How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

Chapter 11 Women are too miserable and difficult

Chen Xiaoyi and his brothers got the salt and went home carrying empty baskets on their backs.

Now that the weather was cold, the three of them ate a fish together at noon.When I got home in the evening, my stomach was growling with hunger.

Chen Feiyan took a bowl full of salt from Chen Xiaoyi's hand, thinking that her parents were generous in giving salt.

It's just ancient well salt. The color is a bit unattractive.It turned out to be earthy yellow with a hint of green.

When she saw this salt, she immediately thought of the pure white salt that modern people eat every day.

It was a bit difficult in ancient times to purify salt and make it pure white.She simply couldn't do it.

Chen Feiyan has read countless farming novels.

In those novels, no matter whether the protagonist is male or female, or what major they studied, everyone seems to know astronomy and geography.Chemistry and physics are all in the hands of the protagonists.Salt production and purification are not a problem.

Chen Feiyan remembered that there was a protagonist who seemed to be his student. Once he traveled to the Song Dynasty, he knew all kinds of dyeing techniques, and could improve textile machines, steam engines... Some protagonists could even invent gunpowder pistols and cannons, or they could With dozens of tons of white sugar, we can also make braised pork offal and various delicious snacks.

Those people were so capable that it made Chen Feiyan feel a little ashamed and inferior.

As an ordinary person at the bottom of modern society, Chen Feiyan has been looking back on the past these days.

She found that apart from studying, she seemed to have no skills that could be used in ancient times.

She can actually make braised pork and cold dishes.

It's just that the ancient rural areas were too poor and couldn't even fill their stomachs. Where could she go to find pigs that the so-called ancient people despised and didn't know how to cook? !
There are also various seasonings for braised pork, such as star anise, cinnamon rock sugar, angelica and angelica berries, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaves and fennel, and she doesn't know how much effort and thought it takes to collect them in the mountains.What's more, these spices don't grow at all in many places...

In addition, the several basic seasonings that modern people think are used for cooking are not affordable to the lower class people in ancient times.

Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, which one should you not spend a lot of money on?
In addition, raising pigs was not easy in ancient times. If the piglets were not raised carefully enough, they would get sick or even be infected with swine fever.It is impossible for farmers to make money by selling.As a result, pigs were a good commodity in short supply in ancient times.

In ancient times, people at the bottom were often hungry. How could they dislike the strong smell of pig urine?

Do they really not want to eat meat?

Isn’t it because my family has no money and can’t afford it?

Chen Feiyan has read many history books before.

There was one thing she remembered particularly deeply.

It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the palace held a Thousand-Senior Banquet to entertain centenarians from all over the country.

At this banquet, things were not shabby.There are abalone, chicken wings, pork knuckles, pig lungs, pig intestines, lamb tripe, beef, venison and other heavy dishes. However, the thousands of old people are old, and their stomachs are not very good to begin with, so they cannot eat too much meat. Yes, I can’t eat cold food either.

So, after the banquet was over, the dishes could not be finished even if they were distributed among the eunuchs and maids.The eunuch and the maid ate the leftovers every day for half a month, and the leftovers turned sour. The people in the royal kitchen had to ask the eunuch to put the leftovers in big wooden barrels and transport them out of the palace.They were also sold quietly to small restaurants outside the Forbidden City.

The small restaurant has several stoves facing the street, and a big pot is stewed on them.The pot was full of leftover dishes eaten by the palace people.

Poor families who cannot afford to eat meat all year round can pay two or three to five cents and scoop out a spoonful in front of the restaurant waiter.

Whatever the spoon scoops out is what they get, it all depends on their luck.

Some people are willing to pay five cents and have strong eyesight and hand skills. They can scoop out half of the spoonful of large meat in the stew pot, such as stewed pork trotters, pig lungs and pig hearts.With two pennies worth of stuff to take home, the whole family can enjoy a sumptuous meal.

Some people who are only willing to pay two cents and whose eyesight and hand skills are not strong can only scoop out one or two pieces of meat after scooping a spoon into the plain pot, and can only drink some soup and go home.

Chen Feiyan remembered that this matter was very popular during the Qing Dynasty.Some people even call this kind of thing "gambling"!

When thinking about the fact that in the imperial city of the Qing Dynasty, people were often hungry all year round and could not eat meat even once a year, Chen Feiyan felt that people in other places in ancient times, or in other words, rural people at the bottom of ancient times, could only live a more miserable and undignified life. .At least Chen Feiyan now feels that she is living a life without dignity.

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As soon as Chen Xiaoyi has eaten enough in the evening, he will take his other brothers out.

They finally managed to get a grass cage where they could catch fish every day. They had to get more fish back before the villagers noticed.

The more grilled fish they stock at home, the more at ease they feel.

They had to leave early and come back early, and they had to continue knitting when they came back.

When Chen Feiyan saw them leaving, she wanted to tell Chen Xiaoyi her plans later.She is going to dig leeks.

She can make leek yellow.Transplant the leeks in the house, cover them with a woven grass cage, and the yellow leeks are ready.

I fried leeks without oil and got heartburn after eating them.But leek is different.It's much more tender.Stewed in water, they are all delicious.

However, before she could speak, Chen Yixuan, who was still energetic after eating, suddenly suggested: "Daughter-in-law, our girl seems to be three years old this year, right?"

Seeing Chen Xiaoyi and others leaving, Chen Feiyan turned to look at Chen Yixuan and said, "She is three years old, what's wrong?"

Chen Yixuan saw that his wife had changed a lot these days. When she spoke to him, her back straightened up and her tone of voice became harder. He secretly wondered if she was complaining about being useless.

Thinking that his daughter-in-law, as her daughter's biological mother, had forgotten to consider her in life-long matters, Chen Yixuan could only speak in a low voice.

"Yan Niang, if we don't bind our daughter's feet, she won't be able to get married when her feet grow bigger..."

"Huh?" Chen Feiyan, as a modern person, didn't react for a while.

When she realized what the man in front of her was saying, her vision went dark and she almost fainted.

After she traveled through time and space as a woman with small feet, when it was cloudy or rainy, her feet felt like they were suffering from rheumatic bone pain, excruciating pain! ! !

She had traveled to the ancient countryside for no reason and had such a handicap. She didn't know how much pain and hatred she had accumulated in her heart.

These days, she has long stopped using that smelly and long foot wrap!

Now the man in front of her wanted her to bind the feet of a three-year-old girl. She was so angry that she wanted to beat him.

"Our family is so poor. Whether or not we can survive is a problem. You still want to bind your daughter's feet? I think you have just had enough to eat for a few days and have forgotten what kind of family we are?"

When Chen Yixuan saw her saying such harsh words, he felt very aggrieved.

"Daughter-in-law, if we don't bind her feet, if the elders in the village find out, they will come to our house and say that we, as parents, want to harm our daughters..."

Chen Feiyan rolled her eyes at him, "Are you stupid? If you don't tell me about such a private matter as foot binding, who will know about those people outside?"

Chen Yixuan was silent.

Soon, he explained with a look of embarrassment: "But the three aunts and six wives in our village will often come over to show my daughter in person. Moreover, they will compare with each other to see whose feet are smaller and prettier."

"Those with small feet are recognized as good-looking, and they consciously add luster to their family's faces, and they will be able to find a good husband smoothly in the future. Those with large feet will be laughed at and despised by the men, women, and children in the village..."

After hearing this, only a few big words appeared in Chen Feiyan's mind.

Sure enough, everyone in this village is sick!

Still very sick!
(End of this chapter)