The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 67 The Candle Business
"It's nothing, are you done?" Chu Ying gave Ye Qiu two silk quilts and asked her to hold them.

"The soybeans are ready, and the embroidery is ready." Ye Qiu feels that the silk quilt is not bad. Usually, the newly made silk quilt is for masters and young masters. After a few years of use, it will not be so warm, and then it will be used by the servants. .

"Who is this young lady?" Lu Ming saw that the girl next to her was pretty and a few years older than Chu Ying, and her manner and speech were also very stable.

"My future daughter-in-law, wait and see." Chu Ying turned her head and glared at Lu Ming, then signaled Ye Qiu to leave quickly.

Lu Ming looked at the two people who were in a hurry to leave, and felt it was funny. This kid turned out to have a sweetheart, no wonder he didn't like him so much. At that time, he really made things difficult for this kid in order to spread the false impression that he was masculine. .

"You boy, why is your mouth so oily at such a young age? You said kiss at such a young age." Chu Ying ignored him, turned around and made a grimace and walked towards the city gate with Ye Qiu.

"Stinky boy." Lu Ming waited for the two of them to get into the bullock cart before turning around and leaving. When they arrived at the mansion, he ordered someone to send the 5 qian silver that he had agreed with Hu Da.

"Chu Ying, that person should be the young master of the Lu family, do you know him?" Ye Qiu looked at Chu Ying's boy's attire, and her tanned face, looking like a wild child in the village. For the money, she had to make some women's clothes for Chu Ying.

"I went to his house to kill pigs before." Chu Ying waved her hands, the two quilts were still quite heavy, and this quilt didn't have a cover, so I'll buy some cloth next time, this time I really can't carry it.

"Have you really killed a pig?" Chu Ying rolled her eyes at Ye Qiu, but did not respond.

When she got home, Chu Ying first put the better bed and the older one in the closet, then folded the other two beds and put them on the bed. It was a little cold now, so she didn't need winter clothes when she had a quilt. The winter clothes were also put away.

"This bamboo tube is brine. It cost half a penny. Soybeans cost 8 Wen a catty, and I bought 5 catties. It cost 90 Wen in total. This is 10 Wen." Ye Qiu handed over the rest of the money to Chu Ying hand.

"No, take this, you can just remember these from now on, don't need to tell me one by one." Ye Qiu spent so much money on medicines for her scars, Chu Ying would not care about these small money with her.

Ye Qiu took a spoonful of the thick chestnut paste with egg whites and poured it on the stone slab, then took out the embroidered pieces to have a look. The stone heats slowly, and it takes a long time to make a pancake.The needles and threads are all taken from the embroidery workshop, and these will cost one or two coins less. There are 3 small pieces and 2 large pieces in total. After all the embroidery is completed, you can exchange for half a dollar.

Chu Ying turned over the fungus and shiitake mushrooms that were drying outside, and they could take advantage of the sun for a few days to dry them well, or they could only use firewood to dry out the moisture in the mushrooms.

Chu Ying washed the grinder that hadn't been used for a long time, and then washed the wooden basin that held things. She rolled up her sleeves and began to grind. The tofu was stored for a short time, and Chu Ying could grind as much as she could eat.

"Second miss, let me come. You can't be tired." Chu Ying pushed Ye Qiu's hand away, "I can do this, I grind all those chestnut powders, I'm fine, you go cook , just such a little beans are quickly ground.

Ye Qiu thought of the bags of chestnut powder that he had seen in the attic before, and did not question Chu Ying anymore. It is true that Chu Ying lived alone, and there was no one to help her. Ye Qiu put shiitake mushrooms in the custard, so that It will taste better.Put the bamboo rack on top and put the fish sprinkled with salt flowers and sliced ​​ginger.

There have been some small fish in the pond recently, and I don't know if they need to feed something into it, so Ye Qiu called Chu Ying in to eat. "I'm coming."
Chu Ying happily entered the kitchen, sat down on the mat, looked at the sumptuous meal and hurriedly put down her chopsticks to eat, it was great to have someone cook for herself.

"The candles I made before should be ready. I'll dismantle them later and refill them at night." There are only 50 bamboo knots in the finished candles. Generally, you can only make more than 20 candles once you collect them. If you didn't cut them before There is not so much rosin after buying some pine trees. These 50 are enough, so Chu Ying didn't make any more.

"It should be ok. Then I'll rub the candle wicks later." Ye Qiu picked up the meat from the belly of the fish and put it in Chu Ying's bowl.Although the second miss loved to eat fish since she was a child, she only ate the part of the belly of the fish, because there were many fish bones in other parts, although she had never served the second miss, Ye Qiu remembered the living habits of the second miss.

"It's not urgent, these unsophisticated folks can save it for the night, and you can do embroidery during the day." After eating, Chu Ying put the dismantled candles one by one into the basket covered with autumn clothes.

The candles that I slowly made before were all burned out by the fire. I originally wanted to make more and then take them away. This time, as many as I had, I took them to Qin Zhong for sale. After all, candles are not sold for food. So fast, and the quilt at home has to buy some fabrics to make sheets, or the silk quilt will be dirty and not easy to wash.

"Well."
Chu Ying was grinding the soybeans, looking at the wheat blown by the wind, it would be ready to ear in a few months, but at the end of the day, the harvest was still flour, maybe it would be okay to exchange some for rice, or she would be really tired of eating Pasta made with chestnut flour.

"Squeak..." Chu Ying heard some movement in the grove and ran over quickly. A black rabbit was being dumped on a tree branch and struggling back and forth. Chu Ying tied the rabbit's hands and feet with a rope before pulling the rabbit out of the rope of the trap. Untie, this is the first time that this pure black rabbit, Chu Ying, has been caught. Before that, several pure white rabbits were caught, but most of them were variegated.

Chu Ying saw that the shed for the rabbits was almost full, and there would not be enough space for the little rabbits to be born in a few days. Chu Ying picked up the ax and laid the wooden shed with gaps under the shed where the earth bricks were placed before. , so that it is easy for the rabbit to fall off, and it is also easy to clean up to feed the fish.

Rabbit baba can raise water, fertilize grass, and feed fish, but you can’t put too much, but the pond is larger, and these rabbit baba alone won’t be too much, but when there are more rabbits in the future, you can only feed some of them to fish.

When the fish grow up, the silt in the pond can be used to fertilize the land when there are more fish in the pond. This forms a cycle, drawing on the principle of the mulberry fish pond.

After the rabbit nest was built, Chu Ying separated the pure-colored ones from the variegated ones. Because only one black one was caught, Chu Ying did not build a separate nest for it. Otherwise, it would be a rabbit by itself, and Chu Ying was afraid that it would be lonely.

"Zhizhi" Chu Ying heard the sound and ran to the small forest. A few times ago, she found some larger animals escaped the trap by herself. Not a rabbit, but a leaner weasel and a wild pheasant.

Originally the wild pheasant was caught, but the weasel fell into the trap after smelling it. Chu Ying tied the two living creatures home, and the wild pheasant was tied to the kitchen door first. If the wild pheasant could not be depressed by itself But Chu Ying was willing to raise him up if he could eat something.

(End of this chapter)