"He is very good to me." Chu Yue replied while putting the condiments on hand into the basket, "Mom is also very good to me, much better than my biological parents."
"I can see that you are here much better than when you were in Niutou Village." Xu was afraid that he would be misunderstood if he stayed here for a long time, so he said, "Since there is nothing here and you need my help, then I will go first Master is here."
Chu Yue nodded hurriedly, "Go and do your work. The meal will be ready soon. When you finish the last bit of work, you can still eat before leaving."
"Hey, okay." After saying that, he left the kitchen.
Chu Yue stopped what she was doing, looked at Wu Yong's back and sighed.
He is a good person, but his fate is shallow, and there is nothing she can do about it.
At this moment, Yun Cuihe, who had cleaned up the house, also came to the kitchen, "Yueyue, have everything been sorted?"
"Mom, it's been sorted and I'm getting ready to cook."
After a month, more than a hundred kilograms of brown rice had been eaten completely, so Chu Yue directly scooped out the old rice and washed it to make porridge.
The kitchen of the new house has two stoves, so porridge and stir-fry can be done at the same time.
Chu Yue cut a large piece of pig intestine and made two bowls of stir-fried pork intestine. Lu Xingping asked Lu Xingping to take the smaller bowl to the old house, and he also pulled out a half-sized bowl from the old house. I picked the cabbage, washed it, fried it in a bowl, and then invited everyone to eat.
Since other work in the house had been completed, apart from the family, the only people eating were Zhang Zheng and Master Liu.
Zhang Zheng's eyes lit up when he saw the stir-fried sausages on the table. He ate the sausages and porridge in the bowl with a satisfied look on his face.
"If you ask me, I still have to eat the fat sausage made by you. I can eat it better than Yiju's."
Chu Yue smiled and said, "Master is joking, I can't compare to Chef Ruyiju's craftsmanship."
Zhang Zheng pointed to the sausage in the bowl and said seriously, "Hey, Master never talks nonsense. Your sausage tastes authentic."
After hearing this, Master Liu and Wu Yong on the side picked up a piece of sausage and ate it with suspicion.
"Hmm! How can fat sausage be made so delicious? How do you make it?"
Because she had promised that Ruyiju would not be spread out, but now it was difficult not to tell people when they asked, Chu Yue omitted some details, "Actually, it is not difficult to make. Clean the fat intestines, scrub them with plant ash to remove the smell, blanch them in water and scrape them off with a knife. Cut off the excess fat and stir fry, and add more aniseed and sauce when frying. If there is a chance later, Master Liu can also try it."
Master Liu nodded quickly after hearing this, "I'll remember it. I'll ask my mother-in-law to go to town to collect a pair of large intestines to try."
Pig intestines are not an expensive ingredient. A person with two or three pennies can buy a pair. But because they taste terrible, not many people buy them.
If you make it according to the method Chu Yue said, even if it can't match the taste of Ruyiju, it won't be too unpalatable.
After breakfast, Master Liu and Wu Yong took their wages of 600 yuan and left.
Including the wages for building the house before, a total of five taels of silver was spent. This did not include Lu Tiesheng's wages. He put in a lot of effort from keeping bricks and tiles to the completion of the new house. This love is inherited by Yun Cuihe. The wages that should be calculated later still have to be calculated.
Chu Yue wanted to collect the bowls and wash them, but was stopped by Yun Cuihe.
"Yueyue is a person who has serious things to do now. Hurry up and learn from Dr. Zhang. Mother and Xingping Xing'an are responsible for these things at home."
Chu Yue couldn't resist Yun Cuihe, so she had to give her the bowl to wash, while she poured a cup of tea for Zhang Zheng and brought it to him.
"Master, please take a sip of tea first."
Zhang Zheng was originally walking around the courtyard, measuring something with his steps. When he saw Chu Yuelai, he took a sip of tea, put the cup back in her hand, and then squatted down in a corner of the courtyard, holding a stick. He picked at the soil on the ground and put his ear to the ground to listen.
Chu Yue looked puzzled.
"Master, what are you doing?"
Zhang Zheng didn't obey, he just raised his finger and said "shhh".
When Chu Yue saw this, she didn't dare to express her anger. She just stood aside with a tea cup and watched Zhang Zheng quietly while lying on the ground and digging up the soil.
After a while, Zhang Zheng drew a standard circular pattern on the ground, pointed here and said, "If you want to dig a well, this place can produce water."
Chu Yue looked surprised, "Is what Master said true?"
If you can dig a well at home, you don't have to go to the village to fetch water every day. Water is much more convenient.
Zhang Zheng went to the water tank and washed his hands.
"I have been traveling all over the country for so many years. Although I major in medicine, I also know a little about other evil ways. I can't be wrong."
This is great news. Chu Yue hurriedly shouted into the room, "Mother, husband, come quickly."
"What's wrong?"
The two came out of the room and looked at Chu Yue and asked.
Chu Yue hurriedly pointed to the place where Zhang Zheng drew a circle, "Mom, my master said that if we dig a well in this place in the courtyard, water will come out."
Yun Cuihe looked surprised. In the past, there were no wells in the village, but very few produced water.
If you can produce water at home, the rumors about Yueyue being a disaster star will be disproven, and it will be much more convenient to use water at home. It is a way to kill two birds with one stone.
However, she has always been accustomed to asking Lu Xinghe's opinion on matters at home.
"Are you aware of Xinghe?"
Lu Xinghe's thoughts are actually the same as Yun Cuihe's. Although he guessed who was behind yesterday's incident through detailed information, it is difficult to judge the person without definite evidence. From now on, he will only I can be more prepared.
He looked at Zhang Zheng and said, "Doctor Zhang, the terrain here is higher than the houses in the village. Can you roughly estimate how deep the water can be?"
Zhang Zheng thought for a moment, then stretched out the thumb and little finger of his right hand, "No more than six feet [1]."
Chu Yue counted her fingers in her mind. Generally, two people are needed to dig a well. It takes about three days to dig down to a depth of about one foot. Well drilling is relatively dangerous, and the wages are higher than building a house. Generally, it is fifty cents a pound. On a daily basis, two people can get one hundred taels of silver a day. If the water reaches six feet, the wages will be 1,800 taels of silver, plus food, which will cost about two taels of silver.
Although the salary is not low, if it can really produce water, the two taels of silver will be well spent.
Lu Xinghe thought for a moment, then looked at Yun Cuihe, "Mom, how about we dig a well at home?"
When Yun Cuihe heard this, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm still thinking that if you don't agree, I'll secretly find someone to do it. Since everyone has this idea, I'll go to the old house to find your Uncle Dazhu after my mother has washed the dishes. Dazhu The Erzhu brothers used to help others dig wells, so they should be on the way."
Lu Xinghe nodded and went back to the house to apply tung oil on the furniture.
Zhang Zheng took the tea in Chu Yue's hand again and drank it clean, "Okay, put the tea bowl back and follow me for a walk in the mountains. I will first show you the medicinal materials and preparation methods that you are not familiar with. .”
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【1】1 Zhang=3.33333 meters, 6 Zhang≈20 meters.
