Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Octopus Soup Noodles
The next day
The temperature has been rising recently, so the lunch break has been extended. We cannot work from 10:30 to 3:00. However, in order to ensure an eight-hour work system, we have to start work earlier. The current working hours are from 6:00 am to 6:30 pm.
It was not even five o'clock and the sky was still light. Zhou Yun and Chen Aying, who were in charge of making breakfast, came over to open the gate and get busy.
At this time, Jiang Heng was still practicing.
Although she seemed very busy, her free time was actually from 6 or 7 in the evening to 6 or 7 in the morning. She practiced every day without slacking off. Just last night, she had broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.
Now he is practicing the exercises to consolidate his cultivation.
It still retains a trace of spiritual consciousness to perceive the outside world.
Clearly sensing that the courtyard door was opened, the three of them, who were snoring softly, opened their eyes at the same time and ran to the door immediately.
But the door was locked and they couldn't get out.
Probably sensing that the people outside were familiar, the three of them relaxed after being alert for a while and went back to their nests to continue nestling. However, this time, none of them fell asleep and they just lay there lazily.
The crackling sound of making breakfast was quite loud, especially as they were busy, a fragrance gradually spread out, and Jiang Heng suddenly couldn't continue practicing.
The temptation is still too great.
She pushed the door open and went out. Ali quickly dodged and ran out first, followed by Caramel and Pudding: "Woof woof woof!"
The clear and loud barking of dogs broke the silence of the early morning.
Chen Aying smiled and said, "Is Xiaoheng awake?"
"Hey, wake up, aunt, what do you want to eat this morning?" Jiang Heng asked loudly.
Chen Aying was clacking and rolling dough, and she kept saying, "Let's have fish soup noodles. We've been cooking it till now since last night. The fish bones and meat are soft and rotten, and the mushrooms are still tender. This soup is so delicious. I'll make some more hand-rolled noodles, and Zhou Yun can fry some small fish as a side dish. I guarantee it'll be delicious."
Jiang Heng thought it didn't need to be stored, as it was already delicious, so she quickly said, "Then I'll have a big bowl! I have some cabbages growing in my backyard. Can I have two as a side dish?"
"Okay." Chen Aying agreed: "Bring it here."
Jiang Heng quickly picked two and handed them over before going to wash up.
Chen Aying's eyes twitched. She said, "The child has only been back for less than two months, and the cabbage has grown so big already? It's indeed half-grown."
The rolled dough in your hand is already a large piece. Sprinkle enough flour on it to prevent it from sticking, roll it up, cut it into pieces three to five millimeters wide, shake it, and put it in a stainless steel basin on the side. You can put it in the pot when you want to eat it.
Zhou Yun was doing the same thing, with her sleeves rolled up, kneading the dough so hard that the table underneath was shaking.
The portion is for more than a dozen people, and today there are two more people, and they all have big appetites, so the amount of noodles cannot be less.
I was able to finish everything. Two large basins were full of hand-rolled noodles. Then I cut the cabbage. The cabbage was tender enough. I broke off two leaves at the beginning. Two half-grown puppies came over and each took a piece.
Strangely enough, these little guys raised by Jiang Heng all love to eat the vegetables she grows.
Chen Aying couldn't help but think of the dog she had raised before she got married. Dahei didn't like vegetables, only meat. How could she have eaten meat every day back then? If her father hadn't been a chef, the dog would have starved to death before it even grew up. Thinking about it now, she still feels a mixture of love and hate.
For the remaining slices of Chinese cabbage, put the stalks in the pot and cook for two minutes first, then add the leaves, and take them out when they are almost cooked.
The water used to cook the cabbage is still clear, and the time is almost up, so start cooking the noodles.
I tried my best to shake off the flour on the noodles before putting them in the pot, but once they were put into the pot, the clear water instantly turned into a light milky white. The more noodles there were, the thicker the white was. As the noodle soup rolled, the white hand-rolled noodles also rolled and exuded a sweet aroma unique to pasta.
There are no other seasonings at all, and the aroma alone is very pleasant.
