At dawn, the man and woman sleeping in the house on the east side woke up early, put on thick clothes, left the house, stepped on the thick snow, and came to the place where the firewood and grass were stacked in the courtyard, first swept away the snow on the firewood and grass, and then the two picked up some firewood and grass and returned to the house, and put firewood and grass under the stove that connected the east house and the west house respectively.

The woman opened the water tank next to the stove and found that there was only a thin layer of ice left in the water tank, and there was almost no water.

"There's no water." The woman said.

The man nodded, and the two of them each picked up a larger pottery and walked out of the house, looked at the place where the snow had not been destroyed in the courtyard, and walked over there.

The pottery is put down first, and then "washed" with some snow, after which the two of them hold the clean snow in both hands and put it in the pottery, until the pottery is filled with snow, and then lift the pottery back to the house.

The snow from one pottery pot was poured into the copper pot and only half filled with it, and the pottery pot on the other stove was filled with less than half of it, and then it was filled with snow in the copper pot and the two pottery pots were still filled with snow.

Ignite the firewood and grass under the stove, the flame burns brightly, the copper pot is burned by the fire, and the snow in the pot also begins to melt, and the snow melts into water, which is a relatively simple way to get water in winter.

The cities of Xia are adjacent to the river, and there is no shortage of water, but the river is dozens or even hundreds of zhang away from the city, and it is inconvenient to get water in life, so there are also wells dug in the city.

Spring, summer and autumn are fine, the climate is not as cold as winter, you can go to the nearest well to get water, but in the cold winter, especially in the extreme weather of strong winds or heavy snow, many people choose to collect the snow nearby to melt into water, and do not need to go out to fetch water in the wind or snow.

The kang I talked about last night was almost cold in the morning, and the stove was lit again, and the kang slowly warmed up.

As if sensing the movement outside, the eldest daughter of three children sleeping in the Westinghouse rubbed her eyes and woke up, she gently dressed, not wanting to disturb her younger siblings sleeping, carefully opened the door of the house, and came to her father and mother, wanting to help them make breakfast.

"Big girl, I don't need you, go back to sleep." The woman whispered to her eldest daughter.

"Mother, I've slept enough, I'll help you make breakfast." The eldest daughter said obediently.

Seeing his eldest daughter say this, he could only let his eldest daughter follow him and leave a little easy work to his eldest daughter.

After boiling the hot water, a small part of the hot water is poured into the clay pot, and some snow is added, and when the temperature is moderate, women, men, and eldest daughters wash their faces and hands with some water, and even brush their teeth with a small wooden stick dipped in a little white salt at the end.

The habit of brushing teeth was naturally spread by Su Yan, and the fluorine contained in salt can play a role in reducing inflammation and sterilization, preventing tooth decay, anyway, Xia Guo is not short of salt, and brushing teeth with a trace amount of salt is not a waste.

Su Yan wanted to sell the white salt produced in Xia in large quantities, but most of the tribes were more willing to trade the weapons and equipment of the Xia Kingdom, only a small amount of white salt, pepper powder, etc., and only the nomadic tribes on the grassland were willing to trade more white salt.

The price of white salt traded by the Xia Kingdom is not generally high, and the nomadic tribes cannot trade too much white salt at a time, which is the restriction of the Xia Kingdom on the nomadic tribes.

There is no limit to white salt in the Xia country, and each household in the Xia country can receive as much white salt as they want, and the white salt used in ordinary times only occupies a small part, and the most salt used is pickled fish and animal meat.

Use a little hot water to brush your teeth, wash your face and wash your hands, pour some of the hot water into the water tank, and use the rest of the hot water to make breakfast.

There are two kinds of breakfast to prepare, one is for people to eat, one is for livestock to eat, this family of five raised two big pigs, three small pigs, and more than a dozen chickens, every day the livestock eat more food than people eat, fortunately, the livestock can choose a wider range of recipes, will not compete with people for food, the leftovers of people can be eaten by livestock.

Livestock are not only used for meat or laying eggs, but also human and animal excrement can be turned into farm manure to supplement the fields with nutrients.

The only thing is that these domestic animals are raised for the Xia country, and the livestock do not belong to private individuals, but every family is doing their best to raise livestock, and there are various selection competitions every year, as long as their livestock are well raised, they will get more or less animal meat as a reward, and the rest will be distributed according to the head.

Xia is still a public ownership, will not be a short period of time to implement private ownership, Xia will use a large number of people to join every year, this situation alone, once Xia State implements private ownership, it will make Xia State internal chaos.

When breakfast was about to be made, the woman said to her eldest daughter, "Big girl, go back and wake up your younger siblings." ”

"Mother, I know."

The eldest daughter returned to the West House, using various "means", and finally woke up the two sleepy little ones, and the two little ones were reluctantly put on clothes by their sisters, went to the ground, brushed their teeth, washed their faces and washed their hands.

Breakfast is ready, the meal is very simple, a small pot of millet porridge, a small pot of steamed (teng) salted fish, a plate of pickled radish, and three pieces of roast animal meat that add up to less than three or two weights, these three pieces of roast animal meat are prepared for three children, which can be regarded as increasing nutrition for three children.

The animals are fed first, then a rectangular table with short legs is placed on the kang, the food is brought to the table, and the family of five sits down around the table.

The two little guys didn't wait for their parents, they directly picked up a small piece of roast beast meat that belonged to them, and ate them first, the portion was a little small, the two little guys didn't want to eat it all at once, and ate it in small bites, as if they were savoring the taste of roast beast meat.

The eldest daughter is more sensible, at the beginning I also wanted to give my father and mother this piece of roast animal meat to eat, my father and mother have been refusing on the grounds of "I don't like to eat animal meat", the two little guys think that the father and mother really don't like to eat animal meat, but the sensible eldest daughter knows that this is the excuse of the father, but the father has been refusing, and the eldest daughter has no way, and slowly no longer says similar things, secretly remembering in his heart, and when he grows up, he must give his father a lot of animal meat to eat.

In winter, when the snow closes the door, the family rarely goes out, and there is little family entertainment, and storytelling has become the main entertainment for the family.

The age of the man and the woman is only in their twenties, the age of the eldest daughter is only eight years old, the second son is four years old, and the younger daughter is two years old.

The clan to which the couple belonged only joined the Xia Kingdom in the last ten years, and the life before and after joining the Xia Kingdom was completely different, and the couple often gave their three children the life of the tribal era, only the eldest daughter could understand some, and the second son and the younger daughter could not understand much.

said that it was a story, but in fact it was also a reminiscence of the couple, bitter memories, but fortunately, now the two of them are living a happy life that they have never thought of, and their three children are even more fortunate and have never had a hard life.

They have the common desire of all the citizens of Xia Kingdom, hoping that under the leadership of the king, Xia Kingdom will always be strong.