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Chapter 333: Earn conscience money on both sides

There is no need to freeze Hanamaki steamed buns and other foods. The weather is not that hot yet. Find a cool place and store them for at least three or four days before they go bad.

Just have to freeze some stuffed foods.

So in fact, it doesn't take much saltpeter to make ice.

However, in order to reward Jiubao for helping her keep the secret from the general, Xu Tianxin even gave her a lot of saltpeter and asked Jiubao to keep it for Xia Tian to use slowly.

The ancient method of using saltpeter to make ice is not a secret method. It has been mentioned in some reference books here throughout the ages. How to boil saltpeter is a little secret.

In Jiubao's eyes, for Xu Tianxin, who could make bombs and blow up his own house, the first and most basic step of making saltpeter was like a joke. Even he knew it, so he didn't ask any more questions.

What Jiubao said the most to Xu Tianxin was:
"We only need to eat for a few days, and it will be fine for more than a month. When I went out with the general when the weather was bad, I had to sleep in the open air without eating anything. The longest time was that I didn't eat a single green leafy vegetable for half a year, and only drank water. It’s a big deal. So girls, you really don’t have to be like this. Please stop busy at home.”

Jiubao felt a little psychologically burdened.

For a moment, he regretted ordering food from Xu Tianxin, which made it very difficult for the Xu family to go out. They were very similar to those who held back the family.

But I only regretted it for a moment.

Jiubao thought to himself: If God allowed him to do it over again, he would definitely find Miss Xu to order a meal earlier, and he would definitely not show up after two months of hard work.

After all, who cares about enduring hardship if conditions permit? It's not like they don't have money.

These elite soldiers should try their best to take good care of their health. Don't finish mining, or your physical fitness will be useless after a year. If they cannot fight one against ten on the battlefield, it will be a greater loss.

However, you’ve already made dumplings, why don’t you still want to eat swan meat? Miss Xu actually looked apologetic.

Jiubao almost bowed to Xu Tianxin and said, "Don't be like this. Although we treat ourselves as big treasures, we are really not precious people."

If the young master knew about this, he might be rewarded with a few rewards.

That night, when Xu Tianxin was tossing food for the fifth time, when she was passing by the puddle that met Huo Yunqian on the narrow road, Jiubao and the others emerged from behind the hawthorn tree, appearing like ghosts.

Then no one spoke, and they gathered around.

Jiubao didn't dare to stretch out his hand and made a gesture of invitation, signaling Xu Tianxin to take off the steamed bun bag hanging on his chest and back.

Jiubao took two steps and almost missed it. There were two sacks tied around the neck and body of the cow.

Xu Tianxin felt that he only had time to pick out the bag, and when he looked back, he saw that the car that had been standing out before was empty, and the "ghosts" just now were gone.

I saw Jiubao with a basket of dry food tied up on his head with a rope, a bag hanging on his neck, a large basket on his back, and four bags hanging on his arms. His chest was like a kangaroo, and he was about to turn around and leave with his arms outstretched.

Xu Tianxin hurriedly called to him.

"what happened?"

Before Xu Tianxin could speak, Jiubao also remembered something.

Although he felt that if Miss Xu was short of money, then he would be a poor man.

But what if.

The Xu family grew up as a farmer, and with all the miscellaneous businesses involved, it was very difficult to make money even when the business was not sold. It would be even worse if there was another emergency.

Isn't there such a saying? Heroes are sometimes choked by a penny, not to mention ordinary people who may be tight-lipped for a while.

Jiubao asked while preparing to unload these grain bags:
"Girl, those of us who join the martial arts are all rough people. Don't dislike Jiubao's abruptness. I brought a lot of money with me before I came out here."

Before he came out, he also pulled out Shi'an's hidden pocket money. Including his own, there were almost more than three hundred taels.

There were six fifty-tael silver notes, and the rest were scattered pieces of silver.

He brought them all with him when he came out to greet Xu Tianxin tonight.

"If it's useful, don't think twice and just take it. I can't spend it in the ravine.

Also, don’t you really need me to send you a message? Pass it to General Lu and ask her to write a note for you.

If you have the right, why bother? The journey is smooth.

If you encounter a patrol at night, don't say any more words. Take out the letter with General Lu's private seal and walk sideways. No one dares to deceive you. "

Xu Tianxin couldn't help laughing, and quickly stopped Jiubao to stop taking the trouble to unload the bag and pay for it. She had money.

