Chapter 2 Winemaking

And Yu Rusu was even worse, only one or two pieces of silver, and she had to share a nurse with her younger brother, and the other was dismissed. There were only two of the original seven or eight servants left, one was Qingyu, the son of the family, and the other was the mother-in-law who was responsible for sprinkling and sweeping behind the ear.

After arriving at the county government of Qinan County, her grandmother sent her to the most remote courtyard, deliberately letting her be estranged from Aunt Xue, the mother and daughter are not close, and they don't want their concubines to have a bright day.

Seeing that his younger brother's situation was getting more and more deviated, and there was a trend towards trousers, Yu Rusu had no choice but to make a secret move.

When Aunt Xue, who regarded her as her life, didn't pay attention, she privately caught her naughty brother who had not been bad, and taught her simplest literacy, based on the "Three Character Classic", and slowly added enlightenment books such as "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text".

At first, Yu Zhengshu was a little resistant, at his age, he only wanted to play, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets and refused to pay attention, he couldn't sit still and just wanted to catch it, play with grasshoppers, and run around the garden, plus Aunt Xue's pampering and his mother's intentional indulgence, he was no different from the wild children in the mountains.

Yu Rusu spent a lot of patience and persuasion, from half an hour a day to two hours a day now, and finally straightened his younger brother and looked a little more human.

The education has achieved a bit, but the problem is that they still don't have the money, and the money for daily expenses is not enough.

Fortunately, Yu Rusu, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was assigned by her mother to the farthest small courtyard from the backyard of the county government, which was a blessing in disguise.

Although the yard here is large but very desolate, the weeds are almost taller than her at the time of seven years old, and the miscellaneous trees are so numerous and difficult to remove that people are dumbfounded.

In desperation, she and the girl Qingyu had to roll up their sleeves to take care of, sometimes her nurse Yue Mama can't look past and will come to help, the three of them spent six months to tidy up a decent yard, the small miscellaneous trees were uprooted, the big ones were left in the shade, and a jujube tree and a persimmon tree that had been planted for more than ten years were inadvertently found.

During the cleaning process, Yu Rusu and Qingyu saw a small door that a child could pass through by bending down behind a large rock, like a dog hole, which was larger than a dog hole, and the simple wooden door was next to the corner of the courtyard next door.

It's just that the other side is also overgrown with weeds, and the two of them tried for a long time before pushing open a small slit, and their thin bodies could barely get through.

But when I looked at it in the past, it turned out to be disappointing, it was an even more desolate abandoned courtyard, with dry grass and barren trees on top of each other, and I stepped on it and fell into a nest, giving people a feeling of lifelessness and no business.

At that time, Yu Rusu saw that the flowers of more than a dozen peach trees here were not much, sparsely scattered, one was curious, the other was fun, so he brewed peach blossom wine on a whim as a pastime, anyway, the ripening of peach blossom wine is only two months, and it is very good.

Later, they collected two jars of peach blossoms, and the jar was still an old jar bought from the kitchen with ten copper plates from Qingyu, and the two of them washed and brushed it before they could barely use it.

Who knew that these two jars of wine would later save them.

"Miss is talking about frustration again, haven't we made a lot of money by making wine in the past two years?" At least you don't have to look at people's faces and reach out to your wife to ask for money.

Jade Rusu apricot eyes horizontal. "You also know the past two years, think about how miserable our life was in the first three years, it can be described as not having enough to eat."

"Miss, why bother about those things that don't go well, it will be fine in the future, as long as the master can be transferred back to Beijing in another year." With Mrs. Yu as a backer, Mrs. can't take care of her aunt and concubines as she wants.

"A year is a long time, who knows what will happen...... "The world is impermanent, who would have thought that a night shift emergency room nurse would die suddenly due to years of hard work, die in her favorite job, and countless emergency room colleagues can't save her?

"This ......" Qingyu was speechless.

That year was really miserable, the third lady had just recovered from a serious illness, and when she needed to replenish her body, she was faced with the embarrassment that her mother was short of silver and her aunt took all the supplements for the fourth young master.

As soon as the summer came, the change of seasons made the young lady sick again, and vomited and diarrhea due to the unaccustomed water and soil, although Qingyu hurriedly asked his wife to invite the doctor, but the doctor took the pulse and prescribed the prescription and left, and did not send the medicinal materials for treatment.

