Chapter 133: Food
Old man Hong pretended to be unhappy and said: "Hey, what's the way to go, we haven't had guests in this col for a long time, it's too late to be happy, don't tell me about those politeness." ”
During dinner, Song, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Hong family, came out of the room and met Jiang Rong and the others. As for the eldest son of the Hong family, Hong Dayou, and his grandson Hong Tao are still hunting in the mountains, this heavy rain is falling urgently, and they are estimated to be trapped in the mountains.
Hong Dagui, the second son of the Hong family, is an apprentice in the county town and usually does not come back on weekdays.
The staple food of this dinner is bean bibimbap, there are more beans and less rice grains, and the beans are the kind of black beans, not to mention, it is a little astringent, and it is difficult to eat. There are three dishes in total, a plate of stir-fried bitter vegetables, a plate of pickles, and a pot of bacon stewed taro.
Although bitter herbs have a bitter taste, they also have a unique taste, and the more you chew, the more you can experience a sweet taste. But once in a while you can tolerate one or two bites, if you can only eat this, the taste is a little uncomfortable.
The pickles are estimated to be made by Yuan's own family, and they taste good. And the last dish of bacon stewed taro is the best of the three dishes, and I am afraid that it was specially made to entertain them.
Moreover, Uncle Hong and the three of them did not stretch their chopsticks towards the dish, probably because they wanted to leave the delicious food for their guests.
It can be seen from this meal that Uncle Hong's family is not expected to have a very good life.
Although this meal was far worse than the time difference in Jiang's house, even they were on the road, but Jiang Rong and the others didn't say anything, they all ate silently, even the youngest Jiang Yu was obedient and didn't say anything.
In fact, Jiang Rong and their carriage had some food, rice, vegetables and fruits, and even fresh meat, which they specially bought in the towns they were passing by, just to have a serious meal in the wilderness.
However, they did not take it out, not because they were reluctant to eat this little food, but because they stayed at other people's houses as guests, and they also took out their own food, isn't this obviously disgusted with the host's house? Didn't you slap them in the face?
No matter how bad the food taken out by the host's family to entertain them, it is also their heart, how can it be easily wasted? Jiang Rong couldn't do this kind of thing.
Hong Liangji is also very helpless and embarrassed about his own situation, and he also wants to come up with a better one to entertain guests, but he can't take it out and has no choice, so he can only try his best to make a relatively good meal.
In fact, it is rare for their family to eat a serious meal of bean bibimbap on weekdays, but the meal they eat today is not common. It can only be eaten during the holidays.
Hong Liangji invited a few people from the Mochuan Li family to sit down, and said: "There is nothing to entertain at home, I really neglected a few people, and the guests should not be disgusted." ”
Hong Liangji has unconsciously said several times, "Don't dislike it", because in his opinion, Jiang Rong and his entourage are wearing silk and satin, and they are sitting in a magnificent carriage, which is definitely not an ordinary family, and it is already very aggrieved to be able to deign to come to his house as a guest.
His family still can't come up with anything good to entertain guests, and he feels quite guilty.
Li Shi smiled and said softly: "What the old man said, I can be taken in by you in this weather, so that it will not expose the wilderness to the rain and cold, we are already very grateful, it is already very rare to have a bite of hot food, you must not say these words to shame us." ”
Jiang Rong helped on the side, "That's it, uncle, I ate this rice deliciously, and this pickle, is it made by you?" It's fragrant and crispy, and I still want to eat it. ”
She didn't say this entirely as flattery, except for the black beans in the rice that were a little unpalatable, everything else was fine.
The pickles he made were praised by others, how could Yuan be unhappy?
She immediately laughed, gave Jiang Rong a chopstick pickle, and said: "Eat more if it's delicious, make it homemade, it's not worth a few dollars, if the girl likes it, I'll put some on it for you when you leave." ”
Jiang Rong smiled sweetly at her: "I like it, thank you grandma." ”
Yuan immediately smiled and narrowed his eyes.
Jiang Rong was eating, while carefully looking at the dishes on the table and the bowl in his hand, these dishes all showed a very beautiful purple, as if blurred, although there was no trace of pattern on it, but it was more pure, the more you looked at it, the more people felt that there was an indescribable simple and unpretentious beauty.
Because of the long years of use, they still show a warm luster, and the whole body is light and clear, occasionally touching the chopsticks, and will make a chime-like sound like a golden stone.
In terms of shape, color, and sound, it can be called an excellent work of art.
But looking at Uncle Hong's family, it seems that they are using these as very ordinary things, and in their eyes, these seem to be worthless.
She couldn't help asking, "Uncle, where did you buy all these dishes from in your house?" It's so beautiful to look at. ”
Hearing this, Hong Liangji, Yuan, and Song were all stunned.
