In the next few days, it was a cool and sunny day, and the temperature has risen to a certain extent. But the people of Aoyama Village know that this light snow heralds the arrival of a long winter. The people of the village are busy preparing for the winter.

Aunt Nine and Third Grandma hurriedly lived for a few nights, helping Gu Xiao and them sew six quilts, as well as Gu Ye's cotton clothes. Just because Gu Ye has almost no winter clothes, and the single clothes on her body are so worn out that she can break a hole with a light touch, even if she has that rabbit skin vest, her grandfather and brother are reluctant to let her go to the kang, for fear that she will freeze out of her thin body. As for Gu Xiao and Gu Ming's grandfather and grandson, you can wait until later to do it slowly.

Gu Qiang, the second son of the patriarch, is a good carpenter, and he usually goes to the town to do work, and only returns to the village after winter. Gu Ye's furniture was asked to be made. The wood was cut from the mountain, and in addition to the chopping boards, kang tables, stools, and wooden boxes, Gu Ye also drew cupboards and wardrobes for him.

Gu Qiang's carpentry work is indeed done quickly and well, especially the cupboards and wardrobes, when they are done, many people in the village go to see them. The cupboard is practical and chic, and although the wardrobe is the most ordinary drawer-style, it also attracts the admiration of the villagers.

If there is a daughter in the family who wants to marry, or a son who wants to marry, he will also tighten his belt to save some money. Gu Qiang, who was the most idle in winter, became busy. His daughter-in-law was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut - the family could have a fat year.

Gu Ye's house was covered with new bedding, and a small wardrobe was placed on the side of the kang, and life became more and more prosperous. Gu Ye followed the medicine saint to learn medicine and medical science, and pestered Aunt Jiu to teach her pickled winter vegetables in her spare time! In winter, there are too few fresh vegetables, and pickled vegetables are very important for every household.

For pickles or something, Gu Ye really didn't know anything. However, people have theories! From the corner of the space, she took out a book of "50 Methods of Pickles", memorized several raw materials that are easy to find, and the pickling process is simple, put on her new cotton jacket, and went to find Aunt Jiu excitedly.

In front of Aunt Jiu's house, I saw Liu coming back from outside. Seeing her, Liu glanced at her fiercely, snorted heavily, and slammed the door with a loud bang after entering.

Gu Ye pursed her lips and knocked on the door of Aunt Jiu's house. It was Sister Li who opened the door, she took Gu Ye's hand with a smile and said, "Just now, my mother was talking about it, you should be here now." Is the pickling method that your master taught you very different from ours? Is it easy to do? ”

"I've written it all down, and I'll recite it to Aunt Nine in a while. Let's pick up the simplest ones and make them fresh. By the way, I also asked for some herbs and spices from Master, and I added some to the pickles later. Gu Ye took out a small packet of five-spice powder and some other spices from his arms. Hehe, Master's name is so useful!

The vegetables that Gu Ye's family makes pickles are all half bought and half given by the people in the village. Uncle Jiu's family grows more cabbage and radish, and gives them the same 100 catties as their family.

Aunt Jiu's family has started to make a lot of sauerkraut and pickled radish. When she was making pickles, she thought that there was no woman in Uncle Gu's family, so she might not be able to think of pickles, so she made more.

"Aunt Jiu, my grandfather said that among all the pickled vegetables he has eaten, sour and hot dried radish and spicy cabbage are the most delicious! I specially asked him for the pickling recipe, or ...... Let's give it a try, shall we? Gu Ye said her two favorite side dishes, with big eyes and shiny eyes.

Now Gu Ye is still very thin, but he is no longer as scary thin as before. In the past, she was only skinny and bone-like, like those patients with advanced anorexia, who could scare people out when she went out at night.

Now she has a small pointed face, a pair of bright and bright eyes, and thick and long eyelashes, like two small brushes, flickering up and down. The original yellow skin is also much fairer, with a ruddy luster. When I laughed, two shallow small pear vortices loomed, and that small appearance was painful.

Aunt Nine couldn't help pinching her little face, and said with a smile: "Okay, Aunt Nine will listen to our little leaf today." We will pickle whatever you say, and we will pickle how you say. "As long as you put enough salt, the pickles won't be bad anyway, and you will eat them if they don't taste good!

Gu Yexiao's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he recited the song seriously: "Ten catties of radish, one tael of chili powder, one and a half catties of vinegar, four taels of sugar, four taels of salt, two dollars each of peppercorns and ingredients, and monosodium glutamate...... cough cough, appropriate amount of special spices, four catties of water......"

"Wait! The rest is fine, the vinegar costs a pound and a half, will it be too sour? And this sugar...... People in the mountains like us, can afford to buy those expensive things? Sichuan pepper, my aunt knows, what is the big ingredient? Aunt Jiu was confused when she heard this, and her heart beat a drum, can you eat the dried radish that is made out like this?

"Aunt Jiu, sugar, spices and flavors...... I've brought all this spice with me. If you don't like to eat sour, put less vinegar. Aunt Jiu, let's try it, my master won't lie to me, the dried radish made will definitely be delicious. Gu Ye threw the pot on the master again.

