218 I Came from the Sea (5)
There are only two kinds of breakfast in this place, one porridge and one pancake. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The porridge is made by taking what food you have at hand, adding some water and boiling it.
After the pancake is kneaded in a coarse dough, it is dried and baked on the stove, and there is nothing oil and salt.
At this time, it is good to say that if there are wild beasts, there will be inexhaustible animal oil.
But salt is a rare thing, and most people are not very willing to use it, so you can put a little less in your meal.
In the stone widow's tavern, salt seems to be free of money.
If you want to talk about salt, in the field or in the swamp, dig a piece of soil and come back, and lick it must be salty. However, there are very few people who can deposit refined salt, and the big salt pans and the sale of salt are controlled by some big leaders, and the price is not friendly to the common people.
The stone widow didn't know what the origin was, but she could also roughly separate the salt from the soil, yellow and astringent, and it was okay to eat the vegetables, but the taste was not good.
Xiaoxi once watched a food competition show, mentioning that in order to make a unique flavor of food, one contestant used the simplest method to make high-quality salt from the soil step by step.
When she helped the Stone Widow make salt, she "accidentally" gradually changed the steps, leading the salt to get better and better each time, because those steps were really too common, and the Stone Widow was not suspicious.
Later, the salt of their family was better than the refined salt sold at a high price outside.
But the stone widow was reluctant to meddle in anything other than to earn money for wine and food, and Xiaoxi mentioned it once, but the stone widow refused, so she didn't care anymore.
The food in their tavern is much better than outside, and salt is also an important reason.
Because I woke up very early, the sun didn't come out completely, and the weather was still cool.
Ji Ran lit a fire for the creek, and the creek stewed eight treasure porridge.
It had been dry for many days near Jishi Mountain, and all the vegetables in the field had dried up, and there were only easy-to-store cabbages and some dried vegetables in the cellar.
The creek chopped some dried meat, mixed it with dried vegetables, and made some meat and vegetable buns.
While steaming the buns, I baked a few more lasagna cakes.
After the stone widow got up, she saw a table full of breakfast, and her first reaction was to be stunned for a while, then she took off her shoes and chased the stream all over the yard.
Ji Ran touched his nose, this style of painting became so fast, he was caught off guard.
Before the stone widow's stinky soles landed on the stream, Ji Ran stopped the stone widow's hand.
"What are you doing here?"
Xiaoxi is used to being chased and beaten by the stone widow, but there is no surprise, that is, it is a shame.
"Mother, you came and beat me without saying a word, what did I do?"
The stone widow wanted to teach Xiaoxi a hard lesson, but she didn't want to be too loud, lest everyone outside listen.
She grabbed the stream and wrung her through gritted teeth.
It may seem scary, but the Stone Widow did show mercy.
"Dead girl, don't open the house for a day! When is this, you loser! How many people out there can't even eat, do you know? ”
"But I didn't waste it. Oh no, if there's a disaster outside, why don't we go out and give soup to the kitchen? ”
"It's not a waste, where do you have to eat so well early in the morning?"
"If we can't finish eating, we can save it for lunch."
"Yes! Aunt Shi, don't worry, and me, if you don't have enough to eat, I'll go out and look for it. ”
Xiaoxi flatteringly dragged the stone widow to sit down on the stool, and the stone widow waved to Ji Ran.
Where is the question of whether there is enough to eat, this is that everyone else is living a hard life, they just follow the crowd, and they must not attract envy.
The stone widow felt that the creek was still small, and there was nothing she could do.
As soon as the three of them sat down, there was a knock on the small side door of the courtyard.
The stone widow Nunu's mouth was attracted by eating.
Before they could decide what to do, the man outside the door spoke.
"I smell it, open the door and give me a point, I'll pay."
"And me! No matter what you eat, just mix it up with you. ”
Yes, there was more than one outside, and they were all regular customers, and the carpenters and blacksmiths usually took care of them.
Xiaoxi looked at the stone widow's painful face, and twisted her face.
That is, in the face of natural disasters, no amount of gold, silver and jewelry is precious for a single meal.
The stone widow glared at the brook and got up to open the door for them.
As soon as I opened it, I really regretted it.
It wasn't one or two people outside at all, it was a group of people, and they were dragging their families.
It's hard for them to be disciplined and not noisy.
The people who came in through the door, each stuffed the stone widow with something, a golden knife, a bronze knife, or a jade strip from time to time.
After coming in, they all bowed respectfully to Ji Ran, and then consciously found a seat and sat down.
Ji Sang usually comes to Widow Shi the most, so he is the most polite, just now he entered the door and gave Widow Shi two golden knives.
No one has ever seen a bun, and I haven't eaten a pancake like that, so Ji Sang didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he randomly sent one to everyone, and scooped a thin plate of eight-treasure porridge.
In the end, the stone widow and the brook received nothing.
Ji Ran was divided into a big bun and a bowl of porridge, and Ji Sang and a few other people who came together shared a total of a cake and a plate of porridge.
The brook was twisted around again by the stone widow before she reacted.
The stove was still hot, and Xiaoxi didn't have time to wait any longer to make it, so he had to cook a big pot of gnocchi soup.
Before Ji Sang started, he scooped out two bowls for the stone widow and himself.
I really didn't know that these neighbors were so cruel before, and they really couldn't share the difficulties.
She took a pity to take a look at the steamed buns they had eaten very happily, because there was no yeast, and it was too late to ferment naturally, so the buns that came out were all dead bread.
While they were eating, the blacksmith was talking to Ji Ran.
"Childe, I went out yesterday and saw a snake with two bodies outside. I didn't dare to touch it, and I didn't know what the warning was. ”
Ji Sang said curiously: "How can a snake have two bodies?" It was said that there were hydras and nine-tailed foxes before, but they didn't really see them. ”
Xiaoxi smiled and said, "The world is so big, why don't you see it, you haven't seen many of it." The meaning it represents, asking the Eastern Emperor, is the clearest. ”
Ji Ran frowned and said, "What you see is likely to be fat, it seems that this drought will last for a long time." ”
Someone shouted, "There will be a continuous drought, and I will not be able to live!" ”
Ji Sang drank two bowls of porridge in a row, grabbed two bowls of pimple soup, and put a part of the mille-feuille into his stomach before stopping.
At the table, there were still people chewing slowly, and the people who had been sent to inspect the counties had not yet returned.
This time the dry house is really sour and refreshing a hundred times.
Thin fish and fat remnants appear at the same time, this drought is really not so easy to control.
Xiaoxi stepped forward and greeted them, "Morning uncle and aunt!" ”
Both of them were studying some information, and when they heard the cry of Xiaoxi, they looked up, and asked Mama to go out and prepare. (To be continued.) )