The reborn girl is good for farming

Chapter 28
Why!Lijia Village is really too remote, and most people have never been to the county in their lives.The most farthest place I went to was probably Beast Mountain Town.The vast majority of people cook for food and clothing, and do not pay attention to appetite.Especially Li Wushi, who has no cooking skills and is stingy. The only seasoning in the house is salt.In addition to cooking, cooking is steaming.

Wang Guixiang is from the mountains, not to mention his cooking skills, at most he can bake.Ask her if there is soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, etc. in town.She said that Tang knows, you want to eat candy, next time I go to the town to buy some for you and come back to Tiantianzui.I don't know about soy sauce and vinegar, and I haven't heard of it, so I asked her where she heard it.

Li Siniu knew it, he said that there should be some big restaurants in the county, and there seems to be a dish that is sweet and sour, but it is very expensive.

Li Xiaolan wailed in her heart that her sweet and sour fish and braised pork seemed to be hopeless.

Looking back and thinking about it, I realized that sugar should be more expensive than salt in ancient times, and the poor couldn't afford it.Salt is a necessity for human survival, the price of salt is controlled by the imperial court, and the poor can only eat coarse salt.And sugar is not a necessity, and there should be no white sugar here. The sugar her mother said should be maltose or something.Soy sauce and vinegar should also be eaten by wealthy people.

When it comes to salt, Li Xiaolan is also worried. Her mother bought coarse salt, but everyone knows that eating too much coarse salt is not good for your health and will affect your life expectancy.She has learned the method of refining coarse salt in chemistry class, but unfortunately she doesn't have the right tools, so she can only do some simple work of dissolving and filtering to remove impurities. It is impossible to make modern real fine salt.

Li Xiaolan thinks that if she has time, she still needs to go around the nearby hills more, and always try to find them all.Especially chili, which can replace salt to enhance flavor.It's a pity that I can't eat it all the time.A balanced diet is very necessary for health preservation.I have to find fruit trees and transplant them into my own yard.Dried fruit or boiled into jam, can replace sugar.

Regarding the matter of salt, Li Xiaolan took the opportunity to talk to her parents for the sake of her own health.I told them about the dangers of coarse salt, and when it came to shortening lifespan, Li Siniu and his wife froze for a moment but agreed to buy fine salt.Reserve the kosher salt for marinating things.

Li Xiaolan didn't know that her mother wanted her father to live a long life now, because the exemption from corvee service was only for Li Siniu. As long as he was alive, regardless of the separation of the family, all children and grandchildren in the family would benefit.

Li Siniu thinks that health is the most important thing, if you spend some money, you will be fine.

Li Xiaolan took the opportunity to inquire about the current prices.

Converting it, of course, the fluctuation will be big in the year of famine. A pound of polished rice is about 18 renminbi, brown rice 14 renminbi, refined noodles 15 renminbi, yellow noodles 12 renminbi, and other sweet potatoes and corn are cheaper. Basically no one sells them, so keep them eat by yourself.16 Wen for pork, 8 Wen for soybean oil, 8 Wen for a catty of eggs, 15 Wen for fine salt, 6 Wen for coarse salt, and 15 Wen for brown sugar.

This shows the purchasing power in ancient times, and copper coins were still valuable at this time.

Her father said that during the slack season, the men in the village would go to the town to do part-time jobs for 10 yuan a day, including a lunch, but they were all hard labor, and it was not easy to find if no one introduced them.

Hey, the towns in their villages are still too far away. In those nearby villages, some people have been working as long-term workers for a long time, and they can get 13 Wen a day.

It is their house building, those skilled bricklayers pay 18 Wen a day, 12 Wen for laying hands, and 10 Wen for moving stones and digging foundations.It can be seen that labor is worthless, and there is a craft that is important.

(End of this chapter)