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Lin Zhi raised her hand with a smile, patted Liu Qingshan's head lightly, then turned to caress lightly: "You, you are greedy, and you are always pulling others, so I won't sell it."

Feeling the warm palm of his mother, Liu Qingshan felt nothing but peace in his heart.

"Heck, there's meat to eat every day!"

Under the quilt, came the giggles of the fourth and fifth little guys.

It turned out that they hadn't fallen asleep, and listened with their little ears open. When Lin Zhi said that they would not sell meat, they were both overjoyed, these two little greedy cats.

Since they are not going to sell meat, they have to keep it well. Their place is a large natural refrigerator, and this is the last thing to worry about.

The next day, when Liu Qingshan came back from practicing kung fu on the mountain, he unloaded all the pork into small pieces, such as pork knuckle and pork ribs, and unloaded them separately. The rest of the pork was cut into cubes the size of tofu, and then buried in the yard.

That's right, buried.

Of course, it can't be buried with soil, but with ice.

Two sacks of ice cubes were shaved from the Xiaosongjiang River and brought back. The pork was wrapped in ice, snow was sprinkled on top, and water was poured on it.

How about calling it a natural refrigerator?

There are also advantages, not afraid of thieves stealing, not afraid of dogs stealing food.

In addition to this method of preservation, Liu Qingshan also kept a few pieces of meat and threw them into the big tank in the warehouse, so that it was more convenient to eat and saved the need to pile up shaved ice.

The pork in the big vat in the warehouse is hung with a layer of ice on the outside. This is called hanging wax, which can prevent the pork from drying out and changing its taste.

Hanging wax is also relatively simple, that is, at night, the coldest time of the day, dip the frozen pork in cold water, take it out and place it on the curtain, and a thin layer of ice will soon form on the surface of the pork.

If you are worried, just hang up again.

By analogy, this method can be used to keep fresh chicken, duck, fish and the like, or how to say, the wisdom of the working people is infinite.

This is shaved ice and ice pulling. This busy work lasted for a whole day. When the fourth child and the others came back from school, they saw the few big pieces of ice left in the courtyard, and their big eyes immediately became brighter than ice cubes. It's still crystal clear.

"elder brother--"

The fourth child tugged at Liu Qingshan's skirt, and his voice began to turn several times.

Usually at times like this, it's the little girl who has something to ask for.

Liu Qingshan couldn't help stretching out his hand, pinching her little red face from the cold: "What are you going to do again?"

"Hee hee, brother, make an ice cart for me and Shan Xing, Er Mangzi and the others said that after dinner, we will go skating in the small river."

The little fourth finally showed the little fox's tail.

"Row--"

Liu Qingshan's tone of voice was not less twisted, which made the two little girls giggle.

Originally, Liu Qingshan had an ice cart, which he played with when he was a child, but he had to make another one for Shan Xing.

He didn't want Shan Xing to just stand on the ice and watch other children play, then he would be too incompetent as an older brother.

He really couldn't get one to make an ice cart, mainly because he didn't have any tools at hand at home, so he had to go to Zhang Handizi.

Zhang Jizi is making chicken coops at home. Yesterday, another team came to visit. Some people went to Liu Jinfeng's chicken shed for a while, and it caught his eye. He plans to build a chicken farm next year.

The chicks will have to wait for a few months. After all, Liu Jinfeng's chicken farm hasn't started laying eggs yet, but the chicken cages have been reserved with Zhang Jizi first.

With labor and materials, a chicken coop costs one yuan, which makes Zhang Shuzi so happy, he can earn more than [-] cents.

I ordered a hundred chicken coops, that's more than 60 yuan, plus the 50 yuan earned from Liu Qingshan, it's almost enough money to buy a bicycle for his eldest brother's partner.

So as soon as he saw Liu Qingshan coming, Zhang Jizi smiled openly, so affectionate.

Knowing that he was going to make an ice cart, he immediately agreed wholeheartedly, took out adzes, chisels, axes, saws, etc., and after more than an hour, he made it out.

The ice cart is actually a small sledge, and the most critical parts are the two wooden rails below, which must be made of good wood and smooth.

At the front end of the wooden rail, a bevel should be cut out to prevent it from getting stuck in the ice and snow.

