EBE Chapter 234: Old Table Becomes New Table
Chapter 234: Old Table Becomes New Table
Zhou Dacang came over and said, "I remember that guy on the boat gave you a knife in a box before, didn't he?"
Zhou Guo nodded, "I used the box to store the knife. The box is so big that it is not suitable for storing ginseng. This ginseng needs to be stored in a good box."
The old man said, "Yes, after it is prepared, it must be stored well. Otherwise, it will become moldy or eaten by insects, and lose its medicinal properties, and it will not be of much use."
Zhou Dacang said quickly: "We need to find a good box to put it in. I'll go with you tomorrow."
Zhou Guo said, "Not tomorrow. I have to go to the market tomorrow and bring back my cheap table."
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There were two dishes for dinner, which was unprecedented. There was one dish of badger stewed with wild vegetables and one of fish stewed with wild vegetables on the table.
They are all wild vegetables. It won’t be long before there will be no wild vegetables left to eat.
The small seedlings in the vegetable garden have grown and sprouted, but I don’t know if they can continue to grow. In another ten or twenty days, some of the seedlings will be edible.
After eating too much badger meat, Zhou Guo picked up a piece of fish first. The fish meat was salty and fresh, with a fresh fragrance of wild vegetables. It had a different taste compared to grilled fish.
I don’t know if they were tired of eating wild vegetable stewed with meat, but everyone was eating fish.
After taking a few bites, Zhou Gu said, "Why do I feel that the fish I ate on the road last time is more delicious? Is it because the fish is different?"
Zhou Mai and the others all agreed, and asked the chefs Zhou Xing and Li, "Is the method different?"
Li said, "Last time when I cooked fish, I didn't even put much salt in it, not to mention there was soy sauce and oil in it, how can it compare to this time."
Zhou Gu thought for a moment and said, "Then I know. This time it must be because they added too much salt, oil, and soy sauce. If they want it to be as delicious as last time, these things can't be distributed!"
Everyone was stunned, but after thinking about it carefully, they found that it made quite a bit of sense.
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "What? Big Brother, don't you think about how long it has been since we had good food last time we had fish? We were starving for more than a month with bland soup, and now we have meat for every meal, and we can eat as much as we want. I'm sure the taste won't be the same as before."
Although it doesn’t have the amazing taste it had back then, it’s still delicious.
Everyone thought about it again and it seemed to make more sense.
Zhou Dacang said, "That may be the case. At that time, I was so hungry that my eyes sparkled. I wanted to take a bite of everything I saw. I could even eat a pig. The fish that I might not be able to eat during the Chinese New Year in previous years naturally tasted extremely good to me."
"Why bother about those things? It's delicious now anyway." Zhou Mi picked up a piece of badger meat and ate it with relish. He preferred meat to fish. He had to spit out the bones carefully while eating fish. There were only a few bites of meat to begin with, and it was gone as he spitted out. It was not satisfying.
Zhou Mai picked up the fish and ate it slowly and patiently, picking out the bones as he ate.
Zhou Guo has already eaten the third piece of fish.
I finished my meal slowly. It was getting darker in the sky. I didn't know what time it was, but I couldn't fall asleep even when I went to bed.
Zhou Guo lit two lamps, and the family huddled on the kang to make shoes and do needlework.
The sound of dripping rain and rushing water outside the house makes the world inside the house quiet and warm.
The old man couldn't sit still, so he fiddled with some straw for a long time. He felt that his eyesight was too blurry for him to make straw sandals.
Simply turn out the previously dried leather, pull and rub it hard, pull a rope and roll it back and forth continuously to make the fur softer, more comfortable, smoother and flatter.
All the children of the Zhou family were attracted by it.
Zhou Guo put down the sole in her hand. She had almost learned the last step of tanning fur. Although the tanned leather was not as good as that made by her master, she knew the whole process and could tan leather by herself in the future.
Everyone had found something to do now, so they stopped making straw sandals and took a piece of nitrated leather, imitating the old man's way of rubbing and pulling it, and asked questions at the same time. The chattering drowned out the sound of rain outside.
It rained all night and cleared up the next day.
The air is filled with the scent of earth and grass after the rain, and the wind feels moist on my face.
The Zhou family sat at the table and ate breakfast, still meat porridge.
Zhou Guo slurped the porridge and frowned. It was too monotonous to just drink porridge without any side dishes. He would wait until the radishes in the vegetable garden grew up and make some pickled radishes. Then he would have a side dish every morning. It was too monotonous to just drink porridge.
Li looked around and asked, "There's a market in town today. Do you want to buy anything?"
Zhou Mi said, "I'm going to town to drag that old table back."
Zhou Guo hurriedly said, "I'll go with you." Then he looked at the old man, "Master, are you going?"
The old man shook his head and said, "I won't go. I have a lot of things to do today."
Zhou Guo nodded, "We'll be back soon."
After dinner, Li followed the two men in the carriage. She was mainly worried about her own ox cart, but she was not worried about Zhou Guo and the others. Who could beat that girl?
The three of them drove the ox cart towards the town. On the way, they met Chen and his people. Li warmly invited them up.
As soon as the Chen family members got in the car, they said with a smile: "We are really lucky today because of you guys. We got a bargain."
Li smiled and said, "That's nothing. We are all from the same village. Why are you talking about this?"
The group chatted and laughed and soon arrived at the market town.
Zhou Guo looked towards the entrance of the town from afar. There were very few people here today. He didn't know whether they hadn't arrived yet or if they were not coming.
But if there are fewer people, it won’t be crowded, and you can pull the ox cart in.
A group of people got off the bus at the entrance of the town.
Li smiled and said to Chen and his group, "We will wait for you at the door when we return. When you are done, come directly to the door and we will return together."
Wang Fulai's family said, "No need. You just want to buy a table. We will need it for a while. How can we trouble you to wait? It's not far. We can just walk back by ourselves."
Li smiled and said, "It's just a matter of convenience. We're not just buying tables, we also have to see if there's anything else we want to buy."
Chen said, "That's great, let's sit here for a while."
The group of people split up and went about their own business.
Zhou Guo drove the car to the door of the shop. As soon as he got off the car, the shopkeeper came out and said as soon as he saw them, "You are here. The table was made yesterday. Come in and take a look."
A few people walked in and looked around but didn't see their table.
The shopkeeper pointed to a brand new table not far away and said, "Look, right over there. That's your table."
Zhou Guo and Zhou Mi looked at it and were stunned. "Boss, is this the old table?"
It's really new. The table top and legs have been re-planed and painted, and the broken legs have been connected. Zhou Guo squatted down to take a closer look. The mortise and tenon structure is seamless and works better than iron nails. The craftsmanship of the carpenter in this wood shop is really amazing. At first glance, you can't really tell the difference.
Zhou Mi shook it hard, but it was very stable, without any sign of shaking.