This year's winter arrived at about the same time as last year. When it snowed in the middle of the night, Su Qingxue woke up instantly from the cold. She quickly sent Zhou Huaian to the next room and slept with her two sons.
I don't feel comfortable letting children sleep alone in the middle of the night. It's so cold and they might catch a cold if they're not careful.
Although Zhou Huaian was reluctant to leave his wife, his two sons were also his biological sons. Although he was reluctant to leave his wife, he still obediently ran to the next room to watch his two sons sleep.
That is to say, Zhou Huaian has to accompany the children for the first few days. After making sure that the two children do not lift the quilts and do not catch a cold, he will no longer need to accompany them.
After all, this is what we did last year. We try to sprinkle as much water as possible in the house to prevent the kang from being too hot, the house from being too dry, and the children from getting irritated.
This year, there are ice cellars and ground cellars, so Su Qingxue could be said to be hoarding ice openly. Because the ice cellar is only that big, she went to the carpenter uncle and ordered a few wooden boxes, so that the frozen ice cubes can be stacked up one by one, and she can put as much as possible in.
All the water used is from the well, which can be drunk in the summer or kept for cooling down.
The hot springs on the mountain were also planted with vegetables again. The first crop was harvested half a month after it snowed. Half of them were stored in the cellar, and the remaining half was sold directly on the black market.
By the time the second harvest comes, it is almost the Chinese New Year, and the price of vegetables is outrageously high at this time.
Normally, vegetables only cost a few cents per pound, but during low-price inspections, they are sold for 80 or 90 cents per pound. The second harvest is during the Chinese New Year, because everyone wants to have a good dish at home during the Chinese New Year, and also because we haven't eaten fresh green leafy vegetables for a long time, so a pound is sold at a price of two yuan.
This is because Zhou Huaian and Sun Rui were not too shady. If they were a little more shady, they could still sell it for two, fifty or three yuan.
Ordinary people may not be able to afford such expensive vegetables, but no matter what time, there are always some people who are not short of money. They don’t mind that little bit of money, and they just want to eat fresh vegetables.
The entire area of the hot spring cave is filled with shelves. Except for the aisles for walking, the rest of the place is planted with vegetables. Hundreds of kilograms can be harvested at a time. In addition to the occasional prey, a trip to the black market can bring in thousands of dollars.
During this year's Chinese New Year, in addition to Su Qingxue's family of seven and Sun Rui, there was also Sun Rui's fiancée Bai Jie.
It wasn't too outrageous, but the necessary meat and fish were still there.
So Bai Jie didn't think much about it. She just thought that the Zhou family's conditions were slightly better, and guessed that the Sun family's conditions should also be good, otherwise the bride price would not be so much. She was glad that she had a good vision and picked the best one at once.
He was laughing the whole night while eating, grinning secretly and covering his face with his hands, but in fact everyone saw him.
Looking at the cute little girl, Su Qingxue wondered for a moment if she was getting too old.
After dinner in the evening, while others were peeling melon seeds, eating peanuts and various pine nuts and chatting in the living room, I quietly entered the house, took a mirror, and observed carefully.
She is still as fair and tender as ever, and looks to be in her 20s. You can't tell at all that she is already 24 years old.
Bai Jie didn't stay here for too long. She was ready to leave around eight or nine o'clock. Sun Rui was worried about the girl going back alone, so he sent her back together.
After everyone left, Su Qingxue said to Zhou Huaian, "We didn't bring our parents here for dinner today. How about we cook a few dishes and send them to the cowshed? Or should we pick them up now?"
Every year during the Chinese New Year, we would quietly pick them up at midnight. This year, with the addition of a little girl named Bai Jie, it would be a bit inappropriate to pick them up here.
But it’s still early now, and it’s not too late to pick them up. I just have to cook a new meal and stir-fry a few dishes.
Zhou Huaian looked at his watch and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to cook a few more dishes. I'll ask Sun Rui to pick them up when he comes back. Do you have any semi-finished dishes? This way it will be faster."
"Yes, some dishes are more difficult to cook, so I always make a little more each time. There are still quite a lot in the space, I will take them out now."
Normally, I would put the children to sleep at nine o'clock at the latest, but I thought that the elderly people in the cowshed had not seen the children for a long time, so I decided to wait until they saw them before going to bed.
She was a little hesitant, after all, her two sons were not young anymore, they were old enough to remember things, if they saw it, they would definitely remember it, and she was always worried that they would accidentally tell others about it.
But he couldn't not see her, so he took out the semi-finished dishes in the space and put them in the kitchen. He quickly returned to the house and gave a few words to the children, telling them that there were some things they shouldn't say.
In the end, he still felt it was not safe, so after saying a few words, he simply coaxed them to sleep, and when Su's father and mother came, he let them look after the children themselves.
Even if a child is smart, if he is too young, there is still the risk of being tricked.
I gently coaxed the children to sleep and did not carry my two sons to the next room tonight. I let them sleep here for the time being and would take them back after the adults had looked after the children.
After they fell asleep, I went to the kitchen to help, but Sun Rui had already returned and I was of no use at all.
I told Zhou Huaian that the children had been coaxed to sleep, and Zhou Huaian just nodded, indicating that he knew about it, and didn't say much.
He knew his daughter-in-law's concerns and thought it was a good idea, and it would be fine when the children grew up.
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