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In the busy life of every day, it is the end of August. That is, at the end of the dog days, after August to the beginning of September, it is time to start autumn, looking at the slowly depressed vegetable garden, I want to plant some autumn vegetables in a few days.

At Aunt Guo and Uncle Guo's house, I collected some seeds of small vegetables and prepared to plant autumn vegetables in a few days.

This autumn vegetable is eaten fresh, not cabbage to store and pickle sauerkraut in winter. We all grow cabbage here, and I was still in confinement when I was in confinement.

The cabbage in the garden was planted with the help of Aunt Guo, and now the vegetable leaves have grown bigger than two palms. After a few such cabbage leaves, you can eat it in a rice bag.

After a few days of deliberation, the eldest aunt came to tell me last night. The eldest brother's wedding date is set at the end of autumn, October 16 of the solar calendar, the woman's house is the 15th day, and the man goes to pick up his relatives on the 16th. He also said that our family gave money happily this time, and the man's parents promised that they would marry a pair of cabinets, a pair of mirrors, two pairs of bedding and 200 yuan.

We discussed that it seems that this woman's parents are very face-saving people. The bride price was 800, which was almost half of the money sent to the daughter. The eldest aunt smiled and said yes, yes. If nothing else, let's just talk about the two big mirrors. But the things that have just come out are more than 20 yuan each! I look good, and I have to lose that I don't need a ticket to buy things now, otherwise you won't be able to buy them if you have money.

Besides, I thought that all the 800 were lost? I didn't expect to send it back to the escort. In this way, your eldest brother will have living money in his hands in the future, and his life will be better.

Looking at the smiling face of the eldest aunt, I thought to myself, what a response to that advertising slogan, the wool is out of the sheep!

But those mirrors are really good-looking. One meter high and 80 centimeters wide, each pair of mirrors will be painted with festive patterns in the left and right two lower corners, such as carp playing lotus, mandarin duck playing in water, this kind of thing. It will also write words such as a hundred years of good harmony, more than wealth, and so on. When we got married, we didn't have much money, so we didn't want to buy it.

Later, I asked my eldest aunt how to live their family's life after my eldest brother got married, and how to plant the land?

The eldest aunt said that the family had already held a meeting to discuss it. If the daughter-in-law is good and gets along well, they will live together. If not, I won't eat with them separately when I get married this year. Buy them some pots and pans next year. Divide their rations for a year, give them your eldest brother's 12 acres of land, and we will help plant it. Just let them live on their own.

After listening to this, I thought to myself, "Big brother and sister-in-law, I really met enlightened parents." Now many families are married, and they will not separate after that, and a family of more than ten people is together. Stir in a pot with a spoon. Live a noisy life every day.

Is this the standard for a peasant family to marry a daughter-in-law in 30 years? This is really so enlightened, I asked my aunt who came up with this idea?

The eldest aunt said that it was mentioned by the grandfather, and they felt that it was quite reasonable to decide.

It seems that the old saying is true, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure.

I think it's very happy to send my eldest aunt away, and now I have changed my eldest brother's fate. In other words, fate is not immutable, and since this is the case, there is hope for the preservation of my two children.

Standing in the yard and looking at the mother-in-law sitting under the tree, I looked up at the sand fruit tree that was more than three meters long.

The sand fruit on the top has turned yellow, which means that it is about to ripen, and looking at the fruit hanging from the branches, I wondered if it is also welcoming me back?

I still remember my last life, this sand fruit tree. Because I didn't take care of it carefully, I froze to death one winter because the weather was too cold.

Later, the pillar came back and stood in silence for a long time in the empty courtyard.

It was a long, long time later that I learned that this tree had been planted by my father-in-law and him when he was young, and that it was the only image left in his mind that could see his father's face clearly.

He rubbed his hand against the trunk of the sand fruit tree and said in his heart, "Sand fruit tree, I will take good care of you in the future." Every winter, we will dress you in thick clothes, and you won't be frozen to death in winter, so you have to pick up more sand fruits for us to eat.

Looking at the fruit on the tree, I thought to myself, "I won't be able to eat all this year." Even if you give it away, there will be a lot left. Then wait for it to ripen and dry some dried sand fruits. In winter, it is used to soak in water and drink, and the sweet and sour ones are also very good and have a fruity aroma.

The mother-in-law, who sat under the tree, always looked to the west. Follow your mother-in-law's line of sight.

At a distance of 20 meters from the sand fruit tree, there is a well. In this era, people with wells in the yard are very enviable.

If you don't have a well, you have to go to the village every day to fetch water from the well that everyone shares, and sometimes you even have to queue up. Especially in winter, it is particularly difficult to walk in the ice and snow, and people often fall down.

It's a dangerous thing, too. The shared well has a one-meter-wide wellhead, and a child has fallen into it, and it is too late to rescue it.

Later, the whole village put a lid on the well and restrained the children from playing on the well platform, so that this matter was put an end to it.

Looking at this reeling well in my yard, this is a small well, the mouth of the well is only 30 centimeters wide in a circle, and it is also tightly covered with a lid.

But no matter how I look at it, I still don't feel safe. Wait until next year when the children will be gone, and the yard will be shaking. Definitely going to lift that lid. Although the wellhead was small, it was still dangerous for the two of them.

It seems that one day when I have time, I will ask Uncle Guo to help me, surround it with wood, make a small door, and then lock it, so that it can be safe.

About 15 meters north of the well, there is a cellar. Next to the edge of the back garden.

In our case, every house will have one such cellar. In the past, it was used to hide food for Tibetans during military disasters. It is now used to store potatoes and cabbage in winter.

The cellar was dug very deep, usually three or four meters deep in each house. A groove will be dug near the ground, which is the place where the wood is used, and the wood will be made of thick wood (I'm talking about two large bowls).

The wood will be covered with a layer of dried wheat and dried bean curd (the branches of wheat and soybeans are generally used to make firewood in rural areas) to keep the soil warm.

It will be filled with a layer of soil and stepped on. It is level with the ground, and only a 60 cm square cellar will be left in the corner, and a ladder will be placed in it for people to go up and down, and the cellar mouth is made of boards, so that people will not be in danger when they go up.

In winter, it is covered with a sack and a half-bag of wheat Yuzi to keep out the cold. (Mai Yuzi is the ears and husks left over after the wheat has been threshed.) People in the Northeast will use it to plaster the wall with mud, so that the wall skin is not easy to fall off).

When hiding from the army, they will put some firewood and corn stalks on the mouth of the cellar to hide it so that it is not easy to find.

My cellar is dug deeper. It is a cuboid five meters deep, five meters long, and four meters wide.

The inside is also very exquisite, all sides are made of green bricks, one by one, the inside is particularly dry, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the stored vegetables have never been frozen.

When you go down to pick up vegetables in winter from such a large vegetable cellar, you should pay special attention. The mouth of the cellar should be opened first to allow air to circulate, otherwise people will suffocate to death because of the lack of oxygen.

Looking at the mother-in-law sitting under the tree, she watched the west every day. I really don't know what she's looking at, is it a well, or is it a vegetable cellar?