Chapter 52 Wormwood, the raw material of Qingming cuisine

There is a vacant land in the backyard of the Yin family's old house, when he was familiar with the environment yesterday, Yin Li had some memories of it, it was about 2 points of land, it had been abandoned for so many years and had already been flooded with weeds, and it had not had time to look at it when he first moved in, and it happened to be a place to cultivate seeds.

Cleaning up the Yin Li who wanted to be in the mood, he met Yuan Rin who had finished sweeping the ground, and told him to go to the West Market to buy a hoe and come back, Yuan Rin didn't know what Yin Li wanted the hoe to do, and he didn't ask the reason for taking the silver given by Yin Li to do things.

Looking at the departing figure of Yuan Rin, Yin Li frowned and pondered, Yuan Rin left his hometown to follow Chang'an, and he has been serving for almost a month, and the money has not been given to him until now, so he is really a little unhappy, but now there is no source of income, and the expenses of the huge mansion are not a small amount, and he has a headache.

Yin Li, who had a headache how to make money, walked to the open space in the backyard, and frowned when he saw the open space overgrown with weeds, the weeds have not been cleaned up for many years, they are almost half a person high, and many flower pots have been broken, and it can be judged that this area was originally a garden, but no one took care of it and turned into a wasteland overgrown with weeds.

While Yin Li was looking at the overgrown garden in a daze, Mrs. Yin's voice appeared behind Yin Li: "Lizi, did you remember something?" ”

Yin Li, who came back to his senses, said in a cold sweat: "Grandma, why do you walk without making a sound at all?" ”

Mrs. Yin didn't make a sound at all, and she really scared Yin Li who thought about things, as for Mrs. Yin's words were automatically filtered, she was not her own grandson at all, so what do you remember? Even if it's a child who has just been born for a short time, how do you know how to remember?

In order to adapt to the ancient settlement, it is necessary to have an identity to cover up, and it is self-defeating to become an unlucky orphan of the Yin family, and the only lonely old widow of the Yin family is really pitiful, and finally has expectations, so I can't bear to destroy their expectations, plus it is the same root and take the initiative to take responsibility.

Mrs. Yin, who was sad at the scene, sighed at the old Long Zhong's face and muttered: "Your father and your mother like this place the most, because your name is Liyuan in the past, your mother often took you here for a walk......"

couldn't bear to interrupt Mrs. Yin's good memories, Yin Li smiled forcefully and stubbornly to listen to the story, anyway, she was idle and idle, until Li Lizhen came with Ruyue, Mrs. Yin stopped her long memoirs, and was just about to salute and was supported by Li Liqing.

Yin Li rubbed the tip of her nose under Li Li's glare: "Okay, grandma, the eldest princess doesn't like too many mundane etiquette, so she doesn't need to be polite at home, she will be very unaccustomed to it, and if she is not used to it, she will beat her grandson ......"

Li Lizhi said slightly angrily when she heard this: "Is it begging for a beating?" Grandma Yin, don't believe the oily and slippery one-sided words. ”

Ruyue pursed her lips on the side and secretly laughed, feeling that the eldest princess and Yin Li were happy enemies, every time the two of them quarreled or something, it was the eldest princess who suffered, and the entire Tang Dynasty was afraid that there was only Yin Li, an alternative, who dared to provoke and contradict the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty.

has been following the eldest princess from the frontier, Ruyue is not surprised by the subtle emotions between Yin Li and the eldest princess, the two really met is not a story or an accident, if the two are together in harmony that day, it is really a little unaccustomed.

The eldest princess doesn't have any shelf for people and things, Yin Li is also the same as the eldest princess, she doesn't treat Ruyue as a maid at all, Ruyue likes this feeling very much, she is free without any pressure, and there is occasional noise between Yin Li and the eldest princess, and there is a lot of joy and fun.

