After the end of the autumn harvest, many tenants successively sent fine grain according to the requirements of the owner, as well as a small number of dried vegetables, even some game, livestock, eggs, duck eggs have to be packed in large baskets.

Liang Zixian paid the silver while keeping the accounts, and the tenant shirked it a few times and happily accepted the silver.

Liang Zixian distributed the food evenly according to the population of each family, and Chen Qing also received a lot of fine grain and meat, half a basket of eggs and duck eggs, a basket of apples like mountain pears, a small half bag of ground fruits, and a whole bag of melon seeds. Some other rare foods are eaten in smaller quantities, that is, they are tasted fresh in each hospital. The rest of the food that is lacking in the family is purchased by each hospital itself.

Next to the kitchen, the warehouse is full of all kinds of mountain goods, the wooden shelves are neatly stacked with cloth bags for dried vegetables, and the rest of the rice and flour grains are carefully placed in a corner of the warehouse to avoid insect and rat bites.

Underneath the wooden frame is a row of pickled vegetable jars, with sauerkraut for stewed meat and small pickles for rice. There is a cellar in front of the courtyard hall where the winter vegetables harvested in the previous two days and the fruits sent by the tenants are stored. The cellar is dug very deep, there are 100 square meters, because the six sides are paved with bluestone slabs, the constant temperature effect is good, and vegetables and fruits can be stored for a longer time.

The food of each family is placed in piles, and Chen Qing also followed the example of Brother Yang to classify and deal with some foods that are not tolerant of putting such as pears and apples.

Before Chen Qing came up from the cellar, he picked up a few sweet potatoes and held them in his arms, and when Brother Yang asked, he immediately took two and went to Chen Qing's courtyard to roast and eat.

Less than two months after Chen Qing entered the door, except for the second sister-in-law's family, he made love with Brother Yang. What's so delicious about this, the first thing that comes to mind is Brother Yang.

Chen Qing simmered the sweet potatoes in the stove, picked up the charcoal basin with sparks, sprinkled a handful of chestnuts and popped them out by themselves when they were ripe.

Scoop half a pot of peanuts and soak a stick of incense in water for half an hour.

Heat the pan, put in the large grains of salt, turn down the heat and add the melon seeds and stir-fry constantly, when the skin of the melon seeds changes slightly and is accompanied by the sound of exploding, put it out and filter the large grains of salt with a colander.

After the melon seeds are fried, wash the shelled peanuts and pinch a mouth, put them into the pot, add cinnamon, star anise, chili peppers, add water and salt, boil a cup of tea on high heat, and then simmer a stick of incense, and take it out is a delicious salted peanut.

Melon seeds can also be soaked in salt and water to make salty and spiced flavors, and peanuts can also be fried and eaten.

After a while, the aroma of fried melon seeds and boiled peanuts attracted the two children in the family. Liang Duoduo stood outside the courtyard with Liang Meng's probe probe, and Liang Meng shyly called "Auntie"

Liang Duoduo shouted whimsically, "Auntie, what's delicious in your yard, it's so fragrant?"

Chen Qing got goosebumps from the two aunts, but he still smiled reluctantly at the child and beckoned them to come in.

"What can it be? melon seeds, it's not that your aunt doesn't know how to fry" Li Pingyang was not much older than the two smaller ones, and he smiled at the moment and gave up a position.

"It's all food sent by the tenants today, if you like to eat, take some back" Chen Qing turned the melon seeds that were still a little hot upside down, and then poured them into the dustpan for the three of them to grab and eat.

Liang Duoduo "Quack~Quack~" was happy, and his mouth was not idle, "Auntie, why do I still smell the sweetness of sweet potatoes?"

"You little gluttonous cat, your nose is weird!" Li Pingyang pulled out the black sweet potato from the stove, divided one by one, and then looked at Chen Qing pitifully.

"It's enough for you to eat, I won't bake four of them~" Chen Qing reluctantly classified Brother Yang into a pile of children, serving the three small ones to eat sweet potatoes.

The sweet potato is hot when it is just caught, and it looks dirty on the outside, but when you break it off, it is indeed orange and sweet soft meat. Chen Qing broke the sweet potato with his hands upside down, quickly peeled the skin with his hands, and wrapped a few bud leaves and handed them to Liang Duoduo.

Liang Duoduo didn't care about the heat, and swallowed it while sighing. Liang Meng had already made a marriage, and only after shyly thanking him did he frolic with Liang Duoduo while eating.

When it was Brother Yang's turn, the complaining eyes were about to blind Chen Qing's eyes, and Chen Qing glanced at him angrily, "Rob with the child!"

Brother Yang's saliva turned around several times, and finally received the sweet potato, just laughing and shouting hot while eating.

Sending away the three gluttons, Chen Qing found that there were too many eggs and duck eggs when he was tidying up the warehouse, and even if it was cold, it was estimated that he would not be able to leave it for too long. So I remembered the salted duck eggs, there are a number of salted eggs pickled in the uncle's house every winter, and they will be eaten only when the New Year is coming, and they are all close to Chen Ping and the eldest uncle, the two brothers and sisters can rarely get a piece of egg yolk, and they can eat egg whites with porridge.

This salted egg is simple, first wash and dry the eggs and duck eggs, then boil the salted water, pour it into the jar after the salted water cools, and then put the eggs into the salted water one by one, seal the mouth of the altar, put it in a ventilated place, and open the altar for cooking in 25 days. The salted eggs marinated in this method have a lot of oil in the yolk and have a particularly fragrant taste.

