Chapter 139: Fishing in Troubled Waters
They were cutting things in the front yard, and Jiang Xi went to the kitchen in the backyard, and at this time, Erzhu's daughter-in-law and the Li family were already boiling water here.
Jiang Xi made canned food herself in her last life, and some people prefer to make it with boiled sugar water, but she has her own knack, and canned food made without sugar water is not only delicious, but also has a long storage time.
"Lianzi, you send someone to the town to ask, just say let him give us some clay pots first, I have an urgent need here."
After the lotus seed left, Jiang Xi looked at the Li family's side, a large pot, and the water in the pot should be boiling for a while.
"Xi'er, what is the method you are talking about, why do you have to peel the skin of the peach? Isn't that even more unacceptable? Once this skin is peeled, it will be bad if you don't eat it on the same day, how can you save it? ”
Li's question is actually Li Chuncheng's doubt, but Li Chuncheng chose to believe Jiangxi and didn't ask.
These fruits, piled up at home, are also going to be bad, anyway, let's get them with the river.
"Mother, I naturally have my own method, you boil the water first, and when the jar comes back, it will be scalded with boiling water, and then the jar will be dried, and you can add peaches to it."
Erzhu's daughter-in-law also said: "Madam, don't worry, this girl has an idea and is a smart person." ”
The women in the village outside had already peeled a lot of peaches, Yuan Xiu and Liu Heng were counting the peaches each person had peeled with a notebook, and asked the long-term worker to take the peeled peaches, cut them into small pieces and wash them with water.
After a while, Lianzi returned from the town with the family's long-term worker, and one person still held several jars in his hands.
After scalding the jar with boiling water, and drying the water in the jar, Jiangxi, together with the lotus seed and the tiger seed, put the washed small pieces of peaches into the pottery jar.
"Don't fill this up, remember to fill it up to eight or nine points. Then put in the boiling water that has been cold just now, and put some sugar in it, don't put less sugar, just put it like me. ”
After Lianzi looked at Jiangxi's jar, he learned to get it himself, and showed it to Jiangxi, who glanced at it and nodded.
"Yes, that's right."
The people outside peeled the skin, the long-term workers at home cut and cleaned it, the Li family and Erzhu's daughter-in-law boiled water, and the few of them were busy filling cans in Jiangxi.
Before I knew it, a day had passed, and the peaches that Li Chuncheng had brought were no longer dressed up.
In the evening, Jiang Xi and Yuan Xiu settled the accounts and took copper plates for everyone.
There are many integers that are not 20, and those that are extra are like seventeen or eighteen, and the rivers are directly counted as twenty, and those below fifteen, she will ask people to come over tomorrow and make up a whole.
After everyone in the village left, Li Chuncheng finally asked the question he wanted to ask the most that day.
"Niece, is this thing okay after it is canned? I see, it won't be long before it breaks down. ”
The corners of Jiang Xi's mouth hooked, "Of course it's not that simple, there is still a very important process, but everyone is there during the day, so it's not easy for me to do it." Now that only my own family can make it public, you can come with me to the kitchen and bring in all those jars. ”
The long-term workers in the family did so, and when the jars were brought in, Jiangxi let the long-term workers leave the kitchen, leaving only a few reliable people.
"Mother, do we have that kind of big steaming grid in our house?"
"Yes, I'll bring it to you here."
Li Shi took off a large steaming grid and let Jiang Xi look at it twice, and Jiang Xi nodded.
"Okay, that's it. Mother, you put it in the pot, and then take the small jars and steam them one by one, about six or seven minutes. Be careful not to cover the lid too tightly when steaming. ”
These jars are all very small, and Jiang Xi specially selected them in the pottery shop.
Li didn't understand what Jiang Xi asked her to do this, but she only knew to do what Jiang Xi said.
After a while, the first batch of cans came out, and after waiting for another two minutes, Jiang Xi removed the lid of the pot and twisted the lid of the can violently to make sure that it was tightened and no air could leak in.
Jiangxi didn't let others move, this is an important step, whether it can be preserved for a long time depends on this.
Nowadays, there is no such thing as vacuuming, and it can only be achieved by the pressure generated by steam.
There are hundreds of jars in total, and several pots in Jiangxi's house are used to make this thing, and the family, as well as Chang Shun and Erzhu, have been busy for most of the night before they can be regarded as making cans.
After staying up until the middle of the night, Jiang Xi finally couldn't help but fall asleep, as for when the Li family slept with them, she didn't know later.
Anyway, when I woke up in the morning, the cans were all ready.
She went to check them one by one, and all of them were seamless, and none of them would be discouraged.
The next day, the village women who were helping to peel the peaches came again, and since there were not many peaches left, they were all peeled by noon.
In the afternoon, the Li family was busy making canned food.
In the same way, there are only a few trustworthy people in the kitchen, and the rest are arranged to work outside.
