Husband and wife are hot on the kang

During dinner, Yu Liangji told Shi Hongda that he distributed the money to everyone without making a fuss. Banknotes are barely enough.

Shi Hongda gave Yu Liangji the bank notes and coins he had brought back, and asked him to keep them.

"I also told the old village head about the licorice apricot." After Yu Liangji finished talking about other things, he began to show off his great achievements.

"What did the old village head say?" The matter of Gancao Xing had been planned to be shared with the villagers as early as when Xiao Juren was doing it.

"Our family still has a lot of licorice and apricots. Let's sell them. If we get the money, the old village head will let the villagers know. We won't worry if they don't take the initiative to make friends with us." Yu Liangji had already agreed with the old village head.

"That's fine. It's the fifteenth day tomorrow. Let's forget about the lanterns. Let's get some mooncakes." Shi Hongda originally wanted to buy the lanterns, but he thought that Yu's family died last year after all, so it's not suitable for big fanfare. To celebrate, even Xiao Juren went out to give gifts, and they didn't use red packaging.

"Let Chef Huang do it a long time ago, and we'll just be lazy at home without doing anything tomorrow!" Yu Liangji drank a bowl of melon and vegetable soup with the momentum of drinking.

This is the autumn old melon and vegetable hanging soup. It has a clear fragrance and does not contain any oil or water. He thinks it is delicious.

"I'm still lazy, at most I don't do any physical work, and I still have to do other work." Shi Hongda put some mushrooms in the bowl for him: "Check if the cloth and cotton at home are enough, and buy more quickly if it is not enough. , it looks like it's going to be cold."

"I don't have much firewood this year, how about buying some coal?" Yu Liangji suggested after eating the contents of the bowl.

After all, there are few woods, and the dead trees are not big ones. The firewood just got back and it can't burn much for the time being.

Moreover, the kang can be used for cooking. For heating, their house has floor heating, and the boiler must use a fire-resistant fuel.

"I thought about it a long time ago. I ordered a thousand catties of honeycomb coal in the county, and they will deliver it in a few days." Good coal is controlled by the imperial court, but civilian things like honeycomb coal are not controlled, and the price is the same. It is a bit more expensive, and it is generally used by large families to burn stoves for heating, because it is flame-resistant.

Farmers use their own corn stalks, sorghum stalks, sunflower stalks, and corn stalks for heating. When it is cold, they burn some firewood at most, just like Yu’s home last year, but they need to get up in the middle of the night to watch the fire.

"This is good, this is a good decision!" Yu Liangji was happy.

After eating, I went for a walk to digest food, then took a bath, and when the hair was dry, I went to the kang and turned off the lights to put the child to sleep, and then the two of them lay on the kang and talked in a low voice, because they were going to prepare for the winter. Things have to be prepared in advance. Last year, because of keeping filial piety, he didn't need to consider eating meat. This winter, he must make up for both adults and children.

The corn in the family is not going to be sold, they are all kept, people eat and chew on horses, they have to be fed with grain, the Ba family has already bought a lot of green fodder, so many big animals in the family, this winter can all be counted on these green fodder and Food feeds.

Especially the horses at home, which are more pampered than the old cows, and the donkey, the family has already bought a large stone mill, and let the donkey pull the mill every day if there is nothing to do, and grind fresh corn flour, soybean flour and the like.

He fell asleep while talking, the moonlight was as cool as water, pouring down, shining in the silent yard like daytime.

There are not many festivals that are valued by the people, and they are mostly distinguished by solar terms. Tomb-sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chongyang Festival are the most important festivals except New Year's Eve.

Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, the north is not as warm as the south. Although it is only Mid-Autumn Festival, it is already chilly. Compared with the greenhouse effect of later generations, today's solar terms are purely natural.

There is already a cold wind blowing, and it's just the Mid-Autumn Festival!

Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Yu Liangji didn't come over. Yu's family was in turmoil at that time, and he didn't have any intention of celebrating the festival.

