Su Yueling, who successfully "destroyed the body and traces", decided not to make the tea that morning.
After eating a plate of preserved fruit, she settled down and went to enjoy breakfast.
It has been snowing since the first day of the first lunar month, and the snow last night was even heavier. When she went out, Su Yueling could see a vast white world. Su Yueling was a little afraid of the cold. Having grown up in the north, she had no interest in playing in the snow.
Not much interest.
So after breakfast, she retreated into her room.
There were several stoves in the room, but no matter how bright the stove was, it could not completely drive away the chill.
Su Yueling was lying on the couch with two layers of soft rabbit fur blankets under her body. In addition to two quilts, she also added two fur blankets because of the cold weather.
There was no sound of snow falling outside the window, and the room was silent, except for the crackling of sparks.
Xiaoqiao and Shengnan were lying on the couch together, and she was learning how to tie the knot with Shengnan. Wu Shu was doing some tricks, thinking that Su Yueling's purse was too small, and it was currently impossible to match one set of clothes with one purse.
Prepare to pick a few more and let them do it after the embroiderers have rested.
There was silence in the room, which is the quiet time that many people dream of.
But Su Yueling couldn't stand it anymore.
Today is colder than yesterday. Yesterday it was only minus two degrees, and today it is minus six degrees. For Su Yueling, who has been accustomed to heating since she was a child, this coldness can be said to be an unbearable pain in life.
Although she had enough quilts, the sum of the several beds was really heavy.
"Ashu, I want a down quilt!"
Su Yueling finally remembered that the down quilt is a winter artifact. Not only can down quilts be arranged, but down jackets can also be arranged. If she didn't know how to make sweaters, Su Yueling would have wanted someone to knit a sweater for her.
In this weather, even if Yuan Suijun and Su Yuewei ran away, she wouldn't want to chase them, okay?
Wu Shu put down the booklet in his hand, "Down quilt? How to make it?"
Su Yueling recalled, "Both duck down and goose down can be used, usually the fluff on their chests is used to stuff the quilt."
"I don't want duck down, I want goose down. Goose down has no smell."
Because duck down is omnivorous, the down has a fishy smell that seems to be absent.
Katsuo was surprised, "A goose has very little down."
Su Yueling said: "Just take a few more!"
"I want a down quilt, right now! Right now! It doesn't matter how much it costs."
"Okay, I'll let them buy the goose."
To remove the down from a goose's chest, it must be slaughtered. I'm afraid it would take dozens of geese to make a quilt. Ordinary families couldn't raise that many geese, so they had to buy them from wealthy families.
Their farm may raise more geese.
Su Yueling gave an order, and the Yuan family became active.
Yuan Suifeng immediately took care of the matter, "I'm going to buy geese. It's snowing these days. It can freeze people to death. I'm not afraid of the cold. I can just go out."
Yuan Suifeng is indeed not boasting. The outside is already covered in silver. Most people wear three layers of clothes inside and three layers outside. They wrap themselves up like buckets. Even if they are not good enough, they will dress like Yuan Suijun.
Thick cloak.
But Yuan Suifeng was different. He only wore three pieces of clothing, his face was rosy, and he was not afraid of the low temperature at all. Su Yueling, who was afraid of the cold, was envious.
In the past two days, villagers have come to visit the house from morning to night to pay New Year greetings. Yuan Suifeng will be fourteen after the new year. In everyone's eyes, it is an age where you can say goodbye. In addition, everyone knows that the Yuan family is well-off and they have a good relationship as brothers.
It's very good. If you marry into the Yuan family, you can say that you have fallen into a honeypot.
Therefore, there are indeed many people who say they are close to each other.
Of course, they are very self-aware, and the people they are talking about are all from good girls' families in these villages, and most of them have virtuous names.
But Yuan Suifeng doesn't want to get married at all now. He hasn't made any achievements yet. He depends on his brother and sister-in-law for food and clothing. Before he can stand on his own, it is impossible to get married. He can't take his wife to eat his brother and sister-in-law.
He also knew that these people had good intentions and it was difficult to refuse them.
It happened that his sister-in-law wanted a goose down quilt, so he could use this as an excuse to sneak away. She was indeed his biological sister-in-law!
Therefore, Yuan Suifeng can be said to be in high spirits. People who don't know better may think that he is the one who asked for the goose down quilt.
No matter how strong he is, he is still a young man.
Yuan Suijun was worried, so he asked Awu to go out with him, and the two of them also looked after him.
Yuan Suifeng spent three days visiting two nearby counties, and finally found Zhuangzi who could provide two hundred geese, and even help slaughter and pluck the geese. The price of the geese was not low, one cost four coins of silver.
Two hundred geese would cost eighty taels.
It can be said that Yuan Suifeng has never seen such an expensive quilt.
Yuan Suifeng thought for a while and said to Zhuangzi's steward: "Clean the goose down more than ten times. You have to wash it with soap locust. If it is cleaner, I will give you two coins."
As far as the manager is concerned, all he needs to do to get the money is his mouth, so he is naturally happy.
Two hundred slaughtered geese could not fit in a carriage. Since they were considered a big customer, Zhuangzi was willing to send two oxen carts to help pull them back.
It's snowing now and it's very cold every day. Before the snow melts, these goose meats can be frozen hard as long as they are placed in the yard, so there is no need to worry about them spoiling.
But with so many geese, even though there are more people in their house now, how long will it take to eat them?
By the time Yuan Suifeng returned home, it was already the sixth day of the first lunar month.
He first went to report to his sister-in-law what he had learned during his trip.
Su Yueling, who had been covered with a thick quilt for several days, was very happy, "Has the goose down been cleaned? Let's put it in the hot room and dry it again."
The Yuan family's greenhouse is located next to the kitchen. The kitchen boils water every day, so the room next door can be said to be the warmest place in the house. Su Yueling kept this empty room to grow vegetables. The Yuan family basically relies on the greenhouse to grow vegetables in winter.
Already.
Goose feathers are perfect for drying here.
As for the goose meat that has been shipped back and has been frozen hard...
Su Yueling waved her hand, "If you want to eat, just do it. I won't eat it anyway."
It took almost a day to transport it from the neighboring county. It wasn't freshly slaughtered, so she didn't want it.
"If you can't finish it, share it with the village."
Two hundred geese, this number is quite terrifying.
None of the Yuan family had a particular preference for goose meat, so Yuan Baoshu kept four of them and distributed the others to the village.
A goose weighs seven or eight kilograms, and there are nearly two hundred geese. This means that on average, each person in the village can get one kilogram of goose meat. Families with a large population will receive more, and families with a small population will receive less.
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The villagers didn't expect such a good thing, and they were so happy. When they found out that the Yuan family bought so many geese, it was because Su Yueling wanted to get the goose down, and the goose raiser at home promised that when they slaughter the geese next year, the goose down
Leave them all to the Yuan family.
When distributing goose meat, the servants of the Yuan family skipped the Zhang family as usual.
At night, every household was cooking goose meat, and the whole village was surrounded by the smell of meat. The smell was so rich that Su Yuewei couldn't ignore it even if she wanted to.
Su Yuewei couldn't sit still. When did the people in Lushan Village become so wealthy? It's already the sixth day of the first lunar month and they haven't finished eating the meat at home?
The Zhang family is a family of scholars, but they were actually compared to one another.