The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 104

Once the spring plowing season is over, the sun's sunshine time becomes longer and longer, and the temperature becomes higher and higher.However, the humidity content in the air is still very high, nourishing everything, and it will never become dry like in summer. It is most suitable for the fermentation of tempeh and the growth of mycelium.This is the best time to make music.

Lin Qiulai took Xiaofeng back to Linjiacun several times, bringing spices and seasonings.As for the salt, because Linjia Village has sweet potato powder sold to Haipu County, Fang Yumin has already asked Uncle Damin to help them buy sea salt locally.

The soybeans at home and the soybeans purchased in the village are all carried to the drying yard to bask in the sun to remove the moisture that has passed through the winter.Lin Qiulai did these preparations last year, and now he brings Xiaohua and Xiaofeng to do it together.Lin Xialai will also help to select the grade of soybeans.

Large, round and good-looking soybeans can be used to brew super-grade soy sauce, and those that are slightly inferior are first-class soy sauce, and the ones that are further down, except those with crooked melons and cracked dates, are second-class, that is, ordinary soy sauce.Fang Yumin didn't really want to brew ordinary soy sauce, because it was sold in grocery stores.But apart from the big round soybeans grown at home, the quality of the purchased soybeans is very average.It is estimated that everyone does not fertilize soybeans. Bizhang soybeans are fertile fields. The villagers grow soybeans as fertile fields. How can they fertilize?

That's why Fang Yumin planted all the dry land with peanuts and soybeans this year.Peanuts can also be squeezed out of peanut oil, which is more fragrant.In addition, peanuts are also very nutritious and taste very good.

But Fang Yumin was also thinking in her heart that if the soy sauce brewed this year was also a big hit, she would have to buy land to grow soybeans.Only high-quality soybeans can be used to brew high-quality soy sauce. If the soy sauce produced by her family has no advantage over others, it will never be able to stand out.

There is no need for Fang Yumin to do the preparation work, it is enough for Lin Qiu to go back and forth to Linjiacun and take Xiaohua to do it.Weeds should be weeded in the sauce tank, and the room used for fermenting fermented soybeans should be kept ventilated. The wooden shelves, bamboo sieves, and tools used in it must be cleaned and dried.

After completing these tasks, Fang Yumin took Xiao Ming, Xiao Yang, and Xiao Yu back to Lin's Village.Xiaoming and Xiaoyang, as her sons, had to learn how to brew Fangji soy sauce no matter what.Even if you don't go to school and take a few days off, Fang Yumin thinks it's worth it.

From soaking soybeans to steaming to fermentation, everything is carried out in an orderly manner.These were all carried out in the sauce garden, besides Fang Yumin, Xiaoming and Xiaoyang, mother and son, Lin Xialai and Xiaohua, father and son.Mrs. He, Taohua and Xiaoyu were not allowed in either, they just asked them to eat after cooking.

Fermentation of fermented soybeans is especially important. Whether the soy sauce is good or bad is determined by the mycelia on the soybeans.This is also related to the weather. Fortunately, this ancient village is not as unpredictable as modern weather, and the environment has not been polluted by industry, so it is still very powerful.

Fang Yumin went to check every day, and the three children behind him all followed with charcoal pens and paper to make records.Fang Yumin unreservedly passed on what she knew and the experience of last year to Xiao Ming, Xiao Yang and Xiao Hua.

Zhang Cuihua was very happy to know that Lin Qiulai had returned with Fang Yumin and the two children. She thought that Lin Qiulai sent the breeding rabbits last time because of her work, and she planned to do it again.It's a pity that she didn't have a chance. Lin Qiulai only stayed in the village for a while before driving back to the county in a carriage.And Fang Xiaolian... If Zhang Cuihua dared to roll around in front of her, Fang Xiaolian, a vicious little bitch, would probably ask her sons to squat in front of her to watch.Zhang Cuihua hesitated, after such a hesitation, Fang Yumin had already led the children to close the door of the sauce garden.

