Before the snow had melted, another heavy snowfall came, the third snow since the beginning of winter.

This year's winter is exceptionally cold, and the snow fell earlier than last year's.

Fortunately, the Chen family's big house has a shop, a field, and there is a profit every day, although it has not yet reached the point of being rich and expensive, but the carbon can still be burned.

The room was warm, the two red plums on the windowsill were red and bright, the flower bones were densely packed together, and the whole room was dyed with incense.

There is ordinary charcoal burning in the stove, although the family is rich, but Chen Xuejiao's family does not burn silver silk carbon every day. Only in the bedroom, when I sleep at night, I burn silver charcoal, and I usually burn charcoal, so I always prepare a few red plums in the house to dispel the smell of fireworks. In addition, in the room of Chen Qiping and Chen Qi'an, there is a brazier with silver charcoal all day long, this is for the two of them to read, ordinary charcoal will have a headache after smelling it for a long time, how can they remember the content of the book.

Chen Xuejiao sat in the room, pulled the curtains and looked out through the window paper. The windows of the rural people are all wooden, as soon as it rains and snows, they are pasted with thick window paper, sometimes the rain and snow are heavy, and the water will wet the window paper, and see the outside world through the window paper, which is a little blurry. Chen Xuejiao is a little nostalgic for the window glass, such a glass and white snow world, if through the glass, sitting in the warm room will be more clear and beautiful.

The snow outside was so dense at first that you couldn't see the snowflakes, but it was rustling like salt particles. In less than two cups of tea, the salt particles turned into snowflakes. Falling overwhelmingly.

Chen Xuejiao sat in front of the window, and the world in front of her was blurred by the heavy snow, and she couldn't see clearly when she wanted to look farther.

There was not a hint of wind. The sky was overcast, with only large snowflakes flying.

Chen Xuejiao wanted to see more clearly, so she gently opened the window, and the snow flew in through the gap in the window, and melted when it landed on the windowsill.

"It would be nice if our house was equipped with glass, and the snow through the glass would be bright and beautiful." Chen Xuejiao stretched out her hand to take the snowflake and sighed.

this era. Call glass glass.

"I heard from my mother that the windows of the houses in our town are filled with glass." Chen Xueru echoed, her smile overflowing with sweetness, "But." Our house is much better than before, and I'm really reluctant to really move. ”

The house was just painted this fall, with three layers of thatch added to the roof. It's already a good home in the countryside. It wasn't like it was now. There is only a thin layer of thatch on the roof, and in the summer, when it rains in the summer, it rains lightly in the house, and the whole family uses all the bottles and cans, but it still can't prevent the rain from falling into the house.

The summer was better. Torrential rain comes and goes quickly, and the sun rises seven out of ten days. The rain-soaked bedding can survive some days after being exposed to the sun. The most difficult thing is winter, the north wing room is just in the tuyere, the northwest wind is blowing day and night, the house is as cold as an ice hole, Rao is like that, Mrs. Chen is not allowed to burn the stove, always shouting about the charcoal, her own house is burning warm. If the big house burns charcoal one day, Mrs. Chen will torture the Li family in a different way, either letting her smash the ice hole to wash her clothes, or letting her wash the radishes in cold water in the yard. The weather is better, when it snows heavily, once the snow on the roof melts, the raindrops fall into the house one by one, the rain carries the cold of the snow, as if to solidify the whole house, at night to cover several layers of quilts are not used, the bones shiver coldly, get up the next morning, a thin layer of white ice on the quilt on the head, a mouthful of white gas.

When Chen Xuejiao came to the Chen family's big house, those days had passed, but last winter she experienced the dew in the house, even if she put up the brazier, it was still cold, I really don't know how they survived the cold days before.

Thinking that the houses in the town were equipped with glass, Chen Xuejiao felt a little yearning in her heart. She is not like Chen Xueru, she was born here, grew up here, and has an extremely deep affection for the old yard. She just wants to move to a new house as soon as possible, where there is a patio, there are flower shelves, in winter, the house is warm, sitting in front of the glass bed or embroidering, or reading ink books, it is comfortable, and more importantly, there is no big room and other people to bother.

Thinking like this, Chen Xuejiao forgot to close the window and let the snowflakes fall on her hands, and after a while, the snowflakes melted into a puddle of water on her hands, and her ten fingers were frozen numb.

As the saying goes, snow is not cold, snow is cold.

At first, I didn't think that the snow melted when it met the heat in the house, and Chen Xuejiao felt that her hands trembled.

