Chicken shit vine cakes are a traditional local dessert on the island, made with fresh chicken shit vine leaves and soaked rice.
The preparation method is not difficult. Fresh chicken manure vine leaves and soaked rice are placed in a stone mortar and pounded into powder. Then, water is added and the powder is mixed in. The mixture is then pinched into small, worm-like cakes about the size of a little finger. Ginger shreds, coconut shreds, and brown sugar are added and cooked together. Coconut milk chicken manure vine cakes are made with chicken manure vine, which is believed to nourish yin and yang, replenish qi and blood, and is also known as "earth ginseng" in folk medicine.
On the island, every household eats chicken manure vine cakes on the first day of the seventh lunar month every year, which has become a tradition.
However, Yu Yao is pregnant, and since chicken manure vine cakes have blood-activating effects, she can't eat them. So her two mothers specially made her sour bean and brown sugar glutinous rice balls, which are sweet and sour and very thirst-quenching.
She was envious of Aunt Meihua and her two mothers, each with a bowl of chicken manure vine cakes. However, she knew her own body condition and could only eat them after giving birth.
Chicken manure vine cakes are a very good tonic for postpartum women's recovery.
After finishing her dessert, Yu Yao patted her stomach, which looked bulging, indicating she would be hungry again soon.
Before leaving, Hu Lingyu, worried that she might get hungry, grabbed a handful of dried shrimp, dried walnuts, red dates, and other snacks for her and put them in a snack bag that Wu Wanying had specially sewn, so that she could eat them when she got hungry.
“Plum Blossom, our Zhizhi is pregnant. Could you please take good care of her?” Wu Wanying said, still worried. “Or perhaps we could go with you?”
Yu Yao called out helplessly, "Mom, there are too many people. We're too conspicuous. Don't worry, I'll protect myself and won't do anything."
Su Meihua also assured, "Aunties, don't worry, I will protect Yu Yao. I will take care of anything that happens and I will never let Yu Yao lay a finger on me. You can rest assured."
Wu Wanying and Hu Lingyu exchanged a glance and had no choice but to nod in agreement. "Alright then, you two must be careful. It's okay if you don't catch anyone. Just remember what they look like, and we'll settle the score with you later."
After much nagging and advice from her two mothers, Yu Yao finally left the house.
Anyone who didn't know better would think they were going to some dangerous place.
Yu Yao just didn't expect that the place Sister Plum Blossom mentioned as a suitable place to catch people would be a bathhouse.
Yu Yao was stunned to see so many naked people coming and going in the bathhouse.
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