noffsinger Chapter 285 Preparations before Returning Home
Chapter 285 Preparations before Returning Home
Fang Yougen and Fang Yougui, who stayed at the house to look after the house, had already washed the vegetables and cooked the rice. After Gu Wenxuan and the others came back, Gu Wenxuan assigned them to process the fish, shrimp and shellfish.
Gu Wenxuan washed her hands, steamed the sea bass first, then boiled half a pot of water and poured the lively prawns into the water.
Jia Yuelan is a better cook than her. She is now preparing to make steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli.
After doing this, she followed the methods and steps given by Gu Wenxuan and made a stir-fried squid with soybean sauce, a stir-fried razor clams, and a pan-fried mackerel cubes.
After taking out the prawns, Gu Wenxuan cleaned the large iron pan and started to make stir-fried lettuce with garlic.
The six brothers Fang Youfu washed their hands and, as Gu Wenxuan had instructed, prepared some dipping sauce using soy sauce, aged vinegar, onions, ginger and garlic.
While they were busy, they secretly swallowed their saliva at the aroma of the food.
The aroma of seafood is different from that of chicken, duck and pork, and it is relatively troublesome to eat, but the fresh and fragrant smell is something that most people cannot resist.
In addition, Gu Wenxuan also prepared a dipping sauce with a stronger flavor. If you think steaming or boiling the food is not tasty enough, you can dip it in the dipping sauce.
Everyone enjoyed the meal with great relish. Apart from the slight noises made by everyone eating, the only sounds at the table were the continuous exclamations of “this is delicious,” “this is also delicious,” and “I think this is the most delicious.”
Gu Wenxuan hadn't eaten seafood before the mutation for a long time. The delicate and sweet taste made her miss it very much. While peeling the shrimp shells, she said to everyone, "There are so many delicious seafood. I will buy some every day and let you try every kind of seafood."
Jia Yuelan swallowed the soft, tender and sweet shrimp meat in her mouth and said, "I saw some dried fish at the fishermen's house. Can we buy some and take them home?"
She was a filial child. Whenever she ate something new, she would think of bringing Father and Mother Jia to try it.
Gu Wenxuan nodded, "We can buy some seaweed, dried fish, and dried shrimp."
The six brothers of the Fang family immediately raised their hands and said, "Count us in. We also want to bring some back for our family to try."
Gu Wenxuan nodded and said, "Don't worry, your share will be included."
In the next month, Gu Wenxuan and his friends would run back to Linjia Village from the fishing village every few days to bring all kinds of fresh seafood to Bai Jingzhou and his friends.
Mackerel, saury, sea bass, saury, hairtail, pomfret, large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, yellow croaker, peeled fish, anchovies, shad, black sea bream, cuttlefish, squid, clams, scallops, conchs, flower snails, sea urchins, oysters, swimming crabs, lobsters, prawns, bamboo shrimps, mantis shrimps...
Whenever Gu Wenxuan came across any delicious seafood that the fishermen were able to catch in the East China Sea, she would buy it and send it back to Linjia Village.
If there was anything that made her a little dissatisfied, it was probably that the swimming crabs in this season were not as plump as those in autumn.
Along with these fresh seafood, they also sent back to Linjia Village a large pile of dried fish, dried shrimp, dried shrimp skin, seaweed and kelp that she bought.
She only bought dried fish such as mackerel, razorfish, saury, sea bass, hairtail, pomfret, large and small yellow croakers, cuttlefish, and squid. The fishermen knew that she liked to do business honestly and with integrity, so they would always consciously send her the best dried goods.
They took advantage of the time to make a lot of shrimp paste, crab paste, caviar, etc., planning to take them home to mix with noodles or eat with steamed buns.
They also collected a lot of shells, and the copper coins and supplies that Gu Wenxuan brought to the fishing village were gradually exchanged back by the villagers.
Bai Jingzhou and others who were constantly fed by them not only read books behind closed doors, but also did something very strenuous but necessary, which was to seize every spare moment to copy books desperately.
Thanks to Bai Jingzhou's dedication in treating those Lin family members, those Lin family members took out their own collections of books to share with them.
Although the Lin family fell into decline because they refused to take sides, they had been rich after all and knew that a collection of books was an asset more valuable than wealth.
In order to protect themselves, they sold their shops, houses and farms, but they never exchanged the books in their homes for money.
Out of gratitude to Bai Jingzhou, the Lin family members generously took out their collection of books for him to browse and copy at will.
This was a rare opportunity, so Bai Jingzhou and the others worked together day and night just to copy more books from the Lin family and take them away.
They did not copy the most common Four Books and Five Classics. Bai Jingzhou had some that were given by the emperor, and some that they had purchased over time, so it was already complete enough.
They mainly copied "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuangzi", "Xunzi", "Han Feizi", "Mozi", "The Art of War", "Guiguzi", "Chu Ci", "Han Fu", "Zhaoming Wenxuan", "Shuowen Jiezi", "Mojing" and "Cha Jing", as well as imperial examination papers and model answer papers accumulated by several generations of the Lin family, provincial and county chronicles of some prefectures and counties, geographical maps of mountains and rivers, travel notes, poetry collections, calligraphy copies, chess scores and music scores.
After copying all of these, they picked out and copied some fragments that recorded the basic knowledge of musicology, such as "Guoyu·Zhouyu", "Guanzi·Diyuan", "Huainanzi·Tianwenxun", etc.
As for the "Lüshi Chunqiu·Jixiaji·Yinlüe Pian+Guyue Pian", the second of the eight books of "Records of the Grand Historian" (the part about "rhythm"), and "Book of Han·Yiwenzhi+Lülizhi" mixed in, Bai Jingzhou and his colleagues did not copy them because they already had the complete books of "Lüshi Chunqiu", "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Book of Han".
Bai Jingzhou and his friends were tactful enough not to even look at the other wine recipes, incense recipes, and food recipes that were treasured by the Lin family members.
In ancient times, families who had these things would basically not pass them on to others, and everyone was very careful to avoid this issue. Just like Lin's father and elder brother copied the books bestowed upon Bai Jingzhou by the emperor, but never asked to read his medical books.
Bai Jingzhou was busy like this until early July, when he finally completed the treatment of those Lin family members.
It is impossible to cure them completely. For chronic diseases like theirs, they will need at least two years of slow recovery.
After Bai Jingzhou finished his last treatment for each of them, he patiently prescribed them some dietary supplements and explained to them the precautions they should take in their daily lives.
Not only those people, but also other members of the Lin family who were also paying attention to their conditions, after witnessing with their own eyes how Bai Jingzhou cured little by little the stubborn diseases that the county doctors could not cure, they all admired Bai Jingzhou's profound medical skills.
Even though Bai Jingzhou never tired of emphasizing to patients and their families that he had only cured 70 to 80 percent of the cases, and the remaining 20 to 30 percent could only be cured through daily nursing care, the Lin family members still used the word "cured" to promote how miraculous his medical skills were.
If it weren't for Lin's father stopping him and not allowing the Lin family members to continue spreading the matter, Bai Jingzhou didn't know how many more patients he would have admitted.