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Chapter 36 Winter Solstice

 It took about a week before and after dividing the mountains to cut firewood, and the talents in the brigade successively cut back the whole year's firewood allocated by themselves.

  Then, the sound of sawing wood and chopping wood was heard one after another in the courtyards of each house.

  In the Peng's yard, Aunt Peng was chopping wood, and Feng Zhiyi and Peng Yaya folded the dried branches and leaves into small bundles, which could be directly stuffed into the stove and burned.

  Although she could fix it with just one tree in one morning, she couldn't take it easy after that. She wandered into the deep mountains every day, and got a lot of treasures in the deep mountains. When he came back, he brought a large bundle of firewood as a cover.

  Therefore, she alone prepared a lot of firewood. It was piled high and filled the Peng's yard, so she had to pack up the firewood at this time.

  In the busy time, the winter solstice comes quietly.

  When I woke up early in the morning, I found that it was frosty and icy outside. I gritted my teeth and supported Feng Zhiyi, who tried to dress the same as everyone. Pants, put on fleece cotton socks and fleece cotton shoes...

  No way, this body is too chilly.

  Finally, put on the outermost jacket, which is the most common in the countryside, but it is the kind of low-key plain suede, not the bright and dazzling silk satin.

  However, when she came out again, Aunt Peng, who happened to be getting out of bed, saw her two fluffy stand-up collars covering her cheeks, making her already small face even smaller, and suddenly smiled, "How do you wear it? So much?"

  "A lot?" Feng Zhiyi looked at Aunt Peng and Peng Yaya, and saw that they were indeed not well-dressed, but they were both wearing smocks outside, so I couldn't tell what they were wearing inside, "All knotted. It 's freezing!"

  After speaking, she looked down at herself, and seriously, she only had three tops and two pants, and they weren't very thick, and they didn't look bloated at all!

  Aunt Peng smiled and tied her apron, "Where are you going? You wear so much before it's the coldest? Then when it's 20 to 30 degrees below zero, what do you wear? Are you wrapped in a quilt?"

  "Minus 20 or 30 degrees?!" Feng Zhiyi stared at it and was a little surprised, "Isn't this in the south? Why is it so cold?"

  "It's not very south," Aunt Peng lifted the lid on the water tank , lightly smashed a thin layer of ice on the water surface with a water ladle, scooped the water into the pot, "It belongs to the middle, and it is a bit west."

  "Oh, I'm more afraid of the cold." When the big time came, she put the special made in the end of the world. Take out the cold-proof underwear and wear it, it can withstand the temperature of minus fifty or sixty degrees.

  After filling the pot with water, Aunt Peng went to the stove to make a fire, "Today is the winter solstice, shall we make glutinous rice balls or rice cakes?"

  Feng Zhiyi, who was about to help Yaya with her hair and braids, took the comb that Peng Yaya handed over to her. , and Peng   Yaya looked at each other and said in unison , "rice cake/glutinous rice balls!"

  Aunt Peng laughed and stuffed the lit pine leaves into the stove, "The two of you will discuss it and then tell me."

She scratched her hair embarrassedly, "Then the rice cake."

  Feng Zhiyi felt a sense of being given up by a child, and combed Peng Yaya's hair and asked Aunt Peng, "Auntie, what are the customs here?"

  Peng Auntie laughed, "How can we have any customs here? The people in this brigade originally fled from all over the world, and most of them have different customs, but it's the old club..."

  Aunt Peng seemed to realize something. After a sudden meal, he looked up and saw Feng Zhiyi as if he hadn't heard it. He was discussing with Yaya which headband to use, and secretly relieved, as if nothing had happened, "Let's make rice cakes. The rice cakes can last longer. It's easier to make with fewer ingredients."

  Feng Zhiyi paused indistinctly for Peng Yaya's braided hand, and asked nonchalantly, "Then how are the rice cakes made here? What can I help with? Is it?"

  "No, it's just a little something, I'll do it myself." Aunt Peng glanced at her brand new clothes, "Are you going to work today?"

