Chapter 134: Resignation

I bought a river lantern, I didn't go far, and I saw a hawker setting up a stall to sell lotus leaf lanterns, this kind of lotus leaf lanterns are carried or lifted by children, painted with lotus leaf lotus, or shaped lotus leaf lotus shape, the same is not much exquisite, but simple and lovely.

Qiu Chen asked the children to choose one of them and carry them in their hands, and the river lanterns they had just bought were all given to Junwen Junshu to hold.

Walking all the way, not only bought river lanterns and lotus leaf lamps, but also some fruits such as mulberries, peaches, dates, and early pears in this season also coincided with the market, Qiu Chen has not eaten fruits a few times since he came to this shijie, and when he saw so many fruits of various colors, he naturally would not let go, and bought some of them. I couldn't get what I bought, so I simply asked Junwen Junshu to send it back to the bronze shop, Qiu Chen and the four little ones continued to walk forward, and made an appointment with Junwen Junshu to meet the place.

At the end of noon, when the group of two cars drove out of Anping County, a carriage behind it was full of things that had been bought, and Qiu Chen sat in the first carriage with four children, eating fresh fruits and chatting at the same time.

Before he finished eating a handful of mulberries, Afu Aman was sleepy. Qiu Chen cleaned up the carriage and simply let the four children sleep.

As soon as the four children lay down, there was no place for Qiu Chen to sit, so she simply came to the wheel and sat with Junwen. Because this car is a cowhide shed specially customized to the grassland, there are also cowhide sheds on the wheels to shade the sun and rain, but it is not sunny, and the wind with the car is allowed to blow, but it is cool and customary.

"Well, it's okay to follow the class all day, right?" Qiu Chen asked Junwen with a smile.

Junwen nodded, with a sunny smile on his face, clean and warm: "Auntie, don't worry, Mr. teaches very well, not reluctantly, it's because my nephew doesn't feel tired!" ”

"That's good," Qiu Chen smiled, and gossiped about the difference between the Yang family's shop and Liu Jia'ao during the Midyear Festival, and then talked about the various festivals of the year, and then talked about the birthdays of the Yang family...... After Chengjiadian, when the four children in the carriage woke up, Qiu Chen had already learned a lot of information.

As soon as the children woke up, they couldn't sit still in the carriage, and they all rushed to get on the wheels. Qiu Chen went in and checked whether there was any sweat on their heads one by one, and in the end he detained a few little leather monkeys and sat in the carriage for another quarter of an hour, and when the sweat from sleep was completely dissipated, he let the four of them go to the wheel.

Sitting in the carriage by himself, Qiu Chen took out a travelogue and leaned on a cushion to read. The car was shaky, and he walked around the county for more than an hour, and before he knew it, Qiu Chen fell asleep.

When she woke up, the car had already passed Qingshui Town, and the scenery and trees on both sides of the road were familiar.

Jun Yan Junzhang and Ah Fu Aman shouted from time to time: "Look, look, there's that big mulberry tree in front of you!" ”

"There's a crooked neck tree ahead, and if you go any further, you'll be home!"

"Hey, isn't that a mountain and a stone?"

"There are also big tigers, two tigers, ......"

Listening to the excited shouting of the children, the corners of Qiu Chen's mouth couldn't help but curl. She simply stroked her hair, put the book away, rolled up the curtain on the car window, and looked out.

The weather is not so hot this season, and the wild mulberry trees, plum trees, and jujube trees around the village gradually ripen, and the children in the village become monkeys every time, migrating from tree to tree as the fruit ripens. It's just that the mouths of these leather monkeys are so tight that they start eating before the fruit opens, and often when the fruit is really ripe, there are only a few left on the tree.

At this moment, the group of leather monkeys gathered on a pear tree again to pick the freshly yellowed pears. The roots and leaves have medicinal value, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, clear heat and detoxify, and treat acute ocular conjunctivitis; The fruit can strengthen the stomach and stop dysentery. It's just that the fruit is small and astringent, and the unripe pear fruit is only the size of a soybean grain...... The reason why these skin monkeys climb the trees to pick is probably for fun, not for food.

