farming in ancient times

Chapter 45

When Butcher Gao saw the undisguised disgust on Xiao Er's face, he happily hugged him, "Xiao Er, you are so kind!"

"Don't be so sour." Fang Zheng rubbed the goose bumps on his body, "Do you want to tell Da Lang about this?"

"Brother?" Xiaoer was taken aback, "I forgot..."

"What?" Butcher Gao was amused, it was the first time he had seen Xiao Er look dazed, "Leave it to me."

"You?" Xiaoer looked suspiciously at Butcher Gao up and down, "It will scare my elder brother if you come out all of a sudden." Speaking of this, Xiaoer suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly pulled out Ren Yuan from his arms. Returning the money to myself, I took out 50 taels from it and handed it to Butcher Gao, "You first give the money to the eldest brother, and say that the money belongs to you, and repair the house for him."

"I have." As Butcher Gao saw Xiao Er staring, "Okay, okay." Seeing Xiao Er explain it so clearly to himself, Gao Butcher felt a little uncomfortable, so he thought about adding 50 taels to make up an integer To Da Lang.

"I'll slowly figure out a solution for the land issue." Xiao Er thought for a while and said, "Let's talk about it first. You can arrange the people you find yourself. I won't go to the next town. I will only collect rent later."

"Don't worry." Butcher Gao hugged Xiao Er and didn't let go, "You're afraid of frightening Da Lang and Xiao Shan, so naturally you won't be able to go out often. You can rest assured about the local affairs, and I will take care of it for you."

"Don't you dare to fix it." Xiaoer glanced at him and patted his arm vigorously, "Let go, I'll go out."

"What are you doing?" Butcher Gao asked hurriedly.

"There are some elm trees on the side of the mountain. I took a look when I passed by yesterday, and they can be eaten."

"That food is not tasty!" Butcher Gao pouted.

"It's because you can't do it." As he said that, Xiaoer remembered his shortcomings, he couldn't climb trees, so he didn't go there at all, and kicked Gao Butcher's leg, "Stop standing, you go to pick elm money, you won't get it back If not, we won’t eat at noon.”

"...Okay!" Butcher Gao had no choice but to take Xiaoer out, he drooped his head and followed Xiaoer out. Fangzheng and Ren Yuan looked at each other, curled their lips and followed.

The job of picking elm money was assigned by Xiao Er, but Butcher Gao didn't dare to neglect, and before Xiao Er made noodle and egg soup for Xiao Niuniu, Butcher Gao came back with a bamboo basket of elm money.

Xiaoer's eyes straightened when he saw it, "Why, why are you so quick?"

"Of course Brother Gao and I picked it quickly." The one-eyed youth stood in front of Xiao Er, who kicked Butcher Gao vigorously, "You, you dare to let Fang Zheng climb a tree!?" He said subconsciously Take a look at Fangzheng's eyes.

Seeing Xiao Er's movements, Fangzheng was slightly stunned, and his heart warmed up, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm okay. Don't hit Brother Gao, I'll lose one eye, and my legs and arms are fine."

"Yes, it's not like I can't walk steadily." Ren Yuan was also stunned by Xiao Er's angry look. They hadn't talked much to Xiao Er before, and they had a little unpleasantness with Xiao Er before. I think Xiao Er dared to beat up the general because of Fangzheng. "

"You guys talk too much!" Butcher Gao picked up the bamboo basket thrown to the ground by Xiaoer, "Pick up the dirty things inside."

"I'll be fine." Niu Niu was in Da Lang's arms, and Wang Zhaoshi grabbed the bamboo basket, "Xiaoer, how do you eat this elm money? Do you fry it?"

"No." Xiaoer shook his head, "By the way, sister-in-law, don't forget to take off the elm."

Thinking of the meat that Fangzheng had just brought back, Xiao Er was not stingy, pushed Butcher Gao to the pot and asked him to light up the fire, fry a ground fungus with an egg, and then made four large porcelain bowls of stewed meat with bamboo shoots.

