Hearing the sound of the courtyard door, Luo Zhi hurriedly went over and opened the courtyard door widely, and let the fourth uncle and aunt Mu who was carrying the burden come in. Helping Aunt Mu Si unload her shoulders, Mu Ying came out with water to wash her hands and face for her family, and everyone sat down in the courtyard to rest, and then had dinner slowly.

Aunt Mu Si and the others knew that Luozhi had sent dumplings over again, so they were very polite, and Luozhi said bluntly that it was easy to do, and it was not worth it.

"Uncle, can you pull this peanut?" Luozhi looked at the peanut seedlings that spread all over the yard and asked, she had also helped rake peanuts in her hometown before, but it seemed to be a little late.

"It's okay, this grout is full, you can eat it, it's quite full." Aunt Mu brought a plate of washed fresh peanuts and put them on a small stool for everyone to pick up and eat.

Luozhi picked up a few and peeled off the shell and ate it, the unique fragrance of fresh peanuts filled the mouth, at this time the land did not pollute the air, and the things that grew in the field had the original taste of food.

"Your family should be able to rake too, when will the rake say, our family will help you in the past." Fourth Uncle Mu said to Luozhi while eating peanuts.

Luozhi is very grateful in his heart, his own labor is insufficient, he is a hard-working grandfather, and he harvests peanuts by himself and returns to the stars and the moon at sunrise for more than a week, and now it is best to have someone to help.

"Then I'll thank my uncle first, I'll discuss it with my grandfather when I go back in a while, and see how the peanuts are filled in the field?"

"I look at your peanut seedlings, I guess it's okay, this year is good, God eats food, this peanut yield is higher than last year, and the harvest is good." Uncle Mu's family planted four acres of peanuts on dry land, and the family of four was the main laborer and had an ox cart, and the rake was finished in two days.

"Uncle, isn't there an ox cart? Why are you still picking it yourself? "In ancient times, cattle were the most valuable objects in rural people," agriculture is the foundation of cattle, and it is meritorious to the world," in ancient Chinese society, cattle as the main animal power, in addition to occupying a very important position in agricultural production, can also be used for transportation, so Luozhi has this question.

"Hey, it's not that your uncle said that the cow is tired for a day, and we want to let it rest, and we will take this last point back by ourselves, and it will make people laugh when we say it, and we will see this cow as heavier than a person!" Aunt Mu said with a smile.

Luozhi smiled when he heard this, Fourth Uncle Mu is a good person who cherishes things and has a soft heart.

Mu Jia'an held a handful of peanuts with the peanut shell removed in his hand, he wanted to hand it to Luozhi, but he was afraid that it would be too conspicuous, he blinked to see Luo'an next to him was directly eating with his mouth, his eyebrows were raised, and he quietly handed him the peanuts.

Luozhi ate the peanuts peeled by his brother and told Aunt Mu about making shoes.

"This matter is on me, and those who say that they don't have money will be outside." Aunt Mu said, "I have always told your grandfather to come to me directly if you want to sew clothes and shoes, but your grandfather is too out-of-this, and he has never bothered me." He is our elder, and the juniors help sew and mend clothes and there will be no gossip, your father and mother are not there, I watched you live in fear, and I couldn't bear it, calling you to come over for dinner, and your grandfather didn't let you, your grandfather is good at everything, but he values face too much."

"What are you talking nonsense in front of the children, isn't Old Man Mu afraid of gossip? It's not like you don't know his difficulties in pulling two children alone. Fourth Uncle Mu said disapprovingly.

"Yes, what am I talking about? Now that I see your life going on, I am glad for you. You bring the cotton on the upper, and we have the cloth for the soles of the shoes, so we don't need to bring it again. "Aunt Mu has a straightforward and cheerful personality, and she has the final word.

Luo Zhi thought that he would send a few pieces of silk and satin cloth to Aunt Mu Si at that time, and it would be the same, so that the exchange of gifts and human touch would be better than just stuffing money, so he should come down immediately.

Luozhi helped tear down peanuts in the yard and waited for Mu Ying to eat a good meal, cleaned up, and several people returned home under Mu Jia'an's escort.

