No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

In the past few days before the Chinese New Year, Ji Qingyue was not only looking for stones, but also busy repairing the roof.

On New Year's Eve, the wind suddenly blew so hard that the cracks in the windows and doors rattled. He looked at the thatched roof and was worried whether the roof would be blown away by the strong wind.

So we came together the next day to quickly think of ways to strengthen the roof.

He weaved another layer of thatch, found a few long branches and the remaining canes, and climbed up to the roof.

To cover a layer of thatch, place a branch, pass a rattan through the thatch like sewing clothes, and tie the branch to the corresponding purlin, which is equivalent to tightly sandwiching the thatch between the branch and the purlin.

I was busy weaving straw for a long time, strengthening the roof for a long time, and another day passed leisurely.

Next, he focused on looking for stones. After another four days of searching, he finally found the most satisfying stone!

In the past, Ji Qingyue went to the mountains far away from the stream to look for stones. Of course, he met what he expected, but transportation was a problem. The distance was too far. The five or six hundred kilogram stones were still irregularly shaped. Even if the stones were pushed, Going down the mountain and rolling all the way back through the pine forest on logs is also a huge project and requires a lot of effort.

So he tried to look for it by the nearby stream, and sure enough, the black under the lamp meant now.

He had always thought about looking for rocks in the mountains, but never thought of looking for them by the water.

Among the stones washed by the stream, there was a stone that he was very satisfied with!

So he spent all his strength, endured the cold, stepped in the ice water with his trouser legs rolled up, used crowbars and sleepers, and finally pulled up the stone.

Under the impact of the water flow, the edges and corners of the stone have been rounded. Except for some convex places that need to be polished, the side surfaces are almost the same as the cylindrical surfaces.

He pushed the stone back to the front of the house. Although there was no fence in front of the house, he had already accepted that the small open space in front of the house was his front yard. In the future, the compacted soil would become a drying yard.

The stone mill is placed here.

Now among the marked stones on the mountain, one is the grinding plate for stone grinding, the other is the grinding trough for water grinding, and the other is the tabletop.

Three stone slabs weighing a hundred pounds are still on the mountain.

So he went up the mountain and came down together every day, and after a lot of trouble, New Year's Eve arrived.

The Li family put the prepared ingredients on the cart early in the morning. The cart was newly built, and the smell of wood had not dissipated. On it were half a pig and two sheep that had been killed yesterday. Apart from the meat, , there is also a small basket of fresh vegetables, which is tightly covered by a few wilted cabbages. Who would have imagined that the most valuable thing on the cart is this basket of green vegetables.

Being able to have a bite of fresh vegetables in winter is a treatment that only wealthy people in the state and county can get, and it is a treatment that they spend a lot of money to enjoy. No wonder Li Aniang is so cautious.

The steamed buns made for the New Year, the shortbread pies and steamed buns just made last night were all packed in the food box layer by layer, and a bag of glutinous rice dumplings was also stuffed inside to avoid being touched by Li Silang and Tuanlang. .

The two children sat on the cart. Li Erlang locked the courtyard door and took turns pulling the cart back to the village with Li Sanlang.

Li Liu's wife, Liu Si, and her three daughters-in-law had already cleaned the house and were waiting for them to come back. From a distance, they saw her father and mother approaching. She went up to pick up the baggage from Grandma Li's hand.

Grandma Li walked away without blushing or out of breath, and said in a loud voice: "I can carry it myself! There are new clothes inside for you!" When they returned to the old house, they all wore new clothes, even the hairpins. The ropes are all newly made.

Li Sanlang pulled the cart and Li Erlang pushed it, and the two of them pushed the cart into the yard.

The two of them didn't have that deep memory of the old house. Their parents had already moved into the current house when they were born.

After all, the old house was built in a village. The place was fixed and there was no way to expand it. There was a pomegranate tree in the yard. In winter, only the bare trunk was left. After the cart was parked, the yard seemed a little cramped.

The adults had already entered the house, leaving the little ones to unload the goods and move the vegetables and meat into the kitchen. Li Jinniang asked Li Jinniang to take the snacks and sugar into the main room and store them.

When several cousins-in-law saw a small basket of fresh vegetables, their eyes widened. Xu Qing quickly took their hands to greet them, chatted with them about the children, and shrewdly pulled them away from the kitchen: "Grandma, she I made some clothes for you all, and a few other young men, let’s go and have a look?”

