Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 252

Lao Liutou found out that there was a family in Baijiatuan who made tinware and copperware, and they opened a large workshop, and even the county had to come to deliver goods.Xiuyao said to Old Liu, "Grandpa, let's go."

Old Liutou naturally agreed, and just happened to go to Lao Bai's house to have a look, and Xiuqin was going to give birth in a few days, so the family members went to cheer her up at this time.

Early in the morning, the grandpa and grandson set off in the donkey cart, bringing a lot of money, and Mrs. Li also packed a lot of things, some for Xiuqin, and some for Lao Bai and his wife.

Thirty miles to the northwest from Yangliu Village is Baijiatuan, which is not too close. If things are slow, they will go to Lao Bai's house to stay overnight.

All the way to Baijiatuan safely, Lao Liutou asked the way to Lao Bai's house, and drove the donkey cart there.

Lao Bai's family learned from Lao Sun's family, and now they also opened a small market, and they also have a business of buying and selling grain, and the business is good.As soon as he saw Lao Liutou coming, Lao Baitou went home happily and introduced some family affairs by talking and laughing along the way.

The yard of Laobai's house is even bigger, with three entrances and three exits, and there is another yard in the small market. Now the boss and the old couple are there to help.

Old Baitou told them to just do their jobs, and said with a smile: "My old man entertains the distinguished guests, you just go ahead." He led Lao Liutou and Xiuyao to the backyard, asked the boss to unload the donkey cart and feed the donkey, he and Lao Liutou and Xiuyao took everything in.

The yard of the Bai family is even bigger, the elders live in the east wing of the outer courtyard, the second child lives in the west wing, the old couple live in the main room in the backyard, and the third child and Xiuqin live in the west wing.When Xiuyao and grandpa came, Xiuqin, who had already puffed up her stomach, came out happily and said hello to each other. Xiuyao hurriedly supported the elder sister.

The old white head asked: "Where is the third child?"

Xiuqin laughed and said, "I said I was going to borrow a few books from cousin Xiucai and come back to read." After she finished speaking, she said to Xiuyao and Lao Liutou: "My parents said that there are enough people working in the house, so I will ask my husband to read them again." Pick up the book and read it, and try to come back as a scholar."

Old Baitou also smiled and said: "The family is better now, I don't need so many people to work, I'm free, so let Xun'an study, even if you don't get a scholar, it's better to be a child student." Seeing from Lao Liu's family and Lao Qin's family, there are children who study, and they are thinking about letting the youngest son study too.

Xiuyao was a little suspicious, her brother-in-law was already so old, and it might be too late for him to go to school.Although I have read it before, after all, I failed the exam that year, and I put it down for several years, which shows that I am not that interested in reading. Now I am going to read it again, I don’t know if it is good or not.

Lao Baitou and Lao Liutou went to their room to talk, and asked Xiuqin and Xiuyao to go to the West Wing to talk, Xiuyao naturally went to say hello to An Shi first, and then helped Xiuqin to the West Wing.

After entering the room, Xiuyao asked softly: "Elder sister, my brother-in-law and my aunt are treating you well."

Although Xiuqin has been married for half a year and is six months pregnant, when she asks about the relationship between the husband and wife, her face turns red, she hums, and then fiddles with the needlework she made for the child.

Xiuyao smiled and said: "My mother misses you at home, and I will come to see you after a few days, because I am afraid that you will not be used to it just after getting married."

Xiuqin said: "Tell mother, don't miss me. I am very good, my parents-in-law are kind, and my two sister-in-laws are not difficult to get along with. I am pregnant right away, so I don't need to do any work. They treat me... It's all good."

Xiuyao felt relieved, and told her about her family affairs, what she did, how much money she made, the weaving workshop, bobbin cart, biogas digester, etc., all of which were told to Xiuqin.In the past, Xiuqin didn't pay much attention to these things at home, but now she's away from home, but she listens with gusto.

Old Baitou made a meal, everyone ate, Lao Liutou said: "Let's go to work first, and if we turn around later, we will come to bother you all night."

An Shi smiled and said: "It's not too late, you can't leave today, you can stay and play for two days when you come." She asked the old man to take his in-laws to the tin shop to see.

Xiuyao and grandpa followed Lao Baitou to the Baijia tinware shop. He was an uncle of Lao Baitou's family. There was a scholar in his family, and he still opened the shop, and his life was very prosperous.In addition to tin ware, there are also copper ware in the shop, and even some gold and silver ware are willing to help make it.

Bai Laosi's face is full of wrinkles, his hands are like old tree bark, but his eyes are exceptionally bright.

Xiuyao took out the blueprints she had drawn and showed them to the fourth brother Bai, "Master Bai, can these be done?"

