Siheyuan: Xu Damao corrects his evil ways

Chapter 79 79, briquettes and briquettes

Silly Zhu's blind date went smoothly, but when it came to marriage, there was a problem.

The woman's hometown asked someone to bring a letter, saying that her grandmother was gone.

In addition to going home for the funeral as a family, a little filial piety is still required.

We can't all follow the old etiquette and say how long we should keep filial piety.

After all, she is a granddaughter, and this is a new era.

So after discussing with Wang Furong, the girl's parents decided to postpone the wedding for three months.

That is to say, the wedding was originally supposed to be on National Day, but now it has been postponed to after New Year's Day.

Chinese people are very reasonable about this kind of thing.

If you really have to observe filial piety for three years, then you are no longer a golden girl, you are called yesterday's golden girl.

In fact, in situations like this, there are still people who snatch marriages.

This kind of marriage robbery is not the kind of grabbing a woman from a good family, but getting married before the elderly person in the family dies.

This usually happens when the man has an old person on his side.

After all, these days, a granddaughter can still be said to belong to someone else's family, an outsider.

Grandson can't be accommodating. If you don't rush to get married, you really have to wait three years to prepare.

It doesn't matter in the future, we can live together with or without a certificate.

But in this day and age, if you don’t bow three times to the portraits of the elderly and don’t go door-to-door to distribute a few wedding candies, it’s really easy for someone to report you to the street office.

So in the original drama, Xu Damao went to the security department and said that Sha Zhu was acting like a hooligan when he lived with Lou Xiao'e.

Emotionally and process-wise, there really is no problem at all.

When Xu Damao heard about Silly Pillar, he also gritted his teeth.

Is this stupid Zhu really not destined to get married?
  These days, everyone Shazhu sees has a dark face.

Also, whoever encounters this kind of thing will be upset.

I could have hugged my soft wife at this time.

As a result, he had to wait a few more months.

Anyway, during this period of time, Xu Damao didn't dare to tease Silly Zhu anymore. If he was beaten by that idiot, there would really be no room for reasoning.

Not to mention Xu Damao, even Yu Yu dared not talk to her stupid brother these days.

Except for the days when she lived on campus, she would either coax her to be her godfather or mother, or go to Xu Damao's place for a meal.

Fortunately, Xu Damao's side is not short of her, and Lou Xiao'e is also generous. Yu Yu really treats Xu Damao's side as his second home.

Strangely enough, Xu Damao didn't care about his girl as much as Yu Yu.

Probably the reason, Xu Damao also thought, was that Xu Zhaodi treated Xu Damao as the same person, while Yu Yu always used a flattering way to get along with Xu Damao.

Another one, the rain is more beautiful.

Of course, if Xu Zhaodi lived in the courtyard and saw each other every day, the result might be different.

The reason why Yu Yu bothers Sha Zhu recently is actually because of Sha Zhu’s drinking. It’s normal to drink some alcohol when you’re in a bad mood. But sitting there every day after work, drinking a plate of peanuts from get off work until dusk, is annoying.

And his eyes were stunned, as if he had lost his soul.

Yuyu asked: "Brother Damao, what happened to my brother?"

Xu Damao thought for a while and replied: "Lovesickness."

When the two women heard this, they both laughed.

Yu Yu smiled and nodded and said, "I guess it's because my sister-in-law isn't particularly pretty, so my brother didn't like her at first. But after getting along for a long time, he wished we could stick together every day."

Yuyu held his chin with his hands and stared blankly above. It's like you can see the stars in the sky through the roof.

Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e looked at each other and smiled, their eyes full of each other.     At least for now.

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The relationship between people is probably like this. Some people are not particularly beautiful, or they are simply not in their own aesthetic point of view.

It doesn't matter if we have contact with him every day, but one day this person is no longer there, it's like there is a missing piece in our life.

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Love cannot be used as food or as firewood, so necessary preparations for winter must be made.

There are two types of coal products commonly used by people in Sijiucheng. One is old-fashioned briquettes, which are sifted out like glutinous rice balls.

There are specialized craftsmen who do this kind of thing. Every year in autumn, after the harvest of food in the homes of villagers in Zhili, groups of people carry bedding and tools and rush to Sijiu City.

Those who shake briquettes are also divided into those who live on the ground and those who walk around the streets.

So coal shops like coal shops also use hanging sieves to make briquettes, and they make a lot of briquettes at one time. But most of the briquettes in these places are delivered to wealthy families or various restaurants.

This stuff is made with loess. If you add too much loess, it will definitely not be easy to burn and the heat will not go up.

Therefore, ordinary small households, in order to avoid encountering unscrupulous merchants, buy their own coal and loess to take home.

Then call the briquette shakers who walk around the streets to do it at your doorstep.

It is necessary to crush the coal and then sift it again. Add a certain proportion of loess and evenly add water and spread it into coal cakes.

This thing must be technical work, people do this professionally.

When it's almost dry, just like cutting a cake, cut it into small squares.

Then it started to sway, just like making pasta, each coal cake had to be dipped in dry coal powder.

Then put an empty flower pot or iron basin underneath, the waist and horse are in one, hold up the sieve and swing it back and forth.

This kind of thing means that not much can be screened at one time. The advantage is that it prevents fraud by merchants.

However, it turns out that this model is basically used by residents of courtyard houses.

Since we are talking about the original, it means that it must have changed again.

Yes, briquettes are used now. This thing appeared around the time of liberation. At that time, it was sold at Xinchengzhai Coal Shop in Qianmen, Sijiu City.

But that one is pressed by hand.

By 54, Sijiucheng had invented the briquette machine.

Then in 57, Sijiucheng began to promote it.

Later, it was the invention of the sleeve briquette stove that really popularized the briquette stuff. It gets angry quickly and the firepower is concentrated.

Later, briquette factories in many cities across the country basically learned from Sijiucheng.

For example, Xu Damao now goes directly to the Donghuamen Coal Factory to issue invoices, and then calls a boss to pull a cart of briquettes. People also pile the coal under the eaves for Xu Damao one by one.

From a distance, it looks like a wall.

After the master finished coding, he handed over a cigarette and helped light the fire. It's not that I'm being polite, I'm a serious fan of the country.

It's just that the division of labor is different, so there is no distinction between high and low now.

This thing is not just coal. Basically, every household has to check the coal stove and exhaust pipe before winter.

You can't be careless about these things, otherwise something will be damaged. Not being able to gather fire or provide heat is a trivial matter.

Maybe, if you get gas poisoning, it will be really cool.

Naturally, there are professionals for things like this. Don't worry about the few wages paid. The stoves and exhaust pipes they built are professional.

After burning the coal stove for a season, several wages were saved.

The key is safety!

(End of this chapter)