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"Where are we going to fetch water? Where can I get firewood? After Xie Xiaonian arrived in the kitchen, he asked Luo Changsong suspiciously.

"There's still firewood in the utility room in the backyard, and the well is in the backyard, so I'll fetch some water to use." After Luo Changsong finished speaking, he picked up a wooden barrel and walked to the backyard.

"I haven't seen what the dean is like, Dad, I'll go with you." Hearing that he was going to the backyard, Xie Xiaonian answered excitedly.

Xie Xiaonian hadn't calmed down from the excitement at this time, she never thought that she would be able to live in the legendary courtyard one day.

"I'll go, I'll go." The children responded.

"Okay, let's go check it out." Luo Changsong continued with a smile.

When she entered the backyard from the road on both sides of the main house, Xie Xiaonian found that as her father said, there were only two rooms in the back, which were distributed in the east and west corners of the yard.

There was firewood in the east room, which was supposed to be a firewood house, and there was a well in front of the side of the firewood room.

The one on the west side of the courtyard is a latrine.

In the middle of the road on both sides, nearly seventy or eighty square meters, except for two elm trees, it was all empty there, and it should have been a small garden before.

"This open space is not small, when the loyal army comes, let's just build a chicken pen, a pig pen, and a rabbit pen here, just like in the compound, and raise poultry, so that we don't have to worry about running out of meat to eat in the future." The rest of the place is reserved for growing vegetables, Dad, what do you say? Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

"I think so too, let's act when spring begins." Luo Changsong echoed and said.

Because the place is too big, it can't be cleaned up in a day, so Xie Xiaonian only cleaned up the main room, kitchen, and toilet, which are the places that will be used today, and the other rooms are ready to be cleaned up slowly in the future.

Fortunately, the yard is paved with bluestone slabs, and only some grass grows at the joints of the bluestone slabs, which does not affect their movements.

Otherwise, if no one lives for such a long time, the weeds in the yard alone will be enough for them to clean up.

And after Pearl and the others left Xiao Nian's house, Brother Pearl immediately asked Pearl: "What does Xie Xiaonian and his father do, how can he have such a complete courtyard alone?" ”

"His father came out of the army, it seems that he is still an old chief, I heard Xiao Nian say that he came down from the battlefield a few years ago, and he has a lot of military merits, as for how this house came about, I don't know." Pearl replied truthfully.

"I said how familiar he was when he walked, it turned out that he was a soldier, and at his age, he still came down from the battlefield, so his position in the army must not be low. Do you know what his name is? And how is Xie Xiaonian different from his surname? Brother Pearl continued to ask.

"Xiao Nian is the goddaughter he recognizes, of course the surname is different, I heard that Uncle Luo's family was persecuted by the Japanese devils back then, and now he is left alone in their family, Uncle Luo really dedicated everything he had to the country. Fortunately, he met Xie Xiaonian in his old age, otherwise, he would be an old man, and he didn't know how pitiful he was. Pearl said with a sigh.

"He won't be called Luo Changsong, right?" Brother Pearl asked in surprise.

Based on what Pearl said, the only thing he could think of was the old general.

"Big brother, how do you know that Uncle Luo's name is Luo Changsong?" Pearl said in surprise.

Hearing Pearl's affirmative answer, Brother Pearl was excited and braked suddenly.

Then he turned his head and said to Pearl in shock: "His name is really Luo Changsong, I didn't expect that one day I would be able to see Chief Luo, Pearl, your eldest brother and I didn't have any rudeness just now, you too, why didn't you tell me earlier?" I was told I could have done better! ”

"Big brother, no matter how excited you are, you have to ride a good bike, if you do this again, I have to fall." Pearl clutched the handle next to her tightly and said complainingly.

"I'm sorry, Pearl, I was too excited just now, you are not a soldier, I don't know Chief Luo's reputation and prestige in the army, otherwise, you must be more excited than me! I heard that the old chief recognized a goddaughter, but I didn't expect it to be Xie Xiaonian, you have such a good relationship with Xiao Nian, you must move around often in the future, and you must have a good relationship with the old chief. Brother Pearl said earnestly.

"I just regard him as Xiao Nian's godfather, and he won't change because of his position, don't tell me about your set!" Pearl knew that his eldest brother's old mistake had been committed again, so he said firmly.

Her eldest brother is sometimes a bit snobbish and will never do anything that is not beneficial to him, she knows it all too well.

"I know, but what should be done is still to be good, so that whether it is for you or our family, it will be beneficial and harmless." Brother Pearl said earnestly.

