When he got home, Chang Hao was tired and fell asleep. In the main room, Grandpa Chang was weaving mats, and Chang Le was mending clothes. The two were busy waiting for Yu Qingze.
Seeing him coming back, Chang Le gestured and asked him if he wanted to take a bath now, and he helped him bring the water to the bathroom. Grandpa Chang translated it.
Yu Qingze shook his head, called Grandpa Chang and Chang Le to sit down at the table, and then solemnly discussed with them: "Grandpa, Brother Le, I'm new here, fortunately, Brother Le saved me, and thanks to you all. I'm really grateful for taking care of you. You know, I have no relatives and no reason here, and I don't have a place yet, so I want to discuss with you, no, it's a request, I want to ask you one thing."
The grandfather and grandson looked at each other, and both saw seriousness in Yu Qingze's eyes.
Grandpa Chang said, "You say it."
Yu Qingze said to the two seriously: "I want to live at home for a period of time. I will pay the rent monthly. When I have enough money and find a suitable place, I will move out."
Unexpectedly, Yu Qingze said this.
Grandpa Chang waved his hand and said, "You live there. It's just a bed. What's rent is not rent, no need."
Chang Le also nodded.
Yu Qingze naturally refused to live in vain, he said helplessly: "Grandpa, Brother Le, if you are like this, I don't dare to live at home."
Grandpa Chang stared, "Don't you dare, didn't you teach Xiaole and Xiaohao to write? Didn't you say that you wanted to teach Xiaohao to learn kung fu? It's just a bunch of repairs. Speaking of which, we took advantage."
Yu Qingze laughed, "Speaking of which, Brother Le saved my life, grandpa."
"That's not the same thing, you can't mix it up."
Yu Qingze was very persistent, and Grandpa Chang had a tougher attitude.
The two sides went back and forth for several rounds, to no avail.
Chang Le watched the two of them fight back and forth, pursing her lips and smiling.
Seeing that the old man couldn't say anything, Yu Qingze could only say: "Grandpa, I'm serious, I can't eat for free, I hope you can understand."
Grandpa Chang looked at him for a while, then sighed and said, "That's all, just give it if you like it."
Yu Qingze smiled and said again, "I don't know the rent here. Look, is one tael of silver a month enough?"
Both grandfather and grandson were surprised by his generosity.
Grandpa Chang said dryly: "Our family does not have the conditions of an inn."
Yu Qingze said: "I also included the food."
Grandpa Chang waved his hand, "Those things on the ground are not worth a lot of money. Everyone grows them and sells them on the street, but they can't sell."
Yu Qingze didn't hear it, and made a final decision, "Then it's settled, one tael of silver a month. I'll pay for three months first."
Yu Qingze took out the cloth bag. He didn't know how much the three taels of silver were. He simply took three copper coins and handed it to Grandpa Chang, "Grandpa, here it is for you."
Grandpa Chang reluctantly took it and handed it to Chang Le.
Yu Qingze could see that it was Chang Le who was in charge of the money at home. So he said to Chang Le again: "Brother Le, can you please keep the money for me? I don't have a place to put it. After the double robberies are over in a few days, I'll take it back. I want to go to the city to do it. some small business."
Chang Le is a little embarrassed, so much money, if lost...
Chang Le looked at Grandpa Chang, who nodded and said, "Help him keep it."
Chang Le took the cloth bag and entered the room cautiously.
Grandpa Chang looked at Yu Qingze and asked, "Do you want to do business in the city?"
Yu Qingze nodded: "I want to get some snacks to sell. I have to find a way to make a living."
Grandpa Chang frowned and said, "Didn't you lose your household registration certificate? You need it to do business in the city."
Yu Qingze said with an 'ah', "I forgot about this. Grandpa, if I want to get the household registration here, what do I need to do?"
Grandpa Chang frowned and thought for a while, then said: "There seems to be a special department in the yamen to take care of this. You can ask the village chief, he should know."
"Okay, I'll ask."
"You want to be naturalized with us? Niutou Village?"
"Yes, it's good here, and I'd like to be here if I can."
"Have a vision! Back then, a dozen households in our village saw this place very well, so they settled here. In a flash, more than ten years have passed."
Yu Qingze asked curiously, "I heard that you moved here during the war?"
Grandpa Chang nodded, took a sip of dry smoke, his eyes were a little distant, "We were originally in Qingzhou on the north bank of the Qinghe River, which was severely damaged by the war, and everyone couldn't survive. I heard that the war in the south was not so serious, so we tried to find a way to cross the river together. here."
The Great Sheng Dynasty was founded only after the wars of the previous dynasty ended. It was fifteen years after the founding of the country. Yu Qingze had heard of this.
"Yeah, it is the common people who suffer the most from the war." Yu Qingze had never experienced it, so he could only sigh with emotion.
Grandpa Chang spit out a rim of the eye, sighed again, and said distressedly: "Xiao Le's injury was done at that time, alas..."
Yu Qingze wanted to ask what was going on, but when he saw Chang Le coming out, he stopped in time, then went back to his room and took out his clothes, and said to Chang Le, "Brother Le, please tell me about it. water."
Chang Le nodded with a smile.
The next morning, Yu Qingze saw that Chang Le had picked up a large dung bucket of beans, and asked him when he was having breakfast.
Chang Le said worriedly that there was too much growth in the ground, and he had no time to sell it recently, so he picked it back and dried it, otherwise all of them would be old.
