Hello, 1983

The days after that, Liu Qingshan can be described as "painful and happy".

Every morning he went to the mountain to practice martial arts and was beaten by his master. He now knows that master used this special method to temper his muscles and bones.

During the day, work in greenhouses or chicken farms and pig farms;

In the evening, study with Sifeng and Wufeng and review their homework.

The day was packed full of time, absolutely fulfilling.

Although the days were difficult, Liu Qingshan felt that he was like the dormant grass and trees on the mountain in winter, constantly accumulating strength in the freezing cold, waiting for the spring of the next year to bloom with the most beautiful colors of life.

Such days continued until the beginning of November.

This morning, Liu Qingshan got up early to go out, and found a white expanse outside, with a thick layer of snow on the ground.

This is the first snow of this year. It is estimated to be ten centimeters long, and it will basically not melt. This also announces the official arrival of the icy winter.

He still walked up the mountain, and now his steps were obviously lighter than before, and his body was much stronger.

When he came back from practice on the mountain, he saw his eldest brother-in-law was carrying a wooden shovel, clearing the snow from the plastic sheeting in the greenhouse.

Gao Wenxue has a certain way of playing with a pen, and the work is much worse.

Standing on the ground, he cleaned the lower edge first, and then wanted to climb the gable to the top of the shed.

As a result, the foot slipped, and the whole person fell down. Fortunately, the snow on the ground was thick, and he quickly climbed up.

"Brother-in-law, let me come."

Liu Qingshan stepped forward to take the wooden shovel, and then climbed up the gable wall. After a few bangs, he climbed to the thickest beam in the middle.

From this beam to both sides, there are gentle slopes, and as soon as you slide down gently with a wooden shovel, a large sliver of snow falls to the ground.

The temperature inside the greenhouse is high and the plastic sheet is smooth, so the bottom layer of snow is not strong.

After walking back and forth on the beam, the snow on both sides was cleared, and Gao Wenxue sighed: Why can't I do it?

"Sanfeng'er, where is Qingxue!"

In the distance, Datou greeted him on the other side of the avenue.

He was walking away from each household, telling everyone to quickly clear the snow from the greenhouse, otherwise, the sun would not get in, and the temperature in the shed would not rise.

"Big head, it's snowing a lot, is there anything wrong?"

Liu Qingshan also shouted, he knew that the big head must have walked around.

"It's not a big deal, it's the big shed of Uncle Lin'er's house. The sticky place was torn apart by the wind. I'm here to borrow Sister Jin Feng's electric iron."

While talking, Datou entered the courtyard and said to Liu Qingshan, "This snow will make the meadows frozen. We must hurry up to harvest the reeds and close the grass curtains as soon as possible."

Liu Qingshan nodded: "Then let's start tomorrow."

When Datou took the electric iron and left, he went to the garden of his grandfather's house and pushed the snow away. In addition, there were the greenhouse of Shanxing's house, grandpa's house, and Zhang Ganzi's house. Take a look.

It was basically cleaned up. It was Zhang Guizi and his brothers. The two of them were carrying a long, big pole with a wooden board in the front.

Standing on the ground, send the wooden pole to the top of the greenhouse, and with a gentle tug, a large piece of snow will be brought down, which is safe and fast.

"Second brother, it's your good thing."

Liu Qingshan said hello, the chicken coop was finished, and he took another 200 yuan from Zhang Guizi to buy iron wire and the like, ready to hoard a batch.

Zhang Guizi laughed twice: "Qingshan, it's snowing, one day I'm free, let's go to Suque together."

A few people carried the super big rake together and walked around the village. The snow on the top of the greenhouse was cleared. By the way, they also notified the reed cutting tomorrow.

Sharpening knives does not fail to chop woodworkers,

You have to sort out the tools in advance.

When Liu Qingshan returned home, he found that the fourth and fifth were building a snowman at the gate.

This first snow was relatively sticky because the temperature was not so low. The two little girls pushed two big snowballs, one big and one small.

I was worried about not being able to carry the big snowball. When I saw Liu Qingshan, I immediately ran over and grabbed one of his arms.

Liu Qingshan smiled and helped them to work: put the smaller snowball on top of the big snowball, the lower one as the body, and the upper one as the head.

Then the two little girls began to decorate the snowman: red pepper for the nose, two black charcoal for the eyes, a broken bucket on the head, and two rows of buttons drawn on the body, as if wearing a woolen coat.

"Haha, this snowman is my brother!"

Shan Xing smiled so much that both eyes curled up.

The fourth child also slapped: "Then let's build two more little snowmen, one for me and one for you."

The two little guys were very motivated, and soon they made two smaller ones. In order to distinguish them, scarves were drawn around their necks.

"It's time to eat!"

Lin Zhi's voice came out, and the fourth little brother ran to the east courtyard and called his grandparents and Yang Hongying over for dinner.

According to the usual practice, when the first snow falls, the two meals are officially started, and the time for school is no longer divided into morning and afternoon.

"Teacher, does the snowman we built look good?"

The fourth elder pointed at the snowman and showed off.

Yang Hongying praised: "It's so beautiful, who are these snowmen?"

The fourth elder blinked his eyes: "The younger ones are me and Shan Xing, and the older one is Teacher Yang."

Wasn't that what you said just now?

Shan Xing moved her lips, but in the end she didn't speak.

Liu Qingshan couldn't help but burst out laughing: You little sycophant!

After breakfast, together with my eldest brother-in-law, we cleared the snow above the earthworm greenhouse in the backyard, and also cleaned the snow on the courtyard and the road. This is also an unwritten rule in the countryside.

