Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 476 Flowers in the Snow

Just when everyone was curious about the bacon and sausages on the table, An Yue put the last dish on the table.

Suddenly, everyone sitting around the Eight Immortals Table was stunned.

The village chief looked at An Yue and asked, "Yue Yue, these dishes are really delicious! But no one knows the names of these dishes."

An Yue spread out her hands, put her thumbs together and introduced them one by one: "This is bacon, Chinese sausage, bean sprouts with vinegar, stir-fried shredded potatoes, snow flower, preserved egg with cucumber, and egg and cabbage soup."

Magistrate Qi pointed at the taro paste in the middle and asked curiously, "Miss An Yue, what was the name of this dish you mentioned just now?"

An Yue smiled and replied, "My Lord, this dish is called [Flowers in the Snow]."

Magistrate Qi repeated slowly, "Snow... ground... flowers? This dish has a very good name! So elegant!"

The master beside him smiled and agreed: "The dishes made by Miss An Yue are pleasing to the eye just by looking at them."

Qi Jiner, who was sitting next to the lady, did not move or say a word.

But her eyes were as big and round as copper bells in shock.

Wang Hu sat next to the village chief and just looked at Magistrate Qi and his lawyer obediently without daring to say a word.

The master looked at the dishes on the table and exclaimed: "Wow...the presentation of each dish is like a piece of art, making people salivate at the sight of it!"

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand to signal Magistrate Qi to pick up his chopsticks first: "Sir, please."

In this situation, Magistrate Qi was no longer modest. He laughed and picked up the tongs and said, "Okay, okay, I won't be polite then!"

After saying that, he picked up a piece of sausage with chopsticks and put it in his wife's bowl.

And said: "Madam, please try it and see how it tastes."

Madam Qi smiled sweetly and responded, "Thank you, husband."

Then, Magistrate Qi raised his hand and signaled everyone to start eating.

An Yue picked up a piece of Chinese sausage and put it in Qi Jin'er's bowl: "Jin'er, try it too."

"Thank you Sister Anyue." Qi Jiner picked up the sausage, raised her hands to cover her face and put it in her mouth to chew.

After swallowing it, the lady said to everyone, "This sausage tastes really good. Everyone should try it."

After everyone started eating, the Eight Immortals Table became extremely lively.

Magistrate Qi tasted the snow flower dish, his eyes lit up, and he said to An Yue: "Miss An Yue, this snow flower dish not only has an elegant name, but also tastes very unique. What is the ingredient?"

An Yue stopped eating and swallowed the food in her mouth.

She explained, "This is taro, a good thing. After lunch, I will tell you the origin of this taro."

Magistrate Qi laughed heartily and said, "Haha, good, good, then Miss An Yue must not forget about it."

"Hehe, Daddy, after we finish eating, Jin'er will remind Sister An Yue to tell us."

"okay."

Everyone started to eat their delicious lunch.

......

Two quarters of an hour later.

After lunch.

An Yue, Meng Xiu'er and Wang Hu, the three of them took the bowls, chopsticks and plates on the table to the kitchen.

Meng Xiuer stayed in the kitchen and slowly washed the dishes.

The village chief and Wang Hu moved the chairs and stools in the house under the grape trellis, preparing to sit together and talk about things about Baili Village.

An Yue was about to wash the dishes with Meng Xiu'er, but Qi Jin'er pulled her aside and said, "Sister An Yue, you said you would tell us about the origin of this taro!"

"Oh, yes, yes."

As they spoke, An Yue and Xiao Bao sat under the eaves.

She said: "The taro we ate for lunch saved the lives of the whole village during the natural disaster."

"Taro? Hiss... I've never heard of it before."

At this time, the village chief bowed and said, "Sir, you should have heard something. A few years ago, our Yongchuan County suffered from various natural disasters. Among them, during the drought, we encountered locusts passing through."

"When the locusts came through, not a single blade of grass grew, not even a single leaf of vegetable was left in the fields."

The village chief turned his head and looked at An Yue, then continued, "Fortunately, Yue found this taro in time by the stream in the village that year."

"All the villagers united and went to the creek to dig taro. The villagers survived the natural disaster that year by eating two taro a day."

"If there were no taro, more than half of the people in Baili Village would have starved to death."

Magistrate Qi nodded and said, "Oh? In that case, taro is really a life-saving food. I wonder if you have any uncooked taro?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Your Excellency, do you want to witness it?"

Magistrate Qi nodded in the affirmative.

An Yue picked up some taro from the kitchen and brought them to them.

The lady picked up a taro and looked at it, and asked, "Look at this taro, it looks like it is growing in the ground. I guess the locusts just passed by and didn't harm the ground."

An Yue nodded and said, "Madam, what you said is absolutely right."

The village chief sighed slightly and continued to recall, "That year, there was a drought first. There was no water anywhere. People died of thirst in other villages near our village."

"Under Yue Yatou's persuasion, our Baili Village used the whole village's strength to dig a few deep wells, so that the villagers did not die of thirst."

"Everyone thought that they could survive the drought with just these few deep wells. But who would have thought that this drought would last for more than half a year."

"At that time, the rice in the fields had not yet bloomed, and the wheat in the fields was still juicy and not even half-ripe. There was no extra water in the shallow land, and the villagers could only watch the crops in their fields dry up and die."

"At that time, Yue said that a severe drought would lead to a disaster, so she ran to the west end of the village in time to call for a village meeting and asked the villagers to harvest the wheat in advance."

"At that time, the villagers were unsure, but fortunately most of them listened to the advice and chose to harvest early."

"Who would have thought that before the wheat in the field was even harvested, a swarm of locusts would appear out of nowhere."

"The locusts were so numerous that some were flying in the sky and some were crawling and jumping on the ground. They were so numerous that they covered the sky."

The village chief said this painfully, his face full of fear.

"Alas... just like that, a locust plague came and ate up all the remaining plants in the fields."

"The villagers in each village had no food at all. First, there was no water, and second, there was no food. Many people died of thirst and starvation."

When the village chief said this, tears had already flowed down his chin.

He shook his head and waved his hands, saying sadly: "I never want to suffer a natural disaster like that again in my life."

"We suffered from drought and locust plague before, but we didn't expect there would be a flood later."

The village chief recalled the hardships he had experienced in the past and his emotions were difficult to control. He covered his face with his hands and burst into tears.

An Yue continued: