HCB Chapter 304 Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors
Chapter 304 Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors
As for Shen Youyou, she started to get busy as soon as she entered the yard, but that did not stop her from finding out what had happened that day from her aunts and sisters.
With so many people talking one by one, she told her everything.
Before she could sigh, "Emma, my dad is awesome."
Then Shen Yingzi said, "Yoyo, why is my Third Uncle so powerful? How does it feel to be his daughter?"
Shen Jinxing just stood up and gulped down a glass of water: "I feel like I'm in a dream now. How come things have turned out like this in just one day? It is said that they will not only help us to open up the wasteland, but also help us build a house."
Shen Cuiya also asked with sparkling eyes: "With so many people helping us, will we be able to have our own home soon?"
Shen Youyou smiled and nodded, but she felt under great pressure. On the way back, she roughly calculated that they earned about two taels of silver from the stall that day, of course, after deducting the money she spent.
That was sixty taels a month, and this sixty taels could feed the whole group for two months.
But her father said that if the price of food doubled, that would be enough to feed them for a month, so the money they earned from the stall was just enough for them to eat.
It is indeed a good thing to have the help of people from Tangjia Village, so that they can settle down earlier and then develop her plan to get rich earlier.
But helping others is different from hiring someone. For example, when hiring someone, you don’t have to worry about their food, you just have to pay them, and you can hire as many people as you can afford.
But people come to help with good intentions. You can't just tell them to give less food because you don't have enough food and that you can't provide them with food. Only a fool would do that, right?
What's more, although it is not the autumn harvest yet, farmers have no time to rest except for the winter. Even if they have nothing to do, they have to weed the fields.
So you definitely can't say that. This is not about saving face and suffering in vain. This is a matter of morality.
The only thing we can do is to make more money. When the autumn harvest comes in the village, we can see what prices the grain merchants are offering. Buying grain directly in the village will definitely be much cheaper than buying it in the grain store.
As for making more money, she actually had plenty of ways to make it, but she just didn't dare to take the risk, for fear that she and her group would lose all their power and influence.
As for those who dare to do it, with small profits and not too eye-catching, they need manpower, but isn't it because they are in a hurry to open up the new land that people come to help?
"YoYo?"
"Hmm? What's up, sis?"
"You seem a little unhappy!"
Shen Youyou was not unhappy, she was just thinking about something. However, she found that her elder sister was really thoughtful!
"No, I'm thinking about something!"
Erya: "What are you thinking about?"
"When can we live in our own house?"
"Hehe, I also want to live in my own house as soon as possible, otherwise I will feel uneasy."
"Yeah, I was thinking about building the house quickly. Even though I worked all day making jelly and didn't even have time to catch my breath, I still felt so excited. It seemed like my arms and waist weren't sore anymore."
"Yes, I feel the same way. Just thinking about building a new house makes me feel full of energy."
Shen Youyou listened to the conversations between her aunt, sister, and brothers, and gritted her teeth: "It's just to make money, she did it!"
In the evening, a bonfire was lit on the avenue outside the yard, and the flames burned, making crackling sounds.
The people in Tangjia Village really brought a lot of tables from each household.
I knew that Jiu Zu didn’t have that many bowls, so I brought my own bowl and chopsticks when I ate.
Grandpa Shen enthusiastically pulled Tang Jiugong. One of them was the oldest in Tangjia Village, and the other was the oldest in the nine clans. Who would dare to sit down if the two old men didn't sit down?
"Old brother, come and try the cooking skills of my granddaughter-in-law."
All the tables were filled with wooden basins, which were borrowed from neighbors in Tangjia Village. The tables looked like there was a happy event in the village and a grand banquet was going to be held.
In the first large pot, there was braised catfish, which was cut into fist-sized pieces with attractive color and fragrant aroma.
The second dish, carp with sauce and fragrant taste, was also cut into pieces. It had a strong sauce flavor and bright color, and you could tell at a glance that it was well stewed.
The next dish is still fish stew, but it is grass carp stewed with sour bamboo shoots. The taste of the sour bamboo shoots is very appetizing and completely covers up the earthy smell of the grass carp. Just smelling the smell makes you salivate.
Next is the dish of stir-fried pork with ground broccoli. Although not much meat is put in, the fat in the pork is stir-fried out, and paired with the fragrance of the ground broccoli, it is a perfect match. Just smelling the smell is so delicious that it can make your eyebrows drop.
Next came two cold dishes, one was cold mixed wild vegetables. Li Jingshu was willing to use oil and stir-fried peppercorns in a pot. Alkaline noodles were also added when blanching the wild vegetables, making them look fresh and juicy.
Next was the dish of cucumber mixed with steamed cake. Cucumbers are very common and almost every household in Tangjia Village grows them. These cucumbers are also brought by the women in the village, but when paired with steamed cake, one can’t help but look at it a few more times. There is no way, it looks so refreshing.
But compared to the food in the big basin at the back, everyone thought: "Oh my god, is this food for humans? It's crystal clear, like ice and jade, and it can even reflect the light of the fire."
Tang Jiugong's fingers trembled: "This... is this what immortals eat?"
Shen Mazi laughed: "This is for the birthday boy, please eat more of this dish later."
The last large bowl contains milky white fish scale soup, the delicious smell of which rushes straight into your nose.
This is a large round table borrowed from the village, and several tables for Shen Youyou and her friends to set up their stall are also set up. Together, they are eight steps long, and on them are pots of cut and seasoned jelly.
However, since the jam will be sold tomorrow, all the jams today are salty.
Besides, with so many people eating sweet food, I really can’t afford it.
There were also baskets of steaming corn cakes that had just come out of the oven, some so big that they could cover Shen Youyou's face.
There were too many people and limited stools. We couldn't really move all the stools from the whole village here. It wasn't like we were really having a banquet, so the older people sat and the younger ones stood.
Moreover, there is no rule in the Nine Clans that men eat while women watch.
As soon as Master Shen and Tang Jiugong sat down, Shen Zhiqiu and a few other eloquent people began to invite the men of Tangjia Village to sit down and eat.
Li Jingshu and the others began to invite the women and old ladies to eat together.
The young men should greet the other young men, and the same goes for the girls like Shen Youyou. They just need to take care of Tang Xin and the others.
As for people like Shen Luming, sorry, they have to follow their mother and grandmother.
Before the meal, Shen Zhiqiu expressed his gratitude to everyone on behalf of all the nine clans. In short, everyone should eat and drink well and don't be polite.
Tang Lizheng also said a little bit that in the coming days, he would first help the nine clans to reclaim the wasteland and build houses. In the future, they would all belong to the same village and everyone should get along well with each other. A close neighbor is worse than a distant relative.
Hearing these words, the people from the Nine Clans felt warmed in their hearts. This was the first time they had a meal together with everyone after joining Tangjia Village, and it also meant they had truly integrated into the village.