Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 214 Dragon Boat Festival

After stirring for half an hour in turn, Muai stopped everyone, and filtered it three or four times with the finest gauze, and finally the reddish juice turned translucent, and the girls were delighted again. She clapped her hands and stomped her feet again, in a moment of amazement.

Mu Ai frowned, because she didn't know how to turn the juice into grains of white sugar. After thinking about it for a quarter of an hour, there was no good way, so she simply poured all the juice into the Cook it in a large pot, put it into a square mold when the soup is extremely thick, and cut it into countless small pieces when it is half-soft. It looks a bit like the rock sugar she used to eat in modern times. But the color is not so transparent.

Of course, if there is no comparison, it is impossible to talk about the advantages and disadvantages. Xia Zhi and the others smiled when they had a piece in their mouths, and they all shouted that it tastes better than maltose, so the wood ai didn’t force it. Rock sugar is rock sugar, anyway, it’s all made from sugarcane It's done, and it doesn't taste much worse.

In the next few days, the master and servant continued their efforts and consumed all the sugar cane in the space, leaving only a piece of hundreds of cane roots, and there were more than [-] more pieces of rock sugar in the storage space. wooden box.

Mu Ai picked all the chestnuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, etc. again, ordered the maids to tidy them up, put them in the sun for a few days, then smashed the shells and took out the kernels inside. Food for Heaven has added two new limited-supply snacks, hazelnut cake and chestnut flour cake.

Mu Simu Wu drove to the city, gave the ingredients and recipes to the autumn equinox, and exchanged Qingfengmingyue back by the way.

In a few days, the pond was completely completed, and each carpenter got a good salary, and returned to the city with a few thank-you gifts from Muai to Mr. Zhou.

Muai and Ouyang rested for a night without practicing martial arts. They ran around and moved dozens of osmanthus, willow, and locust trees from various places on the east mountain, and placed them on the northwest sides of the pond, so that the scorching sun in the summer afternoon would not be able to reach the pond at all. The tables and chairs also separated the outside world from curious peeps on her twenty acres of land, completely forming a quiet and secluded place.

Several families near Muai finally noticed the sudden appearance of ponds and trees after a few days. I have long been used to the strangeness, but I just looked around not far away curiously and stopped coming.

In the past few days, the new vegetable seeds in the village have sprouted, and in a few months, they will be worth a lot of money. Apart from eating and sleeping, everyone is focusing on that.

Besides, no matter how Mu Ai makes troubles, it will not hinder the villagers, as long as she lives in their Li family village and leads them to get rich every year, it will be fine.

Therefore, with the thoughts of the villagers, the number of people who came to visit the pond was much less than Muai expected. Compared with the crowd of people who came to see the rice last year, it was a world of difference.

After she separated for another two nights and drained most of the pond water, Guo Huai personally went to the city to fetch the lotus seeds that Xiao Heng had sent people to retrieve from other places, and brought back the account books of Shiweitian and Medical Center for this month.

Mu Ai took Xiao'an on the vernal equinox to reconcile the accounts, and Guo Huai happily took people to plant lotus flowers. He was born as a scholar and had a deep-rooted obsession with beautiful scenery.He personally supervised the construction of the pond and pavilion, and now he has planted lotus seeds. Every time he thinks of the continuous lotus leaves, pink and elegant lotus flowers and fresh fish swimming in the water in a few months, he can't help it. Excited, from time to time he chanted a few lines of all the poems about lotus that he had recited.

In this way, after Mu Ai put two thousand two-inch fry into it, the weather became completely hot.On this day, Mu Ai occasionally looked at the solar calendar of this time and space, only to realize that before she knew it, it was already the first day of May, and there were still four days left until the Dragon Boat Festival.

It's a pity that there is no such festival in this time and space.She feels sorry for the people here, there are at least five or six festivals missing in a year, the days are so dull, she can't help but draw pictures at night, and teach the winter solstice girls to sew long phoenix tails, sachets and multicolored bracelets , cut out red paper and folded it into small gourds, stringed red beans into the shape of little people, and tied thin thatch into small brooms. All the girls, big and small, followed suit enthusiastically.

On the third day of junior high school, I soaked glutinous rice, and asked Ouyang to take someone to the river to find two bundles of this time-space-specific broad palm leaf with a delicate fragrance for the outer skin.On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I began to make fresh meat fillings, peeled salted egg yolks, chopped dry sausages, and made strawberry jam. I made a total of four kinds of fillings. I led all the women in the mansion and put down all the work. It took half a day to pack There are ten pots of beautiful triangular zongzi coming out, and every nine zongzi are tied into strings with red cotton thread, which means ninety-nine things come true, it is really festive and delicate.In the afternoon, Ouyang quickly entered the city, and personally delivered to the three wives of the Wei family, young and old, and two boxes each in the hands of Liniang. Zhou's mansion and the Chu mansion who had recently made friends did not receive such treatment. After all, the matter of fragrant rice is now Still keeping secret.It is best to dip sugar in eating zongzi, and it is necessary to put a small can of sugar in each of the two places.

