"Don't worry, if anyone doesn't invite you, I'll invite the third aunt first."
Jin Feng smiled and agreed.
As soon as he finished speaking, the second sister-in-law came with the man.
Then came the Liu Tie couple, the Orion couple and their concubine...
In the end, almost everyone in the village came.
Now there was no need for Jin Feng to do anything. Orion and Liu Tie took the men to cut down trees, while the women stayed at home to repair the yard and twist hemp ropes, busy as hell.
When others came to help, Jin Feng was not stingy and asked Guan Xiaorou to make a large pot of rice, and the remaining rabbit was stewed to a pulp.
The rich aroma of meat spread everywhere, and a group of children playing in the yard stopped running away. They all gathered around the kitchen door, drooling.
There were many people and strength, and before noon, the men used carts to drag a dozen small trees as thick as a bowl back.
At noon, Jin Feng asked the children to go home and get bowls, each with a bowl of rice and a ladle of broth.
The children had never eaten such delicacies before, and they all wanted to swallow their tongues.
…
After a lively lunch, the men began to get busy again.
Set up a pile of firewood in the yard and carry the wood back and forth on it to roast it.
Carbonized wood is not only resistant to insects and ants, but is also durable.
When the women returned home after delivering the dishes, each of them had one or two bundles of thatch under their arms.
There is no technical content in building a thatched shed. You bury the baked trees into the soil to make pillars, tie the beams with ropes, cover the beams and surrounding areas with thatch, and then wipe the top with mud.
Before it gets dark, a straw shed three feet long and one foot wide has been erected.
There was not enough rice left to steam the rice, so Jin Feng asked Guan Xiaorou to cook a pot of white porridge and then bake two large baskets of fried pancakes.
The hare was eaten at noon. The village was short of supplies and had no other vegetables to entertain guests. Jin Feng had no choice but to find Xiaoyu and buy two baskets of wild vegetables.
If cooked carefully, these wild vegetables are not unpalatable, and in later generations they could be sold in restaurants for tens or even hundreds of yuan per plate. But these days, farmers don’t have enough oil to light lamps, so who would use it for cooking extravagantly?
Even if you are willing to throw in a few grains of coarse salt, your neighbors will praise you with envy as you are rich.
Most people blanch it in water and serve it to the table.
Wild vegetables that are simply processed in this way are bitter and astringent, making them difficult to swallow.
But the wild vegetables made by Jin Feng not only contain salt, but also plenty of vegetable oil, and are also seasoned with some spices bought from the county government.
It looks shiny and green, and tastes completely devoid of the bitter taste of wild vegetables.
Two pots full of wild vegetables were snatched up by the children.
"The fried pancakes are so delicious. Brother Feng, what should we do if you've whetted our appetites?"
“Wild vegetables are delicious too!”
"Brother Feng, I have eaten wild vegetables for so many years, but I have never tasted anything so delicious. If you have any secret recipe, please tell me."
"Second sister-in-law, let me tell you, if you are willing to add oil and spices, I guarantee that the wild vegetables you cook will be delicious."
"Forget it, my family can't afford such wild vegetables."
"Brother Feng, when will your family build a shed? I want to have another meal of rice!"
…
The villagers, men, women, old and young, all left after eating with their faces glowing.
Zhang Mancang was retained to help Jin Feng deal with two jujube trees.
This kind of tree can be found by Jin Feng, and it is the most suitable tree for making crossbows.
"Mancang, don't go into the mountains to cut firewood these days. Come to my house and help me forge iron, right?"
Jin Feng asked while arranging the branches on the ground.
Zhang Mancang's face was filled with joy, but then he shook his head: "Brother Feng, this is a craft inherited from your family..."
The disciples of the church will starve to death and the master will starve to death. One blacksmith in the small Xihewan is enough, but one more will starve to death.
Therefore, in this era, craftsmen will only pass their craftsmanship to their children and will not easily pass it on to outsiders.
"I am a scholar, how can I spend my whole life working in the iron industry?"
Jin Feng said indifferently: "I will definitely leave Xihewan in one or two years at most. It is better to leave it to you than to rot in my stomach."
"But……"
"But what is it, do you want to learn it or not? If you don't want to learn it, I'll ask someone else."
"Learn, I will learn!"
Zhang Mancang nodded quickly.
He put down his hatchet and saluted Jin Feng solemnly.
Learning a craft is equivalent to having an extra job, and this job can be passed on to future generations.
From this moment on, Zhang Mancang's attitude towards Jin Feng changed again.
It was gratitude before, but now there is an added respect.
Work harder too.
Xiao'e was so frightened last night that she hugged Guan Xiaorou and was unwilling to let go.
Guan Xiaorou had no choice but to coax her to sleep.
Tang Dongdong and Runniang carried the spinning wheel and put it in the middle of the thatched shed.
Next to the spinning wheel is a large bed that was newly made today.
Starting tonight, Tang Dongdong and Runniang will live here.
Tang Dongdong pulled up a small stool, sat down and began to adjust the spinning wheel.
Runniang stood for a while rubbing her hands, then picked up the broom and started sweeping the floor again.
After experiencing nothing, you will cherish the things you have again.
In fact, she had swept the floor several times and it was very clean.
But the pots and pans had already been washed, and she couldn't help Jin Feng and Mancang, so she really couldn't find anything else to do.
She was also afraid that Jin Feng and Guan Xiaorou would dislike her for being lazy, so she could only sweep the floor over and over again.
"Run Niang, stop sweeping. If you sweep the broom again, you will sweep me bald."
Tang Dongdong saw Runniang's embarrassment, patted her shoulder and said: "If you are afraid of being idle, go to bed quickly. I will call you to get up in the middle of the night to pick up my shift."
"good……"
When she heard that she had something to do, Runniang smiled and said, "Sister Dongdong, how about I spin first and you go and take a nap?"
"There will be no spinning tonight. You all go to bed early."
Jin Feng came out of the shop to get something and happened to hear the conversation between the two. He frowned and said, "You need to be energetic enough to work quickly. No matter how busy you are, you won't miss half a night."
From the time Xie Guang came to kill him at midnight last night, until now, except for the ignorant Xiao'e, no one else in the family has slept a wink.
If he hadn't waited for Zhang Liang to come back, Jin Feng would have gone back to bed long ago.
"Brother Feng, I'm not tired..."
Runniang said in a low voice.
"Go to bed even if you're not tired!"
Jin Feng finally discovered that Runniang, like Guan Xiaorou, had a submissive character, so his voice couldn't help but become a little louder.
Sure enough, Runniang thought Jin Feng was angry, so she quickly agreed and sat down on the bed obediently.
"How are your hands?"
Tang Dongdong chased Jin Feng out and asked with a blushing face.
"Lao Tan's herbal medicine is very effective and the pain is gone."
Jin Feng raised his left hand, wanting to comfort Tang Dongdong.
Who would have known that when he and Mancang were lifting wood, the wound opened for no apparent reason, and now blood is oozing out.
"He said it was okay, he was bleeding."
Tang Dongdong's eyes turned red, and regardless of the difference between men and women, he picked up Jin Feng's left hand and carefully unwrapped the bandage.