lady, please calm down

Chapter 20
The third day of June.

Early in the morning, Yang Youtian asked Qing Zhuang to carry a fir tree more than three feet long from his home.

This fir tree has been hanging out in Yang's house for two years. It was originally left by the old man Yang to be used as a beam for his Dalang to build a house after he got married.

Before the start of work, a brief ceremony was held.

Chen Chu cut a piece of wood on the white gray line drawn yesterday, which is called standing wood.

Then Maoer personally took a red cloth and wrapped it around the beam, which is called hanging red.

Chen Chu was fine, but when the cat became popular, he shed a few tears in excitement.

After the ceremony was completed, the second brother Peng, who knew how to build, divided the whole village into two groups. One group went to the back mountain to cut wood to make purlins, and the other group went down the mountain to pull yellow mud to make mud blocks.

The women of each family took kitchen knives and chopped the newly harvested wheat straw into bundles of long and short straws.

Farmers don't waste anything.

Just like this wheat straw, after drying, it can be filled with bedding to make winter quilts.

It can also be mixed with black beans and bran to feed livestock.

It can also be chopped short and mixed into the yellow mud as it is now, and the mud and straw can be trampled evenly with your feet to make mud bricks for building walls.

For a while, the front of the Chen family shack turned into a busy small construction site, and the sounds of chatting and laughing as well as chiseling, axes and saws could be heard endlessly.

Everyone helps build a house, and wages are naturally not needed.

But preparing meals is also the duty of the host family.

Aunt Yang was worried that Mao'er would not be able to do it all by herself, so she specially brought Aunt Yao, who was nimble, to help with the cooking.

But I don't want to, the cat is already ready.

"How can this bread be so thin?" Aunt Yao saw the cold dough in the drawer, couldn't help but pick up a piece, the oily dough was tough and elastic.

"This is called rolling noodles, and it's the food of the officials' hometown." Mao'er said proudly.

"How do you eat this rolled dough?" Aunt Yang also asked curiously.

"The official said, cut the dough vertically to a finger width, add gluten, shredded courgette, sprinkle a little coriander, cook some pepper oil and mix it with garlic vinegar sauce, and that's it."

"I'll pick courgettes and shred them, and Yao's family will go to your vegetable patch to pull some coriander."

Aunt Yang said immediately.

A quarter of noon.

After Chen Chu laid a piece of mud, he got up and looked at the row of mud bricks under the shade of the trees. This was the result of his labor with Da Lang, the eldest son and others all morning.

After two or three days of drying in the shade, the wall can be built.

Uncle Yang and several elders are making wooden forms, some are used to make roof purlins, some are used to make doors and windows, and some are used to make furniture.

In the middle of the sun, everyone was shirtless, with large beads of sweat covering their backs and necks.

It was a bit of hard work, but the process of putting together a family with one piece of wood and one brick filled Chen Chu with a sense of accomplishment.

"Officer, call uncle and brothers to eat."

More than ten feet away, the cat called softly.

Maybe it was because there were shirtless men here, she didn't have the nerve to get too close.

But the distance was long, and her voice was so low that Chen Chu didn't hear her shout.
"Officer~" So the cat increased the volume a little.

Chen Chu still didn't hear it.

"."

Aunt Yao on the side looked anxiously, and shouted at the top of her voice, "Men and young men, come over for dinner!"

With a sound, all men and women in the village heard it, put down their work one after another, and came over while wiping their sweat.

Aunt Yang also found the scene just now interesting, and said casually: "Cat, your speech is limp and weak, like a girl who hasn't come out of the cabinet."

An unintentional remark revealed the secret between Mao'er and Chen Chu.

The cat lowered its head and walked back to the wooden table under the shade of the tree.

On the wooden table, there are a bunch of pots and jars.

The large wooden basin is full of cut rolled noodles. Some of the sea bowls are filled with vinegar, and some are filled with garlic juice, courgette shreds, gluten and so on.

Everyone went home to get their bowls and gathered here.

Yao's eldest son took the lead.

Standing behind the desk, Mao'er took the big bowl from the eldest son, and while adding various ingredients and condiments to the bowl, said softly, "Brother eldest son, thank you for your hard work."

"Hey, it's not hard." The eldest son touched his head and smiled innocently, took the sea bowl and found a shade to eat.

"Uncle Yang, thank you for your hard work."

"Second brother Peng, please worry about it."

Every time someone came, the cat would personally say thank you.

I feel embarrassed for these old men.

When it was Wu Kui's turn to serve food, he saw a pair of big hands rushing ahead of him holding an empty bowl.

"." Wu Kui glanced sideways, and it turned out to be Yao's eldest son who just filled a bowl just a moment ago.
"God, how old is this? The eldest son has finished eating?" Wu Kui's eyes widened in disbelief.

Eldest Yao chewed a few mouthfuls quickly, swallowed the food in his mouth, and then opened his mouth and said excitedly: "Brother Kui, this food is delicious! It's not worse than meat!"

With this live advertisement, others can't help but look forward to it.

After a while, everyone held a bowl in their hands, and they were divided into male and female groups and squatted in the shadow of two adjacent trees.

For a moment, there was only the sound of 'Xilihulu' eating.

Listening to the sound, I also know that everyone's food is delicious.

Only Chen Chujue's taste was not good, not because the seasoning of the cat was wrong, but mainly due to the lack of things like oil and chili.
Chen Chu couldn't help turning his head to look at his field.

Compared with the experimental fields he worked on when he was in school, the growth of the crops in these fields was much worse.

