Dragon Boat Festival Extra: Limuru and Teresa's Sweet and Salty Zongzi Battle(1/2)
"It's so hot recently." Little white ball hid in the shade of towering trees, sticking out his tongue.
Before I knew it, it was summer in the Great Forest.
The cicadas that roared around him reminded Teresa of her past life when she spent the summer vacation with her grandparents in the countryside.
Theresa, lying on the treetops, supported her head with two small short hands and looked at the town below, which had been built with a little construction through her and Limlu's hands, and a sense of pride arose.
"Speaking of it," the breeze gently brushed across the treetops, extremely cool. Teresa looked at the endless forest in the distance, "This kind of day should be on earth, and it should be time for the Dragon Boat Festival, right?"
Coordinator, use the Yin-Yang calendar I taught you to calculate when is it now?”
【Note, May 3rd day】
"As it true?"
"Sir Teresa, you're here." Gentle words came from behind, and a pair of fair arms picked up Teresa, who was lying on the treetops, and hugged her in her arms.
"Ram? Why are you here?" Feeling the softness behind her, the little white ball rubbed and lie in the arms of the ghost girl in a more comfortable position.
"Lord Limulu and Ligurud are worshiping Lord Storm Dragon, I hope you can also take a look." A green breeze rose from the feet of the girl with short pink hair, and fell lightly from the tree.
"Well... I think I haven't seen it since the reconstruction of the Virudra Temple? Then go and see it." Teresa broke free from the girl's arms, floated in the air, and flew towards the temple where Virudra was enshrined.
The girl named "Ram" by Teresa chuckled and used the wind-attribute magic to follow him.
The location of the temple is very good, probably the only large bamboo forest near Jura Turnpester.
The bamboo forest is green and quiet, and the temperature is still cool and comfortable even in summer.
"Well...these bamboo leaves?" The wide bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest attracted Teresa's attention.
"Tresa, here!" Just then, Theresa heard Limulu's voice.
Not far away, Limulu was waving at Teresa, and behind him was Ligurud folding his hands together and praying to the shrine with a serious expression.
Teresa floated to Limulu's side, and Ram quickly ran to Ligurud, closing his eyes to the temple and began to pray.
After a while, the temperature around it became higher and higher, and the two monsters also completed their prayers after their bodies were wet with sweat.
The pink hair stuck to Ram's fair cheeks because of sweat, and her maid outfit was also wet with sweat, and her tender white skin was vaguely visible.
"I'm rude." Ram's pretty face showed a hint of red glow, and a hint of soft wind blew from the bamboo forest and wrapped around him.
"Conceiver, Ice Coke." Using the Conceiver's creative ability, two glasses of ice Coke, which were in cold air and inserted into straws, appeared next to Teresa out of thin air.
"Give it." Use your mind to control the Ice Coke to float to the sweaty two people.
"Thank you, Lord Teresa."
"Thank you, Lord Teresa!" Unlike Ram's gentle sucking, Ligurud threw away the straw and drank the coke in the cup.
"Has the Great Forest of Jura been so hot?" Limulu muttered, "I just came from the city and I feel like everyone is so hot."
"Well," Ligurud nodded, "It is also the first time in our memory that this hot summer has been encountered."
"Hey?!" Two huge question marks appeared above Limlu's head, "It's because I opened up woodland to build cities and caused changes in the natural environment..."
"No! I think it's because Lord Storm Dragon disappeared!" Ligurud was anxious.
"Um..." Theresa looked at Ram beside her, "City Construction Picture."
"Here." The green light appeared in the girl's white and tender palm, and then a wooden board with various squares and lines appeared in her hand.
"Here, here, here, here." Teresa looked at the drawing and took out a carving knife and carved it on the wooden board.
"Do it!" The carving knife that was thrown away by Teresa quickly disappeared in the air. "Give this drawing to Krut and let him plant trees in my newly drawn place."
"Yes." Ram nodded.
"Prayer is over, we're back!" Limlu jumped and ran towards the town.
"It seems to be really feasible!" He picked a large piece of small white balls with wide bamboo leaves and pointed his head in satisfaction.
"Master Teresa?" Ram walked halfway and found that Teresa had not followed him, so he turned around and asked.
"Ram, you go back first to bring the town design to Krut," Teresa ordered, "and bring some big bags over, I'm useful."
"Yes!" Ram nodded and turned into a breeze to float towards the town.
"Okay!" The little white ball floating in the air turned into a red-eyed girl with long hair with silver white waist (?). She looked up at the bamboo leaves all over the forest, and a satisfied smile appeared on her fair and soft cheeks.
A white ball of light appeared in his hands and transformed into a large number of small ghosts and penetrated into the bamboo forest.
