Traveling back to ancient times to make money and raise children is also free

Thinking of the sweet and salty dumplings in supermarkets during the Dragon Boat Festival, which are wrapped in all kinds of strange shapes, I decided to try it this year and make my own dumplings.

I calculated that I would send some to the people in the city. I would send some to Brother He, some to Boss Zhao, and some to Madam Tian, ​​who is rushing to make clothes. I also want to remember the people in the village. And we will keep some for ourselves.

With this calculation, the amount of rice dumplings that need to be wrapped is a bit large. One person can't do it. I simply asked Xinghua, Liuniang and Huaer to do it together.

When Su Lai heard that they were going to make zongzi, he simply returned to the village and took Da Niu, Er Niu, Chu Qi and Xiao Si with him to go to the mountains for a day. As a result, in the evening, he brought back several baskets of large zongzi leaves. The few people took the zongzi leaves and came to the town in a horse-drawn carriage.

Looking at the large, green leaves in the basket, I could almost smell the aroma of the cooked glutinous rice wrapped in leaves. It was sticky, sweet, and had the fragrance of bamboo leaves, making my mouth water.

Since they had prepared the leaves for the rice dumplings, I simply asked them to wash the leaves they had picked.

Several teenagers were laughing and giggling, each holding a backpack in each hand, and they effortlessly carried the zong leaves to the well. They poured the zong leaves into a wooden basin, and then the well water was pumped up from the well and poured into the basin. Su Lai ran into the room and took out a wooden zong bristle brush, and brushed both sides of the zong leaves clean.

The boys worked quickly and efficiently. After more than half an hour, all the rice dumplings leaves prepared for wrapping were washed and hung in a sieve to dry.

I bought four dou of glutinous rice, which had already been soaked in water. I simply took Su Lai and Chu Qi to the street to buy ingredients. Three catties of mung beans. Three catties of red beans, five catties of red dates, five catties of white sugar, and five catties of candied dates. Finally, I thought about it and simply bought ten catties of bacon. I also brought a bottle of soy sauce. While I was buying Su Lai and Chu Qi, I carried them to the car.

When he felt that the car was full, he returned to the small courtyard.

Take the thing back, no one knows what I bought it for?

Liu Niang even asked me in a low voice: "Sister Yiyi, are you preparing to cook?"

"No, Liu Niang. I bought these to make rice dumplings."

Cao'er whispered, "Boss, can't we just use glutinous rice to make zongzi?"

I find it amazing that this dynasty did not have as many different kinds of rice dumplings as we do today.

The simplest method is to soak the white glutinous rice, wrap it in bamboo leaves, and then cook it.

I asked Chuqi to wash all the ingredients and put them in a basin for later use.

Instruct Su Lai to divide the glutinous rice into several portions and put one portion in each bowl.

Then ask Liu Niang to pour the ingredients one by one into the glutinous rice.

Xiao Si quickly asked, what should I do then?

I pointed at the pile of white sugar I bought and said, "Xiao Si, that's your job. Pour a little more white sugar into each pile of prepared ingredients, and pour it in evenly. Don't make it too sweet or too sweet."

Xiao Si was very happy, he quickly picked up the sugar and put it in the pot carefully, as if he was doing something very solemn and sacred.

Give the washed bacon to Cao'er, who cuts it into small pieces slightly larger than corn kernels, puts them into the remaining pile of white glutinous rice, and pours soy sauce on it.

Take out two pairs of chopsticks and give them to Da Niu and Er Niu to stir all the glutinous rice with the ingredients evenly. In this way, each zongzi will have a variety of ingredients, and you can take whichever you want.

Finally, I asked Xinghua to bring some white thread. I cut all of them into two-foot-long pieces and tied them to the chair. I looked at the washed zong leaves in the basin. I pulled Huaer to sit down, asked them to come over, and started making zongzi.

