The few people in the village quickly fished out half a bucket of stone snails. The stone snail has been cleaned by several people, and the shell is very clean.

The snail is very large, only for a short time. Just fished so much, it can be seen that there are a lot of stone snails in the river in Zhujia Village.

Stone snails and spring bamboo shoots are both good things when taken out. Even if you don't make screw powder, the stone snail can occupy the top ten list of modern night snacks all year round by itself.

The popularity is evident.

There are side dishes, just rice noodles, the main ingredient. Gu Qing had never seen rice noodles in Gujia Village, and he should not have come to Zhujia Village.

Fortunately, Gu Qing's hometown in the previous life loved to eat rice noodles, and there was everything from chopped meat powder, fish meal to marinated noodles and cold noodles for breakfast every day.

As for how to make handmade rice noodles, Gu Qing has also seen the workshop in the town do it. Fresh rice is first soaked for 3 hours and then ground into rice milk with a stone mill.

During the grinding process, it should be as delicate as possible, so that the taste is better.

After grinding, the batter cannot form a lump, and finally the mixed pulp is sent to the rice noodle press.

It's a big bucket, and the bottom is densely packed with small holes, and rice milk is poured into the barrel. The top of a heavy wooden board is pressed down, and the weight of the upper board is not enough, and stones will be placed on it to press and squeeze the rice milk out of the small hole in the barrel. Fall into a pot full of boiling water underneath.

The rice milk is pressed into threads, and the rice noodles are cooked in a pot to be cooked. Then use long chopsticks to pick it out, cool it with cold water, drain the water to bring it back to life, and then rub it and dry the surface moisture, and the rice noodles are made.

The same method can also be used for sweet potato flour, potato flour, that is, the raw powder of hot and sour noodles handmade.

At present, spring has not yet begun, and spring bamboo shoots have not yet emerged, and everything is still early.

"Zhu Lizheng, when the bamboo shoots come out on the mountain, you can find someone to go to Gujia Village to bring me a letter, and then I will arrange someone to come over and buy a large number of them."

"Good, good!" Zhu Li was waiting for Gu Qing's words.

In the kitchen, Zhu Lian and Zhu Han looked at the rice jar and said, "Mother, what's going on?" Didn't I get people to come back with their wages a few years ago? Why didn't you buy rice? ”

Mother Zhu shrank aside, hesitating, and didn't hum a word for a long time.

Of the seven brothers and sisters in Zhu Han's family, now their parents are nearly fifty years old, and the youngest brother in the family is the same age as Gu Nuo.

This big family, I can't even find a grain of millet in the rice bowl for the New Year.

"What the hell is going on? Daddy, come on! ”

"Second brother" Zhu Yin, the third eldest of the Zhu family, said angrily: "Didn't you find that the eldest sister's family is not here today, yesterday the eldest brother-in-law cleaned up the house and brought it back to his parents' house together with the wages that he brought back four years ago!" ”

"Second brother, fourth brother, did you bring something to eat when you came back?" Zhu Xiaoqi knew that it was rude to ask like this, but he was really hungry, and he didn't eat a drop of rice from last night to today. At the moment, he was holding his stomach, with a white face, hungry and weak.

Zhu Han had a cold face, gave Zhu Lian ten taels of silver, and asked him to go to the village quickly to buy some grain, chickens, ducks, eggs and so on.

"Daddy, our family still has six mouths to eat. You gave the fourth child's salary and gave it, how can you still let them take all the food from the house? This is taken away, and if I had not come back today, you would not have been able to live this day? ”

Mother Zhu looked up a little surprised, she remembered that the second child had a soft personality like them, how did he become so strong now?

But it's good to be strong, she just can't be tough all her life, so she is bullied everywhere. Now that she is old, she still has to look at the eyes of a son-in-law who comes to the door, her life is over, and she will rely on the second child to fight for the family in the future.

I just don't know if the county lord gets along well, "My mother is old and useless. When my mother was young, she couldn't support this family, but now she is even more ......"

Mother Zhu wiped a handful of tears: "Your sister can't help it, our family is too poor." Let your sister marry, the matchmaker said several, people either dislike your sister for being old, or they dislike your sister and brothers too much, and they don't want to marry. Finally, someone is willing to marry, and the family is poorer than ours......"

Yes, if it weren't worse than his family's conditions, who would marry into his family?

"But that's too much!" Zhu Han followed Gu Qing, and subtly had Gu Qing's shadow on his body: "The eldest sister and the third child follow you to farm at home, the fourth follows me every month, my salary, and the fourth child's salary is given to you."

But look at it, what have the little five, six, and seven three of them lost weight? The younger brother of the county lord's family is also as big as Xiao Qi, but everyone is up to my chest, and our Xiao Wu is not as tall as anyone else. ”

Zhu's mother was stunned by Zhu Han and didn't say a word, so she shrank into the corner of the wall and wiped her tears silently.

Zhu Han was angry. At this moment, he finally understood why sometimes they didn't do anything, but the county lord was so angry, it was angry.

Zhu Lian quickly bought a lot of grain from the village and came back, he stayed in the Gu family for so long, and knew that the county lord only ate white flour and white rice every day.

But there are very few people in the village who eat these, and he walked several houses to buy these seven or eight catties.

Xiao Huang bought forty or fifty catties of rice, and bought five ducks and five chickens, as well as twenty eggs and two fish.

When these people saw that he had bought it, they were all enthusiastic about it, carrying things to help him to the yard and refusing to leave, so they were now in the yard, stretching their necks to look in.

They have heard that the county magistrate is beautiful and fragrant, and the jewelry on his head is made of gold, and they can eat it for a year if they buckle it down a little.

This kid of the Zhu family is really blessed!

In the kitchen, Zhu Han had a gloomy face, scooped half a catty of white noodles, added water and topped it, and knocked two eggs into it and stirred well.

Mother Zhu silently walked over to light the fire.

A few small ones saw the kitchen fire and immediately gathered around.

"Second brother. Is this white noodle for my sister-in-law? Xiao Wu swallowed his saliva and asked.

Hearing him mention the word sister-in-law, Zhu Han's face looked a little better, "No, this is for you to eat." And now that she is the county lord, you can't call her sister-in-law anymore, you have to call her the county lord like others! ”

Xiao Wu didn't understand, and asked: "But she is obviously the wife of the second brother, we have a sister-in-law, why do you want to call the county lord?" ”

Zhu Han turned the dough over and patiently explained: "Because she is the county lord and the royal family. And we're just civilians. ”

Xiao Wu asked again: "Even the second brother, do you want to call her the county lord?" ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Han nodded and took the dough out of the pot. Several younger brothers immediately stepped forward, and one of them took a piece, but he didn't care about the heat, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Aren't you hot?" Zhu Lian was stunned, "How many days has this been since you eaten?" ”

"On Chinese New Year's Eve day, the eldest brother-in-law packed all the food at home, and only left a small half bowl of millet for us to make porridge to drink, and even drank the porridge yesterday......"

(End of chapter)