A young husband dressed as a violent butcher

The baby was fostered in the yamen, but Xiong Zhuangshan did not bring it back, and the follow-up matters were handled by the yamen, so it was inconvenient for him to intervene.

"The Chinese New Year is only [-] days away." Tang Shouhe steamed a pot of walnut cakes, which the young men in Tokyo like to eat very much. When they were hungry at night, they just got up to make a toothbrush.

"En." Xiong Zhuangshan looked at Tang Shou with fixed eyes, with complex emotions in him, Tang Shou couldn't distinguish it for a while, but the look in his eyes made him flustered for no reason.

He stabilized before saying: "Have all the livestock in our backyard been slaughtered?"

"I've slaughtered it and raised it for a year. It's the best time to sell it for a good price, especially mutton, which is in short supply in Yulin Town. When spring comes, I'll catch some lambs and piglets."

"You can keep the sheepskin. Let's sew a sheepskin mattress for the bed. It will be comfortable to lay on."

"can."

"Seeing that the end of the year is coming, we have to reserve some meat for ourselves. Anyway, our family is not short of the meat money now. We will keep a sheep and a pig. If we have time, we can go to the town and buy more beef. Is it okay? ?”

own?Xiong Zhuangshan's heart was very ironed by these two words, like a stream gently wading through his heart, his hands that were sharpening the machete paused slightly, and immediately continued to sharpen it as if nothing had happened.

"Not enough to eat, keep two pigs."

Hey, I forgot that Big Clumsy Bear is a warrior who can eat five catties of beef. It seems that all the New Year's goods have to be increased this year.

Just in front of him, he can still distribute a batch of tooth incense and a batch of thousand-layer-soled cloth shoes. The hatchback can make a net profit of 400 taels, and after removing the principal of the next batch of 200 taels, they still have 200 taels to use.And after these young gentlemen in Tokyo leave, he can still earn more than 100 taels, and his capital is only 30 taels.

This year seems to be a good year. When the spring thaws in the coming year and the land is planted, the Yaxiang business at home can still continue, but cotton shoes should be used as cloth shoes, and the price will be lower. If there are many, then the price of the corresponding handwork must be reduced, otherwise he will not be able to get it.

"By the way, Erlang, when the spring planting is over, let's tear down the house and rebuild it."

Xiong Zhuangshan stopped sharpening his knife and said, "Our house was built the year I came back. It's only been five years and it's still new. It's a pity to knock it down. If you think it's not enough, we can take over."

It is said that the houses in the village have not been built, torn down and rebuilt, that is simply prodigal.It’s all broken and repaired, repaired and repaired.If there is a big happy event of marrying a daughter-in-law and adding children, at most it will be a new house connected to the back of the old house.The thing of overthrowing the heavy cover is what Tang Shou said to Xiong Zhuangshan. If it were someone else, he would be pressed to the ground by a man and beat him up. This is no longer a behavior that can be described as a prodigal.

"No, I plan to change my home into a B&B." B&Bs are very popular in later generations. "It means that our family will build a two-story small building by itself. It doesn't need to be too big. The whole small building is more than 400 square meters. The lobby is similar to the front desk, where guests are entertained, and at the same time they conduct business, and they can also be used for temporary rest. The second floor is where we live, and customers are not allowed.”

There are not no buildings on the second floor. Many shops in Yulin Town have two floors, and there are even higher ones in Tokyo.However, small second floors are not popular in residential buildings. As for rural farmhouses, small second floors are not popular. The main problem is money.

But since Tang Shou proposed it, Xiong Zhuangshan did not veto it outright. On the contrary, he had silently calculated his family's savings in his heart, and considered whether Tang Shou's proposal was feasible, and he would satisfy it as far as the conditions allowed.

Whoever makes him his husband, he is his lord, and he depends on him and satisfies him, this is only right and proper.

"The most important thing is that I once told you about warm walls and ground dragons. These two must be available. With them, we don't need earth kangs. Earth kangs are too weak. Burning kangs does not burn the house. Think about the house. If it’s warm, people can’t sleep on the kang, and it’s too hot. But the kang is just hot enough, but the house can’t heat up. So in fact, I don’t like it very much. This year, there is no way. It’s too cold, so I gave our family a kang Yes. There are conditions in the coming year, so I don’t need these.”