If you want to do it, you can make a complete set. Zhang Shuzi even made two pairs of ice skewers, which are two round wooden handles with a thin pointed steel bar inserted in the middle.

Sitting on the ice cart like this, holding the ice skewer in both hands, gently pricking backwards on the ice, the ice cart will slide forward.

During the time when Zhang Jizi was working on the ice cart, Liu Qingshan was not idle, he found a piece of leftover wood, it was oak wood, very heavy, and chipped two pieces of wood.

尜, also a child in the north, is his favorite toy in winter.

After finishing everything and going home, the fourth and fifth children were studying on the table, and the eldest brother-in-law took Liu Qingshan's usual place, writing something on the manuscript paper.

The eldest sister and mother are also working in the house.

The eldest sister was sitting on the kang, holding an embroidery support to draw dragons and phoenixes, and beside her was Yang Hongying as an apprentice.

My mother pasted old cloth on a large wooden board, and put a layer of paste on the old strips of cloth, and then pasted them layer by layer until they were a few millimeters thick, and they were used to make shoe soles and the like.

Just in time, Liu Qingshan asked for a few strips of cloth to make two small whips for whipping.

There is a special name for this work done by my mother in the countryside, called "扼袼褙 (gē bèi)".

Several layers of shackles are cut into the shape of the sole, then glued together, and then stitched together with hemp rope. This is what people often call "thousand-layer bottom".

Later, there was a song that sang: The shoes I love most are the layered soles my mother gave me.

Thousand-layer bottom, that's how it came out.

At that time, the rural women were never idle during the winter leisure time. They used to wear shoe soles, wear laces, and dexterous girls could also embroider.

All kinds of curtains for my own home, as well as my own dowry, are all embroidered stitch by stitch.

The dim light outlines the leisurely and busy life of ordinary farmers in this era.

For a moment, Liu Qingshan looked a little crazy, and there was only indescribable warmth left in his heart:

This is the feeling of home, so good!

Chapter 1 Eats Feelings

"Sanfeng'er, it's a waste of film, what's so good about it."

The eldest sister raised her head and complained, and then saw Liu Qingshan's camera lens pointing at her, and hurriedly straightened the bangs on her forehead, lowered her head slightly, and continued to pose for embroidery.

There was a stove burning in the room, and the temperature was quite high. Liu Jinfeng's pretty face was slightly red, with a sweet smile on her face.

Yang Hongying was similar, sitting beside Liu Jinfeng, quietly watching her embroider.

When these two big sisters get together, they are basically two flowers.

After a click, Liu Qingshan recorded this beautiful moment, and then became dishonest:

"Eldest sister, are you embroidering a dowry for my elder sister?"

When Yang Hongying heard it, her fur exploded immediately, she slipped directly from the kang to the ground, chasing Liu Qingshan, trying to pinch his ears.

Fortunately, Lao Wushan Xing rescued him in time: "Brother, it's time to take a photo of me and Sister Caifeng!"

"Good good!"

Liu Qingshan touched the little guy's watermelon head, and boasted: "It's still my family's apricot that knows how to hurt people."

In the end, the picture of beating my mother was also taken. In a few decades, such a scene will basically not be seen.

Liu Qingshan reviewed his homework for a while, and the fulfilling day was over. The kang had been covered with a hot quilt, and he was lying in it, steadfastly, sleeping for a whole night.

After lunch the next day, Liu Qingshan helped the fourth and fifth children carry two ice carts, with a camera hanging around their necks, and went to the river outside the village.

Shouts were heard from a distance, and dozens of kids were all playing here.

Skates, skates, nothing, just wear shoes, and you can skate on the ice.

This is the simplest, run up a few steps, then stand on the ice, and you can slide 30 meters away at once.

Of course, if you fall down, you can slide quite far while lying down.

Those with a high level can also play various tricks: squatting, backwards, and one-legged skating.

At the same time, it is inevitable that the car will overturn and fall on the ice with a bang. If you hit the back of your head directly, congratulations, you are rich, and there must be gold stars flying around in front of you.

However, the kids at this time are also solid, crawling and rolling in the wild all day long, their bodies are very flexible and coordinated, and they are rarely broken.

On the contrary, the little dolls in the future will become more and more pampered, and their physical fitness will become worse and worse, and they will break their bones even if they do exercises between classes.

