Chapter 53: Vegetable paste
Oh, shouldn't I answer this question in a high-level manner? "Why should I help you with your laundry?"
"Even if we are husband and wife in name, there is no reason why a lady should not wash clothes with her father-in-law." His voice remained indifferent.
Damn, he's said everything, how do I answer? "As you said, we're just husband and wife in name."
"Anyway, we're under the same roof."
"First of all, we haven't visited the church, and secondly, I'm not here to help you wash your clothes, we live under the same roof, just for work, and finally, who said that the lady must help the husband wash his clothes? To tell you the truth, most of our people in that place are men doing housework. Yuan Qing said all the reasons she wanted to express in one breath.
"Really?" This is the first time he has heard this crooked theory, since ancient times, he has never seen a man doing housework in a family.
"Well, of course, this place doesn't thrive, but this is a tradition in our hometown, and I will carry this tradition through to the end." So don't expect me to do your laundry and feet......
"Haven't you heard of the locals?" He said.
"Go to the local customs, anyway, I will definitely not help you do the laundry." Yuan Qing once again stood firm in his position.
It's strange to say, there are countless people who want to help Li Chen wash his clothes, and Yuan Qing is the first person who is so resolutely opposed. In Yuan Qing's heart, clothes are considered personal items, and she doesn't like others to touch her clothes, and she doesn't think she will touch other people's clothes.
"Okay, after the clothes are washed, there is no need to add soap powder to wash them, and then put the clothes in clean water and scrub them clean, and after washing, they can be dried." Yuan Qing said and got up.
"Where are you going?" Li Chen asked.
"Let's go to the construction site." Yuan Qing replied, picked up the small bench and said, "If you don't know how to cook, wait until I come back." ”
"Come back early." He said.
I feel warm in my heart for no reason. Yuan Qing nodded and said, "Okay." ”
At this time, it is noon, the sun is warm in the sky, and the breeze is blowing. It's so uncomfortable.
At the foot of the northern slope of Bilian Village, there is a wall with a wide coal seam, or where so many people are busy mining coal.
Yuan Qing came here and raised his eyes to look. In this may be called a spectacle...... Dozens of people worked day and night against a black mountain wall.
In a day's time, some coal blocks are excavated, and these coal blocks have to be transported to an open field to pile up, so as not to block the road, how to carry this coal block?
By the way, the trolley Yuan Qing thought of this tool.
The shed has been built, and Yuan Qing came to the outside of the shed that had just been built, and Uncle Wu, who knew how to carpenter, was already busy. When he saw Yuan Qing, he hurriedly walked over, and said with a smile on his face, "Miss Yuan, you are here." ”
"Yes, the shed has been built, and you have worked hard." Yuan Qing raised his voice and smiled lightly at the more than ten men, "Your salary will be calculated separately." "As a businessman, she always uses money to settle everything.
"Thank you, girl." When the men heard the word money, they smiled one by one.
"Uncle Wu, I want you to sit on one more thing. Handcart. Yuan Qingdao said.
"Girl, tell me more." Uncle Wu said.
Then, Yuan Qing spent half an hour explaining what a trolley was. In this era, there were only horse-drawn carriages, so wheelbarrows were about the same as horse-drawn carriages. There is no horse-pulled, it needs to be pushed by people, and the carriage is a square plate, after all, it is used to push coal, so it naturally needs to be sealed.
On the construction site, there is paper and pen. Yuan Qing drew the original picture of the trolley, and Uncle Wu understood it, and after reading the picture, he completely understood. He looked at Yuan Qing with a kind of scrutiny, this trolley can be said to be an invention, and this inventor is actually the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in front of him, which has to make him look at Yuan Qing with admiration.
"Uncle Wu doesn't need to be too surprised, this trolley is also something I only know about when I see others use it before." Yuan Qing smiled lightly.
"I see." Uncle Wu nodded.
"Then I'll bother you." Yuan Qingdao. "These are the money for your work shed, you take it." After speaking, Yuan Qing took out the five taels of silver that had been prepared from his arms and handed it to him.
"Girl, what are you?" Uncle Wu, two sentences of shirk are also taking the silver.
This Uncle Wu is a carpenter, and his status in the village is not low, and there will be a lot of places for him in the future, and Yuan Qing can still get the five taels of silver.
After getting the money, Uncle Wu worked harder. As the saying goes, eating people with a soft mouth and taking people with short hands is exactly like this.
In this era, in this remote village, five taels of silver is half a year's expense for them......
Since it is an open-pit coal mine, the difficulty coefficient is also greatly reduced, there is no need to worry about insufficient oxygen, no flashlight can not be seen, or collapse and so on, this coal mine is relatively safe.
