take a wife to support the family

Chapter 83 Colorful Pickled Vegetables

After a whole night's rest, Lily woke up the next day replete with energy to add bricks and tiles to her little life.

Now her family has tender green cowpeas, bright red carrots, light yellow ginger, old green courgettes, and white radishes, all of which are suitable for pickling.

Lily’s skill of pickling kimchi was learned from her classmates in Sichuan in her previous life. People in Qingliu Town also pickled kimchi for winter, but they were always salty, which was far less sweet and sour than Sichuan kimchi.

The most important step for kimchi is to build a jar. Lily is short of chili peppers, so she has no choice but to keep it simple. She omits this seasoning and seasons it with pepper, ginger, garlic, salt, vinegar, star anise, etc. to make a jar of thick kimchi water. .

All the dishes were washed clean, but any place with a little mildew and rot and insects had to be cut off and stacked neatly together.Pinch off the heads and tails of the cowpeas, and cut off the tassels from the carrots.

Most of the radishes were still lying safely on the ground. Lily pulled out some of the smaller ones, and removed the tassels and tail whiskers as well.

Cucumbers are the most tender and only need to be washed. Ginger scrapes off the old skin on the outside to reveal the light yellow ginger meat inside.

Take a jar that has been scalded and washed. It should be well sealed and not breathable.First put the cowpea on a plate, put it on the bottom of the tank, put the radish on top, then the carrot, the courgette is more tender than the previous dishes, put it on top of the carrot, and finally add ginger pieces, add half a jar of cold boiled water.

Then pour thick pickle water into it, covering the ginger, then seal the mouth of the altar with water and a small amount of rapeseed oil, and then you can eat pickles after waiting for a few days.

She made a total of four jars of kimchi, and put them together with the jars of Chinese toon and bracken pickled in spring, there are quite a lot of jars at home, Song Haonian still laughed at her: "How did you write down all these jars one by one? "

He had never seen Lily remember wrongly.

Lily smiled and said, "I have my own secret." Show him the symbols I drew on the jar with fire, "This one is for pickled Chinese toon, this one is for pickled bracken, this one is the jar for pulp, and this one is for fermented glutinous rice. earthen jar……"

Each symbol is clear and different in shape, and it will never be confused.

Illiterate women in the countryside often have such ingenious ideas, and some even draw marks on the wings of their chickens and ducks for identification. Lily's doing this is just common, Song Haonian has no doubts at all, only that the daughter-in-law is kind.

When the kimchi is flooded, you can eat it in half a month. After half a month, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Liu Yi had already agreed with his brothers that August [-]th would be a good day, and he set out to hunt in the mountains early in the morning.During these days in early August, Song Haonian sharpened hatchets and axes at home, found bows and arrows that had not been used for a long time, and repaired them bit by bit with a knife.

He found good wood from the mountains, and Liu Sanping made the bow bit by bit with the help of Liu Sanping. When not in use, he took off the bowstring and put it away, so as not to stretch it for too long and loosen its strength.When you want to use it, stretch the bowstring at both ends and bend it back into a half-moon bow.

The arrows are also made by themselves. They are made of hard and straight wood with a sharpened tip and the tail is inlaid with the feathers left by the slaughtered chicken. It is a very powerful arrow.

Lily has never seen a bow and arrow that was actually used for hunting, and she didn't quite believe that wooden arrows can also shoot through prey. Song Haonian just wanted to try the bow, and said with a smile: "Then let you see it."

He looked around, all the things in his house were treasures, so he couldn't shoot a hole casually, so he aimed at the willow tree outside the yard.

The willow tree was more than 50 steps away from him, and its trunk was covered with hard dark brown bark. Even Lily took a knife to chop it down, and it took a few cuts to leave a mark.

Song Haonian stood still on the spot, stepping unevenly, slowly nodding his arrow and opening his bow.Lily stared at him without blinking, feeling that this man suddenly possessed a powerful aura that made her heart pound.

The bowstring was stretched to the extreme, Song Haonian suddenly let go of his right hand, and the off-string arrow shot out at a speed invisible to the naked eye, Lily was dazzled, and his eyes tracked the arrow feather again, it was nailed to the willow tree tremblingly.

Lily was very surprised, and ran over to try to pull it out, but the nail was so deep that she couldn't pull it out all at once, so she had to look back at Song Haonian.

Song Haonian laughed loudly, walked over to pull out the wooden arrow, Lily saw with his own eyes that the arrowhead was nailed into the tree trunk to a depth of an inch, this is a tough willow tree, if it were an animal, it would probably be shot right through.

Lily's eyes are full of admiration, which makes Song Haonian very proud. He worshiped the emperor's conquest of the Tartars when he was young. In order to be able to fight the enemy in the future, he has worked hard to practice swordsmanship and archery.

It's just that the world is at peace now, he didn't get the chance to fight, but he can use this craft to support his small family.If he was younger, I'm afraid it would be very regrettable, but now he is no longer a frivolous and evil boy, and his wife and family have already surpassed everything else in his heart.

Lily asked curiously: "Isn't the government prohibiting bows and arrows?"

Song Haonian said: "How many country people rely on this for food, how can it be forbidden." What is really forbidden for the common people is the crossbow. Bows and arrows are of different powers and can be seen everywhere. Which boy has not played with a small bow when he was young?