When I went back, Grandpa had already heated the water in the pot, and Luozhi took out the newly bought fragrant pancreas, and the family washed them clean from hair to feet, exuding the unique fragrance of fragrant pancreas.

Mu Ying saw that she was envious, although her family conditions were a little better, but they were also cleaned with grass and wood ash bath beans, Luozhi looked at her with a blank look, and simply found a set of clothes for her to change, and also let her take a fragrant bath with fragrant pancreas.

The countryside in the early morning was quiet and serene, Luozhi got up as soon as it was dark, and Mu Ying saw her get up and follow suit.

Today, Luozhi's bun is finally not crooked, and it stands upright on both sides of her head, Mu Ying is skillful, and she helps her comb her hair very neatly with three strokes and five divisions.

Luozhi left her to go back after breakfast, and Mu Ying agreed happily with crooked eyebrows.

The two washed together, and Luo Zhi rubbed the fragrant pancreas into a rich foam and rubbed it on Mu Ying's face to let her wash her face, so happy that she didn't want to flush it, saying that it smelled too good, and wanted to let it stay on her face for a while.

"If you like it, come and sleep with me every day, uncle, I wrapped your fragrant pancreas," Luo Zhi said with the appearance of a rich man who was angry and rich.

"That little woman is better to be respectful, Uncle Mu will take care of the slave family more in the future," Mu Ying pinched her throat and pretended to say.

After speaking, the two couldn't help laughing, and the birds on the big nan tree stretched out their little heads curiously and watched the two little girls laugh and play.

Yesterday I promised Zhang Butcher to start sending a big meat bun today, Luozhi began to use warm water and noodles after washing, there was no foaming agent such as yeast powder in ancient times, and the noodles were made by the old noodles left behind, and the new noodles were kneaded into a ball, and the old noodles were added and kneaded vigorously, kneaded until the dough was smooth and did not stick to the hands, and it was placed in a wooden basin to rise for two quarters of an hour.

Then she began to mix with the filling, and she cut a pound of pork leg meat and pork belly left over yesterday. Peel the pork leg meat, peel the pork belly, cut it horizontally and vertically into a meat filling and put it into a ceramic basin, add the pork belly big stick bone broth boiled last night, whip it with chopsticks until the meat filling is sticky and gelatinous, let it stand for two quarters of an hour, add the egg white and stir well.

Before preparing the steamed buns, add two spoons of pork fat, minced green onion and minced ginger, put them in the meat filling and stir well to make the filling of the buns.

In the process of preparing the stuffing of the buns, all the stirring movements of Luozhi are used in the same direction, which is conducive to the sticky gumming of the meat filling, and the steamed buns will be tender and palatable.

This is also her unique skill in making delicious buns, modern people do not think it is unusual, ancient people are far from having so many cooking skills as modern people, Luozhi makes delicious food can be said to be a skill brought by the advantage of the prophet.

A table full of fresh meat buns with twenty-four folds, Luozhi arranged for Mu Yingsheng to make a fire to boil water, and she stacked the fresh meat buns of green onions one by one in a bamboo cage, which was full of two large bamboo drawers.

Mu Ying boiled the water in the pot on a high fire, and the two of them carried the steamer and put it on, and the fire continued to steam for twenty or thirty minutes before eating.

Just having meat buns as the staple food was a little thinner, Luozhi used another stove to cook a pot of pumpkin porridge. The pumpkin planted by Grandpa is pink and glutinous, and the porridge boiled out is particularly fragrant, and Luozhi loves to eat it very much.

The soft and sweet pumpkin porridge is accompanied by soft and tender fresh meat buns with juice, the skin is thin and the filling is large, the mouth is fresh and fragrant, and the juice fills the mouth, which is particularly comfortable and satisfying to eat.

Mu Ying ate four large meat buns in one go, drank a bowl of porridge, and her little belly was round.

Grandpa went to see the peanut seedlings early in the morning, and when he came back, he told Luozhi to take advantage of the good weather and decided to start raking peanuts tomorrow.

