Chapter 1131 【1130】Taste Lady 24(4000+)

After entering the twelfth lunar month, there are few sunny days. Most of the time it is cloudy, either snowing, raining, or windy. The wind in winter is really bitingly cold. Even if I put several layers of paper on it, I still feel the cold wind.

Pour it into the cave.

She also made a thick curtain of straw outside the cave door. There was almost no light inside the house, but she still felt the cold wind raging.

There are trees above the cave dwelling, and the leaves are rustling in the wind. Even if you lie on the warm kang, you can feel the severe cold in winter.

Braised pig head is very troublesome, as it requires singeing, shaving and rubbing the ashes.

Lin Sen said he got a pig head for them, but in fact he got her a big trouble. Without a musket, he had to light a fire and slowly smoke the hair. The hair couldn't be smoked out, and it was annoying to eat and look at it.

She had to use a knife to scrape off the black ash bit by bit, and then use a rough stone to scrape the ash off the pig's body. It took her most of the day just to get the pig's head.

Braised for another half day in the afternoon, it means that the pig head is served all day long.

It was a hassle, but the pot of braised pork head meat and various side dishes that night made the fifteen of them eat until their stomachs were full. Even Lin Sen said, "It's been a long time."

It feels so comfortable and full after eating!”

There was no broth left in the stew, even the bottom of the pot was scraped clean.

"This doesn't have any ingredients. If it does, the taste will be even more beautiful."

The current condiments are only oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, onion, ginger, pepper, and Sichuan peppercorns. The soy sauce was bought from a neighbor. She was originally going to make it this year, but she was too busy and didn’t bother to do it. After the Chinese New Year, the weather got warmer.

, she made it together with soy sauce, miso, and rice vinegar.

Both soy sauce and vinegar need to be exposed to the sun to bring out their flavor. June, July, and August are the most suitable months, so you can start preparing them in May.

After the frost, all the vegetables in the yard were sent to the cellar. Now they are all bare. Although they don't look good, they are much cleaner.

The nests of chickens, ducks, geese, and quails are surrounded by several layers of woven straw. They will definitely not freeze to death, but the egg production will be seriously reduced.

Although their family has only harvested one season of food this year, the food Shen Qing bought and the miscellaneous grains they planted in the wasteland are enough for their family to survive this winter.

It is the nature of children to love to play. Even if there are snowflakes outside, as long as they have eaten and drank enough, the boys like to sneak out and play. On the contrary, the fourth little girl in the family likes to stick to her. She goes down to the cellar to sort the dishes, and they

Then, she was picking food in the house, and they followed her, becoming her followers.

These quiet days almost made her forget that she was just a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, not a mother in her twenties or thirties.

Although the village has ensured their food, clothing and self-sufficiency, at the end of the year, everyone is still eager to go to the county town to lively, visit the temple fair, buy or exchange some daily necessities, and buy some meat if they can.

If all fourteen of them went there, they would be like bunches of grapes, especially in this day and age where there is still flower photography and so on. It would be extremely unsafe.

Although she really wanted to sell something, considering the few girls, she gave up this opportunity and let Yu Jingtian take the boys to the last temple fair before the year.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, before dawn, the boys followed the team going down the mountain. Most of those who stayed in the village were those who didn't care about anything at home. Basically, all the boys went, and the girls and children left.

Those who stayed a little longer stayed in the village.

In other people's families, it may involve a preference for boys over girls, but in their family, it was because they were young and girls.

In ancient times, if a girl was taken away by a pimp, her end would be worse than becoming a beggar, especially a beautiful girl from a wealthy family.

When they stay at home, besides cleaning, they will also help her with whatever they can.

For example, sew the previously cleaned cotton-padded jacket, fold it neatly, and put it aside for the Chinese New Year?

This year, neither the children nor she had new cotton-padded clothes to wear. The clothes they wore were all the ones they had worn before, but she had mended them with old fabrics and cleaned them.

The limited amount of cotton I bought was pasted on the bedding. What I wore on my body was not dirty and torn, but hard and thin. Although it was no longer dirty and the torn areas were covered, the cotton was no longer warm.

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Originally, she decided not to go to the temple fair because it was cold and they didn't have enough clothes to wear. But these children were running around in a hurry, so Mo had no choice but to let them go.

, but I guess it will be quite cold on the road.

The cotton in her space can only be taken out bit by bit, and cannot be subsidized to them all at once.

So so far, the set of quilts she has covered herself with are all brand new, and the sheets and quilts are made of cheap coarse cloth that she bought and patched together.

For the girls, two sets of new quilts were made for them. The old quilts were used as mattresses and were cleaned and patched under the body. For the boys, she didn't care at all. I guess they were the same as before. She was

I didn't bother to open and wash them.

Without her supervising the work, those children would be even less likely to do it on their own, so although I helped them with some modifications this year, in most cases, they still had to turn a blind eye.

This is why whenever she cooks, she has to eat here, because it is too painful to eat there, and the smell in the room alone is enough for her to drink a pot.

She cut the girl's hair short in the summer, soaked it many times, and washed it many times, so that no lice were brought back, which would have made her noisy.

