After traveling through time, she still led the villagers to make money as a county magistrate

"smell good!"

Villager Xu Yingfeng looked at the food on the table and wondered, "Yeah! Why does it smell so good? I have similar food at home, but it's not as delicious as this."

Although they said this and their stomachs were growling, the county magistrate and the county magistrate did not come, so everyone still waited obediently.

Gu Niannian and Li Jing arrived shortly after. Seeing everyone standing by, staring at the food with no intention of eating, it seemed that they were the ones who were waiting. "Everyone, sit down. No need to wait for us. You must be hungry! Let's eat!"

Everyone sat down one after another. Although they were obviously very hungry, they ate in a unusually polite manner.

Gu Niannian was talking to Li Jing and didn't pick up her chopsticks, so she didn't notice this.

Mother Li, who was standing by, took one look and knew what was going on. She walked between the two of them and said, "My lords, I've left some extra food for you. Please follow me!"

As Li's mother spoke, she winked at her son. Gu Niannian didn't understand what was going on and said, "We can just eat the same food as the students. There's no need to prepare anything extra."

Mother Li thought that this kid was a good person, but why couldn’t she understand the meaning behind his words?

Li Jing knew his mother's character and knew that something must have happened, otherwise she wouldn't be like this. "Sir, everything is ready. It would be a waste if you don't eat it."

The three of them came to another table. Gu Niannian looked at the same bowl of braised eggplant, a bowl of winter melon soup, and a bowl of cowpea on the table. Apart from the smaller amount of food, there was no other difference. Her face was full of question marks.

"Ma'am, why is this?"

Li's mother, "Look at the door"

Gu Niannian followed Li's mother's words and walked to the door. She was shocked when she saw that everyone was eating porridge and vegetables in a very polite manner.

He was eating voraciously at this moment, and the dishes on the table were being devoured at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Everyone started discussing it.

Gu Niannian turned around and thanked her, "Thank you for reminding me, Auntie. It was indeed my negligence. They must have felt uncomfortable sitting at the same table with us."

"Although we are studying, we are also working in the fields, which requires some physical strength. Everyone is tired after a morning of work, and we hope to relax at noon."

It’s not Gu Niannian’s fault that she didn’t think of this. She was just a small village official before, and it was common for her to eat with the villagers.

As a county magistrate, his status has changed, so he should be more careful in his behavior.

Mother Li smiled and said, "My Lords, please have your meal!"

The two of them sat down, and Gu Niannian said, "Auntie, would you like to eat together? We can't finish these dishes by ourselves."

Gu Niannian saw the lotus and lotus leaves beside her and said, "Lotus and lotus leaves, come and eat with us!"

The two people who heard this thought to themselves, "That won't do! How can the master and the servant eat at the same table? That's against the rules."

She waved her hands and said, "No need, Master. I'll eat after you finish eating."

Gu Niannian pretended to be angry and said, "There is no such thing as a young master or a master here."

Mother Li was not polite. She did not believe in male superiority over women. She watched her son eat and sat down with confidence. She also persuaded Lianhua and Lianye to sit down.

"I prepared five bowls and chopsticks. Are you two dissatisfied with the food I cooked? Is it not to your liking?"

How could they think like that? They had to sit down.

Gu Niannian saw that the two of them sat down, and he was indeed hungry. Although she was always in charge of talking and Li Jing was in charge of doing things, his throat was almost smoking in this era without loudspeakers. After drinking a bowl of water, his stomach also started to growl.

I picked up a piece of cowpea with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. "Hmm~ It smells so good. Auntie, did you add lard residue?"

Mother Li, "Yes, adults really know how to eat. I put the lard residue from cooking oil into the dishes so that everyone can taste the oil and satisfy their craving."

"Auntie, please don't call me 'sama' anymore. Just like Brother Li, call me Le'an."

Le'an... Where have I heard this name before? Li's mother was wondering, but Gu Niannian interrupted her thoughts, "Auntie, how did you come up with this idea? People here like to eat lard residue as it is, but they don't put it in dishes."

“It tastes good when eaten directly, but it makes you feel hot. So I tried this method, and it tasted surprisingly good!

Mother Li certainly couldn't tell them that she was not from this era and that this method was not something she had tried out herself, so she just made up a lie.

Gu Niannian didn't care. This cooking method wasn't patented by anyone and required some technical skills. She never imagined that Li's mother was a time traveler like herself.

……

After the meal, more than a hundred bowls and more than a hundred pairs of chopsticks were scattered on the table. Everyone looked at each other, waiting for Gu Niannian to come out and arrange the next steps.

