On the second day, it was the day of harvesting beans on the Zhuangzi. During the morning exercise, Gu Qiang taught the Qingshu sisters and brothers the correct way to hold the gun, as well as the simplest action, stabbing. At the end of the morning exercise, the sister and brother hurriedly washed up, had breakfast, changed their clothes, and prepared to leave for Zhuangzi.

Originally, Gu Qiang was going to Zhuangzi, but yesterday afternoon the Yamen sent news to them, and Ergouzi was caught, and the case will be tried today. This matter naturally has to be followed by Gu Qiang. As a result, Gu Qiang and Gu Yuanhe were stumped and couldn't leave. The matter of collecting beans was changed to Qingshu to take Qingyang over and take him personally.

There were only women and children left in the house, such as Gu Ye's family, Su's mother, Ding Jiamei, Xu Sanniang and Xu Wuniang, Qingshu was not at ease, so he decided to leave Ding Jiabao and Gu Yuanbao to guard the courtyard, and only took Li Dalang, who was driving the car. For the autumn harvest, the other strong men are on the Zhuangzi.

Gu Qiang disagreed, not worried about the safety of Qingshu and Qingyang. Coincidentally, the brothers Kang Zhuzhu and Kang Zhuzi happened to carry the cover and picked the purple fruit to come to the door. Three days ago, they carried a load and sent two loads of purple fruits, saying that they could still pick one load from the trees in the mountains. Qingshu asked them to go back and pick them all and send them all, and if their brother was willing, they could go to her village to work for a long time, with a temporary salary of 300 wen a month and take care of the food.

Of course, the two brothers of the Kang family are willing, they are looking for short-term jobs all year round, and they are hungry and full. If you meet a good owner, you can get a few wages; When you meet someone like the head of Dagujia Village, you can't eat enough, and you can't get your salary. Therefore, they hurriedly returned to the village, went into the mountains to pick purple fruits, and then talked to the neighbors who had been taking care of them, and carried the burden and the cover on their backs overnight, and drove more than 30 miles, and then came to the ancient mansion early in the morning.

Gu Yuanhe asked the two brothers of the Kang family to put down the purple fruits, took them to the kitchen, and asked Xu Sanniang to hurry up and get a few bowls of bud grain noodles for hot paste. This thing is quick to make, and a few bowls of pickles can warm up the body and keep you full.

After they had eaten enough and rested for a while, they followed Qingshu's carriage and walked out of the town and towards Zhuangzi.

The closer I got to the Zhuangzi, the more I saw the farmer walking with his backpack. Xiaojuan lifted the corner of the curtain and looked at it for a while, then lowered the curtain, "Miss, there are a lot of people." ”

The two Kang brothers walked behind the carriage and were surprised to see this kind of battle. Kang Shuzi accosted a young man with a back pocket, "There are so many of you carrying bags, what are you going to do?" ”

The young man glanced at him, "I heard that Baijia Grange collects beans today, no, it is now called Gufu Grange, two pennies and a catty, and all the beans in our family in Sunjia Village are here." Which village are you from? ”

Kang smacked his tongue, "Two pennies and one pound?" "I'm from Kangjia Village, I haven't heard of it." He hadn't reacted at this time, the so-called Gufu Grange was the place where he would have to work for a long time in the future.

The young man smiled, "Kangjia Village is thirty or forty miles away from here, and I definitely don't know this news." Our Sunjia Village is twenty miles away from Gufu Grange, and I didn't know that it was a letter from my aunt who married into Dagujia Village yesterday, hehe......"

Kang Zhuzhu is older than his younger brother and more stable than his younger brother, so he told his lagging brother to hurry up and keep up, don't make a mistake.

When the carriage arrived in front of Zhuangzi, the wooden door of Zhuangzi was wide open, and Wu Langtou was waiting for Qingshu and his party with five or six people. On the other side, there are villagers who have come to line up early in the morning, with cloth bags at their feet, and the queue has been lined up for a long time.

Li Dalang drove the carriage directly into Zhuangzi, and Qingshu and Qingyang got off.

"When did the villagers come?" Qingshu asked as he walked.

"The sky is shining and it is coming. I was worried that they were in a hurry to sell beans and cause trouble with each other, so I asked them to wait in the order they came, so that they could not mess around. Wu Hammer hurriedly said.

"Okay, hurry up and arrange it, and start collecting. Let people keep an eye on it, the beans should be good, the pickers should be clean, and those who do the work for the scales will be driven away by me. ”

Wu Hammer agreed.

"Besides, the beans are not good, the villagers who really want to sell them, and don't play tricks, you tell them, go back and pick them and take them for two cents and one catty, if you don't want to pick, then collect three cents and two catties. If you have three dollars or two catties, remember to separate them and keep accounts separately. ”

Wu Langtou agreed, and hurried out to Zhang Luo.

