Chapter 48: Chopping Wood

"It was the head nurse Xiao who asked me to help with the cooking. Hua Banzhi pulled Zhou Guangming to stand at the door of the back kitchen, looking at the steaming inside.

It's just hot to stand here, it's so warm.

Zhou Guangming held her cold hand, looked up at her and said, "Mother, come here with your ears." ”

Hua Banzhi simply squatted down, leaned over and said, "Say it!"

Zhou Guangming leaned on her ear and whispered, "Mother, if you work here, it won't be cold." ”

"Little fool!" Hua Banzhi moved away a little, looked at him with a smile on his face, and lowered his voice, "Now that it's warm, what can I do in the summer? Wink playfully at him.

"Huh?" Zhou Guangming opened his mouth wide, his eyes wide, "I forgot about this." Scratching his head, he smiled, "That's better than doing laundry." ”

Hua Banzhi smiled and touched the top of his head and said, "Little fool, it's not easy to do anything." ”

"Are you here to help with the cooking?" a sudden loud voice broke Hua Banzhi and Zhou Guangming.

Hua Banzhi stood up and looked at the visitor, a man as strong as a hill, dressed in an earthy yellow military uniform and wearing a white yellowed apron.

Long thick eyebrows and big eyes, sweaty forehead, big hands like a fan, thick arms, look very powerful.

"Hello, I'm here to help with the cooking, half a branch. Hua Banzhi introduced himself.

"Okay, how can you arrange such a thin person to help with the cooking, what can you do?" the chef frowned at Hua Banzhi's thin body, and said unceremoniously.

Hua Banzhi looked at him with a stunned face when he heard this, this person spoke really straightforwardly.

"Go to the firewood room and bring some firewood!" the chef commanded directly.

"Where's the firewood room?" asked Hua Banzhi quickly.

"You're new here. Chef then asked.

"Hmm!" said Hana-Banzhi nodded.

"Behind the kitchen is the firewood room, and you'll know when you get there. Chef looked at her and pointed in the direction, "Go from here." ”

"Thank you!" Hua Banzhi bent down slightly and looked at Zhou Guangming and said, "It's warm here, you are waiting for me here, I'll come when I go." ”

When the chef heard this, he was about to say, 'This is not a place for children to play, when he heard Hua Banzhi tell the child, 'Don't run around, and don't disturb others.' ”

"I'm not going to run around, I'm here. Zhou Guangming said as he stood against the door frame.

The chef looked at the child's well-behaved and cute assurance, and the words of refusal turned around in his mouth and swallowed back, and it was not too late to drive away if he was disobedient.

After nodding to the chef, Hanachi turned around the kitchen and went to the backyard, where he saw a wooden stake in the center of the backyard with a sharp axe wedged into it.

Hua Banzhi passed through the palm-sized courtyard into the firewood room, and on one side was neatly stacked truncated logs, occupying half of the room.

On the other side was the chopped firewood, and Hua Banzhi looked at the firewood that was almost left at the bottom, frowned, and said to himself, "Can this be used?"

He collected all the remaining firewood into a large rattan basket.

Hua Banzhi hurried back to the kitchen with the basket in his footsteps.

"All that's left is the firewood. Hua Banzhi looked at the chef and said.

"What?" said the chef anxiously, looking at the half-basket of firewood, "these simply can't support this meal." Raised his eyes and swept around the kitchen, "What about the second ......turn?

"Master Li was seconded by the school. Someone replied.

"Damn, what should we do now?" Master Li said anxiously, and he couldn't find anyone chopping wood for a while!

"That Master Li, I can chop wood. Hua Banzhi volunteered when he heard this.

"You?" Master Li said as he squinted at her thin body, his eyes full of doubt.

"Master Li, don't look at me thin, I'm very energetic, just try it. Hua Banzhi patted his arm as thin as a hemp pole and said, "I came from the countryside and often did it." ”

"But the amount of chopping wood is very large, not only in the kitchen, but also in the kang to ensure the indoor temperature of patients and medical staff. Master Li looked at her worriedly and said.

"It's the mule and the horse that comes out for a walk, and you can check it in a moment. Hua Banzhi blinked his clear eyes and looked at him calmly.

Unable to find a suitable person for a while, Master Li glanced at Hua Banzhi deeply, "Then you can try it!"

Hua Banzhi turned around and left the kitchen when he heard this, no amount of assurance was useless, speaking with facts.

I am very familiar with chopping firewood and flowers, and I often do it in the countryside, and I can't use brute strength to chop firewood, and I also have skills.

There is a saying: "Chopping firewood does not follow the pattern, and the woodcutter is tired to death".

Spend half a branch to put the firewood upright on the stake, the small head facing up, so that it can be placed steadily, split right, if the end of the big head is split, nine times out of ten will be crooked.

In this way, it conforms to the texture of the wood, and it can be easily split with relatively little force, if you have to cut it horizontally, it will tire people to death, and it may be difficult to cut it with an axe.

This is regulated by the law of wood growth, so it is really neat and tidy to spend half a branch to chop wood, and it is simply not too easy.

When Master Li came over to collect firewood with a basket, he watched Hua Banzhi chop firewood with an axe, as simple as chopping melons and vegetables.

What surprised him the most was that she chopped firewood about the same size, as if she had measured it.

"Comrade Xiaohua, do you often do this. Master Li raised his eyebrows and looked at her and asked.

"Hmm!" Hua Banzhi nodded his head, and his hand continued to chop wood.

How much firewood did it take to practice this skill!

Master Li didn't have time to ask the kitchen about the firewood, so he bent down and quickly picked up the chopped firewood into the basket and left.

When Master Li made dinner, he walked over with a cigarette in his mouth, and his eyes almost didn't stare out of the window.

Around the half-branch of the flower is a hill of chopped firewood.

Master Li reached out and took down the cigarette roll and stammered, "That's all there is to do now." ”

Hua Banzhi raised his arm to wipe the sweat from his forehead, "How is it?"

"Enough, enough. Master Li nodded hurriedly.

Meng Fanchun, who was pulled over by Zhou Guangming, looked at the two of them and said, "What is enough." ”

Meng Fanchun, who was going to come to the canteen to eat, saw Zhou Guangming standing at the door, and came directly to the backyard after asking.

Master Li looked back at the sound and said, "Is it Doctor Meng?" and pointed to the firewood under his feet, "I mean the firewood is enough to burn." ”

"Why is Master Li not only in charge of the spoon, but also chopping wood?" said Doctor Meng as he looked at him and teased.

"Where do I have time to chop wood? These are chopped by Comrade Xiaohua. Master Li turned around and pointed at Hua Banzhidao.

"You split it?" Meng Fanchun said as he looked at her in disbelief.

Hua Banzhi's glass-like eyes blinked, and he nodded, "Do you want me to try it for you?" and bent down to put the bowl-sized wooden pier on the wooden stake, picked up the axe, and chirped the wooden pier into the required firewood.