Some people say that the cold in the north in winter is a physical attack. As long as you wear enough clothes when going out, have heating in your place, or go home to burn a kang. Basically, you don’t feel cold in winter.
The cold winter in the south is a magical attack. No matter how much you wear, it still feels very cold. In addition, there is no heating in the house and no kang can be burned in the house. What a feeling of winter...
The geographical location of Yangjia Village is north of the Huaihe River. It is reasonable to say that it is a cold physical attack in the north, but compared with northeastern provinces such as Heiji and Liao.
In Yangjiacun, no houses in the city have heating, and no one in the rural households has a kang. Therefore, we also wear clothes to resist the freezing weather in the winter, which is as dry and cold as in the south.
And although the quality of life in every house has improved now, air conditioners are installed. But the air conditioner is very useful in summer, and it will be cool if you turn it on for a while.
But heating in winter is all kinds of tricks. If you turn on the air conditioner for half a day, you might as well find a tree root and light a fire to warm yourself up. So it’s understandable that you can’t get out of bed under the covers in the winter.
The weather forecast was very reliable. On the third day after returning, the dry and cold air suddenly began to heat up, bringing warmth to the cold people.
Then the sky started to get gloomy in the afternoon, and before it got completely dark, snowflakes started to fall from the sky.
Under normal circumstances, if it snows without rain, the snowflakes will accumulate quickly on the ground, and it will not be muddy when walking on it. If there is a light rain before it snows, then basically all the snow will melt without seeing many snowflakes.
"Dongjie, watch your brother and don't let him fall." He looked at a group of children who couldn't sit still in the house. They were walking around with firecrackers in their pockets and slingshots in their hands, even though there were no birds on the trees in winter. Yang Dongxu couldn't help shouting from behind.
"I know, don't worry, I'll be fine watching." Yang Dongjie replied, letting Xiao Wenchen walk in front with the slingshot while he watched from behind.
Yang Dongjie is fourteen years old this year. It is the time when he is rebellious and loves to play. He can be said to be the child king in the village.
Coupled with the Yang family's status in the village, almost all the children in this group now follow him around, the older ones are fourteen or fifteen years old, and the younger ones are six or seven years old. As long as he can follow him as soon as he returns to the village.
Originally, it was fine if the children from the same village played together, which was much safer than in the city. Now that Dongjie is the elder brother, there is no problem at all.
Yang Dongxu started to help grow vegetables in the greenhouse in the field. The end of the year is when the price of vegetables increases. Every morning in Yangjiacun, several carts of vegetables are taken out.
Due to bad roads in the neighboring village, it's okay if it doesn't rain. When it rains, the vegetables in the greenhouse are basically carried to the fields in Yangjiacun and loaded onto the truck together.
Zhou Ya is preparing dinner at home, and Zhuo Qing'er has been learning to make tiger-head cotton shoes and tiger-head hats with the elderly in the village these days.
Several families in the village are having children this year, so the older generation makes tiger-head shoes and hats for their grandson. Zhuo Qing'er is interested and learns together.
In the past few days, I have started to produce drawings and prepare to come up with a set of processes. In this way, when you hold a Chinese-style wedding for someone, you can wait until the family has more people and hold a full-moon banquet.
Sending a set of tiger-head shoes, a tiger-head hat, or a five-venom bellyband or something with a tiger head and a tiger head is much more meaningful than sending a greeting card.
At the same time, Zhuo Qing'er now does more than just Chinese wedding celebrations. She also owns the clothing brand Huaxiu and the luxury brand Gucci.
The families who can ask her to design a Chinese-style wedding are those who are not short of money. These small gifts are not expensive, but they can better maintain customer relationships.
When the customer is happy, he can order a few sets of clothes, or buy a bag, a watch, etc., and then the money will be doubled.
"Go over there and watch the bookkeeping." Uncle Yang Dongxu said to him triumphantly when he saw him.
"Let my aunt watch the weighing, and I'll help carry the dishes." Yang Dongxu said.
"Go and see the scale, be careful not to get your clothes dirty." The aunt said next to her.
Now that the Internet is slowly developing, my uncle and aunt will occasionally take Dongjie out throughout the year when the family is wealthy, during winter and summer vacations.
In addition, since the last time Zhou Ya gave them a valuable gift, they made a mistake. The aunt also began to know the value of the unbranded clothes that Zhou Ya bought for the family during the holidays.
"It's okay, this coat belongs to my dad, not mine." Yang Dongxu smiled and waved his hand, asking his aunt to give up his position. He and his uncle Shengli worked together to lift a bunch of celery out of the greenhouse.
Yang's father and Yang's mother are busy at the pig farm, and they will produce a pen of pigs today. However, the pigs were just weighed and taken directly to the city for slaughter. So when it's not busy there, he comes to the fields to help.
Now my uncle's family mainly has two incomes, one is the income from vegetables in the greenhouse in front of him, and the other is the income from traditional Chinese medicine in the family field.
There are three households in the Yang family. The total population of the three households is about 10 people, and they have nearly 20 acres of land. Including the wasteland previously contracted, the total is about 200 acres.
In the past two years, my uncle's pig farm and the Yang family's pig farm were merged together, and they were both taken care of by Yang's father.
My uncle's family specializes in serving greenhouse vegetables and growing herbs.
