Lin Xiaoman has already made twelve dishes at home, including chicken and meat, fish and eggs, most of which are meat dishes, and also vegetarian dishes such as spicy tofu and fried bean sprouts.

Lin Xiaoman is a woman, Lin Erhu is a child, neither of them is suitable for eating with guests at the table, Lin Xiaoman put the table in the courtyard, and their sister and brother just eat in the house.

When I opened the door, I just wanted to go to the wasteland and call someone back for dinner, but I saw that the group was almost at the door.

Lin Xiaoman smiled: "The adults have worked hard, the officials have worked hard, the meal is ready, let's serve it quickly." ”

Lu Jin smelled the fragrance, and then heard Lin Xiaoman say that the meal was ready, if he hadn't taken care of his identity as a county magistrate, he would have rushed into the house a long time ago.

In this way, the pace can't help but speed up.

When he saw the food on the table, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows slightly, this little shopkeeper can surprise him every time. Although the selection of ingredients for the dishes looks ordinary, such a practice is unprecedented.

Lin Daqiang politely invited the county magistrate, Qingshu and the two officials to sit down, and he sat beside him.

Lin Xiaoman took out two pots of liquor that he had just bought for more than a hundred bottles over there, and when he came back, he deliberately changed the wine jugs at home.

The stopper on the wine jug was taken away, and the aroma of wine came to the nose, which was very different from the soju that people here often drink, even Lu Jin couldn't help but fan his nose a few times, and Lin Daqiang, a good wine person, had even more eyes lit up.

"Xiaoman, where did you buy this wine? It's so fragrant. ”

Lin Xiaoman said casually, "It's what my father and mother saved before, and I don't know where I bought it." ”

Lin Daqiang looked disappointed, such a good wine, I am afraid that it will be difficult to drink it several times in this life. picked up the wine jug and poured a bowl for Lu Jin.

The bowl is a commonly used pottery bowl in the countryside, but as soon as the wine enters the bowl, you can see that the wine is clear, which is very different from the muddy wine he drank before, that is, he went to Liujiazhuang that day, and the owner of Liu Zhuang gave him no good wine in order to appease him.

Although Lu Jin is not good at drinking, he can also drink a few glasses, and at this time, he saw that the crisp wine in the bowl was also hooked.

This wine looks clearer and more fragrant than the royal tribute wine, where did this little shopkeeper get it? said that her father and mother left it, but he didn't believe it. couldn't help but look at Lin Xiaoman twice.

The taste of the wine is soft and mellow, spicy in the throat, and slowly sweet, unlike some drinks that are spicy in the throat, but then only feel bland, and it is more enjoyable in comparison.

Lu Jin took a bite of food and a sip of wine, and ate very happily.

Xu is alcohol, Lu Jin's face is not as upright as before, and when he is happy, he pats Lin Daqiang's shoulder and shouts uncle, which scares Lin Daqiang so much that he almost doesn't slide off the stool.

The county magistrate called him uncle, he was very scared, would he wait for the county magistrate to wake up, and then give him a reckoning after the autumn?

If you don't just drink the county magistrate, you will wake up after sleeping, and most of you won't remember what happened at the wine table.

Lin Daqiang was thinking wildly, someone came to Lin Xiaoman's house to see the kang, and shouted loudly before entering the door: "Xiaoman, your kang is really good to burn?" But don't spend money to invite someone to come to the house, it's useless......"

Before he finished speaking, he had already seen the county magistrate sitting at the table in the courtyard, looking at him drunkenly, and the patriarch cast a look of wanting to kill, so frightened that his legs weakened, and he sat directly on the threshold, and finally crawled out of the door.

Lu Jin had almost eaten at this time, his head was a little dizzy, and he knew that he couldn't drink anymore, so he asked, "What is Kang?" ”

Listening to the county magistrate's question, Lin Daqiang's eyebrows fluttered and he talked about the benefits of the kang, thinking that as long as the county magistrate was willing to help promote it in Qingping County, they were still afraid that the pankang would not make money this year? I almost didn't pull Lu Jin into the house immediately to feel what the kang was.