  In winter, the farm work in the brigade is only a little, not no. There are also planting winter radish and cabbage, accumulating manure to make fertilizer, cleaning and transforming fish ponds, repairing water conservancy in winter, as well as field management of crops such as winter wheat and rape, and even the work of keeping livestock warm and overwintering.

  However, these jobs are not much, and they are all led by strong laborers. Women and children generally do not go out. At most, they do handicrafts that do not earn work points at home to exchange money for things in private, or store preserved food for winter.

  Educated youths are not local people. Without these things, they can only do these hard, tiring and dirty outdoor jobs with the strong laborers. Feng Zhiyi followed her to dig the ditch and river for a day yesterday. It was dirty and tired. She only earned 3 work points for the amount of digging, and she didn't want to go anymore.

  So, she decided today, "I'll go see if I can take over the chicken and duck farms or pig farms later."

  "Then remember to put a coat outside..." Before Aunt Peng finished her words, outside Then came the sound of a gong from far and near.

  The three of them were silent, perked up their ears to listen, and heard that it was the captain who was informing the members to go to the cafeteria for a meeting at 8 o'clock.

  Aunt Peng immediately asked, "What time is it now? Why is there a meeting so early in the morning."

  Feng Zhiyi raised her hand and looked at the smart brain version of her watch, "A quarter past seven. There should be something to say."

  Then there were still three quarters of an hour, and Aunt Peng quickly cooked a pot of sweet potato porridge, and then the three of them ate breakfast with steamed sweet potatoes.

  Along the way, I kept encountering people who came out of the house to rush to the cafeteria.

  Around Feng Zhiyi and Aunt Peng, a group of elder sisters and sisters-in-law gradually gathered—

  "Yo, is this Yaya?" Aunt Fang, the matchmaker, looked at Peng Yaya, who had a faint tendency to be slim, her eyes glowing. Occupational disease committed, "I haven't seen it for a while, and she is about to grow into a big girl!"

  "No!" The elder sister-in-law of the He family squinted and looked at Peng Yaya with incomparable jealousy, "In the past six months, Yaya has just seen it. It's like turning into a person. Not to mention the long flesh, even the face is white and tender, and the sparse yellow hair has become black and shiny!"

  Some aunts looked at Peng Yaya and nodded in agreement, "Yaya really looks refreshing and neat!"

  Some aunts bluntly touched Peng Yaya's hair, "Sure enough, it's a lot smoother! This braid is tied Yes, it's so beautiful!"

  After speaking, she turned her hair over gently, "Yo, even the lice eggs are gone! It looks so clean!"

  "Can it not be clean?" The sister-in-law of the Liu family on the left next door to Aunt Peng said sourly, "I saw Chen Zhiqing washing and bathing her hair every now and then, and such an expensive soap is so vigorously smeared on

  the girl!" "What is this!" The Wei family aunt on the right next door to Aunt Peng said greedily, "I can smell the expensive rice and white noodles wafting from Sister Peng's house every day, and the smell of meat wafts every now and then. Can this be good for raising?

  " Aunt Peng smiled and said, "Aunt Peng, you are so willing to Yaya!"

  Immediately some people said with disapproval, "Where is Aunt Peng willing! It's Chen Zhiqing who is willing!"

  In that tone, she was jealous, and she seemed to be talking about Chen Zhiqing. She's a big fool, and Aunt Peng is a big idiot, cheating on the little girl from the city.

  Aunt Peng lifted her eyelids, gave them a cold look, and said nothing. In fact, there is nothing to say, this is indeed the credit of Feng Zhiyi.

  Feng Zhiyi smiled awkwardly, "It's the brown rice and coarse grains that I didn't have a partner with before, so I bought some fine grains with the money ticket. The meat is also the bacon sent from home some time ago, and I didn't buy it on purpose. I want it myself. Eating is nothing."

  In fact, Feng Zhiyi didn't really do anything special, and he still gave the food according to the original negotiation. It's just that she ran out of coarse grains, so she kept giving 10 catties of rice and 10 catties of white noodles.

  Because of the refined grains, Aunt Peng even saved her five yuan per month for vegetables. Therefore, Aunt Peng really did not take advantage of her.

