The winter here in Qingshan Village has the habit of cat winter. The main reason is that the winter here is too cold and the heavy snow has blocked the mountain roads, so every household here stays at home during the winter and does not go out easily. Originally, here Even Maodong people in China are based on their families. It is rare for a family to take a break in the winter and live a lively life at home. It is not a big family anyway, and they are too far away from each other to have meals together.
The Li family is different. Feng arranged for the family to have separate meals in several rooms, while Li Youzhi and his aunt Yuxiu followed Old Man Li and his wife to eat in one of the rooms. Yuezhen actually very much suspected that Feng's move was just for the sake of fairness. My uncle and sister-in-law eat well. On weekdays, Feng would often stew an egg for her little daughter, secretly hide a few more pieces of meat at the bottom of the bowl, or use the excuse that her sister-in-law is weak, and occasionally add a meal or something in the evening. If the little girl is When my uncle comes back, there will be more delicious food. However, neither Yang nor Xiao Feng are good at saving money, and they often instruct their children to ask for it. Feng sometimes has to give it to her because she is worried about her face. Cats in each room in winter Although they can share some meat and so on, it is nothing compared to the Feng family. The Feng family can have no scruples.
On the second day after killing the pig, Mrs. Feng began to share the food with Maodong. Mrs. Feng didn’t care how many people were in each room. The rice and noodles were the same in each room. Each room got two kilograms of pork. The food was easy to say. In the winter, there were only weeds and radishes, which were packed away early and put in the cellar. Mrs. Feng was a diligent person, and she took several wives to clean up several vegetable plots in front of and behind the house, and planted a lot of vegetables. In the past, when she didn't have enough to eat, Liu would often cook some vegetable porridge to get through it.
For three months, each household was divided into 50 kilograms of cornmeal, 30 kilograms of bean flour, 50 kilograms of black flour, 30 kilograms of brown rice, 10 kilograms of polished rice and 10 kilograms of white flour for four people. A total of 180 kilograms of grain (i.e. Each person has half a catty of grain a day (in ancient times, one catty equaled sixteen taels), which is considered very good for ordinary farmers. At least food and clothing are provided. But the Li family has a total of more than 40 acres of paddy fields and more than 30 acres of dry land. In addition to the several acres of wasteland that have been opened up in the past few years, and the two scholars can be exempted from a lot of taxes every year, the food is really not good, especially in Yuezhen's room, which has many children. Li Sanzhi has always been the most productive at home, so he can One is worth two, and it consumes energy, but it can be eaten naturally, so it is difficult for cats to eat enough in winter.
"The third family has many children, so I exchanged 10 pounds of white flour for a pound of corn flour. I will not replace the polished rice this year, leaving my three grandchildren to cook porridge. From the fourth family, your two children are small and don't eat much. "Let's lose 10 kilograms each of coarse grains!" Mrs. Feng said while weighing the grains. Mrs. Liu from the third room was recuperating. Li Sanzhi and Li Genye went to the mountains to wander around before Xue Xiao closed the mountain. Erlang came to get the grains. Heshiro nodded and said nothing. He was already used to it. Although one pound of white flour can be exchanged for three pounds of black flour outside, but if you can care about it like this in your own family, it would be strange if Feng didn't beat him or scold him. Besides, you can only eat whole grains if you change them. Yue Zhen secretly pursed her lips because of the soy sauce. Mrs. Zhang from the fourth room also nodded. This has been the custom every year. Anyway, she can still eat enough. This year, she did not deduct the amount of white flour and polished rice. It was Mrs. Feng who was merciful.
"Mom, didn't the third brother hunt a lot of pheasants, rabbits and roe deer a few days ago? How much?" Xiao Feng usually has to compete with others in everything he does to ensure that he doesn't suffer, but he is still diligent in doing things. Only A big shortcoming is gluttony.
"You bitch, you're hungry again. Do you want to prepare something good for the New Year's dinner? Your father-in-law and younger brothers and sisters (referring to brother-in-law and sister-in-law) are not in good health, so you don't want to take advantage of the winter to make up for it.
Wow! You are so greedy for just this little thing..." Mrs. Feng immediately became furious when she heard that she dared to ask for something. This daughter-in-law and niece usually secretly give some to all the young and old for the sake of her grandson Youfu.
She is still not satisfied with the food even for the big room. She doesn't even think about the year she didn't secretly send it to her. She just can't figure it out. Feng feels a headache just thinking about it. With such a big and thick look, she really wronged her family.
Son, Ms. Feng didn't want to think about her second son being too lazy to work. She had begged and begged on her own initiative and promised this and that, so her sister-in-law relented and got married.
Little Feng probably thought of something and silenced her, and just finished dividing the things hastily.
"Mom, is everything okay now?" Ms. Yang hesitated. After dividing things every year, she would then divide the New Year's gifts for each room to give to her mother's family. Why didn't she do anything this year?
"It's gone, it's gone, hurry up and leave!" Feng was secretly distressed when she saw the half-empty granary and said impatiently.
"Mom, what should I do with my natal family's New Year's gift?" Mrs. Yang is hoping to send back the New Year's gift so that her sisters from her natal family will envy her. Yang's natal family has many sisters, but none of them are as good as her. She goes back to her natal family to see her sisters envied.
His eyes were filled with joy.
"Each house is responsible for its own affairs this year. The family can't afford much. In the coming years, both the eldest and the youngest will have to take the imperial exams. It will cost a lot of money. Each house should bear some of it!"
