Chapter 191 (1/2)
The servants of sun Niang's foot shop saw Pei Shuo appear in the shop every afternoon, corresponding to a Yao shrinking in the kitchen.
Seeing Pei Shuo leave the foot shop, Li Gang looked at his figure, leaned against the door and said, ”Li Rou, do you think they can succeed or not?”
Li Rou didn't answer. She coughed a few times: ”cough.”
Li Gang continued: ”sometimes I can't figure out what sister Yao Zhu thinks. Brother Pei is the best I've ever seen in both appearance and character. Alas, if he likes Li Rou, I will definitely be happy to light firecrackers. I can't do the legendary ten mile red makeup, but I can still do it by setting off ten mile firecrackers and spreading ten mile red broken paper. ”
”Shall I tell you what I think?” A Yao approached with her hands on her back.
”OK.” Li Gang turned excitedly and pretended to be a fool to ah Yao, who was smiling. He smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran away: ”Hey, sister Yao Zhu, you're here. Ah, I'll clean the table.”
Li Rou shook her head. She tried to remind Li Gang that there was no way for the silly child to understand.
The cart stopped in front of the store. Song Fang jumped out of the cart, went to the back cart, carried the sack to his shoulder and moved it into the store.
”Go and help song Fang move things.” Sun Niang pointed to the road outside the door.
The ox cart is full of all kinds of ingredients, such as woad, radish, cowpea, and sweet potato in baskets. More are barley, millet, black rice, mung beans, red beans, red beans and soybeans.
A Yao's strength is not small. One person picks up a basket of sweet potatoes and moves in like a crab. Li Gang and Li Rou have to take a basket and carry it in and out together. When the ingredients are moved into the cellar for classification, the grain is put in the rice jar, the cowpeas are washed back and made into kimchi, the sweet potatoes, radishes and woad are collected, and several are paralyzed on the table.
”Come on, eat some red bean balls to recover your strength.” Sun Niang brought five bowls of red bean balls and put them in front of the crowd.
After a long time of stewing, red beans are soft, rotten and delicious. Glutinous rice balls are the size of pearls. They are petite and lovely. There is no stuffing inside. Scoop up one or two with a spoonful, and you will have a sweet red bean soup. If you chew something in your mouth, you won't feel particularly sweet and greasy.
”Landlady, why do you buy so many materials every day these days? It's almost too big to put in the warehouse. ” Li Gang beat his arm. ”I feel like I can't lift my hands every day when I go back. I can't hold heavy things.”
”Go back and apply it with a hot cloth, or carry it for a few more days, and you'll be fine.” Sun Niang said, ”I think the weather this year is as hot as it was a few years ago. It hasn't rained for many days since spring. Seeing that it's getting hotter day by day after summer, the water level in the well seems to be falling, and it's much harder to draw water than before. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid the harvest this year is not good, and the price of rice has begun to rise, I think I'd better store more rice first. ”
”I hope we don't have a drought like that a few years ago. I heard that there was a village in Nanxun that ate people. It's terrible...”
Sun Niang murmured. She folded her hands and recited Amitabha.
”Don't worry, you've hoarded a lot of rice. It looks like you can eat for two years. Why don't you plant some vegetables in the backyard? Like sweet potatoes, they don't need too much water and are resistant to release. ” Song Fang comforted and joked.
Sun Niang seriously considered this suggestion and wondered whether to hoard more food before the drought.
”No, don't worry. The capital river hasn't dried up yet. Don't worry too much. The autumn harvest is still several months away. The ears of wheat in the field haven't been filled yet. Maybe a heavy rain will ease in a few days. ”
Song Fang couldn't cry or laugh.
A Yao also said, ”don't worry, landlady. The drought a few years ago actually didn't have much impact on Nanxun. Jiang village is dry, but it can live. It's said that people eat people... It's just the curiosity taste of some rich and unkind squires. It's not at all easy to eat. ”