Chapter 249: Renovating the House 2
Then it's troublesome for the two of you, and when my dad comes back, I'll treat you to a few drinks. Mu Xiu said with a smile.
"Then we'll be here tomorrow morning."
"Okay."
After Mu Xiu sent off the two masters, he went to the village and found the sister-in-law of the Chen family and the eldest sister of the Liu family, these two are honest and honest on weekdays, Mu Xiu invited them to cook, and gave them two cents a day.
Now there are still many months before the autumn harvest, and this time is not busy, the two heard that they had a salary, so they naturally agreed, and went to Mu Xiu's house early tomorrow morning to cook.
Mu Xiu drove the ox cart to the neighboring village to find the Wang butcher, he used to be in the vegetable market, killing pigs and chopping meat, since the beginning of the policy, you can do business personally, Wang Butcher will run a pork shop by himself, ten miles and eight towns are buying meat from him, encountering red and white ceremonies, need more meat, give him a hello in advance, he will send it in the morning.
The neighboring village is more than ten miles away, only one-third of the way to the county seat, Mu Xiu arrived soon, and agreed with Butcher Wang that he needed twenty catties of pork belly, ten catties of bones, and all the pigs in the water.
In fact, there is meat in Muxiu's space, but there are many people, and she can't conjure so much meat out of thin air every day.
Early the next morning, Master Niu and Master Ma arrived with people, more than 20 people, as soon as they entered the courtyard, they were immediately full, and they were all people.
"Master Niu, the garbage removed will be put into the field outside the yard, and the half acre of land is my family's field, and it is just after the harvest." Mu Xiu didn't care about the fact that the ground had already been ploughed at this time, there were too many things, and there was really no place to put them.
"In the past few days, we have cleaned up all the burned rooms, then laid the foundation, made room, and then pulled the remaining bricks and cement." Master Niu said.
"Okay, you look at the arrangement, everyone will pad their stomachs for breakfast, and make hard dishes for the big guys at noon."
Mu Xiu tidied up in the middle of the night last night, prepared more than 20 sets of dishes and chopsticks, in the middle of the kitchen and the three bungalows, just asked Master Niu to help, and then built two stoves, set up a pot to steam rice or steamed steamed buns, and the pot in the kitchen was used to stir-fry and stew vegetables, after all, this house is hard work, and it is not okay not to be full.
The vegetable garden behind the kitchen is not growing vegetables for the time being, the greenhouse has long been demolished, next to the vegetable pond, two rows of tables and chairs are placed, so that everyone has a place to eat, although it is relatively close to the pigsty and chicken shed, but Mu Xiu has pulled a simple screen last night, put it in the middle and separate it a little, and pay attention to cleaning it every day, so it doesn't smell too much.
But fortunately, everyone is a farmer, and they don't care about these things on weekdays.
The sister-in-law of the Chen family and the eldest sister of the Liu family also came here early, it was too late to steam steamed buns, and they had to make noodles, so Mu Xiu proposed to make pancakes.
The three of them stirred the flour with eggs, the eldest sister of the Liu family lit the stove, the sister-in-law of the Chen family spread the cakes, and Mu Xiu prepared pickles.
By the time Master Niu and Master Ma came over with people, the sister-in-law of the Chen family and the eldest sister of the Liu family had already spread out hundreds of pancakes and placed them on the table
"Alright, boys, eat first, and then work when you're full." Master Niu shouted, and the young men behind him rushed over early in the morning, and now the hungry chest was close to the back, and when they heard the master's words, they all ran to the table and started moving.
"The girl's cooking skills are good, I'm going to have a good time again." Master Ma said with a smile that the last meal he ate here was arguably the most sumptuous and delicious he had eaten in all the years of working at all the owners.
"Only when you eat well can you have the mood and strength to work, this time the food is well prepared, so let's let go of the belly and eat." Mu Xiu said briskly.
This group of young men, holding pancakes and pickles, soon, more than 100 pancakes were eaten, and the pickles were also clean, here, the sister-in-law of the Chen family also poured bamboo leaf water into more than 20 large bowls on the table, and everyone was full of food and drink, and they started work.
Mu Xiu and the three of them began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Butcher Wang also sent the meat ordered by Mu Xiu over as agreed, and the sister-in-law of the Chen family and the eldest sister of the Liu family who watched it were distressed.
"It's a lot of money to buy so much meat, just let me say, just dip some meat flowers, Mu Xiu, your family just suffered a disaster, your father and Xiaohua spent a lot of money on hospitalization, and they are so laviving, this amount of money is not enough to spend!" The eldest sister of the Liu family sighed while washing the meat.
"It's not, this house is paid, just eat and be full, make it so rich, be careful that people drag it out for a few days in order to eat a few more days of good food." The sister-in-law of the Chen family nodded in agreement.
"This house is to live for a lifetime, the money is gone, you can make it again, if this house is not built solidly, but it is very troublesome, you can be frugal in others, you can't be sloppy to eat it, there are no hard vegetables, you have to prostrate in this hot day, that is, you want to work, and you don't have the strength, otherwise how can you say that people are iron rice and steel, and I believe that Master Niu will complete it on schedule." In Mu Xiu's opinion, even if there is more meat, it won't cost much.
The sister-in-law of the Chen family and the eldest sister of the Liu family are also simple people, listening to Mu Xiu say this, they will not say anything more, work hard, wash vegetables and rice, and begin to prepare meals for noon.
After washing the coarse rice, putting it in a pot and steaming, it begins to boil the big bones, and the winter melon and radish are put in the bone broth, which is delicious.
The pork belly is all diced, the potatoes and carrots are also diced, a large pot is boiled, the soup is rich, the fat exudes an attractive luster, the potatoes and carrots are also soaked in the broth, and after Mu Xiu puts it in the light soy sauce, both the taste and the color make people appetize.
The pig went down to the water Mu Xiu to clean, rubbed it with flour, washed it cleanly, and then cut it into two inches long, and also put it into the pot to stew, but added a lot of big ingredients, Mu Xiu dismantled a small bag of hot pot base, considering that everyone eats different degrees, she put in a quarter of the amount, and the pig water is to stew hard in order to taste.
Mu Xiu was busy cooking, Chen Xuhui drove an ox cart, running around the fields, fortunately, the land at Mu Xiu's house was almost ripe, and he only needed to water and pull weeds and take care of it.
But because there is too much land, Mu Xiu and Mu Xiaocao have to take care of the family and two children, and Chen Xuhui is the only one in the field, and it is a little difficult to water alone.
It's just that what makes Chen Xuhui feel strange is that after watering on weekdays, he usually has to re-water it again in two days, but this time, it takes five to six days to see that the land is dry and needs to be watered, which saves Chen Xuhui a lot of time and labor, and he can also find time to pull weeds in the ground.