The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

Because of something, I hibernate in the evening at dawn.

Although it was summer, the temperature difference in the mountains was huge. At this time, Xia Mianwan felt a chill all over her body. After getting up shivering, Xia Mianwan quickly found a thicker spring shirt and put it on.

The whole valley was echoing with the sound of birds, and the summer sleep night ended with the sound of birds singing.

As soon as I opened the door, the stone table in the yard was already piled with things, including processed pheasants, wild ducks, wild rabbits, bamboo chickens, and even a wild boar leg.

These things should have been brought by Xiaowu.

Xia Mianwan looked at these things, counted the number of people, and decided to have a barbecue dinner.

Xia Mianwan found a knife that was convenient for him in the space and sliced ​​the meat of the wild boar leg. After slicing, he marinated it with the prepared barbecue seasoning and set it aside.

"Mother, we're up. Do you need our help?" Chen Ge'er said, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

Xia Mianwan saw that Chen Ge'er had gotten up, and said with a smile: "You and Yu Jie'er go eat first, I've prepared steamed buns and hot milk for you."

"There's milk!" Yu Jie'er opened her eyes wide with excitement. Her favorite drink was milk.

But how does a mother have milk?

Seeing Yu Jie'er's puzzled expression, Xia Mianwan started to fool around again, "Don't worry, it's not raw milk, it's milk powder."

"Oh……"

Xia Mianwan didn't care about the two of them and prepared to smear barbecue seasoning on the pheasants.

"Sister Xia, you got up so early. Let me help you!" Chen Susu also got up at this time. The two families lived close to each other and shared the same yard, so she could naturally hear the noise.

"Come and help me after dinner. There's no rush."

"it is good!"

Xiaowu's family has many children. When they heard that there would be a warm meal today, they got up early and ran back and forth several times to ask Xia Mianwan if there was anything they could do to help.

Xia Mianwan was not polite. After distributing peanut candies to everyone, the older children asked to help sharpen bamboo sticks, while the younger children asked Hechen Ge'er and Yujie'er to help wash cabbage and potatoes.

"It's late, and there is still a shortage of vegetables in the mountains. I think we should clear a piece of land to grow some vegetables as soon as possible. If the situation is as we talked about yesterday, we don't know how long we will have to stay in the mountains." Mrs. Chen said as she washed and cut vegetables.

"I don't think these are important. What's important is food and salt." Madam Zhou said. Maybe we can grow some food after we explore the valley, but what about the salt?

Xia Mianwan smiled and said, "Don't worry, this salt won't go bad. I asked Xiaowu to prepare a lot of it, and I also prepared a lot of it privately. Don't worry."

After hearing what Xia Mianwan said, Madam Zhou and Mrs. Chen looked at Xia Mianwan with admiration.

"Mianwan, how can you think of so many things? You're amazing!" Mrs. Chen praised.

Xia Mianwan said cheerfully: "Isn't this all for the sake of living?"

At this point, Xia Mianwan remembered the silver she sorted out when she sorted out the space supplies yesterday. In the past two years, there are very few colored glaze beads left in the space, and the only ones left are crystal beads.

However, opening the shop did make Xia Mianwan a lot of money.

Excluding the money spent on preparing supplies, Xia Mianwan still had 93,000 taels of silver and 5,000 taels of gold on hand.

This money will eventually be put to good use. Even if the chaos lasts for decades, Yanzhou City will not remain in decline forever. I never expected that plans could not keep up with the changes...

Xia Mianwan always felt speechless. Ever since she came to this world from a book, she had been either in exile or fleeing. Her shop was half-opened but had to be closed again.

As Xia Mianwan thought about it, her thoughts began to wander...

"Sleep late...sleep late..."

"what?"

"What are you thinking about? Why are you still in a trance?" Madam Zhou nudged Xia Mianwan and said.

Xia Mianwan shook her head and said, "It's okay, I just remembered some past events."

Mushroom skewers, potato skewers, rice cake skewers, cabbage skewers, oyster mushroom skewers, wild vegetable skewers, pork skewers, lamb skewers, chicken skewers...

Xia Mianwan looked at the various skewers that filled several plates, thought for a moment and said, "We can cook two pots of bamboo chicken with pickled mustard greens. Adding some chili will also go well with rice!"

"We have six large plates of pork skewers. Is that enough?" asked Chen Susu.

"Haven't you ever heard of a half-grown kid eating me into poverty?" Xia Mianwan said with a smile.

Xiaowu's family has many young boys, and one of them eats as much as the three of them. These six plates of meat are definitely not enough.

"But the most abundant ingredient we have is wild boar meat," Chen Susu said distressedly.

"It's okay. I still have crabs. Those two buckets of crabs will be useful. I'll fry them later when dinner is almost ready. As for the fish, we'll make the two big fish into grilled fish with some bean sprouts, and the two small crucian carps that Sister Chen worked hard to make into fish balls. We'll fry some fish balls to eat. As for the small fish, we can just fry them into dried fish. These will also be useful!" Xia Mianwan smiled and assigned everyone's work.

Everyone was busy together for the whole morning. During this time, Xiaowu and Zhou Chengze brought a few pheasants and about ten kilograms of yam.

By about 3 p.m., all the food was ready.

Xiaowu and Zhou Chengze moved the tables from their home and grilled and ate in the yard.

"Will it have any impact if the smell is so strong?" Chen Susu couldn't help but ask worriedly as the roasting just started and the rich, overbearing aroma filled the entire yard.

Xiao Wu shook his head and said, "Don't worry, it's okay. Hu Zi and I will regularly clear the wild animals outside the area where we live. In particular, we have spread animal and snake repellent powder around where we live. We have tried it for a long time and they will definitely not come close."

Chen Susu felt relieved instantly after hearing this. It’s so good to have a reliable companion!

"Wow! How come this meat smells so good? Sister Xia, how did you roast it?"

"I sprinkled special barbecue ingredients!" Xia Mianwan said proudly.

“It smells so good!”

"Wow, this crab is delicious! You can even chew it!"

"Yes, yes! It's delicious!"

Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Xia Mianwan went to get the lemon tea that she had brewed in advance, "Come on, let's all toast to our new life in the valley! It's getting better and better!"

Except for Madam Zhou, no one present knew what ganbei meant, but seeing Xia Mianwan's actions, they guessed that it was a toast, so they all raised their glasses and shouted, "It's getting better!"