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The father and daughter returned home chatting and laughing. Jasmine and Lotus cut paper together, and Zhu Yongxin poured some flour into the pot to make paste.
Korean paper is made of cotton and cocoon as the main raw materials. It is very tough and durable. Although it is expensive, it can last through the whole winter. It is still relatively cost-effective in comparison. Zhu Yongxin greeted Mr. Yang before leaving. Even Mr. Yang said The people next to me also bought it together, saying that after the home was finished, they would go and paste the windows for Mr. Yang.
So after Mrs. Yang cleaned the Hehua house, she wiped the window frames roughly, and then hurried back to her own house to clean.
Another strange thing about pasted windows in the north is that they must all be pasted on the outside of the windows. This not only keeps the warmth in the room, but also prevents the window paper from falling off due to heat and moisture.
With the help of his two daughters, Zhu Yongxin quickly glued up several windows in his house. He took his daughter with glue and helped Yang to glue the windows.
Meizi happened to be at home helping to clean the windows. When she saw him coming, she greeted him quickly: "Second brother, sit in the room for a while. I will clean it soon."
Mrs. Liu came out of her room and said, "Hey, second brother bought window paper? Is it enough for my house?"
Before Zhu Yongxin could speak, Mei Zi stabbed her first: "My mother bought it with money, and you can't take advantage. My third brother doesn't want to buy a house for my mother to paper the windows. Even my own house has to be papered by others." ah?"
Mrs. Liu's face suddenly sank: "Mei Zi, what you are saying is that I am just saying hello to my second brother. Why do you talk so much to me?"
"Everyone knows how to say hello, but they are not as smart as you. Why don't you tell me, second brother, why don't you let me help my mother paper the windows?" Meizi said without giving her any dignity.
Yang came out and said, "Why are you so noisy so early in the morning? Why don't you get too tired? Mei Zi, you go inside and make some pig food." Then he took out some money and handed it to Liu and said, "It's the second brother who says this." If you want to paper the windows, I happened to ask him to bring mine out, so I forgot about yours. If you want to paper the windows, you can buy it yourself!"
Mrs. Liu was unhappy with Chapter 12 Fishing, but she wanted to use Zhu Yongxin's side, so she hurriedly ran to buy paper and came back. What she bought was not authentic Korean paper, but a local imitation of Korean paper called cotton cocoon paper. It looked similar in appearance, but there was a big difference in quality.
Both Yang and Zhu Yongxin saw it, but neither of them said a word, and He Hua only glanced at it twice before looking away. Only Jasmine is only nine years old after all. Although it is said that children from poor families have already become the masters of their families, sometimes they are not as much as adults think. When she saw Mrs. Liu holding the stack of paper and said it was Korean paper, she opened her mouth and said: "Auntie, let that The proprietress of the grocery store lied to me. This is cotton cocoon paper, not Korean paper. Take it back and ask her for an explanation."
"What do children know? Why is this not Korean paper?" Ms. Liu scolded, twisting her body and putting the paper into her room, then came out with a broom to sweep away the loose soil on the window frame.
Jasmine touched her nose and turned to Zhu Yongxin for help, hoping to get support. However, Zhu Yongxin naturally understood Mrs. Liu's intention of secretly deducting money. Seeing that Mrs. Yang was not paying attention, Mei Zi did not say anything, and she did not want to talk about her brothers and wives. , so he patted his daughter on the head and said, "How can your aunt be as sharp as you, who can't even distinguish between paper?"
Hehua squatted aside and looked at the confused expression on Jasmine's little face, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, another child who dared to speak out was about to be taught a bad lesson.
Mrs. Fang only stayed at her parents' house for three days before she hurriedly came back with her child. Even so, Mrs. Liu was still grumbling full of complaints. She always felt that Mrs. Fang had done less work by confinement, and those people All the work fell on her again.
In November, which was not yet the busy year, all the women in the family were unpacking and washing bedding and cleaning the house. Zhu Yongxin did not want to go to the main courtyard to help, so he continued to weave straw mats at home and watched a few children.
At this time, the snow has fallen more than a foot thick. Bonin goes out every day and goes crazy without leaving home. Although Hehua also yearns to go sledding and have snowball fights, there are a group of boys in the village going crazy outside, so even if Bonin wants to take her At the same time, she shook her head and refused to go. Jasmine saw that she was staring blankly at the snow outside every day, so she took Lotus out to build a snowman while Shuanzi was sleeping, with eyes made of pebbles and a mouth made of cabbage, and then she inserted a slender radish into the snowman. Use it as a nose, and a fat and honest snowman is ready. Hehua picked up a few more pebbles and embedded them on the snowman's body as buttons, found two sorghum stalks and inserted them into them as arms, and took a small bamboo basket that Fang usually wore and put them on the snowman's head as a hat. Satisfied, he rubbed his frozen little hands and entered the house.
Jasmine had already set up a fire in the stove to heat up the rice. Seeing that the lotus was shivering from the cold, and holding the door open to look at the snowman outside, she walked up and carried her to the stove and lectured: "Come here and look at the fire, open the door and open the door." All the heat has escaped!"
Hehua sat on the small bench in front of the stove, feeling the warmth of the flames. Watching Jasmine stepping on a stone to wash the pot, some indescribable emotions suddenly surged in her heart, and she said, "Sister, wait for us at home." When you have money in the future, you won’t need to cook anymore.”
