June 25 is the Dragon Boat Festival, it is estimated that my daughter is coming, I went to buy printing cakes, because my daughter likes to eat.
Ah, it was raining heavily, but I didn't bring an umbrella because the weather was fine when I went out. I hurried to the door of the cake shop, causing me to lose my breath and my clothes were all soaked. I don't know if it was wet with sweat or rain.
Well, there are many people who buy printing cakes, and there is a long queue. Because today is a traditional festival, eating Yin cakes and feasting on happiness is an indispensable folk custom.
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The hairy son-in-law makes a custom cake
I remember that when I went to my mother-in-law's house after the Dragon Boat Festival, my half was still a girl. I rocked the boat, and there was not much in the belly of the boat, that is, four boxes of printed cakes + yellow fish. Shipped more than a dozen miles to visit the "future" parents-in-law. To tell you the truth, in fact, in my heart, I went to see the half of me.
The so-called "future" is because according to the local custom, we have just "engaged" and are in the preparation period for marriage. The title of son-in-law has not yet been formalized. In people's eyes, haha, I am still the "hairy foot" son-in-law on people's lips!
The cake is custom-made. The night before, my mother summoned the cake master, and the pastry ingredients prepared during the day were steamed into delicious pastries through the master's production process.
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Shake the boat to look at the Dragon Boat Festival
A few dimes and a pound of yellow croakers I bought from the market, and a few yellow croakers are only a few yuan. At that time, the yellow croaker was authentic yellow fish, caught at sea, very fresh, and it was very good to taste!
My mother packed me with cakes, baskets of yellow croakers, a flat shoulder, and arranged to stop.
But I was afraid of embarrassment, and I carried the burden to swagger through the market, just like the "old third" in the Journey to the West. Because at that time, I was still working as a doctor in the health center, and many people knew me.
Later, my mother thought of a method for me, saying, "Shake the boat and go, no one will see it." "I gladly accepted.
As soon as the mother and father talked to themselves, they shook a farm boat from the production team, because the father was the captain.
I shook the boat and went to my mother-in-law's house.
The ink cake is still the previous printing cake
The way of sending it is different
When my boat arrived at the port of my mother-in-law's house, my sister-in-law saw it and said with a half-joking smile: "The Dragon Boat Festival sends printing cakes on a boat, and the chicken is killed with a cattle knife!" "She used to be a barefoot doctor under me, so she didn't shy away from talking." No, it's big boats! I borrowed the harmonic sound of "oversized and underused" and quipped. In front of my uncle, I am not afraid of embarrassment, because I am familiar, and there is no one next to me.
The mother-in-law heard the laughter and talk, came to the port to see me and my big boat, heard the daughter-in-law say that it was the Dragon Boat Festival to send the yellow fish to the printing cake, she smiled and closed her mouth, said: "Difficult for nong, difficult for nong!" "It's really the mother-in-law who looks at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at it, the happier she is!" Even though I'm still a hairy-footed son-in-law.
The rain still kept falling, the line kept lengthening, it was almost my turn, and my thoughts suddenly stopped. When I saw the young man in red in front of me carrying six boxes of printed cakes back to his car, I saw clearly that it was the grandson of my classmate, who was going to see the future mother-in-law's family. He was a friend he talked about at the beginning of this year, and it was his grandfather who told me.
The times are different, the printing cake is still the same as before, and the way to send it is very different!
Now that I am old, the funny story of using a boat to deliver printing cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival has become a joke after the tea and dinner of the relatives!
Source: Shangyu Forum