Farmer's daughter is also self-improvement

Chapter 37
A few days later, Xiao Shunzi was sent away early in the morning as usual, and Wang finally called everyone together to make zongzi.Li Shasha was also very excited. After all, the zongzi she ate in her previous life was bought from the supermarket. Although the taste was good, she had never seen zongzi made before.

Mrs. Wang first asked everyone to pick some fresh leaves from the Ruoye bamboo planted in the front of the flat. Li Yulan washed them all and soaked them in a big basin. It is said that this one needs to be soaked for an hour before it can be used. The mung beans were soaked by Mrs. Wang the night before.

Li Shasha sneaked into the space to buy two bags of red bean paste and a bag of salted egg yolk, and took another [-] Wen to Zhang Butcher's house to buy two catties of pork belly.He thought about asking Li Xianzhi to go with him, but he didn't know where this brother had gone.Seeing that Li Yulan didn't follow, Zhang Erlang sent Li Shasha back in person.Li Shasha rolled her eyes in her heart, didn't she just come to see Li Yulan, and she said it so nicely that she might be tired.

Sure enough, Zhang Erlang's eyes lit up the moment he saw Li Yulan.Seeing him staring at her again, Li Yulan's face flushed red.Seeing the appearance of the two of them, Li Shasha had no choice but to shout from the side: "Auntie, grandma told you to go to the backyard!" Then Li Yulan went to the backyard in a panic.

Seeing that the person in his dream had disappeared, Zhang Erlang bowed his head and turned back without saying hello to Li Shasha as soon as his shoulders slumped.Li Shasha didn't care about him, she just ran to her aunt in the backyard.

Li Yulan walked around the backyard twice but couldn't find Mrs. Wang. It was strange. When she saw Li Shasha coming over, she asked her, "You said your grandma asked me to come to the backyard. Where is she?" Li Shasha said with a wicked smile, "I If grandma is looking for aunt, that Zhang Erlang must have seen through my aunt's face."

Li Yulan was embarrassed when she heard the words, and she stretched out her finger and nodded Li Shasha's forehead: "You little girl, you are doing your best!" Li Shasha turned around and ran away: "Auntie, auntie, I saved you and still blame me, it's unreasonable! !"

Li Yulan was so angry that she followed her into the house. Mrs. Wang happened to come in from the outside and saw the old lady sitting on a chair watching the uncle and nephew chasing each other like crazy.She just shouted happily: "Okay, let's make zongzi!"

When they heard Wang's voice, they both stopped, one by one grabbed Wang's arm and shouted in unison: "Okay, let's make zongzi!" Wang shook off their hands and lifted them up. He took out a few reed leaves from the bamboo basket he was holding.

Li Shasha didn't know what it was for, and looked at Li Yulan suspiciously.Li Yulan explained with a smile: "Sister Sha, I don't remember. This is the rope for binding rice dumplings!" , It turns out that this is how rice dumplings are tied in this era!
"That's right, tear it into strips bit by bit like me, so you can tie the zongzi!" Li Yulan said and demonstrated.Li Shasha also followed to help: "So it's so easy!"

Li Yulan took out a torn reed leaf and placed it on the back of a chair.Mrs. Wang brought the soaked glutinous rice, mung beans and zongzi leaves, and Li Yulan and Mrs. Wang gathered around the stool and began to wrap them.Li Shasha won't just accompany the old lady to visit and study.

Wang divided the glutinous rice into two parts, and mixed part of the glutinous rice with mung beans.This is to pack two kinds, one is mung bean and the other is jujube.

Li Shasha watched them pick up the zong leaves with both hands and turn them out of a nest. Then they filled the glutinous rice and mung beans. I went down a little, and then filled in some pressed porcelain. After another turn, a triangular zongzi with sharp corners was revealed.Then wrap the reed leaves that have been torn into thin strips, turn left and right to tie them, and a rice dumpling is wrapped.

Li Shasha couldn't help clicking her tongue, people in this era don't have to do everything by themselves.Without much effort, Li Yulan and Wang had already wrapped a reed-leaf rice dumpling. Li Yulan went to the cauldron to boil water. When the water boiled, she put the steamer on and put the rice dumpling on the steamer.

After a while, Li Shasha smelled the fragrance of zong leaves mixed with glutinous rice.Zongzi was steaming over there, and this side was not idle either. Wang Shi and Li Yulan continued to make zongzi.

Li Shasha wanted to wait until the mung bean dumplings were finished, so she asked her aunt to try making rice dumplings with reed leaves and pork belly dumplings with salted egg yolk.She went to the back room and took out the two bags. When Wang saw her coming out with the things, she asked, "Sister Sha, what did you take?"

"Red bean paste and salted egg yolk." Li Shasha showed Wang and Li Yulan what she was holding.Neither of them knew what kind of medicine she was selling in the gourd, so they looked at each other.Li Yulan asked, "What are these two things for?" Li Shasha stepped forward with a smile and said, "Wrap them in rice dumplings!"

Mrs. Wang was a little strange. She had never made rice dumplings like this before, so she stopped what she was doing: "How can these be wrapped in rice dumplings?" Li Shasha explained with a smile: "Grandma, listen to me. In fact, rice dumplings are also similar to steamed buns. It’s almost the same, except that one is made of flour, and the other is wrapped with zong leaves. But the stuffing inside is what people want to make. You can try to wrap these things, look good tastes bad?"

