Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 97 Laba Festival

Chapter 99 Laba Festival

The test sale of the gloves undoubtedly achieved the expected results. Jin Xi went to the medical shop, pulled out some fabrics of different designs and colors, bought some embroidery thread, and brought them back to Sunjiagou.

Women in this era, regardless of poverty or lowliness, basically know how to do needlework.Although wealthy families have their own embroiderers, female celebrities of ladies and wives are also bargaining chips to increase their status, just like modern diplomas and certificates.

Women from small families need to know how to sew, otherwise, what would they do with the clothes, socks, shoes and hats of the big family?Of course, Jinxi is an exception, under pressure to follow Sun Yuxia to learn female celebrity, but the interest is not in this at all, and now she can't even embroider her own name reluctantly.

Because of the need to make gloves in large quantities, Sun and Sun Yuxia have already brought in more than a dozen aunts and daughters-in-law from the village in Sunjiagou.Jin Xi picked five or six young and sharp wives who were good at needlework from these people, and asked them to make women's gloves, and sent the rest to make men's linen gloves.

Jin Xi paid them three pennies for each pair of men's linen gloves, and eight penny for a pair of women's gloves. The more you do, the more you get. There is no ceiling, but the premise is that the quality cannot be neglected because of rush work. , Every pair of gloves, Sun Yuxia will strictly check.

It's already the twelfth lunar month, and the farm work in the fields is also idle. These daughter-in-laws come out to make gloves. They are quick, and they can earn about twenty yuan a day to supplement their families. Underfoot, it is really possible to save a considerable amount of income for the people in the mountains, and since Jinxi settles the wages every day, these daughter-in-laws and their families are naturally very happy.

Every day after breakfast at home, I came to Jinxi's house, gathered in a big room next to the main room to do work, talked and laughed, just like that, the lively days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the twelfth lunar month seven.

In the evening, the daughters-in-law in the village settled their wages and went home happily.Here, Mrs. Sun is preparing dinner in the kitchen, while Jin Xi and Sun Yuxia are preparing Laba porridge for tomorrow.

"Mother, this year's Laba porridge in our family, I am sure you will never imagine how rich it is!" Sun Yuxia and Mrs. Sun said with a smile, while moving the ingredients that Jinxi had prepared many days in advance to the main room On the big table in the middle.

Mrs. Sun and Jinrou surrounded her, and saw that Jinxi had brought many small bowls and distributed them to everyone present.

"Gapo, Rou'er, help us to pick!" Jin Xi greeted, and untied the small bags on the table one by one.

"Hey, why did you buy so many porridge ingredients?" Granny smiled and leaned over to look at everything, Le's mouth couldn't close.

"Hey, not only white rice, but also black rice and round-grained rice?" Gapo said, and continued to look down, saying in his mouth: "Red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, walnuts, chestnuts, longan, ginkgo, red beans... eh , What is this? Why haven’t you seen it before?”

"Mother, that's water chestnut!" Sun Yuxia laughed.

Mrs. Sun narrowed her eyes, took a water chestnut and looked it up in her hand: "I've never seen this thing before, did it grow on the vines behind us?" The old lady in the mountain was not familiar with water chestnut, so she made a joke.

Sun Yuxia covered her mouth and smiled: "Mother, water chestnuts grow in ponds, and we don't grow them on the back mountain."

"Oh, that's right! Isn't it parallel imports?" Mrs. Sun said. In her concept, what comes out of the mountains is called mountain imports, and what is in the water is naturally parallel imports.

Parallel imports?

Jin Xi also pursed her lips and smiled, and supported Old Madam Sun's shoulders: "Grandma, this water chestnut is similar to that lotus root, it grows in the pond with lotus flowers. Come on, look at this again, you recognize it No?"

"It's flat and crunchy, like a big nucleus, can you eat it?"

"Grandma, this is almonds. If the meat inside is fried, it will be delicious. The old people eat it to keep healthy. I will take some to cook Laba porridge later, and fry the rest for you and Rou'er as snacks!"

"Okay, thank you, sister!" Jin Rou agreed for Mrs. Sun, pointed to one of the small bags, and asked loudly: "Sister, what is that? It looks like sunflower seeds but it's not, it's round! "

Following Jinrou's gaze, Jin Xi couldn't help but smile: "It's pine nuts, which grow inside the pine cone. During the winter, little squirrels like to carry those things back to the tree hole to nest in the winter!"

"There are a lot of pine trees in our back mountain. The round things on them are pine cones, right? Oh, why didn't I know that such delicious things can be peeled out of those things before? It made me pick it up many times. Firewood, I brought that little pine cone back to light the fire, it was ruined!" Sun Yuxia regretted.

Jin Xi was slightly taken aback, then suddenly realized, and smiled: "Auntie, you don't need to blame yourself, the pine cones in our place are all empty. This pine cone with pine nuts is going to the big north. In the forest, that special pine tree has knots!"

"Ah, there's so much knowledge in it? So what, Xi'er, how do you know so much?" Sun Yuxia asked.

"Don't forget, auntie, I bought these pine nuts!"

"Xi'er, according to what you said, these are almonds and pine nuts, and they were transported from such a long way to the north. You have to spend a lot of money to buy these?" Mrs. Sun asked.

Jin Xi smiled and shook her head and said, "It's not too expensive. The things on the table, except for the black and round-grained rice, which I bought from a rice shop, I bought the rest from our shop. The photos are The purchase price is not much, so it won’t cost a lot of money!”