Jasmine was stunned when she heard this, then continued washing the pots with her hands, and said with a smile: "Okay, sister will be happy when Hehua gets rich and hires people to do the work."
He Hua heard the joke in her tone and did not defend herself. She held her chin and stared at the flames in the stove, thinking about how she could make money. She had a headache when she thought about her previous profession. Her parents were injured at work when she was young. She passed away when she was young. She was raised by the local forestry bureau. Therefore, she naturally followed the organization's arrangements and enrolled in the forest resources protection major after the college entrance examination. She learned professional knowledge for two years based on books. , she was assigned to a forest farm and started to practice professional forestry work. Less than half a year later, she was hit on the head by a red pine tree that had just fallen down... So she had always wanted to wait for spring to go to the forest to see the Northeast. There are treasures everywhere in the forest. In ancient times, it is estimated that there has not been over-exploitation by humans. As long as you are willing to work, you will not have to worry about making money.
After cleaning the pot, Jasmine went to dig through the rice bag. She poured out only half a bowl of broken rice, shook out the sand and bran, washed it and poured it into the pot, only covering the bottom lightly, and added Pour in half a basin of water, cover the pot and start boiling.
Mrs. Fang really didn't have enough milk this time, so she could only feed the baby with rice soup. Fortunately, the child was not picky and ate everything sweetly. But the little bit of broken rice I got back from my parents' house wasn't enough to last for a long time, and it had reached its bottom in less than half a month.
Jasmine put away the rice bag and couldn't help complaining to Hehua: "Last time you and dad went to the city, why didn't you buy some broken rice with the extra copper you earned? Instead, you bought some useless things. .”
Hehua pouted and said nothing, but she felt regretful in her heart. At that time, she did not have a deep understanding of the poverty situation in her family, and she spent all the money she got in the blink of an eye. But after being told by Jasmine, she was not convinced and muttered in a low voice: "Why don't you put that flower away happily?"
"What are you talking about?" Jasmine came over and flicked her brain on her forehead.
"Nothing, I mean can I drink fish soup?" Hehua raised her hand to cover her forehead and quickly changed her words in a good-natured way.
Jasmine took out the frozen pastry from the tank outside, put a basket in the pot and put it in. After hearing what Hehua said, she said, "Where can I buy fish in the cold weather?"
Hehua made up her mind and smiled without saying a word. After lunch, she just said: "Dad, Mom, I'm going out to play!" Then she pulled Bonin and ran away.
After leaving the house, Bonin asked: "Hehua, what are you doing? You haven't picked up the sledge yet!"
"How do you know how to play in one day!" Hehua sneered at him, "Let's go fishing."
This time it was Bonin's turn to laugh at her: "It's freezing cold and the river is frozen, so why are you fishing?"
"Just follow me!" Hehua carried half of the dumplings he had saved and a rag bag at home in his arms. He led Boning to find a place on the river where no one saw him, and picked up a stone. I smashed it down with all my strength, only a bunch of ice flowers splashed up, and when I looked at the ice again, I saw only a white mark.
The two of them took turns smashing, and their arms were so tired that they finally managed to make a small hole in the ice. Hehua Shao broke off some of the dregs of the pastry and threw it in. Sure enough, soon there were fish with black backs tumbling out of the water. Bonin's eyes widened when he saw it, "Why are there really fish..."
Naturally, Hehua would not tell him about the reason why fish lack oxygen underwater. She just threw the cloth bag to him, dug out the stolen embroidery needles and thick hemp rope, and made a simple fishhook. Stuffed some pastry into the ice cave, and soon a long grass carp was hooked by a ruler. Hehua raised his hand and threw the fish onto the ice. It only fluttered a few times before it was frozen. Stick to the ice.
Bonin stumbled over to pick it up and put it into a cloth bag, then came over and squatted on the edge of the ice hole to wait.
The fishhook made of sewing needles was not very easy to use. When encountering a big fish, it would be detached after a little struggle. Fortunately, Hehua had already prepared for it, and Bonin was easily satisfied. He saw that he had already done it before dark. Six or seven medium-sized fish were as beautiful as anything, and they wanted to do some somersaults on the ice.
"Okay, let's go home!" Hehua stood up, patted the snow on her body, and put away the hemp rope and fishhook, "If we don't go back, we'll have to worry if my mother can't find her."
When Bonin saw Hehua move out and Fang was talking, he had no choice but to follow Hehua home with his cloth bag. In the evening, Fang generously fried three fish, and the rest was used to make a thick fish soup for Shuanzi. The whole family was very happy, and Bonin was even more satisfied. He kept shouting that he would go fishing tomorrow and strive to make fish soup for his brother every day.
But Hehua heard Zhu Yongxin say to Fang in a low voice at night: "How about I go out and find some work to save the family from being so tight. Hehua and Boning are only five years old, so they both know that they have to share the burden with the family."
"It's almost the end of the year, what are you going to do?" Fang didn't agree.
"It's all your women's work at home. My eldest brother and my third brother are not all out playing cards. I might as well go to the city and work for more than a month. Even if I don't make much money, at least they will take care of my food and housing." It's better than staying at home." Zhu Yongxin seemed to have made up his mind, "I'll catch a car and go to the city tomorrow."
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