The leisurely life of Lin Yuxi

"Bring brown bear." Sanwa squatted on the ground and hugged the little brown bear's neck.

"No. Zonghong will be arrested if he enters the city." Yuxi stood by the kang to choose leather.

"I have to bring it." Sanwa said dissatisfiedly with her lips pouted.

Yuxi turned her head, "Choose one between the Thirteenth Taibao and Dabai, the others are not discussed."

Sanwa pouts, at this moment Dabai hops over and squats beside him, "Then bring Dabai. You have fun at home, Brown, and I'll bring you candy when I come back."

The little brown bear held an apple in both hands, happily gnawing on it, not understanding what the two brothers were talking about.

The leather made with the help of Uncle Liu has been finished. Uncle Liu is good at craftsmanship, and the leather has no peculiar smell and is smooth and shiny.

A total of more than 20 wolves were killed before, and [-] of the whole skins were obtained. Brother Dazhu took four, and the other Yuxi gave away six.Yuxi originally wanted to give his uncle a piece of whole leather, but his uncle didn't want it, because they couldn't use it in the capital. The wolf fur was too thick, even if it was made into a coat, it would be hot to wear in winter, but his aunt asked him for two pieces of wild rabbit fur, and wanted to make a fur collar. .

Yuxi also has quite a lot of hare fur, as well as the prey brought back by rhubarb, moose and roe deer, and a lot of large and small furs.They keep them for making clothes in winter.

Pick out a dozen pieces of hare skins with similar coat colors, and a few pieces of wolf skins. Let the aunt think about what she wants to do with these.

Putting away all the rest, Yuxi thought about it, and when she came back, she had to make a body for Sanwa. This little guy couldn't stay in the house in winter, and always wanted to run outside.I heard that there is a down jacket now, and I don’t know if it will keep me warm or not. I was thinking about it, and when it was time to leave, I left the family affairs to the third uncle and the others, because the eldest sister’s family and Dazhu followed Yuxi. , There is really a lot of work at home.But the animals in the house don't bother them too much. Rhubarb and Scar have never been raised in Yuxi. They all hunt by themselves. Except for living here in Yuxi, they are basically the same as before.The four dogs along with it now follow into the mountain from time to time. After a period of exercise, the four dogs can already encircle the wild boar.

Ewes, lambs, and rabbits don’t need to be fed. Every day, they voluntarily go to graze near the house, and they will always be accompanied by dogs or wolves.Most of the time lying there lazily.The whole family goes out early and returns late. The three uncles and three aunts open the door every morning and count the number at night. They make a meal of corn flour pancakes every three to five days.

What they really need to worry about is the persimmons in the yard. The persimmons in the yard have begun to bear fruit, and it is estimated that they will bear fruit in about a month. The ripening time of these things is different, and it is very troublesome to pick.Yuxi has seen that although there are not many planted in the yard, there are many fruits that cannot bear it, and there must be a bumper harvest.He can only come back as soon as possible.

Finally got on the train bound for the capital. This time they were accompanied by a large number of people. More than a dozen people occupied three rows of seats. Because of the large number of people, Yuxi and the others did not take the sleeper berth, and they were reluctant to pay for the sleeper berth.It is the first time for Sanwa and Erwa to sit on hard seats. It feels quite fresh, and it doesn’t feel too sad because there are so many people. They lie on the chairs when they sleep at night. Lie directly under the stool.There was a loud snoring.

When the train arrived at the station and exited the platform, Yuxi saw her uncle standing at the exit and waiting for them.

"Uncle." It's been a while since I saw him, uncle seems to have gained weight.

"I've seen this little thing from a long distance." The uncle stretched out his hand and hugged Sanwa in his arms, "Hey, the little fat uncle can't hold it anymore."

Sanwa kept moving in his arms, giggling from time to time.

Zhang Zhihui followed Yuxi to recognize the person.Then they took them to the Daihatsu soliciting passengers at the train station. This car can hold seven people at a time, and they ordered three cars. Who made these big guys all tall and burly.

"Uncle, where are we going?" Yuxi asked as he looked towards the new store.

"Hey, you'll know when you get there." The uncle still played tricks.

The car turned around in the alley, and Yuxi gradually understood where it was going, "Why is the house returned?"

