"Xiaotian, I have an early break this holiday, you see Zheng Yifan, this kid, when he is busy at the end of the month, he rests and goes home! Envy, envy ......"

One night, in the house where Li Tian lived, only Li Tian and Hou Ping were there tonight. Zheng Yifan has already taken advantage of the four-day monthly vacation to go back to his home in another town. Hou Ping couldn't sleep and was chatting with Li Tian. As he spoke, Hou Ping shifted the topic to the monthly holiday.

The guys in Tianxiang Restaurant, whether they are in the front hall or in the back hall, have four days of rest every month, and these four days are counted in the monthly money.

However, if someone doesn't want to take a break, that's fine, there is extra pay for these four days, but if someone wants to save up several months of vacation without taking four days off this month, this is not allowed.

At most, at the end of this month, at the beginning of the next month, a total of eight days off, which is already the limit.

Besides, how to arrange the time of the four days of the month, you can rest continuously, you can rest separately, and you can even rest in the morning and afternoon, in short, as long as the time does not exceed four days, the guys arrange their own time.

But there is one thing, that is, we have to make sure that no matter who is resting, the front and back halls of the restaurant must be able to function, and there is no time when everyone is resting together.

Except, of course, annual leave.

Every year, from the year before the year to the year after the year, the restaurant can rest for a total of 20 days. These 20 days also have monthly money, and counting the pastries and other foods distributed by the restaurant when the New Year is approaching, it is equivalent to almost a month's monthly money for nothing.

It is precisely because Tianxiang Restaurant treats the guys so generously that so many people spend money to send their children to Tianxiang Restaurant to work.

It's already the end of the month, and in a blink of an eye, Li Tian has been here for almost a month. Li Tian counted the days, and in a few days, he waited until the eighth day of the next month, which was the day when the restaurant gave the monthly money.

Although Li Tian came a few days late this month, with the silver given by Sister Fang Li, by the eighth day of the next month, Li Tian would have a small amount of money in his hand.

Moreover, when it comes to the next month, Li Tian will also have a monthly off.

"Xiaotian, what days are you going to rest next month?" Hou Ping asked about Li Tian's rest arrangements.

"Brother Monkey, I'm going to rest for three days in a row after receiving the monthly money, go home, and buy something for the family.

If you have one day to rest, you will keep it for the rest of the day, and then rest when you can't do it for the next month. I've been out for almost a month and I'm a little homesick. Hey! "After all, Li Tianye is still an underage child, and he left home for a month for the first time, and he will indeed be homesick.

Hou Ping said: "Yes, you have to go home to see, when you go back this time, you will have to wait until the end of the year to go home." There's a month in between, so you're too cold to wander around. The weather is getting cooler day by day. ”

"Brother Monkey, what about you? When are you going to take a break? Li Tian talked for a long time, and he still didn't know Hou Ping's arrangement.

Hou Ping replied: "I have to see which day my father and mother have a break, otherwise even if I go home, I will stay alone, no one cooks and no one talks, it's boring, it's better to mix some food here, and talk to everyone." ”

Hou Ping is also a character who likes to move and not like to be quiet.

Li Tian remembered that Hou Ping had mentioned his family's situation to him once.

Hou Ping's parents both served in a government outside the staff, and the outside was a retired official, and it is said that the former official position was not low. The mansion is in the south of the town, and the lord of the town has a lot of respect for this person, and I heard that the city guards patrol there every day to ensure safety.

Hou Ping's father is the nurse of the Yuanwai Mansion, and his mother is doing some cooking work in the kitchen of the Yuanwai Mansion. His father and mother used the money they saved and some rewards from outside the staff, so they settled down not far from the outside of the staff's house.

Since the location is also located in the south of the town, it is also a prosperous area in the whole town, which can be said to be quite safe. But because his father and mother have been in the Yuanwai Mansion for a long time, Hou Ping usually does not go home.

Sometimes Hou Ping's father would ask someone to bring a message to Hou Ping and tell Hou Ping in advance when he could go home, and then Hou Ping would rest.

