"Nan Wenchuan, come and bring another bucket of water."

Early that morning, in the pancake and straw shed beside the tofu workshop, a woman neatly poured a large plate of sheep bones into a half-person-high pottery. She grabbed a handful of dried winter melon from the basket next to it and threw it in. Finally, she brought a pottery jar over, scooped a few spoons of coarse salt from there and sprinkled it in. After looking, she felt that the water was less, so she called Nan Wenchuan to fetch water.

Nan Wenchuan was the boy from the Nan family dressed as a woman and wanted to get into the cashmere workshop that day. He was punished by Luo Yong to work at the cake-producing site. He had already started working in the past two days.

"Oh." Nan Wenchuan was squatting under the stove to add firewood. When he heard the instructions, he stood up by wiping his nose and rubbed the dust in his hand on his pants. He picked up a wooden bucket from the side and fed water.

There is no need to go far. Before the construction started in the industrial area northwest of the city, County Magistrate Luo had asked someone to build a canal in the city. The source of this canal was close to the ancient well with the most water content in the city, and there were also places such as tofu workshops, county government offices, and white wine workshops in the middle.

This canal is about two feet high. It is repaired with cement. The canal is covered with cement boards. In front of the tofu workshop, a reservoir was built next to the canal. The bottom of the reservoir is slightly deeper than the canal. The tofu workshop and the cake and straw shed can directly draw water from this canal, which really saves a lot of time and effort.

Nan Wenchuan walked to the pool with the bucket, went up two steps, placed the bucket on the water surface and swung it, swept the few grass stems and leaves on the water surface, and made a bucket of water back, handed it to the woman who was working, and then squatted there and burned the fire.

The weather has been getting colder recently, and it is especially cold at this time in the morning. His stomach is empty at this time, and when the cold wind blows, his whole body feels cold from the inside out.

Unfortunately, after he squatted for a while, the woman asked him to help knead the noodles again. The tofu workshop started construction before dawn. At this time, someone had already helped them carry the first batch of bean dregs today.

Nan Wenchuan and the two women put some mixed noodles in and mixed them with the bean dregs, and then they formed mixed noodles and cakes on a hot iron plate.

Not long after, the large pottery jars were steaming one after another. A woman took the pottery bowl and made three bowls of hot soup. The three of them drank them into their stomachs, and then continued to mix the dough cakes.

Some old and disabled people in the city and those half-aged men who were famine all day long came over at this time. In the order of coming first and then coming, a long queue was lined up outside the straw hut where the cake was being delivered...

There are also some people with good physical strength and diligence. Before coming here to eat cake every day, they have to go to the Gujing to step on the water truck that lasts for an hour and a half.

Several disciples of the magistrate Luo County built two small and exquisite water trucks on the ancient well some time ago. They were not hand-cranked, but stepped on with their feet. The design was very exquisite and it was quite labor-saving. The well water drawn from it would flow into the pool beside the well. Now, the people in the city came to the ancient well to pick up water, and they just needed to use it from the pool.

This work of stepping on a water truck can also make money, one penny per hour. Some people are not strong enough and stepping on it for less than an hour, then stepping on it for half an hour, and then stepping on it for half an hour later, and you can get one penny.

The old man looked at the water wheel and knew a few words. He sewed a small book with a few pieces of hemp paper, and wrote and painted every day, and could record the accounts clearly even if he could do it thoroughly.

When this old man was young, he was a soldier and was very brave on the battlefield. Later, in a battle with the Turks, he was unarmed by a Turkish man riding a horse. Fortunately, several friends around him protected each other and met a good doctor, so he almost saved his life.

At that time, he was still young and had a wife and children at home. In addition, the dynasty changed, and his military achievements became miserable. His life was very difficult, thanks to the help and support of his former comrades.

Although his comrades were also from the Sui army, as long as they could fight and fight, they would be popular in any subordinate family they would join.

Most of them later joined Li Tang. They died and were disabled over the years. If you want to do a good job, you should count the Fu Jiancao. A few days ago, he came to Changle County and visited him and introduced him to Qiao Junlin. Although his old comrade was old and disabled, he was still a well-known man. He was upright and loyal, so that Qiao Junlin could help him find a lifestyle.

So soon, he started his current job, holding a string of copper plates in his arms every day, sitting next to the ancient well, watching the two wheels spinning all day long, and the sound of water was rustling. After anyone stepped on the water wheel for an hour, he took out a copper plate from his arms as a wage and gave it.

"Mr. Yu, is it enough for an hour?"

"It's still early, you can step on it."

"It's so tired, I'd better step on it for half an hour."

"It's not been half an hour."

"really?"

