Chapter 333 Green Leaf Rice Dumpling
The birthday cake needs to be kept refrigerated, otherwise the cake will turn into a buttery paste if left outside for an hour at the current outdoor temperature in Peiping.
Zhang Guanghang made the birthday cake, Wu Minqi finished carving the crane for Jiang Weiming's birthday, and Jiang Feng found the breakthrough point to complete Zhang Guanghang's side mission. The three of them each had something to gain, and after packing their things, they prepared to meet at Tai Feng Tower.
The highlight of this morning is making rice dumplings. There are not many group activities to make rice dumplings in August.
In everyone’s inherent impression, Zongzi is a food that is only eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, everyone eats Zongzi, and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the Zongzi disappear without a trace.
It was also the first time for Jiang Feng to make rice dumplings in August.
Zhang Guanghang went to drive. Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi were waiting for him at the gate of Fenyuan. After a while, instead of seeing the familiar Bentley, a silver Maserati appeared.
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
Are all you rich and handsome people so fond of the new and hate the old? My old love Bentley has only been driving for a long time, but I found a new love so soon.
But why did this new love look so dirty? Jiang Feng felt that there was a lot of dust on the car.
After getting in the car, Jiang Feng couldn't help but ask: "Why did you change cars?"
"The previous one was sent for maintenance. I bought this one a few years ago and I don't drive it much." Zhang Guanghang explained, "It has been gathering dust in the garage since it has been open for a long time. I forgot to wash the car yesterday. Can you help me later?" I’ll take the cake over and wash the car first.”
"Okay." Jiang Feng responded.
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Even rice dumplings can be divided into north and south.
As the representative variety of northern rice dumplings, Peking rice dumplings are relatively large and generally square or triangular in shape. As for the fillings, they are mostly filled with red dates and bean paste, and a few are filled with preserved fruits.
There are many types of southern rice dumplings, and their shapes are also more varied. The most common ones include rhombus, polygon, column and cone. The filling types are also very varied. In addition to the traditional meat rice dumplings and bean paste rice dumplings, the assorted rice dumplings and egg yolk meat rice dumplings that have suddenly emerged in recent years are also very popular.
Jiang Feng remembered that when he was still in elementary school, there would often be an old woman pushing a cart in front of the school selling green leaf rice dumplings without any fillings and made of pure glutinous rice. If you peel off the outer leaves of the cone-shaped green leaf rice dumplings, you can see the tightly wrapped glutinous rice inside. Use a bamboo skewer to dip it into the dipping sauce mixed with sugar and sesame seeds and roll it around. It will become very good. eat.
The sweet glutinous rice is sticky to the teeth and has a hint of the fragrance of rice dumpling leaves. It costs one yuan a piece. At that time, only Jiang Shoucheng, Jiang Zaide and Jiang Ran had rich wallets and could eat five or six in one go without stopping.
If we add Chen Xiuxiu and it happens to be the day when pocket money is given out, they can complete the old lady's rice dumpling stall.
After Jiang Shoucheng and Jiang Zaide went to junior high school, the old woman's rice dumpling stall was rarely surrounded by a few fat boys from the Jiang family.
I don't know since when, the old lady's rice dumpling stall disappeared. Just like the many unattractive stalls that Jiang Feng ate at when he was a child, they appeared and disappeared quietly.
The old lady thought he was the youngest and could only afford one rice dumpling because she had no pocket money, so she peeled off another small rice dumpling and gave it to him to eat. The incident that caused him to be too stuffed to eat dinner that day was still vivid in her mind, but Jiang Feng was already nearly 10 years old. I haven’t eaten green leaf rice dumplings in years.
"Alas." Jiang Feng sighed.
Just an hour after getting off the train, Jiang Ran, who was originally unkempt and disheveled, was dragged home by his parents to wash and change clothes. He felt like a new man when he heard that Jiang Feng was making rice dumplings until he sighed, and couldn't help but look at him.
"Why are you sighing, little brother?" Jiang Zaide asked. He held the chopsticks in his right hand and kept poking inside the rice dumpling leaves, trying to bury the large piece of meat he had just added with glutinous rice.
"I want to eat green leaf rice dumplings." Jiang Feng said, "It turns out that the old lady at the gate of our elementary school sells green leaf rice dumplings."
