The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 72

As the New Year is approaching, butchers have also gone to various villages to collect pigs.Rich households in the county consume a large amount of livestock every year for New Year worship or New Year banquets. They use cattle, sheep, and pigs as the big three animals, and pigs, fish, and chickens as the small three animals. Anyway, pigs are very important.

When the butchers came to Linjiacun, Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin washed the four fat pigs at home with warm water.Fang Yumin thought that the pig looked clean, so the price should be raised a little, right?

As the New Year approaches, the price of pork pigs will be three to four yuan a catty higher than usual, so many farmers like to buy piglets in spring and keep them until winter before selling them.It's a pity that there is no food in winter, so those pigs that look fat and fat in summer have lost weight after being wintered in late autumn.It makes the farmers who raise pigs feel distressed and helpless.

So when the butchers saw the four pigs in Lin Qiulai's house that were too fat to walk, their eyes lit up, and the joy on their faces couldn't be concealed. It's sure to fetch a good price.

Fang Yumin saw it, and smiled and asked: "Brother, is our pig fat?"

One old, two strong and three butchers nodded together: "Fat!"

Fang Yumin looked at the shiny black pig hair under the winter sun and asked again: "Is it clean?"

"Eh? Clean." The butchers all looked stunned. In fact, what's the matter if the pig is not clean?Anyway, they have to be washed when they are slaughtered.

Fang Yumin smiled and said, "17 Wen a catty. I'll sell all four pigs to you."

"What?" The third butcher suddenly turned his eyes from the fat pig to Fang Yumin's face, "Little lady, don't you know the market? The price of the pigs is 15 yuan a catty."

Fang Yumin was still smiling. She pointed to the pigs on the cart and said, "How can our pigs compare with those pigs? Seeing that they are thin, they probably have very little fat. Look at my pigs. It’s almost 130 catties.”

The older butcher said: "Your pigs are fat, but 17 Wen is too expensive, and we can't make much money."

"Look at what you said. We have a lot of wealthy households in Nantou County. Why don't you choose a fat pig to go back to pay homage to the New Year?" Fang Yumin said with a smile.

"16 Wen." The old butcher gritted his teeth and said.

"17" Fang Yumin refused straight away, this was the first time he came to collect pigs, so don't worry.

"17 Wen is too expensive." The old butcher didn't want to raise the price anymore. When the surrounding villagers heard 16 Wen, they were envious, and then looked at the four pigs, they were really fat.

Fang Yumin also refused to give in. This pig has been raised for almost a year, how much food they ate, and how much effort they spent: "Forget it, you go to another house to collect it."

But the three butchers refused to leave, not only reluctant to buy at a high price, but also reluctant to part with those fat pigs: "Little lady, Chinese New Year is almost here, if you don't sell it, it will be delayed."

"Don't be afraid." Fang Yumin said: "At worst, we will kill them and sell them to the folks in the village. This pig is so fat, it must be able to fry a lot of lard paste."

Several villagers who had a good relationship with Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin also shouted: "Yes, Qiulai's daughter-in-law, just sell it to us. The weather is so cold, and we don't have to go to the county to buy pork."

"Yes yes yes."

Fang Yumin smiled and said to the elderly butcher, "Actually, you are the first to collect pigs this year, and there will probably be more tomorrow. Since the price cannot be negotiated, you should go back."

Those three people looked at the lean pig on the cart, and then at the four fat pigs in the pigsty. They stood there hesitantly, whether to go or not to go.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and bought all four pigs at 17 Wen a catty, a total of more than eight taels of silver.The villagers couldn't help but exclaimed loudly, with all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred on their faces.

"Little lady, these two pigs in your family look like they weigh ninety catties. Will you sell them for 16 cents a catty?" This butcher!I just bought four pigs from others, and my eyes are fixed on the other two pigs.

Fang Yumin looked at the two pigs and then at Lin Qiulai, and asked, "Sell it or not?"

Lin Qiu came to think about it, and said, "Sell one pig, and let's keep the other pig for the New Year. The pigs raised at home are better than those raised by others, and the quality of the meat is different."

Fang Yumin thought about it too, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

So he sold the other pig at 16 Wen a catty. The five pigs were sold for ten taels of silver. The villagers' eyes were red when they saw the white silver.

Zhang Cuihua, who was in the crowd, was almost suffering from red-eye disease. She used to go to Lin Qiulai's house to extort money. At that time, Qiulai's family was poor, and she was gossip about just extorting a small amount of money.It's all right now, Fang Xiaolian is actually managing the family well, and her life is becoming more and more prosperous, and she is raising fish, pigs and rabbits, and built the largest house in the whole Linjia Village.But at the same time, Fang Xiaolian became very powerful. She didn't think much of her mother-in-law at all, and even instigated Qiulai to disrespect her. She couldn't even squeeze out a copper coin.

Fang Yumin also saw Zhang Cuihua, not to mention Zhang Cuihua, the Hu family is also there.Seeing the envy, jealousy and hatred on their faces, Fang Yumin was very embarrassed to find that she was very happy in her heart.

