The sticks are all here, and Xu Shiyan's family will definitely stay here at night.
So after dinner, everyone started working again.
Zhou Guilan and Su Anying packed up the bedding and put it on the kang to cover themselves. Xu Shiyan and Xu Chenghou took a lot of boards and nailed the front and rear windows in the innermost room of the west room from the inside.
Xu Chenghou's side also has five main rooms, with the door open in the middle.
If you want to enter the inner room of the west room, other than walking through the main door and passing through the outer room, you can jump in through the front and rear windows.
When the house was first built, it was not popular to put steel bars on the windows. There was no place to get steel bars at that time, so they were not put in.
The windows are all two-layered, with the outer layer opening outward and the inner layer opening inward.
So the windows were nailed up with wooden boards from the inside. Even if a thief did break in, there would be no way to enter the house through the windows.
Xu Shiyan and his wife stayed in the outer room of the west room at night and locked the door. If there was any movement, they would know first.
Chu Xuanhuai didn't go back there at night, and simply stayed in the clinic with Xu Haiyuan.
There are three rooms in the clinic. A while ago, Xu Chenghou specially asked someone to set up a small kang, as well as a fire wall stove and other things, because he was afraid that Chu Xuanhuai would be cold in winter.
Chu Xuanhuai is older and feels lighter at night. If there is any movement outside, he can hear it.
Xu Jinping and the three of them, needless to say, must be living in the outer room of the east room with Xu Chenghou and his wife.
As for the deadbeat, I don't know what happened. He didn't leave after eating the meat, so he had to lie down in the corridor outside.
When Zhou Guilan saw it, he thought, hurry up and find a sack to lay it on, and let it go.
Now this is the God of Wealth, and no one can afford to offend him, so just do whatever you like.
In this way, everyone settled down, the door was bolted and locked, the door of the house was locked, and the family got into bed and went to sleep.
The night was safe and sound, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they woke up in the morning.
It's Monday, Xu Shiyan can't always ask for leave, he has to go back to work.
Xu Chenghou and Su Anying had to help Zhao Jianshe, Huang Shengli and Yang Chunming fight today.
"Mom, if you can't handle the mallet, just wait until I come back.
Anyway, there’s no rush today, I’ll have free time tomorrow, so we can just do it together.”
Before leaving the house, Su Anying had to give some advice to her mother-in-law.
She was worried that her mother-in-law would be too tired as she had to watch the children cook and be busy with the hammering.
Is Zhou Guilan the kind of person who can live idle? How can she feel refreshed if she doesn't use the hammer again?
After her son and daughter-in-law left, the old lady took out a sack and soaked it directly in the big vat outside, scooping it out and scrubbing it slowly.
It's probably because Han Cai'e knew that her in-laws were getting married, and she was bored at home, so she came over at eight o'clock to help clean the sticks.
Even Su Anyu, who was on the other side of the hotel, saw that she was not too busy in the morning and left all the hotel affairs to Zhou Lirong, and she also came over to help with the work.
When it comes to brushing ginseng, it's not just a matter of brushing it haphazardly.
It is necessary to break off the remaining stubble from the sticks and sticks, and use a bamboo skewer to pick up the reed bowls left over from last year and brush them clean.
Then, bit by bit, brush off the soil on the main body of the mallet, and then carefully scrub the ginseng whiskers.
Don't use too much force when brushing. Red ginseng is not peeled and sun-dried, and the skin cannot be broken by brushing.
If the skin is broken and the pulp is released, white skin and grooves will appear easily. If it is not weighed, it will not be rated as high quality.
The tool for brushing ginseng used to be a shoe brush.
Crack the bamboo shoe brush in half and trim the brush handle into a sharp point with a knife, so that both ends of the brush can be used.
Later, someone discovered the business opportunity and specialized in making this kind of brush for brushing ginseng.
It's half narrower than a shoe brush, the black bristles are harder, and the brush handle is pointed and can be used as a bamboo stick.
Since last year, various companies have been making products. Zhou Guilan went to the store to buy this kind of brush for brushing ginseng.
Han Cai'e and Su Anyu were both very tired at work. They kept talking and holding their hands, and soon they came out with a big, white and plump tree.
"Auntie, your stick is really good. It looks so good."
Su Anyu took the mallet she had painted and looked around, feeling very curious.
"Don't mention it yet, this stick really looks like a little fat doll. No wonder there are ginseng dolls in the ginseng story. Take a look at how much they look like?"
"Well, our mallet is pretty good this year.
I'm waiting to pick out two big ones for my in-laws and my eldest brother to keep. Then I'll get a bottle and put some wine in them."
Zhou Guilan said while brushing the mallet.
Ginseng soaked in wine is a great tonic. If others don't give it to you, a serious relative of your own must keep one somewhere.
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"Oh, come on, this ginseng is not worth much.
My uncle is very busy every day and it is difficult to grow some big sticks. It would be a pity to keep them for brewing wine."
Upon hearing this, Han Cai'e quickly shook her head and waved her hands.
How much does it cost to buy such a big tree? Keep it for drinking wine? Isn’t that a waste of a good thing?
What's so good about that wine? Let's keep it for my daughter and uncle and sell it for money.
Zhou Guilan laughed when she heard this, "It comes from our own land. No matter how expensive it is, it's not something that even my in-laws would be reluctant to part with."
Don’t give too much, just buy one for each family, buy a big glass bottle, put five or six kilograms of wine in it and soak it.
When there are people at home during the holidays, I would like to prepare something to entertain guests, but there is no place to buy the good stuff."
If you put some deer antlers, tiger bones, immortal grass, etc. in it, the wine will be very powerful.
"That's okay, don't get used to their problems.
What’s the taste of that wine? It’s spicy. I don’t know what those gentlemen think, so why should I just drink it like this?”
Han Cai'e shook her head. She had been married to Su Weizhong for many years and still couldn't figure it out.
Why can't men move when they see wine? Is that stuff so delicious?
When Zhou Guilan heard this, she burst out laughing, "I don't understand this either, I guess they think it tastes good."
Here, the two in-laws led Su Anyu to brush the mallets, classifying them into grades while brushing, and when they had finished brushing enough, they put the mallets into the large aluminum basin.
The reed heads of the sticks are facing out and the whiskers are facing in, and they are arranged neatly in the big basin layer by layer.
Pour half of the water into the big pot and put the pot curtain on it. Then the two of them put the big basin on top of the pot curtain and add some water to the basin, not too much.
There are a lot of sticks in the big pot, and the lid will definitely not be able to cover the big pot.
So cover it with a double layer of Sophora flavescens plastic film and tie it tightly with rope to ensure that the steam inside will not escape.
Heat the bottom of the pot over high heat and steam for two and a half hours.
Making red goods is just like this. It is relatively simple. The difficulty lies in controlling the heat during steaming. The time must be determined according to the size of the mallet.
Zhou Guilan did this last year and is already very experienced, so there won’t be any problems with this.
While the ginseng was steaming in the pot, Zhou Guilan found old sheets and old clothes that were no longer used at home, tore them into strips and tied them with sticks.
"My dear, what are you doing?"
Han Cai'e had never seen this before and found it strange that it was so well made with a hammer, why did it have to be wrapped with a strip of cloth?
"Oh, these mallets are too big. I'm afraid they will break when steamed. It would be better if they were wrapped with a cloth strip."
This hammer from the Xu family is big, so you have to be careful. If it gets flapped or is in poor condition, it won't be sold at a high price.