The lively and cute bamboo rat soon turned into a large piece of meat with belt bones, and a small half of the wooden basin was installed.

After simply marinating it with green onions, ginger and salt for half an hour, Luo Feng found a problem when he was about to stir-fry.

The kitchen of my brother-in-law's house is actually similar to his house, there is a fire pit in the house, and then a simple stove can hardly be called a stove on it, and on top is a clay pot with a big belly, which is better than a clay pot.

It's impossible to stir-fry such a potbelly clay pot.

As a foodie, Luo Feng suddenly felt a sense of frustration, he was defeated by a clay pot.

There is no iron pot, not even a saucer-shaped clay pot, how can this stir-fry bamboo rats.

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice.

"Brother, why don't you do it yet!"

Xiaomei stared at the big piece of bamboo rat meat, and couldn't help but urge. Usually, it's rare to eat a piece of meat, but now when I see such a big pot of meat, my stomach is constantly gurgling.

"Do you have any other pots at home? Is there a shallow one? Luo Feng asked.

As a result, Scarface, who is the master of one, told Luo Feng no, "There is only this pot at home, and there is no second one." ”

Yes, you can't eat the stir-fried bamboo rats.

In desperation, Luo Feng had no choice but to change to stewed bamboo rats.

When boiling water, putting meat on the meat, and stewing the bamboo rat meat, Luo Feng couldn't help but feel a little depressed, and he was depressed in his heart because he had lost a meal of fried bamboo rat meat.

"Xiao Wu, you will go to the county government in a few days to catch fast, can you take me there, I will be your helper."

The brother-in-law rubbed his hands, as if he had been thinking about it for a long time, and finally asked.

"Brother-in-law wants to be a helper? Why? ”

Scarface thinks very simply and directly, but he thinks that life is difficult to mix now. Their Zhaozhuang is also a place with many people and little land, when his father was bitten to death by a leopard, the land divided by Juntian was taken back, leaving only ten acres of Yongye land to pass to him.

At that time, his three brothers were separated, and before he became a child, he guarded the ten acres of thin fields and depended on his mother, and the land was too little to live, so he picked up a hunting bow and went up the mountain to hunt to fill the family.

Year after year, because of poverty and because of the scar on his face, he didn't marry a daughter-in-law until he was twenty-six this year.

Now that I have married my daughter-in-law, my family is still sad, there is too little land, I can't live by farming, but it is difficult to hunt.

"Don't worry, your brother-in-law and I are stout, have brute strength, and I use a good hunting bow and shoot arrows accurately, if I do your help, I can help you."

"If you are a helper, you can get an income to support your family, and if you are a helper, you can also avoid labor and don't have to go far to do husbandry."

Scarface is reluctant to leave home to do the service, because there is an old lady in the family, and now there is a new daughter-in-law.

Luo Feng didn't expect his brother-in-law to have this request, and his helper was somewhat similar to the assistant police officer in later generations.

There is no formal salary, their income is based on some gray income, and the status is even less high, but the brother-in-law also said some ideas about wanting to be a helper, for example, the oil and water of the helper is still good, especially the brother-in-law is a fast catcher, if he is a helper, he will definitely have a better chance of making oil and water, and another one, if he is a helper, if he has a relationship with the yamen, he can escape from his husband's service, and he doesn't have to go out to do service.

There are three classes in the county office, each class has ten regular officials, Luo Feng belongs to the fast class, one catches the head above, and nine catches the fast below, a total of ten people.

But to maintain law and order in such a large county, responsible for catching thieves and thieves, such ten people are definitely not enough.

As a result, there will be two to four deputy catchers for each catcher, and there will be a different number of helpers under each catcher, and even a certain number of catchers will be under the helper, and those catchers will be fast, deputy catchers, and helpers, which are equivalent to full-time, and those catchers are a kind of errand service that the villagers are recruited by the county government to take turns.

It is said that a fast catcher is actually equivalent to a team, each with a number of people and horses, and there are quite a few of them.

Catch fast is equivalent to the leader of this team.

If Luo Feng is a fast catcher, he will definitely have his own helper team, and of course he will have the right to decide the manpower of his team.

At least it's okay to let your brother-in-law be a helper.

"Brother-in-law, it's not so easy to be a quick helper, to catch thieves and thieves, to maintain law and order, the task is not light, and you may often encounter some dangers."

"I'm not afraid of this, my brother-in-law told you, I almost died under the mouth of that leopard, I lost half of my face, and then I practiced my skills hard, my bow shooting is not bad, and I have a lot of strength, I will not only not drag you down, but also help you."

Seeing that his brother-in-law was so resolute, Luo Feng no longer hesitated.

"Okay, since my brother-in-law is willing to come to help me, of course I can't ask for it, go into battle with father and son, fight tiger brothers, and many of my own family members also have a lot of help."

"Brother-in-law thanked you, Xiao Wu."

There was no iron pot, and he used a clay pot to make a few hard dishes in the end, stewed bamboo rat, stewed rabbit meat, stewed bamboo chicken, and added a dish of boiled Chinese cabbage, but he also made up four dishes.

