The history of struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 3 Brushing Your Teeth
After Han Qianluo lit the fire, he filled the pottery cauldron and the pottery pot behind it with water, and continued to burn the fire.For the time being, she is only in charge of lighting the fire, and she still doesn't know how to make steamed buns. The big brother Han Qingquan is the one who makes steamed buns with noodles. When Luo boiled the water in the clay pot, the steamed buns were ready.

Han Qianluo found that the current stove is really strange, it is a semicircle.The straight side is connected to the wall, and there is also a chimney next to it, and the stove door is on the curved side. A pottery pot and pottery retort are placed on the stove with the highest firepower, and two pottery pots are placed side by side behind it. .

Not long after, the water in the two clay pots at the back boiled. Han Qingquan threw the washed and cut cabbage into it, then took out the salt pot, and sprinkled a little bit of salt in it. It was really only a little bit, a whole For a cabbage, just pinch a little salt with your index finger and thumb and put it in.

"Brother, add a little more salt, it's too little." Han Qianluo said.

"This is a precious thing, so put a little less. A catty of salt costs more than ten yuan, which is very precious." Han Qingquan said with some heartache, "A catty of salt won't last a month."

Han Qianluo was a little dumbfounded. It took less than a month to let it go like this. This catty is too little!

Soon, dinner was ready, and after dinner everyone went to bed.Han Qianluo and Han Shuier slept in the same bed. Han Shuier probably had the habit of chatting before going to bed, and said in a low voice, "The day after tomorrow is the day for the big market. I want to weave these cloths quickly."

Here, the market is divided into a large market and a small market. The small market is in their Sanshui Pavilion, and the big market is in Doumen Township.At this time, there was no such thing as a village or a town. One hundred households was a li, which meant a village, but now it was called a li, and Han Qianluo and the others were located in Qianyangli.And ten miles make up a pavilion, and ten pavilions make up a township.Han Qianluo felt that the township at this time was probably the town of later generations.

"If you can't keep up with this big fair, let's sell it at the next big fair." Han Qianluo said.Except for the cloth woven by most of the farmers for their own use, the excess cloth will be sold in the cloth shop to supplement the household.

"No, the Yonghang Cloth Shop will receive fabrics the day after tomorrow, and their prices will be much higher." After finishing speaking, Han Shuier said with some concern, "However, I heard that their requirements are a bit high, and there are not many fabrics that can meet their requirements. .”

Han Qianluo didn't know anything about weaving, so he could only comfort him casually: "Sister, don't worry, they can sell it to other cloth shops if they can't do it." After saying this, Han Qianluo suddenly thought of a question, Nowadays, the cloth is basically self-sufficient, so who are the cloths of those cloth shops sold to?

"Sister, if we sell the cloth to the cloth shop, who will the cloth shop sell the cloth to?" Han Qianluo asked curiously.

This question caught Han Shuier's attention. After all, she is only 14 years old, only one year older than Han Qianluo, and she doesn't know much. After a while, she said, "Probably sold to those rich people." .”

With this question in mind, Han Qianluo quickly fell asleep.The next morning, Han Qianluo was woken up by the sound of chickens crowing in the village.At this time, there is no watch, so it is impossible to judge the time.When the rooster crows, it is known that it is dawn, and most people get up.

Han Shuier also woke up to the sound of the rooster crowing. He lay on the bed for a while, and then began to get dressed, and Han Qianluo also got dressed.After waking up, I habitually wanted to rinse my mouth, and then I remembered that there was no toothpaste or toothbrush at this time, but I felt uncomfortable without brushing my teeth. I didn’t remember brushing my teeth, so I had to ask Han Shui’er: “Sister, what do we use? What are you brushing your teeth for?"

"Brush your teeth?" Han Shuier looked at Han Qianluo with some doubts and said, as if she didn't understand the meaning of these two words, she thought for a while before saying, "You can break off a willow branch or chew willow leaves."

"Don't you use salt?" Han Qianluo murmured in a low voice. In her impression, the ancients used salt to brush their teeth, but after seeing Han Qingquan who was reluctant to put salt in cooking, she couldn't think that People will be willing to brush their teeth with salt.

However, although her voice was low, she was still heard, and Han Shui'er reprimanded with some dissatisfaction: "It can only be used by rich people. For us poor people, it would be good to brush it with a branch. If you have spare money and poor money to buy Brushing your teeth with salt is not as good as making two more beautiful clothes, and being poor and particular.”

Han Qianluo stuck out his tongue, went to the yard and broke a branch and came back, and asked puzzledly, "Is brushing your teeth considered important?"

"Only people in their cities are so poor and fastidious, and they brush their teeth every day when they have nothing to do." Han Shuier said while combing her hair, with a disdainful tone.Han Qianluo turned to look at her, only to find that she looked a little envious.

