Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 184
This year's New Year's goods are still about the same. Qin Muzhang went to his father-in-law to buy a pig. It was killed and made into bacon at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. The sausage was also ready.

In addition to bacon, Qin Muzhang also kept the remaining trotters, pork knuckles, pork, etc., and prepared to make lo-mei before the New Year. A pig with a weight of [-] catties would not all be made into bacon.

Now it's the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, and Qin Muzhang and the others started to prepare other New Year's goods, such as Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, incense candles, etc., and some odds and ends.

After that, I had to prepare some snacks. Chen Qiuxiang took out melon seeds and peanuts and asked Qin Muzhang to fry them and eat them at that time.

Chen Qiuxiang has not planted either pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds. She plans to eat them after this year and plant some sunflower seeds and pumpkins next year.

Pumpkin is also a very productive crop, and the yield per mu must be about 4000-5000 catties. Moreover, pumpkin leaves can also be eaten as vegetables, and pumpkin flowers can also be eaten as vegetables. This thing is also very good.

As for sunflower seeds, they can not only be made into stir-fried melon seeds, but also squeezed into oil. Chen Qiuxiang plans to promote them to make it easier for everyone to eat oil.

Speaking of vegetable oil, there are basically no other vegetable oils except soybean oil. Rapeseed oil should have evolved from canola oil in ancient China. Later, rapeseed became more popular because of its higher yield and better taste.

However, there was no rapeseed oil in the Yong Dynasty. After all, soybean oil was promoted by Chen Qiuxiang and the others after handing over the prescription to the emperor.

"No, canola oil has appeared." Qin Muzhang tapped his wife's forehead and said, "When we went to Jinyang this time, we saw someone buying canola oil, which should be obtained from soybean oil press inspiration."

"The ancients were not fools, they have a strong ability to draw inferences from one instance." Qin Muzhang said.

"In addition to soybeans and canola seeds, many people should have tried to extract oil from other edible plant seeds, but there are no sunflowers, peanuts and other crops in Dayong."

Chen Qiuxiang frowned slightly and nodded, "That's right, we can't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients."

Chen Qiuxiang thought for a while and said, "Do you want to grow some sugar cane? The sugar cane we planted last time will be eaten by ourselves. I plan to plant some sugar cane that can be used to extract sugar."

"For sugarcane, let's leave it to the clan." Qin Muzhang said, "Growing sugarcane is actually quite hard work. It's very tiring when cutting sugarcane, and it's even more tiring when squeezing sugar. It's better for us to leave it to the clan."

Chen Qiuxiang felt that what he said was right, then thought for a while and said, "Shouldn't the Chen Family Village also help?"

"Of course." Qin Muzhang said.

Whether it is Qinjiazhuang or Chenjiacun, they are basically "relatives" of the two of them, and they can still help if they can.

Moreover, Chen Qihang has basically become the head of the Chen family village now, maybe if he works harder, he can become the head of the Chen family clan.

That being the case, he can discuss with Chen Qihang and the others about planting sugarcane and extracting sugar from sugarcane, and it will be regarded as a credit to Chen Qihang.

Sugar was still very important to the ancient people, and it was not so easy for nobles to eat sugar, so if they planted sugar cane to extract sugar, they should be able to make a lot of money.

"Let's talk about planting sugarcane after the beginning of spring. Now we have to prepare things for the New Year." Chen Qiuxiang said.

"Okay." Qin Muzhang nodded, and then made all kinds of candies, such as milk candies, ginger candies, corn candies, mint candies, peach candies, lemon candies, lychee candies, mango candies, coconut candies, etc. There are peanut candies, sesame candies, rice cake candies and so on.

The finished candies are sealed in jars and will be taken out during the Chinese New Year.

The time quietly came to the New Year's Eve, and Qin Muzhang got up early in the morning to prepare stewed pork. The few pig's trotters, two pork knuckles and a big pig's head left before were all handled by him and put in the stewed meat. Marinated in the soup.

The lo mei needs to be stewed for several hours, and then soaked for several hours to taste, so Qin Muzhang got up early to prepare.

In addition to lo mei, Qin Muzhang also prepares high soup, which also needs to be stewed for several hours, and it is stewed with good ingredients such as pork bone, a chicken, a duck, a pigeon, and a crake. system.

When the food that needs to be stewed is put in the pot, Qin Muzhang also starts to prepare other ingredients, and after it is ready, it can be eaten after a little cooking at night.

With a big belly, Wang Mingya was in a good mood watching the father and son in the yard working together to prepare this year's New Year's Eve dinner.

"Sometimes it feels like this peaceful life is a bit like a dream." Wang Mingya sighed while watching her husband and son work.

"Yeah, it feels like a dream." Chen Qiuxiang also said.

Although the apocalypse in their previous life has basically stabilized, and many people are doing well, but people with supernatural powers like them still need to go on missions from time to time. Mutant animals, plants, and zombies are very dangerous.

Those days of worrying and going through life and death are relatively difficult, but now such ordinary and peaceful days are relatively rare, which makes people feel like they are in a trance.

"You and Zhang have been together for nearly 20 years, right? You didn't even have children. Was it difficult for you to have children at that time?" Wang Mingya asked curiously.

The reason why she asked this question was because she knew that Chen Qiuxiang and Qin Muzhang were not DINK people, and they were not like their interstellar people who didn't care much about having children because of their long life spans.

As far as she knows. In the 21st century, there are still very few DINKs, and they are more concerned about having children.And her son and daughter-in-law don't seem like people who feel so repulsed by having children.

Why didn't they have any children during the 20 years or so they were together in the previous life?
Chen Qiuxiang smiled and said, "In the beginning, we were all young and had nothing, and we didn't want to bear the burden of having a child."

"After all, both of us are renting houses, and our living expenses are basically the same, and we haven't saved any money."

"If you don't have money to raise a child, you don't plan to have one."

"You should know that it is easy to have a child, but it is more difficult to raise a child. When you are pregnant, you have to supplement your nutrition, right? If a pregnant woman needs self-cultivation, work must stop, right?"

"After the baby is born, I can't go back to work. After confinement and breastfeeding, I have to go through the preschool period after breastfeeding. If I want to go back to work, who will take care of the child? Do I need a nanny? I have Money please?"

"If I don't plan to go back to work and take care of the child by myself, then the child's father will have to pay for all the expenses of the family of three, right? How hard is it for him? It is also very hard for me to take care of the child, right?"

(End of this chapter)