When he returned home, Zhang Zhaohua told Zhang Qi roughly, and after hearing that there were forty-seven chiefs and twelve village elders to sit together, Zhang Qi put his heart at ease, although the wine ceremony will come to the Zhizhou and county magistrates, it sounds like the etiquette is grand and the scene is terrifying, but there are many people, and it is nothing, not to mention that the protagonist of the wine ceremony is the grain chief, Zhang Qi can only be regarded as seeing the world with the past. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As he was talking, he heard the sound of the Wang family calling Hua Nan in the stove, and Zhang Zhaohua went over to take a look, and it turned out that the new vinegar had a sour smell overflowing.

The vinegar jar has been moved out of the chamber and transferred to the stove, Wang uncovered the quilt, and began to stir continuously from the side of the basket, Zhang Zhaohua made the bran into a cone on the side, and then covered it with a sheet, Wang pressed the scissors on it and said: "Wait for two more hours, and it will be almost hot when you touch this cover." ”

As a result, in less than two hours, before Wang had time to cook dinner, he saw the slightest heat leaking through the sheets, and then he saw that the bran on the basket had become a black paste, and he knew that the vinegar had been made. She quickly turned on the stirring to let the temperature cool down, and if it was too hot, it would have no taste.

Zhang Zhaohua used a plug to block the exposed end of the bamboo pipe, and then spread some millet poles at the bottom of the cylinder to prevent the bran from blocking the bamboo pipe. Then put the bran on more than half of the tank, open the stopper and put the vinegar, after dripping the vinegar again, Wang boiled a pot of water and poured it into the tank, this time it is called the second vinegar, it is not as good as the first vinegar tastes new and fragrant, but it also has the taste of vinegar, according to Wang, the snacks outside are used in this kind of vinegar, and the price is much cheaper than a vinegar.

It was only at this time that Zhang Zhaohua had the time to ask Wang how he went to Fan's house today to inquire about it. Wang's Daofan matchmaker has already agreed to it, and will pay attention to the suitable families in the surrounding villages.

"When the bride enters the door, you can take a breath," Zhang Zhaohua said when he saw Wang's forehead lines that had become more and more obvious in recent years, "You don't have to work so hard every day." ”

"Good girl, what do you know," Wang said with a smile, "When the bride enters the door, our family will have to import more food and earn more rations." ”

Zhang Zhaohua sighed, she knew that the Wang family would have this idea, even if it was to put down thousands of hectares of fertile land and build a hundred-foot tall building, she would be a horse and a cow for her children and grandchildren.

"A-Niang, the grain chief said that during the tenth wine ceremony," Zhang Zhaohua said: "I want you to go over to help the cook, and bring our family's new vinegar, saying that it is to make dishes to accompany the wine." ”

"This is cheap," Wang said, "what else do you command?"

"Let me also inform Widow Ma by the way," Zhang Zhaohua said, "Let her go to the grain chief's house two days in advance to make a funeral." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was a little surprised that the widow could participate in such a major ceremony, because there was a sacrificial process in the wine ceremony. Zhang Zhaohua always remembered that in his previous life, Mr. Lu Xun had a thought-provoking novel, which portrayed an extremely distinctive character - Xianglin's sister-in-law.

Because Xianglin's sister-in-law is a widow and a widow who has lost her husband twice, when she worships her ancestors in the Lu family, she is not allowed to touch any of the offerings, thinking that she is unlucky. At that time, when analyzing the cause of the tragedy, it was nothing more than to blame the persecution of feudal etiquette, but today's Ma Widow and Xianglin's sister-in-law are also widows, and Ma Widow is actually allowed to touch the sacrificial items. Why is that?

I'm afraid it's because of the etiquette at this time, it's not cannibalism.

After all, the government only promotes the observance of festivals, but it is not compulsory. Although the widow of Ma deserves to be commended for keeping the festival, Zhang Zhaohua also knows that there are many women in the county who choose to remarry, and Brother Duan'er said that the mother of Senior Brother Yang in his library school took Senior Brother Yang, who was only one year old at the time, to remarry to the Luo family, and the Luo family did not dislike Senior Brother Yang as a drag oil bottle, but thought that the Yang family was a manifestation of his beloved son, because the Yang family also has a clan, and the Yang family can completely hand over the child to the clan to raise.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the idea of Xinxue had been spreading for a long time, and women were still not completely emancipated. Surprisingly, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the policies, decrees, and moral concepts for women were much easier.