If the avenue opposite someone's house is not swept away, it will be laughed at as a lazy family.

A heavy snow, the whole world turned into a silver, as if all of a sudden a lot of clean.

But those birds and beasts are miserable, foraging has become a big trouble, and the whole winter is also the most difficult season for them.

The thieves of the old family are better, they are cheeky, they are in groups, around the chicken trough and the duck food bowl, and pick up some leftovers.

Those birds and beasts in the forest are really difficult. The most comfortable is the squirrel, but they have reserves of food, so they don't panic.

It seems that life is still a bit calculated.

After cleaning up the snow, Liu Qingshan took advantage of the warm time at noon to live a little sand and mud, and together with his grandfather and brother-in-law, they built the stoves of the two families.

The stove is made of red bricks. As for the iron stove, it is still a high-end commodity, and it is still rare in rural areas.

Because it mainly burns firewood, the stoves are built relatively large, add some corn kernels or wood stalks, etc., and the house will soon be hot when it starts to burn.

In addition, the heated kang can also dissipate heat, so the room is not cold at all.

But the fire must not be stopped. At this time, the doors and windows are single-layered and not so tight. Therefore, after the fire is stopped, the temperature in the room drops rapidly.

When I woke up the next day, the water in the tea jar could freeze into ice cubes.

In the words of the old ladies: the house is freezing, and even the urinal on the head is frozen!

Of course, now that winter has just entered, it is not so cold, but the work of keeping warm and preventing cold must also be put on the agenda.

This year, not only in the house, but also in the greenhouse. In another month, the stove will have to be burned at night, otherwise the temperature will be too low.

In Liu Qingshan's house, because of the construction of the earthworm pond, there are some bricks left. In other people's houses, there is not even a single extra brick.

He asked the secretary and the captain to discuss it, and he decided to buy a batch of iron stoves and iron stove tubes, one for each family, and install them in the greenhouse. Anyway, these things are purchased at one time and can be used for many years.

We need nearly 30 sets in total, so we have to go to the commune blacksmith furnace to make reservations. Captain Zhang personally went out and drove the big carriage to the commune with the boss.

After dinner, Liu Qingshan saw that the eldest sister took a dustpan of rice into the house and sat on the kang to rub the rice.

First, use a skewer of corn, and stir it down several times on the ears of corn, usually every few rows.

Then both hands grasped the ear of corn and twisted it in the opposite direction, and the corn was scattered into the dustpan.

Yang Hongying looked at the novelty and wanted to help with the work, but as a result, the corn skewer almost slipped into her hand, twisting two ears of corn, and the palm almost became blistered again.

This farm work is really not something you can do if you want.

"Sister, do you want to fry the corn pops?"

The little head of the fourth youngest reacted very quickly, and immediately guessed the intention of the eldest sister.

Because after eating two meals, I was very hungry at night, so hungry that people couldn't sleep, so I chewed some corn pops and fooled my belly.

After seeing the eldest sister nod, the fourth and fifth children jumped up and down happily, and went outside to collect sand.

Because when frying the popcorn, in order to heat evenly, put a few handfuls of fine sand in the pot first.

Of course, frying with salt is the best, but at this time no one is willing to do it.

It's too much of a loser, even a big grain of salt costs 121 jins.

Before the fourth and the others went out, Liu Qingshan had already collected half of the sand with an iron shovel and went into the house. He found a sieve, put it in the pot, and poured the sand into the sieve.

The fine sand leaked into the pot, and the remaining stones in the sieve were thrown away.

Lin Zhi sat in front of the stove to make a fire. Liu Qingshan used a shovel to stir the sand in the pot. When the sand was hot, he poured it into the corn and continued to stir fry.

Snapped!

With a soft sound, some rice grains were heated and exploded, and immediately a small hand reached into the pot, and UU Reading www.uukanshu.com picked out the snow-white rice flowers.

It's the fourth and fifth, you and I, take turns.

The popcorn that had just been blasted was still very hot, and the two little guys were flipping back and forth with their palms, and they were still blowing.

When it is a little cold, it is put into the mouth beautifully, accompanied by the strong fragrance of corn, which is the delicacy in the eyes of children in this era.

In their opinion, nothing worse than some creamy popcorn.

Because the iron pot is not sealed, the popped rice is only a few, and most of them are only cracked by a small seam.

This is called "dumb corn", probably because there is no popping flower.

However, it tastes more crisp, chewing in the mouth, and it is very fragrant.

Even if you eat too much, you will be thirsty, and there are still babies. When they go to school, they also carry two pockets of corn, and chew two handfuls between classes.

Liu Qingshan fry several pots in a row, and then he stopped. He collected another dustpan and firewood to try the newly built stove to see if it worked.

As soon as he saw the stove, Xiao Lao Si's eyes lit up again, and he and Shan Xing found a handful of vermicelli, cut them into inch pieces with scissors, and placed them on the lid of the stove.

After the vermicelli is heated, it will become thicker and thicker, and when the surface is golden brown, it can be taken off and eaten.

After a bite, it is very crispy and has a little burnt aroma.

In addition to baking vermicelli, you can also bake potato chips on the lid of the stove, and in the hearth below, you can also burn potatoes. These are the favorite things for children to do.

There is no way, people at that time have no bottom in their stomachs, especially children, who are running around, hungry...

The next day, Liu Qingshan got up early and went up the mountain as usual. As soon as he walked out of the gate, a black shadow came across him and pushed him into a squat.