Dressed as a young lady, she became rich by relying on Pinxixi

After finishing one dish, Xu Nianyue started to add the second dish.

How can we celebrate the New Year without fish?

"Cheng Qi, let's go and catch some fish." Xu Siyu began to order the second person.

"Aunt, it's New Year's Day, please don't hurt me!" Cheng Qi didn't want to experience his aunt falling into the water again. He was really afraid to say this, but he was hit by his father.

"How do you talk to your aunt?"

Xu Siyu hurriedly persuaded him, "Brother, it's okay."

Then he hit Xu Chengqi's shoulder hard and said through gritted teeth: "Anyway, I'm going to go fishing. It's up to you whether you want to go or not."

The young man had no choice but to follow her as he couldn't persuade the young girl.

On the way, Xu Siyu tried to comfort him by saying, "You have to get up from where you fell. Don't worry, I'll tie a vine far away from the river, and you can go down and fish it out."

Xu Chengqi: ...

We were able to catch fish in this river in Xinshan Village last time, and we will definitely be able to do so this time.

If Xu Siyu said yes, then yes, and if not, she would just "buy" a fish. Anyway, there must be fish on the dinner table.

My aunt's logic is both a fallacy and the truth, and we must obey it.

After walking out the door, Xu Chengqi's psychological burden changed from not being able to go to the river to catching fish as soon as possible.

At the same place, I only spread the grass net for a quarter of an hour and caught fish.

Xu Siyu saw Xu Chengqi catching the fish and wondered for a moment if this fish was the same one he caught last time.

Xu Siyu looked at the endless flowing water, carefully examining this place of rebirth, and expressed her sincere gratitude for the gift from heaven and earth.

Xu Chengqi's loud voice called out to her to go home quickly. Xu Siyu turned around and saw that he was very anxious, waving his hands and feet, and was anxious to take her home.

No fish was let go this time!

People in Xinshan Village love spicy food!

This four-pound grass carp, with wild vegetables as a base, became a full pot of spicy fish in He Xiangmei's hands, occupying one-eighth of the space on the table.

Each person started with two bowls of rice from a table full of five meat dishes.

There weren't enough cakes for the ancestor worship to share after dinner, so Xu Siyu kept boiling water on the brazier in the hall. When the water was almost enough, she made some brown sugar, sesame and kudzu root powder for everyone.

"Auntie, I want more."

The adults all thought that one sweet bowl was enough, only Xu Chengzi and Xu Nianyue held their bowls and asked for a second bowl.

Xu Wangshi also ate very comfortably, but seeing the unsatisfied grandchildren, she was still unhappy. "Eat, eat, eat. You eat so much every day. How can you not be full?"

Mrs. Xu Wang did not allow Xu Siyu to touch boiling water.

The powder was made by Xu Nianyue.

Xu Siyu told her once: mix the loose powder with cold water and then with boiling water, and she learned how to do it in no time.

They looked for Xu Siyu to add spice.

Pure kudzu root is a little bitter, but adding sugar and sesame seeds makes it fragrant and sweet, and no longer bitter.

Seeing the two people's hands about to withdraw, Xu Siyu took them and persuaded Xu Wangshi at the same time. "Hey, Mom, we have a deal. No cursing today and tomorrow. This affects your fortune for the whole year."

"Okay, my girl. I won't say anything more. Don't give them too much. If they eat too much, they will have food stagnation and they will have to digest it later. What a waste!"

She thought that earlier in the morning, she had snatched half a piece of bacon from her granddaughter while her daughter was out, and her daughter had soaked it in water, saying that it was for steaming glutinous rice balls the next morning.

Okay, my daughter doesn’t want her family to suffer.

Xu Wangshi found that the family was increasingly listening to her daughter.

But she welcomes it.

Xu Siyu turned sixteen this year. The Zhang family was such an injustice that her daughter still had no husband at such an age. The hatred in Xu Wangshi's heart never diminished.

The girl is not married yet. What if everyone in the Xu family dislikes Xu Siyu like the second son does?

It’s not that Xu Wangshi doesn’t want to live a long life, but she is already in her fifties, and no one can tell when God will take her away.

If she were gone, I wonder if these children and grandchildren would still take good care of Xu Siyu.

The red paper shines, and the light from the oil lamp is soft and warm.

Through her drunken eyes, this large family looked quite harmonious and warm. They had married, had children, and their grandchildren were grown up. However, her little daughter still had no place to go, which made her feel uneasy...

On the seventh day after the New Year, the ground for the third house began to be broken.

The whole family was busy, and Xu Wangshi naturally couldn't sit idle. She was concerned about everything from digging the foundation, laying the stone foundation, lunch, and rest time... This made it convenient for Xu Siyu to experiment with down processing behind closed doors.

Although it is almost the end of the season, it does not prevent Xu Siyu from verifying it now and waiting until next year.

In fact, it may not even take until next year, as people these days like to stock up on goods.

He Xiangmei helped with the initial cleaning and drying of the fluff. Xu Siyu secretly bought odor-removing disinfectant, soap, baking soda and white oil from Pinxixi, and packaged them all in ceramic jars.

After trying several degreasing and drying methods, I soon made down with stretched and fluffy fibers.

With the help of a plug-in, this is quite easy.

Xu Siyu took apart an old piece of clothing belonging to Xu Wangshi and herself and turned it into a vest.

In order to test the lint shedding, Xu Siyu first sprayed a layer of anti-lint coating on the old fabric, and then divided Xu Wang's vest into diamond-shaped areas and hers into strip-shaped areas and sewed them with lint.

After the work was completed, she immediately called Xu Wangshi back to try on the clothes, put them on, and then asked Xu Wangshi to go out and supervise the work again.

In just one afternoon, Xu Wangshi felt that the vest was as warm as her tattered leather jacket.

Not long after taking it off at night, I felt cold.

Xu Wangshi put it on again and wrapped herself in the quilt. She felt her body was sweating.

"Daughter, this is so warm!"

"Well, I'll change the quilt tomorrow so we don't have to light the brazier at night."

After the whole family's efforts, they only managed to get a dozen ducks and no geese. They had a lot of feathers, but not much down.

Adding the amount brought back by her third sister-in-law after returning home, Xu Siyu thought about it and decided to make a quilt first as a filial honor to Xu Wangshi.

"Mom, try wearing more clothes and getting some sun. See if you feel uncomfortable or if you smell something bad."

Nowadays, it should not be difficult to make down quilts, but if you want to commercialize it, the amount of raw materials is a problem.

After finishing the clothes, Xu Siyu also thought about the uses of duck feathers. In her mind, the most contemporary uses were probably Zhuge Kongming's feather fan, European-style feather pens, shuttlecocks, the "Duck Cheek Fur" cloak that Jia Mu gave to Baoqin in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and various craft headdresses...

However, it might be a bit difficult for her to develop these technologies alone, so she had to put them aside for the time being and start making down jackets and down quilts first.

That’s it. After finding the raw materials, we have to find sales channels. This is Xu Siyu’s shortcoming. There are many things she wants to do, but after building the house, it’s time for spring planting.

Xinshan Village also cultivates double-crop rice. Between Grain Rain and Frost Descent, farming is a major undertaking for farmers, and the Xu family lacks the manpower to support Xu Siyu.

Xu Siyu still needs to think more about what to do?