Some of the early tomatoes were almost red, but the size of a baby's fist.

The purple long eggplant is also much thinner than the fruit that is as thick as an adult's arm in later generations.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and watermelons will also be harvested in the middle and late this month and early next month, but the slender vines and yellow leaves make Chen Chu not at all happy about the upcoming harvest.

"This field is not good." Chen Chu thought silently.

"Brother Chu, what's the name of this cold food? It's delicious and refreshing. After one bowl, the sweat disappears."

Wu Kui, who filled the second bowl, sat down beside Chen Chu, while Yao's eldest son had already served the third bowl.
"This is rolled dough, is it delicious?" Chen Chu said.

"It's delicious." Wu Kui ate his mouth slippery, and blurted out: "My mother-in-law will never be able to cook such delicious food in her life, your wife is really virtuous!"

The men and the women were sitting not far away, his words immediately caught the women's attention.

Among them, Wu Kui's daughter-in-law is of course the most dissatisfied.

Wu Kui just said it casually, but put Mao'er in an awkward position, as if he couldn't be "virtuous" if he didn't know how to make dough.

As a woman, Aunt Yang was naturally sensitive to these matters, so she wanted to say a few words, so as to prevent the cat from offending people for no reason.

But I didn't want to, the cat spoke first.

"Brother Wu, you have no conscience in what you say. Sister-in-law Wu wakes up early in the morning and cooks for you every day, and raises a pair of children with all her heart. I admire you even when I see you. Speaking of virtuousness, the aunts and sisters-in-law in the village are no better than you." I am a hundred times stronger."

Mao'er boldly shouted, and then pretended to be relaxed and made a joke: "My sister-in-law Wu looks good, brother Wu, don't be dissatisfied, if I am a man, I must make a sister-in-law with my elder brother~"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

Mrs. Wu's complexion improved a lot in an instant, she stretched her arms around Mao'er's slender waist, and said loudly on purpose: "That's right! Mao'er, we sisters will live together in the future, and let those dissatisfied men cook and wash by themselves." .”

The cat was very cooperative and snuggled into Mrs. Wu's arms, Qiong's nose wrinkled slightly, and she shouted at Chen Chu in the same hatred: "Officer, I will live with Mrs. Wu from now on, so you can live with Mrs. Wu!"

Naturally, there was another laugh.

Chen Chu knew that Mao'er's method was right to resolve the embarrassment just now, so he also jokingly said, "Madam, how about the three of us live together?"

Mrs. Wu is also a hot tempered person, she laughed and said, "Brother Chu, as long as your wife is willing, I will."

"I don't want to," Wu Kui moaned when he realized that he had just said something wrong.

But no one paid attention to him.

Immediately, Mao'er escaped from Mrs. Wu's embrace, and said angrily, "Sister-in-law, look at you, you've betrayed me!"

"Hahaha"

Another burst of laughter.

Aunt Yang put away her worries, and also laughed, thinking: This Mrs. Chen is not very old, but she can read her face and coax people.
After dinner, it's the hottest time of the day.

Everyone temporarily stop work for an hour.

Not long after, Yao Sanbian, who went down the mountain to help Chen Chu buy wine and meat, returned to the mountain.

Because the weather is hot and meat is perishable, I only bought about ten catties of pork this time.

The cat asked Chen Chu what he wanted to eat.

Chen Chu thought for a while, found a bluestone slab as the bottom, built a small hemispherical kiln with gravel, and filled the joints with ready-made yellow mud to solidify it.

"Officer, what are you doing?" When Chen Chu squatted on the ground busy, Mao Er obediently squatted aside and watched, and asked curiously.

"This is a bread kiln. I will burn some firewood in it later. After the stones are fully burned, I will shovel out the firewood. Then the lady will make some flour cakes and put them in. Use the remaining heat of the stones to cook the dough cakes, and then add some chopped and cooked bread kiln. Pork is Roujiamo”

In the afternoon, Chen Chu started building houses with the others.

Mao'er groped for a while, and actually managed to make a batch of Roujiamo at dusk.

Before dinner, Maoer specially sent one for Chen Chu to taste.

Rolled noodle skin+roujiamo.
Carbs make you happy!
In a daze, Chen Chu thought he had come to Xi'an Night Market.

"Officer, there is something Cat wants to discuss with you."

"Say."

"Can I teach you aunts and sisters-in-law how to make dough and roujiamo?"

"." Chen Chu thought it was something important, but when he heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "It's a big deal, you can just make up your own mind."

"After all, it's our family's handicraft. How can cats make their own decisions."

"In the future, you don't need to ask me everything about such small things. As long as you feel that you need to do it, do it boldly. It doesn't matter if you make a mistake."

Chen Chu knew that Mao'er's motive for doing this was still related to Wu Kui's unintentional mistake during lunch.

Hearing what Chen Chu said, Mao'er finally couldn't hold it back, grinned "hehe" smirking, and said: "Officer, you are so kind!"

He ran away as if fleeing.

Maybe it was because I was so happy that I even jumped a few times.

It has the appearance that a teenage girl should have.

Afterwards, Mao'er realized that Chen Chu was still watching her from behind, and quickly switched back to the lady's broken steps, but because of the fast and slow steps, she didn't adjust well, and her feet stumbled, and she fell hard.

Not caring about crying out for pain, the cat lay on the ground and hurriedly looked back.

Chen Chu immediately turned his head away, put his hands in his pockets, looked at the sky, and pretended not to see it.
(End of this chapter)