Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 126 Chapter 126
Lin Lan and Lin Yuezhen took the beans back home. They picked out the prickly ash and rattan pepper, found two clean large earthenware bowls, turned the fire in the stove, and scooped about ten catties of rapeseed oil into the pot.

Put the selected Chinese prickly ash and rattan pepper into a large earthenware bowl, wait for the rapeseed oil in the pot to stop bubbling, then pull out the thick ash to cover the charcoal fire.

Each of the two held a spoon and poured the boiling rapeseed oil on the prickly ash (vine pepper), a burst of fragrance and peppery smell came out.

Scoop out the oil in the pot until the hot oil has covered the rattan pepper, cover the lid and soak overnight to filter out the rattan pepper and Chinese prickly ash, put the oil in a clay pot and store it airtight, the longer you put it, the better the taste.

"It smells so good! Xiao Lin is frying pepper oil!"

Lin Lan walked to the door of the kitchen and saw Li Guizhi coming with a clip on her back: "Yes! My dad brought some fresh peppers and rattan peppers, and I fried them into oil, so it's easier to eat."

"I made it last year, and I can eat it until next year. The longer the sesame oil is left, the more fragrant it will be." Li Guizhi said as he took out two old pumpkins from the folder, with a lot of taro in them: "Xiao Lin, my mother gave it to me, let me eat it." Bring it to you."

Lin Lan took it with a smile: "Auntie is too polite, is this taro a fragrant taro?"

"Yeah!" Li Guizhi nodded with a smile, "My mother's family grows it, and it tastes better than taro."

"It's the first time I've seen yams grown here." Lin Lan thought for a while, "If you have a lot of old pumpkins and yams, you can send them to me, and I'll charge them at the market price. "

Li Guizhi nodded happily: "Yes, my mother planted a lot of pumpkins and sweet potatoes, and I will go back and collect them for you after dividing the straw and sweet potatoes."

Lin Lan nodded and said, "Pick the clean ones and keep them longer."

Li Guizhi nodded repeatedly and left with a smile.

After the grain was divided into households in the brigade, the production team began to distribute the straw, and Lin Lan's family got ten loads of straw.

The old lady hadn't been discharged from the hospital yet, so He Xianghua helped to send her rations and straw home.

Next, the production team began to dig sweet potatoes and yams from Niubei Mountain.

Niubei mountain is full of commune members digging sweet potatoes, and the dug sweet potatoes are piled up into mountains.

A lot of bare sweet potato poles and potato poles were also dug out.

The member named Yang San smiled and said with the bare poles dug out: "These guys don't even know how to steal, just point at a nest."

Zhang Rongqing patted it with a smile: "Yang San, tell me honestly, how many sweet potatoes and yams did you take out?"

Yang San rolled his eyes at him: "Rongqing, let's not talk about the second brother. Don't you remember that you came here before I went down the mountain that day, and even stepped on my poop."

Zhang Rongqing stared at him and said, "So it's you."

"Hahahaha!" Yang San put his hips on his hips and laughed triumphantly.

Zhang Rongqing smiled and threw a piece of potato at him: "You boy, I can't even eat sweet potatoes."

Everyone laughed for a while, talking about those years when they didn't have enough to eat and went out to steal food in the middle of the night.

Lin Lan recalled what her parents said before, that there was a famine in those years, and everyone went to the sweet potato field to steal sweet potatoes when they had nothing to eat.

Stealing sweet potatoes and yams is also very particular, lying in the furrows, digging in from the bottom of the field, one from each nest, and burying the soil back after digging out.

Unexpectedly, every thieves thought this way, but ended up digging out one by one, and when they dug up the sweet potatoes, they found that [-] to [-]% of the sweet potatoes in the field were all bare poles.

Yang Liying and Yang Meihua smiled and said to Lin Lan: "These bare poles are also due to Xiaodouzi and Xiaokai."

The aunt laughed and said, "How much did the little boys eat? I saw a few young men and two girls roasting sweet potatoes at the foot of the mountain that day."

