The family's livelihood and the affairs of the aunts were solved, and Situ Yan took Li Dalang and began to be busy making sugar.

The 2 acres of sugarcane harvested in autumn were taken out, and the water in the sugarcane was squeezed out by the pressing method. Then use gauze to filter out the impurities, and the filtered sugarcane juice is steamed and sterilized. Then boil and dehydrate. In addition to watering the beans every day, I also pick the sprouts every two days, and the rest of the time I am busy making sugar.

Li Dalang was responsible for the first few processes, and Situ Yan was responsible for the final boiling and dehydration. It was busy until the fourth day of November that 200 catties of white frost sugar, 150 catties of red sugar, and 50 catties of brown sugar were made.

Li Dalang was taking his younger brothers to pinch bean sprouts in the stove room, tomorrow is the day to send bean sprouts to the restaurant in the county seat, seeing Situ Yan enter the stove room, Erlang asked curiously, "Xiao Wu, this sugar is not sold, do so much, if it is broken, what can be done?" ”

"Second brother, don't worry, I have a way to store this candy for good, but it can't be bad, although this thing can't be sold like salt, but we can use it when we make snacks, and with the sugar we make ourselves, we don't have to go to the official sugar shop to buy it, which saves costs, doesn't it make money."

"Why did I forget about this, look at my brain!"

"It's not that the second brother forgot, it's that the second brother is too busy. The brothers are still busy in the next few days, and I am afraid that they will have to wait until the wax moon to have a good rest. ”

"What's this, as long as I can make money, I can do as much work as I can."

"Yes, the second brother is right. As long as I can earn more money for my family, I can do anything. "After Saburo's stumbling was good, Shiro's words were much less. It's rare that he reacted so quickly this time and answered in time.

"That's not good, the fourth brother is not afraid that Xiao Wu will sell you one day."

"I'm not afraid, if I can't eat one day, I don't need Xiao Wu to sell me, I'll sell myself by myself." I will never let Xiao Wu suffer all my life. Situ Yan was taken aback by Shiro's words, but when she calmed down, her heart warmed," the fourth brother said nonsense. Don't say it again. ”

Situ Yan said a word to Shiro, turned around to boil water to cook, and didn't see that Li Dalang actually agreed with Shiro's words, and looked at the busy figure in front of the stove with caring eyes. This little figure is all they have, and it is their confidence to live, if they are allowed to exchange their lives, these people will not blink an eye.

At dinner, Situ Yan told a few people about her next plan, "Big brother, the buds and orange stalks, wheat stalks, and rice stalks piled up in the firewood room and utility room, I want to take advantage of these days to crush all of these, and make fine bricks with wheat bran and chaff, and keep them for 'carrots' as feed, and I don't know what the situation will be next year. ”

"Okay, this is a good thing, the fields are all fertilized with bean seedlings, and these things are not needed, and there is no firewood for the bud grain poles and bud grain cobs. If you can make fine ingredients for the mules to eat, there will be a lot of things left. ”

"Don't worry about this little five, I and Erlang can do it."

"My brothers are still busy pinching bean sprouts and selling goods, but we still work together, and there is a lot of power."

This matter was decided, and in the following days, the family began to be busy making fine ingredients again, and Situ Yan also dried the pinched watercress and put it in for fermentation, so that the fine ingredients tasted better, and the livestock preferred to eat them. And with a large bundle of five cents and the villagers bought some of the bud grain stalks that died of drought at the beginning, together to make 6,000 catties of fine material, every ten catties pressed into blocks, a total of 600 pieces, every five bags of a bag, a total of 120 bags, because it is a fermented fine material is not suitable for long-term storage outside, so 100 bags are stored in the ring.

During the day, a family of five people was busy from morning to night, these days Situ Yan didn't even have time to accompany the snow wolf into the mountains, every time he let it go into the mountains to forage for food, this snow wolf is also very fine, every time he catches prey, he takes it back and peels Situ Yan first. Therefore, the fur in Situ Yan's ring is accumulating more and more little by little.

Aunt Niu and the fourth aunt, counting the money they earn every day, are happy, and the life of the family is getting better and better. This time, Situ Yan, who sold cakes, did not call Aunt Fu'er, because the life of the village Zheng family was much better than that of these two families, and if there was one more person in this matter, he would have to give out an extra share.

In November, Situ Yan still asked Liangzi Niang and Liangzi's daughter-in-law to cut window flowers together, and prepared some cloth for Aunt Fu to make Fuwa. It's just that this time I asked for less, so I only found these two, even if I couldn't sell them, Situ Yan also paid the two families, and made a Fuwa for 10 yuan like last year, and Situ Yan only needed 30 pairs in total. And the window flower is cut for 2 pennies, and it only costs 100 pieces.

This year's year is not good, so Fuwa only sells for 50 Wen for a pair, and the window grille plus couplet, a set only sells for 20 Wen, excluding the cost, Situ Yan earned a total of 2400 Wen. Aunt Fu got a salary of 600 Wen, Liangzi's family got a salary of 200 Wen, and Situ Yan sent 1 tael of japonica rice and 5 eggs to Liangzi's family, although it was not much, at least so that these two families could have money for the New Year.

After entering Layue, Li Aniu led the mountain baby back home, and their family borrowed Situ Yan 2 taels of silver to pay all the taxes, so they only had to serve three months of "shift" service. This incident has also set off a lot of waves in Lijia Village, but this Li Aniu's family is not Li Dalang's children, who can chew their tongues, so the village women are only talking behind their backs at most, and no one rushes to keep an eye on them.

