Chapter 8 Vinegar Making

No wonder Zhang Zhaohua couldn't hold back her laughter, because in the middle of the cotton mattress in front of her, there were wet spots, which naturally would not be water, because every household here had rules that the overnight tea should be poured out, and it could not be left overnight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

As for the reason, Zhang Zhaohua asked his father and mother, and they couldn't say why, but when they asked the grain chief, the grain chief laughed and told her an interesting story.

It is said that there is a family where the village woman bathes her two sons at night, and there is tea left over from the day on the table next to her, and the children are thirsty, so she gives them to drink. Who knows that after a while, the child will be gone, and the water in the basin will become muddy and fishy. It turned out that there were geckos mating at the water's edge and flowing out**, which was like turning bones into water, making the two children directly turn into blood. Therefore, tea is not allowed to be drunk overnight, for fear that there will be geckos mating at the water's edge at night, and its ** will fall into the water and be mistakenly taken.

Zhang Zhaohua scoffed at this legend, but she also didn't drink overnight water, and her family wouldn't drink it, so naturally the traces on the mattress were not water marks.

There is another possibility, could it be bedwetting - Zhang Zhaohua of course doesn't believe this explanation, her eldest brother Zhang Chang is already seventeen years old, if a seventeen-year-old person still wets the bed, it must be a physical illness, this must not be hidden from the meticulous Wang.

As for the last possibility, Zhang Zhaohua laughed down.

When she had almost laughed enough, she shouted outside: "Mother, the eldest brother is wetting the bed-you come and see, how old the eldest brother is, why can't he hold back the pee?"

She shouted a few times, and Wang came in with her hand, and said, "What kind of bedwetting, why are you talking nonsense-" When she saw the traces of a lump on the mattress, she pursed her mouth and looked very strange.

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't suppress his laughter, and when he saw Wang's expression again, he almost couldn't maintain the truth that he had made so hard, and her expression of being about to break the gong was in Wang's opinion, she really thought that her eldest brother was sick, and hurriedly said: "Don't shout, Brother Chang is busy with farming, and he is tired of his body, do you know?"

Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly straightened his face and said: "I know my mother, then we won't ask for a foot doctor, if he doesn't speak out firmly, won't the whole village know that the eldest brother still wets the bed at this age?"

"What kind of bedwetting-" Wang said: "Yes, yes, yes, that is, wetting the bed, and when the farming is done in the past two days, I will kill a chicken, and I will replenish my body and replenish my body." ”

After that, Wang asked Zhang Zhaohua to scoop two spoonfuls of yeast water in the jar to go to the stove, and dismantled the mattress quilt to dry it in the yard, muttering while dismantling, Zhang Zhaohua didn't have to listen to it to know what Wang was nagging, it must be the marriage of the eldest brother Zhang Chang.

In fact, it is not particularly easy to get married, before when Zhang Chang was fifteen years old, the Wang family was actually optimistic about a girl from Lijia Village, that is, the niece of the Qin family's mother's family next door, but by mistake, this girl went to other villages as a change of head, and the Wang family had to give up, so he went to the matchmaker to find it.

There is a matchmaker in their village, Fan, who is fifty years old and takes care of the wedding affairs of several villages, and in Zhang Zhaohua's opinion, she is quite a competent marriage broker. Because when this matchmaker looks at each other, she understands all aspects thoroughly, and there is nothing that will contribute to high and low marriages after receiving money, according to this Fan's statement, business is always doing, and word of mouth will never be broken.

However, she really encountered the Waterloo in her career last year, and Zhang Zhaohua also heard Wang talk about it.

At the beginning of last year, Fan's took over a matter of seeing each other, which was the marriage of a young man surnamed Zhao in a village far away from their Zhangjia Village, and the sixteen-year-old young man surnamed Zhao's family situation was an ordinary honest villager.

It is a bit strange that this girl has an illness, and no one in the village who does not drink well water does not get sick as suddenly as she does. The family suspected that this young man surnamed Zhao had a criminal punishment and killed the girl of his family. After that, the young man surnamed Zhao took on the name of "Ke Wife", after all, it was ordered, and it was almost inseparable from marrying home.

When the limelight almost passed, it was also more than half a year later, and the Zhao family went to find a family affair again, and the Fan family was more cautious this time, and looked at a family that matched left and right, and when they said that they were together, Fan deliberately concealed the fact that Zhao had a fiancée who had died before, which is also human nature, after all, carrying such a reputation does make the matter of saying that the matter of kissing will have an impact.

Unexpectedly, this time a few days before the next order, the girl of this family also began to have dysentery inexplicably, and began to stay in bed a few days later.

The woman blamed Fan for deliberately concealing it, and the man resented Fan for not making an order early, and said that Fan's good reputation was about to be shaken off, so Fan was sick at home and closed for a year.

Zhangjiacun's own people still trust her, so Wang begged to go to the door, wanting her to show Zhang Changxiang a family business, Fan first shirked it, but then went to ask for it twice and was a little loose, and gave a word to say that he would come out when he was free after the autumn was busy.

Wang saw the traces on the mattress in the left wing room today, and naturally understood what was going on, and he was anxious after thinking about it, feeling that it would not be a matter to drag it out any longer, so he decided to put away some more things at night and go to Fan's house early tomorrow morning.

She took out a new and an old two sheets, and the new one was ready to be laid on Zhang Chang, the old one was to wrap the basket, she called Zhang Zhaohua to come, and the mother and daughter wrapped the basket and put a kitchen knife, a broom, and a duster on it.

The duster is a new work, and it uses the hair of the old hen that has been shedding its hair at home, Zhang Zhaohua watched Wang's pricking a new duster out, and calculated how long this duster could last.

It is said that the strange things on the top of the basket are said to prevent the vinegar thieves from picking away the smell, and before Wang had to put women's pants on it, these pants are not pants worn outside, but underpants.

In this era, there are underwear and underwear, Wang's underwear is a little different from her underwear, Zhang Zhaohua's underwear is a belly pocket-like thing, Wang's has buttons and horizontal belts, and Wang's has always been called "wiping the belly".

The clothes worn on the lower body are the most surprising to Zhang Zhaohua, which is not much different from the briefs of later generations, and they are also made of clips and cotton, and they are worn close to the body.

Wang's vinegar, in addition to kitchen knives and brooms, also put this briefs on the top of the basket - although it is clean, and through the sheets, bedding and sealing, but Zhang Zhaohua just feels that the diaphragm should be, so to say, after trying a vinegar without putting underwear on it, Wang finally stopped putting underwear.

After putting the things on, Wang said, "That's it, wait until you can smell the sour smell in two days before getting it." ”

It took an afternoon to make vinegar, and Wang began to cook dinner again non-stop, and the fire was no longer firewood but straw, which was broken and deeply buried as nourishment when farming, and used as living fuel.

Zhang Zhaohua was dizzy when she smelled this thing, she knew that this thing could produce harmful gases, but there was no way, it could save firewood for a winter, and every household used it, and there was no reason for him not to use it. Zhang Zhaohua clearly knows that straw can be used to produce biogas, and biogas can be used for cooking and lighting, but now this condition, it is all empty talk.

When Zhang Qi came back in the evening, he first instructed Zhang Zhaohua and said: "Today, the grain chief said that Meng Dong is going to have a township drinking ceremony in October, it is the latest order from above, and I didn't hear it clearly when there were many people, you go to the grain chief tomorrow to ask for an understanding, and tell me when you come back." ”