Needless to say, there is no need to mention the price of greenhouse vegetables in winter. Since the Chinese medicines in the fields are directly customized and grown by pharmaceutical companies, there is no situation where they cannot be sold, or they will grow whatever they want to make money, and eventually the prices will collapse. In this way, the combined profits of these two businesses are no less than those of a pig farm.
Now, in fact, not only the Yang family, but also those with a lot of land in the village basically have greenhouse vegetables. Those who don’t grow vegetables in greenhouses also grow traditional Chinese medicine.
Or transfer the land. For example, the Xiaowu family no longer cultivates land, but transfers all the land and pays a high price of 800 per acre per year.
Their family's income mainly comes from the electrical appliance store on the street and the transportation company that Xiaowu is currently working on.
Almost all the villagers in Yangjiacun started their business by running large trucks. After Xiaowu set up the transportation company, he integrated the large trucks and drivers from all over the country. This year, the scale has suddenly expanded a lot and I have made a lot of money.
This kind of resource integration is actually a win-win situation. In this way, truck drivers from ten miles and eight villages do not have to find work alone, and they are also priced down.
Every day, according to the company's arrangements, we pick up the goods and bring them back when we come back. We save worry and effort and still make less money than before. If something goes wrong, the company will take care of us. Everyone is very happy.
The two people worked together to lift the trapped celery onto the scale. After passing the scale, they began to lift it aside and get into the car.
This cart of vegetables is going to the province. It takes about five hours to drive from Yangjiacun to the province.
Now the trucks are loaded directly from the greenhouse to the provincial capital at night, and then the unloading is delayed for an hour or two. At two or three o'clock tomorrow morning, the vendors and people from the major farmers' markets will enter the wholesale market to divert this batch. Go to various stores in the provincial capital.
"Come and drink some water, are you tired?" After delivering the last package of vegetables to the car, my aunt came over with a kettle to pour tea.
"It's okay, do some work in the winter to keep warm. You and your uncle should stop cooking tonight. I told Zhou Ya when I came here that the family is probably almost ready, and we will go to the old house for dinner soon."
"Why did you go to your house for dinner after working for a long time? I ordered two dishes on the street and invited your parents and Zhou Ya to come to my house to eat." The aunt said.
"We're really almost ready. We'll go to your house to eat tomorrow. I won't help you with the finishing touches. We'll eat at home later. I'm going to see where Dongjie has taken Xiao Wenchen. The snow is getting heavier and heavier."
"Who says it's not the case? Originally, we said we would load the food tomorrow, but now it turns out it's really going to snow, so we have to pretend we left overnight the night before." The aunt said.
Then I heard the person collecting the food over there yelling, and I quickly took my account book to check the account with the other person and prepare to settle the payment.
Normally, when you bring food, you usually do it several times, but when you bring food at the end of the year, you pay cash on the spot. After all, it’s the end of the year and everyone is preparing to celebrate the New Year. No one wants to have to go everywhere to collect accounts before the New Year is approaching. .
Yang Dongxu said hello to his uncle Shengli and started walking home. Along the way, the third uncle and the second uncle called people and passed cigarettes while shouting. When I left the field, there was no pack of cigarettes left.
I lit the cigarette in my mouth and took a puff, but I didn't feel any taste. Just mix it with your hands and let it burn and walk towards the village.
As soon as I reached the end of the village, I saw a large truck coming in. Brothers Daliang and Xiaoliang, who had gone to see the truck two days ago, returned.
The car we pulled was also sent to the city, not brought back to be divided into eight villages ten miles away to celebrate the New Year.
There are still many farmers in rural areas raising sheep. The sheep raised by farmers basically do not eat feed, because feed costs money. What I usually eat is free grass, as well as bean cakes or rapeseed cakes left over when squeezing oil.
No fattening or other drugs are used, and they grow all year round. So if you want to eat mutton, buy one when you see someone raising sheep. The taste is no worse than the sheep on the grassland.
Of course, some people like meat to have a reputation, so Da Liang left about ten sheep on the cart and decided to share them when he came back.
Seeing Yang Dongxu, Da Liang turned off the passenger car and Xiao Liang drove the car home.
The transportation company he and Xiaowu worked for didn't have any cars, so the drivers owned the big trucks. So at the end of the year, whoever owns the car will drive it home. The gate at the venue in the city is locked, and there is no need for a janitor to stay.
Seeing the light coming down, Yang Dongxu touched his pocket for a cigarette. As soon as he touched it, he remembered that the last cigarette in the cigarette case was burning in his hand.
When he saw Daliang handing him a cigarette, he didn't say he didn't want to smoke it, so he took the cigarette and put it in his ear.
"When did you come back?" Daliang asked.
"I just came back two days ago, how was the journey?"
"It was just that it was blocked for a while when it snowed, and then the oil was lost once in the service area. The rest was fine." Daliang said with a smile.
Yang Dongxu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "If you lose the oil, just throw it away. It's the end of the year and everyone is fine."
"I thought so too, so I accepted that I was unlucky and didn't complain about it." Daliang scratched his scalp and the two of them tightened their collars and walked towards the village together, "Mainly because I have been in the south in the past few years. Pour the fruit.
This line in the north just started running this year, and Xiaoliang had to go to the local area when he was losing fuel. I said that Yao Jin would not be allowed to go when I came back for the Chinese New Year. I would be fine if I made a few more trips to familiarize myself with the route. "
"Are gas rats rampant now?" Yang Dongxu asked.
"People who have run long distances have never lost gas a few times, and they are embarrassed to say that they have traveled all over the world." Daliang joked with a smile.