"Mom, how could you do this? It's not like our husband is rushing to take the exam, so why doesn't the middle school give out a new year's gift? All the income goes to the middle school, where do we have the money to buy things?" Yang heard about the relationship.
Her husband-in-law has died down, but Xiao Feng has stopped working. He hasn't even seen a copper penny all year round, and he is asked to prepare New Year's gifts. Who is willing! Mrs. Zhang is also worried. She doesn't have any dowry, so it's rare to have it.
Do I still need to use the money from the embroidery work I just sold?
"If you don't get the honor of being a successful candidate in the examination, even the talented scholar will be exempted from several acres of land! Didn't I tell you that you keep the money you earn from working in private? You can't afford the New Year's gift. If you don't have the ability, you won't go back to your parents' home!
Otherwise, hand over the money for the embroidery work, and I will help with the purchase!" Mrs. Feng was dissatisfied with the fact that her daughters-in-law had an honest opportunity to save their own money, so she was thinking of canceling it at some point.
The few people were speechless and went back dejectedly carrying the things assigned to each room. The children in the third room didn't think much about it. Anyway, now that they had money in hand, they didn't panic, so they took the New Year's gift purchased by Feng from the third room.
I still don’t like it! With the money, Mrs. Liu had already bought some things while she was selling ginseng!
The next day, Li Sanzhi took the clothes that Liu had made for his father-in-law and mother-in-law and drove an ox cart with Erlang and Silang to the county. The younger ones were afraid of being frozen and caught the wind, so Liu stopped them from going.
In the afternoon, the snow was getting heavier and heavier. Mrs. Liu was very worried in her room. After a while, she asked Wu Lang to go out and take a look. The Li family had already started to burn the kang. During the day, the whole family was sitting on the kang in the back room.
, Yuezhen had always lived in the relatively warm south in her previous life. When it was such a cold winter, she put on the thickest cotton clothes early, wrapping her whole body like a ball, and would not leave the house easily when nothing happened.
In the evening, Li Sanzhi brought his two children in, and they were filled with cold air.
"Oh, why are you back so late? Get on the kang and cover yourself!" Mrs. Liu hurriedly ordered the father and son when they saw her.
"It's okay, it's not cold. When I came back, my mother gave me a thick quilt to cover me with. It's just that the road was difficult, so I was slow when I came back!" Li Sanzhi said with a naive smile.
"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay!" Ms. Liu said repeatedly.
"Mother, mother, look, grandma, aunt, uncle and aunt also gave lucky money, even to the younger brothers and sisters!" Shiro quickly got on the kang and took out many red envelopes from his pocket.
"I have some here too, mother, please keep them all!" Upon seeing this, Erlang also took out a handful of red envelopes from his arms.
"You're so good, you're so good. Did you cause any trouble to grandma when you went to her house? Dad, did you give any lucky money to your nephews?" Mrs. Liu touched Erlang and Silang's heads and asked.
"Mom, I'm an adult, how can I cause trouble?" Shiro protested dissatisfied.
"Here, here, you have prepared everything. How could I forget? This time my mother and eldest sister asked for money again and I refused, but I couldn't refuse the food, so I had to bring it back!" Li Sanzhi scratched his head and said.
"What do you have here? Have you sent some to your parents? You guys can share the red envelopes. You don't have to hand them in. You can buy whatever you want. We will have a lively life this year." Liu
She is a kind-hearted person, and she is unwilling to wrong her children when she has money in her hands. Other children will keep their New Year's money to buy snacks, firecrackers, etc. Only her own children wisely keep their New Year's money every year for preparations.
Make daily allowances.
When the children heard that they now had money, they all went to distribute the bonus packets with great interest. Even Yuezhen, a child who had no shortage of money, acted like a child and followed suit to distribute the bonus packets.
"Not yet, we will come back directly. When I set out this morning, my father said that since the father-in-law has not prepared any New Year's gifts, from now on, each family's favors will go their own way, and there is no need to hand them over!" San
Zhi said embarrassedly. Although he couldn't stand his mother's behavior, he couldn't say anything. Fortunately, his father was a sensible person, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to his wife. He also knew that the triplets were born prematurely.
The incident hurt my daughter-in-law's heart. She doesn't care about anything for her, but in the end, I feel sorry for her daughter-in-law's injustice, but it's hard to express it.
"Oh, let's give our parents more gifts during the Chinese New Year. What we gave them this time always makes them spend a lot of money!"
"Well, it's all food. There are two five-kilogram pieces of meat, a few chickens, a few packets of brown sugar and some pastries, as well as dozens of kilograms of polished rice, white flour, and eggs. I'm afraid they'll break on the slippery road.
I refused!”
"Well, with these, the children won't have to worry about eating meat, and they won't go hungry this winter. Since you don't have to give it to the middle school, you can quietly send two pounds of meat, a chicken, a pack of brown sugar and two pounds of meat to the fourth room.
Let's go make some cakes. In the past, they secretly subsidized us with some coarse grains in the winter, so that we could survive. The fourth brother and sister's natal family is not as poor as the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law's natal family. I'm afraid the fourth brother and sister will have to subsidize it. You secretly
Bring me another tael of silver!" Mrs. Liu ordered. It wasn't that she didn't want to give more, but if it was too much, people would be suspicious.
As expected, the Fourth Fang was worried about the gifts to his parents' family. Today, all his brothers went out to give New Year's gifts to his parents' family. He was the only one who stayed at home and worried. When Li Sanzhi left, the Fourth Fang and his wife naturally thanked him profusely.
The family was finally able to get through the New Year.
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