After ten days of hurrying, Pei Chunshan and Pei Run, father and son, put the kang plates in the two rooms.

On the day of the New Year, Pei Ze's house was cleaned up.

The walls have been painted, the beams have been cleaned, the windows have been replaced with new hemp paper, new wooden boards have been nailed to the broken doors, thick curtains have been hung, Mrs. Yuan has also cut the window flowers and pasted them on the windows, the ground is pressed very flat with stone rollers, and the original dilapidated firewood house has instantly become a new house, second only to the house of Mrs. Yuan in the main house.

Wang felt sorry for his son, not only made the door curtain, but also made a thick cotton mattress with old cotton and spread it on the kang, and made a bed quilt with the new cotton left over from the quilt before, Pei Chunshan went to the town to buy a new pot and pressed it on the stove, tried the fire, the house was very warm, Wang instructed the pepper: "Your house is not as warm as this house, you move in first, wait for Brother Ze'er to come back, you move back, and then move back, and then move back in March next year, when you are fifteen years old." ”

The Pei family is a serious family.

will not let Pei Ze have a round room with a little girl who is less than fifteen years old.

Sichuan pepper readily agreed.

These days, she has been picking up firewood with Pei Ying in the back mountain, her body is dusty, and the weather is too cold, and she has not washed up properly, but now the house is so warm and the kang is spacious, of course she is willing.

What's more, she has a stove in the house, and there is no pot for the time being.

The Pei family did not buy her a pot for a very good reason, one is that there is no silver, and the other is that it is not necessary, but Hua Jiao still wants to press a pot in her own house, and it will be convenient to heat and wash in the future, at least in the two months before she turned fifteen, she was still relatively safe in the Pei family.

It doesn't matter if you don't have an iron pot.

She's going to make her own clay pot.

But she saw that the soil used by Pei Chunshan and Pei Runpankang was too coarse, and the viscosity was not big enough, and it had to be mixed with wheat straw to form, and to make a clay pot, she had to find clay first.

After lunch, the Wang family will make dumplings for the New Year, Mrs. Yuan and Liu also stepped forward to help, three women sat on the kang in the main room and noodles, chopping stuffing, it was cold outside, five-year-old Sister Xian and three-year-old Fuwa ran around on Mrs. Yuan's kang to play crazy, because it was a small year, and there was delicious food, Mrs. Yuan was in a good mood, but she didn't blame the two little babies, they tossed it.

Sichuan pepper and Pei Ying carried bamboo baskets to the back mountain to collect firewood.

These days, the pepper has almost walked the back mountain, and even climbed the highest mountain beam in the back mountain, and has a panoramic view of the Wutong town on the other side of the mountain, the terrain of Wutong Town is unusually wide, the houses and buildings are densely gathered, it looks very prosperous, the west of the town is a large piece of land, and the east of the town is a large wharf, where you can vaguely see the large and small ships and the crowd of people coming and going.

Sichuan pepper is anxious to find clay, and picks low-lying places in the valley to walk.

She had seen the soil on this side of the hill, and it was not suitable for her to make a clay pot, and there was usually clay where water flowed, and she felt that there was more hope near the valley.

Pei Ying refused to follow the pepper around, and complained about the pepper: "Mother said, let's pick up some fine firewood, don't go in again, I'm not scaring you, there are wolves and wild boars on this mountain." ”

She is not alarmist, but a real wolf and wild boar on this mountain.

Every once in a while, the sheep in the village would throw one or two, and those sheep herders did not dare to go into the mountains.

Their family has a piece of land at the foot of the mountain, often spoiled by wild boars, her father and eldest brother caught several times but did not catch, it is almost the New Year, she does not want to follow the pepper to take this risk.

What if they happen to run into it?

"I didn't let you follow me!" Huajiao and Pei Ying have been picking up firewood together for so many days, and they really don't have a good impression of this little girl, just sleep lazy at every turn, and every time they pick up firewood, they are not satisfied with the basket, either go home to drink water, or go to the toilet, and often tell her to do this and that, and was taught a few times by Sichuan pepper, although it is somewhat restrained, but still competes with her from time to time, it is really annoying, Pei Ying said angrily: "Mother let me look at you, do you think I am willing!" ”

Her mother said that when you go out, you must follow the peppercorns.

can't let her talk to other men, let alone let her be alone with Pei Man.

