Joe's Farming

The next day, Xu Ning's father and younger father brought Xu Ning's younger brother to the villa.

Since Xu Ning got married, Xu Dad and Xu Xiaodie's life has been much better. After half a year of recuperation, Xu Xiaodie's health has almost recovered.

Xu Ning’s younger brother is called Xu Cheng, a five-year-old boy. Xu Ning calls him Xiao Chengzi.

"Xiao Chengzi."

"Big brother!"

As soon as Xu Cheng got off the carriage, he rushed towards his brother.

Xu Yuan also smiled and called him: "Xiao Chengzi, you only call me brother and not me?"

Xu Cheng shyly called out, "Brother."

Xu Yuan rubbed his head and said, "Be good, Brother Fu will take you to eat delicious food." Then he bowed to Father Xu and Little Father Xu, "Father, Little Father."

Xu Xiaodie smiled gently and said, "It's too formal. We are family members so we won't have to go through all these empty formalities."

Xu Yuan responded obediently: "Okay. Are you tired and hungry after all this journey, little dad? Let's go to the villa first, and then have dinner at my brother Qiao's house.

The new potatoes he planted are delicious. Aning and I ate a lot yesterday. I will let you, Dad, and Xiao Chengzi have some later."

Xu Xiaodie kept saying good things. He was very satisfied with this son-in-law.

This son-in-law doesn't behave like a rich young man at all and is very close to their family.

At first, people were afraid that Xu Ning would suffer after marrying him, but unexpectedly, Xu Yuan actually survived. He looks much better now, and Xu Ning also has twins.

Seeing Xu Yuan carefully supporting Xu Ning, Xu Xiaodie looked at Xu Die.

Father Xu whispered: "The young couple has a really good relationship."

Xu Xiaodie nodded.

As soon as Xu Yuan arrived at the lobby, he ordered a serving of French fries for Xu Cheng, and then ordered a goose stewed in an iron pot at Hong Ge'er's suggestion.

"The boss said that adding potatoes will make it more delicious than the old iron pot stew!"

"Okay, one serving then."

Father Xu asked weakly, "How much is one serving?"

Although Xu Yuan and Qiao Ge'er are sworn brothers, the accounts must still be settled clearly. It is impossible to eat for free.

Hong Ge'er politely replied, "Uncle, the iron pot stewed goose in our Lingyun Villa is a whole goose, 1,800 coins per portion."

Father Xu took a deep breath. A Drunken Chicken from Xu Yuan's Yipinxuan only cost eight hundred coins.

However, when he saw the big pot of meat and vegetables, as well as the steamed buns stuck to the edge of the pot, he felt that the 1,800 coins were indeed more worthwhile than the Drunken Chicken.

Especially the potatoes that Xu Yuan mentioned, which were stewed until soft and tasty, and very satisfying after one bite.

The goose meat was also delicious, not at all tough. He had never known that goose meat could be so tender.

Seeing that his family was enjoying their meal, Xu Ning ate even happier himself. He had a big appetite to begin with, and there was not much left in the last pot.

Xu Ning and Xu Cheng put down their chopsticks at the same time, hugged their stomachs and sighed, "It's delicious."

Made the other three people laugh.

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The next few days were quite busy. In order to harvest the potatoes by the end of July, the entire Gu family went to the neighboring mountain to open up wasteland and plant potatoes.

For this purpose, Gu Feng hired some villagers to help, and the original potato fields were also planted with germinated potatoes.

Even Ling Lie, who was going to look for his brother, joined the potato-planting army.

As a cook, he knew very well the important role of this little thing and he worked very hard.

Not long after we finished our work, it was the rainy season and the water level in the pond in front of the villa rose sharply.

Qiao Yu was worried that her fish fry would be washed away, so Gu Feng and Gu Gang put on straw raincoats and went to check in the heavy rain. Fortunately, the dam they had built earlier worked and there was no sign of the fish being washed away.

However, Gu Feng did find quite a few crickets that were washed down from upstream.

He still remembered how delicious the cicadas that Qiao Yu made for them when she first came last year were. He had been so busy this year that he had even forgotten about the cicadas that were native to this creek.