Bai Laosi looked at it and asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Xiuyao said: "It's just some copper tubes and tin tubes, and some turning heads." Besides, there are several biogas lamps and biogas stoves. Naturally, these lamps and stoves are different from modern ones, but there were also charcoal stoves in ancient times. Xiuyao just modified it.Of course, Bai Laosi's shop does not make stoves, but he will also sell them on behalf of others. Xiuyao thinks that the money is not bad, so she asks them to modify it directly.

When Lao Liutou and Bai Laosi were discussing, she went to look at those utensils, and then picked out two copper pots and two tin pots, and also picked out a few Tang Pozi, and besides that, she picked out six copper pots. hot pot.Xiuyao has also seen porcelain hot pots in the porcelain shops in the county. They are beautiful and elegant, but the price is also expensive. In comparison, these copper ones are cheap.

Winter is coming, which happens to be the season for eating hot pot. The weather is cold and the food is easy to cool. Make a pot of hot pot every day. Chinese cabbage, tofu, radish, spinach, bean sprouts, white meat or sheep and beef offal are all excellent ingredients.

Old Liutou and the others over there also finished talking, and the fourth brother Bai agreed to let them come and pick it up in about five days. Father-in-law, naturally I am embarrassed to call it that again.

Xiuyao also picked out the things and asked Bai Laosi to count the money.

Seeing that the girl is straightforward and picks up so many things, Bai Laosi said with a smile: "Whatever the account is, I will keep it with me."

Xiuyao said: "Uncle Bai, that can't be done." She asked Bai Laosi to help settle the accounts, Bai Laosi smiled and said: "Let's hang it twice."

Xiuyao reckoned that it was naturally cheaper, but it wasn't much cheaper. Instead, she felt comfortable and hurriedly asked her grandpa to pay.After packing up the things, Bai Laosi went to work, and they went back to Lao Bai's house.

It was almost evening at this time, and the afterglow of the autumn sunset was extraordinarily warm and golden, coating the courtyard of the Bai family with a warm yellow halo.Xiuqin was standing in the yard waiting for them, An Shi instructed: "Xiuqin, sit down and rest more, don't get tired."

Xiuqin smiled and said: "Mom, I don't do anything, how can I be tired, and the doctor also said that I need to move around more." After pregnancy, those who were nourished were rounded.

Bai Xun'an came back with a few books in his hands, saw Xiuqin and shook her hand, Xiuqin said: "Grandpa and Yaoyao are here, why did you come back? Where did you go drinking?"

Bai Xun'an said with a smile: "I went to the garden with my cousins, are grandpa and Yaoyao here? Then we have to treat them well." He ran to put down the books, and then came back to help Xiuqin go to the outer courtyard. Yao came back.

Seeing Li, everyone went home while chatting, Bai Xun'an saw that Xiuyao had bought several hotpots, and said with a smile: "Yaoyao, are you going to open a hotpot shop?"

Xiuyao pursed her lips and smiled, "Of course not, it's for my own home."

Bai Xun'an said: "Why don't we also eat shabu-shabu at night, buy some good pork belly, and then get some beef offal, pig blood, cut some fatty beef and mutton, and I'll do it right away." Ann asked for money.

An's took the money to buy it for him, and the dinner was held in the main room of the middle courtyard. Including the children of the eldest and second bedroom, the room was full of people.During the meal, Xiuqin helped to set the dishes, and the second sister-in-law smiled and said, "Sister-in-law three, you should rest quickly, those who are pregnant, don't move around. Let us two sister-in-laws serve you." Said Then she snatched the chopsticks from Xiuqin's hand, divided them one by one, Xiuqin could only thank her.

The elder sister-in-law refused to come to eat, she was busy with the shop, so An Shi sent the boy to call her, she said: "How can there be no one in the shop, there are people coming to buy things at any time, you eat, I'll just watch."

At night, Lao Liutou sleeps in the guest room of the outer courtyard, Xiuyao sleeps with Xiuqin in the west room, and now Bai Xun'an mainly sleeps in the west room of his parents' main room.

Xiuyao talked to her eldest sister in the middle of the night, and when Xiuyao fell asleep and Xiuqin couldn't sleep, only after she got married would she feel that her mother's family was good.No matter how easy-going the in-laws treat themselves, they are still not as comfortable as being a daughter in front of their parents.In addition, there are also sisters-in-law, and when the whole family is together, they are not as caring as their own sisters.But when I got married, my mother also taught me to be filial to my parents-in-law and to be sincere to my sister-in-law. If you are sincere and people will return your sincerity, then keep being sincere.If you are sincere and others are hypocritical, or if you are still calculating, then you can live on the surface, just be careful in your heart, and just don't suffer from hidden losses.

