Chapter 101：

Zhang Hongtu put his arms around his lover's shoulder and said to the little rice ball: "Don't worry, little rice ball, Xiao Zhuzi is our son, we will definitely treat him well, thank you, thank you all for being so kind to Xiao Zhuzi."

The little rice ball pouted and struggled to the ground: "I don't want you to thank you! Xiaozhuzi is our family. Let Xiaozhuzi go, let's feed the chickens."

After the two little guys left, Zhang Hongtu and his wife stood up and bowed to Han Cheng and Su Xiaoxiao, and Yali said, "Thank you, thank you, I know thank you is too shallow, but I don't know how to repay you for teaching the pillars except thank you. so well."

Han Cheng walked over to straighten Zhang Hongtu's shoulder: "We'll talk about this, and the old chief is also very good. I went to the capital for a meeting to see him a few years ago."

Speaking of his old father, Zhang Hongtu's eyes became even redder: "We are the ones who have implicated him."

Han Cheng said: "It's just an excuse to add guilt to it. In short, it's over. In the future, the family can live a good life. Let's all look forward."

Zhang Hongtu nodded: "I know, thank you anyway, and thank Lao Zhao for me."

Han Cheng: "Tomorrow morning, I will bring the rice ball pillars to the morning exercise, and Zhao Xianfeng will also bring his son Xiaoyuer together. You will also come with me when the time comes. Xiaozhuzi is sensitive and has a strong ability to perceive people's hearts, etc. It's good that he is familiar with you all, and don't push him too hard."

Zhang Hongtu was worried that he didn't know how to develop a relationship with his son. Han Cheng's words were simply speaking to his heart: "Okay, I will come to meet you tomorrow morning."

Zhang Hongtu and his wife didn't really feel how good the family's relationship was and how good the children's tutoring was when it was time for dinner Yes, the rice **** are big, so adding two bowls of rice is not enough and won't put them in front of others.

Li Yufeng gave him a lot of food, and he would say, "Grandma eats it, I've eaten a lot." After that, he could finish a bowl of multigrain rice with some dried radish and soup.

Zhuzi is neither arrogant nor humble. Like bean-wrapped rice balls, he can eat how he wants to eat. He is not the kind of guest who cringes. He also really considers himself a part of the family. After dinner, he and the small rice ball will take the initiative to clean up the bowl. chopsticks, help grandma wash dishes.

The family is so harmonious that outsiders can't even insert a needle. Their whole family has no difference between Zhuzi and rice **** and beanbags.

The Yali couple didn't stay long after the meal, and the yard next door had to be cleaned up for a long time, so they had to go back to clean up and wait for the pillars to be moved back.

Zhuzi's current state of mind is very peaceful, he doesn't really like them, but he won't reject them, and he also tries to accept them slowly.

The next day was the Dragon Boat Festival. Hancheng went to the market early in the morning to buy a good piece of pork belly. Li Yufeng had already cut it and marinated it with salt, five spice powder, soy sauce, and white wine. The washed bamboo leaves were first scalded with boiling water to soften, and then soaked in glutinous rice. and green beans.

Su Xiaoxiao remembers that in the 21st century, the zongzi in Zhoucheng are only these three ingredients, nothing else is added, and the most traditional and simple taste is retained. The zongzi in many other places have begun to diversify, adding All kinds of mushrooms, seafood, salted egg yolk, etc., but Su Xiaoxiao's favorite is the most traditional old flavor.

After the lunch break, Li Yufeng and Su Xiaoxiao started making dumplings.

The method and flavor of the zongzi in Sujia Village are different from those in other places. The zongzi in other places are either conical, pyramidal, or square. The zongzi in Sujia Village is a standard rectangle. It has a unique aroma and is similar to banana leaves. It not only smells unique and fragrant, but also dyes the glutinous rice on the contact surface green, giving it a unique flavor.

Su Xiaoxiao hadn't made zongzi for a long time. She first stacked three bamboo leaves and put them at the bottom, put a zongzi leaf brought by Li Yufeng from Sujia Village in the middle, then put a thin layer of glutinous rice, and then a spoonful of mung beans. , then put a piece of pork belly wrapped in five-spice powder, cover with a layer of mung beans and a layer of glutinous rice, and fold both sides to the middle, fold the front and back again, and finally insert a bamboo leaf into the folded gap and roll it tightly. Tie it up and a nice rectangular zongzi is done.

It looks simple, but there is still a lot of effort.

"Mother, why did you cut the meat so thin?" This piece of five-spice and salted pork belly is the soul of the whole bacon dumpling, so how can a piece as thin as a fingernail taste.

Li Yufeng looked at her daughter angrily: "You forgot how to make zongzi in our house before? It's good to have meat as big as a fingernail. Sometimes if you really don't have the money to buy meat, you just put some lard residue. It’s still delicious without it, and you still think it’s too little for such a big piece of meat.”

OK, she was wrong.

Li Yufeng felt sorry for her daughter, so she specially wrapped a few dumplings with more mung beans and two or three more pieces of meat and marked them, ready to let her daughter eat those.

The dumplings have to be boiled in a large iron pot with high heat for several hours before they are fully cooked. This kind of dumplings cooked with firewood have a special fragrance.

After a few hours of high fire, the flavor of the five-spice powder melts into the melt-in-your-mouth pork belly, and the oil from the pork belly is mixed into the glutinous rice and mung bean.

For dinner, the whole family ate zongzi and cucumbers. Li Yufeng also cooked some sweet potato and millet porridge.

Su Xiaoxiao bit several pieces of flesh to see if others didn't know how much her mother loved her. She was really lucky to have such a good mother.

