Chapter 104 Buying Mountain

First, mix the eel with the standard taste of two spoons of cooking wine and one spoon of white wine per pound.

Watercress, soaked ginger and chopped into small pieces.

Cut the green bamboo shoots into cubes.

Peel a small pot of garlic.

Cut scallions into small pieces.

When the seasoning is ready, first heat the pan with soybean oil, then add the eel and fry it until it is dry.

Then add the watercress, soak the minced ginger, and garlic. Saute until fragrant and pour in the broth. When it boils over high heat, add the fermented glutinous rice, soy sauce, sugar, and vinegar, then add the green bamboo shoots and cook over medium heat.

When the water dries up, the soup thickens, and the green bamboo shoots are soft and cooked, add the green onions. When the green onions are cooked, turn off the heat and start the pot.

The children had already cooked a lot of delicious food, but the taste of the braised eel with garlic and green bamboo shoots was far beyond their expectations. They kept swallowing their saliva while making the food according to Su You's instructions.

Shi Fu was attracted when he was soaking ginger and watercress in the pot. He never left the pot and kept sniffling: "It smells good, it smells so good..."

Su You picked up a piece of eel fillet and said, "Come on, Mr. Shi, let's taste the saltiness."

Shi Fu ate it and ran to the ancestral hall while shouting: "Hachigong, please bring out the good wine! Today's meal will not be worth the food without a bottle of good wine..."

Su You took a big bowl and filled two bowls, and asked Mouse to send one bowl to each of the third sister-in-law and the fifth sister-in-law.

The cornel shells are treated with soil soda made from plant ash. The effect is much better than using lime powder. After the bitterness is removed, what you get is spicy. Then use it to mix the bean paste. After marinating until now, the flavor is revealed and it is delicious.

The kids sighed while grinding the rice.

Hachiko ate a piece and felt that his pores were much clearer. He took a sip of wine and squinted his eyes: "It's really delicious! Hengzhi came and went. This thing tastes wonderful when mixed with wine!"

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Shi Fu had a drink with him: "The taste of eel is so fragrant. It turns out that I couldn't make it before. But when I meet an expert, it becomes worthless."

Su You smiled and said: "If it were cooked with cucumbers in the summer, it would be extremely delicious. Now...it's still a little bit behind."

The third brother and the fifth brother nodded: "That's enough, it's already great! There are so many eels in the field, and with the little oil there, Hachiko will surely have enough meat to eat!"

Hachiko frowned and said: "You haven't seen so much oil? This thing is delicious, but it takes too much oil and condiments..."

Su You said with a smile: "How can we waste it? After eating the meat tonight, we can use this soup to cook the meat tomorrow. The taste will be amazing!"

Everyone talked and laughed for a while, and Su You asked: "Third brother, how much land can I buy with twenty guan?"

The third brother said: "With twenty guan, you can buy about 17 or 18 acres of good land. But there is a problem. All the fields around Longli are owned by owners. It is really difficult to buy it in a short time."

Su You said: "Aren't there many barren mountains around us?"

The third brother smiled and said: "Xiaoyou is just talking in layman's terms. There are barren mountains, but the Shetian method can only grow wheat and beans, and the yield is not high. There is no need to bother."

The Shetian method is slash-and-burn cultivation. In autumn, a fire burns out a piece of the mountain. After plowing, wheat and beans are planted, and some harvest can be achieved. It is a popular mountain reclamation method nowadays.

Su You shook his head and said: "That's not cost-effective, but we have water sources in the mountains. If we build ridges layer by layer to divert the water and create paddy fields, it will be like the stone steps coming up from the water.

Can’t we also grow rice?”

After saying that, he ran into the house to get paper and pen, and drew a picture: "You see, it looks like this. The gentler the slope, the larger the area of ​​flat land that can be enclosed by a short embankment. A circle around the swamp will form

Possibility of good land.”

Hachigong made a decision: "Tomorrow I will go to the mountain with Xiaoyou to have a look. If things really come true, twenty guans can buy a lot of land, and the government will give me a commendation from Kelongli!"

These days, farmland is very important, and land reclamation is the first-class local political achievement, second only to quelling chaos.

The matter was settled. After dinner, Su You led Shi Wei to tinker with the lichens. They divided the lichens into categories, added water and pounded them into a paste, filtered out the juice, soaked it in paper, and then hung it up to dry.

