The days fly by, in a blink of an eye into May, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the willow leaves have long been green to dark, and people are tired of wearing single shirts.

Previously, Lily gave her father the idea to sell things like bamboo baskets and bamboo plaques in the market, and he made more than 30 yuan in one day, and Li Mingjiang was already very satisfied.

Lily paid twenty yuan for him, and said to him, "Dad, when I was a child, you used to make some gnather cages for me to play, can you still make them now?"

Li Mingjiang said: "What's so difficult, I can make up a few in a while, what, whose doll are you going to play with?"

Lily smiled and said, "Can't it be that I want to play by myself?"

Li Mingjiang said: "You are all a person who is a daughter-in-law for other people, how can you still think about playing all day long." Lily smiled, knowing that his father was an honest man, and no longer teasing him, telling him his plan: "Dad, you weave those little baskets for me in front of you, adults and dolls like them, and little dolls especially love them." I thought about the gnats you made up for me when I was a kid, and they looked good, and you made some of the next set

Bring it on, and someone will like it. ”

Li Mingjiang listened to his daughter's money, and he had some meaning of obedience to the lily, plus there were Lamei and Qingsong looking at the lily with admiration on the side, which increased the persuasiveness, he nodded again and again, and went back to make some gnatwood cages.

He split the bamboo silk very finely, not only to make a small cage, but also to weave a vivid grasshopper or grasshopper on the lid of the cage, which is rare and tight.

After he is done, he will send two to Lily to play, the eldest daughter is married, and it is very hard to be a daughter-in-law, if she wants to play, she will play quietly, but don't show the eldest aunt to see it, otherwise she will say that she is not like words.

Lily received the gnatwood cage brought by her father, who was amused, and thanked him for his fatherly heart, and asked someone to bring half a catty of brown sugar home, and asked them to make their own brown sugar water to drink.

When she turned around, she gave a gnatwood cage to Aunt Sheng, and Aunt Sheng understood her meaning without saying anything, and transferred it to the little young master of Liufu, who couldn't pull it out when he saw it, and he held the cage when he slept.

The little young master also asked someone to catch him and put it up, through the gap in the cage, you can see that there is an emerald green grasshopper scurrying around, and an emerald green bamboo grasshopper on the outer lid is trembling, which is very interesting.

Even Master Liu appreciated it once, saying, "It's a bit wild, vulgar and elegant." ”

The little young master of Liufu doesn't go out much on weekdays, but only plays in the front and back areas of his house, and the housekeeper's grandson, the nurse's son and others are his playmates every day.

In the past few days, the dolls in Qingliu Town have known that the young master of the Liu family has a strange and fun gnather cage, and he is so greedy that he pesters and twists the adults at home.

Adults are going to buy it, but where can they buy it? Just buy two pieces of maltose first and prevaricate, hoping that the child will forget it in a day or two. Lily sent another cage to Xing'er to play, if it was the cage of the little master of Liufu, everyone would not be able to do it for a few days, but Xing'er also took one to play around, these town dolls couldn't forget it, and followed Xing'er all day long, counting on her to be merciful and let go

Tell them to play.

Xing'er is very proud, very big sister, even the dolls who are two or three years older than her have to listen to her command, telling them to line up and play one by one, and no one is allowed to break it with too much force. If anyone breaks it, no one will play with him in the future, and no matter how good things are, they won't take him with them.

Li Caifeng complained to Lily: "Just like her father, she can't be prosperous all day long." ”

Lily also smiled: "Xing'er is like a big brother, very stylish, and flexible." "The child's crooked mind is not out of line, it is rare that Xing'er was born to learn Liu Yi's impatient and righteous attitude, and the children obey her and are willing to be managed by her.

"She, if she doesn't grow into a tiger girl in the future, she can marry safely, I will thank God!" Li Caifeng was disgusted and smiling, with a motherly heart.

Now the adults in the town know that this gnatle cage must be another idea that the Danian family came up with, and they don't know where she got these ideas for such a small person, let alone a hundred hearts.

At this time, Lily asked Li Mingjiang to take the gadgets he had made to set up a stall, and someone wanted to buy baskets and baskets for the family, holding a small doll in his hand, and looking at a few large items in front of the stall.

When I was about to leave, I couldn't drag it, but I found that my little doll was holding a finger, looking at a bunch of gadgets in front of Qingsong, without blinking his eyes.

Since he got the lily quasi-letter, Li Mingjiang made more than 20 gnatish cages, and in addition to the gnats, the lid was also made into grasshoppers, small finches, hedgehogs, etc., which were beautiful and interesting.

Qing Song coaxed this can't walk doll and sold him one for a penny, and the adult family saw that this thing was delicate and sturdy, and it was not too expensive, so he couldn't bear to pay for it, bought a stuffed hand for the child, and said: "If this is broken, I won't buy you candy for a year!"