It was already afternoon when Lin Qiulai drove the carriage back to Nantou County.The building outside the building should have been closed for cleaning, so he went straight back to the Confucian Garden.With Xiaolu in the shop, Ah Qing and Aunt Chunhua are here, so there will be no problem.

As soon as the carriage reached the door, the door opened.Xiaori pushed the door all the way and shouted loudly: "Master is back."

Then a woman in her forties walked over quickly: "Master, have you eaten yet?"

Lin Qiulai pulled the carriage into the stable and put it away, and said to the woman, "Go and give me a bowl of noodles, and we will have dinner later when the children come back."

"Yes." The woman stepped back and walked towards the kitchen.The woman's surname is Li, which Fang Yumin entrusted a dental insurance company to buy. The other woman is also in her 40s, and her surname is Jian. She is now taking over He's job in the building outside the building: washing dishes.

These two women are not peasant women, Fang Yumin only needs to look at them to know.Although they were dressed like peasant women, their faces were sallow, and their bodies were thin, but their words and deeds were refined and polite, and their words were well-mannered, as if they came from a poor family.Fang Yumin decided to buy them at that time.

Fang Yumin bought them for another reason: they are very cheap.Women of this age are generally old and decrepit, and can hardly conceive again, and even widowers in the countryside will not buy them.So cheap.

The business of the building outside the building has always been very good, and there are a few smart children on the floor who can support it, but the dishes and chopsticks are piled up like a mountain, and Mrs. He can't keep up with it alone. choking enough.It's also fortunate that Fang Yumin ordered so many pots, pans and chopsticks, otherwise there wouldn't be enough.

Going on like this is not an option, so Fang Yumin decided to buy two maids to come back and wash the dishes in the backyard.Unexpectedly, she picked up two treasures. The woman surnamed Li is good at controlling the servants. She insisted that the Confucian Garden should still be divided into classes.This is conducive to the future growth of the two young masters, after all, the two young masters are going to be official careers.

Fang Yumin also knew that Li Shi was right. In this feudal society, could she still call out the slogan that everyone is equal?Fang Yumin couldn't pass her own test and couldn't manage it well, so leave it to Mrs. Li.In just half a month, under her training, the seven children became more respectful to Lin Qiulai and his wife.

Jane's personality is weaker than Li's, and she doesn't like to talk, so she and He usually go to the store to help.Occasionally, after finishing her work, she would stare at a certain place in a daze.Sometimes when Fang Yumin saw her, she would touch her still flat stomach and sigh: Every woman has a story behind her!Why isn't she?
Lin Qiulai sat on a bamboo chair under the persimmon tree and ate pork bone soup ramen.When spring comes, the Confucian Garden becomes more and more beautiful. Although the flowering period of the chrysanthemums is over, the transplanted cherries have bloomed, but the rough and rough cultivation will bloom beautiful sunflowers, which have sprung up like mushrooms, dotting the front and back yards any corner.

The peppers, wormwood and mint specially planted beside the wall are also very energetic.In the small yard of Erjin’s house, the fish pond in the center did not raise ornamental fish, but grass carp, big fish and dace.Fish is rich in protein, and children are smarter when they eat fish. This is what Fang Yumin's mother often said at the dinner table when she was a child.Fang Yumin has been taught, since she traveled to this ancient time, she often nagged Xiao Ming to eat fish.

I just sent Fang Yumin back to Linjiacun today, Lin Qiulai already missed her.Brewing soy sauce requires patience and care. Fang Yumin will stay in Linjiacun for at least a month, and will not hand over to the second brother and Xiaohua until all the sauce tanks are free of problems.During these days, Lin Qiulai could only take time to visit his wife and son.

Rabbit meat is tender but not fat, and the best way is to use it for stewing soup.If you want to make a dish, you need to add lard, which tastes very fragrant.Fang Yumin's braised rabbit meat recipe has been sold, so she will not make this dish again, but mainly put it on the dry pot: dry pot spicy rabbit meat, dry pot spicy rabbit meat and dry pot spiced rabbit meat.

The red charcoal fire, the hot iron pan, the lard board and the rabbit meat are covered with garlic, ginger, scallions and fresh peppers, and the spicy aroma is squeaky, which makes the index finger move.Scoop up the rich and spicy soup and pour it on the white rice, how delicious it is.

