Saying that there was no rush, after returning to Yanlai Lane, Mrs. Liu took Xuan Xuan to decorate the yard with a lantern, while Chen Nianguan took out a charcoal pole.

When I signed the house deed, I knew that my calligraphy was not very good, and I don’t have time to practice calligraphy now, so I found a straight tree branch in the firewood pile, cut it with a knife, and lit it while the front end was burning into charcoal.Take it out and extinguish it, and make many such charcoal pencils.

Spreading out the raw paper used to practice calligraphy, Chen Nianguan began to write and draw.

What she bought today was cooking utensils for her next money-making project.

In order to continue to sell stalls in the future, it is not so simple to set up a stall on a table like selling fish curd, so it is necessary to make a convenient stall cart.

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. The same is true for cooking and eating!

If possible, it is best to make a modern small stall truck. If the technology of this era cannot meet the requirements, it is not impossible to find a substitute by comparison.

It just so happens that have thirty taels of silver on hand. It should be enough to find a carpenter and blacksmith to make a small cart with this silver!

Thanks to Chen Nianguan who specializes in mechanical engineering, Hyundai's simple mechanical products such as stall cars are not difficult for her.

After one night, Chen Nianguan took several parts of the truck apart and drew them, planning to take them to the carpenter and blacksmith respectively.

It's a pity that on the 15th today, everyone was busy with the reunion and the festival, and the doors were closed. Neither the carpenter nor the blacksmith could find anyone, so she had to put this matter aside for the time being.

Mrs. Liu was washing the courtyard early.

Xuan Xuan is teasing the chickens she just bought in the courtyard.

Chen Nianguan ran to the pond at the back of the house to look at the snails that had been stocked overnight.

Mid-autumn festival, of course we have to eat snails, but it is troublesome to deal with.

However, there is more than enough time to concentrate on a delicious meal in a day, not to mention, she has two helpers, one big and one small.

While shopping at the market yesterday, Chen Nianguan had already figured out what to eat for the reunion night.

As a southerner, a chicken is indispensable.

Fish is usually eaten, and it's not the New Year's Eve, so won't eat it tonight.

Then make a lotus pond stir-fry, a plate of fried snails.

Finally, a stew of soup is enough.

The three mothers and daughters don't eat much, and even though they are poor and rich now, they can't be extravagant.

She doesn't know how much money it will cost to make a stall cart, so she still has to save it first.

Mrs. Liu also bought two chickens, and heard that Chen Nianwan wanted to kill one for the reunion dinner. When he went to the cage to pick out the chickens, he asked, "Wanwan, I think the yard in front of us is very spacious, and the chickens are not cheap.How many do we have?"

Mrs. Liu has never been in charge of the house, so she didn't arrange food for the festival, and everything was naturally according to Chen Nianguan.

Chen Nianguan said that meat should be eaten during festivals. Liu recalled that in her natal family or in Chen's family, she could only eat two slices of meat during festivals. The eldest daughter was right.

Since she was born, she has never eaten meat to her heart's content. In order to eat well tonight, Mrs. Liu endured the heartache and spent a lot of money to buy meat. Two chickens cost 160 yuan, and the bone was 34 yuan.Wenqian, plus other fruits and vegetables, is really extravagant!

Seeing that her own yard was empty and empty, Liu wanted to raise a few chickens to save some rations, and save some!

Chen Nianguan quickly shook his head.

It's okay to grow some shallots and garlic, but raising chickens is unnecessary. She has seen chicken yards in farms in modern times. It's not bad, but she can't accept the hygienic conditions.

The stench is hard to get rid of.

What's more, the chicken is a domestic animal with a small brain and can't understand human speech at all. It wanders around the courtyard all day without restraint, and it walks wherever it goes.

She is a modern person who has requirements for the living environment. The small farmyard with chickens crowing and dogs barking is warm, but she can't bear it, no matter how much she likes chicken.

