Chapter 45. Outbreak
But no one was worried, the little fourth brother is no match for the big sister in cunning, that girl is also very shrewd.
There wasn’t much happening next, Brother Hua and Second Brother Hua returned to their rooms to continue their unfinished homework, and took with them the little fourth brother who was trying to curry favor with the big sister, to continue yesterday’s unfinished punishment, and then the courtyard was filled with little fourth’s cries of despair.
Hua Jin also went back to her room, and the first thing she did was to put the ten copper coins back into the space; nothing was more reassuring than keeping them in the space.
Mrs. Qi and her mother-in-law were busy rendering lard from the fat, which yielded half a jar of oil and a big bowl of pork scraps, seasoned with some salt and stored in the cupboard for future consumption.
Then they packed the remaining meat and bones and hung them in the well in the backyard.
Since the well’s temperature was already low, and with the weather turning colder by the day, even if not cured, they wouldn’t spoil in the well for seven or eight days.
As for the fish, they were placed into the water tank in the courtyard as soon as they came back; if they revived, they’d be better off alive, otherwise, they’d be cured.
Hua Jin wasn’t in the space for long before coming out. She was about to help her mom and grandmother in the kitchen when she was given a few pieces of the freshly rendered pork scraps and promptly shooed out of the kitchen.
Looking at the coarse salt her mother sprinkled on the pork scraps, Hua Jin’s eyes deepened somewhat.
Long term consumption of this unrefined salt would definitely have adverse effects on the body. No wonder people’s lifespans weren’t generally long in ancient times; perhaps the salt was one of the reasons.