Villager of Daming

Chapter 736 People’s livelihood is getting better and better

Marshmallows continue to be sold, and not only children eat them, but people on the street try them when they see something strange. No one stipulates how old you must be to eat marshmallows.

So the teams split up, with children standing in two rows alone, and adults going to the other two rows.

There are also workers who have finished their work and are about to go home. They pass by a candy store and hear that such large candies only cost a penny. They decide to buy them for their children and run to queue.

"Wash your hands first, otherwise you have to throw it away if you accidentally touch it." Children in the village asked people who bought marshmallows to wash their hands.

"It's getting cold. Do you have any good clothes for the children? It costs about [-] cents. I have a five-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl. Yes, I'll buy it for the girl too."

A man who had some dust on his body asked while waiting in line while washing his hands.

"I'll make some marshmallows for you first. Go in and see for yourself. There's a price tag on it. Do you know the characters? If you don't know, ask the people inside." The child pointed to the place next to him where children's clothing was sold.

"My clothes..." The other party smiled sheepishly.

"I have to go to another place to sell your clothes. Children's clothes can't be worn." The child shook his head.

"I said my clothes were dirty. I heard that the people who buy clothes for their children are all rich people. Hehehehe!" The person scratched his head.

"Rich people? Can they have the palace and Xiaqiu Village? In our eyes, everyone is the same, poor. As long as you don't wipe your clothes with your children's clothes, you can go in and wander around as you like."

The child smiled. He knew what the other party meant just now and was afraid that he would be disliked if he was not dressed well.

"Okay, I'll go look at the clothes first and come back to get the marshmallows." The man laughed and turned around to go to the door over there.

After about a quarter of an hour, this person came out, carrying two paper bags in his hands.

He looked inside and stood over: "Okay, the ones with 98 cents are all 98 cents. They are the same. Boys and girls are the same."

"Here are two marshmallows for you, one in each hand, otherwise they will stick together and it will be troublesome to separate them when you get home." The child handed the marshmallows over.

"Okay, okay! It's my first time to enter a shop like this. I recently took a job and made a lot of money. It's getting cold now! Adults can make do with it, but children can't! Hehehehehe..."

The man took the marshmallow and explained the situation again, smiling shyly.

"Yes! I heard people say recently that the work is getting easier and I won't have to worry about the Chinese New Year. Walk slowly and don't drop things." The child agreed.

"Hey! I'm careful, it's better to celebrate the New Year." The man then turned and left.

After another half hour, the children gave up and left the matter to the waiters in the candy house. They turned around and went upstairs opposite.

"Drink some wine to warm yourself up, it's cold outside." The manager greeted.

"It looks like it's going to snow again. This year's twelfth lunar month will be colder than the year before."

The little girl took a sip of warm rice wine and grinned. She was in Helin last winter and didn't know if it was cold in Nanjing.

"It's colder than last year," Zhu Fan said, looking at the food box. There were no extra plates or chopsticks in it.

"We'll get it ourselves." The little girl looked back at her friends in the village, and three of them ran away.

After a while, they came back with baskets containing cutlery and food. Everyone shared some and ate slowly.

"We see that many people are wearing short jackets sold in clothing stores. How much does one cost?" Zhu Ping looked down and noticed the clothing.

People don't wear robes, which delays work, and they all dress short. In the past, they used straw ropes and hemp ropes as belts to tie them outside, but now they use cloth. At critical moments, cloth can be used as a rope and can be unfolded.

Like Xiaobu, Ming Dynasty, or the Xiaobu of previous dynasties, if you don't throw it away, you can use it to make clothes or something when you go home, or you can stretch it into a quilt and a hood.

Therefore, people do not use white cloth as belts. Most of them are blue, which is easy to dye. Indigo lives with Daqingye and Isatis root.

The little girl thought about it: "Look at the size, calculated according to the amount of cotton used, the cheap one is 42 cents, and the expensive one is [-] cents.

Pants are divided into thickness and size, usually from [-] to [-] cents, with [-] cents fabrics being the best.But since there are no pants in sight, they will put on another pair of pants outside to avoid wear and tear.

In fact, the most easily worn areas are the knees, buttocks, elbows, and cuffs. Then the cuffs and collars are always blackened with a layer of oil.

I am changing the design and adding an extra layer of leather to the areas that are prone to wear and tear. Pigskin is good.

The sleeves of my clothes are almost worn out, so I need to wrap them up for work wear. "

She said and looked at her cuffs. They were not dirty, as they were often washed and worn out.

The boys also looked at their sleeves. They were wearing military coats. Now that they had taken off their military coats, it was too hot and heavy.

Zhu Xi looked at his military coat: "This is a good coat, especially in cold winter places. It can be used as a mattress and quilt when sleeping. It will not be so cold when you put your hands in the sleeves."

The key is the button design on the left and right lapels. It is simply amazing. It is not afraid of the wind no matter how much it blows. Everyone in the military camp likes it.

If it snows heavily, shall we go to Xuanwu Lake to enjoy the snow?The lake does not freeze and the snow scenery on the shore is beautiful.

Unfortunately, it's still not cold enough to skate on the ice like He Lin did. "

"Huh?" The little girl blinked: "If it snows heavily, as long as it's cold, we can pour water on an area ourselves. Don't make it too thick. If it freezes, it will be slippery."

"Where is the right place to pour it?" Zhu Xi looked like he wanted to do it immediately.

"The place where the teeth were extracted and the teeth marks were left outside the village is flat and cemented." Another friend gave the location.

"Okay, I'll send someone over. Water it now and wait until it snows and freezes. Even if you can only skate for an hour the next day, that's fine."

Zhu Xiang said and ran to the stairs to find someone. As for the ice blade, he believed that Xiaqiu Village would make it soon. Ice was the most important thing.

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It was getting dark soon, and the street lights on a street in Xiaqiu Village came on. Under the lights, the snowflakes changed colors back and forth. One moment they were white, and the next moment they were black.

"Look at how it looks now. Tomorrow I can really skate on the ice, make an ice car, and play with my younger brothers and sisters. They have never played before."

Zhu Xi smiled. There were a bunch of children in the palace. They had roller shoes to play with, and there were also roller coasters that were used to slide on the ground with sticks like ice wagons. The roller coasters and shoes made a clattering sound.

"Four highnesses, why don't you go back to the village to eat, Uncle Chengyi and Manager Liu together? Send someone home to tell you?"

The headmaster didn't want to stay outside anymore, and he had to walk through the snow when the snow got heavy soon.

So the group went directly through Xihua Gate to Donghua Gate and Chaoyang Gate to enter the village.

The next day, when it was dark, people from Xiaqiu Village lit lamps, pulled wires, pushed motors and other parts and went out to clean up the site.

The first water was poured, and snow fell again. The snow continued to fall behind, and the bottom was frozen. There was a layer of snow on top, and the frozen areas were uneven and pitted.

Take the equipment and polish it, then water it again.

Heat the water, [-] to [-] degrees is enough, and put it into a big bucket, the kind of big wooden bucket that is placed horizontally on the car, the kind that holds fireproof water and collects night fragrance.

Then connect the pipe, and a horizontal pipe is connected below the pipe. The horizontal pipe is full of small holes. Use a piece of cloth to half-wrap it around the horizontal pipe and drag it on the ice.

When warm water is poured in, it will level automatically. Because of the cloth, the water will not drip on the ice surface, but will flow on it. Drag the cloth again to make it evener.

There is no need to worry about melting the ice. It is now below zero and the newly frozen ice has no lumps, bubbles or cracks.

When the sun appears, stand there and it will look like a big mirror.

　Not today!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)