The pleasant days have passed for about a week. During this week, Fangyuan will go and get some small fish and shrimps every day.
On this day, he just heated up the leftover fish soup he had eaten yesterday, and prepared to go out after eating. However, when he came out of the vegetable cellar and just opened the door of the hut, a gust of cold wind blew in, and there was a blur of white in front of his eyes.
One piece.
A few days ago, Yuan Yuan felt that the weather was going to change, but she didn’t expect it to change so quickly. That’s right! It’s snowing outside, and it’s snowing heavily.
Although the hut built by Fangyuan is not big and the door is only about eighty centimeters high, more than half of it is now buried in the snow.
In other words, the snow is at least fifty centimeters thick. Even if it is a little thicker near the house due to the wind, the snow is still heavy enough.
Although it’s stopped raining now, it’s getting colder. As the saying goes, it’s warm when it snows and it’s cold when it turns to snow. It’s because it’s stopped raining that it gets colder.
And after the first snowfall, the weather will get even colder in the future, and it will remain cold until the end of the new year and the beginning of spring.
Fangyuan didn't wear cotton-padded clothes before, but from now on, he must wear cotton-padded clothes.
Fangyuan quickly closed the door and returned to the vegetable cellar. There was no feeling inside the vegetable cellar. Not only was there no feeling, it was quite warm inside.
Let’s put it this way! If he stayed in the vegetable cellar without going out, Fangyuan wouldn’t be cold even if he only wore a coat, let alone a sweater.
After taking off his coat and sweater, Fangyuan took out his cotton trousers and cotton jacket and put them on, and of course, his coat with fifty patches sewn on.
After putting on the cotton-padded clothes, Fangyuan came out of the vegetable cellar again. This time when she opened the door, it was not so cold. She quickly pushed the snow outside the door and came out of the house.
Looking into the distance, there is a vast expanse of white everywhere, as if the whole world has been covered with a layer of silver, and the reeds in the reed marsh are now invisible.
It’s not that there are no more reeds, but these reeds have been weighed down by the snow and fell on the water. There is a thick layer of snow on top, so of course they are invisible.
Needless to say, the water has frozen, otherwise there would be no snow on it. This still has a certain impact on Yuan Yuan, because he needs to drink water!
But he didn't think about it for the time being. He found a tile nearby and cleared the snow at the door first, otherwise the snow would flow into the house and then into the vegetable cellar after it melted.
It's snowing, so Fangyuan won't go fishing for small fish and shrimps. There's no other way, the lake has frozen, and he doesn't want to take that risk.
After all, he is still young, and the most important thing is how to survive. He originally wanted to go into the vegetable cellar to take a look, but Fangyuan didn't want to miss such a beautiful snow scene.
Because in his time, such heavy snow was no longer visible, and now he was given this opportunity.
So he wanted to go out for a walk while the heavy snow closed the door and there was basically no one outside.
The current Qinghe Commune is different from that of later generations. It is now a long strip. The reason why it is called this is because it is long from east to west and narrow from the south.
It is almost four kilometers from the eastern end to the family courtyard west of the woolen mill, but it is not even 500 meters from north to south.
The entire Qinghe Commune was built along the middle road, all the way to the east gate of the Woolen Mill. To the west of the Woolen Mill, next to the west gate of the Woolen Mill is the Family Courtyard.
Today, Fangyuan did not go to the street, but went to the west gate of the woolen mill. All the employees of the woolen mill lived here.
Even if some are not, they are still employees’ family members. You must know that employees are different from ordinary people.
Although they are also in Qinghe Commune, they do not farm, but eat commercial grain, which is rationed every month, basically the same as in the city.
This is Fangyuan's first time here. Not to mention, it is really different from the commune. At least the children here are better dressed than there.
Over there in the commune, you couldn't see anyone coming out at this time, let alone children, but here, as soon as Fangyuan came over, he saw a few children playing in the snow.
There were running and having snowball fights, and there were children holding shovels and building snowmen.
These children didn't react much to Fangyuan's arrival, maybe because they were young and simple-minded.
Yes, the children playing outside were all younger than Fangyuan. Fangyuan didn’t see anyone around the same age as him, or older than him.
The family courtyard of the Woolen Mill is very large. It is about 500 meters to the west from the west gate of the Woolen Mill, and the north and south are almost the same. Moreover, there is not one family courtyard, but many.
There is a sign above the gate of each family home. Some of them say "Sand Foundry Workshop 1", "Sand Foundry Workshop 2", some say "Production Workshop 1", "Sand Foundry Workshop 2" and so on.
Needless to say, housing should be allocated according to each department.
The houses here are all the same, all made of bricks and tiles. Anyway, Fangyuan didn’t see any two-story house.
Opposite the west gate of the Woolen Mill is a street, an east-west street, and these family homes are on both sides of this street.
None of this is important. What is important is that this street is very lively, not at all like the lifeless Qinghe Street.
As soon as he entered the street, Fangyuan saw a breakfast shop, and the door of this breakfast shop was actually open, and there were people eating breakfast inside.
This surprised Fang Yuan. You should know that private business was prohibited in this era, and it seemed that this pavilion was not open to the public.
Although Fangyuan had money and food stamps in his hand, he didn't go in. A man dressed like a beggar went to a breakfast shop to have breakfast. Isn't that a joke!
Not to mention that he has eaten, even if he has not eaten, he will not go in.
Fangyuan then walked inside and found other shops, but these shops were not open yet.
We walked all the way to the western end, and there was wasteland beyond. Fangyuan then walked back. Along the way, Fangyuan counted and found that there were more than a dozen shops on this street alone.
Among them, three only sell breakfast, and the rest are more miscellaneous, including non-staple food stores, grocery stores, supply and marketing cooperatives, vegetable shops, butcher shops, etc.
It makes Fangyuan feel that this place is similar to the Imperial City. Don’t forget that the people living here are all woolen mill workers.
People here are salaried just like people in the city, and they need to spend money to buy food and supplies.
Of course, buying things is the same as in the city, you need a ticket, and you can’t buy anything without a ticket.
Just as Fangyuan was walking back from the west end of the street, he saw some children who were older than him or about the same age as him coming out of various courtyards.
Each of these children is carrying a schoolbag cross-body. The difference is that these schoolbags are of various types, including military satchels, cloth bags, and some schoolbags made of materials that cannot be described.
But they all forgot to go in one direction. Fangyuan knew that that direction was the school, and he had already passed there just now.
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