Ding Niang became pregnant, Zhang Chi hired a four-wheeled carriage to send the family of four back to his hometown. When he came back from the training ground, it should be until the end of the year, and the family could be reunited. This is how it is to be a soldier, and there are too many differences.

Watching the carriage gradually fade away and the family bid farewell to him in the carriage, Zhang Chi felt helpless. When his wife was pregnant, she was always a little regretful. I hope she could return to her hometown and be safe.

Xinye arrived in Dengcheng County for two hundred miles. After the afternoon of the fifth day, Dingniang and her family arrived outside the village.

At the entrance of the village, I settled the wages with the people who were driving the bus. Several people were packing up their greetings. Saburo, who received the news, rushed over.

Seeing that his son was wearing a short shirt and the straw sandals on his feet were covered in dust, and he looked sweaty. Zhang Yan said anxiously: "There are people you hired, you don't have to be so tired. People's bodies are not iron-clad, so what can you do if you keep doing this?"

Sanlang said, "I just watched others do their jobs everywhere, why don't I do it? I'm not tired. You have worked hard all the way, come home quickly."

After saying that, he stepped forward to help carry the salute. He held two big bags in his hand and took the lead.

Wulang said, "Why don't my brother ask a few workers to help me carry out the salute? Look at those officials, who are not rushing around, and where are there people like you? They are hiring twenty or thirty people, but they still have to do everything themselves."

Sanlang said, "What do you know! These days, the supply and marketing cooperatives are urging themselves, and those who do things cannot be idle for a moment. Okay, go home quickly. Cook a pot of meat tonight, and I will drink with you."

Goro smiled and said, "Third brother, you are not as good as your second brother. When we were in Xinye, we ordered a few dishes every day to eat, so there was no time to cook meat. Before leaving, my second brother even ordered a chef from outside, and I wonder how delicious the dishes we cooked!"

Sanlang said in a muffled voice: "How do I compare with my second brother? He is an official, and Shinno is not like our countryside, so of course it is different."

While speaking, he carried the salute and entered the village with his family.

This is a small village. For many years, Zhang Chi was the first official in the village. When the villagers saw Zhang Chi's family, they would automatically avoid the road and salute respectfully. Zhang Yan nodded his questions and felt very helpful in his heart.

After entering the house, he put down the ceremony. Saburo said, "Golang, go buy some meat, and then buy a bottle of wine. Let your mother make it, let us drink together in the evening. If you have money here, please take it, be careful on the way, go and go back quickly, and don't play around outside."

Goro took the money and said, "Why, I just got home, did you arrange to do things? Today, the family is back, don't you have a day off?"

Sanlang said: "I can't live without me at the venue, I really can't walk away. As soon as the sun sets, I will add home, so there is no need to worry."

Goro said: "Does the sun set before eating now? Does it take the lights to be oily?"

Sanlang said: "I bought some oil, you don't have to worry about it. I'm doing more work while the sun is setting, so why bother to worry about eating!"

While talking, he quickly walked out of the door and headed to the workshop west of the village.

Looking at the brother's back, Goro said to his father: "Dad, how do you think the third brother looks like this?"

Zhang Yan sighed: "He has a debt of 200 yuan on his back, so he can't be careless for a moment. You are no longer a child. You should think more about your brother and don't just think about playing. When you pay back the debt, your third brother will get married and everything will be fine."

Goro snorted dissatisfiedly. He took the money given by Saburo and walked towards the main road at the entrance of the village.

Sanlang opened a reed mat club in the village, and there were more people in the village. On the side of the road more than one mile away from the entrance of the village, there were a few more stalls on weekdays, slowly forming a grass market. A butcher in the neighboring village would sell the remaining meat there every evening, which was equivalent to having a meat stall. However, the meat was too much, and it all depends on how the butcher's business was going to the market today. Sometimes there were, sometimes there were no. In addition to the meat stall, there were also fruits and vegetables, daily necessities, and of course there were also wine. These were people from nearby villages who went to market elsewhere to market. There were no goods sold at the market and sold at the intersection. With these stalls, it became much more convenient for the nearby villagers.

When Wulang arrived at the intersection, he saw that there was only a lamb leg left on the meat stall and various bones. He said to the stall owner: "Dad Qin, is your business so good today? It's not dark yet, so there's no meat."

Mr. Qin pointed to the leg of lamb and said, "Little child, what nonsense! Isn't this leg of lamb good meat?"

Wulang said: "The mutton has no aroma. I want to eat pork today. On weekdays, don't you kill more pigs and less sheep?"

Mr. Qin said: "There are few people selling pigs around recently. What are the solutions? Lamb is good meat, and you are still picky!"

Goro had no choice but to buy a lamb leg, then bought a bottle of wine and carried it in his hand. Seeing that it was still early, he turned to a few big willow trees next to him and looked for a crayfish there. The officers in Shinno liked to use this thing to drink wine the most. After staying in Shinno for a few days, Goro learned this way of eating and loved it very much.

In this era, there were many cicadas and insects, but not many people ate them. There were many dense holes under the willow trees, and I don’t know how many of them were. Goro didn’t have much experience and went to dig them when he saw a hole on the ground. Although many of them were ant holes and unknown small insects, there was still a big handful of cicadas. He picked a big leaf from the ditch next to him and wrapped it in his hand. Goro happily went home.

When I got home, I saw my mother washing newly slaughtered fish in the yard. When I saw Goro, I said to him: "When I went out, my brother wouldn't let you play crazy outside. Why did you come back? Look at the sky, the sun is about to set."

Goro said, "Mom is joking. The sun is still so high, it's still early to go down the mountain. Now summer is the longest time of day."

While saying that, he put the lamb legs and wine in his hand in the water tank under the shed. He took the squid and showed it to his mother, saying, "What a good luck! I also found a lot of this stuff! I fryed it in a while and got the wine tonight. I didn't know that it could be eaten before, and I even caught this stuff with the children. I went to Shinye to know that it was the supreme delicacy!"

The mother sighed, too lazy to care about Goro. Goro took the snail and scooped a spoonful of hands to the basin by the snail, and scrubbed there alone.

Soon, my father came out of the house and said to Goro: "When I was on the road, I thought of home and asked you and your third brother to go outside to catch some eels. But I thought that your third brother was so busy that he wanted you to go alone, but you played outside for a long time."

Wuro said, "Today is enough. I want to eat eels, I will catch them tomorrow. I don't know how many people are in the ditches outside that thing. How many people are so rare that they eat it? That is, people in the city, use it as treasure."

Zhang Yan said: "When I was in Xinye, I ate the eels they made, which was really delicious. These things must be oily in the end. Without oil and less salt, what does it taste like? If you don't lack oil and salt when cooking, the taste will be very different."

The salt administration was an important source of the Song Dynasty government, and the price was very high. Ordinary people did not dare to eat too salty food. Wang Xiaoli did not make money from the salt administration, and the salt price has dropped a lot in the past two years. In addition, the family's conditions are better, Zhang Yan's family also pays attention to the taste.
Chapter completed!