Qing Shu turned his face sideways, and when he saw Qingyang's eager appearance, he smiled, "Xiaojuan, hugged the box containing the silver coin, and followed the young master to the front." Then pinched Qingyang's fleshy little face, "When you pay the money, you have to count it, if you give less, the villagers will be angry, if you give too much, my sister will lose it, you know?" ”

Qingyang said very seriously that he would count well.

"Let Zhang Da stand behind you, you are a very majestic young master, and no one dares to underestimate you."

Qingyang nodded.

Soon, the bean harvest began. Wu Langtou kept the accounts, Qingyang paid the accounts, and more than a dozen strong men passed the scales and maintained order, and they were carried out in an orderly manner.

Qing Shu took Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan to wander aimlessly in the Zhuangzi, still thinking about how to arrange the dishes in the field. pickled cabbage, she only watched her grandmother pickle it when she was a child, and she never tried it herself. She hadn't paid attention to the modern methods of pickling sauerkraut in a day or two by relying on medicine, and she didn't know how to get it. Now, the most important thing is the cabbage, the big radish and white radish on four acres of land are easy to say, they have so many people themselves, stewed soup, make stuffing, mix small pickles to eat, in winter, they will definitely be able to consume clean.

No matter how well the cabbage is stored, after a long time, it will rot a lot, so it can only be thrown away. Well, then try pickled sauerkraut. If you don't succeed once, it's better to try again than to wait for the food to rot. "Xiaojuan, go and ask the kitchen, is there a big vat in the Zhuangzi? If there is no big one, the small one is fine. Bai Qingfeng didn't find a good sales outlet for cabbage, she wouldn't be naïve enough to think she could. Everything has a market to sell. Everyone grows cabbage, and everyone in the village grows cabbage, where does the market come from? If pickled sauerkraut can be made, then there are other sales outlets.

Xiaojuan soon came back, saying that there was a big vat and a small vat in Zhuangzi, which used to be used for pickling pickles.

Qingshu listened to it and hurriedly arranged it, first, to confirm how much salt there was in the kitchen, and second, to ask the woman in the kitchen to quickly clean the two jars, not to get oil stars, and to dry them in the sun. The third is to let people go to the vegetable field to pull a dozen cabbages and come back.

The two large and small tanks have been washed and put out in the kitchen to dry in the sun. The man who went to the vegetable field also came back and picked up twelve cabbages. Qing Shu commanded, asked Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu to cut off the cabbage roots, and then picked off a few pieces of cabbage on the outside, and then chose a good nine-headed cabbage that was weighty and long, and put it aside.

When the water stains in the cleaned tank were gone, Qingshu beckoned Wu Xiaoshan and asked Wu Xiaoshan to move the small tank into the room next to the kitchen where the sundries were kept, and sent Wu Xiaoshan out to find stones. The stone should be large, but not larger than the mouth of the small jar, and it must be washed at the well when it is brought back.

The way people in the village pickle sauerkraut is not difficult, the prepared cabbage grabs the leaves to open the mouth, sprinkles a little salt into the core of the cabbage, closes it, and spreads it at the bottom of the tank. Spread a layer of cabbage and sprinkle salt on top of the cabbage. Then spread it again, sprinkle it with salt, and so on. When you put all the cabbage in it, pour well water into it, and the water is not too much, you don't need to cover the cabbage, and finally press a stone on top of it, and you're done. Wait for ten days and half a month, as long as the dishes in the jar are not rotten and have no smell, it is almost there, and it is not far from success. As for whether it tastes good in the end, it depends on personal craftsmanship.

Qingshu remembered that her grandmother said that things like pickled vegetables and pickled cabbage are the same as cooking. The same method, the same ingredients, and different people's dishes taste different. There are delicious and untasty, and the reason is not clear, so it depends on personal craftsmanship.

After getting it right, Qing Shu hurriedly wrote this matter down to her "notepad", she had to pinch the time to look at it, and try again if she didn't succeed. In short, there is still a month before the freeze, that is, cabbage and radish can be put in the ground for another month, and there is still time.

After finishing the drumming here, Qingshu went to see the original vegetable cellar again. The inside is very clean, and when the vegetables in the field are harvested, the vegetables that have been eaten for a winter can be put into this vegetable cellar for preservation. "How many catties of vegetables can you save?" Qingshu asked Wu Xiaoshan, who led the way.

"Four or five thousand pounds."

Four or five thousand catties sounds like a lot, but the cabbage is not as much as I imagined. Thirty-five acres of cabbage! Some of them are sold, and the vegetable cellar is full, and there is still a lot left. Sure enough, the sauerkraut must be successful, otherwise the dish will have to be thrown.