"Hurry up and close the window," Chen Xueru handed Xue Jiao a clean handkerchief, "Hurry up and wipe the snow water on your hands, this cold and hot is the most prone to frostbite, and I don't know what the snow outside is beautiful, you look like this every day." ”

Chen Xuejiao took the handkerchief, carefully wiped her hands clean, and pushed Xueru with a smile: "What are you afraid of, you have chilblains, isn't there a frostbite cream given to my sister by Brother Xingjian?" ”

Chen Xueru's face was slightly red, and she lowered her head and carefully embroidered the socks in her hand, the socks were embroidered extremely finely and thickly, with two layers of cotton in them, Chen Xuejiao understood that they were embroidered for Han Xingjian at a glance, so she smiled and said: "Sister, this sock is embroidered for Brother Xingjian, it is so thick and so attentive, at a glance, you can know that it must be for Brother Xingjian." ”

Chen Xueru's face became more and more red, she raised her head, and smiled, she applied a layer of rouge on her lips today, and her eyes became more and more apricot eyes and peach cheeks, her eyes waved, and she turned around slightly: "My sister is talking about me like this, I won't pay attention to you anymore." ”

Chen Xuejiao knew that she was shy, so she stopped teasing her, and turned her head to stare at the snow outside the window: "It snowed so hard, my mother and father went to the town, I don't know when they will come." ”

Early in the morning, Li put on a thick cotton jacket, put on a hat, and followed Chen Xiucai to the town tightly. This snow fell heavier than the previous snow, and the Li family was worried about the house in the embroidery workshop in the town, although there were Xu's, Wenying, Lan Niang and others to take care of it, but the Li family was a hard worker. I don't feel at ease if I don't see it in person.

At noon, Chen Xueru was about to get up to cook, and saw Li coming back covered in snow.

"The snow has been good this year!" Lee walked into the house. Take off your hat and say excitedly.

"Mother is back, this snow is falling, is it cold?" Chen Xuejiao got out of bed one by one, and when she saw Li coming in, she picked up a clean handkerchief and swept the snow off Li's shoulders.

"Mother. Drink a bowl of ginger soup to dispel the cold. Chen Xueru had already boiled a thick ginger soup, kept it in the insulated casserole, and sat on the stove. Seeing that Li cleaned the snow on his body, he hurriedly handed it over.

"It's snowing well!" Li drank the ginger soup in one go, put the empty bowl on the table, took off his shoes and sat on the bed. Say it again.

"Mother. You've been out for half a morning, and the shops in town will be fine. Chen Xuejiao asked.

"It's nothing, your Aunt Xu is a proper person, everything is arranged properly. I'm just not sure, it's okay to take a look, rest assured. Li said with a smile.

"What about Daddy?" Chen Xuejiao asked, "Where didn't he come back?" ”

"Your father went to talk to your uncle, and your uncle is in town today. The snow is not going back, they are talking about things. Li smiled. I just went to the wheat field to take a look, the snow has been thick, the wheat is covered tightly, and when the spring of the next year is opened, there will be no worries about irrigation, and if this continues, next year will be another bumper harvest year, and the grain will not be worried. ”

Croppers love snow. Heavy snow in the winter means that the wheat fields will be irrigated when the snow melts the following spring.

The so-called Ruixue Mega Year can only be truly experienced in the countryside. In the area of Xuzhou Prefecture, almost all farmland is planted with winter wheat, and farmers are looking forward to a heavy snowfall in winter, thick snow can not only bring warmth to winter wheat, but also an important source of spring irrigation.

Although there is a sewing workshop, a salted duck egg shop, and a life in the township, Li is still an authentic farmer in his bones, and he still puts the harvest in his heart.

Thinking that her wheat could be harvested, Chen Xuejiao was also very happy. After all, for this era, food is the most important, for example, in the year of famine, money may not save people, but food can.

"Don't cook at noon, I bought a roast chicken, two catties of cooked mutton, and one catty of roast cakes from the town." Li said with a smile.

As soon as she heard that there were roasted cakes, Chen Xuejiao's saliva couldn't help but fall. This baked cake is made with a very strong oil surface, embedded in shredded green onions, rolled into a round cake, baked in the fireplace, and sprinkled with sesame seeds, not to mention how fragrant.

