Chapter 8 Although I can’t make a lot of money yet, I will save money

Use a gourd ladle to scoop out a large basin of water.

Mrs. Xu asked her granddaughter to take a bath first. After her granddaughter finished washing, she planned to use the remaining water to wash herself.

Although there is no shortage of water or even floods here, there is no well in her yard, and there are only six "private" wells in the whole village.

Because it is expensive, according to memory, it cost five taels of silver to dig a well at the price two years ago.

Her family lived at the east end of the village, so she had to walk one stop to carry water.

Yes, I guess in our modern society, the bus station is only one stop away, so we have to save some water even if we have it. The main reason is that we can’t afford it. We rely on our daughter-in-law to carry the water.

Thanks to the fact that the Xu family got a big vat when they split up, the second son of the family was also very handy and made a lot of wooden basins to store water. Otherwise, there would be nothing to choose from.

The plan was quite good, but the old lady felt that she only had to go out and open the door. Then she went to the wing to take out a few bags of grain while the sun was shining and put them in the yard to dry. Then she turned back and entered the house to take another look at her granddaughter's bath water. "...

"She doesn't seem to be able to handle it anymore.

Xu Tianxin was also a little embarrassed. She didn't rub it with loofah pulp, but just wiped it with the palm of her hand and a layer of black mud came down.

Mrs. Xu picked up loofah pulp and rubbed her granddaughter's back and said, "It seems that this family doesn't take a bath all year round."

Otherwise, the memory is unreliable.

In Mrs. Xu's memory, the Xu family already belonged to a beauty-loving family, a very clean family in the village. If they were any cleaner, they would be told that we were poor and sophisticated, but I didn't expect it to still be so dirty.

Xu Tianxin was a little lucky: "Fortunately, it turns out that Grandma Xu is very face-conscious and doesn't want people to know that she often eats elm noodles at home. She always tells everyone to shave their hair with a comb so that they don't get so many lice. If there are too many lice, it will be even more troublesome."

Saving face here has nothing to do with being clean, but there is an old saying here that a man with lice in his head is a poor man, and a man with fleas in his house is a rich man.

Grandma Xu didn't want people to know that her family was really poor, so she often told everyone to catch lice when they had nothing to do. At the very least, they shouldn't have crawling heads when they were talking.

As for why there is such a conclusion, Xu Tianxin guessed that it should be caused by unbalanced nutrition, or that a single oil produced from a simple diet likes to get lice. If there are more lice, doesn't it mean that the food in the family is poor? And the number of fleas means that the family has poor food.

The family raises a large number of livestock.

In her impression, she had a little sister named Mai Miao in this village. Even though she was only in her early teens, she knew a lot of gossip about various families and shared it with her.

I once talked to her about the kind of vain boy who would deliberately catch fleas and put them on his body. In this case, when he meets a girl or goes out to make friends, he wants the other person to misunderstand that he has a lot of livestock at home.

The conditions are good. Anyway, they just serve to make people take a good look. There are several young people like this in their village. They should be like modern men who like luxury cars. Deep down, they also envy those who have cattle, sheep, pigs and even horses at home.

People would deliberately catch fleas and put them on their bodies.

Xu Tianxin was not completely washed. She felt that she could not clean it in one go. After scrubbing and drying, she quickly put on her clothes and carried the bath water to the backyard with her grandma.

Scoop out some plant ash bath water and pour it under the big tree to prevent root rot.

The backyard of the Xu family is quite large. It should be said that the backyards of every household here are very large.

If you can't afford too much land, you have to have a big garden and plant it like a vegetable garden.

This is why Mrs. Xu can't go out and complain that her home is too far away from the place where she carries water, and people will think it's pretentious. It's not even a few doors away from the well.

At this time, in addition to growing many potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbages, radishes, winter melons and melons, the Xu family’s back garden also had four large trees scattered around the corners.

There are two trees among them called Maligeda. This kind of tree has very hard wood and is very resistant to burning.

The Xu family's original intention of planting it was not to make fire, but because the second uncle Xu Youliang learned some carpentry skills by himself. In his free time, he would use this tree to make pipes for his grandmother to take to the market to sell.

It is an old-fashioned pipe for smoking dry tobacco. It is specially made from this kind of tree to look good and not crack.

There is also a jujube tree. The jujube tree was planted late. Xu Tianxin visually estimated that the jujube tree is only about ten centimeters in diameter. Here, when a peasant girl gets married, whoever is willing to use the jujube tree to make a bed as a dowry will be happy.

It is equivalent to a family with average modern economic conditions giving 300,000 yuan to accompany their daughter. It is conceivable that this is an act of spending money.

The year the jujube trees were planted was the year Xu Tianxin's physical father was taken away.

At that time, several uncles were still young, and the eldest second uncle was only fourteen years old.

