Chapter 28: If digging a fish pond could be this comfortable every day, the young lady would call...
Lin Xiaopu was the opposite. He was extremely excited when he heard it and kept shouting.
After a while, Zhou Ye squeezed out a sentence, "Let's dig a fish pond first."
Zhou Ye picked up the shovel and started working. After a while, he had dug a large shallow pit along the circle of ash.
Lin Shu watched with a smile. This was the efficiency when Zhou Ye was not full. If he was fed, such a big pond might be dug out within three days.
"Brother Aye, there's still plenty of shampoo. I'll go ask A-niang if she wants to wash her hair. I'll bring you some snacks to replenish your energy later."
Zhou Ye hummed without even raising his head.
Only after Lin Shu and Lin Xiaopu turned around and left did he raise his eyes and glance at them.
Xiao Pu jumped around like a little rabbit, and the flower-like girl was so light-footed that she almost jumped up. Her half-wet long hair was loosely tied together, swaying with her movements.
Zhou Ye's eyes trembled slightly, and he continued to work hard.
When Lin Shu and Lin Xiaopu returned, He Guixiang was hiding in the house happily counting money.
As soon as Aye came back, he stuffed the money into her hands, just like before, without keeping a single cent.
Half a side of wild boar meat, pork chops, pork bones, various pork offal, plus the pheasant and hare, sold for a total of ten strings of cash!
A full ten pounds!
Ah Ye said that the restaurant manager was very generous, and that wealthy people loved to eat wild game that they couldn't normally get. A pound of wild boar meat cost ten copper coins more than regular pork, selling for fifty wen per pound! Pheasants and rabbits were also in high demand, with pheasants selling for eighty wen and rabbits for one hundred and fifty wen!
This was the first time He Guixiang had seen so much money, and her hands were shaking when she first received it.
However, after the initial ecstasy and excitement, He Guixiang slowly calmed down and started to think more.
She had previously thought that if Ah Ye became her son-in-law, the money would be used by the whole family, so there was no need to divide it so clearly. But if Ah Shu didn't have that intention, she naturally couldn't ignore Ah Shu's wishes and force them together. If Ah Shu wanted to marry without being wronged, she would definitely have to prepare a generous dowry. And Ah Ye had long been treated as a half-son by her and Lin Dashan. Ah Ye would also have to marry in the future, so she had to save money for him to marry.
If you think about it this way, ten taels of silver isn't that much.
Save, keep saving!
Lin Shu suddenly shouted from outside the house. He Guixiang hurriedly put the ten taels of money back into her wooden box, pressed it to the bottom layer and hid it, covered it with a heavy mattress, locked the wooden box, stuffed it into the corner under the bed against the wall, and covered it tightly with all kinds of sundries.
"Ashu, what do you want me to do?" He Guixiang walked out.
"There is still a lot of shampoo. Do you want to wash your hair too?" Lin Shu asked.
He Guixiang replied, "Mother, I won't wash it. I still have to deal with the pig intestines later."
The large and small intestines needed to be washed again, otherwise they would have a bad smell. Apart from the ones for the two village women who helped, there was still a lot left in the basin.
He Guixiang did what she said. Instead of taking the ashes from the stove, she took a handful of straw and burned it. She poured the ash from the straw into the basin, turned out the large and small intestines, and rubbed them back and forth with the ash.
"I learned this method from the old people in the village. Rub it back and forth a few times, and the ash will remove the mucus on the intestines, so the smell will not be so pungent."
Lin Xiaopu pinched her nose and shouted, "Mother, it still stinks."
He Guixiang laughed at her, "If you think it smells bad, don't eat a single bite of it late at night."
Lin Xiaopu quickly said, "Yes, yes! Mother, can you make the wild boar meat we left at home for dinner?"
"Eat, mom will make pork bone soup and pork brisket for you today!" We can't keep it for too long, so we can eat it today and then tomorrow.
Lin Xiaopu jumped up happily again, happier than during the Chinese New Year.
After He Guixiang finished preparing the pig's large and small intestines, she began to boil water and stew the pig bones. She had some dried bamboo shoots at home, so she threw a handful in to stew them together.
