Chapter 55: First Snow
A good night's sleep.
When I got up in the morning, when I opened my eyes, the first thing that caught Zhou Shujie's eyes was the beautiful window flowers on the glass, some like flowers, some like phoenixes, very beautiful.
Because the weather was not too cold, each window only grew a little in the corner, and slowly it all melted as the temperature of the fire in the house increased.
When it is cold in winter, the window grilles do not melt so easily, and you can enjoy a different masterpiece of nature every day!
Through the window, you can see the layers of snow on the ground outside, and the beautiful trees hanging on the trees.
Zhou Shujie thought to herself, "Sure enough, as the eldest aunt said, it snowed heavily last night." ”
Put on your clothes and go down to the ground.
Zhou Shujie first lit the stove in the house, sat on a pot of water, and burned the fire wall for a while, saving the children from waking up and changing their clothes to freeze them.
I didn't rush to cook after burning the fire wall, I put on a military coat, wrapped a thick turban around my head, and wore a pair of stuffy hands on my hands, and went to the courtyard to clear the snow in full gear.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw that the sky outside was still cloudy, but it was not raining much, only a little snowflake was falling sporadically.
Zhou Shujie looked into the distance, and the yard was like a snow-white carpet, white and flawless.
When you step into the snow, it will make a creaking and crunching sound.
This snow is no longer (mo) Zhou Shujie's feet and neck.
In the eyes of Zhou Shujie, who has not seen snow for twenty or thirty years, it feels like a lot of snow.
In fact, in the 70s, such snow was just a small snow.
With the sound of creaking and crunching snow, Zhou Shujie left a series of footprints on the ground.
Zhou Shujie walked to the door of the warehouse, opened the door of the warehouse, and took out a handful of combs and lifted them one by one. (Yangqi is a tool used to raise soybeans and wheat when playing the field, and its shape is very similar to the current snowboard, but it is narrower than it.) )
Zhou Shujie swept the snow in the living area of the courtyard first, the warehouse, the partial building, the wheat pole stack, the snow in such a place was gone, the farthest place was to the well, and the rest was just on the way to the toilet in the back garden, and swept a path out.
The snow in the courtyard was swept up to the gate and piled up under the wall.
Zhou Shujie didn't move the tree hanging on the sand fruit tree, she thought it looked good, so let's put it there first.
Looking at this big sand fruit tree, Zhou Shujie also told himself that he would have to think about it for a while, and put on cotton clothes for the sand fruit tree after eating, otherwise it would not be able to survive this winter like before.
Zhou Shujie is also very childlike, and built a chubby little snowman under the sand fruit tree.
After sweeping the courtyard, I opened the gate and wanted to sweep the outside as well.
As soon as the gate was opened, there was no snow to be seen. I saw the black earth, and the snow on the ground was swept away and piled up in a trench by the side of the road.
Zhou Shujie paused for a while.
Looking at it again, the front of Aunt Guo's house is also clean.
Zhou Shujie understood that this should be the elder brother of the Guo family who helped sweep it.
I saw that the snow had been swept away, and there was nothing to sweep. Zhou Shujie carried the tools into the courtyard and returned to the house.
Zhou Shujie went back to the house to see that the child and her mother-in-law had not woken up and were asleep.
I added a few more pieces of wood to the stove, picked up the kettle on the stove, and poured some hot water to wash my face and brush my teeth and prepare for cooking.
Today, Zhou Shujie wants to boil a little sauerkraut and potato shredded soup, and also see if the sauerkraut is sour?
Removed the stone from the cylinder and took a smaller sauerkraut from it.
Squeeze out the water on it, put it in a basin and wash it with water.
Washed sauerkraut, put it on the cutting board and cut off the top part of the root, the sauerkraut will spread out one leaf by one, pick up a leaf and slice two knives in the part of the vegetable gang, this vegetable gang grows a little thick, if not sliced, cut out of the sauerkraut shreds, just like a grunt, especially thick and not delicious.
With the sound of dang, dang, dang, dang, the shredded sauerkraut in half a basin was cut, put warm water and continued to soak, then went to beat two potatoes and washed them, and pressed them on the cutting board. There was another sound of dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, and dang, and it showed off your sword skills again. Of course, the shredded potatoes to be boiled in the soup should not be cut too finely. But looking at each shredded potato that is basically the same thickness, it can also show Zhou Shujie's knife skills.
Zhou Shujie was satisfied with the cut and shredded potatoes in the basin.