The peanuts are also harvested in a hurry, and if they are not harvested in time, the ripe peanuts will sprout in the ground. Ancient peanuts were originally low yield, if the peanuts were not harvested in time, germinated in the ground, it was equivalent to "the duck to the mouth flew away", the old man has dealt with the land all his life, for these doors, know that now is the best time to harvest peanuts.

After the meal, the old man took out all the farm tools to be used to rest, and Luo Zhi took lotus leaves to wrap the twenty meat buns given to Butcher Zhang in four parts, and put them on Uncle Mu's ox cart and took them to the town for a while, and Butcher Zhang himself would go to the place where the ox cart was parked to pick it up.

Luo Zhi took Dazhulan and carried a meat bun and a dozen rags, and Mu Ying held a cotton cloth for her, which was used to hold the soles of her shoes. Ah Shu carried two baskets on his back and led Luo'an, and the baskets had to be returned to Butcher Zhang.

Luozhi arrived when Uncle Mu had just finished breakfast and was about to leave Ji'an Town, after Luozhi explained to him who would pick up the goods, he put the big meat bag wrapped in lotus leaves into the back basket, and after Uncle Mu placed it securely, Luozhi told Uncle Mu about raking peanuts tomorrow.

"Tomorrow, our family will go over to help your family in the morning, and this ox cart will also rush over to try to finish raking your peanuts in one day," Uncle Mu said.

Luozhi thanked him very sincerely.

Seeing Fourth Uncle Mu drive off with the ox cart and walk away, Luo Zhi carried the basket into the courtyard of Mu Ying's house. The rural farmer family is hardworking, and this early morning the family has picked dozens of catties of peanuts and spread them in the yard to dry, Mu Siniang saw Luozhi come in, and hurriedly got up and patted the soil on her body and took her into the house.

Because Mu Jia'an wanted to help his family pick peanuts, he didn't go to his grandfather's house in Ji'an Town to help today.

He waited restlessly for Luozhi to come to the door in the morning, and when Luozhi was talking to Daddy outside the courtyard wall, the young man's young hot heart beat irrepressibly, and when Luozhi came in, he looked up at her without a trace, and the tips of his ears were so red that he was about to drip blood, but he did all this very secretly, and no one noticed.

"Oh, Luozhi, these rags you picked are so beautiful, you look at this Chu He color with pine trees, and make an upper for your grandfather, it's really not picky.

There is also this piece of silver-red with a big red hibiscus flower, which is the most suitable for you to make an upper. You're really going to live at home, your rags are so good-looking and so cheap, I knew I wouldn't be back yesterday, so I just went shopping with you, oops, missed the opportunity. You can make twenty-four or five pairs of uppers with these silk rags! ”

The ancient people's love for silk fabrics was like the modern people's love for all kinds of luxury fashion brands, as long as they are alive and can breathe, there is no one who does not like all kinds of silk fabrics.

Aunt Mu couldn't put it down, took the rag and looked at it again and again, and praised Luozhi for her good eyesight and picking goods.

Luozhi thought of the artificial silk and artificial silk on the bad streets in later generations, and its value and price were far lower than those of cotton and linen. In ancient times, cotton and linen cloth was the first choice of the common people, and "civilian cloth" said this.

In ancient times, people often used "cloth clothes and vegetable food" to describe their people's frugal life, or used "cloth clothes people" to refer to all living beings, among which "cloth clothes" originally referred to people wearing linen clothes.

In contrast, the wealthy did not have to worry about eating and drinking, so they pursued luxurious silk clothing to distinguish them from the commoners who wore cloth clothes.

Of course, the best outstanding contribution to the widespread spread of the word "cloth" is the sentence of Zhuge Liang's "Teacher's Table", "The minister's cloth, ploughing in Nanyang, living in troubled times, not seeking to reach the princes." "Luo Zhi is embarrassed, should I take a firm stand and wear cloth clothes?

"I said that you don't need to bring the cotton cloth for the base, there are ready-made ones at home, why do you still have so many horses? These two dozen pairs of soles don't need a muslin cloth! Aunt Mu saw the muslin cloth and blamed Luozhi for wasting it, and she had to save it when she lived at home. Who was still praising her for living just now......