Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 71 September
What happened during the day, Yuan Shi and Yang Weibo had a tacit understanding and chose to hide it from Yang and Li Shi. No one mentioned it when they got home, as if it had never happened.

August 25.The school in the town officially started classes. Yang Chunming left with a simple bookcase on his back and the clothes Yuan had prepared for him early in the morning.

On August 15th, Gu's family came back from the shop, and brought along the income from this period, excluding the cost, about [-] taels per room.

When returning to the room at night, Yuan Shi simply tidied up. Previously, Yang and Li’s plan was to be a family for ten days, but the big house was almost half a month in August, and Yang and Li’s summed up and let Yuan’s and the others stay for half a month. In the remaining half a month, Yang and Li's family will go, and in October, they will be re-divided.

After hearing this, Mrs. Yuan didn't object, and just nodded in agreement. Now that Yang Chunming has gone to the school, there are only two children at home, Huzichunqiu, so it's good to take them away together. In addition, the late rice planted in the rice field will take a month to mature. There is not much farm work now, so it doesn't matter if I go to the shop for a few more days.

The golden crow falls, and the moon rabbit hangs high.The cold moonlight fell on the pear tree in the courtyard, as if coated with a layer of silver halo.

The lamp was still on in Yuan's room, and the faint light of the oil lamp illuminated Yuan's figure faintly. Chunqiu Huzi was not in the room, so the two of them ran to the big room to find Chunhua and the others after dinner.There were only Yuan Shi and Yang Weibo in the huge room. One was sitting on the ground and the other was sitting on the side of the kang. Both of them were busy with the matter at hand, and there was a moment of silence.

"Fang'er, did you bring my green shirt and gown?" Yang Weibo spoke, directly breaking the silence around him.

At this time, he was sitting on the ground with the help of an oil lamp not far away, grinding the small wooden board in his hand. This is needed in spring and autumn. The wooden board is not big, about the size of Yang Weibai's palm. It can be held with only one hand. After Yang Weibo finished, he looked at it carefully and found that there was nothing wrong with it, so he went on to make the second one.

Mrs. Yuan was packing the children's things. He paused when he heard Yang Weibo's words, and then looked at Yang Weibo thoughtfully, "It's that patched gown of yours? You didn't bring it, it's all broken, so why wear it? Besides, the weather is getting worse and worse. It's cold, and I can't wear the jacket, I brought you some long shirts and trousers." Yuan Shi frowned at the end, and she threw away the clothes that were almost covered in patches.

"I feel like I can still wear it," Yang Weibo muttered softly.

"What can I wear?" Yuan Shi replied directly, "Just that gown, I threw it away." Yuan Shi snapped back.

"...Oh" Yang Weibo shrank his neck in fright, and then made a plank...

Yuan finished all the work in her hands, looked up and estimated the time, and felt that it was almost the same, and then said to Yang Weibo, "Go to Big Brother and call Qiu'er Huzi back, it's so late , our family has to get up early tomorrow, don’t let them be too playful.”

"Hey, that's ok, the plank that Qiu'er wanted is ready." Yang Weibo put down his work, clapped his hands and stood up.

"This... What Qiuer said really works?" Yuan Shi frowned and looked at the small wooden board under Yang Weibo's feet. She was a little worried about what the girl said before. Is this wooden board really useful?

Yang Weibo looked at Yuan's expression of disbelief, and comforted him with a smile, "What's the matter? If it doesn't work, you don't need it. Otherwise, there are too many people in the shop, and it's hard to remember. Try it, and it won't take too much trouble." I believe, in his opinion, the method my daughter came up with is not bad.

"That's all right, you put these outside in a while, call them back quickly." Yuan Shi waved directly, telling Yang Weibo to go quickly, and then went down to the ground and put all the packages on the kang into the cabinet, ready for tomorrow morning take them all away.

Yang Weibo hugged the wooden board and went out the door. There were steps on both sides of the window. Yang Weibai directly put the wooden board on the steps beside him, and then ran into the west room to call for someone...

When Chunqiu and Qiu came back, they were still a little dissatisfied. They finally met each other, and they hadn't started to play, but they were going to leave tomorrow. He took off his clothes and put them aside, then threw the two of them into the bed, greeted Yang Weibo who was underground to get on the kang, and then turned off the lights to sleep...

Early the next morning, Yang Weibo took the family's yellow cattle out of the cowshed, and then set up the ox cart in the yard. The cart was loaded with the Liangpi and sauce to be sold today, and then drove Yuan's mother and son away.

Today is the beginning of the month, and there are quite a few people going to the town to go to the market. Yang Weibo met many people from the same village along the way, and hurriedly greeted them.

"Hey, the second child is going to the shop?"

"Yes, the first episode of Uncle Wang's family"

"Well... sell things..."

"Aunt Li is also in the episode?"

"Yeah, it's useful to buy some fabric and go back..."

"..."

Yang Weibo drove the ox cart slowly, and when he arrived at the shop, there were already people waiting at the door.

