In the afternoon, everyone went over there to continue working. After peeling and chopping the meat, they had to add seasoning. This step was for Cao Xiangnan to do personally. He added oil, salt, white wine and spices to the meat and mixed them evenly. The next step was to stuff the meat into the casings to make it into sausage.

"…Tie a knot here, put the casings into the bamboo, and then stuff the meat in from here." Cao Xiangnan explained it to the people around him while he was doing it, and then he could hand it over to others to do it.

"Oh, I understand." Chen Hong watched carefully and responded. After

the meat in front is processed, the people behind will come over to stuff the meat into sausage casings, tie knots, tie them up with straw ropes, hang them on bamboo poles, and put them in a cool and ventilated place to dry. When they are dried, they will become sausage.

As for the bacon, after cutting it into strips and applying salt, it is time to add seasonings and marinate it after it is dried. The marinating time should be longer, and the meat should be turned over during the period so that the marinating can be more even, and the taste will be better. This bacon needs to be marinated again after it is air-dried, and then it is hung up and waited for air-drying.

These jobs are delicate, and there are many steps to make bacon, and the process is complicated. No one has done this before. Cao Xiangnan will follow every step and explain it to everyone one by one. He was responsible for adding seasonings and controlling the taste, and he taught the rest to the people around him as much as possible.

There was no sunshine that day, and the north wind was blowing. The weather was dry and cold, and there was little moisture in the air. This weather was just right for making bacon. These bacon would dry faster in the sun, but they would taste better if they were dried by the wind.

The meat marinated with white wine and spices can be eaten as bacon all year round, and it can be added as a dish for this cold winter. These bacon have their own flavor, and they can be eaten after frying. The method is very simple.

Cao Xiangnan has already thought about it. Yipinzhai is good for making bamboo tube rice, putting a few slices of meat on it, and then making a few special dishes with bacon and bacon. If you eat at home, you don't need to be so meticulous. Just cut the bacon and put it on the rice. Even without vegetables, he can eat two bowls of rice. Before winter comes, they have to prepare all the food first, so that they don't have to worry about not having enough food in case of heavy snow. It would be best if he can make all the bacon here in about ten days and send it to Yipinzhai, and take it to the town to sell it.

Before the sun sets, they have processed the meat of a pig, which is faster than Cao Xiangnan expected. Now that the work is done, everyone can go home. However, he still needs to deal with the bacon himself. He will turn it over later and hang it up to dry later, and then marinate it again tomorrow.

"Father Sun, Mother Sun, please stay at my house for dinner, so you don't have to go back to cook." Cao Xiangnan knew that Sun Bailian's two brothers had married and moved to other villages, and that they were the only two of them at his father and mother's home, and

they would have to cook when they went back, so he asked them to stay for dinner. "Yes, Father and Mother, please stay here for dinner, and I'll ask Grandpa to take you back after dinner." Sun Bailian also spoke up.

"This..." Mother Sun didn't really want to stay.

"Let's stay." Since the children had spoken up, Father Sun saw that his wife wanted to refuse when she spoke up, so he said quickly.

"Yes." Mother Sun nodded reluctantly.

In fact, he didn't really want to stay at Cao Jia Silang's place to eat. He came here and found out that his brother's family basically didn't cook at all and always ate here. He thought that he had to talk to his brother later, or he should go back to cook at home. What was the point of eating at someone else's house all day?

Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu had to go back, their families were waiting for them to go back. Cao Qingzhu had to hurry home to cook. Before he came here to work, he told his mother to cook dinner, but he didn't know if she had done it. He was worried in his heart, and he had to hurry back to feel relieved.

"Hey, wait a minute, we have a lot of meat at home, take one bowl each." Seeing that Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu were about to leave, Cao Xiangnan had already asked Qi Wanfeng to use a basket to fill each of them with a bowl of pork head and a bowl of pork stew, and asked them to take them home.

