happy old days

Chapter 51

Jinniang's body recovers quickly, and there is no discomfort in her body in eight or nine days of confinement, and the effect of using a little water mother every day is very good.

This season is the autumn harvest time, Jinniang can't go to the field, Wang can't let her go, put aside the family affairs and focus on taking care of Jinniang's confinement, and leave other family affairs to Sister Hui, who has been with Jinniang for a year, Jin Mother is very relieved of her. She and Yang Zhenhai discussed it at the beginning, and the annual production share has been given to their family. As for whether they sell it or eat it for themselves, they don't care. They eat with them for a year, and there will be no shortage. What, just cook dinner at home occasionally.

At the beginning, this decision was quite correct. The Zhao family was very hardworking and hardworking outside the family. They hardly needed to worry about it. Many, and the open space around the compound also allowed them to transplant a lot of fruit trees. Jin Niang used some mother of water, and there will be a harvest this year.Calculated, the harvest can be half more than last year.The most rare thing is that the couple are not talkative, simple and honest, sometimes Jinniang feels that they have lost others, but this is the case in this age, people are the most worthless, and now they have treated the Zhao family very well. Even the two aunts complained that she was too generous and a bit prodigal.

In August, Jin Niang asked Yang Zhenhai to hire the two women who helped her last year, and asked them to help Mrs. Hui with work. Mrs. Hui cannot do it alone. Jinniang feels that for a long time to come, the center of her life will be shifted to her children, and the family affairs will be put down. Fortunately, this year, under her guidance, sister-in-law Hui no longer needs her to remind her to do things. The taste is also good, but the only possibility is that Jinniang uses the fresh fragrance brought by the mother of water, which can be made up for as long as Jinniang is there.

Wang took care of Jinniang for a month, seeing her daughter's living conditions intuitively for the first time, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that married and unmarried are different. Watching her teach Sister Hui to do things in an orderly manner.There are also many rules in taking care of children, such as bathing the child every day, changing clothes and washing hands before holding the child, gently massaging the child's body, talking to the child, and even breastfeeding and sleeping. fine.

Because Jinniang is breastfeeding, she is very particular about eating. She knows what she eats and feeds her baby. This season is the harvest season, and she can eat whatever she wants. The ewes at home have run out of milk, but the family raised cattle in the first half of the year. , Jin Niang asked Yang Zhenhai to buy a cow that just gave birth, so that there will be no shortage of milk supply for the next year, drink milk, eat vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, fruits and grains, offal, barley, and glutinous rice that cannot be eaten during pregnancy will return About Jinniang's dining table, Jinniang had already told Mrs. Hui how to eat, and the recipes were set every day, and Wang could hardly interfere.Seeing Jinniang recovering so quickly, she kept talking about her daughter's ability, and she didn't know how to figure out so many recipes. She sighed in her heart that her daughter was smart, and wondered if she hadn't let her children cook before, otherwise these dishes might have been cooked for a long time. Made it.

Although she is in good health, Jinniang insisted on confinement for [-] days, because her family is in the countryside. People often hear that women have to be careful when confinement is done, and some women get sick because they haven't done confinement properly. After listening to it a lot, she felt a kind of fear in her heart about confinement, and she also knew that some physical diseases of women would recover after confinement, so she paid special attention to this.The only bad thing is that you can't take a bath during the confinement period, you can only wipe it with a hot towel every day.

Wang went home after Jinniang was confinement, and there were a lot of things going on at home. Jinniang asked Yang Zhenhai to send her back, and brought a lot of dry goods back.

In the evening, Jinniang cooked a large table of dishes, and Yang Zhenhai rushed back after sending Mrs. Wang home, but he had thought about it for a long time since his daughter-in-law was confinement.

"Jinniang, I made a few gadgets for Pei Yu, you keep them for him." Mr. Yang held a box with several wooden carvings of ponies and monkeys.

"Father, do you still know how to do this? It's really good." Jin Niang held a pony. Although the carving was not so good and it was a little rough, the edges and corners were smoothed, and it would never scratch her hands.

"I'm not good at crafting. I learned it for two years when I was young. I didn't have that kind of material, and then I let it go."

