Chapter 1130 【1129】Taste Lady 23(5000+)

After the straw is soaked in water, it becomes particularly tough. It can be used to bundle vegetables for sale, and can also be used to weave daily necessities, such as trays, fruit baskets, vegetable baskets, backpacks, etc., because it becomes tough when it touches water.

, so it’s still about time, as long as the weaving is firm, it can be used for a long time.

The straw in the six acres of land was collected by people of all ages. They brought it all home to dry. When it was dry, they piled it into haystacks and chopped it up. Then they slowly taught the children to weave. With their skillful hands, they made many beautiful things.

Practical daily necessities.

Then let Yu Jingtian and others go out to buy these daily necessities, together with the endless vegetables in their yard, to sell them in the market for one penny or two pence. As long as someone wants it, just sell it, and the money in exchange will be

Bought pork and brought it back to improve the food for the children.

By mid-October, the rice fields had been plowed and carefully tidied, with plant ash sprinkled and farmyard manure fertilized. Then, at Shen Qing's invitation, the family of fourteen began to work on the six acres of land.

Planting of winter wheat.

By the way, during this period, some buckwheat, millet, sorghum, and soybeans in their other dry lands were also harvested. After the land was leveled, they added up to ten acres of land, and they planted all of it with winter wheat.

With the addition of four acres of land, they will not be able to eat enough food this winter, but as long as they save money, they should be able to survive this winter.

Like rice, cereals need to be dried after being harvested. Once dried, they are stored in barns made of wood. Every time they are eaten, they are taken out and ground into rice, peeled and peeled, and the thick ones are separated from the fine ones.

Mix it in while cooking.

Shen Qing's stomach has now become completely accustomed to it. She can eat both coarse and fine grains in her mouth. If she doesn't choose, she has no right to choose. After all, the country is in turmoil right now, and it is already very difficult to live a life of eating and drinking like this every day.

Judging from the news brought back by Lin Sen and the others, the Kingdom of Jin is really in a state of depression now. There are wars all around. It is hard to say whether the country can retain its title. People are hunting young men everywhere, and even those who don’t have any skills dare not.

After leaving this door, their village could still farm and support their families without any worries, all thanks to the protection of the complex and changeable institutions outside the valley.

There was an autumn rain before the wheat planting. Taking advantage of this rain, everyone quickly pulled out the vegetables in the ground and planted winter wheat.

When the wheat begins to germinate, use a water truck to water all the wheat thoroughly again. This will ensure the healthy growth of the wheat seedlings.

Of course, every time watering the crops is a major project for the whole family, no one can be lazy. Children pedal water trucks, and adults use manual ones, all trying their best to transport stream water to the fields.

It's not a drought this year, and the trees and grass in the forest are growing vigorously, providing a lot of feed for poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, and sheep.

After entering October, the weather gradually turns cooler.

She now attends classes for six days and has one day off. On every day off, she takes her children for a stroll in the mountains to see if there are any fruits to harvest.

This time I didn't disappoint her. I brought home a lot of game such as pine nuts, chestnuts, wild persimmons, wild jujubes, etc.

Chestnuts are hidden in the furry outer skin. People here don’t know how to eat them at all, especially pine nuts. Who would have thought that there are pine nuts in pine cones?

When they went up the mountain, they could at most see wild persimmons, wild jujubes, and pick some wild apples and pears, but few could find pine nuts and chestnuts.

Shen Qing took the children up the mountain, and each person carried a basket of clean dry goods down the mountain. When someone asked, he was not stingy and told them directly. In this way, before the snow closes the mountain in winter, the food should be able to be used by everyone.

Good luck going home.

The children would definitely not find it enjoyable enough to go there once. When she was in class, they would have something to do when they were not in class. The older ones would go to the mountains to pick fruits, while the younger ones would feed the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs at home. The division of labor was very clear.

At such a young age, he now knows how to exchange his own labor for fruitful fruits.

The porridge and stew made from chestnuts are simply not too delicious.

There is also a lot of oil after frying the pine nuts until fragrant, but the amount of peeled pine nuts is too small. Even if there is oil, it is only enough to eat once in a while. It is very precious, but frying the dish once can make people remember it for a long time.

The deep-fried oil residue, mixed with grains to make vegetables and cakes, taste surprisingly good.

The picked wild persimmons are extremely sour, so if you surround them with straw and leave them for a few days before eating, they will become sweet and delicious.

After more than half a year of operation, the children have been able to take care of the house and outside the house very efficiently.

As soon as they hear about something delicious or fun, children will go to the mountains in groups.

And because this forest is often visited by them, large animals have moved deeper into the mountains. So far, no large animals have been heard in this mountain that they often visit.

But for the safety of the children, every time she went into the mountains, she would let them play in a shallow place and not go into the deep forest.

Although it is a northern region, there are many snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the mountains, so it is better to be careful if possible.

After she had some free time, Shen Qing first made a lot of clay pots out of adobe. After the pots were fired, she pickled all the cabbage and radishes she planted this winter.

Pickled cabbage, spicy cabbage, spicy radish, pickled beans, pickled cucumbers and various dried wild vegetables have become their winter reserve vegetables this winter.

After the summer harvest, some people in the village planted buckwheat, and others planted radish and cabbage. The excess was sold to them at the price of one penny per catty. Shen Qing also bought five hundred catties. The five hundred

The fresh ones are placed in the cellar for cooking in the winter.

There are not many options for winter vegetables in the north, so most people start drying various dried vegetables when the weather is crisp in autumn.

Shen Qing is the same this year. If they work harder, they don't have to worry about food and drink in winter.

