Chapter 119: Rice Cakes and Zongzi
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Chapter 119: Rice Cakes and Zongzi
When Xiaocheng and Mu Huai were whispering, the four members of the Bai family came to the General's Mansion and brought prepared rice cakes by the way. However, the rice cake is raw and needs to be steamed in a pot before eating. An An looked at a pot of white dundun rice cakes, and the brown sugar and dried sweet-scented osmanthus served by Bai's next to him, so greedy urges Gu Chunzhu to quickly let people steam the rice cakes.
"I'm still thinking about waiting for the dumplings to come and steaming together. You gluttonous little girl really can't wait for a moment?" Gu Chunzhu thought that steaming rice cakes and dumplings would not take much time, and it would be the easiest to come together. An An also began to struggle when she heard the words, but her eyes were still glued to the rice cake. Gu Chunzhu still felt sorry for the child, so he thought about making a compromise.
Mrs. Su and Sister-in-law Fu said that it doesn't matter if you steam it first, just let the child eat something first before going hungry. Gu Chunzhu thought about it, and was completely convinced, so he smiled and said to An An, "Okay, little greedy ghost, I'll go to steam the rice cakes right away."
As soon as Gu Chunzhu stepped out of the threshold of the flower hall, she met Luo Xinlan who came with a pot of zongzi. At this moment, she had a word in her heart, don't be active, the zongzi appeared and steamed together. She smiled and went to greet Luo Xinlan, and instructed the maid behind her to take the dumplings away, steam them together with the rice cakes, and bring them back.
Gu Chunzhu, who originally wanted to stop by the kitchen to see how the lunch was prepared, still wanted to chat with his friends, so he just let the maid watch it, and accompanied Luo Xinlan back to the flower hall talking. The first thing she said when she walked in was to tease An An, "Zongzi and rice cakes are both steamed together. Will the little greedy ghost decide whether to eat the rice dumplings or the rice cakes first?"
An An raised her head and said coquettishly, "Of course I have to hold it with both hands, both rice cakes and rice dumplings!" Everyone in the room laughed together.
Although the rice cakes and zongzi were put together in the pot, in the end, the rice cakes came out of the cage first, filled with two or three plates and brought them to the table. The rice cake was steaming hot, and the white flowers were specially placed in the shape of flowers by the maids, then drizzled brown sugar from the middle, and finally put dried sweet-scented osmanthus in the center of the flower, which was really beautiful.
Of course, there are very few embellishments, but it looks good. I was worried that the taste would not be enough. The servants also divided the brown sugar and dried osmanthus into several plates and placed them next to the rice cakes. An An looked at Madam Su expectantly, because only after the elders had eaten first, the younger ones could talk.
After receiving An An's eyes, Mrs. Su immediately picked up a piece. She dipped it in a little brown sugar and then wrapped it in a layer of dried osmanthus, and finally put it in her mouth to taste.
"This dried sweet-scented osmanthus tastes good, just like mine, do you have any more?" Mrs. Su is not too fond of sweets, but she still appreciates the taste of dried sweet-scented osmanthus, so she asked Bai Shi.
"This was given to me by Xiaohu, so I don't know." Because he didn't ask himself, Gu Xiaohu couldn't answer rashly. He could only answer after Bai Shi mentioned him.
"Dried sweet-scented osmanthus was specially sent by Xiaocao, and then I brought all of them. I'm sorry that there are not many."
Madam Su didn't know what happened to Dong Xiaocao and Gu Xiaohu before. After listening, she asked suspiciously, "Who is this Xiaocao? Can you ask her to sell me some?"
"I'll definitely ask you a question when I go back." Gu Xiaohu ignored the first question and jumped to the second one. But even for the second question, he agreed with a very hesitant tone, and even added a sentence after thinking about it, "But she told me that dried sweet-scented osmanthus is not easy to make, and she probably doesn't have much at home. "
Mrs. Su was a little regretful about this, so she didn't want to, so Gu Xiaohu didn't need to ask for help.
After solving the problem here, Gu Chunzhu also asked about Dong Xiaocao's current situation with concern. Gu Xiaohu said that the news he learned was that Dong's father's leg injury was completely healed, and the firewood business of Dong Xiaocao's family was also very good. Later, Father Dong was also grateful for his kindness for helping him at the beginning, and always thought of the Fa to help him.
There were still some people present who did not know that this kind of thing happened to Gu Xiaohu, and stretched their ears to listen, hoping to find something from it. Mrs. Su is much more free and easy. Others are too concerned to ask questions, but she directly asks Gu Chunzhu, "Does Xiaohu have a story with that Miss Dong? Are we going to attend the wedding banquet soon?"
Gu Chunzhu also teased Gu Xiaohu a few words along the topic of Mrs. Su, "Yes, mother, Xiaohu has a good luck. And other people's fathers like Xiaohu, I think if Xiaohu chases that young lady, he will definitely be chasing him. A quasi."
Gu Xiaohu hasn't come to his senses yet, and he is very serious about this issue, but he doesn't dare to show his face to the elders, so he can only reluctantly reiterate, "I really don't care about Xiaocao, you don't always take her with her. I'm joking, if others hear Xiaocao, how can she marry."
Gu Chunzhu and Mrs. Su looked at each other, Gu Xiaohu had taken the words so seriously, it was definitely not easy for them to continue to ask questions, but they always had expectations in their hearts. The topic turned back to the rice cake, and began to praise Bai Shi.
You must know that making rice cakes is a very laborious thing, so the Bai family does not take all the credit. To put it bluntly, it is He Laosan and Gu Xiaohu that are largely contributing.
While we were bragging, the dumplings were also out of the pot.
An An concentrates on gossip about things between Gu Xiaohu and Dong Xiaocao, even forgetting the rice cakes that she desperately wanted to eat before. Only then did she remember the food she was waiting for when the zongzi was brought up, and in order to prove the rhetoric she had put down before, she really didn't care about her image, she opened the bow on both sides of the rice cake in her left hand and the zongzi in her right hand.
Xiaocheng didn't want his sister to be noticed by herself, so he took the initiative to follow the rice cake in his left hand and the dumpling in his right hand. The remaining two friends naturally sacrificed their lives to accompany the gentleman, and learned that the two brothers and sisters are not empty, one mouthful of rice cake and one dumpling
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Sister-in-law Fu, who first proposed eating rice cakes and zongzi, looked at them and said with a smile, "As expected of An An, she likes to eat, but she knows that she should do this with one bite of nian cake and one bite of zongzi. This means high school."
Hearing that, An An accidentally coughed and choked, but she was still reluctant to put down what was in her hand, so she just bent over and coughed hard.
Gu Chunzhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and hurriedly brought her a glass of water, and An An also drank the whole glass of water with Gu Chunzhu's hand, and finally calmed down, and everyone gave her a sip.
"If you tell me, can't you eat slower?" Gu Chunzhu put the water glass heavily on the table and rebuked An An helplessly. An An refused at a glance, and had a very good attitude of admitting her mistake, and ate something gently in her mouth. She also quietly glanced at Sister-in-law Fu, feeling inexplicably guilty. How did she know those rules?
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