Rebirth in another world is good for farming

Under the scorching sun, a carriage stopped at the door of Zhang's house.

"Shopkeeper Huo, is the number correct?" Zhang Xiaoliu wiped his sweat while standing in front of the house, raised his head and asked Shopkeeper Huo who was standing on the carriage to count the number.Today shopkeeper Huo personally brought Xiao Shen to drive the carriage to pull the wine. Just now they only put the wine into the small jar he designated and they worked hard for a long time.

"That's right. Brother Liu has always been considerate in his work, so I'm very relieved." Shopkeeper Huo put down the curtain covering the carriage and said with great satisfaction.

"That's good... shopkeeper Huo can come at this time next month, I have enough time to brew the wine." This time shopkeeper Huo came late, and the wine had been placed in the house for several days.The place in the house is too small, it is very inconvenient to move around.So Zhang Xiaoliu hoped to be able to roughly decide whether to pick up the wine in the middle of the month or the beginning of the month, so that he could make preparations in the future, otherwise he would always be thinking about it.

"Okay, this time I was delayed when I came back from the city. By the way, Brother Liu, can you make a few more jars of wine every month?" Shopkeeper Huo jumped out of the car, because he He is obese and sweats profusely in this weather.

"Brew more? Shopkeeper Huo will only ask for more next month, or will the number increase every month in the future?" Zhang Xiaoliu asked hesitantly.

"Brother Liu, if we can brew more, can we add ten dou to the agreed amount?" Shopkeeper Huo said as he motioned him to go into the room to talk again.

"Add another ten buckets..." Zhang Xiaoliu thought about it for a while, and said helplessly, "Our room is too small to accommodate so many wine barrels. If I want to add ten buckets, I have to brew at least two batches a month. , I’m afraid it won’t happen for the time being. But if shopkeeper Huo still needs it next year, I can think about it.” After two or three months, the weather will turn cold, and the crops in the field will also be harvested. Now I really can’t take this thing.If it is after the new year, they will have room to toss around when they move into a new house.

"That's fine, Brother Liu, don't refuse again after a few years." Shopkeeper Huo looked at his environment here, and he was really a little embarrassed.He didn't expect the wine to sell so quickly in the city before, especially since most of the people who came to the store to buy wine were young, and they all said that his wine was sweet and not strong.But if we can't bring more wine to the store in the remaining months of this year, it's just a good time to see how the business will be in the future.

"Okay, if shopkeeper Huo still needs us to discuss it at that time." Zhang Xiaoliu also agreed, since there is a market, he should hurry up and make a profit, otherwise he may find someone else to replace it at any time.

"Then let's make a deal like that. I'll let Xiao Shen come here next time, and you just pack it up for him in such a small jar." The jar of this size is also based on the time he came to the store to make. What the drinker needs to do, it can be installed here directly, which just saves the need to bring it back to the store.

"Buyer Huo, don't worry, whether it's you or Xiao Shen, I promise to do the same according to your requirements." Zhang Xiaoliu said with a smile.

After two market days in August, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival.As the saying goes, the fifteenth moon is sixteen round, and the Mid-Autumn Festival here is the day when the moon is the roundest in the year, August sixteenth.

Old people often say that more people are better for farming, and fewer people are better for festivals.For most of the families in Xiaba Village who are still trying their best to feed their families, the festive season is just a feast of meat, with extra expenses.But no matter whether you are poor or rich, you still have to eat according to the occasion.

The first thing to do in Mid-Autumn Festival is to fry sugar rings.In the few days before and after this festival, the stone mill in the public housing is almost the busiest time except before the Chinese New Year.

Soak the white glutinous rice in clear water in advance, then pick it up and dry it in the sun.After the water on the surface has evaporated, it is placed in a stone mill and ground repeatedly into fine flour.When I got home, I mixed glutinous rice flour with warm water, kneaded it into long and thin strips with the width of my little finger, and then rolled it into a hollow flower shape, and fried it in oil to make it a delicious snack.Farmers go to the fields on weekdays, and sometimes they will bring a few yuan with them. If you are hungry, eating two can fill your stomach for half a day.Or keep it for the children at home, because it is fried, it can be eaten from mid-autumn to the end of the year without going bad.

