At this time, the sun has set half in the west, and under the rendering of the golden red light, whether it is the river beach or the mountain village and field, it seems to be plated with a layer of golden light.

Smoke rose from the front of each thatched hut and dispersed in the air with the evening breeze, and although it was still more than a mile away, the air already smelled the thick smell of meat blowing in the wind, and the stomach couldn't help but start to stir, and the saliva kept bubbling out.

"It's so fragrant, go quickly!" Niu Dashi threw away the sour wild fruit in his hand and shouted loudly, and everyone couldn't help but speed up their pace.

"Brother~Brother~" A childish shout came from the entrance of the village with the wind, and Chen Xu couldn't help but speed up his pace, and soon saw a little girl in tattered clothes staggering over.

Then following the little girl, a large group of old and young appeared, all of them were women and children waiting for Chen Xu and others to return, Chen Jiang was also among them, seeing the figure of Chen Xu and others, a hanging heart was put down.

"Mother, this is the money from the sale of Shanyu and the millet I bought, starting tomorrow I will ask Uncle Ma to help repair the house, you get up in the morning and cook the rice, and after breakfast, we will go up the mountain to carry the wood!"

Uncle Ma and the others couldn't wait to go home after sending the grain and leftover meat bought by Chen Xu to Chen Xu's house, they were hungry for almost a whole day, and at this time, they smelled the fragrant fat meat, and no one could hold on.

After Chen Xu took out the millet and money bags packed in a few rough burlap bags from the rattan basket, he couldn't wait to take the bowl of soybean and wild vegetable rice handed over by Xing'er and devoured it.

"Brother eats meat!" Apricot scooped out a few pieces of boiled fat from the jar with a wooden spoon.

Chen Xu glanced at Bai Shengsheng's greasy fat meat, and couldn't help but shudder, but he still took it and poured it into the bowl and ate it in a big gulp.

The soul is his, but the body belongs to someone else, this body is too weak, you need to eat some fat to make up for it, otherwise you will have no strength to work.

Chen Xu ate three bowls in a row, almost all the cooked soybean and wild vegetable rice were eaten by him, and the broth was also eaten nearly half, then he felt full, rubbed his stomach and began to burp.

Xing'er and Chen Jiang's each had a small bowl of bean rice, and they cooked some wild vegetables with the leftover fat broth and ate them quickly.

It's not that Chen Xu is greedy, but that he has to eat enough tomorrow before he has the strength to work.

There are more than 100 catties of wild boar and dozens of catties of lean meat at home, especially four pig thighs, which add up to 300 catties of meat, and he also bought two stones of millet, which is enough for a family of three people to eat for several months, and at most a month, the wheat on the river beach can be harvested.

In this era of generally low productivity, if you want to be fed, clothed and warm, it is definitely not possible to rely on farming, no matter how strong and capable a person is, there will be times when he is tired to death, so if you want to eat well and dress well, the only way is to do business.

And when he went to the market town today, he also saw that the Great Qin Empire was in ruins, the people's livelihood was poor, and all kinds of materials for food, clothing, and housing were scarce, and only commerce could make materials and coins circulate.

Although according to historical records, the Qin Dynasty was heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce, but today in the town, he did not see anyone interfering with the sale of goods, which means that the lowest officials in the town, such as the lidian and the pavilion chief, did not interfere in business, otherwise the monthly market would not be able to open.

Bazaar trading has appeared since the clan society, to the Qin Dynasty has been very common and mature, almost became an indispensable activity in people's lives, without the support of a variety of mature commercial systems, only the bazaar can allow the common people to sell grain, poultry eggs and all kinds of mountain goods and river fresh in exchange for daily necessities necessary for life, such as production tools and pots and pans and salt.

After eating, while it was still early, Chen Bo took out the salt he bought and ground it into powder with a stone pestle in a stone mortar, and Xing'er and Chen Jiang smeared the cut meat with salt and hung it on the beams in the room.

Because the weather is getting hotter, in order to prevent the pork from spoiling, so the salt is used more, and when the meat is all marinated, most of the ten catties of salt bought today have been used.

"Xu'er, how do you prepare for this mountain intestine?" Finally, Chen Jiang took out a large string of wild boar's fat intestines from a rattan basket.

In fact, before he crossed over, Chen Xu especially liked to eat fat sausages, stewed, stewed and fried, and he was chewy, so drinking some beer with braised fat sausages was a great joy in life, but now looking at this fat intestine, his face twitched a little unstoppable.

Although the fat sausage is good, it must be made to taste good, and at the moment, there is no seasoning except salt, and there is no way for the imperial chef to come.

I said something casually when I left in the morning, but what should I do now?

Seeing Chen Xu's face full of entanglement and disgust with his fat intestines, Xing'er shouted beside her: "Brother, don't worry, there is no in it, my mother and I have washed it very clean in the river!" ”

Well, this is also good news, Chen Xu leaned to his nose and smelled it, and found that there was really no smell, so he put a bronze dagger on the stone slab and cut it into sections and put it into the jar where he usually cooked, and cut a few large pieces of wild turmeric and threw it in, and then put in salt and water and then put it in a pile of charcoal fire and simmered.

If nothing else, the fat sausage should be cooked tomorrow morning.

This thing is eaten with oil and meat to fight hunger, just for the people who will work tomorrow, otherwise it will be difficult for the heavy work to last until four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

By this time it was completely dark.

The sky is full of stars, and a crescent moon hangs in the sky.

The mountains, rivers and fields slowly returned to silence.

The village seems to be very lively, and although everyone is already going to bed at this time, there are still loud laughter everywhere today.

Chen Xu took out the axe, firewood knife and copper saw he bought, first polished the axe and firewood knife on the gravel, and then knocked down a piece of fragment from the gravel, smoothed it a little, and then sharpened the sawtooth.

This is the worst saw Chen Xu has ever seen in his life.

The style is not very different from the hand saws of later generations, but only the thickness of the saw and the size of the saws make him very dissatisfied.

In the sound of clattering rubbing, Chen Jiang's sat on the edge of the fire with Xing'er in his arms and looked at Chen Xu, looking at the serious and serious look on his son's young and immature face, this scene made her seem to see her husband who had been away for four or five years without any news, at that time the man was at home, his parents were also there, although the family was also very poor, at least there was no hunger, and since the husband left, there were many months of hunger in a year, but now, this hardship and embarrassment suddenly all went away, The family has an abundance of meat in just a few days, and the house will be repaired tomorrow......

The most difficult time for this family has finally passed.

Tears rolled down Chen Jiang's eyes.