The pear tree at the head of the village is thick and thick, the trunk is extremely high, a group of leather monkeys stand on the branches of the treetops, they saw the two carriages of the Lin family earlier than Junyan Afu on the carriage, yes, Junyan's shouts just fell, the group of leather monkeys slipped down from the tree, and the girl ran towards the carriage, waving his hand and calling Junyan's name while running, as if he had come to meet them.

Looking at the handsome words and handsome chapters on the wheel, they all looked like boils on their buttocks, they couldn't sit still, they stood up slowly, and waved their hands and shouted at the children who were rushing over......

Qiu Chen laughed and fell in the carriage, covering his forehead daxiao: This group of leather monkeys is making such a fuss, as if they have been separated for a long time, God knows, they have only been away for less than three days!

Smiling, Qiu Chen also hurriedly greeted Junwen: "Stop, stop the car and let them go down, don't make such a fuss, it's not a joke to fall down and be touched by the car and stepped on." ”

Junwen greeted Qiu Chen first: "Auntie, sit tight, I'll stop!" ”

Qiu Chen smiled and nodded, stretched out his hand to hold the carriage, Junwen was sure that his aunt and Afu Aman were seated, so he called out to the horse and slowly stopped the carriage.

Without waiting for the carriage to stop, Junyan Junzhang jumped off the wheel, and then grinned to meet the leather monkeys that were rushing towards him, and gathered together head to head, not knowing what to say.

Ah Fu Aman also stood up from the wheel, but he didn't dare to jump down by himself, and a few small stones and bolts also ran over, Junwen got off the car with Ah Fu Aman's bag, and Qiu Chen also got out of the carriage, took a bag of snowflake candy and handed it to Ah Fu, asking him to share it with his friends.

"Don't run around, don't go to the pond...... Play for a while and go home......" Qiu Chen instructed in a heartfelt manner, and Ah Fu Aman responded again and again, and went to play with a group of little Mo Mo Du Er eating candy.

Qiu Chen greeted Junwen and Junshu with a smile, re-drove the carriage, and walked home.

As soon as he entered the village, there were all kinds of greetings, Qiu Chen simply got out of the car and walked home while saying hello. It was a short journey of a few hundred meters, and it took more than a quarter of an hour to get home. When she got home, Junzi and Qingjiang had already helped Junwen Junshu drive the carriage into the backyard and unload it, and even fed the horses.

Lin Xu greeted Qiu Chen outside the gate, and the uncle and sister-in-law entered the gate, Lan Ying and the Qingshan family, as well as the Qingxing family's Qingjiang family's Shunzi family's Qingxing Yufeng, and several layers of people stood inside and outside the gate of the Lin family. Qiu Chen greeted Lan Ying with a smile, and sent a few more from the Daxing family, Qiu Chen did not rush back to the house, but went directly from the first courtyard to the East Cross Courtyard.

Dozens of people in the East Cross Courtyard are doing their work step by step, Qiu Chen turned around, and saw that it was still orderly, and the soap making was also smooth, she didn't run out of ingredients before leaving, and looked at a batch of semi-finished products, the color, delicacy, and fragrance were not bad, so she was relieved, and turned back to greet Lan Ying: "Sister Lan Ying, tonight, July 14, let's add vegetables!" Ming'er asked everyone if they needed to worship their ancestors at home, and if the number of people exceeded 30%, let's take a day off! ”

Compared with holidays, these people are more interested in the east and vegetables. Before they came to the Lin family, they had heard many rumors that the food of the Lin family's owner was called an authentic food, and only a fragrant death was not worth his life.

It's just that when they finally entered the Lin family to work, the lady of the owner no longer cooks by herself. Although Yuxiang and Xiu'er's craftsmanship is also good, and the dishes are full of meat, they always feel that they can't catch up with the craftsmanship of the Lin family's lady in their impression.

Many of the young helpers couldn't help but murmur in a low voice, "The lady of the proprietor has added vegetables...... The dishes made by the lady of the proprietor are said to be very fragrant! ”

Another disdainfully said: "The lady of the east family and the vegetables are the craftsmanship of the lady of the east family?" Now that the owner has a cook, people don't have to cook at all, okay! ”

There is also a muddy one: "I can't say, maybe as soon as the lady of the owner is happy, she will cook a dish for us to taste!" ”

In all kinds of speculation and timid whispering, the day's work was done, cleaning up and cleaning, everyone was lining up to wash their hands, and from time to time they looked at the dining table, muttering in their hearts, I didn't see the lady of the owner send additional vegetables!

