Travel through the farmhouse leisurely

Chapter 241 Dried Plum Vegetables (1)
Lin Xiaoqiao was also well aware of the sacred mission that her poor little aunt was carrying. As soon as she heard her mother-in-law Li Shi mention this topic, her heart arose a little.

Isn't this just looking for trouble? Although she knew that Mrs. Li was just asking casually and didn't mean anything malicious, but knowing that Mrs. Sun was anxious to hug her grandson, and still talking about such a topic, wouldn't that make grandma even more anxious?

Unexpectedly, Grandma Sun's answer made Lin Xiaoqiao a little surprised. After listening to her daughter's words, Sun did not show a very anxious look, but replied with a smile: "You are too impatient, right? How long has it been since Qiaoer came in, how could she get pregnant so soon!"

After saying this, he reminded Li Shi: "Don't bring this up in front of her, as elders, we can't put too much pressure on you."

After hearing this, Mrs. Li also felt a little surprised. She didn't expect her old lady to be so open-minded now: "Mother, why are you so open-minded now?"

"It's not easy to think about it. Now I understand the truth. The things in this world are all predestined. You can't ask for it by force. It's like I wanted to find a wife for your brother before. Son, at that time I was so anxious that I couldn’t eat or sleep, but I still didn’t let your brother marry a wife. Instead, after I stopped tossing around, he found a good wife for himself. So, I I won't force it now, I know that when our family's big fat grandson should come, he will come without waiting." Mrs. Sun answered the call with a smile.

After listening to this, Mrs. Li said with a smile: "Mother is right, everything that should come will come. What kind of life did our family live in the past, and now, who would think of it?"

"Yeah, sometimes in this life there will be..." The mother and daughter began to discuss life again.

Through what grandma Sun said, Lin Xiaoqiao knew that his grandma and his little aunt, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law must get along well, otherwise grandma wouldn't be so open-minded.

It seems that the addition of this little aunt should make the grandma's family more harmonious and warm.

The next day, everyone got up early and got busy with their own work. Old man Li took Li Erhu to the mountain to pick up fruit, Lin Erniu took Lin Xiaoniu to put away the mustard greens in the field, and Lin Xiaoqiao went with his grandma and Little aunt, and Lin Xiaoxi, the four of them were cleaning the mustard greens brought back by Lin Erniu in their house in their village.

After washing and washing, they need to be dried in the sun for about five days. Therefore, in the small courtyard of Lin Xiaoqiao's house, ropes are stretched everywhere, and the ropes are also covered with green mustard.

It took two days to harvest all the mustard greens in the field. Lin Xiaoqiao and the others washed the vegetables non-stop from morning to night every day until all the mustard greens were washed and hung on the rope.

In the next two days, the weather was not very good, and it was a bit gloomy, so the mustard greens were dried for six or seven days before they gradually softened and turned yellow.

At this time, it's time to collect them, shred them, and then pickle them. Lin Xiaoqiao looked at the mustard greens piled up in the basket, and had to say that the next process was a labor-intensive one. .

Mrs. Li has been busy working in the shop recently, and she only came here twice in a hurry. Lin Xiaoqiao knew that she could not be counted on to help this time.

And Lin Erniu, a strong man, doesn't look like he can pick up a kitchen knife to chop vegetables, and the two sisters, Lin Xiaoqiao, are still young after all, and this job of chopping vegetables is not good, so the main thing is As for the labor force, only grandma Sun and little aunt Wu Qiaoer are left.

If only the two of them were allowed to work, they would be rotten when they shred all the mustard greens, so Lin Xiaoqiao could only think of other ways, and found a few women in his own village. A person who is responsible for chopping vegetables.

Lin Xiaoqiao's wages are good, one hundred Wen a day, but he must bring his own kitchen knife and chopping board, and he will be paid the wages after finishing the work that day.

As soon as the news came out, many women came to sign up. Lin Xiaoqiao didn't pick and choose. This job doesn't require any special requirements, as long as they can cook and have some physical strength.

Therefore, according to the order of registration, Lin Xiaoqiao left ten women, cleaned up an open space in the front yard, moved out three tables, and asked them to chop vegetables and start working.

The women didn't know what kind of vegetable they were cutting under the knife. Lin Xiaoqiao made an excuse casually, telling them that it was a job from a pharmacy, that it was processing a kind of medicinal material, and asked them to pay attention when cutting. Be careful, don't be too casual.

These women didn't know this dish, so they believed it when they heard what Lin Xiaoqiao said, and they were more careful when chopping the vegetables.

Due to the sufficient manpower, all the mustard greens had been chopped in one day, and Lin Xiaoqiao readily paid them their wages.

In the evening, Lin Xiaoqiao took his grandmother and others to pick the mustard greens. The two adults and two children worked hard until noon the next day before they finished the pickling mustard greens.

After checking all the vats to see if they were sealed tightly, Lin Xiaoqiao was so tired that he was about to fall apart, went back to his room, fell asleep on the bed.

Ten days later, they will take out the pickled mustard greens in large vats one after another, and spread them out on bamboo mats to dry.

This is the last process of making dried plum vegetables. It has been half a month since the mustard greens in ten jars have been dried in the sun.

Mrs. Sun grabbed a handful of dried prunes and said to her granddaughter, "Girl, we have been working so hard for a few months just to make this thing?"

Lin Xiaoqiao twirled a handful of dried prunes, smelled it and smiled, it was the same smell as he remembered, it seemed that he made it quite successfully this time.

After hearing what her grandma said, she replied: "Grandma, this is called 'plum dried vegetables', and it is something I want to use to make money."

When Sun heard this, she was still a little puzzled: "This thing smells sour, what can it do?"

Lin Xiaoqiao smiled, and replied to several people: "I will use this at night to cook you a delicious dish, you will understand after you try it."

Although Mrs. Sun didn't quite understand how to make delicious dishes out of such dry and sour food, she still believed her granddaughter's words.

Mrs. Sun knew that this little granddaughter was quite reliable in her words and actions, and she would not spend so much manpower and time on an unreasonable thing.

In the evening, Lin Xiaoqiao dragged her older sister, and the two young ladies went into the kitchen to work mysteriously. Sun Shi and Wu Qiaoer wanted to go in to help, but she refused to let them sit by the fire in the main room and wait for dinner. up.

(End of this chapter)