Fields of Gold

Wang slaughterhouse kills a pig every day, half of it is only sent to a restaurant in the market, and the rest of the day is not much left.

Little grass routinely spent six cents, bought a pig head, today's pig belly and the large intestine, she also insisted on giving four cents, the pig blood king butcher said no more money.

Feeling the silver horn given by Brother Six in her arms, she cut another two kilograms of five-flower meat and two kilograms of hind leg meat, and asked for a large pork bone. Wang Tutuo looked at her with surprise and said: "I came to the house today to buy so much meat? ”

Little grass didn't explain it either, just smiling: "Well, it can't be too cold to entertain a more honorable guest! ”

Put the ingredients in the unicycle pushed by Yuhai, and she led the way into a rice grocery store in the market. As soon as I entered the shop, I heard the noise inside, grown-ups shouting, children crying, very lively.

Little grass stood there for a while, turning out to be a rice grain shop kid naughty, accidentally spilled water on a bag of glutinous rice. The owner of the rice grain store hastily rescued it, and the glutinous rice was still wet by a dozen kilos. As you all know, if the rice dries, it will be completely powdered even if it dries. Seventeen or eight pounds of glutinous rice, you can't sell it!

The master cabinet family leans on this small rice grain store every month, and can only barely sustain their livelihood. At once, they lose 17 or 18 kg of glutinous rice. That's more than a hundred dollars. Can the master cabinet not be distressed? I couldn't bear to beat up my child, I could only curse my anger with stink.

“Uncle, this wet glutinous rice, I'll sell it for three pennies a pound.” Grass looked at the sudden sound.

Her voice was not very loud and the noise in the store stopped. ”The master cabinet looked at the grass and looked at the grownups behind her.“ Little girl, after the rice has passed the water, it won't taste good... ”

“It's not good, doesn't it mean you can't eat it? Uncle, you can't sell your rice anyway, why don't you sell it to me for a cheap price!” Little grass smiled sweetly.

The master of the rice shop just wanted to say something, but his wife pulled his sleeve and stood up: “Little girl, this glutinous rice is usually eight or nine pounds, if you want it all, at least five cents a pound, otherwise we might as well keep it for ourselves! ”

The rice grain parlor was rushed and angry, watching his daughter-in-law dry. His daughter-in-law glanced at him severely, with the expression, "If you dare talk, I won't finish with you”.

Little grass shrugged her shoulders, "In that case, the lady in charge should keep it for herself! Father, let's go to the rice grain store over there...”

The rice grain store master hurried away from his daughter-in-law and stopped the fathers and daughters from going. “Don't go! Three for three! A total of 19 pounds. The glutinous rice is wet. I'll give you one more pound to remove...”

Little grass was quite honest with the master cabinet, paid 54 mandarins, asked Dad to carry the glutinous rice into the car, asked about the price of flour and rice, thought it was fair, and bought another 10 kg of flour and 5 kg of rice. More than one hundred and thirty languages were used in the rice grain store.

Luckily, today's business is good, selling halibut alone earned more than 200 languages, plus two taels of broken silver given by Brother Six, the grass doesn't feel soft.

From rice grain stores to grocery stores, it replenishes the few seasonings in the house, especially when you buy half a kilo of white sugar for a bite of your teeth. It's not enough to spend all the money selling halogens today. But if you think about it, it'll take at least half a month to make her a few taels of silver. Little grass immediately rejoiced.

Daughter spends money like running water, the money is not hot yet, so it flows out again. Yuhai did not ask, he did not even say a word about buying glutinous rice soaked in water.

On the way back, Grass asked him with a smile: "Dad, I bought glutinous rice that had been blistered. Why don't you stop it? ”

Pushing her daughter's face satisfied Yuhai, she smiled: “Our grass must have been useful. Dad knows you're not a child who spends money. Besides, even if you don't have glutinous rice in your hands, it won't be wasted. Powdered glutinous rice makes porridge much better than bean pasta! ”

Grass smiled and said, “Thank you for the trust, I really have plans! Brother Six asked me to help make a table to entertain guests, and I wanted to make something special. He saved my life, and we have to help him with his long face. I'm going to make pearl balls out of glutinous rice, glutinous and delicious, crystal clear, both visually and tastefully squeaky! Guests will love it. Glutinous rice is milled into glutinous rice flour and you can also make dessert with it... and make pork blood glutinous rice cake is also good! ”

Yuhai saw her daughter's skinny little face, filled with confident glow, and she was happy and proud of herself - the daughter who had thought she could not raise enough, she could share in this family for him!

When I got home, Little Grass started working on the menu, Zhang Luo's ingredients. Pearl pills need small steamer cages, this simple bamboo vessel is naturally hard to survive. Without a sip of water, he began to chop bamboo and make steamer cages at his daughter's request.

