Dao Pi Jiu Xiao

Chapter 281 Dragon Boat Festival Ankang

A holiday can be given many meanings.

For example, the Five Poisons Festival is about to begin in the human world.During the Dragon Boat Festival, realgar drives away evil spirits.

In the previous life on Earth, when mentioning the Dragon Boat Festival, many people would think of the allusion of mourning Qu Yuan.But in Xuanzhengzhou, the first festival in May is mainly to exorcise evil spirits and avoid poisons.Every family worships the gods of five poisons, hangs mugwort leaves, drinks realgar, and children need to wear five-color ropes to pray for protection from the gods of five poisons, so that they will not be bitten by poisonous insects.

When Qinghong and Li Jingxun joined the world to open a restaurant, the first festival they encountered happened to be the Dragon Boat Festival.

The two found a place and named it Tianbao Restaurant.On this day, a kind of Wudu cake painted with five poisonous patterns is specially made.This pastry seems to focus on five poisons, but it uses peanut yellow, red dates, mung bean paste, yam paste, black sesame, etc. as fillings.This coincides with five colors, and all five fillings can be used as medicine, which has the meaning of detoxification and health preservation.Then use the wheat cultivated in the five-color valley to grind into flour to make the dough.Crispy and delicious, Wudu Cake was quickly sought after by a large group of people.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qinghong took out another snack made by himself - horn millet.

Corn millet, Li Jingxun is very familiar with this kind of snack.

On that day, the two made an agreement that they would go down to earth to build a restaurant.

Jiao millet is Qing Hong's past life rice dumpling.It was originally a kind of food that rose up because of offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan.But in this world, without Qu Yuan, there would naturally be no zongzi.

Therefore, Qinghong managed to make this kind of snack on the Dragon Boat Festival by himself, and let the immortals taste it.Li Jingxun thought this kind of snack was good, so he suggested that the two go down the mountain to open a restaurant.

Now that the Tianbao restaurant is open, and the Dragon Boat Festival is held every year again, Qinghong launched this snack again in order to meet the occasion.

While eating food, he said silently in his heart: "I hope this kind of food can become popular in Xuanzhengzhou, and find more comrades for me."

Eat zongzi, is it sweet or salty?Candied dates or egg yolk?Or is it the sudden spiciness?
Thinking of the sweet-salty battle in the previous life, Qinghong thought in a bad way: Let me guide the diet of this world, I wonder if I can let this world also have a sweet-salty war?
Currently, he makes five flavors of cornmeal.

One is candied jujube rice dumpling, the other is fresh meat rice dumpling, the other is egg yolk rice dumpling, the other is bean paste rice dumpling, and the other is white jade rice dumpling (without filling).

Through these five kinds of zongzi, slowly guide the diet of ordinary people in this world, and strive for a brand new battle of sweet and salty.

Of course, Qinghong is in charge of selling on the stage, and these corner millets are all written by Li Jingxun.

By the time of the noon break, the horn millet had been sold out.

There were still many customers bustling outside, Qinghong was wearing sackcloth, clasped his hands and smiled apologetically: "Wait a moment, everyone, wait a moment, everyone."

"Shopkeeper, your efficiency is a bit slow! If you weren't the only one in the whole city, I wouldn't bother queuing up here!"

"That's it!"

"I'll be right away, right away!" Qinghong reassured everyone: "After all, only our brother and sister will take care of it, so we always have a meal at noon, right? Don't worry, we will watch the fire while eating, and the next pot will be cooked right away. Then take out the hot horn millet just out of the oven."

He closed the curtain and went to the back to find Li Jingxun.I saw Li Jingxun, dressed like a cook, busy in the kitchen with great interest: "It's the first time I know that these horn millets have so many flavors and patterns."

There are many pots and pans in front of her, with various fillings in them.The reed leaves that Qinghong picked yesterday were soaked in the bucket next to him.

Seeing that the girl was busy, Qinghong smiled and said: "These kinds of fillings are nothing. Wrapping millet with glutinous rice is just a common method. Don't forget green essence and blood glutinous rice, that are the best products."

"Don't worry, the blood glutinous rice and green polished rice have been prepared. Go back and send them to several Taoist temples and temples in the city."

The two randomly found a small city in the world to station, and at the beginning they asked the people from the Taoist sect station in the city to help.So, let’s say thank you this holiday season.

