"Don't you say the house has to be warm? It's cold in the small suite." That's true. The firewood can't withstand such use.
"Let's buy some coal this year. Burning firewood alone won't be very resistant to the cold." Qiu Yuling felt last year that the brazier would be useless after paying the rent for nine months. Unfortunately, no one in their entire brigade had a coal stove.
She was still thinking that it had not been invented yet, but this summer when she went to her fourth aunt's camp, she saw it again at Wang Xiaotao's house. It was a large stove plate with an aluminum cylinder on it. The longer the cylinder was, the hotter it was inside the room.
When the time comes, buy a few more sections of furnace tubes, set up the furnace in the main room, and let the tubes stand upright from the main room, then run horizontally through the main room and the small room, and finally extend out from the small room...
"That's easy for you to say, but the coal stove requires industrial coupons. Not only do you need coupons for coal, you also need a coal purchase certificate. We don't even have a regular income from the government, so where can we get those..."
Mother Qiu flipped the last pot of chive dumplings over from the flat aluminum pan and asked them to continue frying them. "Your second brother is just a rookie, so don't do anything weird.
In the past, we could buy things with coupons. But this year, your aunt-in-law said to your cousins that not only were there not enough coupons, but they couldn’t even buy anything with them. Otherwise, how could your eldest cousin’s wife be willing to be with a country boy…”
Li Qingmei handed over another leek box. Qiu Yuling waved her hand and watched over the stove. She ate while her mother cooked and was full before she knew it.
Li Qingmei washed the household items and put them over. She covered the food in the winnowing basket with a layer of gauze. Rice porridge was bubbling in the earthenware pot, and she was thinking of sending some to Qiu Jianshe and Qiu Dashan tomorrow.
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