"Okay, let's all go and have a rest. Jingxiu, you will have to be on your own from now on. You must work hard. If you have any problems, tell your second brother or Xiao Jin in time. You must work hard."
With all our strength, we will all have a great career here in the future.”
Gu Jingqi and Lin Min are not worried. This boy has a cheerful personality and strong adaptability. If he can get into college in the future, he will have a bright future.
Although Gu Jingxiu is down-to-earth, his personality is too introverted and he is not good at getting along with others. He still needs to be trained.
Gu Jingxiu nodded, "Second sister-in-law, I will work hard."
"I'm going to do my homework." Gu Jingqi got up and went back to the house.
Gu Jingxiu also planned to change clothes and do some work. "I'll wash our clothes while I have time in the afternoon. I'll be busy in the future and won't have time to take care of the house. The weather is getting warmer, so I'll wash our clothes."
I'm going to buy a tank and make a tank of slurry water myself. After my second brother drinks wine, he can eat some slurry water when he gets home, which is light."
Make slurry?
Lin Min was convinced when he heard this. The slurry water is a specialty of Qingshui County. It can be eaten in summer to quench thirst and relieve heat.
She grew up there and grew up eating water.
After coming to Bincheng, I don’t think much about winter. The weather is warm now, and I really miss that sip of juice.
"Jingxiu, do you want to make slurry water?" Lin Min agreed, "Okay, let's go buy a tank and vegetables in the afternoon."
"Okay, Second Sister-in-law, I'll do the laundry now."
"Jingxiu, I'll wash our clothes, so you don't have to worry about it."
Since Gu Jingxiu came here, as soon as all of their clothes were taken off, she would wash them and hang them to dry in the yard.
Lin Min was really embarrassed about this.
She bought a washing machine, but Gu Jingxiu didn't use it very much. He was just used to scrubbing.
"Second sister-in-law, why are you being polite to me? I have nothing to do, so why don't I just wash a few clothes? Besides, there is a washing machine at home, so why don't I wash it by hand when I'm back home?
We rural people are not that delicate, so don’t let us get used to you. The more you get used to us, the more lazy you will become.”
After Gu Jingxiu said that, he went back to the house to change out of the new clothes he wore today, and ran to the yard to move the washing machine to wash clothes.
Lin Min also went out to help fetch water, "Whoever marries our Jingxiu in the future will be blessed."
This girl is too virtuous.
"Second sister-in-law, I'm still young, so don't keep asking questions like this."
Every time he mentioned his partner, Gu Jingxiu's face turned red unconsciously.
Rural girls are always shy about these topics.
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore."
Lin Min helped fill the washing machine with water and put the clothes in.
She ran into the house again, took off Gu Jingchuan's trousers from his body and took out his suit.
Gu Jingchuan's clothes were bought by her from a famous brand and she didn't dare machine wash them, so Lin Min put them in the washing tub and rubbed them with her hands.
Gu Jingxiu wanted to take a shower, but she didn't let him.
"Jingxiu, I will wash your second brother's clothes. If I am busy in the future, you can help me share the load. Don't always rush to do the work."
"Second sister-in-law, if you don't let me work, how can I be embarrassed to stay at home?"
Housework and cooking are what Gu Jingxiu is good at and enjoys.
After washing the clothes, Gu Jingxiu went to the market to buy a vat for making water.
There are now four people in their family. In rural terms, they are all grown-up working men with big appetites.
Therefore, the jar for making slurry should not be too small. If it is as big as a kimchi jar, you will not be able to eat more than a few meals.
Gu Jingxiu plans to buy a larger tank.
Lin Min asked her how to bring it back. Gu Jingxiu thought about it and said she would bring it back.
She originally wanted to ask Gu Jingqi to carry it back with her, but she was afraid of disturbing Gu Jingqi's homework.
When Lin Min heard Gu Jingxiu's words, she rolled her eyes angrily and criticized her for not being flexible and for being a hard worker.
She ran to Uncle Zhang's house and borrowed a trolley.
Uncle Zhang bought this to push coal in winter.
Very convenient.
Lin Min borrowed a car and went to the vegetable market with Gu Jingxiu.
I spent 12 yuan to buy a pickle jar with a diameter of about 20 centimeters and a height of 60 centimeters.
I also bought mustard greens and cabbage specially made for pulping.
Then I bought some fresh vegetables for cooking and pushed the cart back home.
Then we started making the slurry.
Lin Min can also do this job.
In the past, in the Lin family, she made all the water in the house.
The principle of slurry water is that it needs to be fermented.
If you are making the slurry in your hometown, first put some previously prepared slurry in the tank, so you don’t need yeast.
However, in Bincheng, there is naturally no ready-made slurry water as the base, so we can only add some yeast for making steamed buns.
Since Gu Jingxiu came, she no longer buys steamed buns from outside. She bought a small steamer to steam the buns herself, so there is yeast at home.
At this moment, the division of labor between the two is clear.
Lin Min is responsible for cleaning the newly purchased tank.
Gu Jingxiu cuts and washes vegetables.
Wash and cut mustard greens and cabbage, blanch them in boiling water, then put them into a vat, mix with a small amount of flour, ferment with yeast, and then pour in boiling water.
The temperature is not very high now, so in order to ferment as quickly as possible, you need to cover the tank with a quilt or something like that.
When you open it two days later, you will find a vat of fragrant slurry.
The slurry is light white and slightly acidic. You can scoop it out and drink it directly in summer. It is rich in nutrients and can relieve summer heat and quench thirst.
The dishes made with soy sauce are also delicious. Blanch the soy sauce, sauerkraut and other green onions in oil, then add them to the boil, then add the rolled noodles, and you will have a bowl of authentic soy sauce.
The two of them worked for nearly an hour before finishing the meal, covering the jar with a thin quilt, and then it was time to make dinner.
Gu Jingqi said that he had eaten too much at the restaurant at noon and would eat less at night. Gu Jingchuan had fallen asleep until now and was unconscious.
Lin Min then suggested to cook some porridge.
When the porridge was ready, she went to call Gu Jingchuan, but the man snored loudly.
I'm afraid the thunder won't wake him up.
Lin Min had no choice but to give up. She went out and sat with Gu Jingxiu and the others to drink porridge, leaving it in the pot for Gu Jingchuan.
In the evening, when everything was finished, she returned to the house and had time to take out her purse with money, open it, and start counting the money.
She first counted the number of red envelopes, and there were eight.
Gu Jingchuan marked each red envelope.
He said that when the other party needs a gift in the future, he will have to return it in double the amount.
Lin Min opened one given by her second uncle, and as expected, there was a stack of unity inside.
She counted, ten thousand yuan!
Good guy, that’s several years’ salary for an ordinary person.
She counted what Uncle Chen gave her again.
Twenty thousand yuan.
He is worthy of being a rich man.
My grandfather and uncle also gave me two thousand yuan.
They are working-class people, and this is probably my grandfather's one-year pension.
Lin Min looked at the pile of money on the table and felt deeply moved in her heart.
Not because of the amount of money, but because of their love for her.
Lin Min knew very well that they would never be so generous when giving red envelopes to others.
They gave her and Gu Jingchuan such big red envelopes to help them in this way...
