Lin Zhoushi glanced at the silent old Lin on the side, he was not in a hurry, which one was his child, it didn't make a difference to whomever he used, but she couldn't, she had to prepare it for her Chun'er, and slapped the table: "Dream less!" No way! There are so many people who can marry in this village, you want to marry the goblin from the other village, and you will ask for so many dowries when you open your mouth, and I haven't said whether I agree to this marriage or not! ”

Li Dazhuang glared: "Could it be that you still want to agree?!" ”

"I tell you, if I don't agree, I won't let this scourge of burning money enter my door!"

Li Dazhuang was extremely angry, thinking that he had swallowed his anger for so many years, the stepmother said that he didn't say two, and the stepmother said that he didn't say the east and he didn't say the west, just hoping that she could plan a little for herself, the father of the family didn't care about everything, everything relied on the stepmother's fingers to leak something, I didn't think that Lin Zhou's family didn't plan for him at all, Piao'er was already married, only he was left in this family, he would no longer have any blood, how would he live in the future? !

Li Dazhuang glared at Lin Zhoushi fiercely, turned his head back to the room and stopped talking.

Lin Zhou's only wanted to win a big victory, and sat down proudly and put the bowl away: "Eat!" ”

"Chun'er, the things in the family are kept for you, you are a woman, and you are beautiful, you will have a future if you marry a good family in the future, our whole family will point to you, Lin Dazhuang is tall and does not have a brain, he can't think of anything serious, what is the use of him marrying a maid in the county government, it is better to save a thick dowry for you to marry to the county government, the son-in-law is half a child, and the son-in-law is the real hope."

Lin Zhoushi said that when he looked at Lin Yuan's reaction with his spare eyes, he didn't bother to care about eating with his head bored when he saw him, anyway, he was a hands-off shopkeeper, who usually only knew how to drink, and he didn't know anything about anything if he had a little wine, and what to do with him so much.

Lin Dazhuang has been nesting in the house and not coming out, he didn't come out just to save a meal, Lin Zhou's was too lazy to ask him to eat, how long he was bored, and she didn't bother to care if she died in the house.

The night passed like this, and when Lin Zhou woke up the next morning, he was dumbfounded, and all the chickens and ducks in their yard were gone.

Lin Zhou thought that he was dazzled, and he was sure that he was indeed missing several times.

"Shall we raise chickens? What about ducks? Let's go outside and look for it! Didn't you run outside! It's going to kill me! ”

Lin Zhou's heart was so panicked, Lin Yuan and Lin Chun all went outside to take a look, and the family still didn't find anything in a panic.

At this time, Lin Zhou suddenly remembered Lin Dazhuang, rushed over and pushed the door open, and Lin Dazhuang was also gone.

"Holy God! He stole our chickens and ducks! This debt collector! It's not a good thing like Lin Piao! ”

Lin Zhou's was so angry that he was about to faint, the eggs he ate at home were all based on the chickens at home, and now the chickens are gone, the ducks are gone, not to mention that there are no eggs to eat, and now it is in autumn and winter soon, and they have to stew an old hen once in the deep winter of the New Year's Festival, and they will eat a meal hot and fragrant, and now they can't count on it.

"This year's chickens and ducks have been raised in vain, and this year has also been in vain!" Lin Zhou couldn't catch his breath and collapsed on the kang and sat on the ground.

On the other side, Lin Dazhuang had already driven for most of the day with cages full of chickens and ducks to the house of the family who said goodbye.

When the people saw him carrying a few fat chickens and ducks, their faces bloomed, and they poured water for him, and when they heard him say that he had not eaten, they brought him some hot food.

Lin Dazhuang ate a meal, and as soon as he called his aunt, he patted his hand with a smile.

"Why are you still called so raw, called mother."

Lin Dazhuang was overjoyed and knew that this had been done.

"Mother, why didn't you see where my father was?"

"Your father went to the county government to pick up your daughter-in-law, and the wife of the family gave grace to let her come back and marry."

