Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 86 Furniture
From a few large logs to furniture, this process is really miraculous. Carpenter Wang's hands are very rough, and it looks unlucky, but he can make the tenons and tenon sockets exactly, and the wooden ends fit perfectly when they go into the holes. The whole plank is as flat as a mirror.

Now that the furniture has been polished to make it smoother, Carpenter Wang took out the paint mixed with castor oil. He had asked the Ning family about the color he liked, and it had already been adjusted. The original color of the wood pattern brings germanium red.

Seeing the calm and natural color, Ning Wan felt a little happier, "This color is well adjusted!"

Everyone agreed, and someone asked, "How is this adjusted?"

Xiao Liu saw that her father just smiled and said nothing, "This is my father's secret recipe, and I didn't even teach it."

Carpenter Wang glanced at his son, "You! I don't know if you can learn this step!" Then he said to everyone: "My boss and Xiao Yang have already learned it."

Everyone has long been used to hearing Carpenter Wang talk about his youngest son, and he doesn't care. Anyone who wants to make furniture asks, "What color can I make?"

"Stone yellow, stone blue, and stone green are fine."

"Will the paint come off?"

Carpenter Wang showed everyone the silk ends in his hand, "This is leftovers from weaving silk. Use them to rub the paint into the wood with more force. After rubbing it three or four times, the color of the paint will become heavier and thicker." , and then use a bristle piece to scrape the paint evenly. It will not fall off for decades!"

Everyone nodded after hearing this, "Carpenter Wang's craftsmanship is truly the best in Mayi Town!"

In fact, in Ning Wan's opinion, Carpenter Wang's craftsmanship is only average, but it also has his strengths, that is, his carpentry is hard-working and solid, so it is very durable. He claims that the paint will not fade for decades, and it will definitely not. It will fall off. As for the furniture, it can still be used even if it is used for hundreds of years.

It's like the kang cabinets I use now at home.

When Carpenter Wang finished several pieces of furniture, Ning Wan wanted to take out these old kang cabinets and only use new furniture in the house, but Ning Liang and Mrs. The cabinet was moved to their house and stayed, but Ning Wan could not be more stubborn than her parents by herself, so she had to reluctantly agree.It's just that she saw that everything in the house was neat and tidy, except for two pairs of old kang cabinets that were clearly placed on the kang, which was indescribably awkward.

In the end, I had to find Carpenter Wang and asked him to wipe off the old paint on the old kang cabinet and repaint it with the same paint as the new furniture, so that it would be more pleasing to the eye.

It was already the twelfth lunar month at this time, and the work of frying the mountain products at home was finished, and no one was hired to help. Ning Liang sent the mountain products and dried vegetables to Hutai County for more than ten days in a row. After a few shops walked around, they were all sold out, and the price was increased by [-] to [-]%. After all, every family in the county is preparing new year's goods at this time, and every family has to buy these things!All the things in the shop are not worrying about selling.

And every time Ning Liang came back from Hutai County, he would bring back all kinds of New Year's goods, and the food was fine. Yu Shi was particularly rare with a few New Year's pictures of Yang Liuqing. Although the family used to buy a few New Year's pictures every year, where Have you ever seen such a bright, lively and beaming painting?No matter how much you hold it, you can't get enough of it.

One has a slightly happy eyebrow, a branch of red plum, the yellow stamens inside the plum blossom are clearly visible, two magpies are sitting on the branch and chirping; Holding a lotus pod and riding on a big red carp, smiling happily, Yu pointed to the fat baby in the painting and said: "I see that our stone looks a bit like him."

Ning Liang said, "Did you see it too? I just picked this one because I thought it looked like a rock at a glance."

Ning Wan took a closer look at the people in the painting, and then looked at the stone who was so happy that he waved his arms and screamed when he saw the New Year painting, and smiled, "During the Chinese New Year, I also put a red dot on Shitou's eyebrows. Exactly like this doll!"

There were also a few New Year pictures of "The Yangtze River Seizes Adou", "Loyalty Hall", and "Wen Ji Returning to Han", but they were not just festive pictures, but had figures and scenery. Yu asked Ningliang what they were.

