The Chen family has also started to get busy these days. According to the custom passed down by several generations in the village, every household has to pickle a large jar of sauerkraut and a large jar of pickled cabbage when winter comes, and they also have to steam several pots of dry food, freeze them, and save them for eating during the winter.
As for how many pots to steam, it depends on the actual population of each household, usually about 3-8 pots.
The skills of pickling sauerkraut and pickled cabbage vary from family to family. Wang Guiying is one of the best in the whole village.
The sauerkraut she pickles won't rot in the jar, and the pickled cabbage lumps don't taste spicy, but are pickled thoroughly and have good color.
In addition, soybean paste is also an indispensable thing in life, such as pickled vegetables. In summer, you can eat them directly with green onions, cucumbers, lettuce, coriander, etc.
The noodles are especially delicious when mixed with some sauce. But you should know that there are very few people in the village who know how to make the sauce!
If any family wants to eat it, they will take some soybeans and go to the house of someone who can make the sauce during the off-season. After the sauce is made, they will give some soybeans as a reward to the person who makes the sauce.
Among these people, Wang Guiying is the most popular!
Look, on the kang in each room of the Chen family, there are five or six iron basins with fermenting sauce.
As time went by, the air in the house was filled with the smell of semi-finished soybean paste.
This made Ge Yun and Fan Chun complain about their grievances in private, but they had to keep it to themselves. Who told them to like this?
That’s right, it would be better if I didn’t put it on the kang in my own room!
Gu Zhenqi didn't put a bed on the kang in her room, but... she could smell the smell in the yard as soon as she left the room, and she felt no better than them.
After Wang Guiying checked the condition of the sauce that day, when she came out, she looked at her three sisters-in-law, all of whom were frowning and covering their noses.
Especially on Gu Zhenqi's thighs, there were two soft balls, each imitating the adults' behavior, with frowned brows and covering their noses.
The slightly unhappy mood disappeared in an instant, and he laughed out loud, pointing at them and said angrily: "Look at you guys, this is all... I'm afraid my unique craft will be lost! I originally planned to teach you three!"
Gu Zhenqi knew the value of her craft and immediately moved her hand away. "Mom, I want to learn from you, but you can't keep any of it. Tearing the sauce, pickling pickles, pickling sauerkraut..."
Suddenly, he seemed to think of something: "Oh... by the way, please teach me your skills in making stinky tofu and fermented tofu!"
"Okay, if you are willing to learn, I will teach you. But let me be frank with you. You are not allowed to be a half-baked person. But how do you know that I can make stinky tofu and fermented tofu? I haven't made them for several years!"
She certainly couldn't say that she knew this in her previous life, so she thought for a moment and replied, "I overheard the old people in the village saying this. They praised your cooking skills and the delicious food you make!"
"How could it not be delicious? It's the cooking skill passed down from our ancestors. Alas, times do not allow it!" Wang Guiying sighed.
"Mom, please come into the house with me. You tell me what to do and I'll write it down. When you do it one day, you can actually teach me again!"
Wang Guiying thought about it and followed her into the house, not forgetting to assign tasks to Ge Yun and Fan Chun.
"Ge Yun, go check on the cabbages to see if they are cool enough. If they are, put them into the jar one by one. I will come out and pickle them later!"
"Fan Chun, go to the kitchen and make a bowl of cornmeal, corn and white flour, pure white flour, and mixed grain flour. When they are done, you and your sister-in-law will steam the dry food for the winter!"
When winter started, they changed from eating two meals a day to three meals a day. The diet was rather monotonous. They had one meal at nine or ten in the morning, which consisted of some steamed dry food, some millet porridge, and a plate of pickles.
At four or five o'clock in the evening, I have a meal. I steam some dry food, cook some millet porridge, eat some cabbage, and put a plate of pickles.
The diet of every family in the village is similar. They repeat such simple meals every day and change the taste occasionally.
The main reason is that they feel that it is cold in winter, the amount of activity is small, the days are short, and they can't do much work during the day, so there is no need to waste food, and two meals a day are just right!
The diet is monotonous, and for the sake of convenience, supplies are too scarce. It is freezing cold and there are no fresh vegetables available, so there are only a few things to eat.
Even the chickens were so cold that they couldn't even lay eggs!
"We got it!"
People rushed there, each busy with their own things, and were busy for a whole week.
The vegetables have been pickled and dry food has been prepared, and they are just waiting to go to the market during the New Year. Suddenly, everyone has nothing to do and feels a little at a loss as to what to do.
Chen Guo and Chen Qiang would go out early every day with other men in the village to look for some edible wild animals in the mountains before the weather got completely cold and snowed.
At the repeated invitation of Ge Yun and Fan Chun, after breakfast, Gu Zhenqi followed them out with her children, who were dressed warmly.
When we arrived at an open area in the village, we saw a dozen women, young and old, gathered there. They were all going to follow the men into the mountains.
Gu Zhenqi approached and greeted them. They were from the same village, so no matter how far away they were, they would all be relatives.
The names they address each other are nothing more than: sister-in-law, aunt, mother-in-law... and so on.
They all carried winnowing baskets and wanted to go to the mountains to pick some chestnuts, hazelnuts, dried mushrooms, acorns and pine nuts.
But at this time, everyone's hands were busy, some were knitting sweaters, some were making shoes...
I saw someone carefully embroidering a shoe pad stitch by stitch, and a vivid and lifelike peony was embroidered by their skillful hands;
Some people would use old cloth to paste the soles layer by layer, and use scissors to cut the uppers;
Those who sew cotton-padded jackets and trousers for their husbands and children;
Some people use rabbit fur to make gloves and small cotton shoes...
There was also something that interested Ruiduo and Fei'an so much that they couldn't take their eyes off it...
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