"It's okay, grandpa. I'll wait for you to go to work and start cooking. It should be enough in one afternoon. Then I'm thinking of building a stove for you in front and connecting it to the fire pit, so that you can have a fire every day and the room will be warm." It will be warmer and less firewood will be burned for the kang," Fang Nuo said with a smile.
"Okay, you can do whatever you want. If you need our help, just ask us," Grandpa Fang said with a smile.
"Yeah, I understand." After Fang Nuo said this, he went to pick out the steamed buns from the pot.
Then I started to chop the vegetables and stir-fry them. I fried some bacon and cabbage at noon, stewed the soaked dried vegetables, put some soybean paste on it and simmered it together. It tasted good when it came out of the pot.
After eating, Father Fang said to several people: "Mom and Dad, my little brother and I will do the afternoon work. You two can rest at home. If Xiao Nuo needs something and doesn't know where to find it, I can ask you." "
"Can you and Haolin do those jobs? In the middle of winter, don't damage your body," said Grandma Fang.
"It's okay, Mom. There isn't much work during this period, and the people above don't want us to be idle, so they find work for us to do. It's all house work, and it's not very tiring." Dad Fang said
"That's not necessarily true. I heard the other day that we are required to dig ditches for the planting fields this winter so that we can easily water the fields next summer. The ground is so frozen right now that even a day of digging would make us half useless. "Grandma Fang said
"We haven't announced it yet. Maybe it won't be this winter. Mom, don't worry," Uncle Fang said.
"That's okay, your dad and I will help at home." Grandma Fang knew that her two sons were also afraid that they would get sick after being outside in the cold for a long time.
"Okay, I will hand over the kang making skills to my grandparents later. If there are people around who want to make a kang, you can ask them to exchange things for you," Fang Nuo said with a smile.
She originally thought that if someone wanted to buy something, she would take a few orders, but she thought that she would only be here for a few days, and there was still a lot to do.
She forgot to ask Wang Bin today if she could go out alone to buy things.
I have to sit on the bed again in the afternoon, and I don’t have time to ask. I can only ask tomorrow morning. If I can go out, I can go out and buy some things. If I can’t, I can only think of other ways.
She wanted to bring some food back, otherwise they would have nothing to eat after she left for a few days with the little food left at home.
After Father Fang and Uncle Fang finished eating, they went out to work.
Fang Nuo put away the dishes and chopsticks, then sat down next to Grandpa Fang and asked, "Grandpa, how do you divide the food here? Is it based on work points?"
"No, we are paid month by month, and we are not given much. We are only given thirty kilograms of cornmeal, and then some potatoes, cabbage, radishes, etc." Grandpa Fang said
"That's it, then you won't be full every meal," Fang Nuo said.
"In this day and age, how many people can have enough to eat? We are pretty good here, but I heard others say that decentralized personnel elsewhere can only get a little cornmeal every month, and nothing else.
And the accommodation is not comparable to the bungalows here. I heard they live in a shed next to the cowshed in the village. There is still wind leaking from the west this winter, so it is much more difficult than here," said Grandpa Fang.
Fang Nuo thought about it, and the people in his village were not much different from what his grandfather said.
If these people meet the village cadres who are nice, they can just ignore them and give them some food to survive.
Like in some places, they have to be paraded around for criticism/fighting from time to time, which not only tortures the body, but also tortures the spirit.
"Then can we farmers go out and buy things?" Fang Nuo asked again.
"This is okay, but we can't go there. If you want to spend money to buy something, people here won't take care of you." Grandpa Fang thought about how when they first arrived here, his wife couldn't stand it for a while. The cold temperature made me sick instantly.
He and his two sons went out to the west to ask people to bring them some medicine. Those people ran away from them when they saw them from a distance. In the end, the farm manager was afraid that someone would die when they came here and cause trouble, so he gave it to them. Order some medicine, otherwise my wife won’t know whether she can survive that serious illness.
Therefore, when the family was on the farm, they followed the arrangements and did whatever they were asked to do every day.
He didn't tell Xiao Nuo any of this, it was all over anyway, and if he did tell her, it would only make her worry more.
"That's it, then I understand. I'll ask tomorrow. If I can go out, I'll bring some food back. You can eat as much as you can, otherwise you won't have the strength to work," Fang Nuo said.
"You, that's it, don't you want to sit on the bed? Go get Yaya and I'll hold her while you do your job." Grandma Fang listened to her saying this and wanted to tell her not to waste that money. Save it to buy things for yourself and Yaya.
But when she thought about how the old man and his two sons could only eat three cents full every day and had to do so much physical work, she wanted to persuade Xiao Nuo not to buy it, but she couldn't say it.
In the end, I could only change the topic, but I was thinking about discussing it with the old man at night, hiding the things they brought with them, and giving Xiao Nuo some to take out in exchange for money before she left.
Fang Nuo had almost asked what he wanted to ask. After listening to Grandma Fang's words, he got up and went to the inner room, took the two wooden boards from the original wooden bed to the outer room and placed them on the ground not far from the fire.
Then he took a mattress and put it on it, then put Yaya's diaper pad on it, then took Yaya out and put it on it to continue sleeping.
She was covered with two quilts of her own, and there was a fire burning not far away, so she wouldn't feel cold.
After Yaya was done, Fang Nuo said to Grandma Fang: "Grandma, just watch her sleep here. Yaya has gained a lot of weight now. It's very tiring to hold her."
"Okay, you go and do your work. I'm watching over here." After that, he said to the other party's grandfather: "Old man, go and pass something to me. If you need help, you can help me right away."
"Okay, let's go, Xiao Nuo, let's go see how you set up the kang." Grandpa Fang said as he got up and walked to the back room.
Fang Nuo also followed him and entered the back room. The two of them first dismantled all the wooden beds in the room, took the wooden boards to the outside and propped them up, and piled all the bedding and things moved out of the back room on top.
She swept under the bed again, then discussed with Grandpa Fang where the kang should be, and finally decided to put it in the same position as the original wooden bed.
After confirming, the two of them came out and moved all the adobe bricks next to the door inside. Then they poured sand and cement into the mix, then poured in water and mixed well. Fang Nuo then started building the wall of the kang room.
Grandpa Fang picked up bricks and handed them to her. The two of them worked quickly. In less than two hours, the wall between the big Kang was built.
