Tingjing Pavilion in Anping County.
Shopkeeper Chen has been both joyful and distressed recently. The owner who received his letter also rushed back from the outside. He was satisfied with the situation that the guests once again filled the door, but when he followed shopkeeper Chen to the storage cellar, his brows were the same as Chen's. The shopkeeper also wrinkled up.
The owner is very young, he looks only in his early twenties, he is wearing a brocade robe and looks like a rich man, but at this moment he grabs a cucumber and gnaws it, and he can't stop after taking a bite. I can understand why the business of Tingjing Pavilion will rise rapidly in just a few days, just because of the taste of this dish, I am not afraid that these customers will not turn back.
The temporary difficulty has been resolved, but there is a more important problem right now, that is, the follow-up food supply, otherwise the business of the restaurant will fall back to what it was before.
"Shopkeeper Chen, tell me what happened that day again." The boss took the lead and walked out of the cellar, shopkeeper Chen followed behind, and recounted the situation that day in detail, including the doubts in his heart at that time. identity speculation.
When he came to the ground, the boss pressed his fingers between his eyebrows. He couldn't say anything about shopkeeper Chen. From the description, it could be seen that the person who delivered the food didn't intend to leave any relevant information for them at all. How could this make them go? Find
"Young master," said shopkeeper Chen, "I finally found out that the husband was a bullock cart rented from Xishi Mengji Chariot and Horse Company, but no one could tell where that husband appeared. Where did you go, not to mention where this batch of dishes was delivered from, and these two days, Ming Lanju has also been inquiring about us and that husband in secret." The taste of Jingge's dishes has greatly improved , but there is no change of chef, of course Minglanju will get the relevant inside information at the first time, and it is natural to find out that Tingjing Pavilion has a batch of fresh green vegetables, which are more popular than the chef's specialties.
Shopkeeper Chen saw that this batch of dishes was consumed too quickly and he couldn't find anyone to serve them for a while, so he had to think of a way to implement daily limited sales, so as to delay as much as possible for a while, and send more people to find the husband and wife. The master behind him tried to get this batch of goods in the hands of Tingjing Pavilion.
"It seems that the man deliberately prevented us from finding his whereabouts. You have done a good job in this matter, Old Chen. Let's get through this period of time. The seasonal vegetables in spring will come down soon, and we will slowly find them." Touch, you stay here, and if you find anything, send someone to send me a letter in time, and I will go around and look around." The owner thought that this person was not too far away from Anping County, but shopkeeper Chen said that when the dishes were delivered, , as if it had just been plucked from the ground, and there must not have been a long delay on the road, so the young owner decided to walk around here, maybe he could meet him again, this time no matter what, he had to find a way to bring him back. If you seize the food source, even if you can't monopolize it, you must try your best to grab a certain share.
"Okay, master, I will also pay attention, if that Fulang shows up again, I will send someone to call the young master back immediately." Shopkeeper Chen replied.
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Tang Chunming didn't know what happened to the batch of vegetables he sold. Not only did he hear that Jingge was following him, but even Minglanju was secretly inquiring about his situation, but even shopkeeper Chen didn't expect that he was a farmer The widowed brother of the family has no master who protects the family behind him. Of course, even if Tang Chunming knew the situation outside, he would only be secretly thankful and proud of himself.
At this moment, he is watering the vegetable field. How much to dilute the space spring water so that the growth speed of the vegetables in the field will not be too eye-catching. He has already figured it out in his previous life, so the space spring water flows along his fingers Put it into the bucket, and pour it down with a scoop of water, and the young leaves swaying in the ground seem to be more green.
In the front yard, Tang Chunming asked Zhang Xiu and his fellow Dashan to enclose a place to raise chickens, otherwise the chickens would run around and there would be no clean place in the house. Of course, this is only temporary. It’s okay now. The hotter the weather will be, the greater the smell will be. Summer attracts mosquitoes and flies. His plan is to buy the wasteland and even the barren hills behind, so that he can raise chickens and sheep in the future. Either way, there is enough space.
Originally, this kind of work was not heavy, and Dashan could do it in half a day alone. How could he know that Yu Mu, a big man, came to help with Li Feng when he found out about it? Tang Chunming really wanted to say, he really doesn't need such a little space. So many people come to toss.
After watering all the vegetable plots, Tang Chunming returned to the front yard with a bucket in his hand. The three big men were working in full swing. They agreed and helped Tang Chunming rebuild a chicken coop.
Zhang Xiu was helping to pass the things on the side. Seeing Tang Chunming coming to pat the dust off his clothes, he entered the house with him, and said with a smile on his face: "You know why this big man Yu Mu heard your house Will something happen? It was caused by Da Mao and Er Mao. These two kids didn’t talk about it, saying that the food you cook is delicious, and the two of them have been eating together. I'm thinking about it."
