Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 163 Chapter 160 Two: Skewered Peppers

Old Yuan, who was picking red peppers with the villagers who came to work in the yard, was also very curious when he saw that there was an extra little girl.

Seeing the amazing strength of this girl hugging a big pottery vat, I am even more curious.

After the things on the mule cart were moved, Song Qiu drove the cart into the backyard, unloaded the cart, fed Xiao Hei, let Xiao Hei have a good rest, and then came back to the front.

And at this moment, Ah Ling has already familiarized himself with the old ladies of the old Yuan family, talking and laughing, helping to cut the pepper stalks together.

Song Qiu looked at it and didn't know what to say.

It is necessary to be defensive, but looking at Ah Ling right now, it seems that there is no malicious intention, so she will wait and see for now.

She can afford to eat with multiple people now.

I bought the big pottery jar, and I also have the rapeseed oil. There are more than [-] people in the yard who are cutting the pepper stalks together.

But this morning, it's not certain whether they can cut out so many pepper stalks. Before Song Qiu came back, they just finished shelling those peas.

Now that Song Qiu came back, he began to steam the peppercorns. This was not much, she could do it by herself, and Zhang Lihua also joined the team of cutting pepper stalks.

There were a lot of beans this time, and it took several rounds of steaming to steam them out. Song Qiu wrapped them in flour after letting them cool one by one, and then spread them on the steamer drawers, and put them one by one in the room where old Yuanshi slept. Fermentation to go.

In her room, there is a large clay pot and three small pots, and there is no way to continue to enlarge the pottery pot.

Song Qiu reckoned that this batch of mildewed beans would have to wait at least five or six days, and then calculated how much Doubanjiang could be made from the last batch of mildewed beans.

Then in the afternoon, when everyone came home for lunch, she stopped cutting the pepper stalks. There were about three or four hundred catties of unfinished peppers, so put them aside.

The selected ones that have been washed and dried are about five or six hundred catties. All of these add up to the red peppers that they collected from several villages.

Now, apart from a few trees left for planting, there is nothing left in the harvested village.

Then he asked the old Yuan family, who already knew how to chop peppers, and the women who helped in the village to start chopping peppers.

The kitchen knives I use are not as easy to use as Song Qiu's custom-made chopping knives. I have to put my whole hand in the basin to chop and chop, which is more troublesome, but there is no way, there are not so many chopping knives.

Song Qiu could only tell them to slow down as much as possible to ensure safety and not to rush.

After a while, seeing that everyone was getting orderly, Song Qiu first went back to the house to look at the moldy watercress soaked at noon, then went to her grandma's room to get two thicker needles, and pulled a handful of twine that her grandma kept .

As soon as I came out, I called Zhang Lihua to come over and work together.

The peppers that have not been selected have not been cleaned. Fortunately, they are not planted in the mud, so they are not dirty, and they cannot be wet, so they must be done like this.

Song Qiu raised his head and looked at the sky. The sun in the past two days is also quite good, not too sunny for people, but it is very good for drying things.

Then he picked out a piece of hemp thread and threaded it into the eye of the needle, then took the chili in his hand and began to thread it into the needle one by one, and hung it in the hemp thread.

While wearing it, she showed it to Zhang Lihua, "That's it, just put all the chili peppers in, remember to look at it when you wear it, as long as the chili peppers are rotten, you can't take even a little bit."

Zhang Lihua nodded and understood, then took the needle and threaded the twine and started to make it.

Ah Ling, who had nothing to do at the side, huddled next to Song Qiu. It was interesting to see this job. She had seen sewing clothes with needles, but she had never seen one wearing chili peppers.

The people chopping chili peppers in the yard glanced over from time to time, seeing Song Qiu's movements, it was very strange.

However, those who work for others and those who need to be paid must know the rules, ask what should be asked, and don't ask what should not be asked.

This is not here to help, but to chat for a while, and ask about everything.

But they could also see that the Song family must be doing something to eat during this battle, and it was to be sold for money, so they couldn't ask any more questions, and just kept their heads down and did it.

After Song Qiu put on a piece of twine, he carefully closed it, tied the two ends, and then hung it on the bamboo pole for drying clothes beside the yard, letting it dry in the sun.

Zhang Lihua followed suit.

Mrs. Zhang is a talkative person after all. She was talking to the yellow cauliflower. When she looked up and saw this, she couldn't help laughing, "Isn't this a sun-dried corn stick? When I was a girl, I helped a lot. At home, the corn sticks are strung together with bamboo sticks to dry, and the grains are slowly threshed after being busy later, why is the chili dried like the corn sticks?”

When the others heard this, they all had experience of drying corn sticks at their mother's house, and they couldn't help nodding.

Meifu was happy, "Aqiu is still smart, she can still make things out of red peppers that we don't know what to do with, this is chopped and dried, I don't know what to do, but I smell it The chopped chili is almost drooling, I just want to have a bowl of rice right now!"

As soon as the others heard her words, some people laughed, "Don't drool! The saliva will flow into the basin later, you can take this basin home by yourself!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone burst into laughter, and for a while, the entire Song family's yard was full of laughter.

And on the opposite side of the long river, the fervent yelling of the men at work can be vaguely heard.

The hatchback is like this, with clear water and blue sky, thousands of miles of clear sky, this side of water and soil really has a special flavor.

Song Qiu listened to what the big guy said, and didn't explain much, just dry the corn sticks, not to mention, she is the same as the sun-packed corn sticks, it's just a sun-dried one, and when it's dried, it's dried chili.

It is estimated that it should be sunny for several days in a row, so hurry up to dry the water, and then there will be no fear of wind and mildew when it rains for a few days.

Naturally air-dried dried peppers are of course more fragrant and convenient. The older generation used to do this.

In the afternoon, Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua didn't take a break, and Ah Ling, Zhang Zaohua, and Zhou Lanhua, who was tired of chopping peppers, came to help, and the three or four hundred catties of peppers were all worn out. Woke up.

String by string, they hung all the places in the Song family's yard that could be hung, such as the pumpkin vines that hadn't been dismantled, and the firewood shed in the backyard.

There was not enough twine, so I took some from Zhang's house.

Looking at the bright red courtyard, let alone how festive it is.

Song Qiu grinned happily, sometimes happiness is as simple as that.

And in the afternoon, so many women were busy chopping chili peppers. Although the kitchen knife was not very handy, a total of [-] catties of chili peppers were shared by more than [-] pots, and all of them were chopped out.

Song Qiu paid everyone today's wages, and told them that the chili peppers are temporarily gone, and they will not work tomorrow, and come back later when her Douban comes out and the chili peppers are collected.

After everyone heard this, they only said yes, although it was a tiring day, it was fun to get together if there was nothing to do, and there was still twenty Wen wages, what's wrong?

I don't expect such things to happen every day, as long as I can call them out.

Then, with their wages in their pockets, they all went home together while the sun was setting.

(End of this chapter)