Liu Bicao was worried for a few days, but she didn't see Liu Erlei and the Wang family coming to the door, so she really put her mind at ease, and she no longer cared about what method Shen Jinqian used.

In the past few days, the snow has gradually melted, and the people in the village can't stay at home, and they all visit each other, but there is still a gloomy cloud between the eyebrows. The heavy snow has stopped, but then the New Year, the price of things in the town has only increased, and how to get the items needed for the New Year has become the most worrying thing for people.

The Shen family is not worried, Shen Jinqian went to the town to buy it back at one time before, and there are things sent by Zhong Darttou, there is no need to worry about the New Year, and several families close to the Shen family, such as the Xiuling family next door and Liu Bicao's third uncle's house, Shen Jinqian went to say the letter, and made preparations in advance to be able to spend the New Year in peace.

In the afternoon of this day, the sun was finally willing to show her face, Shen Mei remembered what she said before, and couldn't wait to find her little sister.

Liu Bicao also took advantage of the rare good weather and pulled Shen Jinqian to the field to see the cabbage he had planted with Shen's mother before.

It has been snowing heavily for so many days, and Liu Bicao has already prepared that the cabbage will be crushed by the heavy snow, but what I didn't expect is that half of the cabbage on half an acre of land is in the ground.

Liu Bicao's eyes lit up, pulled Shen Jinqian's sleeve, and jumped twice happily on the spot: "Brother Jinqian, you see that the cabbage is still alive." ”

Shen Jinqian looked at her like a child, his rare excitement was beyond words, and he smiled helplessly, with a spoiling look in his eyes that he hadn't even discovered.

"I'll go back and get the basket and the basket." Shen Jinqian helped her stand in place.

Liu Bicao smiled and narrowed, nodded, let go of Shen Jinqian and went to the ground, picking up the first cabbage.

By the time Shen Jinqian came with Shen Jinxin and Liu Boan with a basket and a basket, Liu Bicao had already finished pulling out the cabbage on one side.

"Let's go and rest, let's just come here." Shen Jinqian looked at her frozen red hands, couldn't help but feel distressed, and pushed her aside to rest.

The speed of the three people was very fast, and they finished collecting the cabbage and carefully put it into the basket and the back basket. The big one is about one or two catties, and the small one is about half a catty.

Liu Bicao was not idle, peeling off the outer leaves of the spoiled cabbage, putting away the inside, and preparing to take it back to feed the chickens and ducks in the bamboo forest.

"Yo, that's a lot." Mother Shen was also very happy when she looked at the cabbage placed in the yard.

"Yes, I thought it would all be crushed, such a big snow, I didn't expect to collect so much back." Liu Bicao put aside the chickens and ducks, "Let's keep some for ourselves, and sell the rest in the town." ”

"Okay, sister, then let's pick some and take them to the cellar?" After Liu Boan saw Liu Bicao nodding, he said that he would do it and immediately started with Shen Jinxin, picking cabbage, the only criterion for the two of them was that they were ugly, and they were all their own.

Thinking that she was going to the town to sell cabbage tomorrow, Liu Bicao remembered the chestnuts left in the hall, and thought that she would make chestnut cakes and take them to the town tomorrow.

After having a plan in his heart, he immediately got ready, went to the utility room to find the sieve plate that had been sifted, and saw that there was no steamer, so he remembered that the third uncle's house had it.

Knowing that the third uncle sometimes likes to drink some wine, he went back to the room and took a few pennies and went to the house of the wine seller in the village.

The family looked at Liu Bicao's prosperous appearance, and didn't know what she was going to do, Shen's mother couldn't cry or laugh when she looked at the back she left.

"Third aunt, are you at home?" Liu Bicao bought wine and went directly to Liu Sanlei's house.

"Yes, why are you here on such a cold day? Come in and get warm. He Shi heard Liu Bicao's voice and didn't even put on his shoes, so he went out.

Liu Bicao followed He into the house, got on the kang, and waited for his body to warm up before explaining his intentions.

"You said you, come and bring wine for nothing, it doesn't cost money." He and Liu Sanlei only have one son, Liu Tianshi, and when he was older, he sent Liu Tianshi to the next town to learn crafts. Because the two of them have no daughter, and their only son rarely comes back, they treat Liu Bicao's sister and brother as their own children, and they have to say a few words to her when they see Liu Bicao spending money.

Liu Bicao has always been close to the He family, and she coquettishly next to her: "It doesn't take a few dollars to make my third uncle happy." ”

He nodded her forehead: "Okay, I'll go get you a steamer, take it and go home." ”

"Yes, yes, I'll leave after I take my things, and I promise not to hang around in front of you." The two joked like a mother and daughter without any guilt.

"Bi girl, aren't you going to see your father?" When Liu Bicao went out, Wang thought about it and asked, "It's always been since your father was kicked out, and life is really difficult." ”

Mrs. Liu and Liu Dazhu are really ruthless, seeing that there is not much food in the house, seeing that there are many people in Liu Erlei's family, they discussed and agreed to the separation proposed by Liu Dalei before. Saying that it is a family separation is actually no different from driving Liu Erlei's family out.

