allonlinenovel Chapter 297 Elm Seed Rice
Chapter 297 Elm Seed Rice
"Wen Youcai, you, the one wearing red and green, got the first place in the exam. Isn't it said that the first place, the head of some table, will not only be given rice and grain by the county, but also sent soldiers to escort you back? Why are you back now? No one from the county government is here." The person who asked was none other than Li Er, the famous lazy man in the village.
Wen Youcai was caught off guard by Li Er's question. How could his last life be worth the county arranging people to escort him? Not to mention the escort, he even got the good news by squeezing in the crowd.
He specially arranged this incident today to let the villagers who laughed at him last year know that today is his day to come to the fore, Wen Youcai.
At this time, Wen Youcai pretended to greet others and ignored Li Er. Li Er was originally a lazy man in the village. He would rather use his brain to eat, drink, cheat and deceive than to do something serious.
Seeing that Wen Youcai didn't respond to him, he simply squeezed in front of him and patted him on the shoulder. As he spoke, the smell of garlic from last night's meal in his mouth immediately spread in the air, and saliva flew everywhere. "Wen Youcai, what place did you get in the exam? Did you get food?"
The other households in the village also had only a vague understanding of all this. When they heard that there was food to be collected, they started discussing it again. It was nothing more than that the Wen family had finally made it. Not only did the family have a scholar, but they could also collect food. Their future days would be extremely good.
That day, everyone including the Wen family heard from Li Er again, "The fields are in short supply, Mr. Scholar, can you lend me some food, hehe."
In an instant, the people surrounding Wen Youcai immediately hid to the side, firstly to avoid the smell, and secondly to avoid Li Er.
Although Wen Youcai doesn't spend much time at home, how can he be stupid if he can pass the imperial examination?
At this juncture, if you say you are borrowing grain from him, it would be more like expecting him to be a grain distributor, but it would be like throwing meat buns at a dog and nothing would come back.
He despised Li Er to an outrageous degree. He despised him in his heart, but he looked easy-going. He slightly turned aside to avoid Li Er's hand, but said to everyone, "Thank you uncle, aunt, and uncle for your praise. I have talent but I didn't perform well this time and didn't win the title of first place. I'm hurrying back to tell my mother and burn incense to our ancestors to thank them for their protection. If you are not busy, come to my house for a cup of tea."
The people of Niutoushan Village believe in gods, and especially when there is a big happy event like this one in their family, they will burn incense to tell their ancestors.
Naturally, there is no reason for others to stop you from going back.
In this way, the people of the village embraced each other and walked towards the village together to the sound of gongs and drums.
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On the other hand, he didn't stay at Gu Qingqing's house for long. Although the work in the fields was done, there was a lot of work to be done at home during this period of time.
At the same time, the two agreed to go to Luojia Village to catch piglets the day after tomorrow.
Seeing that Luo Meihua was about to leave, Gu Qingqing asked, "By the way, when will the pressed pomegranate strips from your mother's house be transplanted? I will drive the donkey cart there the day after tomorrow. If they can be transplanted, we can transplant them back so that we can use the cart to pull them."
Luo Meihua was confused by the question. She smiled awkwardly, "I only heard from my brother that my mother is already in critical condition, but I don't know when she will recover. But we will go and ask the day after tomorrow. If the transplant is possible, we will transplant it back. If not, we will have to wait."
Gu Qingqing just thought that she had to go there anyway, so she just wanted to make things easier. She wasn't really in a hurry to plant pomegranates at home. When she met Luo Meihua, she couldn't say anything, so she naturally wouldn't urge her. "Okay, we'll see when the time comes."
Gu Qingqing saw Luo Meihua off. While Sanhua was sleeping, she hurriedly brought half a bucket of water to the wall of the yard where she had just scattered orange seeds.
It had just been covered with dust. It would have been best to water it with a watering can, but she didn't have that at home, so she could only use manual spraying.
Hold a sip of water in your mouth and get into position.
Puff~artificial spray falls.
After spraying half a bucket of water, her eyes were shining with gold.
The day before yesterday, the meat was originally intended for Zhao Dong and his friends, but they did not take it away and left it all at home. When Gu Qingqing was thinking of having meat and fried bamboo shoots with rice at noon, Zhao Bei came running back in a hurry.
"Sister-in-law, we picked some elm seeds. Can you help us make some steamed elm seed rice?"
She was washing meat in the kitchen when she shouted outside, "I'm in the kitchen. Didn't we just have steamed elm seed rice yesterday? Why, you still haven't had enough?"
The so-called elm seed rice is to wash the elm seeds, drain the water, add some oil to the elm seeds, mix well, then add flour in small amounts several times and mix well again, and then steam them in a pot.
Add some salt when eating. If you like garlic, add some garlic water. If you want to enjoy the natural fragrance of elm seeds, don’t add it.
Zhao Bei put the bamboo basket at the door of the kitchen, smiled and scratched his head, "The elm seed rice made by sister-in-law is delicious, we all love it. Thank you for your hard work at noon, I will go to help brother Dong dig the pit now."
After Zhao Bei finished speaking, he ran out again.
"Elm seed rice is delicious. Eating it can save rice for the family." Gu Qingqing muttered to herself, but she was afraid that she would not be full with just elm seed rice, so she cooked a pot of pumpkin rice soup, adding extra water and gave the remaining soup to the donkey.
Stir-fry two dishes.
While she was cooking, she was thinking, should I build a pigpen over there after buying the piglets?
Oh, it’s a bit annoying. Without Wen Wuyan, there’s no one to help me make decisions.
On the other side, Dahua's three children came running over as soon as school was over. Erhua automatically took over the task of taking care of Sanhua. Dahua and Li Xin, one helped in the kitchen, while the other ran up the hillside with a basket, saying that he was going to dig some grass for the rabbits.
There was no place for the pigpen, so during lunch, Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to ask Old Yang, "Uncle Yang, I plan to raise two piglets. Where do you think I should build the pigpen?"
"We need to raise some piglets at home. Pigpen? Let me think about it."
Old Yang was thinking as he was analyzing, "If the pigs are a little bit bigger, they will smell bad. They can't be kept on the south side of the house. The back side of the house is the best place. You can ask Zhao Dong and the others to dig a pit later. Otherwise, keep them on the west side of the house, which is level with the backyard. When the northwest wind blows, the weather will get colder, and the smell will be much less."
"I think that place is not bad. Boss, if you build a pigpen over there, we might as well dig a pit for composting manure there." Zhao Dong said.
"Brother Dong, your idea is good. But it's better to dig two pits over there, one next to the pig pen, which can be a little smaller, and then make a small ditch. When there is feces in the pig pen, it can flow to the pit behind with a little human intervention. Then dig a big pit next to the small pit, which can collect the first feces, water..."
When Gu Qingqing reached this point, she looked down at the porridge in her bowl and suddenly couldn't continue.
The people in the yard who were waiting for her to continue saw that she didn't say anything. When they looked at her, they saw her looking at the bowl in silence. Just from a glance, it seemed that everyone knew why she didn't speak.
Only Zhao Bei, who was not thinking straight, saw that she had stopped talking, and asked, "Sister-in-law, what next? We need to take the manure water..."
slap~
Zhao Bei was hit on the hand by Zhao Dong with a chopstick. "You are the one who talks too much. If you continue talking, Zhao Nan will eat all the elm seed rice by himself."
Zhao Bei looked at the little elm seed rice left in the basin and shouted, "These are all mine, you are not allowed to steal them."