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"Master Theresa?" Meinfina followed Ram and rushed over quickly.
"Where is the basket?" The little ghosts returned to Teresa's body, and the large amount of bamboo leaves they collected were also piled loosely on the open space next to the white-haired girl (?).
Ram cooperated with Teresa to put the bamboo leaves into a cloth bag and piled them on Meinfina's back.
"Mr. Teresa, these leaves?" Ram asked a question while playing with the wide bamboo leaves that had not been put in just now.
"It is used to make a food ingredient." Theresa's face raised a smile of reminiscence.
Ram nodded in a vague way.
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The night in the Jura Great Forest is peaceful, and occasionally you can hear insects and frogs.
"Huh~~" The white-haired girl let out a long sigh, and stood up next to the basin with the washed bamboo leaves.
He shook the water on the bamboo leaves, carefully plated the bamboo leaves, bandaged them with a rope, and placed them in an ice cellar made of magic on the side.
After cleaning, the bamboo leaves are green and verdant, plated into balls, neatly placed between the ice cubes.
The frozen bamboo leaves will become soft when thawed through clean water. This method can directly skip the step of cooking bamboo leaves, and the wrapped rice dumplings will be sweeter.
This is how Zhong Hua's grandmother makes rice dumplings. Of course, it is only suitable for freshly picked bamboo leaves.
"There are five yellows..." Teresa pointed her lips in a tangled way, "There should be yellow wine Torenee over there. I also let Garveru and the others pickle salted duck eggs, yellow croaker and cucumber... I planted cucumbers, and yellow croaker will be replaced by yellow raspberries. Yellow eels are the most in short supply."
"The first Dragon Boat Festival in another world." The girl jumped onto the roof, stared at the stars in the sky with her arms pillowing, and gradually fell asleep.
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"Master Teresa." Ram's gentle words came to Teresa's ears.
"Aowu~~" the white-haired girl stretched her waist, stood up from the roof, and looked at the time, "Ram, call Ligurud and the others to come to the conference room, I want to announce something."
"Eh?" Ram tilted his head and nodded, "I understand."
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"To sum up, tomorrow is named 'Dragon Boat Festival'. Are there any objections?" The white-haired girl sitting next to Limulu gracefully drank the... Ice Coke in her hand in a teacup.
"Eh?" Ligurud swallowed.
"'Dragon Boat Festival'?" The girl with blue hair and golden eyes was a little confused, "Isn't this a festival for children? And it's been a long time, right?"
"Hmph~" the white-haired girl hugged her chest with her hands, "That is the Dragon Boat Festival in Japan. Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China!"
"Eh?" Limlu looked surprised.
"In China, this festival was auspicious day for ancient ancestors to choose "Flying Dragon in the Sky" to worship the Dragon Ancestor, pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits, and eat the summer season to achieve "disease cure diseases and prevent epidemics", and of course there are also commemorations..."
"Worship the Dragon Ancestor?!" Ligurud suddenly burst out, "Master Teresa! I understand!"
"??" The white-haired girl was confused. What do you understand? Have I finished speaking?
"As for the event..." Theresa took out a few wooden boards from behind.
The wooden boards are carved with other patterns such as rice dumplings, dragon boats, and the Five Yellow Season.
"That's all, there are some herbs, mosquito repellent grass and five-color silk threads," Teresa pointed her finger, "Ligurud, can it be done in one day?"
"Yes!" Ligurud stood up straight.
Teresa nodded and looked at Zhucai and others who were sitting on the other side: "Come and help me make rice dumplings."
The girls nodded.
"I understand!" Zi Yuan's voice was extremely loud.
"Zi Yuan!" Theresa glanced at Zi Yuan, "You are making dragon boats with Hongmaru and the others. You are not allowed to get close to the kitchen before tomorrow's Dragon Boat Festival!"
"Crack." The sound of shattering came from Zi Yuan's body, which turned into a stone statue.
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"Cannad dates, red beans, bean paste, small dates, dried fruit..."
"Although I don't like to eat sweet rice dumplings, people who don't eat sweet rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival always feel strange." With this mentality, a large number of ingredients that cannot be made in a short period of time were created by Teresa using the concealer.
"Fresh meat, bacon, sausage, salted egg yolks... Well, there is no shortage of these." The goblins were ordered to take the ingredients and prepare for the treatment.
The conceived white wine, cooking wine, soy sauce and other fresh meat cut into small pieces to taste, and then a large number of glutinous rice that the tree fairies ripened in advance were taken from the granary and washed it.
"Like this, then like this..." Theresa picked up two rice dumpling leaves, put them together and folded them into a cone.
"Then put the glutinous rice in, fill it with rice dumplings, and then add a spoonful of glutinous rice to cover..."
To be continued...