Yang Ruoqing thought about that warm bucket, and secretly yearned.

But the warm barrel is troublesome.

"Dad, mother, we can't get a warm bucket right now, why don't we get a brazier to deal with it first?"

Yang Ruoqing proposed.

Braziers are not difficult to make.

Find an old iron pot and put some hard pine balls or something in it.

Make a wooden frame underneath to stabilize it.

If you put it in the house, the temperature of the whole room will increase accordingly.

"Qing'er, this proposal is good."

Sun said.

"Just when we went back to the house last time, Da Yun brought an old pot over. I'll bring it later. ”

Yang Huazhong nodded: "It's only like this, when my leg is healed, the first thing is to hit the warm bucket!" ”

"Mother, after lunch, I'll go to the woods behind the village to pick up pine balls." Yang Ruoqing said.

"I chop wood, chop hardwood and light a fire." Da'an Road.

"You have little strength, beware of the axe hitting your foot, waiting for my house to chop." Yang Ruoqing advised.

"Then I'll go with my sister to pick up loose balls."

……

While we were having dinner, the brazier was lit.

Sun set up the basin with split hardwood and grabbed a few more loose balls and put them in.

The brazier crackled and sparked.

Yang Huazhong snuggled on the bed as usual, and Sun took Yang Ruoqing's sister and brother to sit around the brazier with bowls.

Sun said: "Yes, this brazier is a lifetime, and the soybean oil lamps in the house are saved, which is really good." ”

Yang Huazhong said: "We should have made this brazier two days ago, and the children have been freezing for several days." ”

Sun smiled: "It's not too late." ”

Yang Ruoqing felt the warmth brought by this brazier, but there was another layer of worry in her heart.

The house is low and cramped, and these woods are burned in the process.

Can the carbon monoxide released poison my family?

When she saw the finger-wide cracks in the doors, and the holes in the windows.

I put my mind at ease again.

Ventilation is also good for ventilation.

……

When she was cooking breakfast the next day, Yang Ruoqing found that Sun coughed a few times from time to time.

"Mother, why are you coughing? Got a cold? ”

Yang Ruoqing asked worriedly.

Sun shook his head, "Mother is fine." ”

Yang Ruoqing was a little surprised, it stands to reason that there was an extra brazier in the house, and the temperature had risen a little.

You shouldn't catch a cold!

Da'an on the side said: "My mother helped us bake our shoes on the ground last night, I'm afraid it was cold." ”

I see?

Yang Ruoqing understood.

The sun hadn't been out for days, and my shoes were wet.

There happened to be a brazier in the house, so my mother sat there and held it up with her hand to roast it, and kept turning it to prevent it from baking.

"The brazier is still not as good as the warm bucket!"

Yang Ruoqing said in her heart.

If there is a bucket, the family's shoes can be spread on the barbed wire fence before going to bed at night.

The next day it must have been warm.

My mother doesn't have to sit on the ground and guard it.

"Qing'er, my mother is really fine, you don't have to worry."

Seeing that Yang Ruoqing didn't bite, Sun said again.

Yang Ruoqing came back to her senses and nodded.

"I'll burn some brown sugar and ginger water and drink it to get rid of the cold." Yang Ruoqing said.

Sun smiled and nodded: "Okay." ”

"Sister, the brazier is warm, but it's also expensive." Da An muttered there.

"The basket of loose balls that we picked up together yesterday burned to the bottom in one night." He said.

Yang Ruoqing said: "It's okay, let's pick it up after it's burned, there are some in the woods behind." ”

If it doesn't work, I go to the town to buy charcoal.

The price of charcoal in this era, Yang Ruoqing really doesn't know.

"Mother, when we didn't split up in previous years, how did we spend the winter?"

Yang Ruoqing asked again.

Sun was cooking gnocchi soup when he heard the words and smiled.

"What's wrong? That's it. ”

She continued: "There is a warm barrel in your sister-in-law's house, and there is a charcoal brazier in your brother-in-law's house. ”

"Others, soak your feet more."

"But at that time, the house we lived in was better than the current one, and there was no air leakage in the house."

Yang Ruoqing nodded.

"Is it just charcoal burning in my lobby brother's house? Why don't other people give charcoal in their houses? She asked.

When Sun heard this, he couldn't help but laugh again.

"You stupid girl, you still need to ask, you can't afford to burn!"

"Your lobby brother is going to study, and grandma is afraid that his hands will tremble and he will not be able to hold the pen steadily."

"Even then, five catties of charcoal will be allocated to him in the house in one winter." Sun said.

"How much is a pound of charcoal?" Yang Ruoqing asked reluctantly.

Sun stopped what he was doing and thought about it seriously.

"It's like a grade, and if you buy ordinary miscellaneous charcoal, you have to pay 20 yuan a catty."

Yang Ruoqing calculated.

Yang Yongxian burned charcoal in one winter, and he had to spend a hundred yuan.

Tan's eggs are reluctant to slip a person, and he is really a big grandson!

"I've heard from the people in the village that the price of fruit charcoal is more expensive."

Sun's chatterbox was also opened.

"It is said that the lowest grade fruit charcoal, the price of one pound can buy several catties of ordinary miscellaneous charcoal."

"We haven't burned it, and we don't know what's good......"

"I heard that if we can burn fruit charcoal in our village, we will be in the Zheng family and the Lao Mu family......" Sun said.

"Mother, when you go back to town, let's go buy some charcoal to burn." Yang Ruoqing proposed.

Now I have a family of four taels of silver.

Take one or two hundred dollars to burn charcoal for the winter, and you can still afford to burn it.

Sun shook his head: "I'm not very in favor of buying charcoal. ”

"Why?"

"The charcoal fire always bursts, and when it gets on the table and clothes, it can burn a hole." Sun said.

"In previous winters, I washed Yongxian's clothes, and there were many small holes in his clothes that were burned by charcoal, and I couldn't make up for them!"

That's right......

Yang Ruoqing thought about it, speaking of which, the warm bucket is still the most ideal heating tool!

However, Daddy can't control it for the time being.

The fifth uncle is busy making furniture for the marriage on the eighth day of Laba, and he can't spare time!

Ask Tang Lingzi to help make a warm bucket?

Forget it, he doesn't say that he has a warm barrel at home, and the braziers are all wooden!

After breakfast, Yang Ruoqing was about to take Da'an to pick up pine balls in the woods again.

Sun folded Luo Fengtang's cotton clothes and put them in the basket.

The woman sent Yang Ruoqing and Da'an to the door and told her: "Send the cotton clothes to Tang Yanzi first, and then go pick up the loose balls." ”

Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Mother, I know, go to your house." ”

I was about to walk through the back door of the courtyard when I heard the sound of wooden wheels crushing the ground at the side door of the alley.

"Sister, look, it's Brother Fengtang here!"

Daan suddenly shouted excitedly, and ran towards the side door.

Yang Ruoqing was stunned.

When did this kid be so excited about Luo Fengtang's arrival?

She glanced through the side door, too.

At this glance, she was also excited.

Even, even more excited than Da'an!

Over there, Da'an gathered around the wheelbarrow and watched Luo Fengtang loosen the things on the cart.

"Brother Fengtang, are these warm buckets for our family?"

Daan asked excitedly.