Farming and reading family

After talking for so long, only the bowl of acorn jelly could be sold for money, and the rest was just to remind her father-in-law not to always make a fuss about what the family should do.

It was originally a small matter, but you had to make it into something grand and dragged the whole family down. In the end, no one will have a good life.

What she was talking about was the fact that Chen Ke had to take the imperial examination. In Gao E's view, studying and taking the imperial examination to become an official were two different things.

When she got home, Lei immediately came up to her and asked her what she had said before.

Gao E said that her father-in-law and mother-in-law had agreed to let them pick acorns.

"Can our mother-in-law agree to this?" Lei found it unbelievable.

"What else?" Gao E joked.

"Given the temper of our mother-in-law, she will definitely use her status as an elder to control you." Lei said confidently.

Gao E heard what Lei said and felt that her mother-in-law had some clues: "It doesn't matter whether she controls me or not."

"How can this not be a problem? How can this be tolerated?" Lei's anger instantly flared up.

Gao E laughed when she saw Lei's words. "My purpose back then was to keep you all at home by picking up acorns. This gave you a reason to come up every day, so you wouldn't forget what you were supposed to do when you heard something you didn't like."

Lei thought her second sister-in-law had a really good temper: "I can't stand it."

"Fire overcomes metal. People with too much anger have bad fortune." Gao E said jokingly.

Lei became serious: "Really?"

"Yeah." Gao E also looked serious.

Lei thought about it seriously and said, "Then I have to change my temper. I can't ruin my fortune."

Gao E just smiled but didn't explain, which was not entirely unreasonable.

After I told everyone about this, everyone felt relieved. After all, it was very hard to keep it a secret from my parents.

"Then should we still pick bamboo shoots?" Chen Hanyue thought bamboo shoots were delicious.

"It's all right." Gao E nodded, then looked at her eldest brother. "Yesterday, the villagers went into the mountains to help. If you want to thank them, you can take some smoked fish and meat from our house."

"No need." Chen Qing refused directly. "I'll just remember these favors."

Gao E didn't say anything when she heard her elder brother say this.

"Oh no!" Lei suddenly realized, "I didn't expect the smoked fish to be consumed so quickly. Why don't we catch some more fish and make more?"

Gao E frowned slightly: "My sister-in-law is recovering from her injuries, so it's not convenient for me to kill the fish."

"It's okay, I'll do it." Lei patted his chest and assured.

"Then you must be careful and don't go into the river," Gao E reminded.

Although Wang Jinfu's incident was an accident, it is still very dangerous to go fishing at night.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law." Chen Jie didn't care.

"From now on, you have to pick acorns during the day and peel them at night. If you come back late, you will have to tell your parents about it." Gao E unified the words.

Everyone nodded.

"By the way, we can't go fishing tonight. Something important has happened." Gao E said mysteriously.

Everyone thought it was a big deal, but after dinner they saw Gao E taking a bag of salt.

Everyone was surprised to see so much salt. Who could buy so much salt at one time?

No wonder he could take out five or six kilograms of salt at a time without blinking an eye.

"This is coarse salt." Gao E took out some and said, "We'll boil it later and make it into refined salt. It will be convenient to use later."

Chen Ke on the side widened his eyes. Turn coarse salt into refined salt?

That's two prices.

And how could the Gao family refine crude salt into refined salt?

Chen Qing and Chen Jie were completely stunned. Such a large amount of salt was shocking enough, and it could be refined into refined salt. What would refined salt taste like?

Gao E saw that they were all stunned. "What's wrong? It's not a difficult thing, it just takes a little long to cook."

Chen Ke saw Gao's relaxed expression and thought that she had no idea of ​​the seriousness of the matter. "You must not tell anyone about this, or the authorities will come to your door." She

Everyone nodded hurriedly. Since the second brother said it was so serious, it must be that serious.

Before boiling the salt, Chen Jie sent all the children away and had someone watch them closely.

Gao E had bought two large pots just to boil salt, but they just happened to have other uses.

Boiling salt is very tiring. You have to cook it slowly and then scoop out the precipitated salt.

Fortunately, Chen Qing, Chen Jie and Lei were all strong enough, and Chen Ke also lent a hand, so they managed to hold on until late at night.

However, when they saw the snow-white salt grains, everyone was very excited, as if they had made money.

Once the salt has dried completely, you can put it into a jar so you don't have to use coarse salt when pickling fish or something.

It was almost dawn when they finished boiling the salt. Chen Jie was so tired that he sat in the chair and didn't want to move.

"We won't go home." Chen Jie said lazily.

"I still have to go back. I can't just tell my parents and then not go home. They'll think too much." Chen Qing was worried. "If my parents ask, I'll just say I'm taking care of your sister-in-law."

Chen Jie was speechless for a while.

So they were the only ones who wanted to go home, and they had to help cover up the lie.

"Okay." Chen Jie stood up tiredly.

On the way home, Chen Jie heard the crowing of roosters one after another, which made him less sleepy.

As soon as he entered the house, he heard the door of the main room open, and he immediately turned around and went out.

"You..." Lei wondered why Chen Jie wanted to go out again.

"Where are you going so early?" Jiang saw Chen Jie pushing Lei out.

Chen Jie laughed dryly: "I thought it would be inconvenient for my elder brother, a grown man, to take care of my elder sister-in-law, so I asked Caihong to go and take care of her earlier."

Jiang was dissatisfied: "She was injured and the whole family had to gather around her? When did you come back last night?"

Yesterday the old couple waited for them until very late, or to be exact, they waited for Chen Jie. They wanted to ask him about his plan to sell acorn jelly and ask him to keep an eye on his wife so that the money would not fall into the hands of the Lei family.

As a result, they waited until they could no longer hold on, but they still didn't see them come back, so the old couple had to go to bed.

"When we came back, we saw that my parents were already asleep, so we didn't dare disturb them." Chen Jie said without blushing or beating his heart.

No wonder Chen’s father felt that the third son never told the truth.

Jiang thought for a moment and gave up: "Since we are up, clean the pig pen and Lei, sweep the chicken coop."

So Chen Jie and his wife, who had not slept all night, gritted their teeth and went to clean the pigpen and chicken coop.

Jiang had recently picked up some dry firewood that was piled up in a mess nearby and needed to be sorted out.

Gao E habitually cooked for Chen Jie and his wife. Even if they had already eaten downstairs, they would come up and eat a little more.

After breakfast, Yang secretly called Chen Qing to the cave.

"What's wrong?" Chen Qing was worried.

"Is it because we are here and the second family is making pancakes and cooking? Isn't that too polite?" Yang asked in a low voice.

"I asked, and this is how they eat every day." Chen Qing looked at his wife's cautious expression and said, "When our lives get better, we'll eat like this too."

Yang wanted to say something but stopped herself. Of course she wanted to live like this, but how much food would she need? Besides, her parents wouldn't allow her to live like this.