After returning from the town, Lian Qingshan discussed with Cui'er, and kept five taels of silver for the ten taels of silver obtained from the sale of five wolf skins, and the remaining five taels were taken to the house of the village chief Lian Jiu's uncle, hoping that the village chief would send it to the villagers who came to help him fight wolves at that time.

The village chief saw that Lian Qingshan not only distributed the wolf meat to the villagers, but also sold it to the village after cleaning up the wolf skin, and nodded secretly in his heart, feeling that Lian Qingshan was very kind, and nodded with a smile to accept the matter of distributing the money, and praised Lian Qingshan for a while.

Even when Qingshan was busy outside, Cui'er was not idle at home, locked the gate, and took the big girl and the little tiger to sit under the shade of the tree in the yard, cleaning up the tender cowpeas picked from the vegetable garden in the morning.

"Mother, let's eat cowpeas at noon?" The big girl looked at the sky and it was still early, but Cui'er picked a big pot of cowpeas, blinked her eyes in confusion, and kept helping Cui'er clean up the cowpeas, but because she was small and unfamiliar, the movements of her little fingers were slow and cute.

"Big girl, look at these cowpeas, can we finish eating them ourselves?" Cui'er looked at the big girl with a smile and asked.

"Hmm......" When the big girl heard this, she looked down at the cowpeas in her hand seriously, and then looked at the pot, a large handful of cowpeas that were as thick as her thighs, and frowned slightly, "It seems to ...... I can't finish eating. ”

"I can't finish eating!" Little Tiger staggered over, glanced at the basin, and then replied loudly, and then as if he thought it was funny, he giggled, and threw himself into Cui'er's arms to be coquettish.

"Yes, these cowpeas, my mother will set aside some to fry at noon, and the rest, my mother will dry some of the dried vegetables, and then try to see if I can pickle the capers." Cui'er said with a smile, reaching out and touching Xiaohu's heart. He said after a loud kiss on the face.

"What are capers?" Xiaohu had a puzzled expression on his face, tilting his head to look at Cui'er, and the same expression appeared on the girl's face. However, in addition to doubts, there was more expectation on the faces of the two. Because Cui'er can always make delicious things, the two little ones are also looking forward to this capers.

"Capers are a kind of side dish, and you can eat more sour with rice, and you will know when your mother makes it." Cui'er said with a smile to the two little pot friends who were full of expectations, and recalled the method of capers in her heart, and then took the picked bean pots and walked to the kitchen.

Cui'er accidentally found out when she was exchanging cooking skills with Aunt Lu and Aunt Chunzhu. They don't know how to pickle other vegetables except for miso sauce, and even sauerkraut, which is indispensable in the north in winter, has never appeared here.

Knowing this situation, I don't know if it's because summer has arrived. In the past month, she has always had no appetite for eating, and Cui'er's heart remembered all kinds of hors d'oeuvres she had eaten in her previous life, such as sauerkraut, pickled potatoes, pickled eggplant, pickled cucumbers, capers, sour bamboo shoots, spicy cabbage, radish strips, etc., thinking about it, I felt a great appetite, and I couldn't wait to eat it immediately.

Because of this. Cui'er started experimenting, starting with pickles that consume less time, and then she has to use cowpeas to make capers today.

Cui'er washed the cowpeas, cut them into inch-long pieces, and threw half of them into the boiling hot water to cook them. It is prepared to be dried into vegetables, first blanched and sterilized, and then dried to make it easier to preserve.

Taking advantage of this effort, Cui'er put the other half of the cowpeas in the basket, spread them out and put them on the rack in the backyard that Lian Qingshan helped her set up to dry the vegetables. These are ready to be pickled later, just dry the water on the top and marinate again.

After Cui'er dried the raw beans, the blanched beans had already changed color, so she scooped up the beans with a fence and drained the water, and Cui'er spread the beans on the basket and hung them outside.

The weather in summer is very hot, when the next day, the cowpeas that have not been blanched in the afternoon have been slightly wilted, Cui'er took the cowpeas into the kitchen, put the beans into the prepared small jar, and put some salt, then poured the pepper water that had been burned and cooled in the morning into the jar, and the cowpeas were gone.

After putting all kinds of raw materials, Cui'er sealed the small jar in her hand with a cloth, afraid that the mouth of the jar would not be sealed well, so Cui'er also smeared a little mud on the cloth that sealed the jar, just like a mud seal for storing wine.

After finishing these, it was already afternoon, the big girl and Xiaohu were lying on the kang in the west house to take a nap, and Cui'er was sitting on the kang in the east house, and she was also a little sleepy and lazy.

Looking at the sun outside is still very dazzling, but the temperature is not very high, listening to the insects outside, Cui'er feels lazy, she lies on the kang and looks at the blue sky with white clouds floating outside, Cui'er stretched out her hand, with her fingers to depict the clouds like cotton balls, the palm of her hand slightly blocked the sunlight shining on herself, looking at the light leaking from her fingertips, Cui'er had a faint smile on her face, and suddenly felt that the days were very comfortable.

"By the way, cotton, I still have winter clothes and quilts to make!" Cui'er suddenly remembered the big bag of cotton she bought in the town, as well as all kinds of fabrics, the children have grown up, and they will have new clothes for the winter and New Year, and their own families have already moved, and the thick new bedding is indispensable.

