Chapter 407: The Power of Expulsion from the Village
Seeing that she was making jokes, Mrs. Hu Yuan obviously hadn't thought about it yet, so she wanted to persuade her a little more, but her eldest granddaughter had already come in to say that dinner was ready.
Song Qiu also hurriedly started talking and couldn't avoid it, so she couldn't persuade her any more.
That's all, this grandniece is seriously ill and has her own plans in mind, so it's useless to say more.
She thought about what her sister said, Ah Qiu was a person blessed by the Buddha, so he would certainly do well in the future.
Buddha protected her well-being, could he still shorten her good marriage?
Thinking like this, Hu Yuan felt relieved.
What are you worrying about right now? Let’s just worry about that little brat in the family who is so unattractive!
You are a seventeen-year-old boy. Get married as soon as possible to avoid attracting attention at home.
It's better to get married and take over the brick kiln of the Li family, with a safe and sound wife and a warm bed, than to be either a soldier or a chivalrous person.
After having lunch at Hu's house, Song Qiu said goodbye and left without staying too long.
We didn’t go anywhere else along the way and went straight back to Songshan Village.
I went to the inn first and took a look. Seeing that there was nothing busy, I went back to the village with my hands behind my back.
This is the first batch of dried radishes that have been pressed for several days. I need to see if they are much better.
After entering the village and walking up the gentle slope into the courtyard, I saw that her grandmother was not at home, nor was Grandma Deng next door. Instead, Mrs. Miao was staying in the house, smoking bacon.
Then I guessed that they must have gone to the village together to hang out with the old ladies. It was probably not too lively, otherwise she would not be able to leave behind the smoked bacon.
Song Qiu didn't care much. He went to the bottom of the eaves, moved a large earthen jar, and took out the cloth bag underneath.
This bag is the first bag to be pressed. If it is completed, the following ones will be almost done.
After untying the hemp rope tied to the cloth bag, Song Qiu reached out and grabbed a handful of radish cubes to look at. Seeing that the water content had been reduced and the texture was suitable, he turned around and moved out two benches.
Place the bamboo trellis on the trellis, then take out all the radish pieces from the cloth bag, spread them evenly on the bamboo trellis, and let them dry in the sun. It is also good to be blown by the wind without being exposed to the sun.
Strange to say, since entering the twelfth lunar month, the sky has been gloomy for several consecutive days, with no shadow of the sun. It is getting colder day by day. I'm afraid it will take a good snowfall.
Rest.
He touched the cold radish cubes with his hands, but when he put them away, his fingers were very frozen. Song Qiu rubbed his hands together and took a breath. It was so cold that he simply went into the room where Zhang's bacon was smoked.
It was inconvenient to smoke bacon in their wooden house, and it was boring to smoke bacon alone, so I joined the Zhang family and smoked bacon together in a spare room of the Zhang family.
Mrs. Miao was pressing cypress branches to smoke bacon. The room was filled with smoke and was very smoky. As soon as Song Qiu entered, his eyes were filled with smoke and tears came out of his eyes.
I quickly found a small stool and sat down, then I felt a little better.
Mr. Miao looked amused, "That's what the smoked cypress branches are like. They can't be smoky, so they have to be smoked. It's very irritating to the eyes. I shed tears all afternoon yesterday, but I'm used to it today."
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Song Qiu squinted his eyes and saw clearly that Miao used cypress branches for free. He pressed so many cypress branches against the smoked branches and waved his hand, "Auntie Hugua, you are putting on too many fights all at once! This is too smoky.
, instead of smoked bacon, it’s smoked people! No wonder my grandma and grandma Deng escaped!"
"Is it much?" Miao didn't think so.
In previous years, bacon was only smoked in two pieces. I was too embarrassed to cut down cypress branches, so I just smoked it with firewood.
There is a lot of bacon this year, the Song family alone has over a hundred kilograms of it, and there are so many sausages. Naturally, they have to be smoked with cypress branches for several days to make the meat more fragrant.
Seeing so much meat, she felt happy and tried to smoke it well. The cypress branches were good for smoking. Of course, the more the better!
"More! You can't hold it down or take a nap. If it suddenly bursts into flames, you can't even extinguish it. The meat will be burned." Song Qiu thought about the bacon in his previous life and burned the house.
There are a lot of things to do. Isn't it just that there is too much firewood and it can't be suppressed?
Mrs. Miao hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I'm awake with a shock! I didn't blink my eyes, but I kept pressing them, and I didn't see any fire at all!"
She feels sorry for the big pieces of bacon in their family. They can have a prosperous year this year!
Hugua earned money, but her mother agreed to leave a piece of the smoked bacon for her to take back to her parents' home for New Year greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year. She had to be careful!
Song Qiu saw that although the cypress branches were piled high, Miao kept pressing them tightly, and all that came out was the smoke that killed people, so he didn't say anything.
I felt really bad that the meat was burned, and it was Miao who felt more distressed than her.
The room was full of smoke and it was not warm to sit in. Song Qiu couldn't stay for a while before he couldn't bear the smoke and ran away.
As soon as she left the house, she saw Zhang Zaohua running in panting with Shi Dan'er in her arms.
"What are you doing running like this?"
Six-year-old Zhang Zaohua hugged two-year-old Shi Dan'er. If Shi Dan'er hadn't been so thin and light, she might not have been able to hold her and run all the way like this.
"Sister Ah Qiu, you're back!" Zhang Zaohua quickly put the stone egg down on the spot, then shook his hands and breathed out loudly, "You're going to kill me."
As he spoke, he excitedly approached Song Qiulai and said, "Sister Aqiu, you don't know that the village is bustling again! It's the Cao family, and everyone in the village is at her house now! I just came back to ask my mother to watch the fun.
I never thought you would come back, sister Aqiu.
You don’t know that the village chief’s grandma is so angry that she is now shouting at the village chief’s grandpa to expel the Cao family from the village!”
"Fortunately, sister Aqiu, you bought Miao Xiang and rescued her. Otherwise, Miao Xiang would have been killed by a father and mother like her sooner or later! Sister Aqiu, you must hide Miao Xiang well.
Now, don’t ask her to come back!”
Song Qiu was confused after hearing this, "Okay, so what did Mrs. Cao do to make people and gods angry? Even the always good-tempered village chief's grandma wanted to expel them from the village?"
Expelled from the village, this is such a powerful thing.
These days, no matter which family is expelled from the village, it will lose the protection of the village and neighbors, just like a lonely boat in the vast sea of people.
No other village was willing to accept the people who were expelled from the village.
"Don't worry, Miao Xiang is fine now!" Knowing that Zaohua missed Miao Xiang, a good friend, Song Qiu responded to her, but she was also curious about what happened to the Cao family, so she hurriedly walked out.
When Zhang Zaohua saw her going, she was also anxious for the excitement and hurriedly went inside to say something.
Miao wanted to guard the meat, so naturally she couldn't watch the fun and was curious, so she just asked Zhang Zaohua to tell her after reading it.
There was no other way, so Zhang Zaohua had no choice but to hug Shi Dan'er and follow her hurriedly.
Song Qiu walked quickly alone, and soon he arrived not far from Cao's house. Sure enough, he saw that there were people surrounding him. It was true that everyone in the village who was fine was there.
She was small, and with so many people blocking her, she couldn't see in front of her, so she could only poke her head through the gap.
When Orion Wang in the front saw that it was her, he couldn't help but laugh. He quickly gave way and squeezed people to make room for her so that she could get to the front.
When he reached the front, Song Qiu could see clearly what was going on in the courtyard without tiptoeing.