I just want to travel fast

Chapter 349
After clearing the table after dinner, Ling Chen took the initiative and said, "Grandma, what did the village chief say? Is there anything I should pay attention to when digging a well?"

"I went to ask the village chief today. The village chief said that there are people in the next village who can dig wells. He helped to contact them so that we can be more relaxed."

"Then this must not be done in one day, do we need to take care of the food?" Qingchen asked again.

"The village chief said that it doesn't matter if you take care of it. They are all from the next village. You can just go back to eat at noon. If this is the case, you have to pay them more wages. After all, if so many big men come to our family, it will be too late to stay for dinner at noon. inconvenient."

Ling Chen nodded to express his understanding. It was really inconvenient for him to have an orphan and a widowed mother at home. Besides, he didn't need a little money, just to save worry.

Then it was settled like this. When Qian went out to catch fish in the early morning in the afternoon, he brought a few feet of cloth bought from the town last time, and went to the village head's house. This matter still needs the village head to come forward.

When they went home with another bucket of seafood in the early hours of the morning, Qian told her that the time would be three days later, and they had to investigate on the spot how long it would take to get the water out.

In the early hours of the morning, I thought that before that, I had to catch more seafood. At least I couldn't go home with a bucket full of things when there were people at home, so that others would be jealous.

I'm not afraid of jealousy in the early morning, but it's better to have less trouble.

So in the next two days, I went out in the early morning and returned home at noon, and went out in the afternoon and returned home in the evening, and filled all the water tanks where I planned to pickle pickles with seafood.

Seeing that there were too many things, Mrs. Qian planned to start making shrimp paste on a sunny afternoon. When she learned that she was going to start cooking in the early morning, she stopped going out and helped Mrs. Qian learn a trick by the way.

Qian Shi also likes to teach Chen Chen, so he said while doing it: "First of all, wash off the shrimps and crabs, and drain the water."

She had finished her work this early in the morning and had already put it in a bamboo basket to control the moisture. Qian tried it with her hands and found that the water had dried.

"It's good as it is, and the next thing is to wash the jars to ensure that there is no oil and water in them, otherwise the shrimp paste will deteriorate during the fermentation process. I have scalded these jars with boiling water when I bought them. , it has already dried and can be used directly.”

After saying that, he motioned to Chen Chen to come forward and take a look.

"Then it's time to grind these small shrimps and crabs. This is also the most laborious part of making shrimp paste. You need to use a stone mill, or use a garlic mortar to crush them, or you can use a mill. If it doesn't work, you can chop them with a knife. Yes, we have a garlic mortar at home, just use it."

After Mrs. Qian finished speaking, she took out the garlic mortar and started to put the shrimps in it. In the early morning, she took the hammer and pounded it. As Qian said, this was a laborious job, so naturally she couldn't do it.

Just like that, the two of them put it down one by one, and pounded it with the other, and it took about half an hour to finish all the pounding. In the early morning, her arms were already shaking, thanks to doing it by herself. what kind.

Qian wanted to take over several times during the process, but was rejected by Ling Chen. She was still young, so she could just rest for a day or two, but Qian couldn't do it. What if she got tired and left the root of the disease?

This can't be the case in the future, Qingchen thought, if this shrimp paste is delicious, I will install another stone mill in the yard in the future.

Next, Mrs. Qian took over all the work and asked Chen Chen to rest aside: "Then dig out all the mashed shrimp paste and put it in a big basin, then pour in the salt, and make enough salt according to the ratio of one catty of sauce to three liang of salt. Stir, stir evenly, then put it into the prepared jar, seal it tightly and start fermentation, the fermentation time will take more than half a month, and the production process is over at this point."

Qian moved the sealed jar outside to let it ferment naturally, and waited half a month for the delicious food to be served on the table.

In the early morning, I don’t think it’s difficult, and I can try to make it when I return to modern times. In modern times, there is a cooking machine, so there is no need to bother.

Next, because the arms in the early morning hadn't rested, I originally planned to make big pancakes. There was no way that Qian would be in charge of the dinner, and I picked out some other things left in the tank. As for the big pancakes, I could wait.

I haven't eaten the flour since I bought it. Now, this matter must be arranged as soon as possible.

Qian Shi has learned the essence of it because of watching the early morning cooking, and the food tastes very good.

After dinner, there was nothing to do, so I chatted with Qian for a while in the early morning, and then went back to the room to rest. If I don't rub it, I can't even hold the chopsticks with my arm the next day.

After rubbing for a long time in the early morning, I felt that there was no effect, so Fuzhi thought in his heart, should we use internal strength?This should work fine.

Just do what you say, the actionist mobilizes his internal energy in the early morning and kneads for a while, the place being kneaded is warm, which makes him feel much more comfortable.

Chen Chen said that he had unlocked the new function of internal force.

Three days later, early in the morning, the village head led someone to knock on the door of Chenchen's house. He had already greeted him before, so there was nothing wrong with him not getting up.

A total of 4 people came, and after they were brought in, the village head left, and the rest were followed by Qian to negotiate.

They need to first test whether there are water holes in the yard and whether it is suitable for drilling a well. This thing is not something that you pay for and water will come out when there is a place. It needs to be tested.

The testing tools were brought by the craftsmen, and they looked very strange. It was not easy to ask too many questions in the early morning, after all, they were tools for people to eat.

About a quarter of an hour later, a person who looked like a modern contractor said, "Ma'am, there are really water holes in your yard, are you sure you want to hit them now?"

Mrs. Qian nodded, and said affirmatively, "Come on, Master, figure out how much it will cost."

The two parties finally set a price of four taels of silver. They will not eat here, and they will be responsible for building the well.

This price is within the budget. I discussed the price with Qian in the early morning, as long as it does not exceed five taels of silver, it is a good deal. Now it seems that they are quite honest.

The price has been negotiated, and the address has been selected. It is the treasure land that was optimistic before the early morning. end.

The Qian family had already inquired about it before, and had already prepared six copper coins, wrapped them with red thread, and placed them in the place designated by the contractor, which was still the place where the first hoe was.

As for the reason for doing this, it is to take a good omen, water can lead to wealth, so it has the meaning of making a fortune.

If you are rich, you can also use money to hold the red cloth. This has the same meaning.

After this ceremony, the contractor moved the first shovelful of soil, while the others fiddled with the tools and started drilling. It was an eye-opener in the early hours of the morning.

At first, she thought that digging wells in ancient times was all done by planing, but it turned out that everyone had professional tools. This is really ignorant, and the wisdom of the ancient working people is really amazing.

With the help of tools, this well will be used by itself soon.

(End of this chapter)