I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 17

Li Xiuju picked up the dustpan with a pole and walked to the seedling field not far away.

Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu walked to the other side of the field and continued planting the remaining seedlings.

Suddenly, people came to the paddy field next to them, three adults and two children. The woman with a round face came over and said with a smile: "Sister Xiuju, you are so lucky to have given birth to two such capable children." child."

Li Xiuju came over carrying the seedlings, panting and replying to her, "How can you be lucky? You were just fooling around. In my opinion, your family is lucky. These three children know how to love their parents at a young age and come out to help. If you survive, it will be great when you grow up."

The woman looked at her children with disgust and said, "They are little ones. It's good if they don't cause any trouble for us. It's better to be in your family."

The two of them chatted about each other's business for a while, and the paddy fields they planted were connected to each other. The adults chatted about the gossip in the neighborhood. Either this family was getting married, or that family was having a baby.

Zhou Chenyu worked conscientiously with his head down, not daring to say a word, for fear of meeting their eyes and changing the subject to her, asking him to arrange a marriage for her.

Li Xiuju mentioned it last time.

After working for an hour in the afternoon, someone brought hot tea to the house next door. They were chatting happily, and the woman called them over to have a drink too.

Although the weather has entered spring and the weather is getting warmer, it has been raining and the clothes on his body are soaked, so the cold air has seeped in. In addition, Zhou Chenyu has been soaked in water, and Zhou Chenyu's hands and feet are not warm at all.

This bowl of hot tea came at just the right time.

Zhou Chenyu washed her feet and stood on the shore. She took the hot tea from the woman. The tea was still hot. She took a brief sip and said it was tea, but she couldn't taste the tea. It was still a little sour and sweet.

After asking the woman, she found out that the tea was not made from tea, but from dried peels and wild chrysanthemums picked in the mountains.

After drinking the hot drinks, they thanked them again and continued to plant the remaining seedlings. They continued to work until evening, and finally all the seedlings in this acre of land were planted.

Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu went home first, while Li Xiuju still needed to repair the collapsed field ridge before returning.

After returning home, Zhou Chenyu burned the pot for boiling bath water, put in dry wood and let it burn. Then he chopped the withered yellow wild vegetables he had picked early into fine pieces and threw them into the chicken coop.

It has been many days since they were caught, and they have gradually grown into big chickens.

"In a while, it should be ready for the dining table." Zhou Chenyu gestured at the chicken thighs twice, thinking of various ways to eat it, such as plain-cut chicken, salt-baked chicken, or roasted chicken. .

No, how can this fine free-range chicken be made into roast chicken?

This is simply reckless.

It must be made plain, and best paired with ginger, onion, and garlic sauce.

The more she thought about it, the more she became greedy. She quickly closed the door and saw Li Xiuju returning barefoot with two more eels and a few pieces of ginger hanging in her hand.

Today was a fruitful day, and the smile on Li Xiuju's face never stopped, "Let's cook eel porridge tonight, what do you think?"

When Zhou Baoyu heard about eating meat, he became very positive and responded repeatedly: "Okay, I finished eating meat last time and haven't eaten meat for a long time. I've been waiting for this bite. Mom, leave this eel to me." Kill, you go and wash up first."

"Okay, then be careful and don't cut your hand." Zhou Chenyu looked at the sky and saw that it was getting late, so he took action: "Then I'll put the rice in the pot and cook it first."

"Okay." Li Xiuju took two steps and then turned back, the joy in her eyes couldn't be hidden, "Chen Yu, I'll get more rice tonight, four or five times more than usual. I need more rice for this eel porridge. It only tastes good when it’s cooked thickly.”

"Okay." Zhou Chenyu scooped out twice as much rice as usual, put it into the pot, and simmered it slowly over firewood.

Zhou Baoyu took a sharp knife and sat in front of the yard. He slashed the eel's body with the knife, dug out the internal organs, washed them with water, and cut them into small sections.

Zhou Chenyu used the remaining water to wash away the sediment on the surface of the ginger, peeled off the skin, and then washed the green onions.

When Li Xiuju came out of the bath, the white porridge in the pot had begun to roll, and the rice exploded into flowers in the boiling water.She put the cleaned eel into the pot, then cut the turmeric into thin slices to remove the fishy smell, and finally mixed in minced green onion for freshness.

A pot of eel porridge with smooth and tender meat and thick and fragrant rice porridge is ready.

"Yeah, it tastes fresh and sweet."

The table was covered with a thick tablecloth. After Li Xiuju tasted it, she quickly brought the eel porridge to the table. Even though she had left the stove, the bottom of the porridge was still tumbling. She held a spoon and said, "You all put the bowls over here."

Zhou Baoyu watched eagerly as Li Xiuju scooped the porridge into the bowl. As soon as he put it away, he reached out to take it, but was burned, "Hoo ho ho, it's so hot, so hot."

Li Xiuju smiled and scolded him, "Why are you so anxious? No one is going to snatch it from you."

Zhou Chenyu rolled his eyes at him. After letting it cool for a while, he held the bowl in both hands and took a sip. After eating the hot porridge, he warmed up his whole body. After taking two more sips, he felt a little hot and sweating.

After taking a small sip, I scooped out the porridge with a spoon, and it was filled with eel meat.

Zhou Chenyu didn't like to drink eel porridge at first, because he thought it looked like a snake and had a smooth surface, which made him indescribably resistant.

In the past, when old friends got together for supper in the middle of the night, what they ordered the most was salty bone porridge, or preserved egg and lean meat porridge, plus a few skewers of grilled chicken wings, grilled enoki mushrooms, grilled leeks, grilled chicken feet, etc., and sat on the big table. Chatting while eating at the food stall.

I had this fresh eel porridge today. The porridge was tender and smooth, and the fish was tender and delicious. After eating vegetarian dishes for so many days, I wanted to finish the meat and chew off the bones.

She only has one idea now, to realize the freedom to eat meat as soon as possible.

"No wonder those wealthy families like to treat this eel as a treasure. It tastes different from ordinary meat. It is tender and smooth, melts in your mouth, and you will never get tired of it no matter how much you eat." Baoyu said after drinking.

The eel porridge was very hot, and Li Xiuju cooled it down carefully. She took a small sip and tasted the long-lost aroma of the meat, which made her feel more energetic. "Are there still two acres of rice seedlings that haven't been planted? Maybe we can catch a few more." "

Baoyu grinned, her lips turning red, "That's good, we can eat a few more meals of meat. These eels cost nothing, and they are rare and valuable. The more the better, my sister and I will definitely be able to catch them." It’s over, no one is left.”

Thanks to God's kindness, when they were planting rice in the next two days, they really caught six or seven more eels that were thicker than their thumbs. They couldn't finish them all at once, so they kept them in buckets.

The vegetable garden has been repaired and the money for transplanting rice has been settled.

However, Li Xiuju couldn't take any time off, so she immediately went to the back mountain to chop a few bamboos, cut them into strips, and started making dustpans, bamboo baskets, chicken coops and other handicrafts. After she accumulated a small amount, she took them all to the market to sell. Each one costs at least two or three cents.

(End of this chapter)