Li Erlang had already thought of an excuse for the origin of vegetables and would explain it all while eating.

Just when he came to the village, Li Erlang had to visit his partners.

He didn't hide it from Sanlang, and took him to Li Wuweng's house with wine in hand.

Li Wuweng originally had more than one son, Li Daquan, but all the other sons died in the military chaos six years ago. Then the old couple refused to let their younger son go to the battlefield no matter what. Therefore, in addition to paying grain and silk taxes every year, they also had to pay a high poll tax to offset one year's military conscription.

The first two sons left no descendants, and the two old men did not restrain their young daughters-in-law. After keeping them for a year, they let them go home and remarry.

Even though Li Daquan brought his wife and children back, the laughter in Li Wuweng's yard still seemed thin.

"Fifth Old Man! Uncle Quan!" Li Erlang shouted at the door of the courtyard, and a head popped out of the kitchen next door. She was Li Daquan's wife. The two had never met. Li Erlang said hello honestly and explained his purpose of visit.

"I am your aunt. You Wu Weng and Uncle Quan have gone to the ancestral hall. It may take a while before they come back."

In this case, Li Erlang put down the pastries and rice wine and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Daquan's daughter-in-law: "Li Erlang, please wait a moment. My husband told you that if he meets you, he will give you the money and accounts. Because of the shop last year I have been busy with more than a dozen big orders, so I haven’t had time to come back, so Lang Jun wants to find another time to hand over the two months’ share to you.”

They stood in the yard waiting, and the aunt took out a bag from the room: "This is the transcript page of the account book. Your uncle has signed it. The bag contains twelve taels of silver and eight hundred and sixty coins."

After taking a brief look, Li Erlang tied the bag to his chest. Once the cloak was covered, nothing could be seen. After signing and confirming, they did not stay long and left after saying goodbye to their aunt.

On the way back, I happened to meet the fifth grandma who came back with her granddaughter. She seemed to have gone to a neighbor's house to exchange some things. After a few words of greeting, they went back to work.

Every household is busy preparing New Year's Eve dinner.

Li Erlang found a deserted corner, took off his cloak and robe, tied the copper coins around his waist, and stuffed the silver into his lapel to ensure that his wealth was not exposed, then went back to help prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.

In the evening, dinner was earlier than usual. The two families gathered together for New Year's Eve dinner. There was not enough room for the whole family at one table, so they only had two tables.

Although now is not the best time for the two families to reunite, the war has come to an end, and there will probably be no more war before spring. As long as there is no war, their families at the border will be safe, and they can spend this year with peace of mind.

After they finished eating, the sun had not completely set yet. This was also the result of them deliberately moving the meal time earlier. Once the sun started to set, the temperature outside would gradually become too cold to stay, so Li Erlang and the others had to take advantage of the opportunity. It's not completely dark yet, so go home quickly.

Before leaving, Mrs. Li Liu put a lot of pickles made by her family into the food box, and while sending them out, she said: "Tomorrow I will bring these little ones to kowtow to my parents for the New Year! Then we will worship at the ancestral hall together!" "

This year has been a smooth one, and I hope it will be safe and sound next year with a bumper harvest.

Ji Qingyue has been busy with his New Year's Eve dinner since noon.

This was the four months he had spent surviving in a different world, and it was also the first year he had spent here. He finally changed his mood and could face it full of energy.

This year, let’s celebrate the beginning of his journey through many twists and turns but luckily.

Li Erlang brought him a lot of meat, as if he was worried that he wouldn't have enough to eat, he stuffed a lot of mutton. Compared with the easily obtained mutton, there were several kilograms of pork, as well as a killed chicken, a duck, and a fish. Some eggs.

These are all raised by their own family, because every household raises sheep, so the mutton here is not valuable. A sheep raised until it can be sold is only worth three hundred cents, and a pound of pork is only a few cents more expensive than mutton.

Li Erlang and the others raise sheep to meet their needs for a year. If they don't sell all of them, the family kills one sheep a month and keeps the ewes to continue to give birth to lambs. The missing sheep go to the sheep dealer to make up the quantity.