While tinkering and chatting, Su You asked Shi Wei: "Weier, are the chickens and ducks okay?"

Shi Wei used a clip to hang the paper on the pulled rope and said, "It's very good. They are very lively, but they are getting bigger and thinner."

Su You smiled and said: "It's not that they have lost weight, but that they have sprouted. Next, you can move them out of the greenhouse at noon every day to let them adapt for a while, and then they can be free-range."

"When you see good seedlings during the breeding process, you pick them out and raise them more carefully. By screening them from generation to generation, you can finally get big fat chickens and big fat ducks."

Shi Wei nodded and said, "It's the same as asking your third sister-in-law to save the seeds when you see that third brother's vegetables are good?"

Su You said: "Well, that's pretty much the truth, but this matter is also very complicated to explain in detail. Let's do it roughly like that."

After finishing the work, they played two games of checkers with Shi Wei, and then they rested.

Now there are too many things to play at home, such as chess, Go, checkers, Huarong Tao, Luban lock, intelligence lock...

Children's favorite games are Go backgammon and Monopoly, and playing cards with Sanskrit numbers.

Three types of long cards were also invented. With water glass and stone paper, the thick cardboard made by Chengjia Paper Factory was very authentic. Therefore, after mahjong, long cards became the other two popular gambling tools.

One is the leaf card with dots, the other is the 270 that was popular in later generations in Leshan, and the other is the big 2 that was popular in Lianghu and southern Sichuan.

Cheng Wenying was overjoyed. I told you earlier that you could do this. It’s not like you didn’t know that people in the Song Dynasty were fond of gambling. The upper market allowed Porcelain Rooster’s mahjong to win. This gap between the middle and lower classes can be filled by our Cheng family paper mill. This thing is made of

It’s so easy to read, and the profit is almost as good as books...

The whole night was silent, and Suyou didn't even eat eel noodles the next day, so he was dragged up the mountain by Hachiko.

Su You gnawed on the cooking cake with a look of resentment on his face: "I still want to eat eel noodles, I'm still a child, I need to grow..."

Hachiko took out a boiled egg from his bag: "Can I add this?"

Su You pouted: "I only eat scrambled eggs..."

Then the egg went into Hachiko's mouth, and he ate it whether he liked it or not. Hachiko would not be used to his problems.

Su You: "..."

The two of them were arguing with each other all the way to the swamp. Hachiko was dumbfounded when he saw it: "How...how did it become like this?"

Su You said: "Ah, if there is less water, the swamp will recede..."

Hachigong jumped up anxiously and slapped Su You on the head again: "If you didn't tell me about such a big thing earlier! You would have known that we would catch eels every day!"

Su You also jumped: "You hit someone again! You ate more eels yesterday! You still have the nerve to hit me!"

Hachiko gave him two more blows: "How dare you keep talking?! At least thirty acres of good land will be withdrawn from this place! You actually concealed it and refused to repay it?!"

Only then did Su You realize. After the water receded, he only thought about the products under the water. After all, the soil in his heart was far less important than Hachiko's.

Hachiko looked at the fertile fields and felt very happy: "It's not just a school field, there is also a family field! You can stop making waterwheels for a few days..."

Su You said: "Well, the new lathe is probably about to arrive, and it will definitely need to be debugged for a few days, but what does the workshop have to do with the land purchase?"

Hachigong scolded: "Are you stupid?! Put the water back quickly, flood this area again, and then report it to the government. I, the Longli Su family, want to open up wasteland!"

"When the sales documents for this mountainous area are obtained and the government officials have completed the inspection, we will change the water back, hahahaha..."

You are so old! In the blink of an eye, there are dozens of acres of high-quality fertile land. Wait, you can also build a layer around it, and then dig out some mud from the pond and fill it in...

The old man and the young man walked around the swamp, and they were all so happy.

Su You now has strong connections in Meishan. When the county heard that the Su family was going to open up wasteland, the county magistrate, tax supervisor, and Li Zheng rushed over immediately before they could use the Jiang Qing family's connections to ask for help.

The county has spoken, and the Su family's affairs should be dealt with in a special way. Increasing the cultivable area of ​​the Song Dynasty is the obligation of every conscientious official in the Song Dynasty. But the Su family in Longli can proactively and courageously shoulder the responsibility of building the Song Dynasty.

This spirit is worth encouraging, and the county supports it 100%!
Chapter completed!