13. Water works
Although Du Ruo felt depressed, he was open-minded. It was originally a matter of love between men and women. Since the hunter was not happy, let it go, and clean up and continue to live his own life.
Lu An came three days later and brought several craftsmen to dress up. The leader was a thin man with a black man surnamed Chen. After entering the yard to see Du Ruo, he went up the mountain. After a while, he came down and pointed to the pond below: "I dare to ask the second grandma, but I want to revitalize the pond below."
As soon as the black and thin man opened his mouth, he knew he was an expert. Du Ruo nodded: "This pond is made up of rainwater. Although it is still clear, it is a pond of stagnant water. If water is drawn from the mountain, poured into the pond below, and then digging a water diversion canal from the edge of the pond to lead to the mountain stream there. In this way, the pond becomes a living stream. Since there is no need to worry about the excessive rainwater forming a dam, it can also divert water to irrigate the surrounding mountain fields."
The thin black man nodded: "This is convenient. When I go back to construction, I asked the boys to dig the drainage ditches in the fields together, and when they are used, they can water the ground."
Du Ruo was overjoyed: "This is so good, thank you Master Chen."
Master Chen said: "My second grandma understands the picture, which saves us a lot of trouble. It doesn't take much effort to dig a few more drainage ditches. Besides, Butler Lu gave us the work here to her, which is to give us food. It's time to do it."
Du Ruo thought to himself that this was a sensible person. Although the job was not big this time, he had to be with Lu An. Lu An was the butler of the Lu family. Even if Du Ruo didn't know how much property the Lu family had, he could guess the pomp and the words Lu An could say. And the butler in this house is absolutely powerful, sometimes he is even better than his master. If he tilted his hands, he would not know much money to go out. Although Master Chen was working for himself, he knew Lu An's favor.
Thinking of this, he was no longer polite to him. He put on his oil-clothed pants and went down to the rice fields to catch loaches. He planned to make a dry fried loach at noon, which was considered a dish. After all, there were many people, and Lu An was also the one who worked.
Du Ruo knew very well whether he could calm down here. Lu An was the key figure. He was the master of the Lu family. As long as he turned a blind eye, his life on the mountain would be comfortable.
When Lu An saw Du Ruo going down the rice field, he kicked Erxi. Erxi hurriedly ran over and took the wooden barrel from Du Ruo: "Second grandma, you are watering the ground, you are going, and the slave will go."
Lu An looked at him strangely: "But I am not watering the ground, I want to go down the field to dig loaches."
Erxi hurriedly said, "Digging loaches, slaves are the best. When I was a child, I ran into the ditch every day, but my mother couldn't catch my shadow. My second grandma gave it to the slave. After a while, she would dig half a bucket." She spoke and ran to the rice fields with the bucket.
Du Ruo had to come back. Except for Erxi who came with the two servants who came with Lu An, one of the servants poured the vegetable yard and then put the ducks underneath, and the other followed the Yapo up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots and chop wood.
They had to do all the work, Du Ruo was idle himself, went to the kitchen to boil water, grabbed a handful of dried bamboo leaves, and when it was boiled, he scooped a bowl of bamboo leaves, took it over: "There is no good tea in the mountains, the bamboo leaves are clear and moistened and dried, and it is boiled in the water. It's just right to drink it at this time. The butler will do whatever he wants to quench his thirst."
Lu An hurriedly took it over: "Thank you, second grandma." He looked down and saw the clear and green bowl of coarse pottery, and there were a few thin bamboo leaves floating. After taking a sip, there was a fragrance of bamboo. Although it was not as good as the tea in the mansion, it had a unique flavor. After drinking half a bowl, he felt relieved all over.
He put down the bowl and glanced at the busy figure in the stove shed, thinking that this person was enlightened and still had the same temperament. If he hadn't looked like that, he really didn't believe that the person in front of him would be the second grandma who could not make a fuck. Look at how she cooked, she was even more neat than the cook in the stove in the mansion. Could this be the second grandma who was stuck in the house every day? Could it be that this person had been so angry that he couldn't even change his temperament last time?
