Farming with Taobao - C51

Chapter 51 Nameless Restaurant (1)

Li Yannian did not go back on her words. That afternoon, she cooked a sumptuous lunch for his brothers, including salted prawns, steamed fish with black bean oil, hibiscus crab, and garlic scallop. They were all seafood that Black Bean had never seen before, and since Li Yannian’s cooking was so good, everyone dropped their eyebrows and almost swallowed their tongues for lunch.

However, what made Li Yannian surprised was that, as a noble Young Prince, Zhao Xu had actually revealed a rare expression of enjoyment when he had eaten her peeled chili prawns. Before he had even eaten a single prawn, he was already staring at the plate on the table with shining eyes and pouting his mouth to indicate that he wanted to eat more of that.

Li Yannian thought, could it be that he was a fake duke? However, he still went along with what said, peeling another one and putting it into his bowl. The moment he placed it in, he picked it up with one hand and threw it into his mouth, after which he chewed it up for a while, he pouted to Li Yannian for prawns.

Black Bean stopped him and said, “Don’t get used to him, let him eat. In the future when we’re not at home at noon, he will always learn to eat by himself. ”

Even though he said that, he was still soft-hearted in the end. The moment he saw the bright eyes of Zhao Xu’s puppy, Black Bean mysteriously picked up the spicy steamed fish with her chopsticks and placed it into his bowl.

Li Yannian could not help but laugh: “Alright big brother, just take care of your own food. I’ll just feed him a few more mouthfuls. It’s rare for him to want anything to eat. It’s not good to be so harsh with such a living person in our house. If his family regretted coming to look for him, then who would be the one to worry about him if he became thin and hungry? “We, the good people still have to do it to the end.”

Zhao Xu coldly snorted in his heart. Regret? It was too late to be happy. In the past, when his aunt was still alive, the western courtyard of the Prince Yi’s Mansion was still considered his home. But now, just to say the least, to him, even the Li family was more like a home than the cold place in Prince Yi’s Mansion.

Black Bean immediately surrendered, “Alright, alright, I can’t outtalk you. You should hurry up and eat two mouthfuls, the food will get cold in a while. ”

Li Yannian laughed: “I know that it’s for my own good. Oh right, brother, aside from the Aunt Zhang, did aunt mention anything about our three mu of land? “What exactly do you mean by grandma’s family?”

Black Bean shook his head: “Aunt didn’t say. Being mentioned by you, shouldn’t we go to the fields and see if the head of dysentery has grown back? ”

Li Yannian thought that if this weed still grew, his family would not have much time to farm by then. It would be best if they could find some living crops to plant in the fields, she nodded and said: “I have nothing to do in the afternoon, how about we go and take a look after dinner?”

As he spoke, Li Yannian skillfully cut apart the two giant crab claws with a pair of scissors. After removing the shell on the outside, all that was left were the crab meat, which was dipped in vinegar.

One big and one small, they instantly revealed the exact same satisfied expression.

“Sis, this crab is really delicious. Why aren’t the crabs that we caught in the fields this big?”

Mao Dou asked curiously while licking his hands.

Li Yannian laughed and said, “The varieties are different, so it’s naturally not as big as this crab. Dou Dou, isn’t this Green Paste Crab the biggest? Wait until you finish writing down the entire piece of paper. When Big Sis cooks an emperor crab of such size, I’ll give you a lobster of such size as well. ”

When Zhao Xu heard the two words “Monarch Crab”, he almost shouted out loud to stop her. If anyone heard this, they would be the ones who would see the official in prison!

However, the Li family’s girl had an indifferent expression, as if what she just said was nothing more than a common thing. He was curious, how did this family raise their child?

Fortunately, Black Bean still had some consciousness, so he shushed Li Yannian: “Er Niu, that crab and shrimp, I can’t tell others. These are all taboo things, like this Zhao, now that he isn’t someone from the upper echelons, he doesn’t deserve to have them, they all have to change their surnames.

Li Yannian immediately came to her senses. After all, she was not an aboriginal and she did not have a natural reverence for imperial power.

“Bro, I got it. I’ll pay attention next time.”

“It’s fine if you say it at home. I’m only afraid that you’ll be out there and not shut your mouth like this …”

The meal had made Li Yannian become more vigilant. On the other hand, she was indeed lazy, having been here for several months. She didn’t even know her own country’s name or which dynasty she belonged to, after all, it was too silly to ask others, “Eh, what dynasty are we in now?” Even now, she knew that the surname Zhao was the country’s surname Yongning, and this year was the twenty-first year of Yongning.

As for whether or not the Song Dynasty had the name Yongning, Li Yannian did not know. Occasionally, she would hear stories told by the elders who gathered around to bask in the sun. There were still some stories about the Three Kingdoms, but there were also stories about Imperial Concubine Yang in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yannian couldn’t help but think that since she would be facing more strangers in her future businesses, she should be more careful and understand more about the environment and era she lived in so as to not offend the rules that Black Bean had described.

The whole family finished their lunch in satisfaction, Mao Dou volunteered to clean up the dishes, so Li Yannian went out the door with Black Bean to check out the situation in her fields.

