Chrysanthemum also knows that her health is not good, so she has always paid attention to her diet. Not to mention anything else, just the pork belly, she simmered a lot of them and ate them. It simmered to a thin sparse and ate the warmth of the body. It's just that this improvement of physical fitness can't be done overnight, you have to take it slowly!

Thinking that in her previous life when she was in the countryside, the confinement people stewed pig's trotters and peanuts together, so she also simmered them in a simmering pot several times. As a result, even Zheng Changhe, the most meat-loving person, said that he was too tired after eating it, and even grabbed several chopsticks and spicy cabbage over his mouth before he suppressed the greasy feeling.

Chrysanthemum smiled secretly, the whole family is enjoying the treatment of confinement!

Needless to say, Zheng Changhe and Aoki didn't do any heavy work, of course, they were full of red faces; Even Yang's, although he is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground every day, it is all errand work, which is in line with the motto of "life lies in sports", plus he eats well, and he also raises his complexion, and he looks several years younger, but his skin is a little rough by the wind; Only chrysanthemums, still like bean sprouts - delicate and thin!

When she saw that Meizi was shivering from her own cold, she pulled her hand out from between her hands and said softly, "My mother is going to buy cotton today." I'm going to make a padded jacket first. ”

She leaned over and lifted the small fire jar under her feet, put her hands on it, and thought to herself, it would be nice to sit on the fire barrel at night, that would be warm.

Meizi smiled: "Fortunately, I'm not too afraid of the cold." I hate wearing a thick padded jacket the most, it looks stupid and stupid! Look at my one, and I spread a thin layer of cotton. As he spoke, he pulled up his jacket and let her see.

Chrysanthemum looked at the pretty pink jacket on her body, wide and narrow, and slim waist, and admired it very much - this is also a demeanor rather than temperature. She doesn't have the money to make padded jackets, she is good, she hates to wear padded jackets. But looking at her pink face, healthy and radiant, obviously not afraid of the cold of this winter, I can't help but envy.

Meizi didn't leave until the next evening, and when she left, she brought a small jar of spicy cabbage with her. She happily showed the dimples on her cheeks and said, "I'll ask the dog to bring this jar to Brother Aoki tomorrow." ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and said that it was out of the way!

As soon as Meizi left, Zhang Huai came again. He came with half a basket of cow bones.

Chrysanthemum was happy in her heart, smiled and didn't be polite to him, took it with crooked eyebrows, and said thank you.

Seeing her like this, Zhang Huai somehow became happy, with a smile on his face, and his eyes gently watched her go around the kitchen looking for something to put the cow bones.

"Forget it, just use this outfit!" She took down a bamboo basket hanging on the wall, poured the cow bones into it, and piled it to the brim. Looking at it, I was a little dissatisfied - and I couldn't hang it up, so it seemed that it would be better to find a basket to hold it later.

When she returned the basket to Huaizi, she suddenly remembered and said to him: "Brother Huaizi, you wait a while, this pig's head meat is cooked, I will serve you some." With that, he quickly went to find the jar again.

Huaizi didn't shirk either, waiting for her to find a small clay jar and fill a jar of pig's head meat; He took a small jar again, scooped some pigs out of the cauldron, and said to him, "The pigs have not been boiled yet, so go and let your aunt put them on the stove for another half an hour." Use low heat, otherwise it will be dry. ”

Huaizi nodded, put the jar and jar into the basket, looked up at her and said, "Then I'll go." ”

"Whoa! Walk slowly! Chrysanthemum was thinking about chopping the beef bones smaller and putting them in a simmering pot to simmer overnight, tomorrow morning the house must be full of fragrance, and Dad should be soaking in the pot to eat again, and she unconsciously brought a smile on her face.

Falling in Huaizi's eyes, the shallow smile overflowed from her eyes, making his heart rejoice, and he didn't pay any attention to the leprosy face. That night, he had a dream all night. In the dream, Chrysanthemum blinked at him with big clear eyes, and the eyes of attachment and trust made his heart tremble, and he unconsciously took her hand and murmured: "Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum...... Don't be afraid, whoever bullies you Brother Huaizi will beat him......"

His younger brother Zhang Yang couldn't sleep well at night because he was not feeling well, and when he woke up in the middle of the night, he happened to hear it, and he was immediately surprised - didn't his brother want to marry Sister Chrysanthemum? Why do you dream about her again?

The ten-year-old boy was confused.

Here the chrysanthemum sent Zhang Huai away, cleaned some of the beef bones, let Zheng Changhe chop them into small pieces, stuffed them into a simmering pot, added water, added some ginger, and buried the jar in the stove hole with ashes with fine charcoal fire.

Seeing that it was not too early, she burned another piece of beef, cut a tender white radish and put it in it, filled a casserole, and put it on the small stove to burn with charcoal.

After these were done, Yang and Aoki also returned.

Aoki carried a large load of quilts like a hill. With his height, he was also buried in the middle of the burden, and only the head was visible.

Chrysanthemum looked at the pile of high quilts, squinted her eyes with joy, and felt that her whole body was warm, as if she was already on a soft bed; Even Zheng Changhe looked at these new quilts, and his face was full of smiles, and he felt that his adobe thatched house seemed to be much warmer and more prosperous.

Seeing his daughter's happy appearance, Yang was very sad, and secretly thought that it was worth spending this large amount of money today.

