Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 182 The Chief Clerk Arrives

Now that my wallet is almost empty, I have to find a way to make some money.

When I have free time, I must dig more herbs and dry them, and send some to the two medicine shops [Jirentang] and [Minkang Pharmacy] from time to time.

Of course, I went to Jirentang to visit Zhang Jizhong and his wife, and to talk to my wife, which might help ease her pain of missing her daughter.

To An Yue, the couple are kind-hearted people, but to them, An Yue is a miniature of their daughter and an occasional thought.

When they arrived at the town entrance carrying the food, they found that Li Wu's ox cart was no longer there.

I guess he was driving the ox cart back to the village. Normally, Li Wu's ox cart would make two trips back and forth in the morning.

An Yue's legs and feet were so tired that she could not carry the backpack anymore. She had no choice but to put the backpack down and sit beside a big rock waiting for Li Wu's ox cart.

There is a big banyan tree not far from the entrance of the town. Several village women are sitting under the tree, doing needlework and chatting about family matters.

The sunlight shines through the gaps in the banyan leaves onto the ground, forming flickering shadows.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Wu drove a ox cart from not far away to the entrance of the town.

"Uncle Li, you're finally here!" An Yue stood up quickly when she saw Li Wu driving the ox cart over.

Li Wu put An Yue's backpack on the ox cart and asked casually, "Miss, you bought so many things!"

"People from above are coming to our village! The village chief, Uncle Weng, asked Yueyue to prepare the food."

The two men sat on the ox cart and chatted while waiting for people to join them.

After a while, four people came from the street corner and got on the ox cart one by one.

When enough people gathered, Li Che drove the ox cart back to the village.

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The clouds are rolling, time is passing by quickly, and three days have passed in the blink of an eye.

That day, after An Yue returned to the village from the town, she went to the back mountain to pick all the toon buds and took them home. She dried them until they were half dry, then pickled them with salt and stored them in jars.

In the next two days, she dug up the remaining half of the Ophiopogon japonicus on the back mountain, brought it home, washed it, and dried it.

Today, it’s Chen time.

The village chief Li Huairen led several elders of the village and came to the east end of the village early to wait.

——Welcome the arrival of the chief clerk.

An Yue, Qin and several other women were preparing lunch ingredients at the village chief's house.

It was almost 9 o'clock when two horse-drawn carriages slowly drove towards the village chief and his companions from the east.

When they arrived at the east end of the village, the chief clerk got off the carriage, and there were about five people coming from the county government office.

They are: the chief clerk, Lin the head of the household department, Zhang the head of the engineering department, and two attendants.

After the chief clerk exchanged a few polite words with the village chief, the village chief and his men accompanied the chief clerk and his entourage, walking along the path at the east end of the village and going straight through the west end of the village.

Along the way, the chief clerk watched the men and women in the village busy with farm work in the fields.

The men were planting rice in the fields, and the women were weeding and digging the soil, and the chief clerk praised it highly.

The chief clerk made many inquiries about the farming aspects of Baili Village, and the village chief followed closely and answered them one by one.

We walked and stopped all the way to the west end of the village, and before we knew it, it was almost noon.

Smoke began to rise from the village, and everyone came to the village chief's house.

Lunch is ready at this time.

The chief clerk and his men washed their hands in the yard and then went into the main hall one by one.

The village chief warmly invited the chief clerk to take the seat, and the other two chiefs took their seats one after another.

The chief clerk looked at the table full of dishes, each of which was delicious and fragrant. He could not help but exclaimed in amazement: "This is really a delicacy!"

The village chief who was accompanying him said, "Master Zhubu, this is made by An Yue specially for you. I don't know how it tastes. Please try it first."

Lin, who was sitting next to the chief clerk, said, "Then you should have a good taste. I heard that the food cooked by Miss An Yue is delicious!"

The chief clerk picked up the chopsticks with a smile, picked up the braised fish in front of him, gently put it into his mouth, and chewed it slowly.

——Taste it carefully and swallow it slowly.

"Everyone, come and try it. This fish is fresh and tasty. It's really good."

When Chief Clerk Lin heard the praise from the chief clerk, he quickly picked up his chopsticks to try it.

Manager Lin tasted it and nodded in affirmation: "This fish is really good. It has no fishy smell at all. The meat is fresh and tender, and the taste is salty and delicious."

At this time, there were ten dishes on the table, including sweet and sour spare ribs, braised pork, pork elbow with soy sauce, grilled fish, stewed fish, steamed fish, fried fish, stir-fried spring bamboo shoots with sauerkraut, stir-fried bracken, and cold-mixed houttuynia cordata.

An Yue brought back another plate of scrambled eggs with Chinese toon from the kitchen.

When An Yue saw Manager Lin, although she wanted to call him "Uncle Lin", she felt that it was inappropriate, so she did not call him that. She just looked at him and gave him a playful smile to show that they were familiar with each other.

After she placed the Chinese toon fried eggs on the eight-immortals table, she said to everyone, "The dishes are all here. There will be another main course later: shepherd's purse dumplings. Please enjoy your meal, sirs."

Everyone started to eat the sumptuous dishes.

The chief clerk took another bite of the sweet and sour pork ribs and said excitedly: "This sweet and sour pork ribs has just the right amount of sweet and sour. It's really an appetizer."

After eating the sweet and sour spareribs, he quickly picked up a piece of braised pork: "This braised pork is fatty but not greasy, and melts in your mouth. It's really unique."

At this moment, the chief clerk did not have the airs of an official at all. He looked like a child who had never seen the world. He was tasting the delicacies on the table one by one.

Seeing that they had tasted all the dishes on the table, An Yue quickly brought three large plates of freshly cooked shepherd's purse dumplings to the table.

When everyone saw the steaming dumplings on the plate, emitting an enticing aroma, everyone was instantly stunned.

The dumplings on each plate are wrapped in three different styles: wheat ear style, ingot style, and willow leaf style.

Each fancy dumpling is neatly placed on the plate, which looks beautiful and appetizing.

When the chief clerk saw it, he exclaimed, "This is a really exquisite design!"

Lin, the head of the restaurant, echoed, "Your Excellency is right. These dumplings are shaped like ingots, wheat ears, and willow leaves. They are all crystal clear and thin-skinned with big fillings!"

The chief clerk couldn't wait to reach out his chopsticks, picked up a wheat-ear-shaped dumpling and put it into his mouth.

After tasting one, he said with a humming voice: "This taste is really unique!"

When the village chief saw that everyone at the table praised An Yue's cooking skills, his heart, which had been in his throat, finally settled down. He turned around and gave An Yue a satisfied smile.

An Yue was secretly happy in her heart, as this time the task was successfully completed.

After lunch.

The chief clerk stood up and waved to An Yue.

An Yue walked up to him and asked with a smile, "What do you want, sir?"

"Miss An Yue, did you really prepare today's lunch?"

"Yes, sir, what's wrong with that?"

The chief clerk stroked his beard with a smile and said in a gentle voice, "Well, not bad, not bad. I didn't expect that a little girl like you would have such great cooking skills."

"Your Excellency, you are so complimentary."

The chief clerk waved to An Yue, motioning her to come closer as he had something to say to her.