Du Ruoke didn't care what Lu An thought, she was studying stewing meat with a new plate of fire stove. The meat was bought from the foot of the mountain yesterday. It was three fat and seven thin, with three layers of five flowers and three layers. The best meat. The wine brought by the hunter last time was half a jar. Du Ruo decided to make braised pork, cut the meat into pieces and water, experiencing bleeding foam, stir-fry the sugar color in a large pot, add meat, mix the green onion and ginger spices with rice wine, cover it, boil it on a high heat and simmer it slowly. When the juice is gone, the meat will be stewed crispy.
Du Ruo packed up and saw Lu An looking at him with a strange look, he couldn't help but say, "What are the butlers doing when they are staring at me?"
Lu An coughed: "I don't know that my second grandma has such good cooking skills."
Du Ruo blinked: "Best steward, how many years have I been in the Lu Mansion?"
Lu An: "My second grandma married into the mansion at the beginning of the spring of the year before yesterday. She came to the mountain to guard the tomb in the spring of this year. She spent two years in the mansion."
Du Ruo nodded: "Although I have lived in the mansion for two years, I am a master of my size. Will a family like Lu's mansion let his master cook in the cooking?"
Lu An quickly shook his head: "There is a large kitchen in the mansion, each room has its own small kitchen. Each kitchen has a chef and a mate-working woman to serve the masters. How can the master cook by himself?"
Du Ruo: "That's it. Since I don't have the chance to cook, it's reasonable for the butler to not know that I can cook."
Lu An hurriedly said, "What the second grandma said."
Du Ruo looked at the fire and said, "More than a month has passed during this Qingming Festival. Why has the butler not returned to his house? I still have time to go up the mountain."
Lu An said vaguely: "You will go back in a few days."
Du Ruo knew that Lu An was strict and subconsciously guarded herself. She couldn't ask anything. She actually didn't want to ask about the Lu family. But these things were a bit strange recently, which made her unable to understand. So she explored his words. After hearing him say that he would go back a few days, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although Lu An always helped her these days, Du Ruo didn't want to have too much involvement with her. It should be said that she didn't want to be involved with the Lu family anymore. When the harvest in the fields was seen, she could be self-sufficient. She hoped that she would never see the Lu family's personnel would be better.
Of course this is impossible. After all, this is the private property of the Lu family and the cemetery of the ancestors. I always come to worship during the Qingming Festival.
Du Ruo looked up at the endless mountains near, and the green mountains in the distance, and the undulating mountains turned into a splash of ink. With the bright and dark sunlight and the mist flowing between the mountains, the painting seemed to be very vivid.
Du Ruo couldn't help but think, it would be great if this was her own, so she didn't have to worry about the Lu family and did whatever she wanted. Of course, she also knew that this was impossible. Even if it was impossible, she had to live comfortably as much as possible under limited conditions. This was Du Ruo's habit.
Master Chen is indeed a smart person. As long as Du Ruo says it once, he can understand it. What he makes is better than Du Ruo expected. For example, the stream that was brought over happened to form a natural small waterfall due to the drop on the mountain wall next to him. Master Chen used a bamboo tube to make a water diversion mechanism on the edge of the waterfall. As long as he twisted the bamboo tube, one end of the bamboo tube would be connected to the waterfall, and the other end of the bamboo tube was connected to the stove shed. A pool was brewed below and dug a trench to directly lead to the outside.
This is the result of Du Ruo thinking for a whole night. Since he has lured the water down, he will naturally do whatever he wants.
Master Chen began to show that he was looking at Lu An's face, but as Du Ruo said, he completed the water diversion project. He respected Ruo's gods before Du Ruo, but he was convinced and couldn't help but say, "Ruo Second Grandma is also doing our business, so our brothers are going to beg for food."
Du Ruo smiled: "I'm swinging an axe in front of Lu Ban's door. Guan Gong and I'm playing a big knife in front of him. I don't want to make Master Chen laugh at me. I'm just lazy. How can I save trouble? I came up with such an idea. In fact, it's just a random thought. If Master Chen and several craftsmen were not skillful, it would be impossible. Come on, drink and eat meat..."
Chapter completed!