The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Youngest Lin's crying stopped immediately, and he stood up dissatisfied, not caring about the snot and tears on his face: "You little hoof, it's your turn to intervene in your elder brother's marriage? Your father is not qualified."

"Since the family has been separated, Chengzu's marriage is decided by his father, so why do you, the youngest, intervene?" Second Uncle Lin glared at the youngest Lin, "Brother Xia's question is reasonable, but you should talk about it." what's going on."

The youngest Lin thought that the marriage was very good, so she was not afraid to say it out: "The family in Wangjiang Village next door has only three people in the family. My brother and his father are considered rich in their village. There are twenty people in the family. Acres of fertile land, renting out the land every year is a huge income. You can marry someone’s good brother without a bride price, which is not much better than Weijia Village, and you can’t find such a thing with a lantern.”

Fortunately, Miao Lin was not completely confused, and she didn't name which one, otherwise it would be a disaster for Miao Lin to be approached by her elder brother's family.

"Bastard!" Uncle Lin was so angry that he wanted to hit the youngest Lin with a stick, "What is it if you don't want a bride price? If you don't want a bride price, they want to recruit a son-in-law. Chengzu's father is still alive, and there are still people in the Lin family." , you actually want Chengzu to be your son-in-law."

After Second Uncle Lin's words, everyone was in an uproar. Don't say that old man Lin's family is not bad, even poorer families would not do such a thing of selling their sons.

Lin Xiazhi laughed angrily, the youngest Lin still had such an idea, if a man's family doesn't give a bride price, and a brother's family doesn't give a dowry, they will be scolded for selling their sons, and will be looked down upon.Old man Lin has always been concerned about saving face, and when he finds out what Youngest Lin thinks, there will definitely be a commotion in the main house.

Li Zheng was afraid that Youngest Lin would get angry with his father, so he hurriedly said to Youngest Lin, "Uncle Lin, this matter will end here, and don't mention the matter you said again, will Chengzu's marriage be left to his father?" Decided, if you do something that hurts the face of the Lin family and the Lin family village, don't blame the village for holding a meeting."

Lizheng manages a village, and he has a lot of power in his hands. Holding a meeting is one of them, so everyone basically obeys Lizheng's words.

The youngest Lin was not so easy to obey, but in front of many villagers, he still did not confront Li Zheng and the clan elders.

Lin Xiazhi's family was once again sympathized by the whole village. The neighboring village hadn't had any incidents of marriage for many years, and what the youngest Lin did and said was more and more embarrassing.

No matter what other people think, Lin Xiazhi's mood didn't fluctuate much. His calm performance even led Erfang's family in a relatively calm mood, which made Lizheng feel that Lin Erfang was pretty good.

That night, it was said that an earth-shattering quarrel broke out in the main house of the Lin family. The old man thought that the youngest Lin was ashamed of his work, and ordered him not to take care of the marriage of the second grandson, and even took away the right of the youngest Lin to be a housekeeper.

The youngest Lin kept crying and howling all night, making the surrounding people unable to sleep at night, and everyone's sense of the main house of the Lin family became worse.

Old man Lin knew that his stupid youngest son had offended Lizheng this time, so he personally took a pot of wine to Lizheng's house to make amends, saying that he didn't know about this before, but now that he knew, he would definitely look at Yan Lin's youngest.

As for other gossip, old man Lin didn't bother to pay attention to it, he couldn't bear to explain it to others.

Lin Xiazhi asked his family members to pay less attention to the main house, and recently they stopped going to the village to minimize their presence in the village, so that the limelight of this matter would pass quickly.

Li Xiu has been unhappy because of the incident in Weijia Village. In order to distract Li Xiu, Lin Xiazhi gave him ten taels of silver from his piggy bank.

The ten taels of silver were all earned by Li Xiu by hand, the amount was neither too much nor too little, but I just told Li Xiu to keep it safe and not give it to anyone who wanted it, and saved it for Lin Chengzu when he married his husband.

Lin Xiazhi originally planned to start building a house, because it would take a few days for the youngest Lin to make a fuss about it. Fortunately, it only took about ten days to build a house in the countryside, and it was more than a month before the ground was frozen and the foundation could not be dug. Wait a few days.

Now that the building of the house is not in a hurry, Lin Xiazhi is going to tinker with some food. He learned from Xia Geer's memory that there are no fresh vegetables in winter, so he can only eat pickles and dried vegetables. He also likes to eat them in winter Lin Xiazhi who ordered vegetables couldn't bear it.He is going to try to make Shudi pickles and northern sauerkraut that he has eaten before. Both dishes are simple to make and taste good.

The jelly business was not doing well, so Jufu Lou simply stopped buying jelly and only bought tofu. Lin Chengzu and Lin Huzi had free time in the morning, and they could cooperate with Lin Xiazhi to do other things.

There was no big jar at home, so Lin Xiazhi got up early in the morning to go to the pottery workshop in the county with Lin Chengzu to buy jars.

The largest jar in Taofang is four feet high. Lin Xiazhi plans to marinate at least two large jars of sauerkraut, which is enough for a whole family in winter. You can’t use the largest jar for pickles, just buy one that is two feet five feet high. Considering the size of sauerkraut and Kimchi can be sold in Jufulou. Lin Xiazhi bought a total of five sauerkraut jars and ten kimchi jars, totaling [-] Wen. People from Taofang took the initiative to help them send them to Linjiacun.

In addition to buying jars, Lin Xiazhi also bought some star anise from a pharmacy, bought a catty of high-quality liquor at a wine shop, bought [-] catties of salt, ten catties of sugar, and four rolls of oiled paper at a grocery store.