With just these two sentences, Xiong Zhuangshan has achieved success. "According to what you think, we can afford it. We have the land. If we only need to build a house and hire a craftsman, 20 taels is enough. For furniture, [-] taels is enough. We can build it."

"No, this is where we live. I don't want to borrow the night for outsiders. I'm still building a villa. This villa is for the little ladies from Tokyo to live in. It's a luxury."

Seeing Xiong Zhuangshan's eyes full of doubts, Tang Shou said: "When I go to Ji Xiucai's house to borrow a pen and paper, I will draw it for you to see, and you can estimate how much money it will cost."

Thinking of the land that Tang Shouxin bought back in the backyard, it seems that his husband intends to use it to build a house.

"Okay, you can draw it and show it to me, and we will study it later."

"Erlang, go and see those young men and ladies from Tokyo. It's still the old rule. If you win in archery, I'll give him a free order and give him a box of Qi Rulan."

Archery is a new project added by Tang Shou. Archery on ice is even more difficult for those who can't even stand on ice.

Archery on flat ground and archery on horseback are definitely the most basic things for Xiong Zhuangshan who has joined the army, but archery in ice theater is very difficult. After all, Xiong Zhuangshan has never touched ice theater before. , Big Bear still couldn't even stand firmly.So when he proposed for the first time that if he surpassed Xiong Zhuangshan in shooting arrows, he could get a box of Yaxiang, he thought that Yaxiang would definitely be given away.Unexpectedly, Xiong Zhuangshan won the first place. It turned out that the big stupid bear had already learned to skate before he knew it, and his skills were able to shoot arrows on the ice.After that, defeating Xiong Zhuangshan became the daily reward Tang Shou set up for them.

At the same time, Tang Shou also made ice monkeys and whipped them on the ice, which was also very fun. With so many new tricks, he kept these young ladies from Tokyo for seven or eight days.

Xiong Zhuangshan put away his machete and stood up, his expression was haughty and overwhelmed by the height, he said: "No one can defeat me in archery, even on ice."

After all, he strode away.Looking at his back, Tang Shou smiled unconsciously.Xiong Zhuangshan has an overly stable temper and never likes entertainment. At first, he was reluctant to let him play ice games, and felt that he was discouraged by playing with things.Later, in order to attract him, Tang Shou came up with an archery project. Xiong Zhuangshan liked everything related to martial arts. Archery was a daily practice when he joined the army, which made him interested in going out to accompany those people in Tokyo. The guests play.

Unexpectedly, archery not only aroused Xiong Zhuangshan's interest, but was also welcomed by the little ladies in Tokyo. Although the little girls don't know how to shoot arrows, they like to watch them shoot arrows.They also found that Xiong Zhuangshan was a good archer, so they all pestered him to compete.

Today is the last night for the Tokyo guests at his house, and tomorrow they will leave for Tokyo, no matter how fun they are, they will always rush back to celebrate the New Year.

For the last dinner, Tang Shou planned to make dumplings for them and then make some side dishes.In this way, when I wake up tomorrow morning, I will fry the leftover dumplings and make some porridge, which is convenient, trouble-free and delicious.

He plans to make dumplings stuffed with wild mushrooms and pork, chop some diced green onions and put them in, they are very delicious.Soy sauce, a dish of shredded kelp, a dish of shredded dried tofu, and finally wrapped in pork with egg noodles, fried crispy meat, although it is not as delicious as chicken.

Tang Shou alone was busy with the two or three hundred dumplings. He rolled out dough and wrapped them. It took him nearly an hour to finish, and his arms were sore from exhaustion.

It wasn't that Xiong Zhuangshan was lazy and didn't want to help, but that he was surprisingly stupid when it came to cooking.As good as he is in boxing and kicking, he is as bad in cooking, and using him will cause some unexpected troubles, it is better to be tired alone.

But this is because there are few people who come to his house to buy goods. After spring, when the weather gets warmer, more and more people will come to his house to buy goods. At that time, he will have to recruit some helpers.However, he has to carefully select the helpers. Although the chefs in the restaurants in the town know how to cook the food he cooks, they know the recipes, but they don't know the fine ratio of seasonings. This is the essence of cooking. cheats.Otherwise, the same food, why some people make it delicious and others make it difficult to swallow.If you don't know the person clearly, you may steal the prescription he made and go out to set up another family, which will be troublesome.

