Chapter 8 Although I can't make a lot of money, I will save money

Use a water scoop made of a gourd scoop to scoop out a large basin of water.

Mrs. Xu asked her granddaughter to take a bath first, and when her granddaughter finished washing, she planned to use the remaining water to wash.

Don't look at the fact that there is no shortage of water or even floods here, but there is no well in her yard, and there are only six "private" wells in the entire village.

Because it is expensive, according to memory, it costs five taels of silver to drill a well at the price of the previous two years.

Her family lives in the east of the village, and she needs to walk one stop to carry water.

Yes, it is estimated that the bus station in our modern society is so far away, so some water should be saved, mainly because it cannot be provoked. All counting on the daughter-in-law to carry water.

Fortunately, the Xu family got a big vat when they split up that year, and the second son of the family was also very skillful and made a lot of wooden pots to store water. Otherwise, there is nowhere to save.

The plan is very good, but Mrs. Xu feels that she only goes out to insert a door, and then goes to the wing room to toss a few bags of grain out of the sun and put them in the yard to dry, and then turns around and goes into the house to see her granddaughter's bath water "......" She seems to be unable to deal with it.

Xu Tianxin was also a little embarrassed, she hadn't rubbed it with a loofah, she only wiped it with her palm and a layer of black mud came down.

Mrs. Xu picked up the loofah pulp and rubbed her granddaughter's back and said, "It seems that this family doesn't take a bath all year round." ”

Not to mention that the memory is unreliable.

In Mrs. Xu's memory, their old Xu family already belongs to Aimei, and they are really clean people in the village. If it was cleaner, we would have to be talked about, saying that we were poor and exquisite, but I didn't expect it to be so dirty.

Xu Tianxin was a little lucky: "Fortunately, it turns out that Grandma Xu loves face very much, and she doesn't want people to know that she often eats elm noodles at home, so she always tells everyone to use a grate to shave their hair so that there are not so many lice, which will be more troublesome if there are more lice." ”

The love of face here has nothing to do with whether it is clean or not, but there is an old saying here, the firstborn lice are poor, and the fleas are rich.

The original Grandma Xu didn't want people to know that her family was really poor.

Why is there such a conclusion, Xu Tianxin guessed that it should be unbalanced nutrition, or a single fat from coarse tea and light rice to love lice. If there are a lot of lice, it means that the food is very poor. And the large number of fleas indicates that the family has a large number of livestock.

In my impression, she has a little sister named Mai Miao in this village, who is only in her early tens, but she can know a lot of gossip from various families to share with her.

I once talked to her about it, saying that there is that kind of boy with strong vanity who will deliberately catch fleas and put them on his body, in this way, look at the girl or go out to do things with others, and want the other party to misunderstand that his family conditions are not bad. Anyway, it can play a role in making people look high. There are several such young people in their village. It should be like a modern man who likes luxury cars very much, and deep down he is also envious of the people who have cows, sheep and pigs at home, and even people who ride horses, so he catches fleas.

Xu Tianxin didn't wash it completely, she felt that she couldn't wash it at all, so she hurriedly put on her clothes after roughly rubbing and drying it, and carried the bath water to the backyard with her grandmother.

Scoop out some bath water with plant ash and water the roots under the big trees.

The backyard of the Xu family is still very large, and it should be said that the backyard of every household here is very large.

If you can't afford to buy too much land, you have to have a big garden, and you can plant a vegetable garden like a field.

This is also why Mrs. Xu can't go outside to complain that her house is too far away from the place where she carries water, and people will feel hypocritical, and there are not a few houses away from the well.

At this time, in addition to planting a lot of potatoes, sweet potatoes, autumn cabbage, radishes, horned melons, and four big trees were scattered in the corners and corners.

Two of them are called pear pimples, which are very hard and resistant to burning.

The Xu family's original intention of planting it was not to make a fire, but that the second uncle Xu Youliang taught himself a little carpenter's trade, and in his free time, he would use this tree to make pipes for his grandmother to take to the market to sell.

It's the kind of old-fashioned pipe that smokes dry tobacco, and it is specially made of this kind of tree to look good and not crack.

There is also a jujube tree, the jujube tree was planted late, Xu Tianxin has been visually measured for seven or eight years, and the diameter of the jujube tree is more than ten centimeters. Here, if the peasant girl gets married, if the family is willing to make a bed from jujube trees as a dowry, it is equivalent to a family with ordinary modern economic conditions to give 300,000 yuan to their daughter. It can be seen that this is an act of digging out the old money.

And the year when the jujube tree was planted was also the year when Xu Tianxin's father, the body, was taken away.

