Many people in the Northeast have never enjoyed the hot kang. There is an old saying in the Northeast: Wife, children, hot kang. These few sentences express the pragmatism of the Northeastern people and also bear witness to the important position of the hot kang in the lives of the Northeastern people.

For all guests who have been to the Northeast, after experiencing the hot Kanto love, the most comfortable and comfortable thing to enjoy is to sleep on the hot kang and experience the feeling of relieving sleepiness and fatigue.

The heated kang is usually made of adobe or red bricks. In the past, the kang surface was made of sweet potato strips and covered with yellow clay of high viscosity. Three layers of sweet potato strips were added to the yellow clay to form a thick layer.

More than ten centimeters, it is both strong and warm. However, this method is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and has poor fire resistance, so not many people use it now.

The kang head that Li Zhongxin had at his grandma's house was the most primitive hot kang head. He sat for a long time and felt his butt was burning. He immediately told his grandma that he wanted to go out for a walk and go to the toilet.

Burning his buttocks was not the main reason. The biggest reason was that Li Zhongxin really couldn't stand his grandma's nagging words.

Grandma and grandpa's generation had basically never enjoyed any blessings in their lives. Three years of natural disasters struck them every time they opened their mouths. At that time, they basically had no food to eat, they still had many children, and even the money from the elm trees was gone.

My grandma's family was not well-off. He was a small landowner in the countryside at that time, and he was not a very evil person. The land in the family was acquired through frugality in previous generations.

After liberation, all the land of her grandma's family was taken back by the government, and she married her grandpa because he was a poor peasant...

In the end, one purpose can be summarized, that is, to cherish the good life now, to work hard, to be frugal, and never to forget about it just because the life is good now.

Li Zhongxin has heard about the history of his grandma's family countless times in later generations. He even remembers all the relatives in his grandma's family, as if his grandma has loved telling the glorious history of her family all his life.

Li Zhongxin walked out of his grandma's house and planned to visit Xinglin Village again to see what Xinglin Village looked like at this time and how it was different from the memories of later generations.

Just when Li Zhongxin wanted to go away alone, his brother Wang Changming from his uncle's house chased him out of the house and pestered Li Zhongxin, asking Li Zhongxin to take him to play with him.

When Li Zhongxin saw that it was his cousin Wang Changming, he did not refuse to follow him. He even took Wang Changming to the only grocery store in Xinglin Village and bought Wang Changming some of his favorite foods.

Large pieces of candy unique to border villages.

Originally, Li Zhongxin wanted to buy more delicious food for his younger brother, but the food in this grocery store in Xinglin Village was really bad. Not to mention the lack of food, many of the items were about to expire or were about to expire.

, Li Zhongxin would not dare to buy something like this for his younger brother.

Just as he led Wang Changming out of the grocery store, he was suddenly blocked by several children about his age just after walking every 100 meters.

Three years of new life, three years of old life, and another three years of mending.

Since Wang Bo started to get rich, Li Zhongxin's clothes and shoes have changed a lot. The cotton-padded clothes have changed from yellow cotton-padded jackets to bread clothes-down jackets.

In the early 1980s, down jackets had just begun to appear. Due to the relationship between the fabric and down, they felt like bread when worn, and they were also called bread jackets by people in the Northeast.

The clothes are down jackets, and the shoes are children's military hooks.

The most popular shoes in the Northeast in the 1980s were military shoes, such as Lao Jiao Bi, herringbone, three-joint, and military hooks. Among them, the most practical and best-looking shoes were military hook shoes.

Li Zhongxin's family was considered quite good at this time, but the two winter coats he brought from home for his younger brothers in the countryside still had a few small patches on them.

Compared with children of his size like Li Zhongxin and Xinglin Village, they are like heaven and earth.

Several children are obviously taller than Li Zhongxin, but due to poor nutrition, they all appear to be very thin. Several children's cotton-padded clothes have large patches on their arms, buttocks, and knees, and there are even some spots on their feet.

Open-threaded cotton urad (the earliest were self-made cowhide urad shoes in the northeastern rural areas, with urad grass inside, called cowhide urad).

In the 1980s, the cotton-rubber shoes in Jiangcheng were called Mianwula in the countryside. They were made of cotton felt in the middle and shoe cloth on both sides. They were then sewn with a sewing machine and finally a rubber sole was rolled on them.

