Chapter 157: Anxin Cat Winter
Spring planting and autumn harvest, farmers are busy for a year, and only autumn is the most enjoyable.
All kinds of things are pulled home, and the joy of the harvest is not only reflected in the face, but also in the corners of the eyebrows and eyes, and even the action of walking, with a little joy.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, most people's land was almost recovered, and many families took advantage of the good weather to find time to beat beans and grind millet and sorghum.
Qiaolian's current situation is a bit difficult to do this, so I greeted Zhang Wenguang in advance, waited for the Zhang family to be busy, and found an opportunity to come over and help Qiaolian pack up all the food.
Qiaolian didn't rush to beat the beans, but only led the children to pick up the bud rice skin at home, some tied it into a hanger and hung it, and some of it was piled directly to the bud rice building on the second floor of the warehouse.
Wait for the bud rice to dry slowly, and then thresh and grind the noodles to eat, anyway, the Qu family is not short of food, and the new grain is slowly dried out.
Qiaolian is now inconvenient and can't sit for too long, the two children are young and don't have much strength, so the buds of the two acres of land, the three of them have been picked up for several days, and they are finally all in place.
But there are a lot of things in the crop yard, the buds are cleaned up, and the vegetables in the garden should also be picked up, otherwise in a few days, if there is a frost, the eggplant beans will be beaten by the frost and will not be edible.
The garden of the Qu family is not small, and there are almost two acres of land in front of the house and behind the house.
Qiaolian is a capable person again, and she is not idle at all, there are more than a dozen ridges of late beans alone, not to mention any eggplant peppers, all these vegetables are picked, and there are more than a dozen wicker baskets.
Qiao Lian took advantage of the children's inattention in the evening to take advantage of the children's inattention, and took all the vegetables she picked up in the warehouse and put them away.
Nowadays, the warehouse has the function of refrigeration, which is really convenient, these dishes can be stored in the refrigerated warehouse for a long time without rotting, and the family will not be short of vegetables for a long time.
If you can put it in refrigeration, you should naturally refrigerate it, and some of it should be pickled, such as mustard greens, mustard tassels, celery root, coriander root, baby cucumber, baby chili, chili leaves, tender eggplant, and so on.
The most indispensable thing for people in the north is pickles, how can you do without pickles?
So, Qiao Lian exchanged a lot of clay pots and pots from the system, and put them against the wall on the north side of the kitchen, which were either sauerkraut or all kinds of pickles.
The peasant family lives like this, drying vegetables in summer and pickling pickles in autumn, and the diligent daughter-in-law is more busy at this time, so that she will not be embarrassed in winter and spring.
If the lazy daughter-in-law is not prepared at this time, waiting for the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the family can only hold empty bowls.
Qiaolian is naturally the most diligent daughter-in-law, and in the summer, she dried a few sacks of dried vegetables alone, and she put them in the warehouse, which will not deteriorate or be insected, and it is just right to keep them for winter to eat.
Not only dried vegetables, but also radishes and cabbage in the field, Qiaolian also collected more than half of them in the warehouse.
There is no cellar here, and the radish and cabbage have to be dug in the ground and buried and stored, and then taken out in winter, Qiaolian is troublesome.
Besides, in her current situation, it was a bit difficult to dig a vegetable cellar, so she simply put most of the vegetables into the warehouse, anyway, the warehouse was very large, and it was completely loaded.
Harvesting vegetables, pickling vegetables, going up the mountain to pick up all kinds of mountain goods, time flies by in the busy, after a few autumn frosts, the leaves on the trees have all withered, and the ground is full of withered yellow leaves.
In a few days, the white snowflakes will fall, and winter will come quietly.
When the snow falls, the northerners have officially entered the stage of cat winter.
Qiaolian's mother and son are like squirrels stockpiling winter food in the autumn, pulling everything to the house.
On the first floor of the warehouse, there are piles of dried sweet potatoes and dried pumpkins on the ground of the warehouse, countless strings of mushrooms and red peppers are hung on the walls, and dried sweet potatoes and pumpkins are piled up on the shelves.
On the second floor of the warehouse, it is full of bud rice sticks, after a autumn ventilation, the bud rice has almost dried, just in the winter idle nothing, take it home and threshing it.
As for other grains, such as sorghum and millet, they have long been received in the portable warehouse, and there is no place for better insurance than the portable warehouse.
Heavy snow covered the mountains and forests, and the forests were covered with thick snow, so Qiaolian's mother and son couldn't go into the mountains to find things, so they had to stay at home and not go out.
There is firewood in the yard, grain in the warehouse, hundreds of thousands of points in the system, money in the pocket, and enough clothes, quilts, diapers, and milk powder in the boxes and cabinets.
This time, Qiaolian can finally rest assured and lead the two babies to live a rice worm life in the winter with the two babies at home.
Every day, in addition to threshing the bud rice and preparing for the grain, the rest of the time is basically poking and eating.
In the middle of winter, Qiaolian has been pregnant for eight months, and her belly is getting bigger and bigger.
Recently, Qiaolian always feels uncomfortable with backache, and her stomach is also falling, she is worried that the child will be born early, so she has been cooking food every day for a while.
Making dumplings, wontons, steamed steamed buns, steamed buns, and stewing a few pots of pig's trotters and pork ribs when they are empty, just to prepare for confinement.
In addition to Qiaolian, there are only two children in the family, Jiakang Jiayuan, and the two babies are so young that they will definitely not be able to serve Qiaolian in confinement, so everything has to be done by Qiaolian herself.
Dumplings and wontons are wrapped and frozen in the cold storage, and when you eat them, take them out, boil them in a pot and boil them.
Steamed buns are better to say, take them out and heat them up, although Jiakang Jiayuan is small, these days of exercising, it is not a problem to burn the fire, and when the time comes, Qiaolian will command, and she will not starve the three of her mother.
The only thing that is not easy to do is to wash the baby's clothes, and she can't get cold water or be too tired during the confinement, so Qiaolian stocked up on diapers and diaper pads and other things in the portable warehouse.
If someone comes during the day, they use diapers, and if no one is around, they all use diapers, in this way, it will save a lot of trouble, anyway, this autumn Qiaolian earned tens of thousands of points, and it is enough to raise two children.
"Is the second sister at home? Look who's coming? On this day, Qiaolian was picking up buds with the children, and someone suddenly spoke outside.
As soon as I heard it, I knew that it was Zhang Wenguang's voice, accompanied by a burst of barking from Ah Huang and Ah Ash.
"Jiakang, go and call Ah Huang and the others, it's your aunt-in-law who is here."
These two dogs in the family are particularly powerful, as long as it is not Qiao Lianniang, no matter how many times this person has come, Ah Huang and Ah Ash will bite straight away.
The two dogs eat well in the Qu family, and their bodies are also big, so they bark and pounce up, and most people are afraid.
It was not easy for Qiao Lian to get up with a bulky body, and the Jiakang people had fast calves, so they went out immediately, and a few people came in from the outside after a while.
"Mom, it's my aunt and grandmother who are here." Jiakang happily led people into the house.
Qiao Lian was stunned when she heard this, and when she looked at the door, she saw Mrs. Chen wearing a big cotton jacket and big cotton pants, coming in with a scarf and a hat, Zhang Wenguang helped the old lady, and carried a big burden in her hand.
"Mother, why are you here?" Qiao Lian felt strange and hurriedly asked.