At noon, Qingshu and the others did not go back to the town, and ate at Zhuangzi. Qingyang ate in a hurry and went to the front to collect beans again. From time to time, people carried bags to Gufu Grange, and those villages that had no news also heard the rumors, and the villagers of more than a dozen villages near and far were in a hurry to carry beans to sell. At this time, although the sold out have gone, the long queue has not shortened, and those who are far away and those who have just received the news are still coming one after another.

This situation is somewhat unexpected. Qingshu originally thought that this bean would be harvested in half a day, and what Cheng wanted to cause such a big impact. However, the more you receive, the better. As long as sixty or seventy percent of the local beans are all in her hands, the remaining three or four percent are taken away by the carriage and horse shop to feed the livestock, and at that time, she is the only one in the local area who has beans in her hands. It's up to her to decide how she wants to operate and how she sets the price.

In the other two towns and Dexian County, she has already asked Bai Qingfeng to come back with at least three or four percent of the local beans. She gave Bai Qingfeng a promise, Bai Qingfeng didn't care what kind of price she would take, as long as Bai Qingfeng sent the beans to her, she would receive them at two cents and one catty.

And over there in the capital, Qingshu greeted Bu Yuyan and asked Bu Yuyan to help her collect as many beans as she could, as much as she could, in short, she couldn't feed the livestock, and she had to keep them all. Of course, there is no need for Bu Yuyan to come forward for such a thing as harvesting beans, as long as Bu Yuyan talks to her fifth brother, her fifth brother is a businessman and has so many people, so he can get this done by sending a steward at will.

Qingshu has already thought about it, and when winter is approaching, and the Spring Festival is approaching, when there are only cabbage, radishes and a few dried vegetables left on people's dinner tables, it is time for the soybeans in her hands to play a role.

The time was approaching, and there were only five or six people left in line, but from time to time there were crop men carrying cloth bags coming over. Wu Langtou looked at the sky, whispered a few words to Wu Xiaoshan, and then kept the account.

Wu Xiaoshan ran into Zhuangzi, asked Xiaojuan to report, and entered the house to see Qingshu. "Miss, Steward Wu said that many people asked their relatives if they would accept it tomorrow before leaving? If they do, they let their relatives carry it and sell it. Besides, it was not early, but there were still people carrying beans, and Steward Wu asked if there were still people coming after Shen, whether they should send them back directly or continue to collect them. ”

Qing Shu was stunned, she really hadn't thought about this situation. She didn't plan to eat all the beans in Kangxi Town at the beginning, six or seven percent of them would be enough, and no matter how much, the carriages and horses should be dissatisfied. Therefore, she thought that if she released the news three days in advance, she would be able to do it in one day. In this case, should we continue to collect it, or will we not collect it?

"yes, I see. You go and ask Steward Wu what he thinks, and come back and tell me what he thinks. Qing Shu asked Wu Xiaoshan to go out and ask at the same time, and he pondered in his heart. Would you like to take another day? If you delay for a day but can't harvest too many beans, it's not cost-effective, but you miss the autumn harvest.

Sorghum has to be turned over for two days before it can be put into the warehouse, sorghum straw must continue to be pulled back, the sorghum stubble in the field has to be manually planed, and then the bud grain must be harvested, the bud grain stick is broken and pulled back to Zhuangzi, the bud grain straw is cut, the bud grain straw is bundled, and the straw is pulled back...... Cabbage can also be harvested little by little, pulled to the town or pulled to Jinyang City to sell. The yamen sent people to collect taxes and grain, and they had to delay half a day's work.

Qing Shu found with a black line on her face, there are a lot of things to do, these are not things that can be done with your mouth and fingers, anyway, none of them are capable of her and Qingyang, they all have to rely on the strong men.

At this time, Wu Xiaoshan came in and replied, saying that Steward Wu felt that it was better to collect it for another day, because among the people who sold the beans, there were more than 20 men squatting on the side waiting for news. They have relatives from all villages, and when they hear the news, they will have to come from half a village and half a village. He also said that there are many wait-and-see, and they don't believe that there is a good thing about harvesting beans for two pennies and one pound. These people who are watching have not come today, but they will definitely come tomorrow.

Wu Langtou will support another day, not only will he be able to harvest a lot of beans tomorrow, but he also believes that Miss will not be busy collecting beans in vain, and she will definitely make a lot of money. Recently, they have been drinking soybean soup and fried soybean sprouts, and everyone loves to eat them. Everyone's favorite food is sold and will be popular in the season when there is a shortage of vegetables.

