Master Sun didn't know what Lu Dao Huanhuan meant, Huanhuan explained: "Yesterday, my brother came to ask me, saying that the master was reluctant to eat zongzi and left it for his mother at home. Is it because the master's family is too poor, I told my younger brother that this is a sign of filial piety to his parents. The younger brother was very educated, and washed his mother's feet that night to show his filial piety. ”

The master understood, and Huanhuan said: "My little brother has lived in a wealthy family since he was a child, and he has never suffered anything. His family has always doted on him, causing him to be unafraid of heaven and earth, and he doesn't know how to care about people's temperament. Fortunately, his master educated him every day, so that he can make today's progress. The master has a higher status in Wei'er's mind than us, and Wei'er can't listen to what we say on weekdays. ”

Master Sun understood what Huanhuan meant, nodded and said, "Since I accepted him as an apprentice, if I don't do well in the future, the outside world will say that I am not." Little girl, don't worry, I will teach him strictly to prevent him from learning badly. Just don't bring these things to the house in the future, it's not like words. ”

Glancing at the zongzi, Master Sun was not very satisfied. Huan Huan nodded and smiled: "This is for the master to try alone, and the master should be honored." There are only two daughters in our family, my mother and me, and my knowledge is not as shallow as the master to go south and north. It's just a home-cooked zongzi, and I will ask the master to take care of it in the future. The younger brother is really stubborn, and he asked the master to temper more. ”

Mrs. Sun likes Huanhuan very much, and she is even more curious about the thoughts in this zongzi. "This little girl's family is very rich, look at a pot of zongzi and dare our family's expenses for a year."

Mrs. Sun was reluctant to eat it, and she was afraid that the zongzi would spoil after a long time. After thinking about it, he pulled out the raisins on the rice dumplings little by little, and then pulled out the dates and put them in the jar.

The egg yolk dumplings were not touched, but the bacon was taken out and a plate of dishes were fried for the family to enjoy. The rest of the zongzi are eaten according to the old method, dipped in a little sugar.

"Their family must be very rich, otherwise how can they put these precious things in the rice dumplings to eat. I also sent a hundred to the dart board in front of the head, and sixty more to our family today. Tell me how much it costs. Mrs. Sun looked at the egg yolk in the zongzi and felt a pain in her flesh. Raised so many chickens himself. I didn't want to use an egg.

"People aren't doing it for their children. This rich family is really willing to do anything. Speaking of egg yolks, the old lady began to babble about the tea eggs she had talked about before.

"That black egg, it looks scary to look at, but it's really delicious to eat." The old lady chattered, and Master Sun could see that his mother liked to eat very much.

"This is the recipe for boiling eggs, and this is the ingredients that our family has prepared, you can just put it in." Dong Xiaoman politely put a piece of paper and a small gauze bag.

Seeing Master Sun blushing and begging for a prescription, Dong Xiaoman happily gave and gave a small gauze bag prepared in advance at home.

"Good boy. Let's just say that their family is really rich. Mrs. Sun recognized a few words, briefly looked at the recipe and studied the small gauze bag, and said enviously.

"How, what's in this gauze?" The old lady was very surprised and curious.

"The method is quite simple, that is, the eggs are boiled and matured and fished out. Crack out the cracks with a rolling pin or spoon, put them in a pot and boil them, and put them in this gauze bag with a little wine and soy sauce to color. Just simmer for half an hour. Wait until the eggs have changed color before eating. Mrs. Sun put down the prescription and said to her mother-in-law.

"This gauze bag has peppercorns, star anise, and tea leaves." No wonder the taste is so peculiar, and there are enough ingredients.

"It's really a trick, what does this person do?" Old Madam Sun asked curiously.

"The family came from the north, and the men in the family ran into the sea quite well. The child's mother is a good cook, and I heard that many noble ladies come to their house for a meal. "Master Sun knows a little bit, but Dong Xiaoman is such a special woman, but he has some impressions.

"Oh, that's right, it's not easy to be a woman. Although the family has money. But in the end, it was very lonely and lonely. I listened to the kid. Only the mother and daughter were at home, and I felt very pitiful when I heard them. You have time to teach that child a lot of truths, and don't let down a piece of people's hearts. "Old lady Sun, smash it, smash it, toothless mouth. He commanded his son.

"Zhilu said mother, I will clean up that kid well. When he was a child, he didn't stabilize his temperament, and when he grew up, he beat his father and scolded his mother. ! Master Sun took a sip of the soup and threw the stuffed dumplings into his mouth and ate them......

"Oh, look at this good look at the zongzi bun. I've lived so long, and I've never eaten such delicate zongzi. There were six peeled rice dumplings on the blue and white porcelain, and the old lady of the Mei family looked at it with a smile.

