Chapter 270 Boiling Sheep Fat
When everyone except the Lei family heard Shen Qing say that they could buy leather at half the price, they were very tempted.
The Lei family has accumulated a lot of leather clothes and accessories from years of hunting, and even the windproof door curtains at home are made of leather!
But they are different. At the beginning of this year, the door curtains were made of straw. Two or three layers were woven to block the wind, but it was useless. The cold wind still penetrated every hole. Who would want to use straw curtains when there are leather door curtains?
Besides, the most important thing now is not the door curtain, but the clothes!
Compared with doors, people need clothes, shoes and socks from head to toe. After all, when they are at home, they can still stay on the kang, but outside they can only face the howling cold wind.
Hong Xiaolin raised his hand timidly and asked, "Auntie, I can buy two jackets. Can you keep them for me first?"
She calculated the money she had and decided that even if her parents didn't want it, she could use her own savings to buy it for them.
The leather padded jacket is really windproof. She knew the benefits of wearing it and wanted her parents to wear it too.
Of course Shen Qing had no objection and agreed directly: "Okay, you go first."
Others didn’t expect that they could book now!
Everyone raised their hands in a flurry: "Me, me, me! I'll order two sets too!"
Take care of your own parents first, there's no rush for others. Go back and ask them if they want it, and then we can decide if they do."
"I want one too! I want four sets." Zhao Hu raised his hand quickly.
His second uncle and aunt also need a set.
Seeing that his brother had made up his mind, Zhao Bao withdrew his raised hand.
Feng Meng looked at the shouts that kept coming one after another, his eyes wide open, and asked those around him in confusion: "Why do you all have the final say?
And where did you get the money?"
Why doesn't he have it?
"My mother gave it to us. She said we were old enough to earn money on our own. She also said that Aunt Shen Qing's family gave their children and daughters-in-law some money of their own, so she gave us some too."
"My grandma said that money is a person's courage! She also said that if we have money, we can buy small things on our own and there's no need to ask questions. It's good to have some money on hand."
"My father secretly told me that this silver is like fishing bait, like the carrot dangling in front of the donkey! It's to make us work hard and diligently!"
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Feng Meng: No, so he's not that old? So he doesn't need courage?
And why do others need bait and hanging carrots, but he doesn’t need them?
He angrily squeezed in between his two sisters and tried to win over the alliance, saying, "Xing'er and Tao'er, Dad and Mom can't do this. Look at other families, they all give money to their children and wives, but we don't!
We should have a good talk with them when we get back, and ask them to go to the village to see more and learn more! If that doesn't work, let them visit Aunt Shen Qing more often."
Feng Xing and Feng Tao lowered their heads silently and dared not say a word.
You can't say that they both have it, right?
Feng Meng became more and more angry as he spoke. If it wasn't time to go to work, he would have wanted to go back and talk to his parents about other people's parents and let them see what they were like!
The entire workshop was suddenly filled with both joy and sorrow.
After Shen Qing announced that he had finished the work, he did not stay for long and walked back in the wind and snow.
After seven or eight days of adjustment and familiarity, the production of brushes has been put on the right track. I just need to register the quantity after acceptance every night, and there is no need to worry too much about other things.
The most important thing for her today was to go back and teach Guan Li how to make soap - a whole winter's time could not be wasted. Besides, the soap needed to be saponified, so the sooner she made the more the better, so that she could ship it to other places and sell it in the spring of next year to make money.
"Mom, you're back. Come to the stove and warm yourself by the fire." Guan Li was standing outside the kitchen door. When she saw Shen Qing coming back, she quickly opened the straw curtain.
Shen Qing glanced at Guan Li's red nose from the cold, frowned, and scolded her, "I don't have to follow the rules. Next time, don't stand outside and wait. If you get frozen, you'll be the one who suffers.
Girls need to take care of themselves!"
Guan Li was scolded, but her smile became even brighter, and she happily replied, "Yes, yes! Mom is right, I've taken note of it, and I won't do it again.
And I didn't stand there for long. I was in the kitchen before, and only came out to greet my mother when I saw her coming."
Today was the first day, and her mother had spared her the chores of greeting, serving tea, and preparing breakfast. How many new brides-in-law could sleep in on their first day? And how many of them would wake up to a ready breakfast?
Normally, she should wait at the workshop door for her mother to come back, or wait outside the yard gate to show her filial piety, but she thought that it would be easy for outsiders to see her, and it would seem like her mother was mistreating her as the new daughter-in-law.
Shen Qing felt relieved after hearing this. She was not stupid, and she did not show up in the workshop or outside the yard for outsiders to see her. She was not a scheming person. No, it was okay for a woman to be scheming, as long as she did not use it to fight within the family.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, he was hit by hot steam. Huo Bing, who was burning a fire behind the stove, also stood up.
"Mom, the mutton fat is already boiling. It will be ready in half an hour."
There was no floor heating in the kitchen, but the fire in the stove raised the temperature of the house. Shen Qing took off his cloak, and Guan Li beside him quickly took it and hung it on the hook behind the kitchen door.
My mother was different from other families. She asked her younger brother to help her make a dozen wooden hooks, polished them very smoothly, and then fixed the two sides firmly with iron nails and distributed them in every room.
Some are on the wall, some are behind the door, and some are on the side of the cabinet... They can be used to hang clothes, various small items, and things you need at hand. It is very convenient.
They also made several wooden barrels, saying they were trash cans. Everyone had one in their room, and people could throw things like melon seed shells, fruit peels, etc. into them, and then pour them into a small pit outside the yard, saying they were used as compost.
There are many other little things, one after another, that make life more convenient and enjoyable at the same time...
Shen Qing first went to the stove and sat by the fire for a while, until his whole body was warm before he stood up and went to the stove.
She picked up the spatula and stirred the mutton fat in the pot. It would indeed take another hour or so. "Let's extract the alkaline water in our spare time."
Huo Bing smiled and pointed to a large wooden barrel with a wooden lid beside him, and replied, "Mom has already extracted it."
Jincheng grows wheat but rarely rice, and there is not much rice straw either. Moreover, they arrived late, so they couldn't grow soybean stalks or buy them in large quantities. They were originally very anxious, but unexpectedly their mother suggested that they could try yellow broom twigs.
The yellow broom branches grow in clusters and clumps. They cannot grow big enough to be used as beams for bridges, but they are very troublesome when walking in the mountains and forests. However, if you don't want to cut them, they are as useful as straw and soybean stalks!
There is a firewood room full of yellow broom branches at home, and we have been burning them these days. We have accumulated a lot of wood ash, enough to make hundreds or thousands of bars of soap.
Guan Li added: "After putting firewood in the pot to boil the mutton fat, my sister-in-law taught me how to extract the alkaline water. I already know how to do it."
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