It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road feel like they are dying.

While the men were climbing the mountain to offer sacrifices, the women in the family had a rare moment of leisure. Because on this day, fireworks were prohibited, which meant that they could not cook over a fire, so they took out the green dumplings, eggs and other things they had prepared in advance.

Qingtuan is a kind of stuffed dumpling. Its skin is kneaded by mixing wheat straw juice and water-ground pure rice flour into a dumpling; the stuffing is the vegetables at home, and everyone is ready to stuff it with whatever they have.

If the conditions are better, you may also prepare some sugar, grind peanuts, sesame seeds, etc. to serve as the filling.

After wrapping, steam it in a pot and enjoy it when it comes out of the pot.

Of course, nowadays people make Qingtuan dumplings for the Qingming Festival, so unless they are greedy and really want to try some, they usually save it for the Qingming Festival.

In addition to green dumplings, eggs will also be prepared.

In previous years, the Zhu family had a large family and few chickens, so they basically boiled two eggs. This is because the family conditions have improved in the past two years, so they only think about eating eggs.

Zhu Bamei was thinking about eggs and got up early in the morning. Sure enough, she saw the hard-boiled eggs in several large bowls she had placed in them. The boiled eggs in each bowl were dyed with colors, either red, pink, green or purple.

or blue.

She happily took it out and asked Lin Sanmei and Lin Simei repeatedly if they were beautiful.

Naturally, they would not disappoint her, and both said, "Well, she's very beautiful!"

Take them out of the bowl and put some of them into the basket so that Old Man Zhu and others can take them to the mountain to worship their ancestors when they go out; some of them are put into bowls and placed at home for their own consumption.

In addition to these dyed eggs, Zhu Bamei also specially left some undyed hard-boiled eggs.

Dabao, Erbao, Sanbao and Sibao were still telling them before going out: "Sister-in-law, please remember to leave some for us, don't finish the painting."

"I know, you go quickly, go early and come back early, I will keep it for you." Zhu Bamei kicked them out of the house and asked them to follow the adults quickly.

After the little ones were gone, she took rouge, pens, ink and other supplies and greeted Lin Sanmei, who then got busy.

I did nothing else but "paint" on the eggs.

Listening to the laughter in the main room, the idle ladies Liu, Li and Lin also came over to join in the fun and wanted to draw one.

"Bamei, what are you painting? It's so beautiful!" Mrs. Li looked at the fat doll Zhu Bamei painted and liked it so much. It felt like the fat doll in the New Year paintings at the market.

Ms. Liu leaned over and said, "Oh, Eight Sisters, your paintings look really good. I feel that after a while, you will be able to paint New Year paintings yourself and sell them."

"Second sister-in-law, please stop praising me. As far as my skills are concerned, I just paint for my own fun." Zhu Bamei smiled happily, but she never thought about painting New Year pictures. "Which one of you wants it?"

"Give it to me. Your fourth sister-in-law already has two children, and I want to have another one..." Ms. Liu was very quick and snatched it over immediately.

Mrs. Li really wanted it, but when someone else took it in her hand, she could only say with some regret: "If you want to have a baby, you can't be in such a hurry. Your five treasures are only so old, and they are still drinking milk. If you want to give birth, you have to wait."

He is older, otherwise you wouldn't be able to bring the two of you..."

"It's okay. My second brother is pretty good at taking care of children now. I'll let him take care of them when the time comes."

After being forced by Ye Yuran to take care of a baby once, Zhu Er actually became an expert in taking care of babies.

Besides drinking milk, Wubao prefers to stay with Zhu Er, his father.

Mrs. Lin: I don’t even have a baby, shouldn’t you give it to me?

But before she opened her mouth, she was attracted by the egg in Lin Simei's hand.

Lin Simei's painting is also a doll, but what she painted is a female doll, gnawing on her little hand, seeming to be sleeping: "Second sister, here you go."

She seemed to sense Lin's "desire" and handed it over directly.

Mrs. Lin was stunned for a moment, then took it and said, "It's so beautiful! If only my future children were so beautiful..."

I'm just a little hesitant, not sure whether I should have a boy or a girl.

She likes boys, but her mother-in-law likes girls.

Li wanted to draw it herself, but unfortunately, she was good at dialing the abacus, but as soon as she picked up the pen, her eyes went to the back.

"Ouch, my dear, why are these eyes so difficult to draw? Look at mine, they're even to the back of my head..."

Everyone came over to take a look and laughed.

"Fourth sister-in-law, why don't you stop painting people and paint flowers instead. My mother said that people are the most difficult to draw, but flowers and plants are easier to draw..." Zhu Bamei said with a smile, "Three sisters and I, four

When I first started learning, what I learned was flowers and plants, not people."

"Can I make up for this?" Li, who originally wanted to draw a doll by herself, felt regretful and could only ask.

"Okay, why not? Let's change it here..." Zhu Bamei pointed at the egg and taught her how to change it.

Next to them, Lu Daya, Lu Erya, and Lu Sanya all had eggs in their hands, but they didn't have a brush in their hands, but a chewed-up willow stick, dipped in some paint, and daubed it on the eggs.

What can a kid put on for fun?

Especially Lu Sanya, because she is the youngest, she is a master of "making trouble".

Ye Yuran reminded the three of them not to get it on their clothes, but left them alone and let them do whatever they wanted.

It was rare for the three little girls not to have to work, so they "played" with their feet and were very happy.

Because the number of eggs was limited, they did not dare to waste their eggs. Instead, they painted one and then washed it, wiped it clean with a handkerchief, and continued painting.

There's no way, they don't have room to "flex their muscles" at ordinary times, so they can only grab this egg and paint it hard.

It was just one person serving eggs, but the adults and children had so much fun, which was completely beyond Ye Yuran's expectations. She always thought that the women in the Zhu family only wanted to work in addition to making money, but she didn't expect that they would actually know how to do it.

Like to "draw"?

How come she didn't notice it in previous years?

Recalling the memory of the original owner, I found that not only them, but even the original owner himself had never picked up a paintbrush a few times.

There is no way, the family is poor, there is no egg, even if there are eggs, the "paint" that can be used for painting is limited.

In previous years, when dyeing eggs, they boiled the eggs together with dyeing flowers and plants, and then took them out when they were cool, and then the color appeared. If you don't mind the trouble, you can boil more pots and you can harvest an extra color.

But even so, not many people are willing to spend time dyeing eggs. After all, this thing not only costs eggs, but also consumes firewood.

Everyone is so busy all day long, who among you adults has such leisure time?

That is to say, when a child sees that the color of other people's homes is different from his own, he wants to exchange eggs with others, but if the eggs exchanged are not as big as his own, he might be able to "fight" with them.

Color instantly became a "battle between big and small".

This year is different. Because of the relationship between dyeing cloth and making rouge, Zhu Bamei, Lin Sanmei, and Lin Simei usually collect a lot of flower cakes of different colors.

These flower cakes can be made into different colors of rouge and can be used instead of ink for painting. It doesn't have to be too perfect.

No, when Zhu Bamei took it out this year, she immediately provoked a whole room of women. From the oldest to the youngest, there was no one who disliked her.

Even Dabao, Erbao, Sanbao and Sibao came back and joined the egg-painting team.

There is one drawback to using rouge for painting. If you paint too many eggs, no matter how you wash it, the color will not be as white as before. It will look like it has been dyed, and the color will become weird.

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