(MTL) The Story of a Cold Male Supporting Husband by Huajian Xiaopao

Chapter 55

There are many people who come to work in the greenhouse and barbecue

in the village recently, and many people come back to the village to escape the summer heat. These workers temporarily set up a shack at the foot of the mountain for food and accommodation, and even brought the village more lively. Many merchants selling tofu and jerky and other gadgets ran to Youluo Village every day.

There are more than 30 workers, who go up the mountain every day at dawn until the sun sets. They do all the hard work of cutting down trees and backing the soil. Food, oil and water must keep up.

It's just that their family is not rich, and they don't have so much money to buy meat every day to supplement their bodies. One penny or three eggs for two cents are expensive and can't fill their stomachs. At this time, they can only rely on "vegetarian meat". " called the tofu to eat.

Tofu is cheap, five cents can buy a piece the size of two or three palms, cut into pieces and cook with vegetables, which is nutritious and filling.

These workers are led by the foreman, and every other day, each person contributes a penny, and together there are more than 30 penny. Thirty of them were specially reserved for the buyer's square tofu, the size of an adult's arms, enough for them to cook soup and braised for two days.

The remaining few cents will be saved after buying the seasonings. When you save twenty cents, you can buy a pack of fried jerky. These jerky are all leftovers collected from the butchers in oil. Boiled in the pot, the taste is not delicious, but the oil and water are large, which can satisfy your cravings.

As for vegetables, it would be better. They were a little more careful when cutting weeds and trees. They picked out the better-tasting wild vegetables when they came home at night, scalded them in boiling water, and soaked them in mountain spring water overnight to remove them. Bitter and astringent, it tastes no worse than the vegetables grown in the field the next day, and it also clears heat and detoxifies. The heat and toxins exposed by the sun during work in the summer can all be relieved.

The merchants are clever. After knowing the Xie family's work, they will pick up tofu and other goods to sell. Sometimes the chef of the Xie family will also come to see their goods. As long as the food is fresh and clean, the chef of the Xie family hardly bargains and sells it generously. .

The summer in Youluo Village is refreshing and cool. The people who come back to escape the summer, plus the Xie family and the workers, can almost sell out two or three merchants together, with only one exception.

The businessman used to think that Xie's family was against the ethics of getting married and didn't sell tofu to them. Now that Xie's family has developed, he regrets it a little. Unfortunately, he is not allowed to step on the road of Xie's family, let alone sell his goods. .

Immediately afterwards, it was reported that the Xie family had taken a fancy to a merchant's tofu, and made a long-term appointment with him to deliver tofu every three days. Baiwen's tofu is a big deal for the merchant, and the other merchants are also envious.

However, during this period of time, they made a lot of money from the Xie family and those who worked, and they were relieved after the envy. Only the man who had regretted his bowels turned green back then, but unfortunately it was useless.

Ye Yuanxian gave birth to a few apples of July red and planted them in the nursery room in the yard, but now there are rice, wheat, buns and sweet potatoes in this nursery room, and if you add a few more apple seedlings, you can't put them down.

"Yan Yan, let's get a nursery room." Ye Yuanxian patted the soil sticking to the hem of his clothes, ready to expand his planting base.

Xie Yifeng nodded: "Okay, I'll find someone who can make a greenhouse. If I build it now, I can use it when the weather cools down."

The difference between a nursery room and a greenhouse is not much. There are conservatories built to preserve the flowers carefully planted by the ladies, so there are many masters with craftsmanship.

However, the conservatory area that the Xie family is going to build is large, and ordinary inexperienced masters are easily afraid to take this job.

It is midsummer now, and things in the nursery room are not in a hurry. Xie Yifeng and Ye Yuanxian are using techniques to transplant the rice that is about to head in the nursery room to a small paddy field outside.

Nowadays, the rice outside is also heading for the ear. The rice that Ye Yuan idly planted has been induced by spiritual power. The rice seeds are local, the southern high-yield and disease-prone upland rice, and the northernmost low-yield upland rice.

The rice seeds shipped from the south have high yield and high requirements for water quality. Once the rice seedlings are drought or flooded, the rice seedlings will not grow well and the yield will drop significantly.

The northernmost upland rice does not have a high demand for water. During the half month of transplanting, the water supply should be maintained and the water should not be too short during heading, so that the growth of rice seedlings will not be a big problem. However, the disadvantage is that the yield is low and the taste is not as good as that of southern rice.

The local rice yield is not very high, and the water quality requirements are lower than that of the southern rice. The yield per mu is only about 300 catties, only a few dozen catties more than the northern rice. It should be known that the yield of rice per mu in the south can reach 500 catties or even 600 catties.

The rice in the north and south only occupies more than half of the land, and the rest is local rice. When it blooms, the local rice will be divided into two and hybridized with the rice in the north and south.

Farming is much easier after all. Xie Yifeng heard Ye Yuanxian read a sentence of mutton skewers yesterday and knew that he was greedy for mutton. Although sheep in summer are not as nourishing as in winter, they will get angry if they eat too much. These are just minor problems.

