County Lieutenant Jiang and his party walked out of the village in a mighty way.

Along the way, many villagers ran to the village path to see, and saw Jiang County Lieutenant and they were riding on a tall horse, followed by five mule carts, which was very majestic.

After Jiang County Lieutenant and the others left, several families gathered in the courtyard, and the third grandmother was in charge, and the uneaten cattle, sheep and rabbit meat, as well as the congratulatory gifts received, were divided equally among several families.

Today, the workshop opened, and they received a lot of congratulatory gifts. He received more than 300 eggs, 10 pieces of meat, 10 pieces of cotton cloth, 10 pieces of arrowroot, 20 sheaves of burlap, and four baskets of rice, noodles, soybeans, sweet potatoes, cabbage and turnips, and new side vegetables that grew in the spring.

The four baskets of crops were all sent by people in the village who were not in good conditions, and they wanted to come to Gu's workshop to work, but they had no money to buy congratulatory gifts, so they could only take a few eggs and carry a basket of crops as a congratulatory gift.

Several of them were poor peasants and would not dislike these congratulatory gifts.

The congratulatory gifts of Shang Xiucai's family were prepared by the Jiang family, in addition to sending rice, flour, meat, sweet and sour wine, there were also seven cotton cloths, seven horses of arrowroot, and most of the cotton cloth and arrowroot cloth received by the Gu family's workshop today were sent by the Shang family.

In addition, Jiang also gave a brocade, as well as a pack of embroidery thread and a full set of embroidery needles, which were specially given to Gu Jinxiu.

Jiang is also a lover of embroidery, and knows that Gu Jinxiu's embroidery is well, but the Gu family doesn't have so much money to buy too expensive brocade, so they sent it to Gu Jinxiu.

Gu Jinxiu was very happy to receive these things. Gu Yumei was so angry that she was standing in the courtyard waiting to get her own things, and she almost didn't tear the cotton handkerchief in her hand.

And the congratulatory gift of the Jiang family is the same as that of the Jiang County Lieutenant, which is really bold and bold.

Jiang Xianwei knew that Gu's workshop wanted tofu and seasoning spices, so he gave Gu's workshop a cart of medicinal materials and twenty bundles of burlap.

"These burlap cloths should be kept in wooden boxes to cover the tofu, and the family should divide them into bundles." The third grandmother, the Cui family, and the Chu family were busy for half an hour, and finally divided all the congratulatory gifts, and let the families take the congratulatory gifts home.

The three ancestors and grandchildren of the Qin family finally finished dividing their things, and as soon as they got the things, they said goodbye and went home.

As soon as he entered the house, Qin Erlang couldn't scold Qin Lao, so he knelt down: "It's a poor and remote place here, there is no news, I have to go to the division of the soldiers, use the division of the soldiers to find out the news, please be old and perfect!" ”

As he spoke, he slammed his head on the floor of the hall.

Qin Lao moved a few steps away and didn't accept his big gift.

Qin Saburo walked to the door and closed the open door of the hall slightly, in case people passing by the gate of his courtyard would see the situation inside.

After closing the door, he looked back at Qin Erlang who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a sneer: "That Ah Ji has noticed us, as expected, he will definitely turn back again tonight and surround us." At that time, you don't need to go to this military station, and you will go directly to death row. ”

He said in a low voice, but his tone was extremely cold.

Along the way, he has never been angry with this so-called second brother, but today, he really can't help it.

Did this second brother think that it was only his family who died? All three clans are dead, who is luckier than whom?

Qin Erlang saw that Qin Sanlang was really angry this time, and he felt a little guilty, knowing that he shouldn't be so impulsive, but he was fed up, he hated this place, this shabby countryside, it took two hours to go to the town, and he couldn't get any useful news at all.

Even the old prince of Yu was in command to quell the rebellion, and they also learned from the mouth of Lei Wuye.

