Chapter 65: Good Craftsmanship
That afternoon, the sun was already shining on the east wall, and Lao Su stretched his waist and finally woke up.
His stretching movement is particularly stretched and lazy, so that people who see it can't wait to find a place to sleep immediately, Lao Su's stretching seems to be contagious.
After stretching his waist, he pulled the unprecedented shoes and walked out of the door, it turned out that the four big stoves in front of the door had been demolished, and the ground was leveled, which was done by two plasterers invited by Jiang Jiang.
At this time, the two plasterers stood in front of the door, looking at Lao Su with a complicated expression.
A little farther away, Aunt Mu, Aunt Sun, and a few of them were standing there. Sun Xiaobei stood at the front, holding his chest with his hands, and his lower lip was long.
"Lao Su, are you ready?" Jiang Jiang came over and asked him with a smile, "Someone is waiting for you to wash your feet!" ”
Lao Su rolled up his sleeves, took the tools in the hands of the plasterer, and used them very skillfully.
The two plasterers were very disdainful of him, and when they saw the work in his hands, they couldn't help but be in awe, even a veteran craftsman of many years could not do this work so smoothly and skillfully.
Not to mention that his work is exceptionally beautiful. The stones are stacked neatly and smoothly, you are moderately thick, and the speed of the stove is extremely fast, which is dazzling to see.
"Damn, this guy must have been a plasterer before!" Sun Xiaobei looked at Lao Su who was building the stove in an orderly manner and said.
But Lao Su was so distracted that he couldn't hear what others were saying.
Soon, a long clay stove was revealed.
"Oh my God, what kind of stove is this?" Aunt Mu's voice rang up uncontrollably: "How can there be such a stove?" A long list of families is not separated, can this be easy to burn? ”
There were a lot of people next to her, but no one answered her, because everyone had this question in their hearts.
With the high barrier of the stove, a small square hole appears at intervals.
"What are these holes for?" Aunt Mu still couldn't help but ask curiously: "If the stove mouth for adding firewood is too high, right?" Besides, it's too small! She thinks that she has been dealing with the pot stove for most of her life, but the stove that Lao Su built made her unbelievable.
Jiang Jiang invited the two plasterers to come, originally wanting them to help him, but who would have thought that these two people were dumbfounded, and Lao Su had no intention of letting the two of them help.
At most, it was only an hour and a half, and a large stove more than ten meters long had basically been completed.
This stove is roughly rectangular in shape, with a total of eight pots, four oversized and four slightly smaller, which can hold a total of eight iron pots.
It's almost double their original size. "Does this thing work?" Sun Xiaobei still disagreed: "People say that the stove is like a cigarette pouch, can such a long cigarette pouch pole move?" In my opinion, I can't smoke even if my lips are broken! ”
Some people in the crowd nodded and echoed Sun Xiaobei's statement, such a long stove, only two stove doors, is this enough to burn?
Lao Su stood up and said to Jiang Jiang: "This stove is set up, the next thing is to burn dry, don't put hard wood at the beginning, put some soft firewood and burn it on a small fire." If it is burned too hard, the mud skin will crack, and the stove will not last long. ”
Jiang Jiang agreed, and asked Aunt Nian and Lian'er to go to the woodcutter's house opposite to pick up firewood, and to choose small branches and fill them in slowly.
Although Aunt Lian'er also has doubts in her heart, they are calm and feel that since it is Jiang Jiang's business, then naturally others have the final say, and they are not good at talking too much. After all, their identities are different from Sun Xiaobei's, they are just hired workers, how can there be any reason for the master to talk about hired workers and interject indiscriminately. Lian'er Niang and the two brought firewood, lit it carefully, and put it in the stove of the two eyes.
The stove that has just been built must be difficult to burn, because the moisture is too heavy.
Therefore, after the firewood was lit, the green smoke that came out of it was also billowing green, which was very choking.
The people who watched the excitement were choked up for more than half of the time, and only those who really had nothing to do or who desperately wanted to see the results stayed.
Jiang Jiang saw that Sun Xiaobei was pulling his neck there with a playful expression, so he waved his hand and called him over, handed him a handful of copper coins and said, "You and the dog go buy some vegetables and meat, it's time to make dinner." ”
Sun Xiaobei couldn't, so he had to go.
When I came back, I saw that the green smoke coming out of the stove was less, but it was still thick.
"It's troublesome for the new stove to burn," Lao Su said to Jiang Jiang, "but it's much better as long as it burns tonight and the next day." The fire can't be stopped this night, so a few of you will take turns. ”
"I think he's stepping on a watermelon rind - ready to slip away!" Sun Xiaobei deliberately let the voice be loud so that Lao Su could hear it: "If you have the ability, stay and don't leave, master, I will look at you with two eyes, how to slap your face!" ”
"Since the little brother said so, then I won't leave!" Lao Su said with a smile: "Anyway, I want food, where there is food, I am there, and I am reluctant to leave if it is still good food and good food!" ”
"I've never seen such a shameless person!" Sun Xiaobei felt that his lungs were about to explode.
Jiang Jiang started to cook dinner at this time and asked Aunt Mu to help her.
Stewed a pot of braised pig's trotters, and came a winter melon and mutton meatballs, the beginning of autumn, the cold is suddenly born, eat some mutton, just to warm the stomach and drive away the cold.
Winter melon can be very greasy, and it is an excellent match with mutton.
Of course, people who have a busy day need to consume a certain amount of meat to ensure the normal supply of physical strength, so a large pot full of pig's trotters should be stewed.
The people of the Great Qin Kingdom are not very good at eating pig's trotters, they are generally cut into small pieces and put in a pot, and simmer slowly over low heat, although they are not unpalatable, but the taste is inevitably lighter.
Jiang Jiang knows that the more gelatinous things like this, the more delicious they must be made so that they are not tired.
Her mother Wu Chunhua is best at making all kinds of side dishes and braised sauce meat, and Jiang Jiang is her true inheritance.
Dinner was ready, and people packed up and served it. Jiang Jiang beckoned: "Everyone come in to eat, and then be busy after eating." ”
By the way, I also called the two plasterers to the house to eat, after all, they are craftsmen, although they can't help, but they can't lack face.
Lian'er said to Jiang Jiang: "You eat first, it is impossible for us women to sit at the same table with you." Besides, the stove can't be stopped, just wait for the dogs to finish eating and then come back for us, the dishes are hot in the pot, and there is no need to be afraid of the cold. ”
Her aunt also hurriedly echoed: "But, this kid is right, besides, we'll just stand and watch the excitement this afternoon, and we're not hungry at all." ”
Jiang Jiang knew that he couldn't persuade them, and besides, it was indeed too much for a table, so he said: "Since this is the case, you will be tired first, and whoever finishes eating first will come out for you in a while." ”