After arriving home, Zhou Yu found that his parents were at home, his mother was picking up the jujubes that he had collected last year, and his father was using a sickle to harvest Ma Lian by the wall.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu knew that his parents were preparing to make zongzi for the May Festival. Most of the northern areas like to use glutinous rice or rhubarb rice to wrap zongzi, and also put a jujube in a sharp corner of the zongzi, when the zongzi is cooked, the jujube fragrance wafting out of the pot of cooking zongzi is accompanied by the taste of zongzi leaves, and the greedy mouth water will flow out.

Ma Lian is used to tie the wrapped rice dumplings, and it is said that the rice dumplings tied with Ma Lian are not easy to fall off when steamed. Families in the countryside around Taiping Town have to plant a few plants of malian grass in their yards for making zongzi during the May Festival every year.

Zhou Yubala counted with his fingers, don't say it's really almost the May Festival, no wonder my parents are starting to prepare these things.

Seeing that her son was back, Wang Guilan said happily: "Xiaoyu is back, are you tired?" Mom pours you a cup of stone tea to quench your thirst. ”

After finishing speaking, he put down the jujube in his hand and ran to prepare stone tea for his son.

Zhou Dingguo had just finished cutting two Ma Lian, Zhou Yu hurried over to help his father put Ma Lian under the wall to dry, this thing should be exposed to the sun for a few days before it can be used, otherwise it will not be strong.

Seeing that his father was still cutting Ma Lian there, Zhou Yu couldn't help but ask, "Dad, what are you doing with so many Ma Lian?" We don't need so many zongzi at home? ”

Zhou Dingguo smiled and said to his son: "Xiaoyu, you haven't been at home for the past two years, so there are some things you don't know."

In recent years, almost all of our family and your third uncle's family are responsible for your Liu Taigong and Wu Taigong's eating and drinking, and this is about to come to the May Festival. So, your mother and I have tried to pack as many as we can for them in the past few years. It is said that they can't eat much when they are old, but we have to let them feel the taste of the festival, and let them know that everyone has not forgotten them. ”

Listening to these humane words, Zhou Yu was also proud of his parents' actions, it may not be difficult to help overnight, but this kind of long-term and silent help is the most rare. And in Zhoujia Village, there are too many such things to mention, you can't say that they are stupid, you can only say that they all have a fiery and grateful heart!

Seeing that his son was silent, Zhou Dingguo smiled with relief and continued to cut Ma Lian.

After a while, Zhou Guilan came out with a large teapot of stone tea and beckoned the two of them to drink tea. A family of three sat on a rattan chair by the way and chatted for a while, chatting about the topic, and naturally chatted about making zongzi.

Wang Guilan said to Zhou Dingguo: "Master, can you go to the reed pond in the afternoon to pick some zongzi leaves and come back?" There are four or five days before the May Festival, and the dumpling leaves have to be soaked for two days and then boiled twice to make this taste good, so you really have to hit it back early. ”

Zhou Dingguo nodded, "Okay, I'll go after dinner, this year our family will try to pack as much as possible, there are many old people in the village, if Xiao Yu can really sell Rhodiola Rosea before the May Festival to get a sum of money, I want to invite the five guarantee households in the village to our house for a meal on the May Festival."

I still remember that my grandfathers and uncles were reluctant to eat any good things when I was young, and now that I am in my fifties, they are also old, and I can only do my best to let them have a stable old age. ”

"Dad, don't worry, I promise that your wish can be fulfilled for you, let's set it now, on the day of the May Festival, we will have a banquet in our courtyard to invite those grandfathers and grandfathers, and at the same time, we will also invite the grandfathers of other families and the grandfathers of our own family, let's just have a good time and have a happy May Festival."

See how imposing this is? Zhou Dingguo was so happy at this time that his mouth was about to crack to the sky, and he praised his son for being sensible and filial, which deserved to be his species.

