Hard times have room

Chapter 348 Rarely Get Up Early
The first day that Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang came home passed so peacefully.

Early the next morning, Paulin got up. It was rare. She was so angry. Usually at home alone, she was willing to get up until three poles in the sun. went.

At this time, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang were still immersed in their sleep, their eyes were full of comfort and stability, and they were not sleeping normally.

Opening the door lightly, the cold air from outside rushed towards Paulin, causing her to tremble, and involuntarily wrapped the ragged cotton-padded coat on her body tighter.

She only has two cotton-padded coats, one is an old cotton-padded coat from childhood to adulthood, which is taken apart every year, and she is still wearing it now!
The other one is that two years ago, Su Hongying gritted her teeth and ruthlessly, ripped fabrics at the market, and bought new ones made of cotton.

Paulin cherishes that new cotton coat very much. She doesn't wear it when it's not important. It's been two years, and the number of times on her upper body is very small. The stickers were placed in the boxes inside the houses of Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang.

Regarding this point, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang have no opinion. Paulin's cotton-padded jacket has been dismantled and repaired too many times before. The patches on it are of different colors. There are guests at home during Chinese New Year, which is really not very similar. look.

It just so happened that Paulin was about to enter junior high school at that time, so she gritted her teeth and made a new one. Now Paulin loves it so much, after a year or two, Paulin has grown, and she can still wear it.

At that time, the picture was convenient, and the clothes were made bigger, so although Pauline has grown a little bit, she still has no problem wearing that cotton coat.

Pauline's old cotton-padded jacket will be refurbished every one or two years, re-flip it, or add some new cotton into it. Anyway, Pauline feels that she has no problem wearing it at all.

Although it will feel cold when you wear it and stay outside, it will be particularly cold when the cold wind is blowing, and the hands, feet and mouth will not consciously tremble, but at this time, people are almost like this, and she is not bad.

There are many girls in the village who don’t have any cotton-padded clothes in winter, or several sisters just wear a ragged cotton-padded jacket that an adult has bought. Whoever goes out to work wears it, and the rest wear all their own clothes and hide under the quilt. squeeze each other next to each other to keep warm.

Putting on that old cotton coat and staying at home would be more friendly, at least not trembling, and it would be even better if it was leaning against the fire to keep warm. Pauline liked it very much.

After opening and closing the door of the main room, Paulin went straight to the kitchen. Although there was a way to the kitchen without opening the door, it had to pass through the houses of Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang. She was afraid of waking them up, so she opened the door from the main room by herself. .

As soon as she walked out of the main room, Pauline reflexively put her hand in her pocket. Her hand had been frostbitten when she was in school. It was a little swollen, and there were a few small holes in some places.

Even though she had been well cared for after she got home, she didn't touch cold water as much as possible, and even soaked in chilli root water, it was only a little better.

The only consolation is that in this big winter, her skin has turned a lot whiter, and she is not a person with dark and yellow skin. White comes back and repeats itself, and this year is no exception.

Counting the days, it seems that she hasn't seen the sun much for almost a month, so she is covered in the bed, and it's strange that she doesn't come back in vain.

Once in the kitchen, Pauline picked up the matchbox directly from the stone beside the stove, scratched it open, lit it, and grabbed a hand from the high pile of pine needles next to it.

Boil water, set up a pot, add water, and do it all in one go.

There is a lot of firewood at home. When she was at home alone all winter, she didn't use it much, and the fire didn't burn much.

The rice is cooked once and eaten for three to five days, and the water is boiled once for three to five days. She alone cannot burn much firewood.

The ones that are piled up at home are enough for a family of three for more than a month.

Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang opened their eyes in a daze, got up, went directly to the kitchen, and saw that Bao Lin was already burning the fire by the stove.

The water in the pot should have boiled and it was making a constant humming sound.

"Pauline, ha. Why do you get up so early?" Su Hongying asked, rubbing her eyes.

While speaking, he also yawned, as if he hadn't slept enough yet.

She hadn't slept well for a long time. More than a dozen people crowded into one room, laying the floor, doing everything at night, snoring, talking in her sleep, and running to the toilet without sleep at night, but the sound of opening and closing the door was super loud.

It was really annoying, and it didn't take a long time. Otherwise, she would have called Wang Jiandang by herself, and the two of them would go out and live in a shed together.

She is more sensitive to sleep, and she is easily awakened when there is a little trouble. In that case, it is no wonder that she can sleep well!

Sometimes I can sleep until dawn, but that's because I've stayed up for a few nights and I'm too tired to fall asleep.

"Well, when you weren't around, I slept under the covers every day, and I didn't get up very much. I didn't lack sleep at all." Pauline replied with a smile.

How could there be no lack of sleep, even in the winter, no matter how long she slept, no matter how fragrant she was, she didn't think of it, and wanted to hide under the covers, but now it's clear that she can't say that!

"The water is boiling, you can wash your face, get a basin to scoop up the water!"

"Oh, I'll be right here." After Su Hongying finished speaking, she turned around to find the basin.

There are only three pots at home, and I don’t usually pay much attention to it. Except for the one for washing vegetables and porridge, which is well placed and not mixed, the other two are used casually. At most, scoop some water into it before using it and rinse it. .

After the family washes their faces comfortably, the next step is to make porridge.

In winter, the family usually eats two meals. Of course, the villagers do not have one meal, especially at this time, when there is a lack of food and food.

The meal at noon was relatively thin, just two sweet potatoes, plus a handful of dried vegetables, chopped, mixed together, boiled and eaten.

It doesn't taste good, but it's delicious.

It will be better in the evening, but that is to add a sweet potato and order more dishes. The vegetable is wild vegetables and dried mushrooms. It is very simple. It is really boring to eat this every day, but it will not work if you don’t eat it.

Although my heart is annoyed, when it is really done, I will unconsciously secrete saliva, and my stomach will growl with hunger. Then, when I pick up the bowl and chopsticks, it will be dry, not ambiguous at all, and finally, the porridge and water in the bowl will be licked. clean.

No way, I'm hungry!

(End of this chapter)