The mortar is green-hearted, complaining about his father and mother. Complaining that my father and mother accept people's employment, how can I take care of the family if I am careful? The mortar head is red, complaining about his father and mother, and complaining about the matchmaker. Complaining that my father and mother accept people's employment, how can I be a person if I am careful? The mortar head hurt his waist, and the husband heard the hurried tide; Find no black chicken to replenish the abdomen, and find no fir board to press the waist. The mortar head hurt his foot, and the husband heard that he was coming; Looking for no black chicken to replenish the abdomen, looking for no cedar board to press the feet.

This is a ballad sung when Chung Mi is singing, as long as it expresses how hard Chung Mi is. Special stone mortars and stone pestles are used to make rice. The rice is put into the stone mortar, and two adults stand on both sides of the stone mortar, each carrying a stone pestle, and take turns to smash the mortar, just like pounding medicine, which is both laborious and hard, it is the work done by the man's family, and it must be a strong man with great strength to be competent. The woman in the ballad must not be treated well by her husband's family, so she is allowed to do such a hard job.

Most of the stone mortars are slowly hewn into a large whole stone, resembling a huge wine cup, and it usually takes four people to lift it. Therefore, not every household has a stone mortar and a stone pestle. Generally, a village has several stone mortars, which are common, and when the rice is cooked, the rice is directly carried on its back to the place where the stone mortar is put to eat. Each household will not make too much rice every time, because the rice is very broken, and it is easy to grow insects and mold when it is placed at home. The most common insect in rice is called the rice elephant, also known as the Iron Maiden, and has a hard shell. Rice worms are high-protein bodies that have not been polluted in any way, and people eat it, if they eat some pupa, they can increase their protein intake, which will not affect their health, but they feel unacceptable in their hearts. Therefore, the amount of rice that the Yao family cooks each time is not much, at most twenty or thirty catties, which is enough for the family to eat for a month.

When Yao Huang and Yao Qing carried the rice on their backs to the rice mill where the stone mortar was placed, there were already many people in the workshop. The millet was newly harvested, so many people came to make rice. Seeing Yao Huang and Yao Qing, these old men said one after another, "Erya, Ah Qing, you sit for a while, and when your brother finishes scooping rice, I will help you scoop it." ”

"No need." Yao Qing puffed up his small chest and said, "I can do it myself." ”

The men were amused by the appearance of Yao Qing's little.

"yourself? Ah Qing, can you afford to hold a stone pestle? Zhao Dali asked with a smile.

"Why can't you hold it?" Yao Qing stepped onto an empty stone mortar, stretched out his hand, and lifted the stone pestle with one hand.

The men's eyes are about to bulge, "Ah Qing, when did you become so strong?" ”

Yao Qing raised his head proudly, "Practiced." ”

His internal strength has already been introduced, and he has already practiced a trace of internal strength in the dantian, and his strength has increased a lot, so that he can lift the stone pestle so easily.

The men remembered that Yao Qing and several other hairy children in the village not only studied in the school, but also practiced martial arts with Master Wenren, and decided that their own sons would also be sent to learn martial arts in the future. Not to mention anything else, with this kind of strength, doing farm work can be much easier, and the efficiency can also be increased a lot.

Zhao Dali gave a thumbs up, "Yes, Ah Qing, with your strength, you can be regarded as a qualified man." ”

"Of course." Yao Qing was even more proud.

Yao Huang slapped it over, "Show off what?" Hurry up and get to work. ”

"Second sister......" Yao Qing covered the back of her head with tears in her eyes.

The men laughed loudly.

Li Yunzhong packed the finished rice and bran separately, and walked to the two sisters and brothers, "Erya, you sit aside for a while, and I will cook rice with our little man." ”

Yao Huang was not hypocritical, smiled and thanked Li Yunzhong, then took two steps back and sat on the stone pier on the side. Li Yunzhong only knew that she worshipped a hidden sect and had a pill that could cure all kinds of poisons - the pill was also given to the master of the second brother of the Li family - and he didn't know that she knew martial arts, and Yao Huang didn't want to expose herself too quickly.

The men chatted while licking rice, from the Zhang family's carrying her cub to which mother-in-law's cooking skills are good...... Yao Huang sighed while listening, men are also so gossipy! No less than the three aunts and six women in the village.

"The city has been very strict recently, as if someone is being arrested." Uncle Fang said that he did not go out to do business today.

"I also heard from my eldest brother that people from the government went to various pharmacies to inquire and check the records of the wounded medicines sold in the pharmacies recently." Li Yun said heavily.

"Could it be that some thief or murderer has infiltrated our peace?" Zhou Ming said.