Compared with mutton, they eat pork less often. The only pig they have is reserved as a New Year pig. They ask a pig butcher to help kill it before the New Year. After excluding the more than 200 kilograms of pigs for New Year's Eve dinner, the rest can be enough. The whole family ate for a long time.

Ji Qingyue looked at the pile of frozen meat and thought about his New Year's Eve dinner menu.

Fortunately, he rarely cooks on his own. There are enough seasonings left, including oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and spices, so that the taste of the New Year's Eve dinner will not be bland. However, the only thing he needs to worry about is whether his crudely made earthenware pot can withstand it. It can stand the test of simmering, frying and stir-frying.

After thinking about it, he finally settled on four dishes and one soup.

According to the customs he had experienced in previous years, he remembered that fish was indispensable in the New Year's Eve dinner, and there was more than enough every year. Make a double dish of chicken and duck meat, make pork into barbecued pork, cut some mutton to make soup, and stir-fry vegetables.

Now, he only has an earthen stove that he burns every day, and later a three-legged medicine stove.

The soup needs to be simmered slowly, which is the most time-consuming.

He blanched the mutton in water, then put it back into the clay pot, filled it with water to cover the mutton, added more pepper and ginger, a little wine to remove the fishy smell, closed the lid and waited.

Prepare braised barbecued pork on the small stove. Throw the fat cubes into the pot and fry over low heat to extract the lard. When the fat is almost done, pick out the meat residue and pour out the excess oil. , he picked a piece of broken sugar, threw it into the slate and fried the sugar color. When he saw that the fried color was almost the same, he immediately poured some hot water into it. Why not cold water? He was afraid that the pot would crack.

The sugar-colored water that has been fried is very fragrant and easy to color the meat. Next is the seasoning. Add some existing salt and soy sauce, some pepper and ginger, and then add the marinated pork in advance, and the same Wait for time to add flavor to the ingredients bit by bit.

He used half of the chicken and half of the duck, and only a little bit of the fish. The frozen fish was like a stick, and it took a lot of effort for him to stack it open. The fish was too big, and the head took up half of it. He only used a quarter of it, and the rest would be used to make pickled fish when sauerkraut was available later.

He put the fish into the room, and it was the best time to cut it when it was half thawed. The sliced ​​fish only needed to be lightly marinated with salt and ginger wine, and then placed piece by piece on a plate, and finally steamed in a pot until it was cooked. Then pour hot oil and soy sauce.

While the mutton is still simmering, the barbecue pork is heated enough.

Ji Qingyue directly put the pot on the earthen stove to keep it warm, poured another pot of water into it, boiled the chicken and duck, chopped it into pieces and dipped it in the sauce.

While he was busy making the meeting, news came that the Li family had returned, and they were still excitedly discussing tonight's vigil.

For someone who rarely cooks, these dishes are all low-difficulty dishes that he has been searching in his mind for a long time and finally found. Unexpectedly, the dishes are already cooked to a minimum, but now they are broken. On ramen.

Ramen is not as simple as it looks at all. I don't know if it's because of the flour or because of himself, but the noodles always break halfway through the process. After a long time of torture, he had to give up ramen and switch to cut noodles.

There is no rolling pin to roll out the dough thinly, so you can only make dough sheets in the end.

After many twists and turns, he finally had the New Year's Eve dinner he cooked.

To be honest, the taste was not very good, but Ji Qingyue still ate it with gusto.

What satisfied him the most was the bowl of mutton soup. Sprinkled with celery grains and leek segments, the aroma came up. Pour it on the dough and take a sip. It was refreshing.

Ji Qingyue couldn't stand the faint smell of sheep at first, but now, under the cover of spices, he can now gradually taste the deliciousness in the soup. The rich taste is a little spicy.

After finishing the meal and packing up everything, Ji Qingyue heard the sound of Li Silang and Xiao Tuanlang laughing in the yard outside. The two children were still playing enthusiastically in the cold, and they couldn't miss Shu. In the end, Aniang Li had to come out and call them into the house. .

"The firecrackers are lit only at night. Don't get too excited, because if you get tired from playing, you won't be able to light the firecrackers in time!"

He said this every year, and Li Silang fell asleep every year before he could light the firecrackers.

Ji Qingyue sat quietly on the kang, boredly thinking about next year's plan. As he thought about it, his mind drifted to the night when the bandits made trouble. Li Erlang went to Shiliang to find his younger brother, and Li Sanlang hid in the study with the others.

