The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 62 The Capital
Although Su's mother heard Su's father's words, she still wiped the last point before stopping, "How is it, you've been busy all day, have you bought enough things?"

"I bought the salt, but there aren't that many in the wooden barrel store. They are rushing to make it now! It should be ready in a few days." The amount of wooden barrels Father Su needs is really too big. The quality of the barrels is very good, a pair can be used for a long time, but now Su's father wants hundreds of them, and the sizes are different. There are really not so many in the store, so we can only wait for them to be made.

"It's good to do some work first, let's go! The weather is almost here, let's go back earlier, or if the two children are at home, I don't know if I will be afraid!" Mother Su thought that there were only two sisters, Su Ling, at home. , worried that the two of them would be afraid, so they wanted to go back early.

"Well, let's go!"

Aunt Li had already finished her private conversation with Xiaocao, and told Xiaocao to take good care of her body while working hard, and not to exhaust herself because of work.

Su's father's ox cart was full of wooden barrels and a large bag of salt, and the ox cart wobbled back like this.

"Ling'er, look, are these wooden barrels still qualified?" Father Su asked Su Ling while looking at the wooden barrels in the yard.

"Well, as long as you have something to put it on, let's try it tonight and see if we can do it." Su Ling was also very happy, thinking that he was about to start another money-making business, even though sauerkraut could be earned. There is not a lot of money, but it is better than leaving some land there.Planting things can at least make an income.

In order to make sauerkraut ferment faster, Su Ling adopted a quick method. When pickling sauerkraut, first pick the cabbage, then pick off the residual roots, rotten leaves, big yellow leaves, and dry it in the sun for a few days (Su Ling used to Picked cabbage has been placed in the sun) After washing it with clean water, (put it in boiling water and scald it, so that the sauerkraut can ferment faster) and put it in a large tank one by one, layer by layer Arrange neatly, press a big stone on the top of the vegetables, add raw water or cool boiled (preferably cool boiled) to marinate, seal and store, let the vegetables shrink slowly in a high temperature environment, ferment, and you're done in about 20 days.Indeed, the higher the temperature, the faster.

Soon Su Ling washed and scalded the cabbage, put a layer of cabbage, put a layer of salt, the salt must be enough, otherwise the cabbage will rot, Su Ling just made a bucket to try, It only takes a few days to see whether it is done or not, but the sauerkraut at that time was still not edible.

Taking advantage of the fermenting of sauerkraut in the past few days, Su Ling saw that his old house had been refurbished and turned into a sauerkraut workshop. For the time being, it could only be renovated, and it would be too late to rebuild it. In the coming year, Su's father was asked to hire part-time workers in the village to cut off all the cabbages and dry them. Even Su Ling's family couldn't handle such a job, so they asked several people to help.

Finally, it was the day when I could see the sauerkraut. Su Ling directed Su's father to move on to the important matter, removed the top layer of sauerkraut that was not fully soaked, and looked at the bottom, and found that it was not rotten, although it was not edible yet. , but it shows that it is good to make sauerkraut like this, and the rest of the wooden barrels have also been sent. In addition to Aunt Li, Qin Fang, and Zhou Guihua, the hired helpers, Mother Su also asked Aunt Li to help find ten A clever and honest little daughter-in-law or woman came to help. Aunt Li lived up to expectations. The people she invited were all very good. They worked quickly and didn't talk much. Everyone wears a mask and wraps their hair to keep sauerkraut hygienic. This is acceptable to everyone. After all, it is something to eat, so everyone is more particular about it.

Su Ling's distribution of characters is very reasonable. Those who should wash the vegetables, those who should boil the water, those who should boil the vegetables, and the ones who should scald the vegetables, and at the end of the step of spreading salt and pressing stones, Su Ling only uses a few people he is familiar with. That is, Aunt Li, Zhou Guihua, and Qin Fang, plus a mother of Su, it's not that Su Ling believes in other people, after all, Su Ling wants to make a fortune with this batch of sauerkraut, next year maybe someone will If she can figure out how this sauerkraut is made, then she won't be afraid anymore.

Although the workload of these four people was a bit heavy, they didn't complain, not to mention Su's mother, after all, it was her own business, and Aunt Li came to help out completely voluntarily. Of course, Su Ling would not treat her badly. She, and the remaining two Su Ling were hired with a lot of money, and some of them signed a confidentiality contract, so naturally they are not afraid that they will leak out.

More than a dozen people worked in a hurry for more than a week, and the first bucket of sauerkraut made by Su Ling was ready to eat, so no one gave a big one to someone's family, and gave out these eight pickles according to no one's wages of fifty Wen per day. Aunt Li and the other three received [-] Wen per day. Those who received the money went home happily with a piece of sauerkraut. Can you be unhappy!It's the slack season now, and it's almost the end of the new year. Those who have no money at home want to take advantage of this month to do some work to earn some money, but odd jobs are actually so easy to find. No, Su Ling suddenly provided a dozen of them. Although the job is not for a long time, the advantage is that the salary is high, which is more than what the men of their family earn after going out and working hard for a day.

Zhou Guihua and Qin Fang are even more grateful to Su's mother.

Su's mother got annoyed hearing these two people's words of thanks, and couldn't help scaring them: "If you two continue to be polite to me like this, we won't bother you next time we have a job!" The two of them gave up.

In a dark and confined space, a man dressed in black with a mask on his face swept his sharp eyes, and the man kneeling on the ground shook.

The masked man looked at the kneeling man: "The mission failed, then you go and accept the punishment!"

The kneeling man cupped his fists and bowed: "Yes."

"You have complaints." The masked man's voice sounded again.

"No subordinates."

"Very good, let's go down!" After the kneeling man left, the expression of the masked man changed again, but became even more distorted, "You are lucky, this will not kill you, next time you Not so lucky."

Duanmu House.

"Father and mother, I'm back." Before entering the door, Duan Mulin yelled loudly, and ran into the house while yelling.Although he was very happy when he went with Duanmuyu, as a child, after playing for a long time, no matter how fun and happy he is, he will inevitably feel homesick. However, Duanmuyu never came back, and he urged him many times Neither worked.Now I can finally come back.

Duanmuyu walked in very leisurely, his unhurried appearance made people feel annoyed.

Duanmulin had already reported where he went, what was fun, what was delicious, and he told all the things he saw and heard along the way, but it was Duanmuyu who came in and greeted his parents. , just poured a cup of tea and tasted it leisurely. Occasionally when Duanmulin said something funny, when Master Duanmu and Mrs. Duanmu laughed very happily, he just smiled and didn't say much.

(End of this chapter)