There were bursts of laughter from the small Yuanlou Village, and Wang Xingxin, who was covering his face, was still staring at the two chickens in his hands through his fingers. Gong Zihan smiled and handed over the chicken in his hand and said to him: "These two chickens were originally bought by Xiao Langjun, and Xiao Langjun can eat as much as he wants." ”

After taking the chicken, Wang Xingxin's mind turned eight times and finally decided to eat called Hua Chicken, read a few novels on the practice of calling Hua Chicken can be said to be familiar with the heart, in reality has also done a few times, although it is not as delicious as described in the book, but it can also be eaten, and in this lack of various condiments in the Tang Dynasty called Hua Chicken can be said to be the most suitable practice for the current situation, without too many materials, green onions, ginger, salt, can.

"Brother Gongzi, there can be lotus leaves near our village, and reed leaves without lotus leaves can also be used."

"It's late autumn, Xiao Langjun is really joking, even if there are lotus leaves, they are all withered, and there are reeds by the river in the west of the village, and there are some green ones, what is the use of Lang Jun?"

"Brother Gongzi bothers you to help me pick some reed leaves, green and wide, Uncle Liu, do you have any green onions and ginger at home, take some for me to make a delicious meal, please try it, but two more chickens are not enough, if only a few more." Sanwa, you go and catch all the chickens of each family, anyway, we have money now, after selling salt and buying cattle tomorrow, we will buy a few more chickens for each family. ”

"Wang Jialangjun, do you really want to catch all the chickens in the village? Uncle, you see? ”

The third baby looked at Liu Lao Er uncertainly

"You melon baby, Wang Xiaolang Jun Mo said that he wanted to eat the chicken of the whole village, even if he cooked the old man and ate it, why not! Just go! The old man was a little eager to taste what kind of food Lang Jun could make with chicken. Gongzi's family, you take some noodles and make some soup cakes, and call all the families to the old man's yard, today is a good day for our village, and the whole village gathers together. ”

Liu Laohan instructed everyone to prepare the meal, and everyone began to get busy. The chickens in Wang Xing's novice hands have already been picked up by the mother-in-law who is quick with hands and feet, killing chickens and plucking feathers. Not long after, Liu Gangzi came back with a bunch of reed leaves that were still green.

"Xiao Langjun, let's see if these are enough."

"Enough, enough, Brother Gongzi bothers you to dig a pit outside the courtyard not too deep, just one foot deep, the pit should be bigger, big enough to put down the chickens in the whole village."

The dazed Liu Gangzi touched his head and went to dig a pit outside the courtyard in confusion. At this time, Liu Laohan also took out some ginger pieces from the house, and asked the little baby to go to the field to pluck some green onions. And half a jar of refined salt made yesterday. After thinking about it, he asked Liu Gangzi to dig up some more soil and use water to reconcile it and put it aside for later use. Now everything is ready, just wait for the chickens.

The whole village does not count Wang Xingxin's five households, eight chickens, plus two bought by Liu Gangzi, a total of ten chickens, all of them were killed and dehaired, waiting for Wang Xingxin to make a flower chicken, so that Liu Gangzi carried the basket of ten chickens to the outside of the hospital, Wang Xingxin began to teach Liu Gangzi how to make a flower chicken. In fact, it is very simple to call flower chicken, stuff the chicken belly with green onion and ginger, smear it with salt and wrap it in reed leaves, and paste it with mud. After a while, ten large mud balls were neatly placed on the side of the pit dug by Liu Gangzi.

Let Liu Gangzi light a pile of firewood and put all the mud eggs into the fire for burning, and after the mud outside burned red, the two put the red-hot mud balls into the dug pit, and then covered them with a thin layer of soil, and then moved the fire to it. After about half an hour, this is called a flower chicken, and it is done. Take out the mud eggs and use stones to crush the mud outside, and an indescribable fragrance comes to your nose. Wang Xingxin didn't care about it, he couldn't get hot, he picked up the reed leaves, tore off a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth. Wang Xingxin, who was hungry, was so hot that he kept sucking it, but his mouth kept slipping, and after a while, a chicken was eaten by him. The speed made Liu Gangzi next to him stunned, and then he swallowed his saliva and learned from Wang Xingxin's appearance to make a chicken, of course, he couldn't help but be burned. After the two of them gobbled up a chicken each, they put all the remaining chickens in the basket and carried them to Liu Laohan's house.

At this time, the soup cake was ready, and Wang Xingxin saw that the soup cake turned out to be noodles. After he smashed all the mud balls, the courtyard was filled with a strange fragrance. Let the twenty-seven people in the village, regardless of their age, drool for a long time, and the flying stream will go straight down to 3,000 feet! After tearing off the chicken legs and giving them to the little babies, the remaining villagers ate the remaining chicken in less than half an hour, leaving only a pile of chicken bones.

