Little wealth

After the shop in the town was tidied up, the house in the backyard could accommodate people, and the three master carpenters moved to the shop in the town.However, because the facade of the shop has not yet been decorated, the opening is not so fast.

In two days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th.

On August [-]th, the town stopped work for a day, and the three master carpenters were on vacation. Those who had families went home for the holidays, and those who didn't go back stayed in the town.But their family was going to prepare for the festival, and their master Zhao didn't go to work in the town that day, and his mother and uncle stayed at home.

Chen Yan’s family killed a pig for sale today, and early in the morning, Chen Yan sent over two pig’s trotters and half a piece of pork ribs. The father and son are still selling pork at the entrance of the village. Haven't seen them coming here yet.

There have been a lot of things going on recently, their Master Zhao is busy from morning to night every day, basically there is no time to rest.The new house on their side of the house hasn't been fully finished yet. The doors and windows of the house have been installed, but the bed cabinets, tables and chairs in the house have not yet been finished.

Jo Xu didn't know how to do these things, so he could only wait for when Master Zhao was free and when he would come back to do it.However, he still wants to remind their master Zhao about this matter, "See when you are free, and quickly install our bed cabinets. We will move into the house in half a month, and Xiaohu will have to wait until then." Waiting for the new house to get married."

He wasn't worried that there would be no new beds for their family to sleep in, at worst, they could just move the old beds in the house to sleep in.What he was worried about was that his brother-in-law didn't even have a new bed when he got married, so he couldn't let the new couple sleep in an old wooden bed, right?There is also a master carpenter in their family, and the brothers in the family don't even have a new bed when they get married, so it must be a joke.

"Well, I'll fix it tomorrow." Zhao He also knows that he has been too busy recently and neglected his home, so that the house at home has been built for so long, and the bed cabinet and chairs in the house have not been finished yet. .

The two discussed this matter, and seeing that Master Zhao agreed to do it tomorrow, Josh knew that this person would definitely start work tomorrow, and said: "If there is not enough manpower, we will invite you to do it at that time." Two more people can come to help." He knew that the opening day in the town was relatively close, and the shop there had to be finished and opened quickly, so their Master Zhao was busy at both ends.

After all, their shop has already been rented, and the rent has to be calculated every day. The sooner they open the shop, the sooner they can start business, which is better than procrastinating, so I went to see the date at the beginning, and the date was also the same. relatively close.

Zhao He thought for a while, and felt that they didn't have enough manpower. At that time, they might have to find two more people to help them out. "Okay, I'll look at this matter tomorrow." One of the master carpenters over there also left, and two people stayed there and did not return.

They had just had breakfast at home in the morning when they heard the sound of a carriage coming in.

There will be carriages coming to their house, except for Fu's carriage, there are no other carriages.

So when he heard the sound of the carriage, Josh thought it was Bai Luoxi who came to their house, but when he went out and took a look, he realized that it was the servant of Fu's mansion who came to deliver things for their master.The Fu family will give their family a gift, and besides Bai Luoxi, there will be no second thought, and the county magistrate will never give a gift to their family.

"Master Qiao, our master asked the younger one to bring some things to Mr. Qiao's house." The house slave who came along asked people to get things off the carriage. There were a few new cloths, and fruit snacks. Moon cakes, and a big basket of live crabs.

"Why did your master send so many things here?" Looking at the boxes of things that were brought down, it was almost in time for the move, Josh couldn't help but laugh.

He didn't even know that Bai Luoxi would send so many things to their house, and there was nothing at home to return presents, so he couldn't go to the yard to catch a few live chickens and send them back, right?It's also his fault that he didn't think about these human relations, otherwise he would have prepared a gift and sent it to Fu's house early.

"This is what our master ordered the young one to bring here. Someone in the house sent a lot of crabs, so the master ordered the young one to send some to Mr. Qiao and a few other friends and acquaintances. Please also accept Mr. Qiao. .” The servant who gave the gift was responsible for delivering the things, and was about to go back to report, so he left without leaving any more.

"Excuse me, please go slowly."

Seeing the carriage leaving, Josh just asked their family members to move their things back. Except for the cloth moved into the house, the rest of the food was left outside.

I saw that the crabs in the basket were big and fat, and all of them were still alive. If they hadn't been tied up, they would probably have been crawling around by now.

Presumably, someone sent crabs to Fu's house, and they couldn't finish eating so much, so Bai Luoxi asked someone to send some to their house, but the person who sent crabs just gave crabs, and also sent a few pieces of cloth and so many other things What are you doing?But really!