"Green leaf rice dumplings?" Jiang Shoucheng also joined the discussion, "You are talking about white rice dumplings, the kind that are eaten without fillings and dipped in sugar?"
"Yes, it's white rice dumplings. I feel like I haven't eaten that kind of rice dumplings in a long time." Jiang Feng said.
"If you want to eat it, just wrap it yourself without meat. Remember to mark it after wrapping so that I won't eat it by mistake." Jiang Zaide said, continuing to fight with the meat in the rice dumpling leaves.
"Brother De, stop doing it. If you can't wrap it in, change it to a smaller one. You've been wrapping this rice dumpling for five or six minutes. If you keep wrapping it at this rate, when will we be able to wrap it up!" Jiang Ran couldn't see it. Went down.
Jiang Zaide was unwilling to give up the meat he had obtained, and struggled to the death, "Who said I can't wrap it in? Just give me a few more minutes and I will wrap it in!"
Jiang Ran shook his head helplessly and tied out an extremely ugly rice dumpling.
"Your rice dumplings are too ugly, look at me." Jiang Shoucheng picked up a rice dumpling he had just made that was almost as ugly as Jiang Ran's rice dumplings, and laughed at every step.
Jiang Feng ignored the two cousins' chickens pecking at each other. He hesitated for a few seconds between the green leaf rice dumplings and the meat rice dumplings, then carefully put a piece of meat into the rice dumpling leaves.
Although green leaf rice dumplings are his childhood memories, he chooses meat rice dumplings.
All the raw materials for these rice dumplings today were prepared by Grandma Jiang.
The glutinous rice has been soaked overnight, and the meat is marinated in chunks of fresh meat. It is extremely delicious even if it is not wrapped in rice dumplings and grilled freshly.
Grandma Jiang is the leader in the Jiang family's rice dumpling making industry. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the rice dumplings for the 18 members of the Jiang family are made by Grandma Jiang. This has been done every year for more than ten years. This is also the case for several younger generations of the Jiang family, including Jiang Feng. The reason why they are all bad at making rice dumplings.
Grandma Jiang has always been a benchmark in the Jiang family's zongzi-making business. It is rare that even the old man feels inferior to her opponent. Although it is largely because Grandma Jiang does not let the old man make zongzi, Grandma Jiang is very good at making zongzi. Eliminate the enemy at its source.
But today she met her match.
Chen Suhua.
Since Professor Li and his wife moved to Peking, they have lived a leisurely life like retired seniors.
Professor Li drinks tea, reads newspapers, plays with his mobile phone every day, walks and plays chess, and occasionally reads papers and pays attention to the latest research trends. He lives a fulfilling and comfortable life every day and looks much younger.
Chen Suhua, on the other hand, raises chickens, pigs and vegetables, cleans housework and knits sweaters, and uses the Li family's old house as a farmyard. She is addicted to breeding and planting and cannot extricate herself.
Grandma Jiang has been very close to the Li family these days. She and Chen Suhua raise chickens, grow vegetables, and knit sweaters every day. Chen Suhua also fell in love with listening to Huangmei Opera under the influence of Grandma Jiang. The two have become elderly sisters.
Sisters are meant for comparison and competition.
As Grandma Jiang and Chen Suhua started a war without gunpowder on the matter of making rice dumplings, Jiang Feng and others were gradually deprived of the right to make rice dumplings. Jiang Zaide could only regretfully give up the rice dumplings that were impossible to make with everyone. Nothing to do.
Started to watch Grandma Jiang and Chen Suhua making rice dumplings.
In fact, most of the employees at Tai Feng House basically don’t know how to make rice dumplings. They just want to be fresh. Being able to make them like Jiang Ran is considered very good. At least the rice dumplings are tied up and not scattered. As for cooking, Whether time will pass or not, we can only do our best in personnel and affairs and let fate dictate.
Jiang Feng noticed that Ji Yue had already started talking to Zhang Guanghang, and pretended to show him the comic he had just finished yesterday. The two old men and Professor Li were sitting at a table of four drinking tea and chatting. The atmosphere was very pleasant, and the smile on Jiang Weiming's face never disappeared.
