In Heilongjiang Province, temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius are common in winter, so the well needs to be dug deep to prevent the water from freezing.
Why do we need a hand pump well after drilling a regular well? It's because hand pump wells freeze in winter, so they're used more often in summer and are more convenient.
Actually, this hand pump can be used in winter, but you still need to pour hot water into it and break through the frozen layer before you can use it.
Instead of wasting time, it would be better to draw water directly from a deep well; that would be faster and save us from freezing in the snow.
With this arrangement, I'm really looking forward to the boundless beauty of the northern winter, with its vast expanse of snow.
After school started, her older sister happily reported her summer achievements to her: "I earned a full fifty yuan!"
As he spoke, he took out thirty yuan to pay for her fabric.
Xiao Jiu quickly pushed it towards her, "No need, really no need. What I gave you are just scraps, they're worthless. Just use them."
However, I must remind you that sewing is hard on the eyes, and your eyes are already...”
Tang Cuilan quickly nodded, "I know that. I'm taking it easy. I haven't dared to take on too many. I only make one a week."
"It would be best if you had a plan in mind. Fortunately, Yiyi and Yingying are older and can help you with some things."
Winter has arrived so suddenly, and autumn is only a few days away. You might as well start shopping for winter clothes now, like sweaters, thermal pants, towel hats, and the like.”
Autumn in Northeast China is very short; once the harvest is over, winter may come right away.
My parents have been growing a lot of vegetables on our homestead this year, and all the fresh vegetables we've been eating lately have come from there.
Even Tang Cuilan saved money on grocery shopping.
"Mom said we can buy less vegetables this winter. We have potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, radishes, winter melons, and pumpkins, all of which are easy to store."
She said she would go to Guanshan Village to dry vegetables in a few days, because it gets so hard to buy vegetables here after it snows in winter, so she needed to dry a lot of them.
These days, my parents have been consulting with the old men and women in the village to learn what things they need to stock up on.
Although they all knew their daughter's abilities, they still had to put on a good show.
"Your dad said that once he finishes all the chores in the yard, he'll go with others to buy timber."
We can buy as much coal as we can, but we must make sure we have enough firewood.
Fortunately, there are many forests here; otherwise, relying solely on cutting and carrying timber from the mountains would not be enough for fuel.
With her parents taking care of these things, Xiao Jiu has nothing to worry about. Tang Cuilan has decided to continue living in the rented house this winter.
There's heating here, and all they need to do is pay a small fee, saving the mother and her children the trouble of traveling back and forth.
The rental contract is for two years; we'll talk about it again after one year.
"The village secretary wrote a letter to your dad." Xiao Jiu looked at Tao Changyi in surprise: "Did the sun rise in the west?"
Tao Changyi snorted, "Isn't this all thanks to A-Yue? He secured five coal mine slots for the village at the beginning of the year."
As a result, they argued fiercely and couldn't make a decision. Finally, before May Day, under Zhou Yue's urging, they made a decision with great difficulty.
They've only been working here for a few months, and they're already all unable to stand it and wanting to come back, saying Zhou Yue is a swindler.
But it's a legitimate coal mine; it's not a place you can just come and go as you please.
Wouldn't that take time for them to recruit more people? They're not even willing to wait ten days or half a month.
Xiao Jiu frowned. "We can't just have all five of them quit, can we?"
Zhao Lingli pouted, "No, it's just the village chief's family and the accountant's family that are making a big fuss. The brigade leader's family is doing a pretty good job."
What's even more amazing is that these two not only refused to do it, but also didn't find other young men in the village to take over.
They actually thought about selling this job. Can you believe how heartless they are?
The people in the factory aren't stupid; they just told them to leave, took back their spots, and said they had no right to manage the aftermath.
These two were still unwilling and caused quite a scene at the mine! Finally, the mine police intervened, and only then did they calm down.
Tao Changyi gritted his teeth in resentment, "Cowards! Because of their commotion, Xihe Village has been blacklisted by the mine and will never be employed again."
The other three are probably the only three spots available at the mine. The troublemakers have already been sent back and will no longer be eligible to go to Xihe Village.
"Two rotten apples spoil the whole bunch. They deserve to be cursed! They always knew good things wouldn't come to ordinary people."
Zhao Lingli chuckled coldly: "Forget it, even if we meant well, we might not have done anything good. Look at those villagers, who gave us a kind look?"
The thought of how they had done so many good things for the village, only to be splashed with excrement, made Zhao Lingli furious.
"What was their purpose in writing this letter?"
Upon hearing this, Tao Changyi sighed heavily, then found the letter and stuffed it into her arms.
"Look for yourself. Be careful not to get angry. You can't stand it for these people."
After quickly reading through the text, Xiao Jiu calmly patted her stomach.
"Dad, don't worry about it, don't even bother reporting it back. Bah, what a piece of trash! He actually dared to report us. He doesn't deserve it!"
They even threatened us, demanding we find more opportunities for the young people in the village, and asked me for desks and chairs from the village primary school. How could I possibly accept that?
"That's right, those dark days are all in the past, aren't they? What could he possibly report about us?"
Besides, isn't our family classified as middle peasants? We might have been hesitant in the past, but now the facts are undeniable.
It won't affect our child's school admission or job prospects at all, so what are we afraid of? He's not even as decent a person as his father; he's too greedy!
Tao Changyi thought so too, "I don't plan to get involved. You should also tell Zhou Yue that we don't need to get involved in this kind of thing anymore."
Fortunately, he was shrewd enough to only leave them a post office address, which is why it took a month or two for the letter to arrive.
But so what? They can't possibly travel all that way just for something like this, can they?
Not to mention him, they didn't even reveal Xiao Jiu's and Zhou Yue's workplaces.
The eldest and second eldest brothers were employed by a classified unit, so they had even less chance of finding out.
The only ones who could be targeted are the third and fourth sons.
"I'll have to tell your third and fourth brothers later to be careful of the villagers trying to extort money from you."
“Then Cuihua and the others…” Zhao Lingli was interrupted by Xiaojiu’s laughter as soon as she started to speak.
"Don't worry, Mom, my eldest sister is fine. She even dared to mess with her own mother, and with my brother-in-law backing her up, who would dare to touch her?"
My second sister is in the Northwest, my third sister is in Hubei Province, my fourth sister is in the same area as us, and my fifth sister is in Guangzhou.
The only ones closest to them are my sixth sister in Luo City and my seventh sister in the county town. Of these people, who do you think they could possibly harm?
In the past, there might have been a Tang Cuilan who was manipulated by them, but that opportunity is gone now. Who can they threaten now?
You can't exactly go to a cemetery and threaten the deceased, can you?
Xiao Jiu sneered. If they dared to do that, she would make them spit out whatever they had swallowed.
This village official is an official who stands up for the people, not a place where you greedily pass on your family line and play the hereditary game!
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