Little wealth

April is over, and the little guy in his stomach has not yet shown signs of coming out, and the whole family is very worried.

"Em, don't worry, he'll come out when he's supposed to come out, and we'll just be ready to meet him." Josh himself is not in a hurry at all, he should eat and sleep every day, but now his stomach It's too big, and it's hard to turn over at night. I feel like a big frog that is full of food. If I turn over, I can't turn back. I have to be pushed from behind.

Fortunately, someone was around to take care of him at night. Their Master Zhao hadn't been to the store for seven or eight days, just to stay at home and take care of him.

But this little guy looks like a slow person, he just refuses to come out of his stomach.What can he do now?It can only be mixed with cold.

Thinking that the Dragon Boat Festival will be in a few days, Josh misses the big meat dumpling that he ate last year, and said to his mother, "Em, the Dragon Boat Festival will be in two days, should we make zongzi?"

As soon as Zhao Amu heard this, she knew that her daughter-in-law was greedy for zongzi, so she couldn't help but smiled and said, "You want to eat zongzi, right? Then you make it, and let's eat it together. I'll wait for the sun to get lower." So I took someone to cut some reed leaves, washed them and put them away for making zongzi the day after tomorrow.”

"I still have beans and glutinous rice at home, so I don't need to buy these. I can just buy some meat and make stuffing." Now there is no shortage of food at home, and I can eat whatever I want, and I don't buy half a catty of meat like before. Still have to think about it.Don't you just want to eat zongzi? You can buy a few catties of meat at any time and wrap it at home.

"We have a lot of people in our family, so let's make more zongzi."

"Yes, this is necessary."

"Why don't we find a few people in the village to help, prepare more materials, and ask everyone to help pack together. We just need to provide things. When the time comes, make more rice dumplings and send some to the store and the oil workshop. guys at work."

Since it is a holiday, his boss should also give the workers some benefits.

Josh has never been a stingy boss. He will never refuse to give a salary increase, and he will also have the benefits that should be given.Because he knew that the current several shops of his family could do better and better, and the oil mill on the side of the village would grow bigger and bigger, all of which would not be possible without the help and hard work of the guys below, so they should also give them the benefits that should be given.

But now there are dozens of people in their family, and it would take nearly a hundred rice dumplings for one person to eat. If you add a few people who work in the store, work in the oil workshop, and oil sellers Guys, it will take hundreds of zongzi.Making zongzi is a troublesome thing, and it takes two days to prepare. When the time comes, you must wrap a little more, and you can eat it for an extra day or two.

"This... that's fine. I'll go to the village tomorrow to say hello to people, so that anyone who is free that day can come to our house to help." Zhao Amu agreed without much hesitation.

In the next two days, we discussed how much glutinous rice and beans to make zongzi, and what fillings to prepare.

After the afternoon, the sun was not so bright, Zhao Amu took a group of people out to cut the reed leaves.

Reed leaves are a kind of reed leaves. The leaves are thick and smooth, and they are used to make zongzi and have a fragrance. Every year, people here go to the mountain to cut this kind of leaves to make zongzi.

The cut leaves have to be washed and dried, and then taken out to make zongzi on the day of making zongzi.

Just preparing these zong leaves, the people in their family have been busy for two full days.

As for Josh, who wanted to eat zongzi, he didn't have to do the work, he just had to wait to eat zongzi.

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The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, women and friends who are free in the village come to their yard to help make zongzi early in the morning.Most of the women and elder brothers who came to help with the work were the men of the family who helped with the work in the Zhao family. When they heard that the Zhao family wanted someone to help make zongzi, they made an appointment to come here together. help.

The Zhao family built a shed in the yard one day in advance, and built two large stoves, with two large pots in the stoves, which were used to cook zongzi later.

The glutinous rice and beans for the zongzi should be soaked in advance. The pork was bought from outside that morning, along with some chicken, duck, and a large basket of prawns.

Before I could start making zongzi so early in the morning, it happened that these women and brothers who came early helped peel the shrimp shells. The prawns in the pot were still jumping. Some of them helped to collect the shrimp shells and some helped to remove the shrimp lines. .

