Mei found that Gui Chongyang's face had changed, and it was a little strange.

Chongyang loves sweetness, why don't you like this? When she also took a bite, she immediately understood the reason, and frowned: "This Du Qi, he is really careless!" ”

Gui Chongyang put down the cake in his hand and took the tea to rinse his mouth.

Since Gui Yuan's death last year, Gui Chongyang has become a vegetarian, and it has been more than ten months.

Mei Xiaoba's face was still full of doubts, looking at the small tooth cake left in her hand, her big eyes flickered, trying to see what was wrong.

Mei Duo hadn't eaten it yet, holding the cake, she didn't dare to bite it, and frowned: "Did the Du family add something on purpose?" ”

She was suspicious of the Du family in her heart, and she didn't like anything about the Du family.

Mei shook his head and said, "It's okay for you to eat, there is a lot of oil in it." ”

Mei Duo, Mei Xiaoba and Gui Chongyang ate at the same table, knowing that he was a vegetarian, Mei Duo immediately became angry: "The Du family's designation is deliberate, deliberately not making it clear, which makes people eat nauseous!" ”

Mei frowned and said: "Such fine food, even in the town, where is there any use for this disgusting person?" Most of the time Du Qi is careless, don't make a big fuss! ”

Still indignant, Meadow threw away the bread in her hand.

Mei Xiaoba was real, and said a fair word, saying: "Du Qi doesn't go to the kitchen, so he can't tell the difference between vegetable oil and big oil at all!" ”

Gui Chongyang nodded and agreed with Mei Xiaoba's statement.

His face changed before, not only because of the meat in the cake, but also because this is an authentic "Taishi cake".

"Taishi cake" is also called "Taishi cake", there are two sources of theory, one is traced back to the Yin Shang period, King Wu fell, the Shang Dynasty brought a large army to resist Wen Taishi invented this kind of sugar baked cake to make military rations, and then opened the Yin Shang defeat, but the practice of "Taishi cake" has been handed down, and later it was mistakenly recorded as "Taishi cake".

Another theory is that the cake is "Taishi cake", which is a sugar cake sent to the prison by relatives and friends through relations after Sima Qian was imprisoned in the Han Dynasty.

I don't know which of these two statements is true, but this cake is indeed a famous spot in Jinling.

You must know that the sugar osmanthus in it is also an ingredient in the south, which is not common in the north. The Du family's "Taishi Cake" is not similar, but the taste is extremely close to what Gui Chongyang had eaten in Jinling.

The cook of the Du family is from Jinling? Or is Duri from Jinling?

If Du Li is not a southerner, there is no reason to raise a cook in the south at home. It's finally a clue, Du Li Zheng can't come out of thin air, as long as there is a clue, you can't say that you can find out his details.

Gui Chongyang kept it in mind and asked about the autumn harvest.

The two houses of the Gui family add up to only eight acres of land, because it is a field, originally planted with cold-resistant sorghum, but at the end of May it was spoiled by wild boars coming down the mountain, and later replanted millet seeds, and now it is time for millet to be harvested.

As for the fifteen acres of land that Mei and Mei Duo got, there is only a title deed now, and it was tenant by Mei Tongsheng's family before, and it was no one else who planted it, it was Mei Xiaoba's uncle's family.

As early as before Mei Tongsheng transferred the house, it was agreed that this season's tenant rent would still be handed over to Mei Tongsheng, but this year's autumn tax was Mei's own responsibility.

The Mei family has two talents, one is tax-free and 80 acres, and the uncle and nephew are tax-free and 160 acres.

Mei Tongsheng held the Mei family's two-room land before, and the total was only more than sixty acres, and the rest was the land of the Mei clan, which was hung in the name of the Mei family's house.

Sixty percent of the money and grain saved by tax exemption will go to the Mei family's house.

