On snowy nights, the wind whistles through the fields, and families have long since closed their doors and hid in warm quilts. A mule cart stepped on the village road in Huangjiawan, saying that it was a village road, but it was five or six meters wide, the road was smooth, and there were neat foundation stones on both sides of the road.

It has snowed for a few days, but there is only a thin layer of ice slag on the road in Huangjiawan, and there is no snow, so it seems that someone should clean it every day.

Seeing the dotted lights not far away, the drivers who were driving the car felt their hearts warm, not to mention the few people in and out of the car, they finally arrived home.

Zhao Dashan passed by the door of the house and did not stay, but escorted the car all the way to the door of Huang Laosan's house. Huang Laosan's family built three tall and spacious brick-walled houses on the road, which are very suitable for both residential and future business.

The door of the big house was closed, but faint lights could be seen in the courtyard.

Huang Delei jumped out of the car and strode over to knock on the door: "Daddy, open the door, we're back." ”

The voice was loud, and it was heard far away on this snowy night, and soon I heard footsteps from the yard, and then Huang Laosan's voice: "Delei?" Why did you arrive so late? ”

With the words, the door opened, and Huang Laosan's figure was revealed: "Quick, you children, why are you still rushing to the night road?" With that, he pushed the door open and walked out.

Huang Tao and Soybeans jumped out of the carriage one after another, Huang Delei turned around and leaned into the carriage and dragged Huang Deyi out: "Little Ba, I'm home, wake up." ”

Huang Deyi slept in a daze, and when he heard his brother shouting, he only muttered "brother" and fell asleep again.

Huang Tao and Huang Dou began to take things out, that is, clothes and some valuable things, and the rest of the heavy ones were thrown in the car, and Huang Laosan and them would move them down later.

Huang Laosan led the coachman to drive the car from the courtyard wall to the backyard, opened the courtyard door of the backyard and drove the car into the yard. There was a livestock shed in the backyard, and Zhao Dashan also followed him in and tied him to a big green mule.

Huang Sanniang stood under the light at the door of the hall, wearing cotton clothes, looking forward to it: "Why did Xiaoba fall asleep, did you call when you entered the door?" As he spoke, he drooped his shoes and was about to walk into the yard.

"Mother, don't come out, it's cold outside." Huang Delei said and hugged Xiaoba, and Huang Deyi sped up his pace.

"What's cold, my mother is going to cook for you." Huang Sanniang put on her shoes and put on her jacket as she spoke, walked over and touched Xiaoba's face, hands and feet, and touched Huang Delei's hand, feeling the warm heat before letting go.

"Did you call him when you entered the door? Carry it into the room. Huang Sanniang asked again.

"I screamed, he woke up and called my brother, so I brought it in." Huang Delei carried Huang Deyi into his father's room, they were not at home, there should be no charcoal stove in Xiaoba's room, so let him sleep with his father and mother tonight.

Hearing Huang Delei say that he had called, Huang Sanniang looked at the two daughters who followed behind him with confidence: "You two sisters will go to the mother's house to rest first, and then let your brother give you a charcoal stove." So saying, he went to the stove and prepared to make a fire to cook for them.

It's no wonder that Huang Sanniang wanted to ask Huang Delei over and over again, and he didn't call Xiaoba when he entered the house. There is a saying in the countryside that when a child is young, his soul has not fully grown. When a child goes out and comes home, if he falls asleep, he will be woken up when he enters the house, so that he knows that when he is home, he will not be easy to get sick.

If a child falls asleep before entering the house, and the family does not wake him up, and the person enters the house, the soul runs outside and forgets to enter the door, and it is easy to get sick.

Huang Tao and Huang Dou, who were walking behind, seemed to be used to Huang Sanniang's eccentric eyes, and they didn't care that the sisters who were walking behind were carrying things, so the two of them had to take care of themselves and each carried something into the house.

In this society, men are inferior to women, especially farmers who rely on farming to support their families, all hope to have sons, and having more sons is a kind of strength.

Having more sons can support the elderly, can carry plows and rakes, and are the main labor force in the family.

"Mother, don't be busy, we have eaten on the way, you can get a charcoal stove for your sisters' rooms, so that they can rest early." Huang Delei arranged Huang Deyi on his father's bed, walked out, sat under the stove and began to help light the fire.

"Don't worry, I'll get it later, you have to get one in your room, how cold it is this big night, I'll burn some hot ones and wash them after you eat, go to bed early." As she spoke, Huang Sanniang quickly scooped the old hen soup that had just been simmered in the morning into the pot, cut the washed cabbage, and steamed more than a dozen steamed buns.

Start the river and noodles and prepare to roll the noodles.

After finishing these, she stretched out her head to look at the light in Huang Mi's room, Huang Sanniang took out another piece of ginger, grabbed a handful of longan and a handful of red dates, put it in the crockpot, put brown sugar and began to simmer.

In the end, it is the mother, or I am afraid that the two girls will be cold and cold, and the girls still have to be pampered, and simmer some ginger and red date soup for the two sisters to drink, so as to dispel the cold.

Huang Laosan took the coachman and Zhao Dashan to park the car, tied the mules, added forage and hot water to them, and carefully closed the door. The three men moved from the backyard to the front yard and let the driver into the hall.