It was the first time Zhang Xiaoliu had heard of such an oddly-shaped object, and he didn't know what to do after hearing Dashun's gestures. In the end, he decided to make it a day later than Dashun's house, and went to observe it first.

In addition to fried sugar rings, the most popular among children is the white sponge cake.In the square special iron box, first sprinkle a layer of rice powder, then sprinkle a layer of frosting and sesame stuffing in the middle, and then sprinkle the powder almost as thick as the bottom.Boil water in the pot, then put the iron box into steam for a quarter of an hour, take it out and turn the iron box upside down, and a whole box of white sponge cakes will fall on the cutting board.Finally, press it with a long wooden strip like a ruler, cut it into palm-sized pieces, and drip a little red paper water in the middle, which is both delicious and beautiful.

"Dashun is so fast!" Fulai pinched the sugar ring outside, and Dashun first steamed the white sponge cake.Zhang Xiaoliu stood by and watched him do it, exclaiming.The whole set of movements was done without delay, but within a quarter of an hour, the rice flour in the cloth bag turned into stacked white sponge cakes.

"I've been making it for more than 20 years, how can I do it if I'm not familiar with it?" Dashun Meme washed and dried the used iron box, repeated the action of dusting, adding sugar and sesame seeds, and waiting for the pot to come out.He has two sets of iron boxes at home. One side is prepared when steaming, and the other box is put down when the pot is ready. Compared with others, it is very time-saving.

"Dashun, I don't think I've seen the iron box you use before?" Zhang Xiaoliu took a moment to ask, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that there were no utensils to use at home now.

"It was given to me by Momo when I returned home for the first time. I think other people's households are lighter now... If you can't find it in the market, you can go to the blacksmith to get one." Shun Momo dipped red paper water with one hand and tapped on each piece of white sponge cake, and quickly put away the cut pieces with the other hand, talking to Zhang Xiaoliu.

"Then why do you still need to light red paper water?" Zhang Xiaoliu looked at the red paper soaked in a large bowl in his hand, and didn't know what dyed it, and washed half of the bowl of water into red.

"Oh, this is for Fu Lai's brother's house. If you just make it for yourself, you don't need to touch the red water." Dashun put the neatly cut pieces in a cloth bag and put them in a cloth bag. If the surface is peeled off and is not very good-looking, it will be stacked in the basket.Because people have to go back home or visit relatives during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they usually dye some red to be more festive.

Zhang Xiaoliu read it twice, and felt that steaming white sponge cake is very simple, so he talked to Dashun, and then went out to watch Fulai knead the sugar ring.

"Brother Liu, I think wheat is pretty good at kneading, and you don't need to learn any more." Fu Lai was talking to Maimai when he saw him come out and pouted at him.

"Hey, these are made of wheat? That's really good." Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at the sugar rings on the dustpan in front of Mai Mai, and there was no difference between them mixed with Fulai's.The freshly squeezed sugar ring is like a five-petal flower, but the petals and stamens are empty.

"I just said that pinching this is very simple. You don't need to learn much. Mai Mai can learn so quickly even a bracelet, let alone such a simple sugar ring?" The eyes are very proud.

"I was still worried that neither of us would be able to do it tomorrow, and that two buckets of rice would be wasted!" Zhang Xiaoliu patted Mai Mai's shoulder and said, "Since you have learned it, let's help Fulai finish it here! Go back and soak the glutinous rice, and you can make it early tomorrow.” Although kneading the sugar ring is not complicated, it is very boring to knead such a large dough by one person.Fulai and Guilai probably went to help feed the chickens, and Fulai was the only one left in their family to help Dashun.

"Xiaomai, is it interesting in the school?" After Zhang Xiaoliu went out, Fulai lowered his voice to talk to Maimai.

"Interesting, Mr. teaches us to read articles, we review by ourselves, and we have to take an endorsement test..." Mai Mai counted the things he did repeatedly in the school every day, thinking that Fulai was also interested in the school, so he purposely explained it in detail.

"You just sit down and listen to the teacher's lecture? Is there anything interesting in the school?" Fulai stared. He went out to play with people yesterday and heard that the teachers in the school are very vicious and beat people with wooden sticks. !

