I became an old man in my leisure time

The foodie nodded his head crazily, his whole face relaxed.

If you don't practice martial arts, sooner or later you will become a fat girl weighing 800 pounds! Gu Ke secretly slandered the little hired worker, turned around and left.

When I got to the study, Bai Suqing happened to come out and was about to go to the corridor and pergola to exercise.

Gu Ke handed over the caramel bread and asked her to evaluate it as she walked.

Bai Suqing has been too particular about things since she was two years old, and she still remembers what Gu Ke asked her to criticize.

When the bread was received, he did not rush to speak. Instead, he held it in front of his eyes and looked at the appearance. After a moment, he said: "The outer crust is slightly burnt, but the burnt color ranges from top to bottom, from dark to light. It should be specially baked, and it is also burnt." Pretty.”

Then pinch it twice with your slender onion-like fingers: "The texture is soft and fluffy, and it won't taste too hard."

He brought it up to his nose and sniffed it: "It has the smell of sweet wheat straw soup, and it also has a bit of burnt smell. It smells okay."

After finishing the three concepts of eyes, nose, and hands, she tore off a small piece with her fingers, put it into her mouth slowly, chewed it slowly, and said nothing for a while.

Having been eating and living together for more than two months, Bai Suqing's secretive movements when she first ate and drank were no longer used. They were the most accustomed postures.

It has to be said that beautiful and elegant women can have a sense of beauty when eating and drinking.

Whether it was the scene of her stretching out her white fingers to pinch off the bread and putting it into her slightly parted lips, or the chewing action of her jaw moving slightly and her eyes slightly narrowed, Gu Ke found it pleasing to the eye.

It's a pity that the clothes she wears are too ordinary, just the simplest green cloth jacket and skirt, with narrow sleeves and straight legs, without emphasizing the sense of lines at all.

Otherwise, Miss Qin would be wearing such a wide robe, long sleeves, and fluttering skirts. Thinking about it, it would not be too magical.

Well, I have to change the red to azure or white to completely suit her cool and reserved temperament.

Bai Suqing didn't pay attention to his sizing. Anyway, people only have the first time and countless times, and this is true for both the person who is sizing up and the one who is sizing up.

Besides, what bad intentions could the little chambermaid have?

After chewing the first bite of bread slowly, she commented: "It tastes a bit like steamed cakes, but the sourness is a bit obvious, but it is offset by the burnt sugar on the surface, so it tastes good."

Gu Ke:? ? ? You actually think it’s pretty good too? Is my mouth really that naughty?

Speechless for a moment, he could only attribute this to his taste that had been poisoned by various fine pastries from later generations.

And when it comes to fermenting dough, I just searched online in my previous life to find out how to ferment high, medium and low-gluten flour, what effect is achieved, whether it is suitable for making bread noodles, steamed buns, or cakes and biscuits.

In that Internet age, everyday cooking skills and methods were readily available, and it would not be too bad for someone with some experience to learn how to cook them.

In ancient times, these seemingly insignificant cooking skills and methods were just enough to make a living and support a family.

Basically, those who get it keep it secret, and may even pass it on to their sons rather than their daughters.

The reason is very simple. How many people in ancient times were able to experiment with food again and again, how to make it delicious? Nothing in a million is possible.

Why can't Xiaoman and Xiaoping'er make dough? Isn't it just because the family is so poor that it's hard to eat fine noodles? Naturally, their mother won't do it.

And given the degree of class consolidation in ancient times, ninety-nine percent of their mothers’ mothers were from the poor and lower classes, and they also couldn’t make friends with each other.

If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. This technique is like dragon slaying. There is no place to learn it, and there is no place to use it once you learn it.

In modern society, everyone plays with mobile phones and computers, but how many of them know how to use supercomputers? Or how many of them will learn how to use supercomputers?

Miss Qin and Bai Suqing can easily obtain relevant knowledge about cooking, but... why do they want to learn this? Raising a cook and a maid is simpler and more practical than learning it yourself, and it doesn't delay your martial arts training.

If you are successful in martial arts, you will be powerful and powerful. If you are powerful, you can find various professionals to serve you.

Therefore, Qin and Bai have no cooking skills at all, while Mei, Lan, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum can do a little bit, but they are limited to a certain range of basic parts - such as making porridge, tea, steaming rice, and barbecue, which can only be used for walking in rivers and lakes, and in the wilderness. Field emergency.

Gu Ke has been single all his life. He can only cook a few home-cooked dishes, and his cooking skills are not much better than Mei Lan Zhu Ju.

The troublesome task of improving the dough making process and making delicious pasta should be left to Chun Xia.

He basically didn't worry about this. Even Bai Suqing said this caramel bread was okay, so it was considered a pass.

Everyone is not that picky yet, so they are making caramel bread for now, and in spring and summer, the two girls will gradually improve the dough and dough.

In the past there was not enough flour for testing, but now there is no shortage in the valley.

Even if it is a failure in Gu Ke's evaluation, it is not necessarily unpalatable, and it will still make you feel full.

The steamed cakes and noodles they made as experiments before were all eaten by everyone.

However, Qin and Bai's two daughters refused to eat. Gu Ke only tasted the taste and commented on the improvement.

All the girls thought it was normal, because Su Qinbai and the other three had the highest status, so of course they couldn't eat "bad" food.

People have their uses, and their energy and spirit are completely different.

Like that Saranzhu, she looked so stupid when she was escorted here that all the girls thought her brain had been damaged.

Gu Ke also sensed her condition many times and found that her mental fluctuations were chaotic and disorderly.

Not necessarily born, but at least he is a psychopath.

Fortunately, Salanzhu was still able to complete basic tasks of eating, drinking, breathing, sleeping.

Bring her food and drink, stuff them into her mouth, take her to her new "dormitory", and she will sleep on time.

Lathering is almost like sleeping, just point out the place and she will do it in the future.

He doesn't cry or make trouble at ordinary times, let alone make demands. He just stays quietly and honestly all day long.

Xiao Ping'er has always been responsible for teaching her to adapt to the new environment, asking her to eat and sleep.

It doesn't take much time, and it won't delay other people's cultivation and work.

Now that food is abundant, no one cares about giving her a meal and a place to sleep.

In the evening, Miss Qin and the others went back to the north bedroom, Bai Suqing and the two younger sisters went back to the south bedroom, and Chun Xia Qiu Dong and Sa Lanzhu went back to the workshop to sleep.

Miss Qin Bai Suqing has a high status, so it is natural for her to move into a separate new bedroom.

Without anyone to care about them, they would be more comfortable living in the workshop in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and they would not be dissatisfied.

Gu Ke stopped Chun Xia and explained the process of making caramel bread before asking them to go back and make it a few times to ensure that it can be baked successfully.

The second step was to let them take back the large constant-temperature vat, the pottery basin, some high-gluten flour, and the small half pot of syrup as test materials.

Finally, the bread thing is kept secret for the time being so that it can be used as a dessert for the New Year’s Eve dinner tomorrow night as a surprise for everyone.

After hearing this, Chun Xia and the two nodded repeatedly, saying that they would start work when they got back and ensure that they could make a qualified dessert tomorrow.

Gu Ke is good at everything.

It is indeed easier to do things in spring and summer than in autumn and winter.

Chunxia's family is a small bourgeois family, not considered wealthy. When he was a child, he worked with his mother.

This was in ancient times, when children from poor families were lazy and had to be served with bamboo sticks.

Of course, Qiudong came from an official family and had no experience of being forced to do anything since they were young, so they only spent two or three years in training to teach them some rules and basic housework.

Although I am not lazy in doing things, I am still not as efficient as spring and summer.

In the next time, Gu Ke went to the warehouse, filled the Pichen bath bucket with hot water, and soaked in it comfortably.

Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, it’s New Year’s Eve!

He traveled back in time from mid-September to the end of this year. In a few months, he relied on his hard-working hands... and cheating on the system to finally reach the baseline of food and clothing.

Well, how is this experience like that spirited young man who bought a house in his previous life?

Smiling and shaking his head, he put aside these nonsensical thoughts and sighed with satisfaction: "Next year, I must live a truly good life."

He has this confidence in the system, and everything is just a matter of time.

…

The next day, December 30, New Year's Eve.

After getting up early in the morning, completing the daily routine of signing in, washing up, and having breakfast, it was time to harvest yellow millet and black millet.

This is the second batch, which also means that from now on, there will be two more daily foods in the rice bowls of everyone in the valley.

A bowl of hot, thick multigrain porridge in the morning is a temptation that no one can resist.

Purple wheat? The two of us skipped lunch, it was too expensive.

Miss Qin brought plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, and appeared at the edge of the fairy field with the spring, summer, autumn and winter who had just arrived.

Looking at Gu Ke and the other two people who had already started working, she looked at the red brocade robe on her body with a little embarrassment - there was no way to work! And all my clothes are like this.

Gu Ke had no intention of letting her do the work. Bai Suqing did it voluntarily. Just like Miss Qin liked to push the wheels, he didn't stop her either.

These two rank-6 masters have always been positioned as security guards. What they do depends purely on their interests.

After saying hello, the girls got busy. Even Miss Qin found her place - threshing.

With her rank six strength, it shouldn't be too easy to remove the yellow millet and black millet.

So the threshing was left to Miss Qin and Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum, and the bundling and transportation was left to Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

Thresher? Sorry, Gu Ke doesn't know how to make this thing.

