Ordinary clear day

Chapter 75 Dragon Boat Festival

Near noon, the sky was as dark as night, and with lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured down.After a while, the sky began to brighten, but it seemed to be cut off by something, half of which was dark blue and half of which was light gray.

Shuning stood in the embroidery room on the second floor, looking out the window.The woods in the distance can't be seen clearly, I just feel that the world seems to be covered with a thick layer of white gauze.A gust of wind blew, bringing in a splash of rain, Shu Ning quickly hid behind, and then stretched out her hand to close the window, and the room suddenly became dark.

Shuning looked at the pen and paper on the small case, feeling a little regretful that she couldn't continue to practice calligraphy.She is not interested in running around with a pair of myopia in ancient times, of course she must take good care of her eyes.

At the beginning of the rainy season, it was the first time for the whole family to see the weather in Lingnan, and they were a little embarrassed by the heavy rain that fell for eight or nine days.Fortunately, she was mentally prepared and reminded Tong to buy enough food, melons and vegetables in advance, and asked people to put all the things in the food room to high places, and cleared the drains, so that they did not suffer too much loss.I heard that an official from the north of the neighbor’s house was soaked with food bags in his home. He woke up in the middle of the night from the cold and found that the whole family was soaked in water. Now he can only live on the second floor.

thump, thump, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and Chun Xing's voice sounded: "Girl, Sister Ayin and the others are making zongzi downstairs, and asked me to invite you." Shuning agreed With a sound, he tidied up the paper and pens on the case, washed his hands, and went downstairs.

A Yin, A Di, Qiao Yun, and Chun Xing sat in the stairwell, set up a small table and a few stools, and made rice dumplings in the light from the backyard and Qingyun Lane.Shu Ning joined in, wrapped a few strips of lye rice dumplings, and made a reed leaf into an inverted cone shape, put glutinous rice, mung beans, peanuts, salted egg yolk and pork in it, pressed it tightly and tied it with water plants .

Ah Yin looked at it and said with a smile: "Miss, the way you make rice dumplings is a bit like wrapping steamed rice dumplings. I want to make a few more." Shuning replied with a smile: "Okay, make more delicious food. We will pack some more delicious food later. Pick some bamboo leaves, boil them, and wrap some zongzi, I thought about wrapping them in bamboo leaves, it will smell like bamboo leaves when you eat it, maybe Erniang will like it." Chun Xing immediately jumped up and said "I'm going to pick it right now!" But Qiao Yun held her back: "It's raining so much outside now, what are you going to do?!" Chun Xing sat down embarrassedly.

At this moment Ah Hua came over: "Are you making rice dumplings? Shall I make rice dumplings again?" (Are you making rice dumplings? Shall I come too?) Then she took a chair and sat down.Ah Yin said to her: "I'm wrapping steamed rice dumplings, do you know how to make dumplings?"

Ahua frowned: "Steamed rice dumplings are not rice dumplings. You make rice dumplings and steam rice dumplings. If you steam rice dumplings, you wrap steamed rice dumplings. Don't talk about steamed rice dumplings!" steamed, don't mix it up and say.)
Ah Yin waved the reed leaves in his hand and said, "They all use glutinous rice, what's the difference?" (They both use glutinous rice, what's the difference?)

Ah Hua's eyes widened: "The stalks are different. The rice dumplings are made of reed leaves, and the steamed ones are made of winter leaves. They are completely different! If you don't know how many wild ones you have, don't pretend to know!" Leaves, winter leaves for wrapping and steaming, are totally different, if you don’t know it, don’t pretend to know it.)
Ah Yin raised her eyes and smiled: "It's just a terrible sound!" Ah Hua suddenly stood up and was about to go into a fit, and several people beside her hurriedly stopped her.Adi glared at A Yin, and said, "What are you doing to tease her? You know that if you are in a hurry, you will speak country dialect." (Why did you tease her? You knew that she would talk back to her hometown when she was in a hurry. Next.)
Ah Yin curled her lips and continued to make rice dumplings, making Adi stomp her feet in anger.Seeing that it was not good, Shu Ning hurriedly asked other people to pull them away, and tried to persuade them a little bit, and finally calmed down.

Shuning said to Ah Hua: "We don't have winter leaves, so we can only wrap them with Ruo leaves. This is not steamed, but just learning how to wrap steamed rice dumplings." Then she said to Ah Yin: "Although wrapped Steamed dumplings are very similar to zongzi, but the materials used are different and the shapes are also different. It is enough to distinguish them. In fact, it is like the glutinous rice chicken I made a few days ago. It is also made of glutinous rice, but it is wrapped with lotus leaves. Is it Sister Ah Yin also wants to say that it is a zongzi?"

A Yin tilted her head to think about it, and smiled: "That's true." She glanced at A Hua, and said nothing.

A'hua snorted softly, picked up the reed leaves and wrapped them up and said, "I'll make it better than you. I need a brocade bag for wrapping and steaming. I'm a thin fruit, and my aunt will teach me how to do it." (I'll make it for you. Look, this is how steam wrapping is done. My aunt taught me when I was young.) Shu Ning, Chun Xing, and Qiao Yun followed suit, and the quarrel was settled.

After making several baskets of rice dumplings, Chun Xing asked, "I heard that there will be a dragon boat race on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and people from all over the world will come to see it. Is it going to be very lively?"

Ah Yin smiled and said, "Of course I've seen it. It's very lively. The dragon boat is several feet long and there are many people on it. During the competition, the dragon boat is as fast as flying. You and Miss must go and see it." He also nodded in agreement, and described to her the wonderful scenes he had seen in previous years.

Chun Xing's eyes sparkled when she heard this, and she said to Shu Ning, "Girl, let's go? I haven't seen what a dragon boat looks like yet."

