On June 15th, the moon should be round at night and the sun should be round during the day.
Today is the second volt and at the same time it is a severe heat.
There was no cloud in the blue sky, and the light shone directly down, making people feel stuffy and humid.
Everyone was sweating non-stop, and even in the shady room, the leader and Hanhan were so hot that they almost stuck out their tongues.
"Hanhan, I discovered that this year's dog days are hotter than in previous years." The resident took a sip of tea and wiped his sweat with a silk handkerchief.
"That's what you said last year." Zhu Wentian looked at the shadows on the ground when someone walked by on the road outside.
Everyone tries to walk under the house on the south side, so the queue becomes chaotic and someone always has to run into the sunshine.
People at this time always keep to the left when walking, not to the right, including vehicles. When two vehicles cross each other, they all keep to their respective lefts.
"It's hotter this year than last year. I'm right." The head of the village followed him and asked, "Can an egg be fried on the road?"
“It’s not yet noon, so I went to the village to make arrangements to cook sorghum rice, which is easy to pass through the water and has large grains.
Then I soaked the cucumbers in well water, and after a while I made garlic cucumbers. I went down to find a big pot and stir-fried two pots of soybeans.
Prepare a pot here, turn the well water into salt, add more chopped green onions, add peppercorns, and off you go. "
Zhu Wentian said he was going downstairs to work.
The captain grabbed him and said, "Honey, the lunch box is enough. Who are you going to give the sorghum rice and stir-fried salt beans to eat?"
"Give it to the people who usually prepare to put out fires, let them go out to water the road, and don't have to take care of the meal?" Zhu Wentian looked at the boss.
"Okay, you go and speculate, I'll call someone." The manager let go of his hand and went downstairs with Hanhan.
He first arranged for others to cook sorghum rice and prepare vegetables, and then went to Jubiqi across the street to find Zhu Xiang and tell him what had happened.
"They must be very happy that someone is taking care of the food, but there are more than a thousand people! Maybe there are people who volunteer to help."
Zhu Chong also disliked the heat. It was a good idea to water the road, but there were so many people. He was afraid that Xiaqiu Village would not be able to prepare in time.
"I've asked people to go back to the village to cook, but Hanhan is frying beans in a big pot." Having many guarantors is not a problem.
"I'm going to find my elder brother." Zhu Xi felt relieved. He had to go to his elder brother. He couldn't mobilize the army, but the prince could.
The people responsible for putting out fires are sergeants, and there are more than a thousand of them. Together with other civilian organizations, they will cooperate when a fire breaks out.
Non-governmental organizations need to receive specialized training and do not rescue blindly. They are mainly to face the enemy's fire attack, not just to help someone's family.
Some of their people are working elsewhere at the moment, so such people cannot participate.
Zhu Biao, who was in class at the main hall, was called out. After understanding the situation, he asked for leave to make arrangements, and someone rode on horseback to give the order.
Two quarters of an hour later, buckets of water were pushed out. Someone walked behind, opened the opening under the bucket, and controlled the amount of water. As the car moved, the ground became wet.
Some people held pumps in their hands and sprayed the road surface to moisten the areas that were not watered.
Zhu Wentian was just frying the third pot of soybeans, sweating like rain, when the village sent someone on a cart to deliver a large bucket, which contained sorghum rice that had been cooled with well water. The sorghum rice was soaked in the water at the moment.
Patted cucumbers are also being delivered one after another. The kitchen here prepares salt water from the well water, chopped green onion, and peppercorns. The previously fried beans are poured into a basin and a basin is placed on top.
The soybeans just out of the pot are hot, absorb water, and then soaked. Whether they are salty or not depends on how much salt is added.
Anyway, I didn’t add too much salt this time. There were so many people, so I just ate the beans because there was less salt. They were so delicious!
People eating box lunches came one after another, and they were very happy when they saw the water for fishing sorghum rice and salt water beans.
As a result, they still had hot rice and fried chrysanthemum and eggplant. Just these two dishes, and now there is no box lunch for five cents.
Fortunately, there is a lot of vegetable oil for cooking, and chicken oil is used for frying, using the chicken oil that is a by-product of the sizzling chicken rack.
"It's two days today! Why don't you give me something good?" someone shouted loudly.
"I'll give each of you a plate of cooked food. It's hot today, so there probably won't be many people buying. I'll see which ones can't be sold, and I'll bring them to you."
The headmaster thought that it was indeed the second lunar month, so he should have a good meal to replenish his energy, and ask a few children to go to the delicatessen to have a look.
"Actually, it's better to make fried noodles today, which will save money than the current one." Someone else suggested.
"It's too late, let's do it next year!" Li Chang replied to the other party.
In fact, the main reason is that there is a shortage of food. His Royal Highness is going to patrol the north and there must be supplies on the way, so the food from there should stop being sold here first.
That is the main wheat-producing area. Once the wheat production stopped, the wheat reserves in Xiaqiu Village dropped. I was afraid that there would be no noodles in special events, so I made rice.
"It's good to have something to eat! If you talk more, you'll get angry. There won't be box lunches for sale tomorrow. Where can we cry?"
After eating, we took a break and helped water it twice more. The sun was strong and the water would dry up in a while.
Is the water rice cooked by the village chief for them to eat? That's why Xiaqiu Village is so kind and righteous. "
Someone noticed it, and it was obviously made temporarily, and Hanhan even fried the beans himself.
"His Royal Highness arranged it." The chief naturally gave the credit to Zhu Biao.
After Zhu Wentian finished frying the fourth pot, he threw away the shovel, turned around and rushed into the courtyard of the house behind.
He found some clean clothes, went to the well in the back, took off his original clothes, fetched a bucket of water, and poured it over from head to toe.
A quarter of an hour later, he finished washing all the previous clothes, with his hair disheveled, and ran under the sun to shake his hair with his hands.
People walking on the streets do feel much cooler, as the water takes away a lot of heat.
Moreover, the streets in Yingtianfu are all made of stone. Nanjing used to be called Stone City because there are many stones here.
For example, the Rouge River looks beautiful because the stones of different ages have different colors. It is called Rouge Hill.
There are many stones, so you cannot use soil to pave the road. You are not afraid that the road will be muddy after watering, but because of the splashing of water, people can smell the smell of stones in the air.
After watering all over again, plus the time to get water back and forth, it was the end of noon.
The workers were also sweating profusely and drank a lot of mung bean water.
The people who ate the lunch took over their work very wisely and went to help continue filling the water, and started all over again in the dry and hot area after watering before.
They then went into the lunch box restaurant in Xiaqiu Village to wash their hands and faces, then filled a bowl of sorghum rice cooled with well water, and ate it slowly with cucumbers and fried salted beans.
The texture of soaked soybeans is similar to that of sorghum rice. They are both grainy. When chewing the two together in your mouth, the more you chew, the more delicious they become.
Zhu Xi came over to eat together: "I thought I could eat a bowl of noodles, but after seeing this, I still stopped eating noodles. Has it been watered in the past few days?"
The village chief and others also ate this: "If it rains, we will stop. If it doesn't rain, we will still have to trouble everyone."
People nearby said it was not troublesome, that it was their duty to work, and that they were earning money if they could eat good food for free.
Xiaqiu Village does not provide meals, so they still have to work.
"Chief, our nephew will be full moon in three days, which is amazing! The first child in the next generation."
Zhu Xi took two mouthfuls of rice and reminded the head of the house, "Fu Yue, your full moon ceremony will not go wrong, right?"
The farmer came back to life, still a little uncomfortable, but much better than before.
(End of chapter)
