I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 44 Preparation
Xiao Qi didn't notice his helplessness yet, and smiled secretly, "Master, Miss Zhou always comes to look for you. Is she treating you, Master?"

Yang Xi glanced at him coldly, with a serious look on his face, "You have nothing to do?"

Xiaoqi looked at the master's horrifying expression and silently swallowed the rest of the words, not daring to talk nonsense anymore.

When Zhou Chenyu saw that the people inside had not appeared again, he put his feet down and was rejected: "Are all straight men so ignorant of compassion?"

"Fortunately, my heart is hard enough and it can't hurt me. It doesn't matter, we have a long way to go."

Zhou Chenyu pursed his lips and smiled, and left in a carefree manner. After that, he bought a pound of red beans, a pound of mung beans, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of peanuts, and a pot of rice wine. After collecting everything, he hurried back home in the afternoon.

At that time, Chen Tongsheng was sitting on the eaves of their main hall. Most of the tiles were lifted, revealing the wooden structure. Baoyu was holding the ladder and passing the tiles underneath.

"Brother Chen, are you here?" Zhou Chenyu looked at the man on the roof, shaking the wine bottle in his hand, "I knew you were coming, so I specially prepared good wine for you."

Chen Tongsheng wiped the sweat from his forehead with his bare hands. The person he had been waiting for for a long time came, and his smile bloomed in the sun. "Chen Yu, why do you want to buy wine? Auntie has already prepared good food, I am very satisfied."

"How about that? You are a guest, how can I neglect you? Be careful."

Zhou Chenyu carried the things back to the kitchen, and Li Xiuju caught the chicken and came back, "I just went to the street to buy some things, why did I come back so late? But I met that guy Qian Rushan again?"

Not only did she encounter mountains of money...

Zhou Chenyu smiled and shook his head, "No, the wine shop wasn't open yet when I arrived, so I waited for a while in order to buy wine."

"As long as you can buy the wine, it's good if you can buy it." Li Xiuju smiled and cut off the heads and tails of the beans she had just picked, and twisted them into sections. Zhou Chenyu put down his things and sat aside to help.

Li Xiuju looked at her, then at the people on the eaves, and secretly said with joy, "Chen Yu, mother thinks that Tong Sheng is a good person and a good boy. Do you understand what mother means?"

Not bad, but she didn't like it.

A twisted melon is not sweet after all.

"Old lady, I understand what you mean." Zhou Chenyu remained calm and maintained a smile on his face. He comforted Li Xiuju first, and then quietly waited for the best time to give everyone a big surprise.

"Oh, look at my brain. I can't remember things when I'm old. You can't stir-fry chicken without ginger. Mom goes to the chicken coop to catch chickens. You go to the vegetable garden and dig two pieces of ginger."

Zhou Chenyu clapped his hands and said, "Okay, I'll go then."

She carried the vegetable basket and walked to the vegetable garden in the back room. It was midsummer, the sun was strong, and the vegetable field was dried and water turned into loose soil.

Zhou Chenyu pulled out the ginger and put it aside. He dug out the stones at the water inlet under the bamboo fence and introduced the water from the ditch next to it into the vegetable garden.

Hongmei walked down the mountain path behind the vegetable garden and grabbed a handful of weeds with roots in her hand. Zhou Chenyu saw her and said hello, "Sister Hongmei, what did you grab?"

"The child is not feeling well. I picked some herbs to boil water for him to drink." After Hongmei finished speaking, she looked at the strong man on the eaves, walked over lightly, and asked with a smile, "Chen Yu, is that guest of yours yours?" Future husband?"

husband?

Baoyu was right. Whenever a strange man appeared in the house, he would be gossiped about in a few days.Zhou Chenyu shook his head, "Just a brother."

"Brother?" Hongmei murmured carefully, looking at her meaningfully, thinking that the young girl was too thin-skinned to admit it, so she didn't ask any further.

