Chapter 1918: Simple and Fragrant Farmhouse Dishes

Mrs. Zou smiled and said, "It's okay if you want to stay for a year. I'll ask my cousin to find a house on the mountain for you. You can see the fog when you wake up in the morning. It's like a fairyland. Do you want to stay there?"

"Yes, yes, yes... Sister-in-law, please ask your cousin to help me contact them. I want to stay there until the filming starts, and then call Andy to come. He will definitely be very happy." Zhang Zhengrong nodded vigorously and took out his mobile phone to contact his lover.

Everyone knows about his love life. Andy is his beloved. The two are very good friends. Zou Hanqiu and his wife are also very good friends with Andy and often have dinner together.

Mrs. Zou went to talk to her eldest cousin about this. The eldest cousin said that it was no problem. His eldest son built a holiday villa on the mountain. It was decorated very elegantly. He could leave the best room for Zhang Zhengrong and his wife, and no one would disturb them.

Zhang Zhengrong became more and more interested, and asked about many things about the villa. His eyes were full of smiles and he looked energetic. Ye Qingqing was moved. It was the first time she saw Zhang Zhengrong smiling so happily. It seemed that this trip was worth it.

"Brother Rong, have you seen those golden rices? Do you want to experience the hard work of sweat dripping on the soil?" Ye Qingqing joked.

"Yes, there are rice fields everywhere, which is very beautiful. I also saw many people harvesting rice, and some people stepped on a wooden box, one person stepped on it and one person sent it, which was very loud. The rice was threshed when it was sent in. It was very interesting."

Zhang Zhengrong observed very carefully, and he became more and more excited as he talked. He was talking about manual threshers. At present, agriculture in the inland has not been mechanized, especially in mountainous cities like Shengxian. The farmland is small, unlike the north where a large area is connected and stretches as far as the eye can see, and tractors can be driven freely.

In Sheng County, rice can only be harvested manually. Today, we harvest a few acres of land on this mountain, and tomorrow we harvest an acre of land on another mountain. It is more flexible to do it manually.

The eldest cousin smiled and said, "It's not easy to harvest rice. My family has planted more than three acres of land this year. We can go to harvest after dinner."

"Why do you plant so much?" Mrs. Zou was curious.

"The rice bought outside is not delicious, but the rice grown at home is delicious. Three acres of land is not enough to share. I have to buy from other families and send it to them when the time comes." The eldest cousin said with a smile.

If he was not worried that his children and grandchildren in the city would not eat well, he would not return to his hometown. He would raise chickens, grow crops and vegetables by himself. They are all green organic foods, which are safe to eat, and doing more farm work is good for the body.

The eldest cousin is very eloquent and has a high cultural literacy, while the eldest cousin's wife just smiled and worked quietly throughout the whole process. The house was filled with rich vegetable aroma and the smoky smell of firewood, which made people salivate.

Ruan Yingzi couldn't help but whispered in Ye Qingqing's ear: "Mrs. Zou's eldest cousin's wife and her eldest cousin are not a good match. It feels like the flowers are stuck in cow dung. The flowers are the eldest cousin."

"What do you know?" Ye Qingqing rolled her eyes.

Although Mrs. Zou didn't explain, Ye Qingqing could guess that a family like the eldest cousin's was a difficult one decades ago. Even the ugliest woman in the village was unwilling to marry. It was a blessing to marry a good woman like the eldest cousin's wife who was honest, dutiful, and thrifty.

Moreover, she thought the eldest cousin's wife was pretty good. Appearance was not important in the countryside. Being able to work was the kingly way. The eldest cousin's wife was strong and nimble, and she could do both the living room and the kitchen. In the countryside, such girls were quite popular. It would be a great honor for the eldest cousin to marry her!

My eldest cousin’s wife prepared a large table of authentic farm dishes, including steamed duck, boiled chicken, stir-fried chicken and duck offal with snow mustard, steamed meat with pickled mustard greens, stewed pork knuckle, steamed edamame, steamed new potatoes, and steamed wild crucian carp…

It may not look very good, but it tastes very delicious, especially the original flavor made with a wood stove, so delicious that even your tongue will fall off.