After lunch in the town, the three sisters drove home in an ox cart, the sky was overcast, and only halfway through the sky was snow, first small salt particles, then large pieces of goose feather snow, and when they reached the outer edge of Huashi Village, the ground was already covered with a layer of snow.

As the saying goes, snow is not cold, and the three sisters sat in the car, and they didn't feel much cold, but only felt novelty and joy. As soon as I walked to the door of my house, before I got out of the car, I saw several familiar women, standing near her house and looking this way.

"Hey, I'm back, all three sisters are back."

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, seven or eight women all came back happily to greet them, Liu Guiyuan and the eldest sister and the second sister glanced at each other, and their faces were helpless smiles.

Liu Hongzao was the first to get out of the car and said to Zhu Cuihong, who was standing in front: "Auntie, it is snowing so hard, how cold are you waiting here." ”

Zhu Cuihong shook her head and said quickly: "I didn't wait long, we are not afraid of the cold, by the way, all the sweaters we knit have been sold?" After saying that, he craned his neck and looked at the car.

Liu Guiyuan knew that they were anxious, after all, it was the first time to cooperate, and now they all wanted to get their own wages quickly, so he smiled and said: "It's all sold, then we can pay you, let's go, let's go to the yard first." ”

Entering the courtyard, Liu Guiyuan led people to the hall, pulled a table where he usually eats, took the account book handed over by Liu Hongzao, and said to Zhu Cuihong and the other women before starting to send money: "Auntie, you are the team leader, I will send you money directly in the future, and you will pay them according to the number of work." ”

At the same time, Liu Huanan hid the treasure money he had just taken back from the town in the room where he slept in the east wing, and then took out a black box full of copper coins from the bamboo box at the bedside, and sent it to the hall in his arms.

The three sisters, who didn't have time to rest, read the accounts, kept the accounts, and counted the money, and gave the women waiting at her house to settle the accounts one by one, and told Zhu Cuihong: "It's too late today, you come again tomorrow, I'll give you wool thread and a new list." ”

Zhu Cuihong and her daughter-in-law knitted a sweater, which added up to one hundred, and when she really took over a hundred copper plates from Liu Huaanhua's hand, her heart was like lying in the quilt on a cold day, which was called a comfortable!

When he heard that he would have to receive wool thread tomorrow and knit sweaters at home to earn money, his teeth were exposed in an instant, and he said happily: "There will be a new sweater to knit so soon?" Okay, I'll be here tomorrow morning! ”

Zhu Cuihong and her daughter-in-law were about to go back, when Liu Hongzao stopped her from behind and said with a smile: "I forgot to say, you are the team leader, and you have knitted a total of eight sweaters under your hands, and you can get a reward of eight cents." ”

Zhu Cuihong stretched out her hand to take the unexpected eight pennies, and her heart was even more joyful, which means that the more sweaters she knits with several women in the future, the more money she receives every time, which is really an unimaginable beautiful thing.

The women in the village spread the word quickly, and one of the women received the money, and after a while, the other women who did not come came one after another, and Liu Guiyuan simply sat in the hall and waited for them to come and receive the money one by one.

When she finished paying her salary, the yard was white all around, and she could clearly feel that the temperature had dropped a lot, and her fingers and toes were a little cold, Liu Guiyuan planned to boil some hot water to drink, at this time Liu Hongzao walked in from outside, and said a little anxiously: "It's bad, it's so cold, and the pigsty has nothing to prepare." ”

There was no way, so the three sisters had to put down what they were doing, hurriedly opened the west gate, went to the pigsty between the two stomps of hay to inspect, and then braved the snow to spread thick peanut seedlings in the pigsty, and covered the pigsty with a layer of maize straw to cover the snow.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the three sisters' voices were gradually drowned out in the snow, and there was silence inside and outside the village, except for the vast snow, only the smoke of the cooking houses was still rising.

The next day, Liu Guiyuan was sleeping in the quilt, and suddenly felt a cold on his face, and when he opened his eyes, he saw his second sister Liu Huahua standing aside, holding a snow ball in her hand and smiling evilly.

"You're awake, it's snowing a lot outside, let's go out for a snowball fight!" Liu Huaanhua called her excitedly.

"Huh? It's dawn, is the little pig okay? Liu Guiyuan remembered the little pig for the first time.

"It's okay, I went over early in the morning to see it, and it's okay." Liu Hongjube walked in from outside, holding a bowl of warm water and a willow branch in his hand.

After washing, Liu Guiyuan walked outside to see, the snow in the yard has been two inches thick, it seems that the snow fell a lot last night, to the pigsty to see, two pigs are lying on the peanut seedlings to keep warm, looking quite energetic.

"Eldest sister, maybe kill pigs?"

Liu Guiyuan thought about the trouble of raising pigs in the cold weather, so he wanted to kill it for money, keep a dozen catties of pork, and put it at home to eat or refine oil every day, and wait for the Chinese New Year, if the pork is not enough to eat, then buy it in the town.

"Then wait for another ten days, there are several families in the village, and they will kill pigs in those days, and we will rush together when the time comes." Kill the pigs together, and they don't have to go to find people alone.

The sisters discussed, played in the snow for a while, then went home and cooked breakfast, first cooked a pot of thick rice porridge, boiled rotten, lotus seeds can be eaten together, six wheat flour steamed buns were heated on the pot, and a plate of sauerkraut.

After eating, several team leaders who joined the sweater club came to receive the wool thread one after another, and the fourth grandmother's family and Liu Jindi's family also came to receive the wool thread.