The grass on the ridge of the field had been left dry for a few days now. This trip was just the right time to burn some ashes … As Li Yannian was thinking, Black Bean who was walking in front suddenly stopped in his tracks, causing her to almost smash her nose in.

“Brother, why did you suddenly stop?”

She poked at Black Bean who was standing there in a daze. Black Bean turned around, but his face had a look of astonishment and bewilderment, as he was completely at a loss as to what to do.

Li Yannian’s gaze passed him and landed on the bent back of the old man who was hoeing the grass, she felt that the figure was familiar, and just as she was thinking about who the person was, the old man turned his head when he heard the voice, and instantly, their gazes met, and their faces were stunned.

In the end, Black Bean still spoke first: “Grandfather, why are you here?”

Old Man Li’s expression was a little unnatural. He coldly snorted: “A good field, ruined to this state. You guys aren’t managing it properly, I was just passing by.”

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at the sky. He seemed to be talking to himself, but his voice was loud enough for the two siblings to hear him, “It’s time to eat lunch. Time to go back!”

Then he coughed a few times, carried the hoe around the siblings and walked straight away.

Black Bean:…

Li Yannian:…

So what exactly did he come here for?

The Old Man Li was gone. Only then did Black Bean speak faintly: “Looks like this is my first reaction to hearing that uncle ruined our land. They still favour Uncle’s family!”

Li Yannian patted his shoulder, “Brother, let’s not care about how we treat uncle’s family. “Look, it’s already noon. This grandpa came to our fields to secretly help you weed out. Even if you’re interested, you should still be in our favor.”

As she said that, she pulled Black Bean and looked at the situation in the fields. That caput dysenteriae was indeed well-deserved of his reputation. In just a few days of hard work, the field had once again become green, with a “pleasant” growth, and half the soil had turned over. It was clear that this was the masterpiece of the Old Man Li.

Black Bean painfully held his head in his hands as he squatted on the Tian Creek. He said in frustration, “I’m afraid that I won’t be able to save the land that Father and Mother left behind.”

Li Yannian did not reply him. Before long, a large bundle of strange things with round green leaves and long stems appeared out of nowhere in her hands.

“What is this?” Black Bean asked curiously.

Li Yannian untied the rope and explained, “This is a sweet potato, also called a sweet potato, and according to the color, it’s called sweet potato, sweet potato, or purple potato. I have everything here, as to how exactly to plant it, it’s also written on this piece of paper. “Brother, I think we won’t be able to grow anything else here, but it doesn’t matter. This sweet potato is the least important thing. As long as we plant it, it can grow whatever it wants. We’ll just wait to harvest it then.”

Black Bean had never heard of crops that were so easy to serve, so he could not help but be shocked: “Really? Was it really that easy to save energy and not need to be served in the field? Everything else has to do with how many times you want to catch up with the fat, and if you don’t have time to spend it on the ground, you might not be able to get anything back when the harvest is over. ”

Li Yannian laughed: “Actually, this is also my first time growing it. However, Brother, since the land is already like this, let’s just try growing it for a year and see what we can get. If we can’t, we’ll just use silver to pay for it and it won’t be a problem. “Even if it’s grandpa, we still have to go up and tell him not to hoe our seedlings like this.”

Black Bean thought, anyway, he had already listened to his words so many times, it was only one more time, if he was bad, then he was bad, if he was happy, then so be it. He immediately nodded in agreement. “Alright, then tell me how to grow it. I’ll hoe it.”

The sweet potatoes also needed to be fattened up, but with the current situation in the fields, even if they got fattened up, it would be a blessing for caput dysenteriae. Li Yannian thought that although these three acres of land were not strong, at least it could satisfy the necessary conditions for the sweet potato to grow — — The sun was sufficient. If the sweet potato seedlings continued to grow, the family would come to the fields when they had free time to pluck the grass and harvest as much as they could when it was close to winter. At that time, Mao Dong would hide at home and casually bury a sweet potato in the ashes.

Even Zhao Xu only had four people in his family, how much could he eat? It was just for fun.

The siblings did as they were told. They rolled up their sleeves and started digging a hole. They pointed at the seedlings and cooperated extremely well. But Li Yannian still failed. After sowing just one plot of land, her waist was aching so badly that she could not stand up straight.

Seeing that, Black Bean laughed, and then pushed her home to rest: “It’s enough to have me here, you can go back, it won’t help much even if you stay here. “If you really care, then hurry back and see if Uncle Li is home. If he is, then I should ask Uncle Li to come and help.”

Li Yannian looked at the pile of sweet potato seedlings on the ridge of the field, then looked at his family’s original small land, which now looked like it would never grow another three acres of land.

“Then I’ll go back now?”

Black Bean replied with a smile, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

Li Yannian had already gotten up, when she suddenly turned her head back and said, “Brother, remember to give Uncle Li a few seedlings to grow. Let him give it a try at home.”

Black Bean impatiently waved his hand to chase her away: “I got it, I got it. Those who think about this and that all day really become little old granny.”

Li Yannian made a funny face at him before sshe hopped back. Occasionally, he would turn her head and find Black Bean still standing there, watching him with a smile.