Chapter 155: Paying for Wages with Distiller's Lees
Because the temperature is very high, the raw meal ferments quickly, Du Jiumei stood on the edge of the raw meal vat, smelled the smell, and judged that you can already steam wine.
The big vat was in the room of the utility room, more than ten meters away from the kitchen, Du Jiumei and Du Qimei's strength was not good, so they went directly to the second cousin of the Yang family for help.
Du Jiumei is responsible for lighting the fire, Du Qimei, and Carambola are responsible for stirring the boiling raw material in the pot, and after making sure that it is not stained in the pot, they start steaming the wine. The two sisters are both skilled and methodical, and there is no panic scene.
Drops of clear liquor flowed out of the supervisor, and in a few moments the jar was full. It took an afternoon to steam two large jars of raw material, and steamed out eight jars of wine, one jar of ten catties, just used up the wine jar at home.
The second cousin of the Yang family dug a big pit in the backyard to store the newly made wine.
"Xiao Jiu'er, you are really good, you can also make wine." The second cousin of the Yang family especially admires Du Jiumei, it is not easy at a young age.
Du Jiumei was a little embarrassed by the second cousin's praise, blushing (or maybe smoked by wine), and said: "The second cousin has won the award, I'll get you a salary!" ”
The second cousin of the Yang family and the carambola were stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Let's come over to help, don't get paid." If you pay the salary, we won't come to help you steam wine next time. ”
Du Jiumei was very embarrassed, it was not to give, it was not to give, it was not to give, or the star flower was more kind-hearted, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Jiu'er, don't be embarrassed, so let's do it, you can give me all these wine lees, the three pigs in the family have to eat a lot of pigweed every day, and I can't beat enough pigs to eat alone." Every morning my brother and I had to threak a morning of pigweed. ”
Seeing her cousin say this, Du Jiumei nodded again and again: "Cousin Peach Blossom, my family's wine lees are all for you and your eldest aunt, so you hurry up and ask your second uncle to catch a few piglets for you." ”
Carambola's eyes lit up and said with a smile: "Yes, these three pigs can be slaughtered, feed a few more piglets, as long as you eat more, you can still grow into big fat pigs by the end of the year." ”
"Okay, don't talk about wages in the future. Just give us the lees. The second cousin of the Yang family carried a large pot of sake lees to the vat in his backyard.
Last year, I bought a large vat to hold sake lees. It was almost full of a vat of sake lees, enough to feed for several days.
The three big fat pigs in the pigsty arched the door of the pen and twitched their noses. I want to eat pork dishes mixed with sake lees. It's not just people who like to drink. Actually, pigs like it too. The pig food with sake lees was poured into the pigsty, and three big fat pigs were poured. Compete with each other for food.
Du Jiumei bought four more bags of sorghum flour and fermented all the six vats at home to make more wine.
The second uncle of the Yang family was also active, and when he saw that Du Jiumei's family had started to make wine again, he went to buy six little piglets the next day.
Half a month later, the three big pigs were sold for fifteen taels or four dollars of silver, all of which were given to star flowers, so that she could save them as a dowry.
Carambola has her own little abacus in her heart, and she also wants to open a shop in the county like her cousin. Now there are fifteen taels of silver, and when the six little pigs grow up, it will be thirty taels of silver, which is a lot of money.
Du Jiumei continued to make wine, and the backyard was buried all over again, and there was no place to cellar the wine.
Yang's mind was on his son and husband who were far away, so he didn't notice this problem at all.
But the honest Du Qimei felt that it was not okay to go on like this, so she said to Du Jiumei: "Xiao Jiu'er, there is no place to store wine in our house, should we build a workshop?" And it's always at home, when the wine is steamed, the house smells of wine all day long. ”
When the sake was brewed, I was still very excited, but I smelled the wine all day long, and I was dizzy and uncomfortable all day long.
Du Jiumei thought about it and said: "It's time to get a workshop, it's just that we planted watermelons at the door, I saw that the watermelons were blooming this morning, and it's a pity to cut them now." ”
"Yes, there is no place, if you build a workshop on my second uncle's side, it is a little far away from our house, and it is not easy to look at." Du Qimei was very entangled and didn't know what to do.
Du Jiumei didn't have a good way, so she went to find her mother who embroidered flowers. Recently, Yang has been restless, thinking about whether her husband and son have come back and where they have gone, so the progress of embroidery is also very slow.
"Mother, we don't have a place to store wine at home, we need to build a workshop, are we waiting for our father to come back to build it? Or do we start building the workshop ourselves now? Du Jiumei asked, she is still a child after all, and she can't solve big things by herself.
Yang put down the needle and thread in his hand and said, "Don't cover it now, wait until your father comes back to build a workshop!" ”
Du Jiumei was stunned, but there was no place to store wine at home, and she looked at her mother with a questioning face: "Why?"
"It's not that my mother doesn't want to build a workshop, but if we build a big workshop now, it will cost at least two or three hundred taels of silver. We have this money, but others don't know that we have such money. If others are curious, they can come and see at most, but if your grandmother and uncle know about it, can we still live a peaceful life? Yang nodded Du Jiumei's forehead, oops, it's still small, sometimes smart like an adult, sometimes like a child.
"Yes, if it is grandparents, the eldest uncle knows that we are so rich, and he will definitely come to take advantage." Du Jiumei felt that her scalp was numb when she thought of that family, not because she was afraid, but because she was disgusted. There was a toad lying on the surface of his feet, which did not bite but was disgusting to death.
"But it's different when your father comes back, if others ask, they will say that your father brought it back, and he came back with all his might, and no one wants our family's money." Yang said in a deep voice, looking at the two daughters in front of him, "We will give a lot of what should be given to the elders, but what should not be given, we will not give a cent." Because some people don't get satisfied just because you're nice to them. ”
Du Jiumei, Du Qimei nodded and said, "Mother, we know, so we won't make wine these days?" ”
Thinking of the three taels of silver and a pound of wine at home, Yang was of course reluctant, and thought for a while: "There is no place in our house, your second uncle's house has a place, buried in the backyard of your second uncle's house." ”
Du Jiumei's eyes lit up, why didn't she think of such a simple solution, anyway, just the two of them, they can't brew much each time, and they are stored in the backyard of the second uncle's house, the distance is close, and someone is watching, it is very safe.
Now that there is a solution, Du Jiumei will not say much, continue to make wine, and continue to make a fortune.
"Then we don't have to worry and continue to make wine. My mother gave me ten taels of silver to buy materials, and the jar at home was gone. Du Jiumei took out her small account book, and all the expenses such as materials on it were recorded on it, which was clear. (To be continued......)
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