Chapter 251 The Growing Noise
To pickle salted eggs, you need a jar.
The sauerkraut we bought previously to make kimchi was not enough, so we had to use up all the wooden barrels at home.
The "bath water" kimchi that Shen Qing mentioned captured the hearts of the whole family, young and old, and they immediately decided to buy more vats and kimchi jars to make more!
In order to buy jars for pickled duck eggs and other small items that needed to be replenished, about ten men from the village went to the city to purchase them.
Starting in the morning, Mrs. Cao came out from time to time to look around.
Cao Junzhu also followed out and asked worriedly, "Grandma, I see Brother Dafu and the others are going to the city today. How about asking him to find out?"
Cao's eldest daughter-in-law took her eldest son to the city to do some shopping yesterday morning and did not return all night.
"What could be the problem? She must be unfamiliar with the city, or the boy is just playing around and wasting time!
Seeing that time was running out, I stayed in the city for one night and will come back early this morning." Mrs. Cao said unhappily.
It was really useless. Before, no matter how much these people in the village bought or how late they stayed, they would rush back at dawn and dusk.
Cao's eldest daughter-in-law has been really spoiled by her Cao family and is even worse than a group of peasant women.
Cao Junzhu looked towards the entrance worriedly and sighed.
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Shen Qing checks the progress of the workshop every day. They started laying tiles at noon yesterday and it is expected to be completed at noon today.
The workshop has underfloor heating, and the floor is paved with stone slabs. Compared with the rough bricks required to pave the floors of the east and west wing rooms, the workload is much less and it takes less time. Once the tiles are laid, the work is considered completed.
However, there are still two or three houses in the village that have not been completed. Shen Qing thought of the livestock and poultry at home. If he relies on his sons, he will definitely be able to build it, but it will inevitably take a long time.
So she discussed with the eighteen bricklayers and continued to build the cattle pen.
Fortunately, the cattle pen only needs to be about the same height as a person, and bricks and tiles are readily available, so it can be built quickly.
In the afternoon, the bricklayer went to build the sheep pen, donkey and cattle pen, and chicken and duck shed on the side and back of the house. Then Shen Qing led a group of children to set up the workshop. They had bought some things before, but they were worried that the bricklayer would see them while working every day, so they didn't put them out.
Now, the large wooden tub for soaking wool is placed in the room closest to the stove, the silk thread scissors and scrapers are placed where the wool is trimmed, the grinding tools are placed on the slate table, and the last room is filled with axes, saws, and hatchets...
After everything was done, the family checked it several times. After Shen Qing repeatedly checked to make sure nothing was missing, Jiang Xiangdong and Jiang Xiangxi worked together to move the thick door panels that Guan the carpenter had made in advance and put them on one by one, and finally hung up a strong iron lock.
The work didn't seem like much, but by the time the family had finished, the sun was setting.
Jiang Yu, Jiang Shui and Jiang Xiangzhong went to prepare food, while Jiang Xiangdong and Xiangxi prepared to feed the animals.
Seeing Jiang Xiangxi about to go to work, Shen Qing called out, "Second Brother, tell me what you think of the wedding banquet?"
In Qili Village, the procedures for betrothal gifts and other matters had almost been completed, and the only thing left was choosing a date for the wedding. Farmers seldom spent money on calculating the date, and most of them chose an even day to bring the bride over.
Their two families lived in the same village, and their wedding was originally scheduled for the end of September or early October. However, due to the need to collect herbs and acorns to make a living, the completion date of the house was postponed. However, in five or six days, all the houses in the village would be completed and people could move in, and the wedding date was officially set for the tenth day of October.
The Guan family was too small to handle the wedding, and since they lived in the same village, they decided not to hold a wedding banquet. Instead, everyone who came to congratulate them received a wedding cake, and they all ate at the wedding banquet at the man's house.
Jiang Xiangxi felt a little awkward when he heard about the wedding banquet. He opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
When my eldest brother married my eldest sister-in-law, there was no wedding dress, not even a new set of clothes or a red veil, let alone a wedding banquet.
The two of them simply had a wedding ceremony, had a meal as a family, and dismissed those who came to congratulate them with a handful of melon seeds.
"My eldest brother and his wife didn't even have a wedding banquet. Wouldn't it be bad for them if I held one?"
In the past, his mother had mentioned to him many times that his elder brother and sister-in-law did not hold a wedding banquet, and when it came to him, she decided not to hold one either, because otherwise it would be unfair to his elder brother and sister-in-law, and they would also say that his mother was not fair.
Shen Qing felt that these were two different things. "I'll make up for what your eldest brother and sister-in-law don't have. Now that our lives are getting better, we naturally want every family member to be well."
You can't just deduct what the eldest brother gets from his younger brothers and sisters when he doesn't get any. If that happens, the younger brothers and sisters won't get any benefit at all, and the eldest brother and his wife will have to take the blame for nothing.
This is not fair, and the children will not like it if she treats them equally. What she does is to make up for the previous one.
Just like giving Ali a betrothal gift of cloth and so on, he also gave Ah Bing silver jewelry and cloth of similar value. Visible silver and things are the most tangible.
Jiang Xiangxi's heart was immediately relieved of the burden, and he said lightly: "Mom, I have no demands, I am satisfied with whatever you do!"
It’s great to have a wedding banquet, and his mother is different. She is more attentive than him. He is so happy that he can’t even ask for anything else.
Shen Qing hadn't expected the second son, who only knew how to work like an old ox, to make any requests. She asked more to let him know what he was thinking: "I think there are about 200 people in the village, so there must be too much room at home.
The three stoves in the kitchen are not enough to cook for so many people. It is cold on the tenth day of the tenth month. Sitting in the yard to eat a feast would freeze you to death."
Jiang Xiangxi's relaxed heart became tense again.
"I plan to have separate tables when the time comes. The men will be in the workshop, where there are five large iron pots. The women and children will be in the main hall. They can all eat hot food and there is also floor heating to keep them warm." Shen Qing continued.
There's no way. The weather in the north is too cold. The dishes become cold soon after being served in the yard.
When fleeing, the whole village didn't bring any tables, chairs, or beds. Guan the carpenter didn't have time to make them by himself, and even if he wanted to borrow some in the village, they couldn't. Without tables, plates, and basins, the food could only be stewed in the pot, and everyone ate in the warm house with their bowls.
Jiang Xiangxi nodded hurriedly, "Okay!"
They had just finished their meal, and it was good to have something to eat. The people in the village were not particular about it. He and Ali felt that they were very satisfied that their mother was willing to hold a wedding banquet.
Shen Qing saw that the wedding banquet format had been explained clearly and was about to talk about the dishes when he heard a noise coming from far away, getting louder and louder, and more and more chaotic!
Jiang Xiangxi also heard it, frowned, looked at the direction of the sun, and murmured: "It shouldn't be like this, people who go to the city can't come back so early."
Shen Qing had the same idea.
It takes them at least two hours, or four to five hours, to drive a donkey cart from the mountains to the city, and nearly ten hours to go back and forth. They set out at dawn and rush to buy things within two hours. If they can get to the village before dark, it is considered fast.
Many times I came back at seven or eight o'clock.
It’s only around three o’clock. How could the people who went to the city have already returned?
But if they hadn't come back, how could the quiet village suddenly become noisy?!
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