"Half of the time, the teacher is talking about the class, and we read aloud after the talk. There is nothing to do in the school, and our seats are almost full."

"What's so interesting about that... Do the teachers in the school really hit their palms with a ruler?" Fulai asked the last question.

"Sir, you don't use a ruler casually. You only hit your palms when you can't recite the memorization." Mai Mai shook her head. Seeing Fulai's fearful expression, she couldn't help justifying Mr. Chen's name.

"Your brother is very kind to you, and even let you go to school. But it doesn't sound good at all. It must be boring to sit there for several hours a day." Regarding the problem of going to school, Fulai once played with others. We discussed it, but now that Mai Mai told him that Mr. might really hit someone, I feel that I am not so envious of the children in the school.

"What Mr. said is very interesting, not boring." Mai said solemnly.

"Xiaomai, did your brother tell you how long you will study for?" Although they feel that the life in the school is a bit boring, all the children in the village know that since Xiaomai went to the school, he leaves early and returns late every day, so he doesn't need to be controlled by his father. You don't have to help with the housework either.

"I don't know. My brother said to study for a year first, and see if I want to go there in the future..." Mai Mai was an honest child, completely ignorant of Fu Lai's entangled thoughts, trying to recall what Zhang Xiaoliu had said.

With the experience of helping at Dashun Momo's house, although the final fried sugar rings and white sponge cakes were very ordinary in appearance, they were finally successful.

On the day of the festival, they killed a chicken, exchanged a few pieces of tofu with the villagers, made three dishes with green vegetables picked from their own vegetable field, and moved four small stools to sit around the stove and felt very rich. up.It's not that their family is so poor that they have to spend the holidays to eat meat. Zhang Xiaoliu pays attention to living a smooth life, and Zhao Zhengze, Mai Mai, and Xiaosong are also very satisfied with this.

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After Zhongqiu, there were only three months left in the year, and Zhang Xiaoliu realized that he had been here for a long time.I still remember that Xiaosong was so thin and weak that he could only lie on the bed and cry when he first came here, but now he is so skinny that he runs all over the village.Sometimes it feels like it goes too slowly, and sometimes it feels like it goes too fast.

All the saplings planted around the vegetable field have been planted alive, and they have grown much higher.The few people who were building the house on the right were working in full swing, adding a lot of vitality to the two lonely houses.

At noon, both Zhao Zhengze and Xiaosong were forbidden to go out. It was not until the sun turned weak that Xiaosong ran out in a hurry under Zhang Xiaoliu's urging.

Zhang Xiaoliu watched him go away angrily, then turned to Zhao Zhengze and said, "When you go to find Uncle Dumb, you have to make clear gestures, it would be bad if you count things less."

"I remember. I can't make a mistake."

Zhang Xiaoliu was going to find someone who sold glutinous rice, and Zhao Zhengze was going to order beds, cabinets and other things, so they split up.There are no valuables in the house, and there are a group of people around, they just cover the wooden door and let it go.

The dumb uncle's house is in the west of the village, which is also a relatively remote place.Zhao Zhengze has already been there once, but he knows the way very well.

"Big root, are you picking sweet potato leaves?" Uncle Dumb's house only has two side-by-side rooms, but it looks like it's still about [-]% new. It was built with the help of Uncle Dumb's two brothers when he got married.As soon as Zhao Zhengze came to his house, he saw a thin man squatting in the sweet potato field holding a bamboo basket picking leaves, and shouted loudly.

That piece of land seems to have been reclaimed by myself with a hoe on the side, and a lot of fine stones can be seen at a glance.The growth of sweet potatoes is not very good, and the potato vines on them are still very thin.

"Ah Zheng, why are you here?" Dagen turned around when he heard the voice, and saw that his left face was covered by a crescent-shaped brown scar the size of a palm, from under the eyes to behind the ears.

"Is Uncle Dumb at home? I want to ask him to make something." Zhao Zhengze had already talked to him last time, and he was not surprised by the scar on his face.

When Dagen heard this, he straightened up and walked out of the field, and said, "I don't know what I'm thinking about in the house. I've been planing wood for the past few days. By the way, what are you going to do?" Are you in a hurry? I’ll come and talk to him.”

