The leisurely life of Lin Yuxi

The next day Yuxi got up early and heated up the kang first to heat up the house. Now the temperature is around [-] degrees below zero at night. Sanwa is afraid of getting cold and hot, so he has to get up every night to burn some firewood.Don't just burn a pot at home, it costs more firewood than other people's homes.

Pour the hot water in the pot into the thermos, save the rest to wash your face, go to the Westinghouse sack to get some fodder, and feed the ewe that was sent over a few days ago. There is a lot of milk, except for what the third baby eats, he and the second baby can also drink some. Maybe the food has been good for a while, the second baby and the third baby have gained weight and become a lot fairer.The goat milk for the second baby and the third baby is boiled with almonds, without any fishy smell.He himself likes to put some jasmine tea, although it is only the cheapest tea powder, but with a faint tea fragrance, he likes it very much. "Miscellaneous Notes of the Four Seas" also records the traditional food preparation methods of the Mongolians, including the method of making milk tea. Yuxi thought that he would make and eat it if he had the opportunity in the future, so as to see what the taste of milk tea is that the readers will never forget.

Squeeze the goat's milk, heat up the goat's milk while there is nothing to do in the pot, slurp some yellow rice dumplings in the morning, add some water to the leftovers yesterday to make porridge, take out a sauced eggplant from the sauce jar, tear it into small pieces Put the strips on a plate.Made it for breakfast.

The two younger brothers hadn't woken up yet, and the food was stuffy in the pot. Yuxi moved the frozen meat, frozen dumplings, yellow rice dumplings, and cabbage in the west room to the empty room in the west.

Their house is four large tile-roofed houses.

Back then, Lin Tai spent a lot of money to build this house, and he used good materials. The main beams used two century-old camphor pine trees.The two trees are thick and straight, with the same thickness at the head and tail, and almost the same material in all aspects. They are 15 meters long together. I don’t know where Mr. Lin got them. new house.

Except for the main beam, other woods are red pine cut from the mountain that is more than 50 years old. All the places where wood can be used, including doors, windows and kang edges, are high-quality red pine, and the materials are accumulated by two generations.Now that the country has issued a policy, the Korean pine cannot be cut down casually.

There is good wood, and Lin Tai bought good bricks and tiles. The house is spacious and bright. When building the house, because there were no three children, Lin Tai built four rooms. The three rooms on the east side are one bright and two dark. The east house is open to the south kang, the west house is to open the north kang, and the pots and stoves follow the kang from south to north. The east house is lived by Lin Tai and his wife, and the west house will live here when Yuxi gets married in the future.It is very normal for their children to get married in their 80s, [-]s and [-]s. It will be fine to live in this house for [-] to [-] years. Lin Tai doesn't feel at all that he thinks long-term.

There is also a separate room next to the Westinghouse, which is for Erwa.Open the door on the east side, and once you enter the door, you will find a long and narrow kitchen. There is a large stove next to the north wall, and the door opens on the west side about one meter after entering the door. Inside is also a big room, the North Kang.

In the future, if the second child gets married, they will stay here independently, without interfering with each other.When the house was built, it followed the beams. Except for the open room, which is [-] meters wide and [-] meters long, the other rooms are [-] meters wide, and the room is very spacious.Their yard is on the westernmost side of the village, and the front and back sides of the house cover an acre and a half.

The village has nothing to say about the homestead. You can draw the place yourself first, and then apply for it. This was originally Lin Tai’s father’s house. Back then, he wanted Lin Tai to get married and go out to build a house, so he applied for Lin Tai next to him. One block, just west of the house.The old man didn’t even build a fence, he directly planted seventy or eighty birch trees. Later, when Lin Tai built the house, the old man and the old lady were gone. The two yards are now surrounded by one, and now there are almost two acres of land on the west side of the house.Lin Tai planted a lot of Pinus sylvestris near the wall in the courtyard.After ten or twenty years, birch and sylvestris pine will be a lot of wealth.

Lin Tai built a stone wall with stones.Because it was built along the old wall, and outside the wall are seventy or eighty birch trees planted by Mr. Lin.Lin Tai planted some Pinus sylvestris in the wall.It won't take ten years to become a talent.

The homesteads here are quite large, and everyone has a large yard of one or two acres of land.But it's rare to see such a neat home like theirs.The place is biased, and there are plenty of places. In the past two years, there have been new regulations on homesteads, and it is troublesome to apply for them. The land of Yuxi's family has become a favorite.So not long after Lin Tai passed away, someone came to ask Yuxi if the house was for sale, and offered 1000 yuan.

This house is Lin Tai's last thought for his three sons.Yuxi is not willing to sell unless it is absolutely necessary.What's more, when Lin Tai built this house, it cost almost a thousand to buy tiles and bricks.Not to mention the money spent on panning for wood.