"Why did I deceive others?"

The young and old men in the city wanted to earn this penny, but they didn't have so much strength to do. Every time they stepped on the back for a quarter or two, they would start screaming.

Old Man Yu smiled and secretly took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms from time to time and smashed it. If someone was looking at him and asked what he was eating, he would say that he was eating water. In fact, no one knew that his bottle contained the wine end.

Old Man Yu is so happy to have this bite. When the winery opened, he tasted a glass, and then he thought about it day and night.

His eldest son also made some money this year, so he stayed outside the winery for a night, bought a bucket of wine, took it home and packed it with several large and small porcelain bottles, sealed the mouth with several layers of oil paper, and used this smallest fine-mouth porcelain bottle to fight with him Aye for half a bottle.

With such a small bottle of wine in his arms and some copper coins in his arms, Old Man Yu was very happy every day.

He is so old and has experienced everything he should have experienced in his life. Now he doesn’t have to drag his family down. He earns some money every month and can subsidize his children and grandchildren. He eats and wears well every day, and has these sips of liquor. He is also very content.

When the ditch was built earlier, the county magistrate said that the water well was too cold, and someone built a mud-filled cottage beside the well. The house was really small and would be enough to build a dirt kang. There were earthen walls on all sides to block it. There was a straw curtain in front, which was very warm.

Old Man Yu sat in this small adobe house all day long, watching the half-boys step on the water wheel and half of the land man.

When the servants in the yamen started their meal, his young grandson would come over to make the meal with his bowl and bring it to him.

The boy used to be jealous of the little kid in Cui Weng's family who looked at the vegetable shop. Now he can also go to the yamen to get food with a bowl, but he is so happy...

In the county government, the women in charge of cooking were also busy with today's breakfast at this time.

After winter, the weather is cold and vegetables are rare. The price of mutton is very cheap. The main reason is that after the weather is cold, cashmere has grown on the goats. Many people are rushing to kill sheep during this season. The mutton on the street was sold for 4 cents per pound two days ago, but it only costs three cents in the past two days.

The yamen has been eating meat all day recently. At the beginning, everyone was still eating very happily. After seven or eight days or ten days, they were a little overwhelmed.

County Magistrate Luo sent someone to drive the big donkey to grind some flour out in the past two days and asked them to steam some cooked cakes to eat.

This cooked cake is also made of mutton. The best mutton is cut into pieces, and some green onion and ginger are added, and some sauce is mixed, which smells quite fragrant.

When the cooked cakes on the steamer were steamed, the officers came to have dinner one after another, some just came back from patrol outside, and some just got up in the morning.

Most of the people who came back from patrol were covered in cold air and their faces were exhausted. It was not easy to stay all night on this cold day, but fortunately, they could only be served every two months, and it took only a few days to get through it.

The hot pancakes were taken out of the steamer and then made a large bowl of soy milk. Everyone found a place to eat them.

The pancake looked gray and yellow. After a bite, it smelled full of fragrance. The mutton filling was enough. A pancake wanted to stuff half a pound of mutton into it, take a few bites of pancake, and drink a bite of soy milk. The whole person slowly warmed up from the inside out.

Soon, the old county magistrate Tan also came over. The woman who was cooking quickly made soy milk with him. The officers could eat at least three or four such big cakes, and the old county magistrate Tan only had two.

The old county magistrate Tan took his own portion and found a place to eat. His sons were very good at making money and his breakfast was also good. However, the old man was still willing to come to the county government for food. Although he had retired, he was still working hard for Luo now. It was not too much to eat a few bites of his meal.

As soon as the county magistrate Tan was settled, Tang Jian also came out. He now lives behind the county government. He went to dinner with Luo Yong and the others. Luo Yong and the others were with these servants, so he also went with these servants.

The young old man had no airs. After taking his own meal, he sat down with the old county magistrate Tan. The old county magistrate Tan knew very well about the situation in Changle County and Dunhuang. Tang Jian had something to do recently and had nothing to do.

After a while, a few more people came in outside. It turned out that it was Ma Siwang Jin Huai and others...

Luo Yong was rarely late today. When he put on his clothes and went out for breakfast, the woman who was cooking said, "There are no more cakes. Why not cook a bowl of stewed rice for you?"

Luo Yong hadn't woken up much at this time, and he was a little confused when he heard this. Why can this big mutton bun be without him in his own territory?

"Sanlang, come on, I'll share you here." Tang Jian said generously.

"Come on, I'll share you with one." Ma Silang smiled.

County Magistrate Luo took one and took one there. In the end, Qiao Junlin gave him another one, barely enough four, and found a place to eat.
Chapter completed!