Chapter 110: Zhang Li's Intentions
"This set is enough, mother, if you are free, go to the street, buy yourself some food you want to eat, go to the opera garden to listen to the play, don't be busy with this."
"Listening to dramas is the only thing that big families do, we countrymen, what kind of drama do we listen to. If you have time, you might as well make you a few more sets of clothes. Zhang Li said angrily.
Liu Meiniang smiled and didn't speak.
A person has a person's way of life, Zhang Li has been working for the Zhang family for most of his life, and it is indeed a little difficult for Zhang Li to get used to the idle days for a while.
"What to eat in the afternoon, my mother will cook." Zhang Li asked as he put away the sewing basket.
"I'll cook in the afternoon, mother, you can rest."
"I'm not tired, what are you resting, my mother will give you a hand."
Liu Meiniang was embarrassed to refuse Zhang Li again.
"Okay." Liu Meiniang returned to the room, changed out of the clothes Zhang Li made for her, and carefully put them away.
In the afternoon, Liu Meiniang was ready to make egg cakes to eat.
She went and took ten eggs, broke them in a pot, and mixed them with some flour and salt, peppercorns, and bitter pepper powder, and added leeks to them. It is made into a relatively clear egg batter.
Apply a layer of oil to the bottom of the pan, and when the oil is hot, scoop up more than half a spoonful of egg paste and pour it in slowly, so that the egg paste is evenly spread on the bottom of the pan.
After a while, turn over and fry again, and you can take it out.
There are also leeks in the omelette, which looks appetizing.
After the egg cake was baked, Liu Meiniang fried shredded potatoes and green vegetables, as well as pork belly, which could be eaten in the egg cake.
At the end, a West Lake beef soup was burned.
"Sister-in-law, what is this made of, it's delicious."
Zhang Dandan held a bowl of West Lake beef soup and said with bright eyes.
"West Lake beef soup, you like to eat it and I'll make it for you next time." There's nothing happier about cooking than having someone compliment you on how delicious your food is.
Every time Liu Meiniang cooks, Zhang Dandan can give the highest evaluation, which makes Liu Meiniang very useful.
"Hmm." Zhang Dandan nodded heavily.
"Sister-in-law, where is West Lake?" Zhang Jihan, who was drinking the soup, also asked.
Liu Meiniang had no choice but to talk nonsense.
also took out the allusion of the White Lady and talked about it.
"Sister-in-law, is there really a snake demon?" Zhang Jihan rubbed the goosebumps on his body and asked.
"I don't know, maybe there is." Liu Meiniang said.
"Sister-in-law, Bai Suzhen is a thousand-year-old snake demon, so she should be so big." Zhang Dandan put down the dishes and chopsticks and stood in the middle of the room to geek.
"It's definitely a lot bigger than you." Zhang Tongtong also ran to stand with Zhang Dandan and said.
"Well, it should be bigger than the two of you," Liu Meiniang couldn't help but smile when she remembered Bai Suzhen in the film and television drama.
"Okay, eat quickly, and I'll tell you the rest when I'm done." When Liu Meiniang said, including Zhang Li's, several people looked at Liu Meiniang, listened to Liu Meiniang's story and listened to it very devotedly, and finally simply stopped eating, and began to listen to Liu Meiniang's story, seeing that the food was going to be cold, Liu Meiniang pretended to be angry and said next time.
Several people are still unsatisfied.
After eating, Liu Meiniang went back to the room to change clothes, but found that her relatives had visited again.
Liu Meiniang's eldest aunt came at a different time every month, either a few days earlier or a few days later, but it was all within the normal range, and Liu Meiniang was not very worried.
However, in this world, women don't have sanitary napkins for their aunts, and they use menstrual strips, that is, sewing a strip with a strap from cloth. Son, stuffed with things, better people's homes, stuffed with cotton, velvet and other things, no money at home, poorer people, stuffed with plant ash, Liu Meiniang simply hated this, not for anything else, the menstrual belt is really very inconvenient to use, and it can only be replaced once a day, very unhygienic, okay? Sometimes the menstrual belt has to be washed and reused.
Liu Meiniang went to the toilet to change the menstrual belt, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she couldn't go on like this, so Liu Meiniang slapped the table and prepared to make her own sanitary napkins.
The supermarket has been open for the past two days, and the business is good and very lively, but because there are enough people invited, Liu Meiniang basically has nothing to do, and it just so happens that they have lived here for three days, and it is time to go back.
In the afternoon of the same day, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Li returned to Liuhe Village, leaving Zhang Jihan alone here to watch the supermarket.
After returning to Liuhe Village, Liu Meiniang began to think about how to make an aunt towel, there are all kinds of aunt towels in her previous life, what instantaneous absorption, leak-proof, and herbs, instantaneous absorption and leak-proof Liu Meiniang can't do it, so try herbal medicine.
Liu Meiniang took out a large pot that was idle at home and brushed it clean, which was a pot specially used for cooking pigs when the Zhang family raised pigs before.
Liu Meiniang brushed it many times, and took boiling water to disinfect it.
Then I went to the mountains to look for materials.
The only herb Liu Meiniang knew about this was motherwort, so Liu Meiniang went straight to motherwort.