Ning Wan knew that her parents were illiterate, and her knowledge was limited to plowing and farming, and her parents were short-tempered. She was going to tell them the story of these paintings. Unexpectedly, Ning Liang had asked the seller when she bought the paintings. Then he told Yu Shi one by one, "The woman in the boat with the phoenix crown and Xiapei is the daughter-in-law married by Uncle Liu Huang in Jiangdong. , he heard the news and came alone to snatch Ah Dou back..."

Father spoke attentively, and mother listened attentively. Ning Wan thought about it and did not correct her father's mistake. It doesn't matter whether these stories are right or not, the important thing is that the family is happy.

Guo Xiaoyan got married at this time.Because the Ning family and the Guo family do not communicate anymore, it seems that they have broken off their friendship, so the Ning family did not go to marry.But in fact, there is nothing to see. Guo Xiaoyan Xu's family is very poor, and the dowry was very small at the beginning, and now the wedding ceremony is very simple, even a donkey to pick up the bride is not hired, only a few relatives and friends Accompanying you to the door is considered a kiss.

The reason why Mr. Guo betrothed Guo Xiaoyan to such a person was actually helpless. Guo Xiaoyan was fine with a lame leg. What's more, her reputation was very bad. Who would marry someone similar to her?As the old saying goes, "If you are poor, you will not choose your clothes, and if you are poor, you will not choose a wife." Only those who are extremely poor will not care about their character and marry Guo Xiaoyan home.

Hearing the ringing of locks in the village, Yu Shi and Ning Wan didn't move their eyebrows. They were making sauce cubes.

In Sanjia Village, every family has to grow soybeans, and the main function of soybeans is not to extract oil, fry beans, etc., but to make sauce.Miso is an indispensable thing in every family's life.

From spring to winter, freshly grown shallots and sauerkraut hearts can be dipped in soy sauce and eaten with rice; wealthy families can use soy sauce to roast meat, eggs, and fish, while the poorest families can also directly use miso for bibimbap.Although soybean paste is the most common and cheapest thing, people in Liaodong eat it every day, every month, every day, and all of them grow tall, strong and strong.

Although Niang is from the south of the Yangtze River, she has lived in Sanjia Village for a long time and has also followed the Romans. She has learned how to make sauce, and she can make a good sauce.In the past, Sanfang often went to Dafang's sauce tank to make sauce, so that Dafang's sauce was delicious, and sometimes took away the sauce cubes made by Dafang directly, so that Dafang's sauce was often not enough to eat.

This year the family finally got rid of the third bedroom, and because they ate a lot more on weekdays, there is still a lot of sauce left this year, but Yu still makes sauce cubes in the twelfth lunar month according to the old habit.

Last night, I soaked a large pot of new soybeans, which were carefully selected by the mother and daughter. I boiled them over a low fire for more than an hour in the morning, making the beans soft and rotten.At this time, use a spoon to mix it up. It doesn't need to be broken like bean paste. It doesn't matter if you leave half of the bean paste.

At this time, the beans that need to be crushed are put into a square box and pressed firmly, and then buckled over to make square sauce cubes, which are placed in the sun to dry.

After working for a long time, the mother and wife made a pot of beans into 16 and a half yuan sauce cubes. After drying outside for three or five days, they wrapped them in white burlap and put them in the cabinet in the kitchen.

These sauce cubes have to be stored all winter, and they only need to be moved in the middle to let them ventilate, and they will be taken out for sauce in April next year.

After the sauce cubes were finished, Mrs. Yu prepared the meals in the evening when her husband was expected to come back.

Sorghum rice is scooped up with rice, and the sorghum rice is boiled with more water, and then there is a strainer to fish out the sorghum rice and put it in a bowl, and also put the rice soup in the pot and drink it with the rice.The cabbage is freshly marinated sauerkraut. The previous cabbage has become smaller and the color has become translucent light yellow. When cutting, the cabbage should be sliced ​​thinly, then cut into thin shreds, and stewed with pork belly slices It took more than half an hour.

