A few people were peeling fish enthusiastically in the shade of the tree when they heard a familiar "sizzling" sound, followed by the mixed aroma of lard and fish oil wafting over.

Several people sniffed hard.

Dong Erlang: This is the first time he has smelled such a delicious smell. He is so greedy. What should he do?

Dong Erlang was imagining how Madam Jiang cooked when he heard a sizzling sound. The smell of wild onions, wild garlic and wild ginger stir-fried in the pot made the previous fragrance even more intense.

In an instant, the people who were peeling peanuts outside the gate lost their composure.

Guan swallowed her saliva and took the opportunity to mobilize the children's emotions. "We have to peel it quickly, otherwise we will be sorry for your Aunt Jiang's cooking skills."

"Yeah." Several children responded in unison, and then there was no more sound.

There's no way. I'm afraid my saliva will flow out if I say one more word.

Yichen also swallowed her saliva. It seemed that her mother's cooking skills had improved even more, and she had no time to peel the peanuts.

Everyone present: You are not alone.

Just as everyone was feeling like seconds were ticking and their stomachs were already singing the empty city plan several times, they heard Jiang's heavenly voice: "Everyone, stop peeling, wash your hands and eat."

"Eh."

"Eh."

"Hey!"

After a series of responses, several people stood up and went to the river.

When everyone had washed and entered the yard, they saw that the food had already been placed on the stone table in the yard.

In the middle of the stone table was a ceramic basin, in which sat two large, over a foot long, braised carp, smothered in rich red sauce. Beside it were two cold dishes: a cold-mixed dandelion and a plate of cold-mixed wild garlic.

Dong Erlang only took a glance at it and was reminded of a word: pleasing to the eye.

He never knew that the color of the cold-boiled dandelions was so beautiful, bright green, and it complemented the distinct color of the wild garlic.

Guan went over to help, serving everyone a ceramic bowl of boiled sorghum rice. When everyone was seated at the stone table, Guan simply said, "Let's eat."

There was only the sound of chewing below.

The bright moon rises and sets in the east, and a new day begins.

They finished shelling peanuts until late yesterday. Before leaving, Guan told Jiang Yan that she would come over to help them plant peanuts today.

Jiang Yan wanted to refuse, thinking that they could secretly use a seed drill to finish the planting quickly, but when the words came to her lips, she didn't say them.

After breakfast, all five members of the Zhang family came to help. Zhang Xiaoqi and Guan were also experienced farmers, but they had never grown peanuts before, so they all looked at Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan had done her homework last night. She used a small pickaxe to dig out a shallow hole in front. Yi Chen skillfully picked out the nourished peanut seeds, counted out three, and scattered them in the shallow hole, and then covered them with topsoil.

Seeing that her daughter was doing well, Jiang Yan continued to dig a shallow hole along the long ridge.

After watching it several times, Zhang Xiaoqi and Guan also learned it, and then followed the example of Jiang's mother and daughter, one digging a shallow hole and the other sowing seeds.

Soon Dasheng and Ersheng followed suit, leaving Sansheng standing alone at the edge of the field, disheveled in the wind.

Soon Sansheng couldn't stand any longer. He had eaten the delicious food made by Aunt Jiang, so how could he just stand there and watch the fun without working?

Thinking of this, he ran over and took the small scoop of seeds from Yichen's hand, "Sister Chenchen, take a break. I'll help you sow the seeds."

"Okay!"

With the five members of the Zhang family around, she and her mother couldn't use those machines, and she was really tired because of her short legs.

Now that she has Brother Sansheng's help, she can sit down and rest for a while.

Yichen sat next to the bag of seeds, resting and checking the seeds in the bag.

After being nourished by my mother's wood-based supernatural power, the peanut seeds are plump and look rare.

She looked at the corn seeds in another bag. Her mother had also nourished them with her wood-type ability, so they looked different from ordinary corn seeds.

Three groups of people worked together and the peanut seeds were quickly planted in the soil.

Looking at the neatly cultivated land, Guan began to optimistically imagine the harvest scene.

Zhang Xiaoqi, however, is not optimistic. "It gets cold early here, and I'm afraid a frost will end everything."

"Not necessarily. These peanuts grow in the soil. They shouldn't freeze after the first frost, so they should be able to survive."

"Really?"

"It's true."

"Hahaha, I'll go to the centurion's office and tell the captain now." After saying this, Zhang Xiaoqi stretched out his strong legs and ran to the other side of the river. He wanted to go home to get his horse.

Guan stared at his back and scolded him with a smile, "He's as stupid as a bear. His legs are moving so fast that I'm afraid he'll trip himself."

Jiang Yan had no say in this matter. She wanted to continue planting corn. She would not feel at ease until the seeds were planted in the soil.

For dinner, the five members of the Zhang family prepared to stay here for dinner, and Guan even went home to bring back a bag of sorghum rice.

Jiang Yan said she took too much. Guan knew her family well, so she spoke frankly. "Let alone the two of us adults, even these three brats can eat you out of money."

Big win, two wins: He was almost calling the three of them good-for-nothings.

Sansheng ignored all this and just sat on the stone slab at the door, listening to his sister Chenchen continue to tell the story of how Tang Monk couldn't get across the Flaming Mountain and how Monkey King went to borrow the palm-leaf fan.

His eyes were not idle either, they kept wandering around Aunt Jiang, wanting to ask her what she wanted to eat in the evening.

But his mother was standing beside him with a fierce look in her eyes, so he didn't dare to ask.

Jiang Yan was also discussing with Guan, "Sister Guan, we caught two more fish in the straw basket this morning. How would you like to eat them, Sister Guan?"

"The way we ate it yesterday was pretty good. I saw the kids liked it, and I'm sure the head of the family would like it too."

"Does Sister Guan like it?"

"Of course I like it. To be honest with Sister Jiang, this is the first time I know of eating fish in this way."

"Sister Guan, have you ever eaten braised fish before?"

"No." Guan was not afraid that Jiang Meimei would say that she had never seen the world, so she told her how to eat several kinds of fish here.

"Fish has an earthy smell, and many people don't like to eat it. But poor families, especially military households like us, don't care whether the fish is fishy or not as long as they can fill their stomachs. Besides, fish is also meat, and some people are so greedy that they will go down to the river to catch fish. After all, the fish in this river are free, so anyone who can catch them will eat them."

Speaking of it, the military households here are really miserable, but no one sympathizes with them, because the military households here are all criminals and officials, or their descendants.

Guan continued to mutter to Jiang Yan, "I've lived for over thirty years, and the only ways to eat fish are stewed and fried with fish sauce. Honestly, our stewed fish isn't as delicious as yours, and as for fried fish sauce, we just put more fermented bean paste in it, just so we can have two more meals."

"Haha." Jiang Yan laughed. She didn't expect that her cooking skills for home-cooked dishes could be compared to those of a chef in the eyes of the five members of the Zhang family.

Sansheng had been listening the whole time, and when he heard his mother and Aunt Jiang talking about making the braised fish from last night, he immediately showed his teeth.

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