Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Back in Songjia Village, everyone moved the things from the car into the house.

The live chickens and ducks are kept in the chicken coop for a day, and the fish and other ingredients are placed in the kitchen.

The pork and pig's trotters were originally waiting for Song Dazhi to bring the villagers to the city to buy them the next day.

But Song Laoer wondered if he had missed anything, so he planned to go there himself the next day.

Just go to the village to buy the vegetables tomorrow.

After finishing, Song Lao Er went to the village chief's house. The village chief was smoking a pipe in the yard.

"Village chief, I'm here to buy land. I've picked out a piece of land at the foot of Lotus Mountain, and I plan to build my new home there."

The village chief puffed on his pipe and put on his half-torn shoes.

"Okay, I'll go with you to take a look." After that, he called his two sons and brought measuring tools.

When the group arrived at the land, they found that there were people living nearby.

Landlord Li bought a circle of land nearby. He bought more than ten acres of land and built a luxurious house.

However, what was built for the tenants was a whole row of thatched mud houses. When it was not raining, the ground was dusty and when it rained, the ground was muddy, making it difficult to walk.

Song Lao Er didn’t want to choose a location near his house, so he chose a location a few acres away from his house.

The family has discussed and decided that two acres of land will be enough. There are not many people in the family.

The front yard, back yard, vegetable garden, pigpen and chicken coop occupy one and a half acres of land, and the home is only half an acre.

So several people measured and confirmed it, and after working for half a day, they finally circled the land. The land was not as expensive as farmland.

One acre of top-quality land costs ten taels, one acre of medium-quality land costs eight taels, and one acre of inferior land costs five taels.

The price of this residential land is the same as that of inferior farmland, and two acres of land only cost ten taels of silver.

So they returned to the village chief's house, and the two signed the deed, waiting to go to the county government office after the Mid-Autumn Festival to finalize the deed.

Song Laoer happily returned home with the deed in his pocket. Song Ersao and Song Sanniang were preparing dinner. Qin Haodong went to fetch water, while Qin Haoxi and Siniang were feeding the chickens and ducks in the backyard.

He went into the kitchen first and told them about buying the land. Mrs. Song and her husband were very happy. The family's hard work had finally paid off.

The next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and everyone was very excited at night.

Because in the past when I was at the Song family, all festivals were celebrated the same way.

On the contrary, because it was a festival, Song Ersao and her friends were even busier preparing food.

But the mother and daughter will not get any good things, so they don't have any good expectations for the festival.

But this time was different. Thinking of the kitchen full of offerings and being able to invite her family to dinner the next day, Song Ersao was so excited that she tossed and turned.

Si Niang and Wu Niang chatted non-stop before going to bed. They agreed to go and play with Dan Dan with lanterns the next night, and also to look for Qian Qian and Zhuang Zhuang.

Even Qin Haodong and Qin Haoxi were looking forward to the Mid-Autumn Festival the next day. The calmest people in the family were Song Laoer and Song Sanniang, who fell asleep immediately.

Early the next morning, Song Lao Er got on Song Dazhi's ox cart and went to the county town.

Song Ersao and Song Sanniang were preparing lunch for their family at home.

Mrs. Song first went to burn incense at the various deities in the house.

The custom here is to have door gods, kitchen gods, land gods, and some even have ancestral tablets at home.

On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month and during festivals, people would burn incense to the deity and place offerings such as fruits, sugar cakes, etc.

Therefore, during festivals, every household can smell the lingering scent of Buddhist incense, giving people a special sense of security.

Song Ersao was busy burning incense and worshipping the gods, then returned to the kitchen to prepare lunch with Song Sanniang.

Song Ersao was reluctant to eat the abalone, sea cucumber and tripe that Miss He sent before, but she can eat them today. Song Sanniang said she wanted to drink soup, so today the family used those ingredients to make a soup.

Today's lunch dishes include seafood stewed chicken soup, braised tilapia, fried celery with dried squid, vinegar and Chinese cabbage, and stir-fried lotus root slices.

The dinner menu is quite rich, so lunch can be simple.

For ordinary villagers, this is a big meal that they can only have once a year.

Mr. Zhang in the village planted an acre of lotus roots. The lotus leaves used by the clan leader to sell snails were bought from him.

When Song Sanniang found out, she went to him and bought some lotus roots to fry.

The dried seafood squid were given to me by Miss He before, so there’s no need to pay for it.

Abalone, sea cucumber, fish maw, scallops, stewed chicken soup together, Song Lao Er bought enough soup ingredients yesterday,

The fish maw, sea cucumber, and abalone were all prepared as Xia He had taught us before.

Song Ersao went to the chicken coop and caught a chicken. She cut its throat and bled it. Then she scalded its feathers with boiling water and plucked them.

Song Sanniang didn't dare to look and ran out. When she came back, Song Ersao had already prepared the chicken and stewed it in a clay pot with seafood soup.

Then process the remaining ingredients, steam the rice, and when the soup is almost done, you can cook the vegetables.

When the soup gave off a rich aroma, Song Lao Er also came back.

When I came back, I brought back some pork trotters to be used tonight. I put them in the ice that Song Sanniang had made in advance to freeze them.

Song Ersao started cooking. The dishes were very simple and only needed a few stir-fries. Song Ersao performed normally.

Soon the food was on the table, salt was added to the soup, and then it was served. The remaining soup was a good thing.

Mrs. Song scooped out all the soup ingredients and prepared a garlic dip. Everyone can order the dip later.

"Okay, it's time to eat, everyone go wash your hands." The habit of washing hands before meals was required by Song Sanniang, but everyone agreed and did it, and it has become a habit.

"Wow, what a delicious chicken soup!" Si Niang sniffed the bowl of chicken soup in front of her and couldn't help but exclaimed.

"I haven't had chicken soup for a long time." Song Lao Er also missed it a little.

Wu Niang couldn't wait to pick up the spoon and start scooping the chicken soup to drink.

"Wu Niang, you need to cool it down before drinking it. Be careful not to get burned." Mrs. Song noticed Wu Niang's actions and quickly reminded her.

After a while, everyone finished a bowl of hot soup, and their foreheads were slightly sweaty, but they didn't care about it anymore. They all picked up the seafood in the soup to taste it.

Only Song Sanniang had eaten these things before, but she did not make any exception and started eating them.

"What is this?" Si Niang asked while picking up a piece of sea cucumber. After receiving the reply from Song Ersao, she put it into her mouth with satisfaction.

"What is this?" Wu Niang didn't know how to use chopsticks very well. She scooped a piece of fish belly with a spoon and asked,

So during this meal everyone got to know these seafood dishes that they had never eaten before.

After the meal, everyone digested the food and then took a rest before getting up to prepare dinner.