Traveling through the farmhouse: farming and making a fortune and raising cubs

Chapter 161 161 I'm Studying Seriously

The father and son didn't tell Lin He about the unhappiness that happened there, but Li Hao muttered that he would never go there again, and then went back to the house to read with his elder brother.

Homework that used to take half an hour each morning and evening has now become an hour.

But both brothers can feel that dad is paying more and more attention to their reading, he will spot-check and recite, and let them silently write the words they have learned.

It didn't happen before, and it's only recently.

Although the two brothers didn't know the specific reason, they could feel that their father cared more and more about them.

So although the time to play is not as much as before, the brothers are still not unhappy, but become more serious.

Lin He originally wanted to ask what was going on, but he was worried about grandma's health when he left, so he said he would never go again when he came back.

As a result, when Li Changhui told her about the things on the mountain, he immediately forgot what he wanted to ask.

"The master I was looking for should have been busy in the past two days. I will go to the town tomorrow, bring him back to the village, and then go to Crescent Moon Lake to see how to build this small wooden house and where to build it. , what needs to be bought must be counted first.”

Crescent Lake also has to rise in summer, and the surrounding hillsides must be prevented from falling under the impact of heavy rain, so it is not easy to build a small wooden house on the mountain.

"Okay, then you can buy more vegetables of different categories tomorrow. You don't need to buy too much, and you can also order some meat. It happens that it is still early today, so we are peeling a few more bamboo sticks."

Lin He had already planned in his mind, what to cook.

"You want to make Malatang?"

Since Lin He said that he wanted to open a store to sell malatang, he has made it several times at home. It is all kinds of vegetables skewered, and then cooked in a big pot with the boiled soup.

At first, it was cooked directly in the pot, and then it was skewered with bamboo sticks.

The taste is also more delicious every time. Anyway, after eating it several times, no one said that they were tired of eating.

And every time after buying vegetables, the little cook would ask him how much the vegetables cost, and then the quantity on the bamboo sticks would be constantly adjusted.

Li Changhui knew that the little cook was determining how much to skewer in the end, so as to make the portion bigger while ensuring income.

In this way, Li Changhui never said that opening a shop is too tiring and not so troublesome.

"Try it. We have been eating it by ourselves these days, and we don't know what other people's tastes are. Tomorrow, I will cook some Malatang and make some other dishes. If the master doesn't like Malatang, I will eat other dishes." .”

Bring people back in the morning, and then go for a walk on the mountain, and it's almost time for lunch when we come back.

"By the way, there isn't much wine at home, you can bring back another two catties of wine tomorrow,"

Li Changhui naturally agreed, and then consciously went to get a bamboo next to the house, and while it was still early, he cut some bamboo sticks.

This spicy soup is delicious, but it is all skewered on bamboo sticks, and after it is hot, it must be taken off and put into a bowl, and eaten with chopsticks like soup.

At first, Li Changhui thought it was troublesome. It would be better to cook it directly, so why use bamboo sticks to skewer it.

It took me a few times to realize that if I opened a store, when charging, I could just count the bamboo sticks and settle the bill.

And the little cook is also aiming at this purpose, so she has been constantly adjusting, more cheap vegetables, and less expensive meat dishes.

So Li Changhui didn't say troublesome words anymore, and when he was free, he would find time to sharpen a little more bamboo sticks.

If you really want to open a shop in the future, you will need to use even more bamboo sticks.

Fortunately, the bamboo sticks are not disposable, they can be reused after being washed.

In the evening, they cooked something casually, and the two children were very happy to know that tomorrow they would eat Mala Tang for lunch. Li Hao also specially told him to cook more vermicelli for him. Vermicelli is his favorite.

Lin He naturally responded one by one.

Early the next morning, Li Changhui drove the bullock cart out, while Lin He cooked the spicy soup base at home.

It's hot in summer, and things tend to deteriorate. Naturally, these things must be made fresh, and they tend to deteriorate after a long time.

What's more, the soup base needs to be boiled for a while to make it more fragrant.

There are also a lot of vegetables in the vegetable garden, but cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes, of course, cannot be cooked in spicy soup, but green vegetable leaves can.

A few days ago, I happened to have some dried cowpeas and yellow flowers in the sun. I grabbed a handful of each and soaked them. I can cut them into sections and cook them later.

Dried fungus, dried shiitake mushrooms, and dried bamboo shoots are naturally indispensable, plus some seasonal vegetables, and there are many varieties.

As for Li Changhui in town, he can buy some dried tofu, pork, pork skin, fat intestines, and pig heart when he comes back.

Affected by the region and things that cannot be stored and transported for a long time, there is still too little meat.

Especially for meat food, pork and eggs are what people often eat. Even if there are, there are not many, and not everyone is willing to eat them.

The pigs at this moment are not the large white pigs that have been bred in various ways. They grow fast and fat, but they are not tasty, there is no oily water, and the fishy smell is still strong.

The current pigs are all black pigs, with black hair, firm meat, plenty of oil and water, and especially delicious to eat, but they grow slowly. After one year of raising, they only weigh more than 100 catties. It's tiny, rare to see.

After all, there is no feed these days, and no one is willing to feed the pigs whole grains. The pigs are fed old vegetable leaves, sweet potato vines, or weeds from the mountains.

Occasionally add some ingredients, that is just adding some rice bran, wheat bran, etc., or when digging sweet potatoes, feed sweet potatoes.

But starch can also be sold for money, and it is not cheap. Many people dig up sweet potatoes and make starch, leaving only a pile of dregs for pigs to eat.

In this way, there will be even less pork. After all, it takes about a year to raise a pig before it can be sold.

However, because there are not many people who buy meat to eat, and many families may not be able to buy pork several times throughout the year, so the pork in the market is not in short supply.

Lin He was working while thinking in his heart, Li Yu was helping to light the fire and took care of his little brother by the way, while Li Hao was holding a bamboo stick to help skewer the existing ingredients at home.

In this hot weather, there is no need to worry about catching cold when playing in the water, and I am very excited about the delicious food, so I am very motivated.

Every time before that, the two children helped each time they cooked Mala Tang, so the portions were well controlled.

But it was a bamboo stick after all, so Li An didn't dare to let the youngest Li An play with it, so Li Yu took it to watch.

The mother and son worked together, but it was quickly cleaned up, and the rest will wait for Li Changhui to come back.

Vegetarian dishes are actually easy to cook, but the meat dishes are troublesome, especially the pork skin sausage she wants. The pig skin needs to be roasted and stewed to medium-rare, and the fat sausage must be cleaned so that no smell remains.

(End of this chapter)