After thinking about it, Shu Ning thought it would be good to have a look, so she said, "Okay, I want to see it too, so I'll go and ask Er Niang."

After sitting down, she immediately got up and washed her hands, and walked across the corridor to the main room in the backyard. Halfway through the walk, she found some branches and leaves piled up at the drain outlet in the corner of the yard, and she secretly reminded herself that she must call someone to come when she turned around. Remove it, otherwise the branches and leaves will accumulate more and more, blocking the drain, and the rainwater will flood the corridor, and their family will also nest on the second floor like the neighbor next door.

As soon as she entered the room, Shu Ning called out: "Er Niang, I have something to tell you." But she saw Mrs. Tong teasing Xian Ning.She turned her head and said to her daughter with a smile: "Shu'er, come and see, Brother Xian can sit up now."

Shu Ning said in surprise: "Really?" She immediately ran over to look, and sure enough, younger brother Xian Ning was sitting on the big bed, with her pink face raised, giggling, her arms the size of lotus roots waved a few times, He giggled a few more times.

It's so cute! ! !

Shuning couldn't help but rushed forward, put her arms around her younger brother and kissed her twice.Xianning seemed to like being so intimate with her sister, she yelled happily and waved her little hand a few times.Tong Shi smiled: "Brother Xian likes sister very much."

Of course, where can I find such a good sister?
Shu Ning sits on the bed, hugs Xian Ning and teases him.Xianning widened her round eyes, looked at Tong Shi, then turned to look at Shuning, then grabbed one of Shuning's hands, played with her fingers, and then stuffed it into her mouth.

"Ah!" Shu Ning cried out in surprise, and quickly withdrew her hand, "This is not for food." Xian Ning didn't understand, so she stretched out her hand to grab her finger, and then stuffed it into her mouth.Shuning couldn't laugh or cry, so she had to ask her mother for help.Tong Shi just looked at it with a smile, without moving: "You are teething, so you eat like this, and he can't bite you, let him eat."

Hearing this, Shu Ning hurriedly held his younger brother's head and looked into his mouth carefully, and sure enough, he saw two small white bumps in his gums, and said happily: "My younger brother has teeth, so he can chew things in the future, right?" ?”

Tong Shi glanced at her: "It's still early. Now, besides breastfeeding, I eat some rice cereal. You forgot that you were weaned when you were one year old."

sweat!Shuning said in her heart: "That's not me!"

The mother and daughter played with Xiao Xianning for a while, then Tong remembered and asked, "You said you had something to say when you entered the door, what's the matter?"

Shu Ning just remembered, and said: "Sister Ah Yin and the others said that there is a local dragon boat race every year during the Dragon Boat Festival. My daughter wants to come and ask Er Niang, can I go and have a look?"

Tong frowned, and said, "I've also heard that there are a lot of men rowing shirtless, how can you be a girl to see it?"

Shu Ning hurriedly said: "Many people went to see it, including men, women and children. Sister Ayin and the others said it was very lively, but my daughter just wanted to see something new. Let me go, right?"

Tong couldn't turn her daughter around, so she had to say: "I asked you, Ama, in the evening. If he agrees, I will let you go."

Shu Ning was very happy, her mother said so, basically there is no problem, as long as she acts like a baby, her father will definitely agree.

She asked, "When will Ama come back?"

Tong replied: "It's about to arrive at Youshi, because of the heavy rain recently, your Ama is going to be in a hurry."

Shu Ning asked: "Is it serious? I heard that this year's rain is not considered heavy, and it is much better than previous years." Tong Shi said: "Probably, I heard that only a few dozen thatched cottages were downed. Four or five people were injured, but no one was killed, and the dangers of several embankments are not serious. It's just that the rainy season has just begun, and it won't be over until July."

Shu Ning was a little worried, and said, "I hope the floods won't be too serious this year."

Tong's patted her daughter's head and said: "God has the virtue of good life. There have been droughts and floods in the past few years. I think this year will have a good year." After hearing this, Shu Ning felt much better.

Seeing a smear of blue on her nails, Tong asked, "What did you do just now? What is this on the nails?"

Shu Ning looked down and said, "I'm making rice dumplings with Sister A Yin, Chun Xing and the others. These are left by scraping the reed leaves."

Tong Shi nodded: "That's good too. Although we don't need our daughter to cook in person, it's good to learn more. What kind of rice dumplings have you made, are you ready to give them away?"

Shu Ning said with a smile: "Of course there are. We have made more than 200 zongzi in the past few days, filled with mung beans, peanuts, bacon and salted egg yolks, just for giving away. Although the ingredients are not expensive, they are all in good quantity It’s perfect, it’s not rude to give it to anyone. I also packed dozens of them. In addition to the ingredients mentioned earlier, I also added high-quality dried shrimp, mushrooms and ham, which are reserved for us to eat.”

Tong Shi smiled: "You little cunning, you only keep good things for yourself. Don't forget to make more good ones, and send them to your two aunts Liu's house in two days."

Shuning smiled and said: "It's been prepared a long time ago, and I even asked people to add more good ingredients."

Mrs. Tong poked her head, then turned around to hug her son, and suddenly thought of something: "Yes, you go and ask them to pack some more. Your Ama is outside all day, and I don't know if you can eat well. Let him take a few rice dumplings after cooking, rice, meat and eggs are much better than dry food." Shuning agreed.

In the evening, the sky was already half dark, and the rain that had just stopped not long ago began to fall again.Zhang Bao hurriedly led a few people into the house, took off his coat and hat, smiled and said to his daughter who came out of the hall: "The rain is really endless. Fortunately, there is a raincoat made by my daughter. Otherwise, Ama will be here again today." Become a drowned rat."

(End of this chapter)