Xie Yifeng arranged for Xie Yi to go to a family in the village early in the morning to buy sheep. Now that the weather is good, the vegetation on the mountain is lush, and the lambs that were born in the spring are now just when they are plump and tender. They are very useful for barbecues. good.

A charcoal fire was lit in the pavilion, and Xie Yifeng grilled lamb shanks and mutton skewers personally.

The cleaning of the mountain has been busy these few days. Xie Yi and the others have handled it very well. They have taken good care of them in all aspects. Therefore, including the workers, the two masters gave them a half-day leave, and the wages were paid. Eat, drink and rest for half a day.

As the news spread, the craftsmen were as happy as the Chinese New Year. Their host family was generous, and every once in a while, they would have people deliver meat to them.

They are grateful for the goodness of the master, and they work harder. They can clean up the fields without thanking them for their supervision.

In addition to lambs, there are chickens and wild boars from the mountains. Now the crops in the fields are more mature, there are always greedy wild boars running down the mountain, and those who go to other people's fields are ignored. Once they enter the Xie family's territory Only the portion that is used as ration.

The big wild boar of more than 300 catties has only 200 catties of skinned and deboned meat. The Xie family took the spare ribs, pork legs, and half a slice of pork, and distributed a piece of about three catties to the lamb sellers as a thank-you gift. , and the rest goes to the workers.

Half a fan of meat and a big pig head, remove the inedible water and internal organs, and the rest can be eaten. The foreman brought a human torch to pluck the pig's head and roast it to golden brown, and then threw it into the pot together with the big bones to cook.

Then cut the fat from the half of the meat and cut it into slices, boil it in a pot with fat and sprinkle with heavy salt, so that the meat pieces boiled with heavy oil and heavy salt can be stored for five or six days in high temperature weather.

The rest of the lean meat is deep-fried in a frying pan and sprinkled with salt. It is a very good jerky. They can eat a few pieces and they can make a big steamed bun, and they will not be hungry for a long time.

The smell of meat spread from the Xie family, which caused the people working around to keep sniffing. They heard the shouts of the workers at the foot of the mountain. They were very greedy, but they could only help.

"It would be great if we also went to Xie's house to work..." the younger man muttered, but unfortunately these words can only be said.

The smell of mutton skewers spread out in the yard. Ye Yuanxian had just spawned a big watermelon when he heard Xie Yifeng shouting in the yard: "Yuanxian, the meat is ready, come and eat."

"Come on." Ye Yuan After a quick response, he quickly cut half of the watermelon, squeezed the other half into watermelon juice, added ice cubes and a little fruit wine and brought it out together.

The lamb skewers were grilled sizzling, and few people could resist the aroma.

The lamb shank is grilled on the grill next to the mutton skewers. The skin is slightly yellow and the fragrance is restrained. It is estimated that the heat will be enough in a short time.

The two of them ate well, and the outside of the yard was also lively.

After a half-day rest, the workers are more motivated, and this mountain bag is somewhat like an upside-down bowl. The more it goes, the smaller the area, and the faster it can be cleaned.

Xie Yifeng found the master who built the conservatory and settled the construction of the conservatory in the form of a half-package. Before, whether it was building the house or cleaning the hill, it was all-inclusive, in order to reduce trouble.

Nowadays, the construction of the conservatory is very important, Ye Yuanxian and Xie Yifeng are not at ease and leave it to the master workers to do it completely. They can also participate in the house and take care of it often if they choose the half-package form.

The greenhouse designed by Ye Yuanxian covers an area of ​​one acre and five points, of which one acre is a nursery room without a heating system, and the other five points are reserved for heating channels. temperature will rise.

The construction of a nursery room is more troublesome than the construction of a yard, because the soil should be kept clean and not polluted during the construction process, and the walls of the nursery room should be better protected from wind and heat by thick soil walls.

In this way, when working, the walls must be tamped with thin mud first, and the time will be longer.

The bottom one foot of the earth wall needs to build a small stone wall first, so that the wall will not be soaked and collapsed when water is poured into the ground.

The stones in the stone wall do not need to be too large, and the size that can be picked up with both hands is the best. Such stones can be found directly in the river ditch.

Ye Yuanxian originally wanted to give some extra money to the people working on the mountain to let them pick up stones after eating while the sky was still dark, but the foreman waved his hand and smiled and said, "I thought it was too big. What's the matter, don't worry, the master, the brothers will have more strength if they don't have anything else, and I'll guarantee you the time to finish the meal."

The man from the north was straightforward and did what he said. That night, they were going to go to the river to pick up stones with a backpack. Xie Yi and the others hurriedly set up the donkey cart and carriage, and followed these men to pick up stones.

The circumference of an acre of land is about 130 meters. The stones picked up by a donkey cart can be built two or three meters long. The horse cart is heavier and longer than the donkey cart.

The men are bold and not afraid of wasting their energy. Ye Yuanxian can't really let them work in vain, so the food is more refined. Every day in spring, he has to cook a large pot of mung bean soup, and Hua Hong and Liu Lu also help to make some oil. Fried noodles and fruit, every time I come back from picking up stones, I always have to have a good supper.

After coming and going, the workers all praised Xie Jia for his kindness and kindness.

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