So she was not worried about any danger happening to her at home, and she also advised Fu Shinian to rest assured that she would take good care of the family.
Yuanyuan is growing up day by day and is very well behaved. He doesn't cry or make a fuss even if he is left with Mr. Zhang every day.
As long as Yuanyuan can sleep with her mother at night, she doesn't have to stick to her at other times.
After Fu Shinian and his colleagues returned to the town to work, Tong Yiya stayed at home and started to peel some of the fruits she brought back yesterday, remove the cores of some, and then made them into various dried fruits.
Some fruits were too sour, so she added sugar, steamed them, and then dried them.
Some people peel the fruits directly, then tie them up with thread and hang them on drying poles to dry. After drying to a certain degree, the flesh needs to be kneaded every day.
She spent two days drying all the fruits, and then went out to dig herbs. Every morning she turned over the drying fruits at home, and in the afternoon, after coaxing Yuanyuan to sleep, she carried the backpack and went up the mountain.
Not long after, the village started the autumn harvest. She did not go out again, but stayed at home to help Old Zhang prepare the medicinal soup for the villagers to drink during the autumn harvest.
Every day, the two of them got up before dawn, boiled the medicine, and then cooked the day's food on a small clay stove nearby.
Because there were outsiders visiting their home these past two days, they had corn porridge for breakfast. In order for the children and the elderly to digest it better, Tong Yiya would cook it for a little longer each time, and then she would use a bowl of cornmeal to make a big pot of porridge.
The food was served with pickles or kimchi made from wild vegetables they dug up themselves. The villagers saw that the food they ate was no different from theirs, so they would talk about it with others when they went out. Only then did their neighbors stop telling others about how good their lives were and how they had to eat meat every now and then.
This way, there will be fewer people watching them, and they can live more comfortably.
After the autumn harvest, Tong Yiya continued to go up to the mountains to dig herbs every day. Autumn had arrived, and the leaves had begun to fall in some places in the mountains.
From time to time, she would pick up mushrooms and fungi in the mountains, bring them back home, dry them in the sun, and wait until winter to stew chicken with mushrooms.
Because they lived far from the village, they secretly raised a few more chickens in the backyard. They were originally able to raise four chickens, but they raised six more. Now they have ten chickens in the family.
These chickens can lay seven or eight eggs every day, enough for each person in the family to lay one egg a day, and there will still be some left over.
Tong Yiya would save the extra ones, and when there were more, she would pickle them all into salted eggs so that they could be preserved for a longer time.
During this period of time, Tong Yiya found time to clean up all the empty jars and cans at home. After drying them in the yard, she brought them back to the kitchen and waited to make pickles after the vegetables in the yard were harvested.
Her soybean paste has already been put into the jar and is placed in the yard to dry every day. She stirs it from time to time and skims out the foam.
There is a lot of sauce this year, so she plans to harvest some of it. She will soak some fresh beans, cucumbers and the like in the sauce, and then take it out in winter to make fried sauce and eat with porridge.
Tong Yiya has been busy recently and her schedule is fully packed every day. Fu Shinian and the others only come back every three to five days, and when they come back and see that she is busy, they help her out.
Every time she went up the mountain, she would bring back a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms. She would make the wild vegetables into kimchi or pickled vegetables, and she would dry the mushrooms and store them, and then make stews in the winter.
When Fu Shinian and his friends came back, they started to prepare firewood for their home. After the villagers had planted all the wheat, they also went up the mountain to prepare firewood.
During this period, some women would go to the mountains to look for mushrooms or seasonal wild vegetables and bring them home to prepare as winter dishes.
The weather was getting colder and colder. Before it snowed, Tong Yiya took Fu Shinian and the others to harvest the two vegetable plots in her home. She made the tomatoes into various sauces or canned food for storage, and made the chili peppers into pickled chili peppers and chili sauce. Tong Yiya boiled some small ones in water and dried them in the sun. When she wanted to eat them, she would stir-fry them in a pan with oil, add some soy sauce and seasonings, and it would become a rare dish that goes well with rice.
Just pick all the cucumbers, eggplants and the like and put them aside to be processed in the evening.
Cabbages were the most abundant crops grown at home. Tong Yiya made most of them into sauerkraut, a dish unique to the north, and stored some of them in the cellar so that they could be eaten fresh in the winter.
Most of the radishes were dug into holes and buried, and a small part was cut into strips and made into pickles.
It took the family a whole day to harvest the vegetable crops in two yards.
Fu Shinian and his colleagues also had new adjustments in their work, and after the heavy snow, they all started to go home to spend the winter.
It's not snowing now, so they should go out a few more times. After it snows and the roads are icy, it will be unsafe to drive. For their safety, the higher-ups have issued a notice asking them to go out a few more times before it snows to avoid shortages during the winter.
So after it snows in winter, they will spend more time at home, which is very hard for Tong Yiya.
Fu Shinian actually wants a second child because Yuanyuan said she wants a younger sister.
After everything that needed to be prepared at home was ready, Fu Shinian and Dong Weibing went up the mountain again and caught a lot of prey, which Tong Yiya made into various canned meats and dried meats.
Later, the day before it snowed, they went to the mountains again, brought back some good prey, processed it, and waited for it to snow and freeze it so they could eat it fresh in the winter.
Tong Yiya received a lot of work points from the village this year because she and Fu Shinian went to work from time to time and earned enough. During the autumn harvest, they also received a share of grain.
With the grain and vegetables that Fu Shinian and his family received in the city, the family can have a prosperous year this year.
After the snow, Fu Shinian and his family stayed back home, helping Zhang Lai grind medicine and taking care of the children every day.
The kang stove at home is lit every day, so I won’t feel cold staying at home, and sometimes I even feel hot when I’m working.
On the first night of snowfall, Tong Yiya prepared hotpot for everyone. She stewed a rabbit that had been dried for a long time at home. She saw that the rabbit was about to grow hair, so she took it down, cleaned it, and stewed it.
The family began their hibernation life, eating only two meals a day. Fu Shinian let Tong Yiya sleep until she woke up naturally every day, and he also took over the cooking chores at home.
Every morning when Tong Yiya woke up and saw the smiling Fu Shinian, she would roll her eyes at him.
Maybe it was because he worked too hard, but Tong Yiya felt that her relatives were delayed after a while. She had some ideas in her mind, but she didn't say them out because she thought there was still short time.
But when Fu Shinian wanted to pull her to play around again at night, she touched her belly and refused.
Fu Shinian didn't see her actions before and thought she was angry, so he pulled her aside and tried to comfort her.
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