Chapter 68:

The entire village was covered with white, as if wearing a silver suit, a thick layer of snow fell on the roof of the tree, and a long ice skate was tied under the eaves.
At this time, most people in the village do not go out, most of them are surrounded by warm Kang Maodong at home. After working for a whole year, and being able to spend a few days in the winter, many people will prepare some little snacks of fried beans and fried seeds, sitting on the kang and surrounding the bed, it is simply not changed.
Xue Tingyan was doing the same at this time. He was wearing a thin jacket and sitting on the kang, with his bed covered with bedding and placed under the kang table. On the Kang table are placed a few small plates with fried melon seeds, fried fennel beans, fried peanuts, etc., and a small bamboo basket made of shells.
I also brewed a pot of tea, and the teapot was placed on a small slap stove. It was Xue Tingyan who cooked it by himself. It contained sour plums, oranges, and frozen pears. They boiled strangely, but they tasted delicious. It's sour and sweet, which warms the stomach and digests food.
Recently, Xue Tingyan has become fatter, and his cheeks have bulged to a degree that is visible to the naked eye. He was born fair and handsome, so it seemed a little flirtatious, but there was a trend towards baby faces.
Now, what he hates most is to squeeze his face, because Zhaoer always has itchy hands, and every time he sees him, he wants to squeeze it, just like Heizi smoothed it when he was young. But now Sunspot doesn't have this kind of treatment. Zhao'er thinks that Sunspot grows up, and Mao is not as soft as before.
At this time, Kuroko was sitting next to Zhao'er, looking at the roasted sweet potatoes in the brazier, one person and one dog.
The rednecks keep warm, except for the kang, which is the brazier. Some exquisite people still get a tile basin or something, while others just take a brick and find a place to build a random one. When winter is over, move the bricks away without delay.
Zhaoer likes to do this.
At this time, the square table in the middle of the second house was moved away and replaced by a large brazier with a half-meter square. A few small ladles were also built with bricks around the brazier and covered with a layer of cotton cushions, which made them very comfortable to sit on.
The sweet potatoes in the brazier were already cooked, and a special sweetness filled the air.
Xue Tingyan's eyes looked at the book from time to time, and Heizi was even more impatient, and he just wanted to fish with his paws. Before the hair paw reached, he was slapped back with a slap.
"I'm so anxious that you're not afraid to give your hair to you."
Kuroko put out her tongue and spit out two hot breaths, the dog's face was a bit deadly. Only the dog vomits to say something, so let's eat it, and then eat it first.
"Wait a little while, I'm not familiar yet." This is for dogs and people. For roasted sweet potatoes, Zhao Er knows the heat by smelling her eyes with her eyes closed.
She flipped through the sweet potatoes with fire tongs. The sweet potatoes did not dare to be put in the charcoal fire, so that they would be burnt directly. Put it on the edge of the brick pot and bake it slowly. This is also why Zhaoer likes to use a brick base brazier, roast a sweet potato and eat a hot pot, which is very convenient.
After a while, the sweetness was even stronger, and Zhaoer took some sweet potatoes out of the brazier.
One was thrown on the ground, and the others were placed in a bamboo basket on the side, and carried to the Kang.
"Come and try."
"Cold or not, sit in."
Two voices sounded at the same time, Zhao Er smiled: "How could I be cold in front of the brazier."
"It's not warm on Kang."
Zhao'er only failed him, so he had to go across from him and tuck his legs into the bedding under the Kang table. As soon as he entered, his feet were encroached on by two domineering legs. Xue Tingyan placed her feet under her legs and tugged the quilts around him.
It's just that after a while, Zhaoer's already cold legs and feet are warmed up.
At this time, the sweet potato was not as hot as it was before, and Zhao Er took a break in half, and the orange-red flesh suddenly appeared, exuding a pungent aroma.
"Give you."
Xue Tingyan took it and took a bite: "Frosted sweet potatoes are sweet."
He ate it in three or two, and went to get another one. Zhaoer was blown straight, wondering how long his mouth grew, didn't he feel hot?
"Don't eat too much, you have to eat later at noon."
At this time, the bedding was dragged by someone, and the two looked over and found out that it was Kuroko.
Heizi's one is finished. No, if you have n’t been addicted yet, just ask for it.
"Look, you are fat recently, and you don't like you if you eat Ming'er cauliflower." Xue Tingyan sneered at it.
