Speaking of the pankang, Xu Da and Wang Dayou have been on the pan for half a month. After the personal experience of the first two families, the fire kang was well received, and it also set off a wave of pankang craze in the county.

It's a pity that there are only two people in the pankang master, and those who want to pankang have to queue up.

Some people got a glimpse of the business opportunity and wanted to imitate it, but they didn't know the essence of it, and they had to give up temporarily after making the customer's home full of cigarettes and almost being beaten to death.

But now this market is obviously in demand, and there are only two pankang masters, and the plate is so big, the two of them can't eat it at all.

Coupled with the fact that life is difficult, people who have calculations in their hearts are probably already thinking of other ways.

Daddy and Auntie said to leave, and there were only three Xu Yue brothers and sisters left in the family.

The three of them first consciously practiced their physical skills in the house, and when their bodies warmed up, they got busy.

The snow has stopped, and the cold wind is still whining, Xu Dalang picked up the plastic broom in the corner of the yard and swept all the snow in the yard into a pile, so as not to slip when his sister walked.

The snowflakes in the middle of the night pile up into a small hill, just enough to make a snowman half a man tall.

"Sister!" Xu Dalang suddenly shouted.

Xu Yue, who was helping her sister in the kitchen to add firewood, looked back and saw her brother standing in front of a half-human-tall snowman, pointing at the snowman and smiling at her.

If you look closely, it turns out that the snowman is made in her appearance, with a small bulge piled on the left and right sides of her round head, like a small mustache on her head.

"Beautiful!" Xu Dalang said proudly at her like an invitation.

Xu Yue looked at the cute little snowman, couldn't help but laugh, and gave her brother a thumbs up, "It's beautiful." ”

"Hey~" Xu Dalang was embarrassed to get up, turned around and picked up an axe to chop wood in the courtyard.

Xu Erniang, who had just turned up the small stove, looked back and saw the little snowman, and couldn't help but lick the bun on Xu Yue's head funny, causing Xu Yue to stare at her, she didn't mind, but laughed.

"What's so funny?" Xu Yue glanced at her sister angrily.

Xu Erniang looked at her bulging bun face, and she was even happier, which made Xu Yue inexplicably unable to help laughing.

The two sisters were busy laughing and busy, the big one was boiling millet porridge on the stove on the wooden pier, and the younger one was holding a pan and frying pancakes on the small stove.

Smelling the aroma of oil coming from the pot, all Xu Yue thought about was the pork filling wrapped in the pancakes.

However, the bread in her pot was only pure wheat cakes, and the family had not eaten meat for several days.

First, the weather is very cold, and it is inconvenient to go out, and secondly, the butchers who sell meat in the county are expensive, and they only need to get a pound of pork for fifty yuan.

And Daqing's catty taels are not the same as modern ones, here is a catty of sixteen taels, Xu Yue has tested, Daqing has a catty of modern reality of about 250 grams.

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In this way, half a catty of pork costs fifty yuan, and I am reluctant to eat it every day.

Millet porridge with pancakes is a good breakfast compared to before.

It's just that the flour here is really rough, generally only grinding once, and grinding two or three times in detail, compared with modern fine flour, Xu Yue still feels that the taste is not good.

Xu Erniang and Xu Dalang have been talking about dumplings for a long time, but due to the roughness of the flour, Xu Yue has not been able to get good flour to meet the expectations of her brothers and sisters.

The three brothers and sisters nested on the kang in the main house, eating breakfast while roasting the fire, and the kang burned vigorously, and they were reluctant to get off the kang at all.

Xu Yue was glad that she had set up the kang early, otherwise she didn't know how difficult it would be this winter.

It's just that there are not many people in the city, and the rich and noble families can burn charcoal for warmth, and their clothes are thick, so they should be able to survive the current cold.

But those neighbors on the left and right, who have neither a kang nor a charcoal fire, and are thinly dressed, really don't know how they survived this winter.

After eating and drinking, I was thinking about these things in a daze, and there was a cry from the old man selling firewood on the street outside the house.

Xu Erniang was studying her enchantment experiment, trying to make a magic robe, and reminded without raising her head:

"A-Niang explained to buy firewood, you and Xu Dalang should go."

After saying that, he concentrated on studying her "magic robe".

Xu Yue nodded, took a handful of money from the research room, put on her shoes and got off the kang, took a deep breath, prepared for the cold wind, and opened the door of the courtyard.

The old firewood seller walked over from the front street with a cart full of firewood, shouting as he walked: "Firewood!" Firewood! ”

The heavy wheels cut two deep ruts in the muddy and snowy streets.

It's a pity that the people in the slums of firewood for two dollars a load are not willing to buy it easily, and the old man's business is not very good today.

"Old man!"

Xu Yue stood by the door and shouted, and when the old man heard the sound, his eyes showed a little joy, and he sped up and dragged a firewood mountain to the door of the Xu family.

"How do you sell this firewood?" Xu Yue asked.

The old man didn't lie to her because she was young, and said honestly: "It's snowing today, and the girl will give one more hard money, three dollars and a load?" ”

Life is difficult, and you have to be careful about the increase in this money, for fear that the guests will not like it.

Xu Yue felt that this old man was too honest, if you increase the price so carefully, it's no wonder that people don't cut your price.

She counted the money in her hand, exactly twelve, and handed it over, "Four loads." ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic, hurriedly took the money, carefully put away the inner bag of his clothes, and carried the firewood into the yard.

Xu Yue and Xu Dalang avoided the courtyard, pointed to the small firewood shed next to the kitchen and asked the old man to put the firewood inside.

The fire in the kitchen is still smoldering, and you can feel the warmth when you get close to the kitchen, and when the old man puts firewood, he will always pause by the stove for a while.

He was only wearing a single coat full of patches, the linen was already rough, and the hole was very large, and Xu Yue saw that it was stuffed with dead leaves and hay and other things.

On the old man's feet, because the clogs were inconvenient to move, he was wearing a pair of straw sandals, and the snow was cold and slippery, and he had already frozen purple.

Even if he wanted to stop by the stove for a while longer, to warm up and warm, in order not to make his employer wait for a long time, the four loads of firewood were quickly moved.

There are still two loads on the board, and Xu Yue doesn't mind buying them together, but the yard at home is small, so she really can't put it down.

The old man put down the last load of firewood, nodded at the Xu Yue brothers and sisters, and was about to leave.

"Wait a minute, old man." Xu Yue was entangled for a while, but still stopped him.

The old man turned around in confusion, there was still a little apprehension in his eyes, and he wondered if he didn't want so much firewood or did he think it was expensive?

Xu Yue motioned for him to wait, then ran into the house, filled a tube of boiling water on the stove with a bamboo tube, stuffed the lid, came to the courtyard, and handed the bamboo tube to the old man.

"What is this?" The old man was a little puzzled, but as soon as he touched the warmth from the bamboo tube, he understood, and he was a little overwhelmed for a while.