Chapter 183 Brother-in-law, stop pretending. I know you are very happy.
"Mom, we made too little fermented glutinous rice in previous years and it wasn't enough to eat. Can you make more this year?" Lin Xiaopu asked expectantly.
Our family is much richer than in previous years, so it should be okay to make more fermented glutinous rice wine, right?
He Guixiang responded readily, "Okay, your sister said that once the fermented glutinous rice is ready, we'll change to eating it three times a day. This time, I'll make two large jars of fermented glutinous rice and keep them there. We'll make more after we finish eating!"
Lin Xiaopu was delighted when he heard this.
Oh my god, two big jars!!
Wouldn’t it be possible to eat fermented glutinous rice every day in the future?
There are three more meals!
If she changes to three meals a day, she won't have to wait until breakfast to eat hungry every day. She can eat all at once, right?
Wow, this family can't live without my sister! Because of my sister, we can have three meals a day in the future!
After Lin Xiaopu was happy, she began to look forward to Aunt Lin coming back. When Aunt Lin came back, she would have many more copper coins in her little treasury!
With Uncle Zhao around, the money jar will definitely not be stolen again.
The ice jelly was indeed selling well today, and when Lin Zhaodi came back, there was joy on her face again.
After counting together, they found that the income was about the same as the previous two days, about 1,700 wen.
Lin Zhaodi was supposed to get 500 coins, but because she didn't take good care of the money jar yesterday, she would not get any money today according to what Ah Shu said.
It was just a day's work for nothing. Thinking about it this way, the loss didn't seem that big. After coming to terms with it, Lin Zhaodi stopped thinking about the theft.
Moreover, with Zhao San helping to look after the stall today, she felt much more at ease. After selling the goods at the stall, the couple could chat leisurely.
Zhao Laosan, who returned a little later, also found it quite pleasant. Although he had to walk both ways, it was easier than working in the fields. He didn't have to do much at the stall, just help collect the money and watch over the money jar.
If he was feeling very hot during the day, his wife would give him a bowl of ice jelly. It was so refreshing to eat it.
He knew that it must have been Ah Shu who told them to eat as much ice jelly as they wanted. Otherwise, given his wife's personality and her precise calculation of everything she liked, they would have to pay for a bowl of ice jelly out of their own pocket.
When he walked back, smoke was already rising from the house.
Lin Zhaodi turned her head to look at him, "Boss, drink some water first. Dinner will be ready in a while. I cooked some porridge. When it's done, I'll make some pancakes. Ah Shu said I should eat more mugwort leaves, so we'll have mugwort pancakes tonight."
Zhao Laosan sighed, scooped a bowl of water from the water jar and drank it, sighing: "This water is not as delicious as the ice jelly."
Lin Zhaodi glared at him. "It's twelve cents a bowl, how could it not be delicious? Don't worry about it. I'm lucky enough to let you have one bowl during the day."
"Wife, let's forget about it today. The money we earned was used to pay off the debt. When we make money tomorrow, can you give me a few more ounces of wine?"
Lin Zhaodi was speechless for a moment. "It's not like we make this much money every day. Ah Shu said that at first everyone just wanted to try it for the novelty, but after a few days it won't be so popular anymore. Ah Shu also said that drinking is bad for your health. Drink less. I'll allow you to drink three times a month, but forget it if you drink more than that."
Zhao Laosan was easily satisfied and immediately smiled, "Three times is fine."
He had originally prepared himself to drink only a few times a year after the separation, but he didn't expect his wife to be so capable.
In Zhao Laosan's opinion, being valued by Ah Shu was also due to his wife's ability. In his eyes, his wife was good in every way except her infertility.
In the first few years, Zhao San was still a bit obsessed, dragging Lin Zhaodi to work all the time, sometimes even when he was exhausted, he would come like a mission, but after a few years, Zhao San had let it go. Like that old man Liao, who had a child and then lost it, and even lived alone for many years without a wife, didn't he still get by?
Now they have hope for the future. When the family becomes rich, at worst he and Lin Zhaodi can go to their relatives and adopt a child to raise.
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Just as Lin Shu predicted, the ice jelly sold very well in the first few days. The daily income of 1,600 to 1,700 copper coins remained stable for four or five days and then began to decline slowly, but not by much, and stabilized at about 1,200 to 1,300 copper coins.
Except for a few days when it rained heavily, Lin Zhaodi and her husband ran to the town every day without interruption, without showing any signs of fatigue and working very hard.
Lin Shu, on the other hand, only needs to sit back and collect the money. After deducting the cost of rock honey, the rest is pure profit, which makes money faster than her chicken mushroom sauce.
Lin Xiaopu's small treasury became more and more abundant, and every day he would hold his small money jar and count the money foolishly.
After He Guixiang got her share of the money, she became generous with her food. After the yeast was made, she bought two buckets of glutinous rice and made two large jars of fermented glutinous rice.
Without realizing it, the number of things we have added to our home has increased.
There were several more sets of new bowls and plates in the kitchen, as well as several more pottery jars and vegetable jars, and all three beds in the room had new mattresses.
Lin Xiaopu had a beautiful hair ornament on her head, and He Guixiang had a new wooden hairpin on her head.
There were no shovels and machetes originally, but they have now been purchased.
On this day, there was a new big mortar and pestle in the yard!
A mortar and pestle can not only pound brown rice into polished rice, but also pound rice grains into rice flour. The glutinous rice cakes (glutinous rice cakes), a favorite of every household, are pounded in a mortar and pestle.
