Chapter Forty-Eight: The Cellar
In the afternoon, a vat of sauerkraut was pickled, and a few people were busy quickly, and Aunt Guo led the Guo family's daughter home.
Zhou Shujie also followed Aunt Guo's house and took the child and her mother-in-law back.
The two children are at Aunt Guo's house and the third sister-in-law Guo and their children, "Ah...... Oh...... After chatting for a long time, I didn't sleep at noon, and I was a little sleepy when I got home.
I fed them all the milk in my arms and put them on a small pillow for a short time.
Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law is standing underground to study the wall of fire! Since the new wall of fire was built at home, her mother-in-law has been very fond of watching it, and she has been standing there watching it since she came back last night.
Looking at it there again today, Zhou Shujie felt that this wall of fire was more attractive than the treasures outside.
Zhou Shujie pulled her mother-in-law to the kang and smiled and asked her to lie on the kang and sleep for a while.
The mother-in-law lay on the kang and fell asleep very soundly in less than two minutes.
Zhou Shujie took a kerosene lamp and a frame, a long rope, and a shovel by herself, and came to the vegetable cellar in front of the vegetable garden, she planned to clean out the vegetable cellar, so that the cabbage under the window sill could be stored in the vegetable cellar.
Zhou Shujie put down the things he was holding, opened the sealed door of the vegetable cellar, and waited on it for a while to let in more air inside.
If there is not enough air in such a deep vegetable cellar, it is easy for people to faint inside.
Zhou Shujie waited for half an hour, so he first lit the kerosene lamp and went down with a rope, and waited for another five minutes to see that it was very good, and then he was relieved to prepare.
You may feel that Zhou Shujie is too cautious, and that's because someone once paid for his carelessness with his life.
One by one, he threw the tools he wanted to use from the mouth of the cellar into it, tied one end of the rope to a brick, and threw it outside the mouth of the cellar.
Zhou Shujie held on to the ladder at the entrance of the cellar, went down to the vegetable cellar little by little, picked up the kerosene lamp on the ground and shone it in the dark place inside, only to find that the five sides of this dish are surrounded by green bricks.
Leaning on the innermost, there is also a three-layer shelf of one meter and five high, which is not exquisite, but a wooden shelf simply nailed up with wood. Look at the dried vegetable leaves left in the corner, which should have been used to put cabbage.
Zhou Shujie cleaned the dust in the cellar, and all the garbage together was not half a basket.
This vegetable cellar gave her the feeling that she hadn't used it for a long time.
I vaguely remember that when I first got married last year, in the winter, the potatoes and cabbages I ate were all brought by Aunt Guo from her family's vegetable cellar.
Zhou Shujie rubbed the garbage in the frame with his waist, and suddenly, a picture flashed in his mind, "It's the mother-in-law, it's the picture of the mother-in-law crying loudly, and if you look closely, it turns out to be the picture of the mother-in-law sitting on the vegetable cellar and crying loudly." Seeing this, Zhou Shujie also remembered this incident.
This happened a few years ago, when she was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she remembered that it seemed to be the first year after the pillar left as a soldier.
It is also Aunt Guo's vegetables that they helped her mother-in-law plant in the garden, and when she wanted to put the vegetables in the vegetable cellar in winter, her mother-in-law sat on the door of the vegetable cellar, crying, shouting, and blocking people from approaching.
In the end, Aunt Guo put all the cabbage and potatoes in her own vegetable cellar. After everyone was gone, the mother-in-law quieted down, and she couldn't hear her crying when she stood outside.
Later, I remembered that they said that she only let the pillar go down alone in the vegetable cellar of her mother-in-law's house, and when others went down, she would lose her temper and cry and shout.
When she married Zhuzi last year, the eldest aunt also specially warned Zhou Shujie about this.
In his last life, Zhou Shujie remembered that he had never used this vegetable cellar.
The time between him and his previous life was too long, and Zhou Shujie forgot about it.
Thinking of this, Zhou Shujie sped up the movements in her hands, wanting to restore the dishes to their original state before her mother-in-law woke up and found out, at least from the outside.
The small half basket of garbage was sent out of the cellar door first, and then the tools were thrown out one by one from the ladder back and forth, and finally Zhou Shujie stepped on the ladder to get out of the vegetable cellar with a kerosene lamp.
After Zhou Shujie came up, he hurriedly turned around and closed the door of the vegetable cellar, and pressed the half bag of dried wheat used for sealing it tightly, stood up and looked at it, it should be similar to before, and her mother-in-law shouldn't find it, right?
After Zhou Shujie dropped the garbage in the box, put the farm tools in the warehouse, everything was zero, and the child woke up after washing his hands and face when he entered the house, and his mother-in-law was also woken up by the sound of the child waking up.
Seeing her mother-in-law walking around outside and finding no signs of anger, Zhou Shujie breathed a sigh of relief.
After breathing a sigh of relief, I began to worry again, so many vegetables at home are not put in the vegetable cellar, where to put them?
Aunt Guo'er's vegetable cellar is not large, her family has a large population, and there are many things stored every year, and there is no place for other people's houses to fill it up at home.
Holding the child in his arms to breastfeed, Zhou Shujie was still asking herself in her heart.
What to do? What to do?
"Mother-in-law let the pillar go down to the vegetable cellar, that is to say, let her own family go down to the vegetable cellar, do I think she is now considered her own family?" ”
Just when Zhou Shujie was still hesitating, her mother-in-law came into the house.
When I entered the house, my eyes were fixed on the two children who were kicking their legs on the kang and playing, and a smile leaked from their faces.
Zhou Shujie opened her mouth apprehensively and asked her mother-in-law: "Mother, can I go down to the vegetable cellar?"
"Vegetable cellar?"
"Well, vegetable cellar, can I go down to our vegetable cellar?"
The mother-in-law showed a confused expression: "Daughter-in-law, go to the vegetable cellar." ”
Zhou Shujie nodded: "Yes, I want to go down to the vegetable cellar and put the cabbage outside in the vegetable cellar." ”
"Go down to the cellar and put the cabbage. ”
Zhou Shujie continued to ask: "Yes, mother, can I go down?"
The mother-in-law's face was no longer confused, but replied with a smile: "Okay, good, daughter-in-law, go down to the vegetable cellar, put cabbage, daughter-in-law." ”
Listening to her mother-in-law say her daughter-in-law twice, Zhou Shujie understood that in her mother-in-law's heart, she had regarded Zhou Shujie as her own family member like her son. To say that it is a lie not to be moved, Zhou Shujie's heart is hot now.
Seeing that her mother-in-law agreed, Zhou Shujie was afraid that her mother-in-law would forget about it tomorrow after she slept for a while. Let the mother-in-law watch the child, and hurriedly took advantage of the bright sky to move the cabbage into the vegetable cellar one by one, a total of more than 50 trees neatly placed on the wooden shelf.
When placing cabbage on the wooden shelf, Zhou Shujie felt that there was a cabbage root just now, as if he had touched the wall tile behind him, and the wall tile seemed to move.
Not sure, Zhou Shujie took down the neat cabbage again, and touched the wall tiles behind the wooden shelves one by one, but after a long time, he didn't touch any loose.
But just now, it was obviously in this place, and I felt that a wall tile had moved!
Zhou Shujie bent down again and touched it more carefully, and when he touched the corner, "Zila!" sounded softly.