When Zhou Chenyu returned home, Li Xiuju had already slaughtered the chicken, and the chicken body and internal organs were neatly placed on the plate. "Tong Sheng and Baoyu are almost done, let's start cooking. When they finish, we will be ready." I can eat.”

Li Xiuju rolled up her sleeves and went back to the house, drained the water from the pot, put half a kilogram of peanuts into the pot, stir-fried over low heat, then added a small spoonful of salt, and stir-fried until the surface of the peanuts was a little burnt, so that the peanut skins would fall off when rubbed. .

The peanuts were fried and put aside. Zhou Chenyu was bored with adding firewood, so he grabbed a handful in his hand. They tasted fragrant and crispy, so it was a good choice to go with wine.

After frying the peanuts, Li Xiuju was ready to chop the chicken and fry it.As someone who grew up in a chicken-eating province, frying the best free-range chicken is a bit of a waste. Zhou Chenyu also felt that it was time to show off his skills.

During the Chinese New Year in the past, chickens were eaten from the [-]th to the [-]th of the New Year, and one chicken would be eaten and vomited every day.After coming here for so long, the only thing she has eaten is the roast chicken given by Chen Tongsheng. She has been waiting for this taste of hometown for a long time.

"Old lady, you take a break today, and I'll do it." She interrupted quickly, but unexpectedly, Li Xiuju got the wrong idea, "Okay, come on, I'll cook the other two dishes."

Zhou Chenyu followed his mother's steps for making boiled chicken, boiled a pot of water, added two pieces of ginger and a bunch of green onions, submerged the whole chicken in the water and simmered it over low heat.

The boiled chicken should not be too old or undercooked. The meat should be tender and white when cooked, and the bone marrow should contain blood.

Zhou Chenyu was afraid that he wouldn't be able to control the heat, so he cut open the thickest part of the chicken leg and took a look. It was almost done, so he just needed to cook it for a while.

Li Xiuju made scrambled eggs with leeks and fried beans. She stood aside and watched from time to time. Seeing Zhou Chenyu's skillful appearance, she smiled and nodded unconsciously.

"The dishes are almost ready. Mom, go get someone." She gave way to the kitchen and took the dishes outside.

"Okay." Zhou Chenyu took out the chicken and the ginger and scallion segments to remove the fishy smell, cut them into small pieces and put them away. Then he put a handful of green vegetables into the soup and cooked it. A pot of fresh, sweet and mouth-watering chicken soup was ready. .

The white-cut chicken retains the flavor of the chicken itself. If you want this dish to be outstanding, a ginger and scallion oil dish is the key.

Zhou Chenyu then chopped the ginger and green onions into fine pieces, fried them in two tablespoons of lard, and then poured them over the minced ginger and green onions to release the aroma.

Chen Tongsheng came down from the eaves and hadn't washed his hands yet. He smelled the smell of the kitchen and couldn't wait to peek inside, "Chen Yu, that day you praised my roast chicken. Now looking at the dishes you cook, it's really a real thing." Absolutely."

Zhou Chenyu said with a smile, "Brother Chen will have to eat more later."

"Stop talking and wash your hands quickly, dinner is about to begin." Li Xiuju urged, holding bowls and chopsticks, and Chen Tongsheng walked over with a smile.

Baoyu sneaked into the kitchen and murmured in a low voice, "Sister, look at my mother's happy look, and she doesn't even pay attention to me. She doesn't mistakenly think that her son-in-law has come back, right?"

Zhou Chenyu looked at Li Xiuju smiling from ear to ear and became inseparable, "What do you think?"

Baoyu raised her eyebrows and thought deeply, "Me, although Brother Chen treats me well, I hope that my sister can marry a good man. Since you don't like Brother Chen, I will naturally stand by you. .No matter how good a man is, how can he be kissed by his sister?"

After hearing this, Zhou Chenyu felt warm in his heart, "That's more like it. I'm not hurting you in vain."

(End of this chapter)