"That's right, tomorrow your father and the people in the village will go to the county winery to exchange wine, 6 catties of dried sweet potatoes can be exchanged for a catty of loose wine, you will take some dried sweet potatoes over in a while, and tomorrow let your father also give you some changes, during the New Year, if your cousin and they come to the house, you can also have wine to entertain." Mother Xu suggested.

At this time, Xie Xiaonian remembered that every year during the Chinese New Year, people from several nearby communes would organize to go to the winery in the county to exchange grain for wine, and the most used grain was dried sweet potatoes.

"Okay, then I'll change to a 20-pound bar, in addition to entertaining guests, you can also cook." They don't sell cooking wine here, so during the Chinese New Year, they will use liquor to remove the smell of fish and meat.

"20 pounds is a bit much, let's only change 10 pounds!" Mother Xu was afraid that Xie Xiaonian would not know the amount of wine, so she casually said that it would be changed for 20 catties, so she reminded her loudly.

"Not much, mother, don't you always say that you have joint pain in winter, it just so happens that I dug a lot of gastrodia in the mountains some time ago, and I can make gastrodia wine for you to drink!" Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

Because Xu's mother washes clothes by the river all year round in winter, and cooks with biting cold water, the joints in her hands will hurt in winter.

"Gastrodia is so expensive, you can sell it for money, and I feel much better this year, so I don't have to waste your medicinal herbs." Although Mother Xu is not a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, she still knows the preciousness and difficulty of digging gastrodia with her back to the mountain.

"What is wasted is not wasted, as long as it can cure the disease, it is not wasted. And I am reluctant to sell such medicinal materials, so it is cost-effective to keep them for making wine or cooking at home. And Xie Xiaonian has never planned to make money by collecting medicine, and it is not as cost-effective as her hunting to earn that little money for a day.

"That day, you will come out, and we will come out of the wine, and we can't take advantage of your three rooms." Mother Xu decided.

"Mother, don't fight, I will honor you for ordering medicine and wine, how can you say that you can take advantage of it or not, isn't this what I should do, and if you continue to talk about it, you will be divided." Xie Xiaonian said coquettishly.

"Okay, well, then I won't fight with you, knowing that you are a good boy who is filial." Xu Mu said with a happy smile, and the folds on her face were squeezed together.

Mother Xu knew that Xie Xiaonian and Xu Zhongjun had brought back a lot of things from Xie Zhuang, and there was no shortage of dried sweet potatoes in their hands, so they didn't feel sorry for the food anymore and didn't let Xiao Nian change the wine.

However, although Xie Xiaonian was ready to exchange for wine, he didn't plan to use it to entertain his cousin.

She has a lot of Moutai wine, Wuliangye and Xifeng wine stored in her space, although she can't take them all out, but it's okay to take out one or two bottles to entertain her cousins, and one or two bottles for her uncle and second uncle as gifts during the New Year.

Now Moutai is 16 yuan a bottle, Wuliangye is 10 yuan a bottle, and Xifeng wine is 7 yuan a bottle, Xie Xiaonian feels that even the cheapest Xifeng wine, the eldest uncle and the second uncle are definitely reluctant to buy and drink.

And like Moutai, sometimes you can't buy it even if you have money, especially during the Chinese New Year.

After Xie Xiaonian pulled the dried sweet potatoes over in the afternoon, he saw that the eldest brother was sharpening his knife and a few pointed triangles.

"Big brother, what are you sharpening knives for, why do these look like arrows?" Xie Xiaonian asked curiously.

"Tomorrow morning, our 2nd team and the 1st and 3rd teams will go into the mountains to hunt together. Your eldest brother is also going to go, so he sharpens his knife and arrowhead, sharpens a stick, and walks on the mountain road. The sister-in-law who was in the courtyard replied.

"Hunting tomorrow, sister-in-law, are you preparing dry food for your eldest brother?" Xie Xiaonian asked.

"Yes, this is 3 days and 3 nights, and it is so cold in the mountains, so you need to prepare more dry food." Li Suxin replied.

The hunting in the village is organized by the team, and nearly 30 men will go together in their three production teams, and 2 full jobs a day are 20 points, and each person can have 60 points of work for this trip.

The team will not go to too deep places for collective hunting, at most, they can encounter a few wild boars, there is not much danger, and there are hunters in the village with shotguns to follow, so the men in the team who usually take 10 centimeters will almost go, but they can't eat and sleep well in the mountains, and they are a little guilty.

"Then by then, will we be able to get a lot of meat, will there be wild boar or something?" Xie Xiaonian asked happily.

If she could get some pheasants, hares, or wild boar, she would have an excuse to get them out later.

"If you think it's beautiful, you can hunt little pheasants, hares, and silly roe deer, like big deer and wild boars, which are hard to come by. And the big guys are usually in groups, and it's too late to run, who dares to fight, unless they can run into a lonely. And most of the things you hunt have to be handed over to support national construction, and in the end, each family can also share a pheasant or hare, maybe not as much prey as you. Xu Mu said with a smile.

Xie Xiaonian listened to her mother-in-law's words and thought to herself, okay, she took it for granted.

But she was not disappointed, there is a pheasant and a hare, it is better than nothing.

"By the way, third brother and sister, do you still have rope sleeves up and down the mountain, if you have, go and take it back in the afternoon, I see that many people have gone up the mountain to fill the trap in the morning, I am afraid that they will be seen by the cadres tomorrow." Xu Zhongming, who was silent, said suddenly.

"It's a cold day, what to receive, see it, see it, who knows whose it is." Mother Xu didn't want to thank Xiaonian for being affected by the winter, so she said directly.

