5. Chapter 5

Qin Fang picked up a piece of pig intestines, and his eyes lit up. This bad woman could actually make such delicious food. He ate faster, and finally used steamed buns to dip in the soup of pig intestines, and almost licked the bottom of the lunch box clean. There were also pig trotters, which were stewed very soft and glutinous, and felt melted in the mouth.

Qin Fang thought that the dishes from rich families were different, and the dishes were very delicious.

After lunch, the story of Qin Fang's wife taking poison and committing suicide on the wedding night had a sequel. The soldiers under his command praised their sister-in-law's cooking skills. Everyone also knew that Qin Fang's wife did not commit suicide, but took the wrong medicine because of her poor health.

Yang Haiyan naturally didn't know about these things. She and Lu's wife arrived home. After a while, people came to wash clothes and fetch water. The one who came was the eldest daughter-in-law of that family, named Tang. Tang brought her ten-year-old daughter with her and pulled the cart.

This cart is very special. There are four small wheels underneath and wooden boards on top. In this way, a large wooden barrel filled with water can be placed on the wooden boards and pulled back. Even women can pull it.

Tang: "Madam, you have to take out the things to be washed. We have to take them to the sink to wash. Otherwise, the sheets and quilts are very large, and it takes too much time to pull buckets of water back and forth."

Yang Haiyan: "That makes sense. I'll go with you. I still have clothes to wash." She went back to the room to get the sheets and quilts, and bought soap for washing clothes on the platform. Ordinary soap costs two yuan a piece. Yang Haiyan bought a piece and then cut it in half. She was not worried that someone would recognize the soap, because this is the border, the border is the center of trade, and merchants from other countries can often be seen. If someone asks, she will say that she bought it from merchants from other countries. In this country, merchants from other countries are called traveling merchants.

However, when she saw the soap, she thought of another way to make money.

Yang Haiyan put this thought aside for the time being, and she followed Tang's mother and daughter to wash clothes.

There was a place for washing clothes beside the sink, which was also the well. Tang's mother and daughter helped her wash the quilt and quilt cover, and she washed the clothes she had changed yesterday. She washed quickly and went home first. After another quarter of an hour, Tang's mother and daughter came back with a cart. They spread out her quilt and bed sheets, and then carried two buckets of water to the kitchen.

The bed sheets and quilt cover weighed four pounds in total, and it cost four cents. Fetching water fifteen times a month was equivalent to ten cents for a day's hard labor, so the total was fourteen cents. After paying, one tael of silver was only eleven cents.

Tang took the money but did not leave immediately. She hesitated for a moment and asked a little embarrassedly: "Mrs. Qin, what is the name of your laundry stuff? It looks a bit like soap, but it is very easy to use. It not only washes clothes cleanly, but also has a fragrance."

Yang Haiyan: "I don't know what it is. When I went to the market this morning, I saw a vendor setting up a stall. There was this thing on the stall. It was called soap. It was a fat thing like soap. It was called soap. I thought it was interesting, so I bought it."

Tang felt a little sorry when she heard it: "Then you definitely can't buy it now. You don't know, some ladies are more particular about their clothes, but they can't be washed clean with soap. I think yours will definitely be clean."

Yang Haiyan smiled: "This thing is expensive, twenty cents per piece."

Tang heard it: "It's expensive, but it's durable, and the clothes washed out are clean and fragrant." If they use this to wash clothes, they can charge a few more cents every time they wash clothes, and those ladies won't care. In this way, their family has an advantage over others.

Yang Haiyan understood what she meant when she heard it: "You want this?"

Tang: "Isn't it not available?"

Yang Haiyan: "I'll buy a few pieces for you later."

Tang shook her head: "A few pieces are not enough. It would be great if I could buy it for a long time." After all, their family has to wash clothes every day.

Yang Haiyan: "That's a pity."

Tang: "Madam, we're leaving first. We'll come to fetch water for you after dinner the day after tomorrow."

Yang Haiyan: "Okay."

After Tang's mother and daughter left with the cart, Yang Haiyan figured it out. To make soap, you need plant ash, filter, clean water, pot, salt, and lard. Among these materials, lard is the most expensive.

After having the idea, Yang Haiyan immediately took action.

She spent 18 platform coins and bought an old-fashioned wooden pole scale on the trading platform. This wooden pole scale is the same as the wooden pole scale used for business in the vegetable market. She also spent 10 platform coins to buy a cloth bag that can filter. It's a very ordinary filter bag, just like the white filter bag for filtering soy milk.

Then she spent 20 platform coins to buy a bottle of rose-scented perfume.

Then she bought 50 grams of silver, which is one tael, one thousand coins.

After that, she went to the market. She went to the meat stall first and ordered five catties of pork fat from the boss for tomorrow. Finally, she went to the carpenter's workshop and ordered wooden grids, which are soap models. There are twenty rectangular models on a wooden board. So the one tael of silver given by Lu Saozi, plus the one tael of silver she bought on the platform, a total of two taels of silver, only less than one tael was left in the past few days.

