The three entry mansion where the brigade headquarters is located is a folk house built by the Lu family before liberation, with typical characteristics of Jiangnan folk houses.
It is made of black bricks and tiles. The wall is tall, which is convenient for ventilation and heat dissipation. The roof slope is very high, which is to facilitate rain pouring in rainy days.
The first row into the courtyard is three main rooms, and the middle is the Mingtang Hall, which is called the main room in the folk. There are two side rooms on the left and right, which can be used for reception.
From behind the wall of the main room, there is a small courtyard.
There are two rows of wing rooms on the left and right of the courtyard, and a two-story building with a brick structure above the wood structure is behind.
The yard is surrounded by houses, also known as patio. When it rains, the rain on the inside of the eaves of the surrounding houses falls into the courtyard in the middle, which is a common "four water return to the hall" bureau in Jiangnan.
Passing through a two-story building, there is an embroidered building with a small garden behind it. It is also a two-story building, but there is no wing room.
This whole set of folk houses is not grand and grand, but has a clear pattern, but there are not too many carved beams and painted buildings, which is relatively simple.
In addition, the original black brick and black tile houses were painted white, with rows of red slogans written on them. In the current social environment, they are also extremely harmonious.
The whole house faces south and is surrounded by a high courtyard wall. A row of tall camphor trees is planted 20 or 30 meters away from the west of the courtyard wall, so that pedestrians on the riverbank nearby can be isolated.
Under the slope more than two meters high in the east of the compound is the pond where Chen Fan just carried out collective teaching.
Around the pond, there is a bluestone road about 10 meters wide. There are more than a dozen large brick houses along the flagstone road, but they are just ordinary single houses, and there is no yard around them. The open door is the pond.
This circle of green brick houses is the former residential area of the Lu family.
But now the big house has become the team headquarters of Lujiawan. The former Lujia folk houses were also distributed to poor villagers during the land reform. Now they are naturally the homes of members.
Going east through the pond, there is a long straw house with earth walls built on the ridge of the slope.
Further outside, there are large fields, which is the way Chen Fan came here just now.
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The west wing of the middle courtyard of the brigade headquarters has been transformed into a kitchen and a dining room. Chen Fan's spatula is flying in it, and soon a large table of good food is ready.
After the last plate of fried pork liver was served, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and smiled, "Braised turtle, stewed turtle, northeast blood sausage, fried sausage with pepper, fried pork heart, fried kidney, fried pork liver, double cooked pork, pork lung soup, and the last plate of fried cabbage, Qihuo."
Zhang Changjiang stood up and pointed to the position beside him. "Come here, come here, Master Chen."
Chen Fan quickly waved his hand, "This is no good. How can I sit on the throne?"
Then he looked at it and pointed to the door. "I just want to sit here."
He was about to move a chair, but Zhang Wenliang pulled him back.
After a long time of persuasion, Secretary Yang finally took the lead, and Chen Fan and Master Zhu sat next to him, one on the left and one on the right. Then there are Zhang Changjiang, Xiao Liewen, Ye Shubao, Zhang Guangwen, Zhang Wenliang and Yang Xingxiu, the women's team leader. There are nine people at a table.
Xiao Liewen looked at the big table and said with a grin, "This is more abundant than the Spring Festival."
Master Zhu nodded and said, "The key is that many dishes have not been eaten."
Pointing at the dish of fried peppercorns and fat intestines, he laughed and said, "If you don't cook this dish, I dare not say you are from here. I recognize him with so many dishes."
Xiao Liewen, "I know more than you."
After a burst of laughter, he began to pour wine again.
This time Chen Fan didn't insist on using warm water to brew wine, because he brought several bottles of wine. On the white and transparent glass bottle, there was a palm sized paper with a serious trademark. The patterns of several grain crops were surrounded by four characters, "Yunhu Daqu" (purely fictional).
This bottled wine with simple packaging is the most orthodox grain wine, and it has passed the inspection of the professional organization of the distillery, so there is no need to worry about methanol exceeding the standard.
The only thing to consider is that the degree is a little high, and how many liang you can drink.
However, he didn't want it himself, but Master Zhu opened his mouth for him. "Master Xiao Chen doesn't drink cold wine. He'd better get him some hot water to scald it."
Upon hearing this, Yang Xingxiu immediately got up to take a bowl of boiled water. Secretary Yang still kept a straight face on purpose, "If Master Chen has any requirements, just say so."
Xiao Liewen also said, "One party has one party's habits. Although in Rome, do as the Romans do, what personal habits can take care of is still to take care of it. It's just a warm wine. It's not easy. Don't be polite next time."
Chen Fan can only grin.
When I moved my chopsticks, I was humble again.
Finally, Secretary Yang would be invited to use chopsticks first, and then Master Zhu would take the lead to start the meal.
By this time, Chen Fan was already sweating. Ouch, eating outside was really tiring.
Next to Xiao Liewen, the first chopstick went to the bloody intestines, picked up a piece and threw it into his mouth. His eyes lit up immediately, and he gave Chen Fan a thumbs up, "Yummy."
As soon as others listened, they quickly cleaned up most of them in an instant.
Xiao Liewen's eyes were straight. "Leave some for me. I haven't eaten them for more than 20 years."
Ye Shubao looked at him and didn't slow down at all. "Hey, Master Chen left three pieces for you just now. You can take them back and eat them slowly. What can you grab from us?"
Xiao Liewen didn't care, but he quickly put two more pieces in it, and the plate of bloody intestines was empty.
Well, Chen Fan, the chef, made two bloody sausages today, but he didn't find any. He didn't know how his first bloody sausages tasted, whether they were delicious or not?
Why the first time?
Where can I buy fresh pig blood after decades of killing pigs in the countryside? You can't buy pig blood. Of course, you can't make blood sausage.
However, although Chen Fan has never done it himself, he has seen dozens of videos of making blood sausage and is already familiar with it. Now his cooking skill has reached Level 4, which is comparable to a professional chef in a small restaurant. He still boasts that it is OK to make blood sausage.
It doesn't depend on everyone's reaction. It's still very good.
Just now, except Chen Fan, the only person who didn't grab the blood sausage was Master Zhu. He didn't grab the blood sausage, but he had a big chopstick of double cooked pork and another chopstick of fried pork liver, which made him very happy.
When others saw it, they were not willing to be outdone and put out their chopsticks in front of several dishes.
Zhang Wenliang is a junior. At the beginning, he didn't feel embarrassed to compete with the elders. He only ate a piece of blood sausage. When he came back to his senses, he found that more than half of the dishes in the bowl were missing. This time, he couldn't be cautious. He quickly put a chopsticks in a bowl, ate a mouthful of double cooked pork, his eyes lit up, ate a mouthful of pork liver, the corners of his mouth turned up, and then ate a mouthful of kidney flower. Suddenly, he was happy
Chen Fan holds chopsticks in his right hand and wine cup in his left. Yes, I'd better eat turtle meat.