Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

Zhao Yuanzhen picked up the abacus and explained the basic information about the abacus to them.

The abacus is divided into two levels. Before using the abacus, the two beads on the upper level should be close to the upper horizontal beam, and the five beads on the lower level should be close to the lowest horizontal level.

There is no bead near the middle beam. It means neutral, which is 0.

Counting from right to left, each column represents units, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, and so on.

The two beads on the top represent 5, and the two beads on the bottom represent 1.

"Like this, one bead on top and one bead on the bottom, how many are there?" Zhao Yuanzhen hit two beads and asked the people around him.

"It's 6." Li Zhijuan thought for a moment.

"Yes, it is six. Let's look at it like this. There is one bead on the top and five beads on the bottom of the ones place, and one bead on the top and one bead on the bottom of the tens place. How much is it?"

"It's 61."

Zhang Zijin replied.

"No, look more carefully."

"It's 70."

Zhang Xinshu

"Yes, it is 70. The top bead in the ones place is 5 + the bottom 5 beads equals 10. The top bead in the tens place is 5 but it is in the tens place, so it is 50. Add the bottom bead, because it is also in the tens place, so one bead represents 10. How much is it when you add them together?"

"70."

Zhang Zijin

"Oh, do you understand now?"

"Hehehe, I understand grandma."

"Let's look at this. The ones place has one bead on top and two beads on the bottom. The tens place has one bead on top and five beads on the bottom. The hundred tastes place has one bead on top and four beads on the bottom. What does this represent?"

"907."

"1007." Zhang Xinshu

"Yes, it is 1007. Xin Shu, tell me your calculation method."

"Okay, mom, the one on the ones place represents 5, and the two beads on the bottom add up to 7."

"The top ten is 50, and the bottom five add up to 5, which equals 50. We need to move one to the hundreds place."

"The top bead in the hundreds place is 500, and the four beads below are 400, which adds up to 900. However, the 10th place was full of 100, so one bead was moved up, so the hundreds place is 1000. The final total is 1007."

"Yes, what Zishu said is very right. Do you understand now?"

Several people nodded.

Zhao Yuanzhen then gave them a few math problems and asked them to calculate using an abacus and read out the final results.

There were still some mistakes at the beginning, but as she explained the mistakes, we did more questions and basically everyone got them right.

"As the saying goes, when the abacus rings, there are thousands of ounces of gold, and when the beads turn, there is an endless source of wealth. In the future, I will rely on you to make a fortune. Now that you have basically mastered the abacus, you can come up with problems to calculate for each other."

Several people began to practice in groups of two.

Suddenly I realized that things that seemed unattainable before were actually so simple.

In fact, this is mainly due to the fact that Zhao Yuanzhen taught them Arabic numerals, as well as the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and arithmetic in advance.

After practicing for a morning, the group became able to use the abacus smoothly.

When she turned around, she found that it was almost time for lunch. Li Zhijuan hurried to cook. Her sister-in-law had a scratch on her hand, so she should do it.

Mom doesn’t have any requirements, and it’s a little late now, so let’s just make some noodles with soybean paste.

First, knead the dough and set it aside to wake up. She went to her mother to get the ingredients.

She took a piece of pork belly, and also took cucumbers, peanuts, green onions, coriander, pickled mustard tubers, and green and red peppers.

Wash the pork belly and cut it into dices. Heat oil in a pan and stir-fry the pork belly until the oil comes out.

Then add a large spoonful of soybean paste, a little sweet noodle sauce, and soy sauce and stir-fry, then add water and water starch and simmer on low heat.

Just simmer until the soup is absorbed.

Wash and cut the cucumber into shreds. The peanuts are cooked, so you can serve them directly on a plate.

Cut the green onion into chopped green onion, chop the coriander, cut the pickled mustard into pickled mustard pieces, and cut the green and red peppers into thin strips.

Knead the dough evenly, roll it into a large sheet with a rolling pin, fold the sheet into a width of about 10 cm, and cut it into thin noodles with a knife.

Boil water, cook the noodles when the water boils, remove from the water and rinse with cold water, then remove from the water and drain.

The duo who dug the trap had returned by the time the noodles were ready.

Li Zhijuan quickly took seven large bowls, filled each of them with half a bowl of noodles, then scooped a large spoonful of meat sauce, added cucumber shreds, peanuts and other side dishes, stirred them carefully, and ate the noodles.

It is chewy, has the aroma of meat, the fresh fragrance of cucumber, and the occasional aroma of peanuts.

Zhao Yuanzhen ate a big bowl of hand-rolled noodles, which were delicious. Satisfied.

Take another sip of the noodle soup and enjoy the original soup.

When the duo heard that they were learning both arithmetic and abacus, they expressed their desire to learn as well.

Zhao Yuanzhen said she would ask your wife to teach you, she was too lazy to repeat it again.

The duo said that they could finish digging the trap in one afternoon today and they could study together tomorrow.

It has been raining for four days. I feel damp and uncomfortable everywhere. I should get rid of the dampness.

Zhao Yuanzhen bought some dried wormwood, half of which she burned in the cave to remove moisture, and the other half was used to boil hot water for foot soaking in the evening.

Mugwort has the effects of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and removing dampness and relieving itching when applied externally.

Her studies in traditional Chinese medicine were not in vain.

I thought about it and realized that I still had a lot of Chinese medicine classes left to study. After studying for an hour, I felt sleepy and went to bed.

