Chapter 39: Bamboo Rice
Qiao asked Cheng Ze to sit down early in the morning, there was only a low stool at home, fortunately, the men in the Qiao family were not short, and Cheng Ze would not sit too abruptly, but the stool was not enough, and Hua Qingqing could only find a fire stool from the kitchen to sit.
Hua Banxia put the bamboo tube on the table, and everyone looked at it with their eyes, and they were all very curious.
"Oh, Banxia, why don't you call us when you cook, the two of us are busy embroidering in the house", Chen Jiahua was a little embarrassed, cooking is dirty and tiring, so they should be allowed to do it.
"It's okay, the eldest aunt and the second uncle are working hard, Qingqing and I are busy coming", Hua Banxia smiled indifferently, how could it be so delicate.
"That's right, eldest uncle and second uncle, eldest uncle and second uncle and brothers all like my sister's cooking, I also help my sister, my sister won't be tired", Hua Qingqing said the truth, but the whole family was happy.
"Look, Fuzhen, we are disgusted", Chen Jiahua pretended to be sad, forgetting that there was an outsider at home.
"Okay, okay, Master Cheng is here, let's take it a little", Tian Fuzhen reminded Chen Jiahua and looked at Cheng Ze apologetically.
"It's okay, I'm a friend of Miss Banxia, so I don't need to be polite."
Hua Banxia broke hard at the crack of the bamboo tube, and the bamboo tube opened, revealing the rice that had been burned inside, and he didn't forget to cater to Cheng Ze's words, "Yes, you don't have to be polite to him."
The diced beans, diced meat, and diced carrots in the bamboo tube are embedded in the rice, and there is a thin layer of golden pot in the middle of the burnt bamboo tube, which is very pleasing to the eyes and makes people appetite.
"Wow, cousin, what is this, it looks delicious", Qiao Le and Qiao Yi couldn't help but exclaim.
The Qiao family only eats a meal of rice when the grain is harvested in the golden autumn, which has not been eaten for more than half a year, and they have almost forgotten what the rice looks like.
"This is rice, come, I only made five cylinders today, and everyone shared it by themselves", this is what Hua Banxia often did in his previous life, a trivial matter, no big deal.
Although it is only five bowls, each tube has about four bowls of rice, which is enough to eat. Hua Banxia bloomed three times, and let everyone scoop it into the bowl with a wooden spoon by themselves.
But it's too hot, it's easy to sweat when eating today's dishes, I don't know what they think, Hua Banxia and Cheng Ze will lose their appetite because of the heat.
But Hua Banxia really wants to eat, I've been here for so long, and I finally have a good meal, so I have to silently open the interface between the space and the outside world in my consciousness, so that the cool air in the space can be released.
Fortunately, the room is not big, and Hua Banxia is the first to feel the cool air coming out, and other people who eat hot should also feel it slowly. But there is also a risk that if something flies into the space, it will disappear in an instant from the outside, and I just hope that nothing will fly around in the house.
"Well, it's so delicious, mother, let's eat this every day in the future", Qiao Yi has been immersed in hard work, and finally he was very moved, and raised his head to express his wishes.
"You kid, if you want to eat every day, you have to listen to your cousin, and you can do whatever your cousin tells you to do!" Tian Fuzhen took the opportunity to educate his son.
Qiao Yi just subconsciously blurted out just now, and after speaking, he thought that his own situation could not be eaten every day, and he was ready to be educated by his mother, but he didn't expect her to say that.
"Hehe, mother, I know, follow my cousin to have meat to eat!"
"Hey, why do I feel that the weather is getting colder, isn't it going to rain?" Qiao Er sat opposite Hua Banxia, facing the entrance of the space, except for Hua Banxia, the most obvious place for coolness.
was said by Qiao Er, and everyone also experienced it carefully, "It seems to be really cool!" ”
What's more, Qiao Le, who was closest to the door, got up and ran out, but the heat wave at the door hit him back. I used to feel that it was nothing when I was hot all the time, but I was in the cool air just now, and now it is hot as soon as I get to the door.
"Where, it's still hot outside the door", Qiao Le hurriedly ran back, muttering.
"What's going on, hell is that".
Cheng Ze has been eating elegantly, and he is amazed every time he eats a mouth, and his admiring eyes have never left Hua Banxia, and naturally he will not miss the weakness in her eyes when Qiao Er talks about the cool air.
It's already evening after eating, maybe it's because you're full of strength, maybe it's because everyone has been smoked by the aura in the Banxia space for more than an hour, anyway, everyone is excited.
Several men continued to make bamboo tubes in the yard, and the two aunts also took advantage of the dawn to continue cutting clothes under the trees.
Hua Qingqing was in charge of washing the dishes, and Hua Banxia brought the food to Qiao Zheng's house for him to eat, and helped him see his injuries by the way. Qiao Zheng's legs are already good, and there is no problem in going to the ground, but he can't do heavy work, but Hua Banxia insisted that he be raised for half a month before going to the ground.
Early the next morning, Qiao Da and Qiao Guang respectively brought people to gather by the river, while Cheng Ze sat under the tree on the side and watched.
Qiao Guang was completely unconfident, and he wanted to talk to Cheng Ze yesterday, but he went to Qiao's house in the afternoon, and when he came back in the evening, he went back to the house to rest, and he didn't let himself get out of anything.
