little hand sliding across his forehead, the mellow smell of wine lingering the tip of his nose, he silently thought in his heart, "Let all the bad luck be driven away......

On the path outside the courtyard, a delicate car stopped, and the curtain was lifted a crack, revealing a blue dress inside.

"Childe, Miss Zhu is inside, why don't you go and see her?"

"No need, let's go to Xu's house first." The occupants of the car chuckled and took in her stunning beauty.