"Grandpa, grandma, can you teach me how to make glutinous rice dumplings?"

I suddenly became very interested in this national tradition, and even wondered if I should go back and resign, do this dedicatedly, and bring the rice dumplings into the market and into all the tables.

"What do you do with this? Troublesome and tired, you can buy it if you want to eat. The old man giggled, but smiled and curled his beard: "It's just that the ones you buy are not delicious, they don't roll out the rice." ”

"Rolling rice?"

Later, I learned that rice rolling is the most important and time-consuming part of making glutinous rice cakes. The machine could not restore the process of rolling rice, so it was ignored. This is also the reason why there is no way to produce glutinous rice dumplings industrially.

At my believing, the old man readily agreed. The shriveled hand bones clamped the two packs of cigarettes I handed over, and he giggled. Don't laugh at me! Tell me the core technology.

But when he arrived, I realized that this national craft was not so easy to learn. I don't think it's possible to master this skill in a while, so I can only listen to the general idea, know the basic process, and then go back and try it out on my own.

The fairies found the bamboo garden, saw that I was learning to make glutinous cakes, and at first they were driven by curiosity to join in the fun. But seeing that I followed the 'master' to ask for advice on this and that, the more I listened, the more impatient I became, and then several people looked at each other and left tastelessly.

From the evening to the thick of the night, the elderly invited me to dinner at home. I didn't want to bother, but I didn't feel like I knew too much about the essentials of making glutinous rice dumplings, so I cheekily agreed.

The old couple's home looks simple, but when they really walk in, they can feel a kind of warmth and affection for the dim 40-watt light bulb, which is already a hook lampholder that was eliminated in the last century, and I don't know how many years it has been used. A small digital TV,It looks very similar to the previous black and white TV,Their son bought an LCD TV for them before,But the old couple didn't use it well,And afraid of consuming electricity,So they never used it。 As a result, the south of the Yangtze River was humid, and after two or three years of erosion in the rainy season, it went bad.

I cooked a bowl of chive noodles and fried a goose egg for me. Goose eggs taste very fragrant, but listening to a goose egg costs more than ten yuan, which is more than ten times that of an egg, I am a little moved by the generosity of the elderly population.

I don't like chives, so I secretly picked a little and peeled it into the trash, and because of the love of the old couple, I didn't care about the rest, and even drank the soup.

Later, in the old house, they may have lived alone for too long, and a stranger was not alert when he stepped on the door, and asked for warmth like a child.

I don't know why I suddenly had a strong interest in playing glutinous rice cakes, and Lai asked questions at the old couple's house, until the tour guide called, and then I was a little reluctant to say goodbye.

The old couple may have missed their son in Beijing, and when they saw that I was leaving, their eyes were a little moist, so they hurriedly stopped me, lifted an old white cloth on the table, and grabbed a stack of finished glutinous rice cakes for me.

I hurriedly excused myself, but I had no choice but to put the few cash in my pocket on the table.

I walked around the pond with a wad of dumplings, and frogs jumped into the pond one after another, and there was a loud bang on the water.

At this time, the color is darkening, mosquitoes are ravaging, nightingales are singing in the bamboo forest, and autumn cicadas are murmuring by the pond.

The autumn night is lively, but because of this, it seems silent and silent. I looked up at the Milky Way, the mountains were high and the clouds were light, and every starlight was dazzling. There was no moonlight, and I didn't need a flashlight, so I rushed to the stars to show the way, and I went back to the homestay.

……

Second, we went to Wuyuan again, a quiet and beautiful place, and I will not repeat it here.

When I returned home, I gave Xia Xue some interesting things from the trip, and squeezed my head with her to look at the photos I took back.

It may have been an unexpected gain from this trip, and a few fairies shouted for me to give them a few pieces, but I was still reluctant, and I regretted to find various reasons to stop

"Snow, is it delicious?" I looked at Xia Xue who was holding the white and tender glutinous rice cake with my jade fingers and asked.

Xue exhaled directly, and his left and right hands rubbed each other: "Mmmmmmmmmm ”

"Hahaha" I said to her proudly: "Don't be in a hurry to eat, I'll tell you, I've learned to do this, I'll make it for you to taste tomorrow." ”

"Really?" Xue looked at me in disbelief, probably only realizing later that I was bragging, and shook it to herself, continuing to eat the glutinous rice in her hand, blowing the hot air.

"Do you have glutinous rice at home?" I can't wait, and I'm ready to give it a try.

Fortunately, there is no glutinous rice at home, otherwise I would not have thought about sleeping all night.

After work on the second day, I drove the car directly to the supermarket, took the snow to buy vegetables, and bought a large bag of glutinous rice and related auxiliary materials by the way.

"It's quite troublesome to hear you like this, and it must be very time-consuming." Xue was very interested in seeing me, and she was also surprised, and she wanted to help me, but she was discouraged when she learned that the method was so strange and cumbersome!

"In the old society, food was very expensive, especially rice. At that time, people were really idle, trying to make tricks out of the only rice they had. ”

I explained it to Xia Xue like this, but I made it up completely. Who knows in what historical context this craft was invented?

I fully occupied Xia Xue's kitchen, and she had no way to cook, so she had to order takeout. After eating the takeout, I turned on the rice cooker excitedly, dumbfounded! Glutinous rice is still glutinous rice, water is still water, only to find out that the rice cooker is not cooked it.

Because glutinous rice is very sticky, as soon as it is cooked, the bottom layer will form a pot, and the knot will become thicker and thicker until the rice cooker stops working.

In this way, I failed at the beginning! And fiasco!

The second time I returned to the company, I didn't have the heart to work, and I was thinking about my glutinous rice dumplings. I checked on the Internet again, and a small amount of rice cooker can be boiled, or I can buy a pressure cooker and cook it on a gas stove.

In the next few days, I went home every time I got off work to study the practice of making glutinous rice cakes, and I went crazy. Xia Xue dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and accompanied me to order takeout.

In order to be successful, I also added various groups in Rao City and asked the locals if they had any relevant information. Later, after countless failures, it was finally overcome from a series of processes such as refining ears, rolling rice, beating incense, patting pulp, and branding oil, and made into a little similar glutinous rice cake.

Then, it is perfect, refined, and completed!

I always believe that when you do something seriously and wholeheartedly, you will definitely succeed in it. This may be what the ancients often did, and the sincerity of the golden stone is open!

On Wednesday, I invited Luo Qian and Zhou Haoran to my home and entertained them with my self-developed rice dumplings.

Zhou Haoran swallowed dates and didn't eat anything special.

Luo Qian admired it, but still shook her head: "Lu Xia, it's quite like that." But not last time, the delicious food you brought back from Hoshan. ”

Hearing that I hadn't had time to digest Luo Qian's words, Xia Xue asked excitedly: "Hu Shanshan?" ”

"Yes, that's the name"