"That Ah Ji is the Ning family, and the Ning family has always been good friends with us and will not betray us." Qin Erlang said: "And that Ah Ji hasn't seen you and me, even if we suspect it, when the time comes, we won't admit it, he has no evidence, and there is no way to arrest us." ”

"Do you need proof to kill us?" Qin Sanlang laughed angrily: "Second brother Mo hasn't been in the countryside for a long time, so he has become stupid." That one is the one who would rather kill the wrong than let go. ”

Qin Lao was also full of sadness, today was really a mistake, they thought that only Jiang County Lieutenant would come, but they didn't expect it, it was actually a Ning family who came.

"So what do you say you should do? Now it's gone. Qin Erlang was very irritable, and such a long period of depression made his temper become more and more irritable: "If it really doesn't work, let's run away now." ”

When Qin Sanlang heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Second brother, do you know what you're talking about?" We escaped, what should they do with the third grandfather? That's more than 30 people! ”

Although in their eyes, it is not a big deal to sacrifice dozens of people in order to survive, but those families have helped them, and everyone has been together for so long, people's hearts are flesh and blood, and they can't be so selfish.

Qin Erlang didn't speak, but he did think about it, regardless of those families.

Qin Lao and Qin Sanlang both knew, but everyone didn't say anything.

"For the sake of today, I can only gamble." After a long silence, Elder Qin said, "The gambling Ning family didn't harm us. ”

After Qin Lao made a final decision, the three ancestors and grandsons began to prepare.

The other families didn't know about the Qin family, and after everyone got the congratulatory gifts, they went home happily.

After returning home, the families did not rest, but went to the workshop again.

He Laoguo and they have already ground a lot of beans, filtered the soy milk, and put them in the kitchen of the workshop one by one.

This kitchen used to have only three stoves, but when repairing the house, the third grandfather and Gu Dashan built another five, and now it is eight stoves, with eight iron pots, and in the future, they will cook soy milk here to make tofu.

The third grandfather took several men into the kitchen, and Gu Dashan taught them how to order stewed tofu.

The method is very simple, but to cook the soybean milk thoroughly, wait for the temperature of the soybean milk to drop by about one percent, after peeling a few bean skins, pour in the marinade, order the tofu, let the soy milk and water separate into the bean curd, and after the bean curd becomes large, scoop the bean curd into a wooden box with burlap, cover the tofu, put the stone and press it into shape.

Although the method is simple, the vinegar water was brought to the workshop after Gu Jinli's family mixed it, so there is no worry that the tofu recipe will leak.

And this method has also been discussed by several companies a long time ago.

The tofu recipe is in the hands of Gu Jinli's family, and Gu Jinli's family sends marinade to the workshop every day and asks a few families to order tofu.

After learning, Father Luo, Gu Damu, Gu Dalin brothers, Gu Dafu and Gu Dagui brothers, including Gu Qingtian and Gu Qingliang, ordered braised tofu in the kitchen.

In less than an hour, they made nearly 1,000 catties of tofu, and they almost finished the soybean milk that He Laoguo had ground for half a day.

Gu Jinli went to the workshop hall to watch He Yang's and them grind spices.

Chen was in the hall, sitting on a stool, crossing Erlang's legs, pointing to He Tugou's daughter-in-law and saying, "You can't do this, you have to grind it again." ”

After saying that, He Tugou's daughter-in-law pointed to He Wazi's widow and said: "You can't do this, this sand kernel is difficult to grind, you have to use some strength to completely crush the sand kernel and then put it in the copper pestle mortar to grind." ”

"And you, Katsuko and his sister, this fragrant leaf is light, you can't use smashing the fragrant leaf to grind, you have to grind it, and grind it slowly."

Chen's wife looked like a landlord's wife commanding the long-term workers to work, not to mention the beating of the man, and when she saw Gu Jinli coming in, she said to her in makeup: "Why is Xiaoyu here?" There is your aunt here, you can rest assured, you don't have to come here to see. ”