Mr. Yang is also eccentric. He treats Pei Yu differently from the other two grandsons. He has to hug his grandson every day. Seeing that Niang Jin has raised the child well, the only thing he can do is to give it to him. Kids make gadgets.For this reason, I picked up the carpentry work that hadn't been done for many years. These things were made little by little before the child was born.

"Father, that's fine." Jinniang's head suddenly lit up, "Father, let me draw you a picture, can you do it? It's all simple."

"What are you doing?" Yang Zhenhai came back from the outside and asked at the end of the sentence.

Jin Niang smiled and handed Yang Zhenhai the little toy made by Mr. Yang.

Yang Zhenhai smiled when he saw it, "I remember my father made it for me when I was young."

Mr. Yang squinted his eyes and smiled. He was so happy when the eldest son was born, and carved a lot of small things for him. Later, when the children were born, the conditions at home became a little bit worse, and he was not in good health. Now that he thinks about it, the eldest son has always been different in his heart, maybe the parents have different feelings for the first child.

"I think daddy is doing pretty well, so I want to draw a few figures for daddy to help with." What Jinniang thinks of is jigsaw puzzles and the like, and if the craftsmanship is better, she can make small wooden horses for the children.Papa Yang may not have such good craftsmanship, but he has the thoughtfulness to do better.

"Me, I'll give it a try. Hehe, I didn't expect this skill to be useful when I'm old." Father Yang was happy in his heart. Now that his son and daughter-in-law have taken care of everything at home, he feels that he can't help with anything. I am busy at work, now I am looking for something to do, and I am in a good mood, let alone for my grandson.

The next day, Jinniang woke up late, and in a half-dream, she heard the baby cry twice, and then felt that the clothes were pulled away, her chest was hot, and the baby's fleshy body lay on top of her.She didn't wake up until the child was full.

It was almost noon when I fully woke up, and the child was not around. As soon as I sat up, I found that my pajamas were open. Thinking of the child’s breastfeeding in the morning, I blushed and spat, thinking that I would never let him Yang Zhenhai went to bed.

Gathering up his clothes and getting out of bed, he saw Yang Zhenhai slipping on the ground with the baby in his arms, and the little guy was about to sleepy babbling.

When Yang Zhenhai saw Jinniang get up and giggled, Jinniang gave him a look, and stepped forward to hug the child.Taking the child inside, Yang Zhenhai got hot water to wet the towel that had been boiled and exposed to the sun, and went forward to wipe Jinniang's chest. Jinniang held the child and turned to the bed, deciding not to treat him well. Face.

Yang Zhenhai looked at Jinniang breastfeeding the child with him on her back, ignored him, and didn't dare to go forward. He was a bit too much yesterday, but don't blame him, who made the wife so attractive? Not to mention out of shape, after raising it for a period of time, the body is soft and slippery, and people who haven't eaten for several months can't help it.

Jinniang had breakfast and lunch together, and Yang Zhenhai kept showing his attention, but he still went to the field in the afternoon, and there were a lot of things at home.

Jinniang looked at what Huiniang was doing these days. This year, the efficiency of three women in the family working together was much higher than that of her alone. Send it, their family now has a restaurant and winter vegetables are needed for work, and some time ago Yang Zhenhai took Lao Zhao into the mountains and bought a lot of mountain products, only these can earn 40 taels. This year, there are many sweet potatoes and potatoes. She started raising seedlings, planted them early, and harvested more than 2000 kilograms per mu (in modern notation). Except for the ones given to restaurants and the ones eaten by the family, Jin Niang made some dried sweet potatoes, and the rest made sweet potato caramel.

She only watched her grandpa make this sweet potato caramel once when she was a child, and she saw that it was almost the same, so she could only make it gropingly. At that time, she was still pregnant, and Yang Zhenhai only let her watch by her side, and made it many times. , is considered success, and I don’t know that the steps are not good enough. The color of the caramel produced is a little dark yellow, and a large part of its success is inseparable from the sugar making technology of this era.This era already has maltose and sucrose.There is already brown sugar and white sugar.Although white sugar was not as white as it is in modern times.It is not difficult to make sugar, but there are not enough people to do it. For the people who are always on the line of food and clothing, sugar is not a necessity.It's good to buy a piece or two for your child once in a while.

