Civilian Edition Traveling Farming Diary

The snow is really heavy today. It has been falling for four days and it still hasn’t stopped. Liu Dong came to my house early in the morning and bought two red candles.

I asked him what was the matter, and he said that there was a message from my husband's house that he wanted to have a bridal chamber and light two candles when we got married.

Liu Dong said that they were really hypocritical and wasted money.I was chatting until I realized that ordinary farmers here hold weddings just to bring people home, and just send two eggs to the neighbors. There is no ceremony, no feast, and no big firecrackers, red hijab and red wedding dress.

It's nothing more than going from her mother's house to her husband's house.

Liu Dong's father-in-law attended the wedding of a wealthy family in the village some time ago. When he saw two red candles placed in the house, he wanted his daughter to enjoy it too, so he made such a request to Liu Dong. A candle costs five cents. Money can buy a lot of food, which is not a small expenditure.

Liu Dong complained, but he bought it anyway. These two candles cost ten Wen, which is equivalent to what he spent on the kang for two days.

After Liu Dong left, Chen Xiang said enviously that Liu Dongding liked his future daughter-in-law very much and would respond to every request.I said it’s just candles, we have several in our house, you can light them anytime you want.

Chen Xiang choked for a moment, then blushed, and hid in the house without saying a word.

I thought about it, and it seemed a little ambiguous.

In the morning, someone came to match Chen Xiang again. I pushed him away. The matchmaker looked at me strangely. I knew what he was thinking, so I ignored him.

While pushing the snow, I heard that Liu Tou, who lived alone in the west of the village, died of freezing. This was the first person to die of freezing in the village this year. Everyone was just talking about it, and few people felt sad.

I am very glad that I found a job before winter came and earned enough money to survive the winter. I also sounded the alarm for myself. If I am not diligent, I may be the one who freezes to death in the coming year.

After pushing the snow, I went to fetch water again, and filled the water tank at home. In fact, the snow at this time was very clean, and the snow water was drinkable, but it was not as sweet as the well water in the village. People who were a little more diligent would still carry water.

I always felt that something was missing in this kind of winter. It wasn’t until I saw Zhou Shancai holding a cow in the village that I realized that eating popsicles on a hot kang is the ultimate enjoyment in winter.

I asked Zhou Shancai's family if they had milk, and he said yes, not much. I asked him if he sold it, and he said he had to exchange it for meat.

I went home and took two pieces of sausage. Zhou Shancai was very happy and gave me a big jug of milk.

Chen Xiang asked me why I got so much milk. I said I wanted to make popsicles. He didn't know what a popsicle was. It didn't matter, he would soon know.

But only the simplified version.

I lit the fire, poured out some milk and boiled it. The milk is very pure and fragrant. Boiling is the easiest way to sterilize.

Then add sugar, stir and melt it and put it in a bowl. There are two big bowls in total, and put it in the yard to freeze.

Chen Xiang was very curious, and said that it would be frozen into ice. I said that what I ate was this ice, and Chen Xiang shivered, haha.

Chen Xiang has been wandering around the two bowls of milk all day, and will go out to have a look after a while, it's so cute.

In the evening, when the milk was completely frozen, I took two bowls of milk ice into the house and knocked it open with the back of a knife, and it turned into pieces of crushed ice.

The two of us sat on the kang in my room, lit a candle, and ate sweet milk ice one by one, and the atmosphere was a bit romantic.

The milk ice is very fragrant and sweet. It is not as soft and delicious as ice cream. It is the purest and simplest taste. The ice-cold sweet milk enters my throat, and I also shudder, it is so refreshing!

Chen Xiang ate this food for the first time, and he liked it very much. While eating, he yelled that he was cold. I suddenly remembered that he was suffering from a cold, so I took his bowl away and refused to let him continue to eat. He looked so wronged.

I smiled and picked up a piece of ice in his bowl and put it in my mouth, saying that you just can't eat too much cold food due to the cold.

Chen Xiang's eyes were wide open, and I could see his blushing under such dim candlelight.

I belatedly realized that I was eating the milk ice he hadn't finished, which is indeed very ambiguous between the opposite sex.

What's more, we also lit red candles.

The kind of red candle Liu Dong used for his wedding.

I didn't know what to say, Chen Xiang blushed and said to boil the water for washing the feet, and then hurriedly got off the kang.

I looked at the milk ice in the bowl and felt that the one in his bowl was sweeter.