Axiu's injuries have indeed healed. After the scars on her head fell off, she was already able to move freely. If Zhang Yanling hadn't forced her to stay for a few days for observation, she would have returned to Zhaojiazhuang long ago.
Axiu has been restless, washing clothes and watering flowers. What's even more amazing is that she is actually good at cooking. The peasant girl has been a helper at home since she was a child. When she was seven or eight years old, the old blacksmith and his wife took him with him.
When her son went from village to village to work as a blacksmith or worked outside, Axiu took care of all the meals and housework at home. Once she cooked the simple dishes, they turned out to be full of flavor and delicious.
Zhang Yanling fell in love with the taste of the food she cooked after eating one of her meals. Perhaps because her family was poor and food and dishes were in short supply, Axiu cooked the meals very carefully and knew how to use various auxiliary ingredients.
Ways to make meals delicious. For example, simple
A Xiu will cut a plate of green vegetables very neatly and stir-fry them evenly. Together with the wild garlic and wild vegetables dug out from the back garden that only she knows, the taste is very unique. Meat is extremely precious to A Xiu, so it is cooked
They cook it with more care and it's much more delicious than the chefs in Fuzhong.
The rice cooked by Axiu is mixed with wild vegetables and other grains. The cooked rice is red and green, and it is very beautiful, and it is actually delicious. Zhang Yanling’s favorite is the lotus soup made by Axiu using lotus flowers from the small pond in the back garden.
, fragrant and delicious. This is a recipe that the Zhang family cook would never have thought of.
At dinner time, Axiu cooked again and cooked a table of delicious meals. Zhang Yanling felt very comfortable after eating, so she asked: "How can Axiu cook such good food? Have you ever been a cook?"
Axiu rolled her eyes at him and explained: "We poor people don't have the big fish and meat in your house. My father is a blacksmith, which is a physical job and requires eating more. So I have to find a way to make delicious food."
, let parents have more
Eat more to have the strength to work. But we don’t have that much rice, so we can only mix it with some miscellaneous grains. I have tried mixing corn kernels and a little red beans into the rice, plus some wild vegetables like shepherd’s purse, which is good.
Eating can fill your stomach.”
Zhang Yanling nodded in agreement, and Axiu smiled and said: "At that time, several little girls went to Yehuling to dig wild vegetables every day, and tried many things to see if they were edible. The lotus soup was tried out at that time. I have one
The little sister’s name is A-Lian. I dug it.
I brought a kind of wild vegetable home, and I thought it was delicious when I ate it. But who would have thought that the wild vegetable was poisonous? The whole family suffered from diarrhea and vomiting for several days. Alian was beaten with a willow stick by her father, and her body was covered with bruises.
Bloodstains, it’s really funny when I think about it.”
Xing'er Tao'er and others next to her all laughed. Zhang Yanling was also amused, but she felt a little pity in her heart. A Xiu said it lightly, but this is a portrayal of the hardships of life in a common people's home. The one named A Lian was okay.
I just dug up wild vegetables that were not very toxic and ate them, otherwise it would have been a tragic disaster caused by hunger and poverty.
"Did you have any embarrassing things when you were a child? For example, when you made your father hungry." Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
Axiu flicked her hair and gave Zhang Yanling a look and said: "I didn't. When I encounter wild vegetables that I don't know, I try them myself first, but I can't eat them randomly. I fried them and ate them. If there is nothing wrong, the taste is okay.
Then I went to pick them. But one time I was mistaken. I heard someone said that wild persimmons can be soaked in salt water.
They were a great side dish for dinner, so I picked a lot of green persimmons and soaked them in a clay pot to try them. I spent a lot of salt on them, but when my dad ate them, they were so astringent that his mouth was full of white foam, which lasted for several days.
There was no taste to the food. He was so angry that he threw the whole jar of green persimmons into the wild. Hahahaha."
Ahxiu thought it was very funny when she thought about that incident, and laughed heartily. Everyone was also laughing. Zhang Yanling also laughed when she thought about Zhao Laoji's mouth full of green persimmons.
"Didn't your father scold you? The old blacksmith seems to have a bad temper." Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
"My father loves me very much. He has never laid a finger on me since I was a child. My brother is often beaten by him and runs around the village. But for me, he will not scold me, let alone beat me. My mother After scolding me, he also quarreled with my mother." Axiu said with a smile.
Zhang Yanling nodded and thought: It turns out that the old blacksmith is a daughter slave. Although they live in poverty, the family lives happily. Axiu has a cheerful and straightforward personality, and she is indeed not as timid and timid as other women from ordinary families.
"Axiu, are you happy living in my house?" Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
"It's not bad. I thought you... but then I found out that you are not bad. But before you, Butler Ma, Butler Huang and others were very cruel. Now it seems that it was not your idea. Can you think of the tenants of the manor? You waived their rent and helped everyone build the dam. It shows that you are not a bad person. My father even praised you after seeing you that day, saying that the boss does not dislike us people at all, and the water he drank from the earthen jar was just like the boss when he picked it up. Drinking without disdain at all shows that the owner does not look down on the common people." Axiu said with a smile.
Zhang Yanling burst out laughing. Her carefulness worked. In fact, she disliked her and pretended not to care just to get closer to her. She was actually a very picky person.
