Chapter 504: Autumn is hectic
On the seventh day of the eighth month, Fauber sent nearly twenty people from the state city to help with the work. Anyway, Yiying's master is not in the other courtyard, and it is actually very idle over there, so it is better to get more people to come over, and you can quickly clean up the crops in the Han family's field.
Of the newcomers, Yun Xue picked out most of them and let them go down to work with Qi Changan. The others followed Changliang's side and helped harvest all kinds of wild fruits.
Yunni was not at home, and there were nearly twenty more people in the family to eat, plus Yun Xue also brought Rulan Rumei, Xiujuan, Chunhua and others to get those wild fruits, and the work at home was busy. Aunt Qi and Aunt Fang were so tired from cooking every day that they couldn't straighten their waists, and Jinxiu took advantage of the child's sleep to help pick and chop vegetables.
Originally, everyone didn't want Jinxiu to interfere, the child was the most important, and Jinxiu's body didn't recover well. However, Jinxiu also said that there are women in the village who work after giving birth, and they haven't seen how. Like Hanyu, the eldest son is only more than two years old, and the second son is only three or four months old, Jiang Yonglin works in the field every day, if Hanyu doesn't cook, can't the family drink the northwest wind?
Yun Xue was speechless by Jinxiu's words, this is indeed the case, there are too many women who cook with their children on their backs. How can you do it without working? What does the family eat and drink if they don't work? Yunxue had no choice but to agree to let Jinxiu do some work appropriately.
Han Yue'e still couldn't see it, so she brought her daughter and daughter-in-law to Han's house to help. The Wu family has more than ten acres of land, and they planted it late in the spring, and they can't be recycled at the moment, so they are a little free, so it's better to come over first to help the Han family do some work.
It has been four or five months since Baozhu got married, but there has been no movement. After all, Yuqi has few times at home, and the young couple are always not together, where can there be movement? Han Yue'e said, waiting for the autumn harvest, let Baozhu go to the county seat to live for a while, just waiting for the three of them to eat and drink.
Yushu usually makes a dowry at home and helps Meiyu take care of the children. Now that the children of the Meiyu family are living in their lives, they are not as difficult to leave as before, so the big guys are also a lot lighter. Meiyu simply brought the child over, and together with Jinxiu, the two of them changed to watch the child, and the other one could do something with his hands free.
Han Yue'e came over to help with the cooking, and Yushu and Baozhu went to help Yunxue deal with the fruits.
There are a lot of wild fruits in autumn, but you can't make honey-stained fruits anymore. The weather is getting colder, where can anyone eat ice water again? So, Yunxue planned to make this batch of fruits, make preserved fruits and jams, and make wine.
Mountain grapes are naturally better for winemaking, and of course they can also be made into fruit cakes. Soft dates are pureed with specially made tools to make jams and cakes.
When the tang pears are ripe thoroughly, they are rubbed out with a fine sieve, and the flesh under them is kept mixed with starch and sugar and steamed, and then pressed out with a mold to dry, and it becomes something like a hawthorn slice.
Needless to say, mountain red is easy to make, jam, fruit cake, you can do it.
Some of the children in the family are responsible for recovering the fruit, and some are responsible for the most preliminary cleaning and crushing. Then Yun Xue led the girls in the family to busy making various styles of fruit products in the East Cross Courtyard.
Shopkeeper Liu has already said that no matter what Yunxue comes up with, he is willing to sell it in the shop. The natural model is still the same as before, which is a dividend model. In this way, Yun Xue is also more confident, and all kinds of things that were originally just made to coax children are now all made in large quantities.
The children in the village are also happy, they have to send a lot of fruits to the Han family every day, and then they can earn dozens to hundreds of yuan. In several nearby villages, Yunxue also sent people to collect it, and pulled it back by car every night to deal with it together.
After six or seven days of busy work, the wild fruits could not be harvested so much. First, there are not many places to get nearby, and secondly, every household has begun to harvest in autumn, and the children have to work in the fields, and no one has the time to get these wild fruits anymore.
"Sister Yunxue, there are very few fruits today, what should I do?" Yushu asked with some concern.
"It doesn't matter, we've got a lot of money these days. In addition, the autumn fruit is still long, and when the harvest is finished, each household can harvest another part. It just so happens that the day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we big guys should also take a good rest. In the past few days, I have been tired from the busy work day and night. Yun Xue didn't care and said with a smile.
Now there are nearly 300 jars of fruit wine stored in the warehouse, just wait for the fermentation to be completed and then filter it again. I also made a lot of the rest of the jam and fruit cakes. These alone are enough for Shopkeeper Liu to take out for a while.