As soon as Cui'er had a job in her heart, she also got up with her spirits, and excitedly took out the materials she bought from the kang cabinet, as well as the rulers she bought before and Huang's sister-in-law, and rummaged through them to see those clothes suitable for making winter for children.

Cui'er first found a navy blue cotton cloth, this cloth is thick, the color is also good, for Lian Qingshan to make a new cotton jacket, dirt-resistant and strong, Cui'er liked it very much, put the cotton cloth aside.

Looking at these materials, Cui'er picked out a piece of foundation and safflower material, which looks very festive, and makes a cotton skirt for the big girl, which must be good to wear during the New Year. Then he picked a piece of red Fu material to make a new set of clothes for Xiaohu, and he picked a piece of light purple cotton cloth and prepared to make a jacket skirt.

After thinking about this matter of making clothes, Cui'er took out the newly bought quilt again, the white cotton quilt lining, the brightly colored large flower quilt surface, Cui'er felt very comfortable when she looked at it, and took a cotton cloth for the bed with a smile and walked to the backyard. (Pingnan Literature Network)

Although the cotton cloth of ancient times was environmentally friendly and healthy. But there is one of the most annoying places, that is, shrinkage. When the cotton cloth is watered, it must shrink a few points, and the material used to make new clothes will be cut if it is not washed. If it's just right for cutting, then after washing a stubble, it's another size when it comes back, and it's not good to wear it tight on the body.

Cui'er was afraid that she wouldn't be able to grasp the proportion of cotton shrinkage, so she simply washed the cotton cloth before using it, and the shrinkage was also counted, the first time she shrank the most, and then wash it later, it would be better, Cui'er thought. Wash all the fabrics that are made into quilts, and then make them into quilts, so you don't have to worry too much about shrinkage in the future.

Just do it, when Lian Qingshan came back from the tea mountain, he saw Cui'er working hard next to the pool alone. Compared with the big quilt, the small body can be slender.

"Cui'er, if you want to wash this large piece of clothes, leave it to me, don't be tired." Lian Qingshan said softly to Cui'er, snatching the quilt from Cui'er's hand, "What do you say?" You speak, I'll do it. ”

"Good!" Cui'er rinsed the quilt for a while, feeling very tired, and since even Qingshan took the initiative to take it, she was happy to relax, and told Lian Qingshan how to rinse. He stood aside and gasped for breath.

Even Qingshan is worthy of being an old worker, and his health is very good, and after a while, he went through all the fabrics used in the quilt, wrung out the water vigorously, and stretched the noodles with Cui'er to smooth out. Only then did the dough hang on a rope that had been improvised in the backyard.

At this time, the big girl and the little tiger also took a nap, looking at the colorful quilt hanging in their backyard, very happy, the two ran back and forth in front of the quilt, hiding from cats or something, and had a lot of fun.

In summer, the weather is hot, the air is very dry, and at night, the quilt noodles have been dried, and Cui'er carefully flattens and folds the quilts, ready to take advantage of the efforts of the past few days to make the quilt well.

Early the next morning, Lian Qingshan took the big girl and the little tiger up the mountain to play, Cui'er saw that the house was very clean, so she neatly spread the white cloth used for the lining on the kang surface, and then took out some of the big bags of cotton, and tore the cotton into a pile about one inch wide and two inches long, and stored it on the quilt little by little.

It is said that the more evenly and delicately the cotton wool is torn, the warmer the quilt will be, although Cui'er feels that this work is too cumbersome, but in order for the people at home to live a comfortable winter, she still stores cotton little by little.

When she was storing cotton here, Cui'er suddenly heard movement outside, listened attentively, and only heard Aunt Lu's voice, "Cui'er, are you at home?" I'm coming! ”

When Cui'er heard this, she hurriedly got off the kang and went out to open the door, and sure enough, she saw Aunt Lu leading two flower branches, standing at the door and waving at herself.

"Auntie, come in, I'm still thinking that you should come over in the next two days, and you're really here!" Cui'er let Aunt Lu and Huazhi in as she spoke, and then said to them, "You see I'm still going to make a quilt, and the house hasn't been cleaned up, so you can see and laugh." ”

"Making quilts? It just so happened that our mother and sister came here to help you. Aunt Lu saw that Cui'er was busy working, and she didn't wait for Cui'er to excuse herself, so she pulled the flower branch to the edge of the kang, reached out and took out the cotton from the cotton bag, and stored it carefully on the quilt.

"I'll help you with the quilt." Aunt Lu looked at Cui'er's meticulous movements, but she was still very rusty, said with a smile, and said to the flower branch on the side, "I'll borrow your sister-in-law's place to tell you about it, and when you get to your mother-in-law's house in the future, you can do it yourself." As she spoke, Aunt Lu pulled out a big needle for the quilt from the thread board, threaded the thread, and picked up the quilt thinly.

Cui'er was not polite to her, while observing Aunt Lu's technique, she was walking on the quilt at the other end, although she was not as fast as Aunt Lu's handle, her movements were also decent, and in less than half an hour, the two of them finished the quilt.

"Okay, I think you're doing a good job with this quilt, let's go make sauce cubes, this thing is tiring and tight, and there are not a few more people who can't do it." Aunt Lu helped Cui'er fold the quilt and said with a smile.

"I'm just waiting for you to give me advice, I really won't get this big sauce!" Cui'er pretended to have a bitter look on her face and said coquettishly to Aunt Lu.

"Okay, let's make the miso cubes!" Aunt Lu laughed and took Cui'er and Huazhi to the kitchen.