Lu Jin put down the bowl and saw Lin Xiaoman staring at him, so he asked: "I took a look in the morning and found that there was grass growing in the newly planted cabbage field. Are we going to pull the weeds in the afternoon?"

Lin Xiaoman thought for a moment, "No, there are not many grasses, Chen Xiaoshuan and the others can pull them out. In a few days, we will harvest corn and rice again, and we will be busy for a while, so we might as well take a rest at this time."

I have saved a lot of eggs and duck eggs recently, so I will pickle the duck eggs in the afternoon."

"Okay, I'll pickle it with you in the afternoon."

"Well, I made some marinated salt last month. You can cook a few and take them back to the county seat. If you want to eat, you can pick one out and you don't have to run to me all the time."

Lu Jin laughed while eating: "Xiaoman thinks I come here every day?"

Lin Xiaoman snorted angrily. Who has ever seen a county magistrate leave all the official duties of the county government to his master and run to the countryside all day long? Even if he works hard for new grains, he will inevitably be punished.

People feel that they are serving the public good for their own benefit.

Also, after being exposed to the ground for several days in a row, Lu Jin watched as he tanned a few more degrees. He went to the ground with his trousers rolled up every day. If he didn’t recognize him, he would have been mistaken for someone else’s descendant in the village. How could he have done it?

Like an official?

Lu Jin said: "That's right. The day after tomorrow is the college examination. As the county magistrate, I have to preside over it in the county. I'm afraid I won't be able to see Xiao Man for a while. Please bring me more duck eggs."

Lin Xiaoman's heart suddenly twitched because of his words. She didn't realize it when she saw him every day, and suddenly said she couldn't come. She felt strangely uncomfortable.

But it was only for a moment. Lin Xiaoman waved his hand nonchalantly, "If you can't see me, then I'll see you. I have to prepare a few dishes when we meet. I just have a rest."

Lu Jin felt like he had been stabbed in the heart. How much did Xiaoman not want to see him?

After dinner, Lu Jin took the dishes to wash, while Lin Xiaoman took out all the eggs and duck eggs he had saved these days, including a few goose eggs.

The chickens, ducks and geese had just begun to lay eggs, and the eggs were not very big. Lin Xiaoman soaked the eggs in a large wooden basin and took a brush to brush them one by one.

Brush it and put it in a wooden bucket, use it later, and then put it in the jar for pickling eggs.

I bought a lot of tanks for pickling sauerkraut last year, and I can pickle a lot in one tank.

Lu Jin came out after washing the dishes and saw Lin Xiaoman sitting in the yard brushing eggs. He also wanted to come over to help. Lin Xiaoman said: "It's not much. You take what you have washed to the outhouse. There is a box of ink pads next to the vat. You can do it every time."

Put your fingerprints on each egg, then throw them into the pickled egg vat."

Lu Jin agreed, carried Lin Xiaoman's washed eggs into the outer room, and sure enough found a box of ink pads next to the vat.

I opened the ink pad box and dipped some with my fingers. I was hesitant about what kind of fingerprint I should make to qualify, "Xiao Man, which fingerprint should be bigger or smaller?"

Lin Xiaoman said: "That's almost enough."

Lu Jin still didn't dare to point, "Do they all have the same size fingerprints?"

Lin Xiaoman smiled, "That's just to make a mark. This time you press your fingerprints, and next time you use the tip of your chopsticks to tap a few points. It's easy to distinguish. If you're afraid that you can't press it well, you can just tap it with the tip of your chopsticks. This time you tap one.

, I will order two next time."

Lu Jin felt relieved and went straight to press his fingerprints.

After Lin Xiaoman finished washing the chicken, duck and goose eggs, Lu Jin also put his fingerprints on it. Looking at the eggs floating on the tank, none of them had fingerprints. He reached out and stirred in the tank, but he didn't see a few.

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Lin Xiaoman came in and saw him playing with eggs in the tank, "Be gentle, they will scatter the eggs."

