The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 148

Gao Zongbing and the others walked a lot of wrong roads when they went, and the return journey was full of luck, and the wind went smoothly, and they returned to Dunyu Island after only ten days of walking.

The whole island cheered, their commander-in-chief and brothers have all returned safely, proving that their sea-going ship can sail far away!
When Gao Huaiyu exchanged 500 million shi of grain and the annual offerings from Dongying were sent back to land, the station staff rushed to the capital to report the news.

Most of these grains have to be transported to the official warehouse in the south to prepare for emergencies, and can only be dispatched after the imperial court's decree arrives.

The capital city, the Golden Temple.

"Good! Good! Good!" At the Great Court Meeting, Xia Hongdi gave great affirmation to this food exchange trip.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the Great Xia Navy is going to sea!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the food crisis in Daxia has been resolved!"

"My emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

In Dali Village, broad beans have already started to be picked. After the locust plague, one-third of the crops were lost, which made the farmers feel heartbroken.

Although broad beans were planted in the wasteland, Yuan's mansion bought a lot of manure from the newly built public toilets in the capital this year as fertilizer, turning the wasteland into fertile soil.

The broad beans rescued from the locusts grew fuller than before without some friends competing for nutrients.

The broad bean pods are chopped back together, and exposed to the sun, the dried broad bean pods will become pitch black, and they are easy to fall off when they are beaten with a wooden stick.

In the end, when the weight was weighed, it was not much worse than the previous year, which was barely considered a bumper harvest.

Aunt Li found fifty of them, all of whom were daughters-in-law who worked in noodle shops, split broad beans and made bean paste.

Mrs. Zhang also couldn't stay idle, and brought her twin granddaughters who could already walk to help.

Two, wearing exactly the same small skirts, tied with two small knots, with silver bells on their lotus-root-like hands, dolls with thick eyebrows and big eyes, which makes this group of women feel strange.

"Old lady, your granddaughter looks really nice, she looks like their aunt."

"Yeah, this skin is really white! It's so clean! How about going to my aunt's house?"

"Hehe, they look like my father, and my children all look like my old man, so don't they look like their aunts?"

"Then your family is very lucky. When this little girl grows up, the threshold of your family will be broken by a matchmaker!"

"Hey, thank you for your good words, I hope they grow up safely, just find a family who knows everything!"

The little girls seem to understand, these people are talking about them, tilting their heads, staring at this group of people and smiling, it's really cute.

Aunt Li's family also adopted twins, named Li Huilan and Li Huimei. The older twin sister played with the younger twin sister, and the yard was filled with the laughter of the children.

Talking and laughing with these village women, the work is done very quickly. They have been working in the noodle shop of Yuan Mansion all year round, so of course they will not make the old lady angry, and the atmosphere is very harmonious.

The split broad bean watercress, after soaking overnight, removes the shell, and then puts it in a steamer to steam thoroughly, and finally waits for mold to become moldy watercress.

After the moldy bean paste was put into the vat, Aunt Li, Mrs. Zhang, Yuan Damei, and Qian Alan became the main force to dry it. They had to go in and out of the Yuan Mansion in Dali Village every day to stir the bean paste in turns.

Also put a wooden lid on the sauce jar at night and in rainy days.

These people are also the people Cuihua trusts the most. When doing business with Huangzhuang, food safety is the first priority.

Of course, Cuihua will not forget to pay wages to the main force, and the elder sister-in-law and third sister-in-law laughed happily, they are also paid daughters-in-law.

Rows of these large vats were placed neatly in the sunniest yard to dry until the aroma of bean paste came out.

The peppers are also ripe, Cuihua specially chose the day when the two eldest sons leave the palace, and brought the labor force of the family back to the village, picking peppers to work!
Each kid was given a small backpack, and Cuihua made a sample for them.

"Did you see these red peppers? You can only pick the red ones! Pull them like this, then put the peppers into the basket, and when the basket is full, turn it over and pour it into the frame!"

"This is so simple, mother, I will understand it at a glance!"

"Then you have to put on your little gloves. Don't rub your eyes, otherwise, your eyes will be hot!"

"Mother, look! I'll pick five backs for you!"

"Brother, how about we compete who is the best!"

"I'm definitely No.1!"

"I'm going to challenge you!"

"I'm the best!"

In the male world, fighting and competitiveness are really present since childhood, and three-year-old boys like to brag!

Cuihua slanders: Well, it's more interesting to watch the little baby brag. When this man grows up, why does his hand itch to watch them brag!

In the past six months, Cuihua took the children back to Dali Village to do farm work several times. They are already very tough now, and they went to the field laughing after receiving the tools.

Yuan Wenjie is in charge of looking after the children. As long as their brothers return home, the main task of taking care of the younger brother is theirs.

Yuan Wenwu picked peppers next to the emerald flowers, and said as he worked, "Mother, our fourth book has been finished!"

"Where did you write it?"

"I wrote it to Ningjiang Mansion! I focused on drawing our coffin boat and surviving in the wilderness of the island."

"Hmm, how is your homework? You still have time to draw comic strips."

Cuihua and Heiwa have the self-consciousness that they have been scumbags. They have always supervised and demanded their sons' homework, but they did not force them.

"Mother, there are many more classes in the palace than in our house, but there is still time, and there is still some time to squeeze in. You don't know, Princess Jingyao likes our comics, so hurry up and send someone to come every few days." Get the manuscript, where she has all our first drafts."

"Hahaha, this is the reader urging the update next door! Then you can't be lazy!"

"Hey, but we also like it ourselves, and we all have feelings for this book, so we don't want to give up halfway!"

