The ugly husband of the sturdy peasant girl is spoiled by the sky

Chapter 84, get out the sweet potato flour

Hearing this, Shu Xin glanced at Dai Zhenzhu, and walked over lightly.

Shu Youren cried very sadly, weeping softly and aggrieved.

Shu Xin thought about the candy that Shu Youren handed her at that time, no matter what dislikes he had, he couldn't hate him when he thought of his past goodness.

After all, he is just a fool, and he used to be Ji Yueguangfeng.

"Fifth brother!" Shu Xin called softly.

Shu Youren raised his head, looked at Shu Xin, sniffed, and shouted aggrievedly, "Ah Xin!"

"Ok?"

"Do you not like me anymore?"

Shu Xin laughed, and sat down next to Shu Youren, "Why, I have always liked Fifth Brother, but this kind of liking is like family, just like I like cauliflower, younger brother, and younger sister. There is no difference between being good and being good, but for Brother Wu, it must be better than Brother Huzi!"

"But, but why don't you marry me?"

Shu Xin took a deep breath.

After thinking about it, he said, "Because we are brothers and sisters, we are a family. Seeing that the elder sister marries the eldest brother, this is a family. Sister Youqin and elder brother are a family. Sister Youqin is going to marry another family. My fifth brother and I are a family, how can a family marry a family!"

Shu Youren was confused.

Forget about crying, and think carefully about Shu Xin's words.

It seems to make sense, but it seems that I didn't understand it.

"Then do you still like me in the future?"

"I like it, Brother Wu is so good, I will definitely like it, and we all like Brother Wu very much!" Shu Xin said, took a handkerchief to wipe Shu Youren's tears, got up and held out to Shu Youren, "I Get you up, let's go home first, fetch water to wash your face, and I'll cook some noodles for you, okay?"

"Well, I'm hungry!"

As Shu Youren said, he tugged on Shu Xin's sleeve.

Following behind Shu Xin, when he saw Dai Pearl, he called out in a low voice, "Sister Pearl!"

Dai Pearl smiled friendly.

They went into the courtyard together, and Shu Xin fetched water to wash Shu Youren's face.

Go to the kitchen to cook noodles again.

Shu Youren sat at the stone table, sobbing, Dai Zhenzhu sat aside and looked at him.

"Sister Pearl!"

"Ok?"

"Am I doing something wrong?"

Dai Zhenzhu thought for a while before saying, "A bit!"

"..." Shu Youren was silent, suddenly very sad.

"Look, you know how to read and write. You can do a lot of things, such as teaching the children in the village to read and write. These are very meaningful things!" Dai Zhenzhu said softly.

There are some things that Shu Xin can't say well.

Because Shu Youren's family helped Shu Xin's family a lot.

"Does Ah Xin want me to do this?"

"It's not just for Ah Xin, but for yourself. There are many people in this world who can't read and write, but Fifth Brother can, and he's a scholar. If Fifth Brother is willing to teach them, they will be very grateful!"

Although Shu Youren was stupid, he was still very rational.

Just spoiled by Yuan Shi.

Especially after being stupid, Yuan Shi took care of everything with him. Ever since she came into contact with Shu Xin, she stopped drooling and smiled silly at every turn, and became much more self-reliant in speaking and doing things.

Yuan Shi also saw that Shu Youren got better after getting in touch with Shu Xin, so she became more determined to marry Shu Xin to Shu Youren as his wife.

What needs to be done now is to make Shu Youren gradually stay away from Shu Xin.

"Ah Xin also likes what I do, right?" Shu Youren asked again.

Pearl Dai nodded.

Shu Youren was silent.

It took a while before he said, "I will teach everyone how to read and write, so can I see Ah Xin every day?"

"Of course you can. If you teach everyone to read and write, maybe Ah Xin will go too!"

Shu Youren suddenly laughed.

Shu Xin cooked the noodles, and Shu Youren ate them in small bites.

Even if he is stupid, the literary spirit of a scholar still exists.

After eating noodles, Shu Xin decided to send Shu Youren back, so he went to prepare a torch and sent Shu Youren home with Dai Zhenzhu.

This was Dai Pearl's first time walking at night, so she was a little nervous and a little excited.

Send Shu Youren to the door.

Shu Youren pushed open the door. The house was pitch black, and he was a little scared. He looked back at Shu Xin, "Ah Xin, won't you let me in?"

"No!" Shu Xin shook his head firmly.

In the past, she also thought that Shu Youren was a fool, so she indulged him a little more.