"The old man has never eaten such delicious chicken after living for such a long time, Wang Xiaolangjun is really talented, it is really rare to be able to make salt and make good dishes! It's a pity that there are too few chickens to make it too fun. After that, Liu Lao Er shook his head, licked his lips, stared at the pile of chicken bones, and had a dissatisfied expression. Wang Xingxin, who ate a chicken called Hua Chicken, felt that he was not full, and looked at the cooked noodles in the pot, oh, it should be soup cakes, but in fact, it is boiled and hand-rolled noodles in white water. After a bowl of noodles, Wang Xingxin, who was burping loudly after eating a bowl of noodles, asked Liu Laoer

"Uncle Liu, can you buy coarse salt when you go to Chang'an this time, we still have to make and sell this refined salt, this is only how much silver, only more than 30 yuan, it is enough to buy three ploughing cows, but the kid wants to match all of our six families with one ploughing cow."

"Xiao Lang rest assured, coarse salt, let's buy back a load of salt, and when everyone is full, start making salt, even if you don't sleep today, you have to make this load of salt into refined salt, tomorrow go to Chang'an to sell it is dozens of times, come back and let's buy two more ploughing cows, and wait until the bar makes the ox cart and then go to Chang'an to sell salt. I wonder if Xiaolang will go to Chang'an tomorrow? called the old man and said that Xiaolang should go to Chang'an to have a look, and he would come to the master. Xiaolang doesn't know how tall and big Chang'an City is, and the big drop is very! There are a lot of people! Sell everything! ”

Wang Xingxin also wants to see the towering Chang'an City, the current world center, and the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty. Just offer a horseshoe and printing, maybe you can also seal it. But he is still cowardly or doesn't dare, he doesn't dare to guarantee that the big names in the Tang Dynasty can get along as easily as other people's novels write about, novels are novels after all, he doesn't dare to joke with his own life, and now he doesn't have a household registration, so he replied: "Uncle Liu, don't forget that the kid has no household registration, and he may not be able to enter Chang'an City." It's not too late to wait for the household registration office to go. Let's hurry up and make salt now, that's money! ”

"What Lang Jun said is that we will make salt now, but when we come back tomorrow, when the ox cart is ready, the old man will take you to leave your household registration and divide the fields first."

"I said Uncle Liu, it will be two days after the ox cart is done, we are not short of money now, tomorrow I will buy a ploughing ox and buy two ox carts by the way, why let Brother Gongzi do it again, there is that effort to make a few catties of refined salt and ten ox carts will also earn back."

"Well, what Lang Jun said is that the old man is dizzy, so I will call everyone to make salt."

After Liu Laohan and the others were full, he beckoned the people of each family to start making salt, but when he took the linen cloth to dry, he found that a piece was missing. When Liu Lao Er was puzzled, he inadvertently saw a corner of linen exposed in Wang Xingxin's arms, smiled silently and ignored it.

After yesterday's salt production, everyone has been proficient in various processes, and under the guidance of Wang Xingxin, a simple streamlined refined salt production line has appeared in Datang. In order to refine the refined salt as soon as possible, each family brought the cooking cauldron and the wooden barrel containing water to Liu Laoer's yard. The little babies went to collect firewood outside the village, and only Wang Xingxin had nothing to do. It's not that he doesn't do it, but everyone is afraid that they are tired, and the talented Wang Xiaolangjun asked him to rest.

The bored Wang Xinxing looked at the daily necessities that Liu Lao Er bought for him from Chang'an, one linen, three sets of ready-to-wear clothes, and two pairs of new shoes, but he couldn't tell the difference between the left and right. Later, I learned that Datang's shoes are not divided into left and right. In addition, there is a bag of rice, and it is not easy to eat rice in the countryside for three years in Zhenguan. It's hard for Liu Lao Er to have a heart. In addition, there are some pots and pans, and then there is sauce and vinegar, there is no shortage of salt, but the oil seems to rarely eat vegetable oil in Datang, soybeans have not yet begun to be used for oil extraction, only sesame oil made of sesame seeds but it is quite expensive, and there is actually a pork in the basket, but it is fat and thin. It seems that Datang's pigs are not very fat, and they should be improved, as if they are going to be castrated.

Looking at these items, Wang Xingxin felt something called happiness, happiness in Zhenguan for three years. Looking at the busy villagers outside the house, Wang Xingxin grinned happily. It seems that it is not a bad thing to travel to Datang innocently, at least now I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, although I still live in a firewood house, but with the more and more money I earn from selling salt, I will soon be able to build a big house again. When the time comes, I will ask Liu Laohan to find a beautiful daughter-in-law, and the wife and children will be on the kang.