Yuan Shi hurriedly got out of the car to make amends, opened the door of the shop and welcomed the people outside, "Oh, everyone, I'm sorry, I went home yesterday and came late today, please forgive me." Yuan Shi laughed along, While asking Yang Weibo to move things back.

"Miss Boss, why did you change people?" A middle-aged man said with a smile.

Yuan turned around and explained, "It was my sister-in-law and the others before. Isn't this because the family is busy with farm work and cannot do without people, so we will come here for half a month, everyone, please take care of me."

"Don't worry, it's okay, lady boss, I'm hungry, get some Liangpi quickly." The man sat on the stool boldly, patted the table and said.

"Hey, right away," Yuan said, and ordered Chunqiu to come over to say hello, while she ran to the kitchen to prepare Liangpi.

Chunqiu ran over with the small wooden board prepared earlier, showing his neat eight teeth, "Guest officers, what do you want?"

"Big bowl of Liangpi", "Big bowl of cold noodles", "Big bowl..."

While listening, Chunqiu took the charcoal pencil in his hand and made gestures on the wooden board. After several people finished counting, he ran to the kitchen with the wooden board.

That's right, the wooden board she asked her father to make before was the notepad that Chunqiu wanted, and the charcoal pencil was burned from the stove before, and used to write down the guests' orders.

Because of the previous incident, Chunqiu came up with a simple method, marking the several kinds of food at home with one, two, three, and four marks, and then recording the serial number of the customer's order, and bringing it to the kitchen for Yuan to follow.

Of course, there are few people now, and Chunqiu has no time to put the serial number in capital letters on the side of the table.When there are many people, as long as you remember the various serial numbers, you will not go wrong.

This is what Chunqiu saw while eating in his previous life, but there was no such way in ancient times, so it was directly borrowed by Chunqiu. (Ancient restaurants basically rely on people to memorize menus.) In addition, charcoal pens are easy to carry, write on the wooden board and wipe it with a rag, it will be clean, and it can also be reused.

One morning, Chunqiu and Huzi were busy remembering the dishes, and at the same time took advantage of the gap to hang up the serial numbers in capital letters on the table. When the traffic flow was the largest at noon, they were not as busy as before. Together with Yang Weibai, the father and son three Each person had a charcoal pencil and a small wooden board in their hands. After recording one table, they immediately recorded the next table. They were very busy.

After noon, the number of people gradually decreased, and Yuan Shi was able to come out of the kitchen to rest.

Seeing her mother come out, Chunqiu happily ran to Yuan's side, still holding the small board from before, with a look of asking for credit, "Mother, take a look, is this method good? I haven't made any mistakes today. Woolen cloth"

Yuan Shi smiled and touched Chunqiu's little face, "That's right, my mother's Niu Niu is the best, this method is really good." Yuan Shi is satisfied with the previous efficiency, but it's not like before. This will remind you if you forget to look at it.

"Hey hey hey" Chunqiu laughed silly while holding the board.

"What do you want to eat at noon?" Yuan looked at the people in the shop and asked with her head down.

After hearing this, Chunqiu touched his shriveled stomach, and thought seriously, "How about... how about eating the pie from Grandma Wu's house, I can smell the fragrance here." After Chunqiu finished speaking, he even sniffed, the Wu family The pies are diagonally opposite Chunqiu's shop, especially if the pies are spread outside, the smell... Chunqiu can't control it.

Yuan Shi nodded without thinking, "Okay, I'll give you the money and buy more."

After hearing this, Chunqiu immediately jumped up, cheered and followed behind Yuan Shi.

"What's the matter? You want to eat so much?" Yuan Shi looked back at Chunqiu and said.

"That's not true." Chunqiu nodded, "Grandma Wu's pies are delicious, of course I want to eat them."

"What about our Liangpi?" Yuan Shi asked.

"It's delicious too, but... I've eaten too much lately." Chunqiu pursed her mouth, eating too much delicious food will lose its taste.

"Here, here you go, go." Yuan took out a handful of copper coins from the counter, about 20 coins, and handed them to Chunqiu.

"Guaranteed to complete the task." Chunqiu took Yuan Shi's money, then waved at Yuan Shi playfully, and ran out amidst Yuan Shi's laughter...

Passing through the still deserted street, Chunqiu hurried to the Wu family's pie stand.

The pies are spread out in that kind of big pan, and there is also a big cylinder underneath. There is an opening in the bottom of the cylinder, and wood is placed inside, just like the baked sweet potato tubes of later generations, except that the top is a pan.

Because it was already past noon, not many people came out to eat, and the two tables around the stall were still empty, and there were still finished pies on the tables, and no one cleaned them up.

Chunqiu went straight to the front of the stall and shouted inside, "Grandma Wu, I'm here to buy pies."

"Hey, is Xiao Chunqiu here?" An old female voice came from the shop, and Chunqiu recognized that it was Grandma Wu's voice.

After the sound, a person came out from inside. He was about 50 years old, with white hair and wrinkles on his face, but his movements were brisk and agile, not as slow as the elderly at all.

"Grandma Wu" Chunqiu showed a big smile after seeing the person in front of him clearly.

Grandma Wu looked at Chunqiu lovingly, and said with a smile, "Xiao Chunqiu, how much do you want to buy?"

