Little wealth

Josh couldn't help laughing when he saw his mother's heartbroken look.

Speaking of the fact that there are so many people eating at home, he thought of a question and asked, "Yes, Ah Mu, everyone has collected grain recently. Is there anyone in our village who can sell grain? Shall we go with Can the people in the village buy some food and come back?"

"There should be. In the past, there were people in the village who could sell grain. I remember that every year there were grain merchants who came to us to collect grain." Zhao Amu remembered that there were people in their village who sold grain every year. It is because the family has a lot of land, and the food grown will be sold out if they can't finish it. There are also some people whose families are short of money, and they also sell some food to subsidize their families.

However, their family seldom sells food outside, and they usually keep their own family to eat. First of all, their family does not have much land, and the food they grow is barely enough for their own family except for paying taxes. .Both sons can eat, and one meal is more than other people's two meals.

It is said that half-children eat poor old men, and they are talking about their sons.

Except for the year when the dead ghost man was ill, after the family spent all their money, they borrowed a lot of money from others, and later the family sold half of the grain to buy medicine.It's just that the dead ghost man also stretched his legs and left, leaving him and his two sons behind.

Fortunately, the two sons are also competitive, the eldest has a craft, the second is bold, and will often go up the mountain to hunt and come back, but it can also be exchanged for some money.But now the difficult days of their family are over. The two sons have grown up, the eldest son is married, and the younger son is also married now. The family bought land and built a big house, so they no longer need to rely on selling land. The grain lived.

Now the two sons and daughter-in-law can earn money by working, and the family basically has enough food.And this year their one mu of land harvested as much grain as other people's three mu of land, so why do they need to go outside to sell grain?

Zhao Amu asked, "Isn't our family food enough? Why do we need to buy more?"

"Mum, think about it carefully, how can we have enough food in our family? Not to mention that people often come to our house for dinner these days, just say that the few people in our family want to eat every meal until they are full. That's how our family is. A little rice is not enough for our family to eat." Josh felt that his mother's words were too naive, and he simply didn't realize the appetite of their own rice buckets.

"This..." Zhao Amu thought about it, and felt that it was the same.

Seeing his mother's expression, Josh knew that he had thought clearly, and continued: "Let's take advantage of the fact that the new grain has just been harvested, and the price of grain should be cheap. If someone in our village sells grain, let's go with If people in the village buy it, the price should be cheaper than the grain store in the town, and the people in the village know all about it, so no one will deliberately sell us old grain.”

And he felt that it would be more at ease to store more food at home. Who knows when there will be a natural or man-made disaster, and the food harvested this year will not be available until this time next year.It is safe to keep a little more food at home. Even if you can’t finish it until next year, it doesn’t matter. As long as the food is stored well, there will be no problem in eating it for a year or two.

Zhao Amu felt the same when she heard that, in the future, there might be people coming and going in their family from time to time, so as not to eat at their house, and their own family also wanted to eat, so she agreed to buy food, "Okay, if you want to buy it, just buy it. At that time, buy a few more rice vats and come back to put rice, so as not to be eaten by mice."

"Oh, there is one more thing, I almost forgot to tell you."

"Huh? What's the matter?"

"It's like this, isn't the wheat on our acre of land growing well? Some people in the village came to ask me if they could exchange some with us and go back to grow grain." Zhao Amu said that someone came to him Asked, wanting to exchange grain with their family, said: "I just said that I am not good at making decisions, come back to discuss with you, and ask if you agree or not."

Of course, Josh didn't know about this, and he usually went out to buy vegetables, but maybe the people in the village felt that he was not in charge of such matters in their family, and they would not ask him.

It's just that outsiders don't know that many things in their family have been handled by him, and carpenter Zhao of their family always listens to him.Also, their mother and brother-in-law are used to asking their family members what they do, so they still have to ask him about the last thing about changing the millet.

"Okay, if they want to exchange it, they can exchange it with us, but they can't exchange it with us for old grain, they can only exchange it with this year's newly harvested grain, and they have to remove the empty shell before exchanging it for them, so as not to have some thieves and rapers. Slippery people want to take advantage of other people's homes." They are all grown in the same field, and Josh would not think that their home's millet is particularly delicious.However, if someone deliberately exchanged old grain or empty shell millet with them, they would definitely not suffer from this disadvantage.

"Of course, we are not so easy to fool." Zhao Amu knew that there were such people in the village, but he felt that no one would dare to come to their house to do such a thing, " If someone really dares to come to our house to do this kind of thing, we won’t know if such a person would dare to walk in the village if we tell them.”

"Mum, do you still think that kind of person has shame?" Josh glanced at his Eminem, and his face looked so naive.

"..." Zhao Amu was almost amused by her daughter-in-law's words.

They didn't want to exchange the good millet they planted at home with others, but if someone wanted to exchange it back as seeds, they were not completely ruthless people.It is true that the millet in their family grows better than other people's. The sun-dried millet has full grains and less dry ones. It must be very good for growing grain.

