I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 95
Hongmei said: "The rice seedlings outside have just been hit by the rain. If they are nibbled by ducks again, they will definitely get into big trouble. It's better to go and take a look."

"I'll go out and take a look." Li Xiuju hurriedly took off her apron.

"It's dark and the road is slippery. How can your legs bear it?" Zhou Chenyu clapped his hands and stood up, "Old lady, I'd better go."

Zhou Chenyu followed Hongmei to the pond. As expected, several of their ducks were playing in it. Their mouths and necks were extended into the bottom of the pond to peck at fish. Only their fat buttocks were exposed, and they didn't know what the world was like.

"Stinky ducks, why are you coming out to look for me so late at night? I will definitely kill you one day!"

"That's great! Kill it!" Hongmei smiled and stood guard at the outlet of the pond. Zhou Chenyu walked to the opposite side carrying a bamboo pole. The fat duck was swimming in the middle, and the bamboo pole was out of reach. She stepped into the shallow pond with her feet. Here, hit it with one stroke.

The fat duck was frightened, flapped its wings and flew ashore in the water, and ran away looking for a way home, "Shen Yu, okay, go back!"

Zhou Chenyu heard Hongmei's cry, threw down the bamboo pole, grabbed two small bamboos by the pond and climbed up. Unexpectedly, the young bamboos were too brittle and could not support her weight at all.

She screamed in horror and fell into the pond with her back on her back.

Seeing this, Hongmei quickly left her bamboo pole behind, ran around most of the pond, and picked up Zhou Chenyu: "Hey, my little aunt, are you okay?"

Zhou Chenyu spat out the mud in his mouth, looked at the mud all over his body, and said with a smile that was worse than crying: "I'm not very good."

Hongmei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What do you think I said about you? How could such a grown-up person accidentally fall into it?"

After Hongmei said this, Zhou Chenyu became even more uncontrollable.

"Okay, okay, don't cry." Hongmei smiled as she took off her bamboo hat, her tone was as gentle as she usually would to coax her son, "Just treat it like you were a kid again and got dirty when you played in the mud. It's no big deal. Let's go back. Come on, I’ll take you back.”

Zhou Chenyu and Hongmei braved the heavy rain to go home, and some of the mud was washed away by the rain. But when Baoyu saw her coming back covered in mud, with conspicuous green duckweed scattered in her hair, she laughed so hard that she burst into tears. .

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Hongmei gave an angry look and joked, "You kid, how can you still laugh when your sister is like this?"

"..." Zhou Chenyu swallowed bitter water in his stomach when he saw Baoyu's unrestrained smile.

Who told her to laugh at him this afternoon?
It's all retribution.

"Hey, what happened to Chen Yu?" Li Xiuju walked out uneasily. Hongmei put the bamboo hat aside and told the whole story. In the end, even Li Xiuju couldn't help but laugh at her act of falling into the pond.

However, although Zhou Chenyu fell into the pond, what was better than Baoyu was that the bath water had been boiled and he did not need to catch a cold.

She used three buckets of warm water back and forth, washing herself from head to toe before she felt clean. After washing herself, she walked into the main room and found the food on the table.

A plate of stuffed tofu, filled with soft tofu stuffed with meat fillings, fried in a pot until golden brown, then topped with the prepared soup, and cooked over low heat until the soup is incorporated into the tofu.

The wolfberry vegetable lean meat soup rolled in a casserole is nourishing to the lungs and eyes, but the preparation is extremely simple.Boil a ladle of clean, sweet well water, add lean meat, skim off the foam, and sprinkle with fresh wolfberry vegetables.

Zhou Chenyu saw a table of delicious food and forgot about the embarrassment of falling into the pond. He rubbed his hands that were about to move and said, "Old lady, what I cooked today is my favorite dish again." Li Xiuju laughed and pushed the stuffed tofu to the two children. In front of me, "When Mom was mixing the meat filling, the salt was put in. The meat filling may be a little salty, and the soup will be bland."

"Really? Then I'll eat first for you all!" Baoyu stretched out his chopsticks and picked it up. The tofu was so tender that it split into two halves.

"You're the only one who wants to eat for us? Look, even if there's food put in front of you, you can't even eat it." Zhou Chenyu scooped stuffed tofu into a bowl with a spoon, and Baoyu followed suit with a curse.

Zhou Chenyu put the whole stuffed tofu into a bowl, but he couldn't eat it in one bite. He picked up a small piece and tasted it. The tender tofu melted in his mouth, and it tasted even like the tender tofu. A salty aroma.

After finishing the tofu, I served myself a bowl of soup.

This wolfberry vegetable is amazing. After being boiled in boiling water, the color becomes greener and brighter. It tastes different from the fresh and sweet taste of ordinary green vegetables, and its texture is also a bit pungent. People who don’t like it think it tastes weird. It’s not delicious, but people who like it can’t get enough of it.

Zhou Chenyu is the latter, and he likes wolfberry vegetables even more than lean meat.

Li Xiuju was unsure, "Does it taste good?"

One of these two dishes is slightly salty, the other is bland, and they are just right in one place.

"Both are delicious." Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu shook their heads at the same time, and Li Xiuju breathed a sigh of relief.

The stuffed tofu was not cooked enough, so the bottom of the vegetables had already been seen. All the vegetable leaves in the lean meat soup with wolfberry vegetables had been grilled by Zhou Chenyu, and there was still some lean meat left at the bottom of the clear soup.

After eating, the mother and son rested around the table. Zhou Chenyu thought of that extremely important thing and looked at them, "Tomorrow is market day. We promised to have a big meal on the street. You want it to be delicious?" What's up? We agreed, I'll treat you, it's rare to have something to eat, tell me quickly, after passing this village, there is no such shop!"

Li Xiuju's legs and feet were weak. This time she just wanted to go to the city to get a silver bracelet and buy some cloth to make clothes for the winter, but she didn't care about food.

She looked at Baoyu and smiled, "What do you want to eat?"

"Me?" Baoyu grinned happily, "Mom, sister, I do have a place to go. How about we go to Jixiang Tower?! Huzi always told me about the sheep's trotters and fried spring noodles there. The goose is so delicious, it makes me greedy. No matter what, I will definitely eat it once to see if he will still show off in front of me in the future!"

Jixiang Tower?
When Li Xiuju heard these three words, she slapped Baoyu fiercely, "You kid, Jixianglou is the best restaurant in Qingshui Town. You can't spend hundreds of pennies to have a meal there. You don't care about money, and you don't care about money either." Feeling sorry for my sister? She has worked for three people in the Tang Mansion, and you want to spend the money she earns like this?"

"I..." Baoyu pursed his lips, regretting saying this, "Then why don't we go somewhere else?"

Zhou Chenyu suddenly lost interest when she saw his interest. She put her arms around his shoulders and said, "It doesn't matter what the old lady says. I have the final say. Let's go to Jixiang Tower to splurge tomorrow!"

Baoyu opened his eyes in disbelief, "Sister, is it true?!"

"When have I ever lied to you? Just go to Jixiang Tower!" Zhou Chenyu glared at him angrily.

At this moment, Baoyu looked at her sister's angry face and felt that she was as beautiful as a fairy. "Sister, from now on, in my eyes, you are the best sister in the world!"

After he finished speaking happily, he stood up immediately, hummed a little tune, and took over all the work of clearing the dishes.

(End of this chapter)