"Our wheat is starting to turn yellow, so let's pick some tender ones tomorrow and save them for eating as green wheat!"
"Okay, then hurry up and pick some, the wheat matures quickly!"
"Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Are we still making zongzi this year? I haven't prepared any ingredients these past few days."
"Is there any more space left? Do you want to buy it all?" Lu Chuan asked.
"There aren't many left, so let's wrap some zongzi! We won't fry any vegetable dumplings; it won't feel festive if we don't do anything," Xu Han said.
"Okay, then I'll get up early tomorrow and soak the rice."
"I'll get up with you. Remember to wake me up so we can pick some bamboo leaves to wrap zongzi. We won't use the ones in the space; we'll save them for later," Xu Han said.
"Okay, I'll wake you up tomorrow. Let's rest early tonight!"
After saying that, Lu Chuan pulled Xu Han back to the room, where they spent a tender night together...
The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Lu Chuan called Xu Han to get up.
Xu Han rubbed her aching back and glared fiercely at Lu Chuan.
Lu Chuan, on the other hand, looked completely innocent and very attentive as he helped Xu Han put on her shoes.
After the two got up, Xu Han first prepared the ingredients needed for making zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) and soaked them in water before washing up and eating breakfast.
After breakfast, the two of them carried their baskets and left the courtyard together.
When they arrived at a place with bamboo, they put down their baskets and began picking the bamboo leaves.
Fortunately, although the bamboo leaves were a bit smaller this year, there were still quite a lot of them. After picking two large baskets full, we started heading home.
Xu Han and Lu Chuan did not go straight home, but instead went to the stream in front of their house to wash the bamboo leaves.
After cleaning, Xu Han cooked the food directly in a large iron pot in the yard and set it aside.
Lu Chuan, meanwhile, was leading the corn to thresh the broad beans they had harvested a few days earlier.
After Xu Han finished cooking the bamboo leaves, the other ingredients had soaked for a while and crumbled easily when gently squeezed by hand. That was it.
After preparing all the ingredients, Xu Han moved them into the main room and started wrapping the zongzi. The flavor of the zongzi she wrapped this year was similar to that of last year.
However, this year all the leaves used are bamboo leaves, and different colored strings are used for different flavors of zongzi, making it easier to choose when eating.
After wrapping a large pot of rice dumplings, Xu Han had Lu Chuan take them to cook. She didn't take a nap at noon and kept wrapping rice dumplings until after 4 p.m. when she finally finished wrapping them all.
Lu Chuan had already cooked two pots of zongzi, but to ensure they weren't undercooked inside, they needed to simmer for another afternoon before eating.
Neither of them had taken a nap at noon today, as they had been busy the whole time. Now they were both a bit tired, so Xu Han took out some popsicles she had made from her spatial storage and gave one to each of them to perk them up.
After eating, they took scissors to the wasteland and cut the wheat ears that had grown.
Because they hadn't cut them in time these past two days, many of them had already turned yellow and old. Helpless, the two of them could only pick out the wheat ears that hadn't completely turned yellow and cut them off from the bottom with scissors, which would make them easier to process later.
After collecting seven or eight baskets of food, the two stopped, tidied up, and started walking home.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I didn't cook lunch, but I'll definitely have a good meal tonight.
Xu Han wanted to eat barbecue, but it was still too hot outside, so she had to wait.
When it gets completely dark, there will be no sun and a cool evening breeze, so it won't be too hot to have a barbecue.
While waiting for the food to cool down, Xu Han prepared the skewers that needed to be grilled so she could grill them directly.
Lu Chuan wasn't idle either. Before it got dark, he lit the charcoal in the barbecue grill so they could start grilling soon.
After the two of them had prepared everything, it began to get dark.
While eating lamb skewers, Xu Han said, "It would be great if there were crayfish too. The three essentials for a late-night snack: barbecue, crayfish, and beer. Of course, I can't forget my favorite snails."
After saying that, he took out the snails he had prepared earlier from his space. There weren't many left, so it seemed he would need to catch a few more and put them in his space.
It's all my fault for being too greedy. I always want to have some when I have nothing to do. This stuff doesn't keep me full, so I end up eating too much.
Lu Chuan, looking bewildered, asked Xu Han, "What kind of shrimp is crayfish? You can't just say 'dragon' in public! If someone with ulterior motives hears you, they'll punish you for disrespect."
Xu Han covered her mouth guiltily; she was used to saying it in modern times and couldn't change it in a short time.
But I really wanted to eat crayfish, so I asked, "Have you ever seen one that looks like a crab, with two big claws and two very long whiskers, and a very hard shell?"
"You mean the big bug? Yes, there are! Quite a lot of them. The big bugs can snap the rice seedlings. Farmers down the mountain catch them every year."
"Are there any in the mountains?" Xu Han continued to ask.
Yes!
"Where? I've never seen it before. I even looked for it in the river in front of my house last year! There were no small crabs or crayfish, uh, it was a big worm."
"There aren't any in the stream in front of our house. I'll take you to catch some in the pond over there tomorrow, but they can pinch you and it hurts a lot."
"It's okay, it's delicious! Let's make a tool to catch lobsters later! It'll be so much fun to go lobster fishing. I've seen other people fish for lobsters, but I've never tried it myself!"
"Okay, tell me how to do it in a bit, and I'll make one and see."
Lu Chuan grilled the skewers by the stove, while Xu Han sat beside him, eating the freshly grilled skewers and chatting casually with him.
After eating, Lu Chuan and I studied two different tools for catching lobsters.
One type is similar to a fishing rod, consisting of a thin bamboo pole with a long, thin rope tied to one end.
Another method is for Lu Chuan to tie bamboo into a circle, with many ropes tied to the top of the circle, and finally tie a rope to both sides of the circle, stretch it out, and tie it to one end of a thin bamboo pole.
To improve the efficiency of shrimp fishing, Xu Han asked Lu Chuan to make several tools so that she could use both hands and was sure to have a great catch.
A fishing rod alone is definitely not enough; you also need to make a landing net, otherwise the crayfish will fall in and you won't be able to catch them at all.
After making the tools, Xu Han even took out chicken intestines from her space and left them outside overnight. They would smell bad by tomorrow, which would better attract lobsters to bite the hook.
After everything was ready, it was getting late. Neither of them had taken a nap at noon, and now their eyelids were drooping so much they couldn't keep their eyes open.
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