"You—you go a little farther — don't, don't go too far!"

After shouting this, Xu Wenlan looked up at the white lantern hanging diagonally above, and couldn't help but sigh.

This lantern is probably the legendary "angry dead wind", which is said to be white, but in fact it is not the kind of white that is used for funerals, but slightly yellow. This is a paper soaked in tung oil, pasted with seven or eight layers, and the thick lantern skin makes the wax in it unable to extinguish by the wind, which is called "angry dead wind".

Because it is slightly yellow, even the candlelight is also yellow, reflecting a little warmth in this small space, but it is just an illusion, Xu Wenlan will no longer be deceived by his eyes.

Hearing the "choking" sound on his side, Xu Wenlan's tears were about to fall.

Covering her nose, Xu Wenlan couldn't bear to look at the fence, but even if she didn't look at it, as long as she thought of the two fat pigs squeezed in the pigsty when she first came in, she felt cramps in her legs.

It is said that Xu Wenlan grew up in a welfare home, and the growth environment is not very good, but even if it is not good, she has never been to such a toilet.

What kind of toilet, it's actually next to the pigsty, to be precise, this toilet is in the innermost part of the pigsty, two logs are on the toilet pit, which is the toilet.

It's winter, and the feces under the toilet pit are frozen and not too smelly. But I can't stand that this dung pit is connected to the end of the pigsty, and the pig's feces and urine flow down the channel, which is hot, and the indescribable smell makes people cover their noses and feel disgusting.

In addition, in addition to the smell of feces and urine, the smell of the pig itself is not good, and the sour smell of pig food can really smoke people to death when mixed together.

But what scared Xu Wenlan the most was not the smell, but the two pieces of wood under her feet. I don't know who repaired this toilet, this wood is not fixed, Xu Wenlan is always afraid that she will overturn without stepping on it, even if it is winter, but falling into the dung pit is still disgusting.

Covering her nose, Xu Wenlan sighed again, looked up at the thatch covering her head, and understood more deeply why the ancient toilet was called a thatched toilet.

But it's not just the toilet, but now even the house where you live is also a thatched roof, otherwise how can it be called a thatched house?

According to the theory, the Bai family should also be regarded as a well-off family, such a large courtyard, the main house, and the east and west wings, no matter how you look at it, it is not a poor family.

But it is such a well-off home, it is still a thatched roof, and the toilet is built in a pigsty, which shows that every family is really like this now.

Sighing again, Xu Wenlan rubbed the straw paper in his hand again.

This paper is too rough, not to mention compared with the toilet paper of later generations, it is much rougher than those burned yellow paper, and it is used to scrape the buttocks, but that's it, it's all calculated.

When she came out to go to the toilet, Bai Xiaoer—she really didn't want to be called Second Brother Bai or Bai Shengwu, that bastard kid only deserves to be called Xiaoer—smiled and shouted, "Do you want me to help you find two good pieces of wood to scrape?" ”

Thinking of this, Xu Wenlan retched for a while, if she hadn't covered her mouth, she would have been able to spit it out directly.

Before coming to this toilet, she bragged, thinking that even if she wore it to the Qing Dynasty, she would definitely be able to live a good life, but now look, just a personal hygiene problem, she can't hold on, what kind of good life is there?

It was easy to get out of the toilet, Xu Wenlan only felt that she was smelly everywhere, fortunately, the wind was not blowing from behind, otherwise she would have fainted with the wind.

Carrying the "angry dead wind", Xu Wenlan illuminated the figure in front of him and stomped his feet in place, and his heart couldn't help but warm.

Forget it, although this life is a bit unbearable, but she finally has a family, and those unsatisfactory places, let's slowly change it.

"Brother," he called crisply, and seeing that Bai Shengwen had not returned, Xu Wenlan hurriedly walked over.

"It's been a long time, haven't you? Cold or not? ”

Smiling at Xu Wenlan, Bai Shengwen just shook his head, took the lantern first, and then said, "Go back to the house!" You're thinly dressed, don't freeze. ”

"It's not cold, I'm not wearing mother's clothes!" Xu Wenlan smiled, looked down at the crimson jacket on her body, and only felt warm.

Although this jacket is a bit big, there are no patches on the body, and the cotton inside is thick, which is better than the one worn by the Zhu family.

Xu Wenlan privately thought that this was the jacket that Zhu only wore when he went out as a guest, but at this time, he took it out for her to wear without thinking about it, and said that he would change it for her to wear it when he turned around.

"Brother, let's go over there, I want to see our house."

said it affectionately, but Xu Wenlan didn't actually regard this as her own home, if it was just Boss Bai's family, she might really think that this was home, but think about the rest of the Bai family-this is not home, you have to say something else.

They had just come to the backyard, from the east wing.

The Bai family is a front and back yard, with the main house as the axis, divided into the front and back, the front is next to the courtyard gate on the west side, there are stables, cattle pens, is a place for raising large livestock, but the east side is a warehouse.

And in the courtyard at the back, coming from the east chamber, an old elm tree first poked into the branches and leaves from outside the courtyard, covering half of the room.

In the winter, there is some ice slag on the edge of the well, and even the head of the wheel is also frozen, and when you look at it, it is dark and dark and you can't see the bottom, and there is a trace of white gas, and the inside of the well seems to be hotter than the outside.

A vegetable garden, now in winter, the fields are covered with snow, and there are no crops left. Leaning against the fence, there were piles of firewood that were one person high, and there were wooden stumbling blocks half a person high.

Leaning against the back wall of the main house, there was a neat slip of cabbage, Xu Wenlan didn't quite understand, why should this cabbage be put outside, in such a cold day, the cabbage had already frozen, take one in his hand, knock it twice, and it was frozen harder than a popsicle.

"This is frozen cabbage, blanched in boiling water and dipped in sauce to eat delicious."

"It's delicious?" After asking, Xu Wenlan rubbed her nose.

As soon as Bai Shengwen saw it, he stretched out his hand and pulled Xu Wenlan: "Go back to the house first, and then look back at ......"

"It's not cold, it's just a little cold." Xu Wenlan sniffed, and didn't forget to ask: "Didn't you say that autumn vegetables are stored in the Northeast?" Just let it freeze outside? ”

"Where can I be!" Bai Shengwen was happy: "The autumn vegetables are all in the vegetable cellar at that end, and the cabbage outside the pile is no place to put it, so I will put it here and freeze it, and then dip it in sauce and eat it." ”

"Oh......" Xu Wenlan stretched out her voice and followed Bai Shengwen's fingers, but she couldn't see a clue at night, she only knew that there seemed to be a small piece of land in the vegetable garden that didn't have much snow, probably a vegetable cellar, right?

"What's the sound—ah, it's a chicken ......" cooing, but it's not a chicken.

At night, they are all on the shelves, but they can listen to the movement but "cooing".

didn't dare to lean over to take a closer look, Xu Wenlan followed Bai Shengwen through, and arrived at the west chamber, which was in front of the window of Bai Lao's house.