The flames on the stove are hot, and the heat waves are surging up.

Gu Xiang picked up a piece of chicken miscellaneous rice with long chopsticks and tasted it. He was very satisfied: "No, the chicken miscellaneous rice is quite fresh. Several officials from the Liu Gong family are all honest people."

These chickens were just taken back by Ermu and a few young men from the village, who went to the Liu family to help slaughter them.

Recently, Mr. Liu was about to marry his daughter, so he invited several chefs to come back to try a banquet. His daughter married a young man from a noble family in Beijing, so he was very concerned and traveled thousands of miles apart to invite famous chefs from all over the world to come back. He also asked Gu Xiang to help order dishes. Gu Xiang did not refuse, and by the way he also told Ermu to take people to start a business with several masters from the Liu family kitchen.

The Liu family needs to prepare a lot of dishes, and the ingredients must be selected from the best. Chicken, duck and geese are slaughtered by truck, but most of them are definitely not available for the table, such as chickens, ducks and geese.

But the Liu family doesn't eat it, and Gu Xiang doesn't dislike it.

Now it seems that the villagers of Guzhuang are not disgusted.

The so-called rich people smelled of wine and meat, and there were frozen bones on the road. Gu Xiang couldn't help but feel this emotion when he looked at the current Liu family's style.

In fact, Mr. Liu is also famous for his bodhisattva in the local area. He has to give porridge and medicine every year, which is not bad for tenants. The rent is lower than elsewhere. If he encounters a famine and disaster, it is common to reduce or exempt tenant rent.

Moreover, there are not many officials in the Liu family, so they are not considered to be the ministers and the family of Dingshi in their lifetimes, but they are just prominent in the local area.

But Gu Xiang can still eat a delicious dish with all the colors, fragrance and flavor by collecting chicken and duck mixed things that others don’t want from home.

The stone tables and wooden tables outside the cafeteria are obviously not enough. In addition to the men, women, young and old who are queuing up, there are villagers coming from the village behind.

In the past two days, more than 80% of the villagers have to go to the cafeteria to have a meal.

The canteen uses morning meals at Mao, lunch at noon, dinner at You, and three meals a day. In fact, the rich people's homes in this dynasty, such as the people in the capital, mostly eat three meals a day, but it is obvious that it is good for ordinary people to eat two meals a day in a location like Guzhuang.

Generally, the strong laborers at home can eat two meals, and women and children can eat half dry and half thin, and one meal is thin. This is still necessary to catch up with the good times of the year. If the year is not good, it is even more impossible to say.

Because everyone in the cafeteria can only buy one, and usually the most people come to eat and lunch, this is very different from Gu Xiang's habits.

This is also impossible. Although the grain harvest in the fields is poor, even if it is bad, it has to go to the fields to work. After collecting the grain, you have to replant the beans quickly. These beans are also very important to the villagers. Whenever they encounter famine, beans can save their lives.

This year is obviously a year of relying on beans to save lives.

When you have to work during the day, you have to have some solid things in your stomach. You are hungry at night, just blow the lights up early and go to bed. If you tighten your belt, you can still get over it even if you are hungry at night.

At the beginning, Gu Xiang always prepared more meat dishes at night, but after two days, he changed his habit.

It was noon, but the weather was neither cold nor hot, and the sun was so warm.

Wang Tiezhu, who was in the front, was very determined. The two brothers bought a meat and two vegetable set meal together. They put all the red chickens on the side. Wang Tiezhu couldn't wait and quickly picked up a chopstick and put the chickens on the snow-white rice.

The red oil immediately dyed the full rice grains with oil. After eating them in one bite, his eyes suddenly became wide open.

It's simply delicious!!

It turned out that the chicken was so smooth and tender, so crisp and chewy, and even more delicious than mutton, although they had never eaten mutton.

Not only the carpenter brothers, but the villagers couldn't help but gritted their teeth and bought this meat dish when they saw that they were so oily and full of color and bright and full chickens were waiting for someone to eat.

A dish of chicken mixed dishes, a dish of tofu stewed with mushrooms, a dish of fried vegetables, and a large bowl of rice. It costs only eight cents, and only points are only forty.

Nowadays, men, women, young and old in the village, from morning to night, who can’t squeeze out time to work through Gu Sanniang’s village affairs list?

Forty points, you can make up for three or four days.

It’s just that some stingy and frugal families feel sorry for spending money and spending points that can be earned with labor, but they don’t feel sorry for them at all.

Not far away, Guzhuang.

Guzhuang Village is surrounded by mountains, and every household is like a chess piece, dotted along the mountain path.

After the rain that day, a carriage came squeaking outside. Gu An and Gu Ning were following a few village men and women while memorizing the letter, trying to fill the pits on the road that were smashed by falling rocks, and many raised areas had to be flattened.

Gu Ning was also unique and picked up small stones of about the size from the stream, and used these stones to build a small mountain road at the entrance of the village. There was plenty of water accumulation in this location. With this small stone road, it would be much easier for the villagers to enter and exit.

While working, the group was surprised when they saw the carriage, but no one came over to join in the fun.

If they had never seen serious carriages before, it was common for them to arrive, but now that Gu Xiang has returned from Yongyi’s army, the carriages come and go countless times, and the horses that have sat with Gu Xiang were so arrogant that they looked so arrogant. The thin horses pulling the carriage were dusty and were really not very eye-catching.

Gu An remembered what Mrs. Gu had repeatedly advised, and first wiped his hands with a veil and tidied up his clothes. Then he went up to him. Seeing the ox cart stop, he couldn't help but smile and said, "The guest came from afar. I wonder if it was to visit relatives and friends, or something?"

The coachman was a little at a loss for a moment.

As soon as the carriage curtain was lifted, Xiao Youshu looked up and down the girl's baby, quite surprised. He had passed many villages and counties along the way. He always encountered a panic face, and he also encountered someone robbed countless times, so that their master and servant had no choice but to settle down in the village.

Today, the dry food was exhausted and there was no way to go. I happened to pass by this village and I could see smoke from afar. They came after all. Unexpectedly, there was a storm outside, and the village was very peaceful. The little child was wearing patched clothes, but he was gentle and polite.

Xiao Youshu's eyes flashed slightly and said, "Xiao, a businessman, passed by the land, wanted to take a break and replenish some dry food. I wonder if it's convenient?"

Gu An hesitated and sighed: "If I had to entertain guests well some time ago, but there have been bandits everywhere recently and the village's grain has been poor. If the guests want to take a break and drink some tea, we can still entertain them. If you want to replenish dry food, you may have to replace it, or see if the guests can like our village's specialties and buy some back."

Before Xiao Youshu could be suspicious, Gu An quickly explained the new rules of the village. In short, outsiders came to the village and could do a lot of things with money, but they only wanted to eat, so they had to use points.

Outsiders naturally have ways to earn points. One is to sell food and other scarce items to the village, and the other is to purchase pear paste, rattan weaving, local cloth, fabric and other local specialties in the village.
Chapter completed!