Chapter 29 Daily Life
When Tang Yue returned home, she washed all the vegetables and peppers she had picked at Aunt Guihua's house, and put them in a dustpan to dry. She also washed some green and red peppers and dried them. She took the peppers, onions and ginger that she had washed in the space yesterday, and a large wooden basin. She put the chopping board in the basin and began to chop the peppers, ginger and garlic. It took her an entire afternoon to finish chopping dozens of pounds of peppers. She then took the chopping board and poured in a bag of salt. There were too many peppers and one bag of salt was not enough, so she added half a bag and poured in a bottle of white wine. She stirred it, and some water would come out overnight. She would put it in the bottle tomorrow, and then the bottle would not leak water.
I put the wooden basin into the space and placed it in the yard. I went back to the bedroom and moved the kang table to the kang. I took a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables from the space and ate them like this for lunch. After dinner, I looked at the vegetables in the yard and found that the water had dried up. I took another large wooden basin, put the turnip in it, cut it into pieces, and chopped it up (not too finely). After chopping, I put it in a winnowing basket and took it outside to dry. I used five winnowing baskets to put it in. These dried vegetables were very fragrant when put into stewing meat, and the meat would not be too greasy and would taste very good.
Take the beans from the dustpan, put them in the wooden basin and chop them into pieces as big as the thumb nail, cut all the beans, pour a packet of salt, mix in the green and red peppers, and by the way, take four garlic cloves, peel them one by one, without peeling the skin, and mix them in, put them in glass jars, five large jars in total, then take some straw from the space, wash the straw, stuff it into the inner side of the glass jars, stuff it hard until it can't fit in, tie it tightly with oil paper, and then cover it with a lid. After about twenty days, the sour beans will be ready to eat.
Put the pickled vegetables in the living room. If there are too many, it will be difficult to put them. You need to go to Uncle Li's house to buy a shelf, and then you can put more layers. It's still early, so go to Uncle Li to order a few more shelves, and put three in the storage room, so that things on the shelves will not get damp.
When I arrived at Uncle Li's house, we were so familiar with each other now, I went straight into the yard and shouted, "Uncle Li, are you home?"
"In the backyard."
Tang Yue thought, doesn't Uncle Li get bored doing carpentry work in the backyard?
"Uncle Li, I want you to help me with four shelves."
"Let me hear you tell me what you think."
"Uncle Li, it can be made like a normal shelf, three or four layers will do," Tang Yue then used a brush to draw a sample of a shelf on the ground.
"Okay, it's very simple, come back and get it in two days."
"Okay, Uncle Li, how much is it?"
"It's not difficult. It only costs a little wood. It's 2 yuan each. Give me a deposit of 2 yuan first, and I'll give you the rest when you receive the goods."
"Okay, I'll give you two dollars as a deposit first," he gave the deposit to Uncle Li, and he said he would send it over when it was done.
Tang Yue returned home and looked at the red peppers that she had dried in the morning. They were a little too dry, so she decided to just leave them alone and went to the backyard to get some green leaves to feed the two chickens. Tang Yue prepared to eat first, as someone might come to sell dried wild vegetables after dark. She didn't feel like eating rice for dinner, so she cooked some noodles, put some green leaves in them, and scooped a large spoonful of beef sauce. It tasted really good when eaten outside.
Tang Yue had just finished her meal and washed the dishes when someone knocked on the door. She opened the door and saw the captain and his wife. She quickly welcomed them in.
"Girl Yue, someone will bring some dried wild vegetables over here soon. Do you have a table at home? Please move it over so we can keep accounts."
"Yes, uncle, please move it here right away," Tang Yue said, and then she hurried back to the bedroom, put the thermos on the table on the kang table, moved the table outside, and brought two chairs in as well.
The captain took out a bottle of water and a pen from his pocket, ready to keep accounts. Seeing that the captain was ready, Tang Yue hurriedly prepared to boil a bottle of water, "Aunt, why didn't you bring it over from your house? You can go and get it now while no one is around."
"Don't worry about it, your family. Come and help with the weighing later, and your uncle will keep count. I hope Yue girl won't be sent away so soon."
"Aunt, not so fast. I'll come back to you in two days."
"Okay, then there's no rush."
The water boiled, so she took two enamel cups, put some tea leaves in them, and poured in boiling water. Tang Yue didn't know how to make tea, so she could only make do like this and took them to the captain and Aunt Guihua.
It seems that I should always have boiling water in the thermos, and find a glass bottle to store tea leaves and put it in the living room so that people won't be in such a hurry when they come.
It was getting dark, and people gradually arrived. Tang Yue and Aunt Guihua helped with the weighing, and the team leader kept count of the pounds. Everything was very quiet, as if they were doing an underground activity. There was an endless stream of people, and they only stopped at 12 o'clock in the evening. They had used up two candles.
"Uncle, aunt, are all the people here? Is there anyone who is missing?"
"Almost all of them are here. Wait for your uncle to bring the goods over here in a minute. You can contact the person to pick them up tomorrow."
"Okay, auntie, you guys go back and bring it over. I won't go to bed that soon, so I'll wait for you."
The team leader and his wife went home to pick some wild vegetables.
Tang Yue went back to the kitchen to boil a pot of water so that she could take a bath after she was done. The water was not ready yet when the team leader and his wife came back, pushing four or five bags on a cart. Each bag weighed about thirty or forty kilograms. Tang Yue went over to weigh them and asked the team leader to give her the total number to see how many kilograms there were in total. In the end, she saw that it was 3132 kilograms, which was quite a lot.
