Chapter 27 Dragon Boat Festival
Wang Zhaodi saw the meat thrown by Zhang Guihua, for fear of falling to the ground, so she hurriedly hugged it with both hands, and then saw that Zhang Guihua had run away, and shouted a few words outside the courtyard, but no one answered.
"Mother, why don't I send Aunt Osmanthus back?"
"This is someone's heart, how embarrassing it is to send it back! Xiaolan burns the pot, add another dish, you go pick two chili peppers! It's hot, and you can't put this meat! ”
Yang Xingwu listened to his mother's words of some joy, and hurriedly went to the vegetable garden to pick two chili peppers, washed them, and sent them to the kitchen.
Wang Zhaodi was busy and fried all the meat, such a large piece of meat, it was almost half a pot after it was fried.
After stir-frying the vegetables, they simmered for a while, Wang Zhaodi beckoned the family to eat, and shoveled out a bowl of chili fried meat from the pot with a spatula and handed it to Yang Xingwu.
"Go, give them a bowl for your grandma, let them taste it!"
After Yang Xingwu heard this, he took the bowl handed over by his mother.
I went out of the yard with the dishes, and I have to say that the people at this time still have a strong human touch, and whatever delicious food is made at home, they will send a bowl to those close to them to taste.
Yang Xingwu walked for a few minutes, came to the old mansion, and shouted towards the courtyard:
"Grandma, I've come to see you!"
Not long after, Yang Xinglong came out of the house and opened the door and welcomed Yang Xingwu into the courtyard.
"Second brother, here? Have you eaten? Sit down for a bite to eat? ”
"Not yet, I'll add a dish to you!"
When Yang Xinglong heard this, he looked at it again and saw that the meat in Yang Xingwu's bowl was a little greedy.
"Let's go, let's go inside, and we'll be ready to eat right away!"
Yang Xingwu followed his younger brother into the house.
Seeing that his grandfather and second uncle's family were eating, he hurriedly greeted him.
"Grandma, second uncle and second aunt, just now Aunt Osmanthus sent a piece of meat, my mother fried it, send a bowl for you to taste!"
Yang Xingwu said and handed the bowl in his hand to the second aunt, and after Sun Chunni took it, she hurriedly went to the kitchen, vacated Yang Xingwu's bowl, and entered the hall with two bowls, handed the empty bowl to Yang Xingwu, and put the bowl full of meat on the table.
"Your Osmanthus Aunt's ears of wheat are sold out?"
"It's sold out, seeing that she's so happy, she should have made a lot of money!"
"That's good, Aunt Guihua is a grateful person, if you have something to find you in the future, you can help if you can!"
"Master, I know!"
"Well, have you eaten? Stay and eat! ”
"No, it's just done at home, I'll just eat it when I go home!"
"That's okay, after planting corn today, there is no farm work at home, so you can review it well! It's been a bit of a trivial job lately! ”
Yang Xingwu listened to his grandfather's words, nodded again and again, and then left the second uncle's house.
The pension situation in Yangjiazhuang is generally the principle of moving out of the long house, that is, building a house for the eldest and the parents following the younger son to provide for the elderly.
For example, Yang Kaishan is now living with his youngest son Yang Dong, and the old couple loves their youngest son a lot, but it will not be too much.
As the eldest brother, Yang Chunsheng also takes a lot of care of his younger brothers and sisters.
As soon as there is any rich business, I will think about my younger brothers and sisters, and the whole family can be regarded as more harmonious.
As for her mother, Wang Zhaodi, she has no complaints, she doesn't live with her in-laws, she has no constraints, and her small life is not too good.
Yang Xingwu returned home and saw that the food had been served, and Wang Zhaodi beckoned Yang Xingwu to eat.
Yang Xingwu put the bowl in the kitchen and washed his hands before serving the table to eat.
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After planting corn, the Yang family's life returned to a semi-idle state!
After the family's farm work was less busy, Yang Xingwu began to concentrate on reviewing.
In the morning, at dawn, I quietly recited English words, Chinese poems, political textbooks, and various knowledge points of biology in the courtyard.
Although biology is a science subject, it is more like a liberal arts subject, and there are too many knowledge points to memorize.
The total score of biology is only 50 points, and the original owner can take 40 points, which is enough to show hard work and diligence.
In these seven or eight days, Yang Xingwu has mastered a lot of foreign language vocabulary.
After memorizing the textbook, Yang Xingwu will review all the knowledge points of science, read all the high school textbooks twice, and do all the exercises in the book again, and confirm that there are no omissions in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
During this week, Yang Xingwu would drink a bowl of brewed malt milk essence every day, and his body improved a lot, and his face became more and more ruddy.
In addition, Wang Zhaodi steamed a bowl of egg custard for him every once in a while to supplement his nutrition.
After Yang Xingwu studied hard for seven days, the Dragon Boat Festival arrived.
Early in the morning, Wang Zhaodi went to the town's supply and marketing cooperatives to buy two catties of Jiang rice and spent seven cents.
They are the main wheat producing area here, and the number of times they eat rice throughout the year is only a handful, and they usually eat a zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and they can usually eat a bite of rice when the villagers set up a banquet.
However, that dish is called Festive Eight Treasure Rice, which is a feature of the eight bowls, which are filled with rice and dates, upside down on a plate, and sprinkled with a layer of sugar, which is very popular with the elderly and children.
In addition, ordinary people are reluctant to eat rice, not to mention that the price of rice is at least five cents per catty more expensive than wheat, and the transportation is inconvenient, and it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources to transport it.
On the other hand, people who are accustomed to eating pasta will subconsciously feel that they are not full when eating rice, and they can't help but eat more.
Yang Xingwu naturally knows this as a northerner, the calories of steamed bread are twice that of rice of the same weight, and for a while he wanted to lose weight, and he lost ten pounds when he changed his staple food to rice.
For these two reasons, most northerners in this era were not very interested in rice.
After having rice, you don't have to worry about making zongzi, and the dates are all produced in the old woodland, so you don't need to spend money.
Wang Zhaodi soaked Jiang rice at home, and asked Yang Xingwen to take his younger brother to pick some reed leaves to wrap zongzi.
Yang Xingwen listened to his mother's words, took Yang Xingwu to a nearby puddle, and came back with a lot of reed leaves
Wang Zhaodi put the river rice in the basin and soaked it all morning, and when it was close to noon, she began to make lunch, and the family had lunch, and then began to make zongzi.
Wang Zhaodi picked up a reed leaf, folded it a few times to become a triangular funnel, first stuffed a little glutinous rice into the reed leaf to cushion the bottom, and then picked up a washed jujube, stuffed it and added rice, until the rice completely covered the jujube, and added some rice to the same shape as the funnel.
Only then wrap the reed leaves on both sides, and then tie them with thin grass stems, and a red date zongzi is ready.
Wang Zhaodi and Yang Xiaolan were busy for a long time, and two catties of Jiang rice wrapped more than 20 zongzi.
After wrapping, it was boiled for more than an hour, and the enthusiastic zongzi came out of the pot.
Yang Xingwen sent five or six zongzi to his grandparents while it was hot.
At night, the staple food of the family is zongzi, Yang Xiaohong reached out and picked up a zongzi, bit off the grass stem with her teeth, and ripped open the reed leaves, and saw the white and chubby zongzi, one bite down, soft and glutinous and sweet, so that she couldn't help but indulge in it, and her two eyes also narrowed into crescents!