She didn't know when she started to feel that Jiubao was more like her friend.

Not to mention, if you are really short of money and have to borrow it from the opposite sex, Xu Tianxin looked carefully and found that opening your mouth to Jiubao was even less stressful than extending your hand to Bai Muyan.

Bai Muyan's eyes were too affectionate, and borrowing money from such a person of the opposite sex felt like betraying his lust if he couldn't afford the repayment.

On the contrary, Jiubao has the down-to-earth aura of a "little boy" and the aura of a military commander. It's very pure.

What Xu Tianxin wants to say to Jiubao is: "You can wait for me to come back for up to ten days. I have seen that there are still four tanks of pickled cabbage in my cellar. Then let my grandmother make pickled cabbage stewed with big bone sticks for you."

Jiubao: Well, it’s the season, and the Xu family still has sauerkraut, which shows how many other zero-seven-eight stocks there are.

If you ask him, the Xu family is called Zhong Ming Ding Shi.

He is popular, and there are many people who come and go at home. There is no intrigue, no need to worry about useless people and things. In terms of eating and drinking, I ate whatever I wanted without being overwhelmed by the food on the table, so I lived a pleasant life.

Jiubao ran and disappeared into the night.

That night, Xu Youtian received a mysterious gift.

……

The day before departure, the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, and Xu Tianxin deliberately made pre-sales in advance in order to live-stream sales.

Her pre-sales method is similar to her milk sales of salted duck eggs, where she has to go to the farm to pick the eggs by hand.

Xu Tianxin walked in the village accompanied by the crowing of chickens in the early morning, the sound of cuckoos, the croaking of frogs after the rain, and the chirping of crickets and cicadas. These are the sounds that many families in the live broadcast room miss from their childhood.

She remembered that under her video, a high-profile reply was: It turns out that the freedom and pastoral life that she wanted at the end of her life was something she had already at the beginning. When I was a child, I didn’t cherish it and thought it was boring. When I grow up, I miss it very much, but I can never go back.

So Xu Tianxin thought, she would broadcast whatever her family wanted to watch.

When passing by Hao Yinhua's chickens in the west courtyard, Xu Tianxin deliberately took a close-up of them.

Because the time-telling chickens in the west courtyard are very warm-hearted. Perhaps because they know the crow of her chickens, they go to the base of the wall every morning and stretch their necks to crow at them.

One day it rained and their family got up late. The chicken was very anxious and almost climbed up the wall to crow at them.

She was sleeping in the house when she heard Grandma Hao Yinhua in the west courtyard scolding the chicken: "Why are you so unworthy, ah? Forget about minding your own family affairs, you still care about whether the sauce jar is covered or not. If it is covered, stop barking, Tian Xin'er You're sleeping, maybe she'll come out and pluck your hair out later."

At this time, Xu Tianxin came to the homes of several women who were making Dragon Boat Festival sachets.

As expected, these aunts got up early and were busy tying the knots with colorful threads.

"Hey, Tian Xin is here. Have you eaten? I'll get you a bowl of sweet water."

"No, aunt, I'm not thirsty. I just came to see how many you have saved?"

The woman sighed, she had been busy for more than a month and almost two months, and had worked up to 46 sachets from dawn to dusk. She didn't think that Tian Xin's improved appearance was so complicated that he was slow in editing. She thought that it was because there was too much work in the fields, and there were too many shabby household chores, and a bunch of children had to be hired to wait on the men and old people to wash clothes and cook meals. , will delay making money.

"Will you take it away today?"

Otherwise, Tian Xin would not get up early and come home. It is not a secret in the village that Tian Xin likes to sleep in.

"Well, take it away." Xu Tianxin squatted next to the woman and watched carefully how the live broadcast was being woven into small ingots and small animal-shaped sachets with several colored threads. She would then put them in them. Mosquito repellent mugwort.

But the woman misunderstood and felt uneasy.

The rough hands shrank and explained in a low voice: "Don't worry, Auntie knows that you are going to sell these sachets to rich people. Before each braiding, I soak my hands in hot water and wash them clean. I still use I bought oil from you to wipe my hands to avoid scratching the threads. Look, there is no lint."