Rabbits are easy to feed and have a very strong reproductive capacity.With plenty of supplies, this bunny dish can be made all summer long.Lin Qiulai also told Fang Yumin that he had sent breeding rabbits to Lin Chunlai, but Fang Yumin was fine.She thought in her heart that she would not help at all, but Fang Yumin also knew that this was not good.In a hurry, Zhang Cuihua might go to the Confucian Garden to make trouble, and that would be troublesome.It's not easy to drive her away, is it?Rolling and crying on the ground, Fang Yumin doesn't care about what you like in Linjiacun; but if you make trouble in the Confucian Garden and make the streets and alleys hear it, Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang still want to lose face?
Fang Yumin was right to be worried, in fact Zhang Cuihua would not go to the Confucian Garden to make trouble.At first, she was just a peasant woman in the countryside, with little experience and no courage.In the village, she could be a shrew and swear at the street, but when she arrived in the county town, she was wilted.Even if she is not familiar with the unknown, she will also be timid. If there is a trouble, will she be dragged to jail by the county yamen?In addition, Zhang Cuihua also firmly remembered Fang Yumin's words: Lin Qiulai's family's financial power is in Fang Yumin's hands.If she still dared to make too much noise, she would divorce Lin Qiulai and tell him to go home and live with her.

"Mother-in-law." As soon as Fang Yumin came out of the sauce garden, she saw Zhang Cuihua guarding there.But she just kept it and didn't do anything amazing.

Zhang Cuihua looked at Fang Yumin, and suddenly didn't know what to say?Take money from her?It's impossible to think with your toes.But Zhang Cuihua felt uncomfortable if she didn't come to block her.

Fang Yumin was no stranger to Zhang Cuihua's behavior, she turned her eyes and said to Zhang Cuihua: "Grandmother, it will be the rainy season in a while, and when there is more rain, the mushrooms in the mountains in our village will pop up. I want Qiulai to come back to pick it, but I probably can’t move it away. It would be great if my brother and nephew Darong Dafu can help pick it. Of course, I won’t let my brother and them be busy. Fresh shiitake mushrooms are 8 cents per catty, baked I will buy dried shiitake mushrooms from my elder brother at 80 renminbi per catty, what do you think?"

Zhang Cuihua was very impatient at first, but when she heard that she was rich, her cloudy eyes immediately lit up.He stepped forward and stared at Fang Yumin and asked, "Really?"

Fang Yumin was startled by Zhang Cuihua's sudden approach, and involuntarily covered her still flat stomach with her hands.Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang, who were standing behind her, also hurriedly supported their mother, lest they accidentally fall when they backed up.

Zhang Cuihua's eyes narrowed, this posture is very similar to...

Fang Yumin held Xiao Ming's hand tightly and said, "Grandma, I only want shiitake mushrooms, not other mushrooms. So if the shiitake mushrooms you sell me are mixed with other mushrooms, I won't buy anything from your family."

Zhang Cuihua looked at Fang Yumin with her hands behind her back, and when she heard her say this, she stared and said gruffly, "What do you mix with other mushrooms? If you want shiitake mushrooms, you can give them. If you want to buy other mushrooms, you have to pay extra!"

Fang Yumin couldn't help laughing: "That's right, if it's oyster mushrooms, Coprinus comatus, etc., I guess my mother-in-law would like to eat them too."

Zhang Cuihua snorted and turned around to go home. She had to tell her son and grandson the news. In fact, mushrooms do not grow on the mountain when it rains. In the damp and dark forest, mushrooms grow on dead wood or short piles.The farmers who live on the mountain will do the drying of shiitake mushrooms.When Lin Chunlai and his son went to dig spring bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in the early spring, they picked up a lot of them.

Bean drum, coarse salt, and mountain water are poured into the sauce tank according to the proportion, and then they are quietly fermented in it, so as to be converted into amino acid. Time passes, and when the winter begins, delicious soy sauce will be brewed.

(End of this chapter)