When Zhou Chen turned out these two packs of clothes, his eyes turned red. He hugged Zhou Wanwan and was silent for a long time, before he put on small cloth socks and soft-soled shoes for her with a red nose. Poor Zhou Wanwan, in the middle of winter, has been barefoot with two little feet, not even a pair of socks.

There are a few small flowers on the small cloth socks, and on the small soft-soled shoes is a kitten rolling hydrangea. Li Xiuhua has a pair of skillful hands that are very good at embroidering, Zhou Wanwan saw a circle of wild chrysanthemums with particularly delicate embroidery on the small quilt she was born in, Zhou Chen once pointed out to her, saying that it was embroidered by her mother.

Therefore, when Zhou Wanwan set the attributes of his clothes on the machine of the space, he did not add a lot of embroidery patterns of small flowers, grasses and animals in a low-key manner. I just want to remind these people who have been slandering my mother that my mother is skillful, diligent and capable, and none of you can compare!

followed Zhou Chen to do housework for most of the day, and when he was about to go out to chop firewood in the afternoon, the problem came. Zhou Chen planned to send Zhou Wanwan to the East House to stay, but Zhou Wanwan said that he would not go. Her clothes and shoes are all special materials produced in the space, which can regulate the temperature, and she doesn't feel cold at all, so she doesn't want to go to the East House to be looked at. Zhou Chen's clothes had already been changed, so he didn't feel how cold Westinghouse was, and since his sister didn't want to go, he wouldn't force it.

But then there is another question, Zhou Wanhui will climb, what if no one watches her fall? Zhou Wanwan repeatedly assured Zhou Chen: "...... Just stay in the kang, don't go to the kang! Helplessly, Zhou Chen just didn't feel at ease, so Zhou Wanwan was tied up very miserably.

Yes, tied up. In this era, many children have the experience of being tied up. When you are just able to climb or still can't walk well, adults can take a cloth belt, tie one end to the window frame, and the other end to the child's waist, and you can go out to work with confidence. As for whether the child is crying or hungry when he is tied to the kang, whether he is pulling or urinating, it is not a big problem. In fact, for the children of this era, as long as they can survive, other problems can be ignored.

Zhou Wanwan was chained to the box at the tip of the kang with black lines on her face, and as soon as Zhou Chen left, she untied the cloth belt around her waist and began to explore.

When Zhou Chen entered the house after chopping firewood, he didn't see his sister, and he was so frightened that he was in a cold sweat, and his voice changed.

Zhou Wanwan crawled out of the empty box, with a few black ashes on her little face, revealing two small white teeth that had just emerged and smiled at Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen came over and hugged her and gently patted her little buttocks twice. Zhou Wanwan hugged her second brother's neck and coquettishly coquettish, and it took a long time to coax the frightened Zhou Chen back.

"The rope you untied yourself?" Zhou Chen was in the mood to care about how his sister escaped.

Zhou Wanwan smiled and nodded, "...... promised the second brother not to go to the kang, but the second brother didn't believe me. "By the way, I will complain about my grievances and strive not to be tied up in the future.

Zhou Chen was so soft by his sister's little eyes that his heart softened, and he hugged her and tossed in his arms, "Why do you say you are so weird, you know everything?" ”

Zhou Wanwan giggled, how cute and cute it was.

"You can't go to the kang to drill the empty box, what can you do? What do you say you're doing there? ”

Zhou Wanwan waited for Zhou Chen to ask this, and stretched out two gray little hands in front of him, and there was a small handful of soybeans in his hand.

"Soybeans!?" Zhou Chen's eyes were round, and he realized that he was screaming too loudly, so he quickly lowered his voice, "Where did you get it?" Then he hurriedly ran to open the door and looked outside, and made sure that there was no one, so he plugged them in.

Zhou Wanwan climbed to the top of the kang very neatly, and was about to drill into the empty box again, but was dragged back by Zhou Chen and asked her, "Behind the box?" ”

Seeing Zhou Wanwan nodding, Zhou Chen took off his shoes and went to the kang, moved the quilt stacked on the box a few times, and moved the box away. There was a rat hole the size of a bowl at the back of the box, and a few soybeans were scattered around the hole.

Zhou Chen put his hand in a little and quickly took out a handful of soybeans, which were mixed with a few grains of corn.

Zhou Chen took a furoshiki and began to dig out the soybeans on it one by one, the mouse hole was even wider, and when he reached an arm's length, the soybeans on the furoshiki were already five or six catties.

Zhou Chen was so excited that his hands trembled, put a bag of soybeans in the box, thought about it was unsafe, and hid it in the quilt, and finally took it out, walked around the house, and finally stuffed the burden into the pit door of the stove where the kang was burned, and covered it with ash to feel at ease.

Stared at by his sister's big round eyes, Zhou Chen scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "Let's hide it and eat it ourselves, we can't eat a bite of it if we give it to milk, we have to give it to my aunt." ”

"Let's eat it ourselves, and no one will give it." Zhou Wanwan nodded approvingly. The serious little look made Zhou Chen laugh. "Why do you think you're so blessed! You can find food if you are naughty. ”

Zhou Wanwan was held in Zhou Chen's arms and laughed intermittently, this is a solution that she thought about for several days. Her mobility is so poor that now all she can develop is a rat hole.

