This is natural, let me tell you, you should open a fish restaurant, specializing in selling fish food, what steamed, braised boiled, fried, boiled soup......" Song Jiu seemed to have found a treasure, and counted it with his fingers.

"I'm just eating in the countryside, where can I get to the hall of elegance!" Du Mei was shocked by his bold statement, the food Song Jiu said was a common thing in her opinion, she never thought of using these cooking skills to open a store and do business seriously.

"It's not that you are asked to compete with Zuixianlou for elegance, what you make is just a farmhouse dish with real food and delicious food!" Song Jiu rolled his eyes, he felt that Du Mei was very unenlightened, so he encouraged vigorously.

"Farmhouse food? Isn't this also a restaurant that attracts diners, I'm afraid it's not good, the drunken fairy building in Qinghe County was opened by Sister Fengxian, if I open a fish restaurant again, it is obvious that I am robbing her business, no, no! Du Mei shook his head repeatedly.

Qinghe County is not as prosperous as Jiangling City, and there are not many people who can go to the restaurant for banquets every day, and Du Mei doesn't want to get a piece of the pie in his friends' bowls.

"You brainless, if you don't open it, won't others open it either! Could it be that Qinghe County can only open one restaurant? Song Jiu was a little angry.

"I don't care what happens to others, only I can't do this." Du Mei still shook his head.

"You have 100 acres of water to raise fish, and you have such a big store, your cooking skills are good, the time and place are favorable, you occupy them all, you can't do it!" Song Jiu regretted very much, such a good business opportunity was unimaginable to others.

"I'm just an authentic country girl, the fields on the farm, the ducks at home, there are so many things, how can I be trapped in the store every day to make fish." Du Mei said very reluctantly.

"If you don't think it's monotonous to make fish, there are a few chefs in my family who are good at cooking Hui cuisine, so let's join forces then." Song Jiu was unwilling and threw out a very tempting statement.

"I'm not going to do this yet, I'll talk about it later." Du Mei lifted the lid of the pot and looked at it, the water was boiling, gurgling and steaming, and the kitchen was full of smoke.

"Okay, when you figure it out, you must cooperate with me." Song Jiu knew that he couldn't force this matter now, so he had to give up for the time being.

"Of course." Du Mei smiled back, so as not to say anything more, Du Mei hurriedly responded.

Early the next morning, Du Zhong and the Lin family came with two ox carts, plus Du Shu, there were more than ten laborers, the women brushed the rice in the field and put it down, and the men tied it neatly, piled it on the ox cart, and pulled it to the threshing floor together.

Lin Ying took the boys and girls to dry the rice stalks on the threshing floor, because they came early, and the rice stalks of other families had not yet arrived, and the huge field was only drying Du Mei's family.

At the beginning of the morning, she waited for the cotton ginning couple at the entrance of the village and placed them in the open space in front of the village.

The husband and wife, the man's name is Zhang Yongnian, and the woman's name is Wang, they are both hardworking and hard-working, they quickly built a shed in the open space, neatly settled the guys, and began to gin.

The creaking of the cable machine attracted the old people and children of the village to come and see the excitement. Xie's belly was as big as a basket, she frowned, and walked around the shed, her child was about to be born, and she was about to be wrapped in cotton wool.

The stone assisted Du Mei in transporting cotton back and forth, although he didn't like to talk, his eyes were very poisonous, and when he saw Xie Shi wandering, he knew it in his heart, and his eyes stared at her for a moment.

Xie Shi seemed to feel the unkindness of the stone, and looked at him, and saw that his face was sinking like water, and his eyes were full of frost, and he couldn't help but be startled, as if he had been caught as a thief.

The three little ones were all at home to help Xu's prepare lunch, and Du Zhong and the others were doing manual work, and they couldn't be treated badly in eating. There is only one idler in the family, Song Jiu, he can't sit still, he runs around, one moment to say how much has been harvested in the field, and another time to say how many bags of cotton have been rolled, in short, he is three points busier than a serious person.

Everyone was left to him, and Du Mei felt that it was good for his body that he was running around like this, and he didn't have much time to think about it, so he didn't care about him, and when he saw that he was idle, he sent him to the threshing floor to watch the rice.

Song Jiu had never seen these, after lunch, he followed to see, rice is a full physical work, only men can do it, the rice stalks that have been dried all morning, Du Zhong and they each held a handful of rice stalks in their hands, and beat them the lying stone mills, until the ripe rice grains fell off and splashed out.

The women and children were busy gathering the scattered paddy, removing the crumbs of the straw, blowing it in the wind, and then spreading the clean rice in another place to dry.

The cable machine is operated by manpower crank, Zhang Yongnian and Wang have been doing it for a day, their hands are tired and sore, but they haven't even finished half of it, Zhang Yongnian can't help but feel a little anxious.

It was completely dark, and at Du Mei's repeated urging, the rice harvesters and cotton ginning men finished their work and ate together. The dinner in the evening was very rich, and Xu's cooking skills were very good, Du Mei took out the soju and gave each of them a little drink, all of which should relieve their fatigue.

