The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 161 Everyone Has Selfishness

"Okay," An Chong regained his energy immediately, "I'll go to the garden to pick some first."

In the future, I will pick two more baskets and ask the maid at home to make preserved apricots, and then send them to my sister when they are ready.

Little Shitou, who was already an older child, quickly caught up and said, "Uncle, I'll go with you."

An Ao's daughter-in-law held a basket of white apricots, looked left and right, handed one to her husband-in-law, and took a bite herself, it was sweet and juicy.

It's no wonder that now the entire An family regards Dani as a treasure. Who can compare with what kind of skills they have learned?

Back then when she insisted on grafting and said it would make the apricots bear big peaches, she still didn't believe it, but now when the apricots are ripe, she can eat four or five a day and it's not fun.

This kind of apricot is also very easy to sell outside.

Dani still doesn't hide her secrets, and allows people from other villages to buy tree seeds. Now ask people from ten miles and eight villages, who doesn't know An Xu, the eldest girl of the An family!

What's more, she is now married to Zong Che, who is an official in the capital. This girl in her family is a real official wife.

At this time, a dandelion on the soft ground was pulled up neatly, bringing up the finely divided soil, and the real official wife, An Xu, shook off the loose soil and put it in a small basket carried by Daoxiang .

"Wang Wang."

The chubby little Wang circled another dandelion in front to remind him.

An Xu walked over and rewarded the little guy by rubbing his head.

Zong Che looked at it a little bit.

"Are you going to follow me to find wild vegetables?" An Xu asked. At this time, Zong Che had just found a piece of mushroom under the tree. He was sure it was not a poisonous mushroom and was about to pick it.

"Shoot two wild chickens, I want to eat pheasant soup."

Facing her smiling face, Zong Che agreed, "Okay."

Then brothers Dai Ji and Dai Lun, who were also about to come down to find something, saw Mr. Zong, who was still a good sight in front of him, took his bow and arrow and went to the woods not far away.

Dai Lun was puzzled and said: "The people in the capital say that Zongche married a peasant girl from the countryside to repay his kindness. I don't think it looks like it."

Dai Ji was also a little puzzled, but he didn't plan to start with these details for the time being.

When An Xu found a lot of wild vegetables and came back, Zong Che also boarded the boat with three pheasants and two hares.

"Why are you hitting so many?" An Xu said.

"I hit it when I saw it," Zong Che shook the pheasant in his hand, "How about it, is it fat?"

If you don't pick, you can call back five or six.

An Xu nodded, seeing how happy he was, he said, "Can you help butcher the pheasant? And the rabbit."

She wants to do supper.

Zong Che smiled and said, "Of course."

But her strange appearance made him jump for joy all afternoon and his heart cooled down a bit.

An Xu walked into the cabin and called the two unhappy boys out, "Pick and wash the vegetables for me."

Zong Che, who was ironing chicken feathers at the stern of the boat, heard the sound and glanced at the cabin, and sure enough, someone was in the way.

At the bow of the boat, Yan Diu picked out a bunch of hay from the green vegetables, and took off all the yellow and dry leaves, and put them into the small bamboo basket next to them.

The younger Yan Zhun is helping to deliver food.

An Xu was sitting next to her, with a bamboo basket on her lap, and half of the basket was full of bright red peppers. She held the scissors in one hand, and kept taking new peppers from it with the other hand, and then quickly cut them into sections.

There were bursts of smoke rising from the bow of the boat, and under the twilight sky, there was an inexplicable sense of urgency for a wanderer to return home, but if you saw the busy woman and the two children squatting next to her, It will feel like home again.

When Dai Ji and Dai Lun came back with a few guards, they felt a sense of melancholy when they saw the scene on the clan's boat next door and compared it to the deserted one on their own boat.

Compared with other people's places full of life, why is my family so pitiful?

Dai Lun said: "You should marry a farmer's sister-in-law who can cook by herself, and then take her with you when you go out. Or, take a cook directly."

Dai Ji slapped him on the head.

The two entered the cabin.

Zong Che took a prepared chicken to the bow of the boat and asked An Xu to make pheasant soup.

Pheasant soup is a very classic dish that has been passed down from ancient times. According to legend, it was created by the long-lived Peng Zu. However, it is hard to say whether the recipe they use now is Peng Zu's recipe at that time.

But in view of Peng Zu's reputation, generations of chefs have inherited this dish and treated it as a health-preserving soup.

The chicken is blanched in boiling water for a few minutes, and then the whole chicken is stewed, first with high heat and then with low heat.As the name suggests, the word soup, when the rich chicken soup is about to be stewed, you need to add washed polished japonica rice.

The polished round-grained rice has to be processed again to make the stewed soup sticky and tough.

In short, pheasant soup is a very time-consuming dish. When the bow of the boat is full of torches and lanterns are lit, and the spicy chicken and spicy rabbit head made by An Xu with the fattest pheasant are almost ready to be cooked, the pheasant Soup is good.

The aromas of several kinds of vegetables are mixed together, and they seem to disperse in the cool evening wind.

Dai Lun, who had just eaten the pheasant chicken, was sitting in the cabin, rubbing his gurgling stomach, and was so greedy by the smell that his mouth was salivating.

