Everything is ready for tomorrow's engagement banquet! The dug stove is sealed, lit the chopped stock and burn it, and the stove is dried.

The family worked hard for the middle of the night before gathering together to eat mooncakes! Talking about each other's family routine, the brothers prepared good cigarettes and wine, and invited their father and grandpa over.

To describe it as a joyful and appropriate to the scene of the night of the Reunion Festival.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, relatives and friends had an engagement banquet the next day! The days became calmer and the brothers were busy with their own affairs.

The eldest brother brought a group of young people to the county town with the third brother's introduction! He went to load and unload the supplies transported by the government, and these tasks were all taken by the eldest brother, so that his brother could make a living.

The second brother wants to farm! After the autumn busy, he has to plant winter wheat. In addition to the twenty acres of land distributed by his family, he also has to bring the young people from the village to cultivate hundreds of acres of land in the tribe.

There is only one scalper in the village. The brothers bought it for money and placed it in the second brother's house! There is an extra cowshed and a cow trough in the courtyard of the second brother's house. This cow trough is used for feeding cows, just like a bowl for people to eat.

The ox trough was chiseled out of a large stone one meter long and half a meter wide. This scalper is more important to the second brother than his life.

Guo Xiaowu can't farm, so he gets idle! He travels around every day without much trouble. For nearly two months, in addition to dating Wang Qinglan and eating tofu, he lives a comfortable life.

It was early winter in a blink of an eye, the first day of October of the 20th year of the Republic of China! This day was the day of traditional sacrifices, and the tribesmen gathered in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.

The weather in winter is colder than I imagined! The north wind hurts on my face, and the tribesmen put on cotton coats, trousers, and put their hands in their sleeves to keep warm.

Most of the tribe members use belts sewn with rags to sleep, and their cotton coats and pants are more or less patched.

There is no one to be a friend in the cold weather, so the tribe members can only be idle! After the government imposes taxes on the next autumn, the remaining grain will be enough to be enough to eat and spend at most.

This winter, three meals a day have become two! One morning and one night, I don’t eat lunch at night, and I have to go to bed after dinner, just to save food to survive this winter.

If you have half-aged children, you must have a meal multiple times! But adults will not touch your children's food. When you are so hungry, tighten the belt with your cotton jacket! These days, you have to tighten your belt and live.

After commemorating the ancestors, a little snow floated outside the ancestral hall! The tribesmen, who were originally gloomy, all smiled happily.

The first snow in winter, it seems that the snow will fall a lot heavier in a few days! This is auspicious snow, which indicates a good harvest, and next year will definitely have a good harvest.

As the tribesmen said, the snow is getting heavier and heavier! At the beginning, it was like cotton wool, and the sky and earth are white, and you can see clearly a few feet away from the front. As the snow gets heavier and heavier, it is like goose feathers falling from the sky, and even shakuhachi is far away in front of you.

The tribesmen dispersed and the door was sealed with heavy snow! They all went home and raised their braziers to keep warm at home. The women looked at the snow outside the window and pulled the soles of their shoes.

The door of Xiaowu's main hall was open, and Mr. Guo pinched his cigarette puddle in his mouth, leaning against the door frame, looking at the white courtyard.

Guo Xiaowu stepped into the courtyard with a creaking snow! There was a smile on his face and a porcelain jar was in his hand.

"In the middle of winter, I haven't heard that anyone can fish, and even the ice in the river can leave. Isn't Xiao Wu doing this in vain?" Guo Laonan shouted when he saw the youngest son.

"Dad! Who told you that I caught fish, three! There is another big one, more than three pounds? Let my mother stew fish soup at noon." Guo Xiaowu responded with a chuckle.

Guo Xiaowu was carrying a bamboo pole that was more than three meters long. The bamboo pole was wrapped with fishing lines. The fishing lines were covered with three fish hooks and a fishing float, and he stepped into the kitchen directly! He shook the snow on his body.

"Look at your hair being frozen! Hurry up and go to roast the fire. Yesterday (yesterday), your fourth brother brought two kilograms of pork and was stewing it in the pot. First, take a few bales to pad your stomach. My mother just steamed it, and it was still hot." My mother said with heartache, slapped the snow on Guo Xiaowu's body with a towel.

The steamed buns are not the mixed grain steamed buns from later generations! They are steamed with broken corn flour wrapped in wild vegetables, and are mixed with wheat bran.

For the people of this era, this is the best food! Only those with relatively wealthy families can afford it.

Only Guo Xiaowuyi can eat steamed buns in the whole village. It’s not that the other tribesmen can’t eat them, but it’s good to eat one or two days.

Before the elder brother and the second brother grew up, Guo Xiaowu remembered that at that time, I still ate dried sweet potato masks, which were dried sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes. After they were broken, they were steamed with wheat bran and corn flour. When they were released, they could be more than one foot long with one hand pull.

This sweet potato and dried bread is full, but if you eat too much, it will cause your stomach to feel sore and your mouth will be spitting sore water! After eating it for a long time, I don’t want to swallow it when I see it, but I really have no choice to fill my stomach.

Now the steamed buns that Guo Xiaowu ate is comparable to the ordinary food of the landlords, but the wheat bran is less.

The steamed buns just steamed are still soft and they are pretty good to eat! Guo Xiaowu is already used to this kind of food and has no resistance! But if this bun is cold, it will be hard and difficult to bite, and it is stronger than the rough cake.

Guo Xiaowu, who was eating steamed buns, smelled the aroma of the meat in the pot! He looked at his mother and said, "I'm almost starving to death! What's the sniffing inside."

"I made some fine powder (sweet potato flour), radish and cabbage, and squatted in a big pot." My mother responded, smiling! She looked very satisfied.

"That's great! Every now and then, the fourth brother has made some meat back, which is more times than before." Guo Xiaowu said.

"That's all your fourth brother is capable! Your fourth brother will explain (tomorrow) that he will go to the provincial capital with his father-in-law to purchase goods for the grocery store! It's impossible to come back in the middle of the night in ten days. It will take more than a month to go there." My mother said with concern on her face.

"My fourth brother is capable! Don't worry, mom, you'll go to the provincial capital once or twice." Guo Xiaowu comforted.

"That's right! Your fourth brother is carrying a gun." My mother's worried face relaxed.

"It's winter! Your second brother went to send some food with your second sister-in-law and her parents after dinner. You'll go run away if you're fine." Mother said, picking up the firewood that had been chopped and throwing it into the bottom of the stove. The fire burned a little more vigorously.

"I'll go with my second brother after dinner. I'll be idle anyway." Guo Xiaowu agreed.

"I won't do the big fish I caught. I will take it to my second sister-in-law and ask her to take it to her parents and eat some meat." My mother arranged.
Chapter completed!