Chapter 31 Daily life
The beauties in the palace pale in comparison. From now on, the king will no longer hold court early in the morning!
That night, Qin Huairu, feeling guilty, tried her best and obeyed everything.

Afterwards, she endured the discomfort of her body and gently wiped the sweat off Wang Deming's body with warm water that she had prepared in advance.

He put away the coarse white cloth stained with the plum blossoms on which he had lost his virginity, cleaned himself, and finally rolled up his mattress and laid a new piece of coarse white cloth on it, placing it under his buttocks before he slowly fell asleep.
In her sleep, Qin Huairu had a faint smile on her face.
The next morning, before dawn, Qin Huairu got up despite the pain, groped in the dark, and put on her clothes carefully, for fear of waking up Wang Deming.

As I was about to fumble to put on my shoes, my feet went weak and I almost fell. It just happened to hurt, and I couldn't help but cry out softly: "Ah!"

Wang Deming suddenly woke up and looked up: "What's wrong?"

"Deming, my legs were weak when I stepped on the ground just now. I almost fell down. Deming, I'm sorry to wake you up. You should sleep for a while."

"I'll help mom get up and then cook breakfast."

"No need to be so early." Wang Deming glanced at the sky outside the window and yawned. There was no light on the paper-pasted window. He reached out and felt for a match on the kang. "Wait a moment. I'll light the gas lamp first. Don't fall in the dark."

"Um"

Wang Deming supported himself with his elbows and straightened his upper body. He slid the match with his left hand, and with a "crackling" sound, he saw the gas lamp on the head of the kang in the light. Wang Deming leaned forward and placed the match about 3 centimeters above the gas lamp. Then he slowly turned the opening and closing ring at the bottom with his right hand to adjust the size of the flame.

The flame of the gas lamp gradually grew from a bean-sized point to the size of an almond and became brighter. Wang Deming covered it with a glass cover, and the room was constantly filled with orange-yellow light.

"Deming, Xiaoru, are you two awake?"

Wang Shuqin, the godmother in the main room, also heard the noise in the room and asked loudly.

"Mom, Xiaoru and I are awake." Wang Deming stood up and put the gas lamp in a specially hollowed-out square hole in the wall between the bedroom and the living room, which could just illuminate the two rooms. He nodded to Qin Huairu, "Mom, Xiaoru is ready to come out. She will help you get dressed."

"No need to let Xiaoru come out, Mom has already put on her clothes. Xiaoru is not feeling well today, so she needs to take a good rest first."

"Mom, I'm fine." Qin Huairu put on her shoes in the light, staggered a little, lifted the patched curtain and went to the main room, "Mom, you take a rest, I'll cook breakfast."

"It's okay, Mom is not old yet, she can still do it."

"Mom, let me do it. How can a mother-in-law work while a daughter-in-law watches over her?"

"Okay, Xiaoru, boil some water first. I'll get you two eggs and make you two poached eggs. I'll nourish you well over the next two days."

"Mom, no need"

Listening to the warm conversation between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the main room, Wang Deming couldn't help but smile as if nothing had happened last night, and a warm current seemed to flow in his heart.

The feeling of home.
This is the day I long for!
Although there were occasional twists and turns in the process, it was successfully achieved.

Qin Huairu did not make the wrong choice. She was very capable in serving people, both in the living room and in the kitchen.

Of course, he definitely couldn't take her to the capital. Even though he and his godmother were very generous and didn't mind her going to the city for a blind date, the house he had bought was in the famous Nanluoguxiang Siheyuan. The famous widow Jia in the middle courtyard would definitely cause trouble when she saw Qin Huairu.

In order to make yourself comfortable, you must stay far away
But it’s better this way. My godmother refuses to go to the city, so I feel more at ease with Qin Huairu taking care of her. When the new house is built, I can come back twice more often every month.

Of course, the house in Nanluoguxiang still needs to be rebuilt. One reason is that I need a private place to continue hiding things, and the other is that I also need it for daily interactions after work.

