Chapter 229 The hot potato is thrown into her hands
Two hundred duck eggs were not a lot, and the two of them finished washing them quickly.
While the duck eggs were draining, Song Yuntang started making pickled rice noodles for the century eggs.
Fry the salt in a pot until cooked. After the explosion stops, pour in clean water and tea leaves and boil.
When the boiled salt tea water cooled down, Song Yuntang filled a small bowl with white wine and rolled the drained duck eggs in the white wine one by one.
After all the duck eggs were boiled in white wine, the salt tea water in the pot was almost cooled down. Song Yuntang asked Xu Wencheng to pour it into a container mixed with lime powder, wood ash and alkali and stir it into a paste.
Next, coat the duck eggs with a thick layer of mud and roll them on rice husks before putting them into a jar and sealing them for pickling.
Before the white hand touched the dark brown mud in the basin, a large hand with distinct joints grabbed the wrist.
Song Yuntang raised her head and saw Xu Qingye leaning over and looking at her.
The slightly slanted sunlight just happened to shine down from above his head, casting a halo on the man's face. Song Yuntang felt dazed and thought he was hallucinating.
"Lime hurts your hands, I'll do it."
Song Yuntang stood up with his force, and Xu Qingye sat down in the place where she had just been, holding the duck egg in one hand and reaching into the mud in the basin with the other.
"How thick should the mud be?"
Song Yuntang reacted, lowered his eyes and said, "You guys go ahead, I'll watch from the side."
Xu Wencheng looked at the two of them and felt that his elder brother and sister-in-law did not get along like an ordinary couple. He saw his cousin and his sister-in-law getting married, and on the second day after the wedding, his sister-in-law blushed all the time. At first, he thought his cousin's sister-in-law was sick and secretly asked his mother.
The result was a slap in the face.
Now that I've grown up and become more sensible, I can probably guess the reason.
Although the sister-in-law respects her brother, they are not close to each other.
The eldest brother is the same. Unlike his cousin, his eyes are always indifferent. It seems that he looks at everyone like this. At most, he is more caring towards the eldest sister-in-law.
The same goes for talking. I don’t talk much to them, and I don’t talk much to my sister-in-law either.
They really respect each other.
No wonder my sister-in-law said before that the way my parents get along is very good, and my eldest brother is too rude.
Although I was thinking about it, I didn't stop working on the things at hand.
Under Song Yuntang's command, Xu Qingye and Xu Wencheng got the hang of it quickly. While the two of them were wrapping the eggs with mud, Song Yuntang found a pair of old gloves and put them on. He rolled the eggs wrapped in mud in a layer of rice husks and then put them into the jar one by one.
Two hundred duck eggs just filled a small jar.
After installing it, she took a piece of wood to cover it, and mixed some yellow mud to seal the gap between the wood and the small jar, then moved the small jar to a cool place in the room to pickle.
Xu Wencheng was washing his hands at the side. "Sister-in-law, what on earth are you making?"
Song Yuntang pretended to be mysterious.
"You'll know when the time comes."
"How long will it take?"
Song Yuntang thought for a moment and said, "It's not cold now, maybe 30 to 40 days."
By that time, the pepper seedlings she planted will almost be able to bloom and bear fruit. The weather is still warm now, so in another month, they will have to set up a greenhouse.
If you want a greenhouse, you have to use light-transmitting materials, otherwise you have to burn the stove and lights in the charcoal stove.
The cost of lighting is not small, especially since she has planted so many pepper seedlings.
When I come back from the county town, I will have to pay more attention to these aspects.
Taking advantage of the free time, Song Yuntang went to the wine shed next to the house, used a steamer to steam a large bucket of glutinous rice, mixed it with wine yeast, and sealed it in two small jars for fermentation.
Huajianzui’s glutinous rice wine dumplings are delicious, filling and affordable, and are quite popular. We only made two small jars before, and used up most of the jar in the past two days. Glutinous rice wine is easy to make, so we have to brew some and save it for later use.
When making glutinous rice wine, Tu Shi and Xu Wencheng were always there to help. She didn't do much work herself, she just ordered them around.
"Tu Shi, how much wasteland have you opened up in the past few days?"
Tu Shi looked honest and simple. "The sunny side of the village is all wasteland, about 20 mu, which I have fenced off. Beyond that is still connected to the mountain. I now open up one mu every morning and one mu every evening. The eight mu of land I have opened up are all planted with cabbage, radish and lettuce. I also planted a circle of taro seeds at the foot of the mountain."
Song Yuntang was puzzled.
"I only bought radish, cabbage and lettuce seeds before. Where did the taro seeds come from?"
When she bought the seeds, there were also Chinese chrysanthemum seeds, but she couldn't get used to the taste, so she simply didn't buy the Chinese chrysanthemum seeds.
As for taro seeds, she had never seen them when she bought seeds in the town. On weekdays, she didn't see many farmers growing them, otherwise she would definitely plant some.
Tu Shi said that there was a circle of taro seeds planted along the foot of the mountain, which shows that there were quite a lot of taro seeds.
"The mountain over there is the Jiang Family Farm in the town. When I was clearing the wasteland that day, I made a lot of noise and attracted people from that place. We got to know each other after a few conversations. I went to help them when they were transporting taro seeds. The taro seeds were given to me by a young lady from the farm over there. She said she knew you, young lady."
Tu Shi chuckled, "Actually, I've never eaten taro before, but seeing them growing it, I thought since we have a large area now, it would be okay to give it a try, so I planted a circle along the mountain over there in the wasteland."
Song Yuntang understood and bought a farm without thinking, but he didn't expect that it would be adjacent to Jiang Surao's farm.
I actually owed her a favor invisibly.
Speaking of which, I haven’t seen Jiang Surao for a while, and I don’t know if Mrs. Jiang’s illness has recovered.
"Tang'er."
As soon as I came out of the courtyard, I saw Song Jinyuan leading his cousins from my second uncle's family.
Before they even opened their mouths, Song Yuntang had already roughly guessed their purpose.
"Why are my eldest brother and cousins here?"
Song Jinyuan said a little embarrassedly, "I wonder if Tang'er has heard about the situation at Second Uncle's house? Second Aunt took all the money in the family to the Ma family, and it was detained there. Second Uncle had no choice but to ask Grandpa and Grandma for help. Grandpa and Grandma also had no choice, so they came to plead with Dad and Mom. Dad and Mom said they couldn't make the decision, so they asked me to bring my cousins to you to ask."
Song Yuntang found it a little funny.
It turns out that with so many people asking for help, the hot potato has been thrown into her hands.
Song Fulai looked at Song Yuntang's indifferent expression and felt unsure.
She had been in the Song family for a short time and did not have a close relationship with her third uncle's family, let alone her cousins.
It was only because he saw his uncle's brothers working here that he had the nerve to ask.
"I know that my mother and sister had some unpleasantness with my cousin before. If we were not desperate, we would not have the face to ask my cousin for help. I hope my cousin will not bother with them for the sake of our family. My father has already beaten my mother and asked Mr. Zhuang to write a letter of guarantee for my mother to put her fingerprints on. She should not easily provoke my cousin in the future."
If we talk about resentment, they definitely do.
Life at home was already tight, and even though my mother might be angry, she shouldn't have taken away all the money in the house.
In the end, he was unable to protect the money, and his entire family went hungry.
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