Farmhouse pretty cook

Chapter 61 Wild Eggs

Mu Xiang still has a lot of work to do, and it's not the season for pickling bacon. These wild game must be pickled before they can be preserved.

She brought the jar of vinegar from the stove and sprinkled some vinegar in the tub.Vinegar can remove the fishy smell, and then I took a salt shaker and rubbed some salt on the skin of the game. Because it is coarse salt, when marinating, I had to rub it hard, otherwise the meat would not get salt.It has to be rubbed inside and out, and finally cut some shredded ginger to remove the fishy smell.Put it on for two days in this way, and then hang it outside to air dry.

On this day, both Mu Xiang and Cai Yun were very tired. Although Mu Lang didn't do any heavy work, he was so sleepy that he could fall asleep with his head on the pillow.

When undressing, the oil lamp was still on. Mu Xiang saw the blushing marks on her younger sister's face, and said distressedly: "Don't pick chrysanthemums tomorrow, maybe Tang Mo doesn't need so many chrysanthemums. You can rest at home for a day Not urgent."

Caiyun had already got into bed, and she just grinned when she heard this, "Sister, I'm not tired, picking chrysanthemums is not going to work in the fields, it's much easier than that, I'll pick them, and we can earn more money, The winter will be over soon, and our family still has a lot of things to buy, and we will have to buy a lot of things by then!"

Mu Xiang sighed in her heart, saying that children from poor families have already taken charge of their families. If Caiyun's age is placed in modern times, she is still in school, and she would be acting like a baby in the arms of her parents!

Another two days later, the weather was a bit gloomy, Damei and Jinju discussed to take a rest for a day, they are not at home these few days, Caiyuan's house has accumulated a lot of things.In the afternoon, Damei sent a basket of winter cured vegetable seedlings, "I have planted too many rapeseeds, and I can't finish them. You can plant these, and when they grow, you can pickle them and eat them."

Mu Xiang took the basket, "I forgot about it, it happens that there is still a lot of space beside my vegetable garden, where we can grow preserved vegetables." She did forget that in fact, there are many vegetables that can be grown in modern vegetable gardens , she crossed over and started everything from the beginning, so it was inevitable that there would be omissions.

Seeing that it was still early, Damei helped her grow winter vegetables.

Before leaving, Muxiang wanted to bring her some dried fish, but Damei refused, "I have this at home. My father likes to go fishing when he is free. There is no shortage of fish in my family, huh," she said. , she suddenly saw an extra cage in the yard of Muxiang's house, which was made of bamboo.Inside the cage, there was the injured golden pheasant squatting impressively, "Why do you keep it up? If you tell it to run away, it won't be worth it."

Mu Xiang also came over and looked at the golden pheasant, but what she thought was not the case at all, "It can't run, except for the cage, and there are ropes tied to its feet. I was thinking, how many people are there at home?" Just a hen, I want to hug a brood of young golden pheasants, tell me, can this be done?" She was not sure about this matter, after all, golden pheasants are wild and have a strong temper. If her little hens are nagging badly, then it will be troublesome.

Damei glanced at her with an indisputable expression, and after a while, she burst out laughing, "You...how do you even understand this?"

Mu Xiang was quite awkward at first, but she wasn't married anyway, so it seemed a little embarrassing to discuss the issue of breeding. Damei's smile made her flush, "Oh, don't laugh, I'm Zheng Let me tell you seriously, think about it, if you can really hatch little golden pheasants, you will definitely earn more money than simply feeding chickens, and the feathers of golden pheasants are also valuable. It's better than nothing, right? Besides, the pheasant taste is better than home-grown chicken. Generally speaking, it must be a profitable business."

Damei laughed for a while, and when she heard her seriousness, she had to hold back her laughter, "Well, what you say makes sense, but I dare not say whether it will work or not. No one here has ever hatched wild eggs. No, try it first, put a hen in it, and the eggs will be hatched separately, so that it is not easy to make mistakes. I will buy chicks next year and come back to feed them. Then you will go there like me. Buy it, won't it be a distraction?"

Mu Xiang thought for a while, and felt that what Damei said was reasonable, let's try it out first, whether it is good or not, you will only know if you try it.After a while, Muxiang asked Damei if she wanted to go to the county seat. There was no stone mill at home, so she wanted to see if she could sell a smaller stone mill.

The game fur that was peeled off earlier has been air-dried and has to be sold.Autumn is coming quickly in the mountains, the temperature has cooled down, and the new vegetable seedlings in the ground have been planted, and it only needs to be watered every few days.

After taking a break from the matter at hand, she wanted to go to the county again to see if she could find other business opportunities.In fact, she has also thought about business opportunities.Yuhe Village is a bit far away from the town. It is impossible for her to make things and sell them every day. Even if she has a donkey cart to drive her, she can go back and forth every day, which is still unrealistic.

So, she was wondering if she could make some things at home, gather them together, and go to the town to sell them every now and then. Of course, if she could find a long-term partner, it would save her a lot of trouble.

When Damei heard that she was going to the county town, she was not excited. She said calmly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to go. The corn in my field can be harvested. I've been busy harvesting corn these days, and my brother can't leave. , if you want to go, I'm afraid you have to walk."

Walking is nothing to Mu Xiang.She was even more curious about what Damei said about harvesting corn, "Your corn is all grown in the field?"

Damei asked her in a daze, "If you don't plant corn, where should you plant it? One of the few fields my family rented was not fertile, so half of it was planted with corn and the other half with soybeans. I can take it."

Mu Xiang frowned, and then asked: "After harvesting, what will I plant?"

Damei shook her head, "What time is this? If you harvest it, leave it empty, and plant it next year. If you plant it now, it won't work!"

Mu Xiang bit her lip, "How about this? The Chinese cabbage seeds I sprinkled last time produced a lot of vegetable seedlings. I haven't finished planting them. When you harvest the corn, turn the land a little bit, plant Chinese cabbage, and do it in winter." Vegetables to eat."

Damei was a little reluctant, "My pig will be sold at the end of the year, and I can't finish eating so many Chinese cabbages. If it snows heavily, it will be frozen to death."

Mu Xiang also knew her concern, but she had her own thoughts, so she told her truthfully: "You just plant it, it's best to plant Chinese cabbages that are fat and big, and when I harvest, I'll buy them all, yes Now, I am going to dig a cellar in the yard, so that the Chinese cabbage can be stored there, and it will not freeze to rot no matter how cold it is."

"A cellar?" Damei blinked her eyes, and a look of confusion flashed across her round face, "But no one digs a cellar here, the soil is too loose, and to dig a cellar, you have to lay bricks, which is laborious and expensive. Why are you digging that?"

(End of this chapter)