At that time, the uncles were not very old, and the eldest second uncle was only fourteen years old.

The eldest brother, Xu Youtian, planted the tree with his own hands and told his younger brothers that he had left it to his daughter. If you don't come back, remember to cut down this tree to make a bed and take it to your in-law's house when Tian Xin got married.

So at this time, when my grandmother was watering the jujube tree, she deliberately patted the trunk of the tree and muttered two sentences: "Okay, what's the matter, we are still alive, and we don't let us breathe, so it means that they are all still there, don't blame you, alas." "In fact, compared to modern times, this place is full of hard-working people.

How can there be such a thing as death in modern times. The key is that before he eats anything, he eats the little rice in a small wooden barrel half an arm high, and the vegetable and his granddaughter share an elbow, and the man is gone.

Xu Tianxin's hair was a little cold as soon as she took a shower, and when she heard the words, there was an evil wind, and she was even colder. What happened to the former doctor? As a doctor, she is also afraid of the dead, and her modern best friend, the surgeon, dragged her to the toilet when she went to the funeral home.

And the reason why she hesitated to choose dermatology or proctology was because the mortality rate was low, only floating around 0.1 percent.

As for the last tree of the Xu family, it was planted next to the thatched house, and it was also the rarest tree called arborvitae leaf tree in Xu Tianxin.

This oriental cypress leaf can be used to wash hair, and it is often used to treat blood heat hair loss, and it can also grow black hair. Occasionally soaking in water to drink, it also has a bit of cough and phlegm effect. In addition, in Dr. Xu's eyes, it is not bad to drink arborvitae leaf tea with blood stool, but not drinking too much will damage the digestive system. Like she washed her hair just now, she used plant ash to filter the water, and also used arborvitae leaves.

"Milk, is there any water left for the garden?"

"Still poured? It's even more waterlogged, it's been sunny for two days, and a foot of mud is still a foot. ”

Mrs. Xu looked at the sweet potatoes and potatoes distressedly, expecting these two to be hungry. I don't know if it will taste like a rotten sweet potato if it is dug up and boiled for a while.

And even this is better than potatoes and sweet potatoes grown on five acres of wasteland next to the mountain.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes in the garden at home were planted at a different time than on the wasteland, avoiding the heavy rain at that time. In my memory, most of the sweet potato seedlings planted in the wasteland were rotten, and the 40-minute-high adult plants were pulled out of the ground with a gentle pull, and the roots were broken by blisters. At that time, many people in the village slapped their thighs and cried, didn't this kill anyone.

Mrs. Xu glanced at the others, but fortunately, there were a lot of drowning cabbages planted in the garden, and it could not rain vigorously if the water demand was large, so it could only be said that the autumn cabbage radish and bighorn melon were stronger than others, and they would have to be harvested later.

There is too much work to be done on a sunny day, and pickles, harvesting, and cellars have to be cleaned up.

Mrs. Xu thought about the same thing in her heart, and at the same time instructed her granddaughter to bring all the swill buckets at home, and she wanted to use this bath water to brush the buckets, so that she could not waste it at all. Brush out the most broken wooden barrel and put it next to the hut, and wash your hands after going to the toilet.

Mrs. Xu thought to herself: I can't mention the matter of going to the toilet, I don't believe it, I'll take a look at you, the old man is buried. Therefore, she must equip the thatched house with a bucket, at least come out of it to wash her hands and then go into the house to get dishes and chopsticks.

"Come on, let's not rub anymore, I won't take a bath, just wipe my body with a cloth, you can rub your back and neck to relieve itching, and we'll start broadcasting."

"Huh?" Xu Tianxin was a little surprised: "Is it still broadcast today?" What are you broadcasting? ”

"To sow a pastoral life, you have to work for a day."

Mrs. Xu already has a plan, and her second main focus is to decompress, from sunrise to sunset, so that modern children can watch and do, and when they look back, they will feel that they can be tired enough to watch people do a day's work.

Xu Tianxin felt that the idea of milk was good, so she went to remove the quilt cover, brushed the quilt cover and mats at home while the weather was fine, and then rubbed the pot lid and table well, and did housework with her grandmother while live broadcasting.

Grandma Xu slapped her granddaughter in the direction of her granddaughter and recited the password: "The God of Wealth lives in my house", and this will start broadcasting, followed by a flick of her hair.

Therefore, the start of the second broadcast startled the people who had just entered the live broadcast room, thinking that Sadako had arrived.

"Family, I've never seen my hair so long, I want to show you my three thousand troubles, down to the leg socket."