Seventy: The vicious female supporting actress struggles daily

Chapter 37 Sending warmth

Breakfast is cooked in a small earthen stove, which has a chimney less than fifty centimeters long, connected to the earthen kang in Jiang Chuan's room.

It is said to be an earth stove, but it is actually a small stove built of clay similar to a coal stove. It is hardly used at ordinary times. In winter, Jiang Chuan will burn the kang. It is also enough.

She once heard her parents talk about when they were young. When they first got married, there was only one air conditioner in the building, which was still in the living room, and there was nothing in the bedroom. Sleeping in a hot water bottle.

It was okay at first, but until Mother Lu became pregnant with her, Father Lu felt sorry for his daughter-in-law, so he went outside and bought seven or eight hot water bottles, filled them with hot water and put them next to Mother Lu, and usually woke up twice at night in winter In the middle of the night and at three or four o'clock in the morning, she was amused to hear it again.

Since it's cold, just sleep in the living room, the air conditioner is on all day.

But even if the conditions at home are good, there are still places where the province should save money, such as electricity bills.

But in the winter after she was born, all the radiators were replaced in the imperial capital.

Jiang Chuan was lying in the quilt, and it didn't take long for him to notice that the quilt was getting warmer again. The beautiful little guy closed his eyes soon, and fell asleep in a daze.

"Lazy again?" Jiang Yan asked with a smile, not seeing her younger brother at the dinner table.

"Anyway, he has nothing to do today, so sleep if you want, and later the eldest sister will deliver New Year's goods to Granny Zhou and the teacher?" At noon, all the dishes are fried, and the meals at noon on the [-]th day are owned by the commune. It is the most abundant food in a year, but if you have chickens at home, you must kill a chicken for this lunch today. Naturally, the hen is reluctant to part with it, and the rooster is killed.

In Hexi Commune, there is usually at least one rooster in the family. This rooster is not fattened but slaughtered, but a breeder.

The chickens in their family are all hatched by their own old hens, sometimes four or five, sometimes seven or eight.

"Okay, you are busy at home now, I will help you when I come back." Jiang Yan nodded.

After breakfast, the two sisters came to the kitchen. Jiang Yan first handed the prepared bamboo basket to the eldest sister, "Here is a piece of fat meat, a box of white rabbit toffee, a box of pastry, and I put six crispy fruits in it." , half a chicken, can I give it to Grandma Zhou?"

"These are fine, everything is solid, then I'll go first."

"Okay, big sister, slow down on the way." Jiang Yu fetched a bamboo hat and handed it to her, it was still snowing outside.

The snow in front of their house had already been cleared by Jiang Yan in the morning, and the snow on the road was also trampled out by the early risers.

Jiang Yan walked to the northwest of the commune stepping on the muddy village road.

On the road, villagers sweeping snow at the door saw Jiang Yan, and greeted her warmly, knowing that she was going to give a new year gift to Granny Zhou today, and also knew that the old widow had rescued Jiang Chuan by the river last summer.

Looking at the heavy bamboo basket, there must be a lot of things in it, but I don't know what is there.

There are also people who don't wink and ask questions, and Jiang Yan only says that it is a very common thing, and others will not come forward to pick it up.

Granny Zhou lives in the northwest corner of the village, which is closer to the edge of the commune. The houses are sparsely located, but there are also twenty or thirty families.

When I came to the door, I saw a little old lady hunched over in the courtyard, slowly shoveling the snow in the courtyard.

"Grandma Zhou!" She entered the door and put the basket aside, "Let me help you."

Seeing this, the old lady knew that the little girl was here to give a New Year's gift, and a slightly stiff smile appeared on her face.

"Dani is here, don't help me, the old woman is not so useless, you can move the stool and sit." The old man put down the shovel in his hand, took Jiang Yan's hand and walked into the house, and Jiang Yan lifted the stool by his feet. Bamboo basket, followed the old man into the house.

When people get old, they usually have a smell called the smell of old age, but Granny Zhou's house is kept very clean, and there is no smell of old age that young people can't accept.

Although the house looked dilapidated, at least it could keep out the wind and rain. There was firewood stuffed in the kitchen stove, and the house was warm and cozy.

There is an old low wooden table on one side of the kang, where the old people usually sit and eat, and do some needlework here.

"Grandma Zhou, I brought you some New Year's goods!" She took out the things one by one, and saw Granny Zhou showing some surprise.

Not to mention the beautiful iron box, but fat meat and half a chicken, which is not something that everyone can eat during the Chinese New Year.

"This is milk candy. You can have one when you are free. The milk taste is enough." Putting the exquisite iron box into the old man's hand, seeing her push it back, Jiang Yan said with a smile: "Take it, We didn't buy this, it was brought along when the grandson of my grandfather's comrade-in-arms family came to visit, and we still have it at home."

"The same goes for the meat and pastry. You have bad teeth. The pastry can be soaked in hot water, which is much more delicious than corn paste."

Jiang Yan told the old man everything, but Granny Zhou didn't refuse in the end, her eyes became warm.

Last year, it was just a matter of little effort for her. At that time, Jiang Han and his wife had already given her a lot of things. Last year, Jiang Han and his wife were gone, and the three of them stayed at home and did not go out.

But as a person who is about to enter the soil, he also understands that if he doesn't accept him, the child will definitely feel bad.

She stopped being polite with the kid Jiang Yan.

Grandma Zhou lost her husband when she was young, and later she lost her son. Now she has only one daughter, but having one is tantamount to not having one.

Calculated according to age, if that daughter is still alive, her grandson must be 20 years old now.

At this age, Granny Zhou has not thought about her daughter who married far away in the south for a long time, and she is fine by herself.

After chatting with the old man here for a while, Jiang Yan left with an empty basket. After returning, she had to send New Year gifts to the hut, and then she had to help her sister cook. This morning was very busy.

Granny Zhou stood at the door watching Jiang Yan leave, and returned to the house after a long time, putting away all the things the child brought, her back was thin and lonely.

There are more gifts from the hut, after all, there are five old people, too few are not enough.

For the three children of the Jiang family who gave some delicious food from time to time, the five elders all remembered them one by one. Now they have no ability, do not remember and have no other way to give back to each other.

Before leaving, Jiang Yan also told them not to cook at noon, and will bring them over at that time.

What the old people can say, of course they are waiting happily.

They wanted to cook by themselves, but compared to Jiang Yu's little girl's cooking skills, the food they cooked together was not much better than pig food.

For the Chinese New Year, they also want to have a hearty meal.

　On the first day of the new year, all the little fairies, the new year is still beautiful.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)