Cao Ada was a butcher, so of course he had no shortage of meat, but even if it was the same meat, other people's recipes for cooking meat were not the same as his, so naturally the food they cooked was not as delicious as his. As for Cao Qingzhu, Cao Xiangnan also learned about the situation at Cao Qingzhu's home from Chen Hong, and it was not a good one either, otherwise he wouldn't be so thin, he was just hungry.

Throughout the day, Cao Xiangnan saw that Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu were both doing a good job. Cao Zhilan is even more so. She followed her father and watched him kill pigs since she was a child. Her skill in cutting meat is really perfect.

Although Cao Qingzhu is skinny and small, he is very strong and is not afraid of hard work. He will do whatever he is told to do. He knows how to do it after being taught once. It can be seen that he works regularly and is very careful.

"Oh, how can I say this?" Cao Zhilan smelled the smell and said so, but her hand had already reached out. He took one portion for himself, took the other small basket, and handed it to his friend.

Cao Qingzhu took it in a daze. It's not good to take it after eating it, right?

"Here, this is the money for your work today, take it, if you work well, you will get extra money later, but you have to work hard. Go back, remember to bring the basket back to me tomorrow." Cao Xiangnan paid them their wages, so as to avoid having to settle the bill later. It was better to pay them for each day they worked. He was almost an accountant now.

It was almost the end of the month again, and he would start to tally up the accounts and pay everyone at the beginning of next month.

"Of course. Then Qingzhu and I will be leaving. Thank you, Brother Silang, for the meat. We will bring the basket back to you tomorrow." Cao Zhilan grinned so hard that his eyes could hardly be seen. He liked the meat from Cao Silang's the most. His mother only knew how to boil it in water and add some salt, which was not as delicious as the meat made by Cao Silang.

"...Thank you, thank you." The thin boy also said.

Seeing Cao Zhilan lead the people away, Cao Xiangnan retracted his gaze. He could see that Cao Qingzhu was a hardworking person. It was not easy for a little boy to support a family. If he could get him to work by his side in the future, he would be a good worker. Now all the people on hand have been divided out one by one. Wang Dahu and a few rough men really can't do the fine work. Some jobs still need to be done by the boys. Cao Zhilan and Cao Qingzhu are good.

The two went back to the village. Cao Qingzhu returned home and put the basket he brought back on the table in the kitchen. He didn't see his mother when he came back. The kitchen was still cold and there was no dinner.

The mud house he lived in was built when his father was still alive. It had three rooms. His mother lived in the largest one, his two brothers lived in one, and he lived in the remaining one. Not seeing his mother in the kitchen, Cao Qingzhu went to his mother's room, knocked on the door, and when he heard a response from inside, he pushed the door open and called out, "Mom."

"But is dinner ready?" The room was dark and without light. The person lying on the other side of the bed made a sound, as if he had just woken up.

"...It's almost ready, Mom, you can eat after a while." Thinking that his mother had forgotten what he told him yesterday, that he had to work for Cao Silang today, Cao Qingzhu's face was a little gloomy.

After coming out of his mother's room, he went to the kitchen to cook.

The two brothers followed the group to repair the road and returned before dark. The cooked brown rice was served on the table, along with a bowl of boiled wild vegetables, a bowl of pork head and a bowl of pork blood. Seeing the meat on the table, the two brothers were very happy.

"I went to work for Cao Silang today, and he gave it to me." When his mother asked where the meat came from, Cao Qingzhu replied.

Otherwise, their family would only have a bowl of boiled vegetables to go with the rice. On weekdays, there would be no meat on the table except during the New Year and other festivals.

His mother was very happy to hear that he went to work for Cao Silang, as if she had just learned about it. When asked how much he was paid for a day's work, Cao Qingzhu was not one to keep secrets, so he told the truth.

"So much! Your eldest and second younger brothers only earn twenty dollars a day if they work for a day, but you earn thirty dollars a day alone, and you also bring back two bowls of meat. Ask him if he needs more people there, and then take your younger brother back with you."

"Yes, go ask Cao Silang if he needs more people there, and Erbao and I will go with you. Now people work so hard every day and only earn ten dollars, but you can earn three days of my work if you go there."

