The Little Dumb Wife of the Mountain People

Chapter 24
Seeing that Aunt Wei finally accepted the things, Wen Bao glanced at Song Dalang, and said softly, "Aunt Wei, I'm here today, and I want to ask you for help."

As soon as Wen Bao said this, Aunt Wei, who had just received the bamboo basket, paused. She really didn't expect Wen Bao to say such a word to herself, but she was just stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted and said to Wen Bao : "Daughter-in-law, you are welcome, just speak up if you have something to say."

Wen Bao knows that these mountain people are straightforward, if you have something to say it's best, if you are coy, you won't like them.

Thinking like this, Wen Bao said directly: "Actually, this is what happened. I bought a valley, and there are fruits in that valley. I plan to use that fruit to make wine. It's not that there are too few people in the house, so I want to find Aunt Wei. Help with Swallow."

As soon as Wen Bao's words came out of the cave, everyone except Song Dalang was stunned.

Especially Yanzi, the daughter of Song Wei's family, because she is not in good health, she is already seven years old, but she is about the same age as a five-year-old child, and she can only help make some light ones at home. Her family would not let her work at all.

"Sister-in-law, can I help too?"

Yanzi blinked her big eyes and looked at Wen Bao expectantly. She was not in good health and could not do any work at home. Now that Wen Bao suddenly asked her for help, she was very happy, but she was also afraid that she was too weak to help. what a busy.

Wen Bao looked at the swallow in front of him, stretched out his hand to stroke her withered yellow hair and said, "Of course, the swallow can also help."

Wen Bao didn't talk to coax the children, just sit and wash the grapes, and it's no problem for Yanzi to help wash the grapes, and this girl always needs to be careful and patient.

When Song Dalang saw that Wen Bao liked Yanzi, he was overjoyed from the bottom of his heart, thinking that when his daughter-in-law's menstrual affairs were clean, he would hurry up and work hard to let her have a baby earlier.

"Aunt Wei, I discussed it with Dalang. You and Yanzi are going to help me. Dalang is hunting some small prey nearby with stones. I will give you ten cents a day for you two. Although it is not much, don't feel bad about it." Less, not heavy work is to wash the fruit."

Seeing that Aunt Wei was silent, Wen Bao quickly talked about the remuneration, but when she spoke like this, Song Wei suddenly said in a deep voice: "Daughter-in-law, how can I ask you for money to help here?"

Hearing what her man said, Aunt Wei, who had been silent just now, also opened her mouth in a panic, "Daughter-in-law Dalang, Auntie didn't want to ask you for wages, Auntie was just worried that Yanzi and I would go to help, and Dad Shitou was alone at home with no one to help." Take care."

Aunt Wei really didn't want to worry about Wen Bao's wages, just now when Wen Bao asked her and Yanzi to help, she wanted to agree, but as she said, if she and Yanzi both went to help, Shitou would follow Song Dalang On the mountain, there is no one at home to take care of Song Wei.

"I'm fine!"

Just as Song Wei said something with a straight face, Wen Bao laughed immediately.

"I didn't make it clear. It's not a day. Just half a day in the afternoon. In the morning, Dalang will take the villagers to pick fruit. He just brought Shitou. Auntie will take care of Uncle Wei at home. In the afternoon, Auntie and Yanzi will help, and Shitou will take care of him at home." Uncle Wei. What’s more, this time won’t be very long, just a few days.”

Wen Bao plans to pick the grapes in the valley in batches, and she will pick them in the morning and make wine in the afternoon. If this is the case, the wine will be brewed in batches, and the wine will be released in batches when the wine is ready.

What's more, with so many grapes, it would be impossible to count on Song Dalang to pinch them. She still has to wait for Wen Chengyong to find a wooden shredder for the blueprints she drew.

Neither Song Wei nor Aunt Wei thought that Wen Bao would give ten cents as long as they helped for half a day. One must know that at this time of year, men in the village would also go to the town or county to find work.

A man in the town is only ten Wen a day, and the county will have more, but the county is far away from home, and not many people from Songjia Village go there.

But now Wen Bao only needs Aunt Wei and Yanzi to help for half a day, and he will give ten cents. Although they are two wives, the combined strength of these two wives is definitely not as strong as that of a man.

Thinking of this, Aunt Wei opened her mouth, "Daughter-in-law Dalang, you give too much. Yanzi and I will help you for a long time, and you can just give three pennies. Auntie will not hide it from you, my auntie's family is indeed short of money. , Don’t look at your uncle hunting the king this time, but he won’t be able to hunt for several months.”

As soon as Aunt Wei opened her mouth, Song Wei wanted to stop him. According to Song Wei's intention, he and Song Dalang had a good relationship, and his wife and daughter went to help, so how could they ask for wages.

Seeing that Song Wei was struggling to get up, Song Dalang immediately said: "Uncle Wei, don't worry, this help is estimated to take a few days, and naturally it will be paid."

"Yes, Uncle Wei and Aunt Wei, only women can do the job of washing fruit. The fruit is small. The last time Dalang washed it, it almost didn't wash the fruit. Auntie and Yanzi are careful, and they will definitely wash it for me. Besides, I The wages given are really not much, I know it well.”