Yang Liying smiled and pointed at Yang Meihua: "Sister Meihua and Brother-in-law He also came to bake at that time."

Yang Meihua turned her head and said with a smile: "It's been decades old, and [-]% of the small team has come to bake." Then he asked, "Are you making sweet potato noodles or potato noodles this year?"

Lin Lan asked with a smile, "Do you want to make vermicelli or small vermicelli?"

"I want to do a little bit of the same thing. My little Kai likes to eat sweet potato noodles." Yang Meihua said.

These days, as long as every household can make things by themselves, they do it by themselves, and never go to the street to buy and eat.

After digging the sweet potatoes and yams, the Lin Lan family got only one basket of sweet potatoes and yams.

When I got home, I dug out all the sweet potatoes planted in the vegetable field, cleaned them by the side of the ditch, cut them into small pieces and put them in a stone mill to grind them into red sweet potato mud.

Add water and filter it several times with gauze to settle. Put the sweet potato dregs in a gauze bag and rub it in a water basin until all the starch is washed out. Pour all the sweet potato pulp together and let it stand.

After the starch has completely settled, pour off the water on the surface, and the sweet potato pulp will condense into earthy white sweet potato starch.

Pull it out, let it dry in the sun, grind it finely and pass it through a fine sieve, and the sweet potato powder is ready.

The next morning, Yang Dingbang and Li Xiangyang sent the old lady home together.

After Lin Lan saw it, she felt that the old man was sick once, and his spirit was much worse.

The old lady looked at the yard and sighed comfortably: "It's still comfortable at home."

"You are back, and my mission is complete." Lin Lan returned the key to her with a smile.

"Fortunate to have you." The old lady took it with a smile, and said happily and ostentatiously, "I wanted to come back a long time ago, Dingbang forced the doctor to observe for two days before I was discharged from the hospital."

Lin Lan smiled after seeing it: "Dingbang treats you so well! The doctor said that your lumbar spine is damaged, and you have to take care of it for a while when you come back."

"I'll be careful, call Lin Lan and the others for help if you can't lift it." The old lady pulled Lin Lan, "Liu Jinbao's grandson is still in the hospital! I heard that he was seriously injured. I don't know where it came from." The gods appeared and cleaned up this dog."

After hearing this, Yang Dingbang abducted Li Xiangyang, and joked, "Shenxian Li!"

Li Xiangyang glanced at Lin Lan, with a sad face on his face: "If I am really a god, do I have to worry about my wife not being able to catch me?"

The old lady looked at the two of them: "Are you two talking bad about us secretly!"

"How dare you, grandma!" The two said in unison.

Yang Dingbang thought of something, turned his head and patted Li Xiangyang: "In the afternoon, you call two people to take the two pigs away, and there are more than a dozen chickens and a few big geese, and ask someone to take them away."

Li Xiangyang nodded: "Okay, I'll let someone pull it when I get back."

The old lady thumped Yang Dingbang distressedly: "I have nothing to say after you sold the pigs, but the matter of grabbing a handful of sorghum to feed the chickens, a dozen chickens have seven or eight eggs a day, and a few big geese have just started laying eggs, so sell them all." After I die, I have to buy and eat everything. If I can’t even do this, what am I doing alive?”

Yang Dingbang looked at her: "You promise me that I will not do heavy work in the future, and I will leave the private plot and vegetable plot to others, and I will leave it to you. Or I will hire someone to take care of you."

Seeing his attitude, the old lady had to compromise: "Let's do this! You can plant the land for Meihua's family, and keep the vegetable plot for me. When growing vegetables, I will call Lin Lan and Yuezhen to help me dig some vegetable seeds."

Lin Lan said with a smile: "We will cover the work of carrying water and digging the ground in the future. If you need anything, we will come right away." She thought, did the old lady figure it out after being in the hospital once?Don't you worry that you and Dingbang see eye to eye?
(End of this chapter)