Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 32 The Dowry
These bean sprouts have a growth cycle, and I don't know how much they can sell in a day.Therefore, as a result of the discussion, the beans are soaked every three days, which can basically guarantee that they can be sold and there will not be too much backlog.Chen Shi and Xue Shi were soaking beans, and Jinghan, Wenxuan and Wenchang helped pick the beans, so that Chen Shi and Xue Shi could also relax.

After the beans soaked for the second time grew, Mrs. Xue would pull the sledge to sell bean sprouts in the town every day. She could sell about [-] catties a day, which was about [-] Wen.In this way, soaking beans once every three days is just enough to catch up.Jinghan only followed her to the town for the first few days, but then stopped.At home, she helps pick beans, feeds pigs, cooks, etc., while Mrs. Chen does filter and wash bean sprouts.When the soybean sprouts are washed, there will be some bean sprouts mixed in the bean skin, so you have to pick them out again, otherwise it would be a pity to throw them away.Jinghan will pour the remaining watercress into the pig food pot and feed it to the pigs. The pigs are delicious.

The Xu family only harvested six to seven hundred catties of beans this year. Originally they wanted to sell some, and then eat some oil at home, and save the bean cakes to feed the livestock.Now that the bean sprouts are easier to sell, Mrs. Chen decided to keep the raw bean sprouts.Anyway, those picked broken watercress beans can be exchanged for tofu and so on, so I kept some seeds and used the rest as raw bean sprouts.Naturally, the money for growing bean sprouts was to be handed over to Mrs. Chen.Mrs. Xue doesn't care about these things, anyway, she often buys some delicious food at home, and Mrs. Chen also agrees, isn't working to earn money just to eat something good.

In a blink of an eye, October was over, and Zhixin no longer went to collect firewood every day. There were already two large stacks of firewood at home.Zhixin and the old man are very tidy in their work. Every day when they bring back firewood, they will use a saw outside to cut it into one and a half feet in length, and then use an ax to split it into petals.The big piles have to be piled up, and piled up into tall piles.Farm households, to see who is diligent or not, sometimes you can tell by looking at the firewood stacks.Some families will have a lot of big firewood stacks, and some families would like to burn today's firewood so that there will be no tomorrow.

Now that the firewood was almost collected, Zhixin had nothing to do, so he went hunting in the mountains.It is not possible to hunt every day. Many people in this village go hunting at this time, so if you are lucky, you will be able to hunt something back someday.It's just hares, pheasants, and sometimes roe deer.This roe deer is also called a silly roe deer. It is said that when you see a roe deer, you have to shout behind it, "Roe deer." The roe deer will look back at you, so that if you shoot an arrow, you will be able to hit it.

This day Zhixin came back with two badgers, these things are rare, when Chen saw it, he was very happy. "Oh, this is a good thing. The badger skin is at the right time at this time, and the hair is also dense and shiny. Zhixin, you peeled the badger skin and sent it to a place where the skin is cooked. I think it will stay. Give it to Huixin as a dowry, with these two skins, it will give us a face." At this time, a badger skin should be sold for five taels to eight taels of silver, and two skins can be put in the dowry. It's really good.

Huixin listened and said no. "Mother, no need, let's sell it. I don't need this thing, and I can add some money to the family after selling it. This is for my marriage, and the family has spent a lot of money. How can we Dowry Pizi?"

Mrs. Xue heard it from the side, and said with a smile, "Huixin, you can take it with confidence, your eldest brother may be able to fight again someday. Besides, we only have a girl like you in our family, so we must let you have a good time." Just get married."

After Huixin heard this, tears were about to fall again, "For my marriage, the family is really spending too much money. I have been in poor health these years, and it has caused a lot of trouble to the family. Now that I am going to get married, it is still the same, sister-in-law, I can do it in the future. How can you repay the love you have with your elder brother?"

Mrs. Xue hurriedly helped Huixin wipe away her tears, "Silly girl, why are you crying? When I came to Xu's house, you were only three or four years old. At that time, I carried you on my back and hugged you all day long. Although you are not me My child, but I love you more than Wen Han and the others. Now that you are getting married, your elder brother and I have nothing to do. It’s okay to add two dowry to you. You can rest assured that if your elder brother can still If you catch a prey, as long as it has a good skin, it will be left to you."

Listening to Xue's words, Mrs. Chen couldn't help but secretly nodded.This is the eldest daughter-in-law, if it was the Wei family or the Han family, how could she give such a good thing to Hui Xin. "Okay, your sisters-in-law don't have to give in here. Jingya is ten years old, and in a few years, she should be married. At that time, Huixin will give her a little more. We are all a family, so what are you doing heretics? "

Zhixin didn't care what the women said there, and hurriedly took two badgers outside and peeled the skins, then turned the skins over and nailed them to a wooden board, and waited for the skins to dry before taking them out to be cooked.The badger meat is also left behind. This badger meat is a good thing. It tastes very delicious and has an excellent nourishing effect.Mrs. Chen wants Mrs. Xue to make something for everyone to eat, but Mrs. Xue will not do it. The meat of these two badgers can be sold for several taels of silver in a restaurant, and it will soon be exchanged for a pig. ?

