After a simple rebirth

When Fu Ying woke up and went downstairs, her father was cooking and there was a big bucket of white rice soaking next to him.

Yes, today is the Dragon Boat Festival. According to Fu's father's habit in previous years, the rice dumplings should be wrapped the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, cooked in the evening, and eaten at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival.

In my hometown in Yunnan Province, the Dragon Boat Festival is an important day for family reunion. Fu Ying experienced it as a child and has a deep impression of it.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the adults would cook a pot of rice dumplings, boil two eggs for each person, and boil two bunches of onions. The whole family would take these things and walk to the reservoir. During the Dragon Boat Festival, large areas of mulberry-like fruits would ripen in the woods around the reservoir. They were called wild mulberries locally, and their scientific name seemed to be snakeberry. Snacks from home, Dragon Boat Festival delicacies, and some special wild fruits, the whole family would watch the reservoir and have a picnic together. This is a happy memory of many children's childhood.

Because Fu Ying and Fu Zhe were not at home yesterday, the Fu family entertained relatives and friends, so we didn’t make rice dumplings this year.

After dinner, Dad Fu took out a lot of leftover bamboo leaves from last year and soaked them in water. The wet bamboo leaves will be more elastic and will not break due to bending during the process of wrapping the dumplings.

Fu Ying moved a stool and sat down to help with the wrapping. Fu's father told her to go upstairs if she wanted to study.

Fu Ying shook her head. She had to study, but she also had to do it together. Every year when Fu Ying was at home, she would help her father with these things. Fu's mother might go out to play mahjong, and Fu Zhe might go out to play, but Fu Ying would definitely help.

I don’t want my dad to have to take care of all this when he is resting alone, and I also want to accompany him. The companionship in my memory is just this kind of small things. Fu Ying’s dumplings may not look good, and sometimes the rice will leak out, but making and cooking dumplings together is a simple companionship.

Fu Ying hadn’t made zongzi since she left home in her previous life. She didn’t always eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the ones she ate were made on the factory assembly line. Without their company, they were not the zongzi she remembered.

Fu Ying has eaten zongzi from Guangdong Province, which are characterized by rich ingredients. The Cantonese ones are added with egg yolks, pork belly, and chicken; the Chaoshan ones are added with sea urchins, abalone, and scallops.

The ones in Yunnan Province are very simple, at least those in Fu Ying's hometown are very simple. Soak the glutinous rice in water for a few hours, wrap it with bamboo leaves, tie it with ropes, and it's done. The only ingredient is glutinous rice, nothing else. If you like, you can dip the cooked rice dumplings in some sugar. If you don't want to add sugar, just eat pure glutinous rice dumplings.

In her previous life, she saw netizens discussing salty and alkaline rice dumplings. Fu Ying couldn’t tell which one her own family had. Anyway, it was simple and enough to last for half a month.

After wrapping the rice dumplings, Fu's father put them in the pot to cook. While going in and out, Fu Ying thought for a while, took a stool and went upstairs.

First, she reviewed the planned chemistry. She had memorized the periodic table, but she just couldn't convert the elements. The chemistry teacher hadn't sent out the review materials yet, so Fu Ying could only study the materials she bought and then do the after-class exercises to consolidate her knowledge.

When I put the chemistry materials aside, I found that my feet were numb because I had been sitting for too long.

Fu Ying simply stood up and stretched her legs, trying to find the limit of her flexibility while reading political materials in a low voice. For the political course, you just need to read more and see the correct answers, and write with reference to the correct answers, so you can't make any mistakes. In her previous life, Fu Ying passed the ideological and moral examination without any preparation, so she didn't worry about her political awareness at all.

Fu's father cooked dinner and showed off his cooking skills by making pickled fish. This time, only Fu Yu's family was invited, and there was room for one table.

After eating the fish, Fu Ying sighed inwardly. The Fu family was from an inland area, so they ate little fish, cooked little fish, and didn't cook it very well. The fish that Fu's father cooked was really not tasty because he didn't know how to choose and bought grass carp with many bones.

When it comes to cooking, you still have to rely on Fu Ying’s boyfriend. Everything he cooks is really delicious.

Another day of missing his cooking.