Chapter 11 The First Signs
Chen Xiaonian's heart tightened.
Those people are still worried about her two pieces of land?
She grabbed the hoe in her hand, gritted her teeth, and said, "I'll go to the patriarch and ask what they want to do!" ”
was about to rush out, but Jiro grabbed her wrist. The Wang family also persuaded by the side, saying that force could not solve the problem, and he had to talk to the patriarch.
Where can Chen Xiaonian listen, the days have finally improved a little, and now he is going to change back?
Seeing that she couldn't listen to anything, Erlang could only snatch the hoe in her hand, pointed at himself, then elsewhere, and finally pointed at the hoe again.
Wang couldn't see his innocence, but Chen Xiaonian was stunned.
"You say, you turned the ground?"
Jiro nodded.
Wang was dumbfounded. "You flipped it? Did you flip it all by yourself? ”
Jiro nodded again.
Chen Xiaonian's heart was suffocated.
She just said casually yesterday, but she didn't expect Erlang to turn over the ground today?
Not only did he turn over the ground, but he also went up the mountain to cut down the master and made a bamboo basket?
Jiro put down the hoe, sat down again, and continued to weave the bamboo basket in his hand.
Wang was so happy that he shouted Chen Xiaonian to go to the kitchen to make breakfast.
"It stands to reason that he is just a wealthy person, you are my daughter, and I should be oriented to you. But look at it, Erlang got up early and did everything he had to do, but it was you, who got up so late every day, and didn't clean up after covering your face, so that people wouldn't laugh at it? Tomorrow you wake up early, don't let him do everything. ”
Wang's hands and feet were sharp, and he didn't forget to urge Chen Xiaonian to add some more firewood.
Chen Xiaonian threw the firewood into the firepit, "The one who is rich should be diligent, if it weren't for my family, he wouldn't know where to settle down now." ”
Before the words fell, Chen Xiaonian was hit on the head, and he hugged his head in pain.
"It's a shame that Erlang came to join the family, if it weren't for him, our family would have been forced to death by eating the desperate household. According to me, Erlang is the lucky star of our family. When he came, we had water to drink and food to eat, and even the land of the house was turned over......"
Listening to Wang's joyful counting of these things, Chen Xiaonian couldn't bear to break it, and followed her words.
"Yes, he is the lucky star of our family, and our family's good life will depend on him in the future."
Wang suddenly laughed and made an excuse to walk away.
Chen Xiaonian sensed that something was wrong, turned his head to look, and saw Erlang standing at the door. He had the light on his back, and Chen Xiaonian couldn't see clearly what the look on his face was.
He stood in the doorway for a moment before he walked in and handed her the bamboo basket in his hand.
The bamboo basket is finely braided, the size of one of his palms.
"Do you want to catch small fish with this?"
Jiro nodded.
Chen Xiaonian laughed, and looked at the bamboo basket again, "You have such a skill, you can make some money just by catching fish and selling this." ”
Just this sentence, Erlang made up four more fives, and the action was so fast that Chen Xiaonian was dumbfounded.
She asked the Wang family to come and see the fire, and she squatted next to her and looked, "You teach me." ”
I thought that if I could sell it for money, then it would be better to learn to do it. She is a beginner, her movements are slower, and if she can't do something well, Erlang will also teach her patiently.
One can't speak, the other is serious and studious, and Wang is enthusiastic about it.
Erlang made up three or four more, and Chen Xiaonian only made one of them, not to mention that the gap was too big, it looked even more crooked, ugly.
She was a little embarrassed and wanted to hide her things, but Erlang took it first and put it behind her.
Chen Xiaonian was not embarrassed to grab it, her eyes fell on the few pieces of bamboo that had not been used at his feet, and her eyes lit up, "Can you give me this?" ”
Jiro nodded. She took the bamboo tubes, cleaned them and set them aside for later use.
After eating, Chen Xiaonian held the bamboo tube, Erlang carried the string of bamboo baskets, and the two came to the stream.
The water of the stream is clear, and the scenery in the water is clear at a glance.
Jiro watched from the side for a while and couldn't help frowning.
Yesterday there were a few small fish in the water, but today there are no small fish.
Chen Xiaonian had already dragged his shoes and socks into the water. She deliberately walked farther away, her fingertips dripping with spiritual spring water, and in a moment all the small fish poured to her feet.
"Erlang, this!"
The little fish is naughty and pecks her itchy.
For such a moment, Erlang was stunned.
"What are you doing, come here."
Erlang put the bamboo basket in the water, and there were still fish stupid enough to drill into it, and after a while, the bamboo basket in the hands of the two was already full of small fish.
She asked Erlang to put these on the shore first, took another one herself, waited for a while, caught two slightly larger fish, and then went ashore satisfied.
After counting, there are four bamboo baskets for the small fish alone, and even these two slightly larger ones can probably be sold for two taels of silver.
"Let's go to the market first, and if we can't sell it, we can eat it ourselves."
When they arrived at the market, some people recognized them as the people who sold big fish yesterday, but when they saw that they were small fish today, they all said no.
There were also a few people who asked her to be cheaper and gave it all to herself, but Chen Xiaonian said that she would not sell anything.
People saw that she was not good at talking, so they only lowered the price with Erlang, but after a few words, they found out that it was more difficult for him to speak than Chen Xiaonian.
"Don't sell it, don't sell it, I have someone to decide these fish."
Chen Xiaonian shouted Erlang to the restaurant pointed by the shopkeeper yesterday, and it happened that the shopkeeper was in the store, and when he saw them coming, he said happily: "Little lady doesn't know, the big fish yesterday was delicious, and the old lady of the Chen family praised it." Did you catch another fish today? ”
The shopkeeper saw that there were just some small fish today, so he was naturally not so enthusiastic.
"Didn't catch a big one? This little fish is not very marketable, I can't collect it here. ”
Hearing that people don't want it, Erlang was already ready to go back with his things, but he heard Chen Xiaonian say: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse the shopkeeper." Since you don't accept my fish, how about I sell you a recipe? ”
The shopkeeper was interested, "What recipe do you want to sell?" ”
Chen Xiaonian took the two slightly larger fish left at hand, "Borrow it from the kitchen of the restaurant, and the shopkeeper will taste good in a while, and you can buy it with me." If it doesn't taste good, then I'll ask the shopkeeper. ”
Interesting.
The shopkeeper called out to a guy and took Chen Xiaonian to the back kitchen. Chen Xiaonian was afraid that Erlang would be uncomfortable outside if he was alone, so he called him over and helped.
She asked Erlang to kill the fish, but just after finishing speaking, Erlang had already disemboweled, and cleaned up the two fish.
Such a clean and beautiful way looked stupid at the two cooks in the restaurant.
After the fish is cleaned, Chen Xiaonian sprinkles it with refined salt, rice wine and other spices to marinate to taste. Taking advantage of this time, she asked for some lard oil, changed the knife with her hand, wrapped it together with the pickled fish and put it in a bamboo tube, wrapped it in fresh bamboo leaves prepared earlier to block the two ends, and finally sealed it with yellow mud and roasted it on a charcoal fire.