Seeing that he had finished writing, He Jinshu took the time to ask him, "Have you finished writing?"
Chen Zhen rested his head on his arm, looked at him and nodded.
Seeing this, He Jinshu said, "Then you take a rest for a while. I'll read a book and then go cook with you."
Chen Chen replied "OK", then continued to lie on the table and read He Jinshu's book. However, after a while, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
He Jinshu looked at Chen Zhen's sleeping face and couldn't help but raise his hand to stroke his cheek with the back of his hand, and then lowered the sound of turning the pages.
After about half an hour, He Jinshu nudged Chen Chen with his hand and said softly, "A Chen, wake up. We should go cook."
Chen Zhen was woken up from his drowsy sleep. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was He Jinshu's cold face. He raised his arm and touched He Jinshu's face with his hand, then said with a dazed expression: "Ah Shu, you are so beautiful. So beautiful that I fell in love with you the moment I saw you."
He Jinshu looked at him, who looked like he hadn't woken up yet, and felt that he really liked Chen Zhen like this, so he lowered his head and kissed this cute and unconscious man.
After a kiss, Chen Zhen also became sober. Seeing that he was sober, He Jinshu said, "Let's go, we should go cook."
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhen stretched lazily, then said with a smile, "Okay, let's go cook."
Then he took He Jinshu's hand, walked out of the study, and turned right into the kitchen next door.
After entering the kitchen, Chen Chen poured the pressed pickled mustard greens into a bowl, sprinkled the chili powder prepared in advance on it, and then stirred it evenly.
He Jinshu watched Chen Chen's actions and asked, "Is this the pickled mustard greens you mentioned?"
"Yeah, Ah Shu, do you want to try it?" Chen Chen said, and then he picked up a piece of pickled mustard greens that was almost mixed with chopsticks and put it to He Jinshu's mouth.
Seeing this, He Jinshu said, "Put it down, I'll pick it up myself." He was not used to this feeding posture, and it was not in accordance with etiquette.
Chen Chen looked outside the kitchen and didn't see Grandma He and the others coming, so he quietly said, "It's okay, Ah Shu, there are only the two of us here, you don't have to be too polite, I won't tell anyone else about this, and we are a husband and wife, so it's okay to feed her."
He Jinshu was a little confused when he heard this. Is that true? He had never encountered this before, and he had never seen his parents feeding each other, let alone his grandparents.
Seeing that He Jinshu didn't say anything or move, Chen Zhen said to him, "Open your mouth."
He Jinshu was still lost in thought. After hearing what Chen Chen said, he subconsciously opened his mouth, and then Chen Chen fed him a chopstick of pickled mustard greens.
After feeling the spicy taste in his mouth, he realized what he had just done, and then he felt a little uncomfortable.
But then he felt that feeding was really no big deal, and he felt pretty good about himself.
Seeing He Jinshu eating the pickled mustard greens, Chen Chen put them on a plate and asked, "Ah Shu, how does it taste?"
"It's delicious and a little crispy," said He Jinshu.
After hearing this, Chen Chen said, "This pickled mustard greens taste better when they are crispy."
He Jinshu nodded when he heard this, and then said to Chen Chen calmly: "I still want to eat, feed me some more."
After hearing this, Chen Zhen didn't think much about it and directly picked up a chopstick and fed it to He Jinshu.
After feeding him, he said, "Today we will make steamed buns to eat with pickled mustard greens."
John Horgan naturally did not disagree.
After Chen Zhen put all the pickled mustard greens on the plate, the two of them started to make lunch.
Few people in Linshe County grow wheat. One reason is that wheat takes a long time to grow, and the other is the climatic conditions, which lead to relatively low wheat yields.
The flour sold in the grain stores in the town is basically transported from other places, and the price is extremely high, twice as expensive as rice, so ordinary farmers simply don’t buy flour to eat.
Moreover, the people here have been accustomed to eating rice since childhood, and they don’t care whether they eat noodles or not.
The same goes for Chen Zhen. He usually eats more rice and rarely eats noodles. At most, he would use flour to make a pancake, but he would not use flour to make steamed buns like today.
After kneading the dough, Chen Zhen set it aside to ferment, and then began to prepare today's dish.
Today I’m going to make a spicy chicken dish and a wild leek scrambled egg dish.
Li Mo then used the pork belly and pig's trotters that he bought from the town today to make a dish of stir-fried pork slices with fermented black beans and chili peppers, and a dish of braised pig's trotters.
Because I haven't picked wild fruits recently, I can't drink fruit juice, so Chen Zhen made a scallion egg soup.
Finally, add steamed buns and pickled mustard greens prepared in advance, and this meal can be said to be very sumptuous.
After the food was ready, Chen Chen handed the kitchen over to Uncle Wen and Aunt Wen and asked them to prepare their own dinner.
After that, he and He Jinshu put the food in the pot and called Li Mo back to eat.
The pickled mustard greens served today naturally received unanimous praise from the family.
After finishing their meal and resting for a while, Chen Zhen called Uncle Wen and gave them some thin blankets to take to the warehouse.
After the warehouse was built, there were not many things in it. Now there was a lot of straw inside, so a few servants were allowed to live in it temporarily.
After dealing with this matter, Chen Chen and He Jinshu washed up and returned to their room, then went into the library to study.
The next day, the box that Li Mo had ordered from the craftsman had already been made, so He Jinshu asked Wen Ye and Wen Feng to collect dead leaves and soil needed to raise earthworms.
He Jinshu plans to try making earthworm manure first. As for green manure, he will find a place to dig a hole when he has time and then make it.
After the soil and dead leaves were found, He Jinshu asked Uncle Wen to ask the village children to go to the river to dig earthworms. The earthworms dug back were weighed by kilograms, and he was paid 10 cents per kilogram.
However, it is the busy farming season now, and the older children are helping their families with farm work. Only a few boys around six or seven years old went to the river to dig earthworms.
However, He Jinshu is not in a hurry, as it will be the end of the month before the next round of crop planting.
According to the current weather, a batch of earthworm manure can usually be produced in half a month to twenty days, and the reproduction capacity of earthworms is amazing. As long as you catch a batch of earthworms, you don’t have to worry about not having earthworm manure in the future.
While He Jinshu was busy arranging people to make earthworm manure, Chen Zhen's fermented black beans had already fermented.
So he mixed the seasonings, put it on a grate, and took it to the backyard to dry. He made more fermented black beans this time, so it should last for a long time.
Just two days after the fermented black beans were dried, it started to rain heavily. This was the first heavy rain since the start of the summer harvest, and it was already mid-July.
Every summer harvest, people race against time with God, worrying about whether it will rain or not.
If it doesn’t rain, it will affect the irrigation of the next season’s seedlings. If it rains, there is a concern that it will affect the drying of this season’s rice.
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