When Aunt Jiu heard this, she believed most of them. The old doctor has seen the world outside the mountain, and there should be nothing wrong with this peculiar pickling method. So, according to Gu Ye's prompt, she took out a few catties of dried radishes that were originally dried at home.

While frying chili powder in hot oil, she felt a little distressed. The oil was also brought over by Xiao Yezi, it must be Uncle Gu, who doesn't know how to live, and bought it back last time when he went to the town. Alas, it is not possible to live without a woman in the family, and she will not live a careful life......

Stir the fried chili oil into the dried radish. They began to put salt, sugar, peppercorns, and ingredients into a pot, add water to boil, add monosodium glutamate, let it cool, and pour it into the jar where the dried radish was placed.

"Alright! After that, turn it once a day, and you can eat it in half a month! Gu Ye watched Aunt Jiu finish the last step, and slapped happily - done.

Aunt Jiu kept praying in her heart that this sour and hot radish could be pickled, but she couldn't be blind to so many good things. Thinking of the sugar that Xiao Yezi brought over, it was as white as snow, and it was sweet to the heart when I ate it. This high-quality sugar, to say the least, costs a hundred pounds, which is worth half a month's food for ordinary people. What a loser this Fifth Uncle Gu is!

With this sour and hot radish as a base, when making spicy cabbage, although the process is a little cumbersome, Aunt Jiu is not only thinking about Uncle Gu's defeat in her heart, but it is quickly completed.

Ten catties of sour and hot radish were pickled, and five catties of spicy cabbage were pickled, and they only waited for half a month to taste the fruits of their labor. Gu Lier was helping on the side, muttering in her mouth: "With such a good ingredient, if it doesn't taste good, it won't make sense!" ”

Gu Ye on the side showed a touch of embarrassment on her face: she was the one who added a lot of ingredients, but the pickled small pickles were difficult to eat. Alas...... In her previous life, she was an authentic cook. In this life, it doesn't seem to be much better. Cooking only stays at the level of "cooked" and "edible", and even grandpa's craftsmanship is better than hers. Alas...... When will her wish to eat delicious food come true!

While she was busy pickling vegetables, her grandfather and brother were not idle, and every day they went into the mountains to the place where the trap had been dug – of course, most of the time there was no harvest. Gu Ming was surprised in her heart: why was her sister able to bring back the prey as soon as she went to check the trap before?

He told his grandfather about the doubts in his heart. Gu Xiao couldn't find an answer, so he could only send him away on the grounds of "your sister is lucky". Traps have prey every day, isn't that normal? Unless the prey on the Wild Mountain is flooded!

When there was no prey, they cut down dead trees in the mountains and came back to make firewood. It seems that the medicine saint is not going to leave this winter, and Xiao Ye'er is not willing to squeeze a kang with their ancestors and grandchildren, and the three kangs will be burned together in one winter, and the firewood stored at home is still far behind.

Fortunately, Gu Xiao's leg was reduced to negligible pain under the dual effects of his granddaughter insisting on massaging him with medicinal oil every day and applying a hot compress with a salt bag.

Gu Xiao couldn't help but think of the old general, it was inevitable that there would be some dark injuries left on the battlefield, and when it rained on a cloudy day, the discomfort was no better than his legs. Do you want to ask the medicine saint for some medicine, and bring it to the old general with this salt bag?

I think that when he replaced Gu Qiao's father to join the army, he was only fifteen or sixteen years old. When I first entered the battlefield, I saw the scene of corpses all over the field and blood all over the ground, and I was so frightened that I almost peed my pants, and the knife in my hand fell to the ground. If the old general hadn't appeared in time and cut off the right arm of the enemy soldier who attacked him, his life would have been confessed to the battlefield long ago.

"If you don't want to die, pick up a weapon and kill me! The enemy won't be kind to you just because you go into battle for the first time! Think about the relatives at home who are waiting for you to return, do you want them to send white-haired people to black-haired people? The old general yelled at him, pointing at the enemy soldier who had lost his right arm, and supervising him to cut off his head.

Kill the enemy on the battlefield, and if you have the first time, you won't be afraid of the second time! Although Gu Xiao has no relatives at home waiting for him to go back, he has the ambition to make a contribution. From that moment on, he held the knife in his hand tightly, and even when he was seriously wounded and on the verge of death, he never threw it down. With a ruthless spirit, he bravely killed the enemy, and was favored by the old general, who chose him as his personal guard.

The old general not only taught him excellent kung fu, but also taught him how to lead troops. He matured in battle after battle and grew into a good and qualified general. Even if he is a four-rank loyal and brave general, when he is alone. He still regards himself as a little personal soldier by the old general's side, and always remembers that his life was saved by the old general, and everything he has is given by the old general.

Therefore, when the old general's family was framed and exiled to the northwest, he resolutely gave up the high-ranking official Houlu, resigned from the official position exchanged for his life, followed the old general to the northwest, and served by his side.

Thinking of this, Gu Xiao showed a nostalgic look on his face. He looked to the north: it was only five days away from the border, and in a few days he would personally go and deliver the medicine to the old general! Although he can no longer gallop on the battlefield with the old general, it is also good to be able to share the worries of the old general in another way. Gu Xiao, who has made up his mind, is more energetic in his work!

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