Chapter 13 Thatched House
The thatched roof, the walls are straw straw and mud paste.
There were a few rooms in the room, and when you looked through the window, they were black and hollow.
A female intellectuals opened the door and came out at this time, and looked at a few people standing outside, "You are new intellectuals?" ”
Everyone nodded.
Susie saw that the yellow floral shirt on the female intellectual's body was obviously a little short, and her whole body was tightly banded, and the buttons on her chest also had a tendency to explode.
The female intellectual's hair is not long, with two short braids tied on the left and right, and the bangs on her forehead are permed into curls.
"Why are so many people here?" The female intellectuals muttered in a low voice, and Susie's ears were sharp and she heard it.
Then the female intellectuals said: "Then you settle down first, by the way, my name is Yu Xue." ”
Tian Xiaohui stepped forward and asked, "Where do we move our luggage?" ”
Yu Xue pointed to a room, "This room is empty, and female intellectuals can live." ”
She pointed to the other side, "There is only one male intellectuals living in that room, and men can live over there." ”
Uncle Xu helped a few people unload their luggage and pushed the cart away.
Susie walked to the front of the room that Yu Xue pointed to, pushed open the door and looked at it, the inside of the house was a solid mud floor, and the walls inside were not painted, no different from the outside, the wooden windows were covered with spider silk, there was a pile of straw piled up in the corner, and there were some disassembled wooden shelves and planks leaning against the wall.
Tian Xiaohui poked her head out from behind Susie and screamed, "My mother, can this house be inhabited?" ”
Zhao Tingting stood beside her, her face turned green.
Susie is a person who has high requirements for environmental hygiene, but she knows that in this era, this place, she can't pay so much attention to it, so she can only grit her teeth and endure it.
When she walked into the house, she smelled musty first.
She looked at the straw in the corner, and the musty smell must have come from here.
She turned back to Tian Xiaohui and Zhao Tingting and said, "We have to get these straws out first, otherwise, this house can't be lived." ”
Zhao Tingting was a little stunned now, and quickly nodded, "I have to get it out, it's a big smell." ”
Tian Xiaohui suddenly said: "Wait, this musty smell is too strong, it's not good for your health to smell too much, I'll go get the mask first." ”
Her mother is a doctor, and when she came out this time, she casually took a few cotton gauze masks from home and brought them on, which were originally intended to be used as dishcloths, and now they just came in handy.
Tian Xiaohui opened the travel bag and took out three masks, one for each person.
Susie didn't expect to wear books and masks.
She put on her mask, took out a large bundle of straw from the corner of the wall, and put it in the yard.
The three of them moved back and forth, and soon emptied the straw.
In the corner of the wall where the straw was placed before, all kinds of small insects were crawling and running on the ground.
Tian Xiaohui screamed while waving a broken broom indiscriminately.
Susie looked at the insects with disgust, but when she saw Tian Xiaohui's appearance, she was amused, "This is not good, there are too many insects, and it will be miserable if you crawl on your body when you sleep at night." ”
Zhao Tingting shook beside her when she heard this.
Susie took the broken broom in Tian Xiaohui's hand, "You go to the village and ask from house to house, see which house has mugwort leaves, and get some to smoke the house, otherwise you can't live here." ”
Tian Xiaohui nodded and ran out.
Susie untied the cover, took out the enamel basin that was wrapped in it, fetched a basin of water from the stove house, found a sportswear, tore it into several pieces to make rags, first wiped the windows and doors in the house, and then took the wooden shelves and planks to the yard with Zhao Tingting to scrub them.
Tian Xiaohui went for about half an hour, and came panting with a large bundle of wormwood.
Susie saw that the wormwood was all dry, "There are matches in the stove house, light it, close the doors and windows, and smoke it well." ”
Tian Xiaohui lit wormwood, brought the door out, and soon smoke came out of the crack in the door.
Yu Xue smelled the smell of smoke and came out, "Oh, what are you doing?" Don't burn the house down! ”
Susie said: "It can't be burned, everything in the house has been taken out, and the fire is not big, but the smoke is big." ”
Yu Xue stood outside the house and said, "How are you guys going to have dinner tonight?" ”
Susie was squatting on the wooden shelf, but when she heard her words, she stood up, "How did you eat?" ”
Yu Xue said: "Now the farm is busy, we eat together, six people are on duty in shifts, and the people on duty do not work, they are responsible for cooking and washing dishes, cleaning the house and carrying water." ”
"Otherwise, I have to cook after work, I'm too tired."
After she finished speaking, she waved her hand hurriedly, "However, don't count on me today, I can't cook the food for so many people alone." ”
"Besides, you didn't share the rations, whose food is this?"
Yuan Gang came over from the male intellectual's house at this time, heard Yu Xue's words and asked: "I heard that the rations are given according to the work, we don't have a work, how can we distribute the food?" ”
"It's okay, the captain will borrow some food for you first, and then deduct it when you have a job."
Susie thought for a while, "Yu Xue, can I trouble you to cook our rice together at night today, borrow you two catties of rice first, and return it to you when we receive the food." ”
Seeing Yu Xue's reluctant look, Susie said again: "We only cook rice, and we will figure out the dishes ourselves." ”
She estimates that none of the people who came up here would use this kind of rural earthen stove, and the city uses coal stoves.
In any case, the problem of filling the stomach must be solved first.
Yu Xue hesitated and nodded, "It's just about to cook, then I'll scoop two more cups of rice." So saying, he went to the stove house.
Zhao Tingting waited for her to leave, and threw the rag, "This young lady from Haicheng is delicate, watching us busy in and out, not to mention taking a hand, cooking a meal and asking her!" ”
Tian Xiaohui was also not very happy, this was not the same as the life she thought of cutting in line, they were all in a collective, shouldn't everyone help each other?
Susie didn't answer their words, she was used to seeing the indifference of the future generations, and she also agreed with that sentence - it is love to help you, and it is duty not to help. There is nothing to blame.
Seeing that the wooden shelves and planks had been wiped clean, and the wormwood in the house was still smoking, she pulled Tian Xiaohui over, "Let's go, let's go to the village to buy a few eggs, otherwise there will be no vegetables to eat at night." ”
Zhao Tingting was beside her and stopped talking, and Susie turned to her, "Does Tingting want to go together?" ”
Zhao Tingting hurriedly said: "Yes, yes." ”
It's not that she wants to go, it's just that she's here alone, unfamiliar with life, and panicked.
Yuan Gang followed, "Then I'll go to the team headquarters to see if the captain is out of work." ”
Tian Xiaohui had just looked for wormwood, and probably knew the road in the village, so he pointed out the direction to Yuan Gang, and he strode away.
The three girls were not far from the yard and soon saw a family.
Susie was about to go over, but Tian Xiaohui grabbed her, "There is no one in that house, I just went there." ”
She pointed not far away, "Go to that house, there is an aunt surnamed Lan in that family, she is very kind, just now she told me that Uncle Xu's family has wormwood, and her family also raises chickens, there should be eggs." ”