Scholars in the courtyard

Yang Xiaotao sat in the yard, reading a book leisurely. From time to time, he picked up an apple beside him, took a few bites and continued reading.

Yang Xiaotao has been working hard to accumulate credits these days in order to upgrade his cooking skills to level two.

This is naturally to improve the quality of life.

These days, cooks are craftsmen who are popular wherever they go, and they will never die of hunger if they have something to eat.

Especially in an era when food is scarce, it is the chef's skill to make flowers out of simple ingredients.

Yang Xiaotao doesn't pray to become a great chef or a divine chef. He doesn't ask for much, as long as he cooks well, eats deliciously, and is full.

With cooking skills at hand, the daily ingredients can be better utilized and not wasted.

Take the fish caught as an example. In the past, it was difficult to cook big fish, but it was difficult to cook small fish. After catching fish, other than going to Zhou's and Uncle Chen's houses to eat, they could only put them in a pot and cook them in one pot.

Now, with deep-frying cooking, big fish can be cooked deliciously, and small fish can also be fried and eaten. Although it consumes oil, he really doesn't lack this.

Ingredients that were eaten in one meal before can now be eaten in two meals, greatly improving the utilization rate.

In addition, Yang Xiaotao also wanted to see what rewards he would get every month after reaching level two.

After reading one page, Yang Xiaotao listened to the complaints of the people around him and stood up to stretch his muscles.

Now a new round of vegetables has just been planted in the vegetable garden. The ground for tomatoes and peppers has been cleared, and Chinese cabbage, radishes, and some garlic and onions have been planted.

The main reason is that there are too few vegetables that can be grown in this season. Most people eat cabbage and radishes during the winter.

Fortunately, there is Xiaowei taking care of the vegetable garden. This plant elf is simply blessed with the ability to turn decay into magic.

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The red-orange apples with yellow spots look like the size of baseballs, but they taste crisp and sweet.

This kind of red Fuji apple is redeemed from the exchange bar and is not grown in China yet.

Of course, most people don't know this either. When they see apples they just treat them as eating, no one cares about them.

One credit is five pounds. Eat an apple and feel happy during this season.

Academic research shows that eating sweet things can make people feel better.

Yang Xiaotao is practicing it himself.

Well, it works well.

After finishing one bite, he happened to see Qin Huairu coming out of Shazhu's house and walking into the yard. The two just glanced at each other and stopped interacting.

Then, Yang Xiaotao heard Uncle Chen's voice next to him.

"What's wrong, sir?"

Aunt Chen threw an invitation over angrily, while Uncle Chen lit a cigarette, shook his head and sighed.

"How did the Jia family get into this situation?"

Yang Xiaotao glanced at it, especially the clear price tag at the end, and his mouth twitched. He was sure that this idea was definitely Jia Zhang's handiwork.

"The Jia family is like this. They act like a dog in front of others, shaking their heads and wagging their tails to look pitiful. They don't need it anymore. Their teeth are bared behind their backs, and they can't even take a bite."

Yang Xiaotao said straightforwardly, and the Chen family nodded, because Yang Xiaotao was right, the Jia family was exactly like this.

"You don't have to worry about it. The Jia family is simply asking for trouble. Just wait and see."

The old couple looked at each other and they wouldn't participate anyway.

In the evening, Yang Xiaotao continued to read at night, and it was not until midnight that he finished the book on hand.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for familiarizing himself with "Mechanical Principles and Structure" and earning 238 credits!"

Rubbing his eyes, the system prompts sounded in his mind, announcing that he had finished reading the book.

"I finally saved enough."

Yang Xiaotao closed his eyes, and in his mind was still a pot of mechanical principles and a pile of gears and chains.

Since the last time he gained cooking skills, Yang Xiaotao has worked hard on this book. He has read it roughly from the beginning, but now he has read it thoroughly. Not only has he gained credits, but he has also memorized the knowledge in these books.

Of course, Yang Xiaotao will continue to read this book for the future. After all, on top of familiar reading, there is intensive reading, and there is also mastery. At these levels, the credits earned are doubled.

"System, upgrade your cooking skills to level two."

Give orders in your mind.

Soon, 100 credits were consumed and the prompt sounded again.

"Ding, congratulations to the host, your cooking skills have been upgraded to level two. You will be rewarded with ten pounds of meat coupons and ten pounds of eggs every month."

Sure enough, after improving my cooking skills, I will get extra every month.

Now, those with level 2 fishing skills can get 10 kilograms of national food stamps and 10 yuan per month.

Calculated in this way, Yang Xiaotao's monthly income is 57 yuan, which includes a supply of grain, a variety of tickets issued by the factory, and additional gains brought by skills.

In addition, there are also items that can be exchanged for credits. In short, if you calculate it carefully, you can earn a lot.

In addition to the "justice" he gets from animals every now and then, Yang Xiaotao dares to say that no one in this courtyard is richer than him.

As his cooking skills improved, another wave of experience appeared in his mind, and then Yang Xiaotao fell asleep while digesting the experience.

In the morning, the alarm clock rang on time. Yang Xiaotao got up, tidied up and prepared breakfast.

Recently, the steel rolling mill has a lot of tasks, and several times it has been temporarily overtime in order to catch up on work.

So Yang Xiaotao didn't dare to fool around with breakfast in the morning, he had to get something to eat when he was hungry.

Yesterday, he was rewarded with ten pounds of eggs for his cooking skills. Yang Xiaotao took out twenty and put them in the pot, then found some brown sugar and boiled them in it.

