Spring is coming

Chapter 30 Making Peach Wine

Not long after Mrs. Gao left, Mrs. Zhou came back from outside.

The two families still shared the same courtyard. When Mrs. Zhou came back and saw that the ground and aisles were crowded, she raised her eyebrows and said in a sinister tone: "Are we still going to let people walk?"

Mo Jingchun didn't want her to affect his mood, so he moved away a little and said calmly: "It's not blocking the road to your house."

After saying that, she went back to the house, leaving Ms. Zhou alone. She heard her cursing behind her: "I don't see any elders in my eyes anymore! Damn girl, it's not enough to conquer my parents, but they are also going to harm our family!"

She stood still and turned around, stared at Mrs. Zhou and asked, "Second Aunt, what do you mean by this?"

Mrs. Zhou's face was full of resentment. Her family had recently lost money inexplicably, and the rice had been exposed to rain and sprouted, causing damage to the harvest.

Mo Yuanlin sprained his foot when he went out today and it was so swollen that he couldn't work!

What a disaster!

She felt that this year was really not going well, so she went to the village Goddess Tian to figure it out.

Goddess Tian Shenpo kept saying that a disaster star had sucked away their family's luck.

It's just bad luck now. If she doesn't follow her method to prevent being sucked, it will only get worse in the future.

The more Zhou listened, the more frightened she became.

She believed these things, so she immediately gave all the copper coins she had to Tian Shenpo and asked her what to do.

Tian Shenpo made calculations for a long time, and then told her that the disaster star was in the northwest, her zodiac sign was rabbit, and she was a girl. She asked her to go back and look for it first, and remember not to make any announcement.

Mrs. Zhou returned home anxiously. When she saw Mo Jingchun, she suddenly realized: Isn't this the girl born in the year of the rabbit that Goddess Tian said, sleeping in the northwest corner of the house?
She then thought about the rumors in the village that Mo Jingchun had killed her parents. She immediately strengthened her idea and spilled the beans in a rage.

After shouting, she regretted it, and Tian Shenpo told her not to disturb the other party first.

Mo Jingchun was staring at this, and she changed the topic in a panic: "No, it's nothing! I'm just talking nonsense! Please move the land in front of the house quickly, I want to dry the mattress too!"

She was so secretive that Mo Jingchun was confused. He thought to himself that the scolding she had given her a few days ago was much worse than this. What was there to worry about today?
If something went wrong, there must be a monster, but after a while, there was no further movement from the Zhou family.

Mo Jingchun found it unbelievable. Could it be that Gao's shock made her really decide to live a stable life?

After Mo Qinglin fetched water from outside, he also picked a bunch of peaches, which were small, crisp and sour.

"Chun'er! Try this, it's so sweet!"

He tried his best to let Mo Jingchun taste one with guarantee, saying it was very sweet.

Mo Jingchun picked up one, wiped off the peach hair on his clothes and took a bite, then his whole face wrinkled:

"Uncle!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Mo Qinglin laughed loudly after losing the peach: "You dare to eat the peaches on the mountain, my uncle will help you improve your memory!"

It took Mo Jingchun a while to feel his tongue coming back, and he threw the leftover peach angrily: "I told you to do something bad!"

"Hey, it didn't hit!"

Mo Qinglin smiled and dodged, and the peach hit Zhou's freshly washed clothes.

"puff"

Mo Qinglin almost laughed. Mo Jingchun was afraid of attracting Zhou, so he covered his mouth anxiously: "Stop laughing! Uncle, take it and wash it quickly!"

Before Zhou came out, the two of them quickly took the juice-stained clothes to the river, washed them again, and quickly put them back in place.

Only then did I start sweating, almost hearing Mrs. Zhou going crazy again.

Mo Jingchun clapped his hands and picked up the peaches scattered on the ground one by one.

Mo Qinglin asked: "What can we do if we keep them?"

"Make a peach bar." She thought for a while and said.