The eldest brother Xu Youtian planted this tree with his own hands. Before leaving, he told his younger brothers that this was what he would leave to his daughter. If he came back alive, remember to cut down this tree and make a bed to take to his in-laws' house when Tian Xin got married.

So at this time, when grandma was watering the jujube tree, she patted the trunk of the jujube tree and muttered a few words: "Okay, no matter what, we are still alive. If we didn't die, it means we are still alive. Don't blame me, alas."

." In fact, compared with modern times, this place is full of miserable people.

There is no such thing as starving to death in modern times. The key is not to eat anything, just eat a small amount of rice in a small wooden barrel half an arm high, and eat an elbow of vegetables with your granddaughter.

Xu Tianxin had just finished taking a shower and her hair was half dry. She was already a little cold. When she heard this, an evil wind happened to blow, which made her even colder. What happened to being a doctor before? Doctors are also afraid of death. Her modern best friend is a surgeon.

Even at the funeral home, she was dragged to the toilet.

The reason why she hesitated whether to choose dermatology or anorectal medicine back then was because the mortality rate was low, only floating around 0.1%. General practitioners would take it seriously if there was a severe case. If someone died, they would want to be on the local news, and the news headlines would be like this.

With the word "shocked". Besides, she has experienced time travel, so she will have more faith in her heart in the future.

As for the last tree in the Xu family, it was planted next to the thatched house. It was also Xu Tianxin’s rarest tree, called Platycladus arborvitae.

This Platycladus orientalis leaf can be used to wash hair. It can be used to treat blood-heat hair loss and can also grow black hair. Occasionally soaking it in water can relieve cough and reduce phlegm. In addition, in the eyes of Dr. Xu, soaking Platycladus orientalis leaf tea in bloody stools

Drinking is good, but not drinking too much will damage the digestive system. For example, she just used plant ash filtered water and Platycladus orientalis leaves to wash her hair.

"Milk, do you have any water left to water the garden?"

"Still watering? Then it's even more waterlogged. It's been sunny for two days, and when you step on it, you'll get a lot of mud."

Mrs. Xu anxiously checked the sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, hoping that they would be enough to satisfy her hunger. She didn't know if they would smell like rotten sweet potatoes if they were dug out and cooked.

But even this is better than potatoes and sweet potatoes grown on five acres of wasteland next to the mountain.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes in the garden were planted at a different time than those in the wasteland, so they escaped the heavy rainstorm at that time. In my memory, most of the sweet potato seedlings dug out and planted in the wasteland were rotten, and the 40-cent-high adult plants could be pulled out with just a pull.

The roots on the ground were soaked and broken by the water. At that time, many people in the village clapped their thighs and cried. Isn't this a waste of human life?

Mrs. Xu checked other things again. Fortunately, there were a lot of cabbages planted in the garden that could not be drowned. They did not need a lot of water and could not be rained hard. She could only say that autumn cabbages, radishes and winter melons were better than others.

Be stronger, you will have to collect it later.

Tian Qing has too much work to do, pickling vegetables, harvesting vegetables, and tidying up the cellar.

Mrs. Xu was thinking about everything while instructing her granddaughter to fetch all the swill buckets from the house. She wanted to use the bath water to clean the buckets. No water was wasted. She took out the most broken wooden bucket and placed it next to the latrine.

Wash your hands after using the toilet.

Old Mrs. Xu thought to herself: You can't even mention going to the bathroom, otherwise you won't be able to eat. If you don't believe me, I'll give you a look later. That's the old lady. So as the head of the house, she must equip the latrine with a bucket, at least from the inside.

When you come out, you have to wash your hands and then go inside to get the dishes and chopsticks from the dining table.

"Come on, we can't mess around anymore. I won't take a bath. I'll simply wipe my body with a cloth. You can rub your breasts on your back and neck to relieve the itching. We'll start broadcasting."

"Ah?" Xu Tianxin was a little surprised: "Are you still broadcasting today? What are you broadcasting?"

"It takes a day's work to live in the countryside."

Mrs. Xu has already made a plan. The main focus of her second session is to relieve stress. She works from sunrise to sunset, letting modern children watch her work. It can be tiring to watch someone work for a day without looking back.

Xu Tianxin thought for a moment that the idea was good, so she went to take off the quilt cover, wash all the quilt covers and mats at home while the weather was fine, and then wiped the pots, lids and tables, so that she and her grandma could live broadcast and do housework at the same time.

Grandma Xu faced her granddaughter, clapped her hands and recited the command: "The God of Wealth lives in my house." This started the broadcast, followed by a flick of her hair.

Therefore, the opening effect of the second broadcast shocked those who had just entered the live broadcast room, thinking that Sadako had arrived.

"Family members, please don't see me with such long hair. I want to show you my three thousand worries, all the way down to my leg sockets."

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