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After Zhou Lizheng asked from Yang's house about the use of river mud, he hurried back home to write an announcement, thinking that early tomorrow morning, someone would ring a gong to inform the whole village to dig up the river mud and manure the land. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, Yang Yun heard the sound of gongs in the village, thinking that Zhou Li was informing the whole village to dig river mud, the Yang family and the Li family's twenty acres of land, six acres of river mud have been piled up, and the last six acres of land will take a few more days to complete the river mud. Originally, the river mud had to be dug up first and dried before it could be used, but Yang Yun looked at the dry and hard soil on the wasteland, which would pour the wet soil down just enough to be wetland, and it would be easier to rent cattle to plow the land.

The two families then went to the river to dig the river mud, the river has already been full of people from Zhoujia Village, almost the whole village has been dispatched, a group of people on both sides of the river are in full swing, some strong young people are not even afraid of the cold, all go down to the river to dig deep river mud, the river of Zhoujia Village has not rained for a long time, and Zhou Lizheng has let people go upstream to block the water flow with big stones, the river water is much shallower than before, so it is convenient for the villagers to dig river mud.

When the two families arrived at the river, the people in the village greeted each other warmly, this enthusiasm was unprecedented, and it seemed that Zhou Li was helping the Yang family do a good thing. When the two families were digging the river mud, the villagers also took the initiative to help, helping to carry the basket and hand something from time to time, which made Yang Yun feel that it was a good idea to contribute to the use of the river mud.

The Yang family and the Li family spent five days to fill the last six acres of wasteland with river mud, and after finishing the work of piling up river mud, Grandpa and Uncle Li went to the house of the cow in the village and rented cattle to cultivate the land.

After ploughing the land, the two families dug some traps at the foot of the lower right, next to the twelve acres of wasteland, and the traps were full of upside-down, sharpened bamboos, and if the wild things fell off the trap and did not die, they would also be injured, so that they could not escape, and the traps were marked next to them, so that the villagers would not be able to break into it by mistake.

These days, Yang Yun called Yang Yong when he was free, went to the wasteland of the right mountain, and saw if there were any wild things falling into the trap, and really met Yang Yun a few times, picked up two rabbits and a pheasant, and then the sky was too cold, and the wild things hibernated, and I never saw any wild things fall into it.

When Yang Yun went to the right mountain, he would also go to the wasteland group in the back mountain to have a look, and saw that the wasteland of the villagers was full of river mud. The land is fertilized, and after sowing in the spring, it can increase the grain yield of the villagers. It's just that in addition to fertilizing the land, the quality of the seeds is also very important, Yang Yun thought that when the spring was about to be sown, she would definitely go to the seed store to find some better seeds, or plant some grain with higher yields.

The days passed unconsciously, and two days later was the winter solstice, this morning grandpa and Uncle Li made an appointment to go to the town together, to buy things for the winter solstice, and some winter food and charcoal, after purchasing these things, the family will be in Zhoujia Village "cat winter". The weather was too cold, Yang Yun was reluctant to go to the town with her grandfather, so she only asked her grandfather to buy some fine white noodles, as well as glutinous rice, mung beans, sesame seeds, and other things.

The custom of the winter solstice in Zhoujia Village is to eat glutinous rice balls, and the glutinous rice balls are directly kneaded into round balls, which are directly cooked in water, and can be served with some sugar. Yang Yun remembered the delicious and sweet sesame rice balls and mung bean rice balls she had eaten in her previous life, so she prepared to wrap these two flavors of rice balls for everyone to try.

Last time, I spent more than 13 taels of silver to buy wasteland, and I also spent more than 2 taels to buy cotton, Yang Yun deducted the money spent by the family during this time, and calculated that there were still more than 26 taels of silver left in the family, which was enough for the Yang family to have a fat year.

These days, the family is clearing, Yang Yun gives up her heart, and cooks meat for her grandfather every day, if she can't fill her stomach, how can she have the strength to work. In Yang Yun's meat feeding for a period of time, the changes in Yang Yong and Li Dabao are the most obvious, both of them have grown taller and stronger, Xiaobao and Yang Xuan's faces have begun to grow meat, especially baby fat appeared on Yang Xuan's face. Looking at the changes of several children, the happiest is Yang Yun, Yang Yun feels that this feeding method, if it is transferred to pig raising, then the effect is significantly amazing.

Yang Yun took the glutinous rice, mung beans, and sesame seeds that her grandfather bought back to dispose of them first. The mung bean asked Yang Yong to take it to the grinding stone in the village to grind the mung bean in half, and then soak it in water to remove the shell, at least for a day, before the mung bean shell can float out. Glutinous rice is also soaked for a day before being taken to a stone mill in the village and ground into a powder to make the dough.

After washing the sesame seeds, drain the water, and then take them to the pot and stir-fry until they are cooked through, Yang Yun borrowed a stone mortar from the villagers and pounded the fried sesame seeds into a fine powder. Sesame seeds are very expensive and cost 20 wen a catty, and my grandfather only bought two catties back, and two catties of sesame seeds are enough to make a lot of glutinous rice balls. Yang Yun took the sesame seeds that had been pounded into powder, found a clean small jar and put them up, and waited until the day of the winter solstice to take them out and wrap them in rice balls.

"Sister, do you want to make something delicious again?" Yang Xuan smelled the fragrance of his sister's pounded sesame seeds, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"Yes, the day after tomorrow, my sister will make delicious rice balls for you to eat."

"Sister, can't you eat it now?"

"Of course not, these things have to be kept for the holidays, you snacks, you can't help it for the past two days."

"Sister is so fragrant, Xiao Xuan really wants to eat it." Yang Yun looked at Yang Xuan's longing appearance, and pinched some sesame powder with her hand and stuffed it into Yang Xuan's mouth. Yang Xuan took the sesame powder in his mouth and tasted it carefully.

"My sister is too fragrant, but the sesame powder has no taste, neither sweet nor salty."

"Fool, this has to wait until the rice balls are made with sugar and lard, and then wrapped in glutinous rice skin, and then it will be delicious."

"On the winter solstice, Xiaoxuan must eat many bowls."

"Okay, you'll have a few more bowls then." This silly boy, the rice balls are sweet, and if you eat too much, you will naturally get tired, and this silly boy still wants to eat a few bowls.

"You girl will toss these food, your grandfather said that a pound of sesame seeds costs 20 yuan, so you dare to ask for these things." Grandma watched Yang Yun pound sesame powder, and picked up Yang Yun with a smile.

"Grandma, it's rare to celebrate the festival, let's have a hearty winter solstice meal, the year is hard to end, don't you look forward to having a fat year."

"Hehe, isn't it, so much has happened this year, and grandma is content to see that you three children are by your side now." Grandma sighed on the side about what happened this year.

"Grandma, life is still very long, in the future, when you watch your brother and Xiaoxuan get married and have children, you will have to hug your great-grandson."

"You girl, you will comfort people, grandma will listen to you, and in the future, you will also watch our girl get married and have children, and hug her great-grandson."

"Grandma!" Yang Yun was a little embarrassed to tell her grandmother, although we were also older young people in our previous lives, but we didn't get married and have children. Grandma looked at Yang Yun blushing, and she no longer joked with her, after all, Yang Yun was still a girl who had not been out of the cabinet, and it was not good to always talk about these topics in front of her.