"Brother Xia, what are you going to do with all the shopping?" Lin Chengzu asked on the way back.

"Brother, the oil paper I bought is of great use. The jars and others are for preparing some new food." Lin Xiazhi didn't hide it, anyway, he would need his elder brother's help when he returned home.

Fifteen jars were enough to load two ox carts, and they were transported to Linjia Village and placed neatly behind the thatched hut.

In the afternoon, Lin Chengzu and Lin Huzi continued to make tofu, and Lin Xiazhi boiled a jar of sauerkraut and a jar of kimchi by himself, and covered the mouth of the jar with a clean cloth to prevent dust from entering.

The two ironed jars asked Lin Chengzu to help move them into the main room, and the other jars were tied with straw and placed outside the house.

A few days ago, after the beans in the dry field were harvested, a bunch of radishes and cabbages were planted, and now they have just sprouted, but the radishes and cabbages were planted early in the land opened up by Lin Huzi, and they are Lin Xiazhi's goal today.

Radishes and cabbage are hardy. Farmers in Jingguo like to plant a crop after autumn harvest. They can almost mature before the ground freezes hard in winter. They are the source of vegetables for farmers throughout the winter. If they are well preserved, they can be sold for money. .

The temperature is now ready to make sauerkraut, Lin Xiazhi will start after the jars are dry.

The raw material of sauerkraut is cabbage. Lin Xiazhi plans to make only one jar this time to try. If it tastes good, he will pickle a large amount of sauerkraut and sell it to Jufulou to make money.

Wash the cabbage that has been in the sun for two days, scald it in boiling water, then neatly stack it in jars, fill it up and pour it into a cool white Kaifeng jar, and finally cover it with several layers of clean cloth towels.

I don't know if the climate in Jingguo is suitable for making sauerkraut. It is estimated that sauerkraut can be prepared in 20 days in this weather. We will know whether it can be successful when the altar is opened.

In addition to sauerkraut, there is kimchi to do. The pickling time of kimchi is shorter, but the process is slightly more complicated, because kimchi needs to prepare the sauce.

Boil a pot of boiling water, put white wine, ginger slices, dogwood juice, star anise, dried peppercorns, salt and sugar into it, boil for a quarter of an hour, and after cooling, it will become kimchi juice.Add sliced ​​radish strips and marinate for three to five days.

Jingguo didn't have chili peppers, and Lin Xiazhi didn't know if it would be successful to use cornel juice instead, so he only made a small jar.

After tossing the kimchi, Lin Xiazhi asked Lin Chengzu and the others to cut a large pile of bamboo back, cut it into seven-foot-high bamboo pieces, inserted them around the two acres of dry fields, and weaved straw curtains enough to enclose two dry fields.Considering that the weather was not yet cold enough to keep warm, Lin Xiazhi didn't wrap the straw curtain around it.

After five days of tossing and tossing, the kimchi made by Lin Xiazhi is already cooked, so you can pick it up and try it.

The Lin family's breakfast that day consisted of white porridge and kimchi, plus a large plate of egg white noodles. The light white porridge was served with hot and sour pickles. Everyone had a very happy meal.

Although this kimchi is still slightly flawed in Lin Xiazhi's opinion, he is already satisfied that it can achieve this taste without chili.

From this day on, Lin Xiazhi used the remaining jars. In addition to white radish, he also added radish seedlings, cabbage heads, soaked fungus, young ginger, cowpea and other materials that could be found in the Lin family. Soaked six jars, each jar soaked one kind.

After the kimchi and dry fields were done, Lin Laoyao had been making trouble for more than ten days, and the rumors in the village gradually died down, and Lin Xiazhi put building a house on the agenda again.

Building a house is a big deal for the whole family. On the morning of Lin Chengzong's holiday, Lin Xiazhi called a meeting with the whole family to determine the house building plan.

The blueprint was designed by Lin Xiazhi and Lin Chengzu together. It was drawn on a flat stone slab, and the size of an acre of land was planned. The house in the middle was in the shape of a Chinese character, with the gate on the front, the firewood room, kitchen and granary on the left, and the granary on the right. There are bathrooms and toilets, and a row of bedrooms at the back. There are five in total, four of which are used as family rooms, and one is prepared to be used as a guest room. The lobby is in the middle. A patio is left at the entrance to ensure the light in the home. You can also dig a reservoir to raise some aquatic organisms such as lotus, which can not only decorate the house but also carry water to put out fires when running.

Lin Xiazhi in the front yard plans to plant some fruit trees, build a grape trellis, and plant some flowering vines at the foot of the wall, so that the scenery in spring, summer and autumn will be beautiful.

The backyard occupies a large area. A well is dug in the middle, three stone mills are placed around the well, three brick houses are built in one corner, one is specially used for making tofu, and three large iron pots can be placed in it; Store firewood, one is used to marinate pickles, and the other corner is used to build a chicken coop for the chickens at home.

Lin Huzi felt that there was no need to build a brick house alone for making tofu, and one stone grinder and one iron pot were enough at home, and there was no need for three.

Being able to put forward opinions is a kind of progress. Lin Xiazhi praised Lin Huzi and explained the reason.

Tofu is a unique secret recipe of their family, and other people can't learn it. The whole tofu room is separated from the kitchen at home to keep it more confidential.

As for the stone mill and iron pot, one is enough now, and there is no need to buy new ones, but when planning the house, we must plan ahead, lest the tofu will not be enough if we want to add more stone mills and iron pots.