After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

After reading the letter, Qin Yao sneered, threw the letter on the table, and turned on the lamp to sleep.

However, Liu Ji actually saw her going to the county seat?

There were various tests in the letter to confirm whether she had discovered that he was eating, drinking and having fun in the city instead of doing his job.

Qin Yao's heart has no fluctuations. There is no point in testing or not testing. Now Liu Ji is useless to her.

There are four alt-accounts at home. She can recharge any of them and the results will be better than his useless account.

It's just a few years later, and things are getting better and better now, so she's not in a hurry.

As for the money Liu Ji owes, if he can't pay it back, he can pay it with his life.

Qin Yao didn't want to think about this person anymore and affect her mood, so she closed her eyes, relaxed, and fell asleep.

After going into the mountains for many days, she didn't get a good sleep. Qin Yao got enough at once and slept until noon.

The four Dalang brothers and sisters knew her temper and did not bother her.

Make breakfast by yourself, leave her portion warm on the stove after eating, and then whoever's turn it is to do housework will wash the pots and dishes.

Dalang and Erlang come to wash the dirty clothes, but the twins don't know how to do it yet.

The two of them wanted to join in the fun, but Erlang was disgusted and drove them away, asking them to feed the chickens and horses.

The clothes that Qin Yao had changed out of Da Lang and Er Lang were also washed and dried flatly on the bamboo poles in the courtyard.

I finished all the housework, practiced martial arts, and studied. I knew that such an opportunity was rare, so I was very self-disciplined.

Especially after Dalang told them that Qin Yao had named each of their brothers and sisters, Erlang couldn't wait to eat the book directly.

Siniang held the brush, dipped it in water and wrote her name on the table. The characters were found by Erlang from the book. One is flat and the other is rhombus. The strokes are not difficult, but for Siniang, they are already very complicated characters. .

The crooked strokes were repeated over and over again on the wooden table, and the little girl giggled while writing.

Sanlang also wanted to write, but unfortunately, none of the four siblings had learned Mingzi yet. Erlang couldn't find the corresponding one, so he had to follow his second brother and write his two simple characters "子书".

When Qin Yao got up, there was only the rustle of writing and drawing in the courtyard, and her heart naturally calmed down.

She stretched herself and walked past the window of the four siblings. Four pairs of eyes immediately looked over. Siniang lost her brush, slipped off the chair, ran out of the house and rushed into Qin Yao's arms.

"Aniang, how do you write the names of the younger brother and the older brother?" she asked.

Qin Yao glanced into the room in surprise. She thought they were practicing calligraphy, but she didn't expect that they were writing her own name.

Dalang said with some embarrassment: "I told Auntie all the names you gave them."

Qin Yao raised her lips lightly, walked in with Siniang in her arms, put the little girl back on the chair, picked up the brush, and wrote down all four names.

There's nothing fancy about her handwriting, but it's neat.

"Here, just practice. You'll need it for school in the future." Qin Yao put down her pen, touched her heads one by one, clapped her hands and went to the kitchen to find something to eat.

The four of them, Dalang, looked at each other, laughed, and looked at each other's names together. When Erlang read out each word, they would all respond loudly, claiming their own names.

A name that belongs exclusively to them, not who they are or who they are. It's the same as Jinbao Jinhua. You can tell whose name you are calling when you call it.

For breakfast, Da Lang cooked white rice porridge, chopped half a catty of meat into minced meat, and stir-fried it with a large bowl of chopped sauerkraut.

Qin Yao poured all the minced meat and sauerkraut into the porridge pot. It tasted appetizing and refreshing.

Drain the porridge and vegetables in one go, wash them, light a fire and set up a pot to boil the lard.

Cut the fat meat into small pieces, first brush a layer of oil on the hot iron pan, and then pour all the fat meat pieces in. There will be a sizzling sound, and then an alluring aroma bursts out, fragrant to all the four children in the room. He ran over and gathered around the kitchen door, watching curiously.

"Aniang, what are you doing shoveling ashes?" Sanlang asked.

Siniang said to herself, "Do you want to give Lao Huang another meal?"

She had seen Qin Yao use plant ash to alkalize straw before, and thought it was still like this.

Qin Yao shook her head, "I'm going to make soap today."

"What is soap?" Erlang asked puzzledly, and took a deep breath of the aroma of meat wafting from the pot.

It was just time for lunch. Although he ate late in the morning and should be able to last until evening, he was already hungry now.

Qin Yao replied: "For washing clothes and bathing, you will know after making it."

Dalang remembered the soap powder he had asked about at the grocery store yesterday, and asked uncertainly: "Auntie, are you going to make soap powder? The one that costs twenty cents per tael?"

"Almost." Qin Yao nodded and asked Dalang to find two basins and gauze for him.

He also ordered Erlang to get the clam shells they touched by the river in the summer.

"By the way, Sanlang and Si Niang, you go to Liu Gonglang's house and buy three taels of coarse salt for me." Qin Yao put the half bucket of plant ash at the door of the kitchen, went back to the house, took six cents and handed it to the twins.

The two took the money and immediately ran towards Liu Guolang's house, very happy to participate.

Erlang quickly brought over half a bag of river mussel shells. Qin Yao threw all the charcoal left over from last winter into the stove hole and burned it. He placed it alone in the stove, poured the mussel shells in and heated them at high temperature.

When the lard in the pot boils out, the clam shells are almost cooked.

First, half a can of lard was poured out and allowed to cool. The resulting oil residue was filled into a small bowl, and the mother and son ate while working.

The crispy fried residue is crunchy when you take a bite, leaving a fragrant aroma in your mouth.

Qin Yao took out the stone bowl for pounding sesame seeds from the kitchen, poured the cooked clam shells into the bowl and pounded them into fine powder for later use.

Then pour the previously obtained plant ash into a clay pot, add water on the stove and boil it, then filter it layer by layer with gauze to produce alkaline water.

Pour clam shell powder into alkaline water and stir, filter again, and let it sit under the eaves to settle overnight.

The coarse salt bought by Sanlang and Siniang was also crushed and ground into powder for later use.

The next day, Qin Yao took out the cooled lard, poured the precipitated alkaline water into the lard, then poured in the ground coarse salt powder, and stirred it with wood chips to cause a saponification reaction.

Seeing the liquid turn into a solid little by little, the four Dalang brothers thought Qin Yao was casting a spell.

Qin Yao also gave them some science knowledge about saponification reaction.

But the four brothers and sisters firmly believe that this must be a spell!

It's not calcium oxide and salt washing.

The white paste was still soft after saponification. Qin Yao put it into bamboo tubes and opened it three days later, and it turned into two white cylinders.

Use cotton thread to cut the paste into twelve small pieces, place it in a flat-bottomed bamboo basket and hang it in a ventilated place in the storage room. After drying for a month, you can use it to wash clothes and wash hands.

"We still have to wait a month." Siniang pouted and asked Qin Yao: "Mom, can't I use it now?"

"Yes, but it's not easy to use. It's like shit." Qin Yao hung the basket on the beam, jumped off the stool, and drove the four siblings out with a wave of her hand.

"Let's wait and see again in a month. No one is allowed to cause trouble and secretly get it for me." Qin Yao solemnly asked.

Si Niang could only sigh, "Okay."