vrcanaries Chapter 330 Husband 1 Wants to Be a Widow (30)
Chapter 330 Husband 1 Wants to Be a Widow (30)
"Why is game so popular? Sister, please give me some advice."
"Well, it's not a secret. Our boss's wife is very lucky. She is the deputy governor under General Wei. Everyone is happy."
"So that's how it is. Congratulations."
"The army has returned to the capital, and my brother and sister-in-law have returned to their parents' home. Our boss must treat them well and give them some smoked game to eat."
"Sister, I understand this matter. I will seize the opportunity to hunt when I get back."
When they returned to the front door of the house, they smelled smoked meat. When Gu Yuxi passed by the second room, he heard the man inside cursing them in a veiled voice: "What a bunch of black-hearted people, they ate such small wild boars secretly, why didn't they eat them to death?"
"Wow, wow, wow... Dad, I want to eat meat."
"Why are you crying? Don't let the people in the big house laugh at you."
Gur, lying on the bed, looked at her crying daughter and shouted, "I am not dead yet. I will not give you any less food. Don't cry!"
The girl stopped crying immediately. Gu Yuxi, who was outside the yard, sneered and walked away as if nothing had happened.
"Wife, the water here is difficult to handle, please stay away."
"Give it to me, I'll take care of it."
Blocking his sense of taste, Gu Yuxi began to wash and wash. There were more and more dried and smoked meats in the basement of his house, and half of the pig had to be smoked.
After washing those things and Gu Yuxi cleaned up the drain, Zhou Shenyun began to boil lard with water.
She didn't want to waste time, so she took the tools and started working on the wooden boards. She ran to the room, got some nails, and started working on the wooden wall.
Boom boom boom!
She openly blocked off the people from the second room who were peeling corn in the yard. They were furious but dared not say anything.
She can let the remaining wooden boards dry in the sun for a few more days, which will make it more convenient to build the house later, but it will take time.
"Wife, the lard is ready. The kitchen is full of fumes. Please don't come over. Just stay aside and tell me how to cook."
"You didn't make it tasty, leave some lard for me, you don't know how to cook that dish."
Zhou Shenyun saw the woman who entered the kitchen. Didn't she dislike them? Or was she...she was really nice. He would repay her well in the evening.
[Satisfaction: 75%]
The woman entered the kitchen, took some spices and started to stir-fry them, and said to Zhou Shenyun, "Ah Yun, wash some ginger for me."
The man quickly washed the ginger and soon entered the kitchen: "Wife, the ginger is here."
"Give me."
Gu Yuxi sliced the ginger, scooped out the lard, then started to make sesame oil, and finally put some of the offal in. After frying it, he served it out and prepared for dinner.
"The pig is too small. It will only take a few meals to finish it."
"Then how much silver did you get for your big one?"
"I sold it for five taels. Game is selling well these days. I'm going to the mountains to hunt tomorrow."
"Oh! Be safe."
"Wife, I will make you scones tomorrow."
"Thank you, husband."
The next day, Gu Yuxi got up late because some people were restless at night, and the result was that they were still lying in bed.
For several consecutive days, Gu Yuxi had been hunting, and the hunters who asked for information also went up the mountain every day during these days, and sometimes they would catch big bucks.
Gu Yuxi didn't plan to go hunting so he returned home and slept for two days. After transporting wood for three days, he actually started digging the soil.
"Miss, is it possible that this soil can be turned into silver? You dug so deep."
"It's not money, it's just boredom."
Those who were watching the fun could only say that the people from the main branch of the Gu family had nothing to do after eating, so they were busy digging the soil and building the oven, which was a waste of time.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Brother Yao, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but the dirt is all over the ground, and you're still using a dustpan to sift it. It's really unnecessary."
Yao Zhigang didn't know what to do. If all else failed, the mud could be used to make bricks. He and Zhou Shenyun already had a lot of people at home who could be used to build the courtyard wall.
"We use it to make bricks and build the courtyard wall."
Looking at the wall made of wooden boards, others didn't believe it. Was it necessary to build so many walls?
"You guys are really free. If you can't finish your crops on the land, don't use it to plant fruit trees or wolfberries."
"Kids just like to mess around. Those potato fields were planted by Xiaoyun and me."
"The eldest lady does like to make trouble, but you guys are doing it in a proper manner."
Gu Yuxi ignored the villagers' looks, because she didn't want to build a thatched house because she couldn't hide from it when it rained heavily, so she was now making earthen tiles.
If she really couldn't do it, she could use some tricks to fix the tiles, but she wanted to do it herself so that she would feel more accomplished.
She added water to the dried fine clay, rubbed her shoes and thinned the mud, then piled the mud into a rectangle, and then began to cut the mud.
Picking up the square piece of mud, Gu Yuxi wrapped it on a smooth short piece of wood. She gently cut it three times, and the mechanism below moved, and a cylindrical mud roll was formed.
She took it to the ground to dry, and after it was dry she took it to the stove to bake, and perhaps she could get the tiles she wanted.
Yao Zhigang replied to the villagers: "The child cannot be idle. We can't just watch her leave us men idle."
"It really doesn't make sense for women to work while men are idle, so go ahead and do what you want."
After two days of doing this, Gu Yuxi and his friends' yard were filled with mud buckets inside and outside, which made those people even more surprised.
Over the next ten days, Gu Yuxi went up the mountain to chop wood and trees. The woodshed was soon full, and the next day she prepared to make tiles.
Looking at the soil in front of him, Gu Yuxi felt a little expectant.
She picked up a wooden stick and tapped the mud tube gently. With a crisp sound, four earthen tiles appeared in front of her. This surprised her because she had not expected to get tiles so quickly.
After placing the tiles in the kiln, Gu Yuxi lit the fire and began to burn the tiles. This process requires patience and the temperature must be moderate, otherwise the tiles may break or have poor quality.
Therefore, she always keeps an eye on the fire and adjusts the temperature to ensure high-quality tiles are fired.
At the same time, Gu Yuxi started a new task - mixing mud. This seemingly simple task is actually not easy, and requires mastering the ratio of water to mud and the strength of mixing.
"Wife, is this fire okay?"
"Well, keep the heat at this level."
The places where the mud tubes were missing were quickly replaced. Tiles are indispensable for building a house. Too many are fine, but too few will be bad.
I don’t know how far into the cooking process Gu Yuxi and the others stopped the fire and would only see how things went after it cooled down the next day.
"My dear wife, I wonder if the tiles you mentioned are ready. Do you still want to make them now?"
"There's no room left, I'll get some wood here."
Afterwards, Gu Yuxi started banging wood in the yard, preparing to build a dining room and a new sleeping place, while Zhou Shenyun followed his father-in-law to take out the cloth and start cutting clothes.