To make pearl balls, you need salted egg yolk. The little grass knocked on Qian's door and Mao stepped out of it. She saw the grass, and she said, "Grass? Why are you here at this hour? ”

"Aunt Qian, do you have salted duck eggs? Can you sell me a few? ”

Although the amount of eggs laid by ducks decreased in winter, duck eggs were not so popular, and most people didn't like the smell of duck eggs very much. For ease of preservation, the Mao family marinated the duck eggs with coarse sea salt and sold them with food, leaving some.

“Yes! Grass, how many do you want? Salted duck eggs cost a penny a piece!” Mao's sexuality is like this, never false, straight to the local road.

Little grass nods her head, she loves this straightforward look, she's really embarrassed to ask for it without money. She pulled out ten copper plates from her bag and handed them over: “Aunt Qian, give me ten first, then if you need them, I'll buy them at my aunt's house. ”

Mao picked up eleven duck eggs from the jar and put them in a basket of weed. He smiled: "My family Qianwu, this morning I ran to your house to talk. We don't have anything good at home, so I'll give you one more duck egg! ”

Mao's mouth doesn't spare, but he doesn't like to take advantage of it. Qian Wu ran home in the morning and ate two bad little fish, just worth a penny, so he gave an extra duck egg.

Little Grass didn't say anything either. Thanks to Mao, she went home and put the menu through her head again. Brother Six's guests are from the North. There's no meat in them, they love spicy food... there it is! In the afternoon, go with Dad to get a bigger fish, make "boiled fish slices”, fish head can also make "chopped pepper head”!

Plus pearl pills, there are three great dishes. What else is special? Little grass hangs her brains out... right! Didn't you buy five flowers? She remembers Aunt Zhou's house getting some dried plums, borrowing some from her and making "plum buttons"!

All four dishes are vegetables. Why should we have a vegetarian combination? But this time of year, where are the fresh vegetables? Little grass glanced at the green vegetable seedlings stretching their leaves in the midday sun in the courtyard and couldn't help but scourge them at this time. If it doesn't work, just pinch a few bigger leaves and make a bowl of "Green Egg Soup”.

Go to Tofu Factory later to buy some dried tofu, fry it into oil tofu, make it with old halogen, a plate of “dried halogenated tofu” comes out of the stove. Why don't you... have another plate of "sweet and vinegar cabbage" after all, the ingredients are limited at this time.

And all of a sudden, she had this "sauce and meat silk" in her head, a dish that she loved herself, and there shouldn't be any in this day and age? It must be novel and delicious, so I removed the dish "chopped pepper fish head” from the menu.

Four meals of vegetarian soup, plus a staple - glutinous rice sweet potato cake, two people would definitely be more than enough!

In the afternoon, Xiaolian took the little stone to the pier to sell the bad fish. After Yuhai made the steam cage, she took the little grass to the formulated “bait” to fish. He was given a very important task, which was to bring back a fish weighing at least five pounds, preferably green.

The Liu family was busy packing up the pigs' heads and large intestines brought back by the grass and was going to halve out by night. Fang Shi came to the door. She couldn't help herself. She also rolled up her sleeves to help. As soon as we got busy, the whole family couldn't help but have two more hands.

Grass's mission is to take a nap. She has to get up early the next morning for lunch.

Sure enough, grass wakes up automatically when it's not dawn. When she climbed up, she saw that the Liu family was already busy in the kitchen, and she wanted to prepare her breakfast in advance so that the father and daughter could eat up and leave.

Making pearl pills to chop meat filling, good thing there is not much needed, Liu's linen “boom boom” a few moments to chop. The grass seasoned the meat filling well. It was crushed in the palm of the hand and wrapped in half a duck egg yolk. The meat was rounded, glutinous rice rolled up and steamed in a cage for two minutes.

Water-cooked fish chips are a little more troublesome, and if you want to eat them hot, the grass will bring the old days to Dad's small mud stove, and put some charcoal on it. In the slightly cold sea breeze, eat hot and spicy water-cooked fish, it must taste good!

Six dishes, one soup, one staple meal, the little grass maids have been busy for almost an hour to get it done. Today, Yuhai is still pushing the wheelbarrow, not only with the halogen to be sold today, but also with a table set by Brother Six.

Along the way, grass sits on a wheelbarrow with two baskets of soup to prevent spills on the road. Then she'll be busy all morning!

By the time we got to the pier, Brother Six had already waited there. His place is the best looking building on the market - the Linjia Restaurant. Says it's the best house, only three and a half new mud houses. Brother Lu wrapped up the only room in the restaurant, and had Grass make a table of dishes so that he could see how much he cared about his guests.

Six brothers are to receive an administrator of Jingwang Mansion. Jingwang is in charge of most of the domestic maritime transport, which is responsible for the north-south grain.