Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 58
In mid-October, the temperature plummeted, as if it went directly from unbearable cold to below zero overnight.

At night, Xu Yue, who was sleeping on the kang, suddenly felt that all the heat had been sucked away from her body, and the hard cold directly hit her heart through her back.

Xu Yue woke up from the cold.

Stretching out my hand to touch it, I realized that the kang had been extinguished at some point, and it had already lost its temperature.

The winter quilt stuffed with reed flowers and old sackcloth fragments can still keep warm when there is a kang, but when the kang is extinguished, it is immediately shivering with cold.

When she was on the kang before going to bed, it was still warm, even a little hot, so Xu Yue slept in only one piece of unlined clothing.

Unexpectedly, he woke up from the cold.

There was a faint sound of wind coming from outside the house, and the window panels at the top of the kang were not closed tightly, and the wind made a "bang bang bang" sound.

The paper industry in Daqing was underdeveloped, and after a eunuch surnamed Cai transformed it into paper for writing, the windows of ordinary people's homes were completely different from what Xu Yue had seen in ancient TV dramas.

The windows of people in the entire northern city are divided into two layers, the inside and the outside. The inside is hollowed out vertical rod window lattice, and the outside is covered with a whole piece of wood to prevent wind and rain.

Therefore, when it really snowed, the romantic scene Xu Erniang had imagined sitting by the window watching the snow could not be realized at all.

If the shutters are lifted, the wind and snow will roll in, and people will freeze to death.

The sound of "woo-woo" leaked in from under the window panel along with the sound of "rustling" like rice grains. Xu Yue crawled out of bed, put on her coat and came to the window in the dark, gently pushed the window panel open, and a gleam of light came through. came in.

Under the gray sky in the early morning, the ground was covered with silvery white, and the snow particles like salt grains were blown to her face with the wind, and the warm skin was instantly transformed into water when it touched it, which was refreshing.

Snowing!
Not caring about admiring the snow scene, Xu Yue hastily lowered the window panels, and the house fell into darkness again.

Xu Erniang also woke up, and asked confusedly, "Is the kang off?"

Xu Yue hummed and told her sister that it was snowing outside.

Xu Erniang tightened her grip on the quilt, feeling the chill of this moment, and could no longer think of romance or romance.

All she wants now is a magic robe that can maintain a constant temperature.

The pity is that now she can't even afford the fabric that can be used to make magic robes. Perhaps what's even more tragic is that there is no fabric that can be used to make magic robes here!

They couldn't sleep anymore, so the two sisters simply put on their clothes and got up to go out and have a look, and re-ignite the kang.

However, the moment the wooden door opened, the two sisters felt the stinging pain and coldness like a knife, and immediately retracted their protruding feet.

Turning around and going back to the house, I went to the low drawer made by A Niang, took out all the clothes in it and put them on my body.

Two tattered old linen clothes, plus two new unlined clothes, new cloth socks, and clogs under the linen shoes, ready before daring to go out.

The sky and the earth turned white, the snow reflected light, and the sky in the early morning was so bright that there was no need to light a lamp.

The two sisters went to the kitchen connected to the room and saw that the kang hole where the fire was burning was not covered and was extinguished by snow.

The two sisters lit the fire again, and there was movement from other rooms. Wang Shi, Xu Da, and Xu Dalang all got up.

The reaction of the two sisters was exactly the same. First, they were sobered by the sudden snow, and then they hurried back to the house and put on all the clothes to keep out the cold before they came out.

"It's only mid-October, and the snow fell a bit early." Xu Dalong sighed while standing under the eaves with his sleeves on.

Xu Yue and Xu Erniang called Dad, and ran into the main room behind Xu Da.

The husband and wife did not sleep on the same kang. There were four rooms in the family. Xu Dalang slept in the west room, Xu Yue and sisters slept in the east room, Xu Da slept in the living room of the main room, and Wang slept in the small side room next to the main room.

The kang in the main room was big and warm, because the kang was burned in the house, Xu Da paid more attention to it, the fire was still burning vigorously and had not been extinguished.

The two sisters hid in Father's quilt, breathed on the little hand while absorbing the warmth of the kang, and finally recovered.

Xu Yue muttered: "Down jacket, duvet, cashmere socks, woolen gloves."

It seems like this can warm yourself up.

But the reality is cruel. None of the things she talked about are here.

Maybe there are too, they are all in the homes of the rich and powerful, and have nothing to do with her, a little girl from the slums.

Wang Shi and Xu Dalang entered the house one by one, and Wang Shi seemed to be going out with a newly bought bow and arrow in his hand.

"Why are you going?" Xu Da asked suspiciously.

While tidying up, Wang said, "I'm going out of the city to go hunting again before the snow is too heavy, and change some fur clothes for the children."

Saying that, he looked up at Xu Da who hadn't started to tidy up, "Have you and Wang Dayou picked up the kangs from several families? Go early and come back early. I may not be able to come back today. You should come back early to see the children."

"What?" Xu Da frowned, "You can go out on a snowy day, and if you don't come back at night, aren't you afraid of freezing to death on the mountain?"

"Er Niang, Young Niang, A Niang is gone, don't save firewood, keeping warm is important, if someone comes to sell firewood later, buy more."

Not paying attention to Xu Da at all, Mrs. Wang finished explaining to the children, put on a straw hat and went out.

"Xu Wang's family!" Xu Da rushed to the back and shouted.

The only answer to him was the slamming of the door.

Xu was full of breath, but his eyes were clearly full of anxiety and concern, but she had already left, and he could only pray that this bitch was skilled enough to come back safely as soon as possible.

Xu Da walked into the house and put on the only sheepskin fur coat at home.

The clothes are knee-length, and the material is not good. The wool is very board, and the outside is sewn with thick silk.

A very ordinary fur coat, something that Mr. Xu would not have even glanced at before, costs nearly two thousand dollars.

The jade bracelets that Mrs. Wang gave him earlier were not enough, and later she asked the young lady to bring out more strings, which was enough.

Calculated now, there should only be a string of bracelets and a small piece of gold cake left for the young lady.

There are four taels of small gold cakes, 16 taels per catty in Daqing, and a catty of gold is worth 2500 yuan, so the small gold cakes are only [-] yuan.

900 yuan for the jade bracelet, plus 1000 yuan for the five bolts of linen he earned from helping others in the past half a month, the total is only 4400 yuan.

Even if children's fur clothes are cheaper than adult fur clothes, it is far from enough to buy a suit for each of the other four members of the family.

Thinking of this, Xu Da suddenly felt a little ashamed. Before that, he wanted to lie down and sleep on the kang, but now that the snow fell, he realized that his family didn't even have basic food and clothing.

He has never been so poor in the 400 years since he was born, and Xu Da expressed his heart tired.

But no matter how much I complained in my heart, my body still acted honestly.

He told Xu Yue and Xu Erniang to take good care of the house, even without breakfast, Xu Da braved the wind and snow to call Wang Dayou, and continued their unfinished road to the kang.

(End of this chapter)