Nowadays, because of the increase in the number of workers, the tables where workers eat have also increased to four, and they are not the previous six-sided small low tables, but special long strip-shaped low tables, one is two and a half meters long, two together, more than 20 people can sit around, six tables are put together, and all the helpers can sit down in groups. It's just that Lan Ying and Yuxiang, Xiu'er, and Zhi'er from the Qingshan family didn't squeeze together with these young people, they used a separate small table to eat in the resting shed.

Just when the helpers were looking forward to seeing through and almost despairing, Qiu Chen took Lan Ying, the Daxing family, the Qingjiang family and the Shunzi family, as well as Lin Xu and Junwen, and carried a copper basin into the courtyard.

Far away, some young people couldn't help but sniff, wanting to be the first to guess what good dishes the female owner had delivered. While smelling a very strong aroma of meat, they also smell a very special pungent smell, which makes people want to sneeze and cough, but it makes people even more appetizing.

Qiu Chen led people to put a pot of vegetables on the dining table, turned it over, and turned out a copper basin from under each pot, and then divided the sharp vegetables in the pot into two pots and placed them at both ends of the long table.

As soon as the dishes were put on the table, the young people who had been looking forward to it for a long time finally saw the true face of the dishes in the pot. I saw that the round red and bright meat shone with an oily luster, and in the middle of the red and fragrant meat, there were also some turquoise and turquoise filaments, as if the very special, exciting and appetizing taste was made by these inconspicuous green filaments.

"It's so fragrant, what kind of dish is this......" A fourteen or fifteen-year-old half-year-old couldn't help but ask.

Qiu Chen smiled and said, "The name of this dish is braised fat sausage...... When everyone eats, pay attention to the green ingredients, eat what you can eat, and don't force what you can't eat. ”

After speaking, he beckoned to the Qingshan family: "Let them eat here, you bring Yuxiang and them here, let's eat together!" ”

The Qingshan family naturally agreed, when they didn't get up the yard to build a house before, Qiu Chen had been eating with them, although now that the Lin family had built a yard and bought slaves, Qiu Chen treated them no differently.

Some of those young people are envious, some are secretly happy, and some are ...... For example, Lin Zi and Brother Quan, Qiu Chen had just turned around and walked not far away, and the two of them came to Qingshan's house with a smile: "Sister-in-law, if there is anything delicious, remember to bring us some!" ”

"You two stinky boys, this meal is not good enough today......" That being said, Lin Zi and Brother Quan'er only smiled and beckoned the probationary workers to start eating. They are just having fun, they have been in the Lin family for a long time, and they are not as greedy as when they first came, and they will not fight with a few sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law after one meal or two meals.

While he was talking, there was already a person who anxiously stretched out his chopsticks and grabbed a piece of braised fat sausage and threw it into his mouth.

As soon as the fat sausage is entered, it is soft and glutinous, piping hot, and fragrant, and it fills the entire mouth with chewing, as if all the taste buds suddenly woke up at this moment, and were wrapped in the thick greasy fragrance......

Of course, there are also those who don't believe in evil, stretch out their chopsticks and directly clip the green filamentous vegetables and put them in their mouths...... Isn't it just a green vegetable stalk, what else can't be eaten, the lady of the proprietor still says so evil...... Hiss, whew...... It's spicy! The whole mouth, tongue, lips, and even the inside of the cheeks seem to be lit with a fire in an instant, and it is scorching and painful! In an instant, this unbeliever was red-eyed and filled with tears......

It looks like it's really tearful...... That's called a pitiful!

This meal is naturally full of joy. This meal made the new helpers more sure that the owner lady had excellent cooking skills, and at the same time, they also remembered a fresh seasoned vegetable - chili!

It is said that this kind of chili pepper is also the owner of the lady when buying medicinal herbs to buy the exchange back, it is said that it was not originally a species of the Ming Dynasty, said from what far away...... It's been passed back from the beautiful state!