Frightened that the child wanted to cry or not, he looked down and saw the gnather cage in his hand, and became happy again, and ran excitedly to show off with his little friend. It didn't take long for a large group of children to come to Hulala, there were more than 30 of them, and they surrounded a small stall, and they had a lot of money at home, and they had to pay for it at the moment, and they followed their friends to say good things, and took out the candy that had been hidden for several days from their pockets to give him food, and wanted to rub his play

There was a doll with missing front teeth that couldn't afford it, and it would take a whole day to squat there.

Li Mian was soft-hearted, and quietly left one for the doll with missing front teeth, and stuffed it to him when the stall was closed. Go home and count the money, this little thing earns more miles than a serious basket!

Lily took advantage of the situation to encourage Li Mingjiang: "Dad, don't you still make some gadgets, do everything." ”

This time, Li Mingjiang easily listened to it, and since then, in addition to farming, he is thinking about how to make up these things at home, and he takes two of them to the town every month, and Zhu wants to talk to him, and Qingsong helps: "Mother, this thing can make money!" She didn't say anything.

There was a lot of rain in May, and Song Haonian repaired the roof twice, so that it did not leak again, but the rough rammed soil in the house could not help but return to the moisture, and staying in the house made people feel sticky and damp.

On this day, when Lily was cooking, she suddenly found a lot of salt lumps in the salt jar. Originally, coarse salt is easy to absorb water and agglomerate, and she usually pays the most attention to not letting the salt get wet, but the weather is too humid, and the salt is still damp.

The color of coarse salt is yellow and black, and there is a bitter taste, and it is even more unsightly after being condensed into a ball by moisture.

This method is also very simple, it is not possible to remove all the impurities in the salt, but it is just to pick out the sand and mud mixed in the production and transportation process.

She first scraped out all the salt, soaked it in a basin of clean warm water, stirred it and cleared it for a long time, and many small grains of sand and muddy dust came out of the bottom of the basin.

Pour the clear brine on the top layer into another basin, add water to the bottom of the sediment and wash it again, and finally fold the brine into the pot and boil, and splash the remaining sediment directly.

Make a fire to boil brine, and after the water boils, a layer of salt crystals slowly precipitates on the surface, maintaining the fire, and the salt crystals are more and more, and finally it becomes a piece of white flowers.

After all the water has evaporated, the pot is removed from the fire and dried at the last residual temperature, the salt at the bottom of the pot is snow-white and delicate, not as refined as the refined salt she used in her previous life, but much better than coarse salt.

Scrape the salt into the jar while it's hot, and keep it dry for a while longer. Lily decided that if she wanted to make pickles in the future, she would have to refine the salt. Because the process of pickling vegetables will produce many harmful substances, if the salt is not clean, the damage to the human body will be very great. She has limited resources, so she can only build a dojo in a screw shell, arrange daily necessities, and prepare vegetable soup, in the process of clean salt can not only ensure food safety

Quan can make her feel happy.

Although he has mastered the technology of refining coarse salt, Lily has never thought of buying coarse salt and processing it back, and then selling it at the price of refined salt.

First, the imperial court was a monopoly on salt and iron, and those who could sell salt were salt merchants who had been licensed by the imperial court. Second, there are not many people in the countryside who can afford refined salt, and those who can afford it naturally have their own channels.

Imagining the life of a legendary salt merchant who spent a lot of money, Lily left the idea behind.

The chicken and duck seedlings she bought before were all growing well, and one of them died, and she observed them for several days to make sure that the others were still alive and well, not chicken plague, so she was relieved.

When the chickens and ducks grew about the same, Lily put the chickens into the vegetable patch and let them eat the insects with the chickens. The big chickens were originally a little repulsive, but after two days, they accepted this group of new insects who shared a nest with them at night and a vegetable patch with them during the day.

Not far in front of the door is the Baishui River, the bank of the river is not straight, in some places twists and turns, the river carries the upstream sediment and encounters the twists and turns to form a small sand bank, along the bank of the circle of a gentle pool.

Lily drove the ducklings into a waterhole, did not hit the ducks, they were afraid at first, when the lily caught them and put them into the water, they soon began to have fun, swimming in the water all day to catch fish, until the evening Lily brought them back, they refused to return.

The chicken nest is half a person high from the ground, Song Haonian built a duck nest shed with straw under the chicken nest, and the ducks did not dislike it, and the lily called them home, and they crowded there and combed each other with their beaks.

The May sun is evil, the weather changes drastically, the scorching sun is shining at one time, and the rain is pouring down, snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants are also harmful to people at this time, so people call it the evil moon. Some even think that a child born in May is ominous and will hinder the family's fortunes. Every family in Aoyagi Town is preparing for the Duanyang Festival, and Lily is no exception, and they are busy early.