"There are a lot of things, please help me first and ask the dumb uncle if he can make them. I want to make four four-foot-wide wooden beds, two solid wooden suitcases, two square tables, and one round table..."

Dagen didn’t quite remember what he heard, so he walked over and opened the door and said, “You have to do so many things? I’ll ask him first.”

Zhao Zheng followed him in. The room between them was separated by a wooden screen. The outside part seemed to be the place where Uncle Dumb was doing carpentry, and there was presumably a bed inside.At this time, at the door, I saw a person sitting on the ground, almost submerged in the fluffy sawdust.

"Uncle Dumb, are you still making things?" Zhao Zhengze shouted loudly, although he knew he couldn't hear him, he still wanted to get his attention.

The dumb uncle also felt the change in the light, looked up and saw the two of them, moved his lips but barely made a sound, and grinned again.

Dagen raised his hand, put the basket on the ground and walked over, gesturing towards him for a while.The dumb uncle looked at it for a while, then stretched out his hand and gestured twice.

"He said he has time to do it. You just told me what you want to do?" After reading a long list of things just now, Dagen couldn't remember clearly. At this time, if you think about it carefully, you might also take it for a few months. Not so much work, and I feel a little happy again.

Zhao Zhengze said it again according to the things and numbers he had written down, and Da Genmomo made gestures for him.He and the dumb uncle get along day and night, so it is easier for him to understand each other's movements than others.

"He asked when you want it?"

"In about three months, make the bed and table first, and the rest can be later." Zhao Zhengze said while Dagen nodded and continued to make gestures for him.

"He said it's okay, but you have to pay part of the money first." Da Gen said truthfully according to the dumb uncle's gestures, but felt that the dumb uncle's words were too straightforward, and added: "It's not that I can't trust you, yes We need money to buy wood, although most of it is bought from my brother, but we have to pay him too."

Uncle Dumb has three sons, and he is the youngest in the family.I don't know why, since he couldn't make a sound from his throat since he was a child.The two elder brothers took good care of him. Since he learned the carpenter's craft, he helped others to do carpentry on weekdays. Except for those who brought the wood to make some manual money, most of the two elder brothers went to the mountains to help The wood he recovered.But after all, everyone is already a married person, and Uncle Dumb also consciously withdraws part of the salary he receives to give back to his brother, as money for buying materials, and both parties have gotten used to it over time.

"I know, how much should I pay first?" Zhang Xiaoliu told him in advance that he might have to pay a deposit first, and he also took the silver for him to bring, so Zhao Zhengze was not surprised.

"You have made too many things. He may have to use up all the wood he has now. You should pay two taels first." Dagen looked at Uncle Dumb hesitantly, seeing that he was still smiling and nodding to himself, then Go on.They can't keep this money, so they must give it to the eldest brother and second brother's family first.

"Okay, that dumb uncle remember not to take other people's work recently, just help me finish things." Zhao Zhengze took out a money bag from his arms, took two taels of silver and handed it to Dagenmo.Although he was happy to pay, he was also surprised.It takes a few taels of silver just to make these things, and Brother Liu's silver may be used up recently.

"Don't worry, since he said he can finish it on time, it won't be too far behind." Dagen weighed the money carefully. There were some people who struck big things before, but almost never received such a complete amount of money.

Uncle Dumb patted Dagen Momo's hand, and Dagen Momo said knowingly: "I'll go out first, and you can make gestures with him if you have any requirements for what you make. I don't understand these things." Last time he was not at home The two also communicated happily, so he wasn't worried.Uncle Dumb rarely sees outsiders, so it would be nice if someone could sit with him for a while.

"Uncle Dumb, what have you been doing recently?" Zhao Zhengze said loudly while gesticulating.The dumb uncle also made a gesture of listening attentively and carefully watched the movements of his hands.

The two slowly gestured for more than half an hour before Zhao Zhengze bid farewell to him and left.Although it was difficult to understand his gestures, Zhao Zhengze was still very happy after clarifying Brother Liu's request and seeing a lot of things that Uncle Dumb carved with scraps of wood.

As he walked, he thought about whether the things he made could be sold, and Uncle Dumb could support his family with manual work, so how could he be compared to brother Liu?Suddenly, he heard a strange voice calling him from behind.

"Hey, Ah Zheng!"