When Pei Yao returned home, the glutinous rice had already been steamed. It took several batches of 500 jin of glutinous rice to steam.
Chen Fang is placing peeled and pitted lychee flesh on the steamer. After the glutinous rice is steamed, the lychee flesh will also need to be steamed for a while.
"Everyone's back. The food's ready, come and eat!"
Yunniang came out of the kitchen carrying the freshly prepared food and called to her brother and sister who had just returned to come in and eat.
Xiao Xuan'er was also helping her mother carry the bowls. Today's main dish was meat buns that Pei Yao bought from town. Yun Niang steamed them in a steamer basket in a pot, and they were ready to eat. She also stir-fried some oysters and wild vegetables.
Steaming lychee flesh takes very little time, so after it was cooked, Pei Yao took it out and put it in the courtyard with the steamed glutinous rice, covered it with a layer of gauze and waited for it to cool.
Covering the rice with gauze is to effectively prevent small flying insects from flying directly into the rice and meat.
Pei Yao then went to have dinner.
After finishing the lychee wine, continue with the steps of making lychee wine. Fortunately, the following steps are relatively simple. You just need to mix the yeast in, seal it, and wait for fermentation.
The nights in the small seaside village are always exceptionally quiet, with only the sounds of cicadas and frogs rising and falling.
Summer in Lingnan is a rainy season, and a light drizzle began to fall, adding a layer of misty fog to the night.
After doing all this, Pei Yao stood still and stretched her aching back.
"Phew, finally done."
The girl looked up at the crescent moon overhead with her eyes crinkling at the corners. It seemed that because of the recent rain, the crescent moon was shrouded in a layer of mist, like a shy girl hiding behind her veil.
"Go to sleep."
Perhaps because she was exhausted from both day and night, Pei Yao fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the bed.
That night she had a dream…
In her dream, she was a tiny little girl. That year, on the Lantern Festival, a day for family reunion, her father and mother took her, who was only a few years old, to visit the lantern festival in Kyoto.
When Pei Yao was born, she was the only son in the Pei family line, so Pei Erlang doted on her like the apple of his eye.
I wish I could take this lovely and well-behaved daughter with me wherever I go.
When Pei Dalang reached the age of marriageable age for men in the capital, his father, Pei, passed away. Pei Dalang was a filial son, and after his father's death, he followed the custom of the time and observed three years of mourning for his father. Three years later, Pei Erlang also reached the age of marriageable age, but then his mother passed away. Pei Erlang was also a filial son, and after his mother's death, he followed Pei Dalang and continued to observe mourning for his mother.
This resulted in the two brothers getting married later than usual, which is why the Pei family's child was born later than others.
When little Pei Yao passed by a rabbit lantern display, she raised her tiny, chubby hand and pointed at the little rabbit lantern, saying, "Daddy, Yao'er wants this rabbit lantern."
"Want a little bunny lamp?" Pei Erlang asked his daughter in a high-pitched voice.
"Mmm, I want it." Pei Yao tapped her little head.
"Then your dear father will buy it for you."
Upon hearing this, the little girl's eyes lit up, and she stood on tiptoe, stretching out her little arms for her father to hold her.
Pei Erlang was a doting father to his daughter, and his heart softened instantly when he heard his daughter acting cute towards him.
Yunniang, standing beside her, covered her mouth and watched this scene with a smile, her heart softening as she felt that her husband was as adorable as a child.
After being hugged, Pei Yao immediately gave her father a quick kiss on the face, like a chick pecking at rice.
Pei Erlang was overjoyed and handed the shopkeeper a silver ingot with a smile: "Keep the change, give me three rabbit lanterns."
Upon seeing the silver ingots, the shopkeeper immediately smiled and presented the distinguished guest with three rabbit lanterns.
When Pei Erlang received the rabbit lantern, he gave it to Yunniang first, and then gave the other two to Pei Yao.
"Yay yay yay yay... I have two rabbit lanterns now, I'll give one to my little mute brother."
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Pei Yao woke up from her dream on the second day. This was the first time since she transmigrated that she had a dream so vivid that she didn't want to wake up.
The love in her dream made her unwilling to wake up.
That was something she had never experienced before. Although she had most of Pei Yao's memories from this era, many of them were missing. Moreover, when she had these memories before, it was like she had only glanced at them briefly.
But last night's dream felt so real to him, as if she really was that child surrounded by love.
"Yao'er, did you not get enough sleep? You seem listless."
Yunniang watched her daughter squatting by the well, holding a willow branch, looking completely distracted.
Pei Yao snapped out of her reverie and looked at Yun Niang. Yun Niang, who had been washing snails, stopped when she saw Pei Yao lost in thought and looked down at her tenderly.
"I'm fine. I was just thinking about what else I need to bring today, so I don't forget anything."
Pei Yao still needs to go to Gu Mingqian today to tell him the recipe for ice jelly.
Therefore, she needs to bring some ice jelly and the tools for making ice jelly with her.
Seeing that she was alright, Yunniang turned back to continue washing the snails.
Pei Yao was stunned when she saw a few strands of silver-white hair mixed in with Yun Niang's hair as she turned her head. If she remembered correctly, Yun Niang was only in her thirties.
After washing up, Pei Yao went to prepare the things she needed for the day: a small bag of dried prickly pear seeds, a piece of gauze, and some fresh mint leaves.
Liu Tie and Niu Qingshan were already waiting at the Pei family's door. Niu Qingshan's car had a large basket of bamboo cups made by Uncle Niu Er.
Last night, in order to finish the cups that Pei Yao wanted today, the whole family worked together: some sawed the cups, some polished the rims, and some engraved the words.
No one was idle; the whole family worked until late at night before finally finishing. But he hadn't even slept for a few hours when the rooster's crowing woke him up again.
With dark circles under his eyes, Niu Qingshan immediately decided that he would call a few people to help him with the work today.
Otherwise, he felt he would eventually die of exhaustion here.
"Da Niu, what's wrong with your eyes? Did you go fighting in the dark last night?" Liu Tie noticed Niu Qingshan's dark circles at a glance.
Niu Qingshan shook his head and said with a somewhat bitter expression, "No, I was making bamboo cups with my grandfather last night, and we worked until most of the night before I only got to sleep for a few hours."
What are you going to do with bamboo cups?
"That's what Yao Mei wanted. Their ice jelly is served in a bamboo cup," Niu Qingshan explained, yawning.
"Then I'll help you make it too."
Liu Tie doesn't have much farm work to do lately, so he has plenty of time.
Pei Yao has given him work every day and pays him a lot of wages. He and his mother have always wanted to thank Pei Yao properly, but they don't have anything worth giving to the Pei family. Right now, Pei Yao needs to make bamboo cups, which is easy and he knows how to make them.
"Brother Qingshan, you've arrived." Pei Yao saw Niu Qingshan and Liu Tie waiting at the gate as soon as she opened the courtyard gate.
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