The next time he sees Bai Luoxi, he must talk about how this person is so polite and sends so many things to their home every time.Compared with the occasional snacks and candies he sent to Fu's house, the value of the little things he gave was not worth the basket of crabs.

Seeing so many things, Zhao Amu asked, "Is this... the county magistrate's wife sent someone to send it?"

"Yeah, but it's not him." Josh shook his head and said, "I'll give him a return gift next time. I didn't expect him to send something over today, and I didn't prepare anything at home." What?" The family only had the meat and vegetables they ate today, and they didn't prepare extra gifts for others. They didn't even return the gift just now, which was too rude.

Their family had no contact with Qiao's in the past, and the two families didn't have the habit of giving gifts to each other during the New Year and holidays, so he never thought of sending things there.

And Chen Yan and his father often eat at their house, and he had already greeted Chen Yan the day before yesterday, asking them to come to their house for dinner today.In the morning, Chen Yan also delivered meat to their house, and he knew that he would come to their house later when Chen Yan and his father finished their work.

But judging from the past, when they finished selling the pork and then went back to pack up their things, it would be after noon.

"Whatever you want, they send so many things every time, and those few pieces of cloth, I think they are all good cloth, but you need a lot of silver to buy them." Zhao Amu just said When you touch the cloth, you know it's a good material.

Originally, there were already two horses at home. Last time his daughter-in-law asked him to make clothes, he was reluctant to use them, so he kept them at home all the time. Now he sent two more horses, and they also bought some at home. There are several bolts of cloth at home.

There are so many dim sum fruits, and such a big basket of crabs, which can only be bought with a lot of silver.

"This crab is really big." Seeing so many crabs in the basket, Zhao Hu reached out and took a crab up, weighed it, and said with a hum, "This crab is really heavy, it should be very fat. "

"It should be, I'll steam a few for you to eat first, and save the rest for the night." Just as he was done with his work, Josh picked up a few crabs to wash and put them in the pot to steam.While the crabs were steaming, he stopped by to make out the sauce for dipping the crabs in a while.

Mince the ginger, add a little soy sauce, add a little sugar, rice wine, drop a few drops of sesame oil, stir it, and a bowl of sauce is ready.Then prepare a small bowl of mature vinegar. Some people like to dip crabs in vinegar.

When his seasoning is ready, the crabs in the pot are almost cooked.

After the last fire in the stove is over, the crabs in the pot are also steamed, and every one of the steamed crabs is red.

"Brother, are the crabs steamed? I'll take them out."

"Hey, well, come and take it out."

Zhao Hu had been guarding the door of the kitchen. When he saw his brother bring out a crab, he went over to take it and took the crab out.

Someone brought out the crabs, and when Josh went out, he took out two bowls of sauce and called everyone to come and eat the crabs, "Em, my son's father, come and eat the crabs." Their son didn't have to shout , the first one ran over, staring at the crab in the cage with wide eyes, and stretched out his little finger to touch it.

"Hey, just come, it will be so soon." Zhao Amu answered over there.

"Yeah, just steam for about a cup of tea. Feel it, is it hot?" Josh took the child's hand to touch the crab, and picked up a crab for him, scaring the little guy Running back, he couldn't help laughing, and asked: "I don't know how to bite, what are you afraid of?"

"Do you know what this is?"

"Hmm~"

The little guy shook his head.

It seems that it is the first time for their family to eat crabs. Crabs are cold in nature. Most of them eat fish and shrimps at home, and they rarely eat crabs.However, river crabs are generally not very fat, and whether the crabs are fat or not depends on the season. From August to October, the crabs are the fattest. After this period, the crabs are very thin.

So the family rarely buys crabs to eat, no wonder their little boy doesn't know this thing.

"Don't be afraid, come here, I'll peel off a crab for you to eat." Josh peeled off a crab, and when he peeled off the shell, he saw the crab roe inside. He pinched a little and put it in his mouth, and said with a hum. : "It's so fragrant!" The taste of this crab roe is a bit like egg yolk, but it is harder and more delicious than egg yolk.

Seeing that he was eating, their little boy came over with a half-belief.

After he stuffed some crab roe into his mouth, his little boy's face lit up, "Is it delicious?" Josh asked with a smile.

"Yeah!" This time, Ah Nian ran up to his father, and he opened his mouth wide before the crab was delivered to his mouth.

"You!~" Josh nodded his son's nose and couldn't help laughing.