Wu Minqi and Ji Xue disappeared without a trace. Wang Xiulian gathered with Jiang Feng's eldest aunt, second aunt, fourth aunt and fifth aunt, each holding a cucumber in their hands and having a tea party while gnawing on it. Jiang Jiankang gathered with several of Jiang Feng's uncles. Bragging together.
"Brother Ran, I noticed that you have lost a lot of weight recently." Jiang Feng looked at Jiang Ran carefully. Judging from Jiang Ran's figure, he had probably lost less than 200 pounds.
"I am so busy reading various literatures, applying, submitting forms, and writing papers every day that I almost die suddenly. I don't have time to eat and order takeout every day. How can I lose weight?" Jiang Ran said.
Jiang Feng:...
Why did he feel that Jiang Ran's tone just now didn't sound like a complaint but actually a little proud.
"A normal diet and necessary rest are still needed, otherwise you will be like Brother De last time... almost fainted." Jiang Shoucheng made a sharp turn to round up the words, and almost let the words slip.
Jiang Shoucheng silently moved two steps to the side. They were now too close to Comrade Wang Xiulian's sister-in-law chatting area.
"What happened to Brother De last time?" Jiang Ran asked.
Jiang Feng & Jiang Shoucheng & Jiang Zaide:......
The three of them silently moved two steps to the side. Jiang Ran didn't know why, so he also moved two steps with them.
"Brother De, you are the person involved. You can tell Brother Ran yourself." Jiang Feng handed the microphone to Jiang Zaide.
Jiang Zaide:......
"Last time, last time it was because, as you know, today's customers are more difficult to get. The price is high and the requirements are many. I kept revising the draft last time, which made me stay up late every day. . Then my mental state was not very good, I always felt a little dizzy, and then I went to the hospital. Checked out. The doctor told me that it was lucky that I arrived in time, otherwise I might have collapsed and died suddenly if I had stayed up like this. Don't you think I'm on vacation now? "Jiang Zaide started to make up a story, "Shou Cheng. Yes, he met me in the hospital.”
"Yes, yes, Brother De was a little hypoglycemic some time ago." Jiang Shoucheng nodded in agreement.
"Brother Cheng, aren't you in the emergency room?" Jiang Ran said that although he didn't like it, he still checked on Moments.
Jiang Shoucheng:......
"Didn't I just rotate to the emergency room recently? I wasn't in the emergency room some time ago." Jiang Shoucheng said.
"Weren't you in the thoracic surgery department some time ago?" Jiang Ran said that his memory is actually quite good.
Jiang Shoucheng:......
"We happened to meet each other. I went to the clinic to deliver things."
Jiang Ran's gang spirit wanted to continue asking, but was interrupted by Sang Ming who came out of nowhere.
"Everyone, do you want to play mahjong?" Sang Ming had a mysterious smile on his face. That smile made Jiang Feng feel that he was not here to ask if he wanted to play mahjong, but to ask, "Brother, do you want a movie?"
"Where did the mahjong come from in Tai Feng Tower?" Jiang Feng said, let alone Tai Feng Tower, even their family didn't have mahjong.
On the contrary, Li Zhai has one. Occasionally, Grandma Jiang and Chen Suhua will have fun with the old ladies in the surrounding courtyards.
Grandma Jiang has been really good at playing mahjong in Peiping recently.
"I brought two sets of mahjong with me when I came today, just because I was worried that we would have nothing to do then. Look, won't this come in handy?" Sang Ming looked proud, "Me, Zhang Weiyu and Qi Rou Shudi Mahjong If the three are missing, I’ll send you. Will you come?”
"Come!"
"By the way, do you know Shudi Mahjong? Do you need me to tell you the rules?" Sang Ming asked.
"No need, I've played Shu Mahjong before." Jiang Feng said, it's time for you to see the real mahjong skills.
When I was a freshman, my classmates from other classes were all playing Honor of Kings and we met in the Canyon of Kings every day. Only the classmates in their class were addicted to Shudi Mahjong in QQ Mahjong, and they met in Room 1 every day. Jiang Feng's score was unparalleled at that time, and he often helped Wang Haodai play mahjong to improve his score. He didn't watch Grandma Jiang play mahjong all these years for nothing!
(End of chapter)