Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 140 Sweeping Snow
Xia Chan also told them some common ways to eat cassava and taro. As for yams, they can be bought outside, so she didn't need to tell them how to eat them.

Xia Chan also asked the principal for the home addresses of other teachers in Class 1, Grade 2. If they were close, they would come to her door in person, but they were not far away. Some rented houses near the school. For Xia Chan's grades, They were very happy when the outstanding students arrived.

There were also two teachers from other places, but the distance was not particularly far, so Xia Chan sent the things there, but the fresh fish was replaced with dried salted fish, and a letter was also placed inside, telling them who she was. and how to eat cassava and taro.

Finally, before it started to snow, everyone who needed to run had run around, and the etiquette had been fulfilled. Xia Chan planned to take a good rest at home, but there was a big market at the end of the year, and Xia Chan also wanted to go out and see if there was anything on the big market. What a good thing, so I made an appointment with a few people from the production team to go to the market on the market day.

Who would have thought that when I woke up in the morning, the snow piles in the yard were half as tall as a person, making it impossible to go out.

At this time, everyone tacitly decided not to go to the market. After all, the snow was so deep that it was impossible to walk, even the people setting up stalls couldn't go. They had to wait.

After eating the hot dumplings, Xia Chan also planned to go out and clear the snow with her brothers, but she was pushed into the house to rest. After that, the three brothers went to clear the snow from the roof and woodshed first, although they are inspected and repaired every winter. , but the snow is too thick, so it still needs to be cleaned up in time.

After sweeping the snow on the roof, the brothers came to sweep the snow in the yard. It was not necessary to sweep all the snow in the yard, just to sweep out a path for walking.

In fact, it is okay not to sweep the snow, but after a long time, the snow will be compacted and become very slippery, which will affect walking, and they don’t want to fall on their butts every day.

Xia Chan stood by the door curtain, "It snowed so well this year, next year should be a good harvest year, right?"

"Who knows? We'll know when the time comes." Xia Qi said. After all, no one expected that it would rain for such a long time in July this year. Who knows what will happen next year? It all depends on whether God will help.

Although their family is unlikely to go hungry, if the year is bad, other families will go hungry, and they don't want that to happen. They just hope that every year will be good weather and good harvest.

But it is impossible to be so beautiful. There are not many years with good weather and good harvests. Generally, it is either dry or flooded. The possibility of dryness is greater here, so they try to plant more drought-resistant crops as much as possible.

After his brothers had cleared a path in the yard, Xia Chan went next door to feed the poultry. He also stuffed two pieces of firewood into the kang hole to ensure that the temperature in the house would not be too low, so as not to freeze the poultry to death.

After sweeping the snow, the brothers were covered in sweat. They returned home and immediately wiped the sweat off their bodies with cotton cloth. They didn't want to get sick, because being sick is not only unbearable but also very dangerous.

The family made a lot of dumplings some time ago, so when they were too lazy to cook, they just ate dumplings.

Just after finishing his meal, the sound of a gong for a meeting was heard in the village. Only one person from each family needed to go, so Xia Bin dressed neatly and went down the mountain to attend the meeting. He could run fast and arrived at the brigade headquarters in less than 30 minutes.

The weather was too cold, and most of the people who came were gay men, but some were lesbians.

After the meeting, everyone went home. "Brother, what did you talk about in the meeting?" Xia Bin walked in and Xia Chan handed him the ginger tea, asking curiously.

"Everyone go shovel snow tomorrow. Shovel the snow on the road leading to the town. Bring your own water and dry food. Twelve work points a day. Those who want to go can find the scorekeeper to sign up. Those who don't want to go don't have to go. It's voluntary." Xia Bin explained after drinking ginger tea, "I've signed up."

Xia Chan nodded, "Okay, I'll prepare food for you tomorrow morning. Don't let others see you while you're eating, or they'll miss us."

"No need to prepare, just bring some dried sweet potatoes." Dried sweet potatoes can be dried raw or cooked. Cooked dried sweet potatoes are made by steaming the sweet potatoes, letting them cool, then cutting them into strips and drying them. Such sweet potatoes can be eaten as snacks.

Xia Chan thought about it and nodded, "Okay, then we'll make you something delicious when we get back from work to compensate you."

When they are out, especially in crowded places, they really have to keep a low profile and not attract other people's attention, otherwise if a big deal happens it will be bad for their family.

They are not afraid of one person, but what about the whole village?
At that time, they will definitely be forced to hand over the way they make money, and they will also be blamed for not telling everyone about the way they make money.

Although Xia Chan had already handed over the method of raising rabbits to make money to the production team, human nature is greedy. If they knew that their family was well-off, they would definitely force them to death.

Xia Bin was also aware of the character of the people in the production team. Normally, there was nothing wrong with them, but once it came to matters of interest, no one would let it go easily, as could be seen from the fact that so many people were dividing up the family property.

After dark, when lighting the kerosene lamp, Xia Chan couldn't help but sigh, "It's been almost a year since we started to have electricity, but it's still not connected. I don't know when we can have electricity again."

We started preparing before winter last year, but stopped when it froze. Then, the heavy rain in July this year lasted for so long that the city’s power supply system was cut off. The power supply bureau had to repair and rebuild it, and no one was in charge of the Yong’an production team. Then, in winter, the work was delayed again.

Xia Qi said, "It will definitely be connected next year. Many families in the village are building houses separately, and they also want to build their houses before the electricity is connected, so that the electricity connection will not be troublesome. It can be said that it is a coincidence that we can both divide the money and have electricity next year."

"Yes, if we build a house after the electricity is connected, we have to find someone to change the route. If we change it one by one, they may not be willing to make a trip." Xia Chan nodded and said, "Fortunately, there are four households here, otherwise we don't know if we can get electricity!"

"As long as there is electricity in the village, there is no way that our family will be left out just because we have a small family. Besides, it's not like we don't pay the electricity bill." The brothers all sat at the kang table, waiting for Xia Chan to give them a lesson.

"Once electricity is available to our production team next year, it will probably be available to other production teams as well. After all, they are all on the same line. However, for some reasons, our production team is ranked first!" said Jin Pengyuan.

Xia Chan thought about it and said nothing. Of course, it was because they had solved the problem of Liu Minmin, recovered the treasure for the country, and saved the huge losses. That was why the commune gave their production team the opportunity to have priority access to electricity.

There were also tractors. There were only a few in the entire commune, but their production team was rewarded with one. If it hadn't happened, they would have had to wait to drive a tractor.