In a few days, it will be the Duanyang Festival, and the atmosphere of the festival in Linfu City is very strong.

In addition to the folk customs, in addition to rowing dragon boats, eating horn dumplings and "five yellows", every household also sprinkles and sweeps the court, inserts calamus and wormwood into the door eyebrows, and hangs them in the hall.

Wormwood, calamus and garlic are called "Duanyang Three Friends" by the people of Linfu. Calamus is a sword, wormwood is a whip, and garlic is a hammer, and the combination of these three "weapons" that emit a strong smell can repel snakes, insects, and even demons.

The Duanyang Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of May, and from the end of April, every household is ready to celebrate the festival.

Nowadays, there are many hoop leaves on the market, and many stalls are also selling, but if you talk about calamus and wormwood, it is still the best sold by the flower and wood shops.

In the Jiang family's shop, you only need to pay a fixed fee, and you can pick up the goods on the second day at the earliest, and the wormwood is harvested before the rooster cries every day, and then it is directly sent to the city, it is very fresh, and it will not dry yellow if it is hung at home for a long time.

Therefore, at this time of year, the Jiang family's flower and wood shop is particularly busy. This year is no exception, with the whole shop with a nursery, and lately it has been preparing calamus, wormwood and leaves.

It's not that he can make much money, it's just that in this Linfu City, the Jiang family's shop is also thanks to the care of the people in the city, and at this time, he can use his own strengths to provide convenience for the people in the city, and Jiang Fan will never shirk it.

In the past few days, Jiang Fan, whose legs and feet are just right, can be said to be so busy that his feet do not touch the ground, and he has been running between the nursery and the shop. Fortunately, there are cars going back and forth at the nursery, which is nothing more than a little more effort, but it is not too tiring.

But no matter how busy you are, the family has to arrange for the festival, in fact, in previous years, the Jiang family took care of the shop business, but the family ignored it, and asked the neighbors to help.

This year is different, Jiang Nian is in charge of the family's affairs. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Nian invited Juan Niang to be a guest at home again.

said that he was a guest, but in fact, Jiang Nian was to discuss with Juan Niang the skills of making corner dumplings. As for the purpose of the side, naturally there is, but as long as the parties are clear to each other, Jiang Nian doesn't want to blindly participate.

On the appointed day, Jiang Nian prepared a lot of ingredients at home in the morning, eager to try, and waited for Juan Niang to arrive at Jiang's house with Jiang Fan's car in the afternoon, so that it could officially start.

In the past, Jiang Nian also wrapped horn dumplings, mostly following adults to draw gourds according to the appearance. But the matter of wrapping horn dumplings will be wasted as soon as you look at it, and the horn dumplings that Jiang Nian wrapped out are really not good.

Jiang Fan used to always say that Jiang Nianren's small hands and strength were not enough, but when he grew up, he would still wrap it like that, even if he barely wrapped it to look good, he often boiled it and then scattered.

It is based on today's Jiang Nian, waiting left and right, looking forward to wearing.

It wasn't until almost dinner that Jiang Fan brought Brother Xiang and Juan Niang here, and like last time, Brother Xiang came into the city to deliver goods to the shop next to him.

It's just that he didn't have dinner at Jiang's house today, saying that a few brothers had made an appointment to eat together, and they would practice dragon boat rowing tomorrow, so he sat in the hall with Jiang Fan for a while, ate a cup of tea and hurried away.

At dinner, Juan Niang asked Jiang Nian what kind of corner dumplings he wanted to wrap, and Jiang Nian listed a bunch of them, from simple alkaline water dumplings and bean dumplings to complex meat dumplings, both salty and sweet.

even mentioned triangular dumplings, four-cornered dumplings and horn dumplings, pestering Juan Niang to ask if she would wrap it, and she wanted to learn it.

Jiang Nian couldn't finish talking, and Jiang Fanzhi frowned when he heard it: "You wrapped these horned dumplings, but are you going to eat them for a year?"

