Chapter 17: A Little Gathering

In late autumn, it was dark early, the sun was falling, in front of Xu Qing's door, two dead pigs were hung upside down on the tree, and the pork was red and white, which attracted dozens of people in Xuzhuang to stretch their necks to watch, and the children ran away happily, because Xu Qing brought them a bunch of snacks in the county.

It was Uncle Zheng who killed the pig, fortunately he would kill the pig, otherwise today's banquet would not have started well. Liu San was also busy working next to Uncle Zheng, very neatly, he knew that these pigs were bought by the master for everyone to eat, of course, he was also included in them. He castrated the pig, Xu Qing said that if he didn't die in seven days, even if he did a great job, he would be allowed a few dollars of silver for a month, and buy him a son in the future, so that he would also have an incense inheritance, Liu San was so moved that he almost fainted.

And Xu Qing led the three girls to set up the pot, boiled the water, and waited for the meat to go to the pot.

Two pigs, the meat is worth 90 catties, the ancient people can eat it very much, more than 40 people, Xu Qing plans to cook 30 catties, and then put the internal organs together, and then divide the bones and internal organs, and each person takes back more than a catty, just enough. As for the intestines or something, Xu Qing saw that Uncle Zheng lost it, and he didn't stop it, some people like the taste very much, and some people want to vomit after eating it, Xu Qing is the latter, unfortunately, I am afraid that the dish of dry and fat intestines will appear hundreds of years later.

Cooking meat is very simple, half a catty of big meat, fat and thin pot boiling, put a few radines, then put salt, boil over high heat, half an hour the meat is cooked to eat. Xu Qing announced that one bowl for one person was not enough to come again.

The audience was quiet for a while, there was no sound of talking, all of them were the collision of dishes and chopsticks and the sound of swallowing food. The other women and children only care about eating, they eat bran vegetables all year round, and they haven't even eaten lard a few times, so after such a big meal, Xu Qing is worried that they will eat bad stomachs.

Xu Qing saw that everyone was eating happily, and he also took out the wine, drank a few sips with a few men in charge, entered the banquet*, and toasted the old man, which made these people very grateful. Xu Qing turned his head and saw that several people in the family were eating more elegantly, except for Liu San's goods.

"Liu San, come, eat and drink......"

"This ......" Liu San was full of cheeks, hesitated, swallowed his saliva or took the bowl of Meizizi and drank it, and his face turned red after a while.

Whether it is wine or meat, Xu Qing only ate it symbolically, and the foodies of the Tang Dynasty really didn't have anything to make Xu Qing lose his temper. He secretly thought that no matter what, he must take the construction of foodies as the first priority for future development!

The main reason for holding this banquet is to get to know the people in Zhuangzi, so as not to have some oolong incidents, and also to lay some network foundation for future development.

After dinner, and the pork was divided, Xu Qing also sent two piglets to each household, and told him not to feed shi, and explained a few words of feeding precautions. Everyone also looked at the face of this big meal, listened carefully to Xu Qing's words, received the pig, and the meat, and went back happily.

In the end, there were five people in his family left to clean up their things, and everyone ate cleanly and without any scraps, but when Xu Qing wanted to take a bath, there was no water. Later, Xiaoyue said that the water in Zhuangzi had to be picked up from an old spring far away, and said that the mountain behind Xu Qingwu was saline-alkali land, and there was no grass on the other side of the mountain, and it was not much better here, except for the water for eating, there was no more, let alone bathing.

They even listened to the people in Zhuangzi say that they only take a bath after the rain in the summer, and they will take a bath when the snow water melts in the winter, Xu Qing and Xu Qi are extremely depressed, which makes Xiaoyue Xiaoru blame herself.

No water? The next day, Xu Qing decided to dig a well.

"Child, come here......" Xu Qing was in the field, catching an unlucky child who was spreading Huan'er.

"A person running crazy is not afraid of running into a wolf......"

"Old ...... The old man ...... "The child twisted and pinched.

"Let me ask you, where have all the adults in Zhuangzi gone? Why didn't an adult ...... "It turned out that Xu Qing wanted to dig a well but didn't find anyone, and he must definitely not be able to do it himself."

"Master, Mom went to help others weave, Dad and others went to the landlord's house to do work, a bucket of corn a day, and the old man went to the mountains over there to chop firewood......"

In autumn and winter, there is not a lot of work, and the people in the countryside are not idle, they have to hurry to earn some extra money, and then plant summer grain, which has not been planted for a long time, and it should come out in a few days.

"Then you do this, tomorrow you tell Dad to stop going there, I have a job for him."

"That's not good, if you don't work, your family will starve!" The child returned in earnest.

"Didn't I say that there is a job for him to do, call a few more people, ten cents a day, and take care of the food......"

"Shiwen?" The child snapped his little finger and counted it, and only heard the money.

"Kid, what's your name?" Xu Qing also likes children, although the children in front of him are like brother mud monkeys.

"My dad's name is Zhang Qu!" The child didn't answer the question, and ran away with a smoke, Xu Qing had to smile bitterly.

On this day, he took Xu Qi around, there is a mountain behind their house, not big, only a ridge, arched up only eleven or twelve zhang, there are many trees on this side of the mountain, the leaves under the trees are picked up by the people in the village, go to the other side of the mountain, ask for less and less, as far as the eye can see, it has become a weed, it seems to be the legendary saline-alkali land.

After going down the mountain and walking around the farmland, he found that the fields in the Zhuangzi relied on themselves to absorb the water in the soil, and once the heavens did evil, the whole family was hungry, and there was nothing more than relying on the sky to eat. Xu Qing thought: "This is my land, what will I eat in the future, dig a well, I must dig a well......

He glanced at the houses of the farmers again, and when he came that day, he only looked at them from a distance, and they were very dilapidated, with seven thatched houses, similar to a semicircle, and a neatly chopped firewood piled up at the door of the house, and now a small pigsty was added to the back of each house.

Some boys were catching insects and playing with mud, Xu Qi hid behind Xu Qing, timidly looking, and later she saw the girls making dustpans with rattan, so she was a little interested and learned with them.

Xu Qing called the boys over and told a story about a farmer and a snake, so tonight the man in charge of each household was pestered and asked:

"Dad, have you ever picked up a snake in winter?"

"In the future, if you encounter a frozen snake on the road, don't pick it up and put it in your pocket..."

In the evening, seven strong men rubbed their hands and came to the door of Xu Qing's house, and it seemed that they had just come back from work. Xu Qing set up a table in the front yard, brought them in, brought a jar of wine, and planned to talk about the construction of Zhuangzi.

Author's note: Today's delivery is slower, the editor takes a big fancy to my book, and is busy getting a contract. The first time I went to 17k to write a book, I'm afraid I'm going to hit the street, I hope you will support it. Ask for favorites, ask for comments and clicks.