Each house is paved with bluestone, and in some rooms there are many stoves, many cauldrons, and some have a lot of long boards, and even in the yard there are many shelves with long wooden poles. Not to mention that outsiders are just handymen who do the work, they are confused, they don't understand what new business the owner is going to ponder, and occasionally sit together and guess a few words when they take a break.

Liu Ergou relied on the fact that he was still decent in front of the owner, and he was pouted by the handymen on this day, so he came to Zhang Yang while he was having lunch, and asked with a smile, "The big housekeeper, our work is about to be finished, but everyone doesn't know what new business the owner is going to think about." Look at your old man, if you don't delay the big event of the owner, you will tell us a few words? ”

Since Zhang Yang married Second Sister Cao, although he is not an old husband and young wife, he is also a teenager apart, and he is always afraid that people will say that it is a pity for Second Sister Cao's good color. So these days, he changed the color of his clothes that were not green and ink, and his beard was shaved, and he couldn't wait to change back to his teenage appearance immediately. At this moment, he suddenly heard Liu Ergou call him an old man, and immediately glared and scolded, "What are you doing here, just do your job well!" ”

Liu Ergou didn't know where he touched the big housekeeper's moldy head, so he quickly shrunk his neck and ran back, causing all the handymen to laugh non-stop. Zhao Qingshan watched coldly from the side, slowly ate the last piece of lean meat in the bowl, and then got up and walked to Steward Zhang, and said with a smile, "Big housekeeper, everyone has been working with the owner for more than a year, and I don't look forward to anything else, just look forward to our orchard being more prosperous." Seeing that the owner has built so many houses, I can't suppress my curiosity, and when you have free time, tell everyone about it, everyone knows it, and this work will naturally be done more carefully. Do you think that's the truth? ”

Zhang Yang heard this well, so he let Zhao Qingshan sit beside him, and finally said to everyone, "Everyone asked here today, and I am also responsible for the punishment of the owner, so I will get to the bottom of it with everyone first." The courtyard we built will be a workshop for making canned fruits. Our owner said that this canned fruit tastes good, and it will definitely make a lot of money in the future. ”

The eyes of the handymen lit up when they heard this, and they couldn't care about continuing to eat, so they crowded in front of them and asked, "Big housekeeper, do you still have to recruit workers in our workshop, my younger brother has a lot of strength..."

"My eldest brother is also clamoring to come, and the big housekeeper must help keep a name."

Zhang Yang was so noisy that he had a headache, waved his hand to signal everyone to shut up, and said with a smile at the end, "It's useless for you to make a noise, our owner said, the canned fruit to be made this time is expensive, as long as the recruitment is clean and diligent little girl, fourteen or fifteen years old, even the little daughter-in-law who has just married will not accept it." If you have a girl of the right age in the family, discuss it with your parents, don't say that I have a good thing, don't worry about my own people first. ”

When the handymen heard this, they looked at each other, and they were all a little surprised. Although the peasant family is poor, the unmarried daughters of the family are still very favored, and they are reluctant to let them do heavy work on weekdays, let alone come out to work. Not to mention whether you are tired or not, if you let any of the second bastards stop and flirt with a few words, don't think about finding a good in-law in the future.

Zhang Yang is a good person, and he can't wait for his eyelashes to be hollow, how can he not see everyone's hesitation. He sneered and mocked, "Throw away all the mess in your heads, you can't be our host." Since the owner plans to recruit the little girls to do the work, it is natural that everything that should be thought of is arranged. A few days ago, the orchard ordered five big carriages, and the little girl who came to do the work regardless of the distance at home, there were carriages to pick up and drop off at the door of the house in the morning and evening, and when they arrived at this workshop, they locked the yard door directly, and even I didn't want to come in and take a look.

On top of that, the landlord pays twice as much as you! Whose daughter comes to the workshop to work for a year is enough to buy herself a rich dowry, if this news is released, how many people will break their heads and send their daughters. On the contrary, you are still hesitating, you really don't know what to do! ”

As Zhang Yang spoke, he seemed to be getting more and more annoyed, and he stood up and was about to leave. The handymen are calculating in their hearts at this moment, their monthly salary is 800 Wen, how much is it to triple it, one or two six? No, it should be two-two-four! Everyone is getting redder and redder their eyes are, and it is more than a dozen taels of silver in a year, which is really enough for my sister to get married.

Everyone hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to leave Zhang Yang behind, this one shouted to send the sister here, and the other said to sign up for the aunt's cousin, but unfortunately Zhang Yang seemed to be really annoyed, and said loudly, "When the time comes, bring people here, stay if it's suitable, don't want to find a favor to send it in!" ”

With that, he turned and walked away. Leaving a group of handymen to regret this, a great opportunity was actually pushed out by them. So, everyone thought that they would go back in the evening and talk to their parents about it, and as soon as the orchard was recruited, they would send the girl early.

Dong Rong was taking Zizhu and Second Sister Cao to try to make canned food in the stove room at this moment, and she didn't know that the workshop was so lively. Of course, even if she knows, she will not interject indiscriminately, the so-called employment is not suspicious, and the suspect is not used. She is only responsible for explaining things, she doesn't care how others act, otherwise she has to worry about everything, isn't she tired to death, where is there time to accompany the three lovely children who are growing up.

