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Chapter 73

"My benefactor, we have been traveling all day, hurry up and make some delicious food to fill our stomachs!" Yu Wuya quickly smoothed out the situation.

"Okay, go~, go home and make delicious food, I'm hungry too!" Chen Xu shrugged indifferently, and turned around, his face almost burst into laughter.

"Sister here, uncle will take you to ride a horse!" Yu Wuya looked at Xing'er who was also wearing a ragged dress, picked her up with a smile on her face, and couldn't wait to run to Chen Xu's house with his legs and his belly.

"Brother, bring the removed wheat back!" Xing'er turned around excitedly and shouted.

"Hell~" The woman in black glanced at Chen Xu as if she was looking at a piece of shit. Her slender legs were slightly clamped, and the green horse sniffed at Chen Xu.

When I went, Chen Xu quickly jumped away from the snot that was coming, and then watched the woman in black lead the horse carrying the purse and leave together.

Damn it, why are all the women in the Qin Dynasty so unreasonable? Is it okay to blame me for being poor? I’m so poor when I traveled over here!

When Chen Xu carried half a load of wheat grains home, Chen Jiang had already cooked the rice. Xing'er and the woman in black were standing outside the pigpen and threw wild vegetables into it and fed a group of wild boars.

Yu Wuya had already rolled up his sleeves and set up a barbecue grill with stones next to the stove.

"My beef, what are you going to eat at night? How to make that braised beef noodles?" Yu Wuya enthusiastically helped Chen Xu put the burden on his back and asked excitedly.

"I can't eat beef noodles yet. I lack ingredients. I'll eat something else for the time being!"

Seeing that this foodie brought him a big bag of money, Chen Xu felt that this foodie could still receive it well. After all, all the efforts of the past were finally rewarded. Several tubes of tea actually brought him more than 13,000 yuan, which was completely beyond his expectations.

You should know that the money from the Qin Dynasty was quite valuable. Except for food and meat, everything else was considered cheap.

For example, the cheapest pottery bowl in the town is only one ounce per ounce, which is only two pounds of grain, one piece of coarse burlap and twenty ounces of fine linen, and farm tools are also cheap, and the state has subsidies, and a hoe weighs three pounds, and the price is only twenty ounces.

You should know that these things are durable. A bowl can be used as a heirloom for several lifetimes. If you die, if you put it in a coffin and bury it in two thousand years, it will be worth hundreds of thousands of yuan. The same is true for hoes. Only linen cloth is considered a daily consumable, but for the hardship of being poor, you don’t care much about wearing clothes. A piece of cloth can be used for five, six, seven or eight years of clothing. For example, Chen Xu’s family, the long linen cloth worn by Chen Hu was still there many years ago. Although the clothes are not covered, it doesn’t matter whether they are worn in summer. Some ten-year-old boys, seven or eight years old girls in the village are running around naked all day long, full of primitive wild natural atmosphere.

Poverty is actually not unique to the Qin Dynasty. There have been poor people who cannot afford to wear clothes for more than two thousand years in the later years. Even in the 21st century, we can still see from the news that people in some mountainous areas live in thatched huts and caves, and the family has no pants to wear. There has not been any essential change from the poverty of this era.

Chen Xu's family now has some money, so they can also make some good clothes to wear. They bought the cloth but kept doing it because the village is poor. If his family wears clean new clothes, it will cause their family to be separated in the village, and this good relationship and atmosphere will be quickly broken.

Don’t worry about being weak but not being uneven, this is the essential reason for the formation of class opposition.

You eat well and dress well, show off among a group of poor people, and the final result will be either isolated or averaged, and there will be no third result.

The sun slowly sets, and under Chen Xu's control, a rich fragrance begins to emanate in the sunset.

Yu Wuya was like a big horse monkey jumping around, and from time to time he came to the pot where he cooked vegetables to uncover the lid and smelled it, then showed an intoxicated look on his face.

Chen Xu was dealing with a big fish that was more than a foot long. This was brought back from the river a few days ago and kept it in a broken pottery jar.

Scrape the scales, remove the gills and internal organs, cut the surface obliquely for a few cuts, and then marinate it with ginger and salt to remove the fishy smell.

There were seven or eight eels as thick as a thumb in the water tank, which were also cut open and gently smashed them on the stone slab with a knife. Then, the spine was removed with a dagger and cut it into small pieces more than an inch long.

The woman in black was still wearing a facial scarf and never took it off. She stood in the sunset and looked at Chen Xu's rough movements and blood in her hands from afar. Her eyes showed a look of disgust, as if she was very regretful about coming to this place with her senior brother.

Is this the boy who made peerless immortal tea that my senior brother praised?

If this is him? Then all the imaginations along the way have collapsed at this time, and there is no longer any beautiful thoughts in my heart.

How can such a wild man in the mountain village be able to afford a disciple of the immortal family?

And Chen Xu also lost the enthusiasm for this woman to begin.

However, this woman looks like she is only sixteen or seventeen years old. She is still in high school in later generations. He is a social brother of twenty-five or sixty years old and will never have the same knowledge as her.

"My benefactor, can these long insects in the water be eaten?" Yu Wuya looked at Chen Xu skillfully dealing with eels and asked in surprise.

"Well, this thing is a peerless delicious food. It tastes much better than big fish, and it has a special function!" Chen Xu put the cut eel slices into a pottery bowl and marinated them with ginger and salt.

“What function?”

"Aphrodisiac!"

"Really?" An inexplicable surprise suddenly appeared in Yu Wuya's eyes.

"Go and help me pick a few apricots, the greener the better!" Chen Xu nodded and told Yu Wuya to pick apricots.

Now it is the season when wheat is ripe, and most of the green apricots on the trees have turned yellow. However, even if this wild apricot is ripe, it is still very sour. Chen Xu gave up after eating it twice. However, Chen Jiang sometimes makes some big ones and peel them and then dry them into dried apricots. It is still good to be a snack in winter.

After a lot of busyness, everything was ready. Chen Xu washed his hands and put the pottery basin that he usually cooked vegetables on the soil stove. He had already prepared all kinds of seasonings for Xing'er.

"Xing'er, a big fire!"

"Okay!" Xing'er quickly stuffed the firewood into the stove. As the flames burned, the temperature of the pottery basin quickly rose. Chen Xu rubbed his hands and took a deep breath to start cooking.

Popular eel segments were once Chen Xu’s favorite dish.
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