"What are you going to do? I am a relative of Lao Wang's family on Erdao Street." Looking at the few boys blocking the road in front of him, Li Zhongxin said calmly.

He knew in his heart that he was definitely not suitable to fight with people in a place like this.

The most important thing is that he is accompanied by Wang Changming. Wang Changming is not yet ten years old. If he really gets into a fight with these children in front of him, he will not be able to run away. He cannot leave his younger brother behind.

After announcing his name at home, Li Zhongxin leaned down and said to Wang Changming: "If I get into a fight with them later, you have to run home to find your dad as soon as possible. Just remember and nod.

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After seeing Wang Changming nodding, Li Zhongxin said with a smile: "We are all from the village. My brother also knows you. Let the two of us go over. When we have time, we can come to our home as a guest."

When he was first stopped, Li Zhongxin asked his brother in advance if he knew these half-year-old children. The conclusion was that Wang Changming only knew that these three children were from this village, and he did not know them.

There is a high possibility that a child will hit him.

The folk customs here in the Northeast are fierce, and sometimes they will get into trouble if they disagree, especially when you meet someone from out of town who you don't know. It is quite normal to have a fight.

"This guy is definitely a capitalist bastard. Let's beat him and tear off his new clothes." He was a half-year-old boy who was wearing the most ragged clothes. He was furious when he saw Li Zhongxin's new clothes and shoes.

The reason why he didn't take action directly before was because they didn't know Li Zhongxin's background. Now that he heard that Li Zhongxin was an outsider, he immediately wanted to beat Li Zhongxin. The old Wang family was indeed very good in Xinglin Village, but the beater

Even after missing this kid, Wang Zhi couldn't find any of them.

They didn't have a good impression of Li Zhongxin, an outsider. They were even more jealous of Li Zhongxin's clothes. They didn't like seeing other children better than them.

"Don't listen to his bluffs. We'll beat him and leave. He doesn't know who we are. Beat him like a bastard."

"Don't say hello in the face. If you knock him down later, kick him as hard as you can."

"Run home quickly." Li Zhongxin said to Wang Changming, and walked to the right to open his posture.

Just as Wang Changming ran towards home and several half-year-old children rushed upward, Li Zhongxin suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted: "Look, there is a plane over there."

These half-year-old children have never seen an airplane in Xinglin Village, they only heard about it from the radio.

As soon as they heard Li Zhongxin pointing to the sky and calling out the word "plane", they all raised their heads and looked towards the sky.

Li Zhongxin raised his foot and kicked the one with the longest legs among the children. After kicking him, Saya ran away.

A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. There are many people over there, and he will never impulsively attack them. It will definitely be him who suffers the consequences.

In his heart, Li Zhongxin gave a thumbs up to the guy who watched the handicap created by later generations. If it weren't for this sentence of watching the handicap, how could he have successfully escaped from danger twice.

At this time, I could see the benefits of Li Zhongxin's daily exercise. Although the road was unfamiliar and a bit slippery, Li Zhongxin ran very fast. Before the three and a half-year-old children could catch up, he was already running.

I ran to Erdao Street.

The half-year-old children chased them to the intersection and saw Li Zhongxin and Wang Changming meeting up and almost reaching home. The three of them turned around without saying anything and disappeared directly into the village.

They knew in their hearts that they had failed this time, and if they wanted to take revenge, they would have to wait at least until Li Zhongxin was alone again.

After Li Zhongxin breathed a sigh of relief, he did not take this matter to heart. He just warned himself at this time that during the past few days in Xinglin Village, he must not go out alone, otherwise he would be beaten by those half-year-old children.

If it is blocked, it will be bad luck.

In the evening, Li Zhongxin saw that the meals prepared at his grandma's house were very rich, including a large pot of stewed goose, a large pot of pork stewed with pickled cabbage vermicelli, dried eggplants, dried beans, dried potatoes stewed with meat, and a cabbage stewed with frozen tofu.

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In addition to the four Poon Choi, there are also several plates of pickles and a plate of fried peanuts. The staple food is my aunt's new sticky bean buns and pot stickers.

The whole family sat around a big dark table and ate happily.

Seeing Wang Changming and several uncles wolfing down their food, Li Zhongxin understood that this was because he and his third uncle Wang Bo had sent so many things back home, so that they could have such a rich meal.
Chapter completed!