"Xiao Pu, help me watch the fire while I go outside to pick some wild onions and garlic."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaopu immediately moved the bench out of the main room and sat by the stove, guarding it like a greedy little cat.
"Mother, pick more. I also want the Guanyin tofu."
"Okay." He Guixiang responded with a smile, knowing that she was going to make Guanyin tofu for Aye.
Lin Shu saw that the Guanyin firewood juice in the wooden basin had almost solidified, so she cut out a small piece and put it on a plate. She cut the rest into pieces directly in the wooden basin, then mixed it with salt. She placed a large wooden spoon on the side of the basin and used it to scoop it out and eat it.
In fact, she prefers sweet food, but unfortunately sugar is a luxury in those days and ordinary people can't afford it at all. She specifically asked her mother, and found out that in the Dayan Dynasty, one ounce of sugar cost twenty coins, and rock honey was even more expensive, selling for fifty coins per ounce, which could buy many kilograms of grain.
For the lower classes, if their children were craving candy, they would simply go to the market and buy the cheapest malt sugar, which cost only a small piece or two coins. The candy cakes my father brought back last time were five coins each, which was considered expensive.
But the braised pork, preserved vegetable pork, steamed pork with rice flour, etc. that Lin Shu wanted to eat all required sugar.
After He Guixiang came back with the wild onions, Lin Shu chopped them into small pieces and mixed them with other seasonings.
Lin Shu tried to lift it but couldn't move it, so she had to ask Lin Xiaopu to help her lift it.
"Wow, what a huge bowl of Guanyin tofu! Brother Aye is so happy!"
Lin Shu scooped two pieces with a wooden spoon and fed them to Lin Xiaopu, who ate them with a giggle, "Don't tell Brother Aye that I tasted them first."
The two sisters carried a large basin full of Guanyin tofu to the small vegetable patch behind the house. Before they reached the place, Zhou Ye, who was still digging a hole, looked up at them and immediately dropped his shovel to come over to help.
Zhou Ye picked up the large wooden basin easily, then looked at the things in the basin with a puzzled look on his face.
The stuff in the basin is in chunks, the color is like jade, the texture is like tofu, but it is smoother than tofu.
"Brother Aye, I made you a snack. This Guanyin tofu is smooth and refreshing, and it can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Come and try it!"
"You made this?" Zhou Ye was slightly surprised. A young lady from a wealthy family could also cook?
Lin Xiaopu covered his mouth and chuckled twice, then said proudly: "Brother Aye, my sister knows a lot of things!"
Lin Shu raised her eyebrows and said, "I said I would feed you in the future. Do you think I was joking?"
Zhou Ye had breakfast by eating a few flatbreads made by He Guixiang on the way. After selling the wild boar meat, he bought a few steamed buns with solid ingredients in the town to fill his stomach. However, he had already digested them all by now, and his stomach was empty, and it had even made a few gurgling sounds just now.
He no longer hesitated and wrapped his arm around the wooden basin. With his free hand, he took the large wooden spoon that Ping'er used to scoop the soup, scooped a full spoonful of the emerald-like crystal clear soup and stuffed it into his mouth.
After taking a bite, his eyes seemed to light up slightly, and he took another big spoonful. Without saying a word, he finished the entire wooden basin of Guanyin tofu in a short while.
Lin Xiaopu was secretly happy on the side.
Lin Shu deliberately asked him, "Brother Aye, is it delicious?"
This taciturn guy just focused on eating and didn't even know how to say a few words of praise.
Zhou Ye nodded and said, "It's very tender and refreshing, with a different taste from white tofu." After that, he put down the empty wooden basin, picked up the shovel on the ground and continued to work.
Lin Shu thought he was a very honest man. He started working right after eating, working even harder than before, looking very silly.
"I cook for you, but I don't mean to treat you like an ox or a horse. If you're tired, just rest. It won't take a while."
Zhou Ye turned his head to look at her, "I'm not tired, I just had a full meal and I'm full of energy."
From childhood to adulthood, he had never felt tired, only hungry. He had just finished this large bowl of food, and he was full in no time. The feeling of having something full in his stomach was very comfortable, even more so than Ping'er's two large bowls of thick porridge.
If he could live this comfortably every day, he would be willing to do anything the young lady asked him to do, not just dig a fish pond.
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