After making the dumplings, Tang Shou opened the back window, and seeing them cheering around Xiong Zhuangshan, he knew that the big stupid bear had won the jackpot again.Really, even if you want to send a box of tooth incense, you can't give it away, Tang Shou thought happily.I don't know why he was happier that Xiong Zhuangshan won the top spot than he figured out another way to make money.

"Xiong Fulang, you have made new food again. What is it this time?" After getting to know him, Meng You is easier to get along with than Jin Jincheng. He is very humble and polite, no wonder he is the dream lover of Tokyo girls.

"It's dumplings."

"Slots?"

Yuchao's Jiaozi is a kind of pasta similar to a sugar triangle, with a sugar center in the middle and pinched corners on both sides to make it horn-shaped.

As for the dumplings of the later generations, there were no dumplings at this time, and even the noodles appeared only in the Song Dynasty, and there were not many tricks on the pasta in the Yu Dynasty.

"It's not the kind of dick you said. I made minced meat. It needs to be boiled and dipped in garlic sauce. You'll know when you eat it later. Wash your hands first, go inside and wait."

Mr. Xiaolang and the ladies followed his advice, washed their hands and went to the kang, sat down in their old positions and waited for him.

After the dumplings were served, watching the white and fat ones eating like silver ingots, these distinguished guests from Tokyo had never eaten them before, and they became local leopards who had never seen the world.

Tang Shou scooped out a small spoonful of mashed garlic from Xiong Zhuangshan for each of them, and poured soy sauce and vinegar for them. It was so spicy, he asked them to add some hot sauce by themselves.

Meng You picked one up and didn't care how hot it was, dipped it in some garlic sauce and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Hiss, it's so hot, it's so hot." Meng You continued stuffing dumplings into his mouth while saying hot.

Tang Shou said with a smile: "You eat it after cooling down, be careful not to burn it."

Meng You said: "But it's delicious, I can't wait."

Jin Jincheng followed suit and said, "Xiong Fulang's craftsmanship is good, and his food is fresh. I can guarantee that the cooks in the palace have never known these many things."

"How can I do this? Now I'm used to Xiong Fulang's cooking skills, and my mouth is so sloppy. From now on, the cook at home will not like to eat. Every year during the Chinese New Year, I am the happiest, and there are many delicious dishes. This year I'm afraid it's going to be difficult, because the things made at home are nothing new, not as good as Xiong Fulang's craftsmanship."

Everyone flattered, and the flattery was sincere.

"Xiong Fulang Xiong Erlang, this is our last night at your house, you are welcome, we are old friends, sit down and eat together, it's lively."

Eating, drinking and drinking are the best way to attract friendship, Tang Shou is not polite, and Xiong Zhuangshan added a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and ate with everyone.The meal was very happy, and the young ladies in Tokyo also told Tang Shou a lot of Tokyo food and knowledge. Tang Shou listened with a smile and learned a lot.

In the end, it was Jin Jincheng who had a big face, "Xiong Fulang, it's not delicious for us to take it back after a long journey. See if you can pack some for each of us and let us take it back. When you come out, you have to bring something for the elders at home. That's what it looks like."

"Yes, yes, I want it too. Mr. Xiong will make two hundred dumplings for me. I have an ice cellar at home. I will take them home and eat slowly, otherwise I will miss your dumplings throughout the New Year."

"I want it too, I want it too."

At the end of the quarrel, they wanted everything, regardless of face, and the two little ladies actually begged.This is an opportunity to make money, the fly's legs are small, but it is also meat, he will not let go of the opportunity to make money.What's more, if he eats his dumplings well, maybe he can also make a dumpling brand like the later generations, and maybe it will become popular in the whole Yuchao.

In the expectant eyes of everyone, Tang Shou nodded reservedly: "Yes, tell me as much as you want, and I will pack it for you."

Xiong Zhuangshan said: "I'll go invite A Niang and Xiong Wu, you can't do it by yourself."

"Row."

"Dumplings?" Mother Xiong hurried over with Little Sister Xiong to see how many dumplings Tang Shou had made. "There are more than 1000, just a few of us. When will this be packaged?"

Tang Shou said: "I heard that sister-in-law is back, she is also a good hand in this area, you can invite her to help."