The fat pig was sold, and Lin Qiulai bought six more piglets to raise.The pig food prepared at home is very sufficient, and now there is soybean dregs, which are very nutritious.

Xiaoyang and Xiaoming don't have to go to school anymore, they study every morning and help Fang Yumin feed the cows, pigs, chickens and rabbits in the afternoon, and water the vegetables in the shed.Lin Qiulai followed the villagers up the mountain to hunt, chop firewood, and burn charcoal; Fang Yumin stayed at home doing needlework and making spicy hot pot sauce, and lived a fulfilling and happy life.

Fang Yumin doesn't know how to make preserved eggs, but she still knows how to make salted eggs.Although it is best to use duck eggs, Fang Yumin doesn't want to spend money to buy duck eggs because there are a lot of eggs at home.

Fang Yumin also made a jar of sesame oil when preparing the spicy hot pot sauce.This is used to make cold salad or mixed noodles, noodles and noodles are very delicious. Fang Yumin used fennel, star anise, peppercorns, and chili to fry it over a slow fire. It is very fragrant.Put a little bit in the soup when eating noodles, the taste is completely different.

Carefully put the spicy hot pot sauce into small jars, and put the sesame oil into the small jars with a funnel.Fang Yumin asked Lin Qiulai to order these small jars and bottles.Store in airtight small jars for longer storage.

The weather is getting colder every day, Fang Yumin doesn't want to go out at all.She wished she could stay in the room all day, Aunt Chunhua, Xiaohong and He would occasionally come over and do needlework with her.In fact, these three kind-hearted women came to help Fang Yumin sew cotton-padded jackets. During the New Year, there was a New Year's greetings, and Fang Yumin's female celebrities really couldn't do it.

Fang Yumin's hands-on ability is poor, but she has a lot of ideas.It was after tossing and turning others to change this and that, and finally made four sets of beautiful cotton-padded clothes and trousers in Tang suits, and they were trimmed with rabbit fur.

Aunt Chunhua couldn't help but praised: "It's really beautiful. Although Xiao Lian has a lot of demands, she wears it differently. It's much more beautiful than our few styles."

"That's right. I need to wear beautiful clothes for the New Year. My family has a lot of rabbit fur. Please help me make four hats and three pairs of boots in this style. It's too cold this winter."

"Okay, we came here to make it for your family." He also joked.

"Hehe, you guys are so skillful, those who can do more work." Fang Yumin said with a smile.

"Then Aunt Xiao Lian will reward us with a good meal." Xiao Hong also laughed, and when her brother gets engaged next year, she will get married, so these tasks are just practice.

"No problem. Tell me what you want to eat."

"Hotpot." The three of them said in unison, the last time they ate it, they couldn't forget the delicious taste. It's so cool to eat together in this cold weather.

"Okay. I'll let Xiaoyang take care of some rabbits later."

Another rabbit fur scarf after a meal!Recently, because the whole family has fallen in love with eating hot pot, the number of live rabbits, live chickens, and live fish in the family has dropped rapidly.So rabbit hair, chicken feathers increased.As a result, products born of rabbit and chicken feathers also came out, such as vests, hats, scarves, knee pads, chicken feather duvets and so on.

Because there is no need to work hard in winter and the food is good, Fang Yumin often stews this stew there to replenish his family's body. Needless to say, he has gained a lot of weight.

Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang's pointy minibuses, which used to eat and eat, became rounded, and their cheeks looked bulging, which made people want to pinch them.

Lin Qiulai didn't look too fat, but Fang Yumin knew it, that belly was coming out, it weighed heavily on her.

As for Fang Yumin herself, she has plumped up a lot, and her bust has grown again.His face was no longer so pale, and his skin became moist and smooth.

As soon as autumn came, Lin Qiulai bought several boxes of balm for Fang Yumin to wipe her face.The balm is a bit like a cream, but it is more greasy than a cream, but the smell is much more fragrant, probably because there is no fragrance available.

Since soybean oil was pressed at home, Fang Yumin also used soybean oil to wipe her hands, feet, and body when the weather was dry.Not only did she use it, but she also forced the whole family to use it. Although it was a little oily, the whole family didn't have any skin breakouts in such a cold weather.

Fang Yumin’s spicy hot pot sauce is priced at 50 yuan a can in a small can, which can be made into four or five servings of hot pot soup base; Fang Yumin only makes one can in a large can, and the price is 1 tael.As for sesame oil, a bottle sells for 30 Wen.

Lin Qiulai loaded the spicy hotpot sauce and sesame oil into the bullock cart. Today he and Xiaoyang went to Nantou County to sell his spicy hotpot sauce.These days, I have been eating hot pot almost every day. Lin Qiulai knows how to make it and what ingredients to put in it.The weather was cold, he couldn't bear Fang Yumin to go out.

Originally, Lin Qiulai planned to go alone, but Xiaoyang said that he wanted to go too.With Fang Yumin's acquiescence, the two father and son set off in the bullock cart.

(End of this chapter)