"Mrs. Zhang has always made these rare things, and her daughter-in-law wants to eat them." The fourth lady smiled at her mother-in-law, and the third lady on the side snorted coldly: "Brother and sister, I'm going to say that yours is not." The third lady said in a tone: "Anyway, you are also an official wife, and your father is also a showman, why have you never seen the world like this." After the third lady reprimanded the fourth lady, she said to Dong Xiaoman: "If you want me to say this Dragon Boat Festival, I want to abide by the rules of my ancestors." You made this zongzi look like a flower, is that still a zongzi? Isn't this a snack, and it doesn't taste that way. ”

Dong Xiaoman tugged at the corners of his mouth lightly and glanced at the eldest lady. Sure enough, the eldest lady helped: "What are you talking about, it's really rude." People are kind enough to bring us zongzi to taste, you don't like to eat or don't eat, why bother to say these boring words. ”

The third lady has been angry with the little concubine in the third master's room recently, and now she saw that the eldest lady actually said this in front of everyone. Naturally, he didn't want to be left behind, so he sneered: "Of course sister-in-law can say so, I have never seen anything new in my life." Even if the family is rich now, they can't change the habit of thrift and thrift. ”

The third lady is the most advantageous one of all the concubines, and she wants to separate the family all day long, and recently because she said a few words about the long room with the third master, she was reprimanded by the third master and stayed in the concubine's room for several nights. This is the experience of the third lady recklessly arguing with the eldest lady, because she resents the long room in her heart and suppresses the third room everywhere.

"If you don't want to stay, go back to your house and rest. Did you come here? As soon as Mrs. Mei spoke, the third lady suddenly stopped talking. How dare she say go wow, just sit on the chair and remain silent.

Dong Xiaoman saw that the atmosphere was not compatible, and he knew that he couldn't stay longer. Just as he wanted to say that he was leaving, he heard his daughter Huanhuan say: "Now that the weather is good, if Grandma Mei likes it." How about we pick a good day to go out? ”

Cleverly changed the subject. Ease the awkward atmosphere. A few wise women began to discuss the matter of the outing, and the talk was so lively that they were eager to leave now.

"In the past, we also went out together to go on a trip, and at that time, Hongyan flew a kite very high." Mrs. Mei spoke, obviously thinking about her grandson.

"In the end, it is the love of grandchildren and grandchildren, isn't it still written in the family letter of Hongyan that I want my grandmother to eat more zongzi during the holidays." The eldest lady opened her mouth and said, and the old lady sneered: "This monkey cub said that he wants me to eat all his share." Hehehe. Can you send someone to deliver zongzi to Honghiko? ”

"Mother is really worried, our family Hongyan is used to being pampered. The sister-in-law hurts a lot, how can she miss his shortcomings. This time, I don't know how much pocket money I have to give Hongyan during the festival, otherwise how could Hongyan have the money to buy the emerald ring for his mother. The third lady couldn't help but open her mouth to let go of her sourness, and the implication was that the eldest lady instigated the child to have Hongyan's filial piety.

"The third lady doesn't know, this emerald ring has a story." Dong Xiaoman has never been a person who bullies the weak and fears the hard. She naturally has different ways of dealing with her enemies, and it is impossible for each of them to have the same attitude as her mother-in-law.

"Oops, what's the story?" Mrs. Mei was very interested, and thought that Dong Xiaoman knew the inside story.

"The emerald was brought back from Siam by Jue'er's father, and a piece of good emerald was taken away by Jue'er. Before, Jue'er's family letter came back and said that he heard that the emerald was looked at by Hongyan and made a ring with his own hands. Hehe, this kid did it several times to make it. Such a big stone, he ended up making such a small piece. Dong Xiaoman said slowly with a smile. The third lady sneered inappropriately: "So the full man does not know that the hungry man is hungry." Hongyan is a little pampered in the end, and he doesn't have to waste anything. ”

Dong Xiaoman pursed his lips and smiled: "Don't say that your Mei family is the first family in Qingzhou City." It's people like us. As long as the child is filial piety, he will give up a gem and not score. The old lady didn't see it, Jue'er said that Hongyan's hands were full of blisters. It was sharpened little by little with a small file, and I don't believe that the old lady knew that it was made by a novice just by looking at the workmanship. ”

When Mrs. Mei heard this, she hurriedly asked Yahuan to take out the ring, and the wrinkled and dark old hand kept rubbing the ring. After half a sound, he sighed: "Hongyan went out of the door, and he has grown up." Or my grandson has a heart, and the old family hurriedly asked people to send a good ointment to the past. ”

After speaking, Mrs. Mei took off the ring on her hand, threw it aside, and carefully put on the ring that Hongyan had made by herself.

The eldest lady looked at Dong Xiaoman with a smile: "It's good that you are here, otherwise we wouldn't know about such a filial thing that Lu Dao Hongyan did." ”

Dong Xiaoman said with a smile: "If it weren't for the filial piety of your family, I wouldn't have said more." ”

Mrs. Mei said: "Fortunately, our two families know each other, and the children can talk about some things around them in their family letters." Our family Hongyan is sensible, and he writes letters to say that it is very good, very good. I don't know if Lu Dao is really good, I can't sleep in the middle of the night and think about what he won't suffer. ”

The old lady has suffered for most of her life, and now she is reluctant to let her little grandson suffer any more.

Dong Xiaoman said with a smile: "Jue'er said that the gentleman in the academy attaches great importance to Hongyan. It's not to prepare for the August township exam, hey, look at me again. ”

Old Madam Mei's surprised eyes were about to jump out: "What, I'm going to take the exam so soon?" ”

Dong Xiaoman said with a smile: "Maybe Hongyan wants to give you a surprise, let's not know what to do." ”

The third lady on the side sneered: "Surprise? I want to test the water, if I get in, it's a surprise, and if I can't pass it, it's a fright. (To be continued.) )