Chapter Ninety-Eight: Soaking Plum Wine
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"Brother, I'm sorry, you were beaten by your grandfather, does the wound still hurt?" Yang Yun and Yang Yong washed the jar by the river, Yang Yun apologized to Yang Yong, if it wasn't for her asking Yang Yong to go to the town, Yang Yong would not have been beaten by his grandfather.
"It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore, grandpa scared us, but he didn't hit it hard. It's just that it's really wrong for us not to listen to grandpa, what's the matter if we are beaten a few times by grandpa, let's not make grandpa angry next time. ”
"My sister knows, not next time." Yang Yong is indeed a competent elder brother.
After washing the jar, the brother and sister moved home to boil the water, and after the jar was scalded with boiling water, it was put in the courtyard to dry, and the green plum wine could be soaked in the afternoon. After the jar dried, Yang Yun asked Uncle Li to soak green plum wine in a ratio of 1:1:0.5, one pound of green plum and one pound of wine, half a pound of sugar, and one jar can hold about 15 pounds of wine.
Yang Yun first soaked ten small jars with green plum wine, and the wine sent back by the wine shop was a large jar with a volume of fifty catties of wine. In the end, there are about ten catties of wine left, and Yang Yun did not soak each jar to the top, leaving some small space, so as to save the time when moving the wine, the wine will overflow if it is too full.
Yang Yun took the five-pound jar that she bought yesterday, and brewed another four jars of green plum wine with sugar at a ratio of 0.7, and the two families kept these four jars of wine for themselves to drink.
After all the jars were filled with green plums and wine, Yang Yun asked Uncle Li to move the jars to the utility room and stack them, the utility room could only hold four large wine jars, and the other fourteen small wine jars were placed in Yang Yong's newly built room, which was built relatively large at the beginning, and it was more than enough to stack the wine jars.
The four baskets of green plums are all used up, and Yang Yun plans to pick some more, dry them into preserved plums and salted plums, or make them into plum sauce, and the fish cooked in salted plum sauce is very delicious. After finishing the work of soaking green plums, the two families dried bamboo shoots again, if this business was not done, grandpa would be angry again. The green plums used to make the plum sauce are relatively ripe plums, so it is okay to pick the green plums later and come back.
After dinner, Uncle Li sent five taels of silver to Yang Yun, and last time he spent two taels of silver to buy salted dried bamboo shoots, as well as the money for buying wine this time, and the two families shared it together. Yang Yun put away five taels of silver and took out the account book to calculate the expenses during this time. Last time, there were 30 taels of silver left in the house, and 2 taels of silver were spent on salt, and today it cost 7 taels of silver and 465 wen to buy wine, and 3 taels of silver and 500 wen were left for 13 taels of silver. Uncle Li gave back five taels of silver, and the family had eight taels of silver to use. The money from selling recipes by yourself will be put away separately, and then you will take it out and use it when the family has no money.
Yesterday, I sold bamboo shoots and collected five taels of silver and seven hundred wen, and this money was not counted for now, and when all the bamboo shoots were sold, the two families divided the money. Green plum wine can only be drunk after three months, Yang Yun plans to sell it again depending on the situation, if the family is short of money after three months, it will be sold first, if there is no shortage of money, soak it for half a year and then sell it, when the fragrance of the taste fruit penetrates into the wine, it will make the fruity flavor of the liquor more rich and attractive.
Alas! There is no money at home again, and it is earned and spent quickly.
"Sister, why are you sighing again?"
"The money in the family is spent too quickly, and all of a sudden there is no money again."
"Sister, I have money, I'll give you money to spend." Kong Tianyou heard Yang Yun say that he had no money to spend, so he took out the purse he hid under the pillow and handed it to Yang Yun. Kong Tianyou called Yang Yun his sister like Yang Xuan, Yang Yun once asked him to call him Sister Yun, he pursed his mouth very unhappily, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, Yang Yun was afraid that he would cry, so he didn't let him change it, and called him sister like Yang Xuan.
"Silly boy, this money was left to you by your grandfather, and my sister's family has no shortage of food or clothing, so how can I use your money." Yang Yun pinched Kong Tianyou's little nose with some pity.
And Kong Tianyou had to stuff the purse in his hand to Yang Yun, Yang Yun had to tell him that he would take it with him when he really didn't have any money. Kong Tianyou nodded and put the purse back under the pillow.
"Sister, did you say grandpa would come back?" Kong Zhongkan has been going to Jiangnan for half a month, and I don't know how he handled things when he returned to Jiangnan. Kong Tianyou has always missed him, and sometimes Yang Yun can hear Kong Tianyou dreaming of calling grandpa.
"Of course you'll come back, did your grandfather ever lie to you?"
"No, grandpa never lies, grandpa said that the eldest husband wants to be true."
"That's fine, your grandfather will definitely come back." Yang Yun hopes that Kong Zhongkan can come back more than anyone else. Kong Zhongkan's house has been built, Yang Yun took Kong Tianyou to see it twice, the house is quite big, but now there is no owner, it is empty, furniture and beds, and other things can only be built when Kong Zhongkan comes back.
Yang Yun comforted Kong Tianyou, told the two of them a story, and the three of them blew out the lamp to sleep. The next day, the two families went to the bamboo forest early to dig bamboo shoots, and this time they went back to the bamboo forest to see that there were other people in the village who were also digging bamboo shoots. Everyone digs their own way, but they are all right.
After a few days, Yang Yun felt that the green plums were ripe, and asked Uncle Li to accompany him to the right mountain to pick two baskets of green plums. Yang Yun picked the green plums once, and those with insect bites, broken skin, and scratches could not be pickled. Last time she soaked in wine, Yang Yun also picked the green plums once.
Two days ago, Yang Yun asked Yang Yong to go to the town and buy ten jars back, and the newly bought jars were used to pickle green plum sauce and dried green plums. Yang Yun washed a basket of green plums, drained the water, and then poured it into a bucket, sprinkled with salt, according to the ratio of one catty of plum and two taels of salt, a layer of plum and a layer of salt. After the green plum and salt are matched, it should be left for about an hour, and when the green plum begins to soften and come out of the water, pour the green plum into the pot, and then put it in the pot to steam through the water. After the steamed green plum is cooled, the green plum and the salted water from it are put together in the jar and sealed.
It is more complicated to make dried plums, you must first pour the green plums into the water and soak them for about three hours, so that you can remove the astringency of the green plums, scoop up the soaked green plums and drain the water, according to the ratio of "one pound of plums, two taels of salt", it doesn't matter if you put more salt, the salt should be sprinkled evenly. Yang Yun spread a layer of clean cloth on top of the salted green plums, added some straw, and then pressed a few large stones.
After a few days of green plums oozing plum juice, Yang Yun poured out the plum juice, and then put the green plums into the jar, and sprinkled a layer of processed perilla on the top of the jar, which can enhance the flavor and preservative. The poured plum juice is also put into other jars, and this will be used to dry green plums in the future. The green plums that are dried into plums are poured out of the altar in the summer when the weather is very hot and the sun is very fierce. Then you have to sprinkle another layer of sugar, otherwise the umeboshi will be too salty to eat. (To be continued.) )