Chapter 241
"Okay, as you say."

Yuan Yuan took this good intention, it was not a bad thing after all, it was just a name of the government.

"However, this sewing machine was made by my cousin first. It took a lot of brainpower. We still have to take the majority of the profit share we get."

Nie Mingli didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he was still a money fanatic, and he only thought about the little profit in his heart: "It's okay, it's what it should be."

He can arrange this matter, and Yuan Yuan doesn't even need to worry too much about other wooden parts.

Since it is displayed in the name of the government, he can arrange all the procedures together without worrying about someone getting in the way.

To ensure quality and efficiency, Yuan Yuan only needs to be responsible for the investment.

As the weather gets colder and the end of the year is approaching, everything that should be bought has to be bought.

Pickled vegetables in light snow, cured meat in heavy snow, it is so cold this year, even the cured meat has to be prepared in advance.

The family bought tens of catties of meat. Besides the usual pork, chicken, duck, fish and mutton, Yuan Yuan also bought four large pig's trotters.

The chickens, ducks, fish and sheep were handed over to Yuan Nai and Yuan Mu, and the remaining pork was handed over to Yuan Tongnian. The meat was not only used to marinate meat, but also to chop dumpling stuffing.

Pig’s trotters are specially used to make pig’s trotter jelly. During Chinese New Year, Yuan Yuan’s favorite food is pig’s trotter jelly, which can replenish collagen well!

She patted her face, it was smooth and supple, delicate and soft, and now there is no lack of collagen, but this does not affect her like to eat.

Yuan Yuan has been helping the fourth brother, and he has learned all these things, and marinating meat takes the most time.The pork must be dried first, then cut into strips, and then the cured meat can be prepared.

"To marinate bacon, the most taboo thing is to wash the meat with cold water, and make sure that there is no water and no oil in the pot." Yuan Tongnian taught Yuan Yuan.

"Put some salt and pepper into it and dry fry, just like this, until it turns slightly yellow, this step is done, and then wait for the meat to cool down."

After these were left to cool, Yuan Tongnian spread the salt evenly on the top of the meat. He applied it carefully, covering the inside and outside without any drop.

The most critical step in making bacon is this. If it is not evenly coated, the meat may deteriorate, and even if it is edible, it will affect the taste.

After doing all of this, you can marinate it with white wine for three or four days, and wait for it to dry in the shade.

As for the jelly of pig's trotters, Yuan Yuan could make it himself because he liked it. Seeing her holding a big kitchen knife, Yuan Tongnian was terrified, and still dared not let her do it by herself.

Work together to wash these big pig's trotters, scrape off the hair on them, and cut two scratches on the pig's trotters, add some wine and throw it in a cold water pot to boil first, and wait until the blood is washed out before taking it out , Wash off the foam on the top.

Then put the processed pig’s trotters with water, cook them with green onion, ginger and a little ingredients, wait slowly, let the cooked pig’s trotters cool slightly, remove all the pig’s bones while it’s hot, and put the skin and The meat is shredded, and after the soup cools down, it becomes a trotter jelly.

Now it is cool and easy to store. When you want to eat it, you can directly slice it and mix it with seasonings. Yuan Yuan keeps it properly.

What gave Yuan Yuan the most headache was making dumplings.

For her, it was torture.

When she made mooncakes before, the fillings were always exposed. This time when she made dumplings, she thought the dumplings would be better, but she didn't expect to reveal more.

Looking at the copper coin dumplings, ingot dumplings, crescent moon dumplings, and shrimp-shaped dumplings made by the fourth brother, they are all exquisite and beautiful, and the dumpling skins are tight, which looks very delicious.

Looking at her dumplings again, Yuan Yuan was extremely ashamed. The dumplings she made could be renamed "Ugly Dumplings".

Each has its own ugly appearance, and it is not repeated at all.

That's all, some things can't be forced, she put all the ugly dumplings she made into the space.

It was a waste to just throw it away. She planned to keep it well. She could take it out and cook it when she was hungry in the future. She could have it for herself as a supper at night.

Although it looks ugly, the stuffing inside is made by the fourth brother, and the taste is absolutely fine.

Yuan Yuan doesn't know how to make dumplings, but she knows how to roll dough, some of which are made from fish.

The fish dumplings are filled with vegetarian fillings, and the outside is made of fish skin. The taste is also very good.

There were a lot of these dumplings, and when Yuan Yuan went to Nie Mingli's house to give him a routine physical examination for exorcising evil spirits, he also brought some of them for him.

