"Lang Jun! What kind of dish is this? It looks green with green leaves, but it has a strong pungent smell?"
Hua Rui held her long skirt around her waist and stood with Liu Jixing in the vegetable garden. Although he was slightly frowning in surprise, he could not hide the joy on his face. Regardless of the people next to him looking at him, he asked Liu Jixing with a few green vegetables.
Because Liu Jixing had just made a set of furniture for the Wang family, the sense of intimacy immediately rose again, and everyone had an in-depth exchange of views happily. Liu Jixing stopped talking and did not continue to do anything for the Wang family. After all, this kind of thing can happen again and again, but not three times.
Old man Wang is also very knowledgeable, but he has already excitedly regarded Liu Jixing as the most distinguished guest. However, because Ouyang Tong couldn't hold back his yelling, he saw that Brother Qing had already killed the duck, so he asked Liu Jixing to cook.
The two old men from the Wang family didn't know that Ouyang Tong wanted to taste the duck, so they just saw that the group was hungry. But there really wasn't anything delicious at home. I even killed one of the shelducks that I couldn't bear to part with, so it was really hard to do anything else. However, Grandma Wang had some ideas, so she said she would go up the mountain to pick some mushrooms and dig some bamboo shoots to entertain the guests.
Liu Jixing didn't have the nerve to do this. Although Granny Wang was not much older than his actual age, she looked like an old man at this time, so he asked Shi Yan and the other one to accompany Granny Wang to the mountainside.
Here, Old Man Wang took out the dried small fish collected at home again, and saw that they were all nameless small fish, almost none as big as a finger. But it was dry in the sun and smelled of a strong natural fragrance. But it was in the creek in front of him that Old Wang usually fished it out of the net when he had free time. He usually didn't want to take it out to eat.
Because I saw Liu Jixing made a set of tables and stools for me, I was so happy that I couldn't express it in words. With a large group of people, Liu Jixing seems to be the only one who is following the lead, and Old Man Wang naturally sees something. Because after all, in this era, if someone can carry his own knife when going out, how can he be an ordinary person?
At that time, Old Man Wang was a little apprehensive, but when he thought about his two old men and his daughter-in-law, although they were pretty, compared with the three accompanying women, they didn't even need to be maids, so he gradually felt relieved. Coupled with the fact that Liu Jixing speaks Mandarin and is friendly and natural, Old Man Wang liked him a little bit. At this time, seeing Liu Jixing take action, all the worries in his heart finally disappeared, and he naturally hoped to bring out all the delicious food at home to entertain him.
Liu Jixing was not pretentious, because he saw that there was a vegetable garden near Wang's house, so he asked Mr. Chen if he had any vegetables to pick.
Mrs. Chen already has a two or three-year-old child who has just learned to walk on her own. Because the man works as a foreman in the mine and rarely comes back once in a few days, so he follows the old man and has not yet had a second child. Women and family members in the countryside were not as shy as later generations, and women at this time were far from being as rational as those after the Song Dynasty, and basically maintained the openness of the Tang Dynasty.
Although receiving guests is not a problem for women in the country. But after all, being a woman has some inconveniences, but she may be from a branch of a big family, but she has seen some of the world, and she speaks and acts decently.
Even when facing so many strangers, she was basically the one dealing with them. This naturally gave Liu Jixing an excellent impression. Because this reflects that although these places are remote and poor, the people are not uncivilized.
Although Mrs. Chen saw many strangers, she was shocked by Liu Jixing's behavior. With this unreasonable behavior and everyone's politeness towards Liu Jixing, she naturally understood that the young man in front of her was not a simple person.
Even though Liu Jixing acted very easygoing and common people, when it was her turn to face him, she naturally led him respectfully and went to her vegetable garden with Liu Jixing.
Accompanying Liu Jixing at this time were naturally Hua Rui and Ran Xiuniang. Huarui followed her in a dependent manner, but Ran Xiuniang followed her somewhat inexplicably. When Liu Jixing introduced herself to Mr. Chen as his daughter, Ran Xiuniang did not refute, but had a faint flash of surprise in her eyes.
Hua Rui naturally won't think so much, because she understands that there are many things that are inconvenient for everyone coming all the way. Therefore, it is excellent and convenient for Liu Jixing to speak out alone.
Naturally, she didn't think about Liu Jixing's thoughts. Even Ran Xiuniang herself didn't think that Liu Jixing had other deep meanings.
Of course, although Liu Jixing occasionally has thoughts, he actually doesn't do it deliberately. He had the feeling that Ran Xiuniang would be a beautiful girl in the future, so he felt close to her from the beginning.
But to satisfy my own desires, I have the beauty Hua Rui beside me. But for Ran Xiuniang's inexplicable feeling, she has been looking for a way to adjust it! After all, when he returns to Prince Xing's Mansion, there will be many women around him.
Besides, Huan Huan didn't know what was wrong. She kept following Ouyang Tong. She didn't know what the two of them were doing, but they kept whispering to each other. There was a mysterious look that made people a little suspicious. But Liu Jixing didn't bother to ask them. As long as Huanhuan didn't get into trouble under his nose, he would give the ghost mother an explanation.
