Little wealth

Early in the morning, the village chief was watering the vegetables in the garden at home, when he heard someone calling him, and seeing that it was Zhao Jiadalang who was looking for him, he put down the hoe in his hand and went out of the vegetable garden, please come and sit in the yard. down.Hearing that Zhao He said he wanted to buy the land next door to his house, the village head thought for a moment and said, "It seems that those two pieces of land don't belong to any family in our village, they should be the land in our village. If you want to buy it, you can go to the town. Find the person who wants the yamen to come and measure it, and you can get the land deed after paying the silver."

In fact, many people in the village are secretly digging around and surrounding the land. As long as the people from the government do not come on business, who knows that the villagers below will occupy the land.Of course, this also has a disadvantage that if the government officials know that the land and houses have been confiscated, they may be beaten and fined by the officials.

Usually, some people in the village do this, as long as they don't go too far, the village head will turn a blind eye, and he will not intervene too much.

Zhao He was not very clear about these things, so he asked, "I wonder if the village chief is free to take a walk with me today?"

"Okay, there is no problem with this. If you really want to buy land, I will accompany you to the yamen." The village head is also a straightforward person. After talking to his wife at home, he took Zhao He out together. up.

Zhao He asked the village head to wait for him at the intersection, and went to Mr. Huang's house. It happened that Mr. Huang was at home, and the old cow was also at home, so he hired Mr. Huang's ox cart to go to the town with them. .The village chief stood at the intersection and waited for a while, thinking that Zhao He was going to do something, but when he saw him and Mr. Huang pulling an ox cart from a distance, he realized that he was looking for Mr. Huang to hire an ox cart just now. up.

Now that the ox carts had arrived, the village head did not refuse Zhao He's offer, and got into the ox cart with him, and the three of them headed for the town in the ox cart.

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The sun in the sky rose higher and higher, and the yard was full of sun. They moved from the yard back to the main room to sit.

Sitting at the door of the main room, Josh looked up several times in the direction of the door, and felt a little strange in his heart. Didn't that person say to ask the village chief about the land?Why hasn't he come back since he went out early in the morning? It's almost noon now, so why hasn't that person come back?

"Why doesn't the boss come back after being here for a long time?" Zhao Amu also felt a little strange in her heart, so she said, "Why don't I go to the village chief's house and ask, and see what the boss is going to do?" It's gone." This person went away quietly for a long time without seeing anyone, which is really worrying.

Seeing that the sun was shining like this outside, Josh hurriedly stopped him, and said, "Maybe he will come back after a while, maybe he has something to do, let's wait."

"Hey, then wait a little longer. If the boss doesn't come back, I'll go to the village chief's house and ask." He raised his buttocks and sat back on the stool. No one saw the closed courtyard door being pushed open.

The two waited in the house for a while, and heard a cow mooing outside, and seemed to hear someone's footsteps coming towards them.Their dog ran towards the gate of the yard, and then saw the gate of their yard being pushed open from the outside.

"Gentlemen, please come in and have a meeting with the village head." Zhao He pushed open the door and invited the village head in, followed by two yamen servants in official uniforms, and they entered the door together.

"The boss is back." Zhao Amu stood up happily, seeing the village chief and two senior officials entering their house, she hurriedly gave her daughter-in-law a wink, and then went to invite the village chief and two senior officials to come in sit.

Zhao Hu, who was working in the wooden house, heard the sound, hurriedly put down his work, and went out to help his brother and Ah Mu entertain people.

Josh went to fetch the kettle and water glasses, and the man took them. He whispered, "I'll make a meal for you in the kitchen", and then took the child to the kitchen.

"You two elders, village chief, have a glass of water." Zhao He took the teapot and poured water for the two elders.

The two yamen servants sat down on the stools. They came all the way in a carriage, and they were not very tired on the road.

However, the sun was strong in this weather, and they sat in the bullock cart all the way to the sun, and their mouths were a little thirsty.After drinking the water, one of the yamen servants said, "Why don't we measure the land first, where do you want to buy?"

"It's right next door to our house, just go out."

"Okay, let's get things done now."

Zhao He got up, and went out again with the village head and two yamen servants.

Zhao Amu thought for a while, and went with her.Seeing that his mother and elder brother went out together, Zhao Hu naturally followed behind.

Josh was making noodles in the kitchen, and when he saw everyone going out, he hesitated for a moment, and didn't go out with him.Hearing the child calling him and pointing to the outside to go out, he hurriedly grabbed the child and coaxed: "Let's not go out, let's cook noodles, do you want noodles?"

Sure enough, as soon as he heard about the food, the snack food in their family nodded, and obediently sat on the small stool and waited for him.