"I ..... I didn't want to see him. Liu Bicao lowered her eyes, "When I saw him, I thought of my mother, as well as Qingzhu and Bo'an's suffering, third aunt, don't worry, I know that Bo'an and I will only have to be famous for a day in this village, and it's a big deal to give more gifts during the New Year's Festival." ”

Wang knew that she was a child of the governor, and he didn't say much after listening to her.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing with the steamer?" On the way home, I happened to run into Shen Mei who was going home.

Liu Bicao stopped and waited until Shen Mei walked in front of her, and the two of them went forward again, and said to her as they walked: "This is what I used to make chestnut cake, and what I made before was eaten by our family, this time I want to sell it in the town, so I naturally want to make it more delicious, so I went to my third aunt's house to borrow this steamer and came back." ”

When the two returned home, Shen's mother had already sorted out the dinner, and the two helped bring the dinner to the table.

It is not very troublesome to make chestnut cake, but it takes a lot of time, so the next day, Liu Bicao got up early in the morning, and Shen Jinqian also got up.

"Woke you up?" Everyone else was still sleeping, and Liu Bicao suppressed her voice and spoke to Shen Jinqian.

Shen Jinqian took the clothes that Liu Bicao put on the bedside the night before and put them on: "It's okay, I can help you when I wake up." ”

The two lightly lit the oil lamp and went to the kitchen, and after washing, they began to do things, Liu Bicao first put the chestnuts into cold water, let Shen Jinqian burn the fire, and after a quarter and a half of hours, they scooped it up and put it on the steamer to steam for about half an hour.

The freshly steamed chestnuts were very hot, and Shen Jinqian used his hands to peel the shells, and was slapped on the back of his hand by Liu Bicao with a "snap". Shen Jinqian looked at her suspiciously.

Shen Jinqian was a little embarrassed to hit Shen Jinqian in a hurry, but when he thought that the chestnuts were so hot, he had to touch them with his hands, and glared at him: "Isn't the freshly ripe hot?" Nerd, go get cold water, put it in cold water, not only is it not hot, but it is better to remove the shell. ”

Shen Jinqian, who was glared at by his daughter-in-law, touched his nose and did what Liu Bicao said, without refuting half a sentence.

After doing this, Shen's mother and Shen's father and several children also got up, and only the two little ones were still sleeping.

"Daddy, why are you up?" Liu Bicao looked at the few people who entered the kitchen, obviously the hands and feet of the two of them were very light, and there was no reason to wake up the family.

Shen Jinqian saw her rare confusion, and didn't understand that she deliberately got up early to help, nor did she deliberately explain, so she just sat on the side and shelled the chestnuts.

"You were woken up by you, because we thought that more people would do it faster." Shen's mother and Shen's father sat down and learned Shen Jinqian's movements to remove the shell, Shen Jinxin and Liu Boan did not delay, and also learned to do it, Shen He saw that he did not have his own place, so he spontaneously went to Liu Bicao to get the red beans prepared last night with her.

It was not yet dawn outside, there was only an oil lamp on in the kitchen, and the family was huddled in the kitchen doing their own things, although they did not speak, but the warmth flowed, Liu Bicao pursed the corners of her mouth, and felt what home was again.

When it was done, it was almost dawn, Shen Jinqian and Liu Bicao didn't dare to delay, packed up their things and rushed to the town, along with Shen Jinxin.

When I arrived in the town, I still sent cabbage to those big families as before, no matter how sad the life of the common people was, those big families and landlords' old people's houses were still the same as before, there was no change, and only the people suffered.

The situation in the town is much better than in between, but you can still see the problems after the snowstorm, there are more people begging on the streets than before, and the people who come and go are much more sad.

The big money that the cabbage has changed is still collected by Liu Bicao. Because Zhong Darttou asked people to send something to the Shen family before, Liu Bicao took two catties of chestnut cake and sent it to his child as a snack, which was also regarded as a thank you gift, and took some to go to the pharmacy to Dr. Wang and Hu Xiuniang in the embroidery room, even if it was a small gift for the New Year.

The first time I made chestnut cakes to sell in the town, Liu Bicao didn't feel low in my heart, so I didn't do much, and after giving it away, the rest was sold outside Hu Xiuniang's embroidery room.

The chestnut cake is made of rice, and it is about to be the New Year, and there are still women who come out to buy New Year's goods ruthlessly to buy some back for the children at home.

After selling these, Liu Bicao thought that there were still some fine noodles and newly harvested cabbage at home, so she simply made dumplings to eat at night, so the three of them went to West Street to buy catties of thick noodles, and then bought two catties of fat and thin pork, and saw that there were sugar gourds and bought two strings of sugar gourds for the two small ones at home. If so, the three of them rushed back to Dahe Village.