Even so, Yuxi almost failed to keep this house. At the beginning, someone in the village said that the three children were all adults, so it was true that the family in the village was willing to raise them.Yuxi still remembered that day, when the third uncle was tired and sick because of his parents' affairs, the third aunt accompanied him to the county to get a drip.As a result, the third master came to him to talk about this matter. Yuxi didn't know who had instigated the third master to come to him that day. It was a coincidence that not only the third uncle was not there, but the sixth uncle also went into the mountain, and no one in the village spoke for him.The third master also felt that the children couldn't take care of him. He would always remember that day when the relatives in the village arranged their whereabouts with just a glance and a word. Some of them were for their own good, while others had other purposes.

Later, when there was a quarrel about the house, it was at that time that Yuxi felt that he was so powerless that he couldn't even protect what his parents had left for them, so he had the thought of sending the second baby away, and he felt that he was gone. It's good, I have a pure heart, and when I arrive at my new home, I have new parents who care for me, and I will forget about it in a short time.

I couldn't send the second baby away that day, and seeing the two brothers being so inseparable, even the third uncle, who always thought that sending the second baby away would lead a better life, couldn't help scolding at the door, and ran to the third master to quarrel After a long time, after two days of tossing, they finally set up a separate household for their brothers, and the house was re-named Yuxi.

Such things are not new.In rural areas like theirs, unless they can get into high school and go to university, they can't think of registering. Even if they get married, most of them don't get a certificate.Yuxi originally did not have a registered permanent residence.If it is really adopted by someone else's family, the house will not fall on him.

In any case, Yuxi was lucky, she kept her house and her younger brother, and now her life is moving in a good direction.There is nothing in the world that cannot be overcome.

The food stored at home was originally stored in the Westinghouse. There was no fire in that room, and the frozen meat would not go bad at all.Moved to the single house in the west, this house is even colder.

It's almost time to move, Yuxi locked the door.Previously, the youngest son of Li Gu’s family in Dongtou came and said that he wanted to rent this room on the west side of their house.Although this house is connected to the three houses over there, it is also a single family.There are three children in Li Gu's family. The eldest brother is married, and he has an older sister. It is inconvenient to live together now because he is not married.Li Gu fell in love with their Westinghouse, and wanted to rent it.

Yuxi thought about it and didn't agree.He rents [-] catties of rice a year.Not too little.His youngest son is nineteen years old this year, and it is said that he is married. If he lives here, it will be difficult for him to leave in the future.After being bitten by a snake for three years and being afraid of well ropes, Yuxi is a little scared now.

I don't know who told the story of Li Gu's renting a house. Within a few days, several people came to the door. Some wanted to rent, and some simply borrowed it.The most disturbing thing among them was the eldest aunt of Wu Ye's family, who directly opened her mouth to borrow the east house as a new house for his son.Yuxi couldn't bear it anymore, and Sanwa had a little fever that day, so Yuxi took the broom and kicked him out.

Although no one came later, the village didn't speak well.Anyway, what kind of white-eyed wolf, what kind of ungrateful, etc., it's very ugly.What is said inside and outside is that they helped Yuxi take care of her parents' funeral, Yuxi didn't know how to be grateful and so on.Yuxi knew it in his heart, and everyone knew it, so he didn't have to argue.

After the house was tidied up, Yuxi poured yesterday's stewed meat soup into the brushed cauldron, and added a seasoning bag in it. She was going to eat the beef for a while before, and cut half of the roe deer meat into similar pieces and put it in the pot.He is not going to turn off the heat of this pot. The soup in this pot is a braised soup base made according to the recipe. In the future, as long as some seasoning is added after a while, it will always remain delicious. The longer the time, the better the taste.

And after two days of burning, he plans to move to Westinghouse with his second baby and third baby. It will be warmer if the Westinghouse is burned every day, not to mention that it is a waist house, with rooms on both sides, separated from the cold.Three meals a day are enough to keep the East House warm during the day.

After breakfast, Yuxi asked the third aunt to come over and have a look at the third baby, and the fire in the west pot.He rode the bicycle of the third uncle's house to the backer market. There were two brothers who opened two shops in the backer market.They are all old butchers, and they are doing a good job.trustworthy.

It took a little faster to ride to Jishang, but it was because the other person was too small and the car was too big, and the wind blew on my face with burning pain.

"Uncle, did you kill the pig today?" Yuxi saw that Boss Sun's house was open, and asked after parking the car.

"Not killed, what do you want to buy, I killed an extra one yesterday, and there are still many."

Yuxi followed the past and saw that there were quite a lot, "Cut me a piece of pork belly, two pig hind legs, do you still have the pig's trotters? Where's the pig's head?"

"Hey, you are going to have a banquet. You have everything." When Boss Sun heard about the big deal, he took a closer look at this kid. He looked eleven or twelve years old, his face was flushed by the wind, but he looked very delicate. , "Whose family do you belong to?"

"The Lin family on the west side of Hongling Village." Yuxi replied after a moment.

When Boss Sun heard the movement of his hands, he stopped, "You are Lin Tai's eldest son, right?"

"Ah."

