As soon as he got home, Tian An called Chunxi, Mangzhong and Xiaokang to come and pick gold ingots together.
Some were cutting paper, others were folding gold ingots, and then stringing them together with string. It took just one afternoon to finish. The strings of gold ingots were so dazzling that they blinded everyone.
When he and Chunxi put the gold ingots into the warehouse, they saw the glutinous rice they had just bought. Glutinous rice reminded him of glutinous rice cakes, and when he talked about glutinous rice cakes, Tian An thought of Qingming grass.
Qingming grass is also called mouse ear grass, cold food vegetable, Qingming vegetable, etc. Its leaves are like chrysanthemum leaves, but smaller than chrysanthemum leaves. It can bloom small yellow flowers. There is a layer of small hairs on the leaves and branches. The hairs are tough and look like a white cotton-padded jacket. It is fresh and cute.
Qingmingcao also has the effect of relieving cough and eliminating phlegm, and has a certain regulating effect on cough caused by excessive phlegm.
Moreover, the glutinous rice cake made with Qingming grass has both the fragrance of Qingming grass and the softness of glutinous rice cake, which is simply too delicious.
As a senior foodie, how could Tian An miss such a delicacy! Qingming grass usually only grows in the wild around the Qingming Festival, and it is not available in other seasons.
Tian An decided to go look for Qingming grass early tomorrow morning so that he could use it when making glutinous rice cakes the day after tomorrow.
Thinking about the glutinous rice cake made from Qingming grass, Tian An slept until dawn.
After breakfast, I went to pick grass for the Grain in Ear season before the sun came out.
The two searched for a long time before they found a patch of Qingming grass on a hill.
Unfortunately, the weather was too dry, and the Qingming grass didn't grow well. The two of them picked a large area before picking half a basket of grass. When they saw that the sun was about to come out, they went back.
On the way, they picked some large leaves and covered the basket with them, otherwise they would be wilted in the sun. They returned home before the sun came out.
After a simple lunch, Tian An took advantage of the lunch time when everyone was resting at home and took Chen Feng to several households in the village to borrow wooden pestles.
Making glutinous rice cakes requires a stone mortar and a wooden pestle. When I was buying materials for building a house, I thought I'd need them for harvesting food, so I brought back three stone mortars from a stoneware shop. However, I didn't have a wooden pestle yet, so I had to borrow one.
The village chief's house.
After explaining the purpose of the visit, the village chief said cheerfully, "Take it! This year's harvest is bad, so my family won't be making glutinous rice cakes. If it doesn't rain again, we'll have to trade our rice for coarse grains for Kang in the second half of the year! We have to save the rice for preparation!"
Listening to the village chief's sigh, Tian An felt bad too. Farmers depend on the weather for their livelihood, and it would be difficult for everyone if God doesn't give them food!
After thinking for a while, he said, "Is the village chief free tomorrow? We want to have a glutinous rice cake beating competition tomorrow. If you are free, can you help us be a referee?"
The village chief took a breath and said, "You want to hold a competition? How many meters have you prepared?"
Tian An: "Not much, just 240 kilograms of rice. We've been working hard for a month or so. Now that it's not a holiday, let's relax and have some fun!"
The village chief nodded. "It's a lot. It must have cost a lot of money! But the farmhands you employ are really good. I've never seen such hardworking farmhands."
After thinking for a while, he said, "They should do the same. You, girl, provide them with brick and tile houses and food. You should know that there are not many brick and tile houses in the village!"
Seeing Chen Feng and the village chief's son coming out with the wooden pestle, Tian An said, "Brother Gangzi and Dacong should come along too! Brother Gangzi can even play and compete with us! There will be rewards if we win!"
Gangzi is the village chief’s son Tian Gang, and Dacong is the village chief’s grandson.
Da Cong just came back from outside and heard Tian An say there was a reward, so he came up to Tian An and said, "Auntie An An, what is the reward?"
Tian An took out a candy from his bag and gave it to him: "It's not much, first place gets ten cents, second place gets six cents, and third place gets three cents. Ask your dad to win and buy you a candied haws!"
Da Cong's eyes lit up and he went to pester his father.
When the village chief heard Tian An say he had won the prize, he said to his son, "That's great! Gangzi, you better try your best. If not first place, you should at least get second place! I'm embarrassed to see your two or three cents of hidden money."
Before Gangzi could say anything, Dacong said, "That's right, you couldn't even bear to buy me a candied haws."
Gangzi's face turned red as a monkey's buttocks after being squeezed by the grandfather and grandson. He could only say to Tian An awkwardly: "Sister Tian An, please forgive me, please forgive me."
After that, he pulled Da Cong into the house and said, "You dare to tease your father? I'll teach you a lesson today. You don't even know who the boss is."
Da Cong's suicidal voice came from inside the house: "If you hit me, I will let your father deal with you, Grandpa, help me!"
“Ouch”…
After Tian An came back, he thought that inviting only the village chief and his family would not be enough, so he asked Qiu Tian to inform the women working in the workshops in the village that if they were willing, they could bring their families to play together.
He also asked Da Niu to invite the clan leader and two elders to act as referees.
On the morning of Qingming Festival, people go to worship their ancestors, and making glutinous rice cakes is arranged in the afternoon.
Tian An was just thinking about what else he hadn't prepared! Chun Xi came over and said, "Miss, there are two people outside who want to see you. They say they are your third aunt and uncle!"
Tian An frowned, and after a while he stood up and walked outside to open the door. Sure enough, he saw Tian Mingcai and Du Shi standing at the door.
"Uncle and aunt, it's been a long time since I last saw you! Why did you suddenly think of An An An today?" Tian An smiled with his eyes curved.
Tian Mingcai and Mrs. Du were stunned: "An An! You remembered it wrong, we are the three of you..."
Before Mrs. Du could finish, Tian An interrupted and asked, "Second Uncle and Second Aunt came to see An An for something?"
Hearing Tian An call them second uncle and second aunt twice, Tian Mingcai and Du looked at each other and remembered that Tian An had signed a letter of severance of relations with Li Dazhu's family and Wang.
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