When I woke up, I found that I didn’t want to study and I was bored. In this kind of weather where I was trapped in a cave to avoid the rain, I could only study food.

Taking advantage of the fact that the rain had subsided, Zhao Yuanzhen decided to go out and dig some wild vegetables. She wanted to eat dumplings stuffed with shepherd's purse in the evening.

Wearing a straw raincoat, carrying a small vegetable basket and a small weed hoe, Zhang Xinshu heard that she was going to pick wild vegetables and wanted to go with her.

Zhao Yuanzhen had no choice but to buy another set of raincoat and give it to him.

The two of them went out carrying a small basket of vegetables.

There are few wild vegetables in this season. After all, it is autumn. Shepherd's purse should still be available, but it may not be as tender.

After searching around the cave entrance and finding nothing, the two could only look for it somewhere farther away.

Finally, I found a large patch of shepherd's purse near a meadow far away from the cave entrance.

Zhao Yuanzhen took a look and found that they were indeed a bit old, with stems that were too thick and some had already bloomed and shed seeds.

They picked the tender leaves and did not dig up the whole plant.

Fortunately, there were enough shepherd's purse in this field, and even though they picked it by the leaves, they still picked a large basket.

Seeing that it was almost time, the two of them walked back.

After entering the cave, Li Zhijuan quickly took the basket. They took off their raincoats and hung them at the entrance of the cave to drain the water.

Zhao Yuanzhen took out a piece of pork belly and handed it to Li Zhijuan, and ordered the pork and mustard greens filling.

Li Zhijuan took the pork, washed it, cut it into small pieces, and prepared to chop it into minced meat. Zhang Xinshu saw that his sister-in-law was going to chop the stuffing, so he hurried over to help.

Zhao Yuanzhen quickly praised Zhang Xinshu. She had always disliked men who were far away from home to cook. In his opinion, a true gentleman would not use any excuse to enjoy the fruits of other people's labor for nothing.

Li Zhijuan watched Zhang Xinshu chopping the stuffing while she went to knead the dough. After she kneaded the dough and left it to rise, she also prepared the meat stuffing and shepherd's purse.

Put the stuffing into a bowl, add a spoonful of heated lard, then add salt, soy sauce, pepper powder, and soybean paste, then stir evenly in one direction.

Knead the dough into a smooth dough after it has rested, then cut it into strips, roll each strip into the thickness of a coin, cut it into small doughs about one centimeter thick, and then use a rolling pin to roll them into round dumpling skins.

Put the meat filling on the dumpling skin, fold both sides and pinch them tightly.

Zhao Yuanzhen also helped to make the dumplings. Since there were many people and they had big appetites, they had to make a lot of dumplings.

Zhang Xinshu and Zhang Zijin also learned to help make dumplings.

In the Daliang Dynasty, dumplings were called "bianshi". It was also a kind of pasta that everyone liked to eat during important festivals such as the Chinese New Year and the Beginning of Winter.

Zhao Yuanzhen looked at the dumplings she made and counted them. She found that there were indeed three wrinkles. So she smiled and told them about it.

"It is said that the number of wrinkles on the dumplings will indicate the number of children you will have. How many do you have?"

Several people looked down at their dumplings.

Qian Xiaohui has 3 pleats, Li Zhijuan has 3 pleats, Zhang Xinshu has 3 pleats, and Xiao Zijin actually has 5 pleats.

He shouted happily

"Will I have a brother or sister? Mom, can I have a brother or a sister?"

Qian Xiaohui covered his mouth embarrassedly and said, "Kid, don't talk nonsense. Just focus on making dumplings."

Li Zhijuan was very happy looking at the three folds on her dumplings.

She has been married for more than a year but has not yet gotten pregnant. She was afraid that her mother-in-law and husband would dislike her. Now, after hearing her mother-in-law say that she will have three children, she is very happy.

At least this proved that I was fertile, so I secretly told my husband at night.

It took five people more than an hour to make more than 200 dumplings.

Li Zhijuan added water to the pot and brought it to a boil, and then started cooking dumplings as soon as the trap diggers came back.

Now peel some garlic and mash it into garlic paste. If you don't put garlic in dumplings, the flavor will be half gone.

It didn't take long for the duo who dug the trap to come back.

Li Zhijuan put the dumplings into the pot skillfully. There were too many dumplings to boil all at once, so she could only cook half of them first. When they were cooked, she took them out and cooked the other half.

The dumplings were cooked. Li Zhijuan quickly found a large plate to take them out and quickly put the second pot in.

The dumplings were well wrapped without any cracks. They were round and looked very appetizing.

Li Zhijuan asked them to eat first and she would come after she finished cooking this pot. Everyone disagreed and waited for him to eat together.

Zhao Yuanzhen found a food box and filled a plate for the old house. She told Zhang Xinshu that if anyone asked, he should say it was wolf meat.

Zhang Xinshu said he understood, put on his raincoat and went.

After the second pot was cooked for a while, Zhang Xinsu came back and everyone started to eat.

"My aunt also asked me where I picked the shepherd's purse, and I told her."

Zhao Yuanzhen nodded and told her to pick them if she wanted to, as they were from the mountains after all.

Pick more and add more green vegetables, which will be good for Zhang Sandao and Sun Zhang. It is not good to not eat vegetables for a long time, even wild vegetables are good.

She mixed the garlic paste, added a little soy sauce, vinegar, and a spoonful of chili oil. The fat dumplings were dipped in and took a bite. It was delicious.