Chapter 202: Pickled mustard greens
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Everyone knows that they have to rush the goods, and these few nights, all the girls are fighting hard in the workshop, and even grandma and Aunt Li have been called to the workshop to help cut the cloth strips. At noon on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, Yang Yun finally drove out all the goods, and Yang Yun didn't have time to eat, so he hurriedly sent the goods to Lishang Pavilion. Sister Li has already gone to the new shop and is not in the Lishang Pavilion, but she has a servant who has told the shop that if the workshop sends the headdress, she will quickly send the headdress to the new shop, so that it can be sold on the twentieth day of the first month.
After rushing the goods from the new shop, the production volume of the workshop stabilized. Chow Tai Fook's grocery store, Yang Yun pushed the sales date to the 25th of the first month. Yang Yun also went to the town to buy a large number of rags, although the workshop has begun to use the whole cloth, but there is no shortage of good fabrics in the rags, these rags can still be made, and the embellishments of the headdress come out.
The workshop was originally scheduled to recruit new female workers on the 16th day of the first month, but because the workshop was destroyed by fire, and there were too many things to build a new workshop, Yang Yun set the date for recruiting workers on the 20th day of the first month. On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, there were already many girls who came to the workshop to sign up, and all the girls who came to sign up, Yang Yun registered the names of the girls and the general situation of their families, and then selected ten girls from these girls who lived relatively close to Zhoujia Village, and informed them to come to the workshop to work on the twentieth day of the first month.
Because the thatched hut used as a temporary workshop is too small to accommodate so many people. The girls who didn't choose had to wait for the new workshop to be built before they came to work. As soon as the official government in the town opened the seal, Grandpa Yang and Li Zheng went to the town and immediately got the land certificate of ten acres of wasteland.
Together with the 10 acres of wasteland certificate, there is also a 50 acres of wasteland certificate under the left mountain, which the villagers are going to use to plant banana trees. When Li was raising funds to grow bananas, everyone thought that the money had to be paid was too much, and some villagers were reluctant to contribute money to buy shares. Li Zheng had no choice but to reduce the number of acres of wasteland to be developed, and finally set 50 acres.
Thirty-five families in the village paid the silver this time, and the rest were unwilling to buy shares, so Yang Yun told Li Zheng that there was no need to force them. When they come to their senses, they won't even think about buying shares even if they pay double the money. This time, Kong Zhongkan and Dr. Xu both paid money and invested in planting banana trees, and the Yang family and the Li family also invested the same amount of silver. Everyone thinks that they are from Zhoujia Village, so they should participate in the development and construction of the village.
The construction of the new workshop is proceeding in an orderly manner, and after the opening of the shop in the town, Uncle Li and his grandfather went to the town to order bricks and rubble. Yang Yun found that since the last time, after the incident of Thursday Niang, if there is anything in the village, Li Zheng will discuss with the Yang family, Yang Yun does not know whether this situation is good or bad for the Yang family. But Zhou Lizheng came to the door, and the Yang family was not easy to refuse. Fifty acres of wasteland on the left side of the mountain, on the day she got the land certificate, Yang Yun discussed with Li Zheng and took out some people from the people who helped build the new workshop to open up the wasteland. Although the workshop is important, the development of wasteland is also very important, so don't delay the day of planting bananas in the spring.
The first month is the leisurely days of chatting, if someone goes to Zhoujia Village, they will find that they should be a leisure day, the whole Zhoujia Village is in full swing, there is no idler in the whole village, even women and the elderly, children are helping to help, the whole village is divided into two groups of people, building workshops and developing wasteland.
The newly recruited girls in the 20th workshop of the first month also came to work on time, plus the people in the original workshop, there are almost 40 people in the entire workshop. Yang Yun selected these ten girls, giving priority to the villages closer to Zhoujia Village, and the ten new girls were temporarily under Zhou Wan's control.
Among this batch of newly recruited female workers, there is a special girl named Xiao Si, who is from Liujiazhai. At the beginning, Yang Yun and Yang Yong made a special trip to Liujiazhai to save Xiao Si, but now not only Xiao Si, Xiao Si's grandfather and grandmother have lived in a big house by the pond, and Yang Yun hired Xiao Si's family to come and see the poultry farm. Liu Laohan has no land in Liujiazhai, six acres of wasteland by the river, after deducting the construction of the place, there are still two acres of wasteland, Yang Yun encouraged Liu Laohan to grow some vegetables to eat.
Yang Yun is very interested in Xiao Si, from the observation of the past few days, it is found that Xiao Si is literate, no matter how he talks or behaves, as if he had been educated, Yang Yun has always suspected that Xiao Si is a lost child of a big family, but Xiao Si has now lost his memory and does not remember the past at all. Even if Yang Yun asked her, she couldn't ask why. Another thing Yang Yun can be sure of is that Xiao Si is definitely from Jiangnan, Yang Yun is used to hearing Kong Zhongkan's words, so she naturally knows what the Jiangnan accent is like.
The school in the village opened on the eighteenth day of the first month, but Yang Yong didn't go to the school, he told Yang Yun himself, he would go to the school after the workshop was built, anyway, Yang Yun only hoped that Yang Yong would know some words and understand some principles of life, and he was not required to take the imperial examination, so going to school a later day did not have much impact. Yang Xuan and the Dabao brothers went to school on time, and Yang Yun recently discovered that Uncle Li was particularly interested in the study of the Dabao brothers, and seemed to have the idea of letting the two brothers go to the imperial examination.
