Chapter Ninety-Three: Pick-up
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Sent away Shen Lian and Shen Hailing, Shen Lan was left with two children in addition to her as an adult, in the eyes of outsiders, Shen Lan's life was very leisurely, neither saw her go out to dig wild vegetables, nor did she go up the mountain to collect firewood, and stayed at home all day and didn't know what she was doing.
Naturally, Shen Lan doesn't go out much, mainly because she is busy making mosquito nets and clothes, and brewing fruit wine, in addition to the pottery urn that Shen Lan bought last time, there are several jars for wine, which are left over from drinking when the small stone is full moon before, Shen Lan dug a mulberry tree from the outside into the space, spent a few days planting a small piece, and used her spiritual power to pick off the mulberries on the tree and put them into the jar and pottery urn, intending to brew mulberry wine.
In the previous life, Shen Lan made wine and orange wine, at that time, Shen Lan directly put the washed grapes into the bucket of the water dispenser, added a certain amount of sugar to make wine, and the result was really made wine, sweet and sour and delicious, very delicious, but when making wine, sugar is the key, if the sugar is less, the wine will not taste so refreshing, but the taste may not be the same, the wine with less sugar is similar to the wine sold on the market.
However, Shen Lan prefers sweet and sour tastes, but champagne is more suitable for her taste, so she doesn't like to drink wine very much, when she makes wine by herself, because the first time she put too much sugar, the result is very good, and then I heard that people said to come in proportion, and because the taste of the first one is very good, so the second time she did it again, this time it was brewed according to the proportion, and the result was unsatisfactory, she didn't like to drink it very much.
Later, when Shen Lan made it again, she made wine according to her own taste, and once went out on a trip with someone, because it was an ecological tour. It happened that there was a bumper harvest of oranges in that place, and then the price was very cheap, so she bought a box back, but the oranges were too much to eat, and they would spoil if they were put away, so she made a five-liter barrel of wine with oranges on a whim, but she didn't expect it to taste very good. Later, because I couldn't finish it, it turned into fruit vinegar.
In the end, I got tired of drinking it. Shen Lan didn't waste anything anymore, but now that she wanted to try this sweet and sour fruit wine, it was not popular in this world, in fact, Shen Lan was a little strange. In the past, looking at the farming text, the fruit wine brewed by others was very popular, but in fact, Shen Lan felt that it was not very scientific, although there was a saying about the glow-in-the-dark cup of grape wine in ancient times. But honestly, the acceptance of wine people is not high.
If it weren't for the Opium War, the foreigners would have beaten the Chinese country down. Derived from a part of the crowd who worship foreign flattery, who will pursue cigarettes, wine and other things? When a large number of Chinese people first came into contact with wine, beer and whiskey, they thought it was horse urine rather than wine, so even if Shen Lan wanted to make wine and sell it, it was under the banner of taste. She doesn't want to make international famous wines for later generations, first, she doesn't have that technology, and second, she has never drunk good foreign wines. Hell knows what the best foreign wine tastes like.
As for the hundreds of dollars a bottle of wine in the supermarket, she had drunk it. Honestly, it's not to her appetite, she still prefers cocktails and champagne, how sweet and sour it is, and other drinks are not within her acceptability.
Although Shen Lan is doing this, she doesn't have hope, to say that this fruit wine is suitable for women and children, after all, the alcohol concentration is not high, and it is rich in vitamins, and then the taste is also very good, not as spicy as liquor, so Shen Lan still plans to try it, but it is not bad to drink and play with it if she can't sell it, after all, there are no drinks in this era.
Shen Lan's space is not polluted, the surrounding environment is also very good, a rainstorm on weekdays can completely wash away the dust on the mulberry fruit, so Shen Lan picked the mulberry fruit did not clean, but directly stuffed into the jar, the jar of fruit wine can not be filled, at most only half a jar of fresh fruit, mainly because gas will be produced in the fruit fermentation process, if the fruit is full, there is no space to release the gas, easy to cause an explosion, these pottery jars and pottery urns are thick, but after all, they are not as good as tempered glass and plastic products.
So Shen Lan only picked half of the fruit in the jar, sprinkled it with almost the same amount of sugar, and then wrapped the mouth of the jar with a cloth, just like this is not enough, after all, the cloth is not sealed, so Shen Lan also made a yellow mud, touched the yellow mud on the mouth of the jar wrapped in cloth, sealed it thoroughly, and then put it in the east room to ferment for a day or two, and then put it in the space to mature.
Fruit wine is not suitable for fermentation for too long, about two or three months, so Shen Lan and Mi You moved the jar with fruit into the space at the beginning, but prepared to enter the space to move the jar in before going to the county seat, and then built a shack with wood and bamboo, and hid the jar inside, mainly to prevent rain from drenching these jars, in addition, there are wild animals in this space of Shen Lan, and if one is not done well, it will be spoiled by animals, so Shen Lan is very careful.
