Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 653 Tomura

Recently, the two little guys have become a little thin, I don't know if it's because they are too hard-working or not getting enough nutrition. Taking advantage of the New Year holiday, both of them are living here, and I have some free time, I'd better make some more delicious food for them to nourish them.

After dinner, Hualei asked Xiaoyuan and Rongjue to go back to their rooms to rest early, and she took Jinnian with her to play with toys and tell him stories. In the Great Sheng Dynasty, there were no picture books or story books suitable for young children.

The "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Surnames" that are used to enlighten children are also full of text. Jinnian is still young, so they are not suitable for him. Therefore, Hualei only plays these colorful jigsaw puzzles and Luban locks with Jinnian.

She also wrote many short stories based on her memories of her previous life and told them to Jinnian every night. Hua Lei could not make such exquisite picture books as those in her previous life, and she did not dare to hope so as her painting skills were average.

Rong Jin's painting style is not suitable for drawing picture books suitable for children, so Hua Lei's picture books are all made of sheets of paper. She uses charcoal to outline some simple cartoons and then paints them.

In order to win the order for the Imperial College Canteen, Hualei had drawn several cartoons, and now all of them were used. In Hualei's eyes, the somewhat crude cartoons were Jinnian's favorite.

Therefore, every night, Hualei's storytelling and playing with toys are Jinnian's favorite routine. Unfortunately, Jinnian is still young and doesn't know how much strength to use.

The cartoons Hualei drew would often be torn by Jinnian accidentally after a few days. There was no other way, so Hualei wrote a letter back to Shangjing City and asked Lord Pei to buy a very expensive hard yellow paper from the Ministry of Rites.

Hard yellow paper is dyed with the Chinese medicinal herb Huang Kui and waxed on one side. It is specially used for copying Buddhist scriptures. In the Great Sheng Dynasty, both Huang Kui and Bai Wax were precious.

Folk paper mills generally do not make it, so this hard yellow paper is considered a very precious item. Its most notable feature is that it is relatively hard and cannot be torn.

Thus, the rough picture book of Hualei appeared, which lasted much longer than ordinary paper and became Jinnian's favorite enlightenment book.

In addition to making picture books for Jinnian, Hualei also made a lot of picture books for Qilin and Mrs. Chen's son and gave them to them.

In the next few days, in addition to accompanying Jinnian, Hualei was busy in the kitchen from time to time during the day, making all kinds of delicious food.

Because the New Year is coming soon, the farm has been slaughtering pigs and sheep recently, and a lot of pig and sheep blood has been sent. When I went to the capital, the pig blood was made into blood tofu and exchanged with the people.

Here, Hualei also makes some, but it doesn't seem to be as popular as in Shangjing City. The people here prefer to eat blood sausage.

Blood sausage is one of the specialties of the Mobei region, with a delicate texture and mellow flavor. Many people will make blood sausage at home during the New Year and other festivals.

So, Hualei also followed Sister Hehua to make glutinous rice blood sausage with a very Mobei flavor.

Soak the glutinous rice for several hours in advance to allow it to absorb water, and clean the pig intestines with wood ash. For a better taste, it is best to sieve the pig blood.

Mix pig blood, water and glutinous rice, add salt and spices, tie one end of the pig's large intestine with cotton thread, and pour in the rice blood soup. Don't make it too tight.

Boil a pot of water and put a wooden rack at the bottom of the pot to prevent the blood sausage from sticking to the pot. Put the stuffed pig blood sausage into the pot, turning it over once every cup of tea, and do it gently.

After cooking for about 35 minutes, the glutinous rice in the blood sausage will become hard. If you poke it with a wooden stick, the blood sausage will be ready if no blood comes out and the glutinous rice can be pierced through.

Of course, we also made a lot of lamb blood sausage and flower buds without glutinous rice. We also made a lot of original, spicy, and hot and spicy flavors.

There are many ways to eat blood sausage. You can dip it in mashed garlic and soy sauce. After the blood sausage has cooled down, you can directly slice it and dip it in mashed garlic and soy sauce. The rich flavor is unforgettable.

You can also slice the blood sausage, fry it in a pan on both sides until it turns white, then add some minced garlic. After the garlic changes color, sprinkle some pepper powder and you can eat it. It is especially fragrant.

In addition, you can also add pickled cabbage and pork belly to stir-fry. The most important thing is that blood sausage supplements iron and is suitable for everyone. The New Year came and went in a busy manner.

During the entire annual leave, Rong Jin helped Hua Lei organize her performance report. Finally, Hua Lei copied the performance report organized by Rong Jin and handed it in.

The county government also started its new year's work. Following the work at the end of last year, the prisoners were allocated housing sites and farmland. These had been handled for new residents before, so they were familiar with the process and there were no problems.

Moreover, in order to stabilize people's hearts, the number of homesteads and fields distributed to captives was the same as that of new residents. However, the output of the fields did not need to be taxed by new residents for three years.

However, the captive villages were required to pay 40% tax on the output of the land they were allocated, which was quite harsh for them.

However, the barren hills they were allocated in the village did not need to pay taxes for three years, just like the new residents. This was a kind of compensation, and it was better than living in a prison cell every day.

Considering that these captives had nothing, they could ask the county government to rent the farm tools and oxen they used to cultivate the wasteland. The fees could also be settled together when the fields produced something, which could be considered a convenience measure.

However, within three years, these prisoners could not leave the Xinzhou Prefecture without permission. After three years, they would have to go through multiple levels of approval before they could leave.

Therefore, the household registration that was processed for them years ago was somewhat different from that of ordinary people. The captives had a temporary household registration for three years. After three years, if there were no illegal incidents, they could use this household registration to exchange for the ordinary household registration of the Great Sheng Dynasty.

However, in ancient times, for many people, the farthest they could go was to the county town. Many people never went to the state capital in their entire lives.

Therefore, if you are content to be a citizen of Dasheng, this difference does not matter at all. More than 30,000 captives were divided into 30 villages, but in order to distinguish them from the new resident villages, the captive villages were organized according to the military camp and were called Thousand Household Villages.

Each thousand households has a thousand people, and is further divided into ten hundred-household villages. Each hundred-household village has a village chief who is elected by the villagers themselves.

Every two hundred households in a village had a village head appointed by the court. In addition, the court also appointed an official to each thousand households, called a thousand households, to command all the village heads and village heads.

The barren mountains and wastelands are divided into units of thousand-household villages and are considered public property of the village. If the village wants to reclaim wasteland, the income can also refer to Maozhu Village, Luwei Village and so on.

Because there were examples before, and the barren hills allocated to the villages did not require the payment of taxes, every village with a thousand households attached great importance to it.