Li Sanlang, Xu Qing, and Li Aniang took turns keeping vigil, while the others rested in the cave.

There was no light or fire in the study for heating, so everyone could only rely on thick clothes to keep out the cold. The two soup ladies at home also used it. They filled the copper cans with hot water and put on leather covers to avoid burning their hands.

Li Sanlang was holding a Tang Pozi in his arms. For this reason, he could only sit on a chair and endorse.

"Sanlang, it's time for you to go and rest." Li Aniang stayed for the last part of the night, and it would be dawn in two hours.

Li Sanlang gave Granny Tang, held her hand and asked her to sit down. He did not rush down to the cave, but considered his explanation: "Grandma, I thought you would order something for me during the hair-tying ceremony in the middle of the year." A marriage.”

You couldn't see the other party's expression in the darkness, but you could only hear Aniang Li exclaiming in a low voice: "Are you anxious to get married at a young age? Could it be that you have a crush on some girl in the county?"

"Aniang, no. My parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, how can I be selfish?"

Li Aniang breathed a sigh of relief: "Then what do you mean?"

Li Sanlang held Tang Pozi's hand that was still warm and decided to ask directly: "Last year at the second brother's hair-tying ceremony, he and I heard you discussing in the room that you would arrange my marriage first. After the second brother found out, I’ve always had a grudge against my mother-in-law but didn’t dare to ask. Ah-niang, how did you… decide?”

"Did Erlang hear it?" Li Aniang was stunned, thinking of the way Li Erlang hesitated to speak when he lowered his head to apologize to her that day, and finally cried. Li Erlang's move shocked her, you know Li Erlang has stopped crying in front of others since he was able to fight, and she still didn't understand what was going on.

Li Aniang said nonchalantly: "I hurt him so deeply?"

Li Sanlang couldn't speak anymore, and Li Aniang's tone softened, and she lost her usual rush: "Well, your father and I have already discussed your marriage, and we still follow the order, but I didn't expect that I Erlang actually listened to what I said casually at the beginning. I’m not afraid of your jokes. In fact, the clan elders have already reprimanded me. Don’t forget to keep order between elders and younger ones..."

Li Aniang did not dare to recall the day when the dispute occurred. Li Erlang's eyes looked helpless, disappointed, sad, grief, and even resentment when he asked her, "Aunt, do you think I will harm Sanlang?" Tears, condensed into a bitter fruit in the heart, twisting the pain and holding the bitterness.

"Aniang, we all know what kind of temper the second brother is. He is the most impulsive and the most sensitive. Aniang, I am the one you favor the most. I shouldn't have ignored you, but..."

Aunt Li stretched out her hand and touched her third son's head: "I have done too much. I just think that you are thin and quiet, the most obedient, and need more love. I hurt you and you grow up, but you forget that Erlang only You are one year older, and your father and eldest brother often leave home to serve in the military. He is responsible for all the household chores. Now when Shiro gets into trouble, he is also responsible for it. If it hadn't been for this quarrel, I would have almost forgotten the last time he provoked me. When is it time to be angry?”

Li Sanlang silently let his mother touch his head.

"I can't change my bad temper. I found out some time ago that Erlang was actually connected with the person who instigated Shiro to take away food from home. I hurt his heart by opening my mouth in a hurry, but it didn't take long for me to regret it."

Li Sanlang didn't know about this, but he inexplicably trusted Li Erlang's actions: "Aniang, second brother is most afraid of our family being harmed, and he is also the most careful. If he knows that person is a threat to us, second brother will How can we still be in contact with him? I think that person has already gained the trust of the second brother, how about we try to accept it?"

Li Aniang sighed: "How could I not have known that Erlang was always the most cautious one in the past. Seeing that there is no one around, I feel really uneasy. How could he contact Erlang without anyone noticing?"

Ji Qingyue wiped his sweat. From now on, he would either hide or appear.

Although he has always wanted to hide away from outsiders, he knows that this is impossible. He is a human being and is used to living with similar people, talking together, and helping each other. Unless absolutely necessary, he will not make the final decision and hide it completely.

Outside, Aniang Li chatted with Li Sanlang for a while. Ji Qingyue finally understood why Aniang Li was so anxious to get engaged to Li Sanlang. It turned out that it was all due to a funny misunderstanding.