I don't seek great wealth and status; contentment with modest means is the greatest happiness.
When the two returned home, it was still early. Lu Chuan continued to cut down some suitable trees near his home to use as firewood, while Xu Han went to weed the wasteland outside.
She was busy until dark, and after returning home in the evening, Xu Han started making dinner.
First, take out the lamb, cut it into appropriately sized pieces, marinate it with barbecue seasoning, scallions, ginger, and onions, and then it's ready to grill and eat.
While we have this time, let's take out some other ingredients suitable for barbecue: shrimp, mushrooms, chicken, rabbit, lettuce, and steamed buns. A little of everything, small quantities but a variety.
The point of eating is to have fun. After all the meat was cleaned and prepared, it was also marinated.
Skewer the mutton with bamboo sticks and set them aside. Skewer all the other dishes as well and set them aside for later use.
After finishing these things, Lu Chuan returned and asked him to build a small barbecue grill in the yard using bricks, light the charcoal embers left over from cooking, and place a small iron rack on top. The simple barbecue grill was done.
The two sat in the courtyard, enjoying the cool evening breeze, grilling skewers and chatting, accompanied by carbonated drinks and wheat juice from the space, it was quite pleasant.
Life could just go on like this, and it seems pretty good...
The next day, Lu Chuan resumed his usual routine, while Xu Han went to pick wild raspberries on her own.
I didn't go with Lu Chuan today. I followed the marked route and walked into the mountains with Blackie and the dog. We didn't go far, just wandered around the nearby hills.
There were no large prey on the nearby hills, so there wasn't much to worry about in terms of safety. The only thing to watch out for was snakes, insects, and rodents. I carried a stick with me the whole way, tapping and knocking, but I didn't encounter anything!
I hadn't been outside long when I saw a huge black thorn beetle. Just one of these would be enough to keep me picking for a long time...
Every day after finishing her housework, she would go out to pick mulberries or wild raspberries, and before she knew it, it was two days before the Dragon Boat Festival.
Early that morning, Xu Han got up and prepared the ingredients needed to make zongzi, including red beans, black rice, jujubes, rice, glutinous rice, and many other ingredients.
Xu Han plans to make a lot of zongzi in the next two days. She is usually quite busy and has a lot of things to do, so she doesn't have time to do something so troublesome!
Make a large batch at once so you can store it in your space and eat it slowly! You can eat it whenever you want.
With such a great cheating tool as Space, how can we just leave it unused!
First, prepare all the ingredients and soak them. Then you can start wrapping the rice dumplings in the afternoon.
After finishing all that, I locked the gate and set off to pick bamboo leaves, still covered in black spots. I've been wandering around the mountains every day lately, so I know exactly where to find bamboo leaves.
We arrived at the place we had been looking for beforehand. The bamboo leaves we picked this time were the large bamboo leaves we bought online in my previous life. These leaves are quite large and are perfect for wrapping those three-dimensional triangular rice dumplings.
Back in my hometown, we use reed leaves to wrap zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), which makes them smell especially delicious. But there aren't any leaves like that around here, and I didn't think to pick any when I went to the reed marshes last time.
Today, Lu Chuan went to the reed marshes specifically to pick reed leaves!
But the reed marshes are quite far from here, so there probably won't be enough time to wrap the rice dumplings in reed leaves today.
Upon arriving at the bamboo grove, Xu Han took out her scissors and basket and began picking bamboo leaves.
When making zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), you must choose leaves that have just grown out. They should be large, tender, well-grown, without insect holes, and very clean.
Xu Han stopped picking after filling two baskets; there was enough to make a lot of zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).
After removing the bamboo leaves, go into the bamboo forest and pick some clean bamboo shoot husks, which can also be used to wrap zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).
Choose bamboo shoots with larger, central-sized husks for easier wrapping.
After finishing everything, she went home. By the time she got home, it was past lunchtime. Xu Han ate a little something and then started boiling bamboo leaves.
Raw bamboo leaves cannot be used to wrap rice dumplings. They need to be washed one by one and then boiled in a pot. This is to disinfect them and because boiled leaves are less likely to break when wrapping rice dumplings.
After finishing everything, Xu Han started wrapping the zongzi.
Rice dumplings made by wrapping white rice in bamboo leaves. Mix glutinous rice and regular rice in a slightly different ratio, then add some white sugar to make the dumplings sweeter. Cut the jujubes in half. Set aside.
After preparing the ingredients, take out a bamboo leaf and start wrapping the rice dumplings. First, put a jujube at the bottom, then add an appropriate amount of rice, and then add another jujube.
Wrap it into a three-dimensional triangle shape for the rice dumpling. Tie it tightly with cotton thread, and one rice dumpling is complete.
They kept packing until Lu Chuan returned in the evening. They found that Lu Chuan had not only brought back reeds but also caught several ducks!
The prey in the space hasn't been processed yet. Now that the weather is getting hotter, it'll spoil easily if left outside to marinate. We'll process it all in the fall! That will save more time.
In the evening, Xu Han prepared a simple dinner. Chicken stew with mushrooms, cucumber salad, rice porridge, and steamed buns were enough for the two of them.
After eating, we put the rice dumplings we made in the afternoon into two large iron pots to cook. The pots were full, and all the rice dumplings we made in the afternoon were cooked.
After boiling, let it simmer over the residual heat overnight. Serve it the next morning and it's ready to eat.
If the rice dumplings are cooked for too short a time, they'll be undercooked inside. They won't taste good!
Lu Chuan was cooking zongzi in the kitchen, while Xu Han was wrapping red bean filling in bamboo shoot husks.
Once you've mixed red beans, glutinous rice, white rice, and sugar in a specific ratio, you can start wrapping the rice dumplings.
Just wrap them using the same method. Zongzi wrapped in bamboo shoot husks will be slightly larger than those wrapped in bamboo leaves.
We can also collect some of these bamboo leaves and store them in the space. After the drought, there definitely won't be any of these things left, and we won't be able to eat zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) even if we want to.
Xu Han didn't get up until 10 p.m. to tidy up and prepare for bed.
The next morning, Xu Han got up and immediately went to the kitchen to see how the zongzi she had cooked the day before were doing.
I peeled one open and tasted it, and mmm! It was delicious! Soft, chewy, and sweet—a great success!
Then he immediately took one out and gave it to Lu Chuan to try, and unsurprisingly, it received Lu Chuan's praise!
The two decided to skip breakfast altogether and just eat a zongzi (sticky rice dumpling) for breakfast!
After eating, Lu Chuan continued hunting, while Xu Han boiled reed leaves to wrap black rice dumplings.
She kept wrapping them until the afternoon, finally finishing all the zongzi in five bamboo baskets. These zongzi would last a long time, and Xu Han cooked them all by herself.
It doesn't waste any time at all.
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