The rice was cooked with corn that Luo Feng brought from home.

"It's delicious, it's delicious."

Although the stewed bamboo rat is not as fragrant as the stir-fry, the little sister still thinks that this is the most delicious food it has ever eaten, and she praises it after eating it.

And although the elder sister Lianniang and Zhao's mother are not as exaggerated as the younger sister, they also keep talking and stretching their chopsticks.

"Just now Xiao Wu said that he is a good cook, I still don't believe it, I can't imagine that this ability is really good, delicious, fragrant!"

Scarface's brother-in-law picked up a piece of meat and couldn't stop after just two bites of it in his mouth.

"I really can't imagine that this bamboo rat is actually better than beef and mutton." Brother-in-law praised.

"Have you ever eaten beef? Don't talk nonsense. ”

Lian Niang is very dissatisfied with her husband's bragging, who has any chance to eat mutton in ordinary people, and it is even more impossible to eat beef, ploughing cattle are not allowed to be slaughtered privately, if they slaughter ploughing cattle privately, they will be arrested by the government and beaten or even imprisoned.

The Zhao family didn't even have their own cattle, let alone eaten beef.

"Xiao Wu, go back and take the remaining two bamboo rats and the rabbit home together, and make such a delicious dish for your mother." Lian Niang smiled.

Mother Zhao also nodded, "Take them all, our family often goes up the mountain to hunt, and these things can often be hunted." Take some and give them to your mother-in-law to taste! ”

Everyone was very satisfied with the meal, and the little sister even had a belly to support.

"It's not early, we still have to hurry back, there are still more than ten miles on the way."

After sitting for a while, Luo Feng took his leave.

When leaving, Luo Feng brought the bag next to the black horse, "Sister, brother-in-law, this is ten times of white money, this is the dowry that our Luo family made up for my sister, originally I planned to ask you what you need first and then buy items for you, now I think about it, I still give you this money directly, you can buy it yourself if you want to buy it." ”

Luo Lian'er and Zhao Scarface didn't know that it was a bag of money, and they didn't expect that there were ten times, and it was also a dowry made up by the family for Luo Lian'er.

"How can this work?"

"Sister, this is a dowry for you, tomorrow I will make up a dowry for the fourth sister, you say accept it."

After speaking, he turned to Scarface and said, "Brother-in-law, I wasn't at home when my sister got married, so today I will say some things that should have been said that day." ”

"My sister has been good to me since she was a child, and my younger brother will never bear to let my sister be wronged outside. If you don't have a good day, you can call me, and then I will come and take my sister home, but at any time, I will not allow you to beat my sister, if you dare to beat my sister, I will definitely come and fight with you. ”

Scarface said with some embarrassment, "It's too late for me to hurt your sister, how can I be willing to fight." ”

"I mean, if there really is that time, you call me, I'll pick her up, and I'll take care of her for the rest of my life."

"Don't worry, Xiao Wu, I will definitely be good to your sister, you can take back this money, we can't accept it."

Luo Lian'er's eyes were moistened by her brother's words.

She suddenly pushed her husband away and said to her younger brother with a smile, "Thank you Xiao Wu, my sister is extremely happy now, my sister has a good brother and has really grown up." This is the dowry you gave to my sister, and my sister will take it well, and when I have children in the future, I will give it to them. ”

"Let's go, brother-in-law, remember what you said today, don't let my sister suffer half of the grievances!"

"Let's go, sister, take good care of yourself, husband and wife raise their eyebrows, Qin Se and Ming, grow old together!"

Picking up the little sister and getting on the horse, Luo Feng led the black horse back, and said in his heart as he walked, "Luo Xiaowu, I am Luo Feng and you Luo Xiaowu, don't worry, I will take good care of your family, they used to be your family, and from now on, they are also my Luo Feng's family!" ”

At the door of Zhao's house.

Luo Lian'er looked at the backs of her younger brothers and sisters in the distance, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

Zhao Scarface gently wiped the tears from the corners of his wife's eyes, "You have a good brother." ”

"Of course, I hurt Xiao Wu the most when I was a child, and I finally didn't hurt him in vain for so many years, and now I know that I feel sorry for my sister."

Zhao Scarface suddenly became a little jealous and envious.

"It's nice to have a younger brother, but it's a pity that I only have an older brother and no younger brother."

"Don't mention your brothers, you four brothers, but since they got married, they have been separated, and each of them still has half a bit of brotherhood, and they don't even have a relationship on weekdays. The old lady was sick in bed, and they were even more eager to stay away, for fear that they would be entangled if they were sticky, such a brother, don't mention it. Luo Lian'er couldn't help but feel a little angry when she talked about those brothers and sisters-in-law, she endured it before, but today she finally couldn't help complaining to her husband.

"Hey, yes, other people's brothers and sisters are enviable, but their own brothers and sisters are very affectionate, forget it, don't talk about them, in the future, your brothers and sisters will also be my Zhao Si's own brothers and sisters."

People's hearts are flesh and blood, and no one wants to stick a hot face to other people's cold butts all the time.