Li Yu went home and filtered out the soaked moldy beans and put them into a sauce jar. He poured in white wine, pepper noodles, salt and rapeseed oil in proportion, mixed them well and put them in the yard to dry. He went back to the house and put the salt in. Add it to the chili sauce in proportion to the white wine, stir well and set aside. Turn on the fire and start frying the chili peppers to make cowpea sauce and kohlrabi sauce.

Zhao Di salted the dried cowpeas and brought them to the kitchen for Li Yu to prepare. The two cousins ​​worked together in perfect harmony.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Yu went to the wasteland to take the cattle home, hitched the cattle cart and sent the pickles to Shunfeng Inn.

Shopkeeper Liu laughed when he saw Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, I have to make a trip. I'll order another three hundred cans now."

"Okay, Uncle Liu, I'll go back and pull it right away." Li Yu unloaded the goods and shopkeeper Liu settled the account, turned around and drove the bullock cart back.

As soon as Li Yu got home, he called Zhao Di and Laidi, "Cousin, come and help me carry the pickles." Zhao Di and the two sisters ran out quickly. Li Yu said with a smile: "I ordered another three hundred cans. Fortunately, I packed them yesterday." I ordered hundreds of cans, otherwise it would be delayed.”

Laidi smiled happily, "Cousin, there must be more people who know about our pickles. It seems we need to show it off again."

"Yeah! I'll start canning when I get back from the delivery." Li Yu enthusiastically delivered the pickles to the inn and started canning them with Sister Zhaodi when he returned home.

The three of them were busy until Li Qing came back, only to find that no food had been cooked.

Li Yu smiled and said, "It's too late to cook, so let's just eat pimple soup."

Several people smiled and nodded. Li Yu mixed noodles and cooked rice dumpling soup. Li Qing and Zhao Di, who were all slurping after eating, kept praising Li Yu for making delicious soup.

After Li Qing finished eating, he and Xiao An went to the woods. They dug until it was not far before school time and then rushed to the school.

Li Yu decided that the children here were really very sensible. As long as they had enough to eat and work to do, no one had to worry about them.

The three of them were so busy that before making dinner, the packed pickles were sorted and placed all over the room. After counting, Li Yu found that there were only about two hundred cans of meat sauce left. He planned to wait for Sister Zhaodi to come home and fill up the space. The wild boars were sent to the He family to be whole and made into meat sauce.

After dinner, Li Yu lit an oil lamp, mixed the bean paste and chili sauce in proportion, and stirred evenly. He moved the sauce jar and placed two rows against the courtyard wall. He scooped a layer of bean paste into the sauce jar and put a layer of vegetable oil in it. Fill the bean paste until it is half a foot away from the edge of the vat, leaving some space to prevent the fermented bean paste from spreading outside the vat.

Li Qing held an oil lamp and watched Li Yu busy, "Sister, sir, you asked me to thank you for the pickles."

"Oh! If your husband likes to eat, I can give it to him next time. Ah Qing, put the oil lamp on the bamboo stand and rest early."

Zhao Di pointed at Laidi, who was sitting and napping on the verandah, "Ah Qing is going to bed soon. It seems that Di is a Rooster and falls asleep as soon as it gets dark."

Li Qing shook his head, "You guys haven't slept yet." Li Yu took the oil lamp in Li Qing's hand, "Be obedient and call my cousin back to the house to sleep."

Ah Qing watched Li Yu nod and put down the oil lamp, then went over to wake up cousins ​​​​and Di and went back to the house to sleep separately. Li Yu and Zhao Di were busy until midnight before mixing all the bean paste, covering it and letting it ferment in the yard.

Li Yu went to the backyard to check whether the door was closed properly, and then gave the big scalper a bundle of grass before returning to the house and closing the door to rest.

Early the next morning, I stirred the bean paste in the sauce jar, placed the bamboo lid upright against the sauce jar, opened the sauce jar and started drying.

Several people worked non-stop for several days to make pickles from all the cowpeas, peppers and kohlrabi in the yard.

Li Mei built a shed and took the Zhaodi sisters back to Dongshan Village to help take care of the construction site. Laidi took her rabbit and said to Li Yu: "Cousin, I will come back to spend time with you after the house is repaired."

Li Yu touched her soft hair, smiled and said, "Okay! I'll wait for you to come back."

