Xia Manni learned about this when she was chatting with the aunts at the village entrance.
Ever since she established a "friendship" with the aunts, she would come to the village entrance every day to chat with them. The youngest among them was Xia Manni, and the newly married young wives were too embarrassed to come to the aunts.
The main reason was that the aunts sometimes spoke without restraint. If Xia Manni did not have an advanced soul, she would not be able to cope with it.
"Manier, you don't have a man at home, so why are you in such a hurry to go home?" After an aunt said this, everyone around her started to laugh.
These days, Xia Manni comes to chat with them every day and sometimes helps with some heavy work. They are already very familiar with each other and joke around without anyone getting angry.
Xia Manni thought for a moment and said jokingly, "Although Aunt Qiao made me a cotton-padded jacket, I see that the weather is getting colder and even the price of cotton is rising. We don't have much firewood at home. How about we go chop some firewood and make some charcoal while the weather is still good?"
"Oh, not really, Manelle."
"That's right, it's never been that cold here."
"After all, we are young people, and we love to make trouble."
Xia Anni smiled and said nothing, then said goodbye and went home.
The aunts didn't take it seriously, but Xia Manni didn't come to chat with them for several days.
After Xia Manni returned home, she discussed the weather with the children.
Although there were no thermometers in ancient times, it is not yet the twelfth lunar month and you can see it by your breath in the early morning.
She's a person who hates the cold. When she went to college in the north, she was so cold that she liked to wear cotton pants. Her four children couldn't stand being sick, and now she hasn't gotten medicine for her eldest child. These are no jokes.
You could say she was worrying too much or that she was just young and restless, but since she wanted to live a good life for her four children, she didn't dare to make any mistakes.
When Da Wa saw Xia Manni coming back from outside and wanted to have a meeting, he was a little surprised.
Since the winter solstice, their family has not gone up the mountain. Every morning and evening, their mother takes them to exercise, and the rest of the time, she takes Sini'er to make clothes.
The three of them wanted to go with them, but Xia Manni disagreed at all.
So these days he took his second and third children home to feed the rabbits and chickens, and then watered the vegetable garden.
After finishing all these, he found a place to practice calligraphy, while Erwa took his dog Potato out for a run. Xia Manni didn't say anything about this, but only asked Erwa not to get his clothes dirty and to come back in time for dinner.
Sanwa doesn't want to practice calligraphy and just likes to play with the new abacus that Xia Manni bought for him.
Unexpectedly, just after he finished cooking, he heard Xia Manni coming back for a meeting.
He was a little surprised at first that his mother could actually sit and chat with the aunts in the village. Unexpectedly, after just a few days of chatting, she had finished making cotton-padded clothes for them. His mother would bring back something from the aunts almost every day when she returned home.
"Mom, tell me what's the matter." The eldest boy asked the second, third and fourth boys to sit down. No matter who held a meeting in their family, it was the eldest boy who maintained order.
"The weather is getting colder, and we don't have much firewood at home. We have to go up the mountain to chop more firewood for the winter."
"Mom, we can chop the firewood and use it right away. Won't that make you tired?" Erwa felt that he had enough strength to chop firewood for the family for a few days, so there was no need to go through so much trouble.
"Big Baby and Second Baby, do you think it's colder this year than this time last year?"
The eldest and second child thought about it and nodded.
"You probably didn't chop all the firewood last year, right? I don't want you to suffer from the cold this year. If it gets colder, it will be even colder for us to go up the mountain. Instead of that, why don't we do more in advance so that we don't have to suffer from the cold later."
After Xia Manni finished speaking, the four children in the family looked at her in surprise.
Da Wa felt that what Xia Manni said was different from what she said before, but he was used to listening to Xia Manni so he didn't say anything.
"Mom, didn't you say before that whatever we have is what we get?" Erwa scratched his head in confusion. Why did he look anxious now?
Sanwa looked at his eldest and second brothers, then at Xia Manni and said, "Mom, will this give us more time to play?"
Xia Manni nodded and smiled, "Haha, Sanwa is right. Erwa is also right, that was my previous thought. But if it can make our lives better, why don't we try our best?"
When Xia Manni said this, she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If she continued to act like that, who knows what kind of bad influence it would have on Erwa.
The second child is not as mature and steady as the eldest child, nor as smart and clever as the third child, and not as indifferent as the fourth child.
Erwa has a personality like a firecracker, easily ignited.
You can be bad in attitude, but you can't be bad in action. This is the requirement Xia Manni set for herself after she figured it out that day.
"Mom, let's go up the mountain to chop wood." Finally, the eldest boy made the final decision. He knew that his mother must have her reasons for doing this.
"Okay, after we finish lunch, let's grab our tools and start chopping wood. Don't be lazy, if you can chop big ones, chop big ones, if you can't, chop small ones. Then we can use the ropes to drag the firewood back."
"Mom, how much do we need to chop?" Big Boy watched Xia Manni tidying up the woodshed. She put all the things in a pile, and it didn't look like she put too little.
"It will take three days to finish chopping wood for the house. We will have to burn charcoal then." Xia Manni looked at the two braziers and a stove in the Xia family. They would naturally burn firewood directly. If they had time, they could also prepare charcoal in advance.
Anyway, they have time now, and preparing more charcoal will only take some time.
"Okay, mom, I've never burned charcoal before." No matter what happened, Sanwa was always the first to respond to Xia Manni happily.
She touched Sanwa's head and smiled, hoping it would just be an ordinary winter.
The Xia family finalized their plans and arrangements, and after lunch, they headed up the mountain together. They didn't have to climb very high to chop firewood; they could chop a lot of it right at the foot of the mountain.
Xia Manni cut the thick ones, and then the eldest and second children processed them, while the third and fourth children tied them together.
It was not until Xia Manni came home again and again that the aunts at the village entrance who were familiar with Xia Manni felt that something was wrong.
Why is Mannier so serious? Seeing the weather getting colder, they all urged their men to go up the mountain to prepare firewood for the winter.
But after just two days of cutting trees, the temperature dropped so much that no one wanted to go out.
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