Chapter 256: A Rare Confussion
Huo Bing felt Shen Qing's gaze on her, and she took over Jiang Shui's words and said, "No, no, Xiaohua and Xiaocao can just get married in style. I think it will be the same for them."
"The wedding of Xiaohua and Xiaocao is supposed to be grand and glorious. This is for you! Don't you think so, mother?" Jiang Shui turned to look at his mother and asked.
"Ah?" Shen Qing came back to his senses and instinctively replied, "Yes, this is for you, Ah Bing."
The granddaughter's share belongs to her. You cannot deduct the daughter-in-law's share to give to her.
"Okay, then thank you in advance, Mom. I haven't decided what I want yet. Can I ask you when I think of it later?" Huo Bing asked, changing the subject.
Shen Qing looked at Huo Bing, whose eyes were shining darkly, and replied, "Okay."
Ah Bing clearly wanted to change the subject... Never mind, this is the best way now, it's better to be ignorant.
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As all the houses in the village were built, every household slept on a warm kang.
Suddenly moving from the freezing cold to the warm kang, everyone was as excited as Jiang Xiangnan and Jiang Xiangbei when they first touched the kang. They kept touching the edge of the kang and exclaiming in amazement.
In early October, the main house of Shen Qing's family officially ignited the wood chips and firewood filled in the big pit and began to heat the house.
In just half a day, the five spacious and bright brick houses became as warm as spring. People inside did not need to wear thick cotton-padded jackets, but only spring and autumn clothes.
After exclaiming in amazement, the Jiang Xiangdong brothers busied themselves filling the large pit in the workshop with firewood and sawdust. This ground dragon was truly effective! From now on, they wouldn't have to worry about freezing their hands while making brushes in the workshop.
The men in the village were busy stockpiling firewood, and the women were busy preparing food.
There are many trees around the village, but they are not just cut down and used as firewood. Under the command of old men such as Guan the Carpenter and Jiang Erye, only miscellaneous trees that are not precious trees and dead or old trees are cut down and used as firewood.
They don't cut down trees in one place, but cut them down in batches in an orderly manner. Then they have to replant fruit trees or other valuable seedlings in the spring of next year. If they only cut down trees without planting more, no matter how many trees they are, they will not be able to withstand the logging for more than ten years.
After planting fruit trees and bearing fruits, whether you can make money or not is not the first thing to say, but at least you can fill your stomach while having a snack, right?
Using the pruned branches as firewood is simply killing two birds with one stone!
Batches of dead grass and trees were brought home, and the dead grass was rolled into bundles for easy fire making.
The miscellaneous trees were first sawed into sections, and the thick ones were then chopped into pieces with axes and neatly stacked in the woodshed.
Thinking of the Lei family's previous instructions, the men filled up the firewood room and then filled up the thatched house where they had lived before.
Among the daily necessities of life, firewood must be ranked first and is extremely important. It is better to have more than less!
The women were busy stockpiling food.
I had previously bought a batch of cabbage to make sauerkraut, and made pickled mustard greens with Chinese cabbage. I also made a lot of kimchi, which alleviated a lot of the pressure of stockpiling winter vegetables.
Nowadays, you only need to collect the vegetables from your own vegetable garden, store the cabbage, spinach, greens, etc. that do not need to be processed in the cellar, and keep a small amount in the kitchen to be cooked and eaten whenever you want.
Things that need to be processed, like white radish, can be peeled, cleaned, and pickled into small pickles to go with porridge. The white radish can be kept and eaten fresh.
Carrot seeds are not tasty and are used to feed chickens, ducks and geese.
In winter, it is cold and chickens, ducks and geese do not lay many eggs. However, people don’t want to eat the chickens, so they stew the geese fresh and they are delicious. Only ducks can be slaughtered and pickled into salted ducks. In winter, half of them can be chopped and stewed with vegetables or used to make porridge, which is enough for the whole family to eat.
So after collecting the vegetables, the women in every household turned to collecting the ducks.
All I could hear was the creaking sound.
When Liu Cuihua arrived at Shen Qing's yard, what she saw was a large number of ducks that had been slaughtered and were waiting to be plucked.
She asked in surprise, "I saw people killing ducks all the way here, why are you killing only ducks?"
Shen Qing is testing whether the duck blood in the bowl has coagulated. The coagulated duck blood stew is delicious when used in hot pot, especially the homemade one, which is truly additive-free, delicious, nutritious and healthy!
Hearing Liu Cuihua's question, he looked up and explained: "In the past, when I was in Qili Village, there were many waters and it was convenient to raise ducks. Every household raised a lot of them, so they couldn't sell them at a high price;
It’s cold in winter and not many chickens and geese are laid. We have to keep them for laying eggs or sell them and don’t want to slaughter them. But can we only slaughter ducks for meat?
But you also know that there are a lot of people in the family, and if we eat as much as we want, it won’t be enough. If we want it to last longer, we have to make it salty. But you know what, salted duck is much more delicious than fresh duck! "
Liu Cuihua swallowed her saliva and asked curiously, "How delicious is it?"
They lived in the mountains, and the place was not too big. Since they had no shortage of meat, they only raised chickens and geese for eggs. They had also raised a few ducks in the past, but mainly for eggs. They would slaughter them and eat them fresh, never pickling them.
Shen Qing couldn't describe the different tastes and flavors between fresh and salted duck, so she said directly: "I'll give you one when it's marinated. Try it and see the difference!"
Liu Cuihua didn't hesitate and agreed: "Okay, I won't take it for free. I'll ask the boss to hunt a roe deer for you, and we can take turns eating."
Shen Qing wanted to say that a roe deer was many times heavier than a duck, but it was useless to mention it. In Cuihua's opinion, the prey in the mountains were worthless, and only the ones they raised at home were valuable.
"By the way, what brings you here?"
Liu Cuihua was watching Jiang Yu bring a bucket of boiling water and pour it on the duck in the wooden basin, while Huo Bing was waiting and quickly plucked the duck's feathers while the water was still hot.
After hearing this, she replied, "Oh, it's nothing. Aren't you getting your daughter-in-law married on the tenth day of the lunar month? The second and third sons asked me to come and ask if you need any help. They're coming too."
Shen Qing nodded immediately, "Yes! Yes! I thought it would be inconvenient for you to come down from the mountain, so I planned to pack up the ducks and go to the village to ask."
I didn't expect Cuihua, Fang Ting, and Ma Pandi to come over and ask, "If it snows, can you still come down?"
It's so cold today that it looks like it might snow at any moment.
"It's okay. We won't walk when it snows. We can go through the woods and climb up and down the trees. It won't affect us at all. Otherwise, how do you think we can catch roe deer in the snow?" Liu Cuihua laughed heartily.
Jiang Yu, Jiang Shui and others looked at Liu Cuihua in shock, while Shen Qing was thinking about the wisdom of survival.
As expected, everyone has their own way of survival.
There was no problem with safety, so everyone felt relieved. Huo Bing told them about the dishes they were going to prepare for the wedding banquet.
Shen Qing continued, "The main house can't accommodate everyone, so we'll split up into two parts. I'll take Ah Bing and the others to work in the main house, and you can take the two sisters-in-law and Chuntian to the workshop, okay?
There are five stoves over there, which are very convenient to use.”
The five large iron pots in the workshop are connected together for easy use;
There are only three people in the kitchen at home, so it will be impossible to cook three dishes. The meal has to be cooked separately in the big iron pot used to boil bath water in the bathroom, which is much more troublesome.
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