Lin Dazhuang was suddenly a little nervous: "How long has it been, don't get married, you have to go back to work." ”

"Probably not, why do you have to let your little couple go back for a while, it is really fate, my family name is Wu, my surname is Lin, I gave birth to a daughter named Lin'er, and married to the surname Lin, it is really a fate that I can't think of."

Lin Dazhuang responded again and again, smiling from ear to ear.

However, Aunt Wu didn't say that they had always wanted to marry their daughter, but Lin Er had been refusing, saying that Mrs. would arrange for her, but they had not seen the arrangement to make them anxious, so they began to help her see people early.

They were in full swing of marriage, and Lin Piao, who was idle at noon, found the blacksmith's house at the other end of the village.

As soon as I entered the yard of the blacksmith's house, there was no place to put my feet, and on the one hand there was a pile of broken copper and iron that had been dug up and collected from nowhere, and on the other hand, there were all kinds of casting molds, large iron pots, shovels, iron tongs, and some farm tools.

As soon as Lin Piao entered, the old blacksmith was taking his son to polish the edge of the newly made iron tool, and when he saw him coming, he hurriedly stood up.

Now there is no one in the village who does not know that Daolin is arrogant, and when he came back from the county government, he did not pull a large cart of things back, and before he could say that he was rewarded by the county lord, but now he has bought a car by himself, and this is a real customer.

"Do you buy pots and pans or do you have something broken at home that needs to be repaired?"

Lin Piao even said that he told him the shape of the charcoal stove with a comparison, and the blacksmith also knew that thing, but no one bought this thing in the village, and everyone usually spent the winter with firewood, who had the spare money to burn coal and charcoal, and when he heard that Lin Piao wanted to make a charcoal stove, he hesitated for a moment: "Of course you can do this, I pondered and pondered to make it beautiful for you, but you really want to ask for this?" You said that this is not big or small, and you can usually use it for anything, but you can't even put up a pot, right? ”

"Speaking of pots, if you really want to make another pot, just make a pot that can be just enough to stand on top according to the size of this small charcoal stove, and then make an iron mesh that can cover it, so it is a set, usually bake a poop, bake some sweet potatoes, hot water and hot dishes, all convenient, oh yes, make a small handle on both sides of the wooden handle, and put it there when you want to use it."

The blacksmith nodded again and again when he heard his words, although he hadn't typed it yet, but Lin Piao's words were indeed widely used and more convenient than the big stove: "Okay, do you want one?" ”

"Two of them." One is placed in his own hall, and the other is placed in the second aunt's hall, so that he and Shen Hong can use it on both sides of the running back and forth.

"Okay." The blacksmith opened two orders at this time, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes bloomed, and the two got together again to discuss the style, the general shape, and finally discussed it almost before Lin Piao walked back.

On the way back, Lin Piao was thinking in his heart that he could make something to eat when the small stove came out, and he didn't know if there were any people in the neighborhood who raised sheep, otherwise he could buy some mutton stew and mutton soup to eat in winter.

Lin Piao was counting the menu, and when she saw the second aunt hurrying over here with a basket, she walked in a hurry, and she didn't even see Lin Piao passing by next to her, or Lin Piao called her, and she came back to her senses.

"Second aunt? What's wrong? ”

"Your Uncle Qiu is sick! This time I was very sick, and in the morning Da Zhuang came to tell us that I couldn't get out of bed because I was tired, and now I have a high fever! If it weren't for the neighbors who came to him to borrow something, no one would have found out! I've got to go check it out. ”

Lin Piao was also startled and followed: "Why did you suddenly get sick, you looked fine yesterday." ”

"Who knows, don't talk about it yet, let's go and see it first."

The two went to Uncle Qiu's house together, Da Zhuang was in school, and they hadn't told Da Zhuang about it yet, so that he could concentrate on class.

The two entered the house and found Uncle Qiu lying on the bed, covered with a thin quilt, and his face was white and miserable.

