Seeing Li Xiao preparing to lower his head to eat again.
Lin Wanxi asked timidly:
"Why are you so nice to me?"
"You and I are not relatives, why are you so nice to me?"
"You can write a song like this, and you should know how valuable it is."
"Why would you give such a good song to me to sing?"
Li Xiao's chopsticks for picking up food stopped in mid-air.
"Why?"
He murmured, then smiled and said lightly:
"Seeing you now reminds me of me when I first started live streaming."
"At that time, I only had a few thousand fans, and there were only a few dozen people in each live broadcast."
"The monthly income is less than 2,000, of which 1,500 is the platform's minimum fee."
"I only get a few hundred yuan in rewards a month."
"I even had a time when my grades were too poor and my traffic was too low."
“Prepare to be terminated by the platform.”
"but······"
Li Xiao swallowed the words that came to his mouth.
After all, it was only by obtaining the system that I got out of the predicament at that time.
He took a long breath and put a smile on his face:
"I know very well that some things are still difficult at the beginning."
"Since we are destined to meet each other, I just grabbed it and pulled it."
"The song is indeed a good song, but it doesn't suit me."
"You just take it and sing it."
"If it becomes popular in the future and I have the ability to help others, I can lend a helping hand."
"Just take it as a return of favor."
"this·····"
The girl wanted to speak but stopped.
Li Xiao waved his hand:
"Okay, don't disturb me while I'm eating. It won't taste good when it gets cold."
"Thanks····"
Lin Wanxi took out her mobile phone and scanned the QR code to pay one yuan.
"Thank you·····"
After saying that, he returned to the stage with his cell phone in hand, but he looked a little distracted.
He shook his head gently and did not continue to care about the other party's psychological activities.
Li Xiao inserted chopsticks into the gap in the bamboo tube of rice and pried the bamboo tube open.
The fragrance of green bamboo and rice gushes out from the cracks in the bamboo tube.
If you feel it carefully, you can even smell the smoky aroma of firewood.
Black, red, yellow, white, and purple glutinous rice in five different colors appeared in the bamboo tube.
"Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional delicacy in Guangxi."
"Ethnic minorities such as the Zhuang and Buyi people are very fond of making this kind of five-color glutinous rice during festivals."
“Because the five-color glutinous rice itself symbolizes abundant harvests, good luck, and a prosperous population.”
Studio.
"I'll go, I won't dare to eat these colorful ones!"
"Is it possible that a pound of pigment was used to dye the glutinous rice like this?"
"This is for decoration during festivals!"
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Seeing countless doubts in the live broadcast room, Li Xiao quickly explained:
"Pigments are indeed added, but they are all natural."
"Of course, there will definitely be a handful of unscrupulous merchants who use industrial dyes or food dyes in order to reduce costs and labor costs, but they are only a minority."
"Teach you a very simple method to identify the type of pigment used."
"Then just smell the glutinous rice to see if there is any other smell."
"If there are any, then the ones used are natural pigments."
"If it's not that useful, it's most likely an industrially synthesized pigment."
As he spoke, Li Xiao put his nose on the glutinous rice and fanned it with his hands.
"There's nothing wrong with it. The smell of glutinous rice is very rich and it's all natural!"
"The method of making this five-color glutinous rice is actually very simple."
“It’s not much different from ordinary steamed glutinous rice.”
"But the rice needs to be marinated before steaming."
"The dye used for black glutinous rice is maple tree, which is also the most troublesome dye."
"The maple leaves are picked, chopped and soaked for 5 days."
"After five days, the juice of the maple leaves has been completely soaked out, and it will turn black enough when reacting with the iron pot."
"Red glutinous rice is made from red blue grass, which is also called red silk thread. It is also called red rice grass in some places."
"After boiling, you can get red juice."
"The dye used for blue glutinous rice is purple indigo grass."
"The dye used for yellow glutinous rice is dense flower, or the more common yellow gardenia."
"The method of use is also to boil it and make the juice."
"White does not need to be processed and can be used directly."
"Soak the glutinous rice in different colors of juice for 7 to 8 hours."
"After dyeing, drain the juice and put it in a bamboo basket to steam until cooked."
Due to the different colors of juice, different plants are used to produce juice.
Therefore, the taste, texture and aroma of each color of glutinous rice are slightly different.
Li Xiao scooped up the black glutinous rice with a spoon.
"This black glutinous rice is very fragrant, full of the fragrance of maple leaves."
"The fragrance of maple leaves is similar to the neutral taste of woody and tea leaves."
"The rice will have a slightly bitter taste from the maple leaves, as well as a slight salty taste."
“It tastes very special and refreshing.”
"Moreover, maple leaves can dispel moisture and cold, which is very suitable for the weather in Guangxi."
And because glutinous rice is very chewy, the fresh flavor becomes stronger the more you chew it, making the entire mouth feel fresher.
Swallowing the black glutinous rice in your mouth, you will feel a faint cooling sensation throughout your esophagus.
Then Li Xiao scooped up a spoonful of yellow glutinous rice.
The yellow glutinous rice has a sweet taste of nectar before it enters your mouth.
Apparently the dye used here is Bedonia japonica, which is also called Fanhuanghua by the locals.
From this name, we can know the status of five-color glutinous rice in the local area.
Even the name of the flower was specially changed for the glutinous rice.
When the yellow glutinous rice is put into your mouth, a faint sweetness spreads on your tongue.
"This yellow glutinous rice is sweet, very light and light."
“A small part is the starchy sweetness of the glutinous rice itself.”
"Most of the remaining sweetness comes from the sweetness of the Buddleia flowers."
"The sweetness is a bit like the sweetness we felt when we were children when we picked off the flowers and sucked the stamens with our mouths."
"The subtle sweetness and floral fragrance are really nice."
"Eating this yellow glutinous rice is like being in a sea of flowers, with the fragrance of flowers coming to your nose."
Then Li Xiao tried red glutinous rice.
"This red glutinous rice is sour and sweet."
"It feels a bit like raspberry and hawthorn, but the taste is also lighter."
"The red blue grass itself has the effects of strengthening the spleen, appetizing, diuresis and digestion."
“Children and the elderly are very happy to eat it.”
Then Li Xiao tasted white and blue glutinous rice.
Needless to say, the white color is just ordinary glutinous rice.
The blue glutinous rice tastes a bit bitter in the mouth.
But after the meal is swallowed, a sweet feeling will emerge on the tongue.