When Wang Zhaoshi handed the washed elm money to Xiao Er, he glanced at the five bowls of vegetables on the stove, and nodded with satisfaction. The life at home is better than before, and Xiao Er is finally not picky.

Xiao Er has never wanted to be a stingy man. Originally, the family had no money or food, and the eldest brother and Xiao Shan did hard work outside. When Xiao Er thought of Xiao Shan's age, he felt sad for a while, and asked him to let him eat big fish and meat at home. Xiao Er himself My conscience can't get over it either.

Butcher Gao saw Xiao Er adding noodles to the washed elm money, "Huh, I thought you cooked it and ate it."

Xiao Er turned to look at him. The people here cook besides steaming or boiling. They don't know how to cook vegetables with lard, they only use oil to mix vegetables.Xiao Er sometimes couldn't help thinking that God let him travel here, in addition to solving Wang Zhao's family, he was allowed to cook.

Xiao Er squeezed the elm money with mixed noodles into a ball, twisted the bottom of the dough with his thumb to make a nest, and then placed it on the grate, "Boil it and it will be fine."

Butcher Gao glanced at the steamed buns on the grate, smacked his lips, "Xiao Er, you really know how to save food."

"If you don't want to eat, I'll steam two pots of rice for you."

"No way, I like everything Xiao Er makes." Although the taste of Yuqian is really bad, Butcher Gao dare not nod, don't look at Xiao Er's easy-talking, maybe he will be kicked out by Xiao Er as soon as he nods.

The elm money was cooked quickly, and it didn't take long for Xiaoer to pick up a grate of elm money nests into the steamed bun basket.Xiaoer's kitchen is big, and the whole family didn't eat in the yard, they put Xiao Fangji in the kitchen, and the whole family formed a circle.

Da Lang stretched out his hand to grab an elm money bun, "Can this be eaten?" He was very skeptical.

Xiaoer doesn’t like the sticky noodles sticking to his hands, so he dips one in the broth in the bamboo shoot stew bowl with his chopsticks, takes a bite, and looks at his elder brother, “Try it, even if it’s not delicious, it’s not too bad .”

Da Lang imitated Xiao Er and took a bite of the steamed bread, "Hey, it's much tastier than mixed noodles."

Xiao Er looked at Butcher Gao proudly, and said directly, you don't know how to make it yourself, and you think other people's food is not delicious, how shameless you are.

The old general blushed, and then told Da Lang about planting rice seedlings.While talking, Da Lang said, "Xiaoer, you come home early tomorrow to cook."

Xiaoer didn't even look at elder brother, "Sister-in-law, you lead Niuniu at home, we will use a cart to pull rice seedlings back and forth tomorrow, we must have no one at home."

"But..." In previous years, the whole family had to be tired for several days when planting in the spring. What should my aunt say about her?

"Don't worry about it, the six-acre paddy field can be done in one day by us big men." Butcher Gao raised his hand as he spoke, and when he saw that the steamed bun basket was dry, "I, I will only eat three this time!"

"I know." Xiaoer glanced at elder brother and Ren Yuan, "I'll do it again." Fortunately, there is still half of the money left.

"Well, Xiaoer, I ate too much if I didn't pay attention." Ren Yuan looked at the crowd embarrassedly, "I'll go, I'll go and light the fire."

"No, you guys eat the vegetables first." Xiao Er gave Butcher Gao a look, and the general immediately got up and ran to the pot.

Butcher Gao learned to be smart this time. When Xiao Er was picking up steamed buns in the steamed bun basket, he found a big bowl, first put a bowl of steamed corned buns in front of him, and then reached out to take two more into the steamed buns basket.

Staring Xiao Er angrily, "You haven't eaten in your life, or am I starving you!?"

"Let's eat late tonight, I'm hungry." Butcher Gao smiled at Xiaoer without saying to put the bun back.