Yu Jingtian and the others did not go to the temple fair empty-handed this time. They brought a lot of handicrafts made of straw. I don’t know whether they will be sold or not. Anyway, they were very interested. She said she wanted to give them money, but she didn’t want any of them.

They had money and asked her to wait at home, not knowing what good things they would bring back.

Shen Qing is talented in literature and martial arts, and is good at female celebrities and cooking. Now she has become a legend in the village. Neighbors often come to chat with her. Among them, there are many young and old who want to recruit her as their son-in-law. Every time I see

When those people walked towards their house, she had a headache and called her sister to come out.

"Just say I'm asleep." Every time she saw those people walking towards their house, she would rush home and sneak her sister out to deal with them.

After entering the cave and passing through the alley, there was a special door installed in her room, so as long as they saw the door closed, even if they wanted to find her, there was nothing they could do.

The four younger sisters lived in the outer room. The mattress was a little torn, but the quilt was still new. Every time these people came over, they would come in and look at this and touch that. Fortunately, she kept all the valuable things in the house in the space.

The things that were worthless and needed to be kept on display were put in the cellar. The rest that could be left out for people to see were all insignificant things.

So it doesn't matter if they touch it and look at it, they can't take it away under their sister's nose.

Anyone who is willing to spend money to study with her is not a stingy person.

And those who wanted to come and study were all straightforwardly kicked away by her.

If you want to stay and watch, that’s okay. You don’t have to pay for it once. That’s okay. Can I still tolerate you two or three times? That’s impossible!

Therefore, if the times are too many, she will lose her face. It’s time to drive her away, but you won’t leave? If you don’t leave, I won’t give lectures today. At worst, I will teach the sisters to review what they have learned before and practice the exercises first. I will get rid of you later.

Okay, when will we start?

"Why are you, a grown man, so stingy?"

Every time she hears such words, she laughs them off. I'm sorry, I rely on my ability to make a living, but I'm really stingy. What can you do to me?

As for insulting her for not being a man, she doesn't care at all, because she is not a man in the first place, so what does she care about?

As we all know, wherever there are people there are rivers and lakes. This village is said to be a cottage, but in fact it is no different from a village in the countryside.

Even the people here are not as good as the people in the village. In contrast, they don't know enough about the basics. Their words and deeds are rogue and scoundrel. They are not born and raised like in the village. Many of them have the same surname and come from the same family. They are intertwined.

Very complicated.

But it's different in the village. There are people from all over the world. The reason why they are all here is to escape famine.

The reason why everyone can coexist peacefully now is entirely because of Lin Sen's rational management. If one day he is unable to control these people, then the village will be close to falling apart.

Just like this, from sunrise to sunset, when it was already so dark that people who went down the mountain came back in the dark one after another.

Shen Qing and the four girls had already prepared the meals before dark, but they had to wait an extra hour or two before they came back.

She specially made dough today, used whole grains to bake pancakes stuffed with cabbage and tofu, and also cooked a pot of whole grain paste.

After they finished cooking, each of them ate two first because they were hungry. As a result, no one expected that they would reach this point after waiting.

These boys were so high-spirited when they went there, but when they came back, they were all so tired that they complained that their legs and feet hurt.

Think about it, isn't it tiring? When I went there, I relied on two legs, and when I came back, I still relied on two legs. I guess I only stayed in the county town for two or three hours at most and then I had to go home.

When asked about the knitted items they brought over, unexpectedly all of them were sold?

Shen Qing was a little unbelievable. Under the dim oil lamp, she lit a fire to heat food for them and asked them in surprise.

"This is the first batch we made. It's not exquisite. How come it was sold?"

"Just sell it cheaper. We're not like Goudan and the others, who insist on two and five cents without losing their mouth. As long as someone wants it, we'll give it to them. To be honest, we just started doing it, and we couldn't do it well.

Okay, just give us hard-earned money. People see us as honest, so they don’t have the nerve to charge high prices. The big ones were bought for three cents, and the small ones were bought for just one cent. We sold out, and Goudan and his mother haven’t opened yet.

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When I went there, the large and small knitted items I carried were sold for a total of thirty-five cents. For these thirty-five cents, Yu Jingtian added another sixty-five cents, and collected a hundred cents to buy ten kilograms of pork.

What I grabbed was the best pork belly.

"Pork costs ten cents per catty? It seems that the price has increased by two cents during the New Year. The purchase last year only cost eight cents!"

"It's the New Year, and of course everything has gone up. In addition to pork, I also spent twenty cents to buy some rags. Let's see if we can make some pairs of shoes for us later."

Yu Jingtian poured out most of the cloth strips from the basket on his back. Although Shen Qing couldn't see the color and size clearly, she could feel the feel. Wasn't the twenty cents spent a little too little?

As a result, Xiaowu next to me poured out more than half of the basket. When she saw it, it was enough to make socks and trousers, let alone shoe uppers.

It costs nothing for boys to wear anything, so the twenty cents are well spent.

After Shen Qing heated up the rice, she asked them to wash their hands and start eating. Seeing how they were devouring their food, Shen Qing couldn't help but ask.

"What? You didn't even have a good meal in the county town at noon?"

When she looked at Yu Jingtian, the latter was chewing the pie and said, "Why not? One person made four meat buns!"

Shen Qing was speechless: "You just ate four meat buns?"
To be continued...