take a wife to support the family

Chapter 99

The cold wind was howling outside, and the snow was flying heavily. There was a brazier in the house, but it was warm.

Li Lamei had a good night's sleep. When she opened her eyes, she was startled by the dazzling light outside the window. She thought it was almost noon, so she got up quickly.

Putting on the padded jacket and opening the door, it turned out that it was still early, but there was a thick layer of snow on the ground, and the snow reflected into the room, making it look very bright.

Lamei was stretching in the cold air, when she heard the eldest sister get up, she opened the door and came out: "Ah, what a heavy snow!"

Lamei's face was flushed from getting enough sleep, and her eyes were shining brightly, but Lily looked obviously a little haggard, and her eyes were slightly darkened.

"Sister, didn't you sleep well?" Lamei was still thinking whether it was because the brazier was not enough or she was uncomfortable because of the Guishui.

Lily shook her head: "It's snowing so hard, your brother-in-law and the others don't know what's going on."

As the saying goes, it's always good to be at home, but it's hard to go out for a while. When you go out these days, you are most afraid of rainy and snowy weather. If you accidentally get a headache, it will be a big trouble.

Lily is worried about her husband, Lamei seems to understand, and is careful all day, lest she will be upset.

The snow in the yard was half a foot deep. Lily took the tongs to explore, but dared not step on it with cotton shoes, lest the cotton shoes would be soaked.She went to the kitchen to get a shovel for shoveling the fire, and called Lamei to shovel the snow together: "Shovel a few ways out."

From the door of the house to the door of the courtyard, and to the hut, these roads must be shoveled out.Then there is the road to the cellar outside the house, which needs to be shoveled for a while.

Lamei took the shovel: "I'll shovel, you go cook."

It was very cold, and the hands turned red after a while when they were exposed outside the sleeves. Lily took a pair of gloves and gave them to Lamei: "Put them on, and don't get frostbite again this year."

Lamei lowered her head to shovel the snow, and she was sweating finely after a while, she was so hot that she jumped up and down, but fortunately she knew the severity and didn't take off her padded jacket.

Lily builds a fire, boils a pot of water on the stove and on the stove, kneads the cornmeal and a small amount of white flour together, kneads a ball, pokes the thumb into the dough, and rubs the rest of the fingers on the outside. A yellow bun.

Make a dozen steamed buns and put them in the steamer. When the water boils, put the steamer on the stove to steam.Wash a radish and rub it into shreds, sprinkle some salt to pickle it.

Lily took another two handfuls of yellow rice, cooked them in a pot until they were about seven or eight years old, took them out and drained them, put the rice grains into the flour, and shook the wooden basin. The yellow rice grains rolled in the wooden basin, and the surface was evenly covered with flour.

Pour a small bowl of syrupy water into the boiling water in the pot to dissolve, put the boiled yellow rice lumps in, and cook until it thickens to become a pot of syrupy soup.

Lily lifted the lid of the steamer and poked the steamed buns with chopsticks. When the steamer was cooked, she took off the steamer, put another iron pot on the stove, put some lard in it to burn, the pepper and ginger smelled good, and then poured the radish. Shredded garlic and chopped garlic are put in and stir-fried a few times, and a hot fried shredded radish comes out of the pan.

Lily asked Lamei to eat. Lamei had already shoveled a few paths, and ran into the kitchen sweating. She took off her gloves and warmed her hands.

"It's so good to eat today!" Lamei exclaimed in surprise.

Lily smiled and scolded her: "What's so good?" Wowotou and pimple soup are all coarse grains, but they are finely made, they look good, and they can withstand hunger, even in snowy days. If you are usually busy, Lily doesn't have time to make them Such a troublesome breakfast.

The cornmeal steamed bun exudes a fragrance, and the white flour neutralizes the rough taste of the corn, which is fragrant and sweet.The pimple soup was boiling hot, and it was warm from the throat to the stomach after a sip, which dispelled the chill in the early morning of the snowy day.The shredded radish is salty, which just adds a surprise to the staple food.

Lamei has a mouthful of Wowotou and a mouthful of shredded radish, chewing it full of flavor, but still not satisfied, so I take another Wowotou, put the shredded radish into the hole at the bottom, and eat it like a steamed bun.

It was cold and snowy, and they couldn't go to the street. After eating, the two sisters tied insoles around the brazier and cotton shoes. Although there was no sun, the snow reflected the sky, and the house was also bright and bright.

After two or three days like this, the snow and ice melted on the road, and the smiles on Lily's face also increased. On this day, when there was a big market, she asked her sister to go to buy New Year's goods together.

Shopping for the New Year is not just about buying food, there are a lot of things to eat, wear, play, and use.If we do it again at the end of the year, we will definitely be in a hurry.

Those who are successful start to make New Year's goods in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. After the end of the year, everything is in order, and that is the skill of housekeeping.

Lamei is still childish in this regard, and everything is new when she goes to the fair, but she doesn't know what to do.Lily told her: "Don't just look around, take a look at what other people are buying, think about why they buy it, whether we want to buy it, and how much is appropriate."

Lamei: "Sister, you're testing me again!"

He would give her difficult problems every now and then, and she was not a teacher in the school.Lily, who was a school teacher, smiled and said nothing, and urged Lamei: "Think quickly!"

