I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 78 Good things come to your door 3
When he arrived at the fruit tree house, Chen Tongsheng immediately washed a few handfuls of rice and put the rice pot on the stove to cook.He usually eats by himself, just frying the meat in the pot and adding a few green vegetables to make a meal.

Now that there are two more girls, I thought that no matter what, I would prepare some good dishes and cook them more carefully.

Zhou Chenyu and Zhou Wanqiu were sitting by the basin washing wild vegetables. They looked at Chen Tongsheng who was busy in the kitchen, looking like he had just learned to cook.

She couldn't help laughing, "Last time I complimented him on how delicious the roast chicken was, but I didn't expect it to be his best dish. I was so complimentary."

Zhou Wanqiu secretly looked at his appearance and couldn't help feeling happy, "Sister Chen Yu, don't you think he is very cute like this?"

cute?

In her eyes, cooking is a life skill that both men and women should know.

However, in most families in this era, men are the head of the house and women are the heads of the house. It seems to be a common thing for men not to cook.

Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Even if Chen Tongsheng blew up the kitchen, Zhou Wanqiu would still find it cute.

Zhou Chenyu took back what he was about to say, and told her clearly, "He needs help the most now. If you go over and help him, you might be able to leave a good impression."

"Oh, okay." Zhou Wanqiu stood up stupidly and wiped her hands dry before she reacted again, "Sister Shen Yu, the dishes are almost done. Can we go over to help?"

Zhou Chenyu raised a thin eyebrow and teased her, "You two are together, is it appropriate for me to go over? I won't go over, right?"

Only then did Zhou Wanqiu understand the implication of this sentence. He stepped back in shame and coaxed and begged Zhou Chenyu to walk to the kitchen together.

Materials are scarce in the mountains. Except for bamboo shoots and wild vegetables obtained from the local area, other items are dried fish, bacon and other things that are easy to store.

For the sake of convenience, they stewed the vegetables directly in one pot. First, they boiled the fresh bamboo shoots they picked up with boiling water, then added oil to the pot, then mixed the bamboo shoots and bacon and sauteed until fragrant.

All three of them can tolerate spicy food, so they added a few dried chili peppers. After the bacon was simmered over high heat until it became fragrant, they added the washed wild vegetables and cooked them together.

They were picking fruits, weeding, and walking a lot of mountain roads. They were already blinded by hunger. They put the iron pot on the wooden stand, and the three of them gathered around with a big bowl of white rice, which was steaming. In front of the iron pot, I had a hot meal.

The flavor of fresh bamboo shoots and wild vegetables is still as fragrant as ever, but because it is simmered with bacon, you can still taste a bit of smoky burnt flavor from wood fire when eating.

The bacon is leftover from last winter. The fat and oily parts have been dried out, and the whole piece is shriveled and dehydrated old meat. This kind of bacon is fried directly and tastes dry and dry. After adding spring water to stew it, , the meat was stewed until it was soft and rotten, and it tasted a bit like boiled beef brisket.

They all underestimated their appetites, and the bottom of the pot quickly ran out, but there was still a lot of white rice in the bowl, so they poured the remaining sauce onto the rice, and the plump and round white rice grains were stained with the sauce. The aroma of fresh bamboo shoots and bacon penetrated deeply into it, and Zhou Chenyu actually had the illusion of going back to eating rice in a wooden barrel.

After they had eaten, they took a nap, put two baskets of plums on the cart, and carried them all the way out of the mountain road back to Zhoujia Village.

"Old lady, I'm back!" Zhou Chenyu entered the yard with Li Zi on his back. Huang Dou wagging his tail and rushed to greet him, almost knocking over the basket of plums: "Hey, hey, Huang Dou, don't block my way." Hey, is it heavy?" When Li Xiuju saw the basket full of plums, she quickly put down what she was doing, stepped forward to help unload the basket, and asked carefully: "Why are you picking up so many plums? You have all picked them up. , what should Tong Sheng do?"

Zhou Chenyu drank a bowl of tea thirstily and wiped the tea stains from her mouth. She knew that Li Xiuju would think too much. She gasped and said with a smile: "Brother Chen has a plum forest on the top of the mountain. The plums in this basket are less than a thousand." One, don’t worry! Try it quickly, it’s very sweet.”

"Really?" Li Xiuju's face was full of surprise. Her worries disappeared a lot. She took a plum and tasted it. She nodded in surprise, "Yeah, it's crispy, sweet and delicious. Come on, you can eat one too."

Li Xiuju washed a few plums for Zhou Chenyu and put them in front of her. Zhou Chenyu held his stomach and shook his head, "I ate a lot when picking plums in late autumn, and we came back from eating at the fruit tree house. I really ate them. If it doesn’t stop, you can eat it.”

Li Xiuju said earnestly, "Tongsheng treats you so well, giving you fruits and cooking for you. When he is free, you must invite him to your home for dinner."

"Yes! I understand." Zhou Chenyu scratched his ears and looked at the baskets of plums. "The total of these fruits is estimated to be twenty kilograms. It would take seven or eight days for the three of us to eat one kilogram a day. Even if we If you can eat so much, the fruits will be spoiled by then. Old lady, what should I do with so many plums?"

"Yes." Li Xiuju reached into the basket, picked up the plums and looked at them, "We can't eat so much ourselves, so why not pick some good ones and send them to Shuqing Hongmei and the others, and then divide some out to make plums. While the wine is soaking, we can eat the rest by ourselves. What do you think?"

Zhou Chenyu hugged Li Xiuju's arm and said with a smile: "As expected of an old lady who eats more salt than me, she solved my problem in just a few clicks."

"Hey, my sister-in-law, you are covered with sweat, why don't you go and wash yourself off." Li Xiuju pushed Zhou Chenyu, and Zhou Chenyu grabbed her arm tightly and said shamelessly: "I won't let go. It will smoke you and make you stink."

Li Xiuju couldn't resist her and was shaken until she laughed helplessly.

Li Xiuju poured the whole basket of plums into the disc dustpan, took a bamboo basket, picked five kilograms of plums with plump flesh and good looks, and stuffed them into Zhou Chenyu's hands, "You give them to others."

Zhou Chenyu took the basket and took it out. Huang Dou followed her. Li Xiuju usually ran to Grandma Wang's house when she had nothing to do. Huang Dou was already familiar with that road.

It ran wildly in the grass on the side of the road. When it met other dogs in the village, they stuck together and sniffed again and again. When it saw Zhou Chenyu slowly falling behind it, it stopped and rolled crazily in the grass, with its hair all over its body. cocklebur.

Zhou Chenyu gradually crossed it and shouted, "Huangdou, come quickly."

Huang Dou squeaked out of the grass and followed him, wagging his tail.

Arriving at the door of Grandma Wang's house, the wooden door was ajar, revealing a gap. Zhou Chenyu looked inside and saw the child lying on the rocking chair kicking his feet, while Grandma Wang, who was taking care of him, was rubbing his clothes beside him.

Zhou Chenyu stepped forward and knocked on the door, "Is anyone there?"

Grandma Wang responded in a hurry, "Is it Chen Yu? The door is open, you can come in by yourself."

(End of this chapter)