SFS Chapter 244 Emma, why are you so undeterred?
Chapter 244 Emma, why are you so undeterred?
The next day, when Shen Youyou opened her eyes and sat up from the bed, she was dazed and even wondered if she had not woken up yet.
Why are there so few people in the room and no one has started to pack up their things? Are they not in a hurry?
"Sister, what time is it now? Should we set off now?"
It was already bright outside, why didn't anyone wake her up?
Shen Nannan had just woken up, and was rubbing her eyes with her little hands, looking like she hadn't gotten enough sleep.
Shen Daya was standing by the kang, helping her put on her clothes. She answered as she buttoned her clothes: "It rained until late last night. The road was full of water. We couldn't walk. Everyone else was busy outside.
If you have time, you don't have to eat ready-made meals. I heard from my third uncle that we spent nearly two taels of silver on noodles yesterday. And that's because the shopkeeper charged us a little less. We are big eaters.
But my grandparents were so distressed by this little bit of rice that they insisted on making their own steamed corn bread today."
Shen Youyou smiled and said, "You don't have to steam all the dry food. Why are there only a few of us in the room?"
Erya interrupted the eldest sister and said, "Didn't you see the money pouring out yesterday? They couldn't sit still. They said they couldn't sit idle and went out to make jewelry because the light in the house was dark."
Well, that’s the style of Shenjia Village.
Next to the official road outside the post station, there happened to be a piece of relatively high land with no water.
Li Jingshu and the women were busy steaming dry food. The stoves in the post station also had to cook for other guests, so they didn't add to the chaos.
Although the ground was still wet, we borrowed some adobe bricks from the post station and built a few stoves. There was a lot of smoke, but it was usable.
Since there was no way to travel today, the women were not in a hurry to steam the dry food as they did in the past.
Now several women are gathered around a steamer, making steamed bread and chatting.
On her head was a feather-shaped wooden hairpin inlaid with sky-blue porcelain pieces that Shen Mazi had just made for her.
Although the workmanship of the wooden hairpin is not particularly exquisite, after all, Uncle Mazi is not very good at it, but the sky-blue porcelain bottle is the finishing touch. If you don’t examine it carefully, you might think it is a piece of jade.
"I'm in a daze now. We haven't stopped to rest since we set off again after the winter."
Sister-in-law Song was also cheerful: "Not only you are dazed, I am dazed too. I always feel like I haven't woken up today. Look at all of us, we are not used to it even after a day's rest. We are all destined to work hard."
Li Jingshu smiled and did not agree with everyone's words. Instead, he suggested: "Although the rain has stopped, it is still a bit cold. How about we cook some kudzu root paste later?"
Fourth brother's sister-in-law Yang also interrupted: "Third sister-in-law, it seems that we don't have much kudzu root powder. Why don't we cook some kudzu root paste for the elderly and children? We can cook corn porridge. It will warm you up when you drink it hot."
Li Jingshu nodded: "Okay."
Shen Youyou came out at this time. It’s true that the air became much fresher after the rain.
I just don't know if mushrooms will grow in the mountains after the rain. However, it will take two or three days for mushrooms to grow. I guess they will have to continue on their journey when the road becomes easier to walk on.
Shen Youyou went straight to Shen Zhiqiu who was sawing wood and said, "Dad, can you talk to the shopkeeper about buying some buckwheat noodles?"
Shen Zhiqiu chuckled: "What's the matter, do you want to eat fried noodles?"
"Hey, I want to eat pao gao! And we can buy more. Seeing that there are many people on that section of official road, we can set up a small stall."
Shen Zhiqiu suddenly realized: "Why did I forget about the pao gao? That thing is really good. We can make it in the morning and set up a stall on Guanlu Road for lunch break. We can also buy some sour sauce and vinegar from the shopkeeper."
Shen Youyou added: "Buy a few more wooden boards and bring them with you. When the time comes, find some stones or something to put them together, one high and one low, and you can sit down and eat. You can also give them away.
We also have ready-made dried bamboo tubes, which can be used to make bamboo forks and bamboo bowls. For seasonings, we can just use thinner bamboo cups. "
The father and daughter got together and talked more and more excitedly.
Father Shen couldn't help but ask, "What kind of food is baogao?"
Shen Youyou smiled at her grandfather: "It's a good thing to go with a little wine."
Old Man Shen was about to laugh, but then he suddenly thought of something and said, "That's useless. We don't have any wine. All the wine we made in the mountain stronghold was taken away by the young general."
Well, General Fu really received a lot of good things from them. It seems that people are really grateful to him, but they also really blame him, haha!
"It's okay, Grandpa. When I make some money from setting up a stall on the road, I'll buy you some wine."
Father Shen waved his hand: "Forget it, the wine is not cheap. It's not easy for us to earn a few dollars."
At this time, several horse-drawn carriages appeared in the distance on the official road. It seemed that the official road could not be moved at this moment. It was difficult to move without seeing the horses.
The owner of the carriage was anxious, and the servants pulled the reins hard and whipped the carriage to move.
Shen Youyou laughed at this. The horse must be feeling aggrieved at the moment because it had just rained and the road was slippery. The carriage at the back was also very heavy and the wheels kept getting stuck in the mud.
The horse is also complaining: Can it walk whenever it wants? It has just rained and we have to hurry. If it can't walk, we blame it for eating grass and not working?
But why is it that the green grass on the roadside that is gently blown by the breeze still has water droplets hanging on it, it looks so delicious!
The horses were snoring, and the whole place was filled with the fragrance of green grass.
Shen Zhiqiu couldn't help but complain: "What kind of weather is this? Why are there people rushing on the road? Even if you are in a hurry, you should wait until the sun warms the road before you go!"
But the strange thing is that in the morning, after Shen Zhiqiu and his friends had breakfast, many people were cutting wood outside the post station.
They had seen quite a few vehicles passing by, most of them were staying at the inn opposite, and quite a few were staying at the post station where they were.
The wheels of the carriage were covered in mud, the horses' legs were also dirty, and the servants looked really disheveled, but the people who got out of the carriage were cleaner than the other, and they were dressed so luxuriously that it was obvious that they were people they could not afford to mess with.
Shen Youyou couldn't help but complain to her mother: "What's going on? Are you going on a group trip to visit relatives on a rainy day?"
Li Jingshu rolled her eyes. When she said they would take a day off today, her daughter really took it as a rest. She took a small bamboo stool down from the cart and watched the fun from the spot.
One moment he complains about how pitiful someone's horse is, and the next moment he complains, "Look, that boy fell again. Has he fallen for the third time in such a short period of time?"
Why don’t you think about the fact that when we came here last night, you fell much worse than others, and your little face was even buried in the mud.
My hair was covered in mud and I had to wash it three times before it was clean.
Shen Youyou didn't know what her mother was mumbling about. She saw another family. A servant was leading a horse in front, and several servants were pushing it from behind. As a result, the horse, which had not moved for a long time, suddenly moved, and the people pushing it from behind all fell into the mud at once. It was really funny.
Shen Youyou was so amused that she laughed non-stop. She didn't notice at all that many servants rolled their eyes at him when they passed by her.
They even forgot that this was the scene they had just experienced yesterday.