Xu Ning was woken up by the cold in the morning. He touched the kang under him and found it was not very hot. He immediately added firewood to the kang, put on his clothes, opened the door, and saw that it was snowing outside. There was a thick layer of snow on the ground. No wonder it was so cold in the morning.
Xu Ning closed the door and went to the kitchen through the inner door. When the house was being built, Uncle Hongjun said that he was afraid that it would snow heavily in the winter and it would be difficult to open the door, so he opened a door from the bedroom to the kitchen.
Xu Ning cooked millet porridge, peeled a few chestnuts, crushed them and put them in the porridge, boiled three eggs, cut two of the pickled carrots that Erdan brought yesterday, and mixed them with sesame oil.
Just after breakfast was cooked, Xu An got up. He opened the door and saw that it was snowing. He ran around outside excitedly, shouting. Xu Ning saw that he was wearing warm clothes and didn't pay any attention to him. Children should behave like children. When he shouted outside, Xu Mo also woke up. Xu Ning went in to help him put on his clothes and asked them to brush their teeth and wash their faces.
After dinner, Xu Ning planned to light the stove. The stove had been bought a long time ago and had been placed in Xu An's room without being used. Xu Ning and Xu An carried the stove to the kitchen, and when the stove was lit, the brother and sister both became big cats.
Xu Ning planned to try cooking with the stove at noon. He would have noodles and some fried eggs. It turned out to be quite convenient to cook with this stove.
The three of them had just finished their meal and sat on the kang when they heard someone outside calling Xu An. Xu Ning asked Xu An not to get off the kang. She went to open the door and saw three little heads sticking out of the small door. They were Jianmin, Erdan and Dalin. When they saw Xu Ning, they shouted, "Xu Zhiqing, we're here to find Xu An."
Xu Ning quickly asked the three to come into the house, wiped the snow off their bodies with a towel, and asked, "It's snowing, why did you come here?" The three of them laughed, and Xu Ning thought to himself, this comic book is really charming.
After brushing off the snow on the people, he quickly asked them to take off their shoes and get on the kang to warm up. Xu An took out the comic book, and the people read and discussed it. Xu Ning brought them a plate of pine nuts and hazelnuts to eat.
I thought to myself, I wonder if Xu Yang received the things?
In a certain military unit in Jinshi, 2,000 kilometers away from Huaishu Village, Xu Yang, who had just finished training, heard someone calling him to pick up a package. He excitedly asked, "Is there any news about my parents?" I immediately ran to the duty room, took the letter and the package back to the dormitory, put the package on the bed, and quickly opened the letter. There was an unsigned letter with my father's handwriting. The letter said, "Everything is fine, don't worry."
The other one was from Xu Ning and Xu An, who wrote that the pine nuts and hazelnuts they sent him were picked up in the mountains. They said that they could not pick up all the pine nuts, hazelnuts and chestnuts in the mountains, and they had to carry several baskets down from the mountains every day. Now the house can’t even hold all the food. They dried six big bags of wild vegetables and mushrooms picked in the fall, and they could catch pheasants in the mountains. They also said that they had distributed a lot of food and more than 100 yuan, but now the house can’t hold all the food and mountain goods. The vegetables grown in their private plots can only be placed outside and covered with oilcloth. There is no other way. There is too much food in the house and there is really no place to put the vegetables.
She also said that the cotton-padded clothes and shoes she sent to him were all defective products bought from the supply and marketing cooperative. Not only he had them, but everyone in the family had them. She also said that she knew someone from the supply and marketing cooperative, and that they kept the defective products for her. Finally, she told him not to send anything anymore, because there was everything there, and that he could go to Yushu Village to reunite with his family when he had a family visit leave. Later, she mentioned vaguely that the whole family was now in Yushu Village.
Seeing this, Xu Yang's eyes were red, and his tightly clenched fists slowly loosened, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since he joined the army, his heart has been tense. As the eldest son in the family, he was worried about his parents and his younger siblings. Now he finally has news about his parents. The situation may still not be very good, but his parents and younger siblings are together, so at least they can take care of each other.
I wiped my tears, hid the letter, opened the package, and saw the contents: a large bag of pine nuts, a large bag of hazelnuts, pork jerky, toffee, cotton clothes, cotton socks, cotton shoes, and a cotton hat.
Xu Yang now believed what her sister said about there being a lot of mountain products there. She knew someone in the supply and marketing cooperative. If she didn't know anyone in the supply and marketing cooperative, how could it be so easy to get these things?
After seeing these things, Xu Yang felt more at ease. He thought about going over to take a look when he had his home visit leave.
Xu Ning sat on the kang for a while, his head buzzing from the noise of the boys. He went to the kitchen to fill a kettle with hot water and put it on the kang for them to drink when they were thirsty.
Xu Ning planned to braise the pig's head. Thinking of the pig offal that he had washed a few days ago, he took it out from the space, put it all in the pot, added various spices, and cooked it slowly over low heat. He also cut potato slices and soaked kelp and black fungus.
After braising for almost two hours, Xu Ning took the pork head out of the pot and shaved off the bones.
The boys on the kang were now distracted from reading and were secretly looking into the kitchen.
Xu Ning smiled and took out five bowls filled with pork head, pig offal, black fungus, kelp, potato chips, and some soup.
Xu Ning put four large bowls on the table, gave the small bowl to Xu Mo, and went into the house to call the others to come and eat. Xu An came down first to put on his shoes. Jianmin, Erdan, and Dalin were all shy and a little embarrassed. Xu Ning said to them, "Hurry up and eat. It will get cold soon. It's not good food. It's just some pig offal."
The three of them came down to put on their shoes and said, "Thank you, Xu Zhiqing." Xu Ning smiled and touched the heads of the three people, told them to eat quickly, and put on shoes for Xiao Mo as well. Several people sat at the table and ate without raising their heads.
After they finished their bowl, Xu Ning scooped another bowl for each of the four people and took four corn cakes for them to soak in the bowls and eat. The little guys drank all the soup and licked the bowls clean. Xu Ning felt sad when he saw this.
Children in later generations would eat half and throw away the other half.
Xu Ning asked everyone if they were full. Do you still want to eat? Several people said embarrassedly that they didn't want to eat anymore because they were full.
Erdan said, "Xu Zhiqing, what you cooked is really delicious. I have never eaten anything so delicious." Jianmin and Dalin also nodded and said it was delicious.
Xu Ning saw that the snow was still falling. It was already past four in the afternoon and it was getting dark. He was afraid that it would be dangerous on the road after dark, so he asked the others to go back and come back to play tomorrow.
Xu Ning sent the few people to the main road, watched the three of them enter the village, looked up at the sky, the snow was getting heavier, and hurried home.
Xu Ning found a large basin, filled the basin with the pork head and cut it into pieces, then took another basin and put potato chips, kelp, and fungus in it. She found an empty jar on the shelf, filled it with two pounds of wine, took Xu An's small backpack, put the jar of wine in it, and asked Xu Mo to wait at home. She and Xu An each carried a basin and walked towards the cowshed. Xu An walked in front and knocked on the door gently a few times. The door opened from the inside. It was Xu's father who opened the door, and the siblings followed him in.
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