It would be nice to just sit in the courtyard and look at the beautiful scenery of the jujube trees, or wouldn’t it be nice to plant grapes and plant some small flowers and grasses in the future?

Seeing that her daughter disagreed, Mrs. Liu did not insist, but went to pick out a big fat chicken, cut off the neck swiftly, and scalded water to pluck the hair after bloodletting.

Chen Nianguan has already blanched the bone bone, put it into the earthen pot with the ginger and put it on the stove to cook.

Then went to wash the snails, and had to cut the tail after washing.

When she was having fun cutting, Mrs. Liu came over and told her that the chicken was finished, and asked her what to do?

"Just chop it up and fry it!"

It is too troublesome to make escargot, so don’t want to make too troublesome dishes, just wash it and chop it into pieces, add green onion and ginger and stir-fry.

Just fry the chicken intestines and gizzards together.

After cleaning the snails, saw that the bone soup was almost boiled, so boiled the white rice, and put the diced radish, pepper, wolfberry, red dates and other ingredients into the soup and continued to boil. At the end, added a few.The small scallops bought at the pier are fresh.

Liu's side had already cut the lotus root and prepared the crushed peanuts, and waited for the eldest daughter to open the pot.

Liu Shi now has extraordinary confidence in her eldest daughter's cooking skills, and has already determined that she will be able to cook delicious food, and listening to her eldest daughter is definitely right.

Of course, Chen Nianguan will not disappoint Liu's expectations of himself.

Because plan to eat while watching the moon in the courtyard, rice and bone soup are already cooked in the small kitchen, so the cooking is carried out on the earthen stove in the courtyard.

Familiar with the car, fried a home-cooked chicken nugget, slipped the lotus root slices, and the soup is also good.

The family of three also moved out the earthen pot and the rice cooker, and ate the reunion dinner under the jujube tree.

No matter what era it is, free-range chickens are smooth and meaty, and they are delicious no matter how they are cooked. Chen Nianguan came up with hundreds of ways to roast chicken in his mind.

The soup is also delicious, seasoned with scallops, rich and sweet.

Not to mention the lotus root slices, they are crunchy and glutinous.

It's been a long time since I've smelled meat. Chen Nianwan, who misses Lao Huo's soup, ate to his heart's content. Looking at Liu Shi and Xuan Xuan's inability to stop eating, they were also impressed by the food.

After reluctantly removing the remaining seats, Mrs. Liu took out a small nest basket containing moon cakes, sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and other cakes, and offered them on the square platform, and lit lamps to worship the moon.

Over there, Chen Nianguan started to concentrate on frying the snails.

Originally, when the chicken was fried, there was an attractive aroma in the yard, and the aroma wafted to the neighbors' homes.

When frying the snails, put the onion, ginger, garlic and pepper into the hot oil and sauté until fragrant, and the fragrant and spicy smell will waft out of the yard directly.

Chen Nianguan didn't care, poured a plate of snails into the pot with a clatter, and added fennel, pepper, cornel pepper, salt, sugar and other seasonings while stirring, not to mention the neighbors who smelled fragrant outside.Liu Shi and Xuan Xuan, who were watching her cooking from the sidelines, also swallowed.

When the snails were fried, they were placed on the Sifangtai, and the mother and daughter sat on one side, sucking the snails with relish.

Chen Nianguan took a sip of fruit wine, held a snail in his hand, looked at the moonlight in the night sky, and wanted to sigh that life is like this, what more can ask for?

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Nianguan and the Liu family resumed their stall days.

Because the cooking utensils for the next project had to be prepared, after returning from the stall, Chen Nianguan went out to find a carpenter's shop with the drawings and money.

The master carpenter looked at Chen Nianguan's drawings, probably the first time he saw them, and asked them in detail, and finally agreed that he could do it.

Uncle He, a carpenter, saw that the wood material was not specified on the drawings. When she asked Chen Nianguan, she added requirements. It should be strong, wear-resistant and not easy to be corroded by insects, and each board should be at least three centimeters thick. The price was raised to 300 yuan.

