Zhao Yu felt that their old Zhao family's house was really large.

In addition to the living rooms, there are various buildings and simple sheds such as covered cowsheds, latrines, pigsties, etc., including the plot behind the main house, where the chicken racks and the family's vegetable garden are located.

However, at the moment, Zhao Yu has no interest in visiting the construction of the house, and the most important thing is to go to the kitchen to get objects.

Quietly touching into the kitchen of the west side house, Zhao Yu pushed open the heavy wooden door that had been unlocked, and squeezed in lightly.

Compared with other house structures, which are used for living, the kitchen structure for cooking is particularly simple.

As soon as I walked into the kitchen, I saw two iron pots and clay kettles of different sizes on both sides of the stove, one on the left and one on the right.

The iron pot is used to steam rice and stew vegetables, and the clay kettle is used to cook soup and porridge.

Every morning and evening, the iron pot and clay kettle at home are not idle, and they must be operated together.

In this era, the village can have an iron pot in the house, and it is also a representative of the rich family.

After all, iron products in this era are special products of the imperial court.

Generally speaking, iron supplies are used for military conquest, and few talents flow into the people.

Later, the imperial court semi-opened the jurisdiction of iron products, allowing some iron products to appear among the people, but made strict regulations on the specifications and uses of iron products.

Including the blacksmith shop in the county seat, how much iron is made every day and how many iron products are made, they must be reported to the county government and the official master.

And anyone who can buy and sell iron products must have something similar to a household registration certificate, otherwise, iron products from the blacksmith shop are not allowed to be bought.

The requirements for iron products are so strict, and the price of iron products is naturally proportional to the requirements.

A small iron pot, according to the size, the price varies greatly.

Generally speaking, the iron pots made by the blacksmith shops in the town are divided into three medium sizes: large, medium and small.

The smaller one has a diameter of about one foot five and costs 400 yuan, the medium one has a diameter of about two feet three and costs 800 yuan, and the largest size is about three feet in diameter and requires a consistent zero 100 yuan.

Consistent money is equivalent to a thousand dollars.

A farmer's family, busy for a year, after removing the harsh taxes and their own living costs, can only have a balance of silver between two and three taels of silver in the end.

Among them, one tael of silver coins can be exchanged for money.

But silver is a hard currency, if you really want to change, you can exchange it for 100 yuan, and finally get 100 yuan.

………

They have a lot of families, and when the Li family went to buy an iron pot, it was the largest model they bought, and when converted, it was worth a lot.

This is also the reason why Li always locks the door every day when he goes out.

The iron pot is precious, it is difficult to keep the kind of impure mind, the sword goes to the edge, and the Li family can not be at home every day, therefore, since the family has an iron pot, her grandmother spent 20 Wen to buy the same style of the old man in the city, the strongest copper lock, every day when you go out, you must lock the wooden door of the kitchen.

Not only does it attach great importance to external preparation, but it is also strict with internal requirements.

Unlike a clay kettle, which only needs to be held on the stove.

Under the iron pot, there is an earthen stove made of yellow mud mixed with sand, which is the favorite material used by the villagers when building houses and walls, and the iron pot must be glued to it until it is easy to take out.

Around the stove of the iron pot, there are neat wooden basins with a few dried droplets on them.

The pottery kettle is much simpler, and only half a bucket of water is placed on the steps next to it, which is estimated to be leftover from cooking in the morning.

Zhao Yu glanced left and right, felt that there was nothing interesting here, moved his feet, and walked towards the kitchen.

Lifting the straw curtain directly opposite, Zhao Yu saw the tall wooden cabinet used to store kitchen supplies.

On both sides of the straw curtain, there is a wooden cabinet that almost reaches the roof on the left and right, and on the side of the wooden cabinet, there is also a circle of iron hooks that are made out of it, and there are some commonly used kitchen utensils such as fences, wooden spoons, wooden shovels, etc.

Zhao Yu walked to the left and reached out to open the closed cabinet door.

I saw that the central position of the wooden cabinet was divided into two large spaces, and within the large space, they were divided into relatively small spaces with not-so-thick wooden boards.

In the small space, there are cooking tools that are in order.

Stoneware bowls, wooden chopsticks, wooden basins, stoneware pots, kitchen knives with notches, small spatula, wooden spoons and other utensils.

Recalling the place where her milk was lifted, Zhao Yu squatted down, pouted her buttocks high, and laboriously took out two wooden basins that looked good from the bottom space of the wooden cabinet.

The diameter of the wooden basin is about one foot three, weighing the wild vegetables and fish heads chopped off by himself, Zhao Yu estimated that two pots were enough.

Straightening up, Zhao Yu patted the cuffs of her dirty clothes, and then, she turned around and aimed at the wooden cabinet opposite.

The same amount of space is the same as the wooden cabinet on the left, and the space size of the wooden cabinet on the right side is the same.