Remember not to put water, the soup will not taste good.
After that, Zhou Shujie opened the lid of the pot, brushed the pot, and ignited the fire.
Add four scoops of water to the pot, and pour two bowls of rice into the pot, because this rice is more old rice, so Zhou Shujie washed it several times when washing rice.
Put the rice in the pot and cover the pot. Zhou Shujie took a small bench and sat at the door of the stove pit and lit a fire.
Wait for the pot to boil, then stop the heat after five minutes. Remove the rice from the pot with a thin-eyed fence and put it in a clean porcelain basin, so that the rice will become very fragrant and glutinous when steamed.
Don't throw away the remaining rice soup in the pot, take it out and set it aside.
Start the fire, pour oil at the bottom of the pot, put the green onion fryer, pour in the sauerkraut and shredded potatoes, stir-fry two, pour half a pot of rice soup, put salt and stir it, put a pot and sit on the basin with rice, and finally cover the pot, slip on the seam, and the rest is to burn the fire.
Zhou Shujie, when she opened the door of the house and took a look, she saw the children stretching out their arms and legs there!
As soon as the child woke up, Zhou Shujie did not sit at the door of the stove pit and continued to burn the fire. Instead, give a few pieces of firewood to Timri, and clean up the firewood at the door of the stove pit, so as to save it from panicking, and then stop caring about it, and wait for it to open by itself, and it can be eaten when it is cooked.
When I entered the house, I took out a small urine jar, peed on the two children, and took out clean clothes and pants for them to change.
Luckily, there was a wall of fire in the house, and it was burning hot. Otherwise, as soon as he got up from the hot bed, he took off his clothes and changed his clothes, and it would be easy to catch a cold.
The mother-in-law also woke up and was sitting there, wearing the clean clothes that Zhou Shujie took out and put next to the pillow.
Since Zhou Shujie came back, she has been cultivating her mother-in-law's living habits, just like now her mother-in-law will take off what she is wearing and replace them with clean ones when she sees clean clothes next to her pillow.
Zhou Shujie watched her mother-in-law put on clean clothes for herself one by one. Anyway, I didn't wear anything wrong, and my heart was hot, and it seemed that my mother-in-law was much better than before. Getting dressed two days ago sometimes makes a mistake anyway. Not anymore.
Zhou Shujie gave her mother-in-law some warm washing water, and her mother-in-law, who had already dressed and went to the ground, began to wash her face, comb her hair, and brush her teeth.
Folded the quilts on the kang, neatly placed them on the quilt lattice one by one, and took out a sheet and spread it on the top of the kang.
At this time, the mother-in-law on the ground had already cleaned herself up.
I changed some warm water, took out a special hand towel for the children, and began to wash the faces and hands of the two children.
As soon as the washing water came to their mouths, they stuck out their tongues and licked it, and Zhou Shujie could only speed up their movements and let them drink less of their own washing water.
Zhou Shujie mixed another glass of light salt water, dipped it in a clean cloth towel, wrapped the cloth towel in the child's mouth with his fingers, and wiped his gums back and forth.
The two little ones thought they had given him something delicious! They are still young and have no teeth, and they don't bite anyone. It can only make people feel itchy.
After cleaning up the two children, Zhou Shujie wiped himself with hot water** and began to breastfeed the two children.
When the children have eaten enough and the milk burps are filmed, they are placed on the sheets spread on the top of the kang and let them play on their stomachs there. The mother-in-law watched them and laughed.
Zhou Shujie took a look at the field, the pot had been boiling for a long time, and he could immediately lift the pot to eat.
I put it on the table, picked up the bowl, and went to the barn to get two dried peppers. Put it on the charcoal at the door of the stove pit, drink the sauerkraut soup and put some roasted dried chili peppers, it is a perfect match.
This meal for Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law was sweating, and it felt very enjoyable, the slimy sauerkraut soup, put on the dried chili peppers, it became sour, spicy and fragrant, it was really delicious and indescribable. (If you want to know if it's good or not, you can try it one at a time.) )
Zhou Shujie, after eating and cleaning up, and coaxing the two children to sleep, took out two sacks and two ropes, came to the sand fruit tree outside, and hugged the wheat pole twice. He put the straw inside, wrapped it in a sack, and wrapped it around it with a rope at the end, so that he put a cotton coat on the sand fruit tree. Hopefully this time he will survive this winter and see the fragrance of the trees next spring.