Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 273 It's Brother Fengtang Here (Three Shifts)

Yang Ruoqing thought about that warm bucket and secretly yearned for it.

But that hot tub is troublesome.

"Father, mother, we can't get a warm bucket right now, why don't we get a brazier to deal with it first?"

Yang Ruoqing suggested.

The brazier is not difficult to make.

Get an old cast iron pan and put some hard wood pine balls or something in it.

Get a wooden frame underneath to hold it steady.

As soon as you put it in the house, the temperature of the whole house will increase accordingly.

"Qing'er is a good suggestion."

Sun's Road.

"Just when we split up last time, Dayun brought an old pot over. I'll bring it over later."

Yang Huazhong nodded: "That's the only way to go. When my legs are healed, the first thing is to hit a warm bucket!"

"Mother, after lunch, I will go to the woods at the back of the village to pick up pine balls." Yang Ruoqing said.

"I chop wood, chop hard wood and set fire to it." Da An said.

"You are weak, be careful that the axe hits your foot, wait for my house to chop." Yang Ruoqing warned.

"Then I'll go pick up pine balls with my sister."

……

During the evening meal, the brazier grew up.

Sun used the split hardwood to stand in the pot, and then grabbed a few handfuls of pine balls and put them in.

The brazier was crackling, and sparks were blazing.

Yang Huazhong cuddled on the bed as usual, while Mrs. Sun led three sisters, Yang Ruoqing, and sat around the brazier with bowls.

Mrs Sun said: "Yes, this brazier has a lifetime, so the soybean oil lamps in the house are saved. It's great."

Yang Huazhong said: "We should have this brazier two days ago. The children have been frozen for several days."

Sun shi smiled and said, "It's not too late now."

Yang Ruoqing felt the warmth brought by the brazier, but there was another layer of worry in her heart.

The house is low and small, and the wood is burning.

Will the carbon monoxide released poison my family?

When she saw those finger-wide cracks in the door, and the holes in the windows.

Let go again.

Ventilation is also good.

……

While cooking breakfast the next day, Yang Ruoqing noticed that Mrs Sun coughed a few times from time to time.

"Mother, why are you coughing? Are you cold?"

Yang Ruoqing asked worriedly.

Mrs Sun shook her head, "Mother is fine."

Yang Ruoqing was a little surprised. It was reasonable to say that there was a brazier in the house, and the temperature rose a little.

Shouldn't catch a cold!

Da An on the side said: "Last night, my mother helped us bake our shoes on the ground. I'm afraid I'll catch the cold."

So that's what happened?

Yang Ruoqing understood.

There has been no sun for days, and my shoes are wet.

It happened that there was a brazier in the house, and my mother sat there holding the grill with her hands, and kept turning it to prevent it from burning.

"The brazier is still not as good as the warm bucket!"

Yang Ruoqing said in her heart.

If there is a warm bucket, the family's shoes can be spread on the barbed wire before going to bed at night.

The next day is sure to be warm.

The mother doesn't have to sit on the ground and guard.

"Qing'er, mother is really fine, don't worry about it."

Seeing that Yang Ruoqing didn't gnaw, Mrs Sun said again.

Yang Ruoqing came back to her senses and nodded.

"I'll burn some brown sugar and ginger water later and drink it to get rid of the cold." Yang Ruoqing said.

Sun shi smiled and nodded: "Okay."

"Sister, that brazier is warm, but it's too expensive." Daan muttered there.

"The basket of pine balls that we picked up together yesterday burned to the bottom in one night," he said.

Yang Ruoqing said, "It's alright, let's pick it up after burning it. There are some in the woods behind."

No matter how bad it is, go to town and buy charcoal.

Yang Ruoqing really didn't know the price of charcoal in this era.

"Mother, how did we spend the winter when we didn't split up in previous years?"

Yang Ruoqing asked again.

Mr. Sun was cooking gnocchi soup, and he pursed his lips and smiled.

"What happened? Just like that."

She continued, "There is a warm barrel in your aunt's house, and a charcoal brazier in your cousin Yongxian's house."

"Others, soak your feet more."

"But at that time, the house we lived in was better than the current one, and there was no air leakage in the house."

Yang Ruoqing nodded.

"Is it just my brother's house in the lobby to burn charcoal? Why don't other people burn charcoal in the house?" She continued.

Hearing this, Mrs Sun couldn't help laughing again.

"You stupid girl, why don't you ask, you can't burn it!"

"Your brother in the hall wants to study. Grandpa is afraid that his hands will shake and he will not be able to hold the pen."

"Even so, I will give him five catties of miscellaneous charcoal in the house in one winter." Mr. Sun said.

"How much is a pound of miscellaneous charcoal?" Yang Ruoqing asked reluctantly.

Sun shi stopped the movement in his hand and thought about it seriously.

"It seems to be graded. If you buy ordinary miscellaneous charcoal, you have to pay twenty cents a pound."

Yang Ruoqing calculated.

Yang Yongxian burns charcoal in one winter, and it costs one hundred cents.

Tan's egg is reluctant to slip one of the people, it is really a treasured grandson!

"I heard from the villagers that fruit charcoal is more expensive."

Sun's chatterbox was also opened.

"It is said that the lowest fruit charcoal can buy several kilograms of ordinary miscellaneous charcoal for the price of one kilogram."

"We haven't burned it before, and we don't know where it's better..."

"I heard that the people who can burn fruit charcoal in our village are Lizheng's family and Laomu's family..." Mr. Sun said.

"Mother, go back to town next time, let's buy some charcoal to burn." Yang Ruoqing suggested.

Now he has forty taels of silver.

If you take one or two hundred pennies to burn charcoal for the winter, you can still afford it.

Mr. Sun shook his head: "I'm not in favor of buying charcoal."

"What?"

"That charcoal fire is always bursting, and it gets on the table and clothes, and it can burn a hole." Mr. Sun said.

"Last year, I washed clothes for Yongxian. There are many small holes in his clothes that were burned by the charcoal fire, and they couldn't be repaired!"

so...

Yang Ruoqing pondered, after all, the warm bucket is still the most ideal heating tool!

However, Dad couldn't make it for the time being.

Fifth Uncle is busy making furniture for his marriage on Laba Day, and he has no time to spare!

Ask Tang Yazi to help you hit the hot tub?

Forget it, he doesn't even have a hot tub in his own home, he doesn't even have a brazier!

After breakfast, Yang Ruoqing was about to take Da An to pick up pine balls in the woods.

Sun folded Luo Fengtang's cotton-padded coat and put it into the basket.

The woman sent Yang Ruoqing and Da An to the door, and told her: "Give the cotton-padded clothes to Tang Yazi first, and then pick up the pine balls."

Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Mother, I know, go to your house."

Just as he was about to walk through the back door of the yard, at the side door of the alley over there, there was the sound of wooden wheels rolling over the ground.

"Sister, look, it's Brother Fengtang here!"

Daan suddenly shouted excitedly, and ran towards the side door.

Yang Ruoqing was stunned.

When did this kid get so excited about Luo Fengtang's arrival?

She also looked towards the side door over there.

At this sight, she was also excited.

Even more excited than Daan!

Over there, Da An was surrounded by the unicycle, watching Luo Fengtang loosen the things on the car.

"Brother Fengtang, are these warm barrels for our family?"

Daan asked excitedly.

(End of this chapter)