"Hey, Aying, what time did you get up? Are the hand-rolled noodles ready?" Zheng Lan and Wang Guisheng came over together and were a little surprised to see the two people busy.
Chen Aying's hands and feet moved faster and faster, stirring the noodles in the pot with her chopsticks. "You got up before five o'clock. You can't sleep anyway. If you start working earlier, you will suffer less. It's too hot."
"Yeah, it's a good thing we're cooking outside, otherwise the kitchen would be a mess at noon." Zhou Yun prepared the disposable bowls and chopsticks, and took out the mushroom meat sauce she had made earlier: "If you think it's too bland, add some of this."
The two nodded hurriedly, and Wang Guisheng said happily: "That's just right, my taste is indeed a bit strong."
Then Chen Aying picked up the noodles, and Zhou Yun cooperated by scooping a spoonful of fish soup. All the fish bones were removed, leaving only the slightly thick fish soup with a light yellow hue. What Jiang Heng smelled before was the fresh fragrance of the heated fish soup!
Sprinkle some chopped green onions, pour two spoonfuls of fish soup on top, and finally add some cooked cabbage.
A bowl of fish soup hand-rolled noodles is ready.
Jiang Heng also finished washing up, and cooked some meat for caramel and pudding, then went out to eat her noodles. Seeing the two of them coming, she was quite surprised: "Auntie, you came so early."
"It's my first day working here. I couldn't sleep, so I came here early." Zheng Lan said with a smile.
Zheng Lan was the aunt who had grown tomatoes until only some crooked and cracked fruits were left. When Jiang Heng sent out a recruitment message, she was the first to reply. Although she herself was not successful in growing tomatoes, it was okay. Jiang Heng felt that her tomatoes could withstand the hard work, so she selected people according to the order.
Wang Guisheng is Jiang Changhai's wife, and she happened to be the second one to sign up.
The two of them rarely stay in the village. It's not that they don't work, but they do some odd jobs in the surrounding areas, such as if a nearby factory is temporarily short of staff or a community needs manpower for greening planting. If there is a special person to introduce them, they will go and work for a few days.
These are all short-term temporary jobs, and earning two or three thousand yuan a year is considered a lot. However, even so, it is better than farming.
Wan Shuang told her this yesterday when he saw her recruiting people in the group.
There are too few young and middle-aged people in their village, and Jiang Heng requires people under 60 years old. Their village is definitely not enough. But if they want to develop such a large piece of land, they must recruit people from other villages. At this time, they can contact the other party to send people over.
Wang Guisheng nodded and smiled a little nervously, "Yes, I couldn't sleep either, so I thought I'd come over first, and I happened to run into her halfway."
Jiang Heng smiled and said, "That's perfect for eating early. We don't have to wait. It will be crowded later."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhou Yun handed over two servings of hand-rolled noodles. "Eat quickly, eat quickly. This fish soup has been simmering for a long time, it's very thick!"
The two of them quickly took it and were intoxicated by the hot steam from the bowl. They exclaimed, "What a delicious smell!"
"How do you make this fish soup? It tastes so good!"
Chen Aying: "That's what I did. Maybe the fish have been kept for two days, so they don't have any fishy smell, so they smell good."
Jiang Heng also received her share. Knowing that she liked to eat vegetables, she was given a lot of cabbage, a full bowl, and plenty of soup. Naturally, she took a sip of the soup first. The early morning in mid-June was relatively cool. After taking a sip of the hot and delicious soup, she shuddered, as if she was awakened by the soup.
The food warmed my stomach as I ate it. It was not too bland as Chen Aying said. Instead, it had just the right salty and fresh taste. I took another bite of the noodles. The hand-rolled noodles lacked the chewiness of ramen, but were softer and more tender. I slurped a big mouthful and swallowed it after chewing it twice. The sweetness of the noodles and the unique sweet taste of cabbage burst out in my mouth. The salty and sweet interweaving was not abrupt, but just right.
"Slurp~" The sound of Zheng Lan and Wang Guisheng slurping noodles could be heard nearby.