"Uncle Qiu? Uncle Qiu? Lin Piao screamed twice before he opened his eyes, propped up his body and wanted to sit up: "I said I'm fine, why are you all here." ”

The second aunt scolded: "It's okay, you can't sit up, what are you doing with this, Piao'er, you accompany your Uncle Qiu to talk, I'll go boil some hot water." After the second aunt finished speaking, she turned around and went out, leaving only Uncle Qiu still with a hard mouth.

"I'm really fine, I was fine yesterday, I sorted out the field in the morning, sorted out the land in the afternoon, and washed Da Zhuang and my clothes in the evening, I can do it."

"......," Lin Piao knew why he was sick.

When he was talking about these jobs, he didn't mention the chores that he did every day to help them do, and he watched Uncle Qiu finally raise some meat on the bed, which was really 40 kilograms of body and 30 kilograms of mouth shell.

"Uncle Qiu, you usually rest a little, how can you do something in a hurry, you are tired and sick."

"I don't do more, what should I do?" Lin Qiu didn't have long eyes, he also saw that Lin Piao had bought so many things, and people had bought winter clothes, and he couldn't give him a decent piece of clothing.

"I just want to do more, if people don't work hard, how can life be better."

"Uncle Qiu, people don't work hard like this, there is no reason to work hard with their lives, people fight to live well, not to break their lives and not leave a body of injuries and illnesses, you don't want to go to the laundry at night in the future, now in this weather, I don't know how cold the river is at night."

Lin Piao comforted him for a while, the second aunt boiled the water and came in, Lin Piao took over the work and walked around the house, and after looking at it for a while, he found that there were many beans in the basket of Uncle Qiu's house, and there were the most sweet potatoes, pumpkins and peanuts in the village, and it was rare to see so many beans.

"Uncle Qiu, why do you have so many beans in your family?"

Uncle Qiu drank the hot water and felt a little better: "The year before last, someone came to harvest soybeans, and the price was very good, so I wanted to plant some soybeans, and the people in the village were happy to plant soybeans, and they thought that the soybeans were not delicious. ”

"Uncle Qiu, why don't you make beans and sell them?"

"Do what?" Uncle Qiu was a little confused, he knew about tofu, but no one in his family made tofu, and no one passed on his craft, so where did he make it?

Lin Piao wanted to say that he would not be able to make tofu, but there were no shops selling tofu in the village, and they were all from other villages pushing carts and carrying flat shoulders to sell them from time to time, and it would definitely be easy to sell tofu, but he thought that he would not be able to get gypsum for a while and a half, and he was a little impressed by the practice of salt-marinated tofu, but he could not come up with a stable formula for a while and a half, so it was better to make a simple one first, and the tofu was easy to perish, in case the market was not opened, he would smash it.

"Making tofu skin, this method is simple, that is, a little bit of effort, the tofu skin can be preserved for a long time, and it is not worrying to sell it slowly at home.

Uncle Qiu sat up when he heard this: "This ...... How to make tofu skin......"

"Uncle Qiu, don't worry, when you get better, Bao Jiao Bao Hui!"

Chapter 41

As soon as Lin Piao's words came out, Uncle Qiu's spirit suddenly came up.

"Really? Do you have a way ? ”

"Uncle Qiu, don't worry, I must have a way, although it has worked a little harder, it shouldn't be a problem to exchange these beans for money."

When Uncle Qiu heard him say this, he suddenly had hope in his heart, he knew that Lin Piao would not talk empty words to him, and that if there was a way, there was a way, and if he could exchange all these beans for money, he and Da Zhuang would be able to live a warm and comfortable winter.

Uncle Qiu was half cured of his illness that day, so he ate some hot soup and rice with hot water, and the second aunt and Lin Piao helped him burn the kang and slept warmly, so that he could get out of bed the next day.

He said to Lin Piao, Lin Piao came to teach him this craft after lunch, because he was sick his second aunt and Lin Piao asked him to sleep more, he did not go to the land in the morning, nor did he go to Lin Piao's side to help, he waited at home early, and he could not wait for a while, he could only go back and forth in the house, one to look at the soybeans, the other to count the baskets, and count the beans that had been stored for almost a year at home.