Wen Bao didn't intend to take her wines to the common people at all, so she priced her wines very high, and she included all these expenses in the cost.

Ordinary fruit wine is the wine that Wen Bao intends to sell to ordinary people. Besides, Wen Bao has also calculated an account in his heart. The purified wine that she cooperates with Wu Houye and the Chen family will have a lot of dividends. .

Wen Bao's heart is not big, she sells a few hundred catties of wine a year, enough to cover her expenses, and keeps some wine at home for her own consumption and as a gift. When there are more grapes in the valley, she might sell the wine Brew more.

And Wen Bao has always been thinking about it, if he did too much, what if someone thinks about it?
Wen Bao didn't want to get involved with any big shots, she just wanted to make wine and sell wine peacefully, and wait a few years to see if she could find a big foundation in Songjia Village to build a big yard.

Song Dalang didn't know what Wen Bao was thinking, but he didn't want Wen Bao to work too hard. Although he decided to learn how to make wine, he was still used to hunting and being a mountain dweller.

Song Wei's family couldn't refuse Wen Bao's words, not to mention their family's situation was indeed short of money as Aunt Wei said.

The price for selling the tiger was 100 taels, which seemed a lot, but yesterday it cost [-] taels a day. If it wasn't for this, they wouldn't be in a hurry to go home today.

The doctor said that if you want to continue to cure and maintain your health, you will need to spend at least 20 taels of silver.

In addition, Song Wei was injured and would not be able to work for a long time. Even if he could go to the field, he couldn't go to the mountains to hunt immediately. It took several months to raise him.

In winter, Aunt Wei and Yanzi will have to take medicine, and this winter is at least 20 taels of silver, so they will say that they are really short of money.

After agreeing with Song Wei's family to help, Song Dalang discussed with Song Wei who those people in the village could help. After that, Song Dalang sent Wen Bao home first, and then went to those houses to find help.

The families Song Dalang found were still living in caves, and he found four middle-aged men, including himself, a total of five people. They will bring stones and go into the mountains tomorrow. They can hunt some small prey along the way, but their main purpose is Or pick grapes.

As Song Dalang's family began picking grapes vigorously, the villagers also knew that Song Dalang's family had bought a valley in the mountains.

After knowing this, there are people in the village who say something, but most of them still don't understand.

The fruit tasted sour, they didn't understand why Song Dalang still bought it, especially for such a big valley, it must cost a lot of money.

Wen Bao and Song Dalang don't have time to tidy up the valley right now, but the two of them have also agreed to pick the grapes first this year, and when the wine is ready, Song Dalang will take people into the mountains to clear the grass in the valley, and then inspect it. down the valley.

Wen Bao is at home every day now. In the morning, he prepares the things for winemaking in the afternoon. In the afternoon, he takes Aunt Wei and Yanzi to wash the grapes. After Song Dalang has a rest, he crushes the grapes with a wooden barrel crusher and puts them in proportion. Good sugar, then put in the crock pot.

Although everyone in the village now knows that Wen Bao and Song Dalang use the fruits in the mountains to make wine, only Wen Bao and Song Dalang know how to make wine.

This is not because Wen Bao is stingy, but because this is a way to make money. Of course, Wen Bao cannot tell others.

The brewing tools Wen Bao needed were all sent by Wen Chengyong, along with news about the distiller used for purification.

The distiller was doing very well. The Chen family had been making wine for so many years. As soon as Wen Chengyong brought the news back, the Chen family understood the function of the distiller.

With the Chen family around, Wen Bao didn't worry that the distilled wine wouldn't come out at all.

Now Wen Bao's family is very motivated, and several families in the village can earn some copper coins a day for helping Song Dalang's family. Although these men only need to work for half a day, Song Dalang also gave them ten coins.

They can also hunt some things when they go to the mountains to pick grapes. Although it is not much, but with ten cents added, their daily income is no less than what they earn in the town.

Winter in Songjia Village came earlier than other places, but two or three days later, after an autumn rain, Wen Bao felt cold.

It just rained in the mountains, and it was the time when the mushrooms came out. Song Dalang went to pick grapes from the mushrooms in the morning. In the past three days, Wen Bao and Song Dalang had brewed [-] catties of wine, although the wine was finally filtered Not so much, but Wen Bao still felt that he saw hope.

The two cans of wine that I tried to make for the first time were filtered by Wen Bao and Song Dalang last night, and the second fermentation will take about seven days. After this fermentation, I need to filter again, but this time I need to add egg white Filtration, after this filtration, three times of fermentation for half a month, the wine is ready to drink.

After Wen Bao told Song Dalang the time, Song Dalang began to look forward to the wine brewed by himself.

Song Dalang is very happy today, because Wen Bao's menstrual affairs are clean. Song Dalang found out about it yesterday morning and waited for another day. After confirming that Wen Bao's menstrual affairs were really clean this morning, Song Dalang was waiting for the night to get dark.

Wen Bao didn't know about this. Today, she made an appointment with Yanzi and Aunt Wei to pick mountain mushrooms near the two. The mountain mushrooms after the rain are very fresh and tender.

It's just that Song Dalang and Wen Bao didn't know about it at this time, and a rumor about Wen Bao in the village suddenly emerged like this mountain mushroom after the rain.

(End of this chapter)