Chapter 289: Glutinous Rice

To make zongzi, glutinous rice is naturally the best.

"Sanniang, do you know where there is glutinous rice in Nanxiang?"

"What do you want glutinous rice for, brother?"

"Of course it's used to make horn millet."

After hearing this, Guan Ji shook her head and laughed, "Why is my brother so determined to make this millet? This glutinous rice is a rare thing, and so is my younger sister."

"Why?"

Feng Yongqi said, isn't the south a land of rice?

Guan Ji stared at Feng Yong for a long time, which made him feel a little nervous.

"Why does Sanniang look at me like this?"

"My little sister just finds it a bit strange. Since my brother is good at farming, how can he not know that the yield of glutinous rice is extremely low per mu, and one mu is more than half a stone. Only big families can grow it on weekdays. How can ordinary people grow it?" This kind of thing?"

ah!

I'm just a moron who forgets my roots!

I have always claimed to be a child from the countryside. When I was a child, my family was farming. When did I not only open a 30-50% paddy field on the ground to grow glutinous rice?

The output is low, and it is only used during the Chinese New Year. Who is too idle to plant glutinous rice all over the world?

"What are those big families doing?"

"I heard that glutinous rice can nourish the body and nourish the stomach, so people who have land at home will plant some."

Seeing that Guan Ji was still looking at him strangely, Feng Yong coughed dryly and explained, "I don't know much about that glutinous rice, I just ate rice dumplings made of glutinous rice in the teacher's gate. I thought this glutinous rice was a peace day The rice is about the same."

Guan Ji nodded, "Brother at this age, it is rare in the world to have this level of knowledge. This glutinous rice is a rare thing, and it is normal for brother not to know what happened."

How can a zongzi made without glutinous rice be considered an authentic zongzi?

"San Niang, the millet we eat on weekdays has never been so sticky. How can this corned millet be so sticky?"

Although it should be possible to use millet instead of glutinous rice in theory, it is necessary to know how it becomes sticky.

Guan Ji's eyes widened again, and finally there was a hint of worry in her expression.

She stretched out her hand and put it on Feng Yong's forehead, but found nothing unusual, but she still pulled Feng Yong into a chair with anxiety and asked with concern, "Brother, is there any problem?" What's uncomfortable?"

"What could be wrong with me?"

Feng Yong asked strangely.

Guan Ji blamed her a bit, "Brother, you should eat more cornstarch when you eat breakfast, so as to avoid evil spirits. If you didn't run into evil spirits, how could you ask such a question?"

What's wrong with me asking this question? If you don’t understand, I should ask!

Feng Yong looked at Guan Ji in a daze.

Seeing Feng Yong's expression, Guan Ji asked in disbelief: "Brother, really don't know the difference between the two?"

I know shit!

In later generations, I have never grown millet, but I have eaten some.

The two looked at each other for a while, Guan Ji suddenly gave a "puchi" and laughed.

Then the more he laughed, the more he couldn't control himself, and finally he was lying on the table, his shoulders were shaking non-stop.

enough!

Anyway, I also planted the land, didn't I just ask about the crops in the north? What's there to laugh about? I'm from the south, isn't it normal not to understand that?

Feng Yong said dissatisfiedly, "Why is San Niang here?"

Guan Ji listened, stretched out a hand and waved it, and after a while, she raised her head again, and it was obvious that she was suppressing a smile.

"Brother, I'm really sorry, my little sister couldn't hold back for a while."

Feng Tubie knew that he must have asked a very idiotic question.

Guan Ji's next explanation confirmed his thoughts.

"Brother, the yellow rice used to make horn millet and the millet we usually eat are both millet. But one is sticky and the other is not sticky. Brother... but the Diannong official, how could he even Don't you understand this?"

Isn't that the difference between glutinous rice and japonica rice?

It's embarrassing.

Feng Tubie only felt that his face had a fever, and said bitterly, "I have never made horn millet, how do I know this?"

"But brother just said that Ah Mui's corn millet is not good, so I have to make it myself."

Guan Ji really didn't expect that her elder brother who had always held Zhizhu had such a side. Seeing Feng Yong's embarrassed look, she immediately reached out her hand and held his hand.

She said softly, "Brother, don't worry about this. There is no omniscient person in the world. My little sister used to think that my brother knew everything, but that made people feel unreal."

"I didn't expect that today, my brother is sometimes a little confused, but it makes my younger sister feel closer."

"Hey!" Feng Yong was overjoyed by Guan Ji's comfort, and explained, "I never said I knew everything. But I really know how to make this zongzi. Sanniang, are there any mung beans here?"

Guan Ji didn't expect her elder brother to reach this point, and she still couldn't forget to make zongzi. She was angry and funny at the moment, "I told you that my younger sister doesn't mind if my elder brother doesn't understand these things, so why does my elder brother still have to be brave?"

Feng Tubie immediately became anxious, "Sanniang, I'm really not trying to be brave..."

"Without mung beans, red dates are fine."

Damn, if you can't make a salty party, can't you even make a sweet party?

Guan Ji looked at Feng Yong suspiciously, could it be possible that elder brother Xindao really knows how to do this?

The ancients called beans as long as they were beans.

Shu is one of the five grains.

It was not until the Han Dynasty that the name of beans spread, and beans were also classified at this time.

Soybeans are the most planted, and mung beans are also available, but relatively few.

Fortunately, Huang Wudie, the richest man in Hanzhong, has enough fields to grow some mung beans.

And he also sent someone to pass the word, saying that it was almost summer, and he sent some mung beans to his younger brother to relieve the heat.

I have nothing to do with Zhao Guang, so these mung beans have been confiscated unceremoniously in Feng Yong's heart.

"Brother, if you want to find glutinous rice, you can ask the lady of the Li family."

Guan Ji did think of someone, "The sixth room of the Li family is considered a big family after all, and glutinous rice is usually used to nourish Qi and nourish the stomach."

"It's just that Sanniang said that the glutinous rice is not grown in the first place? Jincheng is so far away from here, how could it be sent here?"

Feng Yong did not expect anything.

"No." Guan Ji shook her head and smiled, "Brother, don't forget what my little sister said just now, this glutinous rice is for nourishing the stomach."

"And if the lady of the Li family and the son of the Li family are valued by the clan, then their clan must have people bring glutinous rice, in case the water and soil are not acclimatized in Hanzhong, they can take glutinous rice to nourish their stomach."

Huh? This seems to make sense!

I just don't know if they finished eating the glutinous rice?

Li Qiu is of course the most suitable person to go to the Li family, after all they were a family hundreds of years ago.

Although I don't know why Feng Yong suddenly wanted to use glutinous rice, but glutinous rice nourishes the stomach, Li Qiu, as a son of a family, still knows.

He thought someone was going to use this thing, so he didn't ask much, and just borrowed it.

Borrowing food is a very shameful thing, but it is an exception for Feng Tubie.

One was borrowed confidently, and the other was borrowed happily.

Li Mu even kept apologizing to Li Qiu, saying that there was too little glutinous rice. If she was not in a hurry, she could ask her family to send more batches from Jincheng.

"A lot, enough."

Feng Yong took a look at half a bag of glutinous rice, it's just some zongzi, it shouldn't take so much.

The mung beans that Sister Huang gave her were gone, so Zhao Guang hurried over immediately.