Hou Ping's conditions at home are also good, and it is no problem to send Hou Ping to study in a private school, but unfortunately Hou Ping is unwilling to learn, he looks at those square and square, and he has a headache, so Hou Ping's parents spent money to send Hou Ping to Tianxiang Restaurant as a junior second.

Tianxiang Restaurant is also famous in this town, and those who come to eat are either rich or expensive, and it does not mean that anyone who wants to come in can get in. Generally, it is a trust relationship, and you can only come in by introduction.

Li Tian was able to come in, because he had picked up a big bargain. When Lao Zhangtou was about to go home to care for the elderly, he entrusted Lao Zhangtou's relationship. Otherwise, Li Tianke would not be able to enter Tianxiang Restaurant.

Let's go back to Hou Ping.

Hou Ping's parents asked Hou Ping to study hard in all aspects of the restaurant, since Hou Ping didn't have the heart to study and gain fame, he would learn well in other aspects.

If Hou Ping does a good job in the future and can learn in all aspects, Hou Ping's parents are ready to pool money for Hou Ping to open a small restaurant, which can be regarded as a serious deal.

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, who doesn't want their children to have a good way out in the future.

"Actually, it's still Brother Monkey, it's convenient for you, your home is not far away, you can get home after walking a few streets, which is like me, you have to drive a little half a day." Li Tian said enviously.

Li Tian's goal now is to save money, and then settle a property in the town for his parents and family to take over to live in the town, but this property can't be in the north of the town, and the north of the town is too chaotic.

In this way, it will be more difficult for Li Tian to realize this wish. Because Zhennan is slightly safer, the property title deeds here are rarely sold, and even if someone is in a hurry to sell with money, with Li Tian's current monthly money, he has to work for decades to afford it.

Hou Ping, on the other hand, was born in the town.

This is really more human than human, and it is infuriating.

…………

"By the way, Xiaotian, remember to pack your things these days, we may have to move the bed." Hou Ping suddenly remembered this incident and said this to Li Tian.

Li Tian asked with some confusion: "Moving the bed?" Where are we moving? ”

Li Tiancai has not been here for a long time, so there are some things that I really don't know.

"Of course, I moved to a warmer place." Hou Ping replied: "Our house is okay now, but when it gets colder, it won't be able to live in it......

You asked me before what the big house at the end of our yard was for, and I said at the time, you'll know when the time comes.

Now I'll tell you, there is a big fire kang there, and there is a big fire kang on the left and right, and we people will not crowd if we all live in it. ”

Li Tian exhaled: "I see, this makes sense." ”

"By the way, Brother Monkey, is that a mixed house?" Li Tian thought of Sister Fangli, Sister Xiaoxiao, Aunt and Xiao'en. If there are ondols on both sides of a big house, wouldn't everyone live in one room?

"Hehe, it's still mixed, that's right, it's mixed, these men in the front hall and the back kitchen live together." Hou Ping snorted and laughed at Li Tian.

Hou Ping continued.

"It's still a mixed man, you kid is asleep now, and you're starting to talk in your dreams, you want to do beautiful things! Uncle Wang and his family, after the kang was built in the house, they didn't come with us.

Sister Fang Li and Sister Xiaoxiao, the restaurant also arranged a place.

Where are there other female dependents?

If everyone lives together, wouldn't it be all messed up? What do you kid think? Hou Ping knocked Li Tian a few words.

"Hehe, I'm relieved" Li Tianhan laughed, he was actually afraid that men and women would live together, although there were two ondols in the big house, but they both lived in one room, he Li Tian was nothing, but Sister Fangli's reputation was ruined.

At first, when he entered this room, he still thought that there was no kang in this room, and that in the coldest part of winter, the snow outside would not reach his knees.

By that time, the hut where the three of them lived could be described as an ice cellar.

If you want to say that there is no ondol, there is another way, that is, to build a stove in the house, and you have to burn firewood all night, and the fire cannot be broken.

However, this is not possible.

First, everyone is asleep, who can get up in the middle of the night to add firewood. If you don't add firewood, it will be very cold in the second half of the night.

