Chapter 45 Building a Smokehouse
As soon as this remark came out, Cui Shun'er was also furious. She threw a knife at Li's daughter-in-law and sneered, "I think this matter can be judged by the neighbors in the neighborhood. My daughter-in-law and granddaughter of Cui Shun'er can also be slandered by you? Or do you borrow it?" The machine insults me myself?"

Li Tieniu trembled.

Li's daughter-in-law was immediately deflated.

Cui Shun'er pointed to the wound on Pei Maimai's head, "Since your son's mouth is not clean, then you should be responsible for the medical expenses and compensation when my grandson is injured?"

The daughter-in-law of the Li family has no education, and when she heard about the medical expenses and compensation, she was immediately frightened, she apologized quickly, and took Li Tieniu away in a disheartened manner.

After that, Cui Shun'er immediately applied medicinal wine to the wound on her grandson's head to prevent scarring.

In the evening, when Pei Zheng and Ma Qiufen came back from the field, they saw that their son had been injured, and they felt very distressed.

"Wheat, tell mother, who hurt you with a thousand swords! Mother must seek justice for you!"

Pei Maimai smiled, and replied, "Mom, I don't feel any pain anymore, and grandma has already taught me a lesson!"

At this time, Cui Shun'er came out and told the story in a concise manner.

Ma Qiufen was surprised. She thought that her mother-in-law had completely changed her temperament and completely favored He Hua and the pair of granddaughters, but now it seems that her mother-in-law still loves her grandson.

Ma Qiufen was stunned in place, his heart full of gratitude to Cui Shun'er.

Seeing her stuck in place, Cui Shun'er opened her mouth: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and serve food. You have been busy all afternoon, so you must be hungry. Let's eat early tonight."

Her tone softened a lot.

Ma Qiufen got the order, and felt that it was only natural for Cui Shun'er to feel sorry for his grandson, and the gratitude just now was thrown into the sky in an instant.

The smell of bacon fills the room.

Pei Zheng stepped into the kitchen, looked at the cured meat on the wooden table, looked around again, and asked, "Mother, where do you plan to put these cured meats?"

Cui Shun'er looked worried, and this was also a problem that bothered her.

The kitchen was small and there was still cooking on weekdays, so there was no place to smoke bacon.

"Zheng'er, do you have any good ideas?" Cui Shun'er pressed her eyebrows and asked back.

Pei Zheng felt troubled and couldn't think of a solution for a moment.

Cui Shun'er shook her head and said, "Forget it, let's have dinner first, there is no rush to think about it later."

Even so, when it was time for the dinner table, Cui Shun'er and Pei Zheng didn't pick up a few mouthfuls of food, and were worried about the smoked bacon again.

After a meal, Pei Zheng suddenly realized, and excitedly said to his mother: "Mother, there are still some wood piled up in the backyard, why don't we build a small house for the smokehouse?"

Cui Shuner also happily replied: "You might as well make it bigger, and you can store it in the future. You don't have to worry about wasting food that you can't eat. Our family can eat it slowly."

At this time, other ideas also popped up in Pei Zheng's mind, that is, if there are more cured meats to be smoked in the future, they can be sold in the street market.

But the idea only popped up for a while, after all, the two wild boar harvests were windfalls.

The idea was finalized, and the mother and son acted immediately.

The next day, Pei Zheng went to the backyard to check the wood to make sure that the wood was not damaged.

Cui Shun'er planned the structure of the smokehouse in her mind.

The usual smoking of cured meat is simple, but Cui Shun'er and Pei Zheng both aim to make it bigger and better, so building a smoked meat room has become a big project.

Cui Shun'er thought over and over again, and decided to find a carpenter.

In the past, Pei Zheng did all the big jobs all by himself, in order to save money.

Now I also understand that what I used to do was rough work, even if I was able to speak well in yelling, but I still had to spend money to find a carpenter for building a smoker house.

But the carpenter is doing handicraft work, so the cost is naturally high, so he directly said: "I didn't ask for this price, I would not take your job!"

Pei Zheng gritted his teeth and begged, "I really can't afford that much money, so please be accommodating."

The other party snorted coldly, and said disdainfully: "For such a small amount of money you paid, you can't find a carpenter to do it for you anywhere!"

Pei Zheng left helplessly.

If this family can't agree, then the next one will be.

Pei Zheng was not discouraged, and when he continued to search for a carpenter who was willing to take over the job, he ran into Pei Xian halfway.

The man in front of him looked like his long-lost father!
Pei Zheng looked at the other person with a look of infatuation. He didn't quite understand why his mother didn't like this man, but who made the other person look like his father so much that he couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy.

Seeing that he was sweating profusely, Pei Xian took out a handkerchief and handed it over, "Wipe it off."

Pei Zheng refused: "No need, father—my lord!"

He hastily changed his words and apologized embarrassingly: "My lord is so similar to my father, I almost called it wrong when I was in a trance, please don't blame me, my lord."

One bite at a time "adult", but it caused Pei Xian to frown.

He directly stuffed the handkerchief into Pei Zheng's hand, and asked in an ordinary tone, "I saw you asking around, are you looking for something?"

Pei Zheng was careless, and when the other party asked, he honestly explained the ins and outs, sighed and muttered: "Actually, the price I gave is not low, it's because they didn't want to go to the village and deliberately raised the price..."

Pei Zheng is a simple and honest rough guy, tall and powerful, even so, Pei Xian likes him inexplicably.

He half-closed his deep eyes, rubbed his chin for a while, then suddenly smiled heartily, and said, "I know an upright carpenter, why don't you come with me and I'll introduce you to him?"

Hearing this, Pei Zheng's eyes beamed with joy, and he had already thanked Pei Xian a thousand times before the matter was completed.

Pei Xian's smile deepened, and he said leisurely: "You said thank you too early, I can't guarantee that the master carpenter will agree to your commission."

Pei Zheng replied carelessly: "At least the adults are willing to help me as a mediocre person, and I am naturally grateful."

The master carpenter that Pei Xian introduced lived in a remote alley in the market. If Pei Zheng was looking for it alone, he might not be able to find it.

And Pei Xian has just arrived, and he walked all the streets and alleys to understand the situation, and only then did he get to know the old master.

The master craftsman has been working for decades, and he has long been working not for money, but because of his love and enthusiasm for this craft.

Hearing Pei Zheng talking about building a smokehouse, the old master became interested and said with a smile: "This is the first time I see villagers asking me to build a smokehouse. To be precise, there are not many wealthy families in this city. A smokehouse will be purpose built.

First, the villagers don’t have so much money, so they don’t know how much meat to store. Second, rich people like to eat fresh meat, and they think that the cured meat that has been placed for a long time is eaten by the poor. "

Pei Zheng scratched his hair and briefly explained that the reason why he captured the wild boar was all due to the cistern made by his mother.

On the side, Pei Xian was lost in thought.

He thought of the scene of Cui Shun'er leading the canal to irrigate that day. That woman was not as stupid as a village woman, but extremely smart!
(End of this chapter)

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