"These are all freshly wrapped. The top layer is filled with pork, the bottom layer is filled with mutton, and the bottom layer is vegetarian dumplings, but the dumpling skin is made of fish."

"There are a few copper coins stuffed inside the dumplings. If you eat copper coins, you will have a good fortune. The winter solstice will be in a while, adults must remember to eat dumplings, or your ears will freeze off!"

Yuan Yuan opened the food box and gave him a look, then immediately handed the dumplings to the person next to him.

"My lord and I are just a few streets away, not far away. If your lord still wants to eat this taste, I can bring you some stuffing. Just let the cook prepare the bread."

Nie Mingli boasted: "These dumplings are so beautiful, did you make them?"

Yuan Yuan smiled awkwardly on his face: "No... I rolled the dough, but these were made by my fourth brother. I made them too ugly."

"Ugly?" Nie Mingli didn't believe it: "Don't be too modest, making dumplings is so simple, even I can do it, how could it be ugly."

Yuan Yuan said that the harm was not serious, but she was insulted, so she directly took out one of the dumplings she made for Nie Mingli to have a look.

Only then did Nie Mingli realize that someone really could make dumplings so ugly...

He comforted Yuan Yuan a few words, trying to make up for the wrong words he said earlier.

Yuan Yuan didn't care too much about these, ugly is ugly, he can't see anything in his stomach, as long as he is full.

After delivering the things, small snowflakes began to float in the sky.

Yuan Yuan happily reached out to pick it up. This was the first snow this winter. The cold snowflakes fell on the palm of his hand and were melted away by the warm sun.

The falling snow left some on her head, and Nie Mingli helped her brush some off.

"It's snowing, I'll ask the coachman to take you back."

"No need! I just like snowy days. If I am tired from the car, I will miss this beautiful scenery." Yuan Yuan looked at the snow in the sky with sparkling eyes.

This is dry snow that falls on the ground to produce snow, not light sleet.

Nie Mingli wanted to get her a cloak to put on, but Yuan Yuan refused. Yuan Yuan didn't even open an umbrella, and just ran home drenched in snow.

She was happy when she was running, but she didn't care about the snowflakes falling on her eyelashes. She let her own body temperature warm the snowflakes and turn them into small water droplets, but it was a tragedy when she ran home.

Her little cotton padded jacket was wet with snow, Mother Yuan hurriedly changed her into a new set of clothes, and made her a bowl of ginger tea, in case she would catch a cold.

She was really big-hearted, even though it was snowing, she dared to run back.

Even though he drank ginger tea early and changed his clothes, at night, Yuan Yuan still had a fever and couldn't move under the covers.

"Mother, I'm fine. I'll be fine after a night of sleep. Go to sleep." Yuan Yuan was lying on the bed and talking weakly, his face was all red.

Her head was hot, and she didn't even know what she was talking about. Mother Yuan kept helping her change the cloth on her head to cool down.

"You go to sleep first, and mother will go to bed after you fall asleep."

At this time, Yuan's mother can't blame Yuan Yuan for running around and causing her to get sick. She only hopes that Yuan Yuan can get well soon.

Yuan Yuan was really tired, and it was because she underestimated her own physique, and she was not an adult body now, and her resistance was weaker, so she fell asleep in a daze.

In the middle of the night, Yuan Yuan was woken up again.

"Drink the medicine quickly and then continue to sleep."

She finally drank the very bitter medicinal soup. She was not used to this kind of bitter medicinal soup, so she swallowed it with the feeling of wanting to spit it out.

She was still in a daze and heard the conversation between her elder brother and Mother Yuan: "The pharmacies are closed, and the medicine is hard to buy. Fortunately, I met someone from the government..."

"Is it the county magistrate who helped?"

"Yes, otherwise the medicine might not be available today."

She can only hear so much. In fact, there are medicinal materials for fever in her space, but now she can't even move, let alone go in to find medicinal materials.

It would be great if there were granules. It seems that it is best to prepare more granules in the future, or pills, to treat simple diseases such as fever and cold.

After drinking the medicine, Yuan Yuan felt more sleepy, and slept soundly in the second half of the night.

But after a whole night, she didn't dare to make fun of her body anymore, and stayed in the house obediently, not going anywhere.

Looking at Yuan Tongyue and Yuan Tongnian who were having a snowball fight outside the window, and even the eldest brother joined in, Yuan Yuan was so envious, she sat in the room and sighed, and could only sit by the brazier to warm up.

"Miss, the snow is really heavy. In just one night, there is such a thick snow." Hong Ying poked her head and looked out.