The women and children of the Lin family squeezed into sleep at Du Mei's house, and the men all left with Du Zhong, because the rice was still piled up on the threshing floor, Lin Yong and Lin Sheng were young, and they slept all night next to the rice. There are more than one rice trees on the threshing floor, and the snoring in the middle of the night is a loud mark of the autumn harvest.

Zhang Yongnian hung a horse lantern in the shed to catch up with the work, the sound of the cable machine sounded in the middle of the night in the autumn night, and the snoring on the threshing floor was the deepest memory of the villagers in the autumn of this year.

On the evening of the second day, in the admiring eyes of the villagers, Du Mei's rice was all harvested, and more than a dozen sacks were neatly stacked.

"Ah Zhong." Du Shicheng trembled to the threshing floor with a stick.

"Uncle Shicheng, don't worry, we will go to your field to harvest tomorrow, and we can see new rice in two days." Du Zhong knew why Du Shicheng came, and without waiting for him to speak, he said directly.

"Although the yield in my field has been reduced, you and Du Shu are not so fast." When Du Shicheng saw that Du Zhong said that it would be done in two days, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, but he was afraid that he would waste the food perfunctorily.

"No, Meizi said, let the Lin brothers also come to help at that time, isn't it very soon." Du Zhong was not annoyed when he saw that he had misunderstood, but only explained the reason in detail.

"Did Meizi really say that?" Du Shicheng's voice trembled.

He remembered that the old woman had changed her way to bully the second room, and now Du Mei was still able to treat him like this regardless of his previous suspicions, and he really didn't feel good in his heart.

"What's there to fool you!" Du Zhong buried himself in his work, and did not notice Du Shicheng's changed face.

"Erjinah......" The corners of Du Shicheng's shriveled mouth twitched, and he sighed loudly.

Erjin is the best among Du Shicheng's three sons, and he spares the most effort to work, but good people don't live long. His death knocked down Du Shicheng almost overnight, because the second room gave birth to four girls in a row, the old woman was very unconscious, the chickens and dogs jumped at home, and it has not been peaceful, causing him to be angry, and his body is deteriorating, and now he is declining to this point, but he wants the big girl Du Mei in the second room to have mercy and help, which makes his old face where to rest!

After thinking about it, Du Shicheng regretted it, but how can there be regret medicine sold in this world? He paced home slowly, thinking to himself that something seemed to be a good time to be planned.

Looking at Zhang Yongnian's progress, it will take a lot of time to ginning cotton and quilts, and now that the rice grains are returned to the warehouse, the harvest is similar to that of previous years, Du Mei has nothing to worry about, so he handed over the home to his mother and sisters, and went to take care of his own affairs. Because the eldest girl has to take care of Huang Yiping, Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong have to help take care of the Song family's grain boat, so Du Mei has to be taken care of in the grain shop in Sheshan Town every day, Song Jiu has naturally been following her, and has been trying to persuade Du Mei to change her mind.

Du Mei was so calloused by this remark that she really couldn't do it, so she had to take him to Ye Qing, but she didn't expect that these two teenagers with very different personalities were actually very close to each other, and after saying goodbye to Dujiagou Chongyang Banquet, they met at this time, and they were very cordial.

Du Mei left them and went back to take care of the grain shop, and her ears were much cleaner for a while, so she took out the medical book that He Lian gave her and read it.

This book is really a treasure, although the text on it is difficult to understand, but the annotations next to it are very detailed, and this annotation is different due to the font, the ink is different, Du Mei can basically judge that there are at least three people who wrote the annotations.

Because he had to read the original text and the annotations, and he had to understand and memorize them, Du Mei read very slowly, and he only read about a dozen pages at this time.

Zhong Yu has always been light-footed, when he came in, he saw Du Mei who was engrossed lying behind the counter reading a book, at this time Du Mei was seeing a place that he didn't understand, frowning and thinking carefully, still couldn't understand it, couldn't help but be a little thirsty anxiously, her eyes were staring at the book, and she came to touch the tea cup with her hand.

"Burn your hands carefully!" Zhong Yu saw that the tea cup was steaming, so he was afraid of burning her, so he said something to stop her.

"Why is Uncle Zhong Yu here?" Dumay looked up at him, was very happy, and stood up to give up his seat.

"The countryside is busy with the autumn harvest, I'll take a look at you." Zhong Yu sat down next to the table with his robe on his robe.

"With Uncle Zhong and Uncle Lin, my family's rice has been recovered." Du Meixin made a cup of tea and put it in Zhong Yu's hand.

"Is there a reduction in production?" Because Du Mei runs a grain store, Zhong Yu is particularly concerned about the grain harvest.

"I don't have it at home, I don't know how others are, wait a few days, scoop up new rice, I'll send some to my uncle to taste, I don't know how the taste of these two rice crops." Du Mei sat down on the other side of the table.

"Well, when you go to Shili Baxiang to harvest rice and come back, you will buy another batch in the medical hall." Zhong Yu's Yu Jitang has more than a dozen people from the coachman to the man, and he doesn't care about these daily eating and drinking chores on weekdays, but because Du Mei has done this, he pays more attention to himself.

"I'll definitely leave the best for my uncle." Du Mei smiled crookedly.

"I don't know where you just looked?" Zhong Yu glanced at the books spread out on the counter.