The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 128 Mr. Lu Arrives (2)
As a result, Qing Shu vetoed the plan to continue taking cabbage to Jinyang City, and placed high hopes on the matter of pickling sauerkraut.In fact, she also considered making pickles, but pickles cannot be separated from peppers.From the capital to Huizhou, she didn't see a lot of chili peppers.To be precise, there should be very few sellers of chili, and it is difficult to come across.She visited the West Market and the East Market in the capital, and only once met a chili seller, and she only bought a little over two catties.Although the two catties of peppers were red when I bought them, some of the seeds were not fully ripe, and there were very few usable seeds that were collected in the sun.In short, the only hope for now lies in sauerkraut.

With apprehension, Qing Shu walked to the small vat of pickling sauerkraut, there was no peculiar smell in the air, and there was hope.

Wu Xiaoshan took off the coarse cloth on the tank and took a look, "Miss, the stones on top are almost out of water."

"Let me take a look." Xiaojuan leaned forward and took a look, "The cabbage has become less, when it was put out that day, it was half a tank, and now it is only half a tank."

Qingshu stepped forward, Wu Xiaoshan and Xiaojuan backed away.Qingshu leaned closer to the mouth of the tank and sniffed carefully, there was really no peculiar smell. "Move the stones quickly, whoever fishes out one for me, you should fish out the bottom one, not the top one." "By the way, your hands must be clean, and the stone must be moved away and put in a clean place."

Wu Xiaoshan agreed, and stretched out his hand to lift the stone out of the tank.Xiaojuan fiddled with her sleeves, reached into the tank, and quickly picked up a cabbage that had lost its original color, "Miss, its color..."

Qing Shu smiled, "Xiao Shan, put the stone back into the tank." Turning her face away, "Take it to the kitchen."

Xiaojuan agreed, grabbed it and went to the kitchen, and put it on a clean chopping board.

With a look of anticipation on his face, Qing Shu started by himself, took the kitchen knife next to him and chopped off some of the head, then peeled off layer by layer, finally revealing the cabbage core inside.She cut a bit off each piece, put it in her mouth and tasted it.It hasn't been marinated yet, so it doesn't taste good, but it seems to be a success.

Xiaojuan stared closely at Qingshu's expression, "Miss, this, is this edible?"

Qing Shu narrowed his eyes with a smile, and while wiping his hands with a handkerchief, he said to Xiaojuan: "Let Wu Xiaoshan tell Manager Wu that from today onwards, our cabbage will not be sold. The ones that are stored in the cellar will be kept in the field, and the rest will be sold." They were collected and piled up on the edge of the yard, exposed to the sun during the day, and covered with straw at night.” It was only two days before she recalled that before grandma pickled sauerkraut, she would put the cabbage in the sun for a day or two.

Wu Xiaoshan was waiting outside, and he heard Xiaojuan's message, "Miss, is it true that the cabbage is no longer for sale?"

Qing Shu came out from the kitchen, "I won't sell it anymore." She tried all her best to sell it, but she couldn't sell much. Instead, it was a hard work for everyone and it wasn't worth it. "Xiaojuan, don't dawdle, go back to town, there is something urgent to do." Now she is ready to return home.

When they got back to the house in the town, Qing Shu didn't want to delay for a moment, so he immediately went to Gu Qiang and told him, "Hurry up and buy a big vat, it will cost twenty. Also, remember to buy salt, you are only allowed to buy more. Do not buy less."

Gu Qiang was taken aback, "Miss, what do you need so many big vats for? There is also salt, and there is a basket brought from the capital, which can't be eaten up in the first lunar month."

Qing Shu whispered to him mysteriously, "The cabbages I pickled are done."

Gu Qiang was stunned when he heard that, "Can cabbage be pickled?"

"In short, we don't have to worry about not being able to sell this year's cabbage. Except for the ones that have been stored in the cellar, all the others are marinated. You can eat it yourself or take it out for sale. I estimate that twenty jars are not enough. You can order another twenty. One." After saying this, he murmured in his heart that forty tanks would be enough.She really doesn't know how many catties of cabbage can be contained in a tank. She must weigh it when marinating the first tank, so that she can know it well.

"Miss, can this be done?" Gu Qiang was frightened and marinated forty jars, not daring to imagine.

"Let's put it this way, I'm not sure I can make money, but I'm sure I won't lose money. Besides, if you don't marinate, what you can sell is limited, and it's also throwing away. Why don't we try another method, maybe we can find good ones?" market."

Gu Qiang didn't say anything else, and hurried out of the house to do what Qing Shu asked.Qingshu collects Douzi, and he supports it because he is also optimistic about Douzi's prospects.Qingshu Zhangluo planted ten acres of wheat this season. He had no objection, whether it was successful or not, he just wanted to make the young lady and the young master who were enthusiastic about agricultural books happy.Now that Qingshu is making pickled cabbage, he has no idea, but he has no objection, because he feels that it is better to try to find a way out than to sit and wait for death.Besides, the life of the whole government is not so embarrassing now, and they have confidence, and any of Qingshu's tossing methods will not lose too much money even if they fail, Gu Qiang thinks it is within the acceptable range.

Holding her "notepad" in her hands, Qing Shu imagined the scene of the whole family eating steaming pork stewed with sauerkraut in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and couldn't stop the smile on her face.Of course, it would be even better if there were vermicelli.It's a pity that she can only eat vermicelli, but can't make it.However, it's useless to know how to cook, she has been here for so long, and she hasn't seen potatoes yet.She doesn't know whether Da'an has any potatoes, so she can only pay attention slowly, there is no other way.

At this time, Xiaojuan reported that Mother Su had arrived.

Qing Shu, who was leaning on the back of the chair, quickly sat up straight, making sure that there was nothing on her body that Mama Su could nag for a long time, and then said: "Mama Su, come in quickly." Seeing Mama Su coming in, she greeted Xiaojuan again Hurry up and take the round scorpion for Su's mother to sit on.

Mother Su has always refused to sit down, and today is the same. She just stood and talked, with a look of doing something wrong, "Miss, the old servant softened his heart today, so he took a job and caused trouble for the miss."

Qing Shu felt very surprised, "What's the matter?" Mother Su will cause her trouble?unimaginable.

"It's Ning Si's mother, who stood far away from the gate of the mansion and looked around from time to time, with a sad face and did not dare to go forward. The old slave saw it, and couldn't bear it, so she was called into the concierge to talk." As he said, he took a look. Qingshu's face.

Qing Shu nodded, expressing that she was listening, and felt amused by Mama Su's cautiousness, "Then what?"

"Ning Si's mother said that Ning Si had no errand in the yamen and wanted to find a job in the town, but no one would use him. He had no choice but to find work in the village of the old men outside the town. He is willing to do it, but no one uses him. His wife hurt her body after giving birth to a child, and she has to go to the pharmacy to buy medicine from time to time, which costs a lot of money every month. At this moment, the whole family of five depends on his wife for washing and cooking It’s not easy to be a mother.” Mama Su said with emotion.

"Mother Su, is Ning Si's mother begging you to find a job for me? Our house is not short of manpower." It is not easy to feed a family of forty people, and with the addition of the Kang family brothers, there are more than enough laborers. She doesn't want to get people into the house anymore and increase the number of mouths to eat.There is little work in winter, so she has to toss sauerkraut and beans, otherwise the people in the village will have to sit down and eat, and live a life of only going out and not going in.

(End of this chapter)