Mei Tongsheng was forced to give Mei's aunt and nephew fifteen acres of Zhongtian, which is already heart-wrenching, how can he let Mei's take advantage of his own family again? Since she asked her to pay the autumn tax by herself, she collected fifteen acres of tax-free land from her clan to make up for it.

For this reason, the fifteen acres of land under the name of Mei's aunt and nephew do not need the Gui family's autumn harvest this year, but they must re-agree with Mei Xiaoba's family after the autumn harvest.

"Chun'er said that there is little land at home, and it will be almost the same in a day or two, and then I will go to the Yang family and the Zhang family to help." Mei Shi Road.

Gui Chongyang nodded, he had experienced wheat cutting, and cutting millet was not a difficult job.

Although Gui Chongyang was resistant to farm work, there was no reason to just watch Gui Chun work.

Mei Xiaoba, when it comes to the autumn harvest, she is a little eager to try, and a little sudden.

How many rural children don't study farming? It is Yang Wu, who is only thirteen years old, and has been following his father and brother to the ground for several years.

Mei Xiaoba here, Mei Qingmu originally planned to teach him farming this autumn, but the fate of father and son was thin, and he didn't wait for this day to become an uncle and nephew.

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There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba changed into old clothes and brought a sickle to the second room to meet Gui Chun. Mei and Mei Duo also went with her, intending to help out in the kitchen.

In addition to Gui Chun, Gui Er's grandfather, Gui Er's grandmother, and Yang's family also wore old clothes and wrapped a handkerchief on their heads, obviously meaning to follow the ground.

Seeing this, Mei couldn't help but feel uneasy, so he wanted to go with him.

As for Mei Duo, an unmarried girl, there is no reason to work in the field.

Gui's second grandmother said to Mei Shi in a loud voice: "Where are your hands doing farm work?" Don't add to the chaos! The bacon was taken out, in the kitchen, and there were millet noodles, steamed at noon, and then stewed bacon in the snow! ”

Mei immediately responded.

I didn't want everyone to wait to go out, everyone from the Yang family came, in addition to Yang Jinzhu, Yang Wu's father and son, and Yang Wei, the son of the Yang family. Yang Wei and Gui Chun are of the same age, and they look very familiar.

There are a total of eight acres of land, and they can't use these people for themselves, so Gui's second grandmother and the Yang family stayed at home, and the others went to the millet land in the back mountain.

In this piece of land under the back mountain, eight acres belong to the Gui family, four acres belong to Yang Yinzhu's family, and six acres belong to the Lin family.

After being spoiled by wild boars, the Gui family and the Yang family replanted millet for rations; The Lin family does not lack grain, so they call the beans planted by people and used to fertilize the land.

Now that the millet is ripe, but the beans are not ripe, there is no movement in the Lin family's field.

Compared with the eight acres of millet made by the Gui family, the four acres of the Yang family's land are still sparse and sad.

Gui Chongyang looked at Yang Jinzhu and saw that Yang Jinzhu was also staring at the ground next to him, with a bitter and bitter look on his face.

Gui Chongyang couldn't help but be curious, Yang Jinzhu's family thought that his sister-in-law and nephew's family had little labor, so they took the initiative to come to the autumn harvest, would it be the autumn harvest of the brother's family?

Regardless of whether Yang Jinzhu helps his brothers in the autumn harvest, it is not today's matter, what everyone comes to harvest today is the eight acres of land of the Gui family.

Although Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba also took sickles, who expected them to really work?

It was still Gui Er's grandfather, Gui Chun, Yang Jinzhu, and Yang Wei who shared a piece of the land, and pointed to a few points on the edge of the ground, so that Yang Wei could take care of Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba, so that the two of them would not cut their hands.

Yang Wei has been learning agriculture for a few years, and he is already half of the labor force, and he demonstrated a few postures to Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba, and then buried himself in it, and his speed was not worse than that of several adults.

Gui Chongyang has already participated in a wheat harvest, so he naturally uses a sickle, and his strength is not small, but his patience is insufficient, and he has to get up and rest after bowing for a while.

