Gu Yanzhang saw that Ji Qingling really stepped on a small walk to get out, he didn't jump halfway, he didn't forget to look back at himself after walking a few steps, with a smile on his face, he couldn't help but follow two steps, his heart was as sweet as a bee that had just picked a circle of flowers from outside, his legs were sweet pollen, his mouth was full of honey, and even his whole body was fragrant, even if he knew that there were still a lot of things to do in the future, this time he was even more tired, and he didn't feel tired at all.

With a smile on his face, he walked outside.

The two of them made it clear to the host of the inn, and bought two large bamboos with their own money, cut the bamboo leaves, and dragged the long bamboo poles back.

This bamboo is a bamboo, it looks very rough, but it grows tall and grows up is very good, the two sent people out to buy utensils, because it was just a trial, so they first cut three small pieces of bamboo down, only as a test hand, and sent people to find the local skilled bamboo craftsmen, coppersmith masters, ready for the next day to call.

Ji Qingling moved a few small pieces to help him, while using a dagger to cut off the protrusions, barbs, and bamboo branches on the outside of the bamboo pole, while smiling with Gu Yanzhang: "I remember that when I went south that day, I saw that there were people in Guizhou who liked to cook rice with bamboo tubes, saying that it was a different fragrance, and then I tasted it once, and it was really delicious." ”

Gu Yanzhang said, "Then let's eat bamboo rice tonight?" ”

Saying that, he really cut down two sections of bamboo, asked someone to take them to the kitchen, and commanded for a while, before turning his head and asking Ji Qingling: "Would you like to ask the kitchen to put more chestnuts for you?" If there is taro in this place, let them put some taro in it. ”

Ji Qingling's eyes were about to glow, and he nodded again and again, but he only knew how to purse his mouth and smile.

She listened to the words of the fifth brother who had just been assigned by the same person, and sure enough, she came according to the practice of Guizhou, using glutinous rice mixed with japonica rice, and using chickens, mushrooms, ginger, etc., accompanied by taro, chestnuts, dried bamboo shoots and other accessories, washed everything, added water and put it into the bamboo tube, and put the bamboo tube on the fire and burned it for half an hour, until the shell of the bamboo body was burned black, and then split the bamboo tube with an axe.

At that time, several kinds of food will be in one place, chestnuts, taro fragrant, shiitake mushrooms are fragrant and fragrant, the young chicken is fragrant and soft, a bite of the gravy, mixed with tender and crispy chicken skin and the bitten chicken skin oozing out of the butter, and the spicy taste of ginger, and with crispy dried bamboo shoots, and then a little thick sauce into it, in fact, there are no rare ingredients, but it can be called delicious.

Ji Qingling had only eaten it once, and he didn't know if it was because he was hungry or for other reasons, so he really wanted to bite his tongue off, and when he saw that someone took the bamboo down, he was already looking forward to dinner for a while, and couldn't help but smile and look at Gu Yanzhang, and whispered: "Fifth brother is really good." ”

At this time, Gu Yanzhang sent people out, looked back at Ji Qingling's excited expression, and said a little funny, "It's just a bamboo tube rice, it's worth being so happy?" I'm not good on weekdays? ”

Ji Qingling pursed her lips and smiled, but did not speak, only lowered her head embarrassedly, carefully sharpened the bamboo knots in her hand, and after a long while, she quietly raised her head and glanced at Gu Yanzhang.

She collided with the other party's eyes looking at her.

Gu Yanzhang originally wanted to catch the fault of this one, and he wanted to use it to beg for benefits, but at this time, he saw Ji Qingling looking at him, his chin drooping, half raising his head, just like a lotus floating water, his cheeks were pink, each with two small lumps of meat, his eyes were not like cold water, but like a clear spring, and he could see the bottom at a glance, which was clear and transparent.

His mind was slightly numb for a while, and he didn't remember what he was going to say, he only knew how to look at Ji Qingling and smile.