Shu Youren happened to listen to Dai Zhenzhu's persuasion today, and Shu Xin thought about it carefully, Shu Youren might not be stupid, but his temperament is more like a child, and he will get better if he is taught slowly.

"Then..., then I'll go in!"

Shu Xin waved his hand, took Dai Pearl's hand, turned and left.

Standing at the gate, Shu Youren watched the torch getting farther and farther away in the darkness, sniffed, and turned his head to see the oil lamp in the main room, and his parents were sitting on the chairs.

He yelled softly, "Father, mother!"

"It's good to be back, have you eaten yet?" Yuan Shi asked.

Shu Xin sent Shu Youren back, and she was relieved.

In fact, he also guessed that Shu Youren went to find Shu Xin.

"I've eaten, Ah Xin cooked noodles for me!" Shu Youren lowered his head, like a child who made a mistake.

The village head said nothing.

Yuan Shi thought for a while before saying, "Go get some water to wash and go to bed early!"

She wanted to do this well, but her husband said earlier that the child is older, so don't treat him like a three-year-old.

"Oh!" Shu Youren replied, went to the kitchen slowly, fetched hot water and went back to the room, washed his face first, then his feet, poured the water, changed his clothes, and fell asleep on the bed.

I was full, tired from crying, and soon fell asleep.

Yuan Shi and the village head husband and wife secretly came to see, seeing Shu Youren like this, Yuan Shi's eyes turned red immediately.

After leaving the house with the village chief, he cried out, "I was the one who delayed him!"

The village chief took Yuan Shi's hand, "Let's look at it from now on, don't spoil him blindly, let him do many things by himself, he is not as stupid as we imagined!"

Indirectly, they are also telling Yuan Shi that their son was raised by themselves.

Yuan Shi took a deep breath, "I will write it down!"

"Ah Xin, don't be too stubborn, there is a past love, Ah Xin will not ignore Youren, as for the marriage... Let it be, if you force it, you will have some true feelings, and there will be no life The resentment has been wiped out, and Youren has obeyed her, if she has a bad heart, it will really be worth the candle!"

When Yuan Shi heard this, she was also taken aback.

I also thought of the day when the master told Shu Youren's fortune, saying that he was lonely in this life and his children were few.

Yuan Shi couldn't bear it again.

"I……"

It was hard to choose for a while.

Shu Xin and Dai Zhenzhu walked home slowly.

The two were talking quietly.

"The nights in this country are so peaceful!"

"Is the town not good?"

"Okay, but it's not so quiet!"

"Then you can marry and come to the countryside in the future!"

Dai Zhenzhu laughed when she heard the words, "I'm afraid my parents won't agree!"

"That's right, you are godfather, godmother, palm treasure, how can you be willing to marry the country and suffer hardships!"

"It's not necessarily true. My father and mother didn't attach great importance to family, otherwise my mother wouldn't marry my father!"

"what?"

"Don't you know? My mother is Miss Hou Fu!"

"..." Shu Xin was surprised.

This is really unexpected.

"But my mother is a concubine, but I think my mother is very happy to marry my father. After all, my father has no concubine or concubine. Foot water!"

"Wow..." Shu Xin exclaimed.

No wonder Dai Pearl is looking forward to love with all her heart.

After all, it would be great to find a man who is as good as shopkeeper Dai, who will live a peaceful and happy life.

"Godfather and godmother are so happy!"

"What about you, Xin? Do you have someone you like?"

"No, how old am I? It's too early to say that!"

Dai Pearl raised her eyebrows.

I really believe Shu Xin's words.

When the two returned home, the two dogs dutifully guarded the door, closed the courtyard door, and the two went back to the house to sleep together.

In the next few days, Shu Xin's family began to buy sweet potatoes.

These days, there are sweet potatoes for eating, and there are a lot of them for feeding pigs, and they are also cheap. They cost two catties for one penny. Shu Xin wanted to make sweet potato flour, so he bought more. People in the village want to sell sweet potatoes one by one Send it to Shu Xin's house, and the third grandpa and Huzi are responsible for weighing it, and then put it on the bamboo drying mat that was dumped by the well.

Shu Xin picked the smooth and slender ones and put them upstairs, with some straw under them and sweet potatoes on top. When the weather gets colder, they can be roasted and eaten. In the kitchen, Shu Xin also plans to get some bamboo. Get the whole attic out and put some up there.