Li Jingxun deliberately prepared green polished rice, dyed it and put it aside, preparing to wrap corn millet for Dao Dezong's companion.The blood glutinous rice on the side is used to make supplements for the elderly in the city.It was a good deed of the two of them.

Qinghong pondered for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "Junior Sister, wait, I'll show you a hand."

He let Li Jingxun continue to work, flew far away by himself, and returned after a while with two large pieces of cassava.

Tapioca is used to extract starch, and then made into small balls the size of a thumb.

Seeing his movements, Li Jingxun asked strangely, "Brother, what are you doing?"

"You just look at it." Qinghong thought for a while, took several kinds of fruit pulp as fillings, wrapped the small white balls as glutinous rice into corner millet, and steamed them in a pot.

After opening it thoroughly, Li Jingxun was surprised to find that the so-called horn millet was not the white jade color she had seen, nor was it blue or bright red, but a pure and transparent crystal that could faintly penetrate.

In the crystal clear horn millet, you can vaguely see the pulp filling inside.And Qinghong is good at craftsmanship, deliberately carved those flesh into the appearance of phoenixes and dragons.It looks more aesthetically pleasing.

"This... senior brother, what's going on?"

"Steamed with cornstarch, that's roughly how it will be." Qinghong explained with a smile, stretched out his hand and peeled two for Li Jingxun to taste, and then he continued to sell the other corner millets she had cooked.

It also sold out very quickly in the afternoon. After all, it was a fresh product and sold out quickly.

Even if they are immortal bodies, they are busy back and forth, and they are also half-tired.Until the evening, a man suddenly came to the shop.

The man was dressed as a middle-aged man, fanned the folding fan and stopped at the door of the shop for a while.When there were not many people around, he came forward to chat: "Today is the Five Poisons Festival. The five poisons are carved on the five poisons cake, which can help children identify the five poisons and take precautions in advance. It is a small way to benefit the people. Then What is the meaning of this horn millet?"

"Brother looked at it and saw that there are five-color threads tied on the horn millet, like a dragon, which has the meaning of warding off evil spirits. Moreover, the horn millet is made of exquisite materials, which has the meaning of health preservation."

"Oh?" The middle-aged man stared at the baskets of millet in front of him, and suddenly smiled: "Then, I have been taught."

After speaking, he turned into a gust of wind and dispersed.

Qinghong's complexion changed, he put down what he was doing, and began to meditate.

"Senior brother, are you being lazy?" Li Jingxun brought out the freshly cooked horn millet again: "Hurry up and sell it, the customers outside are waiting!"

"Junior Sister, when you go to the Taoist temple to send the horn millet to your fellow disciples, take a trip to the Temple of Five Poisons. After all, he came in person, so we can't pretend that we don't know."

That middle-aged man just now, if you think about it carefully, doesn't he look like the five poison gods!

Seeing Qinghong's expression, Li Jingxun vaguely guessed: It must be that we made Wudu Cake and released a new snack, which attracted the attention of this god?
After all, today is the Five Poisons Festival, a day to worship the five poisons gods.His divine power soared on this day, and most immortals were unwilling to provoke him.

"Brother, don't worry, although this god is known as the 'five poisons', he is a revered righteous god and will not harm you or me."

"It's true that it's harmless, but I'm afraid that people will ask for it, and I have to answer it!" Qinghong shook his head and continued to sell.

It was night, Qinghong and Li Jingxun had been busy all day, drinking tea and resting in the tea room behind the shop.

Suddenly a gust of breeze blew by, and Qinghong and Li Jingxun felt something in their hearts.

Li Jingxun smiled and said: "Yes, brother, you have been out of your mind all day, now that the right lord has come, you can talk to him yourself!" She made another cup of tea and moved a chair. "Shenjun, the visitor is a guest, please sit down."

Qinghong also brought out Wudu cake and horn millet: "Since the god has come to the small house, please come out to see him."

The Lord of the Five Poisons showed up swaggeringly: "The two little friends enshrined the horn millet in the temple, and I have already eaten it. It's good, it suits my taste, so I'm here to thank you."

"Thank you, I think Lord Shenjun has something to ask for."

"Of course, it's rare to meet two immortals. I want the two of you to do me a favor."

　This chapter can be regarded as a timely addition.But time seems to be too late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)