Lu Caiqing climbed onto the kang when he entered the house, and he was not restrained, he breathed hard with his hands, rubbed his little hands and said, "Master! It's too cold in your house! How do you learn in such an environment? ”

Yang Yibao listened, sat at the desk and said, "Isn't this the thirty-ninth day of the great cold?" At the end of the year, it is called cold, and when the time comes, just burn a charcoal basin in the house. ”

"I knew that you three big men would definitely not warm up the house, but today I came, and I have to stay for a day, how can I stay in such a cold house!" Lu Caiqing was a little reluctant to dislike this house.

"Sister Caiqing! You and your eldest brother really want to stay here for a day! It's so good, it's cold, I haven't gone out much, I haven't been home for half a month, and I'm thinking about it so much that you guys are here. Song Zifei happily circled around the two.

Song Ziyu saw it, felt sorry for her daughter-in-law, fortunately she had a lot of eyes, afraid that the master would not have heating equipment at home, and when she left, she took some carbon at home, just lit it and put it in the house to keep warm.

He hurriedly went out and found a small bag of charcoal on the ox cart and carried it on his shoulder, and walked in, found Uncle Wang, took out the charcoal basin, found a fire fold, lit the dry branches at the bottom, put the charcoal on it, and the house was warm in a while.

Uncle Wang saw that the charcoal was red and there were no sparks outside, and said happily: "Pick a green girl!" This charcoal must be very expensive! The old man is frugal, and he is reluctant to buy charcoal in winter, but when it is really cold, he uses the stove that has not been burned in the stove and puts it in the charcoal basin to keep warm. ”

Lu Caiqing heard this, and said to Uncle Wang: "That was before, now that I am here, you are blessed, Uncle Wang, you are waiting for the New Year in the warm hut this year!" ”

"Look at you! Now that I have a lot of money, I don't have a backache when I speak, and the charcoal sold in this city is expensive, and we are just borrowing your light today. Uncle Wang looked at the master of his family, shook his head and said.

"Eh! Uncle Wang! How can you tell my apprentice that you are suffering, don't we live like this every year? She is a girl, and it is a bit extravagant to spend money on charcoal when it is cold, and we big men are afraid of the cold. Yang Yibao said stiffly.

Song Ziyu took over the conversation and said, "Sir! Uncle Wang! The little daughter-in-law said that this is not what she means, she means that you don't need to buy this charcoal, you can burn it yourself, and it's okay for us to come today, so it's better to teach Uncle Heizi how to make charcoal, and you can make a fire every day to keep warm in the future. ”

When Kuroko heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Really? You can also make your own charcoal, who taught you? Is it good or not, is it difficult to learn? ”

"Of course it's me! Who else should teach this little thing, think for yourself, think about it and do it! ”

"Pick green! What is your brain made of, are you really a country girl? I suspect that you are a fairy who fell from the sky, an omnipotent, self-taught god-man. "Kuroko admires her so much now, so he calls her master.

"I didn't expect you to praise Uncle Heizi, but it sounds very useful, I love to listen to it." Lu Caiqing happily joked with him.

Yang Yibao was amazed in her heart, she picked up a treasure, she deserved to be a baby apprentice she collected, her ghost brain is really peculiar, she can dig wells, know how to dig ditches, raise lotuses, farm, and make charcoal, omnipotence is really appropriate.

Lu Caiqing looked at the master and lowered his head in contemplation, thinking that he had just quarreled with him, he was a little angry, so he moved to the edge of the kang, left the warm little kang head, and said, "Master! It's almost time for lunch, I brought the ingredients, how about making you a pickled cabbage fish? Don't be angry with the apprentice, the apprentice won't be angry with you next time, isn't this also to increase the festive atmosphere, I don't mean to be more serious with you. ”

Yang Yibao listened to it, and then he came to his senses, he was angry, he just recalled her invention and creation for a while, but when he heard that she brought delicious food in order to coax herself, she got off the donkey, and said with a smile in seconds: "Count you clever, you know what the master likes, then don't do it, let's improve the food at lunch." ”

Uncle Wang listened to it and said happily: "The master is angry, it doesn't work for me and Heizi to persuade anything, or let's Cai Qing know what the master likes, you look at this happy, or Cai Qing will coax people." ”

Everyone talked and laughed, Song Ziyu took Uncle Heizi and Zifei to the outside of the yard, and briefly explained the method of making charcoal, and then the three of them began to act, chose a vacant land outside the yard, and then dug a door-shaped exit where there was dirt, and the inside was gradually enlarged, forming a closed kiln mouth.

At the same time, looking for wood, the wood was all chopped by Uncle Kuroko, and it was cut into length again to accommodate the standard of the cave entrance. A large amount of wood is piled up in the charcoal kiln, which then ignites the wood and continuously fanns the kiln to transport air.

From the beginning of wood burning, Song Ziyu has been squatting outside the kiln mouth to watch, these are the last after continuous improvement, he has mastered the technology, directly made charcoal.

He also taught Uncle Heizi and Zifei the simple operation, so that he could also master the method of making charcoal.

