Later, it rained for several days, trapping Chu Ying at home, but fortunately the firewood outside was moved to the house, but it seemed that the house was smaller, the house was only 8 steps long and 6 steps wide, a row of clay pots and rice were placed against the wall, and half of the wall of firewood and two cattails were placed on the opposite side of the sleeping house, plus the stove in the middle, Chu Ying could touch the stove by turning 3 times.

Chu Ying put on the finished blouse first, and continued to sew the pants, her body, which was still a little shivering, suddenly warmed up a lot, and it was not in vain that she got up every morning to pick cattail ears.

In this era, there was no cotton, but there were several shops selling silk cotton in the cloth shop in the West Market. But a brocade robe plus 5 taels of cotton, a jacket plus 4 taels of cotton, and a compound hakama, plus 3 taels of cotton.

This is still a third-class silk cotton, and a first-class silk cotton Chu Ying can already be expected, that is, she can't add cotton even if she sells herself.

In the morning, when I picked it myself, I could still see some other women picking it, and it seemed that cattail was the winter gospel of the toiling masses before cotton appeared.

By the time the day was clear, Chu Ying had already made two sets of clothes, one was thinner and the other was thicker, and she had reserved places for her hands and feet, and when she grew taller, she could release it and add cattail to it.

There is still half of the coarse cloth and the muslin cloth left, and then pick some cattail velvet and make a quilt, it is not particularly cold now, Chu Ying can rely on the fire to keep warm, but it is colder, a soft quilt is essential.

When Chu Ying went out to pick cattail, she looked at Brother Wang and they had already started preparing for the autumn harvest early, and everything was taken out to wash and dry, so she had to hurry into the city, and when the autumn harvest came, there was no ox cart into the city, and everyone was so busy that they were dizzy.

Chu Ying got up early the next day and rode an ox cart to the city. "Chu Ying, as long as you still have time to go to the city, I will go to the city to do a few more trips, and I won't go to the city tomorrow." Chu Ying saw that Grandpa Li had a somewhat broken sickle on the car, so she must have taken it to repair it.

"I'll just take a look at the process, I don't have so many rice fields to mow, but I will help Brother Wang cut the rice in a few days." Grandpa Li originally wanted Chu Ying to go to him to help, even if it was a female baby, he could cut a lot, but when she said this, it seemed that someone had taken the lead.

"When the autumn harvest comes, if there is one more person, you will harvest more rice, and when the grain is almost ripe in the field, you will harvest it, and when it is ripe, you will cut it, and the grain will fall. I am also most afraid of rain, and the millet harvested after the rain is afraid of mold and no sun. Chu Ying understands the importance of the autumn harvest for farmers, and she has been busy for a year and is waiting for a bumper harvest this time.

But when she arrived at the seed store, Chu Ying panicked, there were so many sacks of seeds densely packed, Chu Ying could be said to not know any of them.

"Little baby, what do you want your mother to buy?" Qin Zhong, the owner of the seed shop, stood there stupidly when he saw Chu Ying come in, thinking that this child had forgotten his mother's instructions.

"I don't know. There are several acres of wasteland at home. Qin Zhong thought that this kid must have forgotten to play.

"Do you have mulberry hemp at home? Rice? ”

"No, let's buy some rice seeds. This is the newly harvested mulberry, and this is the white pockmark. Qin Zhong took out the sack and began to fill the rice.

"But my home is halfway up the mountain, and there is no river. Is there wheat here? Chu Ying looked at the words on the wooden card, and could only guess.

"Yes, the bag against the wall, don't you plant some mulberry hemp? How do you get silk? Those who have cotton pay two zhang of silk, 3 taels of cotton, and those who have no cotton pay 3 zhang of cloth and 3 catties of hemp. Qin Zhong took out the innermost bag of wheat seeds against the wall.

"Do you want to pay these? Isn't it a payment of silver? Chu Ying looked at the color of the seeds.

"It's okay to pay the equivalent amount of silver, can your mother give you money? One liter is 10 cents. ”

"I'm an orphan girl, and my father and mother have left early. I see that your wheat is old, and it has been piled up for a long time. Qin Zhong looked at the girl in front of him who was only 8 or 9 years old, and said that he was an orphan girl.

"I'm sorry. This wheat is from the year before. How many acres of land does your family have? Before planting in autumn, you need 2 liters of seeds per acre. "

"3 acres, it's cheaper, you are all the year before last, and no one cares about it in the corner." Chu Ying looked at these wheat seeds with a disgusted expression.

