Chapter Seven Thirty-Nine : I've eaten up accidentally!
"This is my home. Let's have a cup of tea and some snacks first. I'm going to get food for everyone."
When Wu Li and Minister Yuan arrived home, it was already two o'clock at noon. It was long past the meal time. They had already finished eating and went to take a nap to rest. Even the small animals, chickens and ducks in the yard were all in the sun.
He's taking a nap down there.
Wu Li brewed a pot of tea, prepared two plates of pine nuts, peanuts, hazelnuts and walnuts, and then prepared food for everyone.
"Just have something casual at noon. Be prepared in the evening. It needs to be more generous. We need to have a few drinks." Minister Zhu shouted to the back of Wu Li, who was about to pick vegetables.
Well, I haven’t even finished lunch yet, and I’m already thinking about dinner.
"There are seven of us, so we can prepare a standard working meal of four dishes and one soup for noon." Minister Zhu is not young anymore, and when he sat down now, he seemed a bit fussy.
"You have your order, wait for me for half an hour. Once the food is cooked, I will make sure that it can be served together. Those brothers, please go grab a couple of dates. The dates are crispy and sweet, and they are very delicious." Wu Li
If you are in a hurry to cook and want to eat fruit, go ahead and do it yourself.
"Xiao Wu, can we pick oranges and persimmons?" Wu Li was washing rice in the kitchen, and Minister Zhu's plainclothes security guard asked Wu Li loudly in the yard.
"If you want to eat anything in the yard, you can just pick it. No pesticides or chemical fertilizers have been applied. Just pump some water from the pressure well and wash it, and then you can eat it." Wu Li specially left some dates and oranges in the yard.
On the tree, you can eat fresh if you want.
Persimmons have just turned red and have to be frosted before they can taste sweet. If you eat persimmons now, they will taste a bit astringent.
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"Why, another guest is here."
Sister Lin heard the commotion, got up and said hello to the people in the yard, and then came to the kitchen. Seeing Wu Li cutting vegetables quickly, she pulled up a small bench and chewed the shrimp tendons for the crystal shrimp.
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"There are a few guys who come here to eat and drink in the autumn breeze. Sister Lin will help prepare some snacks in the evening. They said they want to tell them how many drinks they want to have with me in the evening." Wu Li curled his lips. He was not just here to enjoy the autumn breeze.
Or are you here to slaughter your own fat cow?
"Do you really think that I can't tell anything? Look at that style. It seems that he has a lower background than Mr. Fan, right? You can drink, but don't make a fool of your guests."
Sister Lin picked up the two fishy tendons of the shrimp very quickly. After a while, she made a small vegetable basket, washed it twice with water, and poured it into the pot of boiling water.
At a glance, it was obvious that the elder who took the lead had a lighter taste. Three of the four dishes prepared by Wu Li were also on the lighter side, and only one was heavier.
Sister Lin was cooking shrimps, while Wu Li was pouring oil on another stove to boil the soup, and pouring the evenly mixed ingredients in the bowl into the pot...
"What are you working on? Your nose is about to explode because of the incense." Governor Qian, a big fat man, was so hungry that his heart was pressed against his back. When he smelled the strange fragrance coming from the kitchen, he
I couldn't sit still any longer. After grabbing a handful of pine nuts, I got up and went to the kitchen to gather information.
"Here's the omelette! Wait a moment, Uncle Qian. The rice will be cooked soon." Twenty minutes have passed and the rice cooker has just switched to keep warm. It needs to be simmered for a few minutes to get some moisture out.
Eating like that will make people get angry.
"This local egg omelette is so delicious." Governor Qian almost salivated because he couldn't even eat it in the countryside.
It's not a fancy dish, but the fresh and authentic vegetables are truly top-notch.
"This is the only advantage we have in our countryside. The vegetables are fresh and there is no chemical fertilizer."
Wu Li is not bragging. He has never bought fertilizers or pesticides since his family got space water.
"Sister, are these shrimps edible?" Governor Qian did not echo Wu Wuli's words, but stared at the plate of bright red crystal shrimps that Sister Lin had just picked up.
"Of course you can eat it. Just peel off the shells and stick some sauce on them." Sister Lin put two plates with shrimps and four bowls of sauces into a tray and prepared to take it to the dining table in the hall.
"Sister, you are busy with your business. I will serve the shrimps." Governor Qian was willing to act like a trot in order to eat early.
"Why is this so embarrassing? There is a reason to let the guests do the work." Sister Lin refused to let Governor Qian realize his dream of becoming a waiter.
"Then I'll put the food out first."
Well, if you can't be a waiter, then just be an errand boy.
When Sister Lin was serving the dishes, Governor Qian actually had all the bowls, chopsticks and cutlery ready, and was just waiting for the last dish and soup.
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"Soup is here..."
When the last bowl of loofah and egg drop soup was served, half an hour was just right, four dishes and one soup were served.