In the middle of the afternoon, Lin Piao came to teach him how to make tofu skin, and the second sister-in-law followed him with a basket, and as soon as she entered the door, she first opened the curtain and brought out the food inside: "I brought you a lunch, it's still hot, you can eat two bites first." ”

Zheng Qiu sat down at the table, and as soon as he was holding chopsticks and preparing to eat, he saw the two of them going out together, as if they were about to start their work, he hurriedly put down his chopsticks and came out: "Don't do it, tell me how to make it, I'll come." ”

Lin Piao and his second sister-in-law didn't know how good it was to him, how could he be embarrassed to let them do it again, but he sat down to eat.

Lin Piao turned around and smiled at him: "It's okay, I can't do it now, just take a bucket and soak the beans, you can eat the rice quickly." ”

Zheng Qiu stood aside and watched, seeing that they had indeed just filled a few bowls of beans from the house and poured them into the bucket, and after such a light gesture they had put things down, they were not busy, so they relieved themselves and went back to the house to eat.

While he was eating here, Lin Piao and his second aunt were patrolling back and forth at Uncle Qiu's house: "A bucket is definitely not enough, let's see what Uncle Qiu's house can use." ”

"What do you think of this pot?"

"It's a bit of a slip, isn't it?"

"Isn't it good to miss something, and I usually pretend that the pig vegetables look dirty, and the pig vegetables are not dirty, aren't they all vegetable leaves, and they are cleaned."

Lin Piao and the second aunt watched around the basin for a while, and the second aunt got up and filled a large scoop of water and poured it into the basin for experiments in order to verify her point of view.

The two of them squatted next to the basin and looked at it for a while to see if the thing was leaking.

"It seems to be a bit leaky."

"Just a little bit of it."

Lin Piao stared at the wooden basin, the wooden basin is easy to leak, and it is not easy to repair if it is broken, and the iron basin is easy to use, but it is easy to rust, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses, but no matter what the basin is, it needs money, and it is better to wait for Uncle Qiu's business to open and then upgrade the equipment, after all, in Uncle Qiu's situation, this will not be profitable, and it is not suitable to invest first.

Uncle Qiu hurriedly stuffed a few mouthfuls of food, and when he rushed out, he saw this scene, the two of them discussed very seriously around the wooden basin, and when they turned around and saw him, Lin Piao's first sentence made his eyes dark.

"Uncle Qiu, why don't you come back and sleep again, you can't do it today anyway."

Uncle Qiu was so frightened that he stammered: "What's wrong?" Is there anything that I have here that doesn't work? Or what's wrong with the beans? ”

"No, the beans have to be soaked for a day, soaked today and made tomorrow, they have to be prepared a day in advance, you can't be in a hurry, Uncle Qiu, you have to rest first, but this thing is a big problem."

Lin Piao got up and looked at the big grinding plate on the side, on which there was a rolling machine: "This grinding tofu pulp is very difficult, the grinding is still almost meaningless, you have to have a stone mill." "If you want to make soy products, you can't avoid this expense.

"Stone grinding?" Zheng Qiu was at a loss for a moment, as if he remembered something: "Piao'er, can you come and see this." ”

Zheng Qiu took Lin Piao to the dilapidated house in the corner, and as soon as he pushed the door open, a smell of old dust came up inside.

Zheng Qiu walked in and pulled the firewood away and showed him: "This stone mill used to belong to my father-in-law, and when he was young, he had a donkey, so he used the donkey to pull the stone mill to grind wheat and flour and rice flour to make money. ”

"This is completely fine, what you need is this, it would be great to have it at home, otherwise this bean can't be ground and nothing can be done."

Uncle Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, when they were still there, the family had always been passable, and they treated him much better than his man, but unfortunately they died early, and Da Zhuang had never even seen their faces.

This stone grinding is like this, Lin Piao no longer plans to work with his second aunt, and went out to find a few male parents to help.

Several people stood next to the stone mill, lifted it together, moved the stone mill, and then put it under the eaves according to Lin Piao's wishes, and then the two men took out the grinding disc on it and installed it.