Chapter 19 Coal Stoves

Zhenniang is now deaf to what is going on outside the window, and is dedicated to staying in the firewood room to light cigarettes and get bituminous coal.

The weather is getting hotter, and the doors and windows of the temporary smoke shed in the firewood house are closed, and the fire is steaming inside, but it is mid-spring, and Zhenniang is already eager to wear short sleeves like in later generations.

It's a pity that this was in the Ming Dynasty, and she just took off her outer clothes and only wore her shirt inside. Zhao, who happened to be brought in, looked at it.

"You damn girl, you still have to be embarrassed." Zhao was so angry that he hurriedly picked up the coat that Zhen Niang put aside and put it on her.

"Mother, it's too hot, and there are no outsiders in this house." Zhen Niang said helplessly, sweating on her forehead.

"It's not okay if you don't have outsiders, and your sister-in-law's two brothers often come to the house to hang out, even Brother Xi'er's playmates will also run home, if someone accidentally bumps into it, how can you get married." Zhao stared.

"Okay, okay, I'll get dressed." Zhenniang hurriedly said.

Zhao looked at the sweat on Zhenniang's forehead, wiped her with his sleeve, and felt a little distressed: "Otherwise, you tell your mother how to get this, and your mother will help you watch it." ”

"Mother, no need, you're busy with yours." Zhen Niang waved her hand, this smoke is not familiar, it is difficult to master, not to mention, the bituminous coal she wants to burn this time must be of the same quality as last time, and her mother can't get it.

"Okay, if it's too hot, take a break and cool off outside." Zhao said, and told Zhenniang to eat quickly, and then left.

Zhen Niang looked at the porcelain bowl that had just been smoked, well, there was a lot of free time in the middle, so she took the bowl out, and walked towards the kitchen while eating.

When I arrived at the door of the kitchen, I was about to go in, but I heard my eldest brother and sister-in-law chatting.

Zhenniang didn't want to listen to the corner, but the eldest brother and sister-in-law were talking about themselves, and it was not good for her to go in at this time, so she had to pause outside for a while.

"Well, I'll go for a walk in the mountains in a while to see if I can catch some game, Zhenniang is not easy these days, I got up this morning and saw her, her face was sharp, and she lost a lot of weight." It was Li Dalang who spoke.

"I think she's too reckless, is it a girl's family to do this thing? Grandpa is still up to her. Na Du Shi said with some grumbling.

"What's the matter, isn't she also doing this for the family, otherwise why would she be a girl working so hard? Grandpa's illness is not light, I listened to him cough a few nights like that is not a taste, the livelihood of a large family in the family, my salary in the oil mill is not very high, the owner also deducts part of the end of the year, you are not a living Luo can make money, just rely on me to be my mother, the family's livelihood is difficult to maintain, in addition, my father still owes a lot of debts outside, maybe one day, this debt collector will come to the door. Li Dalang said angrily.

"You damn ghost, you hate that I can't make money." Du Shi pinched Li Dalang angrily, and said regretfully: "Alas, the thermos bucket could make a little money some time ago, but in a few days, all people learned it, and now there are so many grocery stores outside that are selling, but it's better for others." ”

"Say what you don't dislike." Li Dalang said in a loud voice.

"That's right, Da Lang, why don't you talk to your grandfather, let him teach you how to make ink, and then go to the ink workshop to do things, I can't say that I can still be a master in the future, like now, Zhen Niang is famous, today I went to the vegetable field to get vegetables, and I met the shopkeeper of the Cheng family, and I hung the osmanthus cake all over me, saying that it was thanks to Zhen Niang." Du Shi said, there was something unpleasant in his voice.

"I don't have that day, I can only do some hard work, my grandfather also taught me when I was a child, I am very stupid, I don't have that mind, and I can't learn, my father beat me up for this." Li Dalang said. Then he reminded: "Don't say anything weird, what is fame, that's Zhenniang's ability, don't be careful, say such sour words"

"You're arranging me, Zhen Niang can make money, so I don't have to do less work at home?" Du Shi said with a look of grievance.

"I didn't say you had much to do." Li Dalang replied.

After that, the two were silent.

Zhen Niang stepped into the kitchen with heavy steps.

"Zhen Niang has eaten? Add a little more? Du Shi watched Zhen Niang come in with an empty bowl, got up and asked.

"I'm full, a big bowl, I can't eat so much on weekdays, it's really my sister-in-law's food that is getting more and more delicious now." Zhen Niang smiled at Mimi's words.

Although Du Shi is a little cautious behind his back and says sour things, but to be honest, Du Shi is actually an honest person, Zhao's mother-in-law has a pungent temperament, Du Shi is completely a little daughter-in-law in front of Zhao, and Du Shi is doing most of the housework on weekdays, and his hard work is not weaker than lighting a cigarette by himself.

So why care about a little talk, let alone between relatives.

Zhen Niang said flattering words, that Du Shi's original somewhat stupid expression melted away, became happy, and said with a smile: "Where is the delicious I burn, it is obvious that you are too hard, you are hungry and eat everything fragrant, let your brother go up the mountain for a while, go and see if you can make some game, if there is a harvest, my sister-in-law will stew you at night, with wild mushrooms, fresh." ”

"Ha, then I'm blessed." Zhen Niang said with a grin.

On the one hand, Li Dalang looked at his daughter-in-law who had complained about his hunting before, and now his face was full of expressions of eagerness to hunt for himself and stew for his sister-in-law, and he felt that the woman's emotions were really difficult to understand.

"Big brother, you can make something for me." Zhen Niang said to Li Dalang at this time.

"What's that?" Li Dalang asked.

Zhen Niang took a piece of ink and charcoal on the stove and drew it on the ground, which was a coal stove, just because yesterday, when Zhen Niang went to Shui Bo to fetch water, she saw that Shui Bo's stove had lost some loose coal.

asked Shui Bo, Shui Bo said that it was burned as firewood when there was no firewood, but the smoke was too big and generally not burned, so Zhen Niang remembered the coal stove, although she couldn't get honeycomb coal, but the briquettes should not be a problem.

"Well, this thing has iron on the outside, right? It's a dirt gall inside, there's a bottom layer at the bottom, and an iron shelf in the middle, it shouldn't be difficult to get it, but what is this for? Li Dalang looked at the cylinder drawn by Zhen Niang, and then listened to Zhen Niang's explanation a little bit, but he figured out the structure of the entire coal stove, but he didn't understand what to use it for a while.

"Big brother, don't ask, let's talk about it, maybe in the future, our family's good life will depend on it." Zhen Niang said confidentially.

"Cheng, wrap it up on the eldest brother." Li Dalang patted his chest and said.

Zhenniang clapped her hands, turned around and went back to the firewood room to continue her cigarette lighting, and now the family is in a difficult situation, this is not something that can be changed for a while, that is, she lights cigarettes, in fact, she earns coolie money.

Therefore, some methods that can be used are not to be tried. Coal stove bottom pouring is a more suitable thing, if it is opened, it is also a good livelihood.

Besides, in the future, when the ancestor encounters a big crisis, with his grandfather's temper, he will not sit idly by, and the family must have a little foundation to succeed.

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