I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 241

Zhou Chenyu looked at the dishes on the table and was in a very good mood, "After working outside, I can have hot soup and hot rice without having to do anything. It's great to be back home. Thank you for your hard work."

"What's that?" Li Xiuju scooped a bowl of pork bone and lotus root soup for her. "Now you are the only one running around in the house, and your hands are covered in frostbite. We are just at home, making some meals. Hurry up. Sit down and eat.”

Wan Qiu patted the stool next to her and invited her warmly: "Sister, sit down quickly."

"Okay." Zhou Chenyu smiled and sat next to Wan Qiu. The family gathered around the dining table and had dinner talking and laughing.

At night, the evening wind blew, and the whistling sound came one after another.

After Zhou Chenyu took a shower, he returned to the room holding his hair, closed the window tightly that was creaking by the cold wind, sat down next to the oil lamp with medicine to treat frostbite, and turned it on.

The ointment exudes a refreshing medicinal smell, and its surface reflects a green light under the lamp.

She dipped a little on the tip of her index finger and applied it little by little to the red frostbite wound. After applying it, she looked at it under the weak light.

Looking at this scene, I couldn't help but think about the situation when Yang Xi gave her the medicine today. He was an upright and reckless man, but he had the patience to slowly give her the medicine. In the evening, she left angrily and he stopped. There is still a scene of people leaving the city gate downstairs.

In fact, he is not so clumsy.

"After all, this place is thousands of years away from modern times, so we can't ask him according to modern open-minded standards. As long as it's not a matter of principle, everything else is easy to talk about." Zhou Chenyu applied the medicine, and a smile unconsciously climbed to the corner of his mouth.

Chen Ping'an went to the provincial capital to purchase goods, and it took five days to go back and forth.

Zhou Chenyu took advantage of this time to recuperate at home.

In the depth of winter, the towering trees in the mountains behind Zhoujia Village were withered, broken, and dead. The chestnut trees all over the mountains and fields were still standing strong.

The chestnuts that fell there were not like the big chestnuts commonly eaten. The old people in the village called them cone chestnuts. They were about the size of peanuts. When they were ripe, they fell to the ground among the dead grass and leaves.

After breakfast in the morning, the old people, women and children who had free time took small cloth bags and climbed up the back mountain in twos and twos, shuttled among the bushes and trees, opened the fallen leaves from the ground, and picked them up one by one.

They stayed on the mountain for four or five days to collect. The original road in the mountain was trampled bare, and the yellow mud was exposed. The places where there were no roads were also trampled, but the cloth bags were also full.

Take these coni chestnuts home, wash them and boil them, then put them in a pot and stir-fry them over high heat for a while, store them, and use them as snacks like melon seeds and peanuts during the Chinese New Year, just to satisfy your cravings.

On the last day of training, Baoyu and Wanqiu ran up the back mountain in high spirits. Zhou Chenyu had frostbite on his hands and couldn't stand the cold. Li Xiuju refused to let him out.

Because she mentioned that the pickled mustard greens fried a few days ago were delicious, Li Xiuju cut a few handfuls of mustard greens and took them to Zhou Huilan's house, where they were cooking rice wine, to boil them.

The blanched mustard greens turned from green to brown. Before they were washed, they were still covered with white glutinous rice grains. If you smell it carefully, you can smell the rice aroma of fermented glutinous rice and distiller's yeast.

Zhou Chenyu thought that pickling sour cowpeas with salt was magical enough, but he didn't expect that cooking rice wine could also blanche sour mustard greens. He said with emotion: "As expected of my charming ancestor, he can invent any way to eat it."

After saying that, she wanted to put her hand into the water to help clean it, but Li Xiuju grabbed it and refused coldly: "Look carefully at the frostbite on your hand. The water is very cold. Just come and wash it."

"Are you so nervous? How can I be so delicate?" Unable to touch the mustard greens, Zhou Chenyu had no choice but to grab the soybeans that were watching, grabbed its round head and rubbed it hard.Li Xiuju smiled sullenly and muttered worriedly: "After today, you will have to get up early and go to the city late tomorrow to work. Naturally, you can rest when you can. Mom and Baoyu Wanqiu are taking care of things at home, so you don't need to worry about them."

Zhou Chenyu hugged Huangdou, pressed its head, and hummed twice.

Li Xiuju washed the blanched pickled mustard greens several times, grabbed five leaves and fried them while they were just blanched.

Mustard greens blanched with rice wine grains have a sour taste. When frying, you only need to add chili powder and oil and salt.

Add the stir-fried pickled mustard greens with chili foam, giving the surface an attractive sheen.

This meal was neither lunch nor dinner. It was just a taste of something new. I didn't ask Baoyu and Wanqiu, who were still in the mountains, to come back.

The two wives reheated the porridge for lunch, brought it out and ate it.

Zhou Chenyu took a bite of the fried hot and sour mustard greens and took one sip, with a light sour and spicy taste. He drank it with a mouthful of hot porridge, and it felt like all the muscles and veins in his body were opened.

Li Xiuju glanced at her and sneered, "Chen Yu, it takes nearly half an hour for you to go back and forth from Zhoujiacun to the city. If things go on like this for a long time, it's not an option. My mother was thinking about renting a place in the city. .”

"Renting a place saves time." Zhou Chenyu nodded, then shook his head after a while, "But if I live in the city every day and can't go home, I won't be able to eat the food you cook. That won't work. I can't even eat. Well, where do you have the strength to work?”

"Aren't you afraid that you will be tired?" Li Xiuju pouted and scolded her: "Besides, if you rent a place close to the street, there will be plenty of food. Where can you be hungry?"

Zhou Chenyu smiled lightly, "How can the food they cook be as delicious as the food you cook?"

Li Xiuju was coaxed by her to sneer, knowing that this girl had her own plans, and it was indeed not safe for her daughter to live alone.

Forget it.

It's not that Zhou Chenyu has never thought about renting a place in the city, but instead of spending a lot of money to rent a house, she would rather save the money and save enough money to buy a house of her own in the future. .

Let’s talk about renting a house after we successfully open a shop.

Zhou Chenyu recuperated for five days. When the time came, he couldn't wait to leave for the city to find Chen Ping'an and meet someone.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chenyu laughed stupidly, and met the strange looks from passers-by. He was afraid that he might smile too stupidly and attract others' attention.

She coughed twice, moistened her voice, and hurried to the Feng Shui treasure land opposite Peach Blossom Pavilion.

Chen Ping'an had been waiting here for a long time. When he saw her coming up with a smile on her face, he said hello and said with a meaningful smile: "Chen Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time. Why do I feel that you are becoming more and more sophisticated?"

"Really?" Zhou Chenyu touched his hot cheek, rolled his eyes, and said with a bright smile: "After earning money from doing business with Boss Chen, my mood will naturally be better. When you are in a good mood, don't you look better? Already?"

Chen Pingan looked at her clever mouth, smiled helplessly, and said seriously: "By the way, this time, I always remembered your words when I went to the provincial capital, and bought more various flower patterns. Look, Is this what you want?"

(End of this chapter)