Chapter 157: It's Snow Season Again
If you want to say anything that gets the fastest, it may be the weather except for the child's face.
The sun was shining on the first day, and those who were hot at noon were eager to wear thin shirts.
The next day, it was gloomy and a howling north wind.
Walking through the wind is like walking through a forest of knives.
I felt that my face was scraped out, and it was numb and crispy like a thin mouth.
Zhou Shujie, who woke up in the morning, felt the change in temperature as soon as he came out of the bed.
She looked out the window and saw that the day was gloomy, and she thought that maybe it was a different day.
Luckily, she had the windows covered in the first two days.
Otherwise, this strong wind can blow this house into an ice hole.
It's a pity that the plastic paper she bought the day before yesterday didn't have time to nail it to the window.
Now it seems that it can't be nailed, so I can only wait for a few days when it is warm and warm, and then I will nail it when the wind stops.
Zhou Shujie put on his clothes and stood outside the door, shivering from the cold wind.
She tugged at the thin cotton jacket on her body, feeling still a little cold, and turned back into the house and took a thick dress to put on her body, only then did she feel that she was not going to get the wind from her neck.
She looked at the sky and muttered to herself. "It seems that the stove is really burning, this cold change really makes people feel too cold, but don't freeze the child again." β
If you decide to burn the stove, you have to bring firewood to the house.
After muttering to herself, she began to carry firewood into the house one by one.
I first hugged the wheat straw for cooking, and then I hugged two branches, which I planned to use to burn the stove later.
Seeing this, you have to ask, why don't you burn it now?
Because, their stove hasn't burned for a year, and this first burn may be smoking.
Now that the children are asleep, she doesn't know if it will smoke, so when she finishes eating, she sends them all to Aunt Guo'er's house, and she comes back to burn the stove.
As usual, I made breakfast and put it in the pot to heat.
So she went out to feed the chickens and pigs, and when she had finished cleaning up, her mother-in-law and the children got up.
The family had a lively meal and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.
Zhou Shujie put on a thick cotton jacket for the child and sent her mother-in-law and children to Aunt Guo's house together.
As soon as they entered the door, Aunt Guo was shocked.
They're a bit of a big fight!
Usually Zhou Shujie comes to play, and the children will come over to play when the weather is warm, but her mother-in-law really rarely goes out.
Aunt Guo hurriedly greeted them all on the kang and said. "Why do you think about visiting the door today, I thought you couldn't go out on this cold day." I'm thinking about going up to you for a while. β
Mrs. Sun smiled and said, "It's a cold day, I'm not reluctant to go out." After a while, Shujie wanted to get that stove, and she was afraid that it would smoke and choke me and the child, so she sent us to your house. β
Aunt Guo was relieved when she heard that this was the case, and said with a smile. This morning, the third child of our family burned the stove, and when he burned it, he choked on the smoke in the room. The three of them stayed with me all morning before they put out all the cigarettes in the house, and then they went back to clean up. β
(Let's call Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law Mrs. Sun in the future, otherwise it's too mouthful.) οΌ
Mrs. Sun originally thought that Zhou Shujie was making a bit of a fuss, but when she heard Aunt Guo'er's words, it seemed that it was really possible to smoke.
Zhou Shujie saw that her mother-in-law and Aunt Guo had a good chat.
She also helped the children take off the thickest cotton jacket outside and let them play on the kang.
She said hello to her mother-in-law. "Mother, then you can play here first." I'll go home and clean up the stove, and I'll pick you up when I'm ready. β
Mrs. Sun raised her hand and said, "You go back and get it, don't worry about the children, I'm watching them here." β
Zhou Shujie smiled and said, "Okay!"
Aunt Guo and her mother-in-law were amused by her strange voice.
Zhou Shujie left the house in this laughter and returned to his home.
When she entered the house, she began to get busy, first putting a handful of wheat straw in the stove for the purpose of starting a fire, and then pressing some fine ones on it. branches, and finally two thicker ones were pressed on them.
Cover the stove with a lid and sit on it a jug of water.
She took the fireworks, slipped them through the small ventilated opening, and lit the wheat stalks inside, and she squatted beside the stove and watched the fire ignite.
When the wheat stalks were up, she looked at the fire and felt okay, and the pumping force was still quite strong, so she shouldn't be able to smoke anything.
After watching it for a while, it was almost the same as she thought, and after a while, she snorted.
It's still very strong, and there is no smoke yet, only a little smell, and it dissipates without opening the door.
Zhou Shujie watched the stove that had been burning for two hours at home, and the house and the fire wall were hot.
She hung the clothes she had just washed on the clothesline in front of the fire wall, and then wiped her hands and planned to pick up her mother-in-law and children.
The two houses are also close to each other, and they go out of this gate and enter that door.
When I entered the house, I said a few words, put on clothes for the child, and I hugged the child back with my mother-in-law.
When she got home, she used the hot water in the pot, which she had boiled when she was burning the stove, and made a bowl of milk powder for the children and her mother-in-law, so that they could drink to cushion their stomachs, and she would go to cook in a while.
Since the child has grown up, her milk powder is not just for the child to drink.
Occasionally, she would brew some for her mother-in-law, so that her mother-in-law could also drink some supplements.
In this rural area, if you don't work and can't go to the land, each family cooks two meals, and there are very few who cook three meals, so Zhou Shujie's family still cooks three meals!
In fact, Zhou Shujie is also thinking about whether to cook two meals, the day is too short in winter, and there is no need to worry about other things when cooking three meals a day.
Another is that she has less exercise, but the amount of food has not decreased, and she always feels that she seems to have grown meat in the past few days.
It's not that she wants to go on a diet to lose weight or anything, but she doesn't want to eat herself as a big fat person, at least she has to control it a little.
ββββββ time dividerββββ
There aren't many serious big things at home in a day, just some trivial things. In the midst of these little things, a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, it hasn't warmed up much since the last time there was a cold wind on a cloudy day.
Zhou Shujie took advantage of the light wind to ask his second brother for help, and the two of them nailed the plastic paper on the window.
This one is covered with plastic, and the paper room is warm.
Burn less firewood from the stove two or three times a day, otherwise you won't be able to stand the heat.
Now when I get up early and open the door and look into the distance, what I see is not the bare Black Mountain, but the whole world covered in silver.
In the past month, the snow has fallen three times, and the ice in the river has frozen more than a foot deep.
In recent days, every household in the village has been killing New Year's pigs.
Zhou Shujie also planned to kill the big black pig.
As soon as the weather is cold, the pigs do not like to eat. When it comes to the pig food in the pig food trough, you still have to stir it with hot water in the pot first.
If you stir the pig's food with cold water, it will be frozen before the pig is full.
Yesterday, Zhou Shujie said hello to her uncle and Uncle Guo, saying that she was going to kill the New Year pig today.
So that morning, she got up early.