Chen Qing mixed and stirred into a paste with yellow sand, salt, water and a small amount of vegetable oil, and then put the washed and dried duck eggs into the slimey one by one, placed them in the jar and sealed, and after 21 days, they could be taken out to wash off the sediment and cook.

Chen Qing pickled two jars of salted eggs, duck eggs accounted for the majority, after all, scrambled eggs or cooking or eggs are more delicious, duck eggs taste fishier.

After pickling the salted eggs, it was getting late, it was estimated that Liang Zijun would not come back tonight, Chen Qing went back to the firewood room to sleep, and the kang burned half of the firewood before going to bed, which was hot enough until tomorrow morning.

On the second day, Chen Qing first braved the first frost and searched around the mountains, picked up some oak trees, and found another Tiandong.

First, the surrounding soil is loosened and dug deep, and the whole soil is dug out. Go home and shake off the soil, remove the stems and leaves, pluck the tubers, cut off the fibrous roots, and wash away the mud and sand. Pour into the pot, add water to submerge the medicinal noodles, and cook until thorough. Remove and peel off the outer and inner skin at a time while hot, wash off the outer mucus, dry it, and put it in a cool and dry place with a bamboo basket.

The method of processing fresh medicinal materials was handed over to Chen Qing by the shopkeeper Lin, and the medicinal properties and ingredients of a medicinal herb depend on this drying method, and it is not that it can be directly entered into medicine by drying it.

The color of the winter is good, with dry feet, spindle-shaped, the outer skin is cleaned, the surface is yellowish-white or light brownish-yellow, translucent, hypertrophied, sugary, the section is yellow or white, keratin-like, there is a white heart in the center, and it is better to have a slight air, sweet taste, and slightly bitter.

Only such medicinal materials can be sold at a high price, and the reason why Chen Qing can exchange more silver than others is also directly related to the method of handling medicinal materials.

Chen Qing wrapped all the medicinal materials he had accumulated before in a cloth and put them in a basket, separated them from a wooden board to prevent pressure, and loaded some mountain goods on them. After breakfast, the hay in the pigsty and chicken pen was composted and put on a clean layer again. After feeding, Chen Qingcai hurriedly walked towards the county seat with a bamboo basket on his back.

After sending Uncle Liu some mountain goods that he had dried, Chen Qing opened his mouth and asked, "Uncle Liu, did you have a reply to the last time I asked you to bring a message to my aunt?"

"Don't worry, your aunt is also worried about you, and asked someone to let me tell you early in the morning, saying that Abi is doing very well in that family, and the dowry is rich, but it has caused a lot of eyes, although it is a little gossip, but it can't stand Zhuo Pinghan, whoever dares to chew the root of his daughter-in-law's tongue will beat him with his fist! Hehe~ Your brother and sister have a good relationship, don't you ask Xiulian to inquire about you~ Go back and forth, I'm afraid that I'm going to tell you back and forth!" Liu Bo said with a smile that seemed to be true and fake.

Chen Qing learned that his sister was fine, so he put down a big stone in his heart, and his heart was happy, and the person also became brighter, his eyebrows flew and danced with Uncle Liu about the work in the crop field, and he secretly stuffed a cloth bag to Uncle Liu.

Uncle Liu smiled and stuffed his fast hand into the upper column, didn't open it to see, and stuffed another cloth bag to Chen Qing.

Chen Qing opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "Why is it a belly pocket again?

Uncle Liu looked at Chen Qing's blushing face, and said in a deep voice, "The guests like your craftsmanship, and our shopkeeper said to let you embroider a few more pieces and sell them in the store, rest assured, the shopkeeper said to give more silver as compensation for your working hours."

Chen Qing is not because of the problem of silver, but because he is a big man who secretly nests in the yard all day long to embroider belly pockets, even if no one sees it, he is also panicked.

It took three or five days to embroider a belly pocket, Chen Qing took advantage of the effort to pick up mountain goods and embroidered two pieces, this hand look, there are five more, and then embroider like this, there are people he knows who wear the belly pocket he embroidered by himself.

Chen Qing pushed it back, stumbling and saying that it was better to change to a big job, although it was more laborious, and the salary was not necessarily more than that of embroidering the belly pocket, but he couldn't stand the shame.

Liu Bo touched his chin and didn't take the embroidery work, but took a cloth bag from the cabinet, "There is a spring * full of gardens, you take it together, embroider this if you are tired of embroidering on the belly pocket, anyway, it's not urgent, first do the small work"

Chen Qing took it with a dark face, this is said to be a long time, and he still hasn't pushed off the work of the belly pocket, Liu Bo took care of his face and stuffed another big job, the problem is that he doesn't want to embroider the belly pocket, hey!

Liu Bo patted him on the shoulder, encouraged him to compliment, and hurried out to let him take the car to town.

Chen Qing said goodbye to Uncle Liu, took a ride at the north gate, and rushed to Qingping Town in half an hour. As soon as he saw the familiar scenery, Chen Qing's mind became active, and he trotted into the pharmacy, and caught the shopkeeper Lin is a bear hug.

"Hey~ This kid, why haven't I seen him for two months, this character has changed!" Shopkeeper Lin smiled and hugged Chen Qing's shoulders and his old waist.

"It's not like I haven't seen you for a long time, it's weird to panic" Chen Qing touched his ears embarrassedly, and then helped Shopkeeper Lin to sit on the chair.

"When year can't you be busy with the autumn harvest for more than a month?" Shopkeeper Lin touched his beard and smiled with a playful face, patted the table, and asked Chen Qing to put the herbs on the table.

Chen Qing put down the basket and took out half of the mountain goods and stuffed them to the shopkeeper Lin, and kept half for his aunt to send them.