Jiang Xi was watching the canning in the kitchen, and suddenly felt a little thirsty, so he asked the lotus seeds to go out and pour a few glasses of water.
When Lianzi came back, leaned on her ear and whispered a few words, and Jiangxi's face changed.
"I'll go out and have a look."
Jiang Xi came out of the kitchen, led Xiaohu by the way, and went straight to the front yard.
After sweeping around the yard, finally my eyes fell on the cellar.
"When you came out just now, he was still hanging out here? Didn't see you, did you? ”
"No, I just found out that he didn't look right, sneaky, so I hurried over and told the girl that he shouldn't have noticed me."
Jiang Xi's eyes narrowed, and sure enough, some people still couldn't resist the temptation outside, and ran to the cellar while their family was making canned food.
"He must have just gone down and hasn't found our part of the wine yet. Let's go down and have a look! ”
Holding Xiaohu, Lianzi was not afraid to follow Jiang Xi.
Slowly opened the door of the cellar, because a long-term worker accidentally broke a board two days ago, so the lock became useless, and Jiangxi didn't have time to call someone to change, so there was a matter of someone taking advantage of their unpreparedness to go down to the cellar today.
"Girl, you want to get off the ......" A long worker happened to come from outside, and when he saw the movements of Jiangxi and Lotus Seed, he spoke directly.
"Shh Renzi immediately made a silent gesture to him.
Changgong was stunned for a moment, he thought that the girl was going down to get something, how did he look like it was sneaky.
No matter, anyway, this is also the girl's home, and the girl is guilty of stealing something, so the long-term worker will go back to do her own thing.
Xiaohu is also smart, he was led by Jiangxi, and he didn't scream out in a daze.
The three of them slowly descended from the cellar door and followed the dirt ladder all the way to the bottom.
The cellar of the Jiangxi family, except for the hidden place, was a large room, and as soon as they came, they saw at a glance the long worker who was facing away from them and was distressed.
"Isn't this wine in the cellar? Where the hell did it go. ”
He was very anxious, today the girls and they all went to get that canned food, he felt that it was simply nothing to look for, after the skin of that thing was sold, it would only be more impossible to put it, and it was estimated that it would be broken in less than two days.
However, it was also a good thing, as it happened to give him a chance to come down here and secretly spice up the wine.
The Chen family said that as long as the Jiang family's wine could not be sold and became a waste wine, they would give him a tael of silver. If he can get the formula and give it to the Chen family, then he can get twenty taels of silver.
Now it is difficult to get twenty taels of silver, and the Jiang family doesn't give him this opportunity, he can always get one or two pieces of silver.
"It's weird, where the hell is it." If he didn't find it soon, he was really worried that someone would find out.
As he spoke, he turned his head, intending to look for it in the back, and his jaw almost dropped when he turned around.
"Auntie...... Aunt...... Girl. ”
"What aunt, our girl is not that old, you are honest, what are you doing down here!" Lianzi stood in front and shouted loudly, quite stance.
"I'......," the man swallowed, wondering how he had been so unlucky. I came down to look for something. ”
"What are you looking for! It can't be wine, right? ”
"Surely it can't be, what am I going to do with wine, I'm just going down and getting something. Girl, if you have something to do, I'll go up first. With that, the man planned to pass by Jiang Xi and leave.
Jiang Xi's eyes narrowed, let go of the rope holding Xiaohu in his hand, and mocked: "So you want to leave?" ”
As soon as the words fell, Xiaohu jumped and directly knocked down the man, and his sharp teeth were directly aimed at the man's neck.
A thin layer of sweat suddenly secreted from the man's head, and the breath of death echoed around him, and for the first time, he felt that he was so close to death, as long as Xiaohu got a little closer, he would die in one bite.
"Girl, girl, please spare me, girl, I beg you!"
He was afraid, completely afraid, no matter how much money he had in front of his life, it seemed so weak, he didn't dare to gamble at all, he didn't dare to gamble on Jiang Xi, who didn't know in this family, Jiang Xi was the most thoughtful, and he was also the most afraid of things.
If it was the Li family or the old man who was here today, maybe he would dare to gamble, but this is Jiangxi, he doesn't dare.
"Spare you?" Jiang Xi sneered, "You lied to me, how do you want me to spare you, you see, even Xiaohu can't stand it, he wants to bite your neck and drink blood." ”
"Girl~mother~" The voice was already trembling, he was really afraid, he felt that if he didn't tell the truth, he would really die here, "I said, I said, I came down to look for wine, and someone asked me to come over and add some ingredients to it, so that your grape trellis can't be sold." Girl, I beg you, let me go, I don't dare anymore, I really don't dare! ”
"Oh? Someone? Who this person is. ”
"This ......"
Jiang Xi raised his eyebrows, "You don't say it?" ”
"Nope! I said, I said, it's the Chen family, it's the Chen family who asked me to come! ”
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