Chapter 1307 [1306] The story of farming with a woman 34 (5000)

In a blink of an eye, it was time for wild grapes to flood in the mountains. I brewed ten jars last year, left two jars outside, and the rest were sealed in the space. Early this year, Uncle Wei was thinking about this and asked Wei Ying to buy the jars of wine. This was obviously because I didn’t drink enough last year!

Thinking about it, I gave me two jars of wine in total last year. The two of them drank a jar in winter and half a jar during the Chinese New Year. I wasn’t willing to finish the rest, for fear of breaking it off. This year, I put the jar back early this year and went up the mountain from time to time to see if the grapes are purple and sweet. It’s really hard to take care of them.

So judging from this year's situation, she wanted to hide a few jars secretly, but she was afraid she couldn't. However, she could bury half of them deep underground and save some every year, and the more it gets better and better.

She almost didn't need to carry grapes to the bottom of the mountain. In addition to Uncle Wei leading Xiaomang and Liu'er to carry them up and down every day, Xiangzi and Wei Ying, who occasionally went home, would stay at home for two or three days, and carry them down the mountain until they had enough ten jars, and they reluctantly returned to the county town.

With more grapes, she needs more sugar, so she also planted two batches of beets and sugarcane and boiled a lot of sugar sugar.

The grapes were placed in the cellar one month before brewing. After a month, there was no big problem, so they would be wrapped in mud and sealed in the cellar. Of course, they could also be buried underground, either.

Before making grapes, she also made two jars of mulberry wine. Because mulberry wine came down earlier than grapes, it was brewed in April and May. However, Uncle Wei had never drunk this kind of wine before, so he couldn't remember it. After she finished making it, she still placed it in the cellar and waited for natural fermentation to the best time before taking it out to taste it.

In early August, I didn’t pick up cucumbers, beans, and eggplant, but the peppers were still string by string, which looked particularly rare.

After eliminating the uncoated vegetables, plant sesame seeds, and then plant rapeseed when the sesame seeds are harvested. This way, you can take them and ensure that their family has oil to eat all year round.

Of course, it’s just enough to eat at home. If you want to take care of the amount of noodle stalls in the main city, it’s a big deal, so they have to pay for it themselves to buy it.

However, they have a donkey cart. After walking around the country, they can collect a lot of raw materials and then take them to the oil mill in the city to press the oil. The noodles still have to be made of meat oil. In summer, you can choose vegetable oil and sesame sauce. In addition, the wonton stew in the morning also needs sesame oil to decorate.

Before August 15th, Xiangzi learned mooncakes from her for a while at home. After returning to the city, the two brothers began to think about making mooncakes.

Their method is very simple. Everyone who comes to eat will make a table and cut half a piece of mooncake for them to taste. If they need it, they can book and buy it directly. This effect is much more worry-free than those who go around the streets to sell.

Because the ingredients for making mooncakes are real, peanuts, sesame, walnut, sugar and oil are all expensive, so they are also expensive.

People who think it tastes delicious will ask the price. If you can accept it, buy it. No one will force you to not accept it. However, Xiangzi still carefully introduces the raw materials he uses.

Those who often eat their noodles know that they also sell snacks and dolls. They have a good reputation in front of them. How can there be a reason why mooncakes cannot be sold?

So the profit this month will definitely be over.

Last year, I didn’t have time to dress up persimmon vinegar. This year, it was the season when persimmons were ripe. I asked Uncle Wei and Xiaomang to go to the mountains to pick persimmons early.

There are quite a few persimmon trees in the mountains. They can not only make persimmon vinegar, but also make persimmon cakes. Anyway, whenever they have time, they will go up the mountain. She will occasionally go up to help and take the opportunity to transfer to the space. As for those that are not reachable from the high places, after all the leaves fall, they will grow naturally and mature, red and soft, and pick them again. Not only will the color be beautiful, but the taste is also excellent.

Now the persimmons they pick are still hard and astringent.

It is not too difficult to make persimmon vinegar. I have made all the rice vinegar, and this is just a replacement for the raw materials.

Pick the ripe fresh persimmons and wash them with clean water, dry them in a dust-free and pollution-free environment, and then remove the persimmon stems.

Scalding cotton yarn with boiling water, and rinsing with boiling water when disinfecting the tank and bamboo basket.

After disinfecting and drying the tank and bamboo basket, use cotton yarn to line the bottom of the bamboo basket with one or two layers, and then line a layer of cloth on the inner periphery of the bamboo basket to load the material.