"Buy ten"

"What kind of pie do you want? Grandma made pork and cabbage stuffing and leek and egg stuffing today." Grandma Wu led Chunqiu to the pie stand.

"Those who take five cabbages, and those who take five eggs," Chunqiu replied.

Grandma Wu directly picked up the plate on the side, picked it up, and handed it to Chunqiu after picking it up.

"Grandma Wu, here's the money." Chunqiu took the plate.

Two five-cent coins for minced meat, three five-cent coins for eggs, counted out 21 copper coins from her hands, and handed them directly to Grandma Wu.

"Xiao Chunqiu, go back slowly." Grandma Wu took the copper plate and instructed a few words worriedly.

"Hey" Chunqiu responded, and then walked back with a plate...

"Mother, I bought it back." Chunqiu put the plate on the table and shouted towards the backyard, and then Huzi rushed out from behind.

Hu Zi was so hungry that he ran out when he heard his sister's words. When he saw the steaming pie on the table, he looked up at Chun Qiu and asked, "What is this? It smells so delicious." Lie down on the table and smell it vigorously.

Looking at Huzi's movements, Chunqiu stretched out his hand to pull him down, and then said, "This is the pie from Grandma Wu's house. It's delicious. You can eat it in a while."

"Really? I want to eat, but I'm starving to death." Huzi stared at the pie, swallowing saliva.

Chunqiu glanced at it, then ran to the kitchen to get the bowls and chopsticks.

Yuan Shi and Yang Weibo came in later, and as soon as Yuan Shi saw Huzi's face was almost buried, he rushed over and pulled Huzi down, "Sit down, sit down..., why are you in such a hurry?" After speaking, she stretched out her hand Pointing to Huzi's small head.

When Chunqiu came out, he saw that Huzi was being scolded by her mother, Yang Weibo stood aside, Chunqiu twitched the corners of his mouth, and walked out, "Mother, Dad, let's eat quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold."

Chunqiu's words directly diverted Yuan Shi's attention, and Yuan Shi didn't have time to continue talking about tigers, so he reached out to take the bowls and chopsticks from Chunqiu's hands, and they sat down.

"Here is soy sauce," Chunqiu pointed to one of the small jars and said.

"Yeah, eat quickly, I'll be busy in the afternoon after eating." Yuan took out her chopsticks and put the pie into the bowls of several people.

Everyone was so hungry that they picked up the pie and ate it. Chunqiu put down the chopsticks after eating two.Huzi ate two and a half of the ten pies, Yang Weibai ate three and a half, and Yuan Shi ate two.

After eating this belated lunch, Chunqiu and the others got busy again. Yang Weibo took Huzi out to buy flour, and by the way, he also bought seasonings that Chunqiu needed.

The Yuan family was at the shop, preparing to steam the cold noodle. The cold noodle brought from home today had already been used up. In order not to let there be no cold noodle to eat tomorrow, the mother and daughter had no choice but to start early.

Kneading, washing, oiling, and steaming, the two Yuans steamed the cold skin according to the previous steps, and then took it to the yard to dry. In order to prevent the moisture from developing, Chunqiu specially used a waterproof cloth on the cold skin Cover, by the time Yang Weibo and the others came back, Yuan Shi and the others had already steamed most of the Liangpi.

"Leave a bag of flour, and move the rest to the back room, and I will make cold noodles with the noodles later." Yuan's hands were sticky with flour, and he didn't even have time to wash them, so he directly ordered Yang Weibo to work.

"What about these aniseed peppercorns?" Yang Weibo finished carrying the flour, then pointed to the spices on the cart behind him.

"Father, just take it to the kitchen, I'll use it right away." Chunqiu poked his head out from behind Yuan.

"Okay" Yang Weibo nodded, and got busy again...

The shop had been closed long ago, leaving only a small door on the side for people to come in and out. Chunqiu's family of four had been busy for an afternoon and an evening before they could finally finish their work.

"Okay, there are still a few Liangpi left in the kitchen, let's make a living, I'm eating something else tomorrow." Yuan Shi gasped tiredly, looked at the people around him who were lying still, gritted his teeth and stood up.

Chunqiu and the others didn't speak, it was a tacit agreement, after all, they are so tired now, how can they have the strength to do other things.

Yuan's left quickly and came back quickly. The few people ate the leftover Liangpi to the full, and their stomachs were full. Because there were few people in the second room, Chunqiu and Huzi shared a room with each other, which was considered round. Chunqiu's wish is finally able to sleep by himself.

After eating, Yuan Shi directly drove the two of them back to the room to go to sleep, Chunqiu didn't protest because she was too tired, so she took off her clothes, put them aside, fell asleep on the bed...

　Ancient China:
　　Lowercase: 〇, [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], [-], jing, 垓, 秭, 穰, ditch, jian, zheng, zai, pole
　　Capitalization: zero, one, two, three, four, five, land, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, billion, trillion, Beijing, 垓, 秭, 穰, ditch, jian, Zheng, Zai, pole
　　There were no Arabic numerals in ancient times, that's it!

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