"As long as you don't delay your homework, just write it. There is only one volume a year."

"Yeah, let Brother Zhao help us print and run the bookstore."

"How old are you all, you can handle this matter yourself, mother will not get involved!"

"Mom, I haven't eaten your dishes for a long time. I want to eat spicy food when I see chili peppers. Make some spicy food for my sons!"

"Isn't it best to bring some back to the palace for you?" Cuihua laughed. The little friends who accompanied the two sons either came to Yuan's mansion to eat, or packed them back to the palace to eat.

"Mom, you are the best!" This voice, that one is full of sugar, which makes Cuihua get goosebumps.

"Second brother, you actually imitated me!" Xiao Liu crossed his hips, puffed up, the second brother was so annoying, he actually acted like a baby.

This is a baby's patent!
"You stinky little six, look at my shadowless palm!" The big magic star is not afraid of the little magic star, when the big magic star is acting like a baby in front of mother, the little magic star has no shadow yet!

"Hahahahaha. Second brother, second brother, I was wrong."

In order to make some heavy-tasting snacks for the two older children, Cuihua asked Aunt Li to buy ten rabbits. After dinner, she made a famous snack in her previous life: cold-eating rabbits.

The skinned, viscera and head removed rabbits were chopped into small pieces, soaked in cold water, drained of blood, washed with warm water, and dried.

Shred scallions and ginger, Shaoxing wine, pepper, salt, put in rabbit meat and marinate for an hour and a half.

Cut the dried chili into pieces, add warm water, and soak for half an hour. Cuihua didn't dare to put too much dried chili for fear that the bastards would get angry.

Put rapeseed oil in a hot pan. After the oil is hot, add: onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, cinnamon and other spices, fry until fragrant, and remove it after it is browned.

Then put the rabbit meat, fry slowly over low heat, and stir fry until the rabbit meat turns from red to white to yellow.

Then add the fried spices and Shaoxing wine, and stir fry patiently.

When the rabbit meat is fried until it becomes dry, add shredded orange peel when the meat is slightly dry.

When the skin of the rabbit meat is slightly burnt, you can add the hot pepper segments soaked in warm water, stir-fry for half an hour, and then add some soy sauce and oil.

Soak the chili peppers in water, then pour some more to infiltrate the spiciness. After frying the water, add sugar to taste, and finally sprinkle a lot of sesame seeds.

After the rabbit meat is cooled, the color is bright, the taste is not lingering, spicy and sweet.

The meat is firm, chewy and has a long aftertaste;
It is moderate in strength, thick in taste and unique in fragrance.

The taste of this meat has five characteristics: hemp, spicy, fresh, fragrant and sweet;
And it has a unique taste of "harmony of five flavors without overwhelming each other".

A few little ones watched eagerly, they wanted to eat it too, it smelled so good, and it looked delicious just by looking at it!

It's a pity that one of them picked a small piece of rabbit diced, and after chewing it twice, Ding Doudou burst into tears.

Except for Xiao Wu who is still struggling, the rest of the children gave up: This rabbit meat looks delicious but tastes bad.

Ten rabbit meat filled two big pots!Take it all away with the eldest brother and the second brother!
The adults are busy chopping the peppers and putting them into the sun-dried bean paste. The dark brown bean paste immediately turns red again.

This year, except for the villagers, almost everyone with some land in the capital planted peppers. Although locusts gnawed some of them, most of them were still alive.

And this year's chili is very easy to sell. Not only Yuan Mansion accepts chili, but also Huangzhuang, which makes hot pot base, and restaurants are also willing to buy it.

How can the common people be willing to eat it? Except for the reserved seeds, all the bright red peppers are replaced with silver, which is the most fragrant.

The order of Yuan Mansion's bean paste this year is more than four times that of last year. The old ladies in Dali Village can't wait to stare at the peppers in front of and behind the house.

Who is willing to eat?It would be strange not to be scolded as a dog!
After harvesting peppers and harvesting wheat, the wheat that was gnawed by locusts has finally grown to maturity!
In this not-so-abundant harvest season, the eldest son of Duke Chengen Xu Maodong was born.

After the death of the Empress Dowager, the Xu Mansion closed its doors tightly, and brought Xu Mengniang back from the palace. The whole family is keeping a filial piety for the Empress Dowager.

Xu Maodong, who was going to marry a wife this year, postponed the wedding because of this, and the wedding will be held three years later.

Now Xu Maodong will not be messed up anymore, he doesn't even know whether his first wife will still be willing to marry him.

After all, anyone can see that everyone in their Duke's Mansion is avoiding it now, don't think he doesn't know, Mrs. Xu is so worried that half of her hair has fallen out.

Mrs. Xu was one of the very few people who knew the truth about my sister-in-law's death. She was terribly afraid of the queen, but she didn't dare to bet that the new emperor would be merciful to their house.

Yu Niang thought that she would break up with her first wife soon, but she didn't expect that the biggest backer of Duke Cheng'en's mansion would fall so soon!
Apart from forbearance, keeping a low profile, and keeping a low profile, Duke Cheng'engo's mansion has no other options.

After the baby is born, she has to feed it by herself. Don't think too much about it.

For the Xu family, Xia Hongdi had other plans. Now the Xu family left behind, except for the women and children, they are only a few grandchildren.

Concubine Shu, Xu Wan'er, was very obedient, and she asked to stay in the palace for three years as a filial piety for the Empress Dowager, that is to say, within three years, she voluntarily gave up the opportunity to serve her bed.

Although she didn't give up voluntarily, she might not have a chance.

This makes it difficult for those who want to trouble her, because after all, there are still some old departments in the Xu family watching.

(End of this chapter)