Several times in dreams

Chapter 151 Voluntary labor
Zhang Xueqing is most afraid that when winter comes, the school will organize briquettes.

The climate in Xiangjiang is hot in summer and cold in winter. There is no heating in the classroom. There is only a small iron stove, which burns briquettes and briquettes.

Every year when winter comes, the school organizes students to make briquettes and briquettes by themselves. The truck pulls a load of coal and dumps it on the playground. Roll into briquettes with your hands, or pat into briquettes.

In the weather in early December, the temperature was close to zero. The teacher took the children to hold the cold coal paste with their hands, and formed them into balls one by one, and spread them on the playground at intervals. Usually, they had to choose sunny days to do this work .

The lumped briquettes are left in the sun for two days, and when they are completely dry, they are piled up in baskets in the warehouse, and they are not used until the temperature drops below zero.

Zhang Xueqing was most afraid of rubbing briquettes. Her hands ached from the cold, and the cold was almost piercing into her bones. In the end, her fingers were numb, and she couldn't feel the temperature even after washing her hands with hot water when she returned home.

Even so, when winter really comes, the small stove will not be of much use, the classroom is too big, there are gaps everywhere, and the only bit of warmth will slip out of the classroom along with the gaps.

Basically every child has a pair of fingerless gloves, which are worn during class, with the fingers exposed for writing with a pen. Wearing such gloves, the palms are slightly warmer, but the fingers are covered with chilblains.

The chilblains on Zhang Xueqing's hands are rare, only a few, because the home is warm, and the fire wall Zhang Chunshan built himself is very effective in keeping warm. Most of the students' homes are colder than the classrooms.

On Liu Guixiang's hands, chilblains piled on top of each other, and she didn't even have half-fingered gloves. Some of the chilblains had already festered, and the water that flowed out would also fester in other places.

Zhang Xueqing didn't dare to look at her hands at all, but she didn't care. I heard that the house she lived in in her hometown was made of earthen embryos. At that time, her hands were even more cold than now. Now she feels very satisfied living in the building.

Zhang Xueqing was deeply shocked. She once again realized what her mother said, it is not easy to be a farmer. The food everyone eats is grown by farmers, and they should be respected even more.

Yuhui got a folk prescription, which is to boil water with red chili peppers, and put the hands with chilblains on the hot air for moxibustion. If the chilblains are not ulcerated, you can wash the chilblains with warm chili water.

Zhang Xueqing was the first person to be tested. She couldn't believe that this folk recipe could cure chilblain. Washing chilblain with hot pepper water wouldn't kill her from pain?

But having chilblains was too painful, painful and itchy, so Zhang Xueqing decided to give it a try. Before going to bed at night, Yuhui found an iron basin, grabbed a handful of dried chilies and put it in to cook. After boiling, the water turned red, spicy. The hot air rushed straight up.

Zhang Xueqing was too scared to reach out, Yuhui grabbed her wrist and slowly placed it in the hot air above the basin.

She didn't feel anything, Zhang Xueqing boldly stretched her hand, with the back of her hand down, and moxibusted the frostbitten part in the hot air. After the water in the basin became warm, Yuhui tried to wash it with some chili water. Fortunately, the frostbite on her hands has not yet festered, and there is no pain after washing.

After washing for a week, the chilblain has really healed a lot, the red part has disappeared, and the top that is about to fester has dried up, except for a little itching sometimes, there is no feeling.

Zhang Xueqing announced this recipe in the class, and the students suffering from frostbite went home to try it one after another, and many of them got better.

Liu Guixiang didn't take this folk recipe seriously, because her family didn't have the money to burn the stove at all, and she couldn't bear to use the only coal briquettes for cooking, and the red pepper was not enough for cooking, so how could she be willing to grab a handful every day to boil water?
In their hometown, frostbite is very common, as long as people don't die, they can suffer any crime, Liu Guixiang couldn't help laughing at these spoiled city girls in her heart.

There are five children in Liu Guixiang's family. She is the eldest. She is not beautiful, and she is slightly hunchbacked. She has no expectations for her future, and she only hopes to get a primary school diploma. A husband who is strong and able to earn money will be content in this life.

My father works outside alone, and my mother works day and night in the quilt factory of the family base. All the housework falls on her alone, and she has to manage her younger siblings. She has no spare time to cook chili water to treat chilblains.

What Liu Guixiang was most worried about was that she would not be able to graduate. Originally, she did not go to school in her hometown, nor did her two younger sisters. Only her two younger brothers entered school on time.

When I was 15 years old, my father wrote to say that they might be taken out of the mountains, and asked my mother to let the children go to school.

When she came to the family base, Liu Guixiang had just entered the third grade, but she was already at the age to find a partner. Her father asked someone to write a fake certificate for her, and she was directly transferred to the fifth grade. He arranged for her to marry as soon as she graduated.

The graduation exam is half a year away. If you want to get a graduation certificate, you must score 60 points in each test. 60 points are easy for other children, but for Liu Guixiang, it is a natural barrier.

Especially in mathematics, Liu Guixiang is still at the level of addition and subtraction within ten, and the fifth grade application problems are like a bible for her.

A pool is filled with water while receiving water. When will the pool be filled?Isn't this taking off your pants and farting?If you want to fill up with water, why put water?Plug the drain hole, won't it be full of water soon?
Is learning mathematics just to toss people?Liu Guixiang couldn't understand, she was always drowsy in math class, but fortunately the teacher didn't pay attention to her, sitting in the last row, Liu Guixiang dozed off.

But what should come must come. The graduation exam is a hurdle that Liu Guixiang cannot escape. Every time she finishes the math exam, she looks at her test paper with 95 or [-] points, and then looks at Zhang Xueqing and Song Xinxin in the front row. [-], people are also human, why are their brains so smart?

Winter vacation is coming soon, Liu Guixiang finally couldn't help asking Zhang Xueqing for tips on learning mathematics. For her elementary school graduation certificate, Liu Guixiang let go of her self-esteem and let them laugh at her. As long as she can ask for tips, she can pass the 60 points on the line.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xueqing agreed to help her with tutoring during the winter vacation. Zhang Xueqing told Liu Guixiang that there is no trick to learning mathematics, and only by practicing more and doing more questions can she get good grades in the exam.

Zhang Xueqing helped Liu Guixiang analyze it. Every time she took the test, she basically got no points for the application questions. Liu Guixiang had to do at least one thing correctly in order to hope to score 60 points.

During the whole winter vacation, Zhang Xueqing went to Liu Guixiang's home to help her with her math, and even found some exercise books for Liu Guixiang, so that she could study and practice more at home. Liu Guixiang was grateful, but also completely changed her view of Zhang Xueqing.

While helping Liu Guixiang, Zhang Xueqing also saw Liu Guixiang's hard work and understanding. Not only did she keep the house in order, but she also managed her younger siblings well.

In contrast, although I am young, at home, I stretch out my hands for clothes and open my mouth for food. Every time I eat, my grandma has to serve the food and hand it to my hand. I have never helped my grandma wash the bowl. Through comparison, Zhang Xueqing feels I am really spoiled.

Back home, Zhang Xueqing competed to clean the dishes after every meal, which made Yuhui and Meng Wanying look at each other with admiration.

After the Chinese New Year, before school starts, a big event happened in Liu Guixiang's family!
(End of this chapter)