In the past, they had never done such delicate work. Chen Jiafulang, who was removing the shrimp thread with a bamboo stick in his hand, said with a smile, "I didn't know that the shrimp would have to remove such a thing."

"Haha, if we didn't come here today, we wouldn't know about it." Others also said with a smile.

Since the men in the family went to work in the Zhao family, the life of these people in their family has gradually become better.In the past, meat could only be eaten once in three or two months, but now it can be eaten every three to five times.

After eating at home, they all looked better than before.

I don't know if it's because of the good health. Among them, there are several brothers who have only given birth to one or two babies and have no news. They are all pregnant one after another.Now the family members dare not let them do any heavy work in order to let them raise their babies.

So at this point, they are very grateful to the Zhao family and Josh in their hearts. Even if the Zhao family didn't ask them to come to help today, they would come here early to help if they knew that they needed manpower to do things here.

There are two large pots of pork on the table at the door of the kitchen, and several men are helping to cut the pork here.The pork for zongzi does not need to be chopped very finely, just cut into finger-sized pieces. The minced meat is marinated for about two quarters of an hour, and then seasoned with five-spice powder, soy sauce and other seasonings.

The zongzi hadn't even started to be wrapped yet, and the smell of fried meat wafted three miles away.

"It smells so good, is the meat being fried outside?"

"Yes master."

Recently, Josh didn't sleep very well. He woke up very early. When he was having breakfast in the house, he heard the lively sound of everyone talking outside, and smelled the smell of fried minced meat from the kitchen. The meat porridge in my mouth was tasteless.

It's just that people in the family are watching him closely these days, not letting him go to the kitchen to cook, and not even letting him in the kitchen door.

But today, after a hasty breakfast in the house, Josh couldn't wait to run to the kitchen. He just went in and took a look before being persuaded to go out by the two maids following him.

"..." Well, you won't let me in, so I can't go outside to sneak out?

Thinking of his big zongzi beckoning to him, Josh went out in a good mood, and when he went to say hello to the women who came to help make zongzi, he found several more brothers with big bellies like him, It's just that the big watermelon in his stomach is the biggest.

But it doesn't matter, let's go big, he will be able to unload soon!

After saying hello to everyone, he heard the sound of a carriage approaching, thinking that it should be the guest he had invited, and after nodding to everyone, he held his big belly with both hands and walked The pace of the duck went out to pick up people.

As soon as he went out, he saw Master Fu standing under the carriage to pick up people. Josh was a little surprised, "Master Fu, Luo Xi, you are here. As soon as I heard the voice, I guessed if it was you."

"Ah Xu, why did you come out in person?"

Bai Luoxi was helping their master Fu to get off the carriage. When he looked up, he saw Josh coming out. He ran down from the carriage, forgetting that there was a son behind him.It was Master Fu who carried the little brother down.

Fu Wenqing took the child down, turned his head and looked back, and looked at his brother who called him Mr. Fu just now, and asked with a smile on his face: "Do you still call me Mr. Fu? Shouldn't you call me Mrs. Fu?" elder brother?"

"I'm used to shouting." Josh said with a little embarrassment.

In fact, he and Mr. Fu should be cousins, and he only recently learned about this relationship from the housekeeper.

The butler recently told him about the family relationship in the capital. From the Hou Mansion to the Fu family, the relationship on the Hou mansion side is relatively simple, but on the Fu family side it is very complicated. The whole family of the Fu family is relatively large. The relationship between the characters in it is intricate, in addition to the direct branch, there are also side branches, and there are marriages between various families.

His mother, Fu Qingxue, is from the direct branch of the Fu family in Kyoto, and Fu Wenqing, Mr. Fu is an offshoot of the Fu family. Calculated, his mother is also Mr. Fu's cousin, so according to this calculation, he and Mr. Fu should be regarded as cousins related.So after such a long circle, their family and Mr. Fu's family can be regarded as half relatives.

