Lin Xiaoman has cooked twelve dishes at home, including four cold and eight hot dishes, including chicken, meat, fish and eggs, mostly meat dishes. He has also made vegetarian dishes such as spicy tofu and stir-fried bean sprouts. The dishes on the table are colorful.

The fragrance is tangy.

Lin Xiaoman is a woman and Lin Erhu is a child. Neither of them is suitable to sit at the table and accompany guests to eat. Lin Xiaoman sets the table in the courtyard, and the two siblings can eat in the house.

When I opened the door and was about to go to the wasteland to call people back for dinner, I saw that a group of people were already approaching the door. Isn't the speed of measuring the land a bit fast?

Lin Xiaoman smiled: "Thank you for your hard work, sir. Thank you for your hard work, sir. The food is ready. Let's serve it."

Lu Jin smelled the fragrance and heard Lin Xiaoman say that the food was ready. If he hadn't been concerned about his status as the county magistrate, he would have rushed into the house.

In this way, the pace can't help but speed up.

When he saw the food on the table, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows slightly. The little shopkeeper could surprise him every time. Although the ingredients of the dishes looked ordinary, such a method was unprecedented.

Lin Daqiang politely invited the county magistrate, Qing Shu and the two officials to take a seat, and he sat beside him to accompany them.

Lin Xiaoman took out two bottles of liquor that he had just bought there for more than 100 a bottle, and when he came back, he specially changed them into wine bottles at home.

Taking the stopper off the jug, bursts of aroma of wine hit your nostrils. It was very different from the soju that people here often drank. Even Lu Jin couldn't help but flap his nose a few times. Lin Daqiang, a good drinker, was even more eye-catching.

It’s bright.

"Xiaoman, where did you buy this wine? It's so fragrant."

Lin Xiaoman responded casually, "My parents saved it before, and I don't know where I bought it."

Lin Daqiang looked disappointed. It would be difficult for him to drink such good wine a few times in his life. He picked up the jug and poured a bowl for Lu Jin.

The bowl is a pottery bowl commonly used in the countryside, but as soon as the wine is put into the bowl, you can see that the wine is clear and refreshing, which is very different from the muddy wine he has drunk before. It was the one that the owner of Liujiazhuang served him in order to appease him when he went to Liujiazhuang that day.

No good wine is so clear.

Although Lu Jin is not good at drinking, he can still have a few drinks. At this time, seeing the clear wine in the bowl also made him greedy.

This wine looked lighter and more fragrant than the royal tribute wine. Where did the little shopkeeper make it? He didn't believe it when she said it was left by her parents. He couldn't help but look at Lin Xiaoman twice.

The taste of the wine is soft and mellow, spicy when it enters the throat, and then sweetened slowly. It is not like some wines which are spicy when it enters the throat, but then just feel bland. In comparison, it makes people feel more enjoyable.

Lu Jin took a sip of food and a sip of wine, and ate very happily.

Perhaps because of the alcohol, Lu Jin's face didn't look the same as before. When he was happy, he patted Lin Daqiang's shoulder and called him uncle, which frightened Lin Daqiang so much that he almost slipped off the stool.

The county magistrate called him uncle, and he was very frightened. Will he wait for the magistrate to sober up and then settle his accounts?

Why don't you just drink the magistrate down? If you wake up after a nap, you probably won't remember what happened at the wine table.

Lin Daqiang was thinking wildly. Someone came to Lin Xiaoman's house to look at the kang. He shouted loudly before entering the door: "Xiao Man, your kang is really hot? Don't spend money to invite people to come and finish the dishes at home. It's useless at all..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the county magistrate sitting at the table in the courtyard, looking at him with drunken eyes, and the clan leader looking at him with a murderous look. He was so frightened that his legs weakened and he sat down on the threshold.

Finally, there is the door to crawl out of.

Lu Jin had almost eaten at this time, and felt a little dizzy. He knew that he could not drink anymore, so he asked: "What is a kang?"

