Since the whole family agreed to make donkey-hide gelatin, Su Liu quickly started to take action and took out all the money locked in the box to purchase the medicinal materials for making donkey-hide gelatin.
The main ingredient in donkey-hide gelatin is donkey skin. It would be great for an average farmer to have an ox. Very few people have a donkey. In Dayao Village, only Landlord Zhao from the east of the village has one.
Just a donkey.
Donkeys have always been used only for crops, carts, or mounts. Of course, some people eat donkey meat, but it is very rare and very precious. Because of this, donkeys become more valuable, and the donkey skin is even more valuable.
Things are more valuable when they are rare.
After searching all over Baise Town, Su Liu only bought a donkey skin in a restaurant. The store owner said that the donkey was sold because the owner was waiting for money, so he slaughtered it.
Two days.
"If you want donkey skin, maybe you can go to Changping County and have a look. There are also several companies that make donkey meat." The restaurant owner said to Su Liu.
Su Liu smiled bitterly. It seemed that even if he made donkey-hide gelatin for the first time, if he wanted to make it in large quantities or even build a workshop, the first thing he had to solve was the source of donkey skin. Otherwise, say
Everything is in vain.
And with just such a donkey skin, Su Liu finally knew where the value of donkey-hide gelatin in this era was, naturally because this donkey skin was hard to find!
It would be great if there was a ranch dedicated to raising donkeys like this!
Su Liu sighed.
After obtaining the most important donkey skin, other medicinal materials were much easier. After running for two days, all the items for making glue were ready, and Su Liu started the first step of making glue - soaking the skin.
In fact, to truly make the glue rigorously, you have to select the leather and weigh it. However, the pollution in this era is not very serious, so there are not that many impurities. After inspection, the leather begins to soak.
"Sister, is this it?" Su Xiao pointed to the donkey skin soaked in the water and asked: "How long will it take to soak? Will it not rot?"
"Generally speaking, you can soak it for three days and three nights or four days and four nights. When the skin swells, the hair on the skin can be pulled off with your hands." Su Liu said, pressing the donkey skin into the water, and then added another
After talking about the next few steps of making glue, Su Xiaotou felt dizzy.
"I'd better make steamed buns, it's too difficult." She stuck out her tongue and ran away.
Su Liu shook her head, and she didn't blame her. Not to mention that Su Xiao, who had never done it before, found it troublesome. She also found it very complicated to do it by herself.
"Our family's fortune depends on you!" she said while looking at the donkey skin soaked in the water.
The process of making donkey-hide gelatin is not easy. No matter how anxious Su Liu is, she can't rush it. While waiting for the skin to be soaked, she still takes care of the bundian stall with Su Xiao and the others. After all, this is their first business, so it is impossible.
Abandoned.
...
Su Changsheng walked into the old house dejectedly, carrying his own bedding and baggage on his back.
"Dad, it's Daddy who's back." Yindan was playing in the yard with a gourd and ladle scooping water. When he saw Su Changsheng, he threw down the gourd and ladle in his hand and rushed over: "Dad!"
Hearing the sound, everyone came out one after another. Zhou's eyes were red, and he looked at Su Changsheng with a sad and aggrieved look. Su Chuntao was so excited that tears fell down.
It would be great if dad comes back. Finally, they have someone who can make decisions for them.
Only Huang and the others noticed something was wrong with Su Changsheng. Mr. Su looked at the bedding on Su Changsheng and suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"Boss, what's wrong with you? Why did you come home at this time with your clothes on your back?" Mr. Huang asked the question in Mr. Su's heart.
Only then did Zhou and the others realize that Su Changsheng was unusual.
In the past, Su Changsheng never carried bedding when he went home. Sometimes, although he was not in high spirits, he still walked with wind. After all, even if he was a small steward, he would be better than farming, and he would earn more money.
But now, Su Changsheng has not shaved his beard, his eyes are bloodshot, his face is very haggard, and his whole person looks very gloomy.
"Su Lang, what are you doing?" Mrs. Zhou walked over with support on her waist, and jumped up suddenly when she saw Su Changsheng like this.
"Stop talking, go boil a pot of water, and I'll take a bath first." Su Changsheng ordered irritably with a hint of gloom in his eyes.
"Tao, go and boil the water." Mrs. Zhou hurriedly ordered Su Chuntao.
Su Chuntao pursed her lips after hearing this, and she could only temporarily swallow her resentment that she wanted to complain to Su Changsheng, and walked to the kitchen muttering.
"Father, Mom, I'll go over and talk later." Su Changsheng threw down the blanket on his back, muttered in a sullen voice and walked towards the east chamber, and Mrs. Zhou hurriedly followed.
"What did he do?" Huang couldn't react for a while.
Mr. Su's face was a little solemn. He glanced at the bedding on the ground, frowned and said, "Don't ask, I think something is wrong. I'll know it soon."
In the east chamber, Mrs. Zhou carefully handed over a bowl of tea, then walked to Su Changsheng and asked hesitantly: "Su Lang, what's going on?"
Su Changsheng drank the tea, pursed his lips, and suddenly slammed the bowl in his hand to the ground.
