inspire-indiana Chapter 416 Everyone Come to Help
Chapter 416 Everyone Come to Help
The people who worked at Zhou's house had not left yet. They were the last to leave work every day because after work, they would have a small snack, which was nothing more than some peanuts, melon seeds, fried beans, homemade rice cakes and rice candies, and the cheapest cakes sold in the market. Accompanied by a bowl of tea, it could help people relieve fatigue after a day's work.
At this moment everyone has washed their hands and is drinking tea, eating fried beans and chatting. The fried beans are very fragrant, but if you eat too much you will fart. But we are all peasants, so we fart if we want to. Who can not fart?
As they were talking, they saw the village kids coming with baskets of snails.
I thought there were only four or five, but there were more and more, as if there would be no end.
Everyone was stunned. Not only them, but the other members of the Zhou family were also shocked and couldn't understand what was going on.
Could it be that Zhou Guo bought it from someone?
She had only been gone for a short time. Even if she had six arms, it couldn't have been that fast, right?
There were sixteen baskets on the ground, all filled with snails, much more than last time!!
Everyone was dumbfounded. "This, this, this, how much can this be made of?"
“…I definitely can’t fry it in one pot!”
Zhou Guo came forward from the back and told people to find basins. Take out both large and small basins. If there are not enough, fill the tank with water, pour the snails in, add a basin of clean water to keep them, and add some coarse salt. "Okay, this will take two days to grow. You guys come over early the day after tomorrow. It takes a long time to deal with this thing. I don't know if I can finish it in one morning. Remember it?"
"Remember!" everyone answered in unison.
"Yeah!" Zhou Guo nodded with satisfaction, and waved her hand, saying, "Okay, take the basket and go home for dinner!"
Everyone dispersed, happily humming an unknown tune and going home. They would finally have snail meat to eat. "Brother, Sister Guoguo is so nice. She actually made snail meat for us. I see that pheasant is still smug in front of us. I'll make him cry when I get home!"
"You forgot that his father works here. If you can eat, he can eat too..."
After everyone had left, everyone started asking what was going on.
Zhou Guo simply explained the situation, "We have to buy vegetables anyway. Everyone likes to eat this, so it's okay to make it again. I saw that they all drooled when talking about snails, and half a basket for half a bowl is a good deal, so I agreed to their request."
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "You were afraid of cutting the buttocks of snails, but now you are not afraid anymore?"
Zhou Guo said, "It's okay. I asked them to bring scissors with them. There are so many, I can't just cut them by myself. I can't finish them even if I cut from dawn to dusk!"
The Zhou family was surprised and distressed to see so many snails. They had to be fried in three pots and so much seasoning had to be added. It turned out that delicious food is not cheap.
On the third day, as expected, early in the morning, just after Zhou Guo finished practicing and had not yet eaten, they came with their weapons.
As soon as he arrived, he shouted, "Zhou Guo, can we start now?"
"You haven't eaten yet, okay, you eat first, and we'll get to work. If you can't cut a butt, can you wash things? Just wash them clean, I'm the best at washing things, just wait, come, work, wash them clean, otherwise they will stink!"
Everyone said yes in unison, and without waiting for Zhou Guo to speak, they all started working consciously.
Li smiled and said, "They are all quite hardworking."
Zhou Guo said: "If you don't work hard, you're going to starve to death, country boy?"
She finished her breakfast slowly, looked around with a pair of scissors, and nodded unconsciously. The snails were washed cleaner than she was, so there was nothing for her to point out.
The group of people holding the scissors were already waiting, but they didn't know how much to cut or how to cut it.
She walked over, picked one up from the basin, grabbed the snail head, aimed at the butt, and cut it off with a click. "See? That's it. The snail will be more flavorful after the butt is cut off, and you can suck it out. If you don't cut the meat off the snail butt, you can't suck it out."
Everyone suddenly realized that this was the case.
Everyone found their own job and they were busy with it.
By the time the workers arrived, there was already a small bowl of processed snails.
"He, you're all here! You're really early, even earlier than us!"
The children chatted with a smile and said that if they wanted to have delicious food, they had to get up early.
The other women who cooked also came. Seeing such a large crowd, they couldn't help but smack their lips. "So many? I heard the children talking about it the day before yesterday, and I didn't believe it. There are really so many people."
"Well, this thing is delicious, but it costs a lot of seasoning. How much seasoning does it cost? We don't eat this at home, so the seasoning fee shouldn't be charged to us, right?"
As soon as we heard who it was, we knew it and no one was too lazy to talk to him.
Zhou Guo said: "Aunt Sanyuan, if you don't want to eat, you don't need to pay. Is there any place you don't want to eat?"
Everyone shook their heads and said, there is no meat, what else can we eat if not this?
Zhou Guo said to Zhou Sanyuan's family, "Aunt, there is no meat today. Besides this, there is only one stir-fried pine mushroom. I'm afraid you have to prepare another dish yourself."
Sanyuan's wife waved her hand, "What else do we need to prepare? It's enough to have pine mushrooms for them to eat, and there's also a soup. I heard that you have given them enough food, and you still need to prepare a meat dish. It's not that cheap in the world. One dish is enough to spoil them!"
Zhou Guo nodded, stopped talking, and lowered his head to start cutting the snail butts.
When the stewed pine mushrooms were ready, she really asked Zhou Sanyuan to take the food back. No matter how delicious the snails were, she didn't want them. She wouldn't give them to the workers, and she didn't plan to eat them herself.
Everyone shook their heads, wondering how he could be so stingy. "In the past, I saw that he liked to take advantage of others, but he wasn't that stingy. How could he do things like that?"
"Hey, haven't you heard the saying that the richer you are, the stingier you are? Although this woman did not do things in a glorious way, she is tight-fisted, but she is good at managing the household. I guess she has saved a lot. Otherwise, look at Zhou Sanyuan. She was so angry, but she didn't do anything except have a quarrel. Humph, I don't know if this quarrel was for themselves or for everyone to see. The couple are the same!"
When everyone heard this, they fell into deep thought, wondering if they were spending too much money.
No one in the Zhou family has such an idea. It's not like they eat meat and fish every day. How much can they save on such food?
Zhou Guo was so crazy about cutting snails that he couldn't help but say, "After eating this, I won't eat snails again in the near future."
It tastes good, but it takes a lot of effort to prepare it. I have to keep my head down and my neck is stiff.
The other children who were helping to cut the snails kept shaking their hands and complaining that their hands and necks were sore.