take a wife to support the family

Chapter 68 Coarse Salt Purification Method

The days passed quickly, and it entered May in a blink of an eye, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, the willow leaves were already dark green, and it was a time when people felt bored wearing single shirts.

Previously, Lily gave her father an idea to let him go to the market to sell things like bamboo baskets and bamboo plaques, and earned about [-] yuan a day, which made Li Bamboo Carpenter very satisfied.

Lily paid [-] kuai for his contribution, and said to him: "Father, when I was young, you used to make some grasshopper cages for me to play with. Can you still make them now?"

Li bamboo craftsman said: "That's so difficult, I can make up a few in a while, why, who do you want to play with?" He only thought that Lily was going to be given to Xing'er or someone else's child playing.

Lily smiled and said, "Can't it be me who wants to play?"

Carpenter Li said seriously: "You are a wife for other people, how can you still think about playing all day long?"

Lily laughed, knowing that her father was an honest man, she stopped teasing him, and told him her plan: "Father, you weaved those little baskets for me earlier, adults and children like them, especially children. The grasshopper cages I made are very beautiful, if you make some and bring them back together, someone will definitely like them.”

Carpenter Li heard that his daughter had made money, so he seemed to be obedient to Lily, and with Lamei and Qingsong looking at Lily with admiration, his persuasion was even more persuasive. He nodded again and again, and made some Grasshopper cage.

He split the bamboo thread very thinly, not only to make a simple cage, but also to weave a lifelike grasshopper or grasshopper on the cage cover, which is very rare.

After he finished it, he sent two of them to Lily to play with. The eldest daughter is married, and being a daughter-in-law is very hard.

Lily received the grasshopper cage her father entrusted someone to bring, and it was both funny and grateful for his fatherly kindness. She also asked someone to bring half a catty of brown sugar home, and asked them to make brown sugar water to drink by themselves every day.

When she turned around, she gave a grasshopper cage to Mrs. Sheng, and Mrs. Sheng understood what she meant without saying a word, and gave it to the young master in Liu's mansion. The young master couldn't pull it out when he saw it, and even slept holding the cage tightly. .

The young master also asked someone to catch a real grasshopper for him to dress him up. Through the gaps in the cage, he could see a green grasshopper scurrying inside, and a green bamboo grasshopper trembling on the outside cover, which was very interesting. very.

Even Master Liu appreciated it once, saying, "It's very wild, like a vulgar and elegant one."

The young master of the Liu Mansion is still young, he doesn't go out much on weekdays, he only plays around his house, the housekeeper's grandson, the nanny's son and others are his playmates on a daily basis.

After a few days, all the dolls in Qingliu Town knew that the young master of the Liu family had a very funny grasshopper cage, and they were so greedy that they pestered the adults at home to ask for it.

Adults are going to buy it, where can I buy it?Just buy two pieces of malt candy first and prevaricate, hoping that the child will forget it in a day or two.

Lily gave Xing'er another cage to play with. If it was the cage of the young master of the Liu Mansion, it would be fine if everyone couldn't get it for a few days, but Xing'er also carried one around to play with. These dolls in the town will never forget it. He followed Xing'er all day long, hoping that she would be merciful and let them play for a while.

Xing'er is very proud of herself, she has the style of a big sister, and even the dolls two or three years older than her have to obey her instructions, telling them to line up and play one by one, and no one is allowed to use too much force to damage them.If someone breaks it, everyone will not play with him in the future, and no matter how good things are, they will not take him.

Li Caifeng complained to Baihe: "Just like her father, she is so happy all day long."

Lily also laughed: "Xing'er is like a big brother, he is very stylish and quick-witted." The child is a bit crooked, but what is rare is that Xing'er was born with Liu Yi's attitude of being anxious and righteous. The children obey her and are willing to be controlled by her.

"She, if she doesn't grow up to be a tiger girl in the future, I'll be thankful to God if she can get married safely!" Li Caifeng scolded and smiled at the same time, showing a motherly heart.

Now all the adults in the town know that this grasshopper cage must be another idea of ​​Da Nian's family, and they don't know where such a small person like her came from. Be careful.

At this time, Lily asked Carpenter Li to take the gadgets he had made to set up a stall. Some people wanted to buy baskets and bamboo baskets for their families.

When he was about to leave, he couldn't move, and found that his little doll was looking at the pile of gadgets in front of Qingsong with his finger in his mouth, without blinking his eyes.

After receiving Lily's permission, Carpenter Li made about twenty grasshopper cages. In addition to grasshoppers, the lids were also woven into the shapes of grasshoppers, birds, hedgehogs, etc., which were beautiful and interesting.

Qingsong coaxed this immobile doll, and sold him one for a penny. The adults saw that it was compact and sturdy, and it was not too expensive, so they reluctantly paid for it, and bought a stuffer for the child, saying: " If it breaks, I won't buy you candy for a year!"