Heizi's eyelids were too lazy to tease him, just to show off to Zhao'er.
A person without a wife cannot be compared to a dog with a harem. The black boss walks out, and countless stick together. And he is just a daughter-in-law who still can't figure out how to do so, and will only spoil the poor little rookie.
Heizi coquettes with Zhaoer with a sense of vicissitudes that it should not have, and is exhaled and licked.
It looks rustic, and the dogs are all unspiritual, scratchy, and flabbergasted. Ke Er'er just ate this set, and he laughed a lot, rubbing his head full of pain, and took a sweet potato from the bamboo basket.
Heizi went on holding it, and gave Xue Tingyan a look before he left. Look, this is the skill, and it is incomparable to some people.
Xue Tingyan said to Zhaoer: "Look at that ugly look, you are rare."
"Where is Kuroko ugly, so spirited!"
As he was talking, Kuroko put his head up again and bumped his nose in the palm of his hand. Zhaoer rubbed it before he continued to eat his own delicious food.
One person and one dog can talk about endless harmony.
Xue Ting was so angry that he didn't eat sweet potatoes anymore, and fell asleep in the quilt behind him. Zhaoer glanced at him, knowing that the little man was angry again.
The longer this person grows, the better and better his knowledge, that is, his mentality is not long, like a child.
It is also the time when the two have faced each other recently, and Zhaoer is not so rare. Xue Tingzao is always there. There is always a feeling of disgust between the two. I used to see you a few days ago, always coaxing him with everything tight, but now I coax too much, and I'm lazy.
She finished eating the sweet potatoes in her hands, picked up the cloth towel next to it and wiped her hands. Xue Tingyan is particular about what she wants to eat or eat, so she wants to clean her hands. But I was too lazy to go to Kang, so I put a cloth towel beside me.
Wipe her hands clean and recruit children to take out the account book and abacus. She is learning arithmetic recently. The teacher is naturally Xue Tingyan. Thinking of the formulas in the Scriptures silently, he stroked the abacus at once.
There, Xue Tingyan waited for a while, but did not see her get up, but instead heard the sound of the abacus beads, not to mention more wronged.
When she wanted to call her but had no face, she rubbed her feet with her calf and grinded it with hatred.
"Don't call me, wait for me to finish this." She swept him with her legs in disgust, and Xue Tingyan's grievances increased. What he was about to say, there was a voice outside, followed by a familiar voice loud, actually Mao Badou.
The two of them were busy getting on the kang, and put on thick clothes, and then lifted the cotton curtain to go out.
A mule car was parked in front of the courtyard. Not only Mao Badou was here, but Li Datian and Chen Jian came.
The three men wore thick cotton-padded jackets, cotton hats on their heads, their cheeks froze red, and their mouths were breathing white gas.
He was leaning on a wooden ladder to see Xue Qinghuai, who was shoveling the snow on the roof of the third son, and said, "Tingzi, they say you are your classmates."
"Four uncles, it's my classmates." Xue Tingyan responded and said to the three: "How did you come and how did you find it?"
Zhaoer greeted: "Come in and sit down and talk."
Li Datian drove the mule car in, and Xue Qingbai also got off the ladder, and Xue Qinghuai and the two helped untie the mule. Then one person pulled the car aside, and the other led the mule into the shed.
It's cold this day, the livestock can't be frozen.
Li Datian thanked busyly, and then went to the house with the group.
Mao Badou smiled and said, "Your home is in Yuqing Village, and there is a road under your nose. This will not be found. Also, I was so upset in the house that I ran to Datian and took Datian to find Ajian, I came to you last. "
The cotton curtain hanging in front of the door was lifted, and there was a rush of heat on the head.
Mao Badou stomped a few times and stomped off the snow on his feet before saying: "Hey, you are really warm here." As he said, he moved towards the brazier.
Several people sat around in front of the brazier. Mao Badou was still praising the brazier, and said that he would get one at home when he returned.
Li Datian sneered at him and said that he was blind and nonsense. The town was different from the countryside. There were few burning kangs, most of them were charcoal burning, and the brazier was also built.
In advance of this, Mao Badou was a bitter tear. If it is comfortable to spend the winter, the town is really comparable to the countryside. The countryside is full of firewood. From the autumn, the Zhuanghu people start to gather firewood and save the winter. In winter, they keep the cat warm at home.
