OBS Chapter 336: Snow
Chapter 336: Snow
The large water storage tank I bought earlier was also put to use. I dug the snow and stored it in it, covering it tightly.
Although the brothers did whatever she said, they just couldn't understand why the snow was stored in a big vat.
Zhou Gu wiped the sweat off his head. "Digging ice is fine. It is useful after all. But storing snow will turn into water in the spring. What's the use?"
Zhou Mi said: "Yes, do you want us to drink snow water? What are the benefits of drinking snow water?"
Zhou Mai didn't say anything. He looked at her in confusion because he had never seen anyone save snow water.
The old man came out of the house holding a teacup, twirling his beard as he looked at the full jar of snow, and said, "Not bad, not bad, you know how to save snow water. I don't know where you heard that from, but wouldn't snow from pine needles be even better? With such a big jar, it's enough for next year."
what?
Everyone looked at the old man, "Do you really want to drink this water? Can it still be drunk in the spring?"
Zhou Guo touched his nose and said, "Master, this snow is not for making tea. If it is for making tea, I will buy a jar later to collect the snow on the pine needles and store it for you. This is what we just shoveled from the ground. I don't know what kind of dirt is in it. Maybe there are other people's thick phlegm and snot..."
Before he could finish his words, the old man frowned and took two or three steps back into the house, holding the teacup.
Zhou Gu and others wrinkled their noses in disgust.
Zhou Guo suppressed his laughter and calculated, "The day after tomorrow is the market day. I will go buy a new jar the day after tomorrow to ensure that I can collect tea for a whole year."
"This snow water is not for drinking, so what is it used for?" Several people were very curious.
Zhou Guo shook his head and kept it a secret, "You'll know when the time comes."
The more she kept silent, the more curious they became. They kept asking her, "What is it used for? Tell me about it. Why can't you tell me about it?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You will know when the time comes. Why are you in such a hurry?"
Unable to find out, everyone complained, "I helped out with so much work, but they didn't even tell me what it was for. I felt like a fool."
Li found it funny and said to Zhou Guo, "Why don't you talk to your brothers? It's unreasonable that they have been busy following you for so long and don't know what you are doing."
Zhou Guo said: "Mom, you will know after I tell you everything, don't be anxious. By the way, what are we having for dinner?"
Since no one could answer the question, everyone stopped asking.
Zhou Guo originally wanted to drive the horse-drawn carriage to the town to drag back the big jar, but halfway through the journey, he suddenly remembered that the old man's wine was gone, so he turned the horse around and headed for the county town, as the town did not have the wine that the old man liked.
Zhou Suli was also sitting in the carriage. The little guy had not been to the market since he came back, so Zhou Guo wanted to take him out for a walk and get familiar with the town.
After changing the road, Zhou Su was curious, "Sister, why don't you take this road?"
Zhou Guo said: "You haven't been to the county town yet. You only took a glimpse of it from afar when you came back. Today we are not going to the town, but to the county town. Sister will take you to see the county town."
"Really?" Zhou Su's eyes widened, and he was quite excited. "I have never been to the county town in my life."
Zhou Guo smiled, "In fact, there is nothing different about the county town, except that the streets are cleaner, there are more houses, there are shops for buying things, and there are more people than in our countryside. You will know when you go in and take a look."
"Hmm, there are so many differences. It should be very different." Zhou Su tilted his head and imagined.
It was winter and the weather was cold and the roads were slippery, so Zhou Guo drove the cart very slowly. It took him more than two hours to travel a distance that usually took more than an hour to ride a horse.
Seeing the gate of the county town from afar, Zhou Su was so excited that she couldn't sit still, "Sister, the gate of the county town is so high!"
After entering the city, everything he saw was new, including the bluestone-paved streets, the inns and shops lining the streets, the vendors setting up stalls, and the people coming and going.
Zhou Guo saw that his little head was so busy that he had no time to spare. He turned around and looked around with sparkling eyes, and the corner of his mouth raised.
"Let's go buy some jars and pots first, and get some wine for the old man and put it in the cellar so he can keep it and drink it slowly. Then I'll take you to eat something at these stalls. You can eat whatever you want, okay?"
Zhou Su turned his head quickly, "Really? I can eat everything on the stall?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Of course you can eat it. Not only you, but every time my mother, uncle and I come to the county town, we eat before we go back. Don't worry, eat it. When you are full, we will buy some to take back."
Zhou Su nodded heavily, looking at the steaming stalls on the roadside with longing in his eyes.
Zhou Guo was also hungry. She hadn't eaten anything for more than two hours and had been driving for such a long time. She could even eat a cow now.
She hurried to buy a large jar and sixteen jars of wine. She also went to buy some pork and a few pounds of lard.
She saw that there was one beef tripe left in the butcher shop next door. It was very cheap, only a dozen cents, so she bought it. Beef was cheap and rare, so it was snapped up as soon as it came out.
The carriage was filled up in an instant, and there was no place for the two men to step, with only two spaces for their buttocks left on the edge.
Zhou Su turned around and looked at the full carriage. He was still shocked by his sister's generosity. She spent a silver ingot without blinking an eye. How much copper coins must that be?
Zhou Guo held the carriage with one hand and Zhou Su with the other. He looked at the stalls on both sides of the street. His stomach was growling. He shook Zhou Su's hand and said, "Xiao Su, what do you want to eat?"
Zhou Su looked over eagerly and said a little embarrassedly: "Sister, I, I'll just eat a cake."
I just spent too much money. How many cakes can I buy with so much money?
Zhou Guo swallowed and said softly: "Just eat a cake, I want to eat too."
Zhou Su was stunned. "Sister, sister, it will cost a lot of money to eat all of them."
"Hmm?" Zhou Guo looked down and saw that he had a stern face and looked distressed. Thinking of the same expression he had when he bought the wine just now, he thought for a while and said, "Xiao Su, we earn money to use it to improve our lives, to eat well and have fun. Otherwise, why do we make money? Holding on to a pile of money is a miser. You have to know that money is just a tool. Its greatest function is to make us happy."
Zhou Su seemed to be thinking about something.
Zhou Guo took him along the way to buy wontons, noodles, mutton soup, meat patties, steamed buns, cakes, candied fruits, roast chicken, roast duck...
The roast duck was fine, but Zhou Guo really didn't want to buy the roast chicken. They ate a lot of chicken and had to have a few every few days. They stewed it, fried it, or roasted it. They had tried all kinds of cooking methods.