As the days passed, Jiang Zhi also adapted to the work of the village chief, and every once in a while he would be asked to deal with some trivial things. Because of his tough methods, he ruthlessly cleaned up the villagers who stabbed and looked for trouble a few times, and the others were afraid and stopped a lot.

One day at the end of November, just like last year, the temperature was still twenty or thirty degrees during the day, but at night, the temperature dropped suddenly and it snowed heavily.

The non-stop snow overnight plunged the entire Tayama village into a silvery world.

"This year is a little later than last year, but the snow is still so sudden. But finally there is water and you can take a bath. "I opened the door in the morning and saw that there was already a world of snow and ice outside. I feel like I'm finally running out of water.

After the autumn harvest, although the sun is no longer so hot, but the outside is still the same drought, but the water in the well at home does not need to be watered, so it is barely enough for the family to eat and drink, and it is not only a luxury but also a dream to use it for bathing, so I will be so happy to see the snow all over the world.

With the experience of last winter, everyone was very calm about the sudden heavy snow last night, and they began to take out the prepared winter items when the temperature dropped rapidly last night.

First of all, I took off the short-sleeved shorts on my body and put them away, then pulled out the cotton pants and down jacket in the wardrobe and put them on, then I heated the kang, replaced the thin quilt in summer with a thick quilt in winter, and finally took the brazier and stove out of the storage room, and lit one room to another. Then he covered himself with a thick quilt and went to sleep.

In short, we were not at all alarmed by the arrival of winter, which was expected.

In the past, I heard people say that in the countryside, only spring and autumn are the most tiring. Winter is the most leisurely, because the winter is too cold to do anything, so in the winter everyone is at home cat winter, but now it is not like this, all year round in the mountain village is tired.

Early in the morning, Jiang Zhi and the three young men began to shovel snow. The first thing to clean up is the roof.

In this kind of house in the countryside, it is best not to leave snow on it, and if there is a condition, it must be cleaned up every time it snows. The main thing is that the house will not be able to bear the weight of the snow and collapse. Last year, there were people in Tashan Village whose houses were crushed by snow.

I was not idle, I picked up the shovel leaning against the wall and began to collect the clean snow in the yard.

"Daughter-in-law, don't do it. It's too cold. You go back to the house and rest, and in a moment we will clean the roof and sweep the yard by the way. "Jiang Zhizheng was standing on the roof shoveling snow with a shovel, seeing that I came out to clear the snow so early, I was afraid that I would not be able to adapt to the change in temperature, and I felt sorry that I would not let me clear the snow.

In fact, his worries are unnecessary, our family of three, since practicing the exercises in the space. I never got sick again. But when I heard his words, I could still feel his concern. On this cold morning, my heart is extraordinarily warm.

"It's okay, I'll clear the doorway, and besides, I'm not cold, and I can't sleep when I enter the house." As I spoke, my hands began to move.

"Also, you keep all the clean snow on it, let's burn some snow water today, and everyone will take a shower."

"I agree, sister, it's time to take a bath, I'm going to search for it." Li Cheng heard me say that I wanted to boil water for a bath, and raised his hands and feet in approval.

"You're embarrassed to say that my mother and I will boil the water in a while, and the children will wash first, and after washing, it is estimated that you will also sweep it, and you will continue to wash." I simply stopped the shovel that I had just shoveled a few times, and prepared to let Jiang Zhi and the others take care of transporting the snow, and I went into the house to boil water.

"Okay, you go in, I'll carry some snow down now, and the kids are playing in the backyard, I'll call it back." Jiang Zhi said and was about to get down from the roof.

"Hmph, aren't everyone so buried, why do you just talk about me." Li Cheng was very dissatisfied with my criticism, and dragged Li Shanqing's clothes and sniffed them, muttering.

Let Li Shanqing kick it over, honestly.

This morning, a few of us were busy, first using the clean snow in the yard, boiling several large pots of water, and the family took a hot bath. Of course, the morning was only a few children who had washed the old man, and we hadn't even lined up, so the work lasted until the evening. However, my job of boiling water has long been robbed by Vivi.

In the morning, after sweeping the snow from the roof and yard, we went to clean up the cowshed and sheepfold. The weather suddenly became cold, and I was afraid that the cattle and sheep would not be able to stand it, but they really didn't drop their chains, and when they saw me passing, they began to scream "baa ~ baa ~".

I was responsible for feeding them, Jiang Zhi and they found some wood and strengthened the cowshed sheepfold, for fear that there would be a big snowstorm one day, and the cowshed sheepfold would not be able to withstand it. I also took measures to keep warm, for fear that the cattle and sheep would freeze and die.

