Chapter 157 The Little Cotton-padded Jacket Leaks
After happily eating dumplings, Zhou Ziwen and the Chen sisters went to work.
After the usual morning meeting, Zhou Ziwen came to the mushroom house, walked around the mushroom house, checked the growth progress of the mushrooms, and then found an opportunity to slip away.
He is not planning to go up the mountain today. The roe deer he hunted yesterday are enough to eat for a while. For the time being, he will not lack meat.
The firewood at home is enough to last through the winter, so there will be no shortage of firewood in the short term. There is also enough food to eat, so there is no need to go up the mountain.
In this way, Zhou Ziwen had some free time.
After thinking about it, he decided to build the stone table first. With his skills, it wouldn't take long to build a stone table.
Building a stone table was something he had always wanted to do, but he had never had the free time, and his skill level was not high enough, so he had delayed it.
Zhou Ziwen is a man of action, and he does what he thinks. After returning home, he took his stonemasonry tools and set out.
This time he went to the dam at the foot of Niutou Mountain. Although it was a little far away, it was quiet and not many people passed by.
He also didn't want everyone to know that he was slacking off.
Sometimes, making a fortune in silence is the right thing to do.
He didn't ride a bike this time. When he was done with his work, he planned to bring back a few stone pillars. Anyway, these things were not heavy, so he could bring a little at a time. By the time the things were almost built, he would have moved most of them.
After bringing the stone table back home, he will slowly polish it.
After arriving at the dam, Zhou Ziwen immediately got busy.
This time, making a stone table is even simpler than making a stone jar. After all, the stone jar needs to be hollowed out, which is time-consuming and laborious.
As for the stone table, you just need to be careful when taking the materials, and it doesn't take long at all.
In just one morning, Zhou Ziwen had completed the construction of two tabletops and also made a few stone pillars.
Of course, these are just rough processing, and I have to polish them myself after I go back.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Zhou Ziwen packed up his tools and rushed home carrying two stone blocks.
When he got home, it was time to get off work.
After a short rest, the Chen sisters came back.
Zhou Ziwen said hello to them and went back to his yard to check on the tea seeds.
After more than a day of drying, the shells of the tea seeds are all dried and can be broken by rubbing them with your hands.
"It looks like we can make tea oil today." Zhou Ziwen clapped his hands in satisfaction, then turned around and called the girl from the Chen family.
"Yiyi, the tea seeds are dried, come and help me!" Zhou Ziwen came to the kitchen of the Chen sisters and waved to the younger sister.
"I'm coming." Chen Qiaoyi agreed sweetly and ran happily to Zhou Ziwen.
"Sister, we'll leave first." Zhou Ziwen waved to Chen Shiying who was busy cooking.
"Go!" Chen Shiying didn't even raise her head, too lazy to pay attention to the two of them.
"Hehe!" Chen Qiaoyi made a face at her.
Zhou Ziwen took Chen Qiaoyi back to his yard, moved the chopping board out of the kitchen, and started shelling the tea seeds.
The process of breaking the shell is also very simple. Just put the tea seeds on the chopping board and roll them with a rolling pin.
Zhou Ziwen and Chen Qiaoyi divided the work, one was responsible for rolling and the other was responsible for picking up.
Although the work was simple, it was time-consuming. By the time Chen Shiying had finished cooking, they had only finished half of the meal.
"Brother Ziwen, let's continue after dinner!" Chen Qiaoyi hugged his arm and said with a smile.
Until now, she has not been able to help Brother Ziwen in any way. Now that she finally has the opportunity, of course she doesn't want to miss it.
She is not a lazy girl, she just can't do much to help him.
She is good at everything from washing clothes, sweeping the floor and tidying the house!
"Okay, let's do it after dinner." Thinking that the sisters' work in the mushroom house was not tiring, Zhou Ziwen agreed.
Zhou Ziwen discovered that since the Chen sisters started working in the mushroom house, they no longer took a lunch break at noon.
From this point of view, Zhou Ziwen still feels quite accomplished.
Before I was transferred to the mushroom group, I had to take a lunch break at noon because the work was tiring, otherwise I would not have the energy to work in the afternoon.
Today's lunch was fried roe deer meat. Chen Shiying specially cut the leanest part of the roe deer to stir-fry.
Speaking of which, the taste of roe deer meat is very unique, with a special meaty and salty flavor.
Roe deer meat tastes very good. As long as the mutton smell is removed properly, it tastes even better than pork.
Although it was his first time eating roe deer meat, Zhou Ziwen fell in love with the taste after just one try.
"Sister, I'm going to the county town tomorrow to send some roe deer meat to my family and my uncles and aunts. Do you have anything you want to take? I'll send it back together tomorrow." Zhou Ziwen asked while eating.
"Ziwen, you and Qiaoqiao are getting married soon. You can just send some of this roe deer meat back home. Don't send it to my parents. Save it for your wedding banquet." Chen Shiying put down her chopsticks and looked at Zhou Ziwen seriously.
Last time, she sent honey and Polygonum multiflorum. Zhou Ziwen said it was a token of her appreciation and she didn't refuse. But this time, she couldn't agree to it no matter what.
"Yes, Brother Ziwen, please stop sending things to my house. We don't have enough to eat!" Chen Qiaoyi also advised.
It is said that a daughter who is married off is like spilled water. Girls are extroverts and their elbows are bent outwards.
The younger sister of the Chen family hasn't even gotten married yet, but she's already become so twisted that I don't know where her elbow is.
"Then I really won't send it?" Zhou Ziwen asked tentatively.
"Well, we won't send it." Chen Qiaoyi and Chen Shiying nodded affirmatively.
"Okay, I won't send it to my uncle and aunt." Zhou Ziwen gave up his original idea.
Sending roe deer meat to the parents of the Chen sisters was an idea he came up with on a whim.
Now that I think about it, it seems a bit presumptuous.
After all, he and Chen Qiaoyi have not yet married. Strictly speaking, he has no relationship with Chen Qiaoyi's parents.
There is nothing wrong with sending something once as a gift, but if he sends things one after another, people who know him will think he is kind, while people who don’t will think he is showing off his wealth!
The Chen sisters' family members are all intellectuals, one is a teacher and the other is a newspaper editor.
If they don't like rich people, it will backfire.
"Well, I won't send it. I just sent something back a few days ago, so I won't send it this time." Chen Qiaoyi nodded repeatedly, as if she was really afraid that Zhou Ziwen would send them something again.
Since he was not sending anything to Chen Qiaoyi's family, Zhou Ziwen decided to send two roe deer hind legs to his own family. The front legs had little meat, but the hind legs had more meat.
His original plan was to send one front leg, one hind leg, and a piece of pork belly to each family, but this time he decided to send a little more to each family.
After lunch, the Chen sisters came to Zhou Ziwen's house to help him process tea seeds.
Strength lies in numbers, and by the time they were about to start work, they had already finished half of the work.
(End of this chapter)
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