Chapter 9 Sending Fish
The fish soup is filled with salt and fishy chrysanthemum leaves, and a little salt is also put in the steamed cake made of locust powder, which is delicious for everyone.
"Xiangfu and Dali are good children, and I haven't forgotten everyone when I find food, and we have a few families, I remember your kindness." Ma Lin was the first to finish the soup, and also sandwiched a chopstick-long crucian carp in his bowl into the old mother's bowl, and without waiting for the old mother to push, he got up and made a gesture with Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali, who were cooking the second pot of fish soup on the stove, his eyes were full of sincerity and moistness.
"What Brother Ma said, it is fate that the north and the south of the world gather in one village, and everyone should help each other." Sun Xiangfu helped Ma Lindao, who was bent over.
Although the people in the village are all from the north, some are from Youzhou, some are from Bingzhou, and some are even moved from Liangzhou, all of them have been broken up and reorganized, which is also a means for the government to prevent these displaced residents from forming a group of trouble, so it is also a kind of fate to be assigned to a village from various places.
"Although I Nie Sanniang is a woman, I just admit a reason, if there is kindness, you will repay it, you remember, when the four of our mothers can't survive, it is you who enjoy the blessing of Brother and Brother Dali, in case the old lady can't survive that day, this grace, you must pay it back for the old lady."
When Nie Sanniang said this, her eyes were already full of tears, her family did not have a good firewood knife, she couldn't cut bamboo, she couldn't find bamboo insects to eat, so she took three children to catch locusts for a day, however, after seeing Aunt Cuihua use locust grinding powder to make steamed cakes, more than 100 people in the village are catching locusts today, this year is not a year of locust plague, everyone is catching, how much can they catch, during the day, the family ate a few roasted locusts to pad their stomachs, for tomorrow's day, very at a loss.
"Sanniang's words are reasonable, we will never eat your things in vain, if there is anything in the future, enjoy happiness, and be vigorous, you will command, as long as the people of our family can still move, they will help you do it."
Okay, Wang Fu's words directly went to Sun Xiangfu's heart, there is no free lunch in the world, let alone a free supper, if these people don't contribute labor to help themselves, Sun Xiangfu alone has no ability to change everyone's life, so he said.
"As long as everyone can unite and twist into a rope, we don't have to worry about not being full of food and clothing, what about me, I usually look at Mu Ne, but occasionally there are some novel ideas in my head, it is these ideas that let everyone here drink fish soup and eat locust steamed cakes today, so we are poor, we must concentrate on thinking about change, so that everyone can live together."
"That's right." Except for a few ignorant children, everyone chimed in.
Sun Xiangfu looked at everyone's expressions and nodded, obviously everyone agreed with what he said, so that Sun Xiangfu could tell everyone more of his thoughts.
"In this way, I have some ideas in my heart, but I can't finish it myself, I need to rely on you, I will give you some drawings in two days, and I will ask you to help me build some tools, before that, you can help us make more fish cages, I will take care of your family's food, the worst, there is also fish soup for you to drink, so, I hope you can help me."
I heard that there was something to do and something to eat, everyone's faces were happy, and Wang Youmi, the elder father of the two brothers Wang Fu, said, "If you have anything to build, just leave it to these two boys in my family, they have done my true inheritance, and I will help you keep an eye on them so that they don't get lazy." Wang Youmi, who was only half full of teeth, grabbed Sun Xiangfu's hand.
"Daddy Youmi, don't worry! The two eldest brothers are both well-known people and will not joke with the future of the family. Sun Xiangfu comforted the old man.
There is food and drink, not hungry, everyone's mood is good, the pursuit of the ancients is actually just that, everyone around Sun Dali's stove, talked for a long time, of course, the center of the topic is mostly around Sun Xiangfu's ideas, now Sun Dali no longer questions Sun Xiangfu, just two days, he has been a little blind to Sun Xiangfu.
Picked up the blood blisters on the soles of his feet with a bamboo stick, and under the service of his younger siblings, Sun Xiangfu scrubbed his body well, and then lay on the bed tiredly, closed his eyes, but did not fall asleep immediately, he wanted to get familiar with this place as soon as possible, and find out a way of his own survival, the bottom characters of feudal society, life and death are between the thoughts of those upper-class characters, if Qin Qiong didn't stop him today, maybe he would be chopped by the military man, and besides, if he split it, there was no place to reason at all.
Therefore, in order to live a safer life, in my heart, Sun Xiangfu still wants to be an upper-class person, but unfortunately he is not like the protagonist in some other time-traveling novels, he has his own system, or his own survival skills in 360 industries, and he can make gunpowder, train soldiers, and play politics.
