Chapter 294 Zongzi
It was almost noon. Liu Yinyin steamed a pot of rice and fried a handful of chicken greens.
I didn’t make any other dishes, just the beer-roasted duck, and that’s what I had for lunch.
Gu Yanyan was given braised duck, and Liu Yinyin made a special portion for him.
When Zheng Qiangwei came in the afternoon, she saw Liu Yinyin drying several baskets of lychees in the yard...
She wondered, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
Liu Yinyin smiled and glanced at her: "We can't finish eating all the lychees at home, so I'm thinking of drying some of them and saving them for later."
Zheng Qiangwei opened her mouth slightly: "You can do this too?"
There are dried lychees for sale outside, but they are not common and the price is quite expensive.
Liu Yinyin nodded: "I used to dry fruits frequently, the method should be similar."
"......You are really good." The longer the two spent together, the more Zheng Qiangwei felt that Liu Yinyin knew a lot and could do everything.
However, Zheng Qiangwei stared at the bag in her hand and said with a headache: "This time, there are really a lot of lychees. I ate them all afternoon and my mouth was full of blisters. Now I dare not eat them anymore. I wanted to send some to you."
If you can’t finish it, it would be a pity if it goes bad.
Although lychees are not food, they cannot be wasted.
Liu Yinyin said, "Send them here. I'll make them into dried lychees together. It's not a big deal. I'll give them to you after they're dried."
"That's great." Zheng Qiangwei really likes eating dried lychees, but she doesn't know how to make them herself.
Liu Yinyin gave her the duck eggs she bought from Aunt Wang in the morning and didn't ask for the money.
"Auntie Wang confiscated the flour and said that the duck eggs were for us to eat as a thank you gift for introducing her daughter to a man."
Zheng Qianwei said, "I told Aunt Wang today that I would arrange for them to meet at a state-owned hotel the day after tomorrow, but I don't know if it will work out."
Liu Yinyin sighed and said, "Just do your best."
As for Aunt Wang...even if it doesn't work out, such a thing shouldn't be blamed on them.
Besides, it is also possible that Wang's daughter-in-law looks down on each other.
However, Liu Yinyin suddenly thought: "The day after tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival?"
Zheng Qiangwei hummed: "The manager said today that we will only work half a day on the Dragon Boat Festival and have a holiday in the afternoon."
If there were no holiday, it would be difficult for them to get together to rest.
Liu Yinyin was wondering if she could make some rice dumplings in the next two days.
I haven't eaten zongzi for a long time...
Coincidentally, among the benefits that Gu Cheng had just distributed, there was a bag of glutinous rice, weighing about five or six kilograms.
It’s definitely enough for making rice dumplings. Tomorrow I’ll buy some salted duck eggs from Aunt Wang and make some rice dumplings with salted egg yolk filling.
There were no rice dumplings leaves, and the supply and marketing cooperatives had none to sell.
I heard from an old employee of the supply and marketing cooperative that a batch of Mid-Autumn Festival supplies should arrive on the island on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Liu Yinyin will take another look in the next two days. If there is really nothing, there are still banana trees on the island. She can tear a few banana leaves to make rice dumplings.
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon.
Liu Yinyin went to work an hour early today. As soon as she arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, she saw a supply truck parked at the door.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Many people come to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things. There is already a long line at the door.
Liu Yinyin parked her bike and hurried inside to help pack things.
Several other employees of the supply and marketing cooperative were also busy inside, each with a smile on their face.
There were quite a lot of supplies delivered today, including a pig, a sheep, a few chickens and geese, and seafood...
There are also fruits, vegetables and so on.
Auntie Wang was particularly happy today. She told the new salespeople, "Hurry up and pick out what you want, or else they will be sold out when the store opens."
As they were talking, Manager Jiang suddenly came in.
He coughed twice and asked Uncle Zhuang to cut him two pounds of pork and one pound of mutton. Then he left the money and the bill and walked away as if nothing had happened.
As soon as Manager Jiang left, the supply and marketing cooperative became lively again.
Everyone is picking out their favorite things.
Seeing this, Liu Yinyin directly bought half a chicken, two pieces of tofu, a handful of beans, a pound of mushrooms, and two pounds of taro.
Seeing that there were some rice dumplings leaves among the supplies, Liu Yinyin decisively took a handful.
Brother Liu and Brother Liu will come to our house for dinner today, so we have to prepare more dishes.
Zheng Qiangwei knew that her family had guests today, so she took the initiative to give her two meat coupons: "Yesterday, my family sent me a few packages, and there was a stack of food coupons and meat coupons in them. Yiming and I can't use them all."
Yang Yiming is the group leader, and his benefits are not bad.
Zheng Qiangwei now has a job again, and the couple earns enough to spend.
Liu Yinyin said to her: "I will make some rice dumplings today, I will give you some later."
She turned around and bought another pound of pork belly.
There are so many dishes, and there are a lot of people waiting outside.
Other employees also bought a lot of things.
It’s really busy today, as soon as the supply and marketing cooperative opens.
Several sales clerks were so busy that they had no time to rest. The counters that Liu Yinyin was in charge of were not so bad.
When she is not busy, she will help others.
As noon approached, the number of customers in the store gradually decreased.
The supplies delivered this morning were almost all snatched away.
What's left are some scraps and some leftover vegetable leaves.
If they can't be sold, several employees will divide it among themselves. They can't let it go to waste.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the supply and marketing cooperative is only open half a day.
After finishing the work in the store, everyone packed up and prepared to go back.
Zheng Qiangwei and Aunt Wang went directly to the state-owned hotel.
When they parted, Auntie Wang asked Liu Yinyin again: "Yinyin, are you going?"
Liu Yinyin shook her head: "Auntie, I won't go. We have guests at home."
She made an appointment with Brother Liu and arranged to have dinner in the evening.
But Liu Yinyin still had to go back to make and cook rice dumplings.
She felt that an entire afternoon was not enough.
It was not easy to make zongzi, so Liu Yinyin prepared a lot of things this time.
There were ten kilograms of glutinous rice alone, half of which was Gu Chengfa’s welfare, and the other half was smuggled out of the system by Liu Yinyin.
As for the fillings...Liu Yinyin prepared rice dumplings with five kinds of fillings.
Bacon, salted duck egg yolk, candied dates, red beans and peanut filling.
Glutinous rice, red beans and bacon have been soaked in advance.
I only bought a handful of rice dumplings leaves today, which was definitely not enough. Liu Yinyin had an idea and bought another pound of rice dumplings leaves from the system.
While we were busy, Brother Liu and Brother Liu II came together.
The state-owned hotel was not closed for the holiday, so Brother Liu took half a day off to come here.
Knowing that Liu Yinyin was going to make rice dumplings, they all came over in advance to help.
"Little sister, your house is so big..." After being on the island for so long, this is the first time that Brother Liu has come to Liu Yinyin's house.
He knew that the family compound was full of magnificent new houses, but he had no idea that his younger sister's house was so big.
Two-story building, so many rooms...