Chapter 167: Music and Dance (Two Chapters in One)
"Phew!"
The white father grabbed the mule and stopped at the entrance of the village, waiting for the children to ask questions very experienced.
Bai Xiucai looked at the children who were gathering hay in the wasteland in the distance, and those children gathered a pile of grass, and then the older boys and girls tied it up, and carried it back and put it next to the firewood stacks of each house for fire. They also know that they have to be evenly placed, and no matter who they are, they will not be more or less, and they will not look much different.
In front of him, a young boy of seven or eight years old jumped from a tree with a gong stick in his hand and shouted, "Connected to the same fate."
Bai Xiucai was a little puzzled, and was about to step forward to explain that he wanted to enter the village to find someone, but Father Bai stopped him with his hand and replied with a smile, "Bless and make money."
Only then did Bai Yihai understand that the original order to enter the village of Erdaohe Village was to connect with fate and bless money, if you don't get into the village, you can't enter the village.
But who made up the password? Too straightforward. Not quite. Will be used as a car to go with money, and buy the spring return is also a lot of money, he couldn't help but laugh.
Sure enough, the little boy got out of the way and let him go.
Subsequently, the white father also explained to his son:
"Unlike other villages, people don't let people in this village go into chaos, because there are no people in the family, and they all have their own stalls to be busy with. Don't you underestimate this password, did you see the gong stick in the doll's hand just now? If you don't feel good, you will knock it down in the blink of an eye, and then the villagers will be called out with a bang, and we will be watched if we don't do anything. Thanks to the last time I chatted with the Xu family, I specially asked for the password."
Entering Erdaohe Village, the famous effort.
Bai Xiucai suddenly felt that wasting a day without Wen Shu was a wasteful time, and this time was a waste of meaning, because there was something interesting here.
After entering the village, he felt that Erdaohe Village was completely different from other villages.
Isn't that interesting? That's interesting.
Just look, at the moment, an oilcloth shed is set up in the courtyard of the Xu family, and there is a white paper hanging outside the shed, and a villain is drawn on the white paper.
Bai Yihai guessed that this meant that idlers were not allowed to go in casually.
If you have something, you can only shout outside.
Presumably, the stone pots that he bought from his house were being used in the shed.
Bai Yihai guessed correctly.
The Xu family lives here, and at the moment only processes fish floss.
And the fish must be killed and washed before they can be sent to the Xu family's courtyard.
Because the Xu family did not have a well, the old ladies who killed and washed the fish were left to build a shed next to the village well to work. The Xu family only left women for deep processing here.
But only deep processing, the wings of the Xu family house can't be opened, there are not so many stoves, so they can only build a shed in the courtyard with an open flame and put a pot on it.
In order to retain the formula of the fish floss method for two more years, the women who are deeply processed here in the Xu family are all relatively honest and not talk much in the village, and they can even be stupid, but they can't talk nonsense. This is the requirement of Mrs. Xu's original screening list.
This makes it seem that there is no sound of speech in the courtyard except for the sound of frying and burning.
And in order not to leak the formula, Mrs. Xu took Yu Qinniang and her third and fourth sons here.
The mothers will marinate the fish in the house first, and this step has already prepared the salty taste and removed the fishy smell.
Then steam, after steaming, wrap the fish in clean gauze and knead it loosely, and then take it to the shed to bake in a pot until it changes a little color, and then hand it over to the village women, and let the hired women continue to stir-fry for about three hours.
How to grasp the specific time of these three hours, it stands to reason that there should also be a missing table in this place at home.
I had no choice but to make a gear, a few iron screws, five taels of silver, that is a house money, just do that one or leave it to Xu Tianxin for them to make soap, and then I am reluctant to install a water clock for the family.
Fortunately, not to mention Yu Qinniang, even Xu Laosi has practiced his eyesight, and he can see what it means to complete the frying, so that there is no need for Mrs. Xu and Deli to clean Yu Qinniang to put their bodies to death, and only leave Xu Youyin to supervise the work at home.
Because there is still a fish knocking noodle stall waiting for them in the village.
In this way, Mrs. Xu and Yu Qinniang could take advantage of the three-hour time that the women in the village were frying, and rushed to the village to fry the dough.
No, at this time, Mrs. Xu was frying in the shed, she had to fry and change color before she could hand it over, and she was busy not knowing who was at home.
If Xu Laosi hadn't been busy first, he wouldn't have known that the Bai family was coming.
Xu Laosi was carrying a bucket full of fish bones and planning to grind them, which was particularly good for feeding livestock.
He heard the third brother come back and mention it, saying that it was told by the horsemen of the Huo family army that good feed requires corn or rice bran, bean cake, grass and salt, and some bone meal is particularly good.
So every time the fish is steamed, the remaining fish bones at home are also kept.
Xu Youyin saw the young man wearing a green shirt and a square scarf behind Uncle Bai, and immediately reacted, isn't this the famous youngest son of the Bai family who also came to the door.