After a while, the water in the pot made a gurgling sound, and the aroma wafted out of the pot, out of the house, and filled the entire courtyard.

Yang Xiaotao took out two more packages of White Elephant instant noodles and an old ham, then took out the eggs and washed the bottom of the pot.

After waiting for a while, the instant noodles were brought to the table. Yang Xiaotao took out two red eggs and peeled off the skin, revealing the white and tender eggs. He smelled them and the aroma was fragrant.

In the yard, Mrs. Jia Zhang got up early and sat at the door, smelling the aroma, and started cursing.

"Eat every day, eat every day, why don't you become poor!"

"You're just making eggs so early in the morning, but why don't you let people eat?"

"Damn little beast, he has no sympathy or humanity at all. He deserves to die without a wife."

Yang Xiaotao was not angry when he heard Mrs. Jia Zhang yelling and scolding outside the yard. He picked up the plate and came to the door, eating deliciously in front of Mrs. Jia Zhang.

He picked up the egg with chopsticks and bit it down to reveal the orange yolk. Jia Zhang at the door looked at it, stopped talking, and almost drooled.

Yang Xiaotao picked up another piece of ham, bit it open to reveal the strips of meat, and ate it in big mouthfuls, making Jia Zhang even more greedy and restless.

Yang Xiaotao ate one bite at a time, not very fast, but Jia Zhang could see it clearly.

In the house, Qin Huairu, who was cooking, suddenly heard there was no sound at the door. She was curious and walked out to see what was going on.

Then he saw Ms. Jia Zhang leaning sideways, her mouth almost reaching into the yard, and her eyes staring to the side.

Qin Huairu followed and looked over, and saw Yang Xiaotao eating bite after bite. He looked so hearty and felt that there was a little more saliva in his throat.

"What are you looking at? Come back and cook."

In the house, Jia Dongxu smelled the smell of eggs and was hungry. He was very angry when he saw his wife being embarrassed at the door.

When the two of them realized what they were doing, and Yang Xiaotao also returned to the house after eating, they could only go back to the house angrily and continue cooking.

Just looking at the steamed buns and corn paste in the pot, neither of them had much appetite.

Outside the door, Yang Xiaotao left three boiled eggs and took the others out.

Now, he also has a group of brothers in the workshop. These people follow him and discuss and study together on weekdays. They have a good relationship.

In the yard, people in the yard became sour again when they saw Yang Xiaotao leaving the courtyard with a bag of brown sugar eggs.

Yang Xiaotao didn't care. When he came to the workshop, he threw the eggs to Wang Fa. Several people were not polite. This was not the first time this happened.

Everyone knows Yang Xiaotao's family background, which is quite a lot.

Of course, Wang Fa still asked him to save some money so that he could find a wife and live a stable life in the future.

Yang Xiaotao listened every time, but still did not change.

"Brother Wang, you have a lot of tasks today."

Looking at the tasks assigned to them, it can be seen that the work Yang Xiaotao is doing at this time is all the work of a fourth-level fitter, so their team has more tasks than usual.

"Well, the director just sent it. It's still your fault."

"Uh, I don't want to either."

Yang Xiaotao spread his hands, and Wang Fa was helpless.

Who told Yang Xiaotao to do such a good job? Now he is a Level 4 fitter, and the workpieces he makes have a 30% defective rate. Yang Xiaotao's defective rate can be controlled to less than 10%. If this year's grading assessment had not ended, Wang Guodong would have wanted him to directly take the Level 4 assessment. The fitter is done.

Therefore, in order to quickly save manufacturing workpieces, Yang Xiaotao and his team took on more tasks.

"But it's good. Our group will definitely be the advanced group today. The director said that this month we will each receive an extra pound of pork, directly from the kitchen."

Wang Fa said excitedly, "This is meat, it doesn't cost money, it doesn't cost money."

"Really? Then the other groups must not die of acid?"

"Haha, isn't it? Lao Ma and the others went to the director's office several times this morning."

"But it's useless. It's a waste to give it to them."

"It's just that you didn't see the expressions on those guys' faces, tsk tsk!"

Che Wenwei joked on the side, and there was laughter again.

Now, Yang Xiaotao is the treasure of their group, and he even has the right to speak in the entire third workshop.

Especially when it comes to solving problems, the key can often be found in just one sentence.

Today, the production capacity of the third workshop is almost the same as that of the first workshop despite having two less rolling mills, which has proved the strength of the third workshop.

"Don't be poor, hurry up and finish your meal. Today is a busy day again."

After Wang Fa finished speaking, he interrupted the gossip that was about to rise, and everyone dispersed, preparing to start work.

Just when the work in the workshop was in full swing, Mrs. Jia Zhang was sitting at the door, holding a needle and thread in her hand, bit by bit, as if she was mad.

Thinking of what happened this morning, my teeth were gritted.

"This little beast is really rich."

Mrs. Jia Zhang calculated Yang Xiaotao's wealth in her mind. After calculating it, it was almost three or four hundred. This was her conservative calculation and the result of over-calculating daily expenses.

"No, how can such a big thing as the Full Moon Wine be left out without him?"

On a whim, Mrs. Jia Zhang immediately got up and ran into the house, then ran out after a while.

Qin Huairu was looking after the child in the house and didn't understand what was going on. She just vaguely saw a touch of red leaking from her mother-in-law's pocket.