The wind was howling outside, the snow was falling, and there was a brazier in the house, but it was warm.

Li Lamei slept a good night's sleep, and when she opened her eyes, she was startled by the dazzling eyes outside the window, and thought it was almost noon, so she hurriedly got up.

After putting on the padded jacket and pushing the door, it turned out that it was still early, but there was a thick layer of snow on the ground, and the snow reflected into the house, which looked exceptionally bright.

Lamei stretched out in the cold air, and when she heard the eldest sister getting up, she opened the door and came out: "Ah, it's a lot of snow!"

Lamei's face was flushed with sufficient sleep, and her eyes were shining brightly, but Lily looked a little haggard, and her eyes were slightly dark.

"Sister, didn't you sleep well?" Lamei was still wondering, whether it was because the brazier was not enough or because she was uncomfortable with the water.

Lily shook her head: "The snow is so big, your brother-in-law doesn't know what to do." ”

As the saying goes, a thousand days at home is good, it is difficult to go out for a while, this year when you go out, you are most afraid of rain and snow, if you accidentally get a headache and brain fever, it is really a big trouble.

Lily is worried about her husband, and Lamei seems to understand whether she understands or not, and she is careful all day long, lest she be saddened.

The snow in the yard was half a foot deep, and Lily took the tongs to probe it, but did not dare to step on it with her cotton shoes, lest the cotton shoes get soaked. She went to the kitchen to get a shovel for the fire, and beckoned Lamei to shovel the snow together: "Shovel a few roads out." ”

From the door of the house to the gate of the courtyard, and to the thatched house, these roads must be shoveled out. Then there is the road to the cellar outside the house, which must be shoveled for a while.

Lamei took the shovel: "I'll shovel, you go cook." ”

It was very cold, and his hands were red after a while when he was exposed outside his sleeves, and Lily took a pair of gloves for Lamei: "Wear them well, don't have chilblains again this year." ”

Lamei lowered her head to shovel the snow, and after a while, she was sweating finely, and she was so hot that she was jumping, but fortunately, she knew the severity and did not take off her padded jacket.

Lily make a fire, boil a pot of water on the stove and on the stove, first knead the cornmeal and a small amount of white flour together, pinch a ball, poke your thumb into the dough, and wipe the rest of your fingers on the outside.

Make a dozen nests and put them in the steamer, at this time the water boils, and then put the steamer on the stove to steam. Wash a radish and rub it into shreds, sprinkle it with salt.

Lily takes two other handfuls of yellow rice, boils them in a pot until they are seven or eight ripe, takes them out and drains them, puts the rice grains into the flour, shakes the wooden basin, and the yellow rice grains roll in the wooden basin, and the surface is evenly covered with flour.

Pour a small bowl of pulp water into the boiling water in the pot to dissolve, and the rolled yellow rice gnocchi is put into it, and boiled until it thickens is a pot of pulp soup. Lily lifted the lid of the steamer, poked the nest head with chopsticks, it was ripe, then took off the steamer, set up another iron pot on the stove, put some lard into it to burn, peppercorns, ginger choked out the fragrance, and then poured shredded radish and chopped garlic seedlings into it and stir-fried a few times, a hot

Stir-fry the shredded radish out of the pan.

Lily asked Lamei to eat, and Lamei had already shoveled a few paths, ran into the kitchen sweaty, first took off her gloves and baked her hands, and kept rubbing her fingers while roasting the fire, so as not to get frostbite.

"It's so good to eat today!" Lamei called in surprise.

Lily smiled at her: "What's so good about this?" Wowotou and pimple soup are all coarse grains, but they are finely made, look good, and resist hunger, that is, on a snowy day, if they are usually busy, Lily will not have time to make such a troublesome breakfast.

The cornmeal nest head exudes a fresh fragrance, and the white flour neutralizes the rough taste of the corn, which is fragrant and sweet. The pimple soup was boiling hot, and it was warm from throat to stomach in one bite, dispelling the cold of the snowy morning. The shredded radish is salty, which just adds a surprise to the main dish.

Lamei took a mouthful of shredded radish in a nest, chewed it full of fragrant mouth, and felt that it was not enjoyable, so she took a nest and nested the shredded radish into the hole at the bottom, and ate it as a sandwich bun.

The weather was cold and the snow was thick, and they couldn't go to the street, so the two sisters ate around the brazier and tied insoles and cotton shoes, although there was no sun, the snow reflected the light of the sky, and the house was also bright, and the light was very good.

After two or three days, the ice and snow melted on the road, and the smile on Lily's face increased.

New Year's goods are not only about buying food, but also about all kinds of food, clothing, playing, and use. If we do it again at the end of the year, we will definitely have to be in a hurry.

People who have a good calculation start to do New Year's goods in the middle of the lunar month, and wait until the end of the year, everything is in order, that is the ability to run a family.

Lamei is still a childlike in this regard, and everything is fresh when she walks to the market, but she doesn't know what to do. Lily called her: "Don't look at it, look at what others are buying, think about why people are buying, whether we want to buy it, and how much is appropriate." ”

Lamei: "Sister, you test me again!"

