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.
Even though 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 entire village.
Because it is expensive, according to memory, it cost five taels of silver to drill 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, mainly because we can't afford it. They all relied on their daughter-in-law to fetch water.
Fortunately, the Xu family got a big vat when they separated. The second son of the family was also very handy and made many wooden basins to store water. Otherwise, there is 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. "... "It seems like she can't handle it anymore.
Xu Tianxin was also a little embarrassed. Before she rubbed it with loofah pulp, she 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, her old Xu family already belonged to a beauty-loving family and was a very clean family in the village. If I were cleaner, I would be criticized for being poor and elegant, 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-saving 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 grate 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 on 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.
Why this conclusion is reached? Xu Tianxin guessed that it should be due to unbalanced nutrition or a single oil produced from a simple diet that causes lice. If there are a lot of lice, doesn't it mean that you are eating poorly? The large number of fleas indicates that a large number of livestock are raised in the home.
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 told her about the kind of vain boys who would go out of their way to catch fleas and put them on their bodies, so that when they see a girl or go out to do business with others, they want the other person to misunderstand that his family's conditions are not bad. Anyway, it can play a role in making people look at it. There are several young people like this in their village. It should be like modern men who love luxury cars and deep down they envy those who have cattle, sheep, pigs, and even horses at home, so they catch fleas.
Xu Tianxin was not completely washed. She felt that it would not be clean at all. After scrubbing and drying, she quickly put on her clothes and carried the bath water to the backyard with her grandma.
Scoop out some bath water made of plant ash 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 hypocritical, and it's not even a few doors away from the well.
At this time, in addition to planting many potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbages, radishes and melons, the Xu family's back garden also planted four large trees scattered around the corners.
Among them are two trees called Marigola. 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 Xu Youliang, his second uncle, taught himself some carpentry skills. In his spare time, he would use this tree to make pipes for his grandmother to take to the market to sell.
It's an old-fashioned pipe for smoking dry tobacco. This kind of tree is specially used to make it look good and not crack.
There is also a jujube tree. The jujube tree was planted late. Xu Tianxin visually estimated that it is seven or eight years old. The diameter of the jujube tree is only more than ten centimeters. Here, when a peasant girl gets married, if her family is willing to make a bed out of jujube trees as a dowry, it is equivalent to a family with ordinary economic conditions giving their daughter 300,000 yuan. It can be seen that this is an act of digging into the capital.
The year the jujube trees were planted was also 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 the tree with his own hands and told his younger brothers that this was what he would leave to his daughter. If you don't come back, remember to cut down this tree when Tian Xin got married and make a bed to take to your husband's house.
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 don't die, it means we are still alive. Don't blame us, alas." ." In fact, compared with modern times, this place is full of miserable people.
There is no such thing as dying in modern times. The key is that I haven't eaten anything yet, so I just ate a small amount of rice that was half an arm high in a small wooden barrel, and my granddaughter and I ate an elbow's worth of vegetables and then it was gone.
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, the surgeon, would drag her to the toilet with him when he went to the funeral home.
The reason why she hesitated 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 serious illness, and if someone died, they would want to be on the local news, with the news headline "Shocked".
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 arborvitae leaf can be used to wash hair. It can treat hair loss due to blood heat and can also grow black hair. Occasionally soaking in water and drinking it can help relieve cough and reduce phlegm. In addition, in Dr. Xu’s eyes, it is good to drink bloody stool soaked in Platycladus orientalis leaf tea, but drinking too much will damage the digestive system. For example, when she washed her hair just now, she used plant ash filtered water and arborvitae leaves.
"Milk, do you have any water left to water the garden?"
"Still watering? It's even more waterlogged. It's been sunny for two days, and when you step on it, there's still a lot of mud."
Mrs. Xu anxiously checked the sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, hoping that these two items would satisfy her hunger. I don’t know if it will smell like rotten sweet potato if I dig it out and cook it.
And 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 family garden were planted at a different time than those on the wasteland side, so they avoided the heavy rain at that time. I remember that most of the dug-up sweet potato seedlings planted in the wasteland were rotten, and the 40-inch tall adult plant was pulled out of the ground with just a pull, and its roots were soaked and broken by water. At that time, many people in the village clapped their hands and cried, "Isn't this costing lives?"
Mrs. Xu glanced at the other things again. Fortunately, there were a lot of cabbages planted in the garden that could not be drowned. It didn't require a lot of water just because it rained hard. It can only be said that autumn cabbages, radishes and horned melons were better than others. , they will all be collected later.
Tianqing has too much work to do, including pickling, harvesting, 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 and not waste any of them. The shabbiest wooden bucket is made and placed next to the latrine, where it can be used to wash hands after using the toilet.
Old Mrs. Xu thought to herself: You can't even mention going to the toilet. If you don't believe me, I'll show you later and I'll be dead. Therefore, if she is the head of the household, she must equip her latrine with a bucket. At the very least, she must wash her hands when she comes out of it before entering the house to go to the dining table and get the dishes.
"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 sow rural life."
Mrs. Xu has already made a plan. The main focus of her second session is to relieve stress. She will work from sunrise to sunset, so that modern children can watch them do it. Looking back, they will feel that watching people work for a day can be very tiring. Woolen cloth.
Xu Tianxin thought Nai's idea was good, so she went to take off the quilt cover and wash all the quilt covers and mats at home while the weather was fine. Then she wiped the pots, lids and tables, and she and her grandma could live broadcast and do housework at the same time.
Grandma Xu faced her granddaughter, clapped her hands and said the command: "The God of Wealth lives in my house", and then the show started, 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, you have never seen my hair this long. I want to show you my three thousand troubles, all the way down to my leg sockets."
