When the wheat in the ground grows to the height of a finger, when the frost falls, the air is solemn and condensed, and the dew turns into frost. When Lan Yi woke up in the morning, she would find a silver ice crystal shining on the vegetables at home, and she turned to her own greenhouse, feeling the humid and warm air inside, and smiled with satisfaction.

"This shallot, it should be able to be eaten after half a month, right?" The shallots have grown, thin and weak, but Lan Yi knows that as long as the temperature is suitable and properly managed, the family will be able to eat fragrant scrambled eggs with shallots and tofu mixed with shallots after half a month, Lan Yi couldn't help but swallow her saliva and was greedy.

"As the only green in this bleak area, it is really pleasing to the eyes and stomach."

Lan Yi took her two children to her second uncle's house today to learn to pickle radishes from her second aunt and Chen, and prepared to pickle the radishes at home as well.

"Sister-in-law, this pickled radish is similar to making sour bamboo shoots, but with a lot of salt." Chen washed the radish and put the whole root in salted water, and covered it with a lid, and the pickled radish was ready.

It's really simple, Lan Yi pressed the baby's little hat and took away the small raw radish in his hand: "Brother and sister, how to eat this radish?" ”

"After a few days, just take it out and cut it into shreds. You can eat it for a winter, and eat the rest in the spring of the next year, let's shred the salted radish and dry it and make it into a marinated pickle, which my sister-in-law has also eaten. Chan patiently explained, and then she washed and dried the leaves of the radish and put them in salted water, which can be stored for a longer time after pickling, and is also a pickled vegetable in winter.

Braised pickles are a must-have on the farmer's four-season vegetable table, this braised vegetables are very salty and delicious, Lan Yi took some back from the second aunt, soaked them in water a few times and used them to scramble eggs, which has a unique taste.

"Then I want to pickle more radish, the taste of pickles is quite good." Lan Yi pondered.

Seeing that she looked like a greedy cat, Li said with a smile: "This marinated pickle has a strong taste, and children can't eat more." The vegetables grown in your greenhouse should also sprout, such a large piece of land is enough for your mother and wife to eat, pickled or not pickled radishes, and if you want to eat them, take two back to the second aunt. ”

Lan Yi felt a sense of accomplishment when she mentioned the greenhouse, "Yes, the shallots, spinach and lettuce have sprouted, and when they grow up, they will pull some for the second aunt, so we won't have to worry about eating vegetables this winter." ”

Li hurriedly waved his hand: "Bao'er, mother, you can keep it for yourself, there are a lot of dishes at home, and besides, the vegetables in this greenhouse will be able to sell them in the city for a bargain." ”

"Second aunt, what you say is out of sight, no matter how good the price is, we have to eat something ourselves first, right? I'll sell the rest to the city. Lan Yi pointed to the cabbage and asked, "Is this cabbage also pickled?" ”

Li nodded: "These cabbages are washed and dried, and then put them in pepper and salt water to soak for a while, and then they can be taken out and cut and eaten when they are delicious." ”

The locals called this method of making zuò vegetables "葅菜", and Lan Yi felt that it was fresh, so she made a jar of radish and a jar of cabbage.

The remaining cabbage was preserved by Lan Yi as sauerkraut.

Remove the roots and leaves of the dried cabbage, blanch and dry them with boiling water, brush them in a large vat and dry them, put the cabbage tightly into it, and sprinkle some salt on each layer. Finally, cover the top cabbage with some old bangs, press the stones, and wrap the lid tightly with a white cloth. On the second day, open the cylinder mouth and fill it with water, pour in rice vinegar, and then seal the cylinder mouth, during which the cylinder should be poured three or four times, and it can be eaten after two months.

Because of the simplicity of the method, many women in the village have also learned a lot from Lan Yi, cabbage is simple to plant, easy to store, is the main dish of the family in winter, naturally planted a lot.

There are still a lot of people coming in and out of Lan Yi's house these days, thanks to the greenhouse she built, everyone was surprised after seeing it, but when they heard the cost of the silver, they all dispelled their thoughts.

The chubby eight mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law bluntly said that Lan Yi's greenhouse was not worse than the greenhouse of the rich man Zhou, and Lan Yi knew that people here also had a way of growing vegetables in winter, but they didn't have contact with it.

On September 23, Tuesday Fa and his son handed over the rent of Lan Yi's family, 400 catties of rice and 200 catties of soybeans, a total of 600 catties, plus the three carts of straw and the soybean seedlings that were transported earlier, this year's rent was paid off, and several bags of grain stored in the basement of Lan Yi's house were added. Because there are no rats in the basement, it will not be a problem to store it for a longer time, and Lan Yi habitually hoards food, so that he can also deal with some unknown dangers.

