Rebirth 1984 Wife and children are on the hot bed

Xujiatun.

The cold night wind went down the neck collar and penetrated into the ankles, making the cold person shiver all over.

After watching his parents and sister leave, Xu Dahai hurried back to the house. Wang Xiuxiu followed him back to the house, locked the door and said with a smile:

"Wear thicker clothes, otherwise you will suffer again if you catch a cold."

After washing my feet, I turned off the lights and went to sleep on the kang.

Xiao Tingzi hugged the big orange cat and soon fell asleep in her little quilt.

Wang Xiuxiu was talking to Xu Dahai, and the bright moonlight shone in through the window, shining brightly on the large quilt, as if there was a layer of frost.

The night wind is getting stronger and stronger. If you listen carefully, you can still faintly hear the laughter and chatter of people playing cards in the canteen, as well as the vague barking of dogs.

“I don’t know whose dog it is, but it keeps barking at night.”

"At the west end of the village, there may be some yellow men entering the village."

"What? Really?" Wang Xiuxiu was surprised.

Xu Dahai turned his body to his side and covered it for a while. The quilt was warm and comfortable.

"Isn't it normal to have yellow skin? There's nothing to make a fuss about."

"That's right. Last year, our chickens were bitten to death by Huang Pizi, and they finally laid eggs, but Huang Pizi was responsible for all the trouble." Wang Xiuxiu was so distressed that she cried, and now she still feels bad when she thinks about it.

"Don't think about the past anymore. With our current conditions, we can afford to buy ten eggs a day."

"Pfft~ Eating eggs as food? What a waste of money." Wang Xiuxiujue's Xu Dahai was talking nonsense again.

Early the next morning, Xu Dahai put on his cotton-padded jacket, tied his trousers and went for a walk in the mountains to look at the clips he had worn earlier.

When he came back, he had a big fat rabbit in his hand, still kicking its legs.

"Did you stew it for lunch?"

"Keep it for now, I haven't finished the goose stew yesterday yet."

After breakfast, my mother, second sister and others came to make dumplings again. They made them all afternoon and all night yesterday, but they didn't finish them.

After a while, grandma, second aunt, third aunt and several cousins ​​​​all came to help one after another.

It was really lively at this time. The outer room couldn't be crowded, so I had to stay in the inner room.

There were also some children who came with Xu Dahai, who he called uncle. He quickly opened two bottles of cans, and took out pine nuts, walnuts, white rabbit toffee and other things for everyone to eat.

Seeing Xiao Tingzi pouting, he quickly said: "I'll buy it for you next time."

Chi slip~

The big orange cat was sleeping on the kangqin. When he saw so many children coming to the house, he immediately got under the cupboard and couldn't come out.

The handsome, fat orange cat is very popular among children.

But many children are at the age when people hate dogs, and they don't care about their actions. After suffering a few losses, the big orange cat learns to be smart.

"Uncle, your cat got under the cabinet and won't come out."

"Don't worry about her. Go over and eat the canned food. If you get there late, the canned food will be eaten."

The dumplings that originally took two or three days to make were now made in half a day. It is true that there is strength in numbers.

It was almost noon. After making dumplings, everyone left without stopping.

"Freeze the dumplings outside. Once frozen, hang them with wax, and then they can be stored in the warehouse."

Waxing is to pass the frozen dumplings through water, and the surface of the frozen dumplings will be covered with a layer of ice in a short period of time.

With this layer of ice, the dumplings are not afraid of drying out and can be stored for a long time. You can cook some whenever you want to eat them, which is very convenient.

As for some people who think that frozen dumplings are not as fresh as freshly made dumplings, it actually doesn’t have much impact because even if the dumplings are not made, the meat has to be frozen.

This is just like many people in later generations will put uneaten watermelons, lychees and other fruits in the refrigerator. In fact, it will also affect the taste, but many people don't care about that subtle impact.

Time passed, and a few days passed in the blink of an eye.

It's the end of November in the lunar calendar, and you can hear the sound of firecrackers going off in the countryside. Bang bang bang~ It's not that much of a chore, it's just a bang.

And many firecrackers are not bought from the canteen.

Instead, the adults bought the whole whip from the market and dismantled it for the children to play with.

……

"Huzi, when you and the children set off the whip, be careful and don't break the children's hands."

Xu Dahai squatted on the floor of the main room, tore off the wrapping paper of the firecrackers, cut the ropes, and scattered the large number of firecrackers with a slight shake.

Each firecracker is about the thickness of a little finger, has a lead of four to five centimeters, and is small and compact.

This hanging whip is leftover from last year. Huzi and a group of children want to set off the whip, so let them forget it.

"Fourth brother, I understand." Xu Hu was very happy and waved to the children crowded at the door:

"Hurry up, come in and get the whip, and I'll take you to the field to let it go."

After a while, the cold little faces were red, and the children with runny noses came in excitedly to get the whips, and soon followed Xu Hu out of the yard.

The laughter crossed the wooden sticks and gradually faded away.

Xiao Tingzi, who was wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket, also wanted to follow, but Wang Xiuxiu quickly carried her back and shut her in the door.

"Don't run around. It's winter, so stay indoors."

"Come on, let's go inside and rub corn while listening to storytelling."

Xiao Tingzi pouted dissatisfiedly and looked at Xu Dahai with her big, beautiful eyes as if asking for help.

The latter stuffed the firecracker paper into the stove and said with a smile:

"You also want to have frostbite on your hands and ears? It's so itchy and uncomfortable when you open it."

"Ah, then I won't go." Xiao Tingzi hugged the big orange cat and returned to the back room.

It's almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is approaching sunset, the sky outside is a little gloomy, and the house is getting darker.

However, the lights were not turned on in the house because Wang Xiuxiu did not want to waste electricity. After all, electricity prices are very expensive now, with electricity costing 7 cents per unit.

Moreover, the wattage of the light bulb is low, so even if the light is turned on, the room will be dim.

Use a screwdriver to pierce the corn a few times, and then rub it with another corn husks. Soon all the corn particles on one corn will fall off.

Falling into the big dustpan, the sound was loud and clear.

Xu Dahai also rubbed the corn for a while, and suddenly said: "I have caught a lot of wild rabbits, chickens and so on in the past few days. If we don't want to eat them, we will sell them to Lao Wu."

"That's okay, isn't it quite expensive?"

"One whole piece, it costs two yuan a pound."

There are also pork, ducks, stupid chickens, etc. in the house. In terms of taste alone, these things are much more delicious than wild rabbits and sand-and-half chickens.

So Xu Dahai put on his cotton-padded jacket and planned to transport the hares and sand half chickens he had caught recently to the countryside.

Wang Xiuxiu also put on her cotton-padded jacket and followed to the barn house, where she helped put the hare into the basket.

"After selling, come back early. It's hard to walk on the road after dark. Aren't you going to Baidianzi Township with Rong Chenglin tomorrow? Eat and go to bed early."

"Yeah, I see."