Chapter 163: Poverty
CMB listened to these words that no one had ever said to him in a daze, and he didn't know that tears were falling.
Zhang Sijiu patted her on the shoulder: "Zhaoyin, it's not terrible to be poor." The scary thing is to let the poor lead the way by the nose, forgetting what you really want to do and what kind of person you want to become. ”
After saying this, Zhang Sijiu didn't say anything more, and went out with water.
The family is poor, there are not so many water cups, these cups are carefully polished after being sawed out of the bamboo tube, which looks particularly quaint, but it is also very easy to use.
The water is sugar pear water that Zhang Sijiu boiled early in the morning - most of the pears of this year are not as rich and delicate as those carefully cultivated varieties in modern times. It's rough and not that tasty at all.
These pears are only nibbled on by children who like to eat sweetness.
Most of them are fed to pigs, or used as medicine - pear paste candy to relieve cough and moisten the lungs is the essence of boiling pears with this original taste.
Zhang Sijiu bought a basket and prepared to boil pear paste candy.
Try boiling water today.
The pear water has a faint pear sweetness, which is not obvious, and it is only available when you taste it carefully. And Zhang Sijiu didn't put extra sugar, just added pear pieces.
The Xu family drank it, and they all thought it was not bad, and it was another compliment.
So, Guo looked at Zhang Sijiu's gaze, and he was even more loving and determined: What a good daughter-in-law candidate this is!
Xu looked at his sister-in-law's gaze like this, and wanted to say a few words, but he felt that it was not good to break the point, so he could only pretend that nothing happened.
As a result, when Guo helped Xu cook, he took the initiative to mention his other son Taro: "You don't know, he came back to tell me that the meat buns sold by Jiuniang are delicious!" And every day it's the first one to sell out! He admired Jiu Niang. ”
Xu then remembered: Yes, his nephew is studying in the county seat.
It's just that I didn't expect that Taro still paid attention to Zhang Sijiu?
However, Zhang Sijiu didn't know if he recognized the taro?
Xu thought to himself, turned around and said to Zhang Sijiu, and then went to sell braised eggs, don't ask for money for the taro every day, and make up for her separately. Otherwise, how ugly does a family of relatives look?
Just when Xu was distracted, Guo had already envisioned the future: "Jiuniang is so capable, the life of these two people in the future will be no different!" ”
Xu hurriedly pressed his sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, the child is still young." And the taro will read it in the future, and he will be a big official, so he can't get married casually. Look again, look again. ”
Guo Shi squeezed his eyes at Xu: "I know what you're afraid of, don't worry, I'm here." Even if Taro is a big official, he doesn't dare to dislike Jiuniang! ”
Xu didn't know what to say. In the end, I could only laugh dryly: "Sister-in-law, take a look again." The children are still young and undecided. ”
After saying that, Xu hurriedly went to work on something else, but he was panicked: Why did the sister-in-law fall in love with Jiuniang?
Anyway, no matter what everyone is thinking about, everyone is also busy. Especially when I really started working, I just felt that there were not enough people anywhere, and I didn't care about talking about anything else.
It took five days of work to fix a large and bright kitchen.
That's really big, about the same size as the three rooms where Zhang Sijiu lives, but the workmanship is obviously rough. There is no partition inside, there are two large stoves directly, and there are two large cauldrons on the top: the pot is still custom-made, the caliber is very large, and Zhang Sijiu can lie in it. Wok style, pointed bottom, large capacity.
Just these two pots cost Xu's a lot of money. When giving money, Xu was so distressed that he wanted to regret it on the spot while holding the money bag.
The stove is yellow muddy, and I don't dare to burn it directly, so I can only dry it for a few days, otherwise it will be easy to burn.
Next to the stove is the operating table, and the operating table Zhang Sijiu asked Xu to pay for a large stone slab to pave his head. It's clean when you look at it.
In addition, there is a large water tank and a drainage system - so that the waste water from cleaning the food can be poured directly into the broken tank in the corner, and a hole is dug under the tank, connected to a large bamboo tube, and directly out of the house, draining the water into the ditch and directly to the outside of the courtyard wall.
A small pit was dug outside the courtyard wall, which could be used to store the dirty water, and when the time came, it could be used no matter how it was watered.
After the overall effect came out, Guo was simply envious: "This is too good." It's comfortable and easy to use! You don't have to carry water out and pour it. It's a waste of a little, and the swill can be fed to the pigs. ”
Xu Shi was also very satisfied: "That's not good, with plant ash, the pig can't eat well." Moreover, that fat pig was raised here by San Lang, and he didn't dare to feed anything casually. ”
Guo knew that San Lang was Yang Yuanding, the youngest son of the county commander's family, and he made up his mind for a while to move around more in the future: what if he could also get in touch with the county magistrate's family? It's good to be familiar with your face!
However, for Zhang Sijiu, this kitchen is good, but it is far from the effect she wants, and it can only be improvised.
What really made her look forward to it was the ondol.
The experiment of the fire kang was carried out in her house.
After all, Yang's side is the main house, there are many things, it is not easy to break ground, and in Yang's house, every room is inhabited, and it is not easy to move.
Just Zhang Sijiu here, there were three little babies, and they moved to the empty house together, squeezed out a day's work, and got the earthen kang ready.
According to Zhang Sijiu's calculations, the soil kang will make a room - although the soil kang is good, it consumes a lot of space, it has to be warm all the time, and it has to be burned all the time, so it is simply only one room, and when the time comes, she and Zhaoyin will just sleep in a collective dormitory. When it is warm, they will separate their houses.
The earthen kang occupied almost half of the house, and for fear of collapsing, wooden stakes were specially built to support and reinforce.
After it is done, it is particularly spectacular when you suddenly look at it anyway.
The stove for the fire, Zhang Sijiu placed it near the window, and the chimney climbed up the corner.
Although it has just been done now, it is not possible to burn the fire experiment, but just looking at the appearance, Zhang Sijiu feels that it is 80% similar to what he has seen in the picture.
That stove, Zhang Sijiu had already planned, and it could be used to boil hot water, so that it could ensure that there was 24 hours of hot water available in winter.
Waiting for the kang to be put into use, every day is full of anticipation and suffering.
Not only Zhang Sijiu is like this, but also the rest of the family.
After the completion, the Xu family did not come. But when it was agreed that when they started using the ondol, they came over to take a look, and if it worked, they would go back and get one.
Even Yang Yuanding also plans to personally experiment with the firing effect of the first fire kang.
In this day of anticipation, Zhang Sijiu ushered in an old acquaintance midwife.
The midwife came to introduce business to Zhang Sijiu.