Zhou Shujie came back from the market, and it was already dark when he got home.

Brother Tuesday drove the ox cart and sent Zhou Shujie to the gate.

Along with her, she also sent back her basket of eggs. A kettle, a roll of brown paper and later, dried shrimp and dried fish bought from the brothers there.

Zhou Shujie also knew the names of the two brothers, the eldest brother was called "Wang Qi" and the second brother was called "Wang Chao".

"Wang Qi" said that when the weather is cold, they will transport some frozen sea fish from the seaside and ask Zhou Shujie to buy them when the time comes, and they will give her a cheap price when the time comes.

Uncle Zhou watched the children at Zhou Shujie's house for a morning, and when she saw that Zhou Shujie was back, she took Brother Tuesday's ox cart home.

Zhou Shujie sent away the eldest aunt who only took a few pieces of kraft paper, and originally wanted to give her some eggs, but the eldest aunt didn't ask for it, and only took a few pieces of kraft paper. said that in the afternoon, I slipped through the window and saw that it was going to snow.

Zhou Shujie looked at the sky outside, it has been cloudy since yesterday, and now the clouds are getting lower and lower, and the temperature is getting colder and colder.

Zhou Shujie's house was burning hot, and when the eldest aunt left, she also said that this fire wall was built well, and their family will build one next year.

At noon, Zhou Shujie simply cleaned up a mouthful of food and finished eating with her mother-in-law. She made some paste with the hot water in the pot, and planned to cut the kraft paper in a while, and she also walked through the cracks in the window.

After eating and sleeping with the two children, Zhou Shujie began to cut paper, cutting kraft paper into two-finger-wide strips.

The paper in the window should not be too wide or too narrow.

It's too wide, and if it's not sticky, the edge will be exposed, and the wind will blow it off.

It's too narrow, and the paper will dry out in the sun, and it will shrink a little, and some will leak out of the cracks in the window.

So it can't be too wide, it can't be too narrow, it can only be two fingers wide. (This is all a matter of experience.) )

After cutting the kraft paper, start pasting from the house.

If you want to know how many cracks there are in a window, you have to count how many pieces of glass, each glass window in the 70s is not big, like Zhou Shujie's house, a window of one meter six high, one meter eight wide, is divided into four large pieces with wooden window frames, each piece is divided into four small pieces, such a window has 16 pieces of glass, a glass has four sides, in addition to these gaps There are also long gaps in the wooden window frame, like this window Zhou Shujie's house is two, you can calculate, how many gaps does her family need to paste?

Zhou Shujie plans to start with the largest gap, pick the longest slit in the cut kraft paper, and use his hands to compare the longest gap on the window frame. Hold the end of the right hand and the top of the gap, carry the left hand underneath, and slowly and accurately glue the strip of paper from the top to the bottom with the right hand.

You can't let go of both hands in this long gap, or the kraft paper will stick crookedly. As soon as it sticks crookedly, it will mess the paste off, and if you peel it off, it will not be sticky enough, and it will easily crack and the crack will enter the air.

After pasting the longest gap, I began to stick to the short gap on the edge of the glass. Cut the paper strip to the right length with it, smear the paste with two hands and hold the two heads, compare the measurement is just right and paste it up, both hands can be released, and it is completed when you press it by hand, so that it is easier to block the wind.

Write in words, look at the words a lot. In fact, it's very fast to do it.

With a neat and skilled worker like Zhou Shujie, it only took half an hour for about 140 gaps in the two windows to be occupied. (I do the math on a computer.) )

In fact, in the countryside, window paper is not only to block the wind. Also in order to play a beautifying role.

At this time, the wooden windows were all primary colors, and they were beaten by wind and rain. There are many wooden windows that will turn white and become old.

The kraft paper is dark brown, and these dark brown kraft papers, which are as wide and narrow as they are, are glued to the window. It's like putting on brown clothes for the window, and it looks very spiritual.

After finishing the house, Zhou Shujie put on his shoes and went to the ground and began to be busy outside.