But when he thought about Dai Lun who looked down on Zong Che's wife, he felt that he should have some backbone, even if he was hungry, he couldn't beg for food from the boat next door.

Then the scent became more intense, and Dai Lun lay on the bed and covered his head, trying to resist the scent by falling asleep.

"Uncle, the third master is asleep." A low voice came from outside, "If you can't finish this plate of spicy chicken, the little people can help."

With a shout, the brocade quilt was lifted, and Dai Lun ran out quickly, and saw the guard holding a plate of dishes, and the elder brother holding a plate, both of which were delicious in color and fragrance.

Dai Lun immediately lost his backbone and said, "Brother, I remember that you also brought a jar of pure brew, which is just right for this dish."

A dining place was temporarily arranged at the stern of the ship, facing the sky full of stars, the moonlight sprinkled on the water, sleeping gulls and herons inhabited on both sides of the river, a tender and fragrant chicken entrance with chopsticks, even the emperor would not change it.

After eating two chopsticks, Dai Jicai put down the chopsticks, picked up the wine glass and took a sip slowly: "As soon as I returned to Beijing, I heard that Anjia Fried Chicken Restaurant, the women and children at home would eat it every two days, I didn't take it seriously. Spicy chicken, let me see it."

Dai Lun kept eating with chopsticks, and said: "Brother, you don't know, the most famous ones in her shop are cakes and milk tea. The bustard in the colorful building is affectionate. She eats it every afternoon, and she gained a lot of weight in half a month." .”

He said and laughed.

Dai Ji watched him not speak, and Dai Lun gradually stopped laughing.

"It's time for you to grow up, don't keep your mouth shut, it's brothel flower street."

On the other side of the boat, everyone ate happily.

Spicy chicken and spicy rabbit head are both more exciting dishes. An Xu didn't let Yan Diu's two brothers eat more. They also have delicious dandelion salad, and the steamed buns are very delicious.

The two children don't eat much. After eating the steamed buns and then drinking a bowl of pheasant soup, they are almost full. The spicy chicken only eats a few pieces.

After eating, they didn't go back to the cabin to rest immediately, they all sat next to An Xu.

Especially Yan Zhun, who was only three or four years old, missed his mother, and his big eyes gleamed brightly under the firelight.

An Xu saw it, put down the bowl and chopsticks and said, "Let's go, I'll watch you sleep first."

Only then did Yan Zhun stand up from the stool, and carefully reached out to grab An Xu's hand.

Zong Che's complexion could not only be described as dark, if he had known this, he would not have let these two cheap brothers follow him to the north.

In fact, Yan Di and Yan Zhun were very easy to coax. When they arrived in the cabin, An Xu told them to take off their shoes and coats, light the lamp and put them aside, then she sat by the bed, patted the quilt for them, and soon fell asleep.

No clamoring for bedtime stories.

An Xu smiled, got up and said to Partridge: "They are two young, someone needs to watch them, so you can sleep outside at night."

There is a couch outside, which is very convenient.

The partridge agreed, and the two walked to the bow, and saw that Dao Xiang was still guarding beside Zong Che, holding a jug in his hand, as if he was waiting to serve the wine.

Partridge frowned when he saw it. What's the matter with Daoxiang? I don't care about the lady's business. What do you want to do with the uncle?
An Xu walked over and asked Zong Che, who was still drinking, "Have you eaten yet?"

Zong Che looked away from the Milky Way in the sky, and looked at the woman in front of him. The evening wind was blowing her clothes, and her hair was flying gently. This real person seemed to be able to leave at any time.

"Eat," Zong Che grabbed her hand at once, "Go back to the room and sleep."

When she stood up, she staggered, and Dao Xiang immediately put down the jug to help her.

Partridge took a step forward to block her, and said, "Let's clean up these things."

"Miss and adults are not served anymore," Dao Xiang said with her head bowed, her eyes were sore and swollen, thinking of her possible future, her heart was dead.

Partridge sneered and said, "It's not that my lord has no hands and feet. If he's good, he can serve Miss."

That being the case, why does the lady insist on bringing herself?

Feeling aggrieved, Dao Xiang lowered her head and cleaned up the dishes on the table with the partridge.

Pa Pa, a tear fell on the table.

The partridge put down the plate with a bang, and said, "Dao Xiang, what do you want to do, you pretentious one?"

When she went to settle down, Daoxiang and her brother had been together for an unknown amount of time, because Daoxiang was young, and the lady never ordered her to do any work, and even sent her to the village school in the front village to study for a year. .

For a while at the beginning, both she and Magpie thought that Daoxiang was the young lady of the An family, but later on they found out that she was also a slave, and if the young lady hadn't extended her hand, she didn't know where she would have been sold.

The young lady has worked so hard to raise him to such a great age, is it for her to snatch her husband?

"It's best to put away that little thought of yours," Partridge said.

Dao Xiang looked up as if she had been insulted, and said, "What do you mean by sister? Do you think I think so?"

The partridge said: "Why, you have no sense of shame, someone forced you?"

Dao Xiang wiped away tears, and said: "I already have someone I like, besides, I was staying at home, okay, if I go to Beijing, the lady insists on keeping me. Why don't you ask me to win over the big lady?" I don't think about the young master's idea at all, but will the lady listen to me?

(End of this chapter)