SFS Chapter 379 Maltose
Chapter 379 Maltose
Early the next morning.
This time it was not Luo Meihua driving the donkey cart, but Wen Wuyan instead.
Luo Meihua and Wen Shengxi walked closely beside the wheels like two guards, while Wu Shan, Li Yu and Niu Zhanghe followed behind the donkey cart, talking and laughing.
Wen Wuyan is not the only candidate to go to the county. There is another person in the village who is more suitable to go than Wen Wuyan, and that is Wen Youcai, who is already a scholar.
A scholar is a person with a famous title, and he does not have to kneel when he meets the county magistrate. From the official's point of view, the status of a scholar is much higher than that of the so-called village of Wushan.
Although Wu Shan is the village chief and is influential in the village and can even have a say with officials in the town, his weight is not enough in the county.
Before selecting the personnel, although Wu Shan saw the light in Wen Dacheng's eyes, he was still rejected by him with a laugh.
He said in front of everyone, "Mr. Wen is busy studying to take the imperial examination. How can we trouble him with these mundane matters in our village? Let's go and try the water first. If that doesn't work, we can ask Mr. Xiucai to help."
On the surface, it was giving him face.
What is the actual reason?
This matter was proposed by Wuyan's family. If Wen Youcai were invited to go to the county at this time, I am afraid that Wen Wuyan would definitely not go.
There was another reason. No one expected that when Old Yang and his men came to collect debts a year ago, Wen Wuyan wanted to borrow ten taels of silver from the old Wen family, but was rejected by Wen Chen with the words "no money". Now this boomerang that has been flying for a year has hit the person who witnessed the incident between the eyebrows.
After Wen Youcai became a scholar, Wen Dacheng and his friends bought a house in the town. I heard that the house was not located on the main street, but was a small courtyard with a gate. The main house had only five rooms, and two east and west wing rooms. They spent more than seventy taels of silver.
Not many people knew about this matter, and Wu Shan was one of them.
Sometimes, he felt sorry for his old friend Wen Dacheng. If they had taken out the ten taels of silver that day, the relationship between Wuyan and him would not have been severed.
Even though we are separated, we are still a family after all.
Now, one family has become two families. Wuyan and Qingqing are in a good mood towards Dacheng, but other people are like strangers when they see him.
Wu Shan hung behind the car, looking at the things on the car and Wuyan who was driving the car, and felt really sorry for Dacheng.
The group arrived at Zhenshan.
Luo Meihua went in and opened the door of the shop, and Wen Shengxi hurried to get the door panel on the other side of the window.
After the shop opened, several grown men helped move things into the shop. Then Wen Wuyan drove the relatively obedient donkey cart and took Wu Shan and the others towards the county.
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At the Wen family, at this time, each of the Zhao family's children was holding a green basket in their arms, and the baskets were filled with golden ears of wheat. They looked at Gu Qingqing with expectant eyes.
Zhao Jianghe is seven years old this year. He is the oldest among the Zhao family's brothers who are not real brothers but are more like real brothers than real brothers.
He held up the basket in his hand to show Gu Qingqing, "Aunt, are these ears of wheat enough?"
Gu Qingqing was slightly startled, not understanding what this was going to do, and subconsciously asked, "What? Is what enough?"
Next to him, Zhao Danju’s face, which was originally fair, had turned a lot darker recently. He also held up his basket and asked, “Didn’t Auntie promise to make candy for us?”
Gu Qingqing suddenly remembered this. When they helped pick wheat ears that day, she promised to make malt sugar for them.
It was just that just when they had collected the grain and rent, the old man passed away.
Ah! Hahaha~
Gu Qingqing laughed awkwardly and said to herself jokingly, "Look how busy I have been these past few days. I almost forgot what I promised you."
She didn't just "almost forgot" it. She had clearly forgotten everything.
If the children hadn't come to find her, she wouldn't know when she would have remembered it.
After the embarrassment, she looked at the baskets in the hands of several children, "Enough, enough. Are these what you picked up these days? It doesn't seem like there are many."
It would have been fine if Gu Qingqing didn't mention this. As soon as she mentioned it, the smiles on the children's faces immediately disappeared.
Although the children don’t know what maltose is, the word “sugar” gives them unlimited imagination.
Several people go out early and come back late every day, waiting at the end of other people's land, and when they confirm that the owner has left, they say "Go ahead."
They rushed into the fields with the children in the village to look for lost ears of wheat. At first they picked them up in Niutoushan Village, but later they got to know the children from other villages and followed them to their villages to pick them up.
In short, they would go wherever there were wheat ears to pick up, and they would not feel tired no matter how far they ran.
Moreover, they only picked up the wheat ears and not the wheat straw. They picked up a lot during this period. In the past few days, each family could collect three large bamboo baskets.
At first they were happy, imagining how much candy they could make. But it turned out that their mothers seemed to have colluded with each other and found excuses to withhold their ears of wheat, leaving each of them with only the basket in front of them.
After Gu Qingqing learned the reason, she couldn't help but laugh. It was indeed a different world, but the same mother.
The culprit, Gu Qingqing, hurriedly apologized to them, "This is all Aunt's fault. If Aunt had made it for you earlier, it doesn't matter. You helped Aunt that day. When Aunt is cooking, I will add some more wheat grains for you. I guarantee that you will have enough to eat for a long time."
When the children heard this, their faces instantly became happy, "Auntie, what do you need us to do?"
"Daxin, go get the winnowing basket from home. You guys work together to rub the wheat ears and remove the husks. I only want the wheat kernels."
The wheat ears in her family had been threshed a few days ago. In order to let her children feel involved, she asked Li Xin, Dahua and Erhua to help rub them.
When the children heard this, they immediately took action.
Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to go to the vegetable garden and pick the eggplants and long beans that could be picked. She washed all the bright red tomatoes, wiped them on her clothes, and ate them a few times to show off.
Well, this is the only fruit she has had in the ten months since she came here, except for the few oranges she ate during the Chinese New Year.
The tomatoes she grows at home have no pesticides or chemical fertilizers, only enough manure and water, and the taste of them is exactly like the fruit of her dreams.
Peppers, cucumbers, and water spinach have to be picked even if you can’t eat them today. Otherwise, they will stay in the vegetable garden forever.
When she got home, the idle old Yang was already helping them winnow the wheat husks with a winnowing basket. While she washed the cucumbers and peppers, drained the water and threw them into the pickle jar, she listened to the cheers of the children outside and left the kitchen with a smile.
"Everything is fine?"
"Aunt, aunt, do you think this is okay?" Zhao Sijiao asked excitedly, pointing at the clean wheat grains in the winnowing basket.
Gu Qingqing looked at the two scoops of wheat grains and nodded, "Okay. Daxin, go inside and take out three scoops of our wheat grains from the bag. One scoop will be my compensation to you. The other two scoops will be the share of Daxin, Dahua and Erhua. After it's done, you can divide it equally among the others, okay?"
"Yeah." Several children nodded repeatedly.
They don't care how much sugar there is, they seem to be satisfied as long as they can have a bite.
"Okay." After Li Xin dug up the wheat grains, Gu Qingqing poured about three scoops of wheat grains into a clean bucket at home and added enough water.
Under the expectant gazes of many children, Gu Qingqing coughed lightly, posed and announced, "If you want to know what happens next, please wait and see."