The next morning, after breakfast, she took the children to kindergarten and went straight to the city, where she found a labor market in the north of the city.
This place not only has a large number of migrant workers, who rush to the early morning market every day to wait for odd jobs and foremen to recruit workers.
There are also many different types of vehicles, large and small, available for rent. Trucks, excavators, loaders, mixers, and other machinery are also plentiful.
This is considered one of the more mature, spontaneously organized comprehensive labor markets in their region.
Before Chen Hong could even stop her car, she was immediately surrounded by a large group of migrant workers, all asking her if she was hiring.
Chen Hong drove slowly and laboriously until she finally arrived at the machinery rental location.
After some haggling, I paid a deposit of 20,000 yuan and spent 1,500 yuan to rent a small excavator for two days.
Chen Hong paid an extra fifty yuan, asking the excavator owner to move the machine to the side of the road in the city.
Chen Hong followed in her car, watching the excavator drive to a place without surveillance cameras before she called for it to stop.
After the excavator driver got off and left, and seeing that no one was around, Chen Hong put the excavator into her spatial storage and drove her pickup truck back to the village.
It was only nine o'clock in the morning, and the sun had already evaporated the moisture on the ground. Chen Hong began her work of drying goods again.
She locked the door and stored all the dried goods in the storage room into her space in one go.
Starting from the yard, bamboo mats are placed on racks, and baskets of dried goods are hung from the space onto the bamboo mats to dry.
After working for more than an hour, she finally finished drying all the goods on the roof and came down to rest.
It is still the fastest and most efficient way for a person to work in a given space.
If there are outsiders present, it would take more than an hour just to unload the dried goods from box to box.
Moreover, the dried goods had to be sorted and placed on shelves, then laid out flat to dry.
Since having her own space, Chen Hong feels that she has become increasingly "independent".
There was no other way; to avoid her space being discovered, she had to do more on her own and keep to herself.
After drying the goods and resting for a while, we started feeding the chickens and ducks, tending the vegetable garden, cleaning the yard, and tidying up the house.
She was busy until 11:30 a.m. when Aunt Guo called and asked her to have lunch at the small hotel.
I stewed a pot of mutton from the sheep I slaughtered yesterday, but I haven't cleaned the head, hooves, or offal yet.
This morning, Uncle Erhu and Aunt Erhu spent the whole morning carefully cleaning and tidying up the sheep's head and hooves, scalding and roasting them until they were spotless.
Aunt Guo made a pot of fragrant stewed lamb offal, and together with her three young nieces-in-law, they marinated a large basin of lamb chunks.
The village chief pulled out the large grill from the restaurant, lit the charcoal, and started grilling lamb skewers. In addition, a pot of lamb soup was simmering in the kitchen.
Uncle Erhu chopped a large basin of minced mutton and boiled a pot of mutton meatballs. He didn't even use up all the minced meat.
The four elderly people discussed adding some carrots to their dumplings for dinner, as they were preparing to make mutton dumplings.
They've clearly planned out how to get more food from a single sheep!
While working in the villa in the backyard, Chen Hong could already smell the aroma of mutton wafting through the air, and upon entering the hotel, she was immediately struck by the strong smell of cooking.
The village chief and Uncle Erhu were happily grilling lamb skewers in the yard, just like children.
The aroma of cumin and chili powder, along with the rich fragrance of mutton fat, filled the yard, making one's mouth water.
Chen Hong hadn't eaten lamb skewers for several years, and when she first smelled the aroma, she couldn't control herself, and her mouth started drooling profusely.
As expected of a Chinese delicacy that has been passed down for thousands of years, this flavor is fragrant, rich, and domineering.
Today at noon, the mutton served to hotel guests will no longer be free; only the mutton soup will remain free.
Lamb skewers are two yuan a skewer, lamb offal is ten yuan a bowl, and lamb meatballs are fifteen yuan a serving.
This is very popular with tourists; even before mealtime, many tourists are already waiting in the restaurant for their food.
Upon hearing Aunt Guo's command, "Serve the food!" the restaurant immediately became lively.
The three young wives were as busy as spinning tops, going in and out of the kitchen and dining room, bringing dishes and bowls of food to the table.
The village chief and Uncle Erhu in the courtyard were so busy that they seemed to have three heads and six arms, flipping skewers of mutton through their hands.
The charcoal in the grill was ignited by the oil, sending bursts of flames into the air, and the aroma and smoke made everyone's mouths water.
Some tourists, worried about missing out on lamb skewers, assigned someone from each table to personally watch over the grill and wait for the skewers to come out fresh.
The courtyard was turned into a night market food stall, with everyone scrambling and making a lot of noise, like a bustling market grabbing New Year's goods.
Chen Hong had no choice but to maintain order in the courtyard and have the tourists line up to get their meat skewers.
This didn't dampen everyone's enthusiasm; they argued incessantly, shouting, "We want fifty skewers! These aren't enough!"
"We want sixty skewers! There are a lot of men at our table, and we eat a lot!"
Those at the back of the line objected, saying, "You should leave some for those at the back. Even if we arrive early, we can't take everything."
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