The original honey-stained fruits at home, a few days after Jiaye's full moon, Shopkeeper Liu sent someone to get them all. It's been almost twenty days now, and it's almost sold out. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I took the time to go to the state city and bring the jams over to see if they could sell well.
In fact, Yun Xue deliberately wants to open a dim sum shop by herself, because the biggest use of these jams and the like is in dim sum. Maybe she can find a better master and see if she can make a cake.
However, this is just Yun Xue's idea. After all, there is still Ruyi Zhai in the state city, and she and Ruyi Zhai can also be regarded as a cooperative relationship, if you get another dim sum shop by yourself, isn't it a fight with Ruyi Zhai? So it's still not good at the moment in the state city.
But what about the county seat? I also have a shop, and my lease is about to expire recently. Why don't you take it back yourself and try it first? Yun Xue was pondering this.
"Auntie, you said that if I build a dim sum shop in the county seat, can I do it?" Yun Xue turned her head and asked Han Yue, who came over to call them to eat.
Han Yue'e was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "Cheng, then what's not to do?" However, the most important thing in this dim sum shop is craftsmanship, can you find a master with good craftsmanship? ”
Yun Xue shook her head, "I can't think of it for the time being, it's just a thought." We'll have to think about it. "It's the master who makes dim sum, she doesn't have a score in her heart, so she hesitates.
"If my aunt is a few years younger, I can help you, when my aunt was in the south, she learned a lot of ways to make dim sum. But at the moment, my aunt can't take care of this, there are too many things at home and too busy to help you. Han Yue'e hesitated for a long time, and finally just shook her head and sighed.
Yun Xue's eyes lit up, yes, why did she forget her aunt? Didn't I learn how to make dim sum from my aunt for a while? "Auntie, you see if this will work, Rumei on my side knows a little bit about this, otherwise I will wait to be free, and my aunt will teach Rumei. I won't let my aunt suffer. ”
Han Yue'e thought about it for a while and felt that it was feasible. "I'm not in a hurry about this, I'm busy right now, I'll teach her slowly when I'm free."
Yun Xue just has such an idea, and she hasn't completely thought about it yet, so she is not in a hurry. So I just discussed it with Han Yue'e for a while, and I put this matter down. Opening a shop is not something that can be done in a hurry, and it is not like the time when the restaurant was in time, after all, Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang are ready-made good cooks.
"Auntie, the day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it just so happens that this fruit is not harvested so much, so the big guy takes the opportunity to take a break. When did my aunt's family start recovering the land? I'll ask my family to help for a few days, and then take back your house first. "You can't patronize your own house, and the Wu family doesn't care about anything else, right? The Wu family's ten acres of land, a few more people, can be completed in two days.
Now the Han family's good land has been harvested, and only a few acres of corn have not been broken, and the majority is the wasteland, sweet potatoes or something. But that thing is not afraid of frost or anything in the ground, but it is not afraid of a few days later.
Han Yue'e was not polite to Yun Xue, "After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I estimate that your eldest uncle and uncle can come back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, just go back to the county seat after harvesting the land." If you're free, just go over and help. ”
At this time, it was not too early, and the last batch of fruits was brought in from outside, and the big guys hurriedly picked and washed again. "Okay, that's it for tonight, just wash it and spread it out to dry. I'll do it again tomorrow morning, I'm tired enough, so I'll eat. Yun Xue said while beating her waist with her hand.
After those wild fruits are washed with water, they need to be controlled, otherwise they will be easy to spoil if there is water mixed in them. In particular, it is necessary to pay attention to the sake brewing, because if there is raw water in it, the quality of the wine is not good. It's like jam or something, it's still a little worse, after all, it still has to be steamed.
The big guy spread all the cleaned fruit on the mat and hung it, and then went back to the main courtyard to rest and eat.
As soon as Yunxue returned to the main courtyard, Xiao Yunxia pounced all of a sudden. "Eldest sister, that grape cake is so delicious, I still want it." This little guy has been beautiful recently, and she has been picking and eating all the delicious food at home.
"You'd better eat less of those things, you're five years old, and you're not far from changing your teeth, so you should cherish a little bit. Otherwise, when you have a toothache, you know what it's like. Yun Xue pulled Yun Xia and said.
In these days, there is no dentist, and if a tooth is broken, it will be a great sin. Yun Xue doesn't want her little sister to have a toothache every day.
Yunxia hesitated for a moment, and chose between delicious food and toothache for a long time before deciding to eat less. "It would be nice if the second sister was at home, with her, you don't have to worry about toothache."
Yunxia's words made Yunxue feel melancholy all of a sudden. I don't know, what is Yunni's situation now, and what is happening to Yunlin?