The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 55

Lin Qiu came and went for a long time, and when he returned home, his complexion was not very good.Seeing Fang Yumin looking at him, Lin Qiulai just forced a smile at her, but was thinking about how to convey Lin Zhuxin's meaning to Fang Yumin.
Who is Fang Yumin? Lin Qiulai, an honest man, is so obviously irritable that she can't see it?The corner of Fang Yumin's mouth curled up, and Fang Yumin showed a sneering sneer. She raised her chin and deliberately walked over to ask: "Qiu Lai, what did Li Zheng say?"

Lin Qiulai looked at Fang Yumin, and waited for a long time before saying, "Lizheng said that the village is now..."

Fang Yumin interrupted him impatiently: "Get to the point!"

Lin Qiulai immediately said quickly: "Li is telling us not to build a new house for the time being."

"En." Fang Yumin nodded, this old fox was really hit by me.She looked up at Lin Qiulai and asked, "Then how did you answer?"

"I was very angry when I heard it, but after all, he is Li Zheng, and I don't want to confront him head-on. I just endured and told him that we should hire a plasterer to build the house. Anyway, my house is far away from the village. But he said that before you Remind him to keep the sweet potato flour secret, and it is best not to have people from other villages in the village now. I am really aggrieved."

The old fox moved her out again to press Lin Qiulai, okay!I'm counting on you!Fang Yumin gritted her teeth with hatred, but still pretended to be calm and asked, "Well, what then?"

Lin Qiulai was so ashamed that his neck was red. He turned his head and said in a rough voice: "What else? This is not allowed and that is not allowed. I don't believe that he is not allowed to build our house by myself. Already!"

Fang Yumin said coolly: "He is sure that we are kind! Qiulai, you still don't understand? People are good and get ridden by others!"

Lin Qiulai clenched his fists when he heard the words, and it took him a while to come over and hold Fang Yumin's hand: "Xiao Min, let me build our house. As long as you don't think the house is built slowly, and don't dislike mine The handwork is not as good as that of a master plasterer."

Fang Yumin blinked, her husband can still build a house?He built the cowshed and pig garden, and he also built the ventilated mud room that was just built for fermenting soybeans. Maybe he really does?
"Can you still build houses?" Fang Yumin pointed to Xiaodoufang and asked Lin Qiulai: "You don't know how to build houses like that?"

"Look at what you said! There are men in the village who can do it, and my handwork is not bad." Lin Qiulai patted his chest proudly and said, "See if the two side rooms of our house are strong? Most of them are made by me. It was built, did you forget?"

"Hehe, how is it possible?" Fang Yumin smiled hurriedly, and immediately changed the subject: "If you build it, the structure of the house we discussed and designed before will change. I have decided that we will not build traditional houses, but directly build Let's go to the factory!"

"Factory?" Lin Qiulai looked at Fang Yumin in confusion: "What is a factory?"

"The factory building is..." Fang Yumin stopped suddenly. Lin Qiulai had just returned home, wondering if Lin Fox would follow?She looked outside, and said to Lin Qiu, "This, let's go back to the room and talk about it."

Lin Qiulai's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, go back to your room!"

"Don't think about it!" Fang Yumin stared at Lin Qiulai vigilantly, why does this guy always look like he wants to be dissatisfied.

Lin Qiulai spread his hands, with an innocent face: "I don't have it, are you thinking about it?"

Fang Yumin blushed slightly, but reprimanded: "Which room are you going back to? You haven't picked up water yet. Go quickly, the children haven't even bathed yet."

"Hehe, boy, you can just wash in the river. I carry water for you to take a bath."

Fang Yumin did not object that boys should go to the river more often, but: "Now that the sun has set, the river should be cold, right? If someone catches a cold and has a fever, it will really kill people here. Forget it, Qiu Come on, you have to work harder, let’s fetch water and adjust the temperature to give them a bath.”

"Okay, but boy, don't be too delicate."

"Can you still be cute here? Your forehead is pinched by the door, right?!"

"Hehe." Lin Qiulai smiled stupidly and picked up the wooden bucket and walked towards the small river. You have to hurry up. Xiao Min still has five children to take a bath before.

Fang Yumin drew the design again, and she will divide the new factory building into two parts, one big and one small.Yumin plans to replace the wall with bungalows in the big area, and there will be a big drying field in the middle. This is the future Fang's soy sauce factory planned by Fang Yumin; the other small area is going to be built as a breeding base. Rabbits and chickens Yeah, they are all concentrated there.