Come to a warm baked sweet potato in winter, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Dai Zhenzhu is responsible for teaching cauliflower and green onion to settle accounts and pay money.

After a few days, there was a pile of sweet potatoes in the corner, all of which were large and not in good condition.

Shu Xin had people make two stone troughs, which were deep and large, and prepared many wooden barrels.

After deciding on a day to make sweet potato flour, many daughters-in-law and mother-in-law came from the village to help wash the sweet potatoes, and then put the cleaned sweet potatoes in a stone trough and smashed them with wood.

After the sweet potatoes in a stone trough are crushed into slag, they are scooped up on a shelf made of gauze into a pocket, and a large wooden barrel is underneath the shelf.

While pouring water into the gauze cloth to rinse the sweet potato residue, shake the gauze bag to wash down the sweet potato pulp and settle it.

After waiting overnight, the sweet potato flour will settle down.

"Is this white stuff sweet potato flour?" Wang asked looking at the greasy white thing.

"It's quite gratifying to look at!"

"But what do you want to eat?"

Everyone asked in a hurry, Shu Xin thought for a while, and then said, "I'll make some sweet potato noodles for everyone to try!"

"Okay!"

Shu Xin poured out the useless water in the wooden barrel, cut off a piece with a kitchen knife, put it in a pottery basin, added water and stirred it evenly, added an egg, and continued beating well,

Put a little oil in the pot, use a spatula to evenly spread it to the edge of the bottom of the pot, pour down the sweet potato powder juice, and quickly spread a thin layer on the bottom of the pot, when it is cooked, take it up and put it in the Shau Kei, Repeatedly made several sweet potato noodles.

When they are cool, Shu Xin cut them into pieces, then put the meat slices in the pot and stir-fry. When the meat slices are cooked, add some five spices, star anise, pepper, pepper, shredded ginger, pour in the sweet potato vermicelli, add some salt, green onion, Scoop it up and take the chopsticks for everyone to taste.

No one is polite anymore.

After tasting the chopsticks, they couldn't help exclaiming, "It's so delicious!"

I never thought sweet potatoes were delicious.

"Ah Xin, my family makes sweet potato flour another day, come over and help my aunt watch some!"

This self-proclaimed aunt, and that self-proclaimed aunt (sister-in-law), both pulled Shu Xin to talk, and Shu Xin responded one by one.

There are more uses for this sweet potato flour, but just a skin of sweet potato flour makes everyone extremely happy.

After all, not to mention filling a dish for the family, this not-so-tasty sweet potato has also come up with new tricks.

Seeing that everyone was so happy, Shu Xin couldn't help but said, "This sweet potato powder can also be used to make sweet soup!"

"Ah Xin, what should I do?"

Shu Xin thought for a while, "This is simple, first steam the sweet potatoes and let them cool down, then knead the sweet potato powder into the sweet potatoes, knead them into balls one by one, cook them in the pot, just scoop them into a bowl and add some sugar !"

"Is that delicious?"

Shu Xin shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't done it yet, I just thought I might give it a try!"

Everyone had a meal.

Mrs. Wang nodded her forehead, "This clever ghost has come up with such a rare way to eat it. I'll try it when I get home. If it works, I'll have to scoop you a bowl!"

"Then thank you, Aunt Liu!" Shu Xin quickly thanked her.

"No, now, we are the ones who thank you. Speaking of which, the family grows sweet potatoes every year and feeds them to pigs. This is the first time I know of such a way to eat them. We must thank you!"

"That's it!"

Shu Xin made sweet potato flour and skin of sweet potato flour at home, and it spread quickly in Shujia Village, and every household was ready to make some for themselves.

The excess was dried and kept for winter.

The sweet potato flour at home is basically done by Huzi and the third grandpa. Shu Xin was called away by the villagers early in the morning. Let's do it together.

Shu Xin went out in the morning and didn't come home until dark.

Liu's heart ached, she pulled Shu Xin and said, "Don't go tomorrow!"

"Mom, everyone helped us so much back then, so you should always repay us a little bit. Besides, I don't work when I go, so I just use my mouth and treat me with delicious food!" Shu Xin took a sip of chicken soup. drinking.

Liu Shi had no choice but couldn't help but said again, "The sweet potato flour is much better now at home, what are we doing with so much sweet potato flour?"

"Just make it, and sell it in the town!" Shu Xin said, already thinking about it.

But this would require Huzi to come forward, and he had to go to shopkeeper Bu, and let shopkeeper Bu find someone to do it secretly.

