Female supporting roles rely on food to save themselves

Chapter 129
The flames on the stove were hot, and the heat wave was steaming upwards.

Gu Xiang picked up a piece of chicken offal with long chopsticks and tasted it, and was very satisfied: "Yes, the chicken offal is very fresh, and the stewards of Mr. Liu's family are all honest people."

These offals were brought back by Ermu after he went to Liu's house to help butcher them with some young people from the village on errands.

Recently, Mr. Liu was planning to marry his daughter, so he invited several chefs to come back to try out the banquet. Asked Gu Xiang to help order dishes, but Gu Xiang didn't refuse. By the way, he also confessed that Ermu led people to start business with several master chefs in Liu's kitchen.

The Liu family has to prepare a lot of dishes, and the ingredients must be selected from the best. Chickens, ducks, and geese are all slaughtered one by one, but like many chickens and ducks, most of them must not be served on the table.

But the Liu family doesn't eat it, and Gu Xiang doesn't dislike it.

Now it seems that the villagers in Guzhuang don't dislike it either.

The so-called Zhumen's wine and meat stinks, and the road is frozen to death. Gu Xiang can't help but feel this in his heart when he sees the behavior of the Liu family.

In fact, Liu Gong is also well-known in the local area for his bodhisattva heart. Every year, he gives porridge and medicine, and he is not bad for the tenants. The rent is lower than other places. routine.

Moreover, there are not many officials in the Liu family, and they can't be regarded as officials for many generations. The family of Dingshi is only prominent in the local area.

But Gu Xiang can still provide the whole village with a good meal of color, flavor and taste by collecting the chicken offal and duck offal that people don't want at home.

The stone tables and wooden tables outside the cafeteria are obviously not enough, except for the men, women, old and children who came down to line up, and the villagers who came from the village behind.

In the past two days, more than 80.00% of the villagers have to go to the cafeteria to have a meal.

The cafeteria serves daily meals at Mao, lunch at noon, and dinner at You, with three meals a day. In fact, the rich people’s homes in this dynasty, such as the people in the capital, mostly eat three meals a day, but obviously like With such a location in Guzhuang, it is not bad for ordinary people to eat two meals a day.

Generally, the strong laborers in the family can eat two full meals. Women and children eat one meal that is half dry and half thin, and one meal is thin. This still has to catch up with the good times. I can't say anything more.

Because each person can only buy one portion in the cafeteria, usually the most people come for breakfast and lunch, which is very different from Gu Xiang's habit.

There is no way around this. Although the grain harvest in the field is poor, no matter how bad the harvest is, you have to go to the field to work. After harvesting the grain, you have to replant beans. This bean is also very important to the villagers. Whenever there is a famine, the bean Can save lives.

This year is clearly the time to rely on beans to save lives.

If you have to work during the day, you have to have something solid in your stomach. If you are hungry at night, you can just turn on the lamp early and go to bed. If you tighten your belt, you can survive the night even if you are hungry.

At the beginning, Gu Xiang always prepared more meat dishes at night, but after two days, he changed his habit.

It was noon, but the weather was neither hot nor cold, and the sun was warm and moist.

Wang Tiezhu, who was at the front of the line, was cruel, and the two brothers bought a set meal of one meat and two vegetables together. The red chicken offal was on the table. Wang Tiezhu couldn't wait, so he quickly put a chopstick of chicken offal on the snow-white rice.

The red oil immediately stained the plump rice grains with oil, and his eyes widened when he ate it in one bite.

Simply, simply delicious! !

It turned out that the offal chicken was so smooth and tender, so crisp and chewy, even more delicious than mutton, although they had never eaten mutton.

Not only the carpenter brothers, but the villagers couldn't help but grit their teeth and bought this meat dish when they saw that there was plenty of oil and water, and the clear and plump chicken offal was waiting for someone to eat in the pot.

A dish of chicken giblets, a dish of stewed tofu with mushrooms, a dish of stir-fried vegetables with vegetables, and a large bowl of rice cost no more than [-] cents, and the points only cost [-] yuan.

Nowadays, men, women and children in the village, from morning till night, in a day's time, who can't find time to flip through Gu Sanniang's list of village affairs and do tasks worth ten points?

Forty points, three or four days is guaranteed to be enough.

It's just that some stingy and frugal people feel sorry for spending money, but they don't feel sorry for spending points that can be earned with hard work.

Not far from Gu Zhuang.

Guzhuang Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and every household is like chess pieces, dotted along the mountain trails.

After the rain that day, a carriage creaked outside. Gu An and Gu Ning were reciting books on the side of the road, and at the same time followed a few village men and women, trying to fill the potholes on the road that were smashed by falling rocks. The place where it was raised must also be leveled.

Gu Ning was also ingenious, picked up small stones of about the same size from the stream, and used these stones to build a small mountain road at the entrance of the village. There is a lot of water in this place. With this small stone road, the villagers have to go in and out. much easier.

While working, a group of people were a little surprised when they saw the carriage, but no one came to join in the fun.

If it is said that they have never seen serious carriages before, ox carts and donkey carts are quite common, but now that Gu Xiang has returned from the Yongyi Army, the carriages have come and gone countless times, and the one that Gu Xiang sat with has no trace of color. Mabi, who is impressive at first glance, this skinny horse pulling a cart, is dusty and dusty, it is really not eye-catching.

Gu An remembered what Mrs. Gu had repeatedly warned, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, adjusted her clothes, and then went up to her. Seeing the ox cart stop, she couldn't help laughing and said: "The guests have come from afar, I wonder if they are looking for relatives Friend, what's the matter?"

The driver was momentarily at a loss.

As soon as the curtain of the carriage was lifted, Xiao Youshu looked the girl up and down a few times, quite surprised. He also passed through many villages and counties along the way, and every time he met panicked faces, he also met people countless times. Robbery, so that their master and servant did not easily go to the village to settle down.

Today, dry food is exhausted, there is really nothing to do, just passing by this village, and you can see the smoke from the cooking, they finally came, I didn't expect the wind and rain outside, the village is quite peaceful, the little children are still wearing patched clothes The clothes are gentle and polite.

Xiao Youshu's eyes flickered slightly and said: "Xiao's businessman passed through your place and wanted to rest and replenish some dry food. Is it convenient?"

There was some hesitation on Gu An's face, and he sighed: "If a few days ago, I wanted to treat the distinguished guests well, but recently there are bandits everywhere outside, and the grain harvest in the village is also in short supply. If the distinguished guests want to rest and drink some tea, we'd better If you want to supplement the dry food, you may have to replace it, or see if the distinguished guests can buy some of our village's specialties."

Before Xiao Youshu became suspicious, Gu An quickly explained the new village regulations. In short, when foreigners come to the village, they can do many things with money, but they have to use points if they want to eat.

Outsiders naturally have ways to earn points. One is to sell food and other scarce items to the village, and the other is to buy local specialties such as pear paste, rattan weaving, homemade cloth, and fabrics in the village.

In exchange for the points, you can go to the cafeteria to buy dry food, or go to the farm to stay overnight.

(End of this chapter)