Boss Sun looked Lin Yuxi up and down, looked neat, and turned his head, "What are you buying these meat for?"

"Buy it back to make stewed pork, and sell it when there is a big market."

Boss Sun moved the two pigtails to the scale, and laughed when he heard him say this, "I didn't realize that you little guy still has this hand. It's 35 yuan in total. I don't want any change, and I'll give you a pair of intestines."

"How embarrassing." Yuxi's face could no longer be red.

"Take it, your father used to help my kid make furniture, and we also had friendship. Live well, and if you want pork in the future, you can come to me."

Boss Sun took a woven bag, put the meat in it, and helped him carry it to the door.

Sun Lao Er went to collect the cattle, and Yuxi asked Sun Lao Er to help order a lot of beef, which will be picked up at the big fair tomorrow.

There were a lot of things. Yuxi rode his bicycle back and fell down several times on the way. When he arrived at Tunzikou, he couldn't ride anymore.After all young.

"Why didn't you call me in the morning, why did you fall?" Dazhu was chopping firewood in the yard, and from afar he saw Yuxi pushing a cart staggering over and hastened to help the cart.

"It's okay, but when I came back, the back was too heavy."

"I bought a lot, can I sell it?"

"Tomorrow's [-]th episode, we should be able to sell it." Yuxi didn't know what to do, but thinking about it, it seems that the old Li's stewed pork can be sold, and it would be great if they could sell half of theirs.

Although most of the people here eat their own pork, or buy some pheasants and hares if they have the conditions, they are still a minority. If the weather is cold, they can drink some wine at home, watch cards and play poker. It’s winter, and some For those who like to drink, in the last episode, I will order some braised meat, buy a sausage, and add a catty of loose baijiu, and I will have a leisurely day.The old Li's braised pork in Jidong sells very well.There are seven or eight others, and they are not bad. Yuxi thinks that the taste he made is delicious, and everyone will know when they eat it.

Dazhu helped him carry his things into the house, but Yuxi didn't dare to enter the house, and his body was cold all the way, fearing that Sanwa would be frozen.Standing by the door curtain of the stove pit to bake, his face was so hot that he was whistled by the wind.It will grow up soon.

"Look at the cold one, you don't have a scarf on." The third aunt saw him like that and quickly bought him some warm water.

"I didn't dare to pull it up, I couldn't see the way clearly."

"Zhuzi, go and get our badger seed oil and rub some on it. Otherwise, there will be a crack tomorrow."

Yuxi didn't dare to grin her mouth hard, and smiled with the corners of her mouth upturned, "It will be fine next time, and I will buy it when I give it away."

After tossing and tossing for a while, I finally recovered. I touched the badger seed oil on my face, and it didn't feel so tense, but it was still hot.Shiny red.

The author has something to say: I wrote this paragraph saying that there are actually real examples of how the villagers decided to send some children away.My grandfather is from the countryside. When I was young, I often went back to my hometown to play during the holidays. When I was young, I often played with three boys. They still have a little relationship with our family.Later, when I was in elementary school for three years or four years, I didn't see the three of them when I went home, and the three children were given away.Only after I asked my mother did I know that the father of the three children had passed away and the mother was mentally ill.At that time, the eldest seemed to be three or four years older than me, the second was a year older than me, and the third was only five years old.The relatives were poor and couldn't afford to support three children. After discussing it, the third child was sent to a family I knew in Shandong.That family has no children.The second child was sent to a village dozens of miles away, and there was no boy in their family.Only the eldest brother went to his uncle's house with his mother.A family falls apart.After that, their mother died within two years, and the eldest didn’t go to school and didn’t understand anything. Later, when he was sixteen or seventeen, he went out to work with other people and didn’t learn much. Anyway, one person was full and the whole family was not hungry, and now he doesn’t have a wife.The second child was found by himself when he became an adult. The parents of that family passed away a few years later, and the elder sister in the family didn’t care about him. He didn’t have much affection, and he was also down-to-earth. He farmed honestly at home, believed in the Lord, and met a girl from the church. The two are married and now have two children, the older is a girl and the younger is a son.Life is also very good.The third child was the youngest when he was sent away, and he didn't remember much about the family. His adoptive parents also regarded him as their own son. They changed their surnames, and they had a good relationship. They got married the year before last, and all the aunts and uncles in the family went to the wedding. The family was still a little reluctant, for fear of letting the child go back.I heard his aunt say to my mother, 'How can we do that? We were raised by others, and we didn't do anything. It doesn't matter what the surname is, as long as he lives well. 'Later, his aunt, taking advantage of drinking too much, said a lot of words of thanks to the old lady, and also said that the child must not go back.He is an adult, and he adopts his parents.Maybe I have a bottom line in my heart, the old lady was not very enthusiastic later.I gave birth to a big fat boy last year, and sent several photos to me.Such things are not uncommon in rural areas.It's just that the Yuxi family in the book still has some wealth, but the poor family I know has nothing left.