Farmer's wife: My husband came back and the house was in chaos

Yao Qingnian was turning over dried ferns in the yard and feeding the pigs at the same time.

When I came to the backyard, I saw the empty chicken coop. All the chickens raised there before were eaten by the original owner. When I go to the city tomorrow, I will buy a few and raise them here to fill the vacant chicken coop.

"Yinuo, come here, I will teach you how to recognize numbers. Once you learn these, you can also count quickly."

Yinuo is over five years old and has reached the age for enlightenment, but nowadays few families have the spare money to send their children to school, and it is not easy to support a scholar.

For example, Lu Xiangqian, a scholar in Lu Minghai's family, had some talent for studying and passed the examination for a student. Mrs. Ge decided that her son would have a bright future, so she put all the family's efforts into supporting Lu Xiangqian, even if she had to save money.

In addition to the salary, Lu Xiangqian's monthly food expenses and other errands cost at least 500 wen, which was a considerable expense for a rural family in ancient times. Lu Minghai worked in the town and earned only about 800 wen a month at most. He also had to pay for household expenses, so he had to tighten his belt every day.

Yao Qingnian has no money now, so he has to teach himself first. When he makes money, he will send him to school. Studying does not necessarily lead to a promising future, but knowledge can help people distinguish right from wrong and enrich themselves.

"This is 1." Yao Qingnian wrote the number "1" on the ground and explained to him the meaning of one. Yinuo understood it quickly and wrote it down quickly on the ground. Yinuo was five years old and learned things very quickly, so Yao Qingnian wrote out 1 to 5 and asked him to remember them. Once he was proficient in writing, he would teach him new ones.

Yinuo was very interested and wrote numbers carefully on the ground.

"Yinuo, go out and play!"

The snacks that Yao Qingnian brought back last time helped Yinuo gain several friends. The one who was speaking was Aunt Chunhua’s grandson.

"I'm not going. I want to learn to read."

Yao Qingnian wanted to let Yinuo go out and play and write after he came back, but he had made up his mind and there was nothing more to say. It was better for him to concentrate on one thing.

Yao Qingnian took out the offal she had bought and walked towards the river. Seeing her carrying the offal, people who had tasted braised food did not dislike it at this moment: "Qingnian, are you going to wash the things?"

"Wash the offal and sell it tomorrow."

When the villagers heard that Yao Qingnian would sell braised food tomorrow, they ran away happily. Soon everyone in the village knew that they could buy braised food tomorrow. After eating it that day, they enjoyed the food very much and looked forward to Yao Qingnian making braised food to sell every day. Yao Qingnian himself didn't know that braised food was so attractive and made people miss it so much.

In the evening, Yao Qingnian did not cook, but made knife-cut noodles with coarse flour. He used a knife to cut the dough into boiling water piece by piece. The shape of the noodles was like willow leaves, thick in the middle and thin at the edges, with clear edges and beautiful appearance.

Four bowls of hot noodles are ready. The delicious taste combined with the delicate texture of the noodles makes people feel satisfied and comfortable. The noodles are smooth on the outside and chewy on the inside, soft but not sticky, and become more fragrant the more you chew them.

It was so delicious that I was speechless. I even drank up all the soup. Yao Qingnian had spent a whole day boiling the soup with bones. It was full of aroma and rich flavor.

"How did you make this soup? It's so delicious?"

The food I cook on weekdays is bland and tasteless, but the food cooked by Yao Qingnian is full of fragrance, and my taste has become more sophisticated.

"It's corn bones, mom! I've been cooking it for a whole day! I told you it's a good thing."

Liu Shuyue didn't expect that this was made of bones without a trace of meat.

"Qing Nian, your father and I have discussed it. We will treat his leg."

After dinner, Liu Shuyue told Yao Qingnian the idea she and Lu Mingchuan had discussed.

"Okay, I'll arrange it for Dad after I'm done with these few busy days."

Now that the old couple has made up their mind, Yao Qingnian just needs to find a time to perform the surgery.

"By the way, Mom, there's an empty chicken coop in the backyard. Shall we go buy some chicks and raise them?"

"I'm going to the village tomorrow to ask if anyone has hatched chicks."

"Yeah! Raise chickens!"

Yinuo clapped his hands happily.

"How was your calligraphy practice today?!"

Remembering the numbers he taught this morning, Yao Qingnian decided to test him.

“I’ve learned it all!”

"Then let me test you, what is this?"

Yao Qingnian took out two chopsticks and asked him.

"2"

He took the test on everything according to what he was taught today, and Yinuo was able to answer the questions fluently and write them down.

"Yinuo is very powerful, then I will teach you some new numbers."

Yao Qingnian also gave him 6 to 10 and asked him to practice them tomorrow. Yinuo agreed obediently, helped to clean up the dishes and went back to his room to sleep.

Take out the brine from the refrigerator in the space, pour it into the pot, then throw in the offal, cover the pot, cook on low heat, wait for the fire to go out, simmer overnight, and it will be just right when you take it out the next day.

The next morning, as soon as Yao Qingnian opened the door, he saw Yinuo writing in the yard.

"Yinuo, good morning!"

"morning!"

Yao Qingnian entered the kitchen, fished out the braised pig offal, and started to cook breakfast. There were no breakfast ingredients today, so she simply cooked some instant noodles with milk.

Yinuo was eating the fragrant instant noodles and thought to himself: "It would be great if I could eat such delicious noodles every day..."

Yao Qingnian didn't know what Yinuo was thinking. It was okay to eat instant noodles occasionally, but it would be a problem if he ate them all the time. However, in this era of famine, being able to have enough food to eat was the minimum requirement for ordinary people.

After breakfast, Liu Shuyue came back with a nest of chicks and put them in the backyard. The chicken coop in the backyard became lively again.

The time was almost up, and Yao Qingnian arrived at the village entrance as usual with the boat. What she didn't expect was that there were already quite a few people waiting at the entrance.

"Morning!"

“Are you selling braised food today?”

"yes……"

As soon as Yao Qingnian put down his things, the villagers rushed over.

“Give me one.”

“Give me two.”

Yao Qingnian's stall was crowded with people who came to buy braised food. She couldn't handle it all by herself, so she had to say, "Everyone, please line up and come one by one. Otherwise, I won't be able to handle it, and the sales will be slow, which will waste everyone's time."

When everyone heard what Yao Qingnian said, they lined up consciously.

In a blink of an eye, all the braised offal were sold out. More than 40 portions were sold today, making more than 600 coins. The raw materials of the offal cost only a few coins, and the expensive ones are salt and sugar. Excluding these costs, there is still a profit of nearly 500 coins, which is a considerable profit.

For several consecutive days, Yao Qingnian's braised food was sold out before noon. In her free time, she also went to pick ferns, but obviously not many people bought them.

Just as Yao Qingnian had expected, the villagers went up the mountain to pick ferns to cook, and all the ferns nearby were picked within two days.

Yao Qingnian shared his methods of making cold bracken and dried bracken with the villagers. He didn't sell them anyway, so there was no big deal in telling everyone the methods. This way, they could use them to fill their stomachs when food was scarce in the winter.