The children also cooperated and did whatever they were told, because they had meat to eat with Shen Qing. What kind of life were they living in the past?

Sleeping on the street, eating without a meal, huddled in a dilapidated temple where the wind blows everywhere in winter, wearing only tattered clothes and ragged mattresses, it's pitiful no matter how you think about it, but now, they have warm clothes, a clean house

Living environment, their gratitude to Shen Qing cannot be described in words, so they firmly believe that it is always right to follow their sister's request.

Facts have proved that as long as they are diligent and not lazy, they can really live a good life.

"This year we wasted a lot of time digging rice fields. Next year we will open up some wasteland and grow some cotton and rapeseed. After that, we can use cotton to make new clothes for you and use rapeseed to squeeze oil for food. Remember my sister's words.

, the days cultivated with one’s own hands are the most beautiful.”

She did buy a lot of cotton this year. She originally planned to take it to the ruined temple and use it as a gift for moving to a new house at the right time. However, she ended up running into this cottage halfway, so she didn't even see the new cotton on time.

The machine was taken out, and the cotton they used to practice weaving was all blackened tattered cotton that everyone brought from home. After all, it was just for practice, and no one wanted to use new cotton for experiments.

Therefore, growing more cotton next year is the first priority.

After the winter wheat was planted, the village was gradually covered with green grass, adding a bit of vitality to the early winter.

Leaves were falling everywhere else, but the hundreds of acres of farmland they had earned through labor were full of life, and it was joyful to look at.

After the autumn sowing, people who were idle entered the state of study again. They had classes in the morning and afternoon every day, and had free time independently in the evening.

In a blink of an eye, the first snow came when she came into this world. At the beginning of November, the winter snow came.

The indigenous people here said that this year's snow came earlier than in previous years, and the weather suddenly turned bad, forcing a stove to be lit in the room where classes were held.

Because every household needs firewood for the winter, the firewood in the forest has been collected by them long ago. Large firewood is generally used to burn the kang, while small firewood is used for cooking and boiling water.

Straws and crop vines are good ignites, and the ashes can be used as soap and as fertilizer in the local area.

It is true that plant ash can be used to make soap. The prerequisite is a lot of grease, but everyone uses the oil for food, so few people are willing to make soap. They themselves have no interest in soap. Every household uses plant ash to wash their clothes, wash their bodies, and wash their hair.

It was dirty at the time, but it was fine after I rinsed it off.

There are also several saponaria trees in the forest, and the saponins grown on these trees are also the most precious cleaning supplies for the women in the village.

The men used plant ashes, while the women used hard-to-obtain soap locust to cleanse.

Shen Qing initially kept a lot of wolf oil, but she used the alkaline water obtained from the wolf oil and plant ashes, and fragrant flowers and plants to make a lot of soap. Of course, these soaps only weighed a hundred or so kilograms.

It is enough for their own household, but it is not their turn to go to the market to sell it.

She also gave a few chunks of this soap to Lin Sen. Now, in the entire village, except for the three households next to them that use soap and soap locust, others are still using plant ash.

The children also robbed the saponins. In their words, everyone robbed them. If they didn't rob them, wouldn't they be losing money?

Therefore, there are only two or three saponaria trees, but it is really difficult to supply so many people.

Smart people have started to plant them in front of their homes, but Shen Qing didn't think it was necessary, so she didn't let her children plant them.

The life of their family does not end here. Next year will be even better than this year. This soap will definitely be used all the time, and not only for their own use, but also to make more and sell it in the market.

Nowadays, children are not lacking in nutrition. Not only eggs, quails also lay eggs, one a day, which is very abundant. Ducks also start laying eggs after entering October, but the frequency is not very high. Sometimes one egg a day, sometimes one egg a day.

One for two days.

The big white geese haven't moved yet, and I guess they won't be able to lay eggs when the weather gets cold in winter.

I have never been willing to eat duck eggs. After I started breeding eggs, I saved the eggs and marinated them to make salted duck eggs.

When there are more quail eggs, the eggs are saved. The saved eggs are either pickled and made into hard eggs, or made into salted eggs, or they can be placed directly in her space and stored as fresh eggs for when they are available in the future.

, you can sell it in the market.

As for the quails, they were moved into a warm house after it snowed, so they could still hatch eggs. Five or six eggs a day were left for the children. Although they couldn't eat meat every day, the protein was enough to ensure

Nutrition for everyone.

After winter, they didn't work much, so their family's three meals a day became two. In fact, not only their family, but other families also had one meal at ten in the morning and one at four in the afternoon. The ingredients for these two meals

It's very filling, and although it's rough, it's filling.

The meal in the morning is just sticky whole grain porridge, and some steamed steamed buns or something, that's enough.

In the evening, it's a little more sumptuous, with rice and fish stew, all kinds of vegetables stewed together randomly, and some noodles are placed around the pot. It makes you feel full and comfortable.

This was an era without sweet potatoes, potatoes and yams. If there were, I'm afraid it would be more comfortable. The vermicelli alone would make people salivate.

Although their family feeds pigs, they were caught in the summer and only raised about 100 kilograms now. They are too thin, so they do not plan to kill them.

Other people's pigs in the village do have to be killed, but they all plan to kill them before the Chinese New Year. By then, they can buy some meat or exchange it with other things for some meat.

You don’t have to worry about the New Year meat for the time being.

As the weather gets colder day by day, people who have been away from home are coming back one after another. Seeing that the owners of the huts in front have returned, their cultural classes can only be temporarily suspended, but classes like Nühong can still be held.
To be continued...