Visit the Farmland
Pork bone soup, braised pork, fried pork slices with spring bamboo shoots, braised fish, shredded potatoes, four dishes, and one soup were placed on the table. The peculiar aroma was floating in the air, Zhou Yu couldn't help swallowing.
Zhou Yu was not allowed to drink because he was still young, so Shen Yanbei poured a small bowl of rice wine for himself and Gu Changfeng. The aroma of that rice wine was not as strong as that of modern white wine. The ancient winemaking technology is limited. Therefore, Shen Yanbei did not worry that his newly recovered body would be affected by alcohol. This alcohol was only contained a few percent, even lower than modern beer.
Putting a piece of fish into Gu Changfeng's bowl, Shen Yanbei said to Zhou Yu, "Eat."
"Yes!" Zhou Yu stood up straight, staring at the fragrant dishes, feeling dizzy and unreal.
Gu Changfeng clipped a potato shred to Shen Yanbei. He said, "This is delicious, crispy and refreshing, and very appetizing." After speaking, Gu Changfeng bowed his head and grilled rice without speaking.
Looking at his reddish ear tips, Shen Yanbei was so happy to pick the potato shreds into his mouth and smirked. "If we can find peppers, we can make hot and sour potato shreds for you next time..."
"Okay."
Gu Changfeng also laughed, but he wrote down the matter of looking for pepper in his heart. Shen Yanbei had been nagging peppers in front of him many times. He also wanted to know what the pepper was like, and what kind of delicious it could make, which would make Shen Yanbei so obsessed.
When Zhou Yu heard the conversation between the two, his eyes widened in surprise.
What did mean "make it for you next time"?
Details that hadn't been noticed just now suddenly appeared before his eyes.
He and Shīfu were practicing martial arts, then Shen Xiucai asked to eat...
This meal...
This meal...
"Why don't you move the chopsticks? The food isn't tasty when it's cold." Shen Yanbei kindly reminded him when he looked panicked and restless.
"Yes!" Zhou Yu nodded like a chicken pecking at the rice, not daring to think further.
Seeing that both Shen Yanbei and Gu Changfeng moved their chopsticks, Zhou Yu dared to reach out to pick up the food. He was embarrassed to just pick up the meat, so he picked up the potato shreds that Gu Changfeng said was appetizing.
As soon as he put it in his mouth, the suitable acid immediately stimulated his taste buds and made his eyes sparkle. He even took two mouthfuls of rice.
With the second chopsticks, Zhou Yu stretched out to take the braised pork that made his mouth water. The shiny braised pork trembled at the moment the chopsticks picked it up, and even Zhou Yu's heart trembled. He carefully clamped the meat into the bowl, hesitated, then took a small bite. For a moment, he was taken aback, then he couldn't wait to stuff the rest into his mouth.
"It's delicious!" Zhou Yi almost burst into tears when he ate. The wonderful taste gradually made him want to swallow his tongue.
Shen Yanbei smiled lightly and asked Zhou Yu, "We want to find someone to help make two clothes and quilt. Do you know which aunt in the village is good at crafts?"
Zhou Yu was stuffing the fish in his mouth and hurriedly swallowed the fish when he heard this. "Yes. The widow of the Li family and Aunt Liu are both good at the craftsmanship. I will ask them later."
After speaking, he was emotional, why was there no bit of earthy smell in this fish? On the contrary, the salty fragrance overflowed so that people couldn't stop chopsticks?
"Well, if you are good at craftsmanship, you don't need to charge more craftsmanship money," Shen Yanbei said smoothly and put a piece of braised pork for Gu Changfeng.
Zhou Yu felt complicated. He had witnessed how bad Shen Yan treated his Shīfu before. Now when he saw the scene 'you would give me some food and I would give you some food' the two of them with lingering affection flows between the eyes. He was not blind, so he could see that they were in a good relationship.
He didn't know how Shen Xiucai suddenly changed so much, but such a change was undoubtedly good for everyone.
Seeing that Zhou Yu didn't dare to pick up food, Shen Yanbei once again acted as a hospitable host. He smiled. "I have enough food, just eat it."
Zhou Yu smiled embarrassedly. The deliciousness was in front of him. Since Shen Xiucai had said so, what else was he worried about? So Zhou Yu stretched out his chopsticks without hesitation.
Zhou Yu doubted his life after a meal.
