"Yes, you taste it." Lin Xiaozhu said with a smile.

Where can Yuan Tianye and Shen Ziyi still care? He picked up the bowl and blew it, and then sucked a spoonful of snake soup into his mouth.

This snake soup is made by tearing the snake bones into shredded meat, adding ginger, tangerine peel, longan meat, bamboo cane water, Shao wine and other ingredients to simmer, and finally thickened with water chestnut powder. Although the Chen family does not have the seasonings of tangerine peel and longan meat, fortunately, sugarcane and water chestnuts are also planted, so that Lin Xiaozhu still makes a very delicious snake soup. The entrance of this snake soup is a smooth and glutinous taste, followed by the freshness of the snake meat, the saltiness of the seasoning, the sweetness of sugarcane, and the fragrance of water chestnut flour. Everyone was immersed in the deliciousness, and there was no sound except for the sound of sucking.

Such a delicious soup, after eating it this time, I don't know if there will be a second time. The people in the house didn't care about what the host and guest were, they drank it all by themselves, and when they saw that there was still soup in the jar, they directly scooped up their bowls, returned to their positions, and once again immersed themselves in the deliciousness. It wasn't until the big pot of soup had bottomed out that he regretfully put down the bowl and sighed, "It's so delicious." ”

Seeing this, Lin Xiaozhu was very glad that he had left a jar of snake soup in the kitchen. Otherwise, the old lady and daughter-in-law helped for a long time, but they couldn't taste a bite, and she would feel guilty.

"I've eaten a lot of snakes in my life, but I've never been able to taste like this." Chen Laohan said with emotion.

"I've taught my aunt how to do it. If you catch a snake in the future, if you want to eat it, let your aunt cook it for you. Lin Xiaozhu said with a smile.

"Hey, thank you so much, girl."

Hua'er's mother saw that everyone had finished drinking the soup, so she gave Yuan Tianye, Shen Ziyi, and Lin Xiaozhu a bowl of rice each. Old Man Chen picked up the nest head on the table and ate it slowly. The chopsticks did not clip the vinegar-fried tender pumpkin and dried fried beans fried by Lin Xiaozhu on the table, only the pickles next to them.

"Uncle, ......" Shen Ziyi saw that Yuan Tianye was just silently eating the rice in the bowl. And Lin Xiaozhu also hung his head and was silent, and finally couldn't help it and spoke. "Why don't you eat the rice and the dishes on this table?"

Chen Laohan swallowed a mouthful of wowo and said with a smile: "Childe doesn't have to be polite. We're used to it, it's fine. ”

Although Shen Ziyi is pampered. But he is also a smart person, and coupled with the conversation between Lin Xiaozhu and Yuan Tianye before entering the village, he also knows sensitively that this white rice is probably a luxury for the family. The sorghum wowotou on the table, which was mixed with half of the rice bran and dried vegetables, looked extremely coarse, and it was estimated that it was very unpalatable. He stopped talking. Silently ate the rice in the bowl.

Shen Ziyi hadn't finished his bowl of rice yet, but he heard Chen Laohan's son say, "Son, that thing is not something you can eat, put it down quickly." He raised his head, but saw that Yuan Tianye had taken a nest head, which he was breaking open and putting in his mouth.

"It's okay, I like to eat." Yuan Tianye smiled, but before he finished speaking, he choked his neck, and his face turned red. Looks like he's choking.

"Drink some water." As soon as Lin Xiaozhu saw him holding the nest head, he was already prepared, and hurriedly handed him a bowl of water.

Yuan Tianye drank the bowl of water "grunt", and then breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Childe. Speaking of which, you are not used to eating this stuff. Chen Laohan snatched the nest head from Yuan Tianye's hand, made a straight face, and shouted to Hua'er and her mother, "Why are you still stunned?" Hurry up and serve the guests a meal. ”

"Oops." Hua'er's mother hurriedly took the empty bowl in front of Yuan Tianye and brought a big bowl of rice.

Yuan Tianye took the bowl of rice, his face full of shame.

Shen Ziyi reached out to the table and took a nest head, and said, "I'll taste it." ”

Chen Laohan couldn't stop it, so he had to let him.

Fortunately, Shen Ziyi knew that he was not as good as Yuan Tianye, and what Yuan Tianye couldn't eat, he couldn't eat it, but he was just curious, broke a small piece, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and only felt that the things in his mouth were not salty or light, and there was a disgusting smell of rice bran and dried vegetables mixed together, which was coarse and unpalatable, and he couldn't swallow it at all.

"Hehe, Childe, you can't get used to this, hurry up and spit it out, don't hold it hard." Chen Laohan said with a smile.

When Shen Ziyi heard this, his face turned red, and he wanted to swallow it with some breath, but he couldn't bear to listen to his command at all, and he felt nauseous as soon as he swallowed it. I had to run out of the door and throw up.

When he returned to the house, he heard Yuan Tianye talking to Chen Laohan about the harvest. It turns out that this Northern Yan country is basically mountainous and hilly, with few fields and many mountains, and the land is barren, and this family of seven or eight people has only two acres of land. Even if you want to farm a tenant land, you don't have a tenant, so you can only rely on these wild vegetables and rice bran all year round. If there is a famine, it will be even more difficult.

"If you don't have rice, you can have a variety of dishes! Eat less vegetables to make up for it. Shen Ziyi said. The two plates of vinegar-fried tender pumpkin and dried fried beans on the table, he ate them deliciously.