"Speaking of which, you still have to call me cousin, hahaha..." Bai Luoxi didn't expect to make a big detour, so he is still Josh's cousin, and the two families are still related.

Josh reached out and touched the tip of his nose, a little suspicious that Bai Luoxi wanted to take advantage of him.

"Oh, your belly is really big. You should give birth soon, right? You should stay in the house and stop running around." After a while, Bai Luoxi pulled Qiao Xu's hand, watching him come out and run around with such a big belly, I feel worried after thinking about it.

"It's all right, it's just that I look a little bigger. Maybe I've gained weight recently." Since the old housekeeper came, he has been eating three meals a day, can he not gain weight?Josh could see his double chin in the mirror.

It was the doctor Wang who saw that his stomach was growing too fast and didn't let him eat too much nourishing food, so the old housekeeper stopped.

Seeing Xiao Nuomi getting off the carriage, Josh had a happy smile on his face, and said, "Nuomi is here too. Anian knew you would come today, so she was happy. I was talking about you all day yesterday, why didn't you come?" Come on, go inside quickly, the dumplings are already being prepared inside."

Little Nuomi called out obediently, "Uncle."

"Hey, is Nuomi going to call me uncle?" Hearing Xiao Nuomi calling him uncle, Josh himself was a little confused about their relationship and titles.But if you call uncle, just call uncle, it doesn't matter.

"It's called Uncle, right?" Bai Luoxi also looked at their family, Mrs. Fu, a little uncertainly.

Mr. Fu said that he should be right.

"Hey, where's that child, Anian?" At this moment, Josh remembered the son he hadn't seen since he woke up early in the morning. Where did the son go to play?

Seeing that their master wanted to find the young master, a servant girl who was following him replied: "Master, the young master is playing in the yard. Master, do you want to find the young master? This servant girl will help the master find the young master."

"Yeah, let's go, bring people to the front hall." Josh asked someone to call his son over, and led Master Fu and Bai Luoxi's family to the front hall.

Bai Luoxi saw that Qiao Xu was still walking around with such a big belly, she was very worried when she saw him walking, and hurriedly went to the side to help him.Walking all the way in, he saw the green vines and hanging melons and fruits on the bamboo frame. He couldn't help being a little surprised, and said, "Hey, your yard looks so beautiful. When I go back, I will We have to get something like this in our yard."

"Haha, isn't it, this is very simple. It is to build a shelf to plant a row of melons. The melons in your yard are not very good-looking. Plant grapes. The seeds you found for me last time have grapes in them." Seeds, I planted a few here, and when you leave, dig two and go back to plant in the yard." Josh was not walking fast, and there were people supporting him on the left and right, as if he was afraid that he would fall.

But now that he knows that his body is different from before, he will be very careful when walking.

"Grapes?" Bai Luoxi himself really didn't know what was in the bag of seeds he had someone find back, "Is it grapes from Grape Wine?"

"That's right, it's the grapes for making wine. When the grapes grow, I'll teach you how to make wine. But it shouldn't bear fruit so quickly." Josh also didn't know how many grapes it takes to bear fruit Son, not very clear about this.

"It's a good feeling. When I turn back, I'll take two trees from you back to plant in the yard, and they will bear fruit when they bear fruit." At this time, Bai Luoxi didn't expect that he would follow her husband if he didn't wait for the grapes to bear fruit. Went to work elsewhere.

However, this does not affect their good thoughts and wishes for the vine at this time.

A group of people walked in slowly while talking.

Josh talked about his chili, "There are a lot of small chili peppers. I made a small jar of chili sauce. When you leave, I will ask someone to pack some for you. It is delicious to dip meat in. Already." When he mentioned chili, he couldn't help swallowing, and it was true that he wanted to eat hot pot a little bit. If it wasn't for the fact that it was not suitable for eating those things at this time, he really wanted to have a hot pot meal.

As soon as they entered the house and sat down, a little guy who ran back from outside rushed towards them like a shell.

There was laughter in the house, and people outside were also preparing to make zongzi.