Xiuqin remembered everything, but she felt that as a daughter-in-law and sister-in-law, she might not be as capable as her mother.

The next day, after eating early in the morning, Lao Liutou left, and the old Baitou and his wife repeatedly asked to stay for lunch before leaving.

Old Liutou smiled and said, "It's the same when you go to my place in a few days."

An's packed up the gifts again, and she was busy with her work, and the sun was heading south, Xiuyao and Lao Liutou hurried home in the donkey cart.After leaving Baijiatuan, she met someone on the road. Xiuyao didn't pay attention at first, but she heard someone calling her, "Huh, Qin Xiuyao? What a coincidence."

Xiuyao stared at him, and found that the man was wearing a cocoon white brocade gown and was riding on a horse. He had a handsome appearance, but she felt a little feminine and didn't like it very much.

It was the fifth young master of the Feng family, Feng Qingran.

Xiuyao greeted him and left, but Feng Qingran said, "Do you have relatives here?"

Xiuyao introduced Feng Qingran to Lao Liutou, and said, "My brother-in-law's family."

Feng Qingran let out an oh, and said with a smile: "Bai Xiucai's family?"

Xiuyao shook her head, "My brother-in-law is not a scholar."

Feng Qingran smiled and said: "I'm here to look for Bai Xiucai, maybe I know your brother-in-law too, is it a small market?"

Seeing that he hit the mark, Xiuyao said goodbye to him without saying a word, and urged her grandfather to leave quickly.

On the way, Old Liu nodded, "I think that Young Master Feng is not as comfortable as Fourth Young Master."

Xiuyao said: "I think so too. This man is glib."

The biogas digester has been dug, and the large tank has been buried. Someone has also asked someone to drill a hole under the tank as a discharge port to connect the discharge channel, and then put the lid on.

After a few days, Lao Baitou brought all the pipes that Bai Laosi had helped to make, and installed them one by one according to Xiuyao's requirements.

Because it was the first time to build a biogas digester, Xiuyao was also afraid of failure, so she specially made a gas diffuser, just to release the biogas if the functions such as lighting cannot be realized, and only use biogas liquid and biogas residue .

It also took two days to install, and then it needs to be filled in again. The biogas fermentation inoculum has already been prepared and poured directly into several biogas tanks. In addition, pig manure, wheat straw, weeds, etc. will be added, and then Put the cylinder head on.

"Grandpa, don't open the cylinder head casually, it's not easy to produce gas. Just use a stick to stir the ingredients every day." Xiuyao taught Lao Liutou how to operate. The cylinder cover was also specially made, with a small opening on it Also cover it with a lid. When you want to stir the gas-generating material in it on weekdays, open the small lid, stick the stick in, and then stir.

In addition to these, the pond where the biogas inoculum was originally made is used as a pretreatment pond for pig manure, wheat straw and other gas-producing materials, which are then put into the biogas tank after treatment.

After all the work is done, nearly 20 days have passed, and it will be the season of harvesting sweet potatoes in a blink of an eye.

There are a lot of sweet potato seedlings this year, and my family does not have enough hands, so I discussed and hired someone to help.The current sweet potatoes are mainly prepared for raising pigs and making vermicelli. The freshness period of fudou has passed, and it is basically like that.

This kind of snack doesn't make much sense, it's just for snacks, after all, you can't make a lot of money in this not very rich era.It was also for this reason that Xiuyao didn't develop corn. Anyway, corn will be popularized in the coming year, so it doesn't make much sense for her to do this business.

This year, Xiuyao also planted three acres of beets, not a lot, so she didn't think about selling them to the county, but kept them at home for experimenting with boiling sugar.Regarding the history of ancient sugar, Xiuyao happened to have done some research when she was in school, in fact, she was helping a senior brother to collect and sort out information when giving a lecture.Among them, she read Ji Lao's book on the history of sugar many times, helped to take a lot of notes, and learned a lot about sugar.

In the blink of an eye, on the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, the chrysanthemums at home have already bloomed, and the red and yellow pots are basking in the autumn sun, looking very warm.These chrysanthemums were collected by Xiuyao and Xiuxian from all over the place, some were asked by Lao Liutou for his daughter, and shopkeeper Feng specially sent someone to send them.Anyway, in the courtyard of the Qin family, there are flowers blooming in all seasons. In spring, there are winter jasmine, rose, and rose;It's also because Liu Shi loves to play around, and now that she has the time and energy, she makes the house colorful and bright, without the gray and rotten feeling of the past.

Everyone in the village said that Qin's family could catch up with Zhou's yard now, except that it was not as big as others, but it was very beautiful.

(End of this chapter)