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???? Entering the twelfth lunar month of the lunar calendar, the north has truly entered winter.

????People at this time are used to calling the winter as a cat winter. As for how to explain the cat winter, let’s look at the lazy cat lying on the kang, and you will know the image and meaning of the cat winter.

???? In fact, the popular explanation is to hide at home and spend the long winter safely.

???? It's really too cold outside, and it's impossible to do anything in the icy world.

???? What's more, this era looks like a feudal society, with imperial power and the court.

???? So after all the preparations are complete, you can start cat winter.

???? It is also the only day that farmers can rest safely throughout the year. Otherwise, there will be no rest throughout the year.

????As early as late autumn, Mr. Xiao cleaned up the flue walls, heated kang, chimneys, and iron stoves in the house, and cleaned them up, in order to keep them unblocked and to burn fires for heating in winter.

???? Needless to say, the firewood has already been prepared at home.

The most indispensable thing for Maodong is food. Apart from those bacon, frozen meat and some poultry and livestock, there are also vegetables.

???? In the past, there were three people in the family, pickled sauerkraut, pickles and salted eggs.

???? Potatoes, cabbage, radishes and green onions are placed in the cellar.

???? The warehouse is filled with corn tassels, millet, and rice flour bought by Tie Qing.

???? Salt is enough, and there are enough soy sauce, miso and the like.

???? The rest is waiting for the winter.

???? And there are dried vegetables at home, such as eggplant strips, dried beans, and dried peppers... In the winter without refrigerators and green vegetables, the family can eat several meals of "dried vegetables" stewed tofu. happiness!

???? But it’s not always idle in winter. The corn sticks left at home have to be hand-kneaded to remove the corn particles, and then take them to the stone mill at the east end of the village to grind them into corn noodles.

???? There are horses in the village, but horses are not used for milling, only donkeys are good, but only Lao Sun’s family has donkeys in the village, but their family runs a tofu workshop, and the donkeys grind to make tofu at home every day Every day, they have to drive a donkey cart to sell tofu outside. Throughout the year, only in winter, their family does not go out to sell tofu, but makes tofu at home and waits for others to buy it.

???? In winter, tofu can be frozen, so you can buy more and keep it at home to eat slowly, so they don't need to go out to sell it.

???? Generally, a village order a few more plates of tofu, and their family will send them together.

???? So Lao Sun's donkey is also useful, don't lend it to other people's mill.

???? I had to push the millstone manually. In the old Xiao's house, the boss of the old Xiao used to pull the mill, and the aunt of the old Xiao milled the corn flour.

???? This work is too labor-intensive, and Xiao Geer can't do it.

????Old Chief Xiao’s family left two thousand catties of corn sticks for rations, even if it was ground corn flour, it would still be one thousand two or three hundred catties, plus the two hundred catties of corn grains brought by Tie Qing, one hundred catties Xiaomi, as well as the rice and flour he bought, are enough for four people to eat.

????At the beginning, Tie Qing didn't know that there was such a job.

???? It's just that every night before he goes to bed, he looks around habitually, and he was asked to make a few small tricks on the wall. He can't help it. He's used to it. Before this kind of sleep, you have to make the place where you sleep safer, otherwise you will not sleep well.

???? In addition, he slept very late and had nothing to do during the day. It turned out that the family of three living in the front yard would light the oil lamp until eight or nine o'clock at night before going to sleep.

???? And the corn stacks at home are gradually decreasing.

???? During the day, Brother Xiao is doing needlework. The things he brought back belong to Brother Xiao. His hands are also very skillful, and the things he makes are very beautiful. He plans to send them to the city years ago. In exchange for money, I took the money to buy myself something for the New Year.

???? Occasionally Brother Bin would come and play with him in the Westinghouse.

???? And Mr. Xiao and Aunt Xiao brought a basket of corn sticks into the house every day, and then took out half a basket of corn husks and a small bag of corn particles.

The same is true at night, which makes Tie Qing very puzzled.

????Until three or five days later, a strong wind suddenly blew up at night, screaming and screaming, and the temperature in the house also dropped. He was afraid that the elderly and young people in the front yard would be freezing, so he had to go find them. After entering the house, I found a family of three sitting on the kang, rubbing corn particles with an oil lamp!

???? "Why are you here?" At night, because there is a brother Xiao at home, Tie Qing is very considerate and never comes after sunset.

???? But it was windy tonight, and although the room was warm, the tip of Xiao Geer's nose was still red.

???? It's cold!

???? "I see it's quite windy outside, is it going to snow? Let's burn firewood in the stove, so as not to catch a cold in the cold night." Tie Qing looked at them: "This is rubbing corn ?”

???? He has seen others do this job before.

???? "Well, if you want to burn firewood, you can burn some firewood for your house. There is enough firewood at home." Old boss Xiao said while bowing his head while working: "I'll go and burn the kang again in a while."

???? "I'll come." Tie Qing went out without saying a word, came in with dry branches, filled the stove pit of the kang and started burning it, then took two thicker pieces of wood and stuffed it Go in, this kind of wood is resistant to burning, and the fire will not live for half a day, which can ensure that the kang is always warm.

????The kang on Xiaogeer's side was also heated. Xiwuxiaogeer's kang is connected to the stove for heating hot water. After a while, I can wash with hot water before going to bed.

???? His own room was also on fire.

???? Turned around and got on the kang, next to the old head Xiao: "Call me for rubbing corn, I have strong hands."

???? He is a supernatural person, of course he has great strength. Although it is not of the strength department, it is three to five points stronger than the hostility of ordinary people. What's more, this kang is either old or young, Brother Xiao Son said he was 16 years old, but in Tie Qing he looked like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old junior high school student.

????Combined with the shy personality, it's hard to see!

???? Tie Qing quickly rubbed two ears of dried corn cobs with his hands.

???? And he rubs fast, and the work is done in a few strokes. The speed of his work is fast and good, as much as his family of three combined!

???? "I didn't want to ask you to work, but you can do it!" Old Xiao Boss didn't want to ask Tie Qing to come over and rub the corn, but he really felt that eating other people's meat and food , and the shoes on the feet are all made of the skin of other people's prey, which is a bit embarrassing.

???? But Tie Qing couldn't hold back Tie Qing's own willingness, and Tie Qing was strong enough to work well.

???? "What's the matter, cat winter in winter is nothing more than that. From now on, I will come to rub together every night, finish rubbing early and go to bed early, and I will come during the day if I have nothing to do." Tie Qing thought that anyway, he was alone in the house It's not interesting inside, so why not do some work with others.

???? Anyway, he didn't find this job too tiring.

???? In the evening, Lao Xiao’s family ended this night activity early, and that night, the first blizzard after winter swept across the entire northern land.

???? There is only a piece of white snow between the sky and the earth.