"Oh, there are so many good things for sale in our shop now?" Mrs. Sun sighed with relief. She went to see the shop when it opened last time. At that time, the shop was mostly ordinary daily necessities. , I didn't expect to sell these rare dry goods now, this business is really getting bigger and bigger!
"Okay, it's getting late, we have to sort out these things before dinner!" Sun Yuxia urged.

Several people were busy, washing the rice, soaking the fruit, peeling and removing the core.

Laba porridge is naturally eaten in the morning of Laba day, so the cooking time is set at midnight, and Sun is reluctant to ask Jinxi to get up in the middle of the night to take care of the porridge.

Jin Xi had a good night's sleep, and her dream was filled with the sweet scent of Laba porridge.When she woke up early in the morning, she really smelled the sweet smell in the air. She got up and put on her clothes, and went straight to the kitchen. The pot of Laba porridge served by Mrs. Sun was bubbling happily.

"Hurry up and wash up, dinner will be served in a while!" Sun urged with a smile. After staying up most of the night, there were still a few bloodshot eyes in her eyes.

"Mother, the Laba big guy is resting today, and he doesn't need to make gloves. You can go back to the house and lie down later in the morning!"

"It's okay, mother is not sleepy! Hurry up and wash up, the porridge is already sticky, and it's time to eat now!"

"Hey!" Jin Xi replied crisply, turned around and left the kitchen to go to the backyard.

After Jinxi finished washing, she came to the kitchen and found that other members of the family were there. Before dinner, Mrs. Sun took out a few bowls and put some in them. The porridge in these bowls was not for the family, but for the family. It is used to worship gods and ancestors.

The God of Earth, the God of Kitchen, and now the God of Wealth has been added to the shop, and they are honored in front of every shrine, and Laba porridge is also placed in front of the ancestral tablets of the Sun family.

"Mother, it's our turn now, right?" Jinrou watched Sun and the others complete the series of worshiping gods and ancestors, and asked on her belly, the little girl's saliva was already drooling.

"Later, these bowls are for your grandpa and a few aunts. When your mother finishes serving these, Rou'er will let go of her belly to eat as much as she likes. There is still a big pot!" Dow.

It is a custom here that relatives will give Laba porridge to each other. Mrs. Sun gave it to several relatives in the village, and those families also gave it back. In the process of giving porridge to each other, everyone shared this simple happiness. .

Finally, it was my family's turn to taste it, and everyone was so hungry that they were so greedy.

The Laba porridge with such rich ingredients has been boiled so fully, the taste of it is naturally indescribable, and the whole family gathered around the table, eating very happily.

After breakfast, Liang Yuzhong harnessed the ox cart and went to town again, Jin Xi also went with him, this time not only giving gloves, but also Laba porridge for Sun Yubao and the others.In the yard, Sun Yuxia symbolically smeared some Laba porridge on the sweet-scented osmanthus tree according to the local custom, and took some to the backyard to feed the chickens and the newly caught piglets, in order to pray for the prosperity of the family in the coming year. all good.

Before leaving, Aunt Chunhua, who heard the wind, rushed to look for Jinxi with a small earthen pot in her arms.

"Xi'er, my aunt asked you to take this earthen pot of porridge to our Qinya, and tell her that during the Chinese New Year, she has to come back to the village no matter what! Her uncle, let her not worry, nothing will happen. There is my aunt here, ah!"

Jin Xi took the crock pot and nodded to Aunt Chunhua: "Don't worry, Auntie, I will definitely bring this."

Because I decided to stay in the town for one night, and then go back to the village tomorrow, the road was not in a hurry, so I arrived at the town smoothly, and delivered all the things that should be delivered, and Sun Yubao ran away for a while I went over and sent the Laba porridge to Wending.

"Qinya, go back to the village during the Chinese New Year, listen to your aunt, what happened to you last time should be over." While Qinya was drinking the Laba porridge brought by Aunt Chunhua, Jinxi sat beside her and comforted her softly .

"My aunt, who would call me around when I was at home, now that I'm out of sight, she comes here with me again, making people feel sour!" Qinya murmured with her nose red .

"Aunt Chunhua is a mother-in-law with a tofu-like heart. I can see that she really misses you! During the Chinese New Year, you can go back and come to the shop to help after the Chinese New Year."

"En." Qin Ya responded in a low voice, suddenly thought of something, raised her eyes and asked Jin Xi: "Xi'er, where are you spending the New Year this year?"

This problem?Jin Xi frowned. According to her heart, she naturally wanted to stay in Sunjiagou. However, the customs and habits here are as follows. Married daughters are not allowed to celebrate the New Year at her natal home.What's more, with Liang Yuzhong's temper, he would take his wife and daughter back to Lao Liang's house no matter what the New Year's Eve.

"Should be going back to Jinjishan Village!" Jin Xi said.In the past few months, I have been running back and forth between Sunjiagou and the town. Jinxi's family is all focused on getting rich, and the family is very happy. In such a harmonious and warm environment, Jinxi almost forgot that there is Lao Liang The nest of people at home.

Hey, thinking that she will return to Lao Liang's house soon, Jin Xi feels tired and flustered, but now that she is taking care of the shop, she has gained knowledge no matter what, and she is no longer poor and empty, waiting for everything Tan paid it.

With his eyes wide open, and with money in hand, his confidence will naturally harden. This trip back to Lao Liang's house for the New Year, some things should be resolved at the right time.

(End of this chapter)