Mother Xiong said: "No way, you forgot the lesson of pastry, I can't trust her?"

"It's okay. Whether the dumplings taste good or not mainly depends on the trapping. I have already adjusted the trapping. As for the way of wrapping, there is no need to disclose it. The little lady who has seen dumplings and knows how to cook must know how to do it."

"That's true." Mother Xiong was still a little hesitant. After thinking about it, she felt that what Tang Shou said was reasonable. Besides, they didn't know how long they would be busy with so many dumplings without someone to help them.

Finally, Mother Bear went home and called Mrs. Xiong.

"Let me tell you, I'll give you a chance. If you still dare to eat inside and outside this time, don't blame me for letting Dalang divorce you."

Mrs. Xiong swore to the sky, "Mother, I will never dare."

At the same time, she cherishes this opportunity very much in her heart. It is not easy to regain the trust of the bear mother. She also hopes that this incident can change the bear mother's view of her and make the bear mother accept her again.

After seeing Tang Shou and Xiong Zhuangshan, Mrs. Xiong was still very embarrassed, her face flushed, and she wanted to apologize, but she couldn't open her mouth.

Fortunately, Tang Shou didn't hit her with words, as if nothing happened.

Mrs. Xiong is very quick at making dumplings. Her speed of making dumplings is only second to Tang Shou's. Maybe she also has the intention of performing well and is not lazy at all.

In fact, Mrs. Xiong's attitude towards the Xiong's family is not enough, not only because she made a mistake by stealing the pastry recipe, but she is afraid that if the Xiong's family is dissatisfied, she will be dismissed.The most important thing is that the Xiong family is rich and their life is better.Now the Xiong family never cares about the oil and water in cooking, it must be enough.In the past, my mother-in-law wanted to eat a can of meat oil for a year. Since she got soybean oil, she watched Mrs. Xiong add more oil every day.

When Mrs. Xiong went back to Xiong's house to cook for the first time and opened the oil tank at home and found that the oil was full, she didn't care.After all, the pastry business at home is inseparable from oil, but when cooking, I dare not put more.

"Sister-in-law, please put more oil quickly. My mother and father like to eat oily ones now. If the oil is too small, the cooking lady should be scolded." Xiong Wu, who was helping in the kitchen, quickly stopped Mrs. Xiong .

"Oh." Mrs. Xiong agreed grumpily.

Seeing Mrs. Xiong Wu take a spoonful of oil, she was dumbfounded. Wouldn't she be scolded by her mother as a prodigal? She was terrified, and even thought that Mrs. Xiong Wu was dissatisfied with her bullying her in the past and deliberately retaliated against her.In the end, when the dishes were served on the table, I saw that the whole family was used to it, and there was no special expression, including Xiong Tie, who didn't show any surprises. Only then did Aunt Xiong know that she had only been away for more than a month, and the family's finances had turned upside down.

The family who used to think about every drop of water, now eat oil is something that her natal family who are relatively wealthy in the village dare not think about.A few days later, Mrs. Xiong ate meat again.This is not the meat of her natal family, but a large piece of meat. Everyone has a share. She was divided into four or five pieces, and there were more men in the family.

In the past, the family couldn't afford meat, and Xiong Tie always imagined that one day his wife could eat meat. This time, he finally had the opportunity to put all the seven or eight pieces of fat and thin meat in his bowl into Mrs. Xiong. bowl.

"give you to eat."

Aunt Xiong looked up and saw Xiong Tie's simple and honest face. Although she didn't have shrewd calculations, she was full of eyes and hearts.

"Miss, I'll eat it for you. I just ate it a few days ago. You couldn't eat such a large piece of meat at your mother's house. Eat it quickly."

"Ahem." Mother Bear coughed heavily.

Aunt Xiong was so frightened that she hurriedly put all the meat back to Xiong Tie, "I have enough to eat, and you will go to the town to sell cakes tomorrow, so eat more to be strong."

With the bear mother around, Xiong Tie didn't dare to go too far, and took advantage of the fact that the bear mother was not paying attention, he took the two fattest pieces in the bowl to Mrs. Xiong.Aunt Xiong almost shed tears as she ate meat.How could she have been obsessed with ghosts in the past, thinking that such a man is incompetent, and his heart is all about her.