The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Shen Lan said that Shen Lan should go to get the earrings, so Shen Lan agreed with Song Fuwang one day in advance, and asked him to drive the ox cart to send her to the county the next day, although it was the busy farming season, it was said that he couldn't spare time, but Shen Lan said that as long as he sent himself to the county, he could come back, and he didn't have to wait for her to come back, since this Song Fuwang also agreed, although he could make money by going out to help in this busy farming season, but compared to catching a car, helping short-term workers is very tiring, and driving is just a little tired, For more than ten dollars, it's much more comfortable than a helper.
Shen Lan moved all the brewed wine into the space, then sorted out a bag and basket, took Shen Wei and the stone out, and locked the door of her house, yesterday Shen Lan told Song San's sister-in-law that she was going to the county to do business, so she put the sheep in her house for two days, and asked her to help take care of her own door, and Song San's sister-in-law also readily agreed.
Holding a stone in his hand and Shen Wei by his side, Shen Lan walked towards Song Fuwang's house, yesterday it was already said that Shen Lan took the child directly to Song's house to take a car, and when he arrived at the door of Song's house, Song Fuwang had already set up an ox cart, but the person was not outside.
"Uncle Wang, Aunt Wang, are you?" Shen Lan walked to the threshold and shouted into the room.
"Come on!" Song Fuwang replied, and after a while, he came out with a basket from behind, and the box was filled with some soft grass, which seemed to have been cut yesterday and prepared to be eaten by the cow today.
"Uncle Wang, can you go?" Shen Lan asked.
"Okay, I'll just load the hay into the car, can you two sisters with children?" Song Fuwang asked, looked behind Shen Lan, and didn't see anything, could it be that a few people went to the county?
"Yes, I went to the county to do some errands, so I stayed at a relative's house for two days and then came back, it would trouble Uncle Wang." Shen Lan was embarrassed to speak.
"I'm sorry, don't I take your money too? It's not for nothing that I took you to the county. Song Fuwang was also frank.
Shen Lan smiled, and motioned for Shen Wei to sit on, and then got into the ox cart with the child in his arms, Song Fuwang also put the basket with grass on it, and then sat on the wheel, and drove the ox cart towards the outside of the village, because there were only two sisters Shen Lan and Shen Wei in the car, so it seemed very empty, and the ox cart was not difficult, so he walked slowly.
After noon arrived in the county, Shen Lan asked Song Fuwang to send him to the main street and let him go back, then he took the stone and took Shen Wei towards the Tianbao Silver Building, at home Shen Lan had prepared fabrics and snacks, which were all packed in baskets, because she wanted to hold the child, so this basket was carried by Shen Wei, and now she can go directly to Aunt Yun's house after taking the jewelry and buying a piece of fresh meat.
The reason why I want to go to Aunt Yun's house is for Shen Hailing's schooling, when the stone was full moon before, Shen Lan asked Shen Zhao to ventilate with Aunt Yun, after all, Aunt Yun's cousin is a gentleman in a private school, just so that Shen Hailing can go there to enlighten, Shen Lan came to Yinlou before in addition to wanting to sell pearls, or because she wanted to sell a gift to her cousin Qian, so that she could open her mouth to let Shen Hailing go to a private school to study, and it is also possible to let Shen Hailing live in the Wang family for convenience, so you must not come empty-handed, In addition to ordinary gifts, there must be a generous gift, and after thinking about it, Shen Lan felt that it was best to give a piece of jewelry to the Wang family's cousin-in-law.
Later, because selling pearls needed a stepping stone, Shen Lan took four pearls out to make jewelry, so Shen Lan did not buy jewelry, but thought about directly giving Qian's pearl earrings, pearls can be said to be a very precious thing in this small county, such a gift is both beautiful and noble, at that time Shen Lan created two pairs, one pair is a pendant, one pair is a pair of studs, the pair of pendants is relatively young, and the earrings Shen Lan is designed to be old-fashioned, so that Aunt Yun is a pair, and Cousin Qian's pair is just right, and the price is not expensive, Of course, in the eyes of Qian and Aunt Yun, this pair of earrings is definitely extraordinary.
Shen Lan entered the Tianbao Silver Building, and Brother Xiang immediately greeted her: "The lady of the Song family is here?" But you're here to get the earrings? ”
"Hello little brother, isn't the store busy today?" Shen Lan also smiled and spoke, and then followed Brother Xiang towards the counter.
"It's okay, the lady's earrings have been made a long time ago, just waiting for you to pick them up." Brother Xiang opened the door of the counter, walked in, and brought the tray out of the counter, on which a red flannel cloth was spread, and two pairs of pearl earrings lay quietly in the tray.
Shen Lan looked at the earrings and felt that the workmanship was very exquisite, not worse than her own era at all, and even faintly surpassed the workmanship of her own era, I don't know if it was an illusion, Shen Lan felt that these two pairs of earrings seemed to have been given life, not only lifelike, but even seemed to flow with a vitality, this is a craft that Shen Lan has never seen, and she was stunned for a while.
"Eldest sister, show me, what is it?" Shen Wei, who was small and short, couldn't reach the counter even if she tried to put her feet on her feet, and the sweat on her head was about to flow out. (To be continued)
ps: 3 more, Xiao Wu squatted in the corner and drew circles to express depression...... R655