The sweet potato caramel that Jin Niang and the others make is not as sweet as malt caramel, but it has a special sweet potato taste inside.The most important thing is low cost.They made some and sent them to Zhang Xi's grocery store to sell, and it seems to be pretty good now.It's just because Jinniang's delivery period is approaching, the family doesn't have the heart to do this, and there is no manpower to expand the production.

Now it seems that it is a troublesome matter. This year, the brothers of the Yang family and the Chen family all planted sweet potatoes. Everyone bought a good price this year. It is estimated that the sweet potatoes will be popularized in the neighborhood next year, and the fourth brother went to the county a few days ago. Participating in the poetry meeting, the county magistrate learned from him that sweet potatoes can produce [-] kilograms per mu. He will not let go of this achievement. It is estimated that the whole county will promote it next year, and sweet potatoes will be worthless.

Jinniang thought that instead of doing this, it would be better to do deep processing, such as sweet potato caramel and dried sweet potato, small profits but quick turnover, the accumulation of small profits, the selling price is definitely more expensive than buying sweet potatoes alone, they don’t have to worry about selling. My brother-in-law’s home is in Yancheng I also opened a shop, where I can send them for sale, and if there are too many, I can even sell them to the north.The only thing missing is production staff.If it is done well, it will also be an income for the family.This matter has to be discussed with Yang Zhenhai. She is now focused on the child, and Yang Zhenhai may not be in the mood to do this, which is also a troublesome matter.

In the next few days, Jinniang began to count the income of the family this year. Working in the bare land and in the mountains, the income of dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms and dried fruits was more than 50 taels. inside.Yang Zhenhai went hunting in the mountains this year and sold it for 280 taels, not counting the fur left behind, because the bears he hunted last year were not counted in the count.The family's expenses are not much, but the family bought two cows and used them for 22 taels, and the household cost less than 20 taels a year. She sold two embroidered screens and earned 70 taels.The coming and going of other human relationships is just a matter of twos and fives.The child's birth and three full moons are basically the same.

An income of more than 300 taels a year is really a lot.Calculated in this way, the income from the field is not as much as she earns from buying embroidery. At the beginning, the two embroidery screens were begged by her uncle's natal sister, and they were originally intended for her own use.Yang Zhenhai thought that she didn't go into the mountains much this year, but she earned a lot of money, mainly because Zhao Tiezhu was here and could help him pull prey back and forth.After the busy season of farming, he still has to go to the mountains. In this way, he can earn a lot of income from hunting alone, not to mention that his family invested thousands of taels on the boat, and he can get back a few hundred taels every time he goes back and forth.Looking at the account book, Jin Niang sighed, so it seems that the sweet potato caramel business is really unnecessary.

This year is not like last year when the family separated and built a house. Everything is stable and everything can be done smoothly. If their income is based on this income, their family will not have to worry about money in the future. With their consumption standards, they will not spend much in a year money.

Looking at the items of income and expenses that she had marked out, Jinniang felt that the future of money was bright. With these family backgrounds, it would be easier for her son to start a family and start a business in the future. In case the child took the imperial examination, they would be able to afford it.Well, it's better not to force him to do something. A person's life is only a few decades, so he has to live a more comfortable life. It's up to him.It is enough for them as parents to create good conditions, but children's education still needs to be paid close attention to. Although she has not graduated, she is still an education major, and her children still need to be well educated.When the baby is older, we will get a study room, and we should buy some books at home, so we must pay close attention to this.

Jinniang was thinking about how to arrange the study room and what books to buy when she heard the baby groaning and walking over, the little guy was grinning and was about to cry. He hugged her and patted her lightly, it's not time to sleep yet.

She was walking around the house when she saw Mrs. Hui walking in. "The colorful clouds in the old man's house are here again."

Jinniang frowned, "Why is she here again? You tell her to sit in the East Wing, and I'll go there later." When she was in confinement, the colorful cloud came twice. Jinniang didn't like her, and she wore it all day long. Wearing filial piety looks unlucky. Perhaps in this age, some of Jinniang's habits have changed. She also feels that it is a very festive thing to have a son at home. You wear plain clothes with white flowers all day long. What do you look like? , and she is not easy to see guests during her confinement period, but she is not a troublemaker and she didn't show anything, but people stopped coming for some reason, but Wang said that it seemed that Yang Zhenhai had said something to the uncle.

I don't understand how it came back today.What a hassle.

(End of this chapter)