After Li Aniu went home, he went to Situ Yan's house, and told Situ Yan about the service, with the work shed, the officials and messengers were not bad to the people in Lijia Village, although the food was the same as before, but the work was a lot easier.

When he went home, he knew that Situ Yan was helping his daughter-in-law go into the city to make money by providing grain and borrowing mule carts, and the family had only been around for more than a month, not only repaying the borrowed 2 taels of silver, but also earning 800 yuan. How could he not rejoice in this debtless and light.

Situ Yan's side is in full swing, and the Pingnan Hou Mansion in the Southern Wu Kingdom is also making trouble at this time. Duanmu Xuan's mother, Mrs. Pingnanhou, was busy choosing a concubine for her son, and her son had already performed the crown ceremony this year, but the room she arranged for her son, and her son didn't even touch it. And she only gave birth to such a son to Hou Ye, and he was also the only concubine in the house, but there were two concubines in the house. Now that there are two or three concubines in the concubine's room, how can she not be in a hurry.

After three months of busyness, I chose three families for my son to choose, but I couldn't even see my son's shadow at this time, so anxious that Mrs. Hou wanted to enter the official to ask for a decree, and forced her son to open meat.

Pingnan Hou Shizi is naturally Wu Jin's friend Ziheng, and he is also the mysterious rich second generation that Situ Yan knows. And this second ancestor is sitting in the courtyard of the Seven Princes at this time, drinking tea and listening to music comfortably. I don't care about the chickens and dogs in my house.

"How long do you kid plan to mess around with me, if you don't go back, the eldest aunt will be killed, don't blame me for betraying my brother then."

Ziheng didn't care what this cousin said, crossed Erlang's legs, closed his eyes and listened to the music.

"You said you, there is a room here, taking a concubine is like asking for your life, that beauty is delicate and delicate, even if you don't understand the amorous feelings, there is no show inside, but at least it won't be annoying, right? What do you always hide? ”

"If you like it, I'll send someone to you tomorrow, you can enjoy it."

"I don't dare to ask for it, it was the eldest aunt who chose it for you. I heard that there is a daughter who is still a servant of the ministry, and it seems to be one of the three flowers in the capital. Worthy of being a concubine for you, you still pick and choose. ”

"There is also a flower in your house, why didn't I see you accompany me, but came to listen to music and drink tea with me here."

"You spare me, it's a thorny ball flower, it's a relative of the queen, I can't afford to provoke and hide! But you're different, these three beauties are all chosen by your uncle's mother for you, and they're not eyeliner, what are you afraid of? ”

"I'm afraid of being annoyed, I don't talk more than half a sentence, I don't have anything to say to these people, let alone like it. Just bored. ”

"Auntie doesn't let you find someone to chat, you just need to lie down on the bed and turn off the lights, and it's all over."

"It can't be that all of your mansions are like this, no wonder you have built such a separate courtyard."

"Okay, I can't talk about you, but you can't stay here anymore, the eldest uncle sent a message today, if you don't go back to the house, you don't have to go back in the future. See for yourself! ”

"Hey, if my mother had given birth to one more, I would rather not be a son in this world and not return to the Hou Mansion."

"You are free and easy, don't you even have to be filial to your parents."

"Filial piety is to be done, but I will not get into the happiness of my life. I'd rather not marry than a woman I don't like. ”

"This is not a marriage, just a concubine, look at you seriously, a concubine is just a thing, if you like it, you can call it, if you don't like it, you can also ignore it. As for it? ”

"......" Zi Heng completely ignored Zi Chu's words, gave him the back of his head, and continued to listen to the song.

If Situ Yan heard this, she would definitely applaud Ziheng, and she would beat Zichu hard. Unfortunately, it was many years before she had the opportunity to hear these words, and when she heard them for the first time, she not only did not clap, but also glared at others.

Of course, Ziheng was finally forced to return to the Pingnan Hou Mansion, and Mrs. Hou also took the concubine of the servant into the mansion as she wished, but she was raised as a pet by the prince in a yard. Angry, Mrs. Hou went to the official to find Duanmu Huang Guifei and sued her son.

It's just that this aunt loves this nephew very much, and she knows that her nephew doesn't like this woman, but she doesn't force it. And Hou Ye has always ignored these things, and Mrs. Hou had to stop and switch to a gentle policy, reading in her son's ear every day. Of course, Ziheng is a soldier who will block it, and the water will flood the earth, and the ultimate goal is not to go to the beauty bed.

A small episode in the capital of Nanwu had no effect on anyone, and everyone's life was calm as usual. Not to mention Situ Yan, who was far away in the northeast of the Northern Wei Dynasty. And the only one who can affect Situ Yan is Wu Jin, the eldest brother who is far away in Lu'an County, but only occasionally thinks of it when she is not busy.

Unlike Situ Yan's heartlessness, Wu Jin often thinks of her sister. will even think about tea and dinner for her. Fortunately, Li Youzhu is often by his side to persuade him, otherwise with Wu Jin's temperament, he would have ridden to the northeast to pick up people.

Whether it is the Southern Wu or the Northern Wei Dynasty, in the end, everyone's life has to live, whether they live in a mansion or in a poor rural area, several people are working hard to live and try to live.