Since then, being shocked by the improved conditions of the Xiong family, Mrs. Xiong began to flatter Xiong Tie subconsciously. She no longer felt that her man was useless, but felt that she had a good vision and that her husband was a late bloomer.

"Second brother-in-law, let me roll the cakes. I'll see. I'll do it for you. It's quite tiring."

Just as Tang Shou was about to agree, Mother Xiong turned down her face first, "What are you going to do? You want to steal your teacher."

"No, I don't." Mrs. Xiong said aggrievedly.

"Aniang, I can let my sister-in-law try this, besides, I really can't move anymore, my shoulders are tired, and I will be disabled if I go on."

No matter what, Xiong Zhuangshan will also help the family carve and brush teeth. He is good at craftsmanship, so Tang Shou will follow him, and Xiong Zhuangshan's own idea is to make more money.He was grinding and brushing his teeth at the moment, when he heard this, he put it down immediately, got up and walked behind Tang Shou.

"Is this shoulder hurting? I'll squeeze it for you." Xiong Zhuangshan always rubbed Tang Shou's waist because of certain things, and he had fully mastered the strength he could bear.

Tang Shou was not polite, and directed Xiong Zhuangshan, "Beside it, yes, it's right here, it's so sour."

If Mrs. Xiong dared to instruct her son like this in front of Mother Xiong, she would be angry, but now that she saw it, she could only pretend that she didn't see it. She lowered her head and focused on making dumplings, telling her in her heart that she was blind ,can not see.

Mrs. Xiong looked at Tang Shou enviously, and silently picked up the rolling pin to roll out the pastry.

"That's right, sister-in-law, you made it so round for the first time, it's very good." Tang Shou praised Xiong Zhuangshan while enjoying Xiong Zhuangshan's massage.

Mrs. Xiong's depressed mood disappeared a little, and she worked harder.

After more than 1000 dumplings were finished, the Xiong family were so tired that they almost ran out of food.Tang Shou wanted to give the money, but Mother Xiong refused to take it, so she packed fifty dumplings and took them away.Not only is Mother Bear happy, but Aunt Xiong and Younger Sister Xiong are also overjoyed.

Tang Shou's dumplings are counted according to the number, one tael, and more than 1000 dumplings were divided up by several young men and women, who gave him more than 60 taels, and Tang Shou was not in vain.

Before leaving, Jin Jincheng slowed down and walked at the end, making sure that others could not hear him, he whispered to Tang Shou: "In two days, my servant will come over for the last batch of goods before the new year, you must prepare enough , I don’t have three or five hundred incense sticks, I’m afraid I won’t be able to get through this year.”

The Chinese New Year is a good time to sell goods, and things that are usually not sold will become bestsellers, let alone the popular ones like Yaxiang.

"Here is 100 taels of silver, including my deposit, you must prepare enough goods for me."

Tang Shou knew that Jin Jincheng was watching him buy the land, and was afraid that he would not have the money to buy expensive spices.

"Don't worry, I've prepared enough for you." He was not polite, and took the deposit directly, and Jin Jincheng then went away in peace.

At the same time, Yulin Town and neighboring towns also learned that Yaxiang and cotton shoes with thousand layers of bottoms poured into Xiong's house to buy.

"Xiong Fulang, can this refreshment be cheaper?"

"Xiong Fulang, why are you running out of leather boots with laminated soles? Zhang Xiaosan bought them at home yesterday, why are they gone today? When will they be available? My shop is in a hurry to sell them!"

"Xiong Fulang..."

"Xiong Fulang..."

The Xiong family also ushered in a small peak of selling goods, and they were so busy every day that they never touched the ground.

The sheep and pigs in the family were finally slaughtered, and butcher shops in Yulin Town came to pull the meat one after another.

"Erlang, have we saved our own meat?"

"Keep it."

"Keep another pig, kill it and sell it to the villagers. The price we sell to the shop is the price we sell to the villagers." Tang Shou said: "When we were in trouble, many villagers wanted to help, but in the end they didn't help. , but it’s all in the heart.”

"Row."

The pig shop sells it for 35 yuan a catty, but now the price has risen to 38 yuan, and Xiong Zhuangshan sold them only 25 yuan, which is a difference of ten yuan in profit.There is no other way, after all, other butcher shops also have to make money, so it is impossible to buy it for nothing. The price is quite affordable, and only Xiong Zhuangshan can get it, but others can't.