"Yes, yes, Qingzhu, go ask, the road here is almost finished, and then Dabao and I will have no work." In comparison, these twenty dollars a day are very little. They seem to have forgotten that they used to earn twenty dollars a day, and they were very happy. In a month, that was equivalent to their annual income.

"This..." Cao Qingzhu was in a dilemma. It was Zhilan who took him there, so how could he come back and bring his two brothers over? But since his mother said so, he had to respond, "I'll go back and ask. If Cao Silang needs anyone else, I'll ask my two brothers over."

"Okay, okay, you all go. It's just one day... When the family has saved enough money, we'll build two more rooms. Then no one will despise our poverty. After the houses are built, we'll find someone for Dabao and Erbao. Dabao and Erbao are old enough to get married..."

After hearing what his mother said, Cao Qingzhu lowered his head to eat. The food in his mouth was a little hard to swallow. It seemed that his mother had forgotten that he was the eldest in the family. If he didn't find someone to marry, no one would want him in the future.

After everyone had finished eating, it was getting dark. Sun Bailian didn't ask his father and mother to stay with him for a while. She and her husband sent their father and mother out, and asked her husband to take them into the village.

After Sun's mother left the house, she turned back and said to her brother, "Don't always go to other people's houses to eat. You have a pot and a stove at home. Why don't you cook at home? It's only one or two meals here. If you eat too much at other people's houses, people will gossip about you." Sun Bailian paused. He really seldom cooked at home. He understood what his mother meant. He smiled and said, "No, there is a lot of work in Xiangnan. Agang and I work here, and the children are here from morning to night. We can eat here so we don't have to cook separately when we go home."

"Don't worry, mother. It's okay. When it gets colder and there is less work here, we will go back home to cook."

"Well, you do it yourself." Hearing his brother say this, Sun's mother was relieved, "Then your father and I will go back." He said.

"Agang, you send Dad and mother back, be careful on the road." Sun Bailian said to her husband.

Cao Gang nodded and led the two elders back to the village.

Seeing the people who left, Sun Bailian smiled a little, and was still very happy for his mother's concern for him.

It was true that since Wanfeng moved here, he rarely cooked at home, and ate most of the three meals a day here. In addition to going back to his own home to eat during the period of building the house, it was also because the people who worked there ate at his place. After the house was built, he stayed at the back of his house, coming early every morning and going back with his husband and children after dinner. "I thought it was something, didn't you send all the rice from your family to me?" Qi Wanfeng couldn't help laughing and asked after listening to Sun Bailian's words.

"Haha, that's right." Sun Bailian almost sent all the grain harvested this year to Qi Wanfeng. If Qi Wanfeng hadn't mentioned that his family should keep some grain for the winter, he would have really sent it over. Later, half of it was kept and the other half was moved over.

Someone came to the back of the house, and his husband was afraid that there would not be enough food for the winter, so he bought some more grain back later.

"Okay, we're a family, so let's not talk behind each other's backs. It's just a matter of having a meal. I'm glad you come every day. How can I do so much work by myself?" Qi Wanfeng pointed at her bulging belly. She was about to give birth. She was tired of standing for a long time, and she was tired of sitting for a long time. She really couldn't do so much work without someone to help her. She

didn't know if she was spoiled by her husband now, and her life was getting better and better, and her body was getting more and more pampered.

The work at her husband's place also needed everyone to do. Since everyone was working here, there was nothing wrong with eating here. If Sun Bailian hadn't helped him, how could his family be what it is today? And how could it be what it is today without everyone's help? Qi Wanfeng understood this point.

The two chatted for a while, and Sun Bailian was about to take the two children back home. The two children needed to take a bath and go to bed, and there were still things to do at home.

"I'll take the children back first."

"Okay."

After sending people into the village, Cao Gang went back home. Knowing that Cao Xiangnan was still busy, he said goodbye to his family and went back to help with the work.

When he got to the road outside and it was dark, he took a few people back to his home.