"Okay, I know, I know, I have such a good relationship with Xiao Nian, I will definitely not have a bad relationship with his family, and Uncle Luo is also very good to me! You can ride your bike, I still want to go home to see my parents. Pearl said grumblingly.

"Okay, okay, I won't say it!" Seeing that his sister was about to get angry, Brother Pearl hurriedly continued to ride home.

Although Brother Pearl continued to ride, his heart was not as calm as just now, and he wanted to go back and tell his father the news quickly, even if he didn't get any benefits through Chief Luo, it was always right to have a better relationship.

The house had not been inhabited for a long time, and although the pot in the kitchen had not rotted, it had a layer of rust and could not be used immediately.

"When we came, we brought a lot of dry food, I used a clay pot to cook a rice porridge, and then heat up the previous dry food, and deal with it at noon, wait for me to brush the pot a few more times, and after it can be used, I will make something to eat for you." Xie Xiaonian said to a few children.

"Anything goes." On the train, when there was only hot water, they all came, and now they can cook porridge in clay pots, which is already very good.

After cleaning up the kitchen, it was almost noon, Xie Xiaonian hurriedly started cooking, while Luo Changsong led the other children to clean up the main house.

In this way, it took a whole afternoon for Xie Xiaonian to roughly clean the house and yard that needed to be used.

"Dad, I don't see that there is a kang at home, it will definitely be cold at night, should we buy some briquettes to come back to keep warm?" Before dinner, Xie Xiaonian asked Luo Changsong.

"I need to buy some back, otherwise the spring is cold and the children are prone to illness, so I'll go out and buy them tomorrow." Luo Changsong nodded and said.

"Where do you get all the firewood you usually burn, do you need to buy it?" Xie Xiaonian then asked.

"It's not far north of the city, there are a few mountain bags, and many people go there to collect firewood, and we can go there when the time comes, but I haven't been there for so many years, and I don't know if the situation has changed. Luo Changsong replied.

"Okay, don't worry, I see that there is still a lot of firewood in the firewood house, enough for us to burn for several days, let's clean up the house in the next two days, meet the new neighbors, and then plan for other things when there is nothing to do." Xie Xiaonian continued.

"Okay, I'll talk about it later, let's eat first, otherwise the food will be cold." Luo Changsong said with a smile when he saw that several children had been staring at the food on the table.

"Okay, let's eat first, a few children have been eating dry food every day for the past few days, and they have also suffered." Xie Xiaonian said after sandwiching a piece of pork ribs between several children.

"Xiao Nian, this is the first official meal since we came to the capital, I need to have a drink." Luo Chang said to Xie Xiaonian greedily.

"Okay, no problem, but only two drinks at most." Xie Xiaonian said bargainingly.

"Two glasses is two glasses." If you can drink a sip, you can also earn it, Luo Changsong hurriedly agreed.

Xie Xiaonian looked at her father's drunkard appearance, shook his head helplessly, and then went back to the house and took out a bottle of liquor for him.

"In the future, we will live in the capital, do you feel comfortable adapting?" Xie Xiaonian asked a few children.

"It's a prosperous city with a lot of people, and I like it!" After listening to Xie Xiaonian's words, Tang Yuan immediately continued.

"I also like it here, when I go out with my grandfather to buy vegetables in the afternoon, some of the things sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives are something I have never seen before." Green onion also said excitedly.

"There's not even a kang here, and it's so cold in the house that I feel a little cold." The most afraid of the cold is peaceful.

"Wait for tomorrow we buy briquettes back, build a stove in the house, it will not be so cold, I heard that some places in the city are heated, although we don't have it yet, but when the heating is turned on in the future, it will definitely be warmer and more convenient than burning the kang." Xie Xiaonian said comfortingly.

"Yes, I'll ask if I'll see when we can get the heating here, and if we get the heating early, we won't have to suffer in winter." Luo Changsong also nodded and said.

"Mom, what's the heating?" Heping asked curiously.

"Heating is an iron pipe with hot water in it, and when the hot water passes through the iron pipe, the heat inside will be released, and then the temperature in the house will rise." Xie Xiaonian briefly introduced to the children.

"Can we make one ourselves? The kind that boils your own water? Heping asked curiously.

"At present, we don't have that ability, if there is a corresponding machine out in the future, and my house has not been heated, my mother will definitely buy a set, how can I not freeze a few of you! But whether you are used to living here or not, you have to work hard to adapt, after all, we will have to live here for the next few years. Xie Xiaonian instructed.

"Well, Mom, we're definitely going to get used to it." The children nodded.

Next, a few children chattered to Xie Xiaonian about what they saw and heard when they went out to buy vegetables with their grandfather this afternoon, and they were very excited.