Han Qianluo hammered one end of the branch flat, and then began to brush his teeth carefully. After brushing his teeth, he saw that Han Shuier's hair had been combed, so he went over and began to comb his hair.However, she has never combed the hair of the ancients before, and after a long time, she finally managed to comb her hair well.

"After combing for a long time, how did you comb your hair like this? It's really getting better and better. You can't even comb your hair anymore. Let me comb it for you again." Han Shui'er said.

Han Qianluo wasn't satisfied with her crooked hair, so she was very happy that her second sister, Han Shuier, was willing to help her comb her hair.

Han Qianluo knelt on the mat, and Han Shuier stood behind her to comb her hair. After a while, Han Shuier said, "It's done." Han Qianluo was not ready yet, but her hair was combed very simply. The left and right sides of the top of the head are tied together into a ball, leaving a small bunch of hair loose below. Basically, most girls who are not as good as the hairpin have this hairstyle.

After combing her hair, Han Shuier was going to cook, and she didn't intend to brush her teeth. Seeing this situation, Han Qianluo hurriedly persuaded her: "Sister, you should brush your teeth too. It's good for your teeth and won't break easily."

"Really?" Han Shui'er asked back, not hiding the doubt on his face.

"I'm sure, otherwise why do those rich people brush their teeth every day, and they brush their teeth white, isn't it beautiful?" Han Qianluo tried her best to persuade.

Han Shuier was obviously moved by her sister's words, but it's hard to say exactly what moved her.So she also went to break a willow branch and came back to brush her teeth.At this time, Han Qingquan also got up, and Han Qianluo quickly said, "Brother, you should brush your teeth too."

"What are you doing brushing your teeth?" Han Qingquan asked suspiciously.

"Brushing your teeth is good for your teeth, it's not easy to break them," Han Qianluo said.

"Isn't it bad if you brush your teeth? Who did you hear that from?" Han Qingquan asked, obviously not convinced.

"It must be so, otherwise why do so many people brush their teeth every day." Han Qianluo said with certainty.

Han Qingquan was much simpler than Han Shui'er. After hearing this, he went to break branches and brush his teeth. Han Sanwei who came out was also called by Han Qianluo to brush his teeth.

Just after breakfast in the morning, Han Qianluo heard someone shouting outside: "Xiaoluo." She was still familiar with this voice, it was Chunhua, the daughter of the Li family next door, so she went out to have a look, and saw Chunhua was Lying on the courtyard wall shared by the two families, he shouted towards the Han family.

Seeing her coming out, Li Chunhua quickly asked, "Xiao Luo, are you going to dig wild vegetables?"

Han Qianluo is no stranger to digging wild vegetables. Every spring, girls who have nothing to do will go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, because this is the time when there are no vegetables to eat, the cabbage is gone, and the others have just been planted and cannot be eaten yet, so Many people will go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables.

"Go, wait for me." Han Qianluo replied, then went to the kitchen to find the basket, and then hurried out.

Han Qianluo came out with a basket. Li Chunhua next door was already waiting at the door with a basket in his hand. Seeing her come out, he said, "Let's go, Zhao Qin and the others have been gone for a while."

Zhao Qin is a girl of the same age as them, also 13 years old this year, and Li Chunhua is also 13 years old.However, Zhao Qin is the daughter of Li Zheng, and everyone usually looks up to her, but she looks down on the widow Li's daughter, and Han Qianluo who has no father and no mother

The two walked quickly up the mountain while chatting.Li Chunhua said worriedly: "They went up first, let's go faster, otherwise they will dig up all the wild vegetables."

"Even if they have a little more people than us, how could they finish digging the mountain so big?" Han Qianluo said, not worried at all.

"Chunhua, are you going to the market tomorrow?"

In this place, going to the market is a very lively and interesting thing for children. Most of the children are looking forward to the arrival of the market day.Han Chunhua said a little lonely: "I can't go to the market tomorrow."

"why?"

While talking, they had already reached the foot of the mountain. At this time, the trees on the mountain had grown green leaves, and the wild vegetables on the ground had also grown. It looked green and full of vitality.

Although it is full of vitality, it is not very easy to walk on the mountain. You must be careful and find wild vegetables among the weeds.

"Let's start looking," Li Chunhua said.

The two searched carefully, and when they saw a clump of weeds, they had to look at them carefully for a long time. The wild weeds that had just grown and the weeds that had not grown up were similar unless one looked carefully, and it was not easy to distinguish them, so one had to be careful You can tell by looking at it.

People have been walking on the mountain for many years, and some places have formed a faint path, which is much easier to walk.But beside the path, there are much less weeds, so neither of them took the path, but searched among the bushes.

At this time, the weeds have not yet grown tall, so just be careful not to step on and slip on the stones on the ground.It was Han Qianluo's first time looking for wild vegetables, so he walked slowly for fear of missing something.

Seeing a somewhat familiar plant, Han Qianluo quickly stopped, squatted down and pushed aside the irrelevant weeds for a closer look, and said happily, "I found it."

(End of this chapter)