Fortunately, in the mud and straw houses in the northeast, each family has a few rat holes, especially against the kang side of the outer wall, the rats will make holes along the wall and the kang junction in winter, which is not only convenient for them to enter and exit, but also to achieve the purpose of heating, and will not be choked by the smoke of the kang. So at that time, every year in July and August, the countryside would pick up the kang and wipe the wall, and one of the important links was to fill the mouse hole.

But since entering the disaster year, people are so hungry that they feel tired, who still has the physical strength to wipe the wall, and no one cares about the mouse hole. However, the life of the rats is not easy, it is said that in the last two years of the catastrophe, the rats were almost extinct, half of them starved to death, and half of them were captured and eaten by hungry people.

So Zhou Wanwan made use of the rat hole at home with confidence, originally planning to put peanuts, which are delicious raw and cooked, and easy to feel full. Later, I thought about it, the vast majority of their area is black and oily black soil, and basically they don't grow peanuts, so they can only choose soybeans instead, and then mix some corn and wheat to suit the situation, there is no rat who only steals one kind of grain, right? It's not realistic.

Zhou Chen was happy for a while, and then began to dig out the mouse hole again.

I went out first, secretly put the axe for chopping wood into my clothes and brought it in, and then I used a rag to plug the hole in the partition wall, plugged the door, and tried to make my voice as soft as possible, and chiseled the wall little by little. After working for a long time, I took out about two or three catties of food.

After putting everything back in place, the brother and sister wiped their faces and hands again, and it was time for dinner.

Zhou Chen repeatedly told him when he went to the East House with Zhou Wanwan that no one could say anything about today, and that the eldest brother and second brother would have to starve.

Zhou Wanwan nodded her little head to reassure her second brother, "Don't say it." Like last time Wheat, he didn't say anything. ”

Zhou Chen kissed his sister's little face fiercely, oops! How can his family be so smart and so cute!

On this day, the dinner of the Zhou family was postponed indefinitely in Qian Yan's sharp cry.

Before dinner, Zhou Hongxiang put Qian Yan's feet on her lap for a day on the mattress, ready to go to the toilet, just put it down, Qian Yan screamed "whoop", and then screamed and screamed in pain, rolling on the kang, Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Hongxiang couldn't hold it down.

After carefully inspecting Qian Yan's feet, they were no longer swollen or broken, and there was no abnormality compared to before. Inch by inch, I checked the mattress where she put her feet, and there was nothing, which was normal.

But Qian Yan's feet were really painful, tears and snot came down together in an instant, her throat was hoarse and she couldn't stop, the family was in a hurry, but there was nothing she could do.

The nearest health center is in the township, ten miles away, and it takes an hour to walk. And I got off work early at this time, and it was in vain to go.

"Big brother, you are familiar with Dr. Cui, please come and show Yan'er! What's wrong with this kid? It's going to kill me! Zhou Hongxiang was so anxious that she cried.

"Boss, go quickly!" Mrs. Zhou's gray hair, which was always unmessed with at the back of her head, was so busy that a few strands fell out, and after telling Zhou Chunfa to hug Qian Yan again, "Oops! Grandma's baby granddaughter, what's wrong? This is going to kill my old woman! Mrs. Zhou couldn't hold Qian Yan, who was rolling on the kang, and patted her thighs and howled.

Zhou Chunfa looked at the messy woman in embarrassment, saying that he was familiar with Dr. Cui, but it was only to the extent that Dr. Cui could call his name, and there was no other friendship. On this cold day, he didn't even have a car to invite people, and let them walk back and forth for two hours, but he couldn't invite people at all!

"Boss! What are you still rubbing? Why don't you go? Mrs. Zhou was howling vigorously, and was dragged by Zhou Hongxiang, only to see Zhou Chunfa standing on the ground without moving.

"Mother," Zhou Chunfa helped the brim of his blue cloth liberation hat, and said slowly, "Dr. Cui told me that day, Yan'er's foot will hurt in two days, it doesn't really hurt, it's useless to invite him to come, there is no medicine in the health center, he can only watch dryly." "The cowhide has been blown out, if you don't invite you to come, it will be too bad for the face of the accountant of his brigade, Zhou Chunfa thinks that he will stabilize his mother first and see the situation.

"How long has it hurt for the doctor? What's the trick here? Just standing up? Zhou Hongxiang hugged Qian Yan's kicking feet, her heart was confused, how could she have thought that since the doctor said it, why didn't the eldest brother tell them anything when he came back.

"Oh my god! The feet of children in this city are different from our rural land, and my mother's Tunzi is a half-sized child, and his feet are more frozen than Yan'er's, and he still went into the mountains to collect firewood for two days, and I didn't see him cry out in pain. Wang Fengying was not in a hurry, standing by the kang and watching everyone work.

"What are you talking about!"

"Sister-in-law, what do you mean?"

Zhou Chunfa and Zhou Hongxiang glared at Wang Fengying with anger at the same time. The former is afraid of being caught by the horse's feet and is angry. The latter felt that his daughter was sarcastic and squeamish, and instinctively defended it.

"What did I say?" Wang Fengying really didn't feel that she should say anything, she originally meant to flatter the children in this city who had a good life, and they didn't have to suffer with fine skin and tender meat, who knew that the horse's fart was slapped on the horse's leg. "I just want to say that Yan'er has a good life."