Shen Xiao had already arrived at Tangcun. The car was parked at the entrance of the village. Many children gathered around, looking at the jeep like a peep show.
"Second Aunt, wolf cub... Officer Shen is here!"
Mrs. Tang was working in the sock factory when someone came over to report the news with a loud voice.
"knew!"
Mrs. Tang responded in a loud voice and asked the woman who reported the news to help keep an eye on her. She hurried home.
He met the captain on the way, and both of them ran very fast.
"Why are you running so fast? You still think you are a young man!" Mrs. Tang yelled over.
"I just got an endless phone call, saying that Leader Zhou wants to talk to Nian Yatou, please let me talk to Nian Yatou!"
"Who is Leader Zhou? What did he talk to Nian Yatou? He can't be the old man who was killed by grandson, right?"
Mrs. Tang suddenly became nervous. The old man named Zhou was not a good person at first glance. He must not have given up on the Tang family's treasure.
If Nian girl falls into the hands of this old thing, will she be fine?
"The plague-stricken old immortal keeps staring at Nian Yatou all day long. He deserves his grandson to be struck to death by lightning. Does he still have a grandson that he can't find? Humph, even if he finds it, he must be stupid, crazy and disabled. Cheng Useless trash!"
Mrs. Tang cursed viciously, but she didn't know that her words came true.
Shen Xiao had already arrived at Tang's house. Tang Niannian was the only one in the house. She was lying on a chair with her eyes closed to relax. When she heard Shen Xiao's voice, she opened her eyes, then jumped up and threw herself on him.
Shen Xiao connected his hands and raised them up, holding him firmly.
Tang Niannian hugged his neck and asked happily: "How many days off will you have this time?"
"Three days later, Zhou Siren has been released!"
Shen Xiao whispered in her ear, and the hot air he exhaled made her ears itch. Tang Niannian shrank her neck and kept laughing. The young couple were making out in the yard as if no one else was around.
At this time, people in the village went to work and went to work. There was no one at all and they were not afraid of being seen.
Mrs. Tang and the captain rushed into the yard one after another.
"Oh mom!"
Mrs. Tang's face turned red with embarrassment. She quickly turned around and covered her eyes tightly, secretly cursing the girl for being shameless. She hugged Xiao Shen so tightly in broad daylight. What if someone saw her?
The captain followed the little old lady, and his reaction was half a beat too slow. Mrs. Tang turned back and was face to face with him. The captain was startled, and moved a few steps to the side, and saw the two people making out.
"Mom!"
The captain was so embarrassed that he almost fell down, and like Mrs. Tang, he turned back urgently.
Tang Niannian jumped down from Shen Xiao's arms and shouted, "Nai, third uncle, why are you here if you don't go to work?"
"Hurry up and come down, girls are all shameless!"
Mrs. Tang half covered her eyes, turned around slowly, saw the two people separated from the corner of her eyes, then let go of her hand, and scolded angrily.
Tang Niannian ignored her and pretended not to hear.
"Girl Nian, someone just called and said that Leader Zhou wants to talk to you and asked me to inform you."
The captain was worried. The old man surnamed Zhou was a leader from the capital. If he really wanted to harm Nian Yatou, how could he reach his thighs with his arms?
"fine."
Tang Niannian's expression was very calm. She must have wanted to torture her and interrogate her about the whereabouts of the Tang family's treasure.
But Old Man Zhou is afraid that he doesn't have the energy anymore.
The powder in the cup of tea took effect in the past few days. When the time comes, Old Man Zhou will have no time to take care of himself and will not have the energy to mess with her.
"Is everything okay?"
The captain and Mrs. Tang asked in unison.
"It's okay, don't worry!"
Tang Niannian reassured them again and again, and she changed the subject again: "Nai, let's make rice dumplings, I'll get the ingredients."
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, and she wants to eat meat dumplings.
Like Qingming Tan, she only likes to eat salty meat rice dumplings and does not like sweet rice dumplings with candied dates.
"Okay, if you have nothing to do, go to the mountain and cut some calamus and mugwort, and hang them on the door!"
Mrs. Tang's attention was also diverted. Even if her granddaughter didn't mention it, she still planned to make rice dumplings and hang calamus and mugwort on the door to ward off evil spirits.
Hang it on the door to ward off evil spirits and poison
"oh!"
Tang Niannian agreed.
Mrs. Tang and the team leader went back to work in the sock factory.
Tang Niannian led Shen Xiao to the mountains to get rice dumpling leaves, mugwort and calamus. There were wild rice dumpling leaves on the mountain. She gave a few toffee to a group of children, and soon they had a basket full of them.
There are many wild rice dumpling leaves on the mountain
Calamus usually grows by the water, and the children also cut it for her. They also cut mugwort, which has grown to be more than one meter high.
"You take these home and hang them!"
Tang Niannian only took a small handful, and gave the rest to the children. Then he gave them a pack of biscuits to share, and then led Shen Xiao home.
First, tie up the calamus and mugwort with a red rope and hang them upside down on the gate. This is the custom of Zhucheng during the Dragon Boat Festival, which means to drive away evil spirits and remove bad luck.
She then took out a large piece of fat and thin pork belly from the space, cut it into inch-long chunks, marinated it in a large pot of soy sauce, and soaked a large pot of glutinous rice, all taken from the space.
Shen Xiao was assigned to work in the space by her. The mature crops had not been harvested yet, and the vacant land had to be replanted.
And Tang Niannian discovered another benefit of space. As long as the harvested rice straw and wheat straw are thrown on the ground, the water will evaporate automatically. There is no need to collect firewood, and the straw in the space cannot be burned.
The remaining ash from burning plants is the best natural organic fertilizer, which is stronger than chemical fertilizers.
By the time Mrs. Tang and Xu Jinfeng came home from get off work, Tang Niannian had already finished preparations. The rice dumpling leaves had been washed, the glutinous rice had been soaked, and the meat had been marinated, just waiting to be wrapped and cooked.
The family worked together and quickly made hundreds of meat rice dumplings, as well as hundreds of sweet rice dumplings and bean rice dumplings. In order to distinguish them, red thread was used for meat rice dumplings, five-color thread was used for candied date rice dumplings, and white thread was used for bean rice dumplings.
Mrs. Tang cooked a large pot, and the fragrance of rice dumpling leaves wafted out, and some villagers eating outside could smell it.
"Who makes rice dumplings so early?"
"It must be my second aunt's house. It smells so good. I'll also weigh some meat buns tomorrow."
"I also want to make more meat dumplings this year to give away."
The tone of the villagers' speech now is completely different from that of a month ago. They are much more lively. They no longer envy and envy the Tang family for eating meat every day because they can afford it.
It took several hours to cook the rice dumplings. Tang Niannian asked Mrs. Tang and the others to go to bed while she and Shen Xiao stayed guard.
And Tang Jiujin, the little girl was so greedy that she skipped a bowl of rice for dinner in order to eat rice dumplings.
At half past nine in the evening, it was finally cooked.
Tang Niannian fished out a few meat rice dumplings, poured them under cold water, peeled off the rice dumpling leaves, and revealed the brown rice dumplings. The oil from the pork belly was boiled out, mixed with soy sauce, and soaked through the glutinous rice.
