Chapter 395 Joy 3 (Second update)
I just didn't expect that there are very few southerners here. Basically everyone eats dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Ye Chen, because of his madness in Chaiye, can still wrap dumplings, but he usually wraps them in the familiar round ones. Tangyuan, that one is the simplest.
In fact, Chai Yekuang had expected this situation a long time ago, so he was not too disappointed and started to wrap the glutinous rice balls by himself. Tan Mingrui and Ye Chen also helped to wrap them. Both of them put them in round ones separately, while Chai Yekuang wrapped them The glutinous rice balls with small corners are placed aside separately.
The oval-shaped glutinous rice balls, with a small corner, can also be regarded as braids, giving people a feeling that people will be lonely at the top. Maybe the person who invented this glutinous rice balls wanted to tell others that during reunions, everyone should be together. If you live alone, it will look particularly awkward, and the braid can be seen as a feeling of being cold at high places.
"Leng Kuang, your glutinous rice balls are different. Is there a story?" Harmonica asked after coming over to take a look.
Chai Ye kept wrapping glutinous rice balls with his hands, and said with a gentle smile: "There is indeed a story. It is said that in ancient times, there was a family, a pair of parents and a son, who were all farmers.
Although he was a farmer, his life could not be compared with that of farmers today. At that time, farmers did not have much status, and their families had no money and no fields. They could only plant other people's fields. In ancient times, they were called tenants.
However, the son was very smart and eager to learn since he was a child. Seeing that their son was so smart, the parents thought that they could not delay his piety, so they scraped together things to provide for him to go to school. Later, they simply thought of selling snacks at night. , they sell glutinous rice balls, but in order to make their son stand out, they always add a little braid on the glutinous rice balls.
Using the money from selling glutinous rice balls, they raised their son Lappa and sent him to take the exam. After several exams, the son won the gold medal and became an official. He was also spotted by a young lady from Xuanguan's family in Xuancheng. marriage.
He forgot his parents and his family. He had a wife and children in Xuancheng, and he only regarded his wife's parents as his own parents. After about ten years, this son went to work as an official in his hometown, in order to show that he was close to the people. , he paid a private visit incognito at night, but he saw a beggar eating snacks. When he went over, he saw that they were glutinous rice balls, and the glutinous rice balls also had a pigtail, which reminded him of what happened when he was a child.
He asked the beggar where the glutinous rice balls came from, and the beggar told him that the glutinous rice balls were made by an old couple. Their son went to take the exam but did not come back. He had been missing for ten years.
They come out every day and give this glutinous rice dumpling to others for free, in order to hope that the child will have a safe future. To them, it doesn't matter whether the child is developed or not, they just hope that the child can return safely.
The son was full of shame after hearing this. He found the old couple, who were indeed his parents. Seeing that his parents had lost the spirit of ten years ago and their temples were pale, he regretted it extremely.
That day happened to be New Year's Eve, so he immediately knelt down in front of his parents to repent, and then brought his wife and children to visit his parents, and the family reunited. After the incident spread, this glutinous rice dumpling became famous. ”
"This logic doesn't make sense. He passed the exam, so the local magistrate in their hometown should know." Ye Chen said.
"It's just a story, why do you ask for so much?" Chai Ye glared at Ye Chen wildly. (End of chapter)