Chapter 253 Lotus Leaf Wine
Summer is coming soon, and the apricots in the yard are ripe. Some of the ripe ones have already been tasted by birds.
This year's apricots are particularly sweet. The side facing the sun ripens faster and has spots on it.
The fruits on the shady side are sourer, but Lin Xiaotong also likes to eat them.
Instead, she preferred sweet and sour food, and the pure sweet fruit went into the stomachs of Gao Xiulan and Xie Dajiao.
He Cuicui is different. She likes sour food and doesn't even frown after taking a bite.
It's the kind of fruit that looks good, but is so sour that it makes your teeth fall out when you eat it.
Er Nengzi looked at He Cuicui and bared his teeth, not daring to speak.
Lin Xiaotong was in the late stage of pregnancy and she started to have morning sickness.
As my weight increases, my movements become more clumsy and my body becomes uncomfortable.
It is not safe for her to ride a bicycle alone, so Gao Xiulan now picks her up and drops her off at get off work by bicycle.
Xie Yi wrote two letters a week, and when he was not on a mission, he would take a boat to Guangzhou to make a phone call.
My mood is also not very stable. Sometimes I fall asleep at night and wake up the next morning to find that my pillow is wet.
When I feel upset, I take out the letter, read a book, or eat some snacks, and I will gradually calm down.
Sometimes Gao Xiulan would take her to sleep at night, hugging her and patting her back.
Xie Da Jiao stayed alone in the empty room, waiting to complain to her son the next time Xie Yi called.
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June 21st, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Tuesday, is the Dragon Boat Festival.
Gao Xiulan went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables early in the morning. When she came back, there were a few lotus flowers wrapped in large lotus leaves on the basket.
They are all unopened. They are kept in a long can and placed on the dining table in the main hall.
I happened to buy some tender lotus leaves at noon today. They were bright green and curled up, like lotus leaf buds.
After washing, set aside to drain and wipe your hands with an apron.
Then start chopping the meat, add some wrung-out shepherd's purse, season briefly, and mix the meat filling evenly.
Spread out the lotus leaf, spread the meat filling on one side with a spoon, roll it up, cut it into small pieces, and steam it in a pot after the water boils.
The simple lotus leaf stuffing is ready, which is actually meat wrapped in lotus leaf.
Have some cold lotus root salad to whet your appetite.
The main dish for lunch today is rice dumplings. A few days ago, I went out with Zhang Dazui and the others to pick a handful of reed leaves.
The glutinous rice and reed leaves are soaked in cold water in advance, and the reed leaves are also put into a hot pot.
Commonly eaten ones include candied date rice dumplings, red bean rice dumplings, red bean paste rice dumplings, yellow glutinous rice rice dumplings, and pure glutinous rice rice dumplings.
Just put whatever you can buy, there is no need to be too particular.
The size was intentionally made a little smaller, tied tightly with Aunt Calla Lily's rope, and wrapped into an oblique square shape.
She also has the habit of putting a few eggs, garlic and broad beans into the rice dumplings when cooking them.
Today is a festival, and we are eating some seasonal dishes, which are light and refreshing.
At noon, Xie Da Jiao came back with someone on his bike. Before he even stepped into the yard, he could smell a strong sweet fragrance.
This area has a sweet smell even at the foot of the wall.
The sun came up at noon, and the back of my neck felt hot.
Lin Xiaotong was wearing a straw hat on her head. She took it off and fanned herself when she entered the house.
When I came in, I almost touched Xiaoju's tail. The cat moved calmly without even moving its butt.
"Mom, it's so hot, let's eat zongzi for lunch today."
She tied up her hair, wiped her face and arms with warm water, and came to the front of the dining table to watch.
"Have you forgotten that today is Dragon Boat Festival? Come and wash your face.
Old Xie, push the car inside, otherwise your butt will get burned in the afternoon sun."
The tires should not be exposed to the sun. If the leather on the back seat is exposed to the sun for a long time, it will produce a pungent smell.
"Why is it so hot so early today? It's only the beginning of June and the temperature is already rising."