Zhou Ye naturally ordered the mortar and pestle. There was a stonemason in Dafu Village. Zhou Ye not only ordered the mortar and pestle, but also asked the stonemason to build a water trough for it.
The sink is placed under the bamboo water pipe in the yard, so no matter whether you wash rice, vegetables, face or hands, you will not get splashed with water all over your body.
Lin Shu didn't expect that she only mentioned it once, but A Ye actually remembered it all the time.
Since Old Man Liao had to take Aunt Lin to town every day, A Ye didn't ask Old Man Liao to borrow an ox cart, and he actually carried these two things back all the way by himself!
Lin Shu thought he was stupid, but she felt sweet in her heart.
Lin Xiaopu said happily, "Is this what they call hard work for one person, benefiting the whole family? With this mortar in the future, Sister can have as much refined rice as she wants."
Lin Shu tapped her forehead and said, "I know your brother Aye works hard, so don't bother him with trivial matters all the time. Also, I like to eat brown rice. You can just pound some polished rice during festivals."
Although almost every household has a mortar and pestle, most of them are used to pound rice flour and glutinous rice flour to make rice cakes. Few people use this thing to pound rice and then cook it.
After the bran is removed from brown rice, the quantity is much smaller. The villagers may not be able to feel full after eating brown rice. In order to save food, they always leave some food for their stomachs. How could they eat brown rice?
Lin Xiaopu muttered, "I didn't bother Brother Aye all that much. I just asked him to help make a few bamboo slingshots. I promised Feng Shitou and the others that I would do that. If I don't keep my word, wouldn't I lose my position as the big sister?"
Lin Shu was amused by her and even learned the name "Big Sister" from her.
When talking about Lin Xiaopu's group of younger brothers, we have to mention Wang Yingen.
After running away halfway through the first lesson, this kid came back a few more times, but every time he ran away when it came time to learn to read and write, which made Li Chunmiao very angry.
Later, Lin Xiaopu had a sudden idea and planned to set up a primary school. She would be the teacher and let these students learn to read and write with her. As for the content of the lessons, it was the same as Lin Shu's, with the first half telling stories and teaching principles, and the second half teaching characters.
Lin Xiaopu was also a mischievous person, having actually set up this primary school in the courtyard of Wang Yingen's house. The teaching hours were similar to those of Lin Shu and Lin Yushu, set between half an hour and an hour after breakfast.
Wang Yingen couldn't escape unless he skipped breakfast.
At first, Wang Yingen refused to learn, but when he saw his younger brothers, who were not as good as him, started to learn, he followed suit. After a few days, he actually learned a little bit and could at least write from one to ten.
Li Chunmiao was filled with gratitude and for a moment felt closer to Lin Xiaopu than his own son.
Not to mention Li Chunmiao, the parents of several other naughty kids were also very grateful and even brought thank-you gifts to their home.
With the bonus of being a young master, a group of idiots, including Wang Yingen, have already tacitly accepted that Lin Xiaopu is their new boss.
The new boss not only teaches them to read, but also takes them to play together, striving for their all-round development morally, intellectually and physically.
Right now, the new boss Lin Xiaopu is thinking about something else.
"Sister, last time I heard you say that cicada shells, locust beans and locust flowers are all medicinal herbs that can be sold for money. Then why don't you see people in the village selling them?" Lin Xiaopu asked curiously.
Lin Shu explained, "Firstly, many villagers don't know about this. Secondly, the town's medicine shops have special channels for purchasing medicine. If they have enough herbs in their shops, they won't accept them even if someone comes to sell them."
Lin Xiaopu pondered for a moment, then asked, "Sister, if I sell some cicada shells and locust beans to the county pharmacy, will they accept them? After all, the county pharmacy is bigger and richer."
Lin Shu really didn't know. "Well, you should ask your brother Aye."
Lin Xiaopu bared his teeth immediately, "Hehe, what's the big brother Aye? In a few days, I should change my words to call him brother-in-law."
Lin Shu raised her eyebrows, a smile hidden in her eyes, "You called him brother-in-law in front of A Ye. Just for this one call of brother-in-law, believe it or not, even if he doesn't know, he will go to the county to ask for you."
Lin Xiaopu's eyes lit up when he heard this. Is there such a good thing?
The person who knows Brother A Ye best in the family now is no longer her, A Niang and A Dad, but A Jie. What A Jie said is absolutely right!
Zhou Ye carried the mortar and stone trough back, put the things in place, and was sweating all over. He was now scrubbing in the yard.
After he finished washing, Lin Xiaopu immediately went to ask about selling medicinal herbs.
"Brother-in-law, there are a lot of cicada shells in the back mountain, and the locust trees have produced locust beans, some of which have already bloomed. Do you think they will accept them if I dry them and take them to the county pharmacy?" Lin Xiaopu called out "brother-in-law" loudly and crisply, and Lin Shu, who was sitting far away, could hear it clearly.
She coughed lightly and slowed down the movement of the palm-leaf fan in her hand.
She didn't know whether Aye was embarrassed by being called "brother-in-law", but she was a little embarrassed anyway.
Why is Xiao Pu's voice getting louder and louder?
As she was muttering, Zhou Ye suddenly looked in her direction.
Lin Shu was calm and composed, and winked at him playfully: Stop pretending, I know you are very happy.
Zhou Ye's expression was calm, but the corners of his mouth curled up secretly.
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