After hanging up the phone, Ma Xiaodong opened the door and entered the house, and was suddenly startled by a large pile of yellow mud on the ground, and almost stepped into it. www.biquge.info Looking at the yellow mud on the ground, and then looking at his father with mud on his hands, Ma Xiaodong understood, it turned out that his father was making a stove.

In the rural areas of the Northeast, stoves must be burned every winter, but the stoves used in the rural areas of the Northeast in this era are different from the iron stoves sold in the world today. Rather, it was built on its own with bricks.

Moreover, at that time, the furnace did not have a grate, it was just an empty quadrangle, and there was a circle of iron stove lids on it. Because at that time, the rural areas of Northeast China did not burn coal, but wood.

Every winter, Ma Xiaodong and his father have to bring back a large pile of wood from the mountains, either with their shoulders or with a sleigh, for winter heating. However, these timbers are dead trees, living big trees, no one dares to get them, and if they are caught by the forestry industry, they will be fined, and living trees are wet, and they don't like fire, so no one uses them.

The stove in the northeast is directly connected to a wall, this wall is called the fire wall, which is generally made of bricks, and the inside of the wall is hollow, and after the furnace is burned, the heat and smoke will flow through this wall, and then enter the chimney or kang, and finally flow out, so that the fire wall will become very hot, which plays a role similar to heating.

The stove is very useful in winter, and the basic life of a family is inseparable from it, cooking, boiling water for heating, children burning potatoes and sweet potatoes, disposing of garbage, drying clothes and shoes, almost everything depends on it, so basically 24 hours a day.

"Dad, why did you build the stove so early?" Ma Xiaodong watched his father busy working on the side, wanting to help but not knowing where to start.

"It's still early? This 'beginning of winter' has passed, maybe it will snow one day, and then there will be no stove and it will not freeze to death, and if it is cold for two days, it will be difficult to build a stove again. As he spoke, he threw a handful of slimy yellow mud on the stove.

Dad said that it was a bit exaggerated, it would not be possible to freeze to death, but with the dilapidated house of Ma Xiaodong's family, if the stove is not burned in winter, it will definitely not be better.

Away from his father, he put mud on himself, "I told you, I won't go up the mountain with you to pull firewood this winter." ”

Thinking about going to the mountains every year to pull firewood, Ma Xiaodong is worried, the snow in the Northeast is heavy, especially in Bailong Province, in the mountainous areas of Ma Xiaodong's house, sometimes the heavy snow can directly reach the root of people's thighs. The mountains are deeper, and you can imagine how painful it is to pull out firewood from such deep snow and carry it all the way to home.

Every time I got home, my clothes were soaked with sweat, but a layer of hoarfrost had condensed on the outside, my hands and feet had long been numb from freezing, and my shoes were full of snow.

"If you don't go with me, who will go with me?

"We'll talk about that then. Ma Xiaodong has a plan, when the time comes, he will directly buy ready-made wood to chop firewood, and come to chop first and then play, anyway, his family has 500 yuan of firewood in winter. 500 yuan can solve the problem, who is still tired of that.

"You can't be lazy, see whose girl marries you in the future. "Ma Hongguo is really a little worried, these days in the countryside, I am not afraid that your young man's family is poor, so I will shoot your young man for being lazy and unwilling to work, so that no girl loves to marry your family. And Ma Xiaodong of his own family is a typical lazy man, he doesn't want to do anything for a day, and marrying a daughter-in-law may be a problem in the future.

Ma Hongguo didn't know that when Ma Xiaodong married his daughter-in-law, his values were completely different from those of today, at that time, no matter whether you were lazy or disabled, as long as you were rich, someone would definitely marry you.

Ma Xiaodong was too lazy to argue with his father, anyway, we have a daughter-in-law now, and said: "I went into the house to do my homework, you can be busy yourself." ”

At this time, the homework of primary school students has not yet had those strange problems in later generations, it is still very easy for Ma Xiaodong, it will be over in a few minutes, after writing homework, I turned on the TV boringly, and found that there was no one with anyone, and suddenly remembered that today is Tuesday, which is really a day of all evil.

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Ma Xiaodong had to admire his father's foresight, as well as the experience and wisdom of the farmers. When he got up the next morning, Ma Xiaodong was pleasantly surprised to find that the earth was covered with a layer of snow, although it was only a thin layer, but it also indicated that winter in the Northeast was coming.

After eating early in the morning, my mother put the lunch box into Ma Xiaodong's schoolbag, took out a Lei Feng hat, (that is, the kind of green, with long big ears on both sides) for Ma Xiaodong to bring, and I didn't know where to turn out a musty neck sleeve for him to put on before letting him go.

Seeing that he was tightly armed, Ma Xiaodong said with a smile: "Mom, it's not so cold, right? ”

Yang Guizhi glanced at his son, "What do you know? If you want to take you, you can take it, Tian Laosan next door, why don't you have your ears? Isn't it just frozen? If you are disobedient, be careful that your ears will also be frozen." ”

Ma Xiaodong couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, this is the usual scare method used by his mother when he was a child, every winter, he has to say to himself a few times, he really believed it when he was a child, and then he grew up a little bit, and he was a little suspicious, but it was not good to go to Tian Laosan and ask directly, so how did Tian Laosan's ears not get it, which became a mystery for his life.

Round with his cousin Yang Hailong, looking at his same outfit, Ma Xiaodong has a lot of balance in his heart, since it is ugly, it is better for everyone to be ugly together.

Along the way, I occasionally met classmates, and everyone ran to school together, and the fat man Liu Wanjie was riding an old women's bicycle. The slightly thin car, squeaked under the weight of his massive body. Ma Xiaodong sometimes couldn't help but want to ask him, how did he get so much meat because it had just snowed and the road was not easy to walk, so he was a little out of breath when he was tired.

"Yang Hailong, how many of your Water Margin cards are missing?" the fat man gasped and asked back.

Recently, I don't know when it started, and everyone has become popular to collect the Water Margin cards in instant noodles. Ma Xiaodong remembered that it was also popular in his previous life, and he also collected a set, but it was always two bad, one was Wu Song's, and the other was Lu Zhishen's, it is said that he collected 108 pieces, and he could summon the dragon, no, it could be exchanged for inspections, and he didn't know if it was true or false at the time, anyway, he didn't get one.

Yang Hailong rode a bicycle with Ma Xiaodong, he was already tired and didn't have the strength to speak, so he just shook his head. Originally, Ma Xiaodong should have taken Yang Hailong in the morning, but Ma Xiaodong used two yuan to easily change from a driver to a passenger.

In order to collect the Water Margin card as soon as possible, Yang Hailong is willing to be a driver to make money, so as to get together the few remaining ones as soon as possible, the naïve child doesn't know, the instant noodle manufacturers don't plan to come out with the remaining ones, if you collect them all, will anyone buy instant noodles?