Chapter 240 Benefiting the People

"Basella, thresher, who needs it?" Xiao Jiuyue asked instead of answering.

Luo Kui answered without hesitation: "It must be the common people who farm the land."

"It's not easy for ordinary people. They work hard in the fields with their faces to the earth and their backs to the sky. They rely on God for their livelihood. The Xiao family has many ways to make money, and we don't need this one." Xiao Jiuyue had never thought of using a thresher to make money.

Luo Kui squatted in front of Xiao Jiuyue, actively massaging her legs, looking up and smiling, "Miss, the villagers of Fu'an Village really should thank you."

"Forget about the thanks, as long as they don't harm the Xiao family." Xiao Jiuyue raised an eyebrow, looking at Luo Kui's flattering appearance, which did not make people feel disgusted at all, but only gave people a sense of cuteness and innocence. She said: "Luo Kui, come with me for a while."

"Okay." Luo Kui immediately stood up and went out with Xiao Jiuyue!

In the kitchen, when Mother Geng, Mother Wang, and the others saw Xiao Jiuyue coming, they quickly put down their work and saluted, saying, "Miss."

"Mother Geng, Mother Wang, you guys should focus on the work at hand first." Xiao Jiuyue waved her hand, indicating that they should not bother with her, and then Xiao Jiuyue started to busy herself in the kitchen!

"Miss, how about I do it!" Luo Kui looked at the kitchen knife in Xiao Jiuyue's hand. Her slender white hand and the kitchen knife didn't seem to match at all!

Mother Geng also stepped forward and said, "Miss, I'll do it. If you want to do anything, just tell me."

Mother Geng had just finished stewing potatoes and meat in the pot. She wiped her clean hands on her apron and looked at Xiao Jiuyue with a smile. Looking at her hands with fingers that had never touched water, she was afraid that the knife would cut her hands if she was not careful!

Luo Kui and Geng's mother stood on either side. Xiao Jiuyue put down the knife and said, "Make a horizontal cut in the middle of the chestnut. Luo Kui, prepare some boiling water!"

"This is easy." When Mother Geng heard about this job, she immediately stepped forward, took the knife, and started working with quick movements.

Luo Kui also went to get some boiled water. There was plenty of boiled water in the kitchen, no shortage at all!

"Throw the scraped chestnuts into boiling water, wrap them with a handkerchief, and you can peel them!" Xiao Jiuyue just opened her mouth, and Mother Wang in the kitchen rushed forward to do the job!

There is strength in numbers. After a short while, Xiao Jiuyue got a large plate of cleanly peeled chestnuts. Xiao Jiuyue simply stopped doing anything and asked someone to prepare the dishes she wanted to make, such as chestnut roast chicken.

When it was time to put the food in the wok, Mother Geng and Mother Wang started arguing over who should hold the spatula. Seeing this, Xiao Jiuyue said directly, "Mother Liu, you do the frying!"

"Miss!" Mother Geng and Mother Wang, who were arguing, looked at Xiao Jiuyue in shock. They looked at Mother Liu, who was standing aside without arguing, and they wanted to glare at her.

"Miss, I can do it!" Mother Liu took the spatula and started working right away. Usually, the kitchen was occupied by Mother Geng and Mother Wang. Today, it was finally her turn. Mother Liu rolled up her sleeves and worked hard.

I have to say that the Xiao family's kitchen is also full of hidden talents. The cooking skills of Mother Geng and Mother Wang are already good enough. Look at Mother Liu's skillful cooking movements. She works very efficiently. When she moves her mouth, Mother Liu is like her arm!

Soon, the chestnut stewed chicken was cooked. As the fire in the stove burned fiercely, the aroma of the chestnut stewed chicken wafted out of the pot.

"Simmer over low heat until the soup is almost done, and it's ready!" Xiao Jiuyue finished stewing the chestnut chicken and went to find Mother Geng and said, "Mother Geng, I have another dish: sweet and sour lotus root dumplings."

"Miss, I can do it!" When Mother Geng heard this, she looked at Mother Wang proudly, and then looked like she was listening attentively.

After Xiao Jiuyue finished teaching Mother Geng how to make this dish, she looked at the disappointed Mother Wang and said, "Mother Wang, you're the best at making dim sum!"

Osmanthus wine dumplings, osmanthus brown sugar rice cakes...

These dishes are all seasonal. Now is the season when sweet osmanthus is fragrant, so it is just right to use sweet osmanthus to make some dishes.

In one afternoon, Xiao Jiuyue prepared several dishes and snacks, and served them on the table in the evening!

"Sister, the sweet-scented osmanthus wine dumplings are delicious, sweet and sticky!" Xiao Yurong likes this dish the most. She is usually a quiet person, but she couldn't help eating some more.

"Sister, I like chestnut chicken!" Xiao Jiayuan's bowl was filled with chicken and chestnuts.

"Sister, sweet and sour lotus root sandwich is the best!" Xiao Tingwu's favorite is the sour and sweet sweet and sour lotus root sandwich!

"If you like it, ask the kitchen to make it often in the future." Xiao Jiuyue looked at her younger brothers and sisters with a smile. She was once alone, but now hearing them calling her "sister" over and over again made her feel happy.

"Grandma, we have a good harvest this year!" Xiao Jiuyue and Old Madam Xiao talked about the good news of the good harvest. Not only Old Madam Xiao, but also other people in the Xiao family were happy.

Xiao Jiuyue said, "Once the new grain arrives at the warehouse, we'll send a few more carts of grain to Lingnan, and then Grandfather and Dad will have no worries about food and drink!"

"Okay." Old Madam Xiao would go out for a walk when she had nothing to do. Seeing the fields covered in yellow, she could probably guess that this year would be a good harvest. She asked, "Yuer, I heard that you asked Ai Qiushi to get a thresher?"

Xiao Jiuyue's eyes flickered as she said, "Actually, I read about it in a book. I heard Dad and the others talk about it before, so I just wanted to give it a try. I never thought I'd actually be able to make it!"

"Well, I heard that a thresher can do the work of several people. It's a good thing that will benefit the people!" Old Madam Xiao looked at Xiao Jiuyue: "What are your plans?"

Old Madam Xiao's words stumped Xiao Jiuyue. It was clear that the old lady didn't have the same question as Luo Kui. She pondered for a moment before saying, "Grandmother, do you mean to make the thresher available to more people?"

"Yeah." Old Madam Xiao looked at Xiao Jiuyue with a smile, her eyes full of admiration.

"Lord Rong has just taken office. It would be great if such good things could be used by more people." Xiao Jiuyue said, and immediately asked Jin Wen to deliver a letter to Rong Xun!

After dinner, before it got dark, Xiao Jiuyue went to Ai Qiushi's place. Yu Ge's excited voice was beside her ear: "Miss, this thing is amazing! I'm more powerful than Liu Jin and the other four!"

Liu Jin, Liu Mama's son, went to the fields to harvest rice like the other members of the Xiao family.

"Besides, Liu Jin and the other four are all exhausted like dogs. I think I can still do it!" Yu Ge wiped the sweat from his forehead. With the thresher, he didn't feel tired at all!

"Yu Ge, when you used it today, did you feel that there was anything that needed improvement?" Xiao Jiuyue asked, looking at Yu Ge who was covered in dust.

"Miss, I think it's great and doesn't need any improvement." Yu Ge answered without thinking.

Xiao Jiuyue looked at him in silence. Yu Ge thought for a moment and said, "It would be better if you could save a little effort when stepping on it. The dust is a bit big, but when you throw grain, how can there be no dust?"