After all, she is just a girl, and it is inconvenient to walk outside, so it will be different if Huzi goes there.

She can also go with Huzi in men's clothing, calling herself Huzi's little brother.

Let's make this money first.

"You, you just have a lot of ideas, but you have to let the tiger follow you when the time comes, otherwise I don't worry!"

Shu Xin nodded, "Listen to mother!"

Liu Shi smiled softly.

Looking at the sweet potato flour in the bamboo sieve under the eaves, Liu's smile became softer.

She likes the sweet potato flour skin and balls made from sweet potato flour.

This sweet potato flour is not only made in the Shu family village, but also started to be made in several nearby villages. They are all relatives of the Shu family and have spread to other places.

This sweet potato flour is not difficult to make, and Shu Xin taught two more ways to eat it. Suddenly, someone went outside the town to collect sweet potatoes to make, and when they were done, they sold the sweet potato flour skins and sent them to restaurants, earning a lot of money. few.

Huzi went to the mountains a few times during this period, and every time he came back, he brought a few pheasants and a back of vine pears. Shen Duowang never visited Shu Xin's house, as if he had disappeared from this world, and neither did Shu Youren. Come, teach the children in the village to read at home.

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of October, and Shu Xin's family bought a lot of sweet potatoes, made them into sweet potato flour, and bought a lot of millet. Shu Xin calculated carefully, and it was more than 3000 catties, and the piles on the upper floors of several rooms were full. , plus the recovered corn and soybeans, there is no gap at all upstairs.

Without saying a word, Mrs. Liu was cheerful all day long, knowing that life at home must be very good, and everything will be fine.

Huzi's family is also starting to repair the house. Zhao Baotou has brought people to bring the wood, tiles, and foundation stones, and the ground will start on the fifth day of October.

Because of Shu Xin's suggestion, Huzi's house was built to be as spacious as Shu Xin's house, but with slightly fewer rooms, and it would be easier to go out with a horse and a carriage.

Huzi thought about it and thought it was all right, if he really depended on the fields, he would just be a mud leg for the rest of his life, not to mention marrying the girl he likes, it's hard to say whether there will be a girl to marry him.

There are also three main rooms in Huzi's house, the middle is the main room, the kitchen is close to Shu Xin's house, and the backyard is entered from the left, where it is used to store carriages, raise horses, pigpens and so on.

The courtyard on the left was used as Huzi’s room, three main rooms, and three rooms in the back row were used as warehouses.

On this day, a large family sat together to discuss the meaning of cooking as a family.

Liu Shi has no objection.

"It's good for us to eat together as a family. Uncle and Auntie are getting old, and we will take care of them. Huzi can rest assured when he has something to go out!"

These days, the Liu family has seen Huzi's devotion to the family.

Shu Xin naturally saw it.

When Huzi's house is repaired, Shu Xin feels that it should be clear about the money.

Brothers and sisters.

Huzi nodded, planning to go to town after the house was repaired.

The furniture and so on have already been ordered from Shu Youkang, but Shu Youkang didn't have time to do it, so he called his senior brother to help, and as soon as Huzi's house was repaired, he would send the furniture.

The family first turned over the land, planted radishes and green vegetables, and waited until winter to have vegetables to eat.

The next step is to repair the house of Huzi's family. Many people from the village came to help. After more than half a month of repairs, it was basically repaired. On October [-], the beam will be built, and the villagers will be invited to eat beam wine.

Huzi approached Shu Xin to discuss shopping in the town.

"Ah Xin, what do you think we need to buy when we go to the town?" Huzi asked.

Shu Xin thought for a while and said seriously, "We can buy a pig or a chicken. For rice, we can grind some at home or buy it. For vegetables, we don't have much food at this time, so we don't have to prepare a lot." For one, a larger portion is good, more meat, some bean sprouts can be sprouted, boil a salted peanut, steam some rice cakes, and stir-fry chestnuts for snacks, prepare some melon seeds, peanuts, and some wine!"

Huzi nodded, "Then listen to you, we will go to town to buy tomorrow!"

"Brother Huzi, can you drive a carriage?"

"I haven't driven it before, so I can learn it!" Huzi thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't be too difficult, I tried the ox cart at Brother Big Niu's house, why don't you go to the village head's house and ask the village head to borrow it for a try? "

"Forget it, let's go to the town and have a look first. If there is a carriage, horse or something, let's buy one and bring it back. Even if we can't drive it, we can bring it back!"

(End of this chapter)