As soon as the time entered May, the day became muggy and hot.

It just rained yesterday, and the sun came out this morning, and from nine o'clock in the morning, the heat wave outside began to surge, and the breeze blew, and the sudden feeling of warmth caused a wave of discomfort on the skin, and the exposed skin was stimulated with goosebumps.

This year is 74 years, Qin Xi and they have been in the countryside for more than two years, and they have already adapted to the rhythm of climate change in the countryside.

There are no newcomers to this year's Educated Youth Point, and those who live in the Educated Youth Point are still the same people.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, it is the Dragon Boat Festival, many people will choose to wrap some zongzi at home, and the married girl will go back to her parents' house to send the Dragon Boat Festival a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the things she brings are the zongzi to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Half a month ago, the village organized a group of people to go to the bamboo forest to pick zongzi leaves, which can be sold to the supply and marketing cooperatives, which is also one of the sources of income in the village.

Part of the money distributed to the villagers at the end of the year was obtained by selling the leaves of these bamboos.

Qin Xi They didn't wrap zongzi, they had discussed it before, just like last year, no, the three of them are not particularly fond of eating zongzi, and the steps of making zongzi are still so troublesome, it just so happens that they are afraid of trouble.

In the past, although the family knew how to make zongzi, the three brothers and sisters were all handicapped, and they belonged to the kind that couldn't be wrapped no matter how they learned, so they started every time.

Although they know the specific steps of making zongzi, none of them have actually succeeded in manual operation, at most they bend the leaves and pack glutinous rice, and they have never successfully operated the remaining steps.

The wrapped zongzi need to be boiled in alkaline water, and even the glutinous rice should be soaked in alkaline water, so that the boiled zongzi will have a fragrance of grass and trees.

Of course, alkaline water does not mean that it can be made with water such as edible alkali baking soda, and the zongzi made of this alkaline water is not good-looking, smelling and not delicious enough, and the storage time will be greatly reduced.

The indispensable material for the villagers to make zongzi is straw, and a large bundle of clean dry straw is laid under the basket, and the grass ash made of straw is spread on it, and a bench is set up on the big wooden basin, the basket is placed on it, and the water is gently poured on the grass and wood ash in the basket, so that the water flowing into the wooden basin is with a little dark yellow alkaline water.

In the countryside, every household does this to make zongzi.

The zongzi that comes out of this way has a little fragrance of grass and trees, and the zongzi needs to be boiled in an iron pot filled with alkaline water for more than ten hours, from twelve o'clock at noon, boiled to more than two o'clock in the evening, and finally stuffed for another night.

Some people like to mix beans with glutinous rice, such as peanuts and red beans, which are the most common in the countryside, a little more luxurious, and they will wrap a piece of salted bacon and sausage, but the people in the village rarely make sausages.

In terms of personal taste, Qin Xi likes to eat salty zongzi with bacon, which is sweet, but he doesn't like it very much.

In addition to eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, they will also cut wormwood and put it in front of the house, behind the house, next to the bed, and it can also be placed, which is said to repel snakes and insects.

Add a little water to the forehead, the top of the brain, and the hands and feet, and it is said that if you do this, you will not be bitten by snakes, insects, rats, ants and the like, and even worse, you will drink realgar wine.

A few days ago, Qin Xi went to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the town with Tang Ying to buy a small packet of realgar.

This is a special holiday period, the supply and marketing cooperatives are on sale, and at other times, if you want to buy realgar, you have to go to the health center.

Tang Ying originally planned to buy it, but was stopped by Qin Xi, the realgar she bought was enough, so let Tang Ying and He Yuan come to the house at noon on the fifth day of the first month, it can be regarded as a sense of ritual for the festival!

Qin Xi and their three brothers and sisters, on this day, didn't go out at all, they kept waiting for Tang Ying and them at home, but they didn't expect Tang Ying He Yuan to come, but waited for two aunts first, who were two of the five families who bought her rabbit.

Aunt Bai and Aunt Qiu Yu met on the road, and after a short conversation, they found that everyone had the same purpose, so they came over together.

"Qin Zhiqing, is there wormwood at home?"

"If you don't, go to my house to cut, there is a big cluster growing on the edge of my vegetable garden, just cut it." The younger of the two, Aunt Bai, said with a smile.

"This is the zongzi made by my family this year, wrapped with peanuts and glutinous rice, a few days ago, it was really troublesome to you, and I took us to mow the grass, and I followed the house to show the rabbits their nests, there is a female rabbit in my family who is sick, Qin Zhiqing, you help take care of it, thank you!"

She brought three zongzi over, the three brothers and sisters of the Qin family, one for each person, is enough.

After all, her family's zongzi are affordable, and they are bigger than others', so she can do it when she has her mind, and she herself is distressed when she gives more.

At this time, another older aunt also nodded again and again, her eloquence was not good, but her heart was almost the same, she came to express her gratitude, after all, they did help a lot.

Although they are country women, they are all sensible and reasonable, and they have to repay this kindness, so they thought about it at that time, and during the Dragon Boat Festival, they will send them some zongzi.

The young intellectuals from their city should not know how to make zongzi, so giving them three is a gesture of gratitude.

"No, no, Aunt Bai Qiuyu, those are all trivial things, how can they be remembered."

"Besides, we didn't help much, you better take this zongzi back and give it to the children at home!" Qin Xi stood up and excused himself.

She really doesn't want it, there is no shortage of those zongzi to eat at home, and she thinks that if she accepts the zongzi like this, she is afraid that she will owe favors?

In her life, she was most afraid of owing people something, and now she didn't dare to accept the zongzi sent to the door, and she didn't want to accept it.

After all, cannibalism has a short mouth and a soft hand, so what if any of them goes out and tells someone about it! The three of them still have to live in this village, and they still have faces.

This kind of thing, she has not encountered before, a particularly annoying elder in the village, who is duplicitous to everyone, forced her to take a few expired biscuits, and later people will say that for so many years, she has been given a boatload of things to eat, what biscuits to the dog to eat will wag his tail, but when he meets her, he is not even willing to bark.

Not only her, but many children in the village have been forced by her to give things and have been arranged by her, anyway, in her mouth, except for her two grandchildren who know how to be polite and can call people, and have a good upbringing, the others are little white-eyed wolves who can't even be called by their elders.

The key is that no one has taken the initiative to ask for her things, they are all stuffed by herself, usually sugar cubes and biscuits that have expired after receiving them during the New Year.

(End of chapter)