Chapter 013: Endless Kettle
Liu An saw Cui's intention and refused: "Mother, you are sitting down, and you will leave it to me here." ”
"My son is weak, how can he do such rough work, or ...... for his mother"
"Alright, let's leave it here." The yard was not big, and before Cui had time to snatch the cart over, Liu An put the cart in front of his door.
First took off the top quilt and put a bed in the room between himself and Cui's room.
Then Liu An handed the clothes and shoes he bought for Cui's to Cui's and said, "Mother, can you try the clothes that my son bought for you?" ”
Cui Shi looked at such a large cart of things, quilts, clothes, vegetables and meat, and was a little stunned for a while.
How long has it been since I've been so extravagant?
In Cui's long memory, the last time she was like this was when she was the daughter of the Cui family.
Stunned, he took the clothes handed over by Liu An, and watched Liu An start to carry sacks of things that looked like food into his house again, and finally reacted.
"My son...... Where did the many things come from? ”
Liu An put a small sack of about 30 catties of rice on the clay pot in Cui's house.
There are two clay pots used to store grain, but one contains unhulled rice and the other contains corn.
and couldn't mix the two together, Liu An could only put it on the lid of the crockpot first.
Walking out of the room, while continuing to carry, Liu An said to Cui's family:
"Before, I rescued a lost nobleman at the foot of the mountain in the west, and today the nobleman came to thank him and gave him a sword and many strange fruits in the house."
Placing another bag of rice on the lid of the crockpot, Liu An continued to carry the flour while continuing:
"So he sold the sword to the county lord, and got some money and land to buy these things."
"Oh, there is still a ploughing ox in the courtyard of the nobleman in the city, and the nobleman asked him to bring it tomorrow."
Liu An remembered that he was about to use the ploughing cow, and he had to take advantage of this 'nobleman' to fool him around, otherwise he would have to think of other reasons later.
After moving the four small bags of grain to the house, Liu An's weak body was already a little tired, so he sat on the bench in front of the counter to rest.
After listening to Liu An's explanation, Cui Shi went to Liu An's room to take a look, and was shocked, and then showed a little reproach on his face.
"It is our duty to save people, how can my son receive such a great gift? Tomorrow I will return the things, and the ploughing ox will not be led, and the sword will find a way to redeem it......"
Cui was not a poor family before she got married, and the good education she received since she was a child made it impossible for her to accept so many things.
"Mother doesn't know."
Liu An knew that according to his mother's character, he would inevitably say this, so he said what he had thought of.
"The noble man is noble, but he doesn't want to owe me favors, and he said that giving some cheap things at his own price is a practice for himself, so he agreed to accept it. The truth that the mother taught her son, the child has never forgotten for a moment, how dare she easily accept such a big gift? ”
"This ......" Cui didn't expect that there were such strange people in the world, and he didn't know what to say.
After a while, he finally accepted Liu An's statement, and Cui said to Liu An: "My son has grown up, understands human feelings, and understands things, and my mother will no longer ask about these things in the future, just handle them by herself." But ......"
As he spoke, Cui Shi gestured to the clothes in his hand and continued:
"In the future, we must not be so wasteful, the days are long, the water flows for a long time, and we must not be extravagant and wasteful because of a windfall, the days to come will be long, and there will be more time to use money."
After relieving for a moment, Liu An got up and walked to Cui's side, held Cui's hand and said:
"Mother rest assured, the son already has a livelihood, the mother will not have to work in the future, now the son is an adult, a manly husband, when the family is the beam, everything is left to the son."
Cui Shi looked at Liu An, who had surpassed his height, his eyes were resolute and confident, and there was no reluctance, although his body was still so thin, it made Cui Shi feel a little relieved.
My son, I've really grown up!
Cui Shi put his clothes aside, raised his hand and stroked the back of Liu An's head: "Okay, but I don't want to be tired." ”
Liu An nodded in agreement.
After that, Cui Shi went to the back room to try on clothes, and Liu An was ready to cook.
I went back to the house and took a few potatoes, washed them with the parsley and the meat, slice the meat, peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces, cut the cress into strips, and then add water to the pot.
There was no special knife for peeling, so Liu An took a lot of effort to peel the potatoes.
When adding water, Liu An saw that the potatoes that had been placed in the pot in the morning had not yet been eaten, so he took them out and put them in the steamer.
In addition to the stove, Liu An's house also has a mouthful of rings (yan four sounds), which is divided into two parts, the upper part is called the retort (zeng sound), which is used to put steaming things, and the lower part is called the kettle, which is used for boiling and stewing.
Liu An finished these things, and Cui Shi just changed into the clothes he had just bought and walked out.
Cui's family was born in a big family, and she was also an outstanding woman when she was young, but she has worked hard over the years and has not maintained her dress every day, and she has long lost her original beauty.
It is not easy for a young widow, if it weren't for the fact that the Liu family in the village took good care of him and his mother, the Cui family still doesn't know what would happen now.
It's just that even so, Cui's who changed into a cloth shirt looked much better than before.
She is well-cultivated, and she looks quite dignified in neat clothes.
"Well, it's appropriate." Liu An looked at the clothes he bought according to his impression and was quite suitable for Cui's body, and he was very satisfied.
Just when Cui's came out, Liu An went to Cui's house to take some hulled rice, washed it, added water to cook rice in a kettle, and then put a steamer on the kettle to heat the potatoes.
The water in the tank has bottomed out, and Cui Shi is going to fetch water when he sees this.
Liu An hurriedly asked Cui Shi to look at the pot, and told her to add meat and vegetables and salt sauce after the water boiled, and then took the flat pole and bucket to carry the water.
There is a communal well in the west of the village, and those who do not have a well at home generally go to the west well to fetch water.
But in fact, except for the patriarch Liu Jijia, who has a well in Liujia Village, no one else has it.
Carrying a flat shoulder out of the house, Liu Anke would not be stupid and really ran to the west of the village to fetch water.
He was afraid that his small body would not come back.
After finding a corner, Liu An saw that there was no one around, and it was dark, so he asked the system to help him extract the kettle.
Then his hand sank, and a silver-white kettle appeared in Liu An's hand.
There was water in the kettle, it was quite heavy, and when he first got it in his hand, Liu An was not mentally prepared and almost couldn't hold it.
Pour the water in the kettle into the bucket first, and then Liu An took a good look at the kettle given by the newbie gift bag.
The kettle is more than a foot high, the bottom of the kettle is round, the diameter is about a little worse than the height, but it should be close to a foot, the higher the caliber, the smaller the caliber, to the top Liu An estimated that it is about half a foot.
According to Liu An's cognition, this kettle can hold about 5L of water.
There is a lid on the top, which should be the water inlet, although this kettle does not need an inlet, but if it is used in front of other people's eyes, it is still necessary to fill it with water from here.
The spout doesn't have a mesh like a normal watering kettle, but the spout is still quite large, and the speed of pouring water out is much faster than that of a regular drinking kettle.
Because of the darkness of the sky, Liu An couldn't observe it in detail, so he could only take a rough look, so he put the kettle into the system, took it out, and poured the water into the bucket.
After going back and forth many times, Liu An stopped adding water when the two buckets were almost full, and if they were too full, the bumps in the walk would turn the water upside down.
Thinking proudly in his heart, this kettle is really easy to use, Liu An picked up the flat burden and prepared to go home.
At this time, most people are eating while the sky is not completely dark, and only those who come home late may still be cooking at this time.
For example, Liu An.
And after eating, basically no one will come out to hang out.
In this era, there are no street lights on the road, so what if you encounter a bad guy?