I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 46 Preparation 3
"Here, let's do it!" Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu said in one breath and drank the wine at the same time.

Li Xiuju watched her sister and brother working together, as if they had agreed. She had nothing to do. She could only hold Aunt Wang aside and pretend to smile happily, "Okay, this way, I have another eldest son!"

Afterwards, Li Xiuju questioned them with a straight face for the first time.

"Chen Yu, Baoyu, what's going on? You guys are so good, why do you suddenly want to recognize Tong Sheng as your brother?"

"Uh... this." Zhou Chenyu was thinking about how to fool him when Zhou Baoyu replied excitedly, "Mom, don't be angry. I know you like Brother Chen and want my sister to marry him. But my sister likes The person in question is not Brother Chen, but someone else!"

what?
"Is there someone else?" Li Xiuju's mood suddenly rose from the bottom of the valley to the clouds.

Zhou Chenyu had just solved Chen Tongsheng's problem. This brat dug a big hole for her again. Her blood surged and she almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.

She just wanted to live a pure single life, and men would only affect the speed at which she drew her sword.

Li Xiuju looked at Chen Yu, remembering her previous action of killing first and then showing off, and grabbed Baoyu's hand, "Baoyu, tell me, whose child is this child from?"

Baoyu glanced at her sister secretly, and when she saw no response, she grinned and said, "Mom, you've seen that man before. He's the one who caught my sister and sent him to the dungeon last time, woo woo woo."

Zhou Chenyu covered Baoyu's mouth, pretending to be embarrassed and smiled: "Oh, old lady, don't ask about this matter that hasn't been revealed yet. I'll tell you when I get married with him later. Now, I There is one more important thing to say.”

Zhou Chenyu was so anxious that a blush appeared on his cheeks and earlobes. Li Xiuju looked at her in a panic, which was indeed a little different from the calm look when she saw Tong Sheng.

A woman in her prime has hidden things in her heart, how dare she talk about them in public.

However, knowing that she had someone she liked, Li Xiuju's anxious heart was at peace, and she said angrily: "You girl, what important thing do you have?"

Zhou Chenyu proposed the bold idea of ​​setting up a stall to sell sugar water. At first, Li Xiuju and Baoyu were skeptical.

Because the ancestors of the Zhou family have been honest farmers for several generations, living on one-third of an acre of land, and have never had any business experience. Furthermore, they don’t have much money left, only two or three hundred cash, so they invest it all. I am afraid of getting nothing, so the risk is not small.

Zhou Chenyu originally had these concerns, but she calculated carefully and found that it only cost forty cents to buy red beans, mung beans and sugar. They had grown purple sweet potatoes, pumpkins and taro as ingredients for making taro balls, and Baoyu was a handicraftsman. Experts, the most indispensable thing in the back mountain is bamboo. They can also make a few bamboo chairs and tables themselves. In the end, they only have the money to buy bowls. At most, they can invest another ten or twenty coins. The total cost is not much. Fifty articles.

A pound of red beans is boiled into a large pot of sugar water, and there are almost dozens of bowls. The price of a bowl is two cents, and adding taro balls will increase the price by another cent. If it sells well, you can still make money.

During the busy farming season, others are harvesting rice. Their family has no fields, so the most they have is time.

What’s the harm in trying?

Zhou Chenyu explained the details of the account in a clear and logical manner. Li Xiuju was gradually convinced, nodded and said: "Chen Yu, mother doesn't understand this. We will do whatever you ask us to do, and we will obey you from now on." your."

Regarding the accounts, Baoyu was confused, but regardless of the content, just looking at her sister's expression and tone when she spoke, she found it convincing.

How could he have the face to doubt his sister's decision?

Baoyu surged with enthusiasm, patted his chest, and said with confidence, "Sister, leave the table and chairs to me."

Zhou Chenyu is not afraid of hardship when doing things, but is afraid of disunity.Now that Li Xiuju and Baoyu have affirmed it, roll up your sleeves and work hard!

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In the hot summer, mornings and nights are the coolest.

Although the day's plan begins in the morning, this morning, there was no need to go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots or collect summer solstice fungi. It was a rare free time. Zhou Chenyu woke up when he heard the rooster's crow outside the house, and a chill flowed into the bed. She Wrapped in quilt, he turned over, lay on the bed and fell asleep again.

Seeing that both children were exhausted, Li Xiuju didn't want to wake them up. She got up and washed herself, fed the chickens, poured the vegetables, and silently entered the kitchen with the freshly picked chives.

I was tired of eating sweet potato porridge in the morning, so when I went to the market last time, I bought a few kilograms of noodles and put them back.

Li Xiuju lit up the stove, fried three free-range eggs and set them aside. Then she added water, brought them to a boil, and put in an appropriate amount of noodles to cook.

Then put the chopped chives into a bowl, add a spoonful of lard, a little soy sauce, and salt, ladle in the hot noodle soup, then scoop the cooked noodles into the bowl, and finally put a spoon into each bowl. Golden fried eggs.

When the eggs were fried and put into the pot, Zhou Chenyu had already woken up. He smelled the smell coming from the kitchen, so he quickly got up and washed up. He blinked his sleepy eyes and ran to the kitchen, followed by Baoyu.

Li Xiuju brought the noodles outside the house, "You guys woke up just in time. Come on, the noodles are ready. Eat them while they're hot."

"Well, it smells so good." Zhou Chenyu couldn't wait to sit down, holding his bowl of fried egg noodles. On a slightly cold summer day, he first had the hot noodle soup in his stomach. She was still in a dazed state and finally woke up completely, taking a sip. The smooth and chewy noodles filled my stomach, and they were paired with a bite of fried eggs. By the end of the meal, all the soup was finished.

Baoyu's stomach was bulging after eating, and he burped, "It's so delicious."

When people have enough to eat and drink, they will have the strength to work.

Li Xiuju took their clothes to wash, while Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu Bing went in separate directions. She went to the vegetable garden to dig taro and pumpkins necessary for making taro balls, while Baoyu went to the back mountain to chop big bamboos.

Digging taro and cutting pumpkins are both delicate jobs. Zhou Chenyu returned home after a while. He first cooked the mung beans over low heat, then washed the mud from the taro, and then removed the skins of the pumpkin, purple sweet potato and taro and cut them into slices. , and then steam it in the steamer.

After steaming until soft, mash each into a puree, add glutinous rice flour and knead into a ball, leave it for a while, knead into long strips as thick as two fingers, then cut into pieces, mix into the pot and cook slowly.

Li Xiuju saw her busy in the kitchen and came over to take a look. She caught a glimpse of the purple, yellow and white dumplings in the pot, "Just by looking at them, I thought they were very delicious."

Originally, tapioca flour was supposed to be added, but since I couldn't find it, I used glutinous rice flour instead.

Zhou Chenyu didn't expect it to be so successful. It was exactly the same as the taro balls at the food stall. It looked good, but he didn't know if it tasted the same.

She wasn't sure, so she took out a spoonful, added mung bean syrup, and handed it to Li Xiuju, "Old lady, try it for me."

"Okay, Mom, I'll give you a try." Li Xiuju held the bowl and took a bite of the taro balls of various colors. They tasted glutinous and chewy, very chewy, like glutinous rice cakes, but not greasy.

(End of this chapter)