At the end, Zhou Yu said to his father: "Dad, leave the work of making zongye in the afternoon to me, I can't do anything when I am not at home in the past few years, and now I will leave these small jobs to me after I come back." When I'm done eating, I'll go find the three donkeys, and we'll go together, and won't he have a raft in his car? At that time, the two of us rowed a raft into the depths of the reed pond, and it was better to beat some big reed leaves, so that the taste of zongzi was authentic. ”

After eating, Zhou Yu carried a small basket on his back, wore a long coat and trousers, and went to find Zhou Hu with a mountain knife in his hand.

When Zhou Yu arrived, Zhou Dingbang's family was having dinner, and Zhou Yu was also unceremonious, so he took a small bench and sat on the side and waited for Zhou Hu.

The table was full of ordinary meals, a pot of white rice, a large bowl of potatoes and eggplant, and a large plate of shallots and cucumbers dipped in sauce next to it.

But this is the feeling of being eaten by Zhou Hu into a delicacies of the mountains and seas, Zhou Yu saw Zhou Hu fill a big bowl of rice, then soaked some soup, picked up the bowl and pulled a small half bowl of rice into his mouth with chopsticks and put it into his stomach. Then the guy took a shallot, folded it, dipped it in some sauce, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and then pulled it again......

In this way, a large bowl of rice soaked in soup, and Zhou Hu only used three times to eat it all, and two cucumbers and five shallots were put in the middle.

Looking at Zhou Hu's eating appearance, Zhou Yu gasped, isn't this a human-shaped pig?

When Zhou Hu had almost eaten, Zhou Yu said his intention, and the third aunt's eyes lit up when she heard it, and she hurriedly urged her son to go with Zhou Yu, and strive to get more good reed leaves back.

Today's weather is good, in Zhou Hu's words, it is quite windy and sunny. The two brothers each carried a small basket with a knife in it, and one of them carried a raft made from the cart and a long stick in the other hand towards the reed pond.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Zhou Yu and his brothers came to the reed pond, which is the world of reeds and the ocean of reeds, and the boundless reeds rise and fall one after another under the blowing of the mountain wind.

The white clouds are reflected in the wide lake, and it is dazzlingly bright. A flock of daring geese and mallard ducks dance in mid-air. In the reflection, the waterfowl break through the clouds and fog in the water, and after a while, they float steadily on the cotton wool clouds in the water. The reed pond is full of green, and even the wind blowing from the reed alley is fragrant with the lake water and reed leaves.

Zhoujia Village is good at this, the villagers are very good at environmental protection, and the environment here has remained so intact for decades, which is really rare.

"Brother Ergou, don't be intoxicated, that thing is not a meal, let's go in and beat the dumpling leaves, hehe, maybe we can find a lot of bird eggs, that thing is delicious!" As he spoke, Zhou Hu's saliva flowed.

Zhou Yu was in a good mood now, and he didn't have the heart to make things difficult for this foodie, so the brothers put down the raft and jumped up, and slowly rowed into the reed pond with the long stick in their hands as a pulp.

The further you paddle in, the greener and clearer the lake becomes, as if you have entered a fairyland.

The raft was getting farther and farther from the shore, but fortunately the reeds here grew thick and straight, and the spacing between the plants was very wide, and it was not very difficult for the two to row together.

The water here is flowing, and the spring water on the opposite Phoenix Mountain passes through here and enters the Langgu River. The raft paddled south along the stream, and from time to time some feathers could be seen floating on the water, white, gray, yellow, golden-green, and dark red......

Suddenly, Zhou Hu shouted excitedly: "Brother Ergou, look at the wild duck, wild duck!" ”

It turned out that several wild ducks suddenly swam out to the left of the raft, and when they saw the living people, they burrowed into the reeds. The reed alley is deep and hidden, and it is the most comfortable place for waterfowl to roost.

The noon sun sprayed the heat to the fullest, and the more you went deeper into the reed pond, the weaker the breath of the wind became, although the reeds were denser, but it could not stop the spraying of the hot light. The two brothers had no choice but to weave two big straw hats out of reed leaves and put them on their heads, which relieved the pain of being burned by the sun's rays.