Chapter 13: Persecution

The garden of the Wang family is outside the town, planted with rape and jujube trees, and no one lives in it, otherwise this fishy smell can smoke people to death.

More than a hundred mountain rats, all of them fat and big, looked at Wen Jin with joy: "Hehe, come a few more times, we can all make mountain rat skin clothes." ”

Dashan heard it, and ran over to ask Wen Jin: "Then you say, this wild boar skin is thick and hard, what can you do?" ”

"Make leather shoes."

The crowd was amazed, they had never worn leather shoes at all, and they had never seen how to do it.

Wen Jin hasn't done it before, let alone seen it, but isn't that what happened? Although pigskin shoes are easy to wrinkle, they are stronger than those sewn out of cloth, right?

They climb the mountain especially for shoes, the second aunt often stays up late, half a night and half a night without sleeping, and the sound of "snorting" pulling ropes in the room makes Wen Jin often wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep.

When Wen Jin went home, he was carrying a wild boar leg and a pair of internal organs, which scared Weiss a lot.

"Uncle Dashan gave it."

"How can you take something from someone else?"

"Second aunt, I ordered this set with him, and I should have shared it with me. Don't worry, I'm measured. ”

Wen Jin's reputation outside is getting better and better, and her status at home is getting higher and higher, and Wei gradually takes her words seriously.

"The meat is frozen, let's make dumplings for the New Year, and the bones will be stewed in soup tomorrow." Wen Jin said as she pondered what to do with the pile of pork belly.

Thinking of the spicy fat sausage, Wen Jin was so hungry that she covered her nose, tied it tightly behind her head, and carried things in a basket to the stream.

It was cold and frozen, and the stream was covered with a thick layer of ice, but fortunately there was a hole dug in it for washing.

Wen Jin used a small bucket to hang the water, on the edge of the stream, washed the dirty things, then took it home, boiled hot water, put alkaline soil, put the water in and rubbed it vigorously, soaked it several times in a row, saw no strange smell, and then stopped, finally, drained the water, sprinkled with flour to absorb the odor, and finally scraped off the flour, cleaned, this is the completion.

Wen Jin soaked some sun-dried small bamboo shoots, and in the evening, tried to fry dried bamboo shoots and fat intestines.

"Hey, this kid, he takes everything and stuffs it in his mouth." Webster frowned, looking at the fragrant fried fat sausage with a look of disgust.

Wen Jin clamped a chopstick for her aunt, and then clamped it for Wen Han, and then filled her mouth: "It's delicious!" ”

Wen Han tried to put it in his mouth and bit it, and then he buried his head in chewing, and he couldn't say anything, seeing that his mother was still stunned, he swallowed the one in his mouth, and then persuaded: "It's delicious, mother, it's more fragrant than the fat slices when I repaired the house last time." "It's been more than a month since the house was repaired, and Wen Han still can't forget the smell of meat.

Webster was skeptical, took a small sip, his eyes widened like a bell, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses: "Oh, why is it so delicious?" She looked at Wen Jin and smiled embarrassedly, "This is much more fragrant than the dumplings for the New Year." ”

"Second aunt, let's eat, there's more, you said it's delicious, let's freeze some and put it for the New Year." The second uncle came back and let him taste my handiwork. ”

"This kid has never cooked, why does he know how to stir-fry?"

"What's so hard about that? I see you fry every day. After a few months of running-in, Wen Jin became more and more natural in front of Webster, and these coping words came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Mother, my brother is smart, he can come up with anything and do it." Wen Han also defended his younger brother.

With such an elder brother, Wen Jin will not let people catch it if he accidentally reveals his fox tail.

"yes, yes!" No matter how reserved Wei Shi is, there are occasional gaffes, she is confused by the rich fragrance, I saw her half-squinting, holding the meat sausage in her mouth, and slowly tasting it, that look of enjoyment, Wen Jin has never seen it.

Good things have to be shared with others, Wen Jin sent a bowl of fried large intestines to Wang Dashan's house the next day, and Aunt Dashan had to return Wen Jin with a bowl of wheat kernels as a return gift.

Da Shanbo really trusted Wen Jin, and he really sent the wild boar skin to be cooked.

Looking at the thick dundun skin, Wen Jin was also stupid, only to remember that the leatherman of this era would not cut the skin out of many layers at all, what should I do?

Wen Jin thought about it again and again, drew his footprints on it, cut out a pair of soles, and then padded the soles made of cotton cloth on them, used the linings of the upper with mouseleskin, and made the noodles with fine green cloth on the outside, and pondered with Tie Shan for two days to sew out a pair of shoes.

I originally wanted the second aunt to make shoes, but the leather was thick and tight, and it was difficult for Webster to pierce it with an awl.

Wen Jin stuffed his feet into his shoes and walked back and forth, and several men looked at him with hopeful eyes: "How is it?" ”

"Oh, not to mention how warm it is, that's great!" Wen Jin said, regretting it in her heart, why didn't she design high-waisted boots? Just a pair of lint shoes, she is not satisfied.

