Joe's Farming

Chapter 119 Baking bread?

Gu Gang had no choice but to hand the red envelope to Hong Xiu.

Everyone was very enthusiastic, including the old man, who felt that he must have suffered a lot in the first half of his life, and the only good thing he did was to adopt Qiao Xing, so now he could enjoy the good life with Qiao Xing.

After Da Zhuang returned to his room, he couldn't sleep the more he thought about it. He knocked on Su Qing's door with the money in his pocket.

It was cold in Su Qing's room, so Qiao Yu gave him an extra quilt.

Da Zhuang ran to Su Qing's bed and took out all the money.

"Brother Qing, I have never seen so much money in my life. Pinch me, is this true?"

Su Qing pinched the back of his hand without hesitation.

"Ow—"

Da Zhuang looked at him sadly: "Are you really pinching me?"

"Didn't you ask me to pinch you?" Su Qing said unhappily. "You came to me instead of sleeping just for this?"

Da Zhuang said embarrassedly, "No, I just never had that much money, and I'm afraid I'll spend it all when I go to town tomorrow. In the past, my mother would give me at most one or two copper coins, and every time I got it, I would buy meat pies to eat."

Su Qing was surprised and asked, "You can buy a meat pie for one penny?"

Da Zhuang was even more embarrassed: "I'll just ask the boss to cut half of it. But I can't have any money on me, I will definitely spend it all. Brother Qing, can you keep it for me?"

Su Qing was speechless: "You count it yourself, don't say it's too little when the time comes."

Da Zhuang smiled and said, "No, no. I remember it all. Four hundred and ninety coins."

"What about the remaining ten cents?"

Da Zhuang's eyes flickered: "I'll go shopping tomorrow."

Su Qing didn't ask any more questions and kept the money.

I didn't expect that this kid would think of asking him to save money. Dazhuang is the youngest among them, and he must really treat him as a brother to trust him so much.

On the second day, Wen Ge'er went to pick up Xiaobai. Qiao Yu asked him to go to the store to help yesterday.

The wounds on Xiaobai's face have all healed. He looks clean and fair, and his whole body exudes vitality, which is completely different from his previous gloomy look.

Dazhuang generously gave up the seat next to him: "Xiaobai, sit here."

Xiaobai smiled at him and sat down. He still remembered the breakfast that Dazhuang treated him to. He met Dazhuang several times afterwards and thought that Dazhuang was a good brother.

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Qiao Yu got up early and checked the doghouses of Milk and Bread. The two puppies had already defecated inside.

Qiao Yu took the two dogs out of the basket with disgust, changed the straw mat of the basket, put the two dogs in, found a piece of cloth to cover them, and then went to make porridge for them.

Forget it, let’s all eat meat porridge together.

Qiao Yu cooked the porridge in a casserole over low heat and then went back into bed.

Gu Feng held the person in his arms without fear of the cold, and said in a lazy voice, "Why are you up so early?"

Qiao Yu put her icy hands against Gu Feng's skin and whispered, "I made some porridge. You can drink it when you get up."

Gu Feng kissed her and hugged her tighter: "Yeah. Let's sleep together for a while."

Qiao Yu knew that Bai Lan would get up soon, so she didn't worry about the pot drying up, and fell asleep in her husband's arms again.

When Qiao Yu woke up again, the sound of children's laughter could be heard in the main room.

Gu Feng was no longer in bed. Qiao Yu went out and saw that everyone was having breakfast. Gu Feng scooped him a bowl of porridge and waved for him to come over.

"Have you fed the milk bread?"

Gu Feng pointed and saw two dogs already frolicking on the ground, chasing each other, and then rolling together and fighting each other.

There was still some meat porridge residue left in the dog bowl prepared for them.

"No salt was added, right?" Qiao Yu asked worriedly. He knew that people raising dogs in the countryside would not pay attention to these things. Although Milk Bread was a local dog, he still told everyone in the family in advance that dogs could not eat salt.

Gu Feng smiled and nodded: "No, I dare not forget what you said."

When Gu Xiaoyan smelled the meat porridge for the first time yesterday, she thought it was very fragrant, but her daddy made it for the puppy at that time and she was embarrassed to snatch the food from the puppy. She didn't expect to eat it this morning.

"Little Daddy, will you eat meat porridge every day after milk and bread?"

Qiao Yu raised her eyebrows: "Why? Yan Bao wants to eat it every day?"

Gu Xiaoyan nodded embarrassedly.

Qiao Yu touched his little head.

"The dog is still young now, so he can only eat this. When he grows up, he needs to switch to food that is better for his body. The same goes for you. You need to eat everything so that you can grow taller quickly."

Gu Xiaoyan nodded, not quite understanding.

Qiao Yu added, "You must drink the milk that Uncle Xu Yuan sends you." Xu Yuan would ask people from his farm to deliver a whole can of fresh milk every day.

Except for Qiao Xing, the other two children in the family don’t like to drink pure milk because they think it tastes fishy.

"By the way, Brother Gu, are there any bricks left from the ones we bought earlier?"

Qiao Yu thought of milk and bread, and figured that since he had milk, he could have bread as well.

Gu Feng nodded doubtfully: "I piled it in the shack, under the firewood. What is Qiao'er going to do?"

"I want some clay too. Brother, don't go up the mountain these two days. Help me and Gu Feng build a bread kiln!"

Gu Gang didn't know what a bread kiln was, but since his brother-in-law asked him to help, of course he would help.

"Okay! Whatever you need me to do, just tell me, Brother Qiao."

Hongxiu asked curiously: "What is the bread kiln used for?"

When Qiao Yu thought of the fragrant bread, she smiled and said, "It's a kiln specially used for baking bread. Bread is similar to steamed buns, but the taste is completely different after baking. This kiln can not only bake bread, but also roast chicken, duck and fish. I'm just not sure if it can be made."

The children's eyes lit up when they heard this.

"Little Daddy, I want to help too!"

"Me too."

"Little Daddy, I can go dig clay!"

Qiao Yu had just finished eating and waved his hand: "Okay! Xiaoxing, take them to dig clay. Use wooden buckets, don't put too much at a time."

Qiao Xing nodded.

Qiao Yu first went to see how many bricks were left. After Gu Feng removed the firewood piled on top, Qiao Yu was a little disappointed: "I'm afraid these bricks are not enough. We need some more."

Gu Gang immediately said, "I'll go buy a car."

Qiao Yu nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, brother. Buy another hundred small jars."

Gu Feng told his elder brother where the kiln factory was and waited in the yard for Qiao Yu to make arrangements.

Qiao Yu took a piece of paper and a pen, drew out the structure of the bread kiln, and explained to Gu Feng where the stove was, where the ventilation holes needed to be left, and how thick the brick walls needed to be.

Gu Feng is very smart, and he had built a house before, so he knew what to do right away.

"The top one is the oven. The top should be gradually closed. It is best to have three layers of bricks. The stove below should be made into a mezzanine to hold jars and sand. This will provide a better insulation effect."

Gu Feng nodded: "Okay."

Qiao Yu planned to build the bread kiln next to the shack, or directly in the yard for convenience since his yard was quite big anyway.