Xu Tianxin now sells some cheap facial oil, just for the village women and girls in the surrounding area. Ever since she took over the job of tying the knots, the woman had been ruthless and used the empty jar that used to contain lard at home to buy a spoonful from Xu Tianxin.

She couldn't bear to wipe her face, so she used it to wipe her hands.

Xu Tianxin's place now sells cheap flour oil like soy sauce for others. It sells it by the spoon. Women from the surrounding area come to buy it and need to bring their own jars.

Next, Xu Tianxin received the goods while live broadcasting, and she pulled the ox cart to the cattail grass and vine grouping.

These grandmothers are responsible for weaving cervical pillows, tatami mats or round cushions for sitting next to the coffee table. There are also cattail mats.

Grandmas sat around knitting.

Xu Tianxin interviewed one of the grandmothers: "How long does it take to weave this pillow?"

Cattails and vines were flying in the old man's hands. We didn't understand why she had a piece of cloth wrapped around her head. The old man was smiling and saying with wrinkles on his face: "One piece a day, it's fast."

Only one per day, which is said to be very fast, because after picking the cattails, these grandmothers want to knit with a process of beating the grass vines.

Xu Tianxin hoped to make more money, so she specifically asked her family members to search for other people's selling prices.

In addition, regarding Pucao, she also sells soft and fragrant cattail pillows filled with white coarse cloth.

And compared to the products for sale below, the above ones are not a hassle.

That is selling mugwort essential oil soap and mugwort essential oil.

From selecting Chen Ai, to washing, draining, grinding and distilling hydrosol, to distributing and mixing oil to make soap, cutting soap, making leaf-shaped soap shapes, and sealing soap seals, Xu Tianxin live broadcasts every step Show it to the family.

In summer, you can use this soap to refresh yourself, relieve itching, and remove mites. Men can also wash their hair and take a shower.

Mugwort essential oil can be used for scraping, and it takes about seven or eight kilograms of dried mugwort leaves to produce a small bottle of essential oil.

It is forbidden to use bottles and cans for products in the live broadcast room, and the boxes for soap are still small bamboo baskets handmade by grandfathers.

This time the outer packaging has also been upgraded, because there is an experienced craftsman named Gao Mantang who can weave and dye the bamboo baskets. Gao Mantang can weave patterns and colors into the small bamboo baskets.

Later, the family used small bamboo baskets with lids and buckles to hold flower headbands, which was also very beautiful.

Xu Tianxin also took advantage of this live broadcast to sell various floral and essential oil soaps. If the family in the live broadcast room bought six pieces, it would come with a wooden box with Xu Youliang's soap seal and trademark engraved on it.

As for the container for essential oils, it is still a pocket-sized bamboo basket.

Why not leak? This was taught by the villagers who fled from the outside world and settled in Erdaohe. They mixed lime, tung oil and pig blood together and brushed them on paper, mounted them and left them to dry.

Then braid bamboo strips upward one by one, so that the base is small, the mouth is small, and the belly is big. Don’t worry about using it. If you don’t believe me, try it in advance. It is low-cost and the oil will not smell. They use this in their hometown to store oil. Vinegar and wine.

This method made the old Xu family very happy. At a glance, it was obvious that its biggest advantage was that it was not afraid of falling after the mouth was sealed, and it was also very light to transport.

In this way, the Xu family's high-quality liquor can be transported out of the country, and all kinds of items that need to be packed in jars and bottles can also be transported out. There is no need to worry about the jars breaking due to slippery roads in winter, and the cost will indeed be much lower. Because paper is the most expensive here, Lei Jiawo is working overtime to make paper.

At this time, what the villagers didn't know was that Xu Tianxin took away a cart of goods, and Mrs. Xu drove away a donkey cart.

Mrs. Xu ordered a total of six donkey carts.

Mrs. Xu tied the goods tightly every time, covering them with oilcloth. The knotting method she used was the special forces team member's technique taught by her son in modern times. Most people would only pull it tighter and tighter if they wanted to untie it. You can tell at a glance whether someone has touched the goods or not.

Donkey carts also have carriages, and no one knows what is in them.

As a result, two groups of women steaming dry food in the shop and in the village mistakenly thought that what they were taking away was dry food. Thinking that Mrs. Xu hadn't left for Fucheng yet, she cooperated with Zhao Zhenting's wife to sell food in the town. Otherwise, where would the dry food go?
After the grandfather and grandson transported four carts of goods in the morning, Xu Tianxin made his last stop to Grandpa Guan.

