Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top

In everyone's opinion, Xiuying was being polite to everyone and was grateful to those who came to help, so she gave the fat meat to everyone to make soup.

Aunt Li said politely to Xiuying, "You've taken out all the good food for everyone to eat, so what are the girls going to eat?"

Mother Yang looked at the aunts who came to help. Not only did they bring food, but they were also so polite to her daughter. It seemed that her daughter had a good relationship with the villagers, otherwise her daughter would not have let these people help with cooking.

"Thanks to you for coming to help Xiuying, this little bit of food is a token of her appreciation, so please don't be polite.

The men who came to help build the house were all doing hard labor, so how could they succeed if they had poor food?

These words from Yang's mother not only expressed her gratitude to the Murakami people, but also demonstrated Xiuying's magnanimity.

The women thought Yang's mother's words were polite. Since everyone came to help build the house, the good food also showed that Xiuying was generous to everyone. They talked and laughed while busying themselves with lunch.

After lunch, Yang Xiuying's family was free. In the evening, she only needed to cook for a few people at home, which didn't take much time.

Xiuying decided to teach Yang's mother how to make preserved eggs. The ingredients needed for making preserved eggs were prepared yesterday. In the future, her family would also sell preserved eggs, so Xiuying also called Taohua, Shiliupome, and the third daughter Guihua.

If you want to make preserved eggs delicious, the most important thing is to control the amount of alkali. If there is not enough alkali, the preserved eggs will not take shape, and if there is too much alkali, the smell will be too strong and the preserved eggs will not taste good.

If you want to make preserved eggs delicious, you must control the temperature well. The best temperature for making preserved eggs is more than 20 degrees, and they can usually be cooked in about a week.

The eldest daughter Taohua had already arranged the ingredients, along with quicklime, alkali, wood ash, salt, and a basket of clean eggs.

I heard from Xiuying that duck eggs are more expensive, so I didn’t use duck eggs when making peach blossoms for the first time. All the chicken eggs, salt, quicklime and other ingredients were bought by Xiuying in the supermarket. After removing the outer packaging of the peach blossoms, she placed them in a ceramic jar.

“First, put the alkali and salt into a basin, add appropriate amount of water, and allow them to fully dissolve.

Then add slaked lime and wood ash in batches. When the slaked lime is completely dissolved, the ash for wrapping preserved eggs is ready.

Add some rice husks or wheat bran to the prepared ash so that it can be evenly applied on the eggs.

Place the coated eggs in a jar, cover with a lid, and store for about a week before you can unhook them."

Xiuying taught carefully, while Yang's mother and several maids listened attentively and took notes.

They all wanted to learn how to wrap preserved eggs so that they could help Xiuying make money.

They must seize this opportunity.

Xiuying divided the prepared ingredients into four parts and asked Yang's mother, Shiliu, Taohua and Guihua to make them separately.

Let’s see who among them is suitable for wrapping preserved eggs.

Some people follow the instructions step by step and use the exact amount to two, but the result is still not tasty. Either the eggs are rotten and not formed, or the alkaline taste is too strong, making it difficult for them to eat, let alone sell.

Xiuying took the wrapped preserved eggs to the inner room and waited a week for them to come out. In their free time, the maids went to the fields to weed and pick vegetables. The vegetables they had planted a few days ago were already edible.

The maids picked the vegetables and Yang's mother dried half of them and pickled the other half to add to porridge.

Yang's mother cut the radish into shreds, dried it, and stored it to make soup in winter.

Xiuying looked at the crispy dried radish and thought of the radish and pig's trotter soup. The oily pig's trotters were full of collagen, the crispy shredded radish, and a plate of red chili oil were super delicious!

This is the difference between a foodie and a hardworking person. Yang's mother is thinking about how to store enough food for the winter, while Xiuying's mind is full of various ways to eat food.

Before the original owner got married, she had two or three side dishes at home every day, accompanied by millet porridge. From time to time, Yang Kui would also bring back two taels of meat. She lived a very comfortable life.

Later, the original owner married into the Zhao family and drank wild vegetable porridge every day. After giving birth to several maids, the maids also followed her to drink wild vegetable porridge until she came.

Whether here or in China, if a woman marries the wrong person, she will lose half her life. Men are afraid of choosing the wrong career, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man. This is the same truth from ancient times to the present.

For a woman, a good marriage is salvation, while a bad marriage is an abyss.

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A week later, it was time for the preserved eggs to leave the nest.

Xiuying and her entire family gathered together, waiting for the answer to be revealed.

Even Yang's father put down his work and ran over to wait for Pi Dan to come out of the nest.

The first one to open was made of pomegranate.

As expected, something unexpected happened. All five preserved eggs in the pomegranate package were rotten. As soon as I opened the lid, a foul odor hit me in the face.

"How could this happen? I followed my mother's instructions and even coated each egg several times."

Pomegranate frowned and looked at the five rotten eggs in confusion.

It was our first time making preserved eggs, and each of us made five eggs. Everyone felt so sad when they saw the five rotten eggs.

Pomegranate said in frustration, "Did I put too much wood ash? Is there something wrong with the ratio? Or not enough water?"

Hearing that there was too much wood ash and not enough water, the others became worried. Could it be that they had put it in the wrong way too?

The second one to come out of the nest was made by Taohua.

As soon as the lid was opened, there was no pungent odor and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that the eggs in the peach blossom package were not rotten.

Xiuying took out a preserved egg and tapped it gently, then removed the wood ash and eggshell on the outside and broke it open to take a look.

"Yes."

"Why is it so dry inside?"

Xiuying said that the wrapped preserved eggs should have a sweet core.

The peach blossom dumplings are not spoiled, so you can keep them for yourself, but if you want to sell them, it is definitely not okay.

Taohua lowered her head and stepped aside.

The rest of the people all had serious expressions as they looked at the lid they had made that had not yet been opened.

Xiuying comforted Shiliu and Taohua: "It's normal to do it like this the first time. Just practice makes perfect."

Mother Yang looked at Xiuying with a worried look on her face. These were precious eggs! If they weren't cooked well, what a waste! She even wondered if she should just give up.

The third one opened was the one packed by Yang’s mother.

She succeeded, and Xiuying opened the eggshell

"Mom made the ones with candy centers. They look good and taste good!"

Several girls couldn't wait to taste it.

"Hmm...this tastes so special."

"It's delicious. I didn't expect there is such a way to eat it."

Xiuying was happy to hear that the girls liked to eat preserved eggs. Food like preserved eggs is similar to durian. People who like them think they are delicious, while people who don’t like them will not like them no matter how they are cooked.

It seems these girls have the same taste as me.

This is not mixed with chili peppers. If it is mixed with some green peppers and fried chili peppers, the flavor will be better.