Li Yulan's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Mom, I think what Sister Sha said is right, can you try what she said?" Just do it, Li Shasha unpacked the two bags of things into a bowl, and told Li Yulan Said what to put.

I remember that when she ate zongzi or southern dim sum in her previous life, she always said that these things were better than northern ones, and her mother told her that it was because the southern dim sum and zongzi had lard in them, so they tasted better.

She also shared this experience with Li Yulan. Li Yulan took out a small jar from the stove, and Li Shasha stretched her head to see that there was something white like paste inside.She looked at Li Yulan with some puzzlement, and Li Yulan smiled and said, "Didn't you say you should put lard in, this is the last bit we have left, just put it in the zongzi as you said, if it's not good Eat, but I'm going to spank your ass!"

Li Shasha had only seen barreled peanut oil and salad oil in her previous life, but she had never seen lard. This time, she saw what lard looks like.She happily said to Li Yulan: "Auntie, don't worry, this time it will definitely be delicious."

According to the method Li Shasha said, Li Yulan put the heated lard into the bean paste stuffing, stirred it evenly and set it aside, then cut the pork belly into thin slices, marinated it with soy sauce, salt, and shredded ginger and set it aside for later use.Li Shasha's idea is to make part of bean paste stuffing and part of pork belly wrapped with salted egg yolk.In this way, the material is ready.

Li Shasha couldn't resist asking Li Yulan to make some zongzi with bean paste filling first. Li Yulan was also curious about whether this thing would taste good after it was done, so she agreed to make zongzi with bean paste filling first.

The first pot of mung bean zongzi was out of the pot. Mrs. Wang took out the zongzi and put them into a large wooden basin filled with cold water. Li Yulan picked one and opened it for everyone to taste. I don’t know if it’s been a long time. What's the matter with this kind of thing, everyone thinks it's soft, glutinous and sweet, and it's delicious.

Everyone likes the red bean paste dumplings in the second pot, and the old lady wants to eat more.Li Shasha knew that glutinous rice is not easy to digest, and the elderly have poor gastrointestinal function, so they should not eat more, so she advised the old lady: "Old lady, this zongzi is made of glutinous rice, which is not easy to digest. You should eat less, and there will be more later." Salted egg yolk pork belly, you can try it when the time comes."

After hearing this, the old lady no longer asked, and anxiously waited for the third pot of salted egg yolk pork belly.Sure enough, the third pot was more popular, and everyone tasted one and couldn't eat enough.Li Shasha thought that if Li Xianzhi came back, all the rice dumplings with salted egg yolk and pork belly would go into his stomach, so there was no need to send another one out.

Everyone was busy, when a deep man's voice came from outside: "Sister Sha! Brother Zhi!" Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the door.

A tall man came in through the door, carrying a load, and there were saws and other things in the basket of the load.Upon seeing her, Mrs. Wang warmly greeted her: "My in-laws are here!"

The man put down the burden on his shoulders, rubbed his hands together shyly and said, "My mother, I have been making furniture for a family in the county this month. I just came back, and on the road I heard that it was Sister Sha who fell into the stream." I've been ill for more than half a month. I'm anxious, so I'll just come over here first to see if she's alright?"

Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, let my in-laws worry about it. Yulan, quickly pour a bowl of water for my in-laws, and boil two more eggs." Li Yulan sighed and went to work.The man said hello to the old lady who was sitting first, and the old lady exchanged a few words with him.

Li Shasha stared blankly at the side, thinking in her heart that this is her grandfather Lei Zhengtang with this body.After waking up, I haven't seen anyone from my grandma's house to see me for a month. I thought it was a bad relationship between the two families, so I didn't care.

Just as she was thinking about it, the man came over, hugged her with his wide and callused hands, and looked up and down: "Hey, my sister Sha has grown taller, and her face is also very red." Mrs. Wang hurriedly introduced from the side: "Sister Sha, this is your grandfather, hurry up and call him grandfather. In-laws, since this child fell into the stream, I can't remember many things. Please forgive me!"

Li Shasha nestled in Lei Zhengtang's arms and called grandpa sweetly.Lei Zhengtang looked at her lovingly: "Okay, Sister Sha is good!" Then he said to Mrs. Wang: "It's okay, it's okay. Hey, I've been there for more than a month. Furniture, I’ll be there in March. I didn’t expect our sister Sha to suffer such a big crime, so I just want to see how sister Sha is doing.”

Wang comforted: "Okay, it's all healed. Don't worry about my in-laws. Although I don't remember much about the past, we've been talking to her slowly these days."

While chatting, Li Yulan brought up a bowl of brown sugar water.Li Shasha was a little surprised, why this brown sugar water was brought to the man.

Lei Zhengtang hurriedly took the brown sugar water: "Mother-in-law, you're too polite, what kind of brown sugar water does my family serve?" Mrs. Wang waved her hand: "It's rare for my in-laws to come here. Hey, it's thanks to the help of my in-laws several times, otherwise this day I really haven't sent it. Aren't you our honored guest?"

Li Shasha suddenly realized that the customary guests here came to serve brown sugar water, no wonder they had to buy four catties of brown sugar that day.I haven't seen brown sugar water before, because my family can't afford brown sugar, so I can't pay attention to it.

(End of this chapter)