After more than 5 months of careful feeding by us, these animals in our family have grown into adults, and chickens, ducks and geese have already begun to lay eggs.

I asked Jiang Zhi: "Old Jiang, do we need to kill a batch of these chickens, ducks and geese?" "We have a total of 90 poultry, 30 chickens, ducks and 30 geese, and we now produce three eggs per person every two days. Duck eggs are pickled by Qu Ma to make salted duck eggs and Songhua eggs. Most of the 30 geese in our family are male geese, and the egg production of the geese is low, so a few of them were not brought up, and the collected ones were also cooked by Qu Ma for a few children.

In fact, some of our goose eggs were given away by the children who ate inside and outside our family, and several times I and Jiang's mother watched, and several children held the goose eggs that had just been touched out of the mother goose's house, tiptoeing and sneaking out of the house.

I was very curious the first few times, the children ate hard at home, why did they take it out so secretly, I quietly followed them, and after they went out of the house, they jumped to a child's house, and each child gave the child a goose egg, Hanhan didn't know what to say, they were very happy.

After I went back, I told Jiang Zhi and asked him to inquire, who is the family, I was afraid that my simple son was deceived, and then Jiang Zhi inquired, the family's surname is Zhao, it is a more difficult family in the village, there are three people in the family, the child's grandmother and the child's father and son, the child's mother died many years ago, because there is no excess labor in the family, so these years, the child's father Zhao Jun has not gone out to work, and has always been in the village while farming and taking care of the elderly and children, so the family has lived a relatively hard life.

The children in that family are good friends with a few of them, so Hanhan often takes a few eggs from the house to satisfy his good friends. Later, we discussed, our family is not bad for those eggs, so we should not know the small actions of a few little ghosts, so that they can continue to eat inside and out, rob the rich and help the poor.

"I'll have to ask the children, and if they all agree, then we'll kill a few roosters and keep the hens to lay their eggs." Jiang Zhi still respects the children's opinions, after all, these chickens, ducks and geese are all taken care of by the children all summer, and now it is natural to ask them if they want to kill them.

I looked at the big white goose that was eating at the bottom of the trough and said, "This goose is so eaten, and it lays so few eggs, why don't we stew it at night and eat it by the goose?" ”

Jiang Zhi glanced at me who was pretending to be serious and said, "Okay, I'll catch one and clean it up in a while, and we'll eat the goose at noon." ”

As soon as Jiang Zhi heard what I said, he knew that what I said earlier was an excuse, what he really meant was that he was hungry for a goose, and he didn't ask the children's opinions, so he was going to catch and kill one.

At noon, there was a big pot of geese on our dinner table, and the children knew that the geese they had carefully fed were ruthlessly killed, and they were very angry at first, saying that they would not eat it. But seeing that we ate meat so much left and right, Harazi also flowed out uncontrollably, and finally did not hold the position, under the warm offensive of Qu Ma Jiang Ma, borrowed the donkey from the slope, and also happily gnawed up.

After the lunch break, Jiang Zhi went to the village committee, he reminded the villagers in the loudspeaker to remove the snow on the house as soon as possible, according to the way last year, the snow will not be less, if the snow is not cleared in time, some old houses may not be able to bear the weight of the snow, there is a possibility of collapse, there are a few like this last year.

In fact, there is no need for Jiang Zhi to specifically inform that most of the villagers, like our family, cleared the snow from the houses in the morning, but there are a few lazy families in Tashan Village, and the snow is still on the roof.

Jiang Zhi's notice was only to fulfill his obligations, and he said that he had seen a few houses that had not cleared snow along the way, and he did not go in to supervise them, and some people were not taught some lessons, and they did not have a long memory in their lives.

Since Jiang Zhi became the village head, in order to use the loudspeaker and facilitate contact, he brought a solar generator to the village committee.

Since the power outage after the autumn harvest, Tashan Village has fallen into darkness again, and the houses with candles ran out last winter, and the flashlights at home have been shelved at home because they cannot be charged, so at night, everyone does everything in shambles.

Now there are several large sockets in the village committee, which can be charged, which can solve the distress of the villagers without electricity, since Jiang Zhi used a loudspeaker to inform the villagers that they can be charged here, the villagers will bring the flashlights at home to charge here, charging for a few hours is enough for several nights.

Today, there are also several villagers who come to charge in the snow, as if it is a routine, and everyone has to praise Jiang Zhi when they finish charging. Such a public selflessness has contributed all the solar energy at home.

Jiang Zhi just waved his hand, said a few modest words, and went home, and he had to take a shower in the afternoon. (To be continued......)