Yu Qingze asked them how to eat the beans here, and when he learned that they were usually cooked and eaten, they were dried and dried.
The beans in the dung pan were very tender. Yu Qingze thought about it and asked, "Brother Le, do you still have any empty jars at home? The kind with edges."
Chang Le nodded, looked at him curiously, and asked what he was going to do.
Yu Qingze said, "Pickled sour beans."
"Sour beans?" Chang Hao asked curiously, "Is it delicious?"
Yu Qingze nodded and said, "It's very appetizing, very suitable for summer and winter."
"Is it better than dried beans?" Dried beans are often eaten in winter, and Chang Hao is a little disgusted.
Yu Qingze smiled and said, "It has a different taste. Let me pickle some for you to try. If you think it tastes good, we can pick it up in a jar and put it in the winter to eat."
Hearing that it was delicious, Chang Hao was happy and raised his hands in approval: "Marinated!"
Brother Yu said it was delicious, it must be super delicious! He now has a blind admiration for Yu Qingze, especially in terms of food.
So after breakfast, Changle, their grandfather and grandson went to plant the fields, and Yu Qingze made sour beans at home.
Wash the jar and let it dry naturally, then select the fresh and tender beans, remove the head and tail, wash it and dry it with water, boil a small pot of boiling water and let it cool.
After all the preparations are completed, directly pour a small half jar of cold boiled water into the jar, put in the beans, all submerged in the water, add a little more salt, and you're done.
Yu Qingze thought for a while, then put a few more green peppers in it. In fact, if there are radishes, sour radishes are also delicious, but it is summer now, and Brother Le and the others have not planted summer radishes, but they can still pick some bitter gourds and soak them.
Finally, cover the lid, pour water on the edge of the jar to prevent air from entering, and put it in a cool place. It can be eaten in two or three days.
Now that he has made sour beans, Yu Qingze made a simple version of pickled cucumbers from those cucumbers.
At noon, Grandpa Chang said that he had cooked the fish sent by the village chief yesterday. Yu Qingze remembered the first meal he had here, the taste of the fish...
"Let them enjoy the deliciousness of real fish." Yu Qingze muttered to himself.
There is no ginger at home, only rice wine can remove the fishy smell, and a little vinegar can also remove the fishy smell, but it is not enough. Yu Qingze was worried when he suddenly remembered that he had seen a small piece of perilla on the side of the road in the village.
While picking it up, I met the village chief.
"Aze, what are you picking this for?" the village chief was curious. The smell of perilla is rather strange, people in the village regard it as a weed, and cows don’t like it very much, but doctors sometimes use it as medicine.
Yu Qingze replied, "I don't have any ginger at home. I'll pick it up and make it as an ingredient. Village chief, did you think about it when you asked me?"
"Yes. We discussed it yesterday, and we will do as you said." The village chief and Dajian Dayong discussed it until the early morning, and finally made a decision.
Another thing happened in the meantime. The village chief husband found that the family suddenly lost 30 taels of silver, and hurriedly looked for them, thinking that the family had been robbed. Later, I learned that they bought a piece of wood with money, and they made a lot of noise for a while. The village chief and the three men spent a lot of time talking, and finally they persuaded him. It's also a toss up.
Yu Qingze said happily: "I knew you would agree."
The village chief smiled, and then asked again: "However, Aze, I just want to discuss with you, can the threshing machine and the windmill be started later?"
Yu Qingze thought about it for a while, and probably knew what the village chief had in mind. They just wanted to make rice beds with all their might before the autumn harvest. He asked, "How many people in your family can do carpentry?"
The village chief replied: "I, Dajian and Dayong are all familiar. My third son can only fight now, and my husband can also do some."
Yu Qingze pretended to be embarrassed to think for a long time, and then said: "Well, that's all right, the threshing machine and the wind grain truck will not start until the autumn harvest. After the autumn harvest, you arrange for someone to study the production and production with me. Grain machines and wind grain carts, other people make other simple goods."
What Yu Qingze pursues is long-term cooperation. Let the village chief and the others see the benefits first, and the cooperation will be smoother in the future. It can be done one by one. Anyway, no one knows what he has in mind.
What's more, he also wanted to ask the village chief to help him get his household registration.
When the village chief heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "This arrangement is very good."
The two agreed to go to the village chief's house in the evening to discuss the terms of the cooperation contract.
When he got home, estimating the time, Yu Qingze cooked the rice first, set up the fire, and then began to process the fish.
The village chief brought a silver carp, which was quite large, weighing more than two pounds and nearly three pounds.
Using basil instead of ginger, Yu Qingze made a fish head with chopped peppers according to the taste of the Changle family. He marinated the rest of the fish body and put it in a bowl to prepare braised fish at night. Make a loofah egg soup with green vegetables, which is also a very hearty lunch.
After the meal was ready, the Chang family grandfather and the three grandsons also came back.
As soon as Chang Hao entered the courtyard, he smelled the fragrance in the air, and rushed into the house immediately, and asked excitedly, "Brother Yu, you are delicious again!"
Chang Le's eyes also lit up, another new dish! Still fish!
It's a pity that I didn't see how it was done, which is a little regrettable.
The greatest happiness of foodies is to meet a good cook!
And the greatest happiness of a culinary slag who aspires to be a good cook is undoubtedly meeting a good chef!
The author has something to say: Yu Qingze: The money is handed over to the husband, no problem!
By the way, I forgot to mention, the time in the text is calculated according to the lunar calendar. The current timeline is the rice harvest season in late June of the lunar calendar.