The eldest princess was so polite, and Mrs. Yin was flattered and said: "The princess is too worried, how dare the old body, is the old body not strict in discipline, Lizi, don't you apologize to the princess?" Lizi! ”

Yin Li didn't seem to hear squatting down, when Mrs. Yin just wanted to get angry, Li Lizhi grabbed the angry Mrs. Yin, saw Yin Li pick a weed and sniffed it, and some familiar Li Lizhi couldn't remember what it was for a while.

Yin Li repeatedly offended the noble eldest princess, and Mrs. Yin, who had a shadow in her heart, was afraid of offending the delicate eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty, and was just about to step forward to wake up the impolite Yin Li, but was pulled by Li Lizhi and wanted to disturb the Yin Li.

Yin Li, who picked out a piece of weed, sniffed for a while, then stood up with a smile on his face and said, "Do you want to eat mugwort?" ”

"Mugwort?" Mrs. Yin and Ruyue don't know what to say, so what is Yin Li talking about?

Li Li was overjoyed when she heard this: "You, you can make mugwort?!" ”

Mrs. Yin and Ruyue are even more blindsided, what is mugwort? Seeing the eldest princess so happy, it seems to be a very remarkable thing, Li Li's soul comes from the next generation, of course she knows what mugwort is, it is a traditional pastry delicacy of the Qingming Festival.

The weeds that he picked are the mugwort leaves, around the Qingming Festival in spring, the wild mugwort leaves will grow in the fields, in front of the house and behind the house, the mugwort leaves are fragrant, the color is gratifying, the young leaves are picked, the more fragrant the raw materials for making mugwort.

Wormwood is very common except in winter, and there is a plant size and appearance that looks very similar to wormwood, some people call it "false wormwood", the two kinds of grass often go together, the easiest way to distinguish when picking is to smell whether they have the aroma of wormwood, real wormwood has a unique fragrance, "fake wormwood" has no wormwood smell, can not be used to make wormwood.

Yin Li saw that Yuan Rin bought back a few hoes, handed the mugwort leaves to Li Lizhen, and said unashamedly: "If you want to eat, help pull out these mugwort ......"

Mrs. Yin was taken aback and called Yin Li: "Nonsense, how can this matter be done by the princess of the golden body?" ”

Li Lizhi kindly took the flattered Mrs. Yin's hand and said: "It's okay, the palace is also panicked, Ruyue, go pick wormwood, don't wait for the chef to regret it, come, Grandma Yin, you tell the palace about Yin Li's childhood." ”

Ruyue Yingying replied: "Yes, princess!" ”

Li Lizhi pulled Mrs. Wei Wei Nuo Yin to the side to chat, and before leaving, she didn't forget to glance at the warning gaze, as if to say that she would settle accounts with you later, Yin Li rubbed the tip of her nose in embarrassment, and picked up the hoe that Yuan Rin bought back to work.

Yin Li and Yuan Rin wielded hoes to open up the wasteland and weed, Ruyue was interested in picking mugwort leaves in the field, Li Lizhi accompanied Mrs. Yin to sit on the stone chair in the pear garden, acting as a story listener to listen to Mrs. Yin's story about the past of the Yin family.

In order to plant valuable seeds, the sweat is like rain to open up the wasteland, and the skillful action of clearing the wasteland and hoeing the land makes Yuan Rin and Ruyue surprised.

The eldest aunt and the third aunt rushed to hear the wind, and saw that the head of the family, Yin Li, was sweating like rain to open up the wasteland, scrambling to join the queue for clearing the wasteland, and the hoe was snatched away, so they smiled helplessly and instructed Yuan Rin and the eldest aunt and others how to start the field.

Two hours passed, and the wasteland was cleared out of more than ten columns of fields, and Yin Li arranged for Yuan Rin to collect the chicken and duck manure of the neighbors and bury it in the ridges, and carefully planted the germinated peanuts, melon seeds, peppers, and potatoes into the ground.