Seeing Xiao Shan staring longingly at the big bowl in front of Brother Gao, Mrs. Wang Zhao took out the gnocchi from the earthen pot and put them in front of Xiao Shan, "Eat, Niuniu is full."

"Liu Niuniu eats when she's hungry in the afternoon." Xiao Shan shook his head repeatedly.

"There is still in the jar, enough for girls to eat." Wang Zhaoshi smiled, seeing that the buns were almost gone, and Xiaoer frowned so much that he could kill mosquitoes, he suddenly found it funny.

This little girl, in order to save food, I don’t eat bamboo shoots today, but I eat fungus tomorrow, and I change my dishes every day. Seeing that I am saving food, I forget that the food is delicious and the big men in the family eat it The rice flatbread is also much.

If Xiao Er knew that his sister-in-law thought of him this way, he would definitely bring home all the wild vegetables that could be eaten in the fields on the mountain.He frowned because he was afraid that the men in the family who didn't know how hungry would turn around and be full.

"Fangzheng, tell me how much the butcher can eat for a meal." Xiaoer said.

Fangzheng looked at Butcher Gao, how much to eat, what to say.When there is no food and no work, the general eats half full, and when he does not meet Xiao Er, the general eats at most [-]% of his meal. Now, the general is eating to death.

Thinking of this, Fangzheng covered his face, it was too embarrassing to say anything.

Seeing that even Ren Yuan lowered his head and dared not look at him, Xiaoer glared at Butcher Gao, and said silently, "Just wait for me."

Just wait and wait, Butcher Gao is not afraid that Xiao Er will fight with him now, what he fears most is that Xiao Er will ignore him and treat him as air.

In the early morning of the next day, as Xiaoer expected, a cart of rice seedlings was pulled out, which attracted the surrounding neighbors to watch.

When Zheng Feng saw it, he said, "Xiao Er, are you a rice seedling?" Seeing Xiao Er nodded, "Where did you get the rice seedlings? What are you doing?"

"Plant it." Xiao Er was tired of coping, and had to explain a lot every time he did something, so he pushed Butcher Gao out, "Tell auntie, let's go first." He motioned for elder brother to push the cart .

Butcher Gao was the most impatient to talk to old women, and he didn't dare to talk to Xiao Er in front of outsiders, so he said, "I've seen someone plant rice so early before, and that's why Da Lang planted it like this. Aunt Zheng, your family If you also want to plant, we will sell the remaining rice seedlings to you later."

"Hey, no need, I'll just ask." Damn it, Xiao Er has gone crazy since he planted rice early.

When Xiaoer and his party were walking into the field, they met villagers who asked him why he planted rice so early. Xiaoer pushed Butcher Gao out. The name of the family madness also spread in the village.

As soon as Wang Han's parents entered Wangjia Village, they heard people say that her daughter was crazy. The old couple turned pale with fright, and ran to Xiao Er's house in a panic.

Seeing my daughter helping Niu Niu to learn to walk in the yard, she rubbed her eyes vigorously, "Niu Niu, are you alright?"

"Father, mother, come in quickly, what's the matter with me." Wang Hanshi picked up Niuniu, "Why are you here at this time, has the land at home been fixed?"

"Okay. That's it. I came here with your father." After talking about it, Aunt Han wondered why they came to see their daughter, "Oh, your father and I were going to come here earlier, but your elder brother and second brother didn't let us come. "

Wang Hanshi thought about the mess in her natal family, and said, "Uncle Niuniu is fine, I made you worry."

"By the way, why don't you see Xiaoer? Where's Dalang?" Uncle Han saw that several men and Wang brothers were not at home, "Is there anything wrong?"

Wang Hanshi didn't say anything.I took my parents to the backyard and waited for them to see the rice seedlings before explaining how to plant two crops of rice a year.

Uncle Han felt bad when he heard this, "It's time for your elder brother and second elder brother to come over later."