Li Mei told Li Yu: "Be careful at home. When my aunt's house is repaired, I can come over and help you make pickles."

"Okay." Li Yu sent Li Mei and her daughter away and turned back to the house.

Li Mei bought the foundation in Dongshan Village next to Xishan Village. There is a piece of more than 30 acres of mountain land behind the homestead. The land deed and the house deed together cost ten taels of silver.

Li Yu's pickle business is also on track. Even on the lowest day, he can sell sixty or seventy cans.

Li Yu knew that as the weather got colder, there would be less and less cowpeas and peppers, so he put all the cowpeas and peppers he collected into the space.

After Li Mei's family returned, it was much easier for Li Yu to take things in and out of the space, so he sent the wild boar to He's house to be beaten up and made into meat sauce.

Li Yu was afraid that if he was not at home, Shopkeeper Liu would not be able to get the goods and lose customers, so he increased the number of pickles placed in Shopkeeper Liu's inn to one hundred cans, arranged them and stored all the prepared pickles in the space to keep them fresh.

The straw in the field was also dried, and Li Yu spent a long time taking all the straw back to the woodshed and stacking it.

After another five or six days, Chen Yaohui and the others spread the wasteland twice with fertilizer and plowed it deeply and leveled it according to Li Yu's request. The wasteland was finally cleared.

Li Yu paid the wages to a few people, waited for the helpers to leave, and said to Chen Yaohui: "Uncle Chen, I have a lot of strength and eat a lot, and Ah Qing is also growing tall. I can pay taxes on the little food I have." There are only three or four stones left, and I want to buy some millet or rice to store at home. Do you know which house has more grain?"

"My family sells twenty or thirty kilograms of grain every year. If you want as much as you want, just buy it from my family!" Chen Yaohui said with a smile.

Li Yu knew that the village chief made the final decision whether the Chen family was divided or not. He smiled and said to Chen Yaohui: "Uncle Chen, I will buy thirty dan from your house. You and the village chief's grandpa will tell you how much others give per dan. I will also give it." How many."

Chen Yaohui breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. If he bought less, he could still make it cheaper. If he bought more, the rest of the family would be upset. The price would be the same as others, so he could easily negotiate.

"Okay, uncle will bring it to you when he gets back." Chen Yaohui strode away.

Li Yu called Xiao An, and Xiao An looked at Li Yu uneasily, "Sister Li, I will go home after cutting the cow grass."

"Xiao An, I want to ask if you can help me at my house. I will give you four hundred yuan a month. Would you like to have lunch at my house?"

Xiao An didn't expect that Li Yu would hire him, so he gratefully said to Li Yu, "Sister Li, you don't have to give me so much. I know you are taking care of me, but I'm not worth that much, so just give me ten cents a day." .”

Li Yu didn't expect Xiao An to say this, but decided to respect the child.

"Okay, just as you said. Is your mother feeling better?"

"Much better, thank you Sister Li." After Xiao An bowed to Li Yu, he happily took the cow and went to herd it.

After more than half an hour, the two brothers of the Chen family arrived in an ox cart to deliver food. Chen Yaohui's brother Chen Yaozu pointed at the food and smiled at Li Yu: "The little fish and the millet are all dry and dry. They are all new food this year. Six hundred Wen Yishi’s cart is worth ten stones of millet.”

Li Yu smiled and nodded, "Okay, Uncle Chen, I will give you the money when you deliver them all."

Chen Yaozu smiled cheerfully, "It's okay, I was afraid you might run away."

Several people moved the grain into the house, and Li Yu asked them to put it under the eaves. The brothers went back to collect grain.

It took three trips back and forth to bring all the food to Li Yu's house. Li Yu paid and sent the Chen Yaohui brothers away. As soon as he returned to the courtyard, the pig seller came with two piglets. Mr. Xie was cheerful. With a smile, "Xiaoyu, the piglet has already been gelded. Is your pigsty still in the backyard? I'll carry it over for you."

"Still in the backyard." Li Yu took Xie and his wife to the backyard and put the piglet into the pigpen. Li Yu paid the remaining money, and the Xie couple left happily.

Book friends, Maojia’s doubanjiang is all made by ourselves. It tastes better than the ones bought in supermarkets. It has no pigment and the color is beautiful!

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