Xu Youyin hurriedly beckoned, "Mother, Uncle Bai and Xiucai are here."
If Xu Youyin didn't call his mother, he would almost startle the Bai family's father and son, and they would call someone.
Who is this? I don't know that I thought I ran into the hospital to steal something.
Xu Youyin remembered that he was still wearing a hood, and hurriedly took it off, sweating all over his face, and explained with a smile:
"Make expensive things for the nobles to eat in their mouths, my mother said that you can't lose your hair in the pot, and it's best that we don't sneeze into the pot, and deliberately pulled a lot of cloth to make this hood to wear when working. Uncle, you sit, what, Xiucaigong, you sit too."
Xu Youyin put down the bucket of fish bones he was carrying, and hurriedly went into the house to find a cup and pour water.
After hearing the reason, the Bai family's father and son rarely flashed the same thought in their minds.
No wonder the Xu family can receive business outside, such a careful person, please do everything at ease. And from this little thing, he also looked up to the Xu family.
The so-called high view usually does not have to do something admirable, it happens in little things.
A farmer cooks food and takes it out, saying something unpleasant, he doesn't have a few clothes, but he deliberately pulls the cloth to make a hood so that his hair doesn't fall into the pot, Bai Xiucai thinks that it deserves more respect for the Xu family. How many restaurants outside can do it?
So when Mrs. Xu took off her hood and walked out of the processing shed, Bai Yihai stood up with a smile and bowed her hand to the junior salute.
Don't underestimate this junior ceremony, people don't have to kneel when they see the county master, they only perform student etiquette. used to walk among the grass people in various villages, and it was not up to him to say that anyone with a high rank had to pay a salute, it was all up to him.
Mrs. Xu understood this etiquette, and she was still very happy that the Bai family boy had a humble attitude towards her.
Because in the future, he will have to do business with the Bai family on the side of the new shop, if Bai Xiucai always holds the shelf, it will be difficult for them, the grass people, to do it, right?
What's more, before that, people specially bought flowers for her family, and sent a letter overnight, so she was more enthusiastic than her father.
The main thing is that this kid looks very energetic, and he hasn't been exposed to reading books at home? High nose bridge, small eyes, quite white, beautiful man.
Mrs. Xu motioned to the Bai family father and son to drink water, and explained first that they were busy without hearing any movement.
"That's not good, sister, my brother advises you, you still have to keep people outside, who will enter the hospital and take what."
Bai Yihai took advantage of the fact that he lowered his head to drink water and glanced at the lock on the Xu family's warehouse, thinking that his father was too worried.
What the Bai family father and son don't know is that in the past, where the Xu family was just locked, the family still loved to close the door, and no matter who came, they had to knock on the door. It's nice not to shut them out. lest the good food eaten at home be seen in the house. This habit has provoked many people in the village to pay attention to it behind their backs.
Fortunately, since the last time someone came to the old mansion to rummage through things, Mrs. Xu bought a few locks, locked the warehouse where the grain was placed, and locked the small room where the dragon relics pill was stored for money.
Like these days, you can't close the door, the fish and meat picked up in the village are sent eight times a day, people always leave back and forth, people enter the yard, and the house where the Xu family puts valuables has a lock and doesn't take it seriously.
Mrs. Xu heard that the Bai family father and son were looking for Liu Laozhu, so she planned to hand over the shop from today onwards, the rulers were brought, and she wanted to measure the cabinet and see what the two shops were going to add, she was afraid of delaying the business, after the Bai family father and son drank water, Zhang Luo said:
"He should have lunch at home, so let's go, I'm going to his neighborhood, you don't know, there's a big stall in the middle of my village."
Walking on the road, Mrs. Xu smiled and introduced: "There is also a stall on the dam, and the new house is even busier, and my family is divided into four large parts. We're busier there than I am. However, I heard that he was going to the shop in the afternoon, and someone from Leijiagou Village was going to deliver honey and mountain goods, so it must be very lively, so you should go and have a look."
Father Bai hurriedly said, "Sister, you don't know, it has long been spread outside, saying that your village is in full swing, and the new house is the same every day, and no one goes back to their parents' house to visit relatives and friends. No, it makes my heart scratch when I hear it, and even the four boys in my family deliberately put down their pens, thinking that they would come and see, and there are few times when he doesn't read books."
When it comes to reading, Mrs. Xu didn't play a big knife in front of Guan Gong to scare people.
After all, the eight generations of the original ancestors of the Xu family have never participated in the imperial examination, and they are not even serious scholars. Even in modern times, she knows at most that Gong Dou can't smell musk, and if she smells it, she will lose her child and become evil, and she doesn't know anything else about ancient times.
If only her granddaughter were here, it would be fine.
She can't always ask: What grade is the child? Master's Degree, huh? Then you can't, my granddaughter has a master's degree, and she didn't have a stubble.
And the reason why Mrs. Xu deliberately mentioned that her family had a few large pieces of business was to imply that she was the middleman, but she didn't have time to accompany her to the new shop in the afternoon.