Xie Da Jiao washed her face with cold water directly at the edge of the pool.
"Xiu Lan, did your family make yellow rice and red bean filling for lunch?"
Zhang Dazui stuck his head out of the kitchen window in the west room and shouted towards the east.
"Yes, do you want it?"
The man came over with a basin, complaining:
“I’ll trade you some of the ones with red date filling, I forgot to make them.
Lao Zhou suddenly wanted to eat it, so he decided to just eat white rice dumplings dipped in sugar next year.
Oops, I forgot to put the garlic in. My memory is so bad. I’ll go back now.”
"We're having dinner too, Xiaotong, try this dish."
"tasty."
There is a slight bitter taste when biting the edge of the lotus leaf, but it is not obvious. It tastes more delicious when eaten with the meat wrapped together.
Sure enough, she still prefers meat.
"Xiu Lan, the lotus stems taste good. This year they are a little tenderer, with fewer veins and won't get stuck in your teeth."
When you buy lotus stems, there is still a layer of uncleaned skin on the outside that needs to be removed.
Each person ate a head of boiled garlic to kill insects and disinfect.
"Xiaotong, eat less rice dumplings. They can cause indigestion."
A zongzi is stuffed tightly when it is wrapped, and it doesn’t look very big, but when placed in a bowl it is about the size of a large rice ball.
Gao Xiulan herself doesn’t like to eat stuffed food. She likes to dip it in sugar and eat it one bite at a time.
"By the way, you know, the fierce boy from the Third Uncle's family has been taken away."
When I saw Wu Jiabao, I remembered what happened in the compound that morning.
"Isn't there only one grandfather left in this child's city? Has he been released?"
Xie Da Jiao peeled the broad beans with his hands. He was an old hand and could peel out the complete broad bean shells every time.
"No, this kid's parents were rehabilitated and rushed back from the Northwest. They are as thin as a stick.
Especially Liewazi's mother, she would fall down even with the wind.
When you left for work this morning, I asked and found out that you and Zhixi were planting trees in the same place.
Now that I'm finally back, I heard from my third uncle that the Song family's house has been divided among several families.
The house won't be vacated for a while, so the couple will wait until they have a break before going to the street office to ask for a house."
"I think this couple are also gentlemen. This house may not be easy to get."
When a reasonable person meets an unreasonable person, not only will he get angry, but it will also be a headache if the other party acts like a rogue.
Gao Xiulan shook her head. "My house ended up belonging to someone else, and now I have to chase them away. It's really a mess."
"Now that he's been rehabilitated, I guess there will be an explanation for the house issue."
"The subdistrict office has been really messing around lately. Even that old fox Ma Baoguo was kicked out, and now the place is in a complete mess."
Even Diao Yulian, the troublemaker who used to run to the street office every few days just to get a few bars of soap from Ma Baoguo, doesn't dare to go there these days.
Although Ma Baoguo likes to be lazy at work and drinks several kilograms of tea a month, he is still capable of doing his job.
When they were providing rescue services to Phoenix last year, they looked at the donation statistics book for this compound and the detailed list of the final purchase of materials, and confirmed that there was no problem.
"Mom, Dad and I were stopped when we came back last night.
The bags were taken away for inspection, and luckily I didn’t put anything out of the ordinary in them.”
Lin Xiaotong was full, so she peeled some broad beans to eat.
"These bastards will get their comeuppance sooner or later."
Gao Xiulan took a big bite of the rice dumpling in anger, but she didn't notice that she took a red date rice dumpling instead, and her teeth hit the date pit. She bared her teeth and ate slowly.
"Big Mouth and his family won't even go to this core."
"Woo woo woo, my tooth hurts."
"Son, open your mouth and let me see, hahaha, your front teeth are gone.
Xiao Wan, look, his front teeth are knocked out."
"Boss, you're a father and you still have the nerve to laugh at your child. I'm going to beat you to death."
"That's right, brother, how do you become a father?"
"Second brother, your face is almost broken from laughing, and you're still talking about me."
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