Too delicious! Why was it so delicious? Why was the food at Shen Xiucai's house so delicious? Could it be that the rice cooked by the Master Xiucai was extraordinary?
Zhou Yu stopped as soon as this thought came out.
In the end, Zhou Yu said goodbye to Shen Yanbei and Gu Changfeng with a blushing face.
Looking at the empty rice bowls and the clean dishes on the table, Shen Yanbei and Gu Changfeng glanced at each other. They both couldn't laugh or cry.
He and Gu Changfeng had finished eating. Zhou Yu saw that there were leftovers of rice and vegetables, so he poured the rice directly onto the dish, mixed it with the soup, and ate them all.
Sure enough, it was a teenage boy who ate like a poor old man!
After dinner, it was still early. The sun was still hanging on the other side of the mountain. Shen Yanbei took Gu Changfeng out for a walk. Instead of going to the village, they walked towards the ridge.
"When Uncle Zhong hires someone, we have to start planting the land in our house. Now, let’s recognize the land boundary." People can't make this kind of confusion.
"When Uncle Zhong hires someone, we have to start planting the land in our house. Now, let’s recognize the land boundary. So people can't make a fuss with this kind of confusion."
"Shen...Shen Xiucai?" The dark-skinned man yelled hesitantly when he saw them from a distance.
Shen Yanbei replied with a smile, "Wu sān-gē*."
*Third Big Brother.
This Wu sān-gē named Wu Xing. He was the third oldest in the family and a kind person.
Wu sān-gē was stunned. He asked casually, "Where are you going?" When speaking, he couldn't help but keep looking at Shen Yanbei with curious eyes, as if flowers were growing on his face.
In the past two days, the most talked about in and out of the village was Shen Xiucai. They all said that this Chongxi was worked. Not only did Shen Xiucai get better, but he also improved his temperament. He now was humble and polite to others and treated his wife with love. He didn't quite believe it at first, after all, you could change mountains and rivers but not a person's nature. Right now Shen Xiucai in front of him was really different! He now greeted him easily!
The other party's gaze was too straightforward, Gu Changfeng couldn't help frowning.
Shen Yanbei patted his hand and said warmly, "This is not about to plant seeds, just take his wife to the field to see."
He was not surprised that the other party saw him like this. With the original owner's self-holding identity, he had never been to the field nor did farming. He suddenly ran into the field, which was indeed quite suspicious.
Wu sān-gē seemed to have noticed that he was too rude, so he turned his gaze back and chuckled twice. "It's that so. We, common people, count on the grain of this land for a year to live..." Wu sān-gē paused. "I heard people say that you have taken back all the land you rented out of your house. Are you going to plant it yourself?"
Shen Yanbei nodded.
The smile on Wu sān-gē's face faded. He glanced at Gu Changfeng, frowned, and said, "Don't you have many lands? You don't work, so you let your husband do it alone?
Gu Chang's cover was slightly cold. Shen Yanbei held his hand and smiled. "I don't need him to go to the ground. We will hire people to do it so my wife can take care of me at home."
Although Shen Yanbei was smiling on his face, he scolded the original owner again in his heart.
To your uncle! Everyone in the village knew that his wife was enslaved!
"Then hire someone who could do plant well. So you don't delay spring plowing!" Wu sān-gē put the hoe on his shoulders and asked Shen Yanbei, "Do you know where your lands are?"
Shen Yanbei smiled embarrassedly. "I don't know, but I brought the title deed."
"I will take you to look around?" Wu sān-gē pointed to the continuous field in front of him. "Our village has quite a lot of land. If you haven't been to the land, I'm afraid you can't find it."
Shen Yanbei was overjoyed. "Then we will trouble Wu sān-gē!" It was better for someone to lead the way than blindly!
"No effort, no effort." Wu sān-gē waved his hand. Although he was warm-hearted, he would not put a hot face on cold buttocks*. This Shen Xiucai looked good, so he was willing to help him.
*to give someone cold shoulder.
So Shen Yanbei dragged his own husband and followed Wu sān-gē walking around the farmland.
