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When Zhang Taiping finally finished work, Fan Ming also took some time off. He suddenly felt that he was very hungry after he had been jumping up and down in the afternoon. He smelled the aroma coming from the kitchen and his stomach growled a few times.

He ran into the kitchen with a face on his face.

"What did Sister Cai cook for dinner? It's so delicious." Fan Ming entered the kitchen and asked Cai Yazhi and Xing Rushui who were busy at work.

Cai Yazhi said without stopping to cut vegetables: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Tonight we will serve steamed rice dumplings and sweet-scented osmanthus cake, plus a few side dishes."

"Son, I like rice dumplings and sweet-scented osmanthus cake." As he spoke, his stomach growled unsatisfactorily, "I'm starving to death!"

At this time, Xing Rushui put a small pot of cold eggplant on the table and said, "Wait a while, the rice dumplings and pastries will be cooked. You go and clean the table first and put the bench in place."

After Fan Ming came out, Zhang Taiping smiled and asked, "How's it going?"

Fan Ming wiped the table and said, "It'll be fine in a moment."

Zhang Taiping stood up and walked outside. Yaya and Tiantian went out to play with the group of children carrying the grasshopper cage in the afternoon. They have not come back yet. They went out to find something to eat.

There were stars in the sky, it was another good weather, and the venue was brightly lit. When the venue was being tidied up, the lights were turned on in case it suddenly rained at night or something happened.

Zhang Taiping walked straight to the top of the stadium. The lights were turned on. It became a paradise for children at night. The most popular game was hide and seek. There were piles of wheat everywhere, making it easy to hide but difficult to find. This would be more fun.

It would be boring if you were found as soon as you hid.

When Zhang Taiping came over, Tiantian was covering his eyes and counting, while a group of more than a dozen boys and girls spread out on their calves to various parts of the venue, got into the back of the wheat pile and hid.

After Tiantian opened her eyes, she saw Zhang Taiping standing in front of her. Just when she was about to speak, Zhang Taiping put his finger to his mouth to signal her to be quiet. The little girl immediately closed her mouth with a happy expression on her face and moved lightly.

He followed Zhang Taiping and found the place where Yaya was hiding.

Sensing someone standing in front of her, Yaya just wanted to ask Yaya why she wanted to find her. The two had agreed in advance not to look for each other. Zhang Taiping whispered: "Don't talk, it's dad." Yaya immediately put her hands on her hands.

He covered his mouth with an expression of surprise on his face, then let go and whispered: "What are you doing here, dad? Do you want to play with hidden codes?"

Zhang Taiping also whispered: "Dad came to come home for dinner with you. We left secretly without letting them know and let them stay in the wheat pile for a while longer."

The two little girls also felt it was fun, their eyes were shining brightly, and their little faces were red. Zhang Taiping wiped off the wheat awns on their bodies, put one on his shoulders, and strode away. After running far away, the two little girls

The girl giggled out loud.

"Tiantian also ran away, no one is looking for him, Heizi and the others hid until tomorrow morning. Hee hee." Yaya stopped laughing and said.

"Then they won't go home for dinner?" This was the voice every day.

Zhang Taiping also smiled and said: "Don't worry, they will go home on their own after a while and no one comes to see them."

After returning home, the meal was ready. Several home-cooked side dishes and rice dumplings were cooked and placed on the table, along with sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Zhang Taiping went to the back and invited the old man out, and the family gathered around the table.

Sitting down, the old man held Yaya on his lap, with a rare smile on his face.

There is no zongzi skin nearby, Zhang Taiping bought it in the town. This is a specific kind of plant leaves with smooth leaves, and the fragrance on them does not affect the taste of the zongzi. There are no authentic zongzi leaves, and some people use ordinary ones.

Although leaves can be used as a substitute, the steamed rice dumplings will lack a flavor after all.

The steamed rice dumplings this time are divided into two types: sweet and salty. The salty one is filled with meat, and the glutinous rice is mixed with the minced meat and steamed. This way of eating is only emerging now. But Zhang Taiping still thinks

Sweetness is delicious, and it must have been eaten since ancient times. There are many mature methods, and the methods that have been passed down through the test of time are treasures.

Yaya peeled a rice dumpling for the old man. The yellowish japonica rice inside was dotted with adzuki beans, raisins, and jujubes. They were not ordinary winter jujubes but candied jujubes. If Zhang Taiping disliked winter jujubes, they would taste sour and make people spit out the jujube cores.

, there is no jujube core in the candied dates you buy, and the jujube meat is thick and chewy.

The old man took a bite and tasted it and said, "Hmm...is there honey in it?"

Cai Yazhi nodded and said, "There is indeed honey, and there is also the peach fat that Brother Taiping scraped from the peach trees in March."

The old man nodded and said, "Not bad."

Cai Yazhi immediately smiled like a flower. It is not easy to get a compliment from the old man. If you can say it is good, then you really like it. Cai Yazhi handed the osmanthus cake forward and said: "Grandpa, please try this osmanthus cake again, the osmanthus juice in it

It was also pickled and sealed by Brother Taiping when the osmanthus trees were blooming and preserved to this day.”

