Chapter 74: Dont eat the wild ginger, its for soaking her feet
Su Yan combed her hair, put on the hairpin and went out, avoiding the water stains by the door. Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai heard the noise, ran out of the kennel and pounced on her a few times.
All the way to the kitchen, Qin An checked the water in the pot and whispered: "It's not hot yet, please wait a while."
After waiting for a while, he scooped out two ladles of water for her to wash her face.
After he washed his hands, he grabbed some flour and kneaded the dough. After Su Yan washed it, she asked him, "Have you washed it?"
Qin An said "Yeah", and Su Yan poured the water, then took out the fish meat and shaved the fish bones.
Not long after, Jiang Caifu came in. He wanted to help but didn't know what to do. Su Yan smiled and said, "Brother Jiang, the water in the pot is hot. Please scoop it out for Sister and the others to wash their faces."
"Okay." Jiang Caifu scooped up water and carried it into the house.
Goudan’s mother put some clothes on Goudan again, “Are they up?”
"I'm up, I'm cooking." Jiang Caifu twisted the handkerchief and wiped her face carefully.
Hearing this, Goudan's mother glared at him, "I told you to get up early. If you insist on warming the quilt, we will let others take care of us."
"You dress Goudan, and I'll help with the cooking."
"Don't go, they are cooking. I will go to the vegetable field to get some vegetables." Jiang Caifu washed himself and went out to get vegetables.
kitchen
Su Yan chopped the fish filling, put ginger and garlic in it, mixed it, pressed it on the small dough, spread it into pancakes, and fried them one by one.
Qin An washed his hands and used a spatula to stir the porridge cooked in the earthen pot.
"Brother Qin, peel the radish on the ground. I'll cut it into shreds later." Su Yan flipped the pancakes with quick hands and feet.
Change the taste to shredded radish salad, and you won’t be so tired of eating pancakes.
After a while, Goudan’s mother came in with Goudan, a little embarrassed and said: “Is there anything you can do?”
Su Yan smiled and said: "Nothing, Goudan, did you sleep well?"
"Sleep well, Aunt Qin, your house smells so good." Goudan looked at the pancakes beside the stove, not sure whether he meant the smell of the house or the smell of the pancakes.
Su Yan couldn't help but laugh, "It's a little hot just after taking it out of the pot, I'll eat it later."
"Don't worry about him, his mouth is just delicious." Goudan's mother saw Qin An peeling the radish and put it on the cutting board, rolled up her sleeves and said, "Slice it or something?"
"Shred."
"become."
After the goudan mother cut it, Su Yan asked her to help bake the pancakes while she went to cook the shredded radish.
Seeing that Goudan was almost swallowing his saliva, she took some and fed it to him, "Does it taste good?"
Goudan swallowed it and nodded honestly, "It's delicious, much better than what my mother makes."
Goudan’s mother laughed out loud, “Okay, I’ll follow Aunt Qin from now on.”
"No." Goudan shyly ran over and hugged her legs.
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After eating, Qin An followed Jiang Caifu to fix the roof, tearing off the thatched roof and replacing the beams.
The family selling tiles helped build the roof, so Qin An had some free time. When he returned to the yard, Su Yan was cleaning the chicken coop.
"I'm going to the mountains and won't be back for lunch."
"Then bring some cakes."
As soon as Su Yan heard this, she put down what she was doing, got up and went to the kitchen. Fortunately, it didn't matter if the pancakes were cold.
Qin An took the bow and arrow and came out with a basket on his back. When he saw that she was still packing cakes, he couldn't help but soften his eyes and said, "I'll be back in the evening."
Su Yan packed it up and put it on his back on tiptoe, "In the bamboo tube, I put the porridge I didn't finish eating in the morning. The big bamboo tube is for water, and the smaller one is for water."
"Be careful on the road. Where there are grass cages, use a stick to poke them."
Qin An listened patiently to her ramble, and after she finished speaking, he said, "Okay."
This time he went up the mountain not for hunting. He went deep into the mountain and started looking for wild ginger. It was difficult to find wild ginger in the winter. It took him a long time to find two plants.
Fortunately, there are a lot of ginger pieces underneath.
After the wild ginger found it, he wandered around to see if there was any prey. There were very few prey in winter.
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In the afternoon, a large side of the road at the entrance of the village collapsed.
The village chief asked every family to go take a look, and then asked each family to send a man to do it.
It's getting cold now, and the men in the village don't want to do it.
Listening to their chatter, the village chief said with a dark face: "Either you provide money or provide people. Stop chattering here. It's annoying to hear it."
"If you don't do anything, give me thirty cents."
Now the women were not happy, and finally blamed Su Yan, "We don't have a carriage coming, so if we don't repair it, we won't repair it."
The whole village knows that a carriage comes to Qin's house every few days.
Goudanfu said angrily: "You don't walk anymore? Your family doesn't carry anything all year round? I saw you carrying it out when the grain was being sold."
"Wang Qin, you are so young, why don't you, who doesn't know that you love to lick other people's butts?" the woman cursed angrily.
Goudan's mother put her hands on her hips and replied: "That's better than not being able to lick your ass. You want to marry your daughter to Qin An, but Qin An doesn't like it at all."
Su Yan pulled her sleeve and signaled to stop the quarrel. She looked at the village chief and said, "My family will provide the money. If others are not willing, my family can all contribute."
"But if my family has money, the village will not be allowed to haul things along this road."
"Why aren't you allowed to pull things? The land belongs to your house?" the fat woman said in a sharp voice.
Su Yan said with a cold face: "What's the matter? You want my family to give you money, and you want to buy things. Why don't you just come to my house to steal money?"
"All good things in the world belong to your family?"
"If you have any face, I still hope you have some face."
The fat woman choked, "Who are you calling shameless?"
"You."
Su Yan rolled her eyes angrily and said: "My family is not a soft persimmon. Don't pinch me every time. If anyone makes my family anxious, no one will even think about it."
"Everyone lives a good life, and the water in the well does not interfere with the water in the river. My family's efforts and money should be contributed, and my family will not give up at all."
"On the contrary, my family won't have any more."
She counted thirty coins from her arms and handed it to the village chief, "My family will provide the money."
Seeing that she was being reasonable, the village chief looked much better, and then said to the others: "Don't wait too long, hurry up, pay for those who are willing to help, and pay for those who don't."
Goudan's mother also paid thirty cents, so she didn't have time to do that in the past two days. Besides, it was too cold today, and she still couldn't bear to let the cold wind blow through the opening in her house.
Qin family
When Su Yan came back, the courtyard door had been opened, and it was obvious that Qin An was back.
She walked in quickly and said, "Brother Qin."
Qin An was sitting in the yard washing the mud on the insoles. Hearing this, he looked up at her and said softly, "Yeah."
Goudanfang lowered his head and smiled, then turned to look at the roof tiles in his own home.
"The rice is warm in the pot, I'll bring it to you."
Su Yan went to the kitchen and quickly brought out the food, which was smoking hot.
Qin An came over and picked up the bowls and chopsticks, "Don't eat the wild ginger in the basket. It's for you to soak your feet after staying up at night."
Hearing this, Su Yan looked at him. The rough man's cheeks were a little dry and cracked. It looked like he had been blown too much by the cold wind.
"Don't spoil me too much. It's okay if your feet are cold."
Qin An took two mouthfuls of rice, chewed a few mouthfuls and swallowed, and said in a low voice, "You can't keep it cold all the time."