After loading the material, cover it with cotton yarn, and finally use a dust-proof bamboo cover to cover the entire cylinder cover.

Place it in a place without pollution and mosquitoes.

After six to nine months of natural fermentation, the persimmon water poured out of the tank is the persimmon vinegar liquid.

Don't move it within the next two months. When you can smell the sour smell of vinegar, take the bamboo basket and see if there is a layer of milk, white translucent thing on the persimmon water in the tank. This thing is a vinegar coat. If there is one, it will prove successful. This is the early fermentation.

But it won't be too sour and has a sweet taste.

The color is as transparent as red wine.

The key is the next step, later fermentation, that is, to make aged vinegar.

Aged vinegar made in this way can be stored for several years.

Use a wooden spoon to pour the persimmon vinegar liquid into a disinfected bottle and seal it. Dig a pit below one meter in the shade to bury it.

This is the later fermentation, digging as you use it, it's that simple.

The color of persimmon vinegar made with fully ripe persimmon is as transparent as red wine. The color of persimmon vinegar made with not fully ripe is cyan (it can only be as transparent as red wine after late fermentation). The longer it is stored, the darker the color.

But there are precipitates, which is normal.

In any case, this year, I can be regarded as carrying these wild persimmons home. Apart from making persimmon vinegar, the rest is placed in the cellar and buried in straw to make it mature naturally. Just take it as you eat it.

It is also easy to make persimmon cakes. The persimmon skin and persimmon stems should be kept after peeling, which is useful later.

The peeled persimmons should be scalded with boiling water to avoid mold.

Then put it in a bamboo drying basket and take it out to dry. It doesn’t matter if it is cloudy. After a few days of drying, it gradually becomes softer and gently pinch it, so it cannot be broken.

Then I will dry it for a few days and then squeeze it again. The strength of this second time is greater than the first time.

After that, let’s dry for a few days, put a layer of persimmon skin and persimmons into the basket, and then put it in a ventilated place. After more than ten days, frost will be hung. This is considered done.

This persimmon cake can be used as a daily meal, and can also be used as a topping for bean pie in winter, so she can pick more, so she asked them to pick more.

When San'er was one year and eight days old, they were having dinner. He was walking along the stone table, but suddenly he walked towards her.

At that time, tears of surprise were almost flowing out. Uncle Wei and the others applauded at him after he walked to her to celebrate Cui Yusheng. Oh no, now they have changed their name to Bai Yusheng. Because she was raised by her, she also obtained her household registration certificate to find out that Cui Xiang had already asked the child to her surname.

It is said that in order to get from Bai, he also gave twenty cents to the person who registered for the household registration!

The boy didn't say anything, but she was moved when she accidentally took out her household registration certificate.

Bai Yusheng, let alone, this surname is quite matched with such a name!

There are many wild fruit trees on the mountain. As long as you are willing to find them, there are wild apples, dates, walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and pine cones everywhere. As long as you are not afraid of suffering and run around in the mountain, there are actually many good things. Many are hidden in the mountains. The nearby ones are almost formed by the people at the foot of the mountain. If you want to eat them again, you have to go to the deep mountains, because these mountains are rolling and big, and their current location is just the tip of the iceberg.

After August 15, they stopped selling cold seasonings, and changed to noodles and wonton stews. They occasionally made dumplings and fried vegetable pots. In short, they could make whatever they thought of. The small noodle stall was not very large, but their monthly income reached 10 to 20 taels. On August 15, they even reached a profit of 30 taels.

The two brothers work hard every day, and they are not afraid of suffering, and they will not feel pain in the scorching sun and sweating profusely around the stove. Instead, they will feel that the task on their shoulders is heavy and they must make money well so that their families can live a happy life.

Their ideas are pure and have no long-term goals, but they are as simple and distant as small bridges and flowing water.

There are not too many heavy rains this summer, but there are quite a lot of light rain, so they have harvested a lot of dried wild mountain bacteria.

After autumn began, a rain brought a cold. After San'er left, she became more and more sticky and she had to follow her wherever she went.

After harvesting a batch of herbs, another batch was planted. This batch was about the same ripening period as wheat and would mature around May next year.

The two pieces of wasteland that I have grown were all beans before. After half a month of maturity, she will plant rapeseed directly.

This time, Wei won back, not only brought back new fabrics, but also bought about 30 kilograms of cotton, and gave them a thin cotton coat to everyone in their family.