"There are so many members, the three of us don't have to weave so diligently, just weave a few stitches when we have time."

Liu Guiyuan sat on Liu Hongjube's bed, eating sugar and ripe peanuts while chattering, while hooking black wool threads, planning to knit a dress for the family dog.

"The lotus seeds haven't been caught and worn, so you knit them for the dog first, it's really unusual." Liu Hongzao watched her fingers fly, and after a while, she knitted half an inch, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Eldest sister, didn't you say that the puppy was a little cold?" Liu Guiyuan didn't raise his head and grinned.

"Come on, come on, freshly fried pumpkin seeds, you can taste it." Liu Huahua held a spatula all the way from the pot table to Liu Hongjuo's house.

"Okay, okay, it's old if you fry it again, hurry up and put it out." Liu Hongjube tasted two grains despite the hot hands, and the fried ones were a little burnt, but they were very fragrant, and they could be chewed and swallowed into the stomach.

"How can you turn off the fire, there is still half a basket of watermelon seeds that have not been fried, you two are waiting." Liu Huaanhua's face was full of pride, and he went out again with a spatula.

The watermelons she planted this summer were not wasted from the pulp to the skin, and even the watermelon seeds that were spit out were collected by the careful Liu Hongjube.

Not to mention, there is nothing to do in the snowy day, and the sisters gather in a warm quilt nest, while knitting sweaters and chatting, while eating some sweet and salty dry goods, the small life is really comfortable.

"Second sister, don't patronize and eat, you can knit the dog's sweater yourself." Liu Guiyuan threw the half-knitted sweater to her, and went to the living room to find a good dyed yarn.

Liu Guiyuan grabbed a large handful of goose-yellow cashmere from a cloth bag, and then spun it with a spindle, they themselves were not in a hurry to knit sweaters, mainly spinning wool threads at home, spinning them out and storing them aside, keeping them for later use.

"Longan, goose yellow, you spin more, I want to weave a binail, but I don't know what needle to use to look good?" Liu Huahua loves to be pretty, and now that the family has this condition, he is very willing to spend time on food, clothing, and use.

Bijia, in Liu Guiyuan's view, is actually a vest without sleeves, there are gentle long models, and there are also playful short models, Liu Huahua is about 130 tall, and he barely wears a long style, like his height of 110, he can only wear short models.

Speaking of height, Liu Guiyuan is very worried that she is not tall, although Liu Chongshan and Zhang Xiangxue's height is okay, but this body has not kept up with nutrition for a long time, and she is afraid that it will affect the future, so she often buys some pork bones from the town and comes back to boil soup and drink.

But from summer to winter, seeing that the eldest sister was half a head taller than when she first met, and the second sister also had signs of growing, she was still the same as before, short as a radish head, Liu Guiyuan could only silently comfort herself that she had not yet reached the age of running a head.

Just thinking about it, there was a banging sound on the door outside, and when it was opened, it was the second uncle Liu Chonglin who came, holding a large bowl in his hand, and a bowl on top of it, and he couldn't see what it contained.

"Second uncle, why are you here, but what's the matter?" Liu Guiyuan asked him,

He was welcomed into the hall.

"It's not a big deal, your second aunt left home to fry some stinky tofu, last time you said you like to eat, bring it over for you to taste."

"Is the stinky tofu pickled?" Liu Guiyuan's eyes lit up, she hadn't eaten stinky tofu for a long time.

"It's been marinated a long time ago, and I was going to set up a stall in the town, but your brother Tie Niu is disobedient, and neither of us is in that mood." The second uncle sat down and talked about the iron bull, his face was full of sorrow.

"What are we going to say, Brother Tie Niu stayed in the Wu family?" Liu Peanut sandwiched a piece of stinky tofu and asked while eating.

"No, I just went home a few days ago, and I brought back all the clothes and covers, and I will definitely not go back." After the second uncle said this, he hesitated for a while, and then found a chance to speak, and said slowly: "I thought to myself that he will be 15 years old after the New Year, and he can't be as unobtrusive as before, so he can rent a store for him in the town, and he will do business honestly in the future." ”

"Rent a storefront? Oh, and it's good to rent a storefront. Liu Guiyuan somewhat understood what the second uncle meant, but she pretended not to know.

"He said that he fancied a shop, which is very close to the southeast wharf, and the original store doesn't want to rent it next year, so he can take it over, but the rent is too high, and it costs fifteen taels of silver."

Liu Chonglin and Li Qiufang sold bamboo cakes by themselves, and only earned more than eight taels of silver in total, and not long after they put it in their pockets, they had to take it out to pay rent for their son, and it was still half of it, so they could only come to her house to borrow it.

"You guys, do we have a lot of money? I thought to myself that I would take some money from your family, and it would be best to make up ten taels or eight taels, but if I can't get it, I will ask Uncle Tie Niu's house again. After the second uncle said this, he was a little uneasy in his heart, afraid that the three girls would not be willing to borrow, after all, Tie Niu's uncles had no money in their hands.

Liu Guiyuan didn't dare to agree, first looked at the meaning of the two sisters, saw that they nodded slightly, and then officially replied: "The three of me have just a little in my hands, and the second uncle will use it if you want, but this money is from your hands, and we will take it from you in the future." ”

Second Uncle Liu Chonglin was obviously relieved, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's better for you to talk, don't worry, don't be a year, the second uncle will definitely be able to pay it back, and it won't take too long." ”

Liu Chonglin took ten taels of silver, as well as the big bowl that Liu Hongzao Teng gave him, and left with a little ease.

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