"Thank you for the compliment. You took a stick for me, so I will naturally take good care of you. If you feel happy, you can stay for a few more days. You can stay for as many days as you like." Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
Axiu said: "That can't be done. Although it's nice here, I can't stay here forever. My parents, brothers and sisters are all working, and I have to go back to help. They still have to work on such a hot day, and I feel in my heart How can we live in peace? By the way, I want to tell my boss that I want to go back tomorrow."
Zhang Yanling was about to speak when Xing'er said from the side: "Ah? Are you leaving tomorrow? We really can't bear to leave you. Axiu, we have just gotten to know each other. Once you leave, we will never see you again."
Tao'er also said: "Yes, Axiu. I really can't bear to leave you."
Axiu said with a smile: "I can't bear to leave you, but there's nothing I can do about it."
Zhang Yanling said: "The food you cooked is so delicious, but it's a pity that I won't be able to eat it in the future. It's a pity."
Axiu said: "What's the matter? When you go to the manor, just go to my house for dinner."
Zhang Yanling smiled bitterly and said: "How can I go to that manor all the time? That is not my whole life."
Axiu spread her hands and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. If you don't go, why should I come all the way to cook for you? It's not possible to travel such a long distance."
Zhang Yanling nodded and said: "Yeah, that's not realistic. That's all, let's not talk about this anymore. If you leave tomorrow, I won't keep you. I will ask someone to take you back to Zhaojiazhuang tomorrow afternoon. Let Xing'er know in the morning They will accompany you around the capital and buy some food to take back to your family. I will cover all expenses. Is this arrangement possible?"
Axiu said happily: "Okay, okay, great. I haven't been to the capital yet in my life. I need to take a good stroll in the afternoon."
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After the Zhou family's troubles subsided, the construction of the dam entered the normal stage of advancement. With the 10,000 taels of silver blackmailed from the Zhou family, Zhang Yanling slightly increased his daily salary from the original salary of one stone of grain every ten days.
The increase was raised to one stone every seven days. Converted into cash, that's nearly one hundred pence a day. Even working as a coolie in the city is no more than that.
The people were enthusiastic and worked harder. In ten days, the diversion channel was excavated, and the river water was introduced into the channel to flow downstream, exposing the silt bay above the dam, so that the next step of dredging and development can be carried out.
Excavation work is over.
When the diversion canal was opened, Zhang Yanling went there and as expected, he ate the food cooked by Axiu at the old blacksmith's house. Axiu showed off his cooking skills and made Zhang Yanling burp from the meal.
The attitude of the people in the entire manor towards Zhang Yanling has been completely different. When Zhang Yanling rode through the village, he no longer looked like a god of plague and avoided him. The people in the village all greeted him with their hands raised, and they were very polite and respectful.
As simple as ordinary people, it is easy to change their views on a person. The previous employer was not unkind to them. Ma Quan and Huang Si were also a pair of vicious men. It was common to beat and curse people when collecting rent. But Zhang Yanling only treated them with kindness.
They got better, and the people immediately rewarded them, and everyone exaggerated the benefits of delaying life. From this, Zhang Yanling also understood one thing. In fact, it is not difficult to change the image. If you change sincerely and make practical results, others will
It can be felt and feedback will be given. This may also apply to Mrs. Tan, but I don’t know how to make Mrs. Tan feel her changes.
After life returned to normal, Zhang Yanling actually had nothing else to do. In her free time, apart from going out for a walk and appreciating the majesty of the Ming Dynasty's capital city, Zhang Yanling just hid in her study and drew some pictures with a brush and a long ruler.
Symbols and graphics seemed strange to Myolie and others.
In fact, Zhang Yanling wanted to record some of the mechanical tools and other things of later generations in his memory, so as to prevent them from being forgotten over time. Then he screened out some feasible and practical things to see if they could be manufactured.
Come out. Of course, Zhang Yanling most hopes to make things like firearms, which is very attractive to Zhang Yanling.
When Zhang Yanling read some historical time-travel novels before, what he wanted to complain about the most was that the protagonists who time-travel always like to make firearms. He felt that these were all boring and boring. But after he time-traveled himself, he discovered that he really wanted to make firearms.
Firearms that are comparable to the firearms of later generations. Without others, it is not only a sharp weapon for self-defense, but also a tool to protect oneself in this feudal era where the jungle is strong. It is also a sharp weapon used to reduce the dimensionality of the opponent and crush the opponent at critical moments. Among Firearms
Yu Leng's weapon is definitely a crushing effect. If you have a submachine gun in your hand, you may be able to defeat one against a hundred. This is a huge advantage for the time traveler, so it is natural to use it.
However, if you really want to create the kind of firearms and firearms of later generations, the difficulties are not small. The limitations of technology and materials make it very difficult. But Zhang Yanling does not want to give up, even if he cannot build a submachine gun, machine or machine.
. Guns and other things, at least according to the current technology of the Ming Dynasty and the principles of later generations, it is always possible to create firearms that are ahead of the times. In short, I still have time, so I am not in a hurry.
One morning at the end of July, Zhang Yanling received an invitation from Zhu Lin. The second gathering of the young father-in-laws will be held at the Yingbin Building of Zhengnanfang. This is an agreed-upon monthly gathering, and Zhang Yanling strives for the promotion honors.
Naturally, he would not miss the opportunity to unite with relatives.