"That's okay, 3 acres is 6 liters, and I'll give you 50 Wen, it's already very cheap." Qin Zhong saw Chu Ying nodding and began to load wheat.

"Can you plant? There are hardly many people growing wheat here. "

"No, it won't." Hunting Chu Ying is still a little sure, but farming is really a big one.

"Take it back, hoe the ground well, hoe deeply, sow it, cover the soil 2 inches, use your feet to be steady, after the seedlings and roots grow, hoe off the autumn grass, be diligent with your hands and feet, there will be no mistake, you say that you are a wasteland, you should plow when the soil is dry and wet, rain or drought is not evenly adjusted, rather dry when plowed, not wet plow."

"Wait until the back of the soil is white, and then rake, and after ploughing, it is like making nonsense. In short, a hard work, a harvest. Qin Zhong put 6 liters of wheat seeds in Chu Ying's back basket.

"Do you want to buy something else?" Chu Ying was confused from the moment she came in, so she bought a wheat seed first.

"No, let's buy this first, here is 50 Wen." Chu Ying walked down the street in frustration, and everything was difficult at the beginning.

Unconsciously walked to the backyard of the big family last time, but this time I didn't see that Hu Da. When you go back, you can ask Brother Wang to borrow farm tools, anyway, they are busy with the autumn harvest, and after the autumn harvest, they are also threshing in the drying field, so they don't need to use farm tools.

Chu Ying returned home, looked at the grass roots that still reached her ankles, lit a fire from the house, took a wooden stick, burned a circle of grass around the ground, and then burned it and extinguished it, forming a fire prevention circle.

Then the grass in the middle was lit, fortunately, only a small section of the grass was cut, the fire was not very big, burned for an afternoon, and finally burned 2 and a half acres of land, and then borrowed farm tools to plough.

Chu Ying went to the lake to collect cattail ears, and by the way, she checked the fishing traps, and two of the three traps had big fish. It's finally a happy thing, but Chu Ying can't be greedy, she has to learn to make fish with Aunt Wang, otherwise she can only eat white rice in winter.

When I arrived at Brother Wang's house, it was not dark yet, and Aunt Wang had already begun to prepare to cook.

"Aunt Wang, are you busy? I caught two more big fish, do you think I can make fish catfish? Aunt Wang put the lid on the clay pot with water on the stove.

"Yes, has the fish been washed? Do you still have a clay pot at home? I also need 1 rice in a clay pot. Chu Ying went to the house to get two clay pots and rice, and when she came back, Aunt Wang had already washed the fish.

Mrs. Wang cut the fish into two inches long, one inch wide, and five minutes thick, each with skin, and threw it in a clay pot filled with water to soak it to remove the blood.

Then take it out and wash it in clean water, then take it out and put it on a plate, smear it with salt, put it in a cage, cover it with a stone slab and squeeze out the water, and when the water is exhausted, Aunt Wang picked up a piece and tasted it.

"When I cook rice into rice and use it to make rice, I will first use what has been cooked in a pot, add dogwood, orange peel, and wine, a bucket of rice, and half a liter of wine, and use good wine."

Aunt Wang put a layer of fish and a layer of rice in the clay pot, and when it was full, she put the fat under her stomach on top. More grains were added to the top, and bamboo leaves were cross-spread on the clay pot, and eight layers were laid, and then the wattle was crossed and braided to seal the mouth of the clay pot.

"Keep it in the house, not in the sun or near the fire, because it will stink. Don't be frozen in the cold, the plasma comes out, it is poured out, the white pulp comes out, it has a sour taste, and it is done. When you eat it, you tear it by hand, and it will smell fishy with a knife. I don't know how to teach you one side next time. "

"Mother, why isn't the rice good yet? What are you doing with the baby in the back? Wang Liyuan stretched and walked out of the back room.

"Teach her to make fish catfish, look at others, know how to improve, and let you learn you don't learn." Wang Liyuan hugged Aunt Wang and said coquettishly: "Isn't there a mother?" Mother's craftsmanship is so good. "

"Aunt Wang, I'll go first." Chu Ying memorized the process just now in his mind.

"Chu Ying, why are you here?" Brother Wang came back from watching the firewood and saw Chu Ying holding two clay pots at the door.

"Find your mother, please ask me how to make fish catfish. I'll go first. "With Aunt Wang's method, Chu Ying can stock up on more fish for the winter, it seems that the wisdom of the ancient people is still very high.