Ask them to put two pieces of zong leaves together, move them a little wider, and turn the two ends of the zong leaves to the middle. A cylinder with one end big and the other end pointed will appear. Then use a spoon to stuff the prepared glutinous rice into it, press it tightly with chopsticks, press the extra zong leaves down, fold it, pinch it tightly, fold it again, split it to one side and tie it tightly with thread, and a beautiful zongzi will come out.

Girls are naturally good at this. Liu Niang only took a look and copied it. Then she made the apricot flowers and grass. She made them very beautifully. In the end, she even wrapped the flowers into a zongzi. The boys were still busy.

The rice dumplings I made on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year fell apart.

Su Lai broke the rice dumpling leaves and all the glutinous rice fell out.

Da Niu and Er Niu worked together to make the rice dumplings, but the leaves were not obedient and started to leak while they were making the dumplings.

Before Xiao Si started, he was just watching them and laughing. Hua Er couldn't stand it anymore. She slapped Xiao Si and said, "You're still laughing at your brothers. You didn't even dare to do anything. You didn't even do anything."

Xiao Si: "Who said I didn't do it? I just haven't started yet."

Hua'er: "Then go ahead and do it. If you can't do it, you are not allowed to laugh."

Xiao Si shut up obediently.

I listened and watched with a smile. I let them quarrel and laugh. I felt particularly relaxed and happy. Isn't the purpose of celebrating a festival to have fun? How is the zongzi wrapped? What does it matter? It will be wrapped well in the end anyway.

Several people were talking and laughing noisily. After an hour, all the strange and wonderful dumplings were wrapped.

I don't mind, no matter if they are ugly or beautiful, I put them all in the pot and start cooking. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. The aroma of the zongzi gets stronger with the heat. Several little ones are already drooling.

As soon as I opened the pot lid, I simply took out some of the dumplings and let them eat first. When they were almost done eating, I packed all the dumplings to be given away and asked them who would help me deliver the dumplings.

Several young boys have discussed and decided to send them to a place closer first. Da Niu and Er Niu said they would take Xiao Si back to the village, so Su Lai would take them there first with a horse carriage and bring the zongzi from the village. Then Da Niu and Er Niu would take Xiao Si to deliver the zongzi to the village.

After they send Daniu and his men back, they will go to the farm. I will go to the town and Boss Zhao's place.

After delivering all the dumplings here, Su Lai and Chu Qi took the dumplings to the provincial capital.

They also brought clothes and shoes that they had made for Xiuwen Jiangchuan and Xiaobao, as well as a portion of rice dumplings that he had prepared for Xiaobao. They were told to ask Jiangchuan if he could send them over. If not, they could leave the rice dumplings in the city and let them eat them themselves. Or they could give them to others.

So on the fourth night of the New Year, Jiangchuan and Xiuwen met Sulai and Chuqi, and also received these strange rice dumplings and clothes.

There are too many flavors. Xiuwen is a scholar after all, so his appetite is a bit small. He only ate a meat dumpling, a candied date dumpling and a mung bean dumpling, and couldn't eat any more.

Jiang Chuan finished eating two meat dumplings and tried a red bean one. He refused to try other flavors and just kept eating one meat dumpling after another.

Prince Wang happened to come over to play, and he also opened one to eat. After tasting it, he immediately started to fight with Jiang Chuan for it. Jiang Chuan saw it and simply picked up the plate with the rice dumpling and jumped onto the roof. He sat on the roof and laughed.

Young Master Wang was lying on the ground, furious. He pointed at Jiang Chuan and scolded him for not being a good friend.

Jiang Chuan was too lazy to pay attention to him. He sat on the roof and ate with a smug smile on his face.

Who knew that if he wasn't careful, Chuqi would grab half of it from the other side.

The two of them fought for it, which surprised Jiang Chuan greatly. As a result, they became friends. This could be considered a friendship born out of fighting!

The other one belonged to Xiaobao, and was also delivered to Yinjian Villa at the fastest speed overnight.