It took two jars to finish loading the cabbage to be pickled.
After marinating for eight or nine hours, add well water to the jar to cover the cabbage.
Put a lid on the mouth of the cylinder to prevent dust. You don't need to cover it tightly, because sauerkraut is afraid of heat and covering.
Then move the sauerkraut tank to a cooler place and keep the temperature at 2 to 8 degrees.
The only place where Fang Nuo's family could maintain this temperature was in the cellar. She used the space to move two large pickle vats into the cellar.
After pickling the sauerkraut, you need to pay attention to it later. If you find foam on the water surface, you should skim it off in time. If the water is low, add some water in time. After marinating for a month, the sauerkraut will be ready.
After marinating the sauerkraut in the vat, Fang Nuo thought of countless ways to eat sauerkraut, such as sauerkraut stewed vermicelli, pork and sauerkraut buns, sauerkraut dumplings, sugar-dipped sauerkraut hearts, and sauerkraut rice.
Thinking about the dishes that would make her mouth water uncontrollably, she began to look forward to them now.
Later she bagged the dried potatoes and put them all into the cellar.
The cellar at home belonged to the original family. She only learned about it from Aunt Dahua after renovating the roof.
She had never thought of digging a cellar at home before. Before she traveled through time, she was from the south. Even in summer, the humidity there was very high, so things were stored as high as possible.
So she never thought that there was a place like a cellar where things could be stored.
She also left some grain on top and moved the rest into the cellar.
Fortunately, this cellar has not been used for several years, but now that she has cleaned it up, there is no sign of moisture returning at all. The food will neither germinate due to moisture nor deteriorate due to high temperatures.
That's the good thing about a cellar. It keeps the temperature low when it's hot outside. Even when it's freezing and snowy outside, the temperature inside is normal and things in the room won't freeze.
Most of the food was moved into the cellar, and the kitchen suddenly became much more spacious.
For other vegetables, half of the beans are dried in the sun and half are pickled into pickled beans.
I also pickled some pickled cucumbers, the ones that are relatively young, and the old ones with their seeds and skin removed, sliced and dried in the sun.
After the beans are steamed and dried, the eggplant is steamed and dried.
She worked at home like this for several days before finishing all the vegetables in the backyard.
Then I used the light-transmitting plastic sheeting and bamboo at home to build a small shed for a small part of the vegetable patch in the backyard.
The shed was not very high, so every time she entered it, she would bend down and move around.
She built the shed and kept the plastic sheet uncovered. After it was frozen, she would cover it and seal it. She planted some of her favorite vegetables inside so that she could have hot pot in the winter.
Inside, she dug two nests, pulled out all the green onions and spring onions she planted, and buried the roots in the soil. When eating like this, she could pull out as much as she wanted.
After stocking up on vegetables, she made several more pieces of bacon. She also caught two chickens in the backyard, killed them, marinated them and hung them up to dry.
The only thing left behind is to store firewood for winter. The villagers have recently finished planting wheat, and there is not much work in the fields. Every household no longer has all employees working, and some people are left at home to collect firewood in the mountains.
The winter here is very long, and firewood is used to burn the kang to resist the cold, which consumes a lot of firewood.
Therefore, every family will store more firewood at this time of year. Some people have to pile up several piles in their yards to have enough firewood. After all, the more people in the family, the greater the consumption of firewood.
Although Fang Nuo had firewood in the space, in order not to appear special, she had to follow the crowd and go to the mountains to stock up on firewood.
Before going up to the mountains, she went to the town and took this opportunity to bring back some meat, which was also made into bacon and prepared.
This time I also brought back a reply from Father Fang and the others, as well as 800 yuan from selling the goods.
She won't go to town for a while. She might come out again before the heavy snowfall. After the snow closes the road, she won't plan to come out again.
So I thought of giving more goods to the black market these two times, which would also supplement her income in the winter months.
When she got home, she didn't bother to have lunch first. She put Yaya on the kang and fell asleep, then took out the letter, opened it and read it.
In this letter, Father Fang first scolded the family who sent her home, and then expressed concern about her and the child's situation.
They did not blame her for finding someone to marry and have children in the countryside, but felt sorry for her when she lost her husband just after becoming a mother.
After knowing that she was looking for an opportunity to visit them, Father Fang said that several people in the family refused. As long as she lived a good life here, she would be safe.
As for the things she sent, only the two cans were taken away by the higher authorities. They received all the other worthless dried vegetables.
If the managers there were pretty good and knew that these people were not really bad people, and the only requirement for them was to finish the assigned work, they would not make things more difficult for them.
As for the things collected, it is considered a good idea to accept them. If you send a letter to Fang Nuo, it will be in their hands more smoothly.
Fang Nuo could accept this. After all, she had heard that in other places, if family members sent something, not only would the letter be opened and read, but the things would not reach the family either.
Furthermore, they will find various reasons to embarrass those poor people and destroy their spirits and bodies.
Therefore, during this period, many people simply cannot make it home.
Fang Nuo was glad in his heart that his family could go to such a relatively good place.
She didn't rush to write a reply this time, because the next time she went to town would be almost half a month later, and she had to think about it carefully before writing a reply then.
She must go and have a look, and she can also bring them some more nutritious things, and then help them take care of things so that their life will not be so difficult.
Take good care of their health and give them some persuasion to ensure they can survive.
As for changing their place, Fang Nuo doesn't have that much ability and doesn't want to change.
Since the manager of the place where they are staying now is pretty good, why should she go to all this trouble? If they change places then, their lives will not be as good as they are now, and it would be better not to change.
She can't guarantee anything, so it's good for now. The two parties are not far apart. Although they can't go out for activities, she can, and she will look for opportunities to visit when she has time.
After reading this letter, she felt more at ease, knowing that they were in no danger at the moment, so she could continue to store firewood for the winter with peace of mind.
The next day she started to collect dry firewood from the mountains. She carried three loads of firewood to her home every day, and used her space to smuggle a lot of firewood home. Within a few days, a lot of firewood was piled up in the firewood shed and inside the fence. firewood.
She also chopped the firewood she brought back into sizes that could be burned first, and stacked them neatly.
