The general is happy: the fierce wife of the peasant family is ruthless and stunning

Chapter 44 Salt Cured Bacon
In the evening, Qin Ya returned home with the five taels of silver she received today.

Li Chenggu had already prepared dinner, and when she came back, the three of them began to eat today's meal after feeding Li Tao some food.

After the meal, Li Chenggu talked about his schedule for the day. First, after Qin Ya went out, he killed the wild boar, chopped half of it and sold it to a restaurant in the town, earning about two renminbi.

When I came back, I asked a mason to come over, discussed the specific matters of building the house, finalized some basic procedures, and planned to start building a new house tomorrow.

Qin Ya listened with gusto, and after he finished speaking, she took out the five taels of silver in her arms, combined with the 15 taels he gave her before, and gave a total of 20 taels to Li Chenggu.

"The five taels of silver is what I earned by selling the recipe for making snails today. Adding the previous 15 taels, we have exactly 20 taels. Now we can build a second-entry courtyard."

Qin Ya was overjoyed at the thought of the second small courtyard she would soon own.

I just thought of the 20 taels that I have worked so hard to save for so long, and now I have spent all of it, and I have no money in my hands. It is going to be winter, and it is not convenient for Li Chenggu to hunt, so I have to prepare some winter dishes and rice noodles. .

Dishes for winter...

Thinking of this, Qin Ya's eyes began to light up again.

How could she have forgotten it? Originally, Li Chenggu meant to stew this half of pork so that the whole family would have a good meal.

But Qin Ya now has a new plan.

In ancient rural villages, when winter came, the poor began to live in hardship. They didn’t have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, and they couldn’t even raise enough food for the winter, let alone meat and vegetables?

Basically, a few pieces of Chinese cabbage are stuffed into the snow and frozen, two slices are cooked a day, and some millet cabbage porridge is eaten.

"Cheng Gu, how much salt do you have at home?"

Li Chenggu thought for a while and replied, "There's still half a can left, what's the matter?"

"Half a can..."

Qin Ya pondered for a while: "Half a jar may not be enough, you go out tomorrow and buy another jar of salt with the two renminbi of silver, as well as the rice, flour and oil for the winter at home, two renminbi of silver should be enough .”

Enough is enough, I am afraid that if you spend it like this, you will run out of money.

Li Chenggu thought about it in his heart, but didn't say it out of his mouth.

Early the next morning, Li Chenggu drove the donkey cart to the town to buy things for the winter.

And Qin Ya took care of Li Tao and Xin'er at home.

In the morning, someone came to the yard. It was a mason whom Li Chenggu had invited yesterday to discuss the appearance of the house with the master.

Because winter is coming, everything should be kept simple. What Qin Ya means is to build the house before winter, so that the family can live in a warm new house when winter comes.

After discussing some ideas with the mason, Qin Ya asked for a row of pipes to be connected to the underground of the house, but she didn't say it was useful for the time being.

The masons had a prototype in their minds and began to prepare for work.

First, the fence was demolished, and the old house was on the right side, and the foundation was laid to build a new house. The new house was in a hurry, so Qin Ya was not stingy with the price. With the budget of 20 taels, the wages for the workers were all Just more and less.

With the money, everyone will work hard, willing to work hard, and everyone is full of energy.

In the afternoon, Li Chenggu came back from the town, bringing back a bag of rice, a bag of noodles, a crock of oil, and a crock of salt, which cost a total of nine cents.

In winter, the price of goods rose rapidly. He bought cabbages worth [-] yuan and came back. There were about twenty cabbages, arranged neatly, and put them in the kitchen.

Now, both of them have no money on them.

But after all, I have prepared all the things I need for the winter, so I don't have to worry about my family's livelihood until the end of this winter.

Qin Ya asked Li Chenggu to wash and remove the hair from the half fan of wild boar, and cut it into evenly sized pieces, about two taels or so.

After finishing these, she specially found a big earthen jar, filled the bottom with salt, put salt on the meat, stuffed it into the jar with salt, and spread a layer of salt on the seal.

So it was marinated with salt in the jar for one night. In the early morning of the next day, Qin Ya and Li Chenggu got up, threaded a rope through each piece of meat, and hung it under the eaves of the hall, so that the wind could blow it every day. Blowing, within a month, the bacon will be made.

"Now, a newly purchased jar of salt is about to run out."

Li Chenggu laughed and teased her.

Qin Ya said: "Don't just worry about salt, after a while, we will have meat for every meal at home in the winter, and you will be beautiful by then."

Li Chenggu looked at her with a smile. It had been two months since he came back from the army.

Although this leg has little chance of getting better, but he has reaped a hardworking and simple wife, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

Li Tao barely turned over in the past few days. Although he had to lie on the bed all the time, he was alive after all.

The foundation of the new house has been laid, and now the walls are being built. According to estimates, the construction will be completed in the next month, and everyone will be able to move into the new house.

The days seem to be getting better and better, and the better.

At the same time, the uninvited guest came again.

Mrs. Zhang started a quarrel with the old man again, and the quarrel got bigger and bigger. The eldest family was actually driven out of the house by Mrs. Zhang.

I heard that the cause of the fire in the old house was found out. Originally, Li Naner, an old man, was playing with fire in the house. On a whim, he burned the chairs in the house, but he did not expect that the chairs were connected to the pillars, and the fire burned on the pillar.

All of a sudden, the house caught fire.

Before everyone had time to react, Mrs. Huang and Zhu Cuihua were not at home at that time, while Li Chengming went to work in the field.

When I went back, I found that the fire had spread, and my father, Li Tao, and his son, Li Nan'er, were both inside the house, and that's why it made such a big fuss.

The daughter of the Zhang family doesn't think highly of the Li family. Now that she learned that someone set the fire on fire, she insisted on using the title, saying that Li Nan'er set the fire on purpose and was an arsonist. The house was also burned, and they refused to let Li Chengming's family live in Zhang's house no matter what.

Seeing that Li Chengming's family couldn't stay in Zhang's house any longer, Huang's family was also shrewd, because of what happened last time and the old family's anger.

This time, he didn't say anything and didn't leave with the old family, but directly chose to stay in the Zhang family and live with the third son.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

After all, Zhang's family has a certain family background. Huang's third son eats hot food and drinks spicy food. He is used to a good life, so naturally he refuses to go out to wander and beg with the eldest family.

(End of this chapter)