Gu Niannian also finished eating quickly and came out, "Are you done? Is it delicious?"

Everyone said, “It’s delicious.”

Xu Yingfeng, "It's so delicious, much better than what I cook at home"

Gu Niannian changed the subject and said, "As for the daily cleaning of the dishes, I have arranged for you to be assigned shifts, four people in a group, three meals a day. Minus the fact that we didn't have breakfast today, everyone gets one turn."

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other in disbelief.

The education they received since childhood was that men should stay away from the kitchen, and these things were always done by the wife or mother at home. But they had never seen a man in the kitchen in a house with women.

Xu Yingfeng was a straightforward person. Having only studied for two years, he immediately asked Gu Niannian, "Sir, such kitchen matters should be done by women."

"A man should have ambitions and should not be held back by such trivial matters."

Gu Niannian didn't indulge her, "Washing dishes is a small matter? Then you can eat without dishes and chopsticks."

Xu Yingfeng, "How can we eat without a bowl? Do we have to use our hands?"

Gu Niannian's tone was a little angry, "Eat it however you want, use your hands or scoop it up with leaves."

Xu Minghao, a villager next to Xu Yingfeng and also Xu Yingfeng's fellow villager, heard the anger in Gu Niannian's tone, tugged at the corner of Xu Yingfeng's clothes, and whispered a reminder, "Stop talking, the county magistrate is angry."

Xu Yingfeng swallowed the words he was about to retort.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Gu Niannian said, "The food you eat is not cooked by yourself. This is cooked by Aunt Li, the mother of your county magistrate."

"The County Magistrate's mother cooked for them?"

This is unbelievable anywhere. In their teachings, these adults should not sit high up in the temple and easily decide life and death with a bang of the gavel.

This is what is written in operas. Now it is the county magistrate who is teaching them how to farm, and the mother of the county magistrate is cooking for them. If this is not a true story, no one would believe it no matter who you tell it to!

The people who came were all teenagers in their teens and twenties, the oldest was only thirty, and they could only recognize a few words from the books they had read.

Although my family is considered wealthy in the village, I have rarely left Qingshan County since I was a child. Naturally, my limited worldview comes from my parents, teachers, and operas.

The ancient concept of class hierarchy was deeply rooted, and Gu Niannian's actions were equivalent to destroying their original worldview.

Of course, this is exactly the effect that Gu Niannian wants. As the saying goes, there is no construction without destruction. Destruction comes first, then construction.

Gu Niannian continued, "Aunt Li cooked for everyone for free without charging a penny."

"Shouldn't you wash your own dishes?"

Now, everyone who had been looking reluctant nodded in agreement, "Of course, of course."

Xu Yingfeng's worldview collapsed most completely. His family was the wealthiest in Qingshui Township, and he was also young, only eighteen years old.

Among this group of people, the one with the most talent for studying is preparing to take the imperial examination and pursue a career in officialdom. He is planning to take the exam next year. If he passes, he will be awarded the title of scholar.

The family had a hundred acres of fertile land and hired tenant farmers, so he was not required to farm the land. His parents only asked him to study hard and did not need to worry about anything else.

He didn't want to participate in this training at first, but later he heard that the county magistrate would teach him personally, and he was puzzled. He had never heard that a county magistrate had to know how to farm.

Besides, the county magistrate is so young, can he be better at farming than those old farmers who farm every day?

Besides, if he passed the exam, he would most likely be arranged to be a county magistrate. If he participated, he could not only see what the county magistrate studied, but also become familiar to the county magistrate.

When his mother heard that her son wanted to sign up, she refused to let him go no matter what. She even hugged her son and wiped away her tears, saying, "How can the wind bear such hardship?"

My father agreed. "What's wrong with a woman with long hair and little knowledge having to endure a little hardship? If the county magistrate can endure it, why can't he?"

"This matter will only benefit Feng'er, so it's settled. Feng'er, you go and participate."

"Go and prepare some extra clothes and food for your son, so he won't go hungry."

Xu Dong still felt sorry for his son after all, so he turned around and gave his wife instructions.

Xu Yingfeng was also a good student. Even the teacher praised him and said that he was almost certain to pass the provincial examination next year.

Xu Yingfeng had a smooth journey, and his mother treated him as her darling. She was afraid that he would melt if she held him in her mouth, and afraid that he would fall if she held him in her hands.

Who would dare to ask him to wash dishes? As soon as Gu Niannian said this, he blurted out a retort.