The Rebirth of a Farm Girl from a Military Family and a Cannon Fodder Princess

The New Year is just around the corner.

This is Zisu's first New Year since her rebirth, and she plans to make it lively and happy.

In Wuliping, during the Spring Festival, every household makes many kinds of New Year cakes. There are rice cakes, bean cakes, crispy dumplings, glutinous rice cakes, fried cakes, and so on, with a wide variety depending on each family's living standards.

Zisu had made rice cakes, bean cakes, and pastries before at the Marquis's residence in the capital. However, making glutinous rice cakes was a first for her.

Making glutinous rice cakes is quite a hassle. First, you have to soak glutinous rice and regular rice in a wooden bucket overnight in a specific ratio. The next morning, you have to go to the village's large mill and queue up. When it's your turn, you put the rice into a stone mortar and pestle and push the wooden pestle to pound the rice into a sticky paste. That's half the battle won. Then, you roll the rice paste into round cakes by hand, and then either steam or press them.

It was Zisu's first time participating in making glutinous rice cakes. She was tired, curious, and a little excited. So this is how glutinous rice cakes are made! She sincerely admired the wisdom of the working people.

When the villagers saw that Zisu had personally led people to pound glutinous rice cakes, and that she was clearly a complete novice who knew nothing about it, they all offered their help.

"Thank you!" Zisu nodded and smiled at everyone, and soon she was chatting and laughing with them, talking about the weather, the harvest, and whose naughty children were, thus completely integrating into the rural life of Wuliping.

Xiangli stared in disbelief: Was this still the same aloof, arrogant, and domineering young lady from the capital? It was one thing that the young lady had become capable of managing the household after the family suffered a great disaster, but now she was actually fighting with these uncouth village women. This change was too astonishing!

However, Xiangli still really likes this gentle and kind lady.

Zisu is very good at making and eating crispy dumplings. These are similar to dumplings, but deep-fried. The filling consists of roasted and crushed peanuts, roasted sesame seeds, and sugar.

The flaky pastries from the perilla buns are uniformly sized and exquisitely small. The patterns on them are especially beautiful, almost like works of art, making them almost too pretty to eat.

Grandma suggested, "Zisu, very few families in the countryside make pastry dumplings. Why don't we make more? We can use them as gifts to visit the villagers, and we can also serve them to our guests when they come to pay their respects for the New Year. How about that?"

In this way, everyone in Wuliping will know that her granddaughter Zisu is skillful and a rare gem.

Zisu smiled slightly: "Okay, we'll do as Grandma says." This wasn't a matter of principle, just a small thing, so Zisu naturally wouldn't go against her grandmother.

That Spring Festival, the most talked-about topic among the villagers of Wuliping was Zisu, a girl who was about ten years old. The pastries she made were so delicious that everyone lingered in their memories and praised them highly. In particular, the girls ran to Xiaoshitan every day to ask her for the secret to making pastries.

After the Lantern Festival, Zisu had made five or six good friends in Wuliping. The boys looked at her with more eagerness and admiration.

Grandma got her wish and was all smiles all day long.

Hehe, her granddaughter is radiant wherever she goes! Even now, as a country girl, she's still one in a hundred!