Shenjia Village was near the river and backed by mountains. Dongjiang River had nurtured fertile land and hard-working people on both sides of the strait. The villages on the edge relied on the Dongjiang River to irrigate the land, grow rice, and breed fish and shrimp. Gradually, this area had become a famous land of fish and rice. Shenjia Village was only one of several villages and also one of the lowest in strength. Because Shenjia Village had no big wealthy households and no famous people. As the only Master Xiucai in Shenjia Village, everyone gave him a lot of faces. Unfortunately, the original owner had lost everything. After Shen Yanbei was transmigrated, he tried his best to rectify his reputation and treated others with courtesy. The disappointed villagers gave birth to some hope for the awakened Shen Xiucai --Lijia Village who bullied them just because they had Master Juren, now Shen Xiucai, you had to work harder too!
At present, Shen Yanbei didn't know that the people in the village also had this idea. He looked at the fields in front of him that were divided into grids of different sizes. He only felt that the universe was high as heaven, deep as the earth.
Spring plowing was about to come and most of the land in each house was ready. For those who wanted to grow rice, the lands were soaked in water. When they saw it from a distance, it was like a small mirror that reflecting the blue sky and white clouds.
The paddy field of the Shen's Family was close to the river and there was a canal was dug to flow Dongjiang River so irrigation was very convenient. Moreover, the paddy field of 8 acres was in one area. The land was flat and the soil was fertile. It was a rare high-quality paddy field.
"What do you plan to plant? If you are planting rice, you have to hurry up and put the ground in the water..."
The Shen's Family's land was not trimmed yet, so there were half a half of rice stalks on the two acres of land.
"We will plant rice."
He had planned to grow rice before. After seeing the environment of the paddy field, he had another idea in his mind.
"Wu sān-gē, how much grain can be produced by planting one season of rice on this acre of land?"
He had planted rice seedlings in the fields, but modern farming conditions were not comparable to those in ancient times with low productivity. He needed to understand clearly and plan carefully. In addition, the original owner didn't ever farming, couldn't distinguish the grains, and didn't know anything about farming. This Wu sān-gē was a good farmer, so Shen Yanbei happened to ask him for advice.
"If the seedlings are good and well taken care of. A good paddy field can yield 400 jin per mu..."
Shen Yanbei made a comparison in his heart. Then asked Wu sān-gē how to plant seedlings, when to fertilize, and water.
Wu sān-gē was surprised and excited. Unexpectedly, one day he would be asked by a Master Xiucai. He spoke like there was no end.
Shen Yanbei immediately wrote down silently.
Gu Changfeng looked at the young man listening to the other person with a smile at the corner of his mouth. The young man was dressed in plain and elegant green clothes, thin and slender, but his eyes were clear and bright, and his brows and eyes were smiling while talking. When he heard interesting things, his clear eyes would be squinted...
Lowering his eyelashes to cover the turbulent light under his eyes, Gu Changfeng turned his head and looked around. He noticed that the sky was getting dark, so the fields were getting cold.
Shen Yanbei was thin. Still, spring evening was very chilly. Gu Changfeng stretched out his hand and pulled Shen Yanbei's clothes without hesitation.
"?" Shen Yanbei turned around and asked him with his eyes.
"It's going to fog up, go back." The farmland was near the river so the temperature was very low at night. It would fog up at night.
"Yes, yes! It's getting late, Shen Yan, go back quickly!" Wu sān-gē quickly agreed. It was tempting to talk about it, so he didn't notice that it was so late. Now he felt hungry when he stopped.
Shen Yanbei smiled embarrassedly. "It's delayed your home for dinner."
"Not delay, not delay!" Wu sān-gē said with a smile, holding up his hoe. "If there is something you don't understand in the future, just come to me!"
"Then thank Wu sān-gē very much." Shen Yanbei was grateful.
"Why are you so polite? Everyone from the village folks!"
Wu sān-gē waved and walked away without looking back. He had to go home quickly and talk to his wife about Shen Xiucai who had been a better person was true! Moreover, they always thought that the scholarly master who only read sage books would also read farming books. Although the knowledge of farming was somewhat different in practice, Shen Xiucai was not like what they thought who only could read and study...
Seeing Wu sān-gē away, Shen Yanbei took his wife's hand. "Let's go back too."
Gu Changfeng said "um" and let him take him to the house.
The young man's fingers were thin and cold, Gu Changfeng couldn't help but wrap him with his warm palm.
Shen Yan looked up and saw that the man's side face was dyed indistinctly red in the ain twilight. The corners of his mouth suddenly rose.