It was Hong Liangji who was the first to react, and he said nonchalantly: "It's just that I dug some mud from the mountain and kneaded it, what is beautiful or not, it can be pretended to be good." We poor people can't afford to use anything good. ”
Jiang Rong couldn't help but feel stunned, these beautiful dishes were actually made by Uncle Hong's family, it seemed to be very simple and casual, and it was very inappropriate.
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, is she really still a master in the folk?
She couldn't help but say, "These purple pottery are so beautiful, why don't you sell them for money?" ”
Hong Liangji was even more surprised, this little girl can't have a brain problem, right?
"It's what we made by ourselves, such dishes and jars can be seen everywhere in the village, who can see it? Not to mention selling it. ”
The Yuan family and the Song family also looked at Jiang Rong with an incredible expression, the little girl didn't think about money and went crazy, right? How did you come up with such thoughts?
But looking at the clothes of the little girls, they don't look like ah.
However, the Mochuan Li clan somewhat understood Jiang Rong's thoughts, and they also noticed the beauty and beauty of these purple pottery, but they didn't expect the transaction to go up.
This Ziyun Village, located in a mountain col, is surrounded by mountains, with no roads and no news, and it is a typical small village with poor ravines and ravines.
And because the mountains are not very fertile purple mud, crops cannot be grown, most of the families rely on hunting to survive, usually hungry for a full meal, there is no time to eat, so the life of the people in the village is very hard.
It can be seen from Hong Liangji's family.
And the blockage of the news means that they don't have much contact with the outside world, and they don't read and write, so they feel very incredible about Jiang Rong's idea of selling purple pottery for money.
In their eyes, the purple pottery is as worthless as the mud on the mountain, how can anyone come to buy it? Where in the world is there such a stupid person?
They don't realize the beauty and value of purple pottery.
This is a treasure mountain and I don't know it, Jiang Rong feels that even if these purple pottery are taken outside and compared with those exquisite porcelain, they are not inferior at all. There is even a more simple and pure beauty, which is more likely to be sought after and loved by some people.
The raw material for firing purple pottery, purple mud, can be seen everywhere on the mountains surrounded by Ziyun Village.
Thinking of this, Jiang Rong gradually formed an idea in her heart, she thought, if she really did it, then everyone would be happy.
On the one hand, it can help people in Ziyun Village get rid of poverty and live a better life; On the one hand, she can get a lot of merit points for this; Again, she believes that as long as the purple pottery is put on the market, then there will be a steady stream of silver money pouring towards her.
Although she is not short of money now, she can use this money to help more people, and she will be able to quickly accumulate more merit points.
Why is Jiang Rong so eager to earn merit points all of a sudden?
Speaking of which, it's not chaos yet, this girl has now woken up from a long slumber, and every day she opens her mouth to shout hunger, asking for merit points, otherwise she will turn the space upside down and not let her be at peace.
There was no way, Jiang Rong had to work hard to make money to support his family. With such a foodie as Chaos, she really can't do anything about it.
Although she could use the Divine Seal to hold it hostage, thinking about it would mean that the result of doing so was not very good, and it would only provoke the chaos backlash even more.
Fortunately in other aspects, chaos is left to Jiang Rong, the "master", but when it comes to the topic of food and the big matter of it breaking the seal, it must not be compromised.
Therefore, she can only adopt a policy of gentleness, try to appease it, and feed it a little merit every day, so as not to make it trouble.
However, the amount of Chaos food is getting bigger and bigger, and its stomach is a bottomless pit at all, and it can't be filled. Since it woke up on the day of the space upgrade, only a few days have passed, and it has eaten Jiang Rong for 100 merit points!
Jiang Rong now only has a total of 588 points in his hands, no, now he only has 488 merit points. How can she afford to eat like Chaos does?
If she didn't work hard to earn merit points, the little bit in her hand would be swallowed up by it in a few days.
Therefore, she can only think of ways to do good deeds all the time, in order to be able to accumulate a large amount of merit points faster.
If Zitao can do this, it will benefit the descendants of Ziyun Village, not to mention Wandai, at least it will be a good thing for several generations.
At that time, a large amount of merit will definitely be credited to the account.
Thinking of Jiang Rong, he was happy alone, and his meal became even sweeter.
Seeing that the pot of bacon stewed taro on the table had not moved much, the host's family was to keep it for the guests to eat, and the guests were embarrassed to leave the host's family to eat alone, so she moved the chopsticks, and first took care of the three people of Uncle Hong, Yuan's and Song's families, and each person put several chopsticks in the bowl.
For the rest, she gave A-Niang Mochuan, Jiang Lan, Jiang Yu and a few people a pair of chopsticks, of course, she didn't miss it herself.
For a while, the dinner table was happy, and it was not harmonious.
Jiang Rong didn't mention the matter of Zitao for the time being, because she knew that even if she said it was useless, only when the facts were in front of them, they would believe it. (To be continued.) )