As soon as Ning Liang entered the house, he smelled the smell of vegetables and rice, and asked in surprise: "I made sorghum rice and sauerkraut at home? I've been wanting to eat these two days!" This was actually the most commonly eaten food at home before. Most of the time, no meat is added. Everyone is already tired of eating, and I don’t want to miss it after not eating for a few days.

Ning Wan smiled and said, "It can be seen that what father is thinking, mother can tell at a glance!"

Old husband and wife, it can be seen naturally, Ning Liang smiled, but said again: "I will not be able to have any future in my life, but I am not used to eating big fish and meat, I love old things like sorghum rice and sauerkraut. "

Ning Wan shook her head, "It is precisely because the family has a lot of fish and meat that I want sorghum rice sauerkraut. I don't believe that from now on, my family will eat sorghum rice stewed sauerkraut for a few days, and I will never want to eat it again!"

Ning Liang had to admit, "Wan'er is right!"

At this time, Mrs. Yu mixed warm water for him and called him, but ignored their argument, and only said: "Hurry up and eat! The food outside is not as good as the one at home." Even if it was made by my aunt and eldest daughter In the hearts of Ning Liang and Yu Shi, rice is no longer considered as family food.

After dinner, the Ning family sat together to discuss the New Year ceremony.When the family life was difficult before, etiquette was not lacking, and now it is even more so.When giving gifts forward, the second and third families are naturally the first ones, but this year, only the second house is enough, and the third house does not have to deal with it.Then there is Ning Xian's great-grandfather-in-law.Then came the aunt's family of the same generation as Ningliang, the shopkeeper Liu's family, several families with good relations in the village, and the village chief's family.

Ning Liang then said: "This year, I have to prepare a good gift for the shopkeeper of Wangyuan Building. This year, our family sold the most things in Wangyuan Building, but the shopkeeper never made things difficult for me."

"Of course it should." Yu and Ning Liang counted the shops and restaurants that often sell goods at home, "Whoever falls into it will make people laugh, thinking that people in our Sanjia Village don't understand etiquette."

The husband and wife made a good calculation and asked their daughter, "There is another family. We thought we should make a big gift, but we don't know where Master Lu's house is."

In fact, Ning Wan had already thought that the success of the family business was inseparable from the help of Second Young Master Lu, but she kept hesitating, "Since Second Young Master Lu has gone to Duolun, let's not go there. "

Ning Liang and Yu Shi were both surprised and asked: "How can you say that!" Then they hurriedly taught her, "You helped Second Young Master Lu before, so we shouldn't take the initiative to go there, lest people think we want to cling to others. But now We will never forget the kindness of Young Master Lu for helping our family hunt wild boars, this gift must be given!"

The reason is naturally the same, and Ning Wan has no way to refute it. She just thinks that Master Lu Er is really a high-ranking hero. Blindly shirk.

But Mrs. Yu lost her mind, and said to her husband: "Wan'er is a girl after all, and she is young, why don't you find out where Lu's family lives, and then I will accompany you to pay Madam Wu a New Year greeting."

Since Second Young Master Lu has gone to Duolun, there is only Mrs. Wu at home, and it is hard for father to go there by himself, so mother can only accompany him.When Ning Wan heard this, she quickly objected, "Hutai County is so far away, it's not easy for mother to go out, so I'd better go with dad."

At this time, she also figured it out, Second Young Master Lu is in Duolun, I'm afraid he won't be able to go home to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, she should really go and see Madam Wu, even if it's Young Master Lu, she shouldn't hide in public or private .

Two days later, Ning Wan said in a pretentious manner: "I found out where Lu's family lives, and it's actually not far from Lishu Village." In fact, few people in Hutai County now know that Second Young Master Lu is Lu Commander's son, and he didn't know that Commander Lu also had a wife who lived outside the county seat.But parents are very deceitful people, especially for their own daughter, they have never doubted it, even if they can keep accounts, they can easily confuse it in front of them.

(End of this chapter)