The old man tasted a piece and just nodded without comment. Cai Yazhi had only made it once before and showed lack of experience. Although Xing Rushui was there to help, she still couldn't make it to the level of Grandma Zhang Dashuai's back then, so the old man just nodded and said nothing.

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After the old man tasted it first, everyone started to eat and talk and laugh. We are not big families, so there is no rule about eating and drinking. Isn't it the so-called reunion and warmth of eating together? If you can't talk and laugh at will, then so-called

There is no point in eating with the same tablemates.

Fan Ming didn't care whether she was a lady or not. She was already starving after playing around all afternoon. She was like a starving ghost trying to survive. She just picked up the sweet-scented osmanthus cake or sweet rice dumplings and stuffed them into her mouth. She was quite like a pig.

The demeanor of swallowing ginseng fruit made Xing Rushui feel angry and funny next to him, but he didn't stop him.

Instead, the old man said: "Both of these things are heavy. Although adding honey can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, eating too much will cause indigestion."

Fan Ming slowed down her eating after hearing what the old man said. She is still the old man's patient. She doesn't have to listen to other people's words, but she must listen to the old man's words.

In this kind of atmosphere, Zhang Taiping would definitely not forget the wine. He poured a jar out of the gourd and brought it up. He hadn't tasted it for a long time, and he didn't know how much the wine had changed in this magical gourd.

Everyone, regardless of size, was given a small glass first. This wine was brewed from some kind of fruit by Zhang Taiping, so it was always a little dark red, but very clear. In the white fine porcelain cup, the color was a bit attractive.

Shake it a little, and the tangy aroma of the wine will escape. When it is calm, no smell will come out. It can be seen that this wine has returned to its original nature.

The old man picked up the wine glass and looked at it, then sniffed it gently, then took a sip and closed his eyes slightly to enjoy it. He felt as if the lubricating wine liquid was detonated as soon as it touched the tip of his tongue, and the mellow flavor and aroma suddenly came out.

Spread out, just like the previous Tao Guangyang

Hui only exploded at this moment. The feeling of explosion seemed to be directly in the brain, which made people feel like they were enlightened. The old man didn't know what it felt like, but it didn't stop him from enjoying it.

A moment of light-hearted pleasure.

The liquid lingered around the tip of the tongue and then went down the throat. However, it exploded in the stomach with a solid texture and did not give people a spicy feeling. A hot current quickly started from the stomach and flowed throughout the body, making people feel warm.

It feels as if all the bones in my body have become lighter.

The old man opened his eyes and drank the rest of the cup without saying anything. He shook his head and didn't know whether it was a compliment or something else. He just poured himself another cup.

The others could drink just fine, but they stopped after drinking two or three glasses. As for Cai Yazhi and Fan Ming, they simply couldn't handle the alcohol. After a glass of wine, their cheeks turned as red as peach blossoms, and the three little girls simply fell down.

Two of them, and one who was drunk and confused. Zhang Taiping was not worried about their performance, because on the one hand, the wine was very strong. On the other hand, it had the effect of clearing the eyes and calming the nerves. After drinking, he could sleep soundly all night.

I will be more energetic tomorrow morning.

Seeing that the old man was having a good time drinking today, Zhang Taiping drank a few drinks with the old man, along with a few side dishes as appetizers. Without saying anything, he drank half the jar without much effort.

"This wine has good effects." After almost drinking, the old man commented and put down Yaya in his arms and went into the back room.

After finishing the meal, Zhang Taiping said to Cai Yazhi: "Give some of these rice dumplings and osmanthus cakes to Mr. Li and Mr. Tang."

Cai Yazhi nodded and said, "That's what I meant." Seeing Zhang Taiping walking into the yard to cool off, she added, "You'd better send it there. My face is too hot. Fairy, I must be extremely red."

Already."

Zhang Taiping saw that it was really red and was about to bleed, and said: "Okay, I'll send it over. You can go to bed early. The table will be cleared in the morning."

I carried some rice dumplings and osmanthus cakes in a basket and arrived at Mr. Li's house. Only Mr. Li's wife was washing dishes in the house, but the two old men were not seen. Zhang Taiping asked: "Uncle Li and Uncle Tang aren't there?"

"Commander, they went to the village chief's place to chill and chat with someone. What's the matter?" Mr. Li's wife put down the bowl and chopsticks and wiped her hands and asked.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Nothing, tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. I will steam some rice dumplings and pastries in the evening. I will send some over."

She was a little surprised and was about to refuse, but Zhang Taiping didn't give her a chance. He stuffed the basket into his hand and turned around and left. Ignoring the shouts from behind, he said, "Come back to pick up the basket tomorrow."

Mrs. Li could only accept the basket. She couldn't chase it back and go back. That would be ungrateful. She was used to living in the city, so she couldn't react to this kind of neighbor giving things to her for a while.

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