Reborn 1960之巧女当家

Chapter 50 Preparing for the New Year ([-])

The Xia family's old house was having a lot of fun. Xia Zhongguo didn't know that the nearly one-meter-thick snow outside was enough to give him a headache.

It will be the Chinese New Year in one month, and it will be inconvenient to prepare things for the New Year when there is so much snow!
Xia Zhongguo and Wang Ximei had no choice but to clean up the snow as much as possible and pour all the snow into the ditches on the side of the village road, otherwise there would really be no place to pile up so much snow.

Because everyone had prepared in advance for the snowstorm this time, there were no casualties in the village, and only one house collapsed, and the kitchen of another family was crushed and collapsed.

However, the old people in the village were very happy about this snow disaster. They kept saying that this snow disaster is a sign of a good year of auspicious snow and a good sign for a good harvest next year. The big snow bugs were frozen to death, but after the snow melted The soil has enough moisture to grow food.

Such thick snow, Xia Zhongguo and Wang Ximei cleaned up the snow for a whole day, but Wang Ximei felt a little headache when she saw the thick snow outside, "Zhongguo, the snow is so thick outside that it will be Chinese New Year soon. What can I do about buying new year's goods, I can't go to the town now."

"Let's wait a few more days. The snow has stopped now, and we can go to town after the snow melts in a few days."

It took five days for the snow in Dafeng Village to completely melt. This is because the weather has been very good these days. Even if the snow melts, no one is willing to go out, because the road outside is very muddy, and if you are not careful One pair of shoes is ruined.

Xia Nuan has also raised her spirits these days and dare not be negligent, but Zai Zai is quite obedient and sleeps under her bed all day long, and does not run around, so the family did not notice it.

"Ding, the host task has been overfulfilled, and the reward is [-] gold coins and [-] experience points."

Xia Nuan was helping Wang Ximei to clean the house when she heard the system prompting the completion of the task, but the gold coins and experience points rewarded made Xia Nuan scream out in fright.

"System...what's going on here? Didn't they say to reward [-] gold coins and [-] experience points at the beginning? Why are there so many more?"

"The requirement of the task is to let the host help the villagers of this village to survive the snow disaster smoothly, but because of the actions of the host, several other villages in the commune and even other people in the county have prepared in advance, greatly reducing losses and casualties, so the system Decided to increase the intensity of rewards, how to surprise, host?"

This was the first time the system had spoken to her for such a long time, and it sounded like the system was even more excited than her.

"That's it. I really didn't expect that there are rewards for overfulfilling tasks. Then next time I have a task, I have to pay more attention. The system can earn much more gold coins than other tasks."

Xia Nuan, looking at her nearly [-] gold coin fan, started to move again.

Xia Zhongguo started to get busy after the snow melted, and together with other people in the village, he went to help repair the houses of the two families whose houses had collapsed. So I made a fuss about going home, saying that no matter how good it is to live with the village committee, I am not comfortable.

The village head had no choice but to let them go back when the snow had almost melted, except for those two houses whose houses had collapsed.

It is very hard to help others build a house in such a cold weather, Wang Ximei and the few children in the family do not want Xia Zhongguo to go.

But Xia Zhongguo wanted to go. For almost half a month, Xia Zhongguo stayed at home and had nothing to do. He felt that his whole body was going to be rusty. After finally getting a chance to earn work points, he had to exercise his body. .

However, Ximei, king of Xiazhong, had no choice but to let him go, and the Chinese New Year was only half a month away, and the things to be prepared at home hadn't been prepared yet!
Wang Ximei, the sanitation worker at home, handed over to a few children to do the cleaning, and she went to the town to buy some things by herself. In fact, she couldn’t buy anything without a ticket these days. She just went to the town to buy some firecrackers for the New Year.

For New Year's meat, the village will kill New Year's pigs these days, but there is no need to buy them. Wang Ximei doesn't have much to buy. The main thing is to look at seasonings, red paper and so on.