In the evening, Yang Haiyan fried cabbage and cooked brown rice, eating very lightly. After dinner, she began to filter lime, add water and stir, then boil lye in the pot, take it out and precipitate it after boiling, and then go to bed.

The next day, before dawn, five catties of pork fat came from the meat stall. So Yang Haiyan simply boiled lard and boiled out three catties of lard.

The wooden mold has not been delivered yet, and Yang Haiyan is a little interested, so she plans to try it first.

She first took 100 grams of lard and tried it, a little less. The first step is to stir the lard and lye together, and heat it during the stirring process, and drop a few drops of perfume and salt in the middle. The second step is to take out the soap solution after half an hour and put it in a bowl. After that, she didn't care about it. She had to prepare lunch and deliver food to Qin Fang at noon.

Thinking of Qin Fang, Yang Haiyan decided to make do with it for the time being. She was unfamiliar with the place here, and Qin Fang was also her dish, so she was willing to try to live like this first. If she felt that it was not suitable in the future, she could find a way.

This morning, lard was boiled, so there was a lot of lard residue. Sprinkle a little salt and the lard residue can be eaten. The staple food is cabbage noodle soup, and the soup is the pig's trotter soup left over from yesterday. Then she made three poached eggs, one for herself and two for Qin Fang.

She thinks it's good to deliver food every day, and proper digestion exercise after meals is good for health.

After finishing her meal, she went out with a basket. When she passed by Lu's house, she said, "Sister-in-law, I'm going to deliver food to my husband. Please help me look after the yard." Speaking of which, because this is the family quarters of the soldiers in the military camp, it is very safe. No one will come here to make trouble. After all, in the hearts of ordinary people, soldiers are also officials, and in modern times, they are civil servants.

Lu's wife: "Hey, don't worry."

Yang Haiyan delivered the food alone today, because Lu's wife told her yesterday that she would not go today. Yesterday, she accompanied Yang Haiyan to show her the way.

Yang Haiyan felt relieved when she went alone. The road from the family quarters to the military camp seemed to take an hour, but in fact, there were not many roads, and it was safe here. After all, no one would do bad things near the military camp. Don't want to lose your head?

Yang Haiyan arrived at the back door of the military camp, and the soldiers on guard recognized her: "Sister-in-law of the Qin family, are you here to deliver food to the Qin family?"

Among the military wives, Yang Haiyan is very rare. After all, the original owner followed the eldest daughter, so her etiquette is good, not compared with the daughter of a rich family, but ordinary people can't compare with her. Even the daughters of the seventh-rank county magistrate's family are probably not as good as her etiquette. Now it's Yang Haiyan's soul again. She is more confident than the original owner, and lacks the original owner's inferiority as a servant. That temperament is that of a lady from a wealthy family.

Yang Haiyan smiled slightly: "Yes, I agreed with my husband yesterday. Please help me call him."

Soldier: "Sister-in-law is polite, please wait a moment."

The soldier ran to Qin Fang's military camp.

Qin Fang had woken up and was lying on the bed looking at the top of the tent. The annoying woman said before leaving yesterday that she would come to deliver lunch today. Will she really come? Qin Fang was very hesitant. If she didn't come, he would be hungry if he waited. But if he went to have lunch and she came again, then the two lunches would be a waste.

Disgusting.

"Boss Qin... Boss Qin... your sister-in-law has brought you food."

The other soldiers outside heard this and laughed and said, "Boss Qin, your wife has brought you food."

Qin Fang picked up the basket from yesterday, which he had washed, and strode out of the tent. There was no expression on his face, but in fact, his heart was beating a little fast. Did that annoying woman really bring him food?

"Boss Qin, what did your sister-in-law bring you? Let's go and see together."

"Yes, Boss Qin, your sister-in-law is so good at cooking, she must have brought something delicious."

Qin Fang glanced at them sideways. These people wanted to eat, didn't they think he didn't know? Qin Fang saw the woman standing at the door from a distance. She was wearing the same aqua blue dress as yesterday, and her face was clean, not to mention powder, even lip balm. She looked like a painting. Involuntarily, he took bigger steps.

It is undeniable that he was a little happy to hear that she came to bring food today. Because... maybe she didn't break her promise.

"Husband..." Seeing Qin Fang approaching, Yang Haiyan waved.

Qin Fang thought, is he so happy to see me? After approaching, Qin Fang said: "Why are you here again? It's too tiring to go back and forth. Don't come tomorrow."

Yang Haiyan said coquettishly: "You are here to defend the country, and you don't allow me to nourish your body and make something delicious for you?"

Qin Fang pursed his lips, but... his mouth couldn't help but curl up again. It's always happy to be praised like this.

Yang Haiyan: "Today's cooking is simple, I just made noodles, and I also brought you snacks. I don't know if it suits your taste. Did you like what I made yesterday?"

Qin Fang: "Yeah." After a pause, he said, "Everyone said it was delicious." He was not a child. He was brought snacks.