She could wear it last year, and she bought another one this year. Seeing that the cotton was not enough, she planted two more crops in the space and raised fifty kilograms.

I just happened to make a sleeping bag for the little guy to save myself from stomping on the quilt at night.

After one year old, the child basically stopped drinking milk at night. He gave him a bowl before going to bed and urinated once at night, so he could sleep until dawn.

And he can have this awareness and will tell her that he is such a caring and good child.

Of course, there were also times when wet the bed too much. Fortunately, there were so many small mattresses for him that he did not urinate her big mattress.

Since the child is born, he will not call him parents. He is all the time. Although the pronunciation is not very accurate, he can understand it.

When they were only two of them, she would secretly feed him space bananas, strawberries and other fruits, and sometimes a small bowl of cheese could make him happy for a long time. She was an easy-to-satisfied child.

The boy's mouth is stupid. Although he doesn't walk late, the pronunciation is still not clear. Fortunately, anyone who knows him can understand it.

Before the frost, the things in the field were basically taken home, including the radish and cabbage grown in the yard.

As soon as the fresh radish and cabbage were received, I started to make dried radish and spicy cabbage and sour cabbage again, and I was busy until the beginning of winter.

Of course, the dishes that I can’t finish this summer have been dried and made into dried plums or various dried vegetables. I just waited to stew when there was no vegetables in winter!

Their family has never sold eggs. She would taste fresh eggs that she could not finish, but she could not eat too much, so she still mainly eat fresh foods on a daily basis. Occasionally, she made dumplings and steamed a cake for her children. After saving day after day, the space was more than 200 eggs. As for quail eggs, there were more.

The advantage after too much is that occasionally she braised a large pot of meat, tofu skin, tea and other seasonings, drizzled with sesame paste and put it in the sesame cake. Oh, the taste of tiger skin eggs is delicious.

Because she was going to make such a pot from time to time, no one had ever doubted it, nor did anyone think that she could save so much supplies in her space.

Bai He couldn't say why she could save so much, haha.

Anyway, the noodle stalls are now purchased in the village, so they don’t need to bring them to the city anymore. Sometimes they can also unload them, for fear that they will not be willing to eat at home. So they can save it in a while?

After the twelfth lunar month, the two brothers completely closed their stalls and stopped working. One was that there were fewer people after the cold weather. In addition, they had been struggling for more than half a year and didn’t have much rest. They wanted to go home to prepare for the New Year with their family. Before they went home, they specially booked a pig. With this pig, they went back to catch some fish in the mountains. This winter is guaranteed.

The dairy sheep will naturally have to be brought home.

All the guys who set up the stalls were locked in the old house of Cui's family.

All the remaining supplies of rice, flour and oil were transported back home in two times, because the donkey's power was placed there, and it was a sheep and a pig, so it must be done for two or three times.

After returning home, I took a look at the two brothers and half of them. This year, Bai He's family saved about 800 taels. The batch of medicine was sold at a price of 500 taels. Adding to the 100 taels that they had saved, the later profit was 200 taels, a total of 800 taels.

She took out a hundred taels and returned it to Wei Ying, because her alchemy furnace was the money he had to pay it, so she would definitely pay it back if she had money. As a result, this guy just wanted it.

"Why are you polite to me? Yours are yours, mine is still yours. I will be sad if I distinguish so clearly. Besides, without you, I can't earn these two hundred taels of silver."

Wei Ying has saved more than 400 taels of silver now. Originally, he had 500 taels, but he helped Bai He pay 100 taels, but there were still 400 taels left.

With these money, they can be regarded as the richest man in the village long ago. No, they should be said to be the richest man in Qingcheng Mountain.

However, they were all low-key. Although they made money in the city and bought a pig home, their daily dress was no different from before.

Xiangzi didn't leave all the money and handed over it. Bai He intended to give him some of it and let him save money to marry a wife, but the child was honest and insisted on her taking charge.

Bai He no longer insisted. Anyway, if he has a suitable partner in the future, she will have to do it all over the place, and it is understandable that she will collect the money.

However, Liu'er earned the few taels of silver, and she said she would not charge anything. She only had two or three taels a year, which was not a pitiful person. She couldn't do that.

When the donkey came back, there was another milk sheep, and the demand for grass was even higher. Fortunately, she had room, but she only had the best one and the other end still had hay. It was not that he was biased, but that he was worried that he would feed the food with a bigger appetite. If he went to the city in the future, he would not eat it. That would affect his own business?
To be continued...