Han Cheng and the cubs both like to eat rice dumplings. Su Xiaoxiao was worried that the glutinous rice would be difficult for the children to digest, so she did not dare to let them eat more. The two big cubs each eat one, and the small bean buns can only eat half. Cheng ate two in one go.

Then I patted the cucumbers and drank a bowl of millet porridge, which was another satisfying meal.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Yali came over with a small basket of triangular zongzi, saying that it was their special zongzi from the frontier. The bread was filled with brown sugar, glutinous rice, red dates and raisins. It was sweet and the children would definitely like to eat it.

Su Xiaoxiao didn't refuse, and gave her a few bacon dumplings made by herself to taste. Yali didn't take more, but only took two to taste.

The children really liked the sweet rice dumplings, and they ate them as snacks on the spot. Even Li Yufeng thought it was delicious, and it was enough to eat a few small bites without getting tired.

Zhang Hongtu followed Hancheng and the others for morning exercises every day, looking for opportunities to talk and get along with Zhuzi more. He also learned to treat the children as friends and treat each other with sincerity, just like Hancheng Su Xiaoxiao. Gradually, Zhuzi also began to accept this father. .

Especially after Han Cheng told him a lot of Zhang Hongtu's glorious deeds on the battlefield, Zhang Hongtu is a great soldier, and the positive image of Zhang Hongtu who is also trying to be a good father is basically fixed in Zhu Zi's mind.

A week later, the column moved next door.

Not only the pillars got used to it, but the rice **** and beanbags also began to get used to it. As Su Xiaoxiao said, they were more than happy to have a place to play. They all scrambled to help the pillars move things. After moving, they came and went back and forth. Yali also liked it very much. They, the rice ball said that Aunt Yali gave them raisin rice, which was sweet and delicious, and said that the almonds from Aunt Yali's house were also very fragrant, and then said that Aunt Yali had made new ones for Xiaozhuzi. Clothes and new shoes, I also measured the size of him and Xiaodoubao, and I have to do it for them and so on.

The relationship between the cubs is really not much different from before. Every morning, they do morning exercises together, go to school together and leave school together, dig earthworms to feed the little hens together, and also get together to do homework together. The time spent on the side is a lot longer, and after that, I ran on both sides. If you have something delicious, I will give it to me, and if I have something delicious, I will also give you something. Occasionally, after discussing something, I will come together to sleep in the same room.

Especially Yali didn't know where she got a gray rabbit. After being named Huihui by the child, the little rice ball and Xiaodoubao liked to run next door. Yali's small vegetable garden has not yet been planted. Pick some old cabbage leaves from home to feed it.

The little rice ball even asked Han Cheng if he could open a door on the wall to make it easier for them to go back and forth. There is no one else for this smart little head.

Of course, this matter was strongly opposed by Li Yufeng. According to the custom of Sujia Village, it is not enough to drive a nail into the wall before the child is born, let alone smash the wall.

Anyway, apart from the digging of the wall, the cubs can come as they please, and they can stay where they like, and the adults are left to them.

The weather after the Dragon Boat Festival was getting hotter day by day, and all the mats Li Yufeng had weaved before came in handy, and even sent two beds to Zhuzi.

In the blink of an eye, Su Xiaoxiao's belly has been more than nine months old. The more she gets to the later stage of pregnancy, the more difficult it is for Su Xiaoxiao. Her belly is like blowing up a balloon, and it is getting bigger and bigger, even though Han Cheng got a fan back from nowhere. , Su Xiaoxiao sometimes still feels suffocated at night, so Han Cheng lifted her up, helped her back smoothly, took a fan to help her fan the air, and sometimes used her human flesh as a pillow, letting her lean on him. , while fanning the wind to let her sleep for a while, looking at Su Xiaoxiao's face that began to lose weight again, Han Cheng was also anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and also lost a lot of weight.

Li Yufeng still played the role of the needle of the sea-fixing god, and kept comforting them that this was a normal phenomenon, and that the time was just a few days, so you could prepare well.

Sure enough, in the early morning of the Qixi Festival a few days later, Su Xiaoxiao started, her stomach shrank in labor pains, and cold sweats kept coming out.

Li Yufeng hurriedly called up the two children and sent them to Yali's house: "Your mother is about to give birth, you two will stay at Aunt Yali's house and wait for us to come back."

Yali said: "Don't worry, the child will be handed over to me, and it will be safe and smooth."

The two cubs were half awake, rubbing their eyes in a daze, and their grandmother left before realizing what happened.

Yali held one in one hand: "You go in and sleep with the pillar for a while, and Aunt Yali will make delicious egg cakes for you."

Anyway, both sides were the same as at home, and the two cubs were not prepared, they climbed onto the bed on the pillars and fell asleep again.

Li Yufeng had already prepared the things that Su Xiaoxiao would use when she went to the hospital, which she would pack and Han Cheng would help Su Xiaoxiao into the car.

Han Cheng's face turned pale and pursed his lips as he drove in front. Li Yufeng hugged Su Xiaoxiao in the back seat and wiped the sweat from her forehead with a towel: "My daughter is not afraid. Mother and Han Cheng are both here. I am not afraid."

The pain is really painful, Su Xiaoxiao is squeamish, she doesn't want to cry, but the saline can't control the overflow: "Mother, it hurts..."

Han Cheng pursed his lips and looked at the rearview mirror from time to time, his hand gripping the steering wheel getting tighter and tighter.

Li Yufeng has given birth to several children, of course she knows how painful it is, but she has no choice but to endure it and comfort her, "It's alright, the quicker the pain, the faster the birth. Maybe we will give birth right away when we arrive at the hospital."

While speaking, Li Yufeng felt the warmth under her feet, and she calmly said to Han Cheng, "Han Cheng, the amniotic fluid is broken, drive faster."

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