The fake daughter married into the mountains and had meat to eat every day during the famine

Two hundred duck eggs were not a lot, and the two of them finished washing them quickly.

While the duck eggs were draining, Song Yuntang started making pickled vermicelli for the preserved eggs.

Put the salt in the pot and fry it until cooked. After the explosion stops, pour in clean water and tea leaves and boil.

When the boiled salt tea water cooled down, Song Yuntang filled a small bowl with white wine and rolled the drained duck eggs in the white wine one by one.

After boiling all the duck eggs in white wine, the salt tea water in the pot was almost cooled down. Song Yuntang asked Xu Wencheng to pour it into a container mixed with lime powder, wood ash and alkali and stir it into a paste.

Next, coat the duck eggs with a thick layer of mud and roll them on rice husks before putting them into a jar and sealing them for pickling.

Before the white hand touched the dark brown mud in the basin, a large hand with distinct joints grabbed the wrist.

Song Yuntang raised her head and saw Xu Qingye leaning over and looking at her.

The slightly slanted sunlight just happened to shine down from above his head, casting a halo on the man's face. Song Yuntang was dazed and thought he was hallucinating.

"Lime hurts your hands, I'll do it."

Song Yuntang stood up with his help, and Xu Qingye sat down in the place where she had just been, holding the duck egg in one hand and reaching into the mud in the basin with the other.

"How thick should the mud be?"

Song Yuntang reacted, lowered his eyes and said, "You guys wrap up, I'll watch from the side."

Xu Wencheng looked at the two of them and felt that his elder brother and sister-in-law did not get along like an ordinary couple. He saw it when his cousin and his wife got married. On the second day of the wedding, his sister-in-law blushed at every turn. At first, he thought his cousin's wife was sick and secretly asked his mother.

The result was a slap in the face.

Now that I've grown up and become more sensible, I can probably guess the reason.

Although the sister-in-law respects the eldest brother, they are not close to each other.

The eldest brother is the same. Unlike his cousin, his eyes are always indifferent when he looks at his cousin's wife. It seems that he looks at everyone like this. At most, he is more caring towards his eldest sister-in-law.

The same goes for talking. I don’t talk much to them, and I don’t talk much to my sister-in-law either.

They really respect each other like guests.

No wonder my sister-in-law said before that the way my parents get along is good, and my eldest brother is too unreasonable.

Although I was thinking about it, I didn't stop working on the things at hand.

Under Song Yuntang's command, Xu Qingye and Xu Wencheng got started quickly. The two of them wrapped the eggs with mud, while Song Yuntang found a pair of old gloves and put them on. He rolled the eggs wrapped in mud in a layer of rice husks and put them into the jar one by one.

Two hundred duck eggs just filled a small jar.

After installing it, she took a piece of wood to cover it, and mixed some yellow mud to seal the gap between the wood and the small jar, then moved the small jar to a cool place in the room to pickle.

Xu Wencheng was washing his hands. "Sister-in-law, what on earth are you making?"

Song Yuntang pretended to be mysterious.

"You'll know then."

"How long will it take?"

Song Yuntang thought for a moment and said, "The weather isn't cold now, so maybe 30 or 40 days."

By that time, the pepper seedlings she planted will almost be able to bloom and bear fruit. The weather is still warm now, and in another month, they will have to set up a greenhouse.

For a greenhouse, you have to use light-transmitting materials, otherwise you will have to burn the stove and lamp in the charcoal stove.

The cost of lighting is not small, especially since she has so many pepper seedlings planted.

When I come back from the county town, I will have to spend some time thinking about these aspects.

Taking advantage of the free time, Song Yuntang went to the wine shed next to the house, used a steamer to steam a large bucket of glutinous rice, mixed it with wine yeast, and sealed it in two small jars for fermentation.

Huajianzui’s glutinous rice wine dumplings are delicious, filling and affordable, and are quite popular. I only made two small jars before, but used up most of the jar in the past two days. Glutinous rice wine is easy to make, so I have to brew some and keep it for future use.

When making glutinous rice wine, Tu Shi and Xu Wencheng were always there to help. She didn't do much work herself, she just ordered them around.

"Tu Shi, how much wasteland have you opened up in the past few days?"

Tu Shi looked honest and simple. "The sunny side of the village is all barren land, about twenty acres, which I've enclosed with a fence. Beyond that, it's still connected to the mountain. I now clear one acre every morning and one acre every evening. The remaining eight acres are already planted with cabbage, radishes, and lettuce. I've also planted a circle of taro seeds at the foot of the mountain."

Song Yuntang was puzzled.

"I only bought radish, cabbage, and lettuce seeds before. Where did the taro seeds come from?"

When she bought the seeds, there were also Chinese chrysanthemum seeds, but she could never get used to the taste, so she simply didn't buy the Chinese chrysanthemum seeds.

As for taro seeds, she had never seen them when she bought seeds in the town, and she didn't see many farmers growing them on a normal day, otherwise she would definitely plant some.

Tu Shi said that there was a circle of taro seeds planted along the foot of the mountain, which shows that there were quite a lot of taro seeds.

"The mountain over there on the wasteland belongs to the Jiang family farm in town. When I was clearing the land that day, I must have made a lot of noise and attracted people from that area. We got to know each other after a few conversations. I happened to help them when they were transporting taro seeds. The taro seeds were given to me by a young lady from the farm over there. She said she knew you, young lady."

Tu Shi chuckled, "Actually, I've never eaten taro before, but seeing them growing it, I thought since we have so much land now, it wouldn't be a big deal to give it a try, so I planted a circle along the mountain over there in the wasteland."

Song Yuntang understood and bought a farm without thinking, but he didn't expect that it would be adjacent to Jiang Surao's farm.

I actually owe her a favor invisibly.

Speaking of which, I haven't seen Jiang Surao for a while, and I don't know if Mrs. Jiang's illness has recovered.

"Tang'er."

As soon as I came out of the courtyard, I saw Song Jinyuan leading his cousins ​​from my second uncle's family.

Before they even opened their mouths, Song Yuntang had already guessed their purpose.

"Why are my eldest brother and cousins ​​here?"

Song Jinyuan said a little embarrassedly, "I wonder if Tang'er has heard about the situation at Second Uncle's house? Second Aunt took all the money in the family to the Ma family, and it was detained there. Second Uncle had no other choice but to ask Grandpa and Grandma for help. Grandpa and Grandma were also helpless, so they came to plead with Dad and Mom. Dad and Mom said they couldn't make the decision, so they asked me to bring my cousins ​​to you to ask for help."

Song Yuntang found it a little funny.

It turns out that with so many people asking for help, the hot potato has been thrown into her hands.

Song Fulai looked at Song Yuntang's indifferent expression and felt unsure.

She had been in the Song family for a short time and didn't have a very close relationship with her third uncle's family, let alone her cousins.

He only dared to ask because he saw his uncle's brothers working here.

"I know my mother and sister had some unpleasantness with my cousin before. If we weren't desperate, we really wouldn't have the face to ask my cousin for help. I hope my cousin will consider that we are family and don't bother with them. My father has already beaten my mother and asked Mr. Zhuang to write a letter of guarantee and have my mother put her fingerprints on it. She shouldn't easily provoke my cousin in the future."

If we talk about resentment, they definitely do.

Life at home was already tight, and even though my mother was in a bad mood, she shouldn't have taken all the money in the house.

In the end, he was unable to protect the money and his whole family went hungry.