竹筒饭

一个周末，我去表舅家。舅妈忙着做点心，表弟小军一把拉过我，神秘的说：“瑛姐，跟我来。”

One weekend, I went to my cousin's house. My aunt is busy making snacks. My cousin Xiaojun pulls me and says mysteriously, "sister Ying, come with me."

小军把我带到屋后的竹园，砍了一根嫩竹子，戳了两个两端都带结的竹筒。在我莫名其妙之际，小军笑笑说：“姐，你帮我一起做！”

Xiaojun took me to the bamboo garden behind the house, cut a piece of tender bamboo and poked two bamboo tubes with knots at both ends. When I was confused, Xiaojun smiled and said, "sister, help me to do it together!"

我跟着他带了个竹筒，在一端挖了一个手指大的孔，放进米，灌上水，用树叶塞住孔，再拿泥封住。

I followed him with a bamboo tube, dug a finger hole at one end, put it into rice, fill it with water, plug the hole with leaves, and then seal it with mud.

小军这小家伙做事麻利，两三下刨了个坑，捡了两块砖往地上一搁，说：“好了，用不了20分钟就可以吃了。”我们把盛好的米得竹筒排在转上，拿了一些稻草点火烧起来。大约过了十来分钟，竹筒便“吱吱---”响了起来，还不时吐些泡泡，带着一股香味扑鼻而来。

Small army this small guy does things quickly, two or three times planed a pit, picked up two bricks to put on the ground, said: "well, it won't take 20 minutes to eat." We lined up the bamboo tubes of rice and fired some straw. After about ten minutes, the bamboo tube "squeaked" and began to spit some bubbles with a smell.

我问小军：“快熟了吧？”

I asked Xiaojun, "are you ready?"

“还不熟呢，要翻个面。不然，下糊上生不好吃。”小军一本正经的说。忽然，“嘭”的一声，我被吓了一大跳。原来，我装的那个竹筒，因米放的太多而爆裂了。

"I'm not familiar yet. Turn it over. Otherwise, the paste is not delicious. " Xiaojun said solemnly. Suddenly, with a bang, I was shocked. It turns out that the bamboo tube I installed burst because of too much rice.

又过了一会儿，小军大声地说：“熟啦！熟啦！可以吃啦！”

After a while, Xiao Jun said loudly, "I'm done! Ripe! You can eat it! "

“这叫啥名堂？”

"What's the name of it?"

“竹筒饭。”

"Bamboo tube rice."

我们除去竹筒饭上的封泥、菜叶和草塞，剥去竹片，那米饭被竹衣紧紧包裹着，像一根剥了皮的香蕉，光光的，白白的，不用吃，就是看着也叫人喜欢得不得了。一口咬下去，香喷喷，甜丝丝，鲜溜溜……我禁不住狼吞虎咽的吃起来。猛然，我看见小军正对着我傻笑，于是我赶忙招呼：“你也吃呀。”

We remove the mud, cauliflower and grass plug from the bamboo tube rice, and peel off the bamboo pieces. The rice is tightly wrapped by the bamboo clothes, like a peeled banana. It's light and white. You don't need to eat it, even if you look at it, it's very popular. One bite, fragrant, sweet, fresh I couldn't help but gobble it up. Suddenly, I saw Xiaojun giggling at me, so I hurried to say, "you can eat too."

小军说：“这是专门招待你的，你吃吧。”

Xiaojun said, "this is for you. Eat it."

啊，多香的竹筒饭呀！

Ah, what delicious bamboo tube rice!