It's not that Fang Yumin never thought of moving to another village, but who knows if there will be an old fox like Lin Zhuxin there?Besides, her family just bought land.Fermentation of fermented soybeans requires strong sunlight, and it is best to dry fermented soybeans in the countryside. Because of this, Fang Yumin delayed going to the county to buy a house.If you want to buy it, you have to wait for the arrangements to be made, and you can spare your hands to take care of both sides of the factory at home.

If the family wants to build a new house by themselves, although they and their five children will help, only Lin Qiulai is the main labor force.In order not to waste time, Fang Yumin decided to plant thorns around the field first.Even if the house is built slowly, the thorns will grow fast, and if two or three more dogs are raised by then, it will be difficult for others to sneak in.She will make soy sauce in it later.

Speaking of soy sauce, Fang Yumin has already made all preparations for brewing.In order to make it easier for her to record the proportions, she asked Ah Qing to help her make a dozen large and small wooden spoons and small wooden buckets.Because Fang Yumin didn't understand the measurement method here, she decided to do what she knew.There is no metric measuring tool, so Fang Yumin made it by himself.

A catty in this dynasty is similar to that in modern times. Fang Yumin uses 1 kilogram = 1000ml to make a scale for each spoon and each small wooden barrel.This is also convenient for deceiving people when measuring later.

Another headache is the schooling of young children.Originally, Fang Yumin planned to buy a house in the county after a year of hard work, and then Xiao Ming would go to school in the county.But now the plan can't keep up with the changes, and suddenly there are four more eight-year-old children.

Fang Yumin couldn't do such a thing as her own child going to school, but her adopted son had to stay at home and work.If you want to go to class, go to class together, do homework together after returning home, review the past and learn the new, it will also help everyone to take the initiative to learn.

"Qiulai, where do the children in our village go to school?" Fang Yumin asked Lin Qiulai after putting away the drawings.

"Tian Xiucai from the neighboring village opened a private school, and the children from the three nearby villages all go to him to study."

"Is it far from here? How is Tian Xiucai teaching?"

"It's not too far, it's only half an hour's walk away. However, I don't know how Tian Xiucai's teaching is. It should be okay. Everyone goes to him."

Fang Yumin sighed: That's right, his family is the only one, there is no other choice at all.

"The tuition fee, uh, is Shu Xiu, how did Shu Xiu collect it?"

"I don't know about this, I'll ask tomorrow."

"Okay." Fang Yumin nodded, "One more thing, Xiaoyang and his four children, I plan to let them go to school too. Do I need any documents to go to school? For example, a birth certificate, ah! Qiulai, Xiaoming's birth certificate Woolen cloth?"

Lin Qiulai was puzzled and asked, "What is a birth certificate?"

Fang Yumin frowned and looked at Lin Qiulai, she didn't know what to say?Is it possible to say one more word 'identity card'?She thought for a while and said, "It's a document to prove that we are from the Lin Family Village."

"Well, it's okay. When a child is born in the village, it will be registered at Lizheng's home. When the child turns 12 years old, Lizheng will arrange to go to the county government to handle the paperwork. If it is an outsider, like you and your mother, you can Lizheng’s consent must be obtained before the settlement procedures and paperwork can be handled.”

"What about Xiaoyang and the others?"

"Lizheng has registered them in our family, and when they are 12 years old, they will have their own paperwork."

"So that's how it is." Fang Yumin nodded, accepting the lesson.From this point of view, Lizheng has quite a lot of power.

The two talked softly for a while before turning off the oil lamp and going to sleep.

If she didn't worry about running around for two meals, Fang Yumin didn't want to hide her method of making soy sauce.But now that even hot and sour powder can bring her a handsome income, she has to be careful about protecting her intellectual property.

Fortunately, everyone in the village is now making sweet potato flour at home, which gave Fang Yumin the space and time to try out soy sauce in his yard.

Lin Qiu came and asked, Shu Xiu received 400 Wen a year, and the tuition fee for five children was only 2 taels a year.Fang Yumin could afford the tuition, so she decided that starting from next month, all five children would go to school.

When Wang Xiaoyang and the others heard that they could go to school with Xiao Ming, they were so excited that they cried.Since they were adopted by Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin, not only can they have enough food and clothing, but they can also go to school now. How can they not be moved to tears?So, there was no need for anyone to take the lead, and the four children kowtowed three times to Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin like dumplings.