History is like an old house where treasures are buried, and there are too many secrets that seem to be unknown.

The vinegar jar was placed in the courtyard, and Wang was afraid that the smell of fireworks would smoke in when he was cooking, so that the vinegar would smell good. Wang called Zhang Chang to come over and move the vinegar tank, but Zhang Zhaohua and Zhang Chang didn't lift it together, but Zhang Qi, who was still grinding grain, saw it and carried it out.

Wang caught a glimpse of Zhang Sheng's shadow, so he asked, "Where did Brother Sheng go again?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Zhang Sheng come in from the door in a hurry, and his steps were too big and he kicked on the vinegar tank, so shocked that Zhang Qi almost didn't mention slipping on the edge of the cylinder.

"What are you doing in a hurry!" Zhang Qi scolded: "The skin is itchy again, isn't it?"

Zhang Sheng didn't admit his mistake with a smile, but just raised the basket in his hand and said, "I got some mountain goods back," and poured all the things in the basket on the stone table as if offering treasures, and said, "We can eat fat cakes tomorrow!"

Zhang Zhaohua leaned over to take a look, and it was actually half a basket of walnuts, half a basket of chestnuts, and a small half bag of dried longan.

This walnut is green-skinned, and there are burrs on the chestnut, which is obviously a new product just coming down this year, these mountain goods are not considered valuable things in this era, two catties are only a dozen yuan, but the walnut crisp and red date cake made of these mountain goods are sold very expensive.

Wang also saw the things on the table, and asked in a loud voice, "Where did you get the things from?"

"Mother, where do you care where you come from, eat it while it's fresh," Zhang Shengman said indifferently: "This walnut skin, didn't you say that you can dye your hair? ”

Zhang Zhaohua was stunned, she said that walnut skin can dye hair.

This is a hair dye recipe she knew in her previous life, there are two methods, one is to mash walnut skin and pomegranate skin together, and apply it two to three times to black hair. One is to wash the walnuts, put the shell in boiling water and boil for about a quarter of an hour, then let the soup cool and filter, and rinse the hair with the filtered soup.

When she came to this life, she saw that Wang was only in his early forties, and a lot of gray hair had appeared on the right side of his head, and Zhang Qi also began to turn white from the root of his hair, so he thought of this method of dyeing his hair, but he never encountered new walnuts.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Sheng had a way to get new walnuts, so Zhang Zhaohua asked, "Where did the new walnuts come from now?"

Unable to stand up to the question, Zhang Sheng said that every year, the dim sum shops and pastry shops in Yongcheng County need a large number of mountain goods, and they generally do not go to the countryside to negotiate with farmers in person, but find merchants to buy and sell. The merchant is specialized in receiving and selling goods to and from the city and countryside, there is a single person, there are also groups, like this kind of groups, suitable for the transportation of large amounts of goods, which should also be divided into several layers, some rely on manpower to transport, and some do big, there are already horses and mules in the team.

Like the purchase of mountain goods, of course, it is not a half-catty purchase, and a harvest must be based on a hundred catties. These merchants have purchased a huge amount of mountain goods, so naturally they will not be stupid enough to sell them all. They also have a strategy, when the new walnuts and new dates come down in large quantities, the price is naturally cheaper, and they only sell one-third of the total number to the shops. After three or five months, when the shop comes back to look for them, they will be able to raise the price justifiably.

Zhang Sheng was able to buy new walnuts from the merchants, which were the things that these people stored in the cellar and were ready to sell at a higher price. Thanks to proper preservation, the walnut skin is even very hard.

Looking at the three melons and two dates that Zhang Sheng spread out on the table, Zhang Zhaohua knew that it should be those merchants who grabbed a few handfuls from the treasury at will-definitely not worth a few big men, but what made her curious was what Zhang Sheng exchanged for these things. You know, the hens at home haven't laid eggs for more than ten days, and the Wang family has already discussed slaughtering, what did Zhang Sheng exchange for these?