The few days before the Dragon Boat Festival were the busiest days that Meiberry had ever experienced after traveling through time.
The first two days were preparation work, such as cutting reed leaves, cooking bean paste, and steaming glutinous rice. These were all fine.
The main thing is to beat the glutinous rice in the stone mortar, which is really tiring.
When it comes to making glutinous rice, their family has no choice but to fall on Mei Youqian.
According to her dad, her biceps have gotten bigger these days.
Naturally, Mei Bei's mother, Li Cuihua, and Miao were involved in making rice dumplings and pastries.
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On weekdays, when I take Miao out to chat, there are other aunts who can talk to me, so I don't have to worry about the scene getting cold.
But now that her mother has to face two social fears alone, Mei Berry feels that she has made more tea in the past two days.
Even when she woke up from her dream at midnight, her parents' dreams were heard all over her ears.
Either "If I don't fight, if I don't fight, I won't fight again", or "You guys should just say something to me!"
Meiberry cannot bear the pain of her parents.
Relying on the characteristics of both physical strength and handwork, Meiberry can only accompany her own stove these days, making fire every day.
She basically cooks the bean paste, rice dumpling leaves and rice dumplings at home.
Occasionally, I would throw an egg into the rice dumpling pot, or fish out a boiled and fried rice dumpling, and Meiberry would eat it deliciously.
As a result, when Mei You found Mei Berry, she saw Mei Berry squatting behind the stove eating eggs like a little squirrel.
"I saw a bamboo cart in the yard. Was it your father who made it for your mule?"
Meiyou got straight to the point and mentioned the cart he saw at Meiberry's house today.
"Well, this way you don't have to hit other people's oxcarts when you go out on the street. Although mules are not as powerful as old oxen for the time being, they can still carry your own family or pull goods."
In the past two days, her father used bamboo to make a lightweight cart suitable for a mule to pull based on the bullock cart he rode in before and the size of the mule.
When I thought about how they rode in an ox cart before, and the old ox pulled six or seven people in one cart, Mei Youqian, not to mention Mei Qian, felt heartbroken when he saw it.
You can't treat your own mule cubs like this in the future.
Therefore, the mule cart is not too big, and can accommodate up to three or four people.
Mei Mei nodded. She came to Mei Mei this time for something else.
She wanted to make an appointment with Mei Berry to find time to go to the county together after the Dragon Boat Festival.
For the previous soaps, all the ratios have been calculated. After the Dragon Boat Festival, Meiyou will completely implement this matter.
Mei Bei agreed to Mei You without thinking.
This group of people was busy for several days. On the morning before the Dragon Boat Festival, Meiberry's family loaded the rice dumplings and pastries into the car before dawn.
In the morning, the family of three let the mule boy get used to pulling the cart. Even the three of them did not get on the cart, and only the mule boy was allowed to pull the goods.
When they arrived in the town, as soon as Lin Shoucai's shop opened, he saw Mei Pei and his family bringing rice dumplings over.
"Zongzi with these kinds of fillings have different flavors, and the colors of the threads wrapped around them are also different. The corresponding fillings and colors are written on them."
After that, Mei Youqian handed Lin Shoucai the small yellow paper he usually used at home. What surprised Lin Shoucai was that the family in front of him actually knew how to read.
This piece of paper was also planned by Meiberry and the others at home.
People who can read words these days are considered capable.
I have cooperated with Lin Shoucai twice, so I'm not sure if they will have any business dealings in the future.
With this incident, Lin Shoucai's small thoughts of looking down on their family or wanting to take advantage of them will be restrained.
Just as Mei Berry and the others thought, Boss Lin took the piece of paper and when he looked at Mei Berry and his family, the expression on his face changed slightly.
It doesn't seem like much has changed, but they definitely take their family's literacy to heart.
"Thanks for the reminder. I was originally thinking about how to distinguish them. This reminder really solved my urgent need."
With that said, Lin Shoucai neatly paid the remaining balance to Mei Youqian, no more and no less.
"Although these snacks are not as exquisite as those in restaurants, they are still our family's thoughts. Thank you Boss Lin for taking care of our family's small business these days."
After taking the money, Mei Youqian handed over the homemade Toutiao cake and sesame oil mung bean cake to the other party.
I didn’t make much this time. I made 40 copies of each snack and kept them for sale in the town.
Because it was for Lin Shoucai, Mei Youqian specially made a small gift box of better quality to put the snacks in it.
"You're welcome."
Lin Shoucai took the delicate bamboo box and was even more surprised by the snacks inside.
"What a craft!"
"Just so so." Seeing that he accepted it, Mei You said a few words of humility and left.
Wei Meili took her mule cub to the downtown area to sell snacks.
Mei Youqian wanted to take advantage of the morning to go to the pier outside the town with her daughter to wait for the boat.
The pier outside Lihu Town was less than one kilometer away from the town, and the father and daughter arrived at the pier quickly.
The father and daughter asked people on the pier about the boat to the county. After paying the fare, the father and daughter boarded the boat.
