novelden Chapter 325 Eating 2
Chapter 325 Eating 2
Miao Zhaodi and Shen Shuzhuan came out of the house.
Shen Rongshan said, "Uncle Zhuan, Aunt Miao, please sit down. You're welcome."
"Hey."
Ji Wenhe placed the soup in front of them and said, "We didn't buy any meat at home, so just eat what you can. Try the fried eggs with sour beans. It's a little spicy though."
"Uncle Zhuan, Aunt Miao, try a little first to see if you can handle it. It's not too spicy, so you should be able to handle it."
"You guys should sit down too." Miao Zhaodi said with a smile, "Your pickled sour beans are delicious. The ones you gave us before were not spicy."
She nodded: "Yes, that one didn't have any chili in it, it was just a small clay pot. I like spicy food more, and they can eat it too, so we put chili in it."
I was afraid that they didn’t like spicy food and it would be a pity to throw it away, so I sent them some non-spicy food.
Shen Shuzhuang picked up the chopsticks: "Let me try it."
Shen Rongshan looked at them and said, "Please start eating. There is still soup in the pot. You can have more after you finish drinking it."
"Hey, eat it." Miao Zhaodi picked up the chopsticks and tasted the sour beans. "It's a little spicy, but I can eat it. It's sour and goes well with rice."
Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "That's good. I was worried that you couldn't finish it. Eat more. Bean cakes are not bad either."
She looked at the golden pancake, which was glistening with oil. "Is it fried with oil?"
Shen Yuanshan took over the conversation: "Yes, pancakes made with oil taste better, and with oil, they won't burn easily."
Noodles require a lot of oil. How much oil is used? If it were her family, she would never be willing to spend that much oil.
Shen Rongshan gave her a piece of bean cake.
Ji Wenhe took it, took a bite, and found it crispy.
Lard is very fragrant, but when it gets cold, the taste will be much worse, so it must be eaten while hot.
Shen Shuzhuang looked at the kitchen and said, "Rongshan, when you move down the mountain, I think this one has been pushed down, or it has been pushed down and rebuilt, it's not built properly."
"We have discussed that after pushing it down, we can rebuild it so that we can put some things inside, but it's not certain. Let's talk about it later."
"Well, we can cook at the foot of the mountain from now on, so we don't have to run back and forth. We can come back and live in the cave in the summer."
He felt that living in a cave was still dangerous, as he didn't know when it would collapse, and there were many insects and mosquitoes.
Shen Rongshan nodded: "We must come back to live here in the summer. Wen He and I are both afraid of the heat."
He hates summer the most because he has a bad temper.
Miao Zhaodi said, "It's better for you to live at the foot of the mountain. It's hot in our house, especially at noon. No one can enter the house."
When Shen Wenshan bought the residential land next to their house, he wanted to tell them, but they had already paid the money and agreed with the village head, so he didn't feel comfortable saying it.
"I don't think it's that bad." Shen Yuanshan said, "The head of the village said that their house is also very hot. I thought the brick house would be very cool."
A while ago, I saw Shen Zhong when I came back from selling goods. We chatted for a while at the entrance of the village and mentioned this matter.
I just realized that brick houses are not actually cool.
Shen Wenshan took over the conversation: "It's not cool, it's very stuffy inside, every house is the same."
He went in there when he went to borrow an axe and it was stuffy.
Ji Wenhe agreed: "But when it comes to warmth, brick houses are warmer and don't leak drafts."
No matter how well a wooden house or a thatched house is built, wind will still leak in through the gaps.
After two years, when we have more money, we still want to build a brick house.
The cheapest price to build a brick house is fifty taels, and their family wants to build two floors, a kitchen, a utility room, and a west room. Without one hundred taels, it may not be completed.
It might be difficult to earn 100 taels in two years. It might take three or four years.
See how pig farming goes in the next two years and expand breeding in the future.
After dinner, several people sat in the yard to rest and talk.
Ji Wenhe carried a basket to the vegetable garden, added a few cucumbers and tomatoes, and washed them by the river.
After peeling the corn husks, Shen Rongshan and the others went to cut the corn stalks. They would be busy in the fields all day today.
When I turned back, I saw Niu Guilan coming back: "Aunt Niu, did you go to Zhangjia Village?"
"Yeah, just came back from their house."
"What happened to their family?" He handed her a cucumber.
"I don't want to eat." He waved his hands and said, "Zhang Shuanzi is angry at home. He spent three taels of silver to buy a wife, but in the end, he lost both his money and her. The whole family is so angry."
"His two brothers, Zhang Daqiang and Zhang Fugui, sat under the eaves of their house, looking at the joke and saying, 'We haven't even found wives yet, so how can you get one before us?'"
"Originally, the two were joking, but Zhang Shuanzi was furious and rushed out of the house, knocking the two men to the ground. The three of them started fighting, and Zhang Genmiao and You Xiuhua couldn't pull them apart."
Ji Wenhe ate a cucumber and listened with relish: "And then?"
"Then Zhang Daqiang and Zhang Fugui beat Zhang Shuanzi. Ouch! You don't know, his two eyes were black and blue, and one of his front teeth was knocked out."
"How could Zhang Genmiao and You Xiuhua let them off? They scratched their faces and left their hands covered in blood. Tsk tsk, didn't you see that there were people clapping and cheering beside them?"
After this battle, the three families were completely broken up.
"Wen He, I'm leaving first."
She went to talk to the others.
"Hey."
Ji Wenhe carried the basket and walked slowly back from the foot of the mountain.
Later, I heard that the three families had a big fight and everyone had scars on their faces.
Finally, the village chief stepped in and sent someone to report to the town police, and the three families finally stopped.
From then on, the three families became enemies. You smeared me and I smeared you.
But that all happened later.
On this day, several people were tearing corn husks in the yard while it was raining heavily outside.
"Luckily we brought the corn up yesterday, otherwise it would have all been soaked by the rain in the middle of the night."
There was a large dark cloud in the sky last night, and it snowed and rained heavily at night.
Ji Wenhe peeled off the corn husk and saw a worm inside. He threw it in front of Shen Rongshan with disgust: "Why are there worms in all of them?"
There are too few without insects.
Several times, when she was husking corn, she accidentally killed bugs, which got all over her hands, making her feel sick.
"There are a lot of bugs. I just saw three worms in a corn." Shen Wenshan said.
They are not surprised because there are very few corns that are not infested with insects.
He threw a lot of insects into the basket in front of him, and then poured them into the chicken coop for the chickens to eat.
When Ji Wenhe saw him pinching the worms with his bare hands, she really admired him. She felt that the worms in the corn were disgusting.
Shen Rongshan said, "Wen He, leave it alone. We will do it. Go and boil some hot water. There is no water in the pottery pot."
"it is good."
The weather is hot, drink more.
Shen Yuanshan looked at the heavy rain outside and said, "Fortunately, I didn't plant cabbage yesterday, otherwise it would have rained so hard and all the seeds would have been washed away."
He then said, "Brother, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I will go with you to prepare the land. We can almost finish harvesting the corn tomorrow."
He nodded and said, "I'll take down the fence tomorrow. We won't have to keep the chickens inside anymore. It's a bit of a hindrance. We'll put them aside to dry and bring them back for fuel."