Tang Chunming's face darkened suddenly, and he said how could he come here when he was doing well: "Come on, I will cook two dishes at noon, and you and Dashan will stay together."
"Well, I'll help you." Zhang Xiu didn't refuse. If only Dashan came to help him, he wouldn't stay. The two boys got enough light, and his Dashan could only help with some physical work. , but the situation is different if there are two men outside, there is no reason for a widowed brother to entertain two men alone, that is inviting people to gossip.
After the two washed their hands, Tang Chunming planned to make braised pork in brown sauce and stir-fry eggs with leeks. There was still some stewed pork liver left, and some scallion pancakes would be enough for a meal. When the meat was bought, Tang Chunming didn't dare to open it to eat. He made dumplings before, half of which was given away, and occasionally cut some shredded pork to stir fry. The meat today was brought back from town by Wang Mo yesterday. It was prepared to treat their family to eat when Dashan came to help. It was considered to have passed the Ming road. The leeks and green onions just grew out of the field, and Zhang Xiu brought the eggs from home.
Zhang Xiu lit the fire, Tang Chunming boiled sugar with hot oil, and the cubed meat came out of the pot with a chirp, and the smell of the meat wafted out. The three children who were writing in the room couldn't sit still, and all came to the kitchen.
"Ah Ming, what delicious food did you make?" Ermao's voice was heard before the person came in.
"This is worthless," Zhang Xiu scolded with a smile, "Go home and ask Dashan to talk about this bastard."
Ermao has already rushed in, and made a face at the mother who scolded him, and Da Mao came in with Alin behind, and Alin's eyes were brightly looking at the pot on the stove, okay, three snacks Tang Chunming laughed, "I'll make you braised pork today, I'm sure you'll still want to eat it."
Ermao and Alin shouted happily, and Da Mao smiled embarrassedly, but the look in his eyes was obviously looking forward to it.
The meat in the pot was just sugar-colored and looked very attractive. Tang Chunming added other seasonings to the pot, and the aroma became stronger. Now the three men working in the yard couldn't help their noses twitching. Fu, Yu Mu said with the most blunt smile: "It's really fragrant, Da Mao and Er Mao are right, Ah Lin's mother is really good at cooking, look, I brought you here, right." Li Feng.
"Go do your work. It's just enough to eat and drink." Li Feng glanced in the direction of the kitchen, feeling that Yu Mu's complacent eyes were an eyesore, even though he gave himself an excuse to come over to help, but He couldn't bear to add to Brother Ming's burden.
"How about this?" Yu Mu's mind is also very flexible sometimes, in order to have a good meal instead of pig food to fully activate his brain, "Doesn't Brother Ming have a few acres of land? Boss, it's not as good as the two of us." How about taking care of the work in the field and let Brother Ming cook some delicious meals for us?"
Li Dashan, who was working hard, couldn't help laughing. He is also an honest man. The two boys are taken care of by Brother Ming a lot. He really wanted to help Brother Ming with some hard work. Such two strong laborers.
"Brother Dashan, what do you think of me? Anyway, Brother Ming won't be able to do the heavy work in the field when he's pregnant. I guess we'll have to ask for help and pay wages. The boss and I just need to have a stutter." Yu Mu immediately pulled Li Dashan to speak for him.
Li Dashan said cheerfully: "I see you, it is better to marry a brother and come back quickly. If nothing else, at least there is a cook at home." Li Dashan fully understands how bad life is for two single men, just like him Working in the town, I ate a meal at noon. When I came back at night, I had a sip of my brother's warm soup, which would keep my heart warm. No matter how hard it was, it was worth it.
"Hey, it's not that the boss doesn't want to..."
Before finishing speaking, a puddle of mud was thrown on Yu Mu's head. Yu Mu immediately closed his mouth and dared not speak out. Li Dashan saw something wrong, and asked curiously while rubbing mud on the wall. Li Feng next to him: "Boy Feng, you have been outside for so many years and you have no one you like? Why don't you ask Uncle Shen to help you talk about it here?"
Recently, the wind in the village has changed. Although Li Feng only repaired the house and did not tear it down and rebuild it, the things he brought back from the town and the county are worth a lot of money. He muttered in his heart, I'm afraid Feng kid has made some money in the past few years, otherwise, how can he spend so much effort to buy so many things, and there are several acres of land, some people can't help but move their minds.
It doesn't matter that Feng boy looks scary, what matters is that he can live a good life, marrying such a person is better than marrying a lazy and poor man, and some people asked Mrs. Shen to help him explain something. He didn't pass the words on to Li Feng, but just returned them directly. What kind of guys are those people talking about? In his opinion, he is not worthy of Boy Feng.