It's just that the wooden cabinet on the right side is not a cooking tool, but some food that the family usually eats, as well as oil and salt sauce for seasoning.

Due to his height, Zhao Yu couldn't reach the top layer of wooden cabinets.

However, just now, Zhao Yu stood on tiptoe and glanced at it, and found that the top wooden cabinet was filled with some grain pickles, which was not attractive to her.

Therefore, Zhao Yu directly opened the wooden cabinet below, if nothing else, she just wanted to see what was inside.

Who made her curious.

Carefully opening the wooden door of the wooden cabinet, Zhao Yu opened his beautiful big eyes and glanced at the wooden cabinet twice.

As a result, she saw a big belly bottle with arm height, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with no pattern on the bottle body, not very good-looking, and grainy to the touch.

At first glance, it is an inferior product fired by a brick kiln factory.

But even if it is an inferior product, these potbelly bottles are not cheap, I remember that Li mentioned a mouthful before, such a broken bottle, twenty yuan for three.

If it's good, fifteen dollars a piece, those bottles are said to be particularly smooth to the touch, but Li only thinks it's flashy.

According to Li's statement, the bottle can be filled without revealing it, and it is not real at all if it is slippery or not.

Well, the careful calculation of her milk has penetrated into all aspects.

Carefully observing these bottles, Zhao Yu noticed that the mouths of these bottles were wrapped in a thick layer of oily paper, and the bottom of the oilskin paper was tied with hemp rope made by himself.

Zhao Yu: ......

At a glance, you can see that these potbelly bottles are full of good things.

"Hey, hey"

Zhao Yu stretched out her hand and carefully took out these potbelly bottles, and then, she leaned her nose over and sniffed vigorously at the mouth of the bottle tied with oily paper.

The special taste in the bottle was sucked into Zhao Yu's body along Zhao Yu's nose as she continued to inhale.

From this, she deduced what was in the bottles.

Well, the taste is a bit mixed.

There is the miso at home, the pickles made by her milk, the pickles made by her milk, the pickled dried fish, and the ones that smell very sour... Is it vinegar?

Wrinkled her little nose, Zhao Yu sniffed it carefully, because she was a little unsure, so she also lifted the oily paper on it, and saw a yellow pile in the bottle, I don't know if it was vinegar liquid.

Zhao Yu finally covered his nose and put it back in place.

Well, the smell is a little bit high.

Anyway, I don't need it yet, and I'll talk about it then.

After a messy search, the hard work paid off, and Zhao Yu finally found the salt she wanted among the many potbelly bottles.

It's just that these salts are not what she imagined.

It doesn't look good, not to mention, the individual particles are too big.

Moreover, the color of the particles is still yellow, and when you put it in your mouth, it tastes sour and the quality is not pure.

"Bah, Bah, Bah......"

Zhao Yu had a bitter face and quickly spit out the salt he had just eaten.

If nothing else, is this thing salt or medicine? Why is it so bitter?

Sighing, Zhao Yu wanted to continue rummaging to make sure that there was any better salt around than this, but he turned over the other potbelly bottles, but he didn't find them.

Zhao Yu couldn't take these salts that didn't look good at first glance.

Not only that, but she only caught a small handful in the end.

Well, who let the bottle of salt only have the bottom left, she just wants to catch more, and she won't give her a chance.

After putting the messed bottles back in place, Zhao Yu got up and walked around the kitchen again.

Well, it's hard to come once, so I'm going to see more.

In addition to the two wooden cabinets in the kitchen, next to the wooden cabinets, there are also two particularly heavy water tanks, which are filled with clean water and are used for daily cooking.

There were a few small jars about the same height as hers, all of which were placed in the innermost part of the kitchen, filled with her grandmother's pickles and soy sauce, as well as the ubiquitous dried salted fish.

Well, that's right, not only in the kitchen, but even in the vegetable garden in their backyard, there are a few large vats in the shade, which were originally filled with all kinds of dried fish that were dried last year.

It's just that the dried fish are almost the same as they eat in the winter and spring.

Now the tanks are empty, and they are waiting for the dried fish in the yard to be loaded into it when it is dry, and then they will be sealed up, and these dried fish will become their main food source this winter.

Although the fish itself has a certain amount of earthy smell, it is something that can be eaten.

Food is welcome no matter what time of year it is.

When there is no effective means to get rid of the fishy smell, most of the fish that cannot be sold will be kept and stored by themselves.

A small part of it is pickled into salted fish, which is kept as pickles in summer, autumn and winter, but most of it is still dried into dried fish, and when there is no oil in the house in winter, take out a boiled fish soup from time to time to replenish the body.

Although the dry dried fish soup is not very tasty, however, the bottom of this era is miserable, and it is the right thing to be able to eat and survive smoothly, even if the dried fish tastes heavy, they will store it year after year, relying on the smelly dried fish to survive a difficult winter.