Lian Qiuping hurriedly got off the kang and went to her room to call Li Xianghai.
Lian Xiaomin took the opportunity to take out the small cloth bag containing ginseng. Soon, her aunt and uncle came into her room again. This time, they became excited when they saw the ginseng in the small cloth bag. It looked like good ginseng, and it was quite old, perhaps thirty or fifty years old.
The old gunners (hunters) in the Northeast can often find ginseng in the mountains, so they know more about this thing.
Isn’t it said that Northeast China has three treasures: ginseng, sable fur and deer antlers?
After Li Xianghai checked it, he quickly put it back together and said to Lian Xiaomin, "Don't worry, kid. Your uncle will go to the purchasing station tomorrow and collect the goods there."
Lian Qiuping also nodded in agreement, and told Li Xianghai to take time to go to his uncle's house and ask his cousin, the team leader Zhang Shengli, to settle the children in our village.
Boys can be allocated a homestead, isn't this a small blessing? Apply for a piece of land to build a house.
Lian Xiaomin glanced at Xiaofu, who was sitting on the kang playing with his fingers, and instantly felt that the importance of this little kid was highlighted. Oh, she didn't expect that Xiaofu was the head of the family. She had to rely on this little kid to be eligible for the homestead.
Xiaofu noticed that her sister's eyes were looking at her in a strange way. Her cute little face looked innocent. After wondering for a few seconds, she grinned at her sister and continued to play by herself with her head down.
There was a patch of hair on the little kid's head that was still sticking up. Lian Xiaomin couldn't help but reach out and want to rub it. This cute little kid.
After finishing the discussion, my aunt and uncle left quickly. After a day of farm work, the autumn harvest was indeed a tiring job, so they washed up and went to bed early.
Lian Xiaomin and her two siblings were the only ones left in the room. She was finally free. She did not use the kerosene lamp on the table and tried to save other people's lamp oil as much as possible.
So she took out a white candle from the space and lit it. While Xiaofu was not looking over here, Lian Xiaomin turned her back and took out a large basin of warm water. She wanted to wash the two little kids.
First, I picked up Xiao Ya. The baby, who was originally sleeping, woke up when her sister picked her up.
Untie the worn-out quilt and take off the dirty top.
After taking off the diaper, Lian Xiaomin carried the naked little girl into the basin, holding her with one hand and gently scooping water with the other hand to give her a bath.
I also took out some baby shower gel, squeezed it out, and applied it on the baby's body.
The little girl felt a little itchy, and she grinned at her sister, seeming to enjoy taking a bath.
Lian Xiaomin was afraid that the weather was cold and the baby would catch a cold, so she washed him quickly and changed the water again to wash away the foam.
Fortunately, everything was controlled by the mind. I prepared several children's bathtubs in the space, added warm water, changed the basins, and controlled it with the mind smoothly. I finished bathing the little girl quickly.
All the previous clothes and quilts were thrown away, and Lian Xiaomin covered her with the new gray quilt and lay on the kang.
She also took out a light pink top from the space and put it on the little girl, and then put a diaper on her. This way she could wear it all night long, and the baby would be comfortable and she would have less to worry about.
Let the little girl lie down by herself for a while. The baby is very well behaved. She is more than four months old now, but she can't roll over yet. She is very thin and small. She is enjoying the bath and lies there comfortably without making any noise.
Lian Xiaomin quickly grabbed Xiaofu again, stripped the one and a half year old kid naked in a few seconds, and put him in the basin to wash.
She was a little afraid that her aunt would hear the noise and come over, but the door was locked and she couldn't be seen.
Xiaofu didn't know how he got into the basin. Children like to play with water. He patted the water with his little hands a few times and laughed happily.
Lian Xiaomin quickly whispered to Xiaofu, "Xiaofu, let's not play in the water anymore. Let's take a bath and go to bed. Xiaofu, are you tired too? Let's not let anyone hear us. Please keep your voice down."
She put a finger to her lips in a hushing gesture.
Xiaofu looked at his sister obediently, nodded as if he understood, and imitated Lian Xiaomin and whispered: "Kiejie, wash it."
Lian Xiaomin worked quickly again and soon washed Xiaofu clean.
The baby shower gel she uses has no fragrance, which is just right in this era and she doesn't have to worry about others smelling the fragrance.
After washing, Xiaofu was dressed in clean new clothes, a small white vest, and a pair of small underwear. Xiaomin had washed these clothes in the washing machine in the space villa before buying them.
After giving the two babies a bath and feeding them milk powder, they fell asleep immediately without any need for coaxing.
It seems that the baby is exhausted from fleeing the famine.
Without touching the old quilt from her aunt's house, she found a small quilt for Xiaofu from the space and covered him gently.
It's already getting cold in Northeast China at this time of autumn, and people usually start to cover themselves with thin quilts at night.
Lian Xiaomin put away the bathtub and slipped into the small villa in the space. She finally relaxed.
I took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and ate a portion of siomai and two barbecued pork buns.
It feels so good to be full. Thinking about that bowl of bitter wild vegetable and cornmeal "soup", and now eating the food in the space, I feel so happy that I am about to take off.
After eating, she went back to the kang, with Xiaoya on her left and Xiaofu on her right. She lay down between the two children and fell asleep.
The baby was too young, and Lian Xiaomin had to get up twice in the middle of the night to feed Xiaoya her midnight milk and to change Xiaofu's diaper.
There was a small children's urinal that Lian Xiaomin had taken out on the floor of the room. She just had to hold Xiaofu and sit on it.
Such a useful thing can only be obtained with the stock brought by the 21st century. In 1968, supplies were scarce, and everything was in short supply. She had to slowly adapt to everything here, and then use the space supplies carefully.
A night passed, and at dawn the next morning, I heard the sound of Lian Qiuping getting up.
Lian Xiaomin woke up, but did not get up immediately. She continued to lie on the kang and dozed off.
After a while, he gritted his teeth, got out of bed, slowly got up and put on his clothes.
This set of clothes was the same one that the young girl Lian Xiaomin wore when she fled from famine. However, it had been washed and dried last night. Although it turned white after washing, it was fortunately very clean, otherwise she would not have been able to convince herself to wear it. It would have been too dirty after being on the road for so many days.
Lian Xiaomin opened the door and greeted her aunt.
There was no breakfast. Who would eat breakfast these days? Every family would get up early in the morning and go straight to work. They would eat around noon. Even the children had to go out to dig wild vegetables to have something to eat.
There are many mountains and dense forests in the Northeast, and supplies are abundant. You can always find something to eat, which is much better than my hometown in Jiang Province.
Seeing that Lian Xiaomin had also gotten up, the aunt came over and said to her, "Xiaomin, you should sleep a little longer. Our whole family will go to work soon. Yufang will also go out with Xiaofenger to pick wild vegetables. Your uncle will take half a day off to go to the commune. You should go back and lie down and rest more today. There is a bag of grain in the kitchen with some cornmeal left. If the two little ones are hungry, you can make some food for them. This is all that is left at home."
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