So the two of them went up the stream and caught a large basket of crickets.

Just as they were touching each other, they were seen by Da Zhuang and Xiao Bai, so Da Zhuang and Xiao Bai called others to join in the touching.

Ling Lie was startled when he saw a pot of crickets baring their teeth and claws: "Why are you catching so many of these?"

Da Zhuang grinned and said, "Second Master said that the spicy and steamed crayfish made by the boss are delicious. Let's add another dish to lunch today."

Bai Lan didn't know how to make it, so Ling Lie went to Gu's house to ask for the recipe.

Qiao Yu was excitedly instructing Xia He and the others to use his loofah to scrub the crickets and to use bamboo sticks to pick out the shrimp threads and internal organs from the shrimp heads.

He hasn't eaten spicy crayfish for almost half a year, and he missed it terribly!

Li Xin was also very excited: "Brother, I didn't expect to be able to eat this here. I am so happy to follow you."

As soon as Ling Lie showed his head, Li Xin asked curiously, "Why are you here? Did you know that we have delicious food today?"

Ling Lie:......

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Are you here to ask me how to do it?"

Gu Feng and Gu Gang brought back such a big basket, it was impossible that the people in the villa didn't see what was happening.

Ling Lie grinned: "Yes, Sister Lan said she doesn't know how to do this either, so I came up to learn and will go down to make it for them later."

Qiao Yu asked him to start cleaning first, and then told him how to make spicy crayfish, steamed crayfish, and garlic-flavored crayfish.

Ling Lie left happily. After waiting for an hour, Da Zhuang asked Qiao Yu happily that a table of guests had come in the rain and smelled the spicy crayfish, so he asked how much was a reasonable price for one serving.

Qiao Yu asked him, "How many kilograms of cicadas do you have in one serving?"

Da Zhuang: "About two or three pounds."

Qiao Yu nodded: "Crickets are sold by the pound, one pound is one hundred coins, it is convenient to calculate the money."

Da Zhuang heard this and asked, "Boss, isn't one hundred a pound too expensive?"

Qiao Yu asked him back: "Did the cricket fall from the sky?"

Da Zhuang waved his hands quickly: "Of course not, Xiao Bai, my brothers and I caught them together. It was difficult to catch them in the rain, so we took a long time."

"That's it, we caught it ourselves, so we'll charge a hundred coins! We'll clearly mark the price, and we'll be fair to everyone. If you think it's expensive, just order something else."

Da Zhuang thought about it and felt that the other dishes didn’t seem to be cheap either, but those who came to their villa were all wealthy people.

"Hey, I know, Boss."

Da Zhuang was about to turn around and leave when Qiao Yu stopped him, "By the way, I'll have Li Xin write a new notice. In the future, in addition to letting guests dig wild vegetables, we can also let them go fishing for crayfish. We charge them for fishing crayfish, and whatever they catch is theirs. If they want to cook it at the villa, the kitchen will charge them a small fee."

Da Zhuang nodded vigorously: "Okay! I'll go down and tell Sister Lan and the others right away."

Wow, the boss is really good at this.

But are the people in this town really willing to spend money to catch crayfish?

The rain stopped for a while in the afternoon, and Gu Feng accompanied Qiao Yu to walk in the yard for a while. His yard was paved with gravel and slabs, so it was not muddy.

Qiao Yu ate so much crickets at noon that he was full, so Gu Feng kept rubbing his flesh gently.

Hongxiu, Xiahe and Huang Guihua were sitting under the eaves mending shoes.

Hongxiu was making tiger-head shoes for children. She was not making them for herself but for her future nephew or niece.

Gu Gang ran to the village and went to dig loaches with the villagers. He heard that eating loaches is good for pregnant women, and no matter how Hongxiu tried to persuade him, he wouldn't listen.

Qiao Yu actually wanted to go too. He had never dug there before and it must be fun.

It’s a pity that it’s really inconvenient for him now, so he can only sigh to Gu Feng: “Alas~ I really hope to unload the goods earlier.”