Chapter 363: Changes in the village
Cui Qingci looked at Daxue and said, "If it snows heavily tomorrow and the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, our store may be temporarily closed for the day tomorrow, and we will have to leave the brown sugar for the day after tomorrow."
The little woman was surprised when she saw it suddenly snowed outside, "Is it snowing again?"
Many people in the store were looking at the various shelves and felt the cold wind blowing from the door of the store. When they looked at the door, they were also surprised that it was snowing.
“It’s snowing!”
“The snowflakes look quite big!”
“It looks like it’s going to snow heavily tonight.”
“If this is anything like the heavy snowfall that just entered winter, it would be impossible to walk even under a thick layer of snow.”
“No, no one wants to go out on such a cold day. If you can stay warm at home, stay warm at home.”
When it’s snowing heavily and it’s freezing cold, everyone likes to stay at home to keep warm.
“It’s a bit cold when you go out.”
In this cold weather, people with better conditions can keep themselves much warmer by burning a kang or a charcoal fire at home.
People in the village cut more firewood in advance to make preparations.
When it’s cold, burn firewood as hard as you can.
Fortunately, there are many mountains and forests nearby, and there is a lot of firewood, so everyone can use more firewood to burn the kang.
The kang is warmed, and everyone doesn’t feel cold anymore.
When the weather is cold, people in the village will hide under the quilt on the kang.
The corn and peanuts will be put on the quilt with a dustpan. While everyone is covered with the quilt to keep warm, they will peel the peanut skins and peel the corn kernels with their hands.
So everyone’s work will not be affected at all.
I will take advantage of the cold weather in winter to do more things.
Because if spring begins, everyone will go to work in the fields.
But Donghe Village is different.
The people of Donghe Village work diligently every day to cook brown sugar even when the weather is cold.
However, everyone is also worried that there will not be enough sugar cane in the forest by then.
Many people have spontaneously planted some small sugar canes, and also plan to plant sugar beets in the wasteland on the mountains.
Because Jiang Zhiluo told everyone that beets can also be made into brown sugar.
When everyone talks on weekdays, their words are full of gratitude to Jiang Zhiluo.
Old Mrs. Zhao’s house in Liuhe Village
Old Mrs. Zhao sat in front of the stove, burning firewood and murmuring: "Dalin, go to the yard and get more firewood to pile up in the house. It's snowing outside, and the firewood is wet from the snow. When you light the fire, Not easy to burn."
Zhao Dalin nodded and handed the spoon to his brother: "Er Lin, help stir it."
Zhao Erlin took the spoon and carefully stirred the sugar cane juice in the pot little by little.
As soon as Zhao Dalin walked out of the house, he felt a chill going straight to his neck.
He shivered, shrank his neck, and hurried to the corner to move firewood.
The cold wind is blowing, and if it snows, it will pick up a layer of flying snow.
Some snow blew into Zhao Dalin's neck through the wind, bringing with it a hint of coldness.
He quickly moved a pile of firewood into the house.
The firewood in the corner of the yard is tied in piles with hemp ropes.
At that time, firewood was cut from the mountains, piled together, and piled on a small cart to push it back.
In this way, you can chop more firewood and bring back more firewood at once.
Of course now people in the village will also go to Jiang Zhiluo’s father in Xingshan Village to order carts.
A small cart costs one hundred cents.
In the past, people did not have enough to eat and were reluctant to spend a penny.
I would rather work harder than buy a stroller.
But now everyone can make money by making brown sugar. Last month, Zhao Dalin calculated that his family made more than 1,600 yuan.
He, his grandma and his younger brother were all very happy.
This is a number they dare not think of.
If you earn this every month, you can save a lot of money in a year.
When life got better at home, they ordered a cart and a bellows. Almost every household in the village now has a bellows.
After actually using the bellows, everyone understands how useful the bellows is.
Just a little pull and the fire will burn very brightly.
The first family in their village to buy a bellows was the Li Zheng family.
Li Zheng’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhu, came out and said how useful the bellows was.
It doesn’t matter whether you use a bellows or not on weekdays, but if you are making brown sugar, using a bellows can save firewood, and the brown sugar can be boiled faster in the same time when the fire is strong.
So everyone bought bellows after they had a little more money.
Jiang Xiangchuan was too busy originally.
Jiang Xiangchuan has received many orders.
Some merchants went to the blacksmith shop and saw how useful the bellows were. Seeing the business opportunities, they ordered some bellows from Jiang Xiangchuan.
When the businessman from other places went to Jiang Xiangchuan's house to fix the bellows, he saw the umbrellas placed in Jiang Xiangchuan's yard and thought they were very good, so he ordered a batch of umbrellas.
This time the deposit is quite large.
Jiang Xiangchuan was too busy, so he brought some apprentices.
Some half-grown boys and young and strong young men in the village began to learn these jobs from Jiang Xiangchuan.
Everyone called him master one after another, and they all studied hard and respected Jiang Xiangchuan.
When Jiang Xiangchuan became a master, he didn't just teach his disciples something and then let his apprentices work for free.
He sincerely taught his disciples the skills of craftsmanship.
He will give the apprentice a commission for the bellows or umbrella made by his apprentice.
Give some commission for each order.
Everyone can make money, be more grateful to Jiang Xiangchuan, and study more seriously.
Of course Jiang Xiangchuan’s apprenticeship was not in vain.
Having lived in Xingshan Village for so many years, he has a very clear idea of who’s family is what, what kind of temperament they have.
He chose some people with good temperaments, diligence, and good moral character as his apprentices.
Of course the parents of these people also know how to be good and sensible.
So after Jiang Xiangchuan taught his disciples, these families were also grateful to Jiang Xiangchuan.
Whenever something happens to the Jiang family, the other families in the village actively help with the work.
It’s still dark, and the water tanks in Jiang Xiangchuan’s home are full.
Every day before Ye started to work, Jiang Xiangchuan's apprentices helped clean the yard and they all rushed to work.
Yip is also willing to teach them how to cook.
They didn’t expect that they could learn cooking skills from their master’s wife.
Cooking is also a survival skill.
Everyone is grateful and it’s natural to study hard.
At this time, Zhao Dalin sighed that the cart was easy to use and entered the house with firewood.
“It’s really cold outside!”
Mrs. Zhao said: "It's cold when it snows."
“In a few days, we will go to the market in Yangliu Village. If it doesn’t snow, we will go to the market for a walk, buy some cotton, and make thick cotton clothes and quilts, so that we won’t be cold anymore.”
If it were the past, how could Mrs. Zhao be willing to spend money?
They never go to the market to buy anything.
Eat only food grown in the home field, and only use what is available at home.
Hand them carefully, and keep your clothes patched.
Now she is willing to buy some things before the Chinese New Year.
Zhao Dalin smiled and said: "Grandma, it's okay, the room is not cold. We have been making brown sugar all day long, and we also burned the kang. We sleep on the hot kang at night, and it's not cold at all."
These words are true.
Having been boiling brown sugar in front of the pot and lighting the fire all day long, the room was very hot.