Lu Caiqing took Uncle Wang to make this sauerkraut fish on the stove.

First of all, I took a fresh carp that was relatively large, cleaned it up, and generally used grass carp to make sauerkraut fish, but Lu Caiqing's family only raised one kind of carp this time, so I used carp instead.

Once cleaned, shave off the head and bones for later use. Cut the fish into slices, add a pinch of salt, rice wine, add an appropriate amount of lard, mix well, and marinate for a quarter of an hour.

Take out another sauerkraut and cut it into shreds for later use.

Put ginger and garlic in a hot pan with cold oil, fry the fish head and fish bones until golden brown on both sides, pour in cold water, and wait for the soup to cook until milky white.

Then let the oil be put in, fry the ginger and garlic in the hot pan with cold oil, add the sauerkraut, and the pickled pepper was brought by Lu Caiqing's family, so it was specially prepared for this dish, stir-fried the fragrance, and then introduced the previous fish soup into the cauldron, boiled together, put the fish fillets in the pot, and saw the fish fillets rolled up, and a pot of delicious sauerkraut fish was ready.

Served the crispy sauce duck that had been made at home before, served a large pot of delicious sauerkraut fish, washed the sweet potatoes from home and stacked them at the bottom of the pot, added water, and put the dumplings with three fresh fillings on the steamer on the sweet potatoes to heat them up.

Uncle Wang's eyes straightened, watching Cai Qing busy coming and going, and after a while, the lunch was ready, the fragrant sweet potatoes, and the small dumplings like ingots, swallowing sour water in his mouth.

Lu Caiqing also prepared vinegar, soy sauce and garlic, which are essential things for northerners to eat dumplings.

Called Song Ziyu and Heizi back, washed their hands and ate, Song Zifei's eyes lit up, and he asked happily: "Sister Caiqing!" In the days when I'm not at home, you've impressed me again, what else do you don't know about, and what else you won't? ”

Lu Caiqing smiled slightly after hearing this: "People! As long as you observe and study carefully, the human brain will have endless knowledge waiting to be developed. Zifei! Learn endlessly, and you'll understand later. ”

Yang Yibao listened, nodded incessantly, and said, "Cai Qing!" Sometimes the master thinks again, it's a bit ashamed to accept you as an apprentice! You have a wider vision than Master, you can see thoroughly, and you can think clearly. ”

"Master! Don't say that, there is a specialization in the art industry, your knowledge is beyond my reach, your vision is countless times higher than mine, you are rich in learning, full of economy, these are what I have not learned, these small inventions of mine are just opportunistic, Master, you are too exalted to me. Lu Caiqing said modestly.

In fact, she also knew that the so-called wells, ditches, and charcoal making were really imitations, not their own originals, so in order to let the master understand, he could only say that it was opportunistic.

Kuroko looked at the table full of food, and said anxiously: "Two scholars, let's start the meal first, I'm hungry!" ”

Lu Caiqing and Yang Yibao focused on the meal at this time.

Uncle Wang was busy for a long time, very interested in this sauerkraut fish, just listening to the name began to swallow saliva, picked up a piece of translucent fish fillet, and dripping golden sour soup, stuffed into his mouth, the taste of sauerkraut stimulated the taste buds, and the boneless fish meat was very smooth.

After eating, everyone hugged their stomachs one by one, and they were full of praise and said that it was delicious.

In the afternoon, Song Ziyu took Heizi and Zifei outside to burn charcoal.

Uncle Wang stood in the house and waited for the old man to drink tea, and then sat next to the charcoal basin to add fire.

Lu Caiqing moved a stool to sit next to Uncle Wang, stretched out his hand to keep warm, raised his eyes and saw Yang Yibao reading, and couldn't help but say, "Master! When I was at home a few days ago, I rented the orchard of Brother Li's house, and there were about 700 peach trees in the orchard of seven acres of land, and I wanted to graft fruit branches. ”

Yang Yibao listened, put down the book in his hand, and replied: "Fruit trees? How can there be so many fruit trees in his house, why didn't I hear about it when I went to your house. ”

When Lu Caiqing heard this, she told Duo'er about being sold by her grandmother to pay off his second uncle's gambling debts, and how she rescued her from beginning to end.

Back to the topic, Yang Yibao said: "Cai Qing! You really asked the right person, I know that there are more than a dozen acres of fruit trees in Taojia Village, but they grow apples, not peaches as you say. ”

Lu Caiqing frowned when he heard this and said: "Then you can't graft, I mean I want to plant peaches, we have less of this thing, almost nothing, if you graft apples, you will come to Taojia Village, and it is not a rare thing on the market, the price is definitely not high, and the peach is different, the thing is rare and expensive, and it must be sold at a good price." ”

"Then we don't have a branch to be grafted here, how do you graft?" Yang Yibao is also anxious for this apprentice.

"It's okay! My eldest brother said that he would go to the capital to inquire about me and find some sources of goods, but this flowering period is also a problem, and it seems that the eldest brother will have to solve it together. Lu Caiqing muttered.

"It looks like you're going to come empty-handed, apprentice?" Yang Yibao said to him teasingly.