Old Yuan, who was picking red peppers with the villagers who came to work in the yard, saw an extra little girl and was also very curious.
Then I saw that this girl was holding a big pottery vat with amazing strength, which made me even more curious.
After all the things on the mule cart were moved, Song Qiu drove the cart into the backyard, unloaded the cart, fed Xiao Hei, let him have a good rest, and then returned to the front.
At this moment, Aling had become familiar with the old ladies like Old Yuan, chatting and laughing, and helped them cut the pepper stalks.
Song Qiu looked at it and didn't know what to say.
It is necessary to be on guard against others, but looking at this Aling at the moment, he doesn't seem to have any ill intentions, so she will wait and see for the time being.
She can now afford to eat for several people.
I bought a big pottery vat, and I also had rapeseed oil. About twenty people in the yard were cutting the pepper stalks together. They washed them and let them cool down before chopping.
But this morning, it was not certain whether they could cut off so many pepper stalks. Before Song Qiu came back, they had just finished shelling those peas.
At this time, Song Qiu came back and started steaming the bean sprouts. It was not much, so she could work alone. Zhang Lihua also joined the team of cutting the pepper stalks.
There were a lot of beans this time, and it took several rounds of steaming to steam them all out. After Song Qiu let them cool down one by one, he wrapped them in flour, then spread them flat in the steamer drawer, and put them one by one in the room where old Yuan was sleeping.
Leave to ferment.
Her house currently has a large pottery jar and three small pots, and there is no way to continue enlarging the pottery jar.
Song Qiu estimated that he would have to wait at least five or six days for this batch of moldy douban, and then calculated how much doubanjiang could be made from the moldy douban last time.
Then in the afternoon, when everyone went home and had lunch, she stopped cutting the pepper stalks. There were still about three to four hundred kilograms of unfinished peppers, so she put them aside for now.
About five to six hundred kilograms of red peppers were selected, washed and dried. Added together, they had collected red peppers from several villages.
Nowadays, except for a few seeds left in the harvested village, there is nothing left.
Then he asked Lao Yuan, who was already good at chopping chili peppers, to start chopping chili peppers with the women who helped from the village.
The kitchen knife I use at home is not as useful as Song Qiu's custom-made chopping knife. I have to put my whole hand in the basin to chop, which is more troublesome, but there is no way, there are not so many chopping knives.
Song Qiu could only ask them to slow down as much as possible to ensure safety and not to rush.
After a while, everyone was in order. Song Qiu went back to the house to look at the moldy beans that he had soaked for lunch, then went to her room to get two thicker needles, and also pulled a piece of twine that held her breasts.
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When I came out, I started calling Zhang Lihua to come over and work together.
The unselected peppers have not been washed either. Fortunately, they are not grown in the mud and are not dirty. They cannot be touched by water. This is the only way to do it.
Song Qiu raised his head and looked at the sky. The sun has been quite good these past two days. It doesn't really bask in people, but it's great for drying things.
Then he picked out a piece of twine and threaded it into the eye of the needle. Then he took the peppers in his hand and started threading them into the needle one by one, then hung them in the twine.
While putting it on, Zhang Lihua looked at it, "That's it, just put all the peppers in. Remember to check it when you're putting it on. If the peppers are rotten, don't take them."
Zhang Lihua nodded and understood. Then she took a needle and threaded the twine and started working.
Aling, who had nothing to do, stood next to Song Qiu. She saw that this work was interesting. She had seen people sewing clothes, but she had never seen people wearing peppers.
The man who was chopping chili peppers in the yard glanced over from time to time. Seeing the movements of Song Qiu and the others, they were also very strange.
However, those who work for others and need to be paid must understand the rules, ask what you should ask, and don't ask what you shouldn't.
This is not to help, but to chat and ask questions about everything.
However, they also figured out that the Song family's battle must be about what to eat, and it was going to be sold for money. They couldn't ask any more questions, they just immersed themselves in doing what they were told.
After Song Qiu had threaded a piece of hemp thread, he carefully closed it and knotted both ends, then put it on a bamboo pole beside the yard where clothes were hung to dry, letting it dry in the sun.
Zhang Lihua followed suit.
After all, Mrs. Zhang is a talkative person. She was talking to Huang Caihua. When she looked up and saw this, she couldn't help but laugh, "Isn't this a bastard? When I was a child, I helped a lot.
At home, we string corn sticks with bamboo strips to dry them, and we just wait until the busy work is done to thresh them slowly. Why are the peppers dried in the same way as corn sticks?"
When the others heard this, they all had seen the cornbread in their parents' home, and they couldn't help but nod, it just looked like this.
Meifu was happy, "Aqiu is a smart girl. She can still make something out of the red pepper that we don't know how to cook. It's chopped and dried. I don't know what to do with it, but I smell it.
The chopped chili is making my mouth water. I just want a bowl of rice right now!"
When others heard her words, some laughed, "Don't drool! Your saliva will flow into the basin later. You can take this basin home yourself!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone became happy, and for a while, the entire Song family yard was laughing.
On the opposite side of the long river, you can vaguely hear the shouts of men working enthusiastically.
The two sides are so radiant, with clear water, blue sky, and clear sky. This land and water has a unique flavor.
Song Qiu listened to the big guy's words and didn't explain much. She just dried the corn sticks in the sun. Not to mention, she was just like drying the corn sticks. She just dried them in the sun, and when they were air-dried, they were dried chili peppers.
It is estimated that it will be sunny for several days in a row, so let's dry it out quickly. Then there will be no need to worry about wind and mildew if it rains for a few days.
Naturally dried chili peppers are naturally more fragrant and more convenient. This is what the older generation used to do.
In one afternoon, Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua didn't take a break, and A Ling, Zhang Zaohua, and Zhou Lanhua, who was tired of chopping peppers, came to help, and all the three or four hundred kilograms of peppers were worn out.
Woke up.
String after string, all possible hanging places in the Song family's yard were hung, including hanging them on the pumpkin vine frame that had not yet been dismantled, as well as hanging them in places such as the firewood shed in the backyard.
We didn’t even have enough twine, so we got some from Zhang’s house.
Looking at the red courtyard, it’s so festive.
Song Qiu grinned with joy. Sometimes, happiness is so simple.
And one afternoon, so many women were busy chopping chili peppers. Even though the kitchen knife was not very handy, they were able to chop up a total of about 500 kilograms of chili peppers in more than twenty pots.
Song Qiu paid everyone their wages for the day, and told them that there were no more peppers for the time being, so she would stop working tomorrow, and would come back later when her Douban came out and the peppers were harvested.
After everyone heard this, they just said yes. Although it was a tiring day, it was fun to get together with everything and get twenty wages. What's wrong with that?
I don’t expect this to happen every day, as long as I can call them out.
Then, with their wages in their pockets, they all went home together as the sun set.