Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 84: Making Face for Her Dad

Since there is still enough time, wouldn’t it be a bit too little to build only ten chicken coops and ten duck coops?
"My daughter." Gu Lianshan looked up and called out to Gu Tang, saying, "What about forty chickens and ducks? You've built ten chicken coops and ten duck coops. What about the remaining twenty? Will they freeze to death?"

"This nest is for hens and ducks to lay eggs. Roosters and ducks don't lay eggs, so why build a nest for them? They're covered in fur. Can they freeze to death?"

"You're right. I can really freeze to death!" Gu Lianshan clicked his tongue twice and talked about an old story.

"The winter when you were three was the coldest! Your grandmother raised two hens and treated them like treasures every day. She would bring them to her room and lock them up at night.

One day, your grandma had an argument with your grandpa, and she was so angry that she forgot about the hens and left them in the chicken coop in the backyard. The next morning, your grandma remembered and went to the backyard to see that both hens were frozen solid!

"There's such a thing?" Gu Tang laughed gleefully, "I'm afraid my grandma will be heartbroken!"

"It's more than just heartbreak. Your grandma hasn't recovered from the whole winter!"

Gu Tang was so happy that he asked again, "Did you eat the hen or sell it?"

Gu Lianshan curled his lips and said, "Your grandma said she sold it, but your eldest brother said he smelled the aroma of meat at home. I guess your grandma secretly cooked it and shared it with your uncle's family."

Gu Tang: ...Tsk! There's no trace of bias in this heart!

"They're just two hens. If you don't want to eat them, just say so directly. Who would want their meat? Why hide it like this? You're so petty! In her own words, it's not presentable!"

"Yes! Your grandma always says this is not presentable, that is not presentable. In our family, the most unpresentable person is herself."

Gu Ping'an was caught in the middle and lowered his head instantly. These were not things he could say. Only his second sister and father dared to say such things.

Speaking of eating meat, Gu Tang remembered something: "Today is the twenty-ninth day of the Yang month (October), and tomorrow is the last day of the Yang month. After the Yang month, the day after will be the first day of the Winter month, which is your birthday.

When the time comes, I will kill two chickens and get two rabbits, and I will also buy you two more barrels of green wine, and we will prepare a good feast!
Put it in our west wing and invite all your friends and brothers to come so that grandma can see who can't afford meat. Except for the uncle's family, our family doesn't care about the little thing in her hand! "

Gu Lianshan immediately grinned: "This is chicken, rabbit, and green wine. This is extremely expensive!"

"How could it be expensive? I'll kill the roosters in the yard, and I'll catch rabbits in the mountains. I'll just spend money on two cans of green wine. That day is your birthday, and as a daughter, I should do you a favor."

"Okay, okay! Daddy is waiting for you to give me a facial!" Gu Lianshan was extremely happy with these words. He grinned, showing his upper and lower rows of teeth, and couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

After about half an hour, the chicken coop in the yard was basically completed.

Five masons repaired the chicken coops one by one. If there were any unevenness or irregularities, they would fix them up to ensure that every chicken coop and duck coop was straight and exactly the same!
The chicken coop and duck coop are separate and stepped, and if you calculate it, they don't take up much of the yard.

But the sudden appearance of a chicken coop in such a nice yard looks awkward no matter how you look at it.

The bricklayers looked at each other, feeling a little nervous, wondering whether their boss would be satisfied.

Even though they said they did their work completely according to their employer's wishes, some employers would regret it after doing the work and find fault everywhere.

The masons' worries were completely unnecessary.

Gu Lianshan has no appreciation ability at all. Not to mention raising chickens and ducks in the yard, he would even be willing to raise pigs and sheep.

Although Gu Tang is a little better than Gu Lianshan, she is mostly a pragmatist. As long as it can bring her income, what's wrong with using a nice yard to raise chickens and ducks?
She is happy on her own, no one can interfere!

"Dad, take a look at this. How's the craftsmanship of the masters?" Gu Tang couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, so she could only ask her father to check.

If there is no problem, then she will pay for it. Gu Lianshan carefully checked it and nodded to Gu Tang: "Good craftsmanship! We can't do it ourselves!"

Building a chicken coop is a job that requires a lot of attention. If it is built well, outsiders who come into the yard and see it will all praise it and say: This is a family that can live a good life!

Gu Tang didn’t understand these things. If her father said it was a good craft, then it must be a good craft.

He took out his purse, counted out two hundred copper coins and handed them over.

The two hundred copper coins included adobe, stone bricks, bamboo coins, and the wages of five bricklayers.

After paying the bill, Gu Lianshan endured the pain and sent the person out of the house.

When he turned around, he couldn't help but yell to Gu Tang: "It's much more expensive!"

"There's nothing we can do. It's because we're in such a hurry. If you're not in such a hurry to go back, we can bring back the adobe bricks and other materials and slowly build it ourselves. It can be done with just a few dozen copper coins."

It's already been built, but you still complain it's too expensive. Aren't you just making yourself uncomfortable?

Gu Tang ignored him and wandered around the chicken coop on his own.

The mud has not dried yet, so these chicken and duck coops cannot be touched for the time being. Just wait overnight and you can put the chickens and ducks in early tomorrow morning.

It was getting late and time for dinner, so Gu Tang asked her father to go to the kitchen to cook so that he wouldn't have to keep complaining.

She also ordered Gu Ping'an to help watch the fire.

There was rice and flour in the kitchen. Gu Lianshan wanted to cook some white flour porridge, but when he was about to suggest it, he was retorted by Gu Tang.

"Can you please stop mentioning the word 'porridge'? I spent all this money to buy a yard, is it just to give up millet porridge and eat white flour porridge instead?"

Gu Tang was speechless and pointed at the rice bag. "Steamed rice! I also brought the two pheasants I killed at home. I'll cook them together later. Isn't rice and chicken better than your porridge?!"

Gu Lianshan was stunned by this. He really didn't expect that his daughter would hate Huhu so much.

Okay, if you don’t want to eat it, then don’t eat it. Just eat steamed rice.

Gu Lianshan has always been frugal, so he didn't steam much rice, thinking that there was still meat, so he only needed to eat until he was 70% full.

Gu Tang disagreed with his stinginess, walked forward and added another full bowl of rice, glared at her father, turned around and went outside to get the pheasant.

She brought a pheasant and instructed her father to chop the chicken into small pieces.

With Gu Tang watching, Gu Lianshan had no choice but to chop up both pheasants.

Then, Gu Tang taught him how to make stir-fried pheasant meat.

Pheasant meat is rather dry and has little oil or moisture. In addition, there is not much seasoning available at the moment. In order to suppress the fishy smell of the meat, it would be better to stir-fry it.

Gu Tang had never made it before, but she thought it should be similar to stir-fried rabbit meat, so she instructed her father to do it.

For Gu Tang, cooking occasionally is a hobby, but don't blame her for being angry if you cook every day.

After two lifetimes, no one has the right to make her cook every day!