After dressing as a widow

Zhou Zhengchu narrowed his eyes and looked in, only to see a busy scene in the spacious yard, dozens of girls and boys were busy with the affairs at hand, except for the necessary communication, there was nothing to talk about, and the strong rice fragrance spread In Zhou Zhengchu's nose, his empty stomach twitched and stirred together.

Ah Chen led him straight to the kitchen room on the right. Niu Da Niang and Niu Da Niang's wife who were chopping vegetables saw him coming. Because they had never seen him before, they raised their voices: "Who are you? What's the matter?" son?"

There are so many people in the yard, Aunt Niu is not afraid.

Ah Chen knew that she was Niu Da's old lady, so she said respectfully, "Niu Da Niu, steward Niu asked the younger one to bring her here to scrape a bowl of rice oil for his children. The child was so hungry that his throat was crying. Dumb."

Aunt Niu lowered her voice a bit, looked at Zhou Zhengchu, who was handsome and imposing, and said, "It turned out to be such a trivial thing as a bowl of rice oil, wait, I happened to have a pot of rice, and it was almost cooked. .”

While talking, she went to the cabinet next to her and took a large uniform bowl for the workers to eat, and lifted the lid of the pot.

In an instant, steaming hot air rushed out, and the smell of rice that was more fragrant than raw rice filled the entire kitchen.

The food Lin Zhen gave to the workers was not bad. Each meal consisted of three dishes and one soup. The rice was a one-to-one mix of white rice and wheat lumps.

The white rice that was put down just boiled a little bit, because there were a lot of people, and there was a lot of rice, and there was already a layer of fine rice soup and a slight oil condensation next to the edge of the iron pot.

Auntie Niu took the spoon and scraped spoonful after spoonful until the big bowl was full before handing it to Zhou Zhengchu: "Give it to the child and take a bite first, and come back when the rice is cooked at noon."

Auntie Niu made a meal for Ah Chen and the others yesterday, knowing that these newly bought servants had to eat a few meals of porridge first, so as not to hurt their stomachs, so today's lunch consisted of porridge and dry rice.

"Thank you." Zhou Zhengchu held the hot rice oil, he was always very thoughtful and didn't know what to say.

Aunt Niu smiled and said: "My boss also bought my house. The drought the year before last devastated my house. I managed to escape and couldn't go back. In order to treat me and my child, my son My daughter-in-law and I can only bring my little grandson and I to sell ourselves as slaves, who would have expected such luck to meet the boss."

"I have been blessed in several lifetimes, so I met the boss by such a coincidence."

"To put it bluntly, my family's life is not as good as it used to be."

"Give it to the child quickly, don't make the child hungry."

Zhou Zhengchu nodded, carrying a big bowl of rice oil and walked back with Ah Chen, when a gust of cold wind blew, making his body, which was only in autumn clothes, so cold that it was bone-chilling, but there was a faint hope in his body.

The rest of the people who had already allocated their beds saw Zhou Zhengchu bring in a large bowl of rice oil, and the empty stomach made clear noises, all of them were longing for it.

But none of them made a sound, instead they all looked at the crying child.

When the young woman saw him coming, two lines of tears flowed from her dry eyes: "Zhengchu..."

Zhou Zhengchu put the already cold rice oil on the table, and said, "Feed him some, Xiaohong Tianshunzi, you also come to drink a couple of sips."

Now the military system is implemented. These military households are old neighbors who have known each other for decades. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are brothers. This time we are in trouble together, and we have tried our best to take care of each other along the way. Otherwise, Just those people who are extremely ruthless can kill weak children and girls.

Correspondingly, adult men like Zhou Zhengchu suffered more. They didn't have a single inch of good meat on their bodies, and they all relied on their previous foundations.

Zhou Zhengchu's wife looked at the bowl of rice oil, and hurriedly called the five, six, seven and eight-year-old children from other families to come over.

"Take a bite first, and then I'll feed my brother. He eats more slowly."

The adults could resist Mi Xiang, but they couldn't help swallowing and screaming. When the children heard Zhou Zhengchu's wife calling them, they gathered around one after another, eagerly holding their bowls and taking a sip each.

The oldest child, eight or nine years old, took a small bite and put the bowl away: "Aunt Chun, give it to my younger brother, he is hungry."

"Okay." The young woman held the bowl and brought it to the mouth of the baby who was still only nursing. Obviously, she had never eaten before, and the baby who was only nursing seemed to smell the fragrance, and her mouth hurriedly leaned on the edge of the bowl. , drank rice oil.

Zhou Zhengchu said: "At noon, we can also go to the place where I just served rice oil for dinner, everyone is patient."

"Really!" said the young man who wanted to escape on the road to Shuifenfang.

The others also looked at Zhou Zhengchu.

Zhou Zhengchu nodded: "The mother who is in charge of the kitchen said so. I also asked the nurse in this courtyard on the way back. It is true."

Suddenly, one of the few people said: "If the boss here is really as generous as he shows, we can stay here for a while, and we can find someone to complain about our grievances after the wind has passed."