Lu Jin asked: "Why are the eggs that I just put down missing?"

Lin Xiaoman glanced inside and said, "The ones you just put in will sink to the bottom. If they marinate for a long time, they will float up."

Lu Jin felt it was magical and stood by the tank and stared at it for a while.

Lin Xiaoman brought a basin and said, "Sir, take out the unmarked eggs."

Lu Jin picked up the eggs one by one and looked at them carefully. He was afraid that he would catch the wrong eggs, so he said as he fished them: "It's too weird to call you an adult."

Lin Xiaoman thought for a moment, "That can't be called a young master."

Lu Jin shook his head helplessly, "You can call me Ajin."

Lin Xiaoman stared at Lu Jin, "Are you serious?"

She can guarantee that as long as she dares to scream like that, more than a dozen rumors will spread in the village immediately.

Lu Jin also felt that he was too impatient and said helplessly: "Then let's call you sir. You can just call me by name."

Lin Xiaoman said "oh" noncommittally, picked up the wine jar placed next to the vat, and poured a lot of wine into the vat.

The aroma of wine was so fragrant that Lu Jin was worried that such good wine was used to pickle duck eggs. But thinking that duck eggs were so delicious, he didn't want to drink too much.

When leaving, Lin Xiaoman brought Lu Jin a basket of pickled eggs and duck eggs, and two small jars of spicy meat sauce for him to mix with noodles and rice. He also broke a large bag of corn cobs for him to take back.<

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Going there to take tutoring classes in the evening, Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu said, "The day after tomorrow is the college exam. We will go to the county town to stay tomorrow. Just try your best to take the exam. Don't be too stressed."

Lin Erhu sighed, "You can't do your best to take the exam. The teacher said that if you can't pass the exam, don't say it was taught by him outside."

Lin Xiaoman knew that Xu Qiuliang had confidence in Lin Erhu, but how could he talk about things like the exam? He could only say: "Then don't call me sir. I will change my tune after the autumn harvest."

Lin Erhu chuckled, "That's right, from now on he won't even be able to hear me call him husband."

Grandma Chen heard the door open and came out, "Xiao Man, the salted duck eggs you brought over are so fragrant. They are much more delicious than the ones sold for ten yuan and six outside. My daughter-in-law asked me to ask you if you can still buy them.

No?"

Lin Xiaoman's pickled salted duck eggs had just been taken away by Lu Jin, and the next batch would have to wait half a month. Others in the village raised ducks and had salted duck eggs, but I don't know what went wrong.

She taught her step by step, but the pickled duck eggs were not as delicious as the ones she pickled. Of course, they were still much more delicious than the salted duck eggs sold here.

“If my salted duck eggs are gone, will other people’s salted duck eggs survive?”

"Will it be delicious?" Grandma Chen is most worried about the taste. If it doesn't taste good, she might as well buy it outside.

Lin Xiaoman said: "They are all ducks raised in the same river. The pickled ones may be different, but they are still more fragrant than those fed with feed."

"That's it, you can buy thirty of them for me to try first. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming next month, and my daughter-in-law wants to bake egg yolk mooncakes at home."

"Next month, my duck eggs will be pickled. If Grandma Chen is not in a hurry, I will leave as many as you want."

Grandma Chen nodded hurriedly, "Okay, just leave me 200 of your duck eggs. We have a large family, and my daughter-in-law's family also has a large family, so there won't be anything left if we divide even one."

Lin Xiaoman was very happy to sell two hundred salted duck eggs at once. Now he can pick up about forty eggs a day, and he can save two hundred eggs in five days. When they are salted, he will ask Grandma Xu if they want duck eggs.

, Grandma Xu’s group is full of elderly people who know the goods. Their duck eggs are good, so they don’t have to worry about selling them.

I sent a message to the teacher who would be attending tutoring classes in the next few days, saying that there was something going on at home and this week’s class was temporarily canceled. I received a received emoji in reply.
Chapter completed!