She took out a thick stack of colorful new sheets, and said to Chrysanthemum: "I thought that it would cost money anyway, so I bought all the sheets at once, and replaced them all with new ones." ”

Chrysanthemum nodded again and again: "It's to be changed." Didn't my mother also say, 'I can't be poor in food, I can't be poor in clothes, and I can't calculate that I will be poor for a lifetime', as long as our family works hard in the future, we are not afraid that we will not be able to earn money. ”

This time, Yang was ruthless and bought seven quilts.

three bed covers, each weighing five pounds; Two mattresses, each weighing six pounds. Originally, there was a six-pound quilt that she asked her to change into two three-pound quilts. In the spring and autumn days, let the babies cover this thin one. The old couple put all the old cotton wool on the bed, and also saved a mattress quilt.

Chrysanthemum listened and complained: "Mother is really, since you have bounced so many beds, why don't you miss that mattress quilt?" Also, you don't have more than one bed in the thin quilt of Spring and Autumn Days, is it possible that you will have to cover this five-pound one when the time comes? That's not hot to death. ”

Aoki picked up the conversation and said, "I said that when I came to Chrysanthemum, I would complain." My mother didn't listen. ”

Yang said with a smile: "The covers and quilts on the original three beds are now all cushioned on my bed and your father's bed, isn't it still hit?" Where is that squeamish? It's not good for people of our age to sleep too softly. ”

Zheng Changhe also smiled: "Why don't you hit the mile?" I can see that the old quilt is enough for two beds. Keep the rest, if it's not enough to add it up, it won't be it, and the freeze won't damage your father and mother; In the spring and autumn days, it is still old, and it is not hot to break us. ”

Chrysanthemum knew that it was difficult to get through them for a while. Thinking about the old quilt in addition to the old, it really won't be cold if you have more pads, so I don't bother to break with them.

She asked, "How much money did it cost to buy these?" She thought that her mother was so distressed, she must have spent a lot of money.

Who knew that Yang said with a heartache on his face: "But isn't it, it cost four taels and two dollars of silver." Thirty pounds of cotton, forty pounds were bought, and one or two taels of silver were used; The sheets and the manual cost of playing cotton also cost three or two miles. ”

Chrysanthemum asked in surprise, "Why is it so cheap?" ”

Seeing that his daughter was simply out of the market, Yang said angrily: "Oh! Is this still cheap? In previous years, cotton only cost 20 yuan a pound, but this year the north suffered a disaster, and it has risen so much, and it is cheap? ”

Chrysanthemum pursed her lips and smiled, and didn't argue with her mother. Xindao has put such a big bunch of things, and it is too expensive to only four taels or two silver. She thought that she had spent all the money she had earned recently, and it turned out that there was still left, so it would be easy to do.

My brother doesn't have to say goodbye to him soon, and the family doesn't have any other big expenses, so it's not impossible to work hard to earn some money and save some money to build a house and buy land in the future.

In the evening, after eating the fragrant beef roasted radish, the Chrysanthemum family did not go to bed early as usual - Yang and Chrysanthemum had to pack up the quilt in the evening.

Two oil lamps were lit in the hall at the same time, illuminating the thatched-roof earthen wall a lot; The old wooden door blocks out the cold wind outside, and the whole family stays in the hall, doing their own things, and the atmosphere is warm and peaceful!

Perhaps because of the good mood, I used to listen to the bleak and desolate wind, but now it sounds like a different feeling, like a leisurely person singing under the lamp, making people feel peaceful in this quiet night!

Yang and Chrysanthemum spread the quilt on Aoki's bed, first compared the size of the quilt, sewed out the quilt cover, and then put the quilt cover on the quilt, and sewed the four corners with needles and threads. The two of them started together, and it was fast to sew up.

This is also the idea of chrysanthemum, which not only saves the money of the quilt, but also makes it convenient to cover the quilt.

Zheng Changhe sat in the fire bucket and watched the two of them busy around the bed, and they couldn't intervene if they wanted to help, so they could only get up from time to time and go to the kitchen to add a fire and heat the pig.

Aoki sat at the old table, reading and writing by the light. The bean-like light kept swaying and jumping, shaking his face with the light and flickering.

He intently held the branch as thick as a pen, hung his wrist to carry the pen, first practiced the new words he knew in the sand table, and at the same time silently recalled the master's explanation in his heart.

When you are familiar with it, you can write on the paper with a brush dipped in ink. I also wrote it carefully and very seriously. After writing one and putting it aside, write a second one; After the ink on the first piece of paper dried, I took it and wrote on the reverse side, and I didn't want to waste it!

Yang bought a sheet with a light green bamboo branch pattern for the chrysanthemum bed. She felt that her daughter didn't like the bells and whistles of the big red and green flowers, and this one was refreshing, so she bought all the pads covered with this.

Chrysanthemum really likes it when she sees this color, and she secretly thinks that her mother really knows herself! She touched the soft cotton cloth and thought to herself, now that her room was finally a little angry and warm. Take the time to make two more small cushions, presumably there should be leftover from this cloth.

While twisting the thread, Yang carefully threaded the needle into the light with his eyes, and asked Chrysanthemum, "Didn't Master Zhou come to eat at noon today?" ”

Chrysanthemum nodded and said, "I didn't come." Didn't my brother say that the village chief invited him to dinner? ”

Yang said: "I'll just ask." We can't forget about them. Ming'er braised some pork head meat and peanuts and brought them with them. Anyway, it's very cold, and it won't be bad. If he wants to eat it, he puts the casserole on the stove and can eat it whenever he wants. There are also more spicy cabbages, and a jar of pots, and the master likes to eat these two things. ”

Chrysanthemum agreed.

This week, the master is also a good talker, and he has always felt very satisfied with the food he has delivered these days. Thanks to his age, he actually loves to chew pots, plus spicy cabbage, he can't do without these two things when he drinks, of course, pig ears are also indispensable.