Naturally, the situation in a village cannot be hidden from Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Xiu murmured in front of Dashan, so now Li Dashan also knows the situation of Boy Feng. If you can't say that you are a brother, it depends on whether Boy Feng has a high vision.
Yu Mu lowered his head and grinned, and winked at his boss Li Feng in the middle, Li Feng stared back angrily, then turned his head and said slowly to Li Dashan: "No hurry, let's live life first when we get back." Li Dashan He could only shake his head, knowing that what Feng Xiaozi said was just an excuse, how can a man at his age really not be in a hurry.
However, I also knew that Boy Feng was a person with his own opinions, and that he could not change his mind with a few words of persuasion from others, so he continued to work dully. Both he and Li Feng were quiet people, but it was Yu Mu who occasionally said a few words until The aroma wafting from the kitchen made their stomachs growl.
Zhang Xiu came out and called the three of them: "Hurry up and wash your hands, lunch is ready, eat it while it's hot."
"Okay, brother, thank you and Brother Ming for your hard work." Yu Mu was waiting for this sentence, put down the tools in his hand without saying a word, strode towards the bucket beside him, scooped up water to wash his hands, It was done in one go, and then followed behind Zhang Xiu with a smirk on his face.
There are not many rules in the countryside. Five adults and three children make up a table to eat together. Although there are not many dishes, each portion is sufficient. The pot of braised pork in the middle is full of piles. It is full, and the big pieces of meat are wrapped in viscous soup, which makes people salivate when they see it.
Everyone was satisfied with the meal, and Tang Chunming ate the big meat as he wished. There is no such thing as water-infused pork lean meat for pork in this era. Pure farm pigs, the taste should not be too authentic. Woohoo, the life of eating meat Don't be too beautiful, I was almost moved to tears. Yu Mu, a big man, stuffed meat into his mouth and still praised the deliciousness, but the two men, Li Dashan and Li Feng, talked even less, and the three little ones all hiccupped by the end of the meal.
"Uncle Yu, I'm right, Ah Ming's cooking is the best." Er Mao was still licking his mouth aftertaste.
"It's delicious, even better than the chef's cooking." Although it's just a home-cooked dish, it's nothing fancy, but the taste is incredible. Can Tang Chunming tell them that it's because the ingredients are good and the space spring water is added? Of course not.
The dishes and cakes prepared by Tang Chunming were eaten cleanly, and even the gravy was swept away by the big man Yu Mu in the end with the cakes. The psychology of foodies is common, and Tang Chunming was very happy when someone cheered him on, so for a while He waved his hands triumphantly and said, "If you like to eat, come to eat more often."
As soon as he finished speaking, the soft flesh around his waist was pinched by Zhang Xiu, and when Tang Chunming didn't know why, Yu Mu had already accepted it with a big grin: "That's great, so it turns out that Brother Ming is a refreshing guy." Man, brother and I are not welcome, brother Ming, your several acres of land will be rented to me and brother, as long as you prepare more food like today for us."
"That's not good," Tang Chunming hesitated for a moment after being pinched soberly, "These meals are not worth anything, and it will cost a lot of money to hand over five acres of land to others."
"No one else can cook so deliciously, Brother Ming. You are no worse than those chefs. Don't worry, Brother Ming. Put it on me and Brother. We don't know how to cook, but we have so much energy that we can't use it up." , It's settled like this, big brother, big brother Dashan, let's finish the rest of the work quickly." Yu Mu was afraid that Brother Ming would go back on his word, so he hurriedly dragged the other two to work.
Everyone walked away, and Tang Chunming realized that the situation was wrong. He scratched his chin and said with a dry smile, "It's nothing to do with it. Anyway... I had to ask someone to clean it up." The person with a full belly went to clean it up, and it was estimated that he would be exhausted to death and he couldn't clean it up, so I originally planned to ask a few people to pay some wages when other people's homes were finished during the spring plowing, so as not to delay the crops in the field.
"Forget it, forget it, I'm also afraid that the people in the village will say gossip. Since you don't care about it, I won't worry about it. I will ask Dashan to help me with the work." Looking at the reaction of that big man Yu Mu , I won’t take back what I said at all, just for a few meals, and the words that Brother Ming mocked Li Conggen’s family that day had already spread in the village, and the villagers also knew that Li Conggen’s family was born out of nothing. He was hit by Boy Feng, but no one explained Brother Feng and Boy.
"You go out for a walk, I'll clean up here." Zhang Xiu figured it out and drove Ming Geer and the three children out. Tang Chunming was also happy and relaxed, and he was not at all embarrassed. Tang Chunming laughed after tasting all the little flowers that smelled like meat, and the big and big two started strolling in the yard, and the three little ones were showing their belly.