  Then Aunt Peng cooks with water and adds a drop or two of oil. She couldn't eat it, so she provided a pot of oil, saying that it was sent by her family.

  This staple food is eaten well, and nutrition will naturally follow.

  In addition, she saw that both Aunt Peng and Yaya had some small problems, especially the lice on Yaya's head and the strange smell on Aunt Peng's body. She didn't want to suffer or be contaminated when she was with them, so she prepared it. Mix the ointment with the soap to wash their hair and bathe them.

  In this way, not to mention the little girl Peng Yaya who loves cleanliness and beauty, even Aunt Peng looks clean and refreshing.

  As for the meat, it was really sent to her by the old chief last time. Afraid that it would spoil if she didn't eat it, she asked Aunt Peng to cook it every once in a while. She never took the initiative to buy meat. One is that they don't want to attract attention, and the other is that they don't want to fight against Mien and raise Mien's hatred, so as to spoil the psychology of Aunt Peng and Yaya.

  Everyone was still envious, and some people couldn't help but dig their feet, "Chen Zhiqing, are you going to continue partnering next year? Still with Aunt Peng's family?

  " After understanding the other party's thoughts, "Auntie has a room for me to live in!" The

  other party was speechless. Her own children were so crowded that they had nowhere to live, not to mention giving up a separate room for others?

  Fang's sister-in-law, who was walking behind the crowd, and Wednesday's sister-in-law beside her pouted and whispered, "Aunt Peng is really lucky! Her Yaya hasn't been cleaned up before, she's dark and thin, much worse than your two daughters. Saying that, he lifted his chin forward, "

  But you see now, people have become beautiful and clean, not to mention, they are also very sensible and polite! I guess I have read too much. I learned from Chen Zhiqing, and I learned like a city. She looks like a girl! How attractive!" On

  Wednesday, the sister-in-law seemed to let out an absent-minded "um".

  Fang's sister-in-law turned her eyes slightly, remembered something and asked, "Didn't she ask you first? Why didn't you agree? Don't you have a spare room in your house? Why didn't you let Chen Zhiqing live in to help you? What about you?"

  Then she gave her analysis, "Otherwise, the old man will take half of your monthly allowance of 10 yuan, and he has to keep some for himself. How much can you get? Block? Three? But you still have two children to pull! Don't you feel too tired to panic?! Look at your two children, how much meat is there on your body?"

  Wednesday's sister-in-law pursed her lips, "I heard that She doesn't get along well."

  She is already very tired from going to work and taking care of the two children every day, how can she recruit an eldest lady to serve her?

  "Oh hey!" Fang's sister-in-law was heartbroken, "How many words can you believe in those broken mouths? Maybe it's those jealous Chen Zhiqing's wealthy family, who are generous and chewing their tongues! Chen Zhiqing is not good, can you help Aunt Peng, who has no relatives and no reason, clean up Yaya so neatly?"

  "Look at the jacket and pants on Yaya, I heard that they were all changed by Chen Zhiqing's old clothes! But a How can a good material without a patch be considered an old garment? It was specially given by Chen Zhiqing! I heard that there are several!" Sister Fang said, she wanted to compare, "Your two daughters, or three jackets and three pants share the same to turn the wash, right? "

  Wednesday sister-in-law to look a bit dull regret," we can not be directed at other people's benefits go, people are not fools. " " is

  this what good ah! "Fang sister-in-law disagree," this is the people fingers It's a bit of a leak. It has to be leaked, isn't it bad to leak it to those who need it more?"

  "And, we're not just focusing on this, the key is the girl's education and vision. Just lie to the peanuts. Look at Yaya now, there is more of a girl, which makes people look more pleasing to the eye. Upbringing is also good."

  Sister Fang said more and more earnestly, "Even if you don't think about your current situation, you have to think about the education of your two daughters. Look, which decent girl in the team will marry. What's wrong? Which poor girl gets married? This is a lifetime event." On

  Wednesday, sister-in-law's eyes flashed slightly, and she looked at Peng Yaya who was walking in front and was being held by Feng Zhiyi, and her eyes became a lot smarter. , Thinking of his two twin daughters, he pursed his lips and said nothing.

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