It's just that Uncle He has doubts about whether he can make a round wooden wheel and use mortise and tenon joints, and he lacks confidence.

"Uncle He, just do it, make a few more, and the materials consumed will be mine." Chen Nianguan almost patted the carpenter Uncle He on the shoulder to encourage him, and generously left a deposit of 100 Wen.

When it came to the blacksmith shop, when she asked the blacksmith to make the two pots she wanted, the price was so expensive.

An iron pan with an open mouth of 40 centimeters costs two taels of silver, and a frying pan with a thin bottom costs more than one tael.

When she first moved into Yanlai Lane and bought an iron pot and a kitchen knife, she knew that iron products were very expensive.

But fortunately she has spare money now, so she ordered a large iron pot, a thin-bottomed frying pan, a small round-bottomed cooking pot, a curved thin-bladed kitchen knife, aThe castor spoon and a thin shovel were bargained with the blacksmith for a long time, and finally a total of six taels of silver was spent.

The guy who makes money can't do without everything.

Then she went to buy a stone mill.

After buying the stone mill, Chen Nianguan wanted to buy a donkey again.

Anyway, the purpose of buying a stone mill is to grind beans and rice. Buying a donkey saves manpower, so she and A Niang don't have to work so hard.

Besides, donkeys can also pull carts, and you can use donkeys to pull them when you usually buy something. From home to the wharf to open a stall, the donkey can pull the cart there.

Kill three birds with one stone.

The most important thing is that if she has a donkey, she has a means of transportation. Doesn't she have a car?

It's not a luxury car, but it's still a small car!

Ordinary people, who hasn't accumulated experience from riding a bicycle before driving a luxury car?

If you don’t have a house, it’s okay to be a car owner first!

The more Chen Nianguan thought about it, the more his heart became more and more moved. When he returned home in a rented donkey cart with the stone mill he bought, two stoves, soybeans, brown rice and firewood, his eyes lit up when he looked at the donkey cart.

When he entered the house and saw the donkey tied in the yard, his eyes were straightened.

What a coincidence, just as she was about to buy a car, A Niang had an idea and bought the donkey first?

Chen Nianguan didn't realize that he had made an oolong when he saw Mrs. Liu calling out to the strange man he had met in the past and asking him to call him Uncle.

The donkey belonged to Uncle Liu. Uncle Liu came to the city to see his sister during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Knowing that her sister had a hard life, he used the donkey to bring some local products from the countryside to her.

The Liu family was considered a high-ranking marriage back then.

She is the daughter of a peasant family in the village, but the Chen family can be regarded as urbanites with a certain status.

Chen Ming's father, that is, the grandfather of the original body, was the head of the village of Qingzhi Lane in Funing County. After Chen Ming's father retired, the current head of the village is Chen's eldest son.

This is also the reason why the Chen family readily agreed when the nephew of Dou Shuban's family fell in love with Yuanshen.

The book office is the leader of the six departments of the county government, especially the household housing, which governs the household registrations, land taxes, and real estate deeds of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in a county.The room with the most fat and water.

And the village head manages the gates within a hundred miles near the alley. Whenever the county government has important matters to sort out household registration or tax, the household department usually directly finds the village chief of the street to work. That's how the Chen family knows the household departmentThe yamen inside work with Dou Shu.

The head of the village and the secretary office of the Ministry of Household Affairs, no matter their power or family background, are very different from each other.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the Chen family wants to have an in-law relationship with Dou Shuban.

To put it a long way, in the eyes of ordinary people, the head of the village is also an official, so they think that the Chen family eats from the official family. At first, the Liu family took a fancy to Chen Ming because the Chen family had such a relationship.

In addition, Chen Ming studied hard and was already a child at that time, so when Chen Ming fell in love with the delicate and graceful Liu family, the Liu family agreed immediately.

It was only after Liu's marriage that she realized that the official family on the surface and the real official family were two different things.