Thursday Niang burned down the workshop, and she should be asked to compensate for the loss of the workshop, but Thursday Niang is a person who spends two pennies for one penny, how can she have the money to compensate the Yang family. On Thursday, his mother's family still had five acres of wasteland, and in the end, after discussing with the elders in the village, Zhou Lizheng took the initiative to compensate the Yang family for the five acres of wasteland. The procedures for the transfer of ownership of these five acres of wasteland, when Li Zheng went to apply for the 60 acres of wasteland land certificate last time, passed it to the Yang family together.
The combined price of these five acres of wasteland is not worth the value of the cloth and headdress burned in the workshop. But it's better than nothing, now the Yang family has five more acres of wasteland, plus the four acres of wasteland that were newly bought a year ago, and the six acres of wasteland that has been planted with wheat under the right mountain, a total of fifteen acres of wasteland.
After the first day of February, Yang Yun asked her grandfather and Uncle Li to go to the town to find an intermediary to buy fish fry and ducks to feed, and the chickens could buy directly from the people in the nearby villages. Yang Yun plans not to raise the goose for the time being, because the management of the goose is more complicated, and there are too many animals at once, Yang Yun is afraid that the food will not be enough to feed these animals, and the goose will be fed until late autumn.
Soon, the intermediary in the town helped the Yang family purchase more than 500 fish fry and 300 ducks back to feed. Yang Yun bought 500 chickens from a nearby village and fed them, and the fish, chickens, and ducks in the pond were raised. The chicken is three cents a piece, the duck is five cents a piece, the fry are more expensive, and a fry costs seven cents. These animals cost Yang Yun 6,500 Wen, and Yang Yun also spent 1,500 Wen to buy chaff and come back to feed the animals.
When the ducks grow up, they put them in the pond and eat some small fish and shrimp. The purchase of these poultry and chaff cost Yang Yun eight taels of silver. It is not enough to stock 500 fish fry in a pond, one acre of pond can feed 2,000 to 3,000 fish, not to mention that the Yang family's pond is one and a half acres and a half. Yang Yun asked Yang Yong and them to go to the river to catch fish after the beginning of spring and throw them in the pond to feed. Yang Yun watched that the animals in the poultry farm were raised, and she felt a little more relaxed, and finally completed a thing.
Yang Yun also has a plan for things at home, and after Liu Laohan got started on the pond, he transferred all the chickens and pigs at home to the poultry farm. Yang Yun asked her grandfather not to buy piglets back for the time being, and when the workshop was built, he would go to the pond and build a larger pig house again, so that he could feed a few more pigs. The place where the rabbits are fed remains unchanged for the time being, and it is also convenient for Yang Yun to take care of the rabbits at home. Yang Yun put the male rabbit who had taken care of the wound and locked it up with the female rabbit, Yang Yun hoped that in the spring, the female rabbit would be able to bring good news to the family.
The development of fifty acres of wasteland under the left mountain, Yang Yun also went to see from time to time, and on the third day of the first lunar month last time, Yang Yun wrote the development and fertilization methods of the banana field and handed it to Li Zheng. Now when the wasteland is developed and fertilized, banana trees are planted in the spring, and Yang Yun teaches everyone how to plant banana trees. During this time, Yang Yun also ran to the back mountain, the banana trees on the side of the river, Yang Yun often went to look for some banana saplings, and in some places Yang Yun made marks, and when spring came, let the villagers come to the places marked by Yang Yun, dig banana saplings and go back to plant.
The busy days flew by, and soon in mid-February, Yang Yun looked at the days, and the remaining eight acres of mustard greens in the wasteland could be harvested. Yang Yun does everything now, she directly mobilizes the people in the village, and naturally she has a salary to help with the work, and if the women in the village want to learn to pickle vegetables, she naturally has to help the Yang family pickle all the pickles. The man was in charge of chopping the vegetables and pulling them back to the Yang family's courtyard, and Yang Yun led a group of women to pickle the mustard greens.
Yang Yun pickled mustard greens into several side dishes, and the last time she pickled radishes and cabbage, the Yang family went to Zhujia Restaurant to transport all the empty jars back to their homes a few years ago. Now these empty jars are cleaned and can be reused after they have been disinfected. Yang Yun pickled several flavors of pickles, one is pickles or sauerkraut, another is beets, and one is spice vegetables.
The way to pickle pickles and sauerkraut is to wash the whole mustard greens and put them in a bamboo basket. Then sprinkle with salt and marinate the mustard greens overnight, then take them out and turn them over the next day. If it is repeatedly turned and dried for several days, it is necessary to press large stones on top of the mustard to squeeze out the bitter juice in the mustard greens. Then put the mustard greens neatly one by one into the jar, and then pour the boiled concentrated brine into the jar, and the brine must be cooled before pouring it into the jar.
The jar must be filled with salt water, and the top of the mustard greens can be covered with some mustard leaves, and when the mustard greens are pickled and can be eaten, the top mustard leaves are thrown away, so that the lower mustard greens are intact and the taste will be much more crisp. (To be continued.) )