Earn money to support your family in ancient times

Su's father passed the entrance examination of Bailu Academy. After discussing with Su's father and Su's mother, Tang Yuan decided to move the day after tomorrow and hold a small banquet to warm the house.

Tang Yuan and Su Nuo ate a persimmon one bite at a time, licked their lips, and felt that it was not enjoyable. Thinking about the tall persimmon trees in the village, they looked at Su Nuo and said, "Brother Nuo, we will Let’s go back and pick some persimmons to make persimmons.”

"Okay," Su Nuo wiped Tang Yuan's mouth with a handkerchief, then wiped it himself, and said with a smile, "Our family hasn't made persimmons this year, so we'll make more later, and save them for the New Year."

Su's father didn't care about this, and Su's mother and Su Nuo were always busy, so they couldn't spare time to make persimmons.

Persimmons are also essential for farmers to entertain guests during the New Year. Persimmons don’t cost money, and you can pick them from a basket casually. They are easy to make and taste good.

When returning to the village, Tang Yuan speeded up. When he got home, Father Su went into the house to rest. Mother Su sat down and drank a glass of water, then went to work in the kitchen. Su Nuo also rushed to help. None of them had lunch. It was almost noon, and the persimmons I ate on the road were just a taste, and they couldn't fill my stomach.

"Brother Tang, what do you want to eat?" Su Nuo walked towards the kitchen, and just stepped out of the threshold, he turned back and asked Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan smiled: "It's fine to get some casually, don't be too particular about it."

Su Nuo nodded shyly: "Okay." Brother Tang finally had a meal at their house, but he was in such a hurry, it really shouldn't be.

"Hey Nuo." Tang Yuan thought of something, and called Su Nuo, "You said earlier that there are persimmon trees in the village, where are they? Anyway, I'm idle now, so I might as well pick some back."

Su Nuo thought that there would be a while before the rice was ready, so he said to Tang Yuan: "There are several persimmon trees in the village, there are two near the foot of the mountain at the entrance of the village, and there are two a little further ahead of your house, Brother Tang. Actually, there are two persimmon trees. There are many on the mountain, but it’s enough to pick the ones in the village.”

Tang Yuan took a pannier: "Okay, then I'll go to my house and have a look."

"Okay," Su Nuo agreed, and then urged, "Brother Tang, don't delay too long, come back quickly after picking."

Tang Yuan nodded with a smile and went out the door: "Okay."

Hungry, everyone was the same, Su Mu and Sun Nuo casually steamed a pot of rice, made a scrambled egg with garlic sprouts, and took half a sling of bacon left over from the Chinese New Year, together with a thousand sheets that Tang Yuan asked Su Nuo to bring back. After frying, I boiled half a pot of pimple soup and served it on the table.

Mother Su wiped her hands, looked towards the door, and said, "Why hasn't this kid Xiaoyuan come back? In this weather, the dishes are cold as soon as they come out."

Just as Su Nuo was about to say that he would go out and look for it, Tang Yuan came back with a basket full of persimmons on his back.

Mother Su hurriedly asked him to put down his things, and patted the dust off his body. Su Nuo mixed warm water to wash Tang Yuan's hands, and then urged him to eat.

Although there were not many dishes, the portions were enough, and several people were hungry. As soon as Tang Yuan came to the table, Mother Su greeted him and started to eat with chopsticks.

Although Su's mother's cooking skills were not as good as Tang Yuan's, they were still delicious. They buried their heads in a bowl of rice before they had time to raise their heads and talk.

"Brother Nuo's father will go to the academy in three days, and he can only come back once a month. If your moving date is not set for the day after tomorrow, I'm afraid he won't come back." Mother Su drank a glass of water and calmed down Come on, look at Tang Yuan, "We will help you the day after tomorrow."

"Where can I ask you and uncle to help me, it would be great if you and uncle can go," Tang Yuan swallowed the food in his mouth, "Brother Huzi and Da Zhuang are the ones who can help, you and uncle don't have to worry about it , just eat and drink when the time comes."

Mother Su smiled and said, "Okay." That's what she said, but if she was too busy at that time, she definitely couldn't just watch.

Tang Yuan finished his meal, wiped his mouth, took out a heavy money bag from his pocket, and handed it to Su's mother: "This is 20 taels of silver, you can use it to buy some paper and pens for uncle."

Su's mother took it shyly, and quickly brought a pen and paper from the house, asked Su's father to write the IOU seriously, and handed it to Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan didn't refuse, and folded it away.

Father Su's body is not very good, and he was a little tired after bumping back and forth a few times. After eating, he went back to the house to lie down and rest.

Su's mother cleaned up the dishes, but Su Nuo wanted to help, but she stopped her. Su's mother asked Su Nuo and Tang Yuan to make persimmons.

So, Su Nuo moved two benches, and sat in the yard with Tang Yuan to handle the basket of persimmons.

The persimmons that Tang Yuan picked were big and red, and some of them had broken off the twigs, and there were several hanging on one twig.

Tang Yuan and Su Nuo peeled off the skin of the persimmon with a knife, leaving the stalks on top.

"Brother Nuo, go get some hemp rope." Tang Yuan said to Su Nuo after peeling the last persimmon.

Su Nuo responded, went to the house and brought out several hemp ropes over one meter long, handed one to Tang Yuan, took one himself, and put the rest beside him.

He picked up the persimmon, wrapped the hemp rope around the base of the persimmon, tied a knot, and then tied the next one until the whole hemp rope was strung with persimmons, and then hung it under the eaves to dry.

