In fact, the feeling of "winter approaching" was not something that people felt suddenly. At least at the beginning, Su Qingluan herself did not have any obvious feelings.
Although various changes had taken place around her, making her realize that the weather was indeed getting colder, the pace of life had not changed much until Su Xuanhe's school announced the suspension of classes.
The reason for the suspension of classes was very simple. Mr. Zhou was on his way to class, and despite taking every precaution, he still fell and got injured. The specific extent of his injury was unclear, but we only heard that he seemed to have broken a bone and needed to stay in bed for a long time.
Besides Master Zhou, there were two other old teachers who occasionally taught in the school, but the other two had taken leave at the beginning of winter.
What's more, even if they didn't ask for leave, both of them were over 60 years old. No one would dare to take the risk of letting two old men who even trembled when walking normally come to teach students in the cold and slippery weather with snow and ice.
Whether they can teach or not is one thing, but if something happens to the two old guys, it will be in doubt whether the entire school can continue to operate.
Of course, Master Zhou is a different matter. One reason is that he is in his prime, and the other reason is that he can start a new school at any time - after all, the fundamental reason for the existence of this school is because of Master Zhou's reputation. After all, he is a real official, and he is always different in everyone's hearts.
Although we were on vacation at home, Mr. Zhou assigned us a lot of homework and said that we would have to wait until next spring when school starts again to conduct a random check.
Of course, there were students whose parents couldn't read, so they could just fool around. But that wasn't the case with the Su family. Su Xuanhe knew that others could fool around, but he had a powerful older sister.
Su Qingluan also came from the student days, and there were times when she was unwilling to do homework. On the last day of winter and summer vacations, when she was working on "a pen, a lamp, and a miracle", when she saw Su Xuanhe's eyes rolling around, she knew what he was up to.
"I'm telling you, Su Xiaoer," Su Qingluan squinted her eyes at her brother, "Even if I don't know the specific content of the homework you've assigned me now, daily calligraphy practice and review are essential. I advise you to tell me the details of the homework, otherwise I'll find out eventually, and you'll be in big trouble!"
Su Qingluan didn't scream at the top of her lungs, nor did she say anything particularly frightening. Even her tone was calm. Yet, Su Xuanhe shuddered. For some reason, Su Xiaoer's mind flashed back to the image of his sister skillfully knocking out a fish head, chopping off a chicken's neck, and removing a lamb leg.
Brutal, so brutal! Su Xuanhe shuddered all over and obediently told him everything that Master Zhou had assigned him.
Master Zhou's school is a private school, with students ranging in age from around 20 to six or seven years old like Su Xuanhe - Su Xuanhe is the youngest of the group.
According to different ages and progress, Master Zhou gave different lessons to each person.
For example, children at the age of twelve or thirteen have to start learning more difficult works such as the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics".
But for a kid like Su Xuanhe who had just started learning, who couldn't even recognize all the words, let alone compose poetry, his textbooks were all short and concise, easy-to-understand contents like "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic", with recognizing words as the primary task.
As for those who are older, such as sixteen or seventeen years old, they even have to study "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Strategies of the Warring States", because if they really want to take part in the imperial examinations, they also have to learn policy essays.
Of course, this is too far away for Su Xuanhe, who is only seven years old. The most important thing for him now is to recognize all the commonly used characters and write big characters every day.
As the weather grew colder, Su Xueyan and Su Xuanhe became increasingly uncomfortable staying indoors when they were not cooking.
In fact, since the second time the road froze and it was inconvenient for everyone to go out, the Su family has been slowly making various efforts to keep warm. For example, they glued the wooden lattice windows that could have been propped up with dark-colored thin cloth strips, and only opened the doors for ventilation when the weather was the best and warmest, such as at noon and in sunny afternoons.
For example, the kitchen, which originally had no door, finally had a wooden door installed. Otherwise, Su Guangfu said that every year when the weather was so cold that the mountains were covered with snow, the water tanks for pickling sauerkraut, water tanks for stagnant water, and some storage containers for other liquid foods and seasonings would easily burst due to the cold weather, and a lot of containers and ingredients would be wasted.
Later, Su Guangfu installed a door frame and corresponding mortise and tenon joints at the door frame position of the kitchen door, but did not install the door panel. It was placed in the warehouse behind the yard. It was put away in the spring of each year and installed again in the winter. It can be taken out separately and used as a partition or for other purposes at other times. It is mainly flexible and maneuverable.
In addition, Yang gave Su Xuanhe and Su Qingluan an extra temporary "hot water bottle" every night - the reason it was called "temporary" was because it was not a real hot water bottle, but a hot water bottle made from an unused clay pot at home.
The reason for this is that there are no extra hot water bottles at home. Another more important point is that two hot water bottles not only greatly increase the heating effect, but also greatly reduce the rate of heat loss. In this way, even on the next morning, the two "hot water bottles" will still be warm.
Every time Su Qingluan saw the structure of the hot water bottle, she thought to herself that it was a good thing that the children of the Su family all had a relatively "peaceful" sleeping posture. Otherwise, if they did a 180-degree Thomas spin when falling asleep, not to mention whether they would get hot water poured on their faces and get burned, they would probably become hard the next day if they were not careful.
After all, if you kick over the quilt, in a room where the heating is definitely not up to standard, there are no heating tools, and the hypothermia caused by sleeping, it is probably a question whether you can survive until the next morning.
Even though the whole family came up with various ways to keep warm, the two little guys still often had cold hands. Seeing that they were starting to have runny noses in the mornings again, Su Qingluan thought to herself that this was not good: these two little guys had to take medicine and eat steamed pears for a long time before they stopped coughing. What if they caught a cold again?
You can’t add any more clothes. After all, cotton-padded clothes are the warmest clothes in this era.
There was no need to think about floor heating or wall heating. Putting aside the fact that Su Jiada didn't have the financial resources, even if he had the money in the future, there wouldn't be any skilled workers or places to do it—after all, that stuff took up a lot of space.
There is no other way, we still have to bring into play the most basic biological magic characteristics - righteousness, and shivering to resist the cold.
This was no joke. Su Qingluan herself had been feeling a bit too cold these past few days, so she decided to pick up the morning jog that she had been doing for a long time in her previous life - of course, with her whole family along.
Anyway, the weather is getting colder and colder, and Su Guangfu's work of repairing the house and Yang's work of making gloves have basically come to an end. Instead of sitting around the charcoal fire at home and shivering, it is better to exercise early in the morning every day. It will not only keep you warm, but also promote blood circulation and is good for your health.
This saves you from staying in the house all day long by the brazier and getting indigestion.
So on this day, the people of Huaxi Village saw Su Mujiang's family, led by their eldest daughter, shouting strange slogans and running around the paths of the entire village in a long circle.
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