Zhao Wei crouched down and approached the grazing cow, picked up a handful of fresh grass and put it to its mouth.
The cow swung its tail and chewed with a crunching sound, and its warm breath sprayed on the back of his hand, with the scent of grass and milk.
While muttering "Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry" softly, he rubbed the cow's belly with his palm, just like he usually rubbed someone's waist, slowly making circles from light to heavy.
The cow's ears moved and she suddenly turned her head to stare at him, as if to tell the tiger to continue enduring or to kick it away.
Zhao Wei's heart tightened, but he saw the cow suddenly lowered its head docilely and rubbed his wrist with its wet nose.
"How clever! You recognize this thing?"
He smiled and took out a piece of salt hidden in his sleeve, broke it into pieces and scattered it in the trough.
Tsk tsk... He had some impression that cows love to lick salt.
It seems that the effect is good now. It is more exciting than feeding grass to cows!
The cow immediately lowered its head and started to eat, swinging its tail rhythmically, bringing up the fine grass debris.
The opportunity has come! Zhao Wei held his breath, knelt on one knee, and gently held the cow's swollen and drooping thing with his left hand.
Just as he was about to exert force, the cow suddenly took a half step back in alertness, and her hooves stepped into a deep pit in the mud.
"Oh my great-grandmother, please don't disturb the mule next door!"
"Be quiet, be quiet..."
He quickly added some grass to the trough, and with his other hand he quietly took out a piece of hidden brown sugar and waved it in front of the cow.
In order to get a little milk, he was willing to go through snowstorms.
Sure enough, the temptation of sweets outweighs all vigilance.
The cow hummed with satisfaction while chewing the brown sugar. Zhao Wei took the opportunity to squeeze it gently with his fingertips. Milky white juice spurted out, stirring up tiny bubbles in the bamboo tube.
Just after half of the tube was connected, Master Lin's voice suddenly came from a distance: "Master! I dug up something weird, come and see it!"
The cow swung its tail violently as if frightened. Zhao Wei quickly grabbed the bamboo tube and fled from the cow's attack range as fast as possible.
Fortunately, I saw the opportunity quickly and didn't spill the milk.
This Master Lin just praised him for his prudent work.
Unexpectedly, in just half an hour, his true colors were revealed.
"Shut up now, you unlucky bastard...!"
He looked up while cursing, only to see Master Lin leading seven or eight men walking towards him with difficulty, each of them with a look of fear and excitement on their face.
But they carried a very heavy piece of wood over.
"This thing was found under the roots of a dead locust tree. It looks a bit like rosewood!"
Master Lin's voice trembled, "Look at the lines and the cut surface, it's black and purple. In the past, only emperors were qualified to enjoy this!"
Zhao Wei wiped the milk stains off his hands and moved closer. After a careful observation, he couldn't help but say happily for him: "It's really red sandalwood. If you keep it well, you may make a fortune in the future."
Master Lin scratched his head in a simple and honest manner: "I don't want this. This is my gift to you, Master. Please accept it!"
Zhao Wei didn't expect that the other party would be so generous after learning that the wood was very precious. He was somewhat shocked.
"No, no, no... No matter how much I respect my master, I can't give him such an expensive gift."
"Take it away now. I don't want it."
This guy knew that this tree trunk was very valuable. After all, he knew a bit about rosewood.
However, it is still limited by the times.
This thing is worth thousands of dollars nowadays if it meets the right buyer.
Seeing that this one is of excellent quality, it is possible to be worth tens of thousands.
In later times, they would be worth a lot of money.
Apart from anything else, this thing is not easy to spoil. As long as it is properly preserved, it can be kept for decades or even hundreds of years.
As a master, the only advice he could give to his sixth apprentice was to quickly carry the wood back home and find a dry place to store it.
Master Lin tried several times but Zhao Wei refused to give in. He knew that the wood could not be delivered, so he could only ask everyone to carry it back home.
Despite this interruption, Zhao Wei still had to continue his milk extraction business.
Fortunately, the cow has now become desensitized to Zhao Wei, the milk thief, and soon let him squeeze out almost three kilograms of milk.
A big bamboo tube was filled to the brim.
Carry it home and pour it into a casserole.
It feels a bit inappropriate to use a big iron pot for this thing, but there are other useful basins.
This kind of clay pot is the best material.
While putting the milk on a small clay stove to boil, he went about preparing the tapioca pearls.
The alternative version of tapioca pearls uses sweet potato starch, but the method is the same: cut it into small round grains, about the same size as rice grains, cook them in boiling water, and then soak them in cold water for later use.
As for the peach gum that has been picked, it cannot be processed immediately and needs to be soaked for several hours.
So, he got the ingredients in the morning, and by the time he actually ate it, it was almost dark in the evening.
Put the cleaned and soaked peach gum into the pot and cook for an hour, then add milk, tapioca pearls, and some red dates and red wolfberries.
He cooked a big pot of such a dazzling array of delicacies, and the three apprentices were so greedy that they refused to leave. They squatted there with their bowls in their hands, watching eagerly.
Anything produced by Zhao Wei must be a quality product.
So far, he has not made any mistakes in cooking.
Just at this moment, Yunxiu, who had slept for a whole day, opened the door and walked out.
Although I have slept for so long, I still feel sore in my back.
Especially my stomach, I’m almost starving.
If she hadn't come out to look for food, she would most likely continue sleeping and wouldn't say anything.
"Wife, you came just in time. I left a lot for you. Come and try it and see if it tastes like what you like."
Under Zhao Wei's expectation, Yunxiu took a sip carefully.
"Huh? It tastes delicious. I thought it would be weird, but I didn't expect it to taste so amazing..."
She scooped it with a spoon and ate it in big mouthfuls.
"Wife, if you like it, I will cook it for you in the future. Please don't be angry with me, okay?"
After saying that, he continued to rub her arm, making Yunxiu unable to resist at all.
"Ahem... this won't happen again!"
Zhao Wei just smiled and said nothing. He couldn't agree to this.
It just so happened that many villagers came to the village to ask him how to grow mushrooms.
These people were so anxious that they brought the wood home during the day and came to inquire about these things at night.
It’s hard to explain this in a short time.
Zhao Wei asked them to go to the threshing ground at eight o'clock tomorrow morning for a meeting, and he would then provide unified training.
It just so happened that the village was short of five team leaders, and they were in need of new people, so a new election was needed. These things were quite tedious, and I felt tired just thinking about them.
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