While Song Haonian repaired his weapons, he also did some heavy work at home, so Lily packed his luggage, dry food, medicinal materials, and made a few pairs of wear-resistant shoes and socks for him.

Hunting is different from going out to sell goods, so you need to prepare more wound medicine.The pharmacy in the town only provided some ordinary medicines for traumatic injuries and detoxification. Lily was worried and asked Li Caifeng if there was any good medicine.

Li Caifeng knew that this was the first time for Lily to experience this, she was inexperienced, and she was panicked, so she told her first: "They are used to hunting in the mountains with my family in New Year's Eve, and they have never had any major incidents , don't worry."

"There are also a lot of medicinal materials in the mountains. They go to the mountains not only to hunt, but also to gather some medicinal materials. You just asked me about the medicines for stopping bleeding and treating snake venom. You don't know the medicines in the pharmacy in the town, or they brought them from the mountains. of."

The mountains are rich in products, and they can find precious medicinal materials. Liu Yi and the others go hunting in the mountains and pick whatever medicinal materials they need. Liu Yi also knows a lot of practical local prescriptions, which can treat common minor ailments.

Only then did Baihe feel relieved, and finally asked Li Caifeng a lot of things before going home to continue preparations.

Li Caifeng called her to stop: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, are you ready?"

Lily smiled and said: "Sister Caifeng, don't look at me in such panic, just think I'm stupid. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a big day, you have to have a good time, I have prepared everything."

Li Caifeng was relieved now.

These days, Song Haonian saw that something was wrong with Baihe, and didn't know how to persuade her to relax. Seeing her coming back from Liu Yi's house, her brows were relaxed, and she was no longer tense. What good happened?"

Lily pursed her lips and smiled. She didn't encounter any extra good things, but she let go of a big thing on her mind.

She said to Song Haonian: "Mid-Autumn Festival is the reunion festival, we just don't go back to our in-laws to celebrate the festival, we have to send something back."

It's her filial piety that a daughter-in-law can think about her parents, but Song Haonian starts to frown when she thinks about her family's appearance: Is such a good daughter-in-law brought back to be abused by others?
He said reluctantly: "Prepare whatever you want, and find someone to send it back."

"I know." Lily promised with a smile. After all, it was not casual. She took moon cakes, pomegranates, pumpkin seeds, and croquettes to make four-color gifts, wrapped them all up and put them in a basket, and asked Song Haonian to have a look.

Song Haonian knows that his daughter-in-law is sensible, but he is afraid that she will wrong him: "Do you have any from my father-in-law and mother-in-law?"

People are raised by their fathers and mothers, and they did not give things to their parents, but they missed the truth of the father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Lily smiled and said: "There are also, it's all the same."

The water poured out by the married daughters, there are those who are wholeheartedly for the mother-in-law's family, and those who want to take care of the mother-in-law's family, but are afraid of being talked about, and those who empty the mother-in-law's family to subsidize the mother's family, and so on.

Lily tried her best to keep a bowl of water as filial as her father-in-law and mother-in-law, and she should also prepare a portion for her own parents. It happened that Song Haonian thought the same way.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Song Haonian carried a basket to deliver the four-color gifts to his parents. As usual, he received a bunch of sarcastic remarks. Niu said harshly: "Don't be filial, and the daughter-in-law doesn't come to serve her parents-in-law, just take these Something to send beggars?"

Song Haonian's heart was cold, and his face was not good-looking: "My family is in trouble, only these things, if mother doesn't like them, I'll take them home and eat them myself."

Niu quickly took the things, and muttered: "I don't like these rags." He didn't relax at all, and locked them all in his box, and only took them out for his youngest son and grandson when it was time to eat. A few, others don't want to touch it.

Song Haonian really didn't like seeing his family's face, so he turned around and was about to leave. Mrs. Dong was cooking under the kitchen. The whole family didn't even say the polite words "stay for dinner", Song Haojie He and Song Xiuxiu both laughed: "Second brother is busy going home to see his second sister-in-law, how can we be seen?"

Jin Bao hugged Niu Shi's thigh and howled: "I want to eat meatballs!"

Going home with a stomach full of foul breath, walking outside the house, smelling the aroma coming from the kitchen, Song Haonian took a deep breath and let it out slowly, feeling better: didn't he make up his mind a long time ago to only have sex with his wife? Two people passed?Parents and the others have always been like that, so what else is there to say?
Today, Lily opened a jar of kimchi, which is ready to eat.Kimchi is versatile, and it can be eaten as a dish no matter what you cook. She scooped up some cowpeas, radishes, and carrots, chopped them up, and mixed them with cooked rapeseed oil. It was a refreshing and appetizing side dish.

Song Haonian couldn't forget the pumpkin rice last time, so she made another pot, served it with kimchi and fried meatballs, Song Haonian ate two bowls at once, her stomach felt warm and comfortable, and her face relaxed.

Lily then asked: "Are you angry again when you go back today?"

Song Haonian didn't keep the matter in his heart, and casually said to Baihe: "You still don't know?"

Lily didn't ask in detail, it was just a few narrow-minded people who did something narrow-minded to make things difficult for others, she only comforted Song Haonian: "Relax, we have to live our lives well, we can't be angry for them. "

(End of this chapter)