Chapter 61: Uninvited Guest (Recommended Addition)
"The third daughter-in-law doesn't have to go to the field, just stay at home and cook." It was the autumn harvest season of another year, and before the harvest began, Mrs. Ming made the decision to leave the pregnant Zhou at home to raise the baby.
Zhou was very surprised.
Although Tao has already enjoyed this special treatment once before, in Zhou's opinion, it is entirely because Tao rarely has children, and his body is not very good.
Like her, who has already given birth to a son and a daughter, but she has nothing to do, she always thought that she would not have the opportunity to enjoy such special treatment.
Seeing her standing still, Tao reached out and gently pushed her, "Brother and sister, you just listen to your mother, it's enough for your mother to take care of the children alone, and you can just give our mother a hand at home." ”
Xie Shi also nodded on the side and agreed, "Da Lang, they are all on vacation, our family has a lot of labor, not one of you, brother and sister." ”
Zhou thought about it, so he happily handed the few sickles in his hand to Xie, "Then I will also enjoy happiness." ”
In a word, Xie and Tao all smiled.
"Let's harvest potatoes and sweet potatoes today." The old man Ming drove the ox cart, and the rest of the Ming family followed the ox cart on foot.
Since mid-May, the Ming family has been selling tomatoes and peppers one after another.
Because there were not many seeds and the production was limited, the Ming family did not sell them everywhere with great fanfare, but still quietly sold these two things to the Jufu Restaurant in the town.
The old shopkeeper of Jufu Restaurant is very knowledgeable, and he gave a very high price for the tomatoes and peppers sent by the Ming family, of course, this has a lot to do with Mingyue half-selling and half-sending nearly twenty recipes to them.
There are many dishes that can be seasoned with chili peppers, green chili peppers, red chili peppers, fresh chili peppers, and dried chili peppers, each of which has a wonderful use.
What chili scrambled eggs, chili fried meat, chili stuffed meat, back to the pot meat, fish-flavored shredded pork, spicy chicken, kung pao chicken, mapo tofu, boiled pork slices, boiled fish, sauerkraut fish, Mao Xuewang, husband and wife lung slices, spicy rabbit... Mingyue can recall a lot of them just by thinking about it.
Tomato seasoning is not very useful, but in addition to eating it raw, Mingyue also knows a few home-cooked dishes made with tomatoes that you never get tired of.
For example, cold tomatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stewed beef brisket with tomatoes, roasted eggplant with tomatoes, beef soup with tomatoes, boiled fish with tomatoes, and roasted tofu with tomatoes, these are all delicious dishes that she loved very much in her previous life.
The old shopkeeper of Jufu Restaurant is a kind person, although Mingyue made these dishes, he knew the general method as soon as he tasted them, but he still gave Mingyue a recipe at a high price of fifteen taels of silver.
Mingyue is very content.
She knows her own family affairs, and as an ordinary person who has neither extraordinary brains nor talents, let alone koi koi koi, she never even dreamed that she would become rich overnight.
She only took advantage of the "well-informed" because she came from the later generations, and as for the rest, if she wanted something, then she had to fight for it and work her own.
Twenty-one dishes, plus five staple foods and snacks, Ming Yue earned three hundred and ninety taels of silver just by selling recipes. Coupled with the fact that the price is even more expensive than the tomatoes and peppers that are prickly sprouts, the Ming family can be said to have made a lot of money this year.
Before the autumn was confiscated, Mrs. Ming's money box had already been replaced with a super-large one, and Mr. Ming was thinking about buying a few dozen acres of land after the autumn harvest - there is no panic in the heart of having a field in his hand, and the field can be passed on to future generations from generation to generation, which is perfect.
Although the old man Ming, who is full of hope for the future, is as busy and tired as ever, he has been walking with the wind recently, and at first glance he is more energetic than Mingdi, who is a son.
Because of the great wealth brought by tomatoes and peppers, the importance of sweet potatoes and artichokes in the field has skyrocketed, and as long as he has time, he will inevitably go to the field where sweet potatoes and artichokes are planted.
finally survived until the autumn harvest, and the old man couldn't wait any longer, so he simply took his family to harvest potatoes and sweet potatoes as soon as possible.
"What are you planting? Why don't you accept this old man! "Mingdi drove the ox cart to transport sweet potatoes home, and every field he passed by basically had someone looking into the spy information.
"Find a new crop for the townspeople, called sweet potatoes." Mingdi didn't hide it, anyway, the big landlord in their town, Master Wu, also planted potatoes and sweet potatoes, they just didn't say it, others could also go to inquire with the tenants and long-term workers of the Wu family.
In the end, the Ming family harvested more than 1,700 catties of potatoes from two acres of lower fields, and nearly 8,000 catties of sweet potatoes from two and a half acres of lower fields.
The villagers of Wulitun spread the word from ten to hundred, and almost every household went out with their whole family to Ming's house to see the excitement.
Old Man Ming had already been reminded by Mingyue, so he didn't panic, he introduced all the villagers to He Shigui according to what his family had discussed before.
Only his relatives and the Li Zheng family and Dr. Li's family, the old man Ming greeted him privately, saying that when the harvest is over, the Ming family will share a part of their own sweet potatoes and potatoes for them to seed in the coming year.
As Yu Jiayan's uncle, Yu Shouyi also received the same special treatment as other relatives of the Ming family, but Mingcheng also made it clear to him that he would only come to the door by himself in the future, and the Feng family refused to communicate with each other.
Although he used euphemistic words, Yu Shouyi still felt that he had lost face, he apologized to Mingcheng repeatedly, and when he returned home, he scolded Feng again.
Feng herself regretted it, but in front of Yu Shouyi, she was very hard-mouthed, and the two of them quarreled for the Nth time because of this matter, and broke up unhappily.
As in the past ten years, Ming Ju and Ming He came to the Ming family to help their parents as soon as they finished their fields.
Mingju also came with her husband Zheng Dachang and son Zheng Youfu, this family of three not only came, but also drove their own donkey cart over.
Unlike them and Ming He's popularity, when the Ming family was busy until the fifth day, an uninvited guest from the old lady's house attracted widespread hostility from everyone in the Ming family, from the old to the youngest.
This person is Mrs. Ming's maiden niece, although she is also surnamed Wang, but her niece who is close to Mrs. Ming is a cousin who has already come out of five suits, and she belongs to the kind where the blood relationship is very light and far away.
The room where her father and mother are located has almost no contact with Mrs. Ming's maiden brother, let alone Mrs. Ming, an old aunt and grandmother who has been married for decades.
This kind of distant relatives who have no contact with each other suddenly come to the door, and they don't see anything outside to help your family harvest autumn and stay overnight at your house, who does this change, no one can be happy.
Especially this product is not good, about ten years ago, this product almost relied on Mrs. Ming's youngest son Mingtang by cooking raw rice into mature rice.
If it weren't for Mingyue's current third aunt Zhou's clever enough, it would not be Zhou's genuine fiancée in Mingtang who married Mingtang back then, but Wang's terrible woman who had to marry Mingtang and was rejected by Mrs. Ming.