The three brothers Zhao and Bei watched the female worker with her head wrapped in a cloth walking away with steady steps and straight backs. They were stunned for a long time in the cold wind and never came back to their senses.
After a while, they heard a clerk from the restaurant next to them loudly asking the workers who had come out from the factory to look for food in the afternoon. The three brothers finally recovered from the shock.
"Where is this?" Zhao Bei asked the two brothers beside him.
Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei replied: "This is Xujiazhuang."
Zhao Bei woke up from his dream and looked at the workers and shops around him as he walked forward.
The men and women were all wearing thick coats and hats, and thick-soled linen shoes on their feet, with smiles on their faces and rosy complexions.
It is very different from the way people outside always have their backs hunched.
It looked like they were eating well, and they didn't even appear to be mistreated or harsh. There was a vitality in their expressions, as if the future was bright.
Not to mention the women, the female workers in the button factory had already left a deep impression on Zhao Bei.
But looking at it now, the women are the same as the female workers in the button factory. They walk with straight shoulders and straight backs. Their hair may be long or short, neatly tied behind their heads. They also wear long trousers and hemp shoes. At first glance,
, no different from men.
To be honest, Zhao Bei felt that these could not be considered women, they could only be described as country women.
No, country women don't have anything like this, not even the slightest trace of a woman's slender waist and small steps, nor the delicateness of Tingting's curls.
But aren’t they pretty?
In terms of appearance, there are indeed not many who are pretty, and all of them are bare-faced, and their skin color is not fair.
But their clothes are neat, their hands and feet are clean, and they don’t have too much odor - people in Xujiazhuang seem to be more particular about personal cleanliness than people in other places, especially in terms of personal cleanliness. In such a big bathhouse, there are still many people coming in and out in winter.
so many.
The hotel they have been staying in these days is clean and warm. Even the small wooden cabin called the "public toilet" where they use the toilet is made like a hall. It is not only incense-scented, but also has a sewage system that can be flushed away.
When he first went to the latrine, Zhao Bei was surprised and quickly pulled Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei in to see the mechanism for pumping water.
In front of the simple toilet, the three brothers exposed their most ignorant side.
It wasn't until the room manager discovered that the toilet door had been closed and knocked on the door to test, that the three brothers came out in embarrassment.
Therefore, when we look at these women, they feel strangely healthy, fertile, and powerful.
It’s not pretty, but it’s definitely not ugly, and it’s not objectionable.
But if he thought about his wife taking off her underskirt, wearing the trousers sent by the front desk, and walking down the street with her hair cut off and tied into this spiky look... Zhao Bei was suddenly shocked.
, the hair on the hair stands on end!
With this entanglement of resistance and exploration at the same time, Zhao Bei led the two brothers and finally left the market, walked through the main road cleaned by the villagers, and arrived at the core of Xujiazhuang.
This is where the Xu family's mansion is located. Next to the mansion is a row of colleges, dormitories, and canteens.
The sound of reading that tickled Zhao Bei's heart for several days came from the school here.
It seemed to be lunch break time at this time, and all the people working in the village stopped. Those who went home to cook, and those who went to the canteen to get food, it was much more lively than in the morning.
Looking at the smoke rising from the residential area, the three brothers Zhao Bei looked at each other and felt a sense of unreality.
The winter in Xujiazhuang is very different from the winter elsewhere.
Even in the most prosperous state government, everyone huddles at home to keep out the cold in winter. If there is nothing important, they will not go out unless they can.
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There is not much cooking smoke in the city, because firewood is expensive in winter. In order to save firewood, we only cook hot food once a day, prepare it early, and warm it by the fire in the evening.
As for lunch, what is it?
It doesn't exist!
The nobles of the aristocratic family may still have some hot snacks to eat, so they are not afraid of the long dark nights and severe cold in winter.
But in ordinary people's homes, they may only eat one meal a day, and they are reluctant to light the charcoal fire. They huddle in bed all day long to survive the cold winter.
But if you look at Xujiazhuang, as soon as noon arrives, everyone is like a tide, pouring out from behind the high wall in the most mysterious southeast corner of Xujiazhuang, spreading to all parts of the village in an instant.
Then the smoke rose, the aroma of corn wafted out, and the white snow seemed to become the embellishment, making the place more like the fairy dojo written in the book.
For a moment, the three brothers were stunned.
"Uncle Zhao?" Xu Yue, who walked out of the classroom, called out in surprise to the three people standing in the open space in a daze.
As he walked towards the three of them, he secretly wondered what they were doing here.
It seems that Zhao Bei's illness has completely recovered.
The three brothers turned around and saw Xu Yue holding a book in her arms and walking over in a red skirt that reached her ankles. Her long hair was gently tied back with a ribbon, and she was talking to the young master they met on the road that day.
completely different.
Along the way, the three brothers have already acquiesced in the assumption that the women in Xujiazhuang are not like women. When they saw Xu Yue in traditional female attire appearing in front of them, for some reason, they suddenly felt inexplicably moved.
It turns out that this world is still normal.
The owners of Xujiazhuang are still different from those tenants!
However, before the three of them could be moved by the song, Xu Yue quickly jumped down from a small ridge. The spring scenery under the song... a pair of thick long trousers was revealed, and the three people looked at each other in unison.
Qi Yi stiffened.
Zhao Bei thought, maybe, maybe, it was just because the skirt was long enough and wrapped tightly enough that it was worn by the owner who didn't have to work in the fields.
Of course, it does not rule out that the clothes from last year can still be worn, so I will continue to wear them now.
However, no matter how much he felt in his heart, after meeting his actual savior, Zhao Bei quickly pulled away from the three views that were gradually collapsing into ruins, and bowed with his hands in hand.
"Miss Xu San!" Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei also clasped their fists.
Xu Yue bowed slightly and returned the salute, and asked: "Is the food good in the hotel? Is the stay good?"
Zhao Bei said everything was fine and looked up at the school behind Xu Yue, not hiding his curiosity.
"Miss Third, what are you doing?" His eyes fell on the book in Xu Yue's hand and he asked softly.
Xu Yue laughed and said, "The academy has a holiday and I have nothing to do when I go home, so I go to the academy to teach and earn some pocket money."
"Have the three uncles eaten?" Xu Yue asked with concern.
Zhao Bei was about to politely wave his hand and say he didn't eat, but Zhang Fei, a fast-talking man, already answered cheerfully:
"Not yet, but I've already had breakfast!"
As he spoke, his eyes couldn't help but look towards the student cafeteria where the scent was wafting over him, "The students haven't had breakfast before, so that's why they changed it to noon?"