The youngest, the fourth, and the fifth sit cross-legged on the ice cart. This cross-legged skill is an essential skill, because at that time they mainly used kang tables for meals.

So the easiest way to distinguish between southerners and northerners is to look at this. Those who can cross their legs are almost northerners.

Holding ice skewers in their hands, they waved their small arms and stabbed them backwards, and the ice cart slid forward, and their cheerful laughter immediately rippled on the ice.

"Shanxing, Caifeng, let's compete to see who can skate faster!"

Er Mangzi waited for a few little boys, and immediately came up to them, the little boy had great strength, of course Shanxing and the others couldn't compare, so the two little girls simply started playing draw.

Liu Qingshan's wooden gong is as big as the mouth of a small bowl, with colored paper pasted on it, it turns very beautifully.

"Shanxing, Caifeng, let's compete to see who can spin the longest."

Er Mangzi and the others came together again.

This time the old four and the fifth were not afraid anymore, both sides whipped up their respective sticks, and then stopped the whips at the same time, leaving a dozen sticks, making a slight buzzing sound on the ice.

Soon some of the trees fell down, and in the end, even Ermengzi's trees were swaying to and fro. Only Shanxing and Caifeng's turned very smoothly.

"Win!"

The two little girls fought back and hugged Liu Qingshan happily.

He had no choice but to bend down and ask the two little girls to kiss him on the cheek.

Unconvinced, Er Manzi took the opportunity to pick up their wood and took a look, only to see that there was a thumbtack pressed underneath, no wonder they lost.

This is what Liu Qingshan came up with with the help of the two little girls. The thumbtack touches the ice surface, which can reduce frictional resistance.

Then, the children pulled the back skirts of each other, squatted down, and drove the train on the ice.

This requires a strong power to act as a locomotive.

This train runs fast, thanks to Liu Qingshan's leadership, because he is the locomotive.

He is the biggest among this group of people.

After playing for a while, I took a few photos and recorded the happy children in the ice and snow park.

Of course, there are also half-children, and Zhang Shuzi led a group of sixteen and seventeen-year-olds to join in the fun.

Their equipment is more advanced, with "dirt ice knives" tied to their feet.

This thing is commonly known as a foot slider. First, two thick wooden boards that are slightly larger than the soles of the shoes are sawed, and two thick iron wires are tied on the bottom. This is equivalent to a slide.

Then saw a convex shape at the front of the board, saw off a layer on the back of the convex shape, and nail a few iron nails.

Nail a few leather sheaths on both sides of the board, wear ropes, tie them to the shoes, and you can slide.

The iron wire below is very smooth. When you want to skate on the ice, stand up on your toes and use the nail cap at the front to grasp the ice surface to gain the power to slide forward.

The speed of this kind of skateboard is very fast. Even when you are a beginner, you will easily stumble, especially the back of your head.

Liu Qingshan also felt a little itchy, so he borrowed Zhang Shuzi's skates and slid around on the ice.

Maybe it was thrown for too long, so I fell several somersaults, which caused a burst of boos.

Liu Qingshan was also skating on the dirt skates, pushing the fourth and fifth children on the ice cart, called the two little guys, and experienced the feeling of being fast.

As for the real skates and skates, children in the countryside simply can’t afford them. The 30-odd black dragon skates are more than a month’s salary for a worker.

But this kind of free foot slider can still bring joy and laughter to children.

Even the fun of doing it yourself is even greater.

Playing until dark, the children went back to their respective homes, one by one, their bodies were covered with ice and snow, and some jacket sleeves were frozen hard.

This is mainly due to sweating while playing, so I habitually wipe the sweat with my sleeves, and after wiping, my sleeves will freeze.

Many children, when it comes to winter, their small faces and hands are as cold as hemp potatoes. The locals call it "frozen fan", which is actually chapped, and in severe cases, there will be small cracks.

At that time, there were no skin care products, at most, some clam oil or something.

Liu Qingshan asked the fourth and fifth children to sit on the ice cart, one in each hand, and pull the ice cart with a rope, just like pulling two small sledges.

The fourth and fifth children sat on the ice cart triumphantly, showing off the benefits of having an older brother.

Suddenly there was a crying sound from the front, and Liu Qingshan rushed over, but he was also a little bit dumbfounded.

I saw Er Mangzi sticking out his tongue, and the tip of his tongue was glued to the iron rod of the skateboard.