He is just a student who has some achievements in agricultural research, and even social experience is learned through film and television dramas, and his only specialty is tinkering with those crops, so his starting point is a farmer.
"I really regret that I didn't read more history books at school." After clarifying some ideas in agriculture, Sun Xiangfu finally hummed lightly and began to fall asleep.
Early in the morning, Sun Xiangfu was pulled up from bed by Sun Dali's two brothers as soon as the sky was bright, today they will have one more follower, Nie Sanniang's eldest son Shi Bao, Datang has the habit of calling people according to the ranking, everyone used to call Sun Xiangfu is Sun Dalang, but shouting Sun Dali is also Sun Dalang, heavy, so the title between the two is divergent, directly shouting the name, but there is a Shi surname in the village, so whoever calls Shi Bao is called Shi Dalang.
Shi Dalang is twelve years old, he is close to an adult, because his father died early, he is the eldest son in the family, so he is quite sensible and clever, today he will follow Sun Erli to learn the fish cage and the production of the fish cage, and when the fish cage is more in the future, he will be able to join Sun Erli in a group and drive all the way.
There is no need to go to the market today, so after collecting the fish, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali directly pushed the wheelbarrow up Cuiyun Mountain, one more person, and took a shortcut, but at eight o'clock, they arrived at the side door of the Qin Mansion, knocked on the door and asked to see, after a while, Uncle De came to the side door and took a look at the bucket, the fish in it were actually a lot more than yesterday, and his face was immediately happy.
"Guogong and Doctor Sun have eaten the fish you sent yesterday, praising it for its deliciousness and nourishment, and all the nobles in the mansion are also vying to eat it, and I am afraid that you will not be able to supply it, and they are preparing to let the tenants of the food yi go to salvage it!" I didn't expect you to be able to send so much every day, but it saved a lot of trouble, you have collected these two dollars, and tomorrow there are so many fish and goods delivered, you will definitely get two dollars. ”
After that, Uncle De handed the two strings of copper coins in his hand to Sun Xiangfu, Sun Xiangfu happily took it and thanked him, but he didn't leave immediately, but said with a smile, "The grass people often catch these fish goods, and they have also explored many novel ways to eat fish. ”
"Hehe, you kid is a wonderful person, and you come together, if you are praised by nobles, you will definitely be rewarded."
There were three main cooking techniques in the Tang Dynasty, steaming, boiling, and roasting. And there are fewer varieties of seasonings, and the food is relatively bland, even if it is a national public-level figure like Qin Qiong, the food on the table may not taste as good as the home-cooked food fried by a random family in the countryside in later generations.
Therefore, when it comes to cooking, Sun Xiangfu can easily teach people of this era to be a man, after all, Sun Xiangfu is a person who has lived in the countryside for more than 20 years, and in the years from university internship to graduate school, he cooks by himself, no way, there is no place to buy fast food in the countryside.
So, Sun Xiangfu told Uncle De about several ways to eat loach and eel in later generations, such as millet grinding powder and soy sauce and rice wine wrapped in fine salt and steaming, adding yam and radish stuffed in a crockpot, as well as deboning and slicing, adding animal oil and steaming with rice, etc., all of which can be done under the conditions of this era, but no one has tried the cooking methods.
So, Sun Xiangfu successfully got acquainted with the back kitchen of the Qin Mansion, and ate the fullest lunch in his life with Sun Dali in the kitchen.
"Grandpa Guo's mansion is really big, the kitchen is several times larger than the shack in my house, and the vegetables and grains on those shelves are enough for our family to eat for a year! I heard that there are hundreds of maids and servants in the family, and there are also 300 guards, you say that our Datang prince is so rich! ”
"Hehe, this is nothing, Yiguo Gong is diligent and thrifty, there is only one wife and three concubines in the family, two children, if you go to Chang'an, you can see officials with more than 100 concubines everywhere, hey, that's the world of local tyrants."
"What is a local tyrant?"
"If you have money, spend it!"
"But what about all the money they have?"
"We farmers dig them out in the field!"
"Hah! It's so unfair. ”
"There is nothing fair or unfair in this world, only the weak and the strong, just like the fish in the river, I picked them up and ate them, and they have no place to be reasonable."
"But that's a fish!"
"It's the same with people."
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The two pushed the empty wheelbarrow and walked down the avenue, today they did not go home closely, but went to the market to buy some things, plus the two yuan given by Uncle De today, they had four yuan in their hands, some necessities of life, but they could purchase.