There are some things that don't need to be explained in detail, just look at it and you can understand how busy it is.
When Bai Yihai entered the center of the village, he realized how grouped this village was, no wonder the password was called, connected with the same fate, and blessed to make money.
At present, Erdaohe Village is about to become an industrial chain.
The fish caught in the river are directly weighed on the dam, and there is an old man (Sibo) sitting on the dam, with a notebook in front of him, and a box full of copper plates.
Listening to the meaning, the fish species should be divided into one point, and only those with fewer spines can be made into meat floss, and those with more spines, the old man shouted and sent them to Yuhuan.
Bai Yihai: Who is Yuhuan?
Mrs. Xu explained with a smile, there was nothing she couldn't say: "It's another kind of food that my family sells called Yuhuan. Therefore, there were two groups of fish killers at the well, and one group of people who killed a lot of flesh were removed from the scales, washed, and picked up to my house. The other group directly picked up the thorny or small fish, and directly handed over the fresh fish meat to the Yuhuan group. The Yuhuan team is responsible for striking the fish."
Mrs. Xu pointed to the distance: "I happened to pass by for a while, and when I got there, you would be able to understand better." If I say that, you might be confused."
But Mrs. Xu thought to herself: In fact, she will be confused when she sees it.
Because it's not enough to just crack fresh fish into pancakes, her family also employs a team that specializes in grinding sweet potato flour. Even the people in the village didn't know that the jade ring noodles had to be fused with these two things before they could be fried in a pan, so they thought that the pancakes would be dried directly after knocking them. These follow-up things have to be done by her own Xu family.
The group that grinds sweet potato flour also thinks that she has other uses for opening a rice shop.
But even so, the Bai family father and son who still watched it were shocked.
Because by the well, in addition to many old ladies who were bloody in cleaning the scales of the fish, there were dozens of sturdy women who were each holding a rolling pin, taking the cleaned fish and meat, and putting it on the stone to chisel into meat puree.
Even the sound of their thrashing is the same, clang, clang.
They even had a smile on their faces, not too tired to compete with who smashed down the movement more, who smashed the fish and meat rotten faster, and there was a big basin at each person's feet, and there was also a scale on this side, and the basin was full on the scale, and a pot of meat paste was a settlement.
And with this deafening percussion, what made the Bai family father and son feel strange was that it was reasonable to say that the fish bubbles were not thrown, but Erdaohe Village was not even willing to throw fish scales, and there was a young woman who was specifically collecting fish bubbles and fish scales.
Regarding this, Mrs. Xu didn't explain much, she didn't see the curiosity of the Bai family's father and son. This is the sale of Guan Erbald, and the collector is Yingzi, the daughter of the second bald.
Yingzi didn't have time to earn money from anyone's salary, so she only worked as an assistant for her father to make fish scale jelly and clean fish bubbles, and the second bald man himself was rubbing flowers and water in the new house to make a set of flowers, and I heard that the second bald man also made a lot of foot soaking medicine bags with her granddaughter, and cream for rubbing baths
Salt ointment, what other oil to soothe muscles and invigorate blood, Mrs. Xu didn't understand, she only knew that the two had partnered together to become a new combination.
At this time, a large group of women who were working by the well, even the old and the young, saw Bai Xiucai wearing a square scarf walking behind Mrs. Xu.
And I can't help but want to look at the white guy twice, it's true that the boys in the village all look like black bears and blind people, it's rare to see such a white guy, let alone a showman.
So they all stopped what they were doing, pretending to be restrained, and greeted, "The owner is here."
These words made Mrs. Xu couldn't help laughing loudly: "Shao Chengjing, I passed by eight times a day and didn't see you calling the host, and if you want to see Xiucaigong, you say you want to see it." After that, Brother Bai's shop opened, and finally, the celebrities of these ten miles and eight villages can be regarded as entering our village. We can go outside and say that we are next to the Xiucai family."
Bai Yihai's face was slightly red when he heard this, but he was still calm.
After Mrs. Xu finished speaking, she smiled and nodded to most of the women in the village, you must know that the lineup, it is still very crazy to be stared at by so many aunts and aunts.
The white father ate his son's nagging, and those women also glanced at the old face and turned red, and couldn't help muttering, "Could it be that all the women in your village are here, except for those who work in your house?"
"How can that, there are also those who grind sweet potato flour and chili powder at home, those who beat the indigo grass, those who make soybean sauce, those who make shoes, those who go out to hunt mules and cow forage, pickles, firewood, anyway, you name it, you can do anything. And my granddaughter has dozens of half-grown girls too."
Father Bai: "......" understood, and none of them were idle.
When leaving, the Bai family father and son heard Mrs. Xu instruct the women, "Isn't that a pot? When you wash the fish, you mix it with some hot water, and when it's cold, you go into the shed and work."
He waved his arm again and said, "Keep playing, keep dancing!"
With these words, as if to see them off, the sound of chiseling fish meat in unison sounded again.