Peach wine has a refreshing entrance, fragrant fruit aroma, sweet but not greasy.

She was a little greedy.

"You? How old are you? What do you drink?"

Mo Qinglin was stunned for a moment, then objected. "I don't want to drink it. Let's sell it in the town."

She winked at Mo Qinglin. After thinking about it these days, she still wanted to try setting up a stall in the town.

"Don't tell grandma now. Tell her after you make money to make her happy."

Mo Jingchun warned him.

If I tell Mrs. Gao, I'm afraid she will worry about this and that, be hesitant and never be able to take the first step.

It took her so long to wake up and adapt, she can't just wander around Mojiacun all the time!

The Bo family gave her two hundred cash a month, but after several months of saving, she only managed to save four hundred cash, which was less than half a tael.

When the rice is sold, excluding the ones left to pay taxes and to eat at home, there should be ten taels of silver in the account.

The wild peaches on the mountain are all small and exquisite, with not much juice. The ones Mo Qinglin picks to make wine are only enough for his own family.

She asked Mo Qinglin to go to the foot of the mountain and pick a few more bags, and then she stopped after picking almost all the wild peaches in that area.

"Is that enough?"

Mo Qinglin was so tired that he was covered in sweat, holding on to the wall and breathing heavily.

"enough."

She held the cloth bag contentedly and was very happy.

In her eyes, these peaches have turned into clattering copper plates waving to her.

The two worked together to move the wooden barrels used for making wine at home from the corner, cleaned the dust, then poured all the peaches in and scrubbed them carefully with clean water and fine salt.

"Yeah, we don't have any Jiuqu at home. Uncle, you wash here while I go to Aunt Ming's house to see if I can borrow some."

I borrowed distiller's yeast from Mrs. Liu and washed the peaches. Next was a big project, which was to remove the peach stones and cut the pulp into pieces and squeeze it into juice.

The Mo family didn't have anything to take advantage of, and the two of them were in trouble.

"How about going to Brother Bo's house?" Mo Qinglin suggested, "At worst, I'll give him a pot to try."

"Brother-in-law, even if I don't borrow their place, I still want to give some to them."

She is not a white-eyed wolf.

"Then let's move there now?"

"Okay." Mo Jingchun agreed hesitantly, wondering if this was not treating him as an outsider.

The two of them were carrying a large bucket of wild peaches. The scene was quite funny. Bo Qingshan joked: "Did you go to Huaguo Mountain? Did you take away the monkey's hometown?"

"Brother Bo, this is my brother-in-law."

The first time Mo Jingchun introduced Mo Qinglin to Bo Qingshan, the scene was so awkward.

"Huh?" Bo Qingshan suddenly felt something was wrong, "You call me Brother Bo, and you call him uncle. What should I call him?"

Do you want to follow Mo Jingchun and call him uncle?He is several years younger than me!

Mo Qinglin said nonchalantly: "It's okay! Let's talk about our own things. I will call you Brother Bo after Chun'er, and you will call me Uncle Qinglin after her. What's the big deal!"

He was so carefree. Anyway, Mo Ying was one year older than him, so didn't he have to call him uncle?

Bo Qingshan found it interesting and chuckled: "Uncle Qinglin, disrespectful."

Mo Qinglin felt embarrassed to be called uncle by an adult man, so he smiled and said: "Brother Bo, thank you for taking care of my niece. We plan to brew some peach wine and sell it in the town during the off-season. We will also give it away then." You two pots!"

At such a young age, he is quite good at doing favors.

Bo Qingshan made a "please" gesture and deliberately picked up his accent: "Feel free to use it, you're welcome, Bo is waiting for the wine made by Miss Jingchun to satisfy his craving."

Mo Jingchun's face turned red from the two of them talking back and forth, and he wished he could crawl into the ground.

When Bo Qingshan saw her, he tsked again: "Uncle Qinglin, your niece is so easily shy."

(End of this chapter)