Wang Guisheng, who just said that he had a strong taste, now completely forgot to pick up some mushroom meat sauce.
So delicious!
It was a little bland for her, but the freshness made up for it. After eating the salty mushroom meat sauce, she was afraid that it would ruin the delicious taste that made her unable to stop.
Eat two mouthfuls of noodles and then another mouthful of cabbage.
Wang Guisheng had eaten cabbage countless times and was no longer familiar with it. But the cabbage he ate today was different. It had a tender texture, and even the leaf stalks at the bottom had no fascia. The thick leaves seemed to melt in his mouth, and with just a sip, the surprisingly sweet taste came out.
A mouthful of noodles, a sip of soup, and a piece of cabbage, how delicious!
Fortunately, she was quick last night and discovered the message in the group first.
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While they were eating, Master Chen, Jiang Guoxia and others arrived one after another.
This is the busiest time for Chen Aying and Zhou Yun.
The two of them cooked in two pots at a rapid pace. One pot of noodles could feed four or five people. They served two pots at the same time, took them out and quickly cooked the second pot. This group of people had big appetites, and almost all of them wanted to order another portion, which made them even busier.
The yard was full of people, and many people were taking their food out to eat.
Jiang Heng also came into the house with a bowl, eating while cooking for Caramel, Pudding, and Ali. She chopped the cooked beef a little more, mixed it with a few slices of raw cabbage, stirred it, and poured it into the bowl: "Eat it."
"Woof!"
"Meow~"
"Woof~"
The three of them happily tilted their heads back and barked at her first, then ate their breakfast with their tails wagged and grunted.
Jiang Heng moved a small stool and sat next to them to eat together.
A group of people in the yard also started eating with their bowls in hand, chatting loudly while eating to relieve the sleepiness after getting up early: "Which area are we working on today?"
"It's over at Crescent Moon Pond. We hadn't finished it yesterday."
"Speaking of this, it reminds me of some stupid squirrel who hid all the food in that tree over there and forgot about it. When I cut it down, a lot of rotten peanuts popped out..."
While they were talking, everyone started eating. Finally, a large pot of food was cooked and placed on the table nearby so that anyone who needed more could have more.
Chen Aying and Zhou Yun finally started eating and joined in the conversation with ease.
After Jiang Heng finished eating, Zheng Lan and Wang Guisheng also finished their meals. They immediately asked Jiang Heng to take them there. They had agreed on this last night, and they brought their own machetes. Tomato vines were not as soft as cucumber vines, so they only needed to put a stable branch in the middle and then tie the tomato vines and the branch together.
And she has so many branches!
These days, Jiang Guoxia led people to cut trees. Every time he came back for dinner, he would bring back a batch and pile them a few dozen meters in front of the vegetable garden, so that people in the village could go and haul them away when needed. Unfortunately, there were too few people, and everyone only dragged two or three trees back and chopped them down slowly, and there were still quite a few left.
Jiang Heng first opened the gate of the vegetable garden and led them in.
Two acres of vegetable field is not small, and it looks green at first glance.
First there were half-grown lettuces and spinach that was just a foot tall, and then I walked through the cucumber area.
Zheng Lan was pleasantly surprised: "There are so many cucumber flowers blooming, so there will definitely be a lot of cucumbers!"
In the cucumber area, the wooden racks were covered with green cucumber vines, and the cucumber vines were dotted with densely packed yellow flowers, which was pleasing to the eye.
"Wow, so many, I'm afraid they have to harvest hundreds of kilograms of cucumbers?" Wang Guisheng also noticed it and was amazed with envy.
Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Well, the seeds I bought are better."
The two suddenly realized that they must have gotten some good seeds from outside, so they stopped asking and went to the tomato field. Jiang Heng pointed at the tomato vines that were already higher than her knees and said, "This is all over the 400 square meters. Auntie, you all know how to build a trellis, so I won't explain it in detail. After the trellis is built, we still need to prune the side shoots."
Zheng Lan suddenly asked, "Do we still need to prune the side shoots?"