"Well, their new dormitory was built last month, and they moved in. It just so happens that you have a place to live when you come here." While talking, they arrived at Yuxi's courtyard.This yard was the dowry of Yuxi's grandma back then, and Uncle Yuxi took him through here once before.But did not go in.

When we got out of the car, we saw the gate of the courtyard. The gate is the gate of Jinzhu, which is in the southeast corner of the courtyard.

Zhang Zhihui opened the gate, and a group of people walked in. There was a brick screen wall of prosperity and auspiciousness directly opposite the gate, and the screen wall was close to the gable wall of the east wing.

Turning around the screen wall, this is a courtyard house with three rooms and two ears in the north, three wing rooms in the east and west, and five courtyard houses in the south.

In the middle of the siheyuan is a square courtyard, the ground is paved with bluestone, and there is a running pool to the south of the west wing.The windows in the yard are still split windows, with lattice windows on the top and large glass windows with four palindrome on the bottom. The courtyard as a whole looks very rigorous.

"It's still the same as it was then, almost undamaged, and the windows and doors are still the same." The uncle looked at the yard with some nostalgia.The Zhang family's old house is no longer visible.

Zhang Zhihui opened the front door of the main room, and then opened the back door. Only then did Yuxi know that the house was a two-entry house. Yuxi's eyes lit up when he saw the backyard. The size of the house is small, only one and a half rooms, which forms a somewhat enclosed rectangular yard in the backyard, which is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. On the west side of the yard are layers of rockeries, and a small fish pond is surrounded by rocks.In the northeast corner is a pomegranate tree with a dense canopy. The tree is tall and strong, and it should be some years old.The east side is empty except for the tree. There is no bluestone paved, but cobblestones are paved with plum blossom patterns.In summer, you can enjoy the shade in the yard.

Yuxi has heard more than once from my uncle that this house is very exquisite. I didn’t feel much in the outer courtyard before, but here I realized it. The four sides of this small courtyard are neat and symmetrical. Although the four sides of the house are not connected together, there are verandas in front of the house. , closely connected, it looks like a cloister, and the colored paintings on the house can still see the original appearance.The courtyard is small and exquisite, with strong privacy, and only the main house in front can enter.

"How about it, do you like it?" Zhang Zhihui looked at his nephew with some complacency.

"Well. It's really beautiful." Yuxi's feeling about the courtyard is only average. They have seen a lot of bungalows in their hometown. This courtyard is not as dilapidated as his own home, but facing this small courtyard today, he suddenly felt That kind of beauty that comes with that cultural history.

This two-entry courtyard house has a rigorous and grand courtyard in the front, and a small and exquisite courtyard in the back, each with its own characteristics.It's just that some facilities are slightly worse.

"Let's do this for now, and when we have money in hand, we can fix the heating, drainage and bathroom. Let's make do with it now." Zhang Zhihui took them outside and opened the east wing of the front yard. "You will live here for a while. Right. Everything is ready-made, as is the West Wing. They moved out, but I think the furniture is still good, as if they bought it. They also sent luggage.

Yuxi saw that the east wing was bright and dark, and the bright room was a small living room with a two-meter-long black lacquered table, and benches of the same color were placed on both sides of the table. rice.There are two wooden cabinets of the same color on the east wall facing the door.

The two dark rooms are the same, just like a dormitory for college students. There are two wooden bunk beds in each room. There are wardrobes on one side of the door and an open cabinet more than one meter high on the other.The furnishings in the two dark rooms are the same, all of which are painted in black.

There are sixteen beds in the east and west wing rooms, and the three brothers Yuxi live in the main room, where the uncle prepared two wrought iron beds, one big and one small, for the three of them.The eldest sister and brother-in-law live in another room in the main room.They will live here permanently in the future, so there are more things in the house.

As soon as they settled down here, the eldest aunt came over, bringing some food, such as the famous donkey meat fire in Beijing, roast duck, and big steamed stuffed buns.She went to a kitchen separated from the house to make hot and sour soup.

Zhang Zhihui and his wife also knew the temperament of the people in Yuxi and their hometown. At this time, if they took them to a restaurant for dinner, they might not be able to let go. They were somewhat shy when they first came to the city, so it's better to make it more affordable.The result was just as they thought, everyone's food was quite affordable.

After eating, I wanted them to take a break, but none of them could sit still and say that they wanted to see the house.Everyone went to the store again, and the three old carpenters began to measure. The materials mailed from the Northeast were all piled up in the store.