Hua Jiao ignored her, and went to the bottom of the valley with the basket on his back.

Pei Ying was so angry that she stomped her feet: "I don't care about you!" ”

The terrain at the bottom of the valley is relatively flat, and a path can be seen looming in the dead grass.

Not far away, there are sheep shuttling in the grass, the valley is relatively warmer than the hillside, there are already a lot of green grass and wild vegetables under the dead grass, Sichuan pepper also accidentally found a small piece of wild ginger, she dug out a large string of wild ginger into the basket, this wild ginger tastes similar to the ginger eaten at home, the only difference is that the wild ginger has a lot of fibrous roots, although she doesn't like to eat ginger, but dig it back to adjust the flavor or something, and the rest is used to soak the feet or something, it is still very practical.

The grass at the bottom of the valley was wet and not frozen.

Sichuan pepper walked up the path, found a stream under a mountain cliff, the water is not big, gurgling down, it should be the rain from the mountain penetrated down from the rock crevice, she used a sickle to pull the dead grass by the stream, and sure enough, she found a thin layer of gray-white clay, the clay is very fine and clean, and the stickiness is good, which is very suitable for her to make a clay pot.

Sichuan pepper was very excited, rolled up her sleeves and carefully removed the layer of clay, and moved it to the rock on the side, this clay is much better quality than the clay she used when she participated in field activities before, and the success rate should still be very large.

"Third sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Pei An asked with his little head peeking out from the rock above his head, and Hua Jiao beckoned to him: "Come down, let's make a clay pot together." ”

Pei An happily went to the bottom.

Hua Jiao dragged a piece of clay to him, let him play by himself, Pei An grew up playing with mud, but never played with this sticky mud, as soon as he took it, he couldn't put it down, Pei Ying stood on the high stone and shouted: "Hua Jiao, you don't pick up firewood, but take Brother An to play with mud, I'll go home and tell my mother." ”

"You're a complainant." Pei An picked up a small stone and threw it at her, "You go home and sue me!" ”

Pei Ying was so angry that she turned around and left.

"Third sister-in-law, what are you going to do?" Pei An asked curiously, and the peppercorns were rubbing the mud while smiling: "I'm going to make a mud pot, and when it's done, I'll cook it for you, okay?" ”

"Good!" Pei An jumped three feet high, "I also want to make a big carriage, and when I go to the town, I can take the big carriage, and when I have a big carriage, I will take my third sister-in-law to the town together." ”

Sichuan pepper just laughed.

There are so many people in the Pei family, she likes Pei An the most.

This child is kind-hearted, and the important thing is that Pei An is still good to her.

Considering that the clay is relatively small, and the pot stove is not very large, she decided to make a slightly shallow clay pot, enough for her to boil water alone, and the remaining clay is made into two small jars to play.

Sichuan pepper is no stranger to the kiln, and after settling down, it quickly lit a fire.

About an hour later, the fire in the open-air kiln gradually went out, in addition to burning a small jar, the mud pot and Pei An's carriage were intact, Pei An looked worshipful, shook the hand of pepper and begged: "Third sister-in-law, let's use this clay pot to make delicious food tonight!" ”

"Okay, what do you want to eat?" Sichuan pepper carefully used a wooden stick to pick the mud pot and mud pot into the bamboo basket, this is the fruit of her labor for a long time, it seems to be smooth, but in fact it is hard-won, no matter what, the days still have to go on!

Pei An tilted his head and immediately said, "I want to eat meat." ”

Hua Jiao smiled: "Okay, if you can find meat, I'll make it for you to eat." ”

"Third sister-in-law, I know where there are wild boars, let's catch wild boars tomorrow." Pei An said to the pepper very seriously, "When we catch the wild boar, let's use this mud pot to cook meat and eat it!" ”

"Wild boars are so easy to catch." Hua Jiao smiled, picked up the bamboo basket and pulled him back, as soon as he entered the alley, there was a circle of people at the door, and Wang's loud voice with a crying voice came from the yard: "...... You're finally back, you know how my mother survived all these years! ”

Sichuan pepper's heart tightened.

Luckily, she made the clay pot, otherwise she would have to continue to freeze.