Guan Ertu has no home now.

When he salvaged Wei Fengshou, he said, "Son, as long as you become my son-in-law, my father-in-law will give you a home."

But after Wei Fengshou, Hongzao’s father, agreed, Lao Guan’s house was demolished and a new house was being built. If the old house was not demolished, where would the new house be built?

Then things turned out that Hong Zao not only had to take his new mother Yingzi to live in Tian Xin's rented workshop, Hong Zao's father also had to live in a shack with his father-in-law and stepson.

Not only did Wei Fengshou build a house for Lao Guan's family free of charge, he also had to cover Guan Ertu and Hu Zhu with quilts and cook at night.

He was not as good as before. He used to sleep in a bathhouse instead of living in a shack, and he could see Yingzi. But since the marriage was arranged but no one could see her, Yingzi was very relieved to leave her father and son to him, and she was busy filling feather pillows to make money. She also said that if something happened to her father and son, just ask him to tell Hong Zao.

So Xu Tianxin came to an open field with a lot of mugwort growing nearby.

The family members in the live broadcast room unanimously made ellipses to express their surprise.

This open space has become a moxa-making processing workshop.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, four country doctors, including the doctor who had treated Xu Zhaozhao in Xujiazhuang, were also there. They were wearing a piece of cloth on their heads, concentrating on sitting at the table, rubbing old mugwort that was more than ten years old with their palms.

The real process of making moxa requires picking out the weeds after picking wild mugwort, beating the moxa ash, and separating the leaves and stems. It needs to be pounded with a stone mortar five times, sieved five times, and replaced with finer moxa every time. The sieve must be used to select impurities every time, picking out the mugwort stems and leaving only the mugwort leaves. Then use a rolling pin to pound it, which is no less labor-intensive than the old Xu family's fish noodle making.

Even for the best-quality moxa, people here are not particular about making moxa velvet. They cannot use a stone mortar, but rub the moxa with their hands. Only then will the value be very high.

At this time, behind the four doctors were half-grown boys with more than a hundred people. They were pounding three-year-old moxa five times and sifting it five times with stone mortars and sieves. The rolling pins struck the moxa with echoes.

Xu Tianxin sat in front of a small table woven with cattail vines. On the table was a mosquito repellent plate made of mugwort, burning essential oil incense made of mugwort and tangerine peel, and placed it in the pear lamp she made.

Just pull out the flesh of the pear. This is called a glowing pear.

There are also samples of the best mugwort just picked, as well as a tea set with Perrin brewed in it.

Xu Tianxin was not in a hurry to take out the moxa velvet strips, foot bath bags, bath orchid soup bags and other products for sale first. I want to add that the reason why she drank Perrin tea was precisely because the bath bags contained moxa. There are grasses, calamus, and fragrant peilan.

The ancient orchid refers to Peilan, which means noble character. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival was called the Orchid Bathing Festival.

She hopes that her family members will buy a bath bag like this during the Dragon Boat Festival and put it in the bathtub to scent it and dehumidify it.

Xu Tianxin first invited her master, Doctor Guan, to sit cross-legged on another cattail mat. She started by saying, "I have been with you for three years, and the doctor will no longer come. If you want to be healthy, I will never work for three years."

Then, from a puzzled perspective, she was asking her master what color the real three-year-old moxa would be after grinding it, and what color would be the five-year-old moxa.

Look at the ones on the market, how they still fool modern family members. That means each moxibustion session takes an hour or two. It doesn't matter if it's a waste of time. But if you smell useless smoke for two hours, isn't that deceiving you?

It doesn't even matter whether her family members buy it this time, she must tell modern family members what is true.

"Why do you choose three-year mugwort when you have a seven-year disease? Is one-year mugwort useful? Why do you only cut mugwort during the period before the Dragon Boat Festival? Is it really just May mugwort and June mugwort? July It is used as firewood in August. How do you store moxa for three years, five years, or even ten years? Do you need to take it out for a few days every year? Will there be any loss after keeping it for several years? Save a hundred pounds, and eventually it will become ten pounds.”

Guan Ertu took a sip of tea and finally felt like his master.

"...Ahem, just listen to what I have to say."