But it's not a good place in town. Once it is small, it is inconvenient to burn wood. Don't look at Mao Badou fat, but they are all fat, not resistant to heat or cold, as soon as it snows outside, it will not shrink down on the couch. This is not because I have been living in the house for a long time before I am born into the interest of playing in the country.
"The fire pit in your house is really big, and your dog is also fat." The teenager in the town came to the country and felt that everything was rare. He was so proud that the sunspots looked at him with dog eyes. Master.
"You have dried your trouser legs, and you will all go to the kang, and the kang will be warm."
"Sister Zhao's beautiful and diligent person is a flower in Huyang Township." Mao Badou said sweetly.
Li Datian revealed to him next to him: "You said this to Sister Yan Ran."
"Really?" Mao Badou looked shocked. "You must remember it wrong."
Even though Xue Tingyan discredited more than once, Zhao'er still thought that Badou was a living treasure and was flattering. She smiled and said: "I bought a head sheep before it snowed at home, and the meat was frozen outside. Yesterday I chopped a piece of thaw. Just when you came, I will make you a mutton pot for eating at noon."
"It's so nice to recruit children, I knew there were delicious food here."
This is the reason why the four would rather run so far and come to the Xue family because they have delicious food.
Zhaoer smiled, picked up some of the small snacks at home and put them out, and then patted and went to the stove.
When eating at noon, Mao Badou was surprised again, because the Xue family's eating pot was very different from people's. It turned out that it used an iron rack to eat the pot rack directly on the brazier.
Zhaoer also prepared a lot of boiled dishes, such as Bai Song, radishes, mushrooms, sauerkraut, and frozen tofu. Mao Badou could not wait to swallow his tongue.
"Sister Zhaoer, do you have a place in your house? I want to stay here for two days." The words hadn't settled yet. He also felt a little shameless, and he was busy with a serious story: "It's also a long time that I haven't discussed learning with Ting Yan. Let's be together Discuss. By the way, I went to the teacher before I came, and he asked me to bring you a few books. "
It is not convenient to go to the town from the countryside due to the snow, so Mao Badou went to the Lin family many times to try to be a filial piety for the disciples.
"The place at home is so spacious, so big Kang, enough for you to sleep, there are too many futons. It will kill the pigs in two days, and then eat the pig killing vegetables and then go."
"Swine dish? What is it?"
Sure enough, it was a baby in the town, and he didn't even know what a pig dish was. Several rural girls looked at each other, revealing a deep smile.
Li Datian said: "Swine dishes are dishes you haven't eaten."
"Good you Li Datian!"
Mao Badou wanted to poke around and make a fuss, but unfortunately, across a large iron pan, Zhao Er said: "It is also simple to want to eat pig dishes, but you have to do something for me before."
"what's up?"
Zhaoer laughed and said nothing, and said that it was after eating.
What Zhaoer said was to help her write the Spring Festival couplets.
She not only wrote Spring Festival couplets, but also had various blessings. She had prepared the red paper.
"The time has come to test your knowledge. I am not good at writing Spring Festival couplets, so I will leave it to you. I will be responsible for cutting the paper for you. When I have finished writing all these papers, I will take you out and have fun. "Zhaoer moved a thick stack of red paper out and put it on the square table."
This red paper can be different from other papers. It is wide and long, and it is not cut at first glance. Mao Badou and others used visual inspection to write down these red papers, roughly hundreds of pictures?
"Sister Zhao, do you want so many spring couplets?" Mao Badou smacked his lips.
"Sell! Taking advantage of the New Year's Eve and earning a fortune, you can also save some money for buying snacks."
The four of them were pulled out and wrote the Spring Festival couplets all afternoon in the house. Fortunately, the house was warm and full of people. You said I laughed. It was not difficult to pass the time.
After writing one, Zhaoer took the kangtou shop, and the ink on it quickly dried up. Then four people were responsible for writing, and Zhaoer was responsible for collection. By the time it got dark, almost 500 were written, and there were hundreds of more Fu characters, which were not counted anyway.
Zhao'er only smiled to cook. Several people were tired like dogs, but they didn't collapse on the kang. Mao Badou sighed repeatedly, saying that the sister was so cruel, he had a meal, and she wanted his life.
However, they made up for dinner again, and when the meal ended, Zhaoer boiled the water to wash them, and took out a few new bedding that she had just hit this year, and she went to Sanfang and Xue Taoer to sleep.
Looking at the back of Zhaoer's departure, Xue Tingyan had an urge to hit several people out.