Villager of Daming

Chapter 946: Dedicated only because of hometown affairs

A group of people came over, sixteen people in total. One of them walked in front, and the others followed him. He was wearing a military uniform, a civilian military uniform.

When he arrived at the place and saw Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, and Zhu Xi, he knelt down first and said, "Your Majesty, Hushou, pays homage to His Highness the King of Qin, His Highness the King of Jin, His Highness the King of Yan, and His Highness the King of Wu."

The other fifteen people followed suit, but four of them are the chiefs of four villages. Now there are only four villages left in Loufan Town.

A village sent three sergeants, a total of twelve people. The eleven were military officers, serious sergeants, and those who claimed to be Wang Hushou were civil servants.

"It's so late, why haven't you cooked?" the chief asked, without asking the other party to get up.

"Go back to Zhu Li and ask. Our team came first to say that His Highness and others are about to arrive. We asked people to call the stewards of other villages. We also brought some noodles with them and made peace with them. We will wait until the team arrives."

Wang Hushou explained the reason. He didn’t know what vegetables to eat. Noodles are a must. Make noodles first. The vegetables are grown in the fields. Just eat whatever you can!

If you want to eat meat, don’t you raise chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and sheep? There are also cows. Do you want to eat them?

"Your Highness?" The chief looked at the four princes.

"Get up! Kneel down on the cement floor. Who built it? The coal from Ningwuguan?" Zhu Xi ordered, he was the oldest.

"Back to Your Highness, there is an open-pit coal mine in Ningwuguan, and I really wanted to get coal from there, but I remembered the mountain I played in when I was a child, and there was some open-pit coal there.

So I went to take a look again, and sure enough, there was one on the mountainside. From there, a blast of coal was enough.

Other things were easy to handle. The officials from the upper reaches of the tributary asked people from four villages to build some waterwheels to grind the stones.

An earthen kiln was built, the cement was burned and ground into powder. The four villages distributed the cement and found a flat place to dry the grain.

They continued to burn some adobe bricks and smeared them with mud mixed with grass seeds. They asked the people in the four villages to abandon their cave dwellings that were prone to landslides and move to a location with a buffer zone at the bottom of the mountain to build houses.

Gather a blacksmith, smelt some iron, build farm tools for everyone, and make pottery by the way.

I plan to burn green bricks and red bricks in the second half of the year and use them according to different situations to build houses with blue bricks and brick-concrete structures. There will be no shortage of iron in Loufan Town.

This year we will burn and make prefabricated panels. If we save enough next year, we can build a new house together and plan the land for construction.

Red bricks were used to build some silos, ditches, fixed cellars, pig pens, sheep pens, and cowsheds.

Poultry does not require bricks and cement, but only wood and vitex for under-forest farming. This year, other villages have better land and have specially opened paddy fields.

After the autumn harvest, the straw is brought to the forest to build a nest for the chickens. The chickens live there and are guarded and fed with wheat bran. "

Wang Hushou talked a lot, including all kinds of plans that are currently being carried out and will be done in the future.

"Are you a local?" Zhu Fan thought for a while, and finally found the key point, and by the way understood why the people were so supportive.

A new sergeant told the people to give up their cave dwellings. Are you kidding me? Give up and build a house for me? Am I tired of covering myself?

"My father's name is Xi Zeng. He is a local. He once studied under the sect of his master in Shouyang County, who was a famous scholar in the former Yuan Dynasty."

Wang Hushou replied that his father was a local and so was he. He had grown up here and was familiar with the surrounding environment.

"Your Majesty, are you Wang Xizeng, the talented scholar from the west, and one of the four talents from the east, west, south and north of Taiyuan Prefecture?" the chief asked.

"Zhu Lichang is indeed knowledgeable and knowledgeable! The unfilial son, Wat Shou, thanked my father."

Wang Hushou had no choice, he couldn't do it humbly, or he couldn't do it without humility, so he could only degrade himself.