In the first two days, the house will send medicine, and on the third day, the medicine will be stopped, Qingyu went out of the yard to ask someone, and the answer was that the doctor said that after drinking the medicine for two days, the disease will be cured, and there is no need to take medicine for days.

Obviously, Mrs. hated Aunt Xue, so she was angry with her little children, and she couldn't abolish Aunt Xue on the bright side, after all, Aunt Xue was a person given by Mrs. Yu, so she had to start with the sisters and brothers, and she was depressed.

Fortunately, there is no endless road, and the two jars of peach blossom wine are just ripe, although the wine is not strong, the throat rhyme is still poor, and it will be better to put it for three more months. But in order to catch the medicine, Yu Rusu still asked Qingyu to go through the small gate to bypass the peach blossom waste garden, and carry a small jar of wine from the back door next door to the tavern to try, maybe it can be sold for money.

I didn't expect it to be sold, with this small amount of money, Qingyu grabbed a few sticks of medicine from outside and came back, the two masters and servants got through the difficulties, and after Yurusu took the medicine for half a month, her body finally improved.

But spring goes to autumn, and soon ushered in the snow and winter, everyone in the county government put on new clothes and shoes, and each courtyard at least issued two large baskets of medium briquettes, but the partial courtyard was forgotten, they didn't even have firewood to burn firewood, or relied on the half basket of coal smuggled by Mama Yue to survive the snowy winter night.

It's just that half a basket of coal is still not enough, and it is better to ask for others than for yourself, so Yu Rusu asked Qingyu to steal a machete from the kitchen, and the two masters and servants secretly ran to the next door, looked at the nearest peach tree and cut down the branches, and took advantage of the sunny weather to dry firewood, and burned the peach branches and dried peaches as firewood.

There was enough firewood that winter, but Yu Rusu fell ill again, spent all the little silver left, and waited for the next spring with a white face.

No one expected that the willows and willows were planted unintentionally, and the peach trees whose branches were cut off actually bloomed full of peach blossoms in the spring of the next year, and the flowers were so many that the branches and leaves were covered, and only the peach of one tree was so beautiful that people stopped and marveled.

On the other hand, the peach trees that have not been cut down are the same as the previous year, the flowers are not in full bloom, and the sparse peach blossoms are three or three in twos, and there is really not half a basket to collect!

At this time, Yurusu thought that this was thinning, and the fruit trees should be pruned after the harvest every year, pruning off the excess branches and leaves, leaving the main trunk, and the next year will have enough nutrients to sprout, grow new branches, bloom more flowers, and bear more fruits.

This year, they did not pluck all the flowers on the tree, they picked half and kept half, half made peach blossom wine, and half kept the fruit, some took it and ate it, and the small bad fruits were made into preserved fruits, and the rest were made into peach wine.

Ten jars of peach blossom wine, ten jars of peach wine, because the silver was not enough, when the wine was just ripe, Yu Rusu asked Qingyu to bring two jars of wine and sell it for one or two silver.

In July and August, Yu Rusu felt that she was going to be sick again, so she simply came forward to negotiate with someone to sell wine, after all, she was really short of money and wanted to buy medicine!

This time she gave up the tavern and found a winery, at this time the peach blossom wine and peach wine were mellow, she sold two taels of silver in one jar, leaving only three jars of wine unsold, and kept it for self-drinking, after all, it was very cold in winter to drink fruit wine to warm her hands and feet.

After this experience, when autumn came, the master and servant spent almost a month trimming all the peach trees in the abandoned garden, cutting the grass under the peach trees, piling them directly on the roots of the trees for local fertilizer, raising the fields with fields, and composting with rotten weeds to provide enough nutrients to the peach trees.

In the third year, the peach blossoms bloomed all over the garden, and the two of them grew up, and their strength was stronger, and their winemaking skills became more and more mature, and they knew how to make better wine.

Twenty jars of peach blossom wine, twenty jars of peach wine, after each left three jars, the rest were all sold, and the silver bag suddenly became dozens of taels.

There is a saying that there are more thoughts about silver, thinking of her body that is sick at every turn, Yuru Su had the idea of studying medicine, she took advantage of the few opportunities to go out to sell wine to turn around and buy a few medical books in the bookstore, and asked someone to create a set of silver needles.

As a result, she didn't learn medical skills, and she didn't have a master to lead her into the door, so that although she could understand the symptoms, she couldn't diagnose the pulse, and she didn't know how to prescribe medicine if she knew medicinal materials.