"Deming, are you up? Xiaoru has prepared hot water for brushing teeth and washing face."

"Get up!" Wang Deming quickly put on his clothes, folded the quilt, and stacked it neatly on a wooden board rack at the end of the kang.

It was getting light outside. Qin Huairu was busy at the stove, sprinkling ground corn flour into the boiling water and stirring it constantly. There were already cut pumpkin and sweet potatoes in the water.

As the saying goes, fruits and vegetables provide half a year's food, and pumpkin is a good thing. It has a high yield and is suitable for both food and vegetables. Just like sweet potatoes, the young shoots can be pinched for cooking, and the leaves and vines can be chopped up to feed chickens and pigs.

Wang Shuqin carried the bedding from the main room into the house and told him, "Deming, first turn the earthworm trench over. The water is already boiling in the big stove in the yard. Wash the earthworms and cook them to feed the chickens."

"Then you can look over the piles of fermented fertilizer at the gate of the yard and see if it is time to pile them into the earthworm trench?"

"Then brush your teeth, wash your face, and have breakfast."

"Okay, Mom." Wang Deming agreed and smiled at Qin Huairu before going out of the house. He picked up the fork at the door and went to the earthworm ditch to turn over the earthworms.

The earthworm ditch is the easiest way to breed earthworms. Make a ditch that is 50 cm wide and high and about ten meters long. Place fermented and decomposed soil in the ditch and throw the earthworms in. Maintain a temperature of about 15-35 degrees and a certain humidity every day.

The earthworm colony will continue to grow and become stronger, and then we start picking up earthworms from one end and add decomposed soil again. When we reach the end, the earthworm colony at the original end will grow and become stronger again. This is absolutely sustainable development.

You can raise chickens to provide sufficient protein and fertilize the fields, killing two birds with one stone.

The only thing is to pay attention to laying thick straw mats in winter to keep warm, and pay attention to turning the soil in the ditch in time in summer to prevent the temperature from being too high. Pay attention to the humidity in the earthworm ditch every day and pay attention to adding water.
He threw the earthworms into the big stove in the yard. Before they boiled, Wang Deming took a fork and stirred the fermentation tank built at the gate of the yard.

The so-called fermentation pools are actually just a few large pits. They are not as closed as the ones made of cement concrete in rural areas in later generations. They can also produce biogas for burning and cooking.

Bury the daily excrement of humans, livestock, poultry, various weeds, leaves, straw, etc., and then add the ash from burning straw to maintain the pH value. Lime is also OK. Now there is no plastic sheet, so use the straw curtain for watering to cover it and maintain the temperature.
Generally speaking, lime is sprinkled into rural toilets from time to time, which can not only remove odors but also prevent the formation of maggots.
When Wang Deming finished his farm work in the yard, the water for washing face and brushing teeth under the eaves was just the right temperature, the toothpaste had been squeezed, and the toothbrush was neatly placed on the toothbrush cup.
The breakfast was still the same, except that there were two more bowls in the middle, each with two poached eggs.

Wang Shuqin pushed two bowls of fried eggs in front of Wang Deming and Qin Huairu with a smile on her face, "Deming, Xiaoru, you two just got married, two fried eggs each, both of you should nourish your bodies."

After some pushing and shoving, Wang Shuqin reluctantly ate two egg yolks, and the family was happy.

After breakfast, Wang Deming went up the mountain to check on the cement kiln. The temperature of the cement had already dropped, so Wang Deming and Uncle Yan brought a few people to break the cement into pieces. They used animals to grind it into powder and then took it directly to Wang Deming's house without bagging it.

Because it is a buried foundation, the cement and river sand are simply sieved through a coarse-mesh bamboo mesh, then water is added and continuously stirred with a shovel.

After a while, Wang Deming and the masons continued to select stones, and according to the shape of the stones, they placed them in the right positions and added mortar in the middle to build the foundation.
The next day was the day to return to her parents' home. Wang Deming took Qin Huairu back to her parents' home with the remaining half pound of red apricot soft candy.
(End of this chapter)