In the past, when the family was poor, Chen Xiucai would bring a few baked cakes to the children every time he went to the town, and Chen Xuejiao hid in the house with her round head and bit the baked cakes one by one, but she was afraid that Mrs. Chen would know. At the end of the day, Qi Ping would always lick the remaining sesame seeds on his hands. That's it, they don't eat it very often.

The roasted pancakes are rolled with mutton and smeared with salt and pepper, which is more delicious than dry pancakes. In this winter, when the snow is flying outside the window and the weather is freezing, you can eat a hot roasted cake rolled mutton, with a big bowl of rice porridge, which is hot and delicious, which is the most moisturizing.

"I'm going to heat up the rice porridge in the morning." Jinghao was called by Dragonfly to go to the private school to play the network, and as soon as she came back, she heard the conversation between the three of Li's mother and daughter, and before she could sit down, she was going to the pot house to heat rice porridge.

"The stone is already hot, this cold day, hurry in and have a cup of hot tea." Li pulled Jing Hao into the room.

Jing Hao was wearing a moon-white half-worn shirt, and the whole person was slim and peachy. She was born beautiful, but this year she has grown her body, and she is in a cheerful mood, and her whole person has become more pretty.

Li sighed invisibly, what kind of family business should such a bright person say.

If Wen Ying was alive, it would be much easier, but now that Wen Ying is gone, her father Wang Baozhu's reputation is not good, although the stepmother is virtuous and from dust, generally good people are not willing to marry the Wang family.

In this era, in addition to looking at a woman's needlework, temperament, and appearance, family is also very important, and sometimes comes first.

Since the snow is like an engagement, the Li family took the time to go to Feng Matchmaker's house, what kind of person is Feng Matchmaker, as soon as she heard this, she talked about him left and right, and praised Jing politely for a few words, but when she mentioned her father and stepmother, she frowned, and finally only said that Jing Hao is such a person, but I am afraid that the young men in the entire Baitu Town are not worthy.

As soon as Li heard it, he understood that Mrs. Feng was euphemistically.

It's hard for her to say anything as an aunt, but she can't watch her stay at home as an old girl.

Li sighed deeply.

After a while, the stone came out with a pot of porridge, and the house was full of women, so the stone did not come in. Li Shi personally got up and took it, tore a large piece of chicken, four baked cakes, and a piece of mutton and handed it to Shishi, and asked Shishi to go to Qi'an's house to eat.

"If you don't have enough to eat, you're going to get it." When he came to Li, he also instructed.

The stone was moved to cry, the new jacket and new cotton pants on his body were all Li Shixu's cotton, and it was not cold at all on his body, so he wrapped his clothes tightly and went to the outer room. Touched the beef bun in his arms, it was still hot, which he secretly bought for Qi Ping.

"I went to the town shop today, I didn't really want to go and see it, I was relieved to have your aunt and Aunt Xu looking at me. I am your grandfather who asked me to send your aunt back to Duan's house, your aunt, I don't want to take this stubble. Li sandwiched the most tender piece of mutton into the baked cake and handed it to Xue Jiao.

Xue Jiao took a bite and poured a mouthful of fragrant juice: "Mother, you are right to do this, I guess you also know what you mean." ”

Since the incident was revealed, Mr. Chen was angry enough, and he lay on the bed that night, and it was still Lang Zhong who Chen Xuejiao's family went to invite.

Originally, Old Man Chen was not so angry, but when he knew that he was going to succeed Qiping, he became angry, slapped Wen Yan twice, and even hanged her with a rope.

The nephew of the stepmother's family is already a big rebel, let alone the son of the eldest son.

Old Man Chen was really disappointed in Wen Yan.

"Even if the Chen family doesn't have this girl." After Old Man Chen finished speaking, his eyes turned black and fell to the ground.

When he was relieved, he waved his hand to let Wen Yan go back to Duan's house, and was told by Mrs. Chen that she would stay for one more day.

Wen Yan was first beaten by Zhang, and then by Old Man Chen, and the whole person was already down. How can she go back to the Duan family like this, no matter what, she is a married daughter, in the end, she is a member of the Duan family, and even if she fights, she has to go through the Duan family.

Therefore, Mrs. Chen and Mr. Chen called the Li family over early in the morning, wanting the Li family to send Wen Yan home, and by the way, explain the absurd things that Wen Yan did to the Duan family, after all, the Duan family respects Chen Xiucai the most.

Li immediately refused, turned around and walked out of the upper room.

"Mother, look outside." Chen Xuejiao glanced outside and muttered, "My sister-in-law is here to pick up my sister-in-law." (To be continued......)