The two young couples looked at each other and smirked, but did not speak, and after a while, they each smiled and lowered their heads to work.

Gu Yanzhang's heart was sweet, but he kept in his hands, only standing the bamboo tube upright on the ground, using an iron hammer to hammer the big iron rod all the way down from the hollow place of the bamboo tube, changing the iron rod of different sizes, carefully hitting the bamboo joint, and then stuck a piece of bamboo under the bamboo pole, and took the bamboo strip and stuck it on the bamboo pole and stretched it straight to the bamboo pole, which was considered to be a grain extractor.

Things look simple, but it's not easy to do, especially the two of them have no experience, and it's already very laborious to get through the bamboo joints, that is, to make the bamboo pieces that can be controlled with bamboo strips, it is also very difficult, and it's easy to make things well, and the sky outside is already dark.

At this time, a servant had already brought a load of grain into the house from outside, and poured it into an empty bucket that was placed in the middle of the house—a barrel borrowed from the inn.

Soon the barrel was filled with grain.

Ji Qingling first took the bamboo pole that was done to take grain, inserted it into the grain of the wooden barrel, and after a while, he felt that the bamboo pole in his hand touched the bottom of the barrel, so he turned the bamboo strip and sealed the bottom of the bamboo tube, and tried the weight of the hand again, and felt that the bamboo tube was half full, so he lifted the bamboo tube, removed the bamboo pieces at the bottom again, and poured the grain inside into the rice bucket on the side, and repeated it three times, and finally filled a bucket.

On the table not far away, there was already a small mill.

Ji Qingling went over with the bucket of grain, took a porcelain cup of grain, and poured a cup into the entrance of the grinding disc first.

Gu Yanzhang didn't ask the rest of the people to do it, and grinded the grain by himself with the wooden handle.

It was slow to make a grain extractor before, but now it is very fast from taking grain to grinding rice, as if it is just a blink of an eye, and the skin of that bucket of grain has been crushed off.

Ji Qingling put the milled rice back into the bucket, measured it once, the rice rate is about sixty percent of the millet is a little lower, because it is late, only the oil lamp is lit in the house, the light is not bright, and it is not easy to identify the rice grains that are grinded out, so he put it aside first, and will come to see it tomorrow.

At this time, the meal had already been prepared, the two cleaned their hands, went to the side hall, ate a fragrant bamboo tube rice with a cool drink, washed up with satisfaction, and discussed until midnight before falling asleep together.

The next morning, when Ji Qingling woke up, her surroundings were already empty, she got up, put on her shoes and went out to take a look, the grain, stone mill, and bamboo tube outside were gone, only one Qiulu sat at the table doing needlework, and when she saw her come out, she hurriedly stood up and asked, "Madame is up?" The official asked to prepare tung skin noodles, and there was a white porridge with water chestnut cake, which one do you want to eat in the morning? ”

Ji Qingling got up in the morning and didn't want to eat sweet, so he ordered tung skin noodles, and then went into the house to freshen up.

When she was done, she sat down at the table to comb her hair, but she saw a few thin flat bamboo skewers on the table, with a small hole at the top, and red, black, and gray tassels hanging on the top of her head.

Ji Qingling looked curious, picked up one casually, and was about to take a closer look, only to hear Qiu Lu next to him: "I just forgot, the official did it in the morning, only half of it, and when he saw that the time was about the same, he hurried to the yamen, saying that he would give it to his wife when it was done in the evening, and he originally ordered me to put it away first, but I watched you rest in it, and I didn't want to open the drawer, but I was afraid of making a noise, and I didn't want to fall here." ”

"Is it a bookmark?" Ji Qingling heard Qiu Lu speak, so he took the bamboo skewer closer, and saw that a poem was hastily written on it, which had been changed crookedly, and there were only five words, which was "grass and trees have no heart".

Thinking of the next sentence, she couldn't help but smile, secretly took a sip of the person, and put the bookmark back, and then sat up straight and waited for Qiu Lu to comb her hair.