Chapter 17: Years Ago

Since the road was opened, her life has begun to get better and better, and the staple food is also flour products or rice products. And she would go down the mountain at least twice a month to buy grain and other things, and with what she had harvested in the fall, she now had a lot of stock.

And every time she buys food, she does everything she can to carry it, except for other things. She can't eat a lot by herself, and she still has a lot of vegetables with her, so she will save some food. In addition, she will also buy some food to store, so now she can almost eat the food stored at home until next spring.

This year's winter seems to have come earlier than last year, but it may also be because she is not as busy and nervous as last year. She wanted to make two more cotton clothes and an extra quilt. She bought fifteen catties of cotton and came back and made a quilt of about four catties, so that it could be covered in autumn, six catties in winter, and two beds together if it was cold. This allows them to be used separately or together depending on the season. There won't be the situation that we did this fall, a little cold but the quilt is too thick to cover the heat.

In addition, she also made two slightly thin cotton clothes of more than three catties, and also made a thick cotton coat for men with more than four catties, and some of the clothes were too large, and the extra part was rolled inside. I made two more sheets and a few pairs of socks, and the cheesecloth at home was almost gone. It took more than a month to do this, and it was almost time to enter the wax moon after doing it.

It's almost the Chinese New Year, and she wants to build a few houses at the entrance of the cave, which doesn't have to be particularly good, it's almost the same as the thatched house she built before. She wanted to build a firewood room for firewood, one for sundries, another for a kitchen, and one for a bedroom. The main thing is that the cave is a little messy now, everything is piled up in it, and the fire and cooking smoke in it have smoked the contents black.

But before she could do that, she had to buy some more tools, such as hoes, saws, and axes. When I used to repair the house, there were too few tools, and sometimes it was not very easy to use.

This time she went to the town, so she only bought the tools and food she wanted to buy, and then went back. Then she is preparing for repairing the house, and she also knows that it is not easy for her to repair so many houses, but she can take her time, and if it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years. She's always going to fix them all.

First of all, find the main pillars and beams needed to repair the house. If all four rooms were built together, ten main pillars would be fine, but she wanted to connect the bedroom with the others, and wanted to build it alone. So then she would cut down twelve main pillars and fourteen beams. In fact, it is also possible to cut eight beams and pillars, but she is afraid that she will not be able to get it too long, so she still uses a short one.

This time, she had to cut all the wood and dry it before repairing it, otherwise it would be too heavy and laborious. More than half a month has passed since I found and then cut down the required beams and columns, and I put them in the same place after they were cut down and cleaned, and then brought back when they were dry.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and she has to buy some things and ingredients for the New Year. The price of things from the previous year basically went up, and she didn't buy a lot, just some meat and snacks. In the mountains, she doesn't pay attention to sticking couplets and setting off firecrackers or the like, mainly to make something delicious.

In the first few days of the Chinese New Year, she didn't care about the house anymore, she mainly went to the mountains to see if she could catch a pheasant or two. Although the family has raised chickens now and has grown up, but now the chickens have begun to lay eggs, and they can pick up two or three a day, sometimes five or six, and now they can pick up every day when it's cold, although there is only one, but she is reluctant to kill them. But if she really can't beat it, she will also kill one of the chickens raised at home, after all, the chick she bought at the beginning will also have two roosters when she grows up.

Perhaps she wanted her to have a good year, and two days before she had caught a pheasant, so that she would not have to kill the chickens in the house. One day a year ago, she cleaned up at home and didn't go out again. Anyway, the broom used for cleaning is still bought by her in the town, and the bamboo leaf broom she used before, and the dust is everywhere on the ground at home, so she went to the town to buy a broom made of sorghum.

On the day of the Chinese New Year, she put on her newly made cotton clothes and shoes, and ate kimchi fried meat and porridge in the morning. After eating, the pheasant that was caught the day before yesterday was killed, cleaned up, and stewed, and some Shou Wu left at home was put in it. In fact, she has never eaten Shouwu stewed chicken, but she has heard people say before that eating it like this nourishes her body. She is still young now, and she is usually too tired to be in good health, so she wants to make a shouwu stewed chicken to make a tonic and tonic.

But she believed that even if it didn't taste good, she would eat it all, because after all, it was meat, or chicken. She can eat meat twice a month, but it's all pork, and she doesn't waste it now. However, she only stewed half of the chicken, and kept half of the chicken ready to fry the spicy chicken. Although the chicken is not very big, it looks like it is more than two catties, but she can still make two by herself.

In addition, she has to make a boiled fish, which she caught in the river yesterday. When she finished driving the road before, she blocked a pool with stones in the section of the river where she often fetches water, so that she could fetch water, wash clothes and vegetables. Yesterday, when she went to fetch water, she saw two big fish in the pool, thinking that she would have more than enough to catch every year today, but she only caught one, but it was enough for her to eat. Stir-fry a shredded garlic radish and a pickled pepper shredded pork, this is this year's New Year's dinner, which is richer than last year, and it also means that her days are getting better and better.

The staple food is white rice, and today there are more dishes, so I used to cook rice in a hanging pot that was specially used to boil water. She didn't eat at noon, she was all for the sake of cooking and eating at night. In my previous life, when I was at home, I started to prepare dinner slowly after resting for a while, but dinner was generally eaten early, and before the meal, I burned incense and burned some paper to my ancestors, kowtowed a few heads and began to eat. It's the same today, dinner was eaten early, about four o'clock in the afternoon, but she didn't light incense today, didn't respect her ancestors, and didn't kowtow. It's just that she bowed three times to the sky outside the door very reverently before eating, one is to wish her parents, relatives and friends in another time and space to be healthy and happy. The second is to wish the original owner and the original owner's parents to reunite underground and have a good birth in the next life. The third is that God bless her in this time and space, good health, a long life, and a smooth life. If you can, give her a good marriage in the future.

After bowing, he went back to eat, and after eating, he cleaned up the table and bowls, and boiled a pot of water to prepare for a bath. It also draws the meaning of a new year and a new atmosphere, and by the way, washes away the dust and fatigue of the old year.

After taking a shower and lying on the bed, she never moved or slept. When she made a wish to the sky today, she thought of her parents in another time and space, they were already old, and their hair was already silver. And her parents were not in very good health before she crossed, and they both had gout, especially when her father was sometimes serious, he couldn't walk at all. I don't know what happened to them now, and I don't know if I was still alive or dead on that plane. What if her parents die, although she felt that her parents were partial to her brother when she was a child, but when she grew up, she found that they were a little partial to her brother, but they were still very good to themselves. Father doesn't love to say it, but he always shows his love for her with his actions, and his mother......

Thinking about it, the tears stayed, and in the end she hugged the quilt and cried silently, and finally she didn't know when she fell asleep. It's just that my eyes are a little swollen when I wake up the next day, but fortunately it's not particularly bad.