"I'm fired."
Zhou was so frightened that she stood up. Then when she heard what he said, her eyes widened in shock and she screamed: "What did you say?"
Fired? How could she be fired? She was doing a good job and under her father's care. How could she be fired? Without the steward's performance, what will they do in the future?
"Over the years, I have worked hard without any merit. In the shop, I am not responsible for taking care of the person. I just say goodbye and don't show any kindness." Su Changsheng punched the kang with hatred.
When Zhou heard this, his expression suddenly changed. He thought it was a joke, but it was true. What's so big about this?
"What's going on? How come you're fired so suddenly?"
As soon as this question was asked, Su Changsheng's face became a little embarrassed, and some did not dare to look at Zhou's face. He hesitated and said: "It's nothing, it's just that something went wrong on the errand, that's it."
"What's wrong? Didn't dad correct it for you? Didn't you properly apologize? Oh, it's a big deal to lose this job. This is what our family depends on." Zhou's voice unconsciously sounded.
He raised his head and said: "What did dad say? I have already said that you can't go on errands when working in Diao's shop, and you can't put on airs. What can I do now? There are no errands, my mother and the others
Do you want to eat the northwest wind?"
Zhou's worries are not ignored. There is no separation of families. In the past, all the money Su Changsheng earned was turned over to Huang. Even if it leaked through the fingers, it was just a drop in the bucket. It can be said that she had a lot of money in her hands.
There's nothing private about it, so it's only about twenty taels of silver.
If it were an ordinary farm family, twenty taels of silver would be an astronomical figure, but who is Zhou? She has a higher heart than ordinary people, how can she see these twenty taels of silver? Besides, this is her private house.
It will be given to Chuntao and Jin Quan in the future, but it will not be taken out easily. Now that Su Changsheng has no errand, where can he collect interest?
That's all, no interest, but neither Su Fusheng nor Su Jinfeng are married. Once the time comes for them to get married, Mrs. Huang will definitely use the money for their affairs first. Then their house, as well as
What to chew?
The more Zhou thought about it, the more she felt in her heart. Life was already so difficult now, and Su Changsheng had lost his job. Wouldn't their life be even more difficult?
Hearing the dissatisfaction in Zhou's words, Su Changsheng's machoism was stirred up again. When he thought about his father-in-law who wisely protected his own life and used him as an abandoned son, his already angry heart became even more unhappy.
"Don't talk about your father. I am his son-in-law after all, but he didn't even think about helping me. Instead, he pushed me out to do things, huh."
Zhou was stunned and argued: "How is it possible? How could dad not help you?"
"If I help, how can I come back like this?" Su Changsheng snorted coldly and said, "I even begged in a low voice, but he still let me come home." He said that I would give him another job in the future, bah, that's just a picture.
Sounds good!
Ms. Zhou was stunned on the spot and said: "No way, dad loves me so much, no way." After a pause, she said again: "How about you go beg my dad again and make amends to my boss?
.”
Su Changsheng, however, looked impatient, and stood up and said: "I won't go, I want you to go alone. A good horse will never turn back, and I won't believe it if this boss doesn't beat the west. With your ability,
I can’t find an errand to do yet.”
"You..." Mrs. Zhou was so angry that she really wanted to ask you what your abilities are. If you didn't rely on my father, how could you be a small steward?
Su Changsheng didn't want to talk to her anymore. He just went to wash up and walked out, leaving Zhou with a look of resentment.
"You really have great abilities! Bah!" Mrs. Zhou spat bitterly, thinking about the next days, her face was full of sorrow, what should I do?
In the main room, Mr. Su and Mr. Huang soon heard the news that Su Changsheng had lost his job. They were stunned at first, and then the latter howled.
Although the Su family also earns interest from farming, most of it comes from Su Changsheng's monthly money. Now that he has lost his job, it means that he has lost the interest.
"Howling, howling, what's the use of howling when things are like this?" Mr. Su smoked a dry cigarette, frowned and said irritably: "I have no errands, so go to the fields. I have fields and land at home, and I have hands. I can still do it."
Are you going to starve to death?”
What the old man said is reasonable. In these days, with the foundation of fields, as long as we are willing to work and avoid famine years, we will not starve to death.
But Mrs. Huang didn't think so. She patted her legs and said loudly: "What do you know about you? How many people are there in this family? Fusheng's wife hasn't even married yet. Isn't that where money is spent?"
"Didn't you save a lot before?" Mr. Su looked unhappy.
"How much money can there be? You don't know how much money it costs to marry a wife? There is also Jinfeng's dowry. Don't forget. Jin Quan just said this morning that he was going to take the boy student examination at the age of 18. How can he not use money?" Huang glared.
A pair of squinting eyes said: "You think he lost his job now, and the money will fall from the sky?"
"Besides other things, the silver needed for the gold medal must be kept, and the Tongsheng Examination is the most important." Mr. Su blew out a puff of smoke and said to Mr. Huang.
Huang was about to say something when she heard Su Changsheng's voice at the door: "Dad, Mom, I'm coming in."
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