Carrying a basket on his back, he picked a large pile of motherwort. When I came back, I picked all the cotton I had at home, disposed of motherwort, cotton, and other things, and put them in the sun.
Liu Meiniang went to the mountains to find a tree, peeled off the bark, took it home and hammered it into sawdust, and then borrowed a mill from the village to crush the sawdust even more.
Motherwort was also crushed.
After doing this, Liu Meiniang really didn't know what to do, so she simply put everything into the cauldron and started cooking.
Keep adding firewood to keep them boiling.
After boiling for a whole day, and finally the contents of the pot became a sticky paste, Liu Meiniang fished them all out and poured them one by one into the model that had been made of wood before.
Then put it on the roof and wait to dry.
"Mei Niang, what are you doing here?" Zhang Li curiously went to the roof to take a look, and found that Liu Meiniang had done something strange.
"Mother, you'll know in two days." Liu Meiniang sold a pass.
"You girl, you're still selling off with me." Zhang Li said angrily.
"Hey, hey." Liu Meiniang laughed.
After two days of exposure, the sanitary napkin made by Liu Meiniang was actually formed.
Liu Meiniang took it down and took a look, it really looked like a modern sanitary napkin, but the color looked darker than the modern bleached sanitary napkin.
Liu Meiniang had to put away all these sanitary napkins, and then put them into the small basket that she had knitted a long time ago, there were two or three hundred pieces, Liu Meiniang gave Zhang Li and Zhang Tongtong some of them, and handed them how to use them.
Zhang Dandan was also very curious, and asked Liu Meiniang why she didn't give her some.
Liu Meiniang deceived Zhang Dandan with a sloppy eye.
After staying at home for several days, Liu Meiniang was ready to return to the county seat.
Zhang Jihan asked someone to bring a letter, saying that the things in the supermarket were about to be sold out, and asked Liu Meiniang to find a way to replenish them.
Liu Meiniang instantly began to have a headache, the vegetables in the vegetable garden on the mountain at home have not grown well, chickens and fish, although before that, new chickens and fish fry were caught to continue breeding, but the speed of growth is really not able to keep up.
Liu Meiniang decided to go to the village to collect vegetables. First of all, the supply of vegetables was replenished.
When the people in the village heard that Liu Meiniang was going to collect the vegetables, they came to ask what was going on.
Liu Meiniang explained to everyone.
"If you have extra vegetables at home, you can sell them to me. I recycle at the market price. After Liu Meiniang finished speaking, the people in the village rushed back to collect the family's vegetables.
"Mei Niang, can this work?" Zhang Li asked worriedly.
"Pretty much." Liu Meiniang said.
"But, in this way, isn't our family at a loss?" Although Zhang Li couldn't think of too many reasons, this simple thing could still be calculated, Liu Meiniang recycled the vegetables in the village according to the market price, and sold them according to the market price. This came and went, not only did the family not make money, but also posted a lot.
"It's like helping the villagers sell vegetables." Liu Meiniang smiled slightly.
Zhang Li didn't say anything more.
In the afternoon, Liu Meiniang collected almost a cart of vegetables, which had just been picked by the villagers from their fields, and they were still stained with soil.
Liu Meiniang and Zhang Li Zhang Tongtong, one weighed, one calculated, and the other cashiered, and they were all tired enough after a busy afternoon.
Liu Meiniang had to go to the county seat tomorrow.
As soon as Liu Meiniang pulled a cart of vegetables in, a few people came to the door.
They are Zhang Tianming, Qian's, and Zhang Peony.
"Cousin-in-law." Zhang Mudan seemed to have forgotten what happened before, and stepped forward to hold Liu Meiniang's arm enthusiastically.
"I've got dirt on me, and it's stained your clothes."
Liu Meiniang said lightly.
She just didn't like Zhang Peony being so enthusiastic, and when she saw Zhang Peony wearing a new dress, she deliberately said so. Sure enough, as soon as Liu Meiniang finished speaking, Zhang Peony let go of her hand in a daze.
"Five uncles and five aunts. What's the matter? Liu Meiniang saw Zhang Tianming pulling the dishes in the cart, but pretended not to see it. Asked on purpose.
"Mei Niang, I heard that you are collecting vegetables here, didn't I hurry up and send the vegetables over?" Qian's face was full of wrinkles with a smile.
Liu Meiniang was silent on the surface, but she had already begun to scold her mother in her heart. She wanted to know who had passed on the message to Zhang Tianming and his wife, and she was going to collect the dishes, which was decided today. If someone hadn't informed Zhang Tianming and his wife in advance, how would Zhang Tianming and his wife know that they were going to sell these vegetables in such a timely manner.
"Oh, that's right." Liu Meiniang was obviously not very interested. When she saw the dishes in the car of Zhang Tianming and his wife, her face became more and more bad. The vegetables looked wilted, as if they had been left for several days, and the leaves of the cabbage were rotten.
"Mei Niang. You look at these dishes, how much money can you give. Qian seemed to be sure that Liu Meiniang would accept her dishes.
"Fifth uncle and fifth aunt, you ...... this dish" Liu Meiniang walked to the side of the cart, picked up a cabbage and said.
"What's wrong with our dish? So fresh? Qian said loudly at the top of his voice.