Since Wu Langtou said so, Qing Shu also nodded and agreed to accept it for another day, so that Wu Langtou could watch the arrangement.

Before dark, Qingshu and Qingyang had to rush back to the town, but there were still people who sent beans. Qingshu handed over the bookkeeping and payment to Wu Langtou, left a box with silver money for Wu Langtou, took away a box that was already empty, called Qingyang to sit in the carriage, and went home. This time, Zhang Da and Wei Tiehammer escorted them back to the town.

When the sun was setting, Qingshu and the others arrived in front of the mansion. Gu Qiang, who was standing at the gate of the mansion and waiting, was relieved at this time. Li Dalang drove the carriage directly into the mansion, and Gu Yuanhe closed the door of the mansion.

After Qingshu and Qingyang had dinner, Qingshu asked Qingyang to go back to the house to wash up and lie down to rest. On this day, Qingyang was tired, counting the copper plate to pay the beans' account, sitting for a day, it was strange that he was not tired. He actually had a pain in his fingers, but he was willing to do it himself, so Qing Shu called him several times, and he insisted on not letting others pay the bill.

Next, it is the time for Gu Qiang to report. The case on the Yamen side has been closed, and Ergouzi admitted that he took a penny from the head of Dagujia Village, and went to the thatched house where Gu Yuanhe lived at night. Ergouzi said that he didn't want to kill anyone, and he didn't dare to kill anyone, but he just wanted to scare Gu Yuanhe, scare people away, and then burn down the thatched house to fool the village chief.

In the end, the village chief was beaten for 20 boards, and he had to be assigned to the frontier for 12 years. Ergouzi also hit 20 boards, and was sentenced to the same sentence as Li Zheng and Li Er, with a sentence of six years. As for Li Da, he hit twenty boards and let it go. and Ning Si, the person was released, but the errand was lost.

Gu Qiang also said that as soon as Ning Si was released, his wife took him to the front of the ancient mansion, and the family of five kowtowed in front of the ancient mansion before going back.

Gu Yuanhe was injured, and so far it has been revealed.

Thinking of sauerkraut, Qingshu told Gu Qiang to pay more attention to the shops that sell large vats in the near future, and inquire about which ones have good vats and fair prices.

Gu Qiang agreed and reminded: "Miss, the purple fruit is good for you." In the afternoon, the old slave bought four more jars and came back, washed them and put them away. I don't know if it's enough? ”

"Ah, I almost forgot about this purple fruit. Four jars, enough, no need to buy again. It seems that I won't be able to go to Zhuangzi tomorrow. The beans will be harvested for a day tomorrow, and you take someone to keep an eye on it. ”

"Yes. Miss, you and the young master haven't practiced for half an hour at night. Gu Qiang reminded responsibly.

Qing Shu thought for a while, "Xiaoyang is tired today, let him rest!" I'll practice it myself, you don't have to keep an eye on it, rest early. In the past few days, she has become a little accustomed to practicing before going to bed, although she is tired and has back pain, which is very hard, but she sleeps extraordinarily fragrant, and her body is slowly strengthened unconsciously, which is a good thing.

In a blink of an eye, on the second day, Qingyang took a box of copper plates and sat in the carriage, escorted by Gu Qiang, Zhang Da and Wei Tiehammer and set off for Zhuangzi.

And Qingshu took Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan to pound purple fruits and four jars. Last time the Kang brothers sent purple fruits, Qing Shu chose the best and tried to get a jar of fruit wine, and the rest were divided and eaten. This time, it was the last batch of purple fruits of the year.

Because the last time Qing Shu commanded the picking, Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu already had experience, holding scissors in their hands, selecting complete and large purple fruits, and carefully cutting them one by one. When washing the cut purple fruit, you should also be very careful, and the skin of the purple fruit should not be damaged in any way.

After the purple fruit is washed, the water should be controlled, put it in a dry wooden basin without any water, and pinch it one by one with clean and dry hands. After that, put the jar in the jar, add sugar, and seal.

On the last altar, Qingshu put it under the window root in the courtyard. Now the four altars, Qing Shu thought about it, two altars were placed in the place where the sun could shine in the house, one altar was placed in the place where the sun could not shine in the house, and the last altar was placed on the root of the window in the courtyard.

These five altars, Qing Shu made marks respectively. She's seen how to make homemade wine on the Internet, but she's never gotten it herself. She wasn't sure, because she wasn't sure if she had memorized the whole recipe. Now she's just curious and wants to try it. If it happens, she and her brother drink it, and if it doesn't work, there is nothing to lose. The previous purple fruit, the Kang family brothers gave them a penny and a catty, and this time, they didn't ask for a penny. Their brother said that this was to thank the ancient government for taking them in to work long hours on the Zhuangzi