Lifting the lid of the water tank, Josh scooped a large spoonful of water from the water tank into the pot, lit the fire in the stove, covered the lid to boil the water, and waited for the water to boil.The noodles were already reconciled there, so he went to prepare the noodle soup.

When I went out to open the door this morning, someone called back. Passing by the small road outside their house, there happened to be half a basket of shrimp, and he bought them all.Pick out the small shrimps that are too small and take them outside to dry in the yard. After drying, you can keep them as dried shrimps.

But it seems that there will be more people eating noodles at home today, so he had to bring out a few more shrimps, so that there would not be much left for dinner.

The most important part of fresh shrimp noodles is the noodle soup. The head and tail of the shrimp should be cut off, and the shrimp line in the middle should be picked out.

Picking shrimp thread is actually very simple, just find a small bamboo stick, insert it horizontally at the second joint of the prawn, pick up, pick out a little shrimp thread, and then slowly pull out the whole shrimp thread .In this way, the shrimp after the shrimp line has been picked out can not only preserve the integrity of the prawn, but also do not need to open the back. When eating, just wash it twice with clean water and it will be clean.

Light the fire in another stove, wait until the pot is hot, put a little lard in it, wait for the lard to melt, first put in the garlic and sauté, then pour in the cleaned shrimp, stir fry a few times, Then pour in water.

Thinking that there might be two more people eating noodles today, Josh added an extra spoonful of water, covered the lid and continued cooking.At this time, the water in the other pot was already boiling, so he hurriedly opened the lid, added a small spoonful of cold water, and pulled out the noodles.

But he didn't know how long it would take the outsiders to measure the land, so he didn't put the noodles down immediately, for fear that the noodles would become lumpy if they were cooked for too long.

Standing at the door and looking out, even if he stood on tiptoe, he couldn't see anything outside, so Josh had to give up.Seeing that another pot was smoking, I hurried to open the lid, and the soup inside was already boiling.

The soup made from fresh prawns is milky white. Afraid that the taste of the prawns will become stale if they are cooked for too long, he scoops up the prawns inside and puts in a little salt. The noodle soup in this pot is ready.

Seeing him, Ah Mu came back first, knowing that the land outside had almost been measured, so Josh put down the noodles.

Sure enough, the noodles on his side were just cooking when he heard footsteps coming back.

"You two elders, please sit down and have some noodles, village chief. It's really hard for you to trouble you to come so far." Zhao Hu followed his mother and went out with noodles, put them on the table, and invited the two of you The old man and the village head eat noodles.

"No, no, we..." One of the clerks was about to refuse. When he saw such a big bowl of noodles in front of them, he stopped talking and subconsciously swallowed.

They saw a large bowl of noodles in front of them. The soup inside was milky white, with a few prawns lined up on top, and a few green vegetables as decorations. As soon as they saw the noodles, the saliva in their mouths would automatically flow secreted out.

The village chief is a man who knows how to read people's complexions, and he helped him say: "Since the noodles are all cooked, why don't the two old gentlemen eat something to fill their stomachs before going back, and we have to go with you to ask them to buy the land. The formalities are done."

"Hey, okay, okay, then we won't be polite. You sit too, you sit too." The two yamen servants didn't refuse, and asked everyone to sit down and eat together, and they sat in the seats assigned to them down.

Zhao He also asked the village chief to sit down, and he sat next to the village chief.

As soon as he saw this noodle, he knew it was made by his husband. In the morning, when Fu Lang came back from buying shrimp, he said that he would make fresh shrimp noodles for them.Zhao He picked up the chopsticks, took a mouthful of the noodles Fu Lang cooked for them, and then took the second and third mouthfuls calmly...

The two servants picked up the chopsticks, picked up the prawns on it and ate them, and took another sip of the soup, only to realize that the best essence of this noodle is in this soup. The noodle soup cooked with prawns is fresh and fragrant. One bite of noodles, this noodles are more refreshing and chewy than the noodles they ate before, in a word, it is delicious!

The few people ate without raising their heads, and ate the noodles in the bowl in big mouthfuls. The sweat on their foreheads came out after eating, and no one had time to raise their hands to wipe it.

There were outsiders at home today, so Josh didn't take the children outside, and ate with their mother at the small table here in the kitchen.

There were still some noodles and noodle soup in the pot, and there were some prawns left, so he filled up another three bowls of noodles, sat down with the child, and put a small fork in the child's hand, "You take Eat with a fork." Naturally, this little fork was made by their carpenter Zhao.

Since having this little fork, the child has finally found the correct way to eat noodles.