Jiang Heng nodded. "Yes, if you don't prune the side buds, the tomato plants will have too many branches and will compete for nutrients with each other. The result will definitely not be as good as after pruning. Look, this is the main branch. The small one, five or six centimeters long, is the side bud. Just break it off. Also, you need to pick off the first small flower that blooms in the first few days to let it continue to grow. Otherwise, it won't grow tall and the fruit won't be lush. After that, when it grows to about the same height as a person, you can top it to control the height..."
Zheng Lan sighed heavily, "No wonder. I didn't do any of that. I was just busy watering and fertilizing. I almost treated it like an ancestor, but the leaves are obviously growing well, with lush branches and leaves..."
Wang Guisheng continued: "It turns out that there are too many."
Zheng Lan: ...some things don’t need to be answered so smoothly.
"Hahaha~" Jiang Heng couldn't help laughing out loud, but quickly restrained herself and demonstrated to them exactly where to trim the side buds and how to do it. It was really simple, and they could just break them off with a casual bend, but they needed to bend over to find them.
Moreover, according to its growth rate, it needs to be repaired every five or six days, which can be considered a regular job. Once it is fixed, there will be no need for two people, and Shen Li can just do it part-time.
After the two learned it, they immediately rolled up their sleeves and started working.
Go chop the branches first!
It was just after six o'clock when Jiang Heng returned home, and Master Chen and the others had all eaten and gone to work.
Zhou Yun was cooking mung bean soup, and Chen Aying poured the remaining hand-rolled noodles and minced meat into the cats and dogs' food bowls for breakfast.
Caramel, Pudding and Ali were playing on the grass outside the yard, not interested in these things at all, but there were several cats and dogs waiting nearby, watching them eagerly.
The army of cats and dogs has begun to take shape.
As Jiang Heng walked over, the cats and dogs that had been watching Chen Aying put out the food glanced at her. Big Black and Big Yellow immediately trotted over and said, "Woo!"
"Hey, good morning, Dahei and Dahuang!" Jiang Heng greeted them with a smile: "Come and have breakfast."
She didn't actually know what the two dogs were called, but most of the dogs in the village had these names. Every time she called out, their tails wagged even more happily: "Woof!"
"Woof woof!"
Dahuang even came over and rubbed her legs enthusiastically.
Jiang Heng touched one of them with each hand, and Da Hei and Da Huang immediately wagged their tails more happily. Looking closely, they had grown a lot fatter, and their fur became smoother and felt very good. However, after just two touches, Caramel and Pudding stopped biting each other and quickly ran over, pushing away her hands that were touching Da Hei and Da Huang. Then they quickly lay down, exposing their bellies, and cutely stuck out their tongues: "Awoo~"
Caramel, pudding: Touch me, touch me!!!
Jiang Heng: ...
Chen Aying laughed out loud: "Tsk tsk, these two little guys are jealous."
Jiang Heng rubbed them vigorously: "Okay, no more playing, I have to go to work, you guys are responsible for watching over here, understand?"
"Woof!" The two stood up and woofed happily.
Jiang Heng gave Ali some more instructions. Ali lazily lay on the grass and said, "Meow~"
I don’t know if you understand.
Anyway, just pretend that you understand.
She's going mushroom picking too!
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The first thing to do when you arrive in the mountains is to look for the mushrooms you want.
Jiang Heng no longer needs to use his hands. Having reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, his spiritual power has increased exponentially again. He can easily use his spiritual power to roll up clusters of mushrooms and drop them into a sack, and the damage to the mushrooms has been reduced a lot.
For example, at this moment, she moved her fingertips slightly, and a green spiritual power overflowed, instantly turning into several smaller branches, falling on several clusters of fir mushrooms around her. She rolled up the fir mushrooms, pulled them out of the soil with a little force, and put them into the bag.
She only needs to take two steps according to the position of the mushroom throughout the process.
This time I really picked mushrooms.
