Film and Television: Starting from the Journey to Guandong

Chapter 24 What to do in the future

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Zhu Kaishan looked away and kneaded the dough with his hands.

Chuanren did not face this sentence directly and asked instead:
"Dad, is the gold mine closest to us in the hands of the imperial court? Or is it in the hands of bandits?"

Zhu Kaishan opened his mouth, and Zhu Chuanren's words turned back what he just said.

If Zhu Chuanren had not thought of the danger involved, he would not have considered the question of whose hands the gold mine was.

"Chuanren, what on earth are you going to do?"

Zhu Kaishan no longer dared to underestimate his son, but brought him to the same level as himself to talk.

"Dad! Do you dare to fight again?" When Zhu Chuanren said these words, the light in his eyes almost surpassed the sun.

...

Zhu Kaishan's heart was filled with questions and so much uneasiness that the frequency of his men's work dropped. It was not until the evening that the steaming braised noodles were served to the table.

Needless to say, Zhu Kaishan's cooking skills are quite good. Although he doesn't cook every day like Wei Chunfang, the noodles are very strong and the braised food is very flavorful.

The ingredients for Qilu's Braised Noodles can be varied freely, but the most classic ones are the old five: fungus, dried day lily, lean meat, eggs, and dried shrimps. You can leave them alone if you don't have dried shrimps.

Zhu Kaishan's stew is also very particular about using bone soup, and then using deboned meat instead of lean meat. The dried shrimps are not used, replaced by hazelnut mushrooms. The main thing is "fresh".

Be sure to add more salt to the brine, so that the noodles will have a good flavor.

In the cold winter, a bowl of steaming braised noodles like this can make you survive even the coldest days.

Chuanwen and Chuanwu, two young men, ate three bowls in a row before lying on the kang and burping.

"The food back home is still delicious!" Chuanwen said happily, picking his teeth.

"Haha, kid, come on, don't lie down. You just finished eating and it won't be digested if you lie down. Go and help your mother put away the dishes."

Zhu Kaishan had finished eating a long time ago and was drinking the tea he made to digest his food.

However, he still looked worried, obviously frightened by Chuanren's words.

Of course, he is not a person who lacks courage. If it were him, he could do anything. But now that the whole family is gathered together and Chuanren is still a child, he really can't feel at ease!
After eating and tidying up, we lay on the hot kang and talked about the interesting things that happened to each of us over the years. Time passed quickly.

...

The next day, Wei Chunfang got up early and looked around, as if in a dream, and asked:

"Is this house really ours?"

Zhu Kaishan laughed and said:

"Whose family does that belong to? You've been sleeping all night! Look how big this kang is? Is it as big as the courtyard over there? We don't do anything today. The whole family has eaten and drank enough, and rolled on the kang. Bar!"

Wei Chunfang moved her butt off the kang and said:

"Then I have to take a good look."

Zhu Kaishan said: "We have plenty of time. Let's cook and eat first. The children will get up soon."

After a while, a small dining table was set up on the hot bed. There were four hot dishes on the dining table: scrambled eggs with fungus, steamed tofu with soybean paste, braised chicken with mushrooms, braised vermicelli with cabbage, and a pot of sorghum liquor.

Chuanwu opened his eyes when he smelled the aroma, and as soon as he turned over and pretended to eat, Wei Chunfang suddenly asked Wei Chunfang to stroke his chopsticks, and his mother pointed outside: "Wash your face and hands~"

"Hey~ You're not clean, you won't get sick after eating it!" As he said that, Chuanwu took a piece of chicken leg meat and stuffed it into his mouth. He could eat fragrant chicken as soon as he opened his eyes. He never dared to dream like this before.

After breakfast, brothers Chuanwu and Chuanjie were noisily doing somersaults and lifting the big kang in the house. They were so excited that they seemed to have no energy left in their bodies.

In the east room, Zhu Kaishan and Wei Chunfang sat on the kang and looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Hanging on the slightly mottled gray wall are old cannons, coir raincoats, cracked cloth shoes, animal skins...

Wei Chunfang felt fresh and sad when she saw all this. She knew that her men's hardships over the years were condensed in these objects. She couldn't help but throw herself into her husband's arms, rubbing his rough and cracked flesh while crying. skin:

"Dad, you have suffered a lot in these years and you are getting old."

Zhu Kaishan joked:

"Is this disgusting? Okay, stop crying. I asked you to come across mountains and seas just to see you cry? Come on, smile!"

Wei Chunfang tried her best to smile, still very kind, but her trembling lips and tears that kept dripping betrayed her true feelings:

"Yes, it's time to laugh. You have endured all these years to build such a big family fortune. It makes me happy enough. I can laugh even in my dreams."

Zhu Kaishan smiled again: "That's right. Wait, I'll show you something new."

After getting off the kang, he took out a small cloth bag from the cabinet and waved it in front of Wei Chunfang, half cheering and half comforting:
"Fuck, do you know what this is?"

Wei Chunfang stopped smiling, took the bag over, opened it under the light and looked at it carefully, she couldn't help but frown:
"Why do I look like sand?"

Zhu Kaishan's eyes were filled with memories and he sighed:
"Oh, this is my four years of hard work. Don't underestimate it. Just this little thing can put two people in the world!"

Knock on the blackboard and mark the key points. As a special unit of measurement in the Northeast in this era, 姧 is approximately equal to fifteen acres.

Two acres of land is equivalent to thirty acres. According to the current grain production, and excluding bad weather, these thirty acres of land can probably harvest tens of thousands of kilograms of corn.

Of course, this is just a very optimistic estimate. You must know that these are troubled times. There are too many factors that can affect food production, including climate, war, and bandits.

Even if you plant on a scale of [-] kilograms, no one can guarantee how much you will harvest in the end.

Otherwise, Lao Zhu’s family would not be stumped by a pound of millet, let alone be forced to leave their hometown!

Closer to home~
After hearing what Zhu Kaishan said, Wei Chunfang understood and said in surprise:
"Is this sand gold?"

Zhu Kaishan's mouth cracked with joy and said:
"Yes, this is gold! In Guandong, as long as you dare to sacrifice your life, there is endless gold alluvial in the river. You should be careful about this and don't let the children know."

Wei Chunfang immediately closed the bag and held it tightly in her arms, then asked:

"Okay, with these things, life is going well. But dad, what are your plans for the future?"

Zhu Kaishan's face suddenly turned stiff, wondering:
"I plan to let Chuanwu and Chuanjie go to Chunhe Sheng to learn some business, but I don't know if they are willing to accept apprentices. As for Chuanren."

Wei Chunfang didn't hear the connotation of Zhu Kaishan's words. When she heard Chun Hesheng's name, she immediately said:
"Chun Hesheng is the business of Shopkeeper Xia's father. He and a girl are the only ones left in Shopkeeper Xia's family. Sooner or later, this business will be passed on to him. I guess it can be done. Just because I saved Shopkeeper Xia's life, His family can also do this. Okay, they are apprentices, then we can farm."

Zhu Kaishan shook his head and said:

"I don't plan to tie myself to the ground yet. I just need to send him some information about farming. I've taught him all the work in the field!"

(End of this chapter)