On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household begins to clean.
Doing a complete spring cleaning is unavoidable when you live in a rural area and have dirt and dust in your home.
Even people who love cleanliness cannot avoid it.
Yang Rui and Wen Nuan tidied up the entire house. Yang Rui was responsible for the heavy work of climbing stairs, moving tables and setting stools, and scrubbing;
Warm and dry, fold the clothes, mend the things that need to be mended, these are small and effortless tasks.
There are no children at home, so the house is kept clean and tidy.
In one day, Yang Rui not only wiped the tables, chairs, benches, kang cabinets, but also the big kang.
Even the kitchen utensils are scrubbed clean.
He also tidied up the warehouse where food and sundries had been piling up since the beginning of winter.
Put tools on one side and food on the other;
The meat Yang Rui brought back from the black market was placed in a vat, as well as the dried vegetables. As for the various pickled vegetables, a row of small jars and large vats were arranged neatly.
It’s pleasing to look at and gives you a sense of accomplishment!
Because I have to be busy with work, lunch is very simple.
Steamed a grate of sticky bean buns that had been frozen before, and the dish was radish strips, pork skin and soybeans stewed;
This meat skin is still a small piece left over from the last time I divided the meat. I originally planned to make skin jelly, but I forgot about it. This time I stewed it with vegetables.
This soybean stew with radish strips and pork skin is not very tasty, but with a spoonful of miso, it's not bad!
Coupled with the home-made sticky bean buns, it is not bad when paired together.
It’s not exactly great food, but it’s okay!
It wasn't dark yet, and my second sister-in-law, Zhou Jie, who had not yet returned home from get off work, came over first.
"Fourth brother, younger brothers and sisters! Are you busy?" Zhou Jie said with a smile.
Seeing that it was the second sister-in-law, Wen Nuan asked her to sit down: "Yes, second sister-in-law, come and sit in the room! Don't you have to clean the house today? This guy in the house has to clean up everything!"
Zhou Jie put the window paper in her hand on the Kang table: "This is the window paper I brought for you. Tomorrow will be the day to paper the windows.
The supply and marketing cooperative has it, so I bought it directly, which can save you some trouble! "
A few pieces of window paper are not worth much, but they are still the second sister-in-law's heartfelt wishes.
Both Yang Rui and Nuan Nuan expressed their gratitude!
The next day happened to be the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the day for window papering.
Among the eight monsters in the Northeast, there is one called window paper, which is stuck outside!
It refers to all the windows we see. The window paper is pasted on the outside. The window grid is not visible, it is just a big white paper.
Why stay outside? The reason is simple. It’s cold in the Northeast. If the window paper is pasted outside according to the ordinary method, because there are window lattice, then when it snows or wind blows, the snow will fall on the window.
It fell on the window and the room was hot. As soon as the snow melted, the window paper was soaked.
Once the window paper is wet, it has no tension.
So I had to put the window paper on the outside, with the snow on top. It's very cold outside, and the snow can't stay on top, and it will slide down, so the window paper will be safe.
Another thing is that because it is cold in the house, in houses with good conditions, the window paper is often pasted in two layers, both inside and outside. In this case, there will be an air layer in the middle.
In this case, the insulation will be very good.
Theoretically speaking, it’s all two layers of paste!
There is a saying in the Northeast: black people go to the stage, white people go to the ditch, eat white noodles and drink soybean oil.
This black lattice refers to the window lattice of the window. When the window lattice is used for a long time, it is no longer the original color of the wood and becomes black.
Bailongou refers to the short place where window paper is pasted. The window paper is white, so it is called Bailongou.
Eating white noodles means that in the past, all sticky things were boiled and paste by oneself. When winter comes, the windows will be glued, and a large amount of paste will be used. You have to boil the paste yourself, so it is said to be eating white noodles.
What happened to drinking soybean oil in the end? Is such that! Soybeans are produced in the Northeast. Most people in the Northeast eat soybean oil, but rarely peanut oil or rapeseed oil.
So here at this window, after the window is pasted, the wealthier families use oil to paint the areas that are easily corroded by snow.
The oil won't stick to the snow, and it can protect the window.
This is probably what Yang Rui and Wen Nuan did.
Sometimes, previous experience may be backward or wrong.
But more often than not, it is still necessary to follow the experience of previous generations.
Take window paper as an example. Since there is already a better way to keep warm.
Then, Yang Rui and Wen Wen naturally followed suit and did not deliberately put paper on the windows in order to pursue beauty and style.
It's just that the big white paper is a bit monotonous.
"Why don't you put up some window paper!" Yang Rui frowned when he saw Wen Nuan looking at the window paper, and he figured out why after thinking about it.
Wen Nuan agreed, but still raised a very real question: "Okay, but I can't!"
Yang Rui: ..."I don't know how, why don't you ask Third Sister-in-law? Third Sister-in-law is really good with her hands. She usually cuts the window grilles at home. I heard Third Sister-in-law said that her grandma can cut these things." As soon as she came, she followed and learned a little bit."
"Sister-in-law is just pregnant, let's not disturb her, right?" Wen Nuan was a little hesitant.
But Yang Rui thought it was good: "It's okay, the third sister-in-law is pregnant, it's not like she can't move.
The third sister-in-law is relatively introverted. The last time she met the third brother, he said that she would go to his house to chat when she had time!
Besides, the second brother and the third brother live next to each other, and I also want to discuss the New Year matters with the second brother and the third brother! "
Nuan Nuan nodded.
You don’t have to buy red paper for cutting window grilles, you already have it at home.
Yang Rui bought it when they got married, and there is still a lot left.
I dug it out yesterday when I was cleaning up the house. It's still brand new and completely usable.
The two took red paper and scissors and went to the home of Yang Sange, Yang Zhi.
"Third brother, third sister-in-law, where's the family?" Yang Rui's voice was loud and penetrating.
As soon as the voice fell, there was a response from inside the room, and the voice got closer and closer, as if it was heading out:
"It's home! Brother, sister-in-law, you two are strangers. Come in quickly! It's warm in the house!"
Wen Nuan said a little embarrassedly: "Third brother, have I disturbed you?"
Yang Zhi still has something to say to his own family, unlike outsiders.