"The three of us, we are the only ones here, and we don't know where the others are..."

The fist at Zhou Zhengchu's side was slowly clenched: "Yes."

At this moment, they couldn't help but think of Lord Wei, if Lord Wei was still in Beijing, they would definitely not be like this!

Lin Zhen, who didn't know that he had turned a corner to save Wei San's men, came back from the kiln. When he arrived, the kiln for firing porcelain bottles and boxes for him had just opened, and the brother-in-law of the horse shopkeeper immediately took one for him. Look, it is exactly the same as the one on his drawing, and it looks more beautiful than he expected.

So Lin Zhen immediately made a contract with the shopkeeper's brother-in-law, asking him to send [-] porcelain boxes and [-] porcelain bottles to Lin's Gouache Shop in Guangshun Lane. Pay the full amount later.

Lou Feng, who already knew from his brother-in-law that he was the uncle of Lord Zhizhou, was not afraid that he would run away, so he readily wrote his name and pressed his fingerprints.

The production of jade powder, packaging, and the escort team were all in order. Lin Zhen returned to the state government office and took out the distillation equipment that had been dusted for more than half a month, and found an empty room to assemble it. Let Lulu go to the No. [-] courtyard of Lin's Water Fen Workshop, and ask them to bring you grass that has dripped with water, and put it into the tense production of Youcao flower dew.

So for the next two days, the state government office was enveloped in a quiet, scent that made people want to smell more and more, and it also spread to the rich family's yard next to the state government office.

Lin Zhen took down the large porcelain vat that had been boiled dry, and looked at the Youcao inside which was no longer green and yellow because of the boiling. He really didn't expect Youcao to give him such a big surprise.

It looks ordinary, but after the distillation of Youcao, which can be seen everywhere in Lizhou, the taste is stuck at a very wonderful point. , Whether it is a girl or a brother, a man can use it.

For the first portion distilled, Lin Zhen first filled a porcelain bottle and asked Lu Lu to send it to Gu Lin, and then continued to tinker with his own.

These first-time flower dew distilled from Youcao are in high-end packaging, while the mid-range and low-end ones are distilled once with Youcao and added with water, and added Lin Zhen, which is sorted out by workers when they wash. The appearance is not so good, the grass with roots bigger than the leaves.

Since the fragrance of Youcao is concentrated in the leaves of the grass, the scent of the distilled flower dew is not as high-grade, and even a little weak, and it is not like the taste of pure Youcao flower dew.

But it smells good too, just not that exciting.

"Boss, people are here." Lu Lu said outside the door of the special distillation room.

Lin Zhen was full of heat, turned around and said, "Okay, let them all come in, carry the things to the No. [-] courtyard of Shuifenfang, and ask those workers who have practiced for two days to put the dew in."

For the past two days, Lin Zhen has been distilling floral dew here, and took a little time to go to the No. [-] courtyard to explain the necessity of steaming porcelain bottles to the newly recruited workers, and to seal the caps of the bottles with melted wax after filling the dew. .

And ask them to try their hands with water in a porcelain bottle first, so as not to waste the dew at that time.

The job is not difficult, the girls and boys recruited in order to serve the bowl of rice from Lin's gouache workshop, and some even practice at night.

"Yes." Lu Lu answered outside the door, calling Zhou Zhengchu and the others to come in.

Zhou Zhengchu and the others ate and drank well for the past two days, and their strength returned. When they heard that Lin Zhen finally had something to ask them to do, they all cheered up.

They thought that Lin Zhen would ask them to do heavy work, but they didn't expect that when they entered, they saw a few large wooden barrels made of high-quality wood in front of a wall, and the fire behind the wall had been burning for an unknown amount of time. It was hot in every corner.

Lin Zhen came out from behind the wall and pointed to several large wooden barrels: "You guys transport these wooden barrels filled with dew to No. [-] Courtyard, and hand them over to the packaging team, and they will handle it themselves."

"Yes, boss." In fact, before coming here, Zhou Zhengchu and the others had always thought that Lin Zhen was an ordinary businessman, but they didn't expect that he had something to do with Lizhou's state government office, and they immediately thought of something about them.

But Lizhou was too far away from their original place, and the few people understood that it was useless even if they said it, and they were all bored in their hearts.

Zhou Zhengchu clasped his fists to salute Lin Zhen, and carried out the heavy wooden bucket with his brothers, put it on the cart, and pulled it to the No. [-] courtyard of Lin's Water Fen Workshop.

The girls and buddies of the packaging team who have already received the news have been looking forward to it for a long time. Today is the day they officially put on the flower dew, and the kung fu they practiced in the previous two days will be used at this moment!

As soon as they saw Zhou Zhengchu and the others coming, and learned that the barrel contained floral dew, the ladies and buddies from the packaging team immediately walked in, steamed the porcelain vase, and melted the wax...

"Huh." Standing in the distillation room, Lin Zhen from the government office felt that he had never been so busy before, so he fanned the wind with his hands.

When this wave of work is over, he must lie down for a day!