Li Song said, "It seems to have something to do with what happened on the day of the Qixi Festival." ”

Zeng Qinghua said, "I heard that on the day of the Qixi Festival, an assassin broke into the Qi Mansion and killed a distinguished guest of the Qi Mansion. ”

"No wonder! Master Qi is the first person in Anping City, and even the county guard has to give him three points. To be able to become a distinguished guest of Master Qi, his identity must be extraordinary. Zhao Dali said, "Lord County Shou must have a big head." ”

Yao Huang heard a strong smell of conspiracy from everyone's conversations, "Brother Zhao, apart from our Anping County, has there been any major incident in other places?" ”

Zhao Dali said, "There really is." I heard from a merchant from the capital that the third lady of the Xiahou family originally planned to enter the palace as the emperor's concubine after the Qixi Festival, but the eldest young master of the Xiahou family died suddenly, and Miss Xiahou had to delay the time to enter the palace. ”

Could it be that the eldest young master of the Xiahou family is a distinguished guest of the Qi Mansion? Involving the Xiahou family, one of the royal and four great families, it is no wonder that Chun Yu Jinfeng is in a hurry to leave. It's just the masked man she saved, I don't know which side the road belongs to?

The rice is good, Yao Huang thanked Li Yunzhong, and went home with rice and chaff. Xiao Ke Baozi was playing with the chickens in the yard and saw both of them running over. A few chicks chirped, and the black mung bean eyes went straight to the rice bran on Yao Qing's back. Yao Qing laughed, took out a handful of rice bran from behind and threw it on the ground, and the chickens immediately pounced, pecked the rice bran and ate it.

"Erya, little brother, hard work." Yao Hong walked out of the kitchen with a clean apron in her hands, holding two bowls of sugar water in her hands. The concept of apron was passed on to Yao Hong by Yao Huang, and Yao Hong felt that it was very convenient after making one, so she recommended it to Aunt Li and Sister-in-law Cuihua. Nowadays, all the women in the village wear aprons when cooking.

Yao Huang and Yao Qing took the bowl and took a big sip, only to feel that it was sweet.

"Erya, Aunt Zeng came to pay back the money just now. However, I didn't take it. Yao Hong brought the rice and bran into the kitchen and said to Yao Huang, "I suggest that the eldest lady build a new house, their old house is so dilapidated that there is no need to repair it." ”

"It's new. The cracks in Zeng's mother's house are so big that it is difficult to shelter from the wind, and this winter will not be passed. "Yao Huang is in favor of authenticity.

As soon as the novelty of sugar painting came out, it was very popular with children in the city, and even many adults were interested. Zeng Qinghua's business is very good, and he has earned all the capital back in a month. The villagers looked red-eyed, and they also wanted to follow the trend to do a sugar painting business, but firstly, they did not have Zeng Qinghua's good skills, and secondly, they all knew that the sugar painting was only a small business, and there were many people who sold it, so they would definitely not be able to sell it for too much money. Therefore, those who have thoughts are only moved, but do not act. During this period, Yao Huang found the village chief and offered the recipe for making pine flower preserved eggs. The village chief was overjoyed and immediately organized the whole village to make Songhua eggs. Soon, the first batch of preserved eggs was purchased by Chun Yu's family, and the villagers made a lot of money and were even more grateful to the Yao family. The prestige of the Yao family is second only to the village chief uncle in the village.

As the days passed, Chun Yu Jinfeng did not return to the village since he left. Even the purchase of preserved eggs is handled by the deacon of Chun Yu's family. The people in the village thought that it was because of the existence of chrysanthemums that Chun Yu Jinfeng would not come to the village, and his attitude towards chrysanthemums was even worse. Chrysanthemum's parents couldn't, so they found a family for her in the field and hastily married her off. When Chrysanthemum got married, Ah Biao walked a long way behind them, and after returning home, he was engaged to Xiaohong.

The weather is getting colder, especially in the north, when most families burn a stove at home to keep the whole family warm. Therefore, before the weather is safe to cool down, the villagers go up the mountain more often, carrying more dry firewood and dead branches to store, so that the whole family will not run out of firewood for a winter. The firewood of the Yao family was carried back by Yao Qing alone, this child's qualifications are good, "Zixia Gong" has been practiced to the second level, and "Chasing the Moon" has also achieved a small success, and you can jump two meters away when you jump. Therefore, even if he is a small child, he still carries more firewood than the rest of the villagers' families.

Yao Hong also got busy, and she made sausages and bacon under Yao Huang's guidance. People in this world also make bacon, but it is castrated with salt for a few days, hung in the tuyere to dry, and when you want to eat, cut a piece or fry or steam it to eat, which is a way for people who have no money to preserve meat. Unlike the traditional bacon of China, it is castrated with rock sugar, star anise, fennel and other large ingredients, and it is smoked and roasted with pine branches, which is extremely delicious. Yao Hong is looking forward to the new method of bacon.

The most troublesome thing when making sausages is the casing. When Yao Huang was at home, he and his mother poured sausages together, and the casings were bought in the supermarket, and there was a meat grinder when they were filled, which was very convenient. However, there are no meat grinders, let alone casings, so if you want to fill sausages, you have to make your own casings. The first batch of casings is made by Yao Huang and Yao Hong, the small intestine of the pig is divided into four layers: mucosa, submucosa, muscle and serosa, two people scrape off the submucosa, muscle layer and serous membrane with sand, leaving only the mucosal layer, and then wash it with water, and the casing is made. It sounds simple, but it takes a lot of effort to do it, especially after the last cleaning, you must wash it carefully, otherwise there will be sand left in it, which will not only damage the casing, but also burp your teeth when eating.

There was no meat grinder, so Yao Huang cut a bamboo tube and stretched the casing on it, so that it was much more convenient to fill the casing with meat.