The enthusiasm of the Wang brothers is very high, there are many men in their family, and they rush to the mountains every day, forcing women to often make shoes all night, and their eyes are red, if they can have a pair of warm and strong shoes, it would be great.

Wang Tieshan concocted it in the same way, and in two days, he first made a pair for himself, and several of them were about the same size, so they all put them on and tried them on.

"It's so warm, it's just very heavy." Baoshan Road.

"What are you afraid of? It's good to be firm and warm. Dashan waved his hand, "Tieshan, don't do anything these days, specialize in making shoes, come from the family one by one, our second aunt and third aunt and your sister-in-law can sleep well." ”

Wen Jin smelled the business opportunity, and thought about it every day, how to make this leather shoes into an industry, she didn't plan to take this industry from the Wang family to herself, her friend made a fortune, and she was happy, right? The Wang family has helped her too much, and she should have some favors.

It's a pity that her business plan has several fatal flaws, the first of which is that the source of leather is limited.

The dynasty she is in, what is it called Jurong, the emperor is also surnamed Qian, the founding of the country has gone through three generations, it is the time when the four seas are safe, the country is rich and the people are strong. The only regret is that it has been repeatedly harassed by ethnic minorities in the north and west.

These have nothing to do with Wen Jin for the time being, the only thing that is related is that cattle are not allowed to be killed!

She couldn't make cowhide shoes.

Wen Jin had no choice but to keep his eyes on the sheepskin, but unfortunately this one was versatile and expensive.

On this day, Wen Jin followed Da Shanbo back from the mountain, ran home happily, caught a lot of mountain mice, and hunted a few hares, she was full of love, ready to share with Brother Wen Han, but saw Wei's eyes red, obviously crying.

"What's the matter, second aunt?"

"Don't worry about the adult's business."

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Wen Jin had no choice but to stop asking and ran to Da Shanbo's garden to deal with the prey.

Unexpectedly, on the morning of the third day, the second uncle hurried back, and it seemed that the situation was much more serious than she imagined.

Also, Webster is so generous that he can cry, things must not be simple.

The second uncle and the second aunt muttered in the house for a while, then hurried out and went to the next door.

After the house was repaired, the sound insulation effect was very good, Wen Jin couldn't eavesdrop a word, and she was so anxious that she scratched her ears and cheeks.

After a while, the second uncle and the uncle quarreled, and the matter soon became known, and the uncle exchanged the twelve acres of land under the name of the second room with his uncle Yang Zhangwa's family.

"Shanwa has a strength, can work, the house is good, you don't have to live in this broken grass house when you move over, Shanwa said, he has saved enough rafters over the years, a little more money, you can build a brick house, I am for your good." Old Jiao's Zhenzhen has words.

Uncle Qian Xiangui followed behind in fear, and kept persuading: "Second brother, listen to me, my aunt sighs and feels uncomfortable at home all day because of your difficult life, you can't pick your shoulders, you can't lift your hands, you can't farm, and you don't have anything to make a living. ”

The second uncle was clumsy, he often said the beginning, but was interrupted by Lao Jiao's or Qian Xiangui, so angry that his hands trembled, and he quarreled for a long time, and he didn't say anything reasonable.

Wen Jin didn't know why, and she followed in vain, so she couldn't interject, so she simply pulled Erbo back and asked clearly before she could take care of it.

"Second uncle, since it's under our house, it's related to me, you can't hide it from me."

The second uncle and the second aunt glanced at each other.

"My father is not at home, and my family is not empty, you are not separated from him now, but since you are brothers, sooner or later there will be such a day, yours is mine, I have the right to know."

When Wen Han saw Wen Jin coming over, he also followed, his little fists clenched tightly, even if he didn't understand the whole thing, he knew a little bit: Why did the person next door change the land without the consent of the other person?

"Your uncle and ancestor still have a little money, built a big house, there are more than a dozen acres of good land, plus close to the mountain, raised a lot of sheep, but to his generation, good food and lazy to do, sheep sold for sale, dead dead, the land is not good to plant, a few years ago the torrent down, half of the land was washed, other people's families have found a way to drain the water, pick up the soil, replant the crops, his family is still a puddle, every year the rain irrigates it, more and more unable to plant, his family in the past few years, three days a big noise, two days a small quarrel, both of them are lazy to do the master, This blames that, that blames this. ”

The second aunt finally spoke, the woman's family, wordy, and unfocused, but let Wen Jin hear the clue of the matter.

"That day, our family cleaned up the house and used the straw, I went to tell my aunt, she asked me this question, I refused at the moment, we don't embezzle, but these more than ten acres of land, and half of the third brother, the third brother is gone, no matter what, we have to defend for Wen Jin, Wen Jin is a few years old, what does he rely on to support his daughter-in-law and children? My aunt grabbed the bed-sweeping broom and smashed it on my back, scolding me for learning badly and disobeying her. The second uncle also had a time when he was angry, his slender eyes were round, and the green tendons on his cheeks were bulging.

Wen Jin remembered that day, when her aunt came back, her face turned pale, it turned out that this matter, the next door saw that the discussion could not succeed, so she used this method to force this side to comply.