"There's no need to thank you. Are you going back this year? You have to rotate."

Zhu Fan wanted to understand the situation and thought that he could go back to the chief and ask the other party's plans first.

"Your Highness, please stay for another year. If there are any new books over there, I hope you can send them to me. Here... they are pointing at me!"

Wang Hushou wants to stay in his own hometown. His father is famous and his words are effective. He was drawn somewhere else and found someone to replace him with. Who else is more familiar with his hometown? Who would be more dedicated than him?

"Okay! I agree! It seems that I don't need you here..."

"Your Highness, if necessary, I need personal guidance from Xiaqiu Village."

Wang Hushou had no choice but to interrupt His Highness Prince Jin and shook his head vigorously.

His own family knew their own affairs, and they learned all their skills from the books given to them by Xiaqiu Village. Xiaqiu Village itself did not follow what was written in the books.

The eleven sergeants next to him nodded, yes, we can't do it, the people from Xiaqiu Village are here, listen to them.

"It's good to know the shortcomings. Prepare to eat. I kept fishing on the way here. I packed them up as I caught them. The fish entrails were put in sacks, which made the boats behind them dirty."

Zhu Fan was not angry when he was interrupted. He said what to eat for dinner, fish.

"I'm looking for someone to cook the offal and pig grass to feed the pigs? Then mix some bran and wild vegetables for the chickens and ducks to eat. It's time to feed them."

Wang Hushou first disposes of the fish's internal organs, including the gills, which will make the pigs, chickens and ducks happy.

After eating the remaining fish bones, dry them in the sun and grind them, then turn them into fish bone meal to feed chickens, ducks and geese.

Zhu Fan put down his hand: "We have arranged for someone to do it. You are tired after a day's work. I won't bother you. Wash your hands and face and get ready to eat."

When cooking over there, you don’t need the fish head or tail, just the middle fish section. The small ones are stewed in sauce, the big ones are braised, and some are fried, depending on the fish.

The small ones with lots of burrs must be braised in sauce to make the thorns crispy, so there are no burrs in the braised fish segments.

For black fish, fry the fish meat directly and marinate it with more salt. After frying, it will taste slightly harder and saltier.

The mixed noodles are used to make pancakes. It is not suitable for pressing noodles and the dishes are not suitable. When eating noodles, you usually eat some pickles and eat them quickly.

Unless you are eating a large plate of chicken, there is soup at the end, and the belt noodles are cooked and mixed in to eat.

Either serve hot pot, the kind with a side stove, which is also the last one.

The people in the local village were really tired and listless after a day's work, so the team used lard, chopped green onions, salt, pepper noodles, and boiled water to make a bowl of water for each person to drink.

After drinking the hot lard soup, the stomach will move after a while, and the people will feel comfortable and hungry.

After waiting for a while, the land team arrived. The horses and mules were as weary as the previous villagers.

The people in the team unloaded their things and started to water and brush them. After a simple brushing, they couldn't wait to get to the drinking water tank and drink first.

After drinking hard for a while, I turned back to eat forage, and then went back to drink water. I felt that the day's hard work was worth it, and there was fruit to eat! Just a little less.

The food was ready, and the local people saw the bright lights for the first time. After moving the tables from various houses in the village, they sat on stools and watched the food in a daze.

Especially when I smell the ginger in the fish, I feel it is delicious. Ginger cannot be grown locally. Even if Yangqu County insists on growing ginger, Loufan Town cannot grow it.

The local frost-free period is too short, and the environment for ginger growth is unsuitable. Unless you build a greenhouse to grow ginger, it is obviously not cost-effective.

Garlic is afraid of heat, while ginger is afraid of freezing. In fact, ginger does not necessarily rot when it is hot. It can shrink to a small point and needs to be soaked in water.

Garlic will rot when it is hot. If it doesn't look good, quickly water the garlic sprouts and eat them for a few times. The garlic will rot and throw it away.

(End of this chapter)