"Am I not afraid of prey!" Xu Zhongming whispered his defense.

"That's right, then you should go and see, you can't be cheap outsiders." Mother Xu also felt that what Xu Zhongming said made sense at this time, after all, Xiao Nian could catch a prey in 3 or 5 days.

"Well, then I'll go to the mountains now, it's still early." Anyway, Xie Xiaonian has nothing to do, so let's go to the mountain to have a look.

When Xie Xiaonian went up the mountain, he found that, as the eldest brother said, the traps and ropes of the villagers were almost gone.

It seems that all of them are experienced veterans, and they have taken everything away early, and they have also responded to the sentence that there are policies and countermeasures.

Although Xie Xiaonian chose a better position, she still didn't catch any prey in the past two days, but she was used to it, and she didn't care, so she stepped forward directly to collect the rope sleeves, and the traps dug were also filled with dead branches and leaves.

Because there were more people going up the mountain today, Xie Xiaonian didn't take the prey out of the space, so he went down the mountain empty-handed, without even digging up the herbs.

Because years ago, there would be hunting teams entering the mountain one after another, so Xie Xiaonian decided not to go up the mountain again before the year, and the hunting thing will be talked about until the spring of next year.

Early the next morning, Xie Xiaonian was woken up by the noisy sound on the road outside.

After Xie Xiaonian went out, he saw a group of people on the road holding hunting tools and preparing to go up the mountain.

And the eldest brother Xu Zhongming was also among them, and I saw that he had two full hands, one holding a machete, the other holding a wooden stick, and carrying a bow and arrows and a cloth bag containing dry food on his back.

And in the team, there are two people with shotguns on their backs, who seem to be the hunters of the village.

The men who went hunting were all in high spirits at this time, eager to try to hunt a lot of prey and come back.

The family members followed behind with a worried face, although there were no major incidents during the hunting in previous years, and at most they suffered some minor injuries, but after all, the mountains were dangerous, and it was impossible for the family not to worry.

And the children, who are not yet sensible, are jumping up and down one by one, shouting excitedly that they want to eat meat.

"Sister-in-law, it's only dawning this day, big brother, they're going up the mountain!" Xie Xiaonian saw the sister-in-law in the send-off procession, and stepped forward to ask suspiciously.

"Well, I usually set off at this time, and when it is dawn, I can just walk into the mountains, and your eldest brother said that in the early morning, the animals will come out to move, and they can hunt directly." The sister-in-law replied.

Because the family members would send the team to the foot of the mountain and then go home, Xie Xiaonian did not follow.

After the hunting team left, Xu's father also went to the county in an ox cart with the people in the village to exchange wine.

And Li Suxin also had to go to the dyeing factory in the neighboring commune with the people in the village to dye cloth.

The family has little cotton, and with the thread spun last year, her family has only woven two pieces of cloth.

Because Xu's mother sent a message in advance, saying that this year's cloth will not be sold, and after dyeing, she will make a new dress for everyone in the family, so Li Suxin walked on the road, feeling that her steps were very brisk, and she was less worried about her husband.

Their family hasn't made new clothes for 3 years, can you not be happy?

At this time, the clothes are all new for three years and three years old, and sewing and mending for another three years, so for most people, it is not easy to make a new dress.

And here, Xie Xiaonian had nothing to do after breakfast, and remembered that he bought a lot of vinegar yesterday, so he was going to marinate some laba garlic in the space.

Since Xu Zhongjun likes to eat dumplings, he should also like to eat laba garlic, and he can send him some when he has the opportunity.

Because the children of the sister-in-law's family had a winter vacation yesterday, after Xie Xiaonian finished pickling laba garlic, he was going to make some mung bean cake and send it to a few children.

Although there are mung bean cakes made before in the space, they are all made of homemade sugar, and although they taste good, the color is not right, so Xie Xiaonian still decided to remake it with white sugar.

Just do it, Xie Xiaonian picked about 10 catties of mung beans and soaked them in a basin.

After soaking in the space for about 10 hours, Xie Xiaonian took the mung beans out of the space, rubbed off all the wrinkled mung bean skin with his hands, and then put the peeled mung beans on the steamer and steamed them on high heat for about 15 minutes.

After steaming, crush the mung beans into mung bean puree with a spoon, add sugar, stir well, and then set the shape.

Because there is no mold, the mung bean cake made by Xie Xiaonian is about 3 cm thick.

After Xie Xiaonian tasted it, he found that it was indeed better than that made with sucrose, and the color was much better.

Because in order to have cooking smoke, Xie Xiaonian made it in the kitchen at home, so by the time Xie Xiaonian made it, it was almost noon.

There were about 20 of them on a plate, and Xie Xiaonian used the basket to walk towards his sister-in-law's house.

Because it was already a holiday, when Xie Xiaonian arrived, the children of the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law were all playing together.

As soon as they saw Xie Xiaonian coming, the Wei family hurriedly trotted in front of Xie Xiaonian and said, "Auntie, are you bringing me delicious food again, I want to eat, I want to eat." After speaking, he looked at Xie Xiaonian with a blank look.

As soon as Xie Xiaonian saw his greedy cat, he felt that his heart melted, so he said with a smile: "Go home and wash your hands before I can give it to you!" ”

As soon as the children of Xu Wei's family heard that they could eat after washing their hands, they stopped playing, and immediately ran home.

The other children also went into the yard to wash their hands.

Xu Lanhua, who was only taking care of her younger siblings on the side, was embarrassed to run home, and stood aside, after all, she was a big girl, and she was a little embarrassed to be too greedy.

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