Lamei thought for a while, and then she really thought of a question: "The window paper in our house is all rotten, and the wind blows, and it makes a noise. If there is no brazier these days, people will be frozen to death!"

Lily nodded: "Okay, then go buy a few knives of paper."

Calligraphy paper is a rare thing, only scholars have it. There are also several kinds of paper specially used for pasting doors and windows and cutting window grilles in the collection. Some people gather around the stall to choose.

As soon as Lamei came to the stall, she reached out for the cheapest toilet paper, and Lily grabbed her: "It's white."

"White is expensive!" Just paste a window, what are you doing with such good paper?

"You, you still have to learn." Lily smiled, picked up a few white and tough white cotton papers, put them in the basket, and took Lamei to the next stall to look at the rouge and gouache.

Lily was looking at the small bronze mirror curiously, the mirror was much clearer than she imagined.

In her previous life, Lily had only seen bronze mirrors with spots of green and rust in museums. The bronze mirrors in the TV series were all dim yellow, illuminating people's faces distorted and deformed. She only thought that was the appearance of bronze mirrors.

Only when she saw the bronze mirror did she realize that the color of the bronze mirror is silvery, similar to that of a mercury mirror.

Lily took the photo carefully, and was startled by the clarity: it was not too different from a glass mirror.

In the mirror is a pretty young daughter-in-law, with fair skin that is rosy, with watery almond eyes, thin and curved eyebrows, red mouth, and black hair. She is living a very comfortable life.

There are cast patterns and characters on the back of the mirror, and the stall owner greeted with a smile: "The mirror from the Fang family in Huzhou is top-notch!"

Someone next to him smiled and said, "Don't fool us, the mercury mirror is the most used in the capital now, and this bronze mirror of the Fang family is only used in the countryside."

The stall owner was afraid that Lily would persuade people not to buy the bronze mirror, so he hurriedly said: "You are wrong, the mercury mirror is so expensive, it was made by the emperor under the guidance of the gods, ordinary people can't afford it!"

Then he said to Lily: "Don't look at this bronze mirror. It's no worse than a mercury mirror. It's clear and bright. Do you see the words behind it? 'Changyi descendants', buy it back and put it at home, and give birth to a big fat boy in the next year!" "

"I would like to borrow your good words!" Lily smiled with her eyes bent, wanting to please her.

The stall owner continued to work hard, "The mirrors bought from me will wear out in the future, just come to me to grind them, my mirror sharpening medicine is also very good."

Lily took out the money and bought a Changyi descendant Linghua mirror, a sunflower mirror, facial grease, lipstick and other things. The stall owner was happy, and gave her a few feet of red headband and a piece of rouge, and said: "Turn back Still come to my place to buy, I will spare you some more things.”

Lily thought that Lamei was getting older. At this time, most of the girls got married at the age of sixteen or seventeen. Even if she wanted to stay, she couldn't stay. It's better to prepare early to avoid panic in the future.

Lamei was suppressed by Mrs. Zhu for many years at home, and only slowly revealed her beauty-loving nature at Lily's place, and she was too embarrassed to ask her elder sister for things, so Lily always wanted to buy them for her.

A bronze mirror costs more than 30 yuan, which is equivalent to the food and clothing of wintersweet for a month. She dared not talk to Lily even if she was killed. Lily was scared by her face at first, and the two sisters are still taking pictures by the water. grooming.

Seeing the bronze mirror today, Lily realized that she had unknowingly got rid of her face like a starving ghost, and that she was also a beautiful little daughter-in-law. When a woman's instinct for beauty erupts, not only does she have to dress herself up, but the younger sister also has to dress up. Get up and be glad to see.

When I returned home to put things away, the bronze mirror was placed on the small table. The two sisters were very happy, but Lamei was shy and couldn't help but look in the mirror.

It was the first time for her to see what she looked like so clearly. Although she wasn't very good-looking, she always felt that she couldn't see enough.The eldest sister also said to her: "I was not as good as you in the past, but in the future you will look better when you grow up."

Lamei saw her eldest sister becoming more and more beautiful little by little, and she believed in Lily's words, and continued to look in the mirror and fantasize about how she would look when she became more beautiful in the future. The more she thought about it, the happier she became.

Lily let the girl go crazy for a while, and called her to paste the window: "You are still beautiful with such a strong wind blowing!"

Make a bowl of paste, find the hemp rope to measure the size of the window, cut the paper according to the size, and then apply the paste on the four sides of the white cotton paper, and stick it firmly to the wooden window lattice.

The white paper is light-transmitting, and the light in the room is not affected. Only then did Lamei understand the elder sister's intention: "I see, the straw paper is not so bright!"

I have to do sewing in the house most of the winter. If the light is too dark, my eyes will be broken at a young age. Wouldn't that be bad?

Lily smiled and said: "There is another meaning. This paper is much stronger than straw paper. If the weak one is damaged by a wind, you have to buy it again. It's better to buy a good one at once, which will save you money."

Lamei nodded to be taught.

A layer of window paper was still a little thin, so Lily put another layer on the outside of the window. One window, with double layers of white window paper inside and outside, sheltered from the wind and kept warm. A brazier was set up, and the room was immediately warmed up.

(End of this chapter)