Although Zhang Da is older than Zhou Huihui, Zhang Luo is only twenty, and it is not wrong to call Zhou Huihui a sister.

She spoke softly, and Jiang Xiaonian listened to it, and she had a feeling of pity.

After thinking about it for a while, she said to Zhou Huihui: "Mother, why don't you let them do some work for my family?" ”

Zhou Huihui was stunned for a moment and said, "Our family is not a rich family, what kind of work can we do?" ”

Jiang Xiaonian blinked and said, "Didn't our family collect the insects in the field to feed the chickens?" Now there are quite a few more in this season, let them exchange these things for food. ”

After that, he turned his head to look at Zhang Luoshi and said, "Auntie, what do you think?" ”

When Zhang Da heard that he could exchange food, he was energetic, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of insect is in the field?" How much does it take to exchange for food? ”

Jiang Xiaonian said loudly: "If you agree, I will take you to recognize, as long as you are not lazy, there is no problem in changing two catties of rice a day, of course, you can also choose to change flour." ”

Hearing that he could exchange two catties of rice a day, Zhang Da hurriedly nodded and said, "Okay, I'll do it!" ”

Today, for the sake of these ten catties of rice, he has lost face, and he can exchange rice for insects, which is simply a pie in the sky.

Jiang Xiaonian took Zhang Da to the field and river to recognize the yellow eel, snail and river mussel, and formulated exchange rules with him.

Two yellow eels can be exchanged for one cake, and if you collect ten, you can exchange it for half a catty of flour.

The snail is weighed by the catty, the gross weight is five catties for one catty of flour, and ten catties for one catty of rice.

River mussels are the same as yellow eels, one by one, ten for half a catty of flour, too small do not be.

These things are very common, they are everywhere in the field, if he is diligent, it is estimated that he can change five or six catties of flour a day, Jiang Xiaonian said, two catties of flour can be exchanged for one catty of rice, so converted, three catties of rice a day is no problem.

That's a lot better than farming!

The annual rice output is just that, and they have to pay field tax, and after a year of hard work, almost all of them go into the pockets of the government, and the common people have no grain in their hands at all.

Even if there are many men in the family, there may still be money, but he is the main force in his family, and he can't grow much food after working hard.

It was a timely rain that saved their family's lives!

After thanking the Jiang family, Zhang Da went to the field, the snail can be stored, he plans to pick up some in the afternoon, and send it to the Jiang family the next day.

Jiang Xiaonian looked at him with such a happy look, and also knew that his nature was not bad, but he was forced by life to do such a thing as stealing.

After Jiang Mengliang taught Zhou Yuming how to grind the stone, he told him not to let others know, so he took the whole family on the donkey cart and rushed home, and Li Tiezhu had already gone back after eating lunch.

At this time, it was already dusk, and a long red glow appeared on the horizon.

Passing by a huge pond, not far from Wangjia Village, the lotus flowers in it were about to be thanked, which made Jiang Xiaonian's eyes light up.

I don't know if the people here know that the lotus seeds in the lotus pod can be eaten, and there should be a lot of lotus seeds in this lotus pond.

In the next few days, Jiang Xiaonian tried to burn green bricks, and at the same time dragged Jiang Wei, who was out of school, to pick lotus seeds in a pond not far away.

Jiang Xiaonian can swim, and now it's not cold, every time she goes into the water, she puts a big wooden basin in front of her, and puts the lotus canopy in the wooden basin, and when she is tired of swimming, she can also rest with the buoyancy of the wooden basin.

And Jiang Wei could only watch from the side, and by the way, he carried the picked lotus canopy and followed Jiang Xiaonian on the shore.

The two picked half a sack on the first day, and Jiang Xiaonian peeled one and put it in his mouth, which was very tender and sweet.

Jiang Mengliang and Zhou Huihui went to Zhou Huihui's mother's house again on this day to see the progress of the stone mill, and by the way, they sent some lotus seeds to them to eat.

Whenever Jiang Xiaonian has new ingredients here, Zhou Huihui will always give some to her parents to try.

Although Jiang Mengliang has always regarded the two old men of the Zhou family as his own father and mother, when he sees them getting along with Zhou Huihui, there is always some loss.

It would be great if his father and mother could treat themselves like this.

He still has a little expectation for family affection in his heart.

They came back from lunch at Zhou's house, and when they came back, smoke billowed from the courtyard.

Jiang Xiaonian was the only one in the house, and when the two saw this scene, they were startled and rushed straight to the direction of the smoke.

Isn't there going to be a fire in the house?

Just as they rushed into the backyard, they heard Jiang Xiaonian's excited voice: "Finally succeeded!" That's great! ”

Immediately afterward, I saw her come out of the smoke with a green brick that had just been cooled with water, and her face was covered with black ash.

Zhou Huihui hurriedly stepped forward and took Jiang Xiaonian to turn left and right, and after turning around several times, she still asked uneasily: "Xiaonian, are you okay?" What's going on? ”

In the past few days, Jiang Mengliang has also participated in the process of firing green bricks, and at this moment, when he saw a green brick lying in front of Jiang Xiaonian, he immediately understood what was going on.

He hurriedly walked up and knocked on the bricks on the ground with tongs, and said with an ecstatic smile: "Xiao Nian, this is a green brick!" This is really a green brick! Great, we made it! ”

Jiang Xiaonian showed a smile, nodded and said, "Dad, let's do more and build a chicken coop, right?" ”

She told Jiang Mengliang that the original intention of firing green bricks was to build a chicken coop, and it has been successful at the moment, and with the method of firing green bricks, the first time is of course to complete her original intention.

Naturally, building a house with green bricks in the future is another matter.

Zhou Huihui saw that Jiang Xiaonian was fine, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Xiaonian, what are you going to do in the future, let your father do it, you are so scary, my heart is about to jump out." ”

Jiang Xiaonian looked at Zhou Huihui with a smile and nodded obediently, it was a blessing to have her mother's worry and care.

Jiang Mengliang and Jiang Xiaonian worked hard, and Zhou Huihui made dinner.

After a few days, the chicken coop was ready, Jiang Xiaonian looked at the neat and solid blue brick wall in front of him, and showed a satisfied smile.

At the same time, the shops in the town were also renovated, and the Jiang family went to take a look.

Qian Dehou originally wanted to change the signboard to Qian Jiang Restaurant, but Jiang Xiaonian refused, saying that she was only the logistics and the person who came up with ideas behind the scenes, and did not participate in the operation, and the restaurant would just use the original name.

After the reopening of the new restaurant, breakfast was introduced, and the restaurant used to only serve lunch and dinner, but now the store is bigger, and you can't miss the time in the morning.

Jiang Xiaonian taught Qian Dehou to make ramen, after adding water to the flour and kneading it for a period of time, pulling it into thin noodles, scooping a spoonful of bone broth, putting a little chopped green onion and pork, and adding a little Jiang Xiaonian's homemade chopped chili, which is very delicious.

In addition to ramen, she also taught Qian Dehou how to make steamed buns and dumplings.

The Jiang family's flour is fine, the noodles taste very good, and the buns are several times better than others.