When asked by the county magistrate, Lin Daqiang talked about the benefits of Kang with excitement. He thought that as long as the county magistrate was willing to help promote the Kang in Qingping County, they were afraid that they would not make money from the Kang this year? They almost didn't pull Lu Jin right away.

Go into the house and feel what is the kang.

At the end of the day, I did not forget to tell the county magistrate that many people in the village have learned to play Kang, and as long as someone’s family wants to play Kang, the villagers can start working immediately.

He was also afraid that Lu Jin would not be able to remember anything after drinking too much, and regretted that he should not have persuaded him to drink a few more drinks. Alas, I hope the magistrate is not the kind of person who forgets everything as soon as he wakes up.

"Erhu, go and add some firewood to your kang, and show it to the county magistrate later."

"Hey, sir, come with me and touch it. My kang is really good."

Previously, Lin Xiaoman had to cook more than a dozen dishes. One stove in the kitchen was not enough, so Lin Xiaoman used the stove in the house for some dishes that needed to be steamed and stewed. Although there was no fire at this time, the yellow clay plate stove kept warm.

The performance is good. It has not cooled down after a long time, so there is no need to reheat it.

Lu Jin got up and followed Lin Erhu to the unoccupied room in the west wing. His steps were firm and he could not tell he was drunk.

Seeing Lin Erhu motioning for him to touch it, he didn't think the loess kang surface was dirty, so he directly reached out and touched it. When he touched a patch of warmth, he was also very surprised, "It's actually hot?"

Lin Erhu proudly pointed to the outer hall, "As long as you burn a handful of firewood in the stove, the kang will be hot. It's not cold yet, so you don't need to burn too much. When it snows and it gets cold, you can add more."

Just put a few handfuls of firewood on the stove before going to bed at night, and it will keep you warm for half the night."

Lu Jin was thoughtful. Before he came to Qingping County, he knew that it was bitterly cold here, and people would freeze to death every winter. If the fire kang could be spread here, such a tragedy would not happen.

"Okay, when I return to the county town, I will have people announce the benefits of the kang. If anyone wants to make a kang, please inform Patriarch Lin."

Lin Daqiang was even more satisfied. He was also afraid that Lu Jin would ask his village to hand over the Kang Pan method, so the money they could earn would be much less.

After confirming that the villagers were going out to cook the Kang, Lu Jin began to worry that no one would open up the wasteland that Lin Xiaoman's family had just bought. So he asked Lin Erhu to call Lin Xiaoman out.

Lin Xiaoman finished her meal and was resting in the house. When the county magistrate called her, she hurriedly came out of the house.

Lu Jin got straight to the point and asked: "Can the shopkeeper find a good person to open up wasteland?"

Lin Xiaoman shook his head, "We haven't found it yet. The villagers think that the people in the village will be very busy recently, so they want to ask the patriarch uncle to ask if anyone in the nearby villages is willing to come and work."

When Lu Jin heard that no one had been found, he looked surprised and said, "Would you like to use an exiled prisoner?"

Seeing Lin Xiaoman's hesitation, Lu Jin hurriedly said: "None of them are heinous people. Some are officials from the DPRK who made mistakes, and most of them are clan members implicated by them. It's not easy to get here from the capital, and those who can survive are all

They are not helpless. If the shopkeeper wants to use these people, he does not need to pay them wages. He only needs to help them settle down in the village before the weather gets cold and build a few rooms so that they will not freeze to death in the cold winter.

The shopkeeper doesn’t have to worry about the bricks, stones and wood needed to build the house, as well as the food rations they eat, the government will issue them on their own.”

Although Lu Jin was very calm when he said these words, Lin Xiaoman still heard the urgency in his words. He thought there should be people he wanted to take care of among these people. Maybe he came here to be the county magistrate, and he could also be with those in exile.

Is it related to the prisoner?

Not to mention that Lu Jin is a pretty good official, but even when Lin Erhu told her about what happened when measuring the wasteland just now, she had to help. Anyway, it was free labor that cost nothing, and she really couldn't refuse it.Chapter completed!