Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

After the village chief finished speaking, he handed the stage to Yun Zhenzhen.

She smiled at everyone and said, "You all just arrived in the village, so you might not have everything prepared at home. We usually have a lot of wool left in our wool workshop. You can take it home and sew a few vests to keep warm. They're not expensive. If you need any, you can talk to Aunt Zhao. We'll register and buy them later."

These new arrivals are still wearing thin clothes, which are not warm at all. I don’t know how they managed to survive. It will snow in two days, and they will freeze to death if they continue to wear like this.

Anyway, there is still a lot left in the warehouse, and there is a lot of wool left over from making blankets on a daily basis, so I can sell it to them at a low price.

Of course, some people who cannot afford wool can use their newly received wages to go to the town to buy some willow catkins, reed catkins and the like. They are very cheap and you can buy several kilograms for a few cents.

Those people had just received their wages, so naturally they wanted to improve their current lives and solve the problem of food and clothing. Now they had to consider how to keep warm.

Basically, every family with children bought wool to make clothes. As for adults, they can wait until tomorrow to go to town to buy woolen wool. This kind of wool is cheap, so save as much as you can.

In this way, a collective meeting allowed the newcomers to let go of their inner guard and have a new understanding of Qinjia Village, while also laying a solid foundation for them to truly integrate into this large collective in the future.

Qinjia Village was very lively for a while because it welcomed new people. Adults and children were interacting with each other, and the village was bustling every day.

Now the construction of the highway has been completed by a small margin. In another month, the wide road will be built to Liuye Town, and then everyone will have a good New Year.

In the past, they would send the extra soil they dug out to faraway places. Now, the new people in Qinjia Village will transport it to their doorsteps to use it to build pits or make adobe bricks, hoping to rebuild their houses when they earn money next year.

The thatched huts that everyone is helping to build now are like temporary residences. Only by building a mud house can people truly feel at ease.

After such a busy day, it was already the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month.

As winter approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder. Every household in the village has started to heat their kangs. Even the children who usually play outside without fear of the cold come into the house from time to time to warm up.

Yun Zhenzhen was boiling water in the house when she suddenly heard Xiaonan's voice coming from outside the door.

"Mom, come out and see, it's snowing heavily outside!"

Xiao Nan had just played outside and drove the chickens and ducks back home. The snow on his body had not melted yet when he came into the house.

When Yun Zhenzhen went out, she discovered that heavy snow had begun to fall outside. The snowflakes were so numerous that their original hexagonal shape could no longer be seen.

Looking up at the sky, it was filled with dense snow particles, making the whole sky look gray.

As the saying goes, auspicious snow means a good harvest. The first snow this year is so heavy, so next year's harvest will definitely be good.

It started snowing when we were preparing lunch at home. After dinner, a layer of silver frost had accumulated on the ground.

Yun Zhenzhen asked Old Lady Qin to pass a message to the woolen yarn workshop, asking all workers to take a half-day break this afternoon, go home to spend time with their families, and return to work on time tomorrow.

house.

The kang was burning all the time, and both adults and children were sitting by the bed chatting. Xiaonan took off his shoes and socks and was laughing and making noises on the bed. Even Dashan and Xiaoshan quickly went into the house and found a warm corner to take a nap.

"Mom, I took out several eggs from the chicken coop today. How come these chicks have nothing to do all day long, so how come they lay so many eggs?" Qin Li came back from a walk in the backyard, his whole face red from the cold wind.

Yun Zhenzhen smiled and said, "I've kept it for so long, isn't it time for it to be useful?"

Over the past six months, our family has bought nearly thirty or forty chickens. Now we can pick more than a dozen eggs every day, which we can’t even finish eating. Sometimes we even send them to the old house.

Eggs also have a shelf life. Even though they can be stored a little longer in winter, they cannot exceed two months at most. However, the family members are almost tired of eating eggs every day, and Yun Zhenzhen has not figured out how to use them.

It would be troublesome to sell this thing. Not only is it a long journey, it is also easy to break on the way and can't be sold for much.

She had thought about selling them to the villagers, but now every household raises chicks and has no shortage of eggs. Not to mention the newcomers, they certainly don't have extra money to buy eggs.

Suddenly, a dish came to her mind: preserved eggs with peppers. This was her favorite dish in her previous life, but she didn't know if she could replicate it here.

Preserved eggs are usually made from duck eggs, but they only have chicken eggs at home, so they can only try to make another dish - preserved eggs.

She remembered that modern preserved eggs were made by mixing lime, soda ash, salt, and tea. The mixture was then wrapped around the eggs and placed in a cool place to dry.

But lime seemed to have not been discovered yet in that era, so she planned to use yellow mud instead and asked Qin Li to go to the kitchen to burn a batch of wood ash.

After mixing the two, add tea, stir until it becomes a paste, and then let it sit for an hour.

Put the extra eggs at home into it, evenly cover them with mud, then apply a layer of dry rice husks on the surface to prevent them from collision. After that, place them on straw to seal them and place them in a cool place for seven days.

After doing all this, Yun Zhenzhen opened the gate and found that the village was full of joy.

Many aunts took advantage of this half-day holiday to go to the town to buy things and start preparing for the New Year.

Yun Zhenzhen went to the vegetable garden in the backyard and cut a bunch of leeks, preparing to use the remaining eggs to make leek boxes for the children.

I have been busy with the affairs of the tavern recently and have no time to prepare delicious food for everyone. Everyone is tired from work and studying, so I want to come up with some new ideas to satisfy the children's appetite.

The pancake was filled with plenty of fillings and fried on the bottom of the pan until both sides were golden brown. The fragrance could be smelled for miles before it even came out of the pan. The children were all staring at it outside the door, unable to concentrate on the books in their hands.

When the chive dumplings were served on the table, the aroma filled the entire yard and lingered for a long time.

The children each grabbed a chive box and ate it with big mouthfuls, unable to help but praise it.

"Mom, how did you make this? It's so delicious!"

"That's right, can I eat this more often in the future?"

Yun Zhenzhen smiled and took a bite. "It's delicious now. You'll have fun during the New Year. I'll show you my cooking skills and make some more special things so you can eat as much as you want all at once."

"it is good!!!"

A cheerful response came from inside the room.

Yun Zhenzhen looked out the window from time to time. The heavy snow kept falling with no sign of stopping. When she went out in the evening, the snow was over her ankles when she stepped on it.