rebirth all over again

The second half of the winter month has started to snow.

In order to build a greenhouse before, Grandpa Chen cut a lot of thatch and came back before it snowed. In a few days, Grandpa Chen built a decent greenhouse.

When burning firewood in the countryside, some dry carbon will be sealed in the jar every time, and it can be burned for heating in winter.

Grandpa Chen divided the land in the greenhouse into several pieces, and dug a few trenches beside the ground. The trenches were filled with burning dry carbon to keep the temperature of the entire greenhouse so that the ground would not be frozen when it snowed.

After slowly waiting for the temperature inside to remain constant, Grandpa Chen began to sow seeds. Chen Xiaoyun also took out the seeds he had bought before. There was no watermelon planted. Few people buy watermelons in winter, but strawberries, melons and cantaloupe can be planted.

At the beginning when Grandpa Chen was building a greenhouse, everyone in the team laughed at him, saying that he had never seen anyone messing around like Chen Laosan after planting his whole life. If it was really that simple, then anyone could plant it.

All these were joked around, Grandpa Chen didn't care, he just made his own anyway.

Chen Xiaoyun also goes to the shed every day after school to import abilities. It’s not enough to rely on the charcoal fire alone. Most of them rely on Chen Xiaoyun’s abilities, but Grandpa Chen and the others don’t know. Grandpa Chen and the others always thought that they succeeded by themselves. I am happy every day, and I have to get up several times at night to add carbon to the charcoal fire in the trench, fearing that if the fire is not enough, the vegetables will freeze to death for me.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, Chen Xiaoyun wants to sell it twice more. The power input every day is a bit big, and the vegetables in the greenhouse are growing faster, and the seedlings have sprouted within half a month, and then they started to have a variety every day.

Now many people want to see Grandpa Chen's greenhouse, but Grandpa Chen refused, saying that it is too cold to go in, and they go in several times a day to add carbon and change the air.

He also said that the result is not very good, it will grow up a bit, but not much.After listening to it, everyone thinks about it. It is hopeless to grow out-of-season vegetables in such a cold day.

That is to say, Chen Laosan's family is so poor that they can't help it, so they are so foolish.

Everyone let go of their curiosity and stopped going to see it.

No matter how everyone jokes that Grandpa Chen is messing around, but Grandpa Chen looks at the vegetables in the greenhouse every day and peels tung seeds at home every day, and he can't stop laughing from ear to ear.

Grandpa Chen took care of his greenhouse, and Grandma Chen began to boil sweet potato candy.

Red sweet potato sugar is boiled with red sweet potatoes. Wash the red sweet potatoes and boil them in a large pot. After boiling, pick up the red sweet potato dregs and continue to boil the sugar water in the pot.

Then boil it slowly on a low heat, and it will slowly turn into syrup after about two hours. After that, Grandma Chen needs to stir slowly in the pot. After stirring for about an hour, the syrup is still slowly turning into sugar. Now, you must pay attention to the heat at this time. If the heat is high, the sugar will have a sticky taste, and the taste is a bit bitter, but if the fire is low, the color of the sugar will not be red, and it will not be fragrant. .

In Chen Xiaoyun's team, very few people can cook this sweet potato candy. Among the people who can cook it, only Grandma Chen has the best craftsmanship. Basically, it is Grandma Chen who boils the candy every year. Those relatives come to their house to order some. It takes less than a lot of candy to make stove candy, so every time people come to ask for it, Grandma Chen also gives it, thinking that the candy is not worth much.

This year, Chen Xiaoyun told Grandma Chen not to give away, and to make more stove candies and buy them in the county. At first, Grandma Chen was worried that no one would buy them. Who would know how to make this candy?

Chen Xiaoyun said that people in the city have to work to make money, and they don’t have time to make candy by themselves, and it takes time to make candy, that is, we only have time to do it in the east of our home. People in the city have to work, and their daily salary is I bought a lot of sugar, so I don't care about the little money.

After hearing this, Grandma Chen felt relieved, and thought about making some first, and then seeing the situation after selling them once.

Chen Xiaoyun is particularly afraid of the cold in winter, so she is wrapped up thickly. She is small and wears a lot of clothes. She is round, like a ball.

It's snowing, Chen Xiaoyun didn't go to school, it's the same here, the first grade students are very young, and they are afraid that they will have accidents on the road after it snows, these students are walking on the mountain road, if they accidentally fall off the cliff or be washed away by the water It is very dangerous, so children in heavy rain and heavy snow will basically not go to learn, that is, go back to the senior grades, they will be older, and they will not be afraid if they walk steadily, but if the snow is too heavy and the road is closed, the school will not be able to do it. The only way is to have a holiday.