Occasionally, a few squirrels would run over and stare at her. Seeing her movements like this, their eyes would gradually become dull, and if they were not careful, they might be caught by the predator hiding in the dark.
Jiang Heng had already seen a squirrel disappear like this.
The other party was extremely fast, and seemed to be a peregrine falcon. It didn't look big, but when it spread its wings and quickly caught the squirrel, it was over one meter long!
But this is the normal relationship between predator and prey. Jiang Heng could only shout "Amitabha" and continue picking mushrooms.
The result of concentrating on picking mushrooms was excessive efficiency. In about half an hour, all four sacks were full, but we couldn't go down the mountain so quickly.
Next...
Jiang Heng took out a plastic bag that had been specially cleaned using the dust removal technique.
It's time to do bad things again.
I'm sorry to the hardworking little bees who have collected so much nectar irrigated by the spiritual rain. It's time to give some back.
Speaking of picking mushrooms these days, Jiang Heng has been in a hurry. She hasn't received the honey she promised to Assistant Feng yet. Of course, she is not really selling honey. The main reason is that Assistant Feng's boss is in the catering business, so there will definitely be more cooperation in the future. She got his contact information first, and maybe he will be a client in the future.
The number of stalls she set up and the number of reservations she received have already reached saturation for people in the county.
If you don't expand your network, it will be easy to not be able to sell all the 400 square meters of tomatoes when they mature in large quantities.
After all, those were the tomatoes she had carefully grown, and the yield was definitely considerable.
It just so happened that Assistant Feng was in the catering business, so he could definitely buy the excess production from him. What was especially convenient was that the two sides were close to each other, so there was no need to worry about the thin-skinned tomatoes being difficult to transport and rotting in the car over time.
So if Party A wants honey, of course they have to get it as soon as possible if they have time!
Just as she was about to attack the nearest beehive, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar yellow-brown color. She looked up and saw Diao happily jumping in front of her, staring at the plastic bag in her hand with a pair of black eyes. The expression on that furry face couldn't be surprise?!
Jiang Heng: ...
"You have a pretty good memory."
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" The yellow-throated marten responded happily, then flew quickly towards Jiang Heng's target, constantly looking up to remind her that there was a beehive here.
Jiang Heng resigned herself to her fate and went over. Looking up, she could clearly see that the beehive had grown back and was full. She could almost see the thick honey flowing inside. Without saying a word, she started to eat it.
Two water blades passed by, cutting up and down, and a palm-sized piece of honeycomb fell rapidly and was caught steadily by the plastic bag she opened.
"squeak!"
The yellow-throated marten cried out happily, jumped nimbly, and ran to another place.
Jiang Heng quickly followed.
The yellow-throated marten was obviously an old resident here and was very familiar with the neighbors. After taking Jiang Heng to easily harvest five beehives via the shortest route, he was still not satisfied, but the bag could no longer hold any more.
Who would have thought that in such a short time, the beehive could grow back so much?
This shows how much honey they collected during this period.
As usual, Jiang Heng took a piece of honeycomb and handed it to the yellow-throated marten as a reward. The yellow-throated marten was very satisfied. It squeaked at her twice while holding the honeycomb in its mouth before running away happily.
It's another satisfying collusion.
She could even imagine the bees in the stolen hives now frantically flying around.
After collecting the honey and standing up, Jiang Heng felt a pair of eyes staring at him. He turned his head and saw a red muntjac staring at him with a pair of clear big eyes in a cluster of bushes at a certain distance away.
There seems to be some surprise on that deer's face?
But the next second, when their eyes met, the red muntjac subconsciously turned around and ran away.
Jiang Heng immediately remembered that she had bumped into a deer while moving very fast. She didn't see its face clearly at that time. It turned out to be a red muntjac, also a Grade 2 muntjac. At first glance, the small forest was full of protected animals. She couldn't imagine what the scene would be like after this area was discovered.
Hopefully, it will be discovered later.
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Carrying a heavy load of honey and four sacks of mushrooms, Jiang Heng happily set out on his way home.
I got home at exactly ten o'clock.