When Wen Han and Wen Cheng came back from the school, they were also very envious when they saw those two skins.Boys, what they like most is practicing martial arts and hunting, and they surround Zhixin and ask questions about this and that.

Northerners only eat two meals a day when winter comes, so it is time to eat dinner at this time.Xue asked the children to wash their hands and prepare to eat.After dinner, Wen Han and Wen Cheng taught Wen Xuan and Wen Chang to read together, and Jing Han naturally joined in the fun.She can read, but there must be a legitimate excuse to explain how she knows the characters?That way no one should say anything.

In the days that followed, I didn't know what was going on, when Zhixin went to the mountains, he could really meet some good things.One day he got a raccoon dog, and another time he hunted two sables.The family members said that this may be the blessing of Huixin. I heard that it was going to be left as a dowry for her, and I could get anything good.Without further ado, Mrs. Xue left all these furs to Huixin as a dowry.You know, even if you don't use these things yourself, if you sell them, you can sell them for dozens of taels of silver.Naturally, Mrs. Chen did not object, but Huixin's objection was in vain. In the end, Zhixin got all of them from the craftsman who cooked the leather, and they were all familiar.

Time passed quickly, and it was the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye, and Mrs. Xue stopped selling bean sprouts in the town. At this time, the bean sprouts were particularly easy to freeze, so they were not easy to sell.Besides, the family is very busy, Huixin's dowry has not yet made bedding.On this day, Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Chen went to the town to buy a lot of cotton and quilts, and then they found a few helpers in the village to help make quilts.

Mrs. Chen is going to send four beds and covers for the escort. The quilt and mattress covers have been prepared a long time ago. They are all such patterns as dragon and phoenix prospering, unicorn giving birth, and a picture of a hundred children, which looks very festive.While making it, everyone praised the quality of the material and the exquisite embroidery, which is very rare.After hearing this, Mrs. Chen was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. "This material was saved before, and the pattern was embroidered by Huixin herself. These things took her a lot of effort."

Naturally, these quilts can't be finished in one day, and if someone is asked to help make the quilts, it is to keep them here for dinner.So Mrs. Xue led Jingya and Jinghan to cook for everyone.Mrs. Xue's craftsmanship is good, and she is willing to put her heart into cooking. After eating, everyone said that the food is good.Those who help eat at other people's homes are also compared with each other. Which one cooks delicious food, has good dishes, and has more meat dishes is the standard for comparison.Sometimes, if someone who serves the helper does not serve well, it will be very difficult to invite someone to come in the future.The Xu family has always been willing to work hard on this, so when the village heard that the Xu family wanted help, they were very willing to come.

It took a total of three days of work to finish all the quilts, and Xue Shi and Chen Shi were relieved.

Next, it's time to kill the pig.In the next two months, not only acorns but also bean sprouts were added, so the pig grew very fast, weighing more than 200 catties.The butchers in the town had already come to the village to catch pigs. Xu’s ginseng sold at a high price this year, and the beans were sold with bean sprouts, which was much higher than before. Pig, the other one is killed and kept at home for food, and it has to go away for favors and so on, that's about it.Jinghan and the others were very happy when they heard this. In this case, they can eat meat openly.

Butcher Zhang from the town came and took away the bigger pig, which weighed 220 catties, which made Butcher Zhang very happy. "Oh, auntie, your pig is fat enough. I caught a lot of pigs this year, and this is the first one in your family. This kind of pork is delicious." During the Chinese New Year, pork is not It is too expensive, so the hairy pig is only twenty cents a catty.Butcher Zhang took out four taels of silver and four strings of copper coins, and gave them to Mrs. Chen. "Auntie, your pig is not small. I think you might as well kill half of it and sell the rest to me." He was really optimistic about the two pigs of the Xu family.

"No, save more this year, and two sons will come back for the New Year, and my daughter will get married in the next year, why should I save more meat, and when relatives and friends come to the door, why not get some good food?" Chen said He didn't agree, he put the money away with a smile, and said politely.

Butcher Zhang had no choice but to go out and drive the ox cart back to the town with the heavily tied pigs.

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhixin called Lin Xing's family for help. The two caught the pig, tied it to a stool, and prepared to kill it.Jinghan originally planned to go out to see it, but Mrs. Xue refused to let her, so she had to stay in the room.There was only a wailing from the pig outside, and there was no movement after that.Jinghan knew that this was killing a pig, so she hurried out to see it.I saw that the pig was already dead, and there was a wound under the neck, which was bleeding out continuously. Zhixin was holding a basin there, and after a while, most of the basin was filled.

(End of this chapter)