Josh is relatively easy to talk about in this kind of matter, provided that others exchange the same amount of food with them.

At this time, Chen Yan, who had been silent for a long time, said, "You don't need to buy it, my father said that our family's food will stay at your home to eat."

Zhao Amu refused as soon as she heard it, "No, no, no, how can this be the case, your family's food should be taken back to your home, how can you keep it with us." Other people's family has no food for the next year, and it will not be good for their family's reputation if this word spreads.

"Is this your idea or your father's idea? I don't agree with this matter. Remember to go back and tell your father that your millet will be taken back to your house after it is dried, and it must not stay with us. What happened. It’s not that your family doesn’t need to eat food anymore. You have raised such a large group of pigs and you still have to eat a lot of food. The food is left in our house. What do you eat? What do your pigs eat again? ?”

"Father..." Seeing Zhao Amu's angry look, Chen Yan lowered his head, not knowing what to say.

"Yeah, does your father think that you often eat at our house, and the food collected is kept at our house?" Josh really didn't know that Chen Yan and his father still had this idea, and also helped his mother Talking, "Have you forgotten, you father and son have helped us work here for more than a month or two, do we have to pay you wages?"

"That's right, I'll tell your father later, how could this man be like this!" Even a good-tempered person like Zhao Amu couldn't help but get angry when he heard this.

Chen Yan really didn't know how much trouble he caused his father with his words.

"Okay, don't chop it up." Seeing that Chen Yan was about to chop the meat into a paste, Josh quickly stopped and told him to put the meat into a bowl.Pass the sauerkraut over to him and cut it up, "You cut up this sauerkraut and fry it later."

"Yeah." Chen Yan changed something silently and continued cutting.

Josh brought over the good minced meat, put a little soy sauce and cornstarch in it, as well as salt and oil, and put it in a bowl to marinate for a while.

Prepare everything you need, and Chen Yan also cut up the sauerkraut.

Asking Chen Yan to light the fire, Josh was ready to start cooking, and said to his mother: "Ah Yan and I can come here, you can go back to the room over there without Nian Nian."

"Hey, that's fine, I'll take my grandson out first." Zhao Amu thought of the fire in the kitchen and there would be some people, reluctant to let her grandson stay here to warm up, so she went to wash her hands, and took her grandson to the main room. side went back.

***

Fires were lit in both stoves, one pot was used to boil water and noodles, and the other pot was used to stir-fry vegetables.

Heat the pan with oil, and when the lard melts, Josh pours the garlic into it and explodes.

After the garlic is fragrant, pour the minced meat into it and fry until it is half-cooked, pour in the sauerkraut and fry together, then add a tablespoon of sugar.He likes to add a little more sugar to stir-fry sauerkraut to dilute the sour taste, otherwise the taste of sauerkraut will be too sour.

"Ah Yan, don't set fire on this side." The minced meat is cooked quickly, and when the sauerkraut minced meat here is almost cooked, he scoops a spoonful of boiling water from another pot into the pot here , Cover the lid and cook for a while, then lift the lid.

After trying a little taste with a spoon, Josh wrinkled his whole face, "It's so salty."

Seeing Chen Yan looking at him, he explained: "It's okay, we don't eat this dry, but use it to pour noodles. It should be a bit stronger. The taste of the noodle soup will be lighter after a while."

"Oh." Chen Yan didn't understand what was going on, otherwise he really thought that Josh had accidentally put too much salt.

When the water in the pot boils, it can be put down here.

Put a little salt and oil into the pot, Josh put the noodles that Eun-mu had cut before he left, and stirred them with chopsticks to prevent the noodles from sticking.The water in the pot boils, pour cold water into it two or three times, and the noodles in the pot are cooked.

He picked up the noodles and put them in the basket, and put some noodle soup in a wooden bucket.

Set aside a portion for the three adults and children to eat, and he and Chen Yanbu will send the remaining noodles and soup to the next door, and save it for the people there to serve themselves, and they will go as soon as they can. The yard side is back.

I picked some noodles into the bowl with chopsticks, poured half a spoonful of noodle soup on top, added a spoonful of minced meat sauerkraut, a handful of shallots and two green vegetables.Josh handed over two bowls of noodles to his son and his mother, "Em, try it."

The second one is between him and Chen Yan, "Ah Yan, you come too."

"Yeah, delicious!" Zhao Amu took a bite of the noodles and nodded. The toppings of this noodles were fried well, and the noodle soup was much better. It's really because his boiled noodles are so much better.

"Hehe, as long as it's delicious, you can also eat a shrimp." Just now, he also boiled some shrimps, and they put them in a bowl, and peeled the shells to eat.Josh peeled the prawns for the children, so he helped everyone peel the prawns, and put the peeled prawns in a bowl for everyone to eat.

"Okay, okay, you can just put it there. If we want to eat it, we peel it off ourselves. You eat your noodles and don't worry about us."

"Okay, I'll put it here."