"It's still small. There is more snow this winter than this one. You must pay attention to keeping warm!" Yuan Yuan urged.

Hong Ying and Hong Luo are also little girls, Yuan Yuan wrapped money for them and asked them to buy a lot of winter clothes.

"We are in good health, Miss, you can't run around anymore, hurry up and cover your hands." Hong Luo stuffed a Tang lady into Yuan Yuan's hands.

These two little girls are indeed in better health than themselves.

"There's also that medicine. The young lady has to drink it quickly. It's not easy to cure illness in winter. Today, the county magistrate sent some supplements."

"Supplements? I'm just suffering from a simple cold. Where do I need supplements?" Yuan Yuan felt that Nie Mingli made too much fuss.

Yuan Yuan didn't see him to prevent his sickness from getting to him.

"This is also the wish of the county magistrate. It shows that the lord cares about the lady. I see so many ladies in this town, and you are the only one." Hong Luo analyzed seriously.

Yuan Yuan chuckled and shook her head, she didn't pay much attention to it, she looked at the medicine bowl solemnly, feeling as if death was at home, and gulped down the bitter medicine in one gulp.

She frowns and sticks out her tongue, she dislikes the taste of the medicine very much, until a candy is stuffed in her mouth.

"This is too painful!"

"Is there any medicine that is not bitter? After drinking all these medicines, miss, you can eat the herbal food made by the fourth young master, and don't need to drink these bitter medicine soups." Hong Ying took away the bowl she had drunk the medicine juice from.

Yuan Yuan: "There are medicines that are not bitter. Just make these medicine juices into pills. If you swallow them directly, they won't be bitter, and they can be kept for a long time."

Hong Ying and Hong Luo said in unison: "Really?"

Seeing the surprise in each other's eyes, they both laughed.

"Of course there is. I'll get some out when I recover from my illness. This is the legendary... alchemy!"

Yuan Yuan prolongs his speech on purpose, which whets their appetite.

"When the lady is concocting alchemy, can we...can you follow along?" They asked cautiously, which sounded too miraculous.

Immortals know how to make alchemy, and in their eyes, Yuan Yuan is an immortal.

"Then I'll think about it and see how you perform."

Both of them tried their best to accompany Yuan Yuan, hoping to follow Yuan Yuan to see the alchemy scene.

Yuan Yuan saw that although they were with him, their eyes looked outside from time to time, and he really wanted to go out to play.

She laughed: "I'll let you stay with me when the time comes. If you two want to go out to play in the snow, you can go. You don't have to stay with me in the house. I'm happy to see you guys having fun."

Hongying and Hongluo looked at each other, but couldn't hold back and ran out.

Except for a road that was swept out, the other places were covered with thick snow. They walked to a place with a lot of snow and threw snowballs at each other.

They were having fun, and they didn't notice Yuan Baishan who had just entered the yard. A snowball just rolled up hit Yuan Baishan who was holding the red paper impartially.

Hong Ying and Hong Luo hurried over and bowed their heads to apologize.

"Third Young Master, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, you go on and play."

Yuan Baishan shook the snow off his body, threw off the cold air all over his body, entered the room without paying much attention, and slumped the red paper in his hand on the table.

"Xiao Liu, I know you can't go out to play, so I brought some red paper over here, let's write couplets."

"Okay!" Yuan Yuan leaned over happily, this was something he could play with.

In the same year, Yuan Tongyue was tired from playing outside, his hands were red from rubbing, and he also ran in from outside to warm himself up by the fire.

They can completely go back to their own yard, but what's the point of being alone, they all like to get together to accompany Yuan Yuan.

"Brother, let's help cut paper for the third brother and the sixth younger sister."

"Okay, cut some for couplets, and save some square red paper for writing blessings."

"If you can't finish writing, save the window grilles for me. I'll teach you, Hong Ying Hong Luo, can you find some scissors first? Find more."

Hong Ying and Hong Luo split up to find the scissors. The scissors in the house were distributed in various rooms. They remembered clearly, and quickly brought a few small scissors over.

Yuan Yuan sharpened the ink, took the brush over there, and waited for the third brother to write.

"Don't just look at me, Xiaoliu, there are so many couplets, I can't let me write them alone, you come first, let the third brother see how your handwriting is doing." Yuan Baishan smiled.

Yuan Yuan shook his head, very confident: "Don't worry, third brother, I learned my calligraphy from you, and I will definitely satisfy you."

She spread out the red paper and wrote the couplets she knew on it.

Because she is not tall enough, she can only half-kneel on the chair to reach the top of the couplet.

(End of this chapter)

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