After seeing off the captain and his wife, Tang Yue covered the wild vegetables and mushrooms in the yard with oilcloth and put them there temporarily. She locked the yard door and the living room door, brought the water to the bathroom, poured it into the bathtub, and soaked comfortably for half an hour. Then she took a cup of spiritual water from the space and drank it, and all her fatigue disappeared.
Tang Yue saw that it was very late, so she didn't do anything else to prepare for bed. She lay on the kang and thought that she would go to the commune tomorrow and stay in the room for a while. When she came back, she would get the money and store the wild vegetables and mushrooms in the space, and sell them in winter. She had told Brother Hu last time that she would trade again before the New Year, but now it was not the time yet, so she could only collect them first, as she would not make any money from them anyway.
When Tang Yue woke up the next day, it was almost seven o'clock. She quickly got up, washed her face, ate an egg and a bowl of rice soup, put on her backpack, filled her kettle with water, took a bunch of vegetables from the space to feed the chickens at the back, and sent the door lock to the commune.
On the way to Tangyue Village, my five senses became stronger after drinking the spiritual water, so I could feel the villagers' furtive glances. Maybe they were also anxious because they got up too late and had missed the ox cart, so they had to walk by themselves.
After walking for about two hours, he finally reached the brick house, opened the door and walked in, locked the door, and walked into the room. The living room and bedroom were empty. He wondered whether he should make a bed here, but then he thought that it was unnecessary if he didn't live here. He went to the bedroom and entered the space from the bedroom. Tang Yue was going to stay in the space for the whole afternoon.
I entered the space to feed the pigs, and then I remembered that I hadn't made the mushroom sauce for the previous time, so I put the dried mushrooms in a plastic bucket and soaked them in river water. Then I took the garlic to peel, and peeled five pounds of it. I also peeled five pounds of peanuts, five pounds of ginger, and three pounds of sesame seeds. When these preparations were done, it was almost noon, and the mushrooms were soaked. I would make the mushroom sauce when I got back.
She took a bowl of rice and vegetables from the warehouse and ate them. After the meal, she washed the dishes and fed the pigs with her mind, picked up the eggs, and put some duck eggs in a backpack to pickle them in the open. Tang Yue was going to buy some jars, which were very useful for pickling things. She didn't plan to take too many glass jars, as the chilies at home could be put into the jars.
After coming out of the space, Tang Yue prepared to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy jars. She carried the backpack and walked for 10 to 20 minutes to reach the supply and marketing cooperative. Everyone had gone home for dinner, and there were not many people in the supply and marketing cooperative. She bought 20 large jars weighing ten kilograms each and 20 jars weighing five kilograms each. These jars all had lids. Because she bought too many, Tang Yue went outside to find a bullock cart, which cost fifty cents to deliver the jars. By the time the cart was delivered to her home, it was already three or four in the afternoon. She took all the jars in and closed the door.
Tang Yue planned to store the wild vegetables and mushrooms into the space in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep.
Wash all the jars and put them outside to dry, take out the large pot of chili sauce that was cut yesterday and put it into the space, and also take a large spoon, and then take a few 20-jin glass jars to hold the chili sauce. In the end, I put two 20-jin jars, one 10-jin jar and one 5-jin jar. After I was done, wash the wooden basin, and use this basin specifically for chopping chilies from now on.
It was past five in the afternoon, and it was too early to enter the space. She was afraid that someone would knock on the door, so she went back to the bedroom to get some wool from the space, and chose beige and red ones. Tang Yue sat cross-legged on the kang and put the wool on her knees so that she could wind it into a ball.
A sweater requires about one and a half kilograms of wool, and a pair of pants requires about one kilogram. Tang Yue plans to knit two sets of sweaters and pants. A ball of wool weighs about one kilogram, and three balls of each color are enough. It is indeed a bit troublesome for one person to work alone, and it took more than an hour to wind the balls of yarn.
Thinking that the vegetables in the backyard had not been watered for two days, I carried two buckets to the well to get water. I walked seven or eight times to water the vegetables. Then I walked to the fruit trees, took out spiritual water from the space, and watered each tree with a cup of water. I hope that the fruits will be delicious in the future. It is a bit too few to have only two fruit trees in such a big yard. I will plant them in the spring next year. I don’t know if I can plant so many fruit trees when things start to get messy next year. I will decide then.
He returned to the front yard and went to the kitchen. He boiled two large pots of water, and then poured two packets of salt into the pots after the water boiled. After the salt water cooled down, he kept it for pickling duck eggs. He took the duck eggs from the backpack, and then took a bottle of white wine from the space, and poured the wine into a bowl. He took two large jars that could hold 20 kilograms of food, put the duck eggs in the bowls and dipped them all in the wine, and then took them out and put them in the jars. All the eggs were dipped in the wine and put into the jars. Tang Yue was going to pickle two jars of salted duck eggs. If there were not enough duck eggs, she would get more from the space, so there were about 200 eggs in total.
When the salt water in the pot is almost cool, pour the salt water into the large jar, so that the salt water covers the duck eggs, cover the jar with a lid, and put it into the space. When Tang Yue goes to the storage room, take it out of the space and put it in the storage room. After more than 20 days, you can take it out and eat it.
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