Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 1407 This Hope (Part [-])
Luo Fengtang took off the bamboo hat on his head and hung it on a wooden stake on the wall, saying: "I went to the village and went to my uncle's place to get wormwood and calamus."

"Auntie cut a lot, let me get some and put them in the doors and windows."

Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing patted her head.

"Oh, look at my memory," she said.

"I was busy making chicken cakes for the festival, but I forgot to insert those. Fortunately, my aunt cut it."

The young couple put wormwood and calamus on the doors and windows together.

The wormwood and calamus give off a unique fragrance, which makes people smell and feel extra energetic.

Inserted on the door and window, it is said that it can seek good luck and avoid evil.

"Have you greeted uncle and aunt? Are they all coming over for lunch at noon?"

Yang Ruoqing interrupted and asked.

Yesterday, I discussed with Luo Fengtang that during the holidays, I would welcome Blacksmith Luo and his wife to have fun together.

Luo Fengtang nodded: "Well, it's all agreed."

Yang Ruoqing smiled: "That's good. I'll go to the kitchen to prepare later. This holiday, I'll cook a sumptuous meal."

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Luo Fengtang will leave for the southern military camp.

This meal, she decided to make a good use of it.

Aunt Wang Cuilian quickly came to help with an apron.

Tuoba Xian didn't stay idle either, she changed into her clothes and came to the kitchen in the backyard.

Three women in one play.

Steamed chicken cake, a snack made of pinched wheat flour, fried in a frying pan.

After scooping it up, it will become a crispy, golden-yellow snack.

There are guests, grab a handful, adults and children like it.

In addition, zongzi is also essential.

Yang Ruoqing has worked hard on the taste of zongzi this year.

Candied dates, red beans, eight-treasure nuts, bacon, egg yolk...

She covered everything she could think of.

The fragrant zong leaves are wrapped into fist-sized awls and tied with silk threads of various colors to distinguish them.

"It's more interesting to celebrate the festival in the south."

Tuobaxian looked at the harvest of the day's labor and sighed.

Wang Cuilian smiled and said, "It's always like this for farmers to celebrate festivals. Apart from serving the crops, that's all they look forward to throughout the year."

Tuoba Xian said: "Food is the most important thing for the people, this is the root cause!"

Yang Ruoqing was holding the fish in her hand, she glanced over and said, "The south has the customs of the south, and the north has the rules of the north."

"Last time I went back to Daliao, and the Damu Conference was an eye-opener for me!"

Tuobaxian smiled when she heard the words: "Well, every place and every nation has its own characteristics."

"Qing'er, what do you want to cook when you cut the fish into such thin slices?" She asked again immediately.

Her eyes fell on a big black fish in Yang Ruoqing's hand.

Without waiting for Yang Ruoqing's answer, Wang Cuilian who was beside her said, "I know, Qing'er definitely wants to make pickled fish, right?"

Yang Ruoqing smiled and shook her head: "Aunt guessed wrong this time, I'm going to make peacock fish."

"The peacock fish?" Tuoba Xian's eyes lit up, "I remember that you did it at a family gathering a few years ago."

Yang Ruoqing said 'hmm', "I did it last time, there were too many people, so Tang Yazi poked a piece of tail and ate it."

"Afterwards he talked about it for a while, and I promised to do it again, but I was never so busy."

"No, he's going back to the south after the Dragon Boat Festival. I'm going to do it this afternoon so that he can have a good time," she said.

Tuobaxian nodded repeatedly, looking at Yang Ruoqing with undisguised satisfaction and admiration.

Wang Cuilian also laughed, "Okay, then make peacock fish."

……

The annual Dragon Boat Festival is spent in the lively eating and drinking of the whole family.

In the afternoon, it was still raining.

Luo Fengtang sat on a stool by the window and flipped through the military books, while Yang Ruoqing tidied his clothes.

I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, so I'll get everything sorted out today.

Clothes and shoes are almost done, and he is still reading there engrossed.

Yang Ruoqing didn't want to disturb him, so she quietly backed out.

Seeing that there were still a lot of zongzi in the kitchen, she planned to send some to Xiao Yaxue.

……

Old Chen's yard.

Yang Ruoqing held an umbrella and came to the gate of the courtyard, just in time to meet Na Risong who came out of it.

"Hey, where are you going if you run so fast without wearing an umbrella or holding up your coir raincoat?"

Yang Ruoqing asked.

Na Risong turned his head to look at the room behind him, and said angrily: "Mr. Yang is making people upset, I'll go out to catch my breath!"

After saying this, he ran away.

Yang Ruoqing glanced at his slightly embarrassed figure as he disappeared into the rain, and shook her head.

When she was good back then, Yang Ruolan was cute from hair to toe, there is no other in the world.

Now that the freshness has passed, the child has also slipped, and he starts to get tired of it and hate it.

Blame it?

Looking away, she stepped into the room, looking for her good sister Xiao Yaxue.

"Qing'er, it's raining, why did you come here?"

In the main room, Xiao Yaxue welcomed Yang Ruoqing to the table and quickly poured tea for her.

Yang Ruoqing smiled and said: "This holiday, I'll bring you zongzi!"

She then put a small bamboo basket she had brought on the table.

Xiao Yaxue came over to take a look, her eyes lit up.

"So many, it's tempting to look at," she said.

Yang Ruoqing said: "I've made a lot, you can eat with an open stomach."

Xiao Yaxue smiled and said: "That's good, I won't cook at night, just eat this rice dumpling..."

"Oh!"

Before the words were finished, the crisp sound of bowls being smashed on the ground came from the west room across the wall.

Yang Ruoqing was stunned for a moment, then asked Xiao Yaxue with her eyes.

Xiao Yaxue shrugged her shoulders, and said to Yang Ruoqing in a low voice: "When we were having lunch earlier, we had trouble with Na Risong."

"Na Risong is not a patient coaxer, so he left her behind and ran out by himself."

Xiao Yaxue said, picked up a rice dumpling, peeled it and ate it.

With such a calm look, Yang Ruoqing couldn't help admiring her determination.

If I were Xiao Yaxue, living next door to such an embarrassing concubine, I wouldn't be in the mood to eat at all.

He only wanted to get rid of irrelevant people as soon as possible.

"Well, this candied rice dumpling is so sweet, I like it!"

Xiao Yaxue made a mouthful of rice dumplings and ate them with relish.

Yang Ruoqing also laughed, "Eat more if you like, you'll lose weight."

Xiao Yaxue gave Yang Ruoqing a white look, and was about to speak, when there was another loud noise from the west room: "Boom!"

"What are you smashing this time?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

Xiao Yaxue said: "Oh, Mrs. Yang is knocking on the wooden cabinet next to the bed with a rolling pin."

While explaining, she rubbed the jujube paste on her fingers, "Since I came back from the town, I have been laying the floor in the main room that night."

"Fatty girl, what are you looking at? This is my room, get out!" She yelled at Yang Ruoqing.

(End of this chapter)