Tang Chunming also went out to have a look at his own land. It was vacant after harvesting before winter last year. Now the weather is getting warmer and it is starting to turn green. The place is not too far away. It is located on the hillside in the middle of the village. There are five mu in one piece, and the wasteland reclaimed by other people in the village is on the side. Those who are strong and willing to work these days, who would not want to clean up more? To produce some fields, and the first three years of reclaimed land do not have to pay taxes. After three years of raising the land, after paying taxes and submitting documents, it will officially become your own land. Anyway, after a year, you can always dig out some of these lands. Ration down.
Tang Chunming felt that it was a pity that there was no paddy field, which meant that there would be no rice produced, and the villagers would usually use the wasteland to grow some grains such as soybeans and sorghum, but Tang Chunming planned to use half of the land to grow wheat , As for the low harvest? It belonged to someone else's house, how could it be so low in his hands? The rest can be planted with soybeans, sorghum and peanuts.
After returning home, Tang Chunming told Zhang Xiuyi about his plan. Zhang Xiu didn't think about it and didn't persuade him to change his mind. Serve some fine grains, and see that the vegetable field in Brother Ming's backyard is well cleaned up, and the scrambled eggs and leeks at noon are very good.
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In a blink of an eye, the village became busy, and every household had to clean up their own fields. Mrs. Shen didn't know Tang Chunming's plan, so he ran over to ask, knowing that he had handed over the land to Yu Mu and Li Feng to clean it up and didn't say anything. What, turned around and ran to Li Feng's house. He said that when the land is plowed, he will go to his house and bring the big green mule. Counting the four-acre medium land of Feng boy himself, two strong laborers can do it in two days. Finished plowing.
Tang Chunming thanked Lizheng's family from the bottom of his heart after knowing this, knowing that Lizheng was taking care of himself and A Lin, otherwise there would be many people waiting to borrow his livestock. Loaning it to the Li family but giving him a foreign surname must have put a lot of pressure on him in private.
Tang Chunming carried a jug on his back and a basket filled with food, and led A Lin's hand to walk into the field. Because of the location, he would inevitably meet other people in the village on the road. Others are walking on the road with tools on their shoulders, and they always say hello when they meet each other. Everyone knows where Tang Chunming's land is, and everyone knows who is busy now. Fortunately, there are still busy in the field like Dashan. , but these people still have to mutter in their hearts, the words that were passed on a while ago can't be true, otherwise why did Boy Feng push away all the people who came to see him
Although Brother Ming has brought a child and conceived another, but in terms of appearance, those brothers are far inferior to him, and Brother Ming is also literate, so the two boys of the Dashan family are just learning from him. Knowing how to read, Dahu was also lucky to find such a brother back then, otherwise such a brother should have married into a rich family.
"Brother Ming, are you here to bring food to Boy Feng again?" The gossip-minded brother came up to greet him just to say a few clichés with Brother Ming.
"Brother Li Feng? No way, isn't there several people working in my field? It's also Brother Axiu. He saw that I, an orphan and widow, couldn't take care of these few acres, so he asked his Dashan to clean up my land together. Well, just in time, brother Li Feng's family's land is close to that of Dashan's. After borrowing the big green mule from Lizheng's family, he simply cleaned up the family together. You also know that Brother Axiu can't stay idle. I was the only one at home, so I accepted the task of cooking and delivering meals. You must know that even Da Mao of his family went to work with the adults, so I can’t do nothing, don’t you think?”
Tang Chunming explained to others with a smile on his face, although it took a while, but in Zhang Xiu's words, one more thing is worse than one less thing, so he agreed with Zhang Xiu's statement, saying that the three families have formed a partnership, and there are many such phenomena in the village , mostly between relatives, so that it would not be so prominent for others to help Tang Chunming clean up.
"That's that, that is," the brother laughed so hard that the flesh on his face became a little stiff, "Anyone who really stays at home during the busy farming season will be scolded, not everyone Your eldest brother is so lucky, but this year, he will not be lazy."
"Brother?" Tang Chunming was stunned for a moment before realizing that the person was talking about Wang Chunhua. Indeed, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Daniu used to work together on the land of the Zhao family. Of course, all the work fell on Brother Ming alone. During the busy farming season, Wang Chunhua was either in pain here or uncomfortable there. Anyway, he always had to find an excuse to be lazy, and Old Mama Zhao knew that Wang Chunhua was lazy, but she didn’t do anything. He said that he focused his eyes on Mingge'er alone, and didn't let him rest at all. Therefore, although Mingge'er had never been in the field during the busy farming season, he would lose weight every time the busy farming season ended. The last circle, but Wang Chunhua always has to gain a lot of weight, because during the busy farming season, saving old mother Zhao will also improve the food, but of course these can't get into the mouths of Brother Ming and A Lin.