The child was so frightened that he wanted to cry, but when he looked down and saw the grasshopper cage in his hand, he became happy again, and ran to show off to his little friend excitedly.

Not long after, a large group of children came hula-la, about thirty of them, and the small stall was tightly surrounded. Some families were rich, and they had to pay for it immediately; I took out the candy that I had hidden for several days and gave it to him to eat, wanting to play with him; there was also a doll with missing front teeth who couldn’t afford it, and squatted there eagerly looking at it all day long.

Li Mei was soft-hearted, and secretly left one for the doll with missing front teeth, and slipped it to him when no one was looking.When I went home and counted the money, this little thing earned more money than a serious basket!

Lily took advantage of the situation to encourage Carpenter Li: "Father, don't you know how to make some gadgets, and make something of everything."

This time, Li Bamboo Carpenter easily listened to it. From then on, apart from farming, he just figured out how to weave these things at home. He brought winter plums and green pine to the town once a month. Helped: "Mom, this thing can make money!" She didn't say anything.

There was a lot of rain in May, and Song Haonian repaired the roof twice, so that there would be no more water leaks, but the roughly rammed earth floor in the house kept getting damp, and people felt sticky and damp all over the house.

When Lily was cooking that day, she suddenly found a lot of salt bumps in the salt jar.Coarse salt is easy to absorb water and agglomerate. She usually pays most attention not to let the salt get wet. As a result, the weather is too humid, and the salt is still damp.

Coarse salt is yellowish and black in color, and has a bitter taste. It is even more unsightly when it is wetted and condensed into a ball. Lily knows a simple way to purify coarse salt, so I just gave it a try.

This method is simple to say, it cannot remove all the impurities in the salt, it just picks out the sand and mud mixed in the production and transportation process.

She scraped all the salt out first, rinsed it into a basin of clean warm water, and stirred it for half a day, and a lot of small sand grains and muddy dust appeared at the bottom of the basin.

Pour the clear salt water from the upper layer into another basin, add water to the sediment at the bottom, wash and clarify again, and finally fold the salt water into the pot to cook, and pour off the remaining sediment directly.

Light a fire and boil salt water. After the water boils, a layer of salt crystals will slowly precipitate on the surface. Keep the fire, and more and more salt crystals will become white.

After all the water evaporated, the pot was removed from the fire and dried with the last residual heat. The salt at the bottom of the pot was white and delicate, not as good as the refined salt she used in her previous life, but much better than coarse salt.

Scrape these salts into jars while they're still hot, and the jars will stay dry for a while longer with corkscrews.Lily decided to refine the salt in order to make pickles in the future.

Because the process of pickling vegetables will produce many harmful substances, if the salt is not clean, it will cause great damage to the human body.Her resources are limited, so she can only do a dojo in a screw shell, arrange her daily needs, and prepare vegetable and vegetable soups. During this process, clean salt can not only ensure food safety, but also make her feel happy.

Although she has mastered the purification technology of coarse salt, Lily never thought of buying coarse salt for processing and then selling it at the price of refined salt.

For one thing, the imperial court monopolizes salt and iron, and those who can sell salt are all salt merchants who have been licensed by the imperial court.Secondly, there are not many people in the countryside who can afford refined salt. Those who can afford it naturally have their own channels. They look down on her little salt, and those who can’t afford it, even if she processes it, they won’t purchase.

Thinking about the life of the legendary salt merchant spending money like water, Lily put this idea behind her.

The chicks and ducklings she bought earlier all grew well, but one of them died. After observing for several days, she made sure that the others were still alive and well, not chicken plague, so she was relieved.

The chickens and ducks were about the same size, so Lily put the chickens into the vegetable field and let them eat worms with the big chickens.The big chickens were a bit repulsive at first, but after two days, they accepted this group of newcomers who share a nest with them at night and share a vegetable field with them during the day.

Not far from the door is the Baishui River. The banks of the river are not straight, but twists and turns in some places. The river water carries the sediment from the upper reaches and piles up a small sand embankment when it encounters the bends. A gentle pool of water is formed along the banks of the river. .

Lily drove the ducklings into the pool once, but they didn't take the ducks with them. They were scared at first, but after Lily caught them and put them into the water, they soon started having fun, swimming in it all day long, catching fish, and they didn't arrive. Lily drove them back in the evening, but they refused to return.

The chicken coop was half a person's height above the ground, and Song Haonian built another duck shed with straw under the chicken coop. The ducks didn't dislike them either. Lily called them home, and they crowded there to groom each other with their beaks.

In May, the sun is bad, and the weather changes drastically. Sometimes the sun shines brightly, and sometimes it rains heavily. Snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants often harm people at this time, so it is called the evil month.Some people even think that children born in May are unlucky and will hinder the family's fortune.

Every family in Qingliu Town is preparing for the Duanyang Festival, and Lily is no exception, getting busy early.

(End of this chapter)