Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 314 Pickles
Gu Qi walked around the backyard, and saw that in addition to Liu Shouzheng's wife and daughter, there were four maids and one woman in the main house serving Mrs. Liu in the whole backyard.

Each pair of sons and daughters has a maid and a mother-in-law.In the small kitchen, there are two cooks and a fire helper.There is an old man at the corner door.

During Liu Shouzheng's tenure in Lushan County, he brought only one concubine and no concubine.In addition, there were no housekeepers and servants in the yard, obviously they were taken to the front yard by Liu Shouzheng.

There were no patrolling guards or yamen servants in the inner courtyard. After a while, Gu Qi found out the entire backyard of the government yamen.

At this time it was approaching [-] o'clock, Gu Qi touched the small kitchen in the backyard unkindly, wanting to see what kind of food this Mr. Liu's family had.

At this time, the cook in the small kitchen was busy preparing lunch.I saw one of the thin cooks lift the huge steamer with difficulty, and because of unsteady hands and feet, the lid of the steamer shook.

Seeing this, another cook beside her hurriedly stepped forward to help her: "Be careful, if you fall and delay the lunch of the young master and young lady, Madam will not spare us."

"I can save it." The previous cook nodded, and the two helped to lift the steamer down together.

Gu Qi peeped in through the small window of the back kitchen, just in time to see one of the cooks lifted the lid of the cage, the water mist dispersed, and there were more than [-] white flour steamed buns neatly placed in the steamer.

"The white noodles delivered by Lin Butler are much better than the previous days, and the steamed buns look good too."

The cook could not help swallowing her saliva as she smelled the aroma of freshly baked steamed buns.

"Don't think about it, it's not what the few of us can eat. It's just a little white flour. The silk girl in the wife's room comes to our small kitchen to count every day. If there is one or two less, we will be unable to eat. Let's go." Another cook looked around carefully and reminded.

"Don't worry, I know, I'll just talk about it."

The cook at the front curled her lips: "The master is generous, but the madam is a little tempered. If it weren't for the fact that there is no good job in Lushan County, I really don't want to work in this government office anymore.

It sounds good to hear the reputation, but the monthly money is only a little bit, and what we are left with is the worst corn noodles. "

"Say a few words less. Don't be overheard by the people in the madam's yard."

The other cook comforted her, then sighed again: "What is the situation in our Lushan County now, where else can we find food except Liuhang Street.

I went out for a trip two months ago, and I heard from my family that the price of corn noodles on Liuxing Street has risen again.I looked at the corn flour in his hand, and it also had a musty smell, and it cost a lot of money.At least we two don't have to worry about being hungry in the backyard of the government office, and we don't have to worry about running out of water. "

"It's really a crime. I don't know which gods our Lushan County has offended. A good county has become like this in a few years."

"It's not just Lushan County, my family said that the whole Yuzhou Prefecture is a mess. I don't know how long this day will be. Be careful, don't really lose this job."

While talking, the calmer cook took out the food box and put the steamed buns into the food cage.

He also took the sauce jar on the side, fished out some pickles from inside, cut them into Xiaodie and put them in the food box together: "There are not many pickles left, I have to mention it when Butler Lin comes tomorrow."

Another eager cook nodded: "This pickle is a must, if there is a meal missing, Madam will get angry."

pickles?

Gu Qi looked reassuringly at the sauce stall, the light in the kitchen was not bright, so he couldn't tell what kind of pickles were in it for a while.

In Dakang, both the north and the south have the habit of making pickled vegetables. The most common pickled vegetable is similar to mustard greens, and Jiutou mustard is also the favorite pickled vegetable variety of Dakang people.

In addition, in winter, various pickles and kimchi can be seen in various places.

Given the previous land conditions in Yuzhou Prefecture, rice and grain could not be grown, and vegetables and fruits were naturally even more difficult.

In addition, fresh fruits and vegetables are not easy to transport, so in Lushan County, as long as you have enough money, it is not too difficult to buy some rice, meat or even medicinal materials, but it is more difficult to eat vegetables.

Gu Qi also thought about transporting vegetables before, but the dehydration process was labor-intensive and the taste was not good.

The fresh ones are not stored in cold chain vehicles, and the roads are so high and far away that they stink even when they barely reach Lushan County.

But I never thought that some pickles and kimchi could actually be transported over.

Although these pickled dishes cannot be compared with fresh fruits and vegetables, they are good enough to appetize and eat, and the price is cheap and easy to transport, which is most suitable for the people of Lushan County to buy.

Just as Gu Qi was thinking, the kitchen over there had covered up the sauce jar again.Then he opened the cauldron that had been simmering for a long time, and the smell of meat diffused from the small kitchen along the window for a while.

Is it bacon soup?

However, the taste is quite different from that of our own bacon soup, and it is obviously the product from the traveler's side.

Gu Qi followed the scent and saw that it was a large pot of bacon soup. In addition to the cut bacon, there were also some yellow and white vegetable leaves floating in the pot.

This time Gu Qi saw it clearly, it was cabbage, to be precise, it should be pickled cabbage.

Gu Qi unconsciously nodded in agreement, adding kimchi to the soup is indeed more flavorful than pure bacon.
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The cook put the bacon soup with Chinese cabbage into four food boxes one by one, covered the suitable lids, and put them on the side of the steaming stove, waiting for the maids in each room to pick them up.

No matter how old the master is, every room has the same white flour steamed buns, a small pickle, a bowl of cabbage bacon soup, and no other dishes.

From this it can be seen that this Liu Shouzheng, Mr. Liu, is a clean and honest official, and he is really not a fake.

Of course, no matter how clean and honest they are, no matter how difficult the conditions are, the backyard of the government office is different after all, and it is naturally not comparable to ordinary people in Lushan County.
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Leaving from the back kitchen, Gu Qi followed the path along the wall, all the way to the east, until he saw a small courtyard alone.

The yard is not big, and the inside is very clean. At this time, the gates of the houses located in and in the yard are closed and there are no guards.

Gu Qi stepped forward, did not open the door hastily, only listened quietly to the left and right, and confirmed that no one else was approaching nearby, then took the copper stick hidden in the hair bun, and hung it outside the door without a sound brass lock.

This is a study room, not a study room for office as usual, but a real study room. Surrounded on three sides, the huge room is stacked with stacks of bookshelves, and books of various colors are neatly arranged on it.

There is a long table in one corner, and there are some documents on the desk. Gu Qi glanced roughly and found some files.

Shouldn't files and the like be placed in the library dedicated to the front yard?

Gu Qi was a little puzzled, so he simply took a file to read.

　Thanks to "Bingyueming" and "wasteeime" for the monthly pass
　　
　
(End of this chapter)