A curtain of bright red persimmons was hung under the eaves. After two or three days of drying, the flesh softened, and they could be removed and put aside to wait for frosting.

Tang Yuan and Su Nuo didn't throw away the peeled persimmon skins, but left them aside. After the persimmons were dried, they put one layer of persimmons and one layer of skin into a small jar, so as to prevent the persimmons from sticking together when the frosting came out. .

Tang Yuan also ate dinner at Su's house, and the food was similar to that in the morning. Originally, Su's mother was going to kill a chicken, but he stopped him.

For the next two days, Tang Yuan has been preparing to move.

In fact, he didn't have anything to move there. He had already looked around at the newly bought house. It had all the furniture in it, and it was much better than his old house.

What he wanted to move there was only some clothes and personal belongings, and it was finished after moving back and forth three times.

As for the new house in the town, Huzi, Father Hu, Mother Hu, and Brother Mo have already cleaned it up for him.

Tang Yuan lived alone in the huge house that night, always feeling empty, even the moonlight outside the window was miserable.

He stared at the patterns on the top of the tent, and sighed, it was a bit lonely for him to live alone in such a big house, and he would have to wait until next year to marry Nuo Ge'er back home, thinking about it, it would be a long time.

Tang Yuan tossed and turned for almost an hour before slowly falling asleep, and woke up before dawn the next day.

Tang Yuan was too lazy to run to the kitchen to boil hot water. He gritted his teeth and washed in the cold water that he had put in the room last night. After all, this second house was bigger than his previous home. At 01:30, he went to the kitchen I have to go around half a circle, I am really too lazy to go.

Even if the water was placed in the room, it was still very cold. When it poured on his face, Tang Yuan hissed lightly and shuddered.

He patted his face, wondering if he should hire two servants, otherwise it would be too inconvenient for him to be alone in such a big house.

But that will be discussed later, and now he has to prepare the dishes for today's banquet.

He didn't invite too many people, he just invited a few people from the store, Su's father and Su's mother, Aunt Zhou's family, and Young Master Zhao and Boss Wang's family.

It's very cold today, when Tang Yuan went out to buy vegetables, there was still a little snow in the sky, and when he came back after buying vegetables, his hair was half wet.

"Brother Tang! Here we come!" Tang Yuan could hear Da Zhuang's loud voice clearly in the back well.

He responded with a high voice, and then continued to slaughter the goose. He wanted to be lazy today, just cook a big goose in an iron pot, and then cook a few dishes that are refreshing and relieve the greasy.

The goose he bought was fierce and kept flopping, and if he hadn't been so strong, he would have broken free.

Tang Yuan raised the knife and stabbed it at the neck, the blood splashed out and dripped down.

Tang Yuan put a bowl under it and then, the goose was not dead yet, and it was still convulsing when it was bleeding, but it stopped after a few strokes.

Su Nuo was taken aback when he came in, but Da Zhuang was very excited, and trotted over to see how Tang Yuan decomposed the goose.

Hu's father and Huzi went to help chop firewood and fetch water, while Su Nuo, Su's mother, Hu's mother and Mo Ge'er went to wash the vegetables and clean the table. Except for Su's father who was afraid that he would be tired, no one else was idle.

Tang Yuan was busy with plucking and chopping the goose for more than half an hour before processing the goose. The smell of the goose was strong. Tang Yuan soaked the chopped goose in water to remove the blood. Change the water every hour.

Then fish out the goose pieces, put them in a large pot, pour cold water over the goose pieces, add sliced ​​ginger, scallions and cooking wine to blanch.

After blanching the water, rinse it with water and put it aside, then Tang Yuan made a sauce with light soy sauce, cooking wine and other seasonings for later use.

Heat up the wok, put enough oil, add the onion, ginger, garlic and star anise, stir fry evenly until the fragrance comes out, then pour the goose pieces down and stir fry until the surface is slightly burnt.

At this time, add the sauce that you just prepared, continue to stir-fry, pour in three bowls of rice wine, then add hot water, add an appropriate amount of salt and sugar, the hot water must be completely covered with goose pieces, otherwise the stewing time will be long It will be easy to paste, cover the lid, wait for half an hour before putting in the potato cubes, and simmer for another quarter of an hour on low heat.

While stewing, Tang Yuan began to fry other dishes, a crucian carp tofu soup, fried cabbage with lard residue, fried bean curd sticks with pork belly, spicy thousand sheets, scrambled eggs with green peppers, and a sesame sauce peeling.

When he finished these dishes, the big goose was almost ready to be stewed.

He lifted the lid, and a burst of salty fragrance came out, the fragrance could be smelled from far away, it was oily and oily, which made the mouth water, and Da Zhuang under the stove swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.

Tang Yuan picked up a goose head to taste the taste. The goose head was stewed until soft and delicious, and the bone could be removed with a light bite. The goose skin was not greasy at all, and Tang Yuan could eat two big bowls with rice.

"Brother Tang, what are you doing? It smells so good! I smelled it right at the gate!" Boss Wang couldn't help swallowing a few mouthfuls of saliva when he smelled the fragrance in the air, and walked fast.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Since everything is ready, let's serve it on the table quickly!" Young Master Zhao smelled the gluttony, and kept running into it.

Everyone laughed and put the food on the table, chatting lively while eating.

作者有话要说：感谢在2022-03-2820:59:13~2022-03-2921:00:37期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Yu, the little bunny is so soft;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: eat 7 bottles of hot pot tonight;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!