Jiang Nian disagreed, "If you want me to eat it every day, I love to eat horned dumplings!

When Juan Niang heard this, she couldn't help laughing out of a "poof", she quietly looked at Jiang Fan with a serious expression, so she had to turn her head and laugh secretly.

"What's not to eat for you? I'll have some at home. Jiang Fan put down his chopsticks, shook his head and looked at himself as he said, while taking a big bite of rice. "How good are you so greedy, this year is almost halfway over, and then the New Year will be a big girl. ”

Jiang Nian felt the gaze from his father, raised his eyes timidly and glanced at Jiang Fan, and then quickly looked back at the food in front of him, and he didn't know if he could chew the food in his mouth a few more times.

Seeing this, Juan Niang hurriedly talked to Jiang Fan, wanting to draw his attention, at least, don't stare at Jiang Nian like this, "Xiao Nian is now the age of growing her body, how can she eat more?" Do you want her to learn from those young ladies in the high gate, and she doesn't dare to eat more without leaving home, her body is in shape, and her body is weak." ”

While talking, Juan Niang added tea to the three of them.

How dare Jiang Fan not give Juan Niang face, he picked up the teacup and just took a sip, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Jiang Nian blushing and frowning and swallowing the food, but without holding back his laughter, a mouthful of water squirted out.

Juan Niang also saw Jiang Nian choking, and was just about to help her bring water to drink, Jiang Fan sprayed the ground over there, and for a while, she hurriedly brought the water to Jiang Fan, and stuffed the handkerchief to Jiang Nian.

Finally, when the three of them were relieved, they looked at each other, and the three of them laughed again.

Jiang Nian thought while smiling, this kind of atmosphere should be seen often at home in the future, right?

Juan Niang is still a girl after all, and she behaves like that in front of the person she likes, although everyone is ugly, it is still a little unnatural.

Jiang Nian saw Juan Niang's expression, quickly changed the topic, and said to Jiang Fan: "Daddy, it's empty in a few days, let's take the winter clothes and winter quilts to the small attic, the boxes in my room are now piled up, and it seems that the house is very messy." ”

Such a short thing in the family also talked about it in front of Juanniang, and he took Juanniang as his own from the bottom of his heart.

Jiang Fan secretly threw an approving look at Jiang Nian, Jiang Nian understood, and immediately opened his mouth again, "Daddy, Daddy, my summer shirt last year was a little small, it just so happened that Juan Niang was here, let Juan Niang accompany me to pick out the material and tailor the clothes!"

Jiang Fan was actually happy in his heart, but he still deliberately made a heavy look like a mountain, emphasizing his father's love, holding a teacup and saying: "If you haven't eaten the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, you can't give away cold clothes; ”

After speaking, he took advantage of Juanniang's inattention, and gently gave Jiang Nian an agreed look before saying: "Summer clothes can be made, but winter clothes and winter quilts should be collected after the Dragon Boat Festival." Now that the summer solstice is approaching, it is the time when the cold and heat are interactive, and you must pay attention to everything from eating to dressing and traveling. ”

After that, he looked at Juan Niang gently, "It's still cold in the morning and evening, you can't be greedy for cold because it's hot at noon, you should add clothes." ”

These words made Juan Niang blush, and she pursed her lips and smiled in response, "I wrote it down." ”

Jiang Nian saw his father like this for the first time. On weekdays, Dad is not the kind of person who is very good at expressing emotions, and now he is so careful and concerned about Juanniang, which is quite a bit of iron man tenderness.

At this time, Jiang Nian stared at them happily, smiling from ear to ear.

When Juan Niang raised her head shyly, Jiang Nian was afraid that she would be embarrassed, so she casually pulled her to discuss the ingredients for the horn dumplings to see if she had anything else she hadn't prepared.

After some trade-offs, it was finally decided, only lye water dumplings, egg yolk meat dumplings and eight-treasure dumplings.