However, because everything was so fresh, the father and daughter did not choose to enter the cabin. Instead, they stood on the deck outside and looked at the scenery on the dock in the early morning.
Even early in the morning, the dock in Lihu Town was very lively.
Lihu is like a natural harbor, where many boats traveling from north to south are moored, and there are even inns outside the pier.
The inn looked a bit bigger than the ones in the town, and it was very grand.
There are several simple sheds next to the inn. From a distance, it's hard to see what food is served inside. Most of the people who eat in these sheds are workers working on the docks.
Mei Youqian's intuition tells him that these things probably don't taste good.
"There are quite a few food businesses at this pier~"
Mayberry saw that her father hadn't been quiet for two seconds before he started chatting with the boatman who was resting on the deck.
"Hey, it's convenient after all."
"I think it tastes pretty good~"
"Where is it? It's just enough to eat. Although the price is affordable, the rest..." The boatman shook his head and stopped talking, but he didn't say anything.
"There are quite a few boats coming to this pier to rest every day, so the business of the inn is probably very good."
"Yes. Every year at the beginning of spring and before winter, there are so many boats here that it's amazing. Sometimes even boats can't get in."
After listening for a while, Mei Bei had no intention of listening to the chat between his father and the boatman. Mei Bei glanced around, but saw an acquaintance with sharp eyes——
Lin Shoucai, the grocery store owner.
He was not in the shop at this time, but instead he was only accompanied by a few people, carrying two baskets of rice dumplings that looked very familiar to Meiberry onto a big boat behind their house.
That ship... Mei Berry took a second look. Compared to the other ships where there were many people walking around, it seemed to be particularly deserted.
"Isn't that ship so strange?" Meiberry pretended to be innocent and intervened in the chat between her father and the boatman nearby, and even led them to take a look at the big ship that Meiberry mentioned.
"Hey, that ship... looks so ruthless, it must be temporarily parked here, right?"
The boatman had been on the river between Lihu and Jinbai County countless times. He had no impression of a boat like this. This was definitely his first time here.
"Oh, uncle, do people in the town usually take your boat when going to the county?"
"That's not necessarily true. Some people go to the county to do business and transport goods, so they choose some large cargo ships. Here, I usually carry people. When the seats are full, they leave~" The uncle laughed and scanned again Glancing at the cabin, he smiled and said, "Look, isn't it time to go~"
After that, he shouted.
Upon seeing this, Mei Youqian took his daughter into the cabin, found a place to sit and sat down.
Although the boatman uncle said that his boat was only carrying people, it was rare that the father and daughter sitting in the cabin actually had nothing in their hands.
As the ship gradually sailed out of the pier, Mayberry watched the surrounding scenery continue to change through the open window in the cabin. In the end, she couldn't sit still and left the cabin again.
She stood on the deck and looked at the wide river. The cool breeze on the river was blowing. Meiberry took a deep breath and murmured softly: "This is the Jinlan River."
Because it was early summer, the mountains on both sides of the river were beautiful and deep. There were villages and fields at the foot of the mountains. When looking carefully, Mei Mei even recognized her own village and the mountains behind.
"Wow!"
This kind of vision made Meiberry admire the magnificent scenery. At the same time, she suddenly discovered a problem——
"Dad, do you think the Jinlan River is higher than the ground?"
Meiberry stood on the boat and looked at the mountains on both sides of the river. She thought something was strange before, but she couldn't explain it.
Now when she looked at her village in the distance, Meiberry realized that her perspective was actually from top to bottom!
Before she crossed this kind of terrain, their mother river seemed to be in the same situation.
In history, it is unknown how many people have been displaced and forced to leave their homes due to diversions, bursting of embankments, and floods caused by the mother river.
"Yes, such a river...just in case..."
Mei Youqian glanced around and found that there was no one where the father and daughter were standing. Only then did he dare to whisper: "If the river breaks... everyone will be doomed."
"Dad, have you forgotten what I said about next year?"
The book mentioned the flood next summer. If their family had only had a vague idea before, now, looking at the river above the ground, Mayberry instantly understood why the flood would cause such a disaster.
Just when Mei Bei was worried about what happened next, she heard her father say: "How about we go to the county and see if the terrain there is high, let's buy a house there.
When something happens next year, our family will bring the whole family of the third child to the county! "
I used to hear my daughter often say not to stay away from the protagonist, but to follow closely to check in and complete system tasks.
But floods are ruthless. Maybe if someone died because of a failed check-in, their family would have to suffer because of the flood.
In this case, Mei Youqian's idea is much simpler than that of Mei Bei. It is better for their family to turn their backs on guests and run away with the heroine when the time comes!
Mei Youqian: He took the heroine and his family to the county in advance.
Mayberry: What if the county can’t do it?
Mei Youqian: Then go to Fucheng!
Meiberry: What about Fucheng?
Mei Youqian: ...Then ask the heroine where we should run.
Mayberry:......
The important people are on the boat behind! But I won’t show up for now~
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