The only Xiaoman family who often farmed still used the primitive method of breaking wheat straw and threshing it by hand, which could only be left to the future.

Gu Ke's small hatchet and Bai Suqing's bluestone knife are only responsible for cutting, while the two others are responsible for gathering the millet they cut down.

With more people and division of labor, the harvest can be completed in less than two quarters of an hour.

Next, Gu Ke directly used the Mountain Pushing Palm. With a dull thud, the roots and stems of millet in the ground were lifted up along with the soil.

Bai Suqing used Bihaijin to lock the rhizome and pull it out forcefully.

Two small tasks became picking up these roots and putting them into big baskets.

Miss Qin finally couldn't help but wonder: "Why didn't Lao Gu and the others just pull it out just now?"

"The rhizomes will be chopped into compost and then spread back to the fields. Lao Gu said this can fertilize the fields." Mei Shu explained casually while rubbing the yellow millet in his hands.

This was indeed the normal situation, but in fact Gu Ke didn't want to spread the black soil everywhere.

The system of this thing didn't say it could regenerate, so he dealt with the rhizome according to his vague memory.

It is impossible to burn.

After the previous few fairy fields were harvested, they were just waiting to plant a new batch of seeds. Where did they find the time to burn the fields?

When you get another piece of fairy land, you don't have to be in a hurry, you can burn it all at that time.

Miss Qin still had a little doubt, but she didn't ask it out in the end, and that was why he was practicing martial arts, which he didn't know much about, but he was using it all for farming.

It is no longer unusual for the Black Demon Palm to turn over soil and rocks. Tianluo has also seen it before building bamboo houses, but this is the first time for the eldest lady to witness it. She feels extremely speechless and takes it for granted.

Gu Ke is such a pioneer who insists on developing new ideas for martial arts applications.

After uprooting and plowing the ground together, Gu Ke and Bai Suqing's tasks in the fields were completed.

The two children took the first batch of harvested soybeans and began to sow them.

This is the last farm work of the year, and it is also an extremely important farm work.

Whether we can drink soy milk, eat bean curd skin, green bean rice, use soybean oil, etc. in the first month of next year depends on this group.

The rest of the "high-end goods" such as tofu, stinky tofu, fermented black beans and soy sauce will have to wait until gypsum and salt are found.

Gu Ke and Bai Suqing also joined the threshing army and finished before noon, and then announced the news of having a New Year's Eve dinner together in the evening.

The women were all happy.

On the last day of the year, the harvest of grain, the sowing of hope, plus a New Year's Eve dinner, all of this is the taste of peace and joy.

After that, it was time for the women to dress up.

Gu Ke gave up the Bichen bathtub and put it outside the bathroom, which was used as a public washing machine for the women.

Now everyone goes to the bathroom to take a shower once a day, and the bathing function of the bathtub is no longer important.

If he wants to take a bath, he can just make another one.

But the feature of Bichen only appeared once. It is the cleanest and fastest way to wash clothes, and it causes the least wear and tear on clothes, and the fading is the least obvious.

The soap beans that Xiaoman found were not very effective when rubbed and cleaned. They were time-consuming, labor-intensive, and even more damaging to clothes.

Starting next year, Gu Ke wanted to do more things, and everyone would help. There was no need to waste time on trivial matters such as laundry.

Gu Ke also put a small oven outside the bathroom, which could be used for heating and drying clothes.

He took the newly produced yellow millet and black millet to the processing workshop to see if he could process some special ingredients to add some color to the New Year's Eve dinner.

The only person who was not a woman stayed away, and the bathroom suddenly became lively.

Mei, Lan, Zhu, and Ju directly moved the straw screen and surrounded the stone platform of the bathroom to form a temporary laundry room. They lined up in groups of two to wash and warm themselves by the fire.

Only Miss Qin and them had change of clothes here.

But later, they gave Gu Ke a few pieces, and their change of clothes was also tight. They wore the same set from beginning to end in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

They could only take them off and wash them before going to bed at night, dry them at night, and wear them the next day.

This is really inconvenient, but it has to be done, which is quite annoying.

With a dust-proof bathtub, clothes can be washed clean in a cup of tea, and then the clothes can be dried in a small oven for a quarter of an hour.

During this period of time, two people can just enter the bathroom.

After coming out and putting on the washed and dried clothes, they are refreshed inside and out, which is too tempting.

In the end, only Qin Bai's two daughters did not join in the fun, and the others took turns to enjoy it.

Even the dazed Saranzhu was taken by Xiao Ping'er to wash her inside and out, including her clothes.

When the two children went to the processing workshop to inform Gu Ke that he could come back, it was already afternoon.

Gu Ke also ground some completely shelled yellow millet and black millet, as well as flour, and the two children carried them on their backs on the way back.