Mrs. Song happens to be alone and does not have a family. She works at Xia Mingyue's place during the day, so she will not be disturbed, which is just right.
As for the rent...
"You don't have to pay." Feng said.
"No." Ms. Song refused, "There is absolutely no reason not to pay for renting a house."
She wants to live for a long time, and she has hands and feet to work. , we can’t just live by the kindness and charity of others.
"Listen to what I have to say." Feng said, "I am getting older and my bones are getting worse. It is difficult to do laundry, cooking and other things on weekdays. You can help me with some daily tasks. Just pay the rent."
Seeing this, Mrs. Song nodded and agreed, "Just follow what Aunt Feng said."
She has decided to live alone in the future. Save more money, and the monthly rent will be quite a lot. If you can pay for it with your work, it would be great.
She is still young and has plenty of strength, so she is not afraid.
After settling the matter with Feng, Song took some free time to go back, packed up all her clothes, bedding and daily necessities, and officially lived in Feng's home.
Life goes on in an orderly manner.
In the afternoon, after Xia Mingyue flipped through a page of the book, she folded the corners at the end of the page and copied some unclear words on the blank paper.
During this period, Xia Mingyue took a break from her busy schedule and made full use of the fragmented time, flipping through a few pages of the book when she had free time.
Review and consolidate previous ones and learn new ones.
The book sent by Zhou Shanchang is very useful, simple and clear, and very suitable for beginners like her. But after all, Xia Mingyue is a completely self-taught person, and some of them are still difficult to understand, so she can only summarize them and prepare I will go to the county school when I have time to ask for advice.
When Ms. Lu entered the room, she saw Xia Mingyue writing and grinned. "Brothers and sisters, stop working hard and go out and have a look. It's so lively outside."
"How to make it lively?"< br>
As soon as Xia Mingyue put down her pen, she heard the loud sound of gongs and drums, which was mixed with the cheers and cheers of the crowd. She laughed and said, "Could it be that there was another victory somewhere?"
< br>The last time it was so lively was when Cheung Chau Prefecture won a great victory.
After the establishment of the new dynasty, except for the west, there were border defense garrisons everywhere in the east, south and north. Whether it was to deal with foreign enemies or to expand territory, there might be new wars at any time.
"That's not true." Ms. Lu said with a smile, "It's autumn this year, and there are quite a few students in the county school and high school. The county magistrate is very happy, and he has people beating gongs and drums to announce the good news, and he also invites lion dancers. It’s very lively!”
“I heard that the county magistrate is going to the Confucian Temple and the City God’s Temple to offer incense tomorrow. Even Yueran Restaurant and several teahouses in the county are throwing money and giving out cakes, saying it’s a celebration.” Jiang Zhu Guo added.
"This is indeed a happy thing." Xia Mingyue pursed her lips and smiled.
There are many capable people in a county, which means that the people here are outstanding and will be respected by others.
And if these successful candidates are able to serve as officials in the future, they will support their hometowns within their capabilities and increase local development.
Many people have grown up from poor families to wealthy families, little by little.
"In the past few days in the small canteen of the county school, the students in the county school were diligent and studious, and they were still studying hard late at night. This time they achieved outstanding results. In addition to the students who passed the examination, Zhou Shanchang and a group of All the masters must be more and more happy."
Xia Mingyue sighed.
But speaking of the Master Zhou and his masters, the world is full of peaches and plums, which is also something worth celebrating.
As a student, does she have to congratulate her to be polite?
After thinking for a moment, Xia Mingyue decided to go to the county school and solve the doubts in her recent studies. Since it’s a door-to-door visit, there’s no reason to go empty-handed.
Xia Mingyue put on an apron, got into the kitchen and started busy.
Soak the large bones to remove the blood and smell, add water and simmer for an hour until it becomes a thick white bone soup, then add green onions, chives, coriander and ginger slices to fry in fragrant oil, rice wine and soy sauce , salt, rock sugar, etc., and cook for half an hour.
Add the fried sugar and the aniseed ingredients packaged with gauze such as cinnamon bark, tangerine peel, cumin, grass fruit, bay leaves, dried chili peppers, cloves, peppercorns, and angelica dahurica.
In this way, a large pot of stewed soup is finished.
Clean and remove the blood from the whole chicken, pork knuckles, pork liver, cut into sections, lotus root, and potatoes, all of which can be stewed in the stewed soup.
Xia Mingyue even boiled a lot of eggs, peeled them off, cut them twice and put them all in the stew.
During the stewing process, in order to ensure that the strong aroma of the stewed soup is maintained for a long time, Xia Mingyue specially covered the lid. Even so, the unique aroma of the stewed soup still floated out through the gap in the pot lid.
The whole yard was filled with a strong aroma, which made everyone sniffle.
Zhao Dahu, Zhao Erhu and Wu Jin all poked their heads at the door of the kitchen, took a deep breath of the aroma, and smacked their lips repeatedly.
"What did Aunt Xia make? It smells so good!"
"I stewed some things." Xia Mingyue opened the lid of the pot and looked at everything inside.
The aroma rises with the heat, filling the whole kitchen with this fragrant smell.
Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu were very lucky that they had kept their mouths shut just now, otherwise, the kitchen would have been flooded with their saliva.
Wu Jin also had his mouth closed at this time, but this did not affect the saliva hanging on both sides of his mouth like threads, and his eyes were fixed on the big pot that Xia Mingyue was inspecting.
Yummy food!
Want to eat!
Xia Mingyue saw that the meat in the pot was about the same, so she put the vegetables in. After stewing for a while, she took out a piece of pork belly, cut it into small pieces, and put it on a plate.
"Try it first." Xia Mingyue came out with a plate and tied some bamboo skewers on each piece of meat for easy eating.
Xia Mingyue specially asked He Shunzi to help make the bamboo skewers. They are about half the length of the skewers used for oden cooking. They are often used to eat fruits and taste food, which is quite convenient.
Brothers Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu couldn't wait to take a piece of braised pork and eat it.
The taste is rich, the meat is fresh and tender, the fat meat is not greasy, the lean meat is not sticky, and the aftertaste is full...
“Delicious!”
The meat in the mouth of the two brothers Before he could even swallow it, he sighed loudly and praised vaguely, and then he couldn't wait to take another piece and put it in his mouth.
Seeing that the two brothers were just eating for themselves, with no intention of letting him have a taste, Wu Jin jumped anxiously at the door. After barking "woof" twice, he even spun around in a circle.
Seeing this, Xia Mingyue also gave Wu Jin a piece.
Satisfied, Wu Jin opened his mouth to take it, and then chewed it carefully. (End of this chapter)