At the end of November, there have been several heavy snowfalls in Sijiu City, and the snow is especially heavy today. Early in the morning, the neighborhood committees began to organize personnel to clean up.

Early this morning, a green train from the northeast entered the station and slowly stopped with a long whistle.

"Leader, the car has entered the station, and the car to pick us up has been arranged, and now it is estimated that it is waiting at the exit of the station."

Jiang Yan was wearing a coat, and the secretary Xiao Gong walked in, but when he saw Jiang Yan's green short coat, his eyes were full of envy.

This coat is a short Eagle Sauce M47-style field coat, which Jiang Yan saw at the Shengjing Friendship Store, and he bought it if he liked it.

The inner lining of the garment is wool, the outer material is similar to a windbreaker, smooth, with a hat on the back, wear-resistant, insulated, and can better keep warm. After putting it on, it felt light and loose, much lighter than the military coat worn by Xiao Gong, not to mention that Jiang Yan secretly wore a set of thermal underwear inside the clothes, and the warmth effect was very good, even when it was outside at minus thirty or forty °C, Jiang Yan was not afraid.

Of course, Jiang Yan also gave such thermal underwear to his grandmother and daughter-in-law, and good things can't be forgotten by family, but Jiang Yan just told them that they bought them in the friendship store, and there were only three sets, so they didn't tell outsiders.

helped grandma and her daughter-in-law sort out their things, and at this time, Xiao Wei and Xiao Gong also walked in together to help carry things together.

I saw that Jiang Yan was carrying a military marching bag with a big eagle sauce, carrying several large bags in his hands, and his grandmother and Jiang Sirui behind him also carried two lighter bags and walked off the train together.

"Boss, here." As soon as Jiang Yan got off the train, he saw Xu Damao standing on the platform waving to him, and his expression was quite excited.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Yan asked.

"Before Xiao Gong told me the time of your arrival, the institute was ready to send someone to pick it up, I knew that after that, I grabbed this task, originally the pillar was still coming, and someone came to visit our institute and needed to make a small stove, he didn't come, and the pillar said that he would go back quickly after he finished cooking."

"Come on, grandma and sister-in-law, give me the things and I'll help you carry them." Xu Damao said and went to snatch the things in the hands of his grandmother and Jiang Sirui.

"Farewell, there's quite a few more in the car! Xiao Gong and Xiao Wei are there, go and help them carry it! We walked towards the exit first. ”

Hearing Jiang Yan's words, Xu Damao nodded. "Okay, I'll go over now."

After saying this, he slipped into the train and walked towards his sleeping car.

"Why is the snow so heavy today, I haven't seen such heavy snow in these cities for a long time." Looking at the heavy snow outside, Jiang Sirui sighed.

"It's quite big, it's much colder than the previous year." Grandma spoke.

"Yes, it's minus five degrees today!" Jiang Yan glanced at the exit of the station and spoke to his grandmother.

"It's so cold, if there is no fire at home, this day will not be easy." Grandma sighed.

Coal was a daily necessity for the people of Sijiucheng in the past to cook every day and heat in winter

In the 60s, it began to ration coal by the patch. The "Coal Purchase Book" indicates the population, address, and amount of coal to be supplied. The social responsibility of coal shops is to send coal to households, so the denser the coal shops, the more convenient it is for the people.

At that time, the coal shop was also a public-private partnership to engage in a variety of operations, in addition to selling coal and chopping firewood, it also managed the furnace. In order to ensure the supply of basic necessities for the people, the government has included the supply of coal, along with grain and oil, into the ranks of unified purchase and sales.

In this way, according to the capitation calculation, there is not much coal ration for each company, but it is just enough.

Jiang Yan and the others were dressed warmly, and the temperature in Shengjing was lower than that in Sijiu City, Jiang Yan and they basically didn't have much feeling about the temperature in Sijiu City now.

Due to the sudden drop in temperature, Jiang Yan's neighbors in the courtyard basically stored winter supplies around the beginning of December, and this cooling disrupted the plans of many families, and there were a lot of things to eat, but the coal reserves were a little insufficient.

Those who don't have coal can only wear a little more clothes, and those who have better conditions in the yard still have a lot of coal stored at home, so they either burn the stove in the house or start a brazier.

And most people are either reluctant, or their families are too difficult, they don't have much coal to store, and they don't dare to make a fire for heating! I can only carry it on my own.

The most calculating is the family of the three masters, who is short of coal, and there will be no shortage of the three masters.

The coal in Sijiu City is divided into crushed coal and briquettes.

Briquettes are small round balls made of coal powder after adding water and loess in a certain proportion and fully mixing, which can be stored for a long time after drying.

The briquettes in Sijiu City are not expensive, you can buy three briquettes for a penny, of course, you have to have a coal ticket, you can't do without a coal ticket.

But there is no shortage of coal in the family of the three masters, this is because the three masters, the master who catches the toad and grabs the urine, will let the coal factory take such a big advantage, you are too underestimate the small abacus of others.

The third master bought the coal back early, but all he bought was crushed coal, which still needed to be crushed again, made into pulverized coal, and then mixed with yellow mud, and then made into honeycomb coal with a briquette machine.

The coal is bought by himself, the briquette machine is borrowed by the three masters, and there is no shortage of yellow mud.

In order to reflect fairness and justice, a bowl of water is even, and everyone in the family has the task of shaking briquettes, even Yan Jiejian, the youngest of the three masters.

However, this thousand calculations did not calculate that Sijiu City would suddenly cool down, and it had been less than two days since the briquettes had just been shaken, and they were basically not dried, and there was no way to use them now.

It is not cost-effective to use crushed coal, but it is too cold this day, and when there is no way, the three masters can only endure the pain and make a brazier.

But with such a large family, where is there enough for such a brazier, it has to be used in turns.

Besides, the three masters are reluctant to put so much, so this firepower is not successful, and they are not willing to use it, so it is strange that this room can be warm.

No, after one night, the two children of the three masters were cold.

Yan Jiekuang, a half-sized son, although he sneezed vigorously and shed tears or something, fortunately he didn't have a fever.

But Yan Jiedi, the youngest daughter of the old Yan family, because she didn't eat well, she didn't have much nutrition, and she often couldn't eat enough, so she had no resistance, and she fell ill directly!

Seeing that her daughter didn't get up to go to school early in the morning, the three mothers touched Yan Jiedi's forehead with their hands, and then said anxiously: "Old Yan, Xie Di has a fever, and it's very hot, what can I do?" ”

Hearing that Yan Jiedi had a fever, the three masters were also a little worried.

If someone else's child has a fever or something, they will definitely go to the hospital as soon as possible, or give the child medicine as soon as possible.

But the three masters are used to careful planning, let alone going to the hospital, even if they are not willing to take medicine.

The people of these three great families, if they have a small disease, most of them can only resist it, and they hope that it will be better.

(End of chapter)