Lin Xiaozhu glanced at him and said in a low voice: "Do you know that when I fry these two dishes, I use half a month's oil from their house?" ”

"Huh?" Shen Ziyi looked at the dishes in his bowl, and suddenly felt that he had lost his appetite.

But Lin Xiaozhu listened intently to the conversation between Yuan Tianye and Chen Laohan, and interjected: "I remember when I came out of Xiajia Village, didn't we eat tortillas?" That corn is more suitable for growing in mountainous areas. There are also sweet potatoes, which are also easy to grow and can be used as food, and can be promoted throughout the country. ”

Yuan Tianye's eyes lit up and looked at Lin Xiaozhu: "Really? ”

"What? Hasn't this crop been promoted here? Lin Xiaozhu frowned.

Yuan Tianye sighed: "The original court had no intention of doing such a thing. He glanced at Lin Xiaozhu and said in a low voice, "So what I did wasn't entirely for myself." ”

Lin Xiaozhu nodded. The original Duan Wang only cared about fighting for power and profit; Yuan Zhi is not a thing. If Beiyan falls into the hands of this father and son, the life of the common people will be even more difficult.

After this meal, Shen Ziyi saw the dark, smelly room and the unclean bed on the bed when he was sleeping, so he didn't say anything more, and silently followed Yuan Tianye to lie down.

When he left on the second day, Lin Xiaozhu pushed the old lady for a long time for the silver hairpin. In the end, it was Yuan Tianye who forced himself onto the seven-year-old great-grandson, and pulled Lin Xiaozhu and Shen Ziyi to walk quickly, which ended the dispute.

"Lord Yi, I can finally understand you now." After walking for a long time, Shen Ziyi said, "The difficult life of the people is just that they didn't know it before. But now that you know, how can you ignore it and just want to enjoy yourself comfortably? ”

Yuan Tianye patted him on the shoulder and did not speak.

Before leaving, the three of them had already asked for directions. Two hours to the south, you will come to a small town called Yanglin. After walking so far yesterday, Shen Ziyi couldn't bear it anymore, and there were a few big blisters under his feet, or Yuan Tianye picked it for him last night, which was better. Today is another two hours to go, and it is even more miserable. But seeing Lin Xiaozhu's tireless appearance, he had to grit his teeth and follow, without complaining about being tired. Finally, two hours later, the three of them stepped into the town.

Looking at the crowded and dazzling street market, Shen Ziyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's just stay here and wait for them to come and find it." ”

Yuan Tianye's face did not relax: "This town is too small, and I don't know if there is a money bank, whether it can be exchanged for a thousand taels of silver tickets." ”

When Shen Ziyi heard this, he lamented: "Isn't it? If not, we are penniless and must not starve to death here? ”

Lin Xiaozhu glanced at him: "If you take this piece of clothing as a pawn, you may be able to exchange it for two dollars." ”

When Shen Ziyi heard this, he looked down at the somewhat dirty brocade robe on his body, and wondered, "Can the clothes be exchanged for money?" ”

Lin Xiaozhu shook his head, not bothering to explain to him again.

It's really not a big town, just three streets. The three of them walked around the town, asked someone again, and found that there was really no money here. There are no pawnshops. If you want to exchange silver or use it as clothes, you have to go to Yizhou County, which is forty miles away. The three of them stood on the street, you look at me, I look at you, they are all a little depressed.

"What should I do?" Shen Ziyi covered his stomach and said with a sad face. When he got up in the morning, he ate a sorghum cake and drank a bowl of porridge, and he was already hungry, not to mention forty miles, it was four miles, and he couldn't walk.

Lin Xiaozhu looked at Yuan Tianye, then at Shen Ziyi, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Can't they find us, and we are starved to death like this?" ”

"Not really. I have a lot of medical skills, and I can still make a few bucks by going to other people's medical treatments. Yuan Tianye said, turning around after speaking, "Let's go, let's see all the way to see if there is anyone to treat." ”

Lin Xiaozhu already had a big plan to make money in his heart. I asked like that just now, just to see if these two big men have lost their original status and status, and even eating has become a problem. At this time, seeing that Yuan Tianye could put down his shelf and was willing to go to the streets and alleys to be a bell doctor, he felt a lot more comforted and said, "This patient is not something that can be met so suddenly. Let's eat first. Let's go, I'll take you to dinner. With that, he walked towards a place.

"Hey, don't have money to eat?" Shen Ziyi grabbed Lin Xiaozhu.

Lin Xiaozhu gave him a blank look: "Have you forgotten what I did?" ”

"You're going to cook for somebody? The restaurant originally hired a cook, and you only did it for a day or two, so you can't coax someone to quit the chef to invite you, right? Shen Ziyi said.

"I'm not a cook, I just sell recipes."

"Selling recipes?" Shen Ziyi's eyes lit up.

I just walked around the town, and everyone is familiar with what the shops in this town do. After walking a little way ahead, you will arrive at the best restaurant in this town - Linfeng Ju.

At this time, it was time for lunch, and there were many customers in the restaurant. Seeing Lin Xiaozhu and the three of them coming in, Xiao Er hurriedly greeted him: "Guest officer, but you want to eat?" Inside please. ”

"I'm looking for your shopkeeper to negotiate a deal with him." Lin Xiaozhu said.

Xiao Er looked at the three of them, and when he saw that Yuan Tianye and Shen Ziyi were dressed brightly, he didn't dare to slack off, so he invited the three of them to sit in the inner room, and said, "Please wait a while." (To be continued)