On the morning of Tanabata, Jianzhou City was lively.

This day is also called "Begging Festival" and "Daughter's Day", but it is called July 7 in Jianzhou.

It is the time when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the bridge, and it is also called the Chinese Valentine's Day in later generations.

"On the seventh day of July, eat the cake." It is the custom of Jianzhou, and this Qiao cake is not really a cake, but more like the sugar and oil glutinous rice cake of later generations.

The main ingredients are glutinous rice, red bean paste, brown sugar and starch syrup, which are fried in the same way as sesame balls.

On the morning of this day, as soon as the rooster crows, every household will take the glutinous rice that was soaked yesterday and grind it into rice milk.

Then use a white cloth pocket to pack the rice milk and tie the bag tightly with string. Then put the rice milk bag on the wooden board, place the wooden board on the wooden basin, and press the rice milk bag with a large stone.

After pressing for three hours, the water in the rice milk bag is squeezed out, and the remaining part is the glutinous rice balls that are usually made by southerners.

Then put the brown sugar and caramel into an iron pot and heat it with firewood to melt it completely, leave half of it, and then wait for it to cool, add half of it to the glutinous rice dough and stir well.

Add rapeseed oil to a large iron pot, the oil temperature should be high, and then put the glutinous rice dumplings wrapped with red bean paste into the oil pan and fry.

After a while, the golden dumplings will be fried, and the fried dumplings will be scooped up and placed on the iron net one by one.

Scoop up a spoonful of hot oil containing the syrup and pour it onto the freshly fried dough noodles, the hot syrup instantly solidifies in the air into crunchy caramel, which is wrapped in the outer layer of glutinous rice dumplings.

In this way, the sugar, oil and glutinous glutinous rice cake on the outside is ready.

Take a gentle bite, and the sugar silk can pull the elder.

The inside is soft and elastic, mixed with the very crispy icing on the outside, and the right amount of sweetness, as well as the fresh aroma of red bean paste, which makes people can't help but take one bite after another......

It's really much better than the fried hemp balls you eat in the morning, maybe that's why children love the Qixi Festival so much.

Because you can only eat this thing at home once a year, and you can eat it casually. If you eat it at home, you can also go to a relative's house to eat, and go to a neighbor's house to eat.

On this day, even the poorest people will find a way to make some "smart cakes" with their relatives.

Even if you are reluctant to oil and sugar, you will change to frying in oil, in order to find a sweet and sweet marriage for your daughter.

Ye Qing also got up early, although she lived in the inn, but in order to follow the local customs, Ye Qing also planned to make some "Qiao Cakes" by herself, but she was not too interested in the sugar and oil glutinous rice cakes that were too heavy in oil.

However, there is a special dim sum in Jianzhou in later generations - hollow sesame balls, which she still prefers.

In the past, in the morning, a cup of soy milk and two hollow sesame balls were a breakfast.

It is also very simple to do this, soak the rock sugar in boiling water, slowly add glutinous rice flour when the sugar water is warm, stir while adding, knead into a soft dough, and then cover it with white gauze and wake up for half an hour.

After proofing, divide the glutinous rice dough into small portions, knead it round, roll it with a layer of sesame seeds, wrap it and press it gently with your hands.

The carbon stove and a small iron pot heat the oil to seventy, no need for high heat, when the hand is placed on the oil surface can feel the heat, the pot small hemp ball needs to be fried in parts.

When the skin of the sesame ball is slightly set, use a shovel to gently turn it, and when it is slightly bulging, use a shovel to keep flattening the ball, not pressing.

After a while, the sesame balls become round again and begin to flip, and after the bulging sesame balls are flattened again, the sesame balls become round again.

And the expansion is getting bigger and bigger, press it repeatedly and turn it 2~3 times, wait until the sesame balls are about three times the size of the pot, and then take the fried sesame balls out of the pot to control the oil.

This method is also very suitable for making sweet potato and pumpkin flavored sesame balls, which will taste better.

After making sixteen small sesame balls, Ye Qing also made a small pot of mung bean porridge, which can not only relieve heat and heat, but also relieve oiliness.

It's just right for the four of them to eat these, and when the time comes, let Qian Duoduo and Dongqu eat a little more, it shouldn't be wasted.

After breakfast, Ye Qing said that he was going to go to the market in Jianzhou, which was equivalent to a provincial capital city in the future, and there should be a lot of things to buy.

Moreover, Mawei Port is still an important shipping port, from here you can directly go to Riyue Island, and further afield to the South Sea.

From the South Seas, a lot of tropical seafood and fruits can be brought in every day by large boats.

As well as spices and seeds for various crops, these are what Ye Qing needs to buy.

Before they could change their clothes and go out, Huo Zimeng actually came over, he probably had been riding a horse all night, and he was covered in dust.

"Why are you here? Is there something going on in the house? Ye Qing suddenly saw Huo Zimeng and asked in surprise.

Huo Zimeng arched his hand and said, "If you go back to the owner's wife, it's okay." I'm just thinking that you still need someone more to protect you when you're away from home. ”

"Oh, it's fine." Ye Qing was relieved at this time.

When he left Chongyang before, Ye Qing didn't want to attract too much attention, so he only took Qian Duoduo and Dongqu with him, and didn't bring other guards.

Although Qian Duoduo knows martial arts, he looks like a little scholar with a tender face, while Huo Zimeng is masculine, his face is paralyzed, and he is too cold.

The main reason is that he is very rigid, and when he takes him out, he has a feeling that he can't let go of his hands and feet.

Qian Junbao glanced at him and said lightly: "Zimeng, you go and take a rest, and go out with us at night." ”

"Yes." Huo Zimeng clenched his fists and retreated.

"Junbao, let's just take one more person with us this time." Ye Qing thought about it, and he didn't need to take Dongqu with him.

"Listen to you." Qian Junbao had no objection, he handed Ye Qing a folding fan made of sandalwood with hollow carving.

Ye Qing took the folding fan, looked at it first, sniffed it again, wrinkled his nose and said, "I don't like this smell very much, just change it to a fan." ”

Qian Junbao silently noted that his daughter-in-law didn't like sandalwood-scented things, and in the future, the furniture would be made of less sandalwood, and their bedrooms didn't need to burn sandalwood incense.

Today, the air is full of sweet smells, and Ye Qing left the inn with a good mood, which is very close to the largest market in Jianzhou, and he doesn't even have to sit in a carriage.

But Qian Junbao still hired a carriage from the inn, mainly because he was afraid that Ye Qing would bring a lot of things when he came back.

Compared with shopping on the street, Ye Qing felt that it was more interesting to visit the ancient markets, because the markets of the ancients were really very lively, no worse than the hypermarkets during the festivals of later generations.

In addition, Ye Qing also came to the bazaar with a feeling of picking up leaks, she wanted to see if there was a chance to buy some special animals and plants, those that were extinct in the later generations, and they must be able to exchange for a lot of space gold coins.

It's best to buy something worth a million like last time, so that Saya can quickly come out of the space to accompany her.