It's not easy to get out there, and the weather isn't "dripping into ice" yet, but if you leave the pasted window paper outside for a long time. The paste also solidifies and hardens, reducing the viscosity.

So Zhou Shujie could only smear some paste in the house first. Again, one by one, running back and forth.

There are as many cracks in this window as there are inside and outside, but the time used is different, the outside takes half an hour longer than the inside, and Zhou Shujie worked for more than an hour to finish pasting it.

The children sleeping in the house have all woken up, and they haven't cried, they put the pee in the kang and let them play by themselves, the two children lie down for a while, turn over and lie on their stomachs for a while, their eyes look at Zhou Shujie, and their heads follow her back and forth, watching Zhou Shujie run back and forth outside, and make the two of them "Giggles!"

The mother-in-law had already woken up, sitting on the kang and looking out the window in a daze. It wasn't until the child woke up that his attention was grabbed, and the child was playing there, while the mother-in-law was laughing.

When I saw that the two children didn't cry, I was quite happy to play by myself. The mother-in-law was still watching.

Zhou Shujie used some remaining kraft paper strips and paste to paste all the gaps in the "horse window" of the outhouse kitchen.

"Horse window" is a kind of window installed in the kitchen, with a width of one meter and a height of one meter six. It is used to increase the brightness of the kitchen.

After finishing it, Zhou Shujie washed his hands and collected all the tables, scissors, and paste on the kang.

As soon as the two children saw their mother coming, they all rushed to her with "ahh

Although the children can't climb now, they have learned to spin around the place with their stomachs as the center. Every time they saw the two of them walking around, Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law would laugh for a long time.

Now the kang is spread with mats, not as smooth as the printed kang mats of later generations, they want to turn around for a long time, sometimes they are so tired that they can't move after half a circle.

Zhou Shujie watched the two children often slide back and forth on the mat with their hands, afraid that the two children's hands would be pricked, so he thought that he would find a sheet later, spread it in the place where the children played, save the burrs on the mat and prick the children to it, and next time I went to the market to see if I could buy a printed kang mat back.

Zhou Shujie took off his shoes and went to the kang, picked up the child, picked up his clothes to feed the two children, and looked at the appearance of his son and daughter who were reluctant to let go after eating, as if they were not full, and knew that their milk might not be able to supply the two of them to eat, and it seemed that the supplementary food added to the child should be prepared in advance. Only well-fed children will grow strong and healthy, and will be less sick.

Zhou Shujie and the other two children fell asleep, looked at the snowy day outside, went to the vegetable garden at the back, pulled out all the radishes that were still growing in the garden, and carried them to the warehouse in a basket.

The old people all said that the radishes that had been beaten by frost would not taste spicy, but also more nutritious and delicious, otherwise Zhou Shujie would have pulled out these radishes.

After plucking the turnips, he put away all the corn stalks on the vegetable cellar outside and piled them in the corner, so that they could be used as firewood when they were dry. If you don't put it away, if it really snows at night, it won't be good to dry.

For dinner, I made steamed rice and boiled radish soup, and the soup made with fresh radish was particularly bright.

Zhou Shujie drank two big bowls! The bowl used at this time is not the small bowl we used in later generations, it is all two big bowls!

There is only one bad thing, after eating the radish, people love to fart.

Recently, seeing that the weather was cold, Zhou Shujie didn't want her mother-in-law to go outside often every day, for fear that she would freeze and catch a cold, so she found something for her mother-in-law to do.

Zhou Shujie always felt that the show products in the cabinet were made by her mother-in-law, so she used the small brace inside to prop up a dark cloth for her mother-in-law, took the needle and thread that she usually used to make clothes, and asked her mother-in-law to sew it on it herself.

Zhou Shujie didn't know if this would help her mother-in-law's condition. But as long as the mother-in-law doesn't go outside to get cold, it's fine.

When I sleep at night, I can feel the difference, and when I didn't slip through the window two days ago, I could feel the cold wind blowing from the window, but now I can't feel it. In this way, Zhou Shujie doesn't have to worry about her son and daughter stepping off the quilt when they sleep, and they will be blown cold.