Ever since his family found out he had a girlfriend, they still lived with him. Not only were they very happy, they even sent him more things than before and told him not to treat the girl badly.
"Okay then, Yu He, hurry up and get the honey out. We want to roast honey-flavored rabbits too."
"No problem, I'll get it right away." Yu He said and turned to go to the kitchen to get the honey.
Speaking of it, the honey was discovered by them and Cheng Fangyuan. After they used thick smoke to smoke away the beehive, they took down the beehive. There was a lot of honey in it, filling two large jars.
Cheng Fangyuan originally wanted to give them more, but the two disagreed. In the end, each family got one can, and that was the decision.
At that time, they took it home and said they wanted to give half to Su Tao, but Su Tao refused to accept it and insisted that she had not contributed anything. However, since his cousin started dating her, she accepted anything given to her with a clear conscience.
It’s not as clear-cut as before, as if he wanted to separate every last scallion.
Both families had a sumptuous dinner that night, but the people living on either side of them suffered. When they smelled the fragrance and ate the steamed buns in their hands, they suddenly found them bitter and difficult to swallow.
But they were not shameless enough to go to the door to beg for money. Instead, they quietly took out eggs, made egg drop soup, and comforted the noisy children.
As the days passed, the people living in the snowstorm felt joy and excitement from despair.
Because when they looked up, they saw a vast expanse of white, the sky was no longer snowing, and they could also feel the temperature rising a little bit, but it was too slow.
The ice on the ground was also cracking, forming many mud pits.
It took a full half month for the ice to completely melt. The water levels in the fields and rivers were really frighteningly high. During this time, I kept telling my children not to go near the river, for fear that they would fall into the river and be washed away.
Even adults would stay away when they saw it.
Song Tanglan looked outside and saw that everything was wet. The sound of the river flowing was more urgent than before. No one dared to go to the river in this situation.
Since the snow stopped, Su Tao started visiting again. Every day after eating, she would come to see Song Tanglan, and then the two of them would play with Mumu together.
Mumu can crawl now, and he crawls around every day. Because it is too cold, he can only crawl on the kang, and someone needs to watch him all the time, for fear that he will fall down.
Maybe children are born with a tendency to bump into things, especially Mumu who is very excited every day. Even if two or three people are staring at him, he will still get a bump from time to time.
At the beginning, as a new mother, Song Tangcheng felt distressed, but later she gradually got used to it and became numb. The little guy was always injured in various places, so she even went out of her way to find medicinal wine to apply on the bumps on the little guy.
"Lanlan, I'm here again. The road outside is so hard to walk on. Even after the snow melted, it's still so cold. I still need to heat the kang. If I don't, I won't be able to sleep at night."
Su Tao came to the kitchen very skillfully. Seeing that they were all warming themselves by the fire, she quickly picked up a stool beside her and sat there to warm themselves by the fire as well.
She also picked up Mumu, who was crawling around on the ground, and shook him. Mumu thought that this aunt who often came to visit him was teasing him, so he giggled out of courtesy.
"It's really cold these days. Taotao, do you have enough firewood?" Song Tanglan asked, thinking about what her second sister had discussed with her.
"That's enough, we've prepared quite a lot. Is that enough for you? If not, we can share some with you, but you can't leave us Mumu in the cold."
"That's enough. There's still a lot. How can this little guy be so cold that he can't stop laughing all day long." Song Tangcheng looked at his son who was grinning foolishly and couldn't bear to look at him.
I was complaining like crazy in my heart. I didn't know who this brat inherited his legacy from. He was usually well-behaved, but ever since he learned to crawl, he disappeared in the blink of an eye. If I didn't keep an eye on him for a minute, he would always get into trouble.
She now wishes she could find a leash to tie him up because he is so active.
"It's okay as long as there's more. The ice has almost melted anyway. Given the current situation, the snow should all melt in a few days."
"Based on this situation, it will take about 5 days." Song Tangcheng thought of what her husband said and told him the truth.
Since it hasn't snowed in the past few days, all the men in the team gathered to help. They needed to get the snow into the river so that it would melt more easily.
They also have to open the ridges and drain the excess water from the fields so that they can plow the soil and plant crops.
Everyone was busy during this period. Some were cleaning their homes, and some were cleaning their private plots. Only Song Tangcheng and the others were not in a hurry. The two sisters and Su Tao were waiting for all the snow to melt before they started to clean up their private plots. Anyway, there was plenty of time. If they started turning the soil now, they couldn't plant the vegetables immediately.
Besides, the ground was still frozen solid, so they felt there was no need to go to such trouble.
"Then we should start working in 10 days. Spring plowing started so late this time, and I don't know what the harvest will be like next year!"
Song Tanglan glanced at his worried friend and gave him a warning. "Taotao, don't worry about it. If you have money and tickets, prepare some food! Don't let yourself go hungry."
As someone who had read the original book, she knew that although the snow had begun to melt here in mid-April, it was still snowing in the more remote north.
It was almost May when the ice began to melt. With such a heavy snow, it would take at least mid-June before they could start plowing the land and sowing.
There are only a few months from June to the next winter. How can crops grow so fast, unless all of them have a short growing period? However, they have to pay a certain amount of public grain every year, so they can't grow whatever they want.
So the captains started to have headaches.
Captain Cheng was also having a headache. He looked at the captains of other teams and listened to their discussions.
They wanted to test the commune's attitude to see if the land tax could be reduced this year. They didn't think of directly exempting the tax.
But after much discussion, they finally decided to send two captains with connections to investigate, while the others waited for them to bring back the news.
I'll make plans when the time comes.
Captain Cheng actually guessed that it was unlikely to lower the standard for paying public grain, so it would be better to think about something practical, such as how to make this year's grain mature quickly so that there would still be a good harvest this autumn.
Just as he thought, the two captains who went to inquire about the news came back with embarrassed faces and told everyone what they had found out. Suddenly everyone fell silent.
This news was really too shocking. Those of them who had been growing crops all their lives had some understanding of climate and geography. They guessed that although the snow had melted here, there were still many places where it had not started yet.
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