"Old man, would you like something red or white?" Wu Li brought out two bottles of wine. The red one was in a shaped glass bottle, and the white one was in a blue and white porcelain bottle specially customized by the porcelain capital.
"I didn't want to drink at first, but since I mentioned it, let's have a small glass of white wine to moisten your throat." Regarding Wu Li's golden wine, Minister Zhu knew very well how popular it was with the big guys.
If you come to the home of the gold wine seller and don't pay for it in advance, it will spread to the ears of those wine barrels. If you go back, you will be despised to the point of scum.
"If you really chew on this omelette, your mouth will be filled with the aroma of the fried omelette. It's delicious!" Minister Zhu took a sip of soju and sandwiched a piece of omelette. It was a very satisfying meal.
"Hoho, this water spinach is so tender that you can squeeze out the water." Put a handful of water spinach in boiling water and blanch it, then scoop it out, and then pour the cooked juice on it. It is fragrant and smooth, and it is very delicious.
Mr. Zhu’s taste.
"Everyone, don't be stunned, let's eat together. Xiao Li, give me a bowl of soup to warm my stomach first." Minister Zhu tasted two dishes first, and then called on the others who were watching him drink and eat.
The guys are ready to eat.
There are some rules that need to be followed at this dinner table.
Originally, the driver and guard were not qualified to sit at the table and have dinner with the leader. Today, because they were guests at the farmhouse, they were forced to come over and have dinner with them.
Although this is a kind of prosperity, the food is very restrained.
"This is from a farmer. The taste of this spicy food is really authentic! It's elastic, fragrant and chewy. It's been a long time since I've had such delicious local chicken!" Mr. Zhu was born in Hunan Province.
He has always been a fan of spicy food since he was a child. If he hadn't specifically asked for a spicy dish to go with the meal, Wu Li would have wanted to make four dishes that were all on the lighter side.
The three leaders are all civil servants in their prime who are over fifty, so their taste must be a bit lighter, and they cannot be obsessed with high-end and high-income families. If their health is not good, they will not be able to serve the people, and they will not be able to be served by the people.
Yeah.
"I think this shrimp is good, and the boss will try it too." Director Zhao likes to eat fish and shrimp, and if he can say it is good fish and shrimp, it means it is really good.
"Yeah, let me try it." After Minister Zhu finished half a bowl of loofah and egg drop soup, his appetite was whetted by the sweet and fragrant soup, and he couldn't stop feeling hungry.
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"Hey, are these shrimps fresh enough? This is inland, how can these sea shrimps be so lively?" Minister Zhu put on thin gloves and peeled off a shrimp, then stuffed it into his mouth without touching the sauce.
After chewing for a few times, he gave a thumbs up and praised the shrimp as being fresh enough.
"Old man, these are not sea shrimps, they are crystal shrimps produced by our Wujia Village. The taste of these freshwater shrimps is no worse than sea shrimps, right?" This crystal shrimp is now a major economic pillar of Wujia Village. It was harvested two days earlier.
After catching the rice flower fish, some people picked up the rice flower crystal shrimp and sold it. The price of fifty-one pounds really made some people in Wujia Village smile happily these days.
Except for a few lazy people who don't farm, 27 of the 33 households in Wujia Village have made several pots of gold this year from the rice fields.
One acre of rice field can yield a thousand pounds of millet, which is an income of more than a thousand yuan.
But in an acre of rice fields, there are rice flower fish, rice flower shrimps, rice flower loaches and eels, and some people stock some wild crucian carp species in them. These are all sold, and an acre of rice field is just these rice flower brands.
Aquatic products can be sold for 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
There are people who farm in Wujia Village. If they don't plant more than ten acres of land, they would be embarrassed to tell others that they have grown rice.
A family with ten acres of land can afford a minimum of 200,000 yuan, which means that today there are at least 27 households selling Daohua brand aquatic products, and they can build a three- to four-story house of more than 100 square meters.
Anyway, as Wu Li knew, Uncle San was very busy these days. Building a house was like running for a job. More than twenty workers, large and small, could build a one-story building in a day, leaving only a few people who laid the floors and tied the steel bars.
, built a one-story house for the Wu family the next day, and left a few small and large workers to nail the formwork and lay the steel bars when they could. After three days, they went to another family to build a one-story house. On the fourth day, it was the turn of the other family to lay concrete.
On the floor...
Then things started to change. It seemed that everyone in Wujiacun was working hard to build a big house, and it was a big house with seven floors on one side and five or more floors to accommodate tourists.
Anyway, when you make money, you build a house, build a house and live on one floor, and use the rest to make more money.
As long as Wu Li's farm is happy, there is no need to worry about making money.
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"We are so full. Find us a place to rest." Minister Zhu touched his round belly. He had accidentally eaten too much today.
Let’s work hard, I’ll do another chapter tonight to make up for the gaps in yesterday’s four chapters. (To be continued)