In the breeding area, ewes are strolling with their lambs, bleating from time to time.
The chicks and ducklings were also strolling in their respective yards. They were so small that their bodies were often blocked by the dense grass, but their chirping never stopped.
The ten little piglets seemed to have grown a lot in a short period of time, and were playing in the grass with a grunt.
The kittens and puppies that Ali called over had already started working yesterday. There were eight of them in total. At this moment, they were all guarding in the shadows in different directions, so that the birds circling in the sky with a fierce look on their faces just stared at them for a while, but none of them rushed over. As the sun got hotter, the birds left.
So Shen Li sat by the side of the courtyard wall and watched videos without worry. When she saw Jiang Heng coming, she immediately put down her phone and went to greet him: "Oh my god, so many again! Xiao Heng, you must have been touched on the head by the God of Wealth!"
Jiang Heng chuckled, "Then it was probably more than just a touch."
Shen Li smiled even more and pushed her: "You go and rest, I'll clean up."
"Okay, be careful not to get heatstroke. If you feel uncomfortable, go back to the living room and turn on the air conditioner." Jiang Heng reminded.
"I know, I'm fine." Shen Li smiled.
Jiang Heng went into the house to process the honey. She had a great harvest today. This bag alone weighed more than six kilograms.
So after she filtered it out, she got almost four pounds of pure wild honey.
The wild honey had been drunk up long ago, and now there was only a little honeysuckle honey left. She had gotten used to drinking it recently. She would go over there tomorrow to check, and if there was any, she would get some back.
While I was busy, my phone vibrated.
It's a message prompt.
【The merchant you applied for...】
Her online store application was approved!
The surprise came unexpectedly. Jiang Heng immediately entered the merchant page. The interface was empty without any products. There were only the certificates she uploaded in the merchant introduction. Jiang Heng immediately began to edit and put the products on the shelves.
Take pictures, upload, set prices, all in one go.
Except for honey, which is only three kilograms on the shelves for the time being, the rest are put on the shelves based on the inventory. She hasn't sold any dried mushrooms recently, but just sent some to her uncle's house. Therefore, the remaining dried mushrooms are about 150 kilograms, about 30 kilograms of each kind. With obsessive-compulsive disorder, she tried hard to make up the average, which should be enough to sell for a while.
After all the settings are completed, the store link will be forwarded to the vegetable selling group, Yang Xing's online vegetable selling group, as well as Song Ming's colleagues, Ye Sui and Assistant Feng.
knock off!
The only drawback is that the photos taken with a mobile phone are not very good. I will make a plan later and buy a new camera to replace all the pictures.
Jiang Heng put down his phone and continued to pack the honey.
The fragrance feels better than the first time, and the aura is also more intense. The second batch of people who bought honey made a lot of money!
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At this time, each group.
[Wow! It's an online store! That's great! We migrant workers are saved!]
[Entered, exited, disturbed (covering mouth with tears jpg)]
【??? Damn, that price!】
[Oh my god! Is this the price I can see?]
[Dried mushrooms should be normal, they will shrink]
[Hey, luckily I like eating fresh mushrooms. The taste of fresh mushrooms is incomparable to dried mushrooms!]
【Fresh mushrooms are so delicious!!!】
Aren't they all the same? I can't tell the difference at all (scratching my head)
[Wait, didn't you see something else in there? Oh my god, why is honey so expensive?]
[Huh? Honey? How much? I wasn't paying attention just now, and I ran out to chat.]
[2500 for half a pound! Hiss—who can afford this?]
"So five thousand yuan per pound of honey? The boss is really bold with his pricing. Isn't he afraid that he won't be able to sell it?"
【Why is it sold out when I clicked in? 】
[Awesome! It's gone already? I thought everyone was poor, but I'm the only one. Who's buying these?!]
【？ ？ ？ ？】
It's not me
It's definitely not me.
[It’s definitely not me]*2
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The author has something to say: The online store is now open~ Goat milk will be sold tomorrow~ [Spread flowers]
Fifty random red envelopes in this chapter~啾! [心]
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