This year is different, everything is slowly on the right track.

Waking up early in the morning, Yu Liangji was shocked to see Song's mother and daughter!

How did these two show up?

Then he knew why he showed up!

The mother and daughter of the Song family sent autumn clothes, new, carefully embroidered Confucian shirts, from head to toe, including underwear and garments, hats, belts and socks, shoes, etc., as well as various accessories, jade pendants, sachets, Purse...

Aunt Song personally combed Yu Liangji's head with a bun, and then put a hat on him. Yu Liangji thought to himself that he took a bath last night, otherwise he would be sent to the bathroom as soon as he opened his eyes!

He changed into a long-sleeved gown, just like the day he met Fu Dazhu, even worse than that day, because the one who dressed him up that day was Mrs. Huang, but today it was Aunt Song!

Yu Liangji could accept wearing clothes, but after seeing Aunt Song take out several rouge powders, he became furious!

"What's this for?" Yu Liangji asked Aunt Song in a small trembling voice.

"I'll screw you up." Aunt Song said with a serious face.

"Stop joking!" Yu Liangji was in a bad mood!

Although he has an ambiguous relationship with Shi Hongda now, he is also a pure man, isn't he?I didn't want to be a shemale!

Really!

He swears!

"...?" Aunt Song didn't understand.

"Don't rub it!" Yu Liangji jumped up: "In the future, keep this thing away from me. The rouge and gouache at home are all used by women, and whoever uses it for men, I will fire him!"

Although Aunt Song didn't understand what "opened him" meant, but seeing the young master's pale face and the obvious disgust in his eyes, she knew it was not a good thing.

"What is this for?" Shi Hongda went out to exercise his muscles and bones, and did a set of boxing. When he came back, he saw Yu Liangji dressed up, but why was the atmosphere wrong?

"I don't want to put on makeup!" Seeing him coming, Yu Liangji hurried over, with his sleeves fluttering like a fairy.

Seeing that Shi Hongda was in a trance, Yu Liangji hid behind him, showing half of his eyes, and was almost more wary of the rouge and gouache in Aunt Song's hand.

"Okay, okay, if you don't wipe it, you won't wipe it." Shi Hong couldn't laugh or cry and pulled him out from behind: "Get ready, eat."

Aunt Song had no choice but to take her own things and go behind her back. Yu Liangji later learned that when scholars meet guests, they have to repair themselves. Some young masters from rich families have pimples on their faces. Yes, I will apply some powder to cover up appropriately, not to be too girly, but to respect the guests.

Yu Liangji didn't have acne on his face, but he was a little pale. Aunt Song wanted to put some blush on him to make him look better.

But Yu Liangji firmly disagrees!

For breakfast, I ate big buns stuffed with pork and cabbage, and I drank multigrain porridge, accompanied by my own freshly marinated side dishes mixed with sesame oil and shredded green onion.

After breakfast, Uncle Sun brought hot soy milk, and Chef Huang also left half a plate of tofu, which Liu Wenxi paid in cash.

Uncle Sun also brought him a gift!

Not much, just four catties of five-spice dried tofu and a pair of wild pheasants. The tofu is homemade, and the pheasants were caught when the family went to the field to clean up the ridges.

"A little thing, don't dislike little." Uncle Sun smiled and gave the things to Yu Juren who came to get the soy milk.

"Where can it be!" Yu Liangji took it over in person without being polite at all.

Uncle Sun's smile became even brighter: "Go back quickly, I went around the village, and I will also go to the festival."

Even though it was Mid-Autumn Festival, the old man still made tofu very early.

Now that it is surrounded by the wall, the village is much safer. The old man plans to keep going in winter and not to cook more. He makes one board of water tofu a day and five catties of dry tofu. Anyway, the tofu won’t spoil if it’s cold for a day.

The big deal is to dry it and make dried tofu. If it’s really not good, put the water tofu outside and turn it into frozen tofu, which can still be sold.