Wall coal mine, that is, the coal seam is like a thick wall, and the miners are digging the wall, and this coal mining is like digging stairs, digging up and digging down step by step. If you don't understand, go to Baidu Encyclopedia yourself
In the afternoon, the strong men were all tired and out of breath, and Yuan Qing still had something to explain.
"Folks, I know you're all tired, can you listen to me?" Yuan Qing said.
"Girl, you can say it." A man said.
"Now that the shed has been erected, which of you would like to live here for the convenience of everyone? I'll think about this question tomorrow and come back to me. Also, from tomorrow, cooking will start at the coal mine, which means that your meals will be eaten here, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and if you don't live here, you can go home and eat. Yuan Qingdao said.
"I don't have anyone to cook at home, I'll stay, but girl, if we stay here to eat and live, will our monthly wages be deducted?" A man said.
"One tael of silver per month is the standard, but if someone is lazy or clever, they will be deducted if they are discovered, but if someone is very diligent, we will also give him an additional subsidy, and how much money he gets in the end depends on your performance, you can rest assured, you will not be deducted for eating here." Yuan Qingdao. Give each of them one or two pieces of silver a month, which is low, and it is too much to deduct their food money, Yuan Qing is also a businessman with a bottom line, too exploitative, she still can't do it.
"Great." One of them rejoiced and said that there was no money to eat, which was good news for them.
"Well, everyone go home tonight and discuss with their families to see if anyone is willing to come to the construction site to cook, and let them come to the construction site tomorrow to talk to me." Yuan Qingdao. "That's all I have to say, it's getting dark, let's go home."
So everyone was tired for a day, and they all left weakly.
"Ling Ran, are you free tomorrow?" Yuan Qing looked at a rather cold man on the side and said.
"Is there anything wrong with the girl?" Ling Ran said, this girl was the closer person of the prince he followed, so he also respected her.
"That's right, can you go and buy two big pots tomorrow to come to the construction site? Iron pots are needed for cooking, and with so many people eating, the bigger the pot, the better. Yuan Qingdao said.
"Yes." Ling Ran said.
"I'm sorry for you." Yuan Qing smiled lightly, "I'll go first." "Ling Ran wants to stay here.
"Girl, walk slowly."
Everything has been explained, Yuan Qing's steps are a lot brisker, on the way, the sunset is faint, she thinks as she walks, I don't know, will this ice cube face cook rice? If he cooks, it will definitely be another pot of paste......
Sighing and shaking her head, she walked away quickly.
In Bilian Village, in the evening, a little black hangs down all over the house, and occasionally a few dogs bark, which is quiet and clear.
A small courtyard is surrounded by a fence, the fence is as high as a person's chest, and standing in front of the fence, you can still see the scene in the courtyard. The small courtyard is not wide, the courtyard is clear and quiet, as if the main house is still full of lights, faint, in this evening when it is not yet completely dark, it looks hazy.
Yuan Qing walked through the fence and walked into the small courtyard, she turned her head to look at the place where the clothes were dried next to the fence in the small courtyard, and then a hearty laugh broke out in the dark depression of the evening, Yuan Qing's laughter was a little out of control, and the corners of her eyes twitched.
It's basically a hilarious laugh. This dress is too individual.
The clothes of this era were caftan pads, and the man's figure was slender, so his clothes were naturally not too short. I saw that on the drying rack, a piece of long shirt hung horizontally and vertically on it, comparable to a messy hanging noodles, and a waterfall like a mountain flowing water, which was breathtaking......
As if she had laughed enough, she realized her gaffe, tried to contain her smile, and stepped into the hall. As if punished, a pungent mushy smell came towards her open arms.
"Have you laughed enough?" I saw a man, sitting at the table in a very elegant posture, and he asked expressionlessly.
"Enough laughing." Yuan Qing nodded, met his eyes, and didn't want to lie.
"Eat." He looked up at the girl who was still standing, an expression that had only come back now, and had made him wait so long.
Eat, these two words sounded in my heart like thunder, there should be no third person here, I'm not at home, who made this meal? Yuan Qing lowered his head and looked at the table with thunderous meals that day. Visually, the rice is not mushy, I don't know if it is raw, vegetables, there are three dishes on the table, a bowl of soup. I don't know what material the soup is made of, anyway, it looks better than those three dishes, three dishes, two plates have a large number of black and black unknown objects, this black unknown object also has a smell that makes people want to drop the table involuntarily when they smell it, and the other plate, I don't know if Yuan Qing's eyes are too good, she actually saw the living thing from the plate......
Swallowing hard, she smirked, "No, I'm not hungry." ”
"Really?" He looked at her obvious lie and raised an eyebrow.
"yes." Yuan Qing waved his hand, and before the words fell, the stomach that didn't know whether to live or die screamed. To be continued