These days, the family is plowing the fields and planting seedlings, and Cheng Chen also goes to the fields. Usually, Wang Yu goes to the fields and Cheng Chen comes back to cook. Today, Wang Yu takes a little time and prepares to cook by himself. He takes out a piece of beef brisket from the space to thaw it, and prepares to make beef brisket stewed with potatoes, scrambled eggs with leeks, and stir-fried spinach. Some time ago, Cheng Chen dug a lot of bamboo shoots and made stir-fried spring bamboo shoots with bacon. Fortunately, these dishes are not too difficult. He thought that he should be able to do it well since he can cook a few dishes.
Defrost the beef brisket and cut it into chunks. Put it in a pot with cold water, add ginger wine to remove the fishy smell, boil the water for three minutes to remove the foam, pick it up, wash it and set it aside, pour oil into the pot, add green onion, ginger, cinnamon and red pepper, stir-fry until fragrant, then add the beef brisket and stir-fry until the water is dry, add water to cover the beef brisket, add appropriate amount of salt to the boiling water, soy sauce for color, pour it into the casserole on the stove next to it, simmer on low heat for an hour, add the chopped potatoes and continue to simmer a quarter of an hour before removing the pot.
Cheng Chen happened to come back while the beef brisket was being stewed. He smelled the aroma of stewing meat in the yard. Sure enough, he saw his husband in the kitchen. He washed his hands and walked over to him and said, "Husband! It smells so good. What are you cooking?"
Watching her husband walk over and sniff the casserole, Wang Yu said, "Potato stewed with beef brisket. I didn't go to replace you today, so I made a delicious meal for you at home."
Cheng Chen was so hungry just smelling the aroma that he nodded and said, "Yeah, my parents saw that you didn't go today, so they asked me to come back to check on you. They were worried that you were delayed in town. I didn't expect that my husband was making delicious food."
Wang Yu smiled and said, "It will take a while. You go and have a rest first. I'll do it."
"I'll rest here." He said and sat in front of the stove, looking at Wang Yu with a smile. Wang Yu had no choice but to let him sit here.
After all the dishes were ready, Wang's father and his family returned. Of course, Cheng Chen had been preparing the other dishes with his guidance. The dishes all looked very good. Wang's mother looked at the dishes on the table and smiled, "What a wonderful day it is today! It's so rich."
"Mother, you've been working hard lately. Today, I happened to meet a beef seller and bought some to improve our meals. Also, the county magistrate came to our house today and gave us 20 taels of silver as a reward."
"Really! The county magistrate is here!" Queen Mother exclaimed. No wonder people are so surprised. In their eyes, no matter how high or low the official's rank is, as long as he is an official, they need to respect him. The highest-ranking official they have ever seen may be the village chief.
"Yes, about the curved plow."
"Good, Yu'er is very good, very good!" Father Wang couldn't say anything special, and could only use two words "very good" to describe his mood. Everyone enjoyed the dinner very much, the food was delicious, and the mood was good too!
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These days, Wang Yu still goes to the academy to attend classes, does accounts at the restaurant, goes home to help plant rice, and takes over Cheng Chen's cooking. There are not many paddy fields at home, and the four of them can finish them in three days. They grow rice twice here, harvesting once in summer and once in autumn.
Wang Yu had indeed never planted rice seedlings before, but fortunately there were rice seedling horses that could sit in the fields. After watching Wang Mu and the others do it for a while, he gradually learned how to do it. He only came back in the afternoon and the rice seedlings he planted were not too tired. Occasionally, water snakes and leeches would swim by, but he knew they were not poisonous and would not bite him, so he pretended not to see them. Farmers often deal with fields, so even if they are bitten by leeches, they can just pull them off and it will be fine. No one cares about this. They just want to plant the seedlings quickly and have a good harvest.
The days passed by and it was the end of the month. I received my monthly salary today and took two days off. I was thinking of taking Cheng Chen back to Xiling Village tomorrow to see how the winery was going.
The farm work at home has been completed, and it is the slack season. Wang's father is preparing to go to the county dock to work. Every year during the slack season, many people go to the town or county to find odd jobs. Some can earn fifty or sixty cents a day, and some can earn twenty or thirty cents a day. It is enough to earn some money to supplement the family income. Wang's father has gone there in previous years.
Wang Yu didn't let him go this year. Working at the dock was tiring and the wages were low. Besides, Wang's father was getting older and it was not suitable for him to be a porter anymore. After the winery was built, Wang's father couldn't sit still and went to look after the winery.
The next day, Wang Yu took Cheng Chen and his father to the town, bought some cakes and meat, and rented a mule cart to Xiling Village.
When Cheng's mother saw them coming, she greeted them and welcomed them in, poured them tea, took the pastries and meat handed to them by Wang Yu and said, "Come if you want to, bring whatever you want with you, don't bring anything next time. The winery will be completed in two days, and your eldest brother is still watching over the winery. You can go to him if you have any problems." Cheng's mother knew that they came this time to see whether the winery was completed.
Wang Yu: "Okay, mother-in-law, there's not much food. I brought some for you and father-in-law. How is father-in-law?"
Mother Cheng poured them each a cup of tea. It was wild tea from the mountains, roasted at home. It wasn't as good as the tea sold in town, but at least it had a tea flavor, better than plain water. After pouring it, she said, "Much better. You can get out of bed and walk around now."
"That's good. Achen and I will go take a look." Wang Yu nodded and said, and then they went to the bedroom next door. They saw that Cheng's father was indeed much better and his complexion had returned to normal.
After talking with Cheng's father for a while, he told him to rest more. When he came out, he asked Cheng Chen whether he wanted to go to the winery or talk to his mother-in-law at home.
"Let's go take a look at the winery and come back to talk later." Cheng Chen was also very curious about the progress of the winery.
Since Cheng Chen wanted to go and see, the three of them went together. When they turned left, they found the winery. The yard had already been built, and because the place was spacious, it was quite large.
The courtyard wall is built with blue bricks and is relatively high, which provides good privacy. The gate has not been installed yet. When you go in, you can see workers building the final roof. In order to speed up the progress, many people were hired to build the house this time. There are five rooms, starting from the right side, in order: granary, steaming workshop, Daqu room, distillation room, and storage room.
Cheng Yang saw Wang Yu coming, and the distiller he ordered yesterday had just arrived. He stepped forward and said, "My brother-in-law is here. Come and take a look. Is this distiller made correctly?"
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