The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 737
Chen Qiaojiang had kept silent before, quietly following them.Now that he finally found a chance to speak, he patted Qingyang's shoulder with his left hand and Qinghao's with his right hand, and said with a smile, "Bu Wu brother, don't worry, I will keep an eye on the two of them. Whoever dares to betray the brotherhood, I will be the big brother." Of course, I will clean them up until they repent."

Qingyang and Qinghao looked at each other, and then looked down on Chen Qiaojiang who was pretending to be a wolf with a big tail.

Bu Wu chuckled, "Alright, Qiao Jiang must supervise the two of them well."

Chen Qiaojiang answered loudly, then cleared his throat, put his hands behind his back, pretended to be the eldest brother, and taught Qingyang and Qinghao like Mr. Lu when he was teaching.Qingyang and Qinghao are naturally not happy.On weekdays, Chen Qiaojiang is the most mischievous, he doesn't look like a big brother at all, not to mention being taught by Mr. Lu from time to time in school, how can he be a role model!Qingyang and Qinghao were naturally dissatisfied, and besides, Buwu was not an outsider, so the three of them quickly laughed and quarreled.

After they laughed and quarreled for a while, seeing that it was almost time, Manager Zhang reminded him from the side, "Young master, it's getting late. If you don't turn back, I'm afraid you will miss lunch in the mansion." From the fields here to the town The mansion is not a short distance away.Even if you go fast on horseback, it will take more than half an hour, and if you travel slowly, it will take an hour.

So, Qingyang asked people to bring everyone's horses, and Bu Wu and his party left here to drive to the town.

Guanshi Zhang, Guanshi Song, and Gu Yuanbao watched their master and his party leave, and then left for their respective tasks.

Gu Yuanbao first walked around the area he was in charge of, and seeing that there was nothing to do, he turned to the big tent in charge of cooking.

It is not easy to prepare a meal for more than 1000 people, and it is also a meal for a tall pot-bellied man.

In the thatched hut, which is the size of three houses as a temporary kitchen, Mrs. Wu is directing a group of women's soldiers to prepare lunch in full swing.On the left, four large stoves are firing together, and those who make steamed buns and steamed buns are busy.In the middle, those who wash vegetables, chop meat, chop big bones, and shake cold dishes are busy and undisturbed.On the right side, two large stoves are open, one stove is preparing to cook coarse grains and dry rice, and someone is washing rice; on the other stove, it is preparing to steam steamed buns mixed with white noodles and corn noodles, and someone is making double cornbreads.

Gu Yuanbao walked into the thatched hut, "Sister-in-law Wu, what's for lunch today?"

Mrs. Wu kept slicing the meat in her hands, and said cheerfully, "A stew with bones, and a stew. There are big slices of meat in the stew, and your favorite pumpkin." There are quite a few people here, and the lady asked someone to buy them from the south a few days ago.A whole car is enough to feed these many people for a few days.

Gu Yuanbao let out a laugh and helped add firewood to the stove for a while before walking away.

Mrs. Wu finished cutting the meat on hand, put it in a basin, and quickly cleaned up the chopping board and kitchen knife before washing her hands.The steamed buns on the four stoves are steamed and steamed again (one pot can steam two drawers), the steamed steamed buns are tidied up, one drawer after another is stacked and put aside, and the drawer immediately above is covered with white gauze to prevent it from burning. Ashes.A total of nearly [-] drawers of steamed buns were steamed.On the other side, five pots of coarse rice and dry rice were cooked, and eight drawers of steamed steamed buns were mixed.Immediately wash the pots on the vacant six stoves, and start cooking bone stews and stews.

People cannot live without basic necessities.Most of the people who work in the fields here are outsiders except themselves.As for these outsiders, the nearby villages are okay. After eating at home in the morning, they can bring lunch to work, and they can go home to eat after work in the evening, and then rest at home.If it is not the people from the nearby villages, it will not work. Board and lodging is a problem.Therefore, the Hou Mansion came up with corresponding measures.

Regarding accommodation, either find a way to solve it by yourself, or make do with tents.There was a group of veterans headed by Xue En, and the Hou Mansion had all the materials to build the tent, so it was easy to set up the tent.Xue En and the others temporarily set up ten tents in response to the needs of outsiders, in addition to the tents they lived in.Seven or eight or ten people can squeeze into a tent without any problem.

Regarding the three meals a day, you can find a way to solve it yourself or pay some money to eat the meals prepared by the Hou Mansion.To eat food prepared by the Hou Mansion, you only need to pay twelve copper coins a day, and the person who pays the copper coins will eat whatever the Hou Mansion's own people eat for three meals a day.Breakfast standard, corn bread with corn noodles, miscellaneous grain porridge with small pickles with rice, as long as you are full; lunch and dinner standard, corn bread with glutinous rice noodles, coarse grain rice, a large stew with meat, and the same cold dish, you can fill yourself up.Everyone is very enthusiastic about their work, and they will add a dish.Just like at noon today, not only was a stew of sliced ​​meat added, but everyone was also given a steamed bun with two noodles.

Most of those who came here attracted by the reputation were ordinary people who spent half a penny on their pennies. They knew the prices of food, meat, and vegetables. They didn't know that the Hou Mansion was doing a "business" that lost money!It was a very solid orange-yellow steamed corn bread with corn noodles, as well as big stews with meat, as well as pickles and cold dishes.The food is not cheap, even twenty Wen per person is not expensive.How can anyone not be happy with such a cheap thing!Therefore, even among the nearby villagers, many people paid copper coins to prepare three meals a day here.

The lunch in the kitchen is ready, and it's time for the field workers to take their lunch break.The big guys walked to the ditch of running water one after another, talking and laughing, washing their hands and faces.After washing up first, the responsible stewards gathered together, divided into three teams and lined up in front of the three thatched huts, and cooked meals one by one.

Each person has a sea bowl of meat and vegetables, and each person has a double-mixed steamed bread, corn bread with corn noodles or dry rice with coarse grains according to his appetite.If it is not enough, you can fight again, but you must not waste food with leftovers.

The big guys ate or sat or squatted in the shade, some laughed heartily, some talked loudly, and some ate silently while listening to others.They said nothing more than all kinds of things about this trip.Not to mention the three meals a day, the Hou Mansion paid for it, and it was free to sleep in the tent at night, but it was a great favor for them to let them learn the magic method of planting corn.What's the point of spending two or three days on such a good thing?Food is so cheap!They were all thinking about the true benevolence and righteousness of Miss Hou's Mansion and the young master.

There are so few people with ulterior motives who only dare to cover up their small thoughts and hide them tightly, and dare not speak out to provoke public anger under this situation.

The most active people in the crowd were two people.

One was a middle-aged man surnamed Huang in an old silk robe and an old scholar's cap.He stroked his sparse beard and talked to the people around him from time to time.When he was young, he was admitted as a scholar, but his fortune was not good, he offended others, and he encountered obstacles everywhere he went.He was very angry, and full of desperation, he returned to his hometown to farm and became a talented farmer.Now that they have become farmers, they come to learn technology on behalf of their village.

The other is a 26-year-old youth with a fair complexion and a medium build.He has a little ink in his stomach, but not much, and he always likes to enjoy the literati's addiction with a folding fan in his hand.He is an authentic farmer, and he lives in a neighboring village with the middle-aged man surnamed Huang.The two have always disliked each other, and when they meet one place, they will compete with each other.At this moment, he also gathered a group of people to talk about it.

(End of this chapter)