Children's Day falls in early June, and the Dragon Boat Festival arrives at the end of the month. Since the holiday conveniently landed on a Saturday, a three-day weekend was granted from Friday through Sunday.
This year, Fu Ying and Fu Yu took charge of wrapping the zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival. Fu Zhe could not wrap them and lacked nimble hands, so he was assigned to watch the toddlers instead.
With six members of the Fu Family present—mostly children—Fu Ying told Fu Yu to make a modest batch. After setting aside gifts for relatives and elders, the household could not possibly eat that many, and she wanted to avoid a repeat of Dad Fu's past habits of making huge quantities that left them eating leftover zongzi for days afterward.
Chapter 273