Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 46 Pickles
Hearing his daughter calling his son, Gu Lianshan poked his head out of the house and said, "Ping An is not here. He went to the village to order cabbage from the village head."

Cabbage?

Gu Tang didn't react for a moment.

It took me a while to remember that cabbage is actually Chinese cabbage. It’s called differently from the modern name, but it’s the same dish.

The variety of green vegetables here is limited, especially in winter, with only cabbage, kohlrabi, white melon (winter melon), radish (radish), etc.

If you count carefully, there are quite a few varieties. The only three that may end up on the tables of ordinary people are cabbage, turnip and radish.

Storage is also very simple, most of the time you just need to dig a vegetable cellar in the yard.

The cabbage is placed in the vegetable cellar, and the turnip and radish are usually cut into small pieces and pickled with salt to make pickles.

However, salt is expensive in Bei'an City, and many families in the village cannot afford to buy salt or make pickled vegetables, so they can only store it in the vegetable cellar.

The Gu family has many members, and all the land they rent is used to grow crops. Only some vegetable gardens in the corners can be used to grow cabbage, radish, etc.

These are far from enough for the whole family to eat. In previous years, we would ask the villagers to buy some.

What I bought were some kohlrabi and radish with broken skins. Once the skins of these two vegetables are broken, they are difficult to store and will definitely rot if placed in the vegetable cellar.

Therefore, many families sold them at a low price, and could buy them with copper coins or exchange them for other things.

Every year, Feng would take out some bran and ask her family to exchange some for each household in the village. Then they would cut it into small pieces and pickle it in a small jar to keep for winter consumption.

This year should be no exception.

Thinking of pickled vegetables, Gu Tang curled her lips. The pickle jar was kept in Feng's house all year round and was under her management. If anyone in the family dared to disobey, when the pickles were distributed, they would not even be able to get a radish strip!

Don’t underestimate pickled vegetables, they are the main food for your meals throughout the winter.

Although there were fresh vegetables in the vegetable cellar, they were chopped up and added to the paste and cooked together, which was tasteless.

If you want to eat some stir-fried dishes, then prepare to be scolded.

In the Gu family, stir-fried dishes were only prepared to entertain relatives during festivals and holidays. Or, if Gu Liansheng's classmates and friends came to visit, they would also prepare a few stir-fried dishes to entertain them.

Apart from these, I rarely eat stir-fried dishes.

Gu Tang didn’t care what it was like in previous years, because she hadn’t worn it at that time, but she couldn’t live like that this year.

Isn’t it just pickles?

This year she also pickled!
I'll ask her father to buy a few small jars, and then she'll filter out the salt and pickle ten or eight jars of it!

As for cooking, you must buy an iron pot. It is best to buy two pots, one large and one small, and then put two stoves in the house.

In winter, frying vegetables and stewing meat make life more enjoyable.

Otherwise, you will be like the Gu family, eating porridge every day and every year. What is the meaning of living?
Sacrifice the whole family to support one person?
Ha ha!

Just thinking about good things!
Leaning the sack against the wall, Gu Tang immediately went out to talk to her father about buying a jar of pickled vegetables.

Gu Lianshan was completely focused on the moose. He had no objection to his daughter's suggestion of pickling vegetables. He asked, "Do you want a big or small jar?" "A small jar, not the kind you use in the dairy. Ideally, one of those wine jars with a big belly and a small mouth. One jar can pickle ten kilograms of vegetables."

"This is easy to buy." Gu Lianshan pointed to the north, "There's a shop in Xiaowan Village that sells wine jars. They bring in high-quality jars from Bei'an City. They should have the wine jars you're talking about. Dad will go ask them now."

As he said this, he took some thick clothes and put them on, and told Gu Tang to keep an eye on the moose in the house and not to leave.

Gu Lianshan didn't need to remind him of this. This deer was obtained by Gu Tang by burning incense, praying to gods and Buddhas, and signing in. It is worth one or two hundred silver coins!
Before leaving, Gu Lianshan whispered to Gu Tang, "There's someone from Xiaowan Village who works as a cook in the camp outside Anzhou City. He's very familiar with Dad. He told me that every year at the end of the year, some of the junior officers in the barracks start thinking about giving gifts.

They say everyone is willing to spend money! Dad thought, this deer looks tall and fierce, if it is sold to those generals, it will definitely be sold at a high price!

Gu Tang raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you afraid that those nobles will use their power to snatch the deer away without paying a penny?"

"No! A few years ago, the camp was replaced by a new officer in charge. He's a very fair and honest person! I heard he's a royal relative from the capital, very powerful and influential. He wouldn't even look down on a deer!"

Gu Lianshan spoke in a firm tone and looked at Gu Tang expectantly, waiting for her to agree.

"Okay, as long as you know what's going on, you can handle this matter yourself. I'll be happy if you can sell it for a high price."

Venison is expensive, and live deer are even rarer. Without connections and connections, it is really hard to sell it.

This is not a sheep or a cow. It can be settled for a few taels or dozens of taels. But this is one or two hundred taels!
After receiving Gu Tang's consent, Gu Lianshan grinned and said, "Wait for good news from Dad at home!"

After saying that, he rushed out of the house.

There was a cart in the backyard of the Gu family. Gu Lianshan first went to the backyard and pulled the cart to the front yard. He put a bundle of hemp rope on the cart, and then hurriedly pulled the cart out of the yard.

Probably having heard the noise in the yard, Feng in the main hall and Gu Tianbao in the east wing both came out to take a look.

When Gu Tianbao saw Gu Tang standing under the west wing corridor, he immediately shrank his neck and went back to the house, just like a mouse seeing a cat.

Feng was not afraid of Gu Tang. She glared at Gu Tang fiercely and yelled a few curses at him.

"What are you doing pulling the cart out again? You're out hanging around all day, not doing anything serious! Have you chopped enough firewood at home? If you don't have any, I'll watch you freeze to death when the snow falls!"

Gu Tangyi leaned against the door frame, too lazy to look at Feng, and only shouted towards the east wing: "Gu Tianbao! Did you hear what grandma said? Grandma told you to go chop wood! If you don't, when the snow falls, grandma will stare at you and your family and freeze to death! Anyway, we have more than enough firewood. If anyone dares to touch our firewood, I will peel off the skin of her!"

Feng was so angry that her whole body was shaking!

Are you talking about Tianbao?

No! This was clearly a hint at her!

Feng was about to have a fit, but Old Man Gu in the inner room behind her hurriedly called out to her, "Come back to the room, my old cold legs are acting up again."

Feng paused, knowing what her husband meant, she glared at Gu Tang again, and walked into the house.

Old Master Gu was lying on the bed, resting his eyes. When he heard Feng's footsteps, he whispered, "Tell Lai'an to go to Wangzhai Village this afternoon, and ask my daughter to take some time to go home..."

When Feng heard her husband mention their daughter, she didn't understand what he meant for a moment.

Everything is fine, why do you want your daughter to come home?

Then I heard my wife say, "Among my daughter's sisters-in-law, I remember there's one named Li? I heard their family is a prostitute, a matchmaker, and a matchmaker too."