Seeing the posture of this group of people, they are ready to start work.

Zhang Zhihui has work tomorrow, so he took Yuxi to the Zhang family's old house in the afternoon, "Look, this arrived last month, and it was made exactly as you said. I also contacted the duck egg. You want Just make a phone call and it will be delivered tomorrow."

Yuxi looked at the big vats placed in the garden on the east side of Zhang's old house. Each one was half a meter high with a big belly and a small mouth. A person's arm could reach the bottom of the vat. It estimated that it could hold two to three hundred duck eggs.The style of the tank is very simple, with a blue and white pattern on it, and the Lin character logo printed on both sides, the design is very beautiful.

"Very good uncle, better than I imagined."

"It can be made as big as it is, but it's just right for it to be so big, otherwise it will be laborious to marinate."

"It's my fault, it's just right that it's so big." When it's too big to pickle, people have to lie down inside.

"A total of two hundred people have been sent. You can see that it is enough."

"Enough is enough." It can be marinated in one and a half months, and it is enough to marinate while selling.

"In this way, we will start pickling tomorrow, and when the house is finished, it will be ready to sell in August."

Zhang Zhihui found a car and took these vats to the courtyard of Yuxi’s family. The house on the south side was reversed. A kitchen was removed, and the rest was used for processing. The ingredients needed had already arrived, and they were all purchased directly from the medicinal material market. , I have seen it in Yuxi, the quality is still good.It took Yuxi one night to engrave the formations in these large vats. This time, he engraved the formations inside the vats like a smelter. The quality of this kind of porcelain vats is still good. Yuxi made fifty of them in one night. .In the end, the true energy in the body was consumed too much, so he had to stop.

It's no wonder he was in such a hurry. The duck eggs took a long time to marinate. It is estimated that after the house is finished, the duck eggs will not be ready yet.So Yuxi had to marinate the duck eggs first.Because he didn't even go to see the decoration in this store.

When the duck eggs arrive, they must be soaked, washed and dried first, and then marinated. The ingredients have to go through several procedures such as boiling and cooling.They made [-] cylinders of duck eggs for five days. This is the first time, and there will be no need for such trouble in the future. The finished duck eggs are sealed with kraft paper, and the outside is pasted with yellow mud. It is like storing wine in the past. A seal with the date on it.I will do this in the future to determine the marinating time of each tank of duck eggs.Put the prepared salted duck eggs in a cool and ventilated place for a day or two, and wait for the yellow mud on them to dry before putting them in the warehouse.The warehouse is the inverted room in the southwest corner. In that room, there are very strong three-layer iron shelves. This is specially made. When I made it, I asked for it to be strong. This tank of salted duck eggs is very heavy. If it is not strong, click on it. Can't live.

In the past five days, Yuxi taught her again. The eldest sister and her husband are already very proficient in marinating salted duck eggs, but Yuxi also emphasized several times that there must be a process, and each step must be serious.A little carelessness will not only make the duck eggs bad, but also bad for the reputation of their shop.Every time the duck eggs are unsealed, the duck eggs inside must be spot-checked to see if they are marinated properly. If there is anything wrong, it is acceptable to throw it away and not sell it.

This is what he learned from Lin Mingzhi. The stewed meat shop opened by Lin Mingzhi has now opened in Harbin, and the store is very large. Yuxi has made a lot of profits in the past six months, which shows how good his business is.

In the middle of March, Lin Mingzhi came to him in a hurry. He came to borrow Lao Tang, because the ingredients of Lao Tang were divided into two parts, one of which was made by himself, and the other half was bought by each store. Ingredients, this is not confidential, there is no technical content at all, and it turned out to be a problem. The manager of a branch store in Qi City bought the wrong kind of seasoning when mixing ingredients. It was not a big problem at first, but Lin Mingzhi found out after tasting it. There is something wrong with the taste, and the difference is still very small. Even after a few days of use, the taste will fade away, and people who eat it may not be able to feel it.

But Lin Mingzhi didn't do that, he would rather go to Yuxi overnight to borrow the old soup to cook again, rather than try to save trouble, and accidentally smash his own signboard.It is not easy for Lin Mingzhi to develop to where he is today, and he absolutely does not allow any mistakes.

Yuxi didn't understand business, but Lin Mingzhi's actions made him understand a lot.Integrity is the most important thing in opening a store.