Therefore, when discussing who came first, Qiao Guang kept shirking and didn't dare to fight.
"Cheng Putou, village chief, otherwise, let's change half of each, won't the result come out", taking advantage of the fact that the sun is not strong enough, he spent half a summer thinking about finishing things early.
"Just do what the flower girl says!" Anyway, Hua Banxia is a win, and Cheng Ze doesn't want to waste time.
Hua Banxia motioned to Qiao Da Qiao and a few people to go into the water, and Qiao Yu and Qiao Zheng also followed behind, they were carrying bamboo tubes on their backs and holding hemp ropes in their hands, which were used to fix the bamboo tubes.
Qiao Guang and Qiao Li saw that Qiao Da and the others had already begun to dismantle the bamboo tube on the original waterwheel, and if they refused again, they would admit defeat, and now, they would have to go hard.
Qiao Guang waved his hand, Qiao Li took people down, and began to dismantle the bamboo tube at the other end of the waterwheel, observing Qiao Da's methods while dismantling.
But the bamboo tube and installation angle on Qiao Da's side have been carefully calculated by Hua Banxia, how can they easily learn it.
After the installation was completed, Hua Banxia gently pushed and went ashore.
From the second circle, part of the bamboo tube on the waterwheel has begun to divert water, and the water flows out of the bamboo tube and falls in the ditch between the ridges, and the ditch begins to moisten and store water.
"Great! It can be done! "Yes, we don't have to carry water now!" The villagers began to cheer.
But after a while, the waterwheel stopped diverting water again, and everyone took a look, and the half that turned out to be Qiao Li couldn't lead the water again, which was embarrassing.
"Hmph", Cheng Ze snorted lightly, "Village Chief Qiao, are you convinced?" ”
Qiao Guang had already sweated nervously, and his sleeves were wiped through, "This, this... The villain also mistakenly believes the words of others, and he is wronged."
"In this way, it is also true that your village has bullied Qiao's family?" Cheng Ze eats people with a short mouth, and it's not bad to help them by the way.
"This little people don't know, it's all him", Qiao Guang was so frightened that his legs weakened, and he quickly cleared up the relationship, "It's Qiao Li, it was he who led someone to rob Qiao's eldest nephew's daughter!" ”
Qiao Li was betrayed by the village chief like this, and was so frightened that he immediately knelt down, "Back to the adult, the small, the small one is not intentional, it is the woman of the Dashu family, it is she who caused the trouble!" ”
"Vigorously, you don't have much blood and spew, when did I get into trouble, you asked us to catch that!" Chen Mei couldn't help but scold when she heard Qiao Li pointing the finger at her.
"It's you, if it weren't for your delusional desire to let Qiao's eldest niece marry your brother, how could we have a conflict!"
"You!" Chen Mei was so angry that she couldn't speak, but as soon as she thought about it, she immediately explained to Cheng Ze, "My lord, this Hua Banxia is a girl who came out of the building, I don't know how many men have been ruined, my family is kind and doesn't dislike her, and wants to marry her, but she doesn't want to live or die, I don't know how to be grateful, you tell me, where did I do wrong!" ”
"Sister Chen! Hugh has to talk nonsense, we have said it several times in Banxia, she is still an innocent girl! Tian Fuzhen saw Chen Mei mention this again, and he couldn't wait to tear her mouth.
"Hmph, innocent, you ask, who would believe that a woman who stayed in Huamanlou for two months and finally came out safe and sound would be innocent!"
Cheng Ze was a little incredulous when he heard this, and looked at Hua Banxia suspiciously, but Hua Banxia was still calm, as if he wasn't talking about her.
Cheng Ze has always wondered why Hua Banxia suddenly came out of the Hua family to set up her own door, and the head of the household is not a man but herself, which means that she is still unmarried, and now it seems to make sense.
Cheng Ze didn't know why, he suddenly felt some pity and regret in his heart, but in front of him, it was still important to get down to business.
"No matter what the reason for this, since you lost, it means that you do have the crime of robbing, insulting and deceiving the official, according to the law, you need to compensate Qiao's family, and return to the yamen with the head of the shop, and receive thirty boards!"
"Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives", Qiao Guang was paralyzed when he heard this, this is the result he wants.
Where can Cheng Ze take care of their pleas, his heart has been annoyed by their words to slander Hua Banxia just now, no matter what they said is true or not, he doesn't want to hear such words.
In the end, Cheng Ze brought people and brought the people who worked in Qiao Guang's courtyard that day to the yamen with Chen Mei, beat 30 boards per person, and sent the remaining 150 taels to Hua Banxia by the way.
At this time, Qiao's family can be regarded as having a grudge with several families in the village who were punished. But no matter what, Hua Banxia's actions have not stopped.
After half a month, Hua Banxia's drawings for Chen Jiahua and Tian Fuzhen finally rushed out of the sample, because the clothes were slightly different from those of this era, the two and Hua Banxia had been thinking for a long time before they were settled, but fortunately, they were successfully completed.
On the waterwheel side, Yamen has installed at least one in every village in Nancheng in just half a month, which has reduced the pressure on everyone to deal with the drought, and I heard that they have also won the Holy Reward, but this reward is destined to have nothing to do with Hua Banxia.