There is less rain this year, and the roads are easier to walk. Ouyang dared to come back in the evening.The two prefectures are very familiar with each other. Knowing that Mu Ai likes to celebrate festivals in her hometown, she likes to eat some new and delicious food every time, and she is somewhat used to it.So return the gift immediately if you are not polite, but when you send daily necessities this month, it will definitely be thicker.

Sure enough, within ten days, there were two more boxes of daily necessities sent by the Wei Mansion, one of which contained a pair of Qinghe porcelain nine-turn-top stoves and two boxes of jasmine cakes. Ai had smelled this fragrance when he was in his room, but he had never used it when he came here. He thought the child was afraid that Dayu, who lived with him, would not be used to it. Mu Ai couldn't help feeling sorry for the child's thoughtfulness.In the other box is a set of Zhu Liuxia flower cups with silver and white dots. Although the color is bright and colorful, it is not disturbing to people, and it is also a rare and good product.

The return gift from Xiao's mansion was two round boxes, one box of small pearls slightly bigger than rice grains, and the other box of fine pearl powder, which really surprised Mu Ai. Quite a few, I pestered her to think of a way, now that I have pearl powder and honey to make a mask, and drinking goat milk every day, it will definitely work much faster than soaking in spring water.She asked Chun Equinox to put all the gifts in the booklet, and she kept the box of pearl powder in the storage space, took the nine-turn-top stove and jasmine cakes to Tao'er's room, and put the rest in the warehouse.

As for whether giving the gift this time took advantage again, Mu Ai no longer considered it.Anyway, the Xiao and Wei families didn't care about this little money, and her meals couldn't be measured by money. Besides, after more than a year's work, she has become numb to such low-investment and high-return things.

Of course that's all for later.

First of all, on the morning of the fifth day of the lunar new year, when the sky was slightly bright, Mu Ai got up, quietly entered the rooms of several children, and tied colorful threads around their wrists and ankles.When they saw the multicolored thread when they woke up and washed, they ran to the hall excitedly, and when they called out to their mother, she smiled and hung up sachets filled with vanilla for them one by one. A long phoenix tail is only sewn on the shoulder.Simba and Cheng'er pouted and acted coquettishly, saying that their mother was partial, but when they were told that the phoenix tail was only worn by little girls, the two naughty boys struggled for a while, and finally decided to be men and gave up the beautiful phoenix tail.He spoke so hard, but the two pairs of small eyes still sneaked a few glances from time to time, so cute that Mu Ai hugged them and kissed them hard until they giggled.

It has become a habit for the children to get up early to practice martial arts, and all the accompanying boys gathered in the yard. They were still wearing loose and neat azurite training uniforms, palm-wide black belts, and hanging around the wrists and waists without exception. Wearing the same sachet and colored threads, of course these are the masterpieces of Xia Zhi and the other girls.

Ouyang was also in a pure black practice suit, standing under the steps with a gentle face, not at all trying to urge the children to go out.

Chun Equinox and Xiao An brought out the red gourd, the red bean man, and the broom with smiles, and Mu Ai then brought out a large handful of emerald green peach branches folded from the space, and handed them to Ouyang with a smile.

Ouyang jumped into the eaves of various places, stretching out his hands swiftly and swiftly. Every time he jumped, the maids and children would shout hello. Ouyang's cold face turned red, and the corners of his mouth tilted up.

Mu Ai took the girls, big and small, and changed into neat cotton dresses and thin-soled cotton boots. Together with Ouyang, she took the children out of the yard, and walked around the grasslands under Dongshan and Shenshan. Looking at the beehives outside the east wall, they all got half of their trouser legs wet, and they came back after pinching half a handful of wild flowers that had just bloomed in their hands.

The red-skinned eggs had been boiled in the big and small kitchens a long time ago. From Guo Huai down in the mansion, everyone shared two. Of course, the masters could eat as much as they liked.Last night I boiled the zongzi soaked in clear water and fished them out. Each person shared three or five. The breakfast was very lively. Everyone had a smile on their faces, and then they talked and laughed contentedly. Go out busy with farm tools.

With the mother's permission, the children can have a day off without doing homework, calligraphy, or martial arts.Maybe it's because the restrained days have been long, even the prudent Dayu and Tao'er were very happy. A dozen children gathered together to discuss where to go to play. Simba shouted that he saw a bird's nest at the foot of Dongshan in the morning, and suggested Go dig out the bird's nest.Xing'er took Caiyun to chase the moon and the three little girls said they were going to play by the pond.

Of course the boys disagreed. They felt that the girls were troublesome, and they couldn’t explain it clearly. They didn’t know who would take the lead first. In short, they all ran away like a swarm of bees. Xing Er pouted and came to complain to her mother. , "Mom, brothers don't take me to play."

Mu Ai helped her straighten the corners of her skirt, smiled and nodded her little nose, "What a teller, my brothers are all boys, of course there are games they like to play, you don't like it, but you can't I force my brothers to play girls' games with you."

Xing'er blushed a little, and twisted her body indiscriminately, clinging to her mother's arms, acting like a baby.

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