Lin Xu and Junwen and a few of their boys took Ah Fu and Ah Man to a table, while Qiu Chen, Lan Ying, Qingshan's family, Yuxiang, and Xiu'er Zhi'er reunited at the same table to eat. There are only women at this table, and Qiu Chen didn't use a pot to serve the dishes, but he used a shallow plate to serve eight dishes and a soup, the dishes were exquisite and delicious, and the food on the table was also amazing.

After dinner, Ah Fu Aman couldn't stop his fingers, and ran to turn out the lotus leaf lamps and river lamps that he had just bought.

Qiu Chen touched the little girl Aman's pigtails and comforted: "This river lantern is released tonight, and it floats away along the water, and there will be no play tomorrow night." You guys will play with the lotus leaf lantern tonight, and tomorrow night, we will go to the river to put the river lantern, okay? ”

Aman blinked, thought about it, nodded his little head and agreed. So Junwen Junshu and Lin Xu went to find small candles, placed them for a few small ones, lit them, and Junyan Junzhang and Afu Aman ran out with hazy and beautiful lotus leaf lamps of different shapes.

Qiu Chen hurriedly beckoned Junwen Junshu and a few: "You guys go and have a look, don't go to the pond." ”

Junwen Junshu hurriedly followed, and Qiu Chen saw Lin Xu standing there looking at the few children who ran out with a longing expression, so he said: "If you want to play, go and play for a while, activities, maybe you can read the secretary faster." ”

Lin Xu looked outside the gate again, still smiled and shook his head, said goodbye to Qiu Chen and Lan Ying who were present, and went straight back to the east wing of the courtyard to study.

"Alas, Brother Xu, this kid is really hard at studying, and when he gets off the field this fall, he will definitely be able to get back all the students!" The Qingshan family looked at Lin Xu's back and sighed.

Qiu Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head: "He was already working hard, but now he is studying so hard day and night...... I'm not afraid that I won't be able to pass the county exam, I'm just afraid that this kid will strangle himself like this, but don't exhaust my body...... His body is not good in the first place...... Alas! ”

Seeing that Qiu Chen's face was worried, Lan Ying hurriedly said beside him: "Okay, Brother Jun'er will only have a month to work hard after the game, and if you study hard for another month, won't you be able to rest after the exam!" ”

Yuxiang also comforted beside her: "The catastrophe in front of Aunt Begonia has passed, and now it can be regarded as a good day." If Brother Xu takes the exam again, Aunt Haitang will not have to worry about being tired as much in the future, just wait for the happiness! ”

Qiu Chen smiled, did not answer Yuxiang's words, but talked to Lan Ying and the Qingshan family about the parents in the village in a blink of an eye.

After talking for a while, the helpers of the East Cross Courtyard finished eating one after another and walked back. Yuxiang hurriedly took Xiu'er and Zhi'er to Dongkuan Courtyard to clean up the mess, wash the pots and bowls, clean up the venue, and Zuihou had to dispose of the remaining ingredients......

Qiu Chen watched over there as Yufeng Qingxing worked hard to fetch water from the water tanks in the corner of the courtyard, which Qiu Chen had prepared before building the house, but he needed someone to go to the spring on the mountain to fetch water...... Suddenly remembered one thing, if a well is drilled in the east courtyard, not only can solve the problem of water difficulty, but also in the middle of summer, this thing can be hoisted into the well, so that the cool of the well water can keep some ingredients that are not suitable for storage, and can also hang melons and watermelons and other melons and fruits into the well water to play a cool and cold role.

So, Qiu Chen put forward his idea, Lan Ying looked at the Qingshan family, and said with a smile: "This well is not a trivial matter. This is a matter of yin and yang feng shui and the tranquility of the house...... I'll go back and talk to Grandpa Bolt, let him go to Dongshan for a trip tomorrow, and ask the fairy to calculate, the amount should not be measured! ”

People in the village have a subconscious fear of wells, and they are very careful and particular when digging wells...... Hearing Lan Ying say this, Qiu Chen felt very helpless, but he had to listen obediently. Customs, she doesn't have the courage to challenge and reform, so she can only accept it!

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I wrote these and sent them up to look at it first, and I tried to ...... early tomorrow morning