Moreover, people like Ouyang Tong would not be secretive about their own affairs. What you really want to do to others must be done openly.
His sneaky behavior made people feel that their affairs could not be told to others, or that they could not be told so that everyone would know.
When the group of people came to Caiyuanzi, Liu Jixing was naturally keenly aware of Chen's restraint, so he called Chen his sister with a smile and told her not to be too polite. If people like them come to the Wang family, they are disturbing the family. If they still make the family feel uneasy, then they will be guilty of a big crime.
Seeing Liu Jixing's sincerity and asking Huarui and Ran Xiuniang to call her sister, Ms. Chen's heart melted. She pulled the two women to appear cordial, and then they went into the vegetable garden together to pick vegetables.
In fact, this is not a vegetable garden. It is just a few pieces of wasteland opened by their family and planted with many seasonal vegetables. This kind of pastoral life that urbanites of later generations dream of is a manifestation of poverty in this era.
Because these lands belong to the emperor, if ordinary people want to farm, they need to pay taxes! Even if it is only cultivated and the court knows about it, that is a big deal!
Liu Jixing once thought about changing the law and improving these exorbitant taxes. But he still encountered some resistance, so Liu Jixing thought that he must gradually improve!
But Liu Jixing said he likes to eat, but he really doesn't have the habit of picking vegetables by himself at this time. But because it is so leisurely here, and I feel that the folk customs are simple, my mood naturally improves and relaxes a lot. At this time, when I entered the vegetable garden and saw natural vegetables everywhere, I couldn't help but feel happy.
"Looking at the beautiful leaves, it has a bit of a pungent smell. In fact, it is really a good green vegetable. It can be eaten, and it leaves a fragrant taste in your mouth. It smells strange and makes you want to vomit when you see it. Some people It is called coriander. It is native to Siam and even further overseas. Later, some people from Lingnan went to sea and brought it back to the Central Plains. Some people call it coriander because it looks very similar to coriander, so it is easily misidentified. !”
Liu Jixing came in chatting, turned his head and saw Mrs. Chen looking at him in surprise, and couldn't help but whisper: "I wonder where my sister got the seeds?"
"Originally, Lang Jun saw the grown man in the copper mine. Every time he smelled the strange fragrance, he couldn't hold back. In the end, he asked him to beg some from the man. It is said that he brought some from the capital. Come here!" Ms. Chen was a little shy, probably because of the request for vegetable seeds!
"It really is fate! A certain person liked spices at first, so he asked his family to look for them everywhere and get some if they didn't want them! At first, the family couldn't stand it, but now most of them have fallen in love with it!" Liu Jixing did ask someone to search for it, but he didn't expect it. There are many races in Prince Xing's Mansion, especially his brother-in-law Abbas who has the most races. At this time, I was naturally surprised to see that it was planted in such a remote place!
Hearing Liu Jixing talk about his family for the first time, Hua Rui thought that she had never seen them before, and couldn't help feeling nervous. She actually stretched out her hand tightly to hold Liu Jixing.
Seeing Hua Rui's worried look, Liu Jixing suddenly understood, looked at her and smiled slightly, and whispered: "My family is very nice, and they all eat according to my whim, and no one cares about what they eat. Will you?" accustomed!"
Hearing what Liu Jixing said, Hua Rui felt shy, but thinking of Liu Jixing's thoughtfulness, Hua Rui felt even more comforted. I happened to see Mrs. Chen picking a basket of vegetables. I couldn't help but smile and shook off Liu Jixing, saying that I would accompany Mr. Chen to wash the vegetables!
Liu Jixing laughed loudly and returned to the yard with a handful of green onions.
Then they saw that Yuan Shihou had already set up a temporary earth stove in the garden according to his instructions, and took out the iron pot Liu Jixing bought specially in Hengzhou City!
To say that this iron pot was really customized by Liu Jixing, he specially found a blacksmith and asked him to use pig iron to cast an iron pot of one and a half feet in length according to his own requirements!
Liu Jixing immediately took the leftover materials from the table and stools he had just made and brought them to the earthen stove to light the fire. Seeing Brother Qing bringing over and cleaning up the shelduck, Liu Jixing secretly admired how careful this young man was.
Watching Liu Jixing's knife rise and fall, a shelduck that was neither fat nor thin was instantly broken down into evenly sized pieces of meat. Regardless of whether Ouyang Tong was deliberately flattering, or he really agreed with Liu Jixing's knife skills, he praised from the side: "Lang Jun is really like a divine helper. You must be the god of cooking in the world!"
Liu Jixing smiled and didn't tell the difference. Naturally, he already knew Ouyang Tong, an old foodie, very well. At this time, while putting the pot in the pot, he said: "No matter what a certain family does to you, you will be lucky to be able to eat the farm food made by a certain person in your life! It will be difficult for others to eat it in the future!"
Ouyang Tong didn't even notice any objection. Instead, he said with a smile: "Old man, of course I understand, but I don't know what's so great about your farmhouse? But Lang Jun, you seem to have forgotten to add oil when cooking!"