Not only other families in Xiajia Village are also busy preparing for the upcoming Spring Festival.

Finally came the day to kill the New Year’s pigs. This day should be the most anticipated day for everyone in the village. There are six pigs raised in the village, except for three that are to be handed in as tasks, and three that are raised by the village themselves for the Spring Festival. For the pork.

Early in the morning, the women in the village began to boil hot water to prepare for the slaughter of pigs. Xia Nuan and Wen Hao went to the drying yard to watch the fun. Although she was there when the wild boars were handled before, but this time It was the first time for her to experience killing the New Year pig.

The scene on the drying ground was even more lively than last time. This time, there were only three pigs being slaughtered, and the people who were away for the new year had already returned.

Of course, Xia Zhongguo has already gone to help. The scene of killing pigs is too bloody. Wang Ximei is worried that Xia Nuan and the children will be afraid, "Nuan Nuan, why don't you and your brother go home first, look at the drying yard. chilly!"

"Mom, touch my hand to see that it's warm, it's not cold at all, just let us watch the butchering of pigs here, you see, they are all here too!" Xia Nuan didn't want to go back and be watched by Wen Hao to learn how to read , This killing of pigs for the festival is also a traditional custom, but I don't know if the system will disagree.

"System, come out to see the slaughter of pigs, don't you want to collect these traditional customs and ancient books? Hehehe... can this be counted?" Xia Nuan asked the system curiously.

"...Forget it, the traditional customs of celebrating the Spring Festival are of course counted in the ranks of the collection, but the gold coins may not be high..." The system is now secretly cursing, but Xia Nuan has found a bug, just standing and watching If you are busy, you can get gold coins for nothing.

"It's okay, it's a little thing, no matter how small this mosquito is, it's still meat!" After saying that, Xia Nuan went to look at the place where the pig was slaughtered.

The three pigs were tied to something like a bench by the strong men in the village. Probably these pigs also knew that their time limit had come, so they squealed miserably. The pigs screamed so piercingly at the same time that Xia Nuan felt that her ears couldn't take it anymore.

Moreover, the three pigs kept struggling to escape, but they were all tightly bound by ropes, and there were a few strong laborers helping to hold them down, so how could they escape.

But Butcher Wang is already a proficient hand. He took a butcher's knife and stabbed it into the pig's neck and cut off the pig's trachea. It can be said that there was no pain.

Aunt Yuxiu, the daughter-in-law of the village head, took a large wooden basin with salt in it to collect the fresh pig's blood, and kept stirring the pig's blood in the basin with a wooden stick with the other hand.

After finishing all three pigs, a large wooden basin was completely filled with pig blood. You must know that this wooden basin is the kind of large wooden basin that can be used to bathe six or seven-year-old children.

After Butcher Wang finished killing the pigs, he was basically useless. The strong men in the village took over all the work. Of course, Butcher Wang still needed to do the work of disemboweling the pigs.

"This year's pigs are really fat, thanks to Wen Hao and you guys!" Their third aunt, Zhou Aihong, looked at the three big fat pigs and couldn't help sighing.

"His third aunt, Wen Hao and the others just beat pigweed every day. The biggest credit is that Aunt Ma and the others took good care of them. This year's situation is no longer what it was in previous years."

Now that there are so many people in the drying yard, Wang Ximei must be more modest, lest someone gossip about her child with jealousy behind her back. When Wang Ximei said these words, she even winked at Zhou Aihong.

"What you said is right. Didn't I want to praise my children? Look at the three boys in my family, none of them are as sensible as yours." Zhou Aihong understood what Wang Ximei meant and talked to her about the children. Things, change the subject quickly.

"Wen Zhe and the others are not as bad as you said, Wen Hao is good, but you don't know that Wen Zhi is naughty, even his father can't control him, and Nuan Nuan has a way to deal with him."

Speaking of Zhou Aihong and Wang Ximei, the two sisters-in-law really chatted.

(End of this chapter)