It's only the end of the fourth lunar month, and even the cherries are not fully ripe, so there is no fresh fruit to experiment with. But Dong Rong still remembered a good fruit for canning, that is, hawthorn.

When she was a child, she often followed behind her mother, watching how her mother made canned hawthorn and put it in the cellar, and threw it into the well water in the summer.

And hawthorn is not a precious thing in this time and space, especially here in Qingxian, almost every family has a few plants. In autumn, children often ride on the trees and shake them, and the red fruits will fall all over the ground. There are more than a dozen baskets stored in the cellar in the mountain behind the orchard, Yun Rui heard that the master wants to make new food, and he ran to move a basket to the stove, and at the end of the day, he gathered outside the second door to practice martial arts.

Zizhu is careful, and Second Sister Cao is greedy and clever, and the two of them have helped Dong Rong a lot when they join forces. The three of them specially selected those large hawthorns from the basket without insect eye scars, filled a full pot, washed them and put them in a bamboo plaque to send them to the yard to dry, and after they were dried, they carefully removed the seeds and stems with a special small copper pipe.

On the other side, Zizhu had already boiled two large pots of hot water, one pot boiled a glass bottle, and the other pot cooled a little and threw the seeded hawthorn into it to soak. After a quarter of an hour, the bottle was taken out and dried outside, and the hawthorn was also fished out and thrown into cold water to continue soaking.

Finally, when the bottle is dry and the hawthorn is soaked, the hawthorn is filled with bottles and placed in rows in steamers.

Dong Rong brushed a new pot and boiled hot water alone, and when the water temperature was a little lower, she added rock sugar to it, and at the end it tasted a little light, so she added some frosting and honey, and after stirring evenly, she poured the sugar water into a glass bottle filled with most of the hawthorn, leaving a little distance between the bottle mouth.

Zizhu covered the pot and began to steam on high heat for less than a quarter of an hour, and then lifted the lid of the pot, Dong Rong took advantage of the steam to quickly screw the lid on each bottle and steam it again for five minutes. Finally, boil the pot and let it cool, and then carefully take out the bottle and place it in the shade of the corner of the house.

Second Sister Cao was sweating profusely, and while taking out a handkerchief to wipe her sweat, she fiddled with the glass bottle, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, I didn't expect this hawthorn fruit to be steamed and the color is so good, but I don't know if it's delicious?" ”

Dong Rong clapped her hand with a gesture, and finally carefully covered the bamboo cage on the glass bottle, and then responded, "You gluttonous girl, you can eat it the day after tomorrow, and I will definitely shout at you when the time comes." ”

Second Sister Cao smiled and hugged her sister-in-law's arm, and said coquettishly, "If my sister-in-law doesn't give me food, I will tell someone else the secret recipe!" ”

Dong Rong glared at her fiercely, and said angrily, "You little white-eyed wolf, I plan to give you two parts of this workshop as a private room." Since you're eating like this, forget it. ”

"Oh, sister-in-law, I was wrong, just forgive me." Second Sister Cao pulled her sleeves and cried in a strange voice, which made Dong Rong and Zizhu laugh. The laughter was carried out of the yard by the spring breeze and scattered around the orchard, and the fruits seemed to be infected by this pure joy, and grew more and more happily...

The three days of kung fu passed quickly, and it happened that on this day, Mrs. Cao and Old Man Cao also went up the mountain to visit the children, plus the second sister Cao and Zhang Yang, as well as Sister-in-law Liu, Meihua, and Old Lady Yu, who came together after hearing the news, and the hall was full of people.

Wen Niang walked in with Zizhu and Yiba with two stacks of white porcelain bowls and spoons, as well as seven or eight cans of hawthorn. Dong Rong took a wet cloth towel and put it on the wooden lid of the can, and after a while, she pried it a few times with a hairpin, and the lid was unscrewed.

Each white porcelain bowl is divided into three or five hawthorns, plus half a bowl of sugar water, everyone in their hands, without waiting for the taste is praised, "The color of this hawthorn is really good, red, is it the agate that the rich and noble people always say?" ”

"It's just that just looking at it makes me feel delicious!"

Second Sister Cao has been thinking about the taste of this hawthorn for a few days, so she didn't pay attention to anything at this time, just scooped one into her mouth and put it in her mouth, and finally shouted in surprise, "Sister-in-law, it's delicious!" It's sweet and sour, I want another bowl! ”

Dong Rong listened to it funny, and while scooping another bowl for her, she said angrily, "You stupid girl, if outsiders listen to it, they will think that you have gnawed me." ”

Everyone laughed, and at the end they lowered their heads and tasted it. Old man Cao and Zhang Yang are okay, most of the men don't like sweet and sour tastes, but the old girls eat with relish and praise non-stop.

After Chu Silian finished eating a bowl, she hesitated to serve it again, but she didn't want Zizhu to stop her, she thought that she was greedy and rude, and she blushed and couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into. R638