I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 21
"That's great." Li Xiuju grabbed her purse excitedly. She never thought that she would earn hundreds of dollars in just a few days.

She put the purse away with a smile and opened the lotus leaves wrapping the sweet-scented osmanthus cake. "There are so many, I can't finish them all by myself. You guys should try them too."

Zhou Baoyu shook his head and was busy knocking the remaining snails, "Mom, I won't eat it, you can eat it."

"You really don't want to eat it?" Li Xiuju refused to give up and walked up to Zhou Chenyu, "Here, you have a taste."

"Baoyu and I have already eaten wontons on the street. How much is this? You can eat it yourself." Zhou Chenyu took two large field snails and compared their sizes with a smile on his face: "Besides, I also I have to save my stomach for eating snails tonight, I’ve been craving this bite for a long time.”

"Okay, after mother eats this, she will fry this big pot of snails tonight." Li Xiuju took a bite of the osmanthus cake, and her mouth was as sweet as honey.

Later, Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu also took tools and sat around the basin containing the snails, helping to remove the sharp corners of the snails.

When she had the last bit left, Li Xiuju knocked her head, "Look at my memory, I'm so confused. I forgot to pick up some perilla leaves when I was just looking at the snails."

"I know where it is, I'll go."

Zhou Chenyu volunteered. She remembered that she saw wild perilla when she was digging for earthworms last time.

Perilla is not a vegetable that is eaten every day, but it is a good helper in seasoning and is essential on the table. It can be used in stir-fried snails, stir-fried scallops, or stir-fried chicken.

This kind of thing can be seen everywhere in the countryside. In the supermarket, just two handfuls can be sold for [-] yuan, and some are even more than [-] yuan.

It's a pity that this is not a city, otherwise she could make a fortune selling vegetables.

We all have land and vegetable gardens, so why do we need to work...

It was getting dark. Zhou Chenyu brought the old and rusty shovel and basket from home and came to the previous place. However, the grass had been shoveled to the ground and the perilla leaves were buried under the grass pile. After many years, It rained every day and the leaves rotted away.

"If you don't shovel it in the morning, you won't shovel it in the evening. But when I need to use it, you shovel it clean for me. How can I go back to pay for it?" Zhou Chenyu's head was swollen when he suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "Sister Chenyu."

Who called her?
Zhou Chenyu turned around and saw a girl in orange standing there. This person was Zhou Wanqiu who was following Chen Cuiping that day with a submissive look on her face.

She is Chen Cuiping's daughter. Is the daughter of an enemy a friend or an enemy?

Before Zhou Chenyu could decide how to talk to her, Zhou Wanqiu took out a purple leaf from the basket and said blankly: "Sister Chenyu, are you looking for this?"

The other party expressed sincere and cordial kindness, and Zhou Chenyu raised a smile, "Yes, I remember there were a lot here, and they were all shoveled clean. Where did you pick those up?"

"There." The girl replied without thinking, pointing to the grass next to someone else's vegetable garden, "I just came back from there, there are still many."

"Really? Then I'll go over and take a look, thank you."

After Zhou Chenyu finished speaking, someone passed by. Zhou Wanqiu lowered his eyebrows, treating them like a stranger, and left in a hurry without saying anything more.

Zhou Chenyu looked at her cautious behavior. Could it be that Chen Cuiping didn't allow her to interact with them in private, so she was afraid of being seen?
What does the grudges between adults have to do with children?
Zhou Chenyu took the tools and walked to the location designated by Zhou Wanqiu just now.

The place is covered with dense green wild grasses and wild vegetables. The purple-leafed perilla leaves grow in the middle, and their lush branches and leaves are particularly prominent and can be seen at a glance.

Zhou Chenyu only wanted the young stamens of the perilla leaves. She twisted off the new leaves with her bare hands, like picking tea. After picking for a while, she filled the bamboo basket.She shook the vegetable basket, feeling really sorry for the money she spent to buy perilla flowers.

That money is like water.

After picking the perilla leaves, Zhou Chenyu worked hard and dug two perilla trees that were growing bright red.When she got home, she put down the baskets of perilla and carried the newly dug perilla with roots to the vegetable garden.

The vegetable seeds they pulled out earlier have grown tender leaves, and the rows of vegetable fields are full of tender green seedlings. It is estimated that they will be able to pick and eat them in another month.

Zhou Chenyu found a corner of the vegetable garden, dug two large holes, buried the roots of the perilla and covered them with soil, then brought a bucket of water from home to wet the mud on the ground.

If these two perillas can be grown, they won't have to go all the way to other places to pick them in the future.

"You should be able to survive, right?" Zhou Chenyu admired his masterpiece for a while, then took the shovel and returned home.

Zhou Baoyu was sitting in front of the small bench washing vegetables, while Li Xiuju set up the iron pot and prepared to fry the snails.

After eating a small bowl of wontons at noon, Zhou Chenyu had been hungry for a long time. She walked into the kitchen like a rabbit. Li Xiuju was amused by her, "It's very smoky here and it's very choking. What are you doing in here?"

Zhou Chenyu picked two pieces of firewood and stuffed them into the stove. These were dry firewood stained with rosin. When they touched the fire, they burned loudly. "It's nothing. I have nothing to do anyway. Come and watch the fire."

Li Xiuju saw her thoughts and smiled without revealing anything, "I'll be fine soon."

The cold water in the pot boiled quickly, and Li Xiuju poured the whole pot of snails into it. After boiling for a while, foam rolled out on the surface of the water. She picked up a few snails with a shovel, and the screw mouths were basically open.

Li Xiuju took a rag, picked up the iron pot, poured all the snails into a dustpan, and drained the water.

Then clean the pot and heat it up, add a spoonful of lard to melt, pour in minced garlic and chili powder, stir-fry to get the spicy flavor, add the cooked snails, top with the sauce, and use it with a unique aroma Season with perilla and ginger salt, cover the pot, and simmer over low heat until the snails shrink into the soup and are sucked up, and you have a spicy and juicy snail.

Just like before, Baoyu moved the table to the front of the courtyard, and Li Xiuju put the steaming snails on the table, "It's time to eat, it's time to eat."

Zhou Baoyu sat down, took out three thin bamboo sticks that had been shaved, and said with a smile: "Here, take one for each person, use it carefully, it will be gone after you use it, this is the only one."

"Bring it to you!" Zhou Chenyu couldn't wait for him to babble and grabbed it directly.

"Hey, sister, you just grabbed it like that?!" Baoyu stretched out his hand and was beaten back, so he could only pretend to glare.

Li Xiuju smiled and said, "Don't grab it. There is too much. Three people will definitely not be able to finish it."

Zhou Chenyu picked up a field snail, inserted the skewer into the shell, followed the direction of the shell, and picked out a mouthful of fat, tender and chewy snail meat.

She took a bite, and it was delicious and chewy. The fresh sauce overflowed in her mouth, mixed with the taste of perilla, which was fragrant, spicy, and a little salty.

Because the snails had just come out of the pot and were still hot, coupled with the spiciness of chili peppers, Zhou Chenyu only ate a few and felt his lips were red and swollen.

Li Xiuju heard the sound of her breathing in the air-conditioning, "I shouldn't have put so many chili peppers just now."

(End of this chapter)