On the last day of September, the autumn rain drifted, and it rained for three days, a layer of autumn rain and a layer of cool, Lan Yi and the two children's clothes were also thickened layer by layer, in addition to the newly made cotton clothes, Lan Yi also used hare skin to make small leather hats and gloves for Yuer and the baby, the rabbit skin was soft and dense, although the earthy yellow was not good-looking, but warm and windproof.

On rainy days, the two children sit on the kang to play with slingshots and stones, or follow Lan Yi to the greenhouse to play. Because it was not yet time to freeze, Lan Yi only burned firewood in the earthen kang on the north wall, and the temperature was quite comfortable, and it became the two favorite places of Yu'er and Baobao.

A few days ago, Liuzi came over to bring back the cotton shoes, shirts and pants made by Chunlan and Chuncao for the two children for Lan Yi. The cotton shoes are also mille-feuille, the clothes are made of thick blue-blue cotton cloth, the lining is white fine silk, a thin layer of cotton is sandwiched, the placket and cuffs of the outer shirt and the trousers are embroidered with lace, beautiful and not eye-catching, and the peasant children can also wear them out, Lan Yi is very grateful for the intentions of the two.

She was very ashamed of what she made about it, and decided to go to Chen to learn how to make clothes, and embroidery as well!

After this autumn rain, the weather is getting colder and colder. During this period of time, Wang Linyuan began to follow the matter of following the shopkeeper Wang's father and son to find a suitable place to open an oil mill and arrange personnel, and frequently went in and out of the county. Lin Yuan was reluctant to take the ox cart, and besides, the ox cart to the county seat was only available on the day of the county market, so most of the time he walked back and forth, and Lan Yi let him ride the donkey, which could save a lot of time and body.

The little donkey has been very moist in the past six months, the forage is abundant and there is not much work, and Lan Yi still brushes it every once in a while. So the little donkey jumped a lot higher, and its back reached Lan Yi's chin. Actually, Lan Yi felt that she had grown a little taller, but she didn't grow as fast as a donkey.

From Wang Linyuan, Lan Yi also learned about some basic methods of oil extraction in Dazhou Oil Mill. The rapeseed is dried and fried in the oil mill and then packed into a thick vertical tube made of wood or bronze with a grooved stone underneath. When extracting oil, use wood or stones to crush the rapeseed at the upper end of the thick pipe to crush the oil. Stones or stakes that crush rapeseed, wheels and levers are used to push them, human or water power, and livestock pulls.

This traditional pressing method Lan Yi has seen it in modern times, so it is not unfamiliar. As for the method of peony shelling, Wang Linyuan only said that the stone mushroom with grooves should be usable, and Xia Shun invited craftsmen to develop it secretly.

After the light snow season, the temperature will reach below freezing, and as the weather turns colder, the water will start to freeze and the ground will start to freeze. Lan Yi burned the kang on three sides of the greenhouse, filled the kang where she and her children slept with firewood, and moved the place of eating from the kitchen to the kang table.

Lan Yi, who is accustomed to heating and air conditioning, is more afraid of the cold, and now she has put on a thin jacket and cotton shoulders, and the two children are forbidden to freeze, only wearing thin cotton clothes and pants with a shirt and pants, and their little hands are much warmer than Lan Yi's.

When staying in the house, Lan Yiduo taught the two children to memorize poems and read and write. Now teaching the idioms and poems and stories used by the two children, Lan Yi chooses all the ones that can be found in the classics of the Zhou Dynasty before the turning point of history, but when explaining the story, she often instills some more valuable views and thinking methods into the two children to guide them to think.

Of course, in order to increase the interest of the two children in learning, most of Lan Yi's poems are more appropriate and catchy. For example, although the grass is now depressed, the pines and cypresses above the halfway point of Daqing Mountain are green and straight, which makes people feel a faint hope when they see it, and it seems that spring is not far away.

So, Lan Yi picked one of the "Nineteen Ancient Poems" to describe the perseverance of pine and cypress in the five-word rhythm poem and taught Yu'er and the baby to recite:

The pine on the Tingting Mountain, the stroke in the valley.

The wind is strong, and the pine branches are strong.

The frost is miserable, and the whole year is always upright.

Isn't it cold and cold, pines and cypresses have nature.

Yu'er has a good memory, and she only taught it three or four times before reciting it, happily reciting it over and over again. finally replaced the inseparable "Song of the Pig". If the baby is with his brother, although he still can't speak clearly, he can also read a few words with his brother.

Lan Yi's heart is teaching, and the two children are also able to learn hard, and the days are slowly slipping by in such busyness and teaching. When Lan Yi felt that this was very good, the two children gradually became uneasy in the room.

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