Chen Xiaoyun was wearing a thick cotton padded jacket, which was handmade by Grandma Chen with the cotton grown by her family. The down jackets hadn't come to them yet. They were available in the county, but they were very expensive and poor. Who would be willing to spend money on them.People in the countryside make their own cotton clothes.

He just went to give the greenhouse a power, and the vegetables inside are already blooming, and it is estimated that they will begin to bear fruit in two days. Grandpa Chen plans to wait for the snow to stop before going to the county again.

As soon as Chen Xiaoyun walked into the dam, he didn't know what slipped under his feet, and why he was lying on the ground sprawled.

Chen Xiaoyun's clothes were too thick, like a tortoise. After being overturned, he couldn't get up, and his hands and feet danced in the air, but he couldn't find a fulcrum to get himself up.

I have no choice but to call someone.

"Grandma, grandma, come and help me." Grandma Chen was preparing the ingredients for making candy in the kitchen. When she heard her baby grandson calling for help, she ran out anxiously to take a look. Tears of laughter came out, only seeing her grandson The one that is waving like a turtle just can't get up.

Walking over and laughing, he pulled him up and patted the snowflakes on his body.He even laughed at him, "Look, I told you to stay on the roof until you warm up, you are going to run out, you should fall, you deserve it"

"Grandma..." Chen Xiaoyun was very embarrassed to see Grandma Chen laughing at him. He also knew that his family's appearance just now must be very funny, but it was on him, so it wasn't so funny anymore. After stomping his feet, he ran back to the house, ignoring Grandma Chen.

After Chen Xiaoyun ran into the house, he went to look at the orchids he brought back last time. He planted the orchids in the main room instead of putting them in the greenhouse.

After getting it back, he injected some vitality every day. Within a week, these orchids had grown again, especially the Emei peony, which was very precious to him. He planned to sell it to the old man next time he went to the county .

Now this Emei peony is no different from the one I saw at the old man's place before, except that it didn't bloom.

After Chen Xiaoyun injected some vitality into each orchid, he had nothing to do. Grandpa roasted and peeled tung seeds around the fire pond. After peeling and drying, someone would collect the tung seeds. The price of dried tung seeds was 3 or 4 cents a catty. , 4 jiao for fully dry, 3 jiao for semi-dry, 1 jiao and 5 cents for fully wet.

Grandpa Chen dried the tung seeds and sold them every year. Although there would be less, the price was higher, and the wet ones were still more affordable.

Chen Xiaoyun planned to watch Grandma Chen make stove candy.I remember that in my previous life, my favorite thing was making stove candies, because at that time I could manage enough to eat candies.

When I got to the kitchen, I saw Grandma Chen frying peanuts, sesame seeds and rice.

Stir-fry the rice into rice crackers, fry the peanuts and let them cool down until they become crispy, fry the sesame seeds, and pound the peanuts.

Dilute the previously boiled sweet potato sugar in a hot pot, pour in rice crackers and crushed peanuts, stir for a few minutes, then sprinkle in sesame seeds, stir the sesame seeds evenly, scoop them up and put them in Shenzi.

The Shenzi here is a boxy wooden box, neither big nor deep, and the rice in one Shenzi is about 3 catties.

Every year, Grandma Chen uses this to pack sugar, scoops the sugar in, pours it out when it is cold, and starts cutting the sugar on the table.

Grandma Chen can cut many shapes, such as rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles.

This time I plan to sell it, so I cut it into various shapes.

This stove candy is a bit similar to the peanut sesame candy sold in the city, but the peanut sesame candy is not as fragrant as this stove candy, and this stove candy will not make people feel bored.

When Chen Xiaoyun put that piece into his mouth, the sweetness of red sweet potato, rice crackers, peanuts, and sesame filled his mouth instantly, making it so delicious that he wanted to eat his tongue.

Chen Xiaoyun ate one piece after another, unable to stop at all, "Grandma, you should make more, it's so delicious, there must be many people buying it"

"Here's what you said, it's really easy to sell for money, grandma will buy you new clothes to wear during the Chinese New Year"

Seeing that Chen Xiaoyun kept eating, Grandma Chen wouldn't let him eat anymore. If she continued eating for a while, she probably wouldn't be able to eat anymore.

"Okay, grandma, let's make money. Grandpa, you and daddy, we all buy new clothes. We buy them in the county town, which is cheaper than on the street." In fact, the clothes in the county town are cheaper, but the clothes on the street are more expensive , but people in the countryside don't know, they only think that the ones on the street are so expensive, which county is more expensive.

"Okay, I'll go to the county to buy it for you." Grandma also thought that if she made money this year, she would go buy New Year's clothes for her two children.