Since Lin Qiulai took them to Tian Xiucai to hand over Shu Xiu, the children have been as diligent as chicken blood every day.Fang Yumin rubbed her forehead and sighed, children's hearts are the most pure, whoever treats them well, they will repay double.

As soon as children go to school, they use a lot of paper.Lin Qiulai also stepped up to make straw paper. Fortunately, it is the season of luxuriant vegetation. Lin Qiulai takes five children to mow the grass every day. The old ones are used to make straw paper, and the young ones are used to feed the rabbits.

Everyone went out, Fang Yumin stayed at home to try making soy sauce.

For the first trial brewing, in order to avoid waste, Fang Yumin planned to make only five small jars of soy sauce.With all the tools ready, Fang Yumin took out a small notebook and started brewing while recording.

To make soy sauce, you must first make koji. Fang Yumin washed the round and plump soybeans that he picked out a long time ago and soaked them in a wooden basin for a whole night. After about twelve hours, he steamed them in a cage for more than two hours. Fang Yumin remembered that it was said on TV that it would take five hours.

Then take out the steamed soybeans and mix them with flour and wheat bran.For the middle ratio, Fang Yumin could only figure out a few ratios according to his vague memory, and carefully recorded them.

The steamed soybean and wheat mixture is placed on the sieve and spread out. After cooling, it is exposed to the sun for a day to reach a semi-dry state. It is placed in a bamboo cage and covered with a cloth to dry in the shade for a day.

After that, they mixed the beans and rice evenly, and moved to Lin Qiulai to build a small ventilated house specially for soybean fermentation, so that the beans and rice would naturally grow moldy, which is Aspergillus.

This stage takes a long time, and you have to be careful that the temperature should not be too high or too low, but there is no thermometer here, Fang Yumin can only estimate.So she would often run to the bean house, sometimes throwing off the cloth towel, sometimes covering it again, sweating all over.

This situation lasted for four or five days, and Fang Yumin finally saw green fluff growing on the surface of the soybeans, which smelled light.Fang Yumin observed carefully in surprise, then took out a small book for comparison, and circled the ratio that produces the most koji mycelia, and she will use this ratio as a recipe in the future.

After recording, Fang Yumin took out the fungus-grown beans and exposed them to the sun.Then continue to make koji according to the optimal ratio.And those ratios are not so good, so they are used as tempeh.

After two to three days in the sun, after removing the excess water, it is followed by salt and soybean mixing to make it even.

At this time, the ratio of table salt is the most critical. How much salt is the most appropriate?In the food programs that Fang Yumin watched, some said it was half of soybeans; some said it was 17~20%.Fang Yumin decided to make two tanks each, and she can make the other tank as she likes, let's put 30%.

Sprinkle the salt on the tempeh three times, stir well and then expose to the sun, so that the tempeh will not be acidified.After a week of continuous exposure, you can pour the exposed fermented soybeans into the sauce tank, add the mountain spring water that Lin Qiulai picked out, and then spread a layer of gauze to prevent flies and insects from running in.Then put bamboo hats made by Dabao specially for sauce jars on top.

Fang Yumin was recording while she was doing it. Sweat dripped down her cheeks to her chin, and then fell into the dirt.This is not over yet, the next job is to stir the fermented soybeans in the sauce tank once a day in the morning and afternoon.

If the sun is strong, the fermented soy bean can be marinated in the sun for a month, but Fang Yumin thinks that one month is not enough to be mellow, at least three months before it can be taken out and steamed, because the fermented soy bean has been transformed into amino acids at that time, and the taste is sweet and fragrant.

She still remembers that gourmet show, the old lady proudly said that her family's food was salted and dried for at least a year, and a small bottle sold for 200 yuan, and the supply was often in short supply.But her soy sauce is really delicious and mellow.In modern times, there are very few merchants who make soy sauce with conscience like her, and it is no wonder that it is so expensive and sold out.

Every household in Linjia Village is very busy now, and no one would visit to gossip in broad daylight. The homes of Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin, who were far away from the village, were actually peaceful.

Lin Qiulai went to the foot of the mountain every day to pick up mud and came back to make mud bricks by himself.Fang Yumin felt that building a house with mud bricks was not strong enough, but it was too expensive to buy green bricks.

How is modern concrete made?Fang Yumin rested her chin and thought hard. China is full of large-scale civil engineering projects. Isn't that concrete just a mixture of sand and cement?But there is no cement here, so I wonder if lime and mud will work?

(End of this chapter)