Second, if every house is burned like that, this winter, there will be a lot of money for firewood alone.

Besides, the firewood is not so easy to get, in case it burns out at the coldest time of winter, and the heavy snow covers the mountains and there is no firewood, then these guys will have to freeze out and get sick.

Now gather everyone together and burn the kang in a unified way, which is not only to save firewood, but also to be warm.

The most important thing for a farmer to survive the winter is the ondol.

There is a saying: The wife and children are hot on the kang. This kang head refers to the place where the fire kang and the fire pit are connected, and it is also the warmest area of the fire kang.

Li Tian also has a fire kang in his house, and there is more than one, Li Tian lives with his eldest brother, and his father and mother live with his younger brothers and sisters. There was another one who was idle, leaving his younger siblings to grow up.

Li Tian's family attaches great importance to firewood for winter.

Generally, before autumn, the preparation of firewood for winter begins.

Like some wattle trees and young acacia trees, the grass or trees that are common in the mountains are some ordinary firewood that can't help but burn. It can only be used as a firewood.

The ones that really make a difference on winter nights are some old pine trees and some fruit trees with their thick branches. This kind of firewood is placed on the fire, and it will not be ignited easily, but once it is ignited, it can burn until the second half of the night.

The continuous burning of firewood and the unique thermal insulation effect of the ondol make it not cool in the house all night.

After two seasons of growth in spring and summer, most of the annual firewood can be cut.

Every autumn, Li Tian's family invites some other people from the village to come and help chop firewood.

You don't have to pay for it, you just have to entertain some good food at home, just have wine and meat.

As for why you don't spend money to hire people to work, one reason is that the rural people are quite simple, and you don't care about money if you do a favor.

Another reason is that everyone needs to prepare firewood.

You help my family these days, you come to my house to eat something good.

I'll go to your house in a few days, and you can make me something good.

This time and again, everyone has done their work, and everyone's food is very good this month.

Let's talk about this ondol again.

Li Tian is also very clear about the structure of the ondol, once a family in the village built a new house and wanted to build a ondol, and Li Tian went to help.

There are two parts to the ondol of the farmhouse. One is the wood-burning pit, and the other is the main body of the ondol. The two parts are connected by a flue in the middle.

Moreover, the flue passes through the kang body of the kang from the furnace pit, and finally leads to the outside of the roof along a vertical flue at the end of the kang and also called the kang tip.

The roof flue mouth is generally made to leak air around the roof, and the flue mouth has a cover, which can prevent rainwater from flowing into the ondol.

When building a fire kang, the furnace pit is generally set up in the kitchen room with a door, and there is a wall separating it from the main body of the fire kang.

In this way, the smoke from the firewood is separated from the rest of the room sitting on the fire pit to keep warm.

First of all, the furnace pit, in the place connected with the main body of the fire kang, leave a flue mouth, and then pile up the surroundings, choose a direction to leave a firewood mouth, which is also the air inlet, and put a large iron pot on the top of the furnace pit.

In this way, the fire generated when burning wood can also be used to cook rice and vegetables.

If it is not used to cook rice and vegetables, you can also add a pot of cold water, and after the water is boiled, it can be used to drink or scrub the body.

Then there is the main body of the kang in the inner room, at the bottom is a row of solid bluestone bricks, and then like a corridor, the whole kang body is separated by two flues, both of which are directly connected to the stove pit flue reserved in the kitchen. Then parallel them until they meet again at the tip of the kang. Similar to the word "back".

Except for the flue, the rest is stacked and ground with masonry. The height of the kang body is not fixed, and most people go to the crotch to make it convenient to sit.

One flue is in the middle and the other is at the bottom, so that a person can sleep on the kang and his back and feet can be heated at night.

After these are built, the final bricks and loess are attached.

This type of brick is made of special clay, which is strong and durable, and absorbs heat and insulates heat.

The essence of the ondol is on this brick.

It is precisely because of the fire kang that ordinary mortals can survive when it rains knee-deep snow in winter.