At the end of the day, I did not forget to show the county order that many people in the village had learned to pan kang, and as long as someone wanted to pan kang at home, the people in the village could immediately go to work.

I'm afraid that Lu Jin won't be able to remember after drinking too much, and regretting that he shouldn't have persuaded him to drink a few more glasses just now, alas, I hope that the county magistrate is not the kind of person who forgets everything as soon as he wakes up.

"Erhu, you go and add firewood to your kang, and show it to the county magistrate later."

"Hey, my lord, you come and touch me here, my kang is good."

Before Lin Xiaoman had to make more than a dozen dishes, one stove in the stove room was not enough, and some vegetables that needed to be steamed and stewed Lin Xiaoman used the stove in the house, although there was no fire at this time, but the kang of the yellow mud plate had good warmth performance, and it had not been cold for so long, so there was no need to burn it now.

Lu Jin got up and followed Lin Erhu to the room where there was no one in the West Chamber, his steps were firm, and he couldn't see that he was drunk.

Seeing Lin Erhu motioning him to touch it, he didn't think that the kang noodles of the loess were dirty, so he reached out directly to touch it, and when he touched a piece of warmth, he was also surprised, "It's hot?" ”

Lin Erhu proudly pointed to the outer hall, "As long as you burn a handful of firewood in the stove, the kang will be hot." It's not cold now, you don't need to burn too much, and when it snows, it's cold, you can add a few more firewood, and press a stove before going to bed at night, how can you heat it for half a night. ”

Lu Jin thought about it, he knew before he came to Qingping County that it was bitterly cold here, and people would freeze to death every winter, if the fire kang could be promoted here, such a tragedy would not happen.

"Okay, when the official returns to the county seat, he will let people announce the benefits of the kang, and whoever wants to pan the kang will notify the Lin patriarch."

Lin Daqiang was even more satisfied, he was afraid that Lu Jin would open his mouth and ask their village to hand over the method of pankang, so that they would earn a lot less money.

After confirming that the villagers were going to go out to pan kang, Lu Jin began to worry that no one would open up the wasteland that Lin Xiaoman's family had just bought. asked Lin Erhu to call Lin Xiaoman out.

Lin Xiaoman finished eating and was resting in the house, listening to the county order calling her, and hurriedly came out of the house.

Lu Jin asked straight to the point: "Can the little shopkeeper find a good person to open up the wasteland?" ”

Lin Xiaoman shook his head, "I haven't found it yet, and the grass people think that the people in the village will be very busy recently, and I want to ask the patriarch uncle to help ask if anyone in the nearby village is willing to come over to work." ”

When Lu Jin heard that no one had been found, his face was surprised, "Are you willing to use exiled prisoners?" ”

Seeing Lin Xiaoman's hesitation, Lu Jin hurriedly said: "They are not heinous people, some are officials of the DPRK and China who have made mistakes, and more are clansmen who are implicated by them, it is not easy to come here all the way from the capital, and those who can survive are not powerless, if the little shopkeeper is willing to use these people, he doesn't need to pay them, as long as he helps them settle down in the village before the cold weather, build a few rooms, so that they don't freeze to death in the cold winter, the bricks and stones and wood needed to build the houses, and the rations they eat don't have to worry about the little shopkeeper, and the government will issue it." ”

Although Lu Jin was very calm when he said these words, Lin Xiaoman still heard the urgency in his words, thinking that there should be people among these people that he wanted to take care of, maybe he came here to be a county magistrate, and it was also related to those exiled prisoners.

Not to mention that Lu Jin is not bad as an official, it is what happened when Lin Erhu told her about surveying wasteland just now, she can't help but help, anyway, it is free labor that doesn't cost money, she really can't refuse.