As for Mei Xiaoba, it was the first time to participate in the autumn harvest, but it was not the first time to use a sickle. His stepmother didn't seem to let him work, only let him play in the village, but in fact, the scattered work of beating pigs and vegetables and putting chickens and ducks was the same, so Mei Xiaoba's sickle was more familiar than Gui Chongyang.

Three and a half teenagers, adding up to two laborers.

When everyone arrived at the land, it was only at the beginning of the morning (five o'clock in the morning), and by the beginning of the afternoon (eleven o'clock at noon), nearly six acres had been harvested, and less than two acres remained, and in less than an hour, the harvest could be completed.

Everyone was drinking water on the ground for a break, Yang Jinzhu looked at the place where a few young people had just harvested, and said to Gui's second grandfather: "Chongyang and Xiaoba are good, they are both Lisuo children. ”

Especially Gui Chongyang, looking at Si Swenwen, he is not lazy in his work.

Gui's second grandfather was relieved in his heart, one of these two is the only grandson of the long house, and the other is the heir of the nephew, who will support the portal in the future, and now they look like good children.

It's just that people have always praised other people's children, and there is no reason to praise their own children, so Grandpa Gui waved his hand and said: "Just follow the nonsense, where can you compare to Xiao Wuzi, and it's not bad to be a top laborer!" ”

Yang Jinzhu shook his head and said: "It's just stupid strength, it's not as smart as Chongyang, he and Xiaoba's two homework, Chongyang is staring at." ”

Second Grandpa Gui still said modestly: "But it's not worth anything if you read two days early." ”

Gui Chun is Yang Wei is in one place, Yang Wei hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Cousin Chun, is there any tofu dishes in the shop over there with Uncle Gui?" ”

It has only been three or four days since the opening of Baiwei Xiang Food Shop, but rumors about Guiwu's "development" have spread all over Mujia Village. Opening three shops at the same time, how big is that?

I heard that the yamen all went to congratulate the people, and this is a false rumor.

It is really because the momentum of the iron monk is too strong, and some people recognize Zhong Da who is following him as a county official, only when the iron monk is the county government which master travels, there are such rumors.

In addition, yesterday was August 20, and on the day of "tenth", there was a big gathering in the town. There were many people in Mujia Village who used to go to the market, some people stopped outside the barilla, and some people had a spacious family and took about a dozen dollars to go in to open meat.

Barilla's braised pork, dim sum, and snacks have spawned a lot of new rumors overnight.

Yang Wei heard the excitement from his father and brother, and naturally knew more than the villagers, so he couldn't help but feel a little hopeful, not because he wanted to take advantage of the Gui family or anything like that, but because he wanted to find a regular customer for his tofu factory.

Gui Chun was stunned for a moment, and said honestly: "I just opened for a long time, I don't know much, but Chongyang should know." After that, he called Gui Chongyang over.

For the eldest cousin of the Yang family, Gui Chongyang also has a good impression, he is capable, and because he often sells tofu outside, he is more sleek than Yang Jinzhu.

Hearing the other party take the initiative to ask if Barilla had any tofu dishes, Gui Chongyang couldn't help laughing. This was with him, and he wanted to find an opportunity to repay the Yang family before.

"In the end, it is a fast food shop, in addition to the porridge and soup prepared in advance, the vegetarian dishes served by those shops are pickled and mixed in advance, and the meat dishes served are lo-mei, not stir-fried." Gui Chongyang said: "It is estimated that the tofu will not be used much, but it is tofu skin, dried tofu and the like, if my cousin can provide it in quantity, I can mention it to the fifth uncle." ”

Tofu skin is the oil skin that is removed when making tofu and dried, also called yuba, which is a good ingredient for vegetarian dishes; Dried tofu is made after tofu is pressed with water, and the tofu shop also sells this, which is also one of the indispensable ingredients for vegetarian dishes.