Every once in a while, she has a problem, and she is not a gentleman in the school. Lily, who had been a teacher in the school, smiled and said nothing, urging Lamei: "Think about it!"

Lamei thought about it, and really remembered a question: "The window paper in our house is all rotten, and the wind is blowing, if there is not a brazier these days, it can freeze people!"

Lily nodded: "Okay, then go buy a few pieces of paper." ”

Word paper is a rare thing, only people have, there are several kinds of paper specially used to paste doors and windows, cut window flowers, some people around the stall in the selection.

As soon as Lamei walked to the stall, she stretched out her hand to the cheapest straw paper, and Lily grabbed her: "Pick the white one." ”

"White is expensive!" is to paste a window, what are you doing with such good paper?

"You, you still have to learn. Lily smiled, picked out a few knives of white and tough white cotton paper, put it in the basket, and took Lamei to the stall next door to see the rouge gouache.

Lily was curiously looking at the small bronze mirror, which was much clearer than she had imagined.

In her previous life, Lily had only seen a bronze mirror with stains of green rust in the museum, and the bronze mirrors in the TV series were all dim in color, distorting and deforming people's faces, and she only thought that was what the bronze mirror looked like.

When she really saw the bronze mirror, she realized that the color of the original copper mirror was silver, similar to the feeling of the mercury mirror, the mirror surface was strong and smooth, and it would not distort and scary the human face.

Lily took a careful look at it, startling at the clarity: it was not too much like a glass mirror.

In the mirror is a very delicate little daughter-in-law, with white skin and ruddy skin, a pair of apricot eyes watery, thin and curved eyebrows, a red mouth, and black hair.

There are cast patterns and words on the back of the mirror, and the stall owner greets with a smile: "The mirror of the Huzhou Fang family, the top goods!"

Someone next to him smiled and said: "Don't bluff us, now the favorite thing in the capital is the mercury mirror, and this Fang family bronze mirror is only used in the countryside." ”

The stall owner was afraid that Lily would tell people not to buy the bronze mirror, so he hurriedly said: "You are wrong, how expensive the mercury mirror is, it is made by the emperor under the guidance of the gods, where can ordinary people afford it!"

He said to Lily: "Don't look at this is a bronze mirror, no worse than a mercury mirror, clear and bright, do you see these words in the back?

"Lend you good words!" Lily bent her eyes and smiled, trying to please her.

The stall owner made persistent efforts, "The mirror I bought from me will be dark in the future, just come to me to grind, and my mirror grinding medicine is also a first-class good mile." ”

Lily took out the money and bought a pair of Changyi Sun Ling flower glasses, a sunflower glass, and then face grease, mouth grease and other things, the stall owner was happy, gave her a few feet of red head rope and a rouge, and said: "Come back to me to buy, I will give you more things." ”

Lily thought that Lamei was getting older, and most of the girls at this time were sixteen or seventeen years old when they got married, even if she wanted to stay, she couldn't keep it, so it was better to prepare early, so as not to panic in the future.

Lamei has been suppressed by the Zhu family at home for many years, and only then did she slowly reveal her beauty-loving nature in Lily, and she was embarrassed to ask her eldest sister for something, so Lily always wanted to buy it for her.

A bronze mirror costs more than 30 yuan, and she doesn't dare to talk to Lily when she is killed, and Lily begins to make her face frightened, and the two sisters are still taking pictures and dressing up in the water.

Seeing the bronze mirror today, Lily realized that she had unconsciously got rid of her starving ghost-like face, and she was also a beautiful little daughter-in-law.

When I returned to the house and put things away, the bronze mirror was placed on the small table, and the two sisters were beautiful, and Lamei was shy and couldn't help but look in the mirror.

It's the first time she can see what she looks like so clearly, and although it's not very good-looking, she always feels that she can't see enough. The eldest sister also told her: "I was not as good as you in the past, but in the future, you will look better when you grow up." ”

Lamei saw that her eldest sister was getting better little by little, and she was convinced of Lily's words, and continued to fantasize about what she would look like in the future in the mirror, and the more she thought about it, the happier she became.

Lily indulged the girl for a while, so she called her to paste the window: "The wind is blowing like this, you are still beautiful!"

Make a bowl of paste, find hemp rope to measure the size of the window and cut the paper, and then apply the paste on all sides of the white cotton paper, and stick it firmly to the wooden window lattice.

The white paper transmits light, and the light in the room is not affected, and Lamei only then understands the intention of the eldest sister: "I know, the straw paper is not so bright!"

In winter, you have to do needlework in the house most of the time, and if the light is too dark, your eyes will be broken at a young age.

Lily smiled and said: "There is another meaning, this paper is much stronger than straw paper, and if it is not strong, it will be damaged by a wind, and you have to buy it again, it is better to buy a good one time, but to save money." ”

Lamei nodded and was taught. A layer of window paper is still a little thin, and the lily also pastes a layer on the outside of the window, a window, a double layer of white window paper inside and outside, sheltered from the wind and kept warm, and a brazier is lit, and the house is suddenly warm.