"Sit, thank you for your hard work, it's not easy to send the children back on this snowy day." As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at Zhao Dashan again: "Dashan, you also sit, you're welcome." ”

Because Zhao Dashan has been going to sea with Huang Delei for several years, Huang Laosan has always treated him as his nephew, and he has indeed never been polite. Since he expressed his intentions with Huang Dou, Zhao Dashan faced Huang Laosan's family again, and his words and actions were not as natural as before, and the whole person became restrained.

"Third uncle, sit down, I'll go see if Delei needs help."

"No, just be busy on the stove. Seeing that you are freezing, hurry up and come over to warm up. ”

"No, I'll go to the stove room to have a look, third uncle, you sit." After speaking, Zhao Dashan ran to the stove room, he really didn't know how to get along with Huang Laosan.

He regretted it even more when he entered the stove room, Huang Sanniang was in the stove room!

"Oh mountain, it's cold, the soup will be good right away, just take a sip while it's hot." Huang Sanniang didn't stop talking, rolling and cutting the dough, shaking her hands, and the evenly thick hand rolling noodles swirled slightly in the air and shook them on the panel.

Huang Sanniang still likes Zhao Dashan very much, this child rescued soybeans from the water, and rescued Huang Delei at sea, she likes this child from the bottom of her heart.

"It's not cold, third aunt, I'm used to it." Zhao Dashan said and squatted beside Huang Delei: "I'll burn the fire, don't you want to get a charcoal stove?" Now go get it, and after eating, the house will be just warm. ”

Huang Delei was also not polite, stood up and gave up the position of the fire to Zhao Dashan, he went to carry two home-made charcoal stoves: "Don't go back tonight, sleep with me, go back and open the door for you." ”

"It's okay, I'll go back and go around to the back and ask Dachuan to open the door, so I won't alarm my mother and them." Zhao Dashan lit the fire seriously, and the fire in the stove was imprinted on his face.

Huang Sanniang took a look, she was a handsome child, and she didn't know which girl was cheaper.

The charcoal stove that Huang Delei brought out was made by soybeans wrapped around Huang Laosan's own family. In the past, charcoal pots were used in winter, and soybeans were disgusted with smoke and dust.

pestered her father to make a stove, put firewood in it, put a teapot for boiling water on it, and boil hot water every day, you can drink, you can also wash your feet, face and clothes.

It's just that the heart of the furnace has not been done well, and it will crack after using it for more than ten or twenty days. Huang Laohan saw it and said that the mud was not good, and he should use sticky soil. There is very little land here, and later the river mud was dug to make it, and the effect was slightly better, and a stove could barely be used for a winter.

Huang Laosan was diligent with his hands and feet, and he took the time to make four in the autumn, and the brothers slept in one room in the winter. The sisters also slept in one room and put one in it. There is one in the old couple's house, and there is a spare, which is used for eating in the hall, and which one is broken in advance can also be replaced.

Although it breaks quickly, it is also simple to do, and everyone likes it, and almost every household makes one or two. Burning firewood is not wasted, put one in a room at night, stew in a teapot, it is also convenient to drink water at night, and you can also use the water in the teapot to wash your face and clothes in the morning.

People who can live a careful life use one or two at most at night, and sleep in one room for a large family, so that it is warm and saves firewood. The Huang family has a mountain, so don't worry about no wood to burn.

Huang Delei lit one on the fire in the stove first, pressed a few pieces of charcoal from the stove sugar, and sent it to the yellow peach house, so that the two sisters could use it first. I ordered another one and put it in my room, and by the way, I made the bed where Huang Deyi slept and slept for the driver who drove the car for one night, and I would return to Dongyang County tomorrow.

"Leizi, it's time to eat." Huang Sanniang stood at the door of the stove room and shouted.

Huang Delei hurriedly went over and served chicken noodle soup with Zhao Dashan, and sent steamed buns to the hall. If there is no coachman, they can eat at the small table in the stove room, which is convenient and warm, but there is also a coachman.

The yellow peach and soybean also packed up and walked out, sat at the small table in the stove room, and ate a bowl of chicken noodle soup by themselves. Huang Deyi was also woken up by Huang Sanniang, drank half a bowl of soup with half-squinted eyes, ate a chopstick-headed noodle and fell asleep again.

"This kid is still tired like this in the car." Huang Sanniang was distressed and wanted to blame, thinking that it was the eldest son who insisted on taking his younger brothers and sisters to play, and swallowed back the words when they came to his mouth.

The coachman and Zhao Dashan Huang Delei ate a big bowl of chicken noodle soup and three big steamed buns before they felt that the whole person came to life.

"It's still delicious hand-rolled noodles made at home." Huang Delei put down the bowl and sighed softly in satisfaction.

"That's for sure, my mother takes eggs and noodles, and the soup stock made from old hen soup, can it be delicious." Huang Sanniang listened to her son's praise, and she was indescribably happy and satisfied.

"When you're full, go wash and go to bed early, this journey will make you tired." Huang Sanniang looked at her son, and the more she looked at it, the happier she became.

"Okay, Dashan, let's sleep here." Huang Delei stood up.

"No, I'll go back." Zhao Dashan also stood up: "Third uncle and third aunt, Master Liu, you are here, I will go back first." ”

"Okay, slow down on the road, Delei will get a lantern for Dashan." Huang Laosan looked at Zhao Dashan who was walking out, and hurriedly ordered.

"No need, I'm leaving." Zhao Dashan turned around and went out, striding out, Huang Delei took the coachman back to the house to sleep, and the lights in the yellow peach and soybean house were also extinguished.

The night was quiet.