"Hey, you keep walking slowly!" Yu Liangji said goodbye to the old man with a smile, and went back with his things. The soy milk was for him and the children, and the things were for Chef Huang to deal with.

Yu Liangji knew that if he twitched, the old man would definitely feel unhappy, so he might as well be open and generous, just like before, he would not dislike anything, and would accept everything, of course, it was limited to what they could get out.

If he was given tea worth 80 taels today, he would definitely not take it.

That kind of thing can only be given by the county magistrate, and no one else needs to think about it. Surely no one will give him such an expensive gift.

But as soon as Uncle Sun left, Qiao Xiaowu came over and caught two live hares and a bunch of hazel mushrooms with a set of traps.

They are all wild game, especially hazel mushrooms, which Qiao Xiaowu picked up by chance when he went to the mountains to chop firewood, but there are not many of them. This stuff can be sold for a price, and the stewed chicken is also very tasty.

It couldn't be more appropriate to send it to Xiao Juren as a gift.

Yu Liangji took the things and brought back several baked mooncakes for Qiao Xiaowu.

After a while, the two gentlemen came in person and formally left the ceremony. Lin Jie gave Yu Liangji the moon cakes baked by his own wife, and Hong Zetao gave the rabbits he baked himself after hunting!

Chef Huang was very interested in his roasted rabbits, and Mrs. Huang said that Lin Hong's mooncakes were ordinary.

Then the Zhang family's second uncle and second aunt came over, and they also brought their own special products. This year, the Zhang family planted five acres of melon seeds and brought ten catties to Yu Liangji; The ones he caught were a pair of pheasants he caught himself and the fungus picked by Mrs. Yang in autumn.

Then there is Shao Blacksmith’s house, where Yu Liangji’s manual thresher earned him a lot of manual fees; there is also Old Ni’s house, where Yu Liangji ordered their big fat pig, and the price he gave was also high; and then there was From the Che family and so on, people came to give gifts one after another, and Yu Liangji accepted them all. When he left, he brought four to ten mooncakes.

In the morning, everyone spent the ceremony and reception. At noon, they ate a big meal, four dishes and one soup, stewed pheasant with mushrooms, stewed beans with meat, stir-fried potato chips and spinach with nuts, and made seaweed and shrimp skin soup.

It’s getting hotter at noon, and a group of women including Mrs. Huang have already put away the dried vegetables that have been dried. The vegetable garden is dying day by day, and many vegetables can’t grow. The greenhouse at home has been covered with glass, and the land inside has also been refurbished. After that, only the seeds are left to grow vegetables.

Yu Liangji had asked someone to buy rapeseeds long ago, and he also had a lot of rapeseeds that he could properly plant.

It's just not the time yet.

In the morning, everyone in Shibalipu went all over, because there were so few households, no one came back and forth in the afternoon, and they all stayed at home to do something and spend the holidays with their families.

The same is true for the Yu family. Chef Huang is working hard to make the pig's head, which is to be offered, and he took aim at it when he brought it back that day.

On the second day, the hair was singed, shaved, cooked in a large pot for a day, and then cooked in stewed soup the next day, along with the pig’s trotters!

In addition to the pig's head, there were also whole roosters, five of which were also slaughtered, and the largest one was marinated whole, which was also used as a sacrifice.

Three roast geese were also prepared, one whole, as a offering, and two had been torn by hand, waiting to be eaten at dinner time.

There is also poached meat, because of the family relationship, braised pork and the like can only be eaten by others, and it is not allowed to serve such heavy-colored food at home, so it can only be poached pork.

Chef Huang also brought her daughter to bake mooncakes. The five-nut ones are the most basic ones, and there are also lean meat and salted egg yolks. The green and red silk stuffing is bought outside, and the taste is not bad.

Everyone in the family put on new clothes, and Liu Wenxi handed out boxing gifts one by one. According to the regulations of the young master, there was a big red envelope of ten taels of silver every year, and a small red envelope of one tael of silver for festivals.