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Chapter 54 Summer

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    There is no air conditioner in the summer in the countryside, and even electric fans are only available to wealthy families.  Li Changqing's family didn't have enough money to buy an electric fan, and their summer cooling was just the simplest way, a fan.  And even the fan was made by Li Changqing.  Find unused cartons, most of which are wine boxes, and then cut them into oval, round or fan-like shapes, and then use the heads of mulberry strips, especially the toughest part of the head, to split them with a knife from the middle.  Open it in half, then stick it from the middle of the carton, nail two small nails on it, and a simple fan is made in this way.  Although simple, it saves money, and the fan out is not small.  The children in the family have never disliked its simplicity, especially Chen Yao was surprised by her father's skillful hands.  Basically, everything that the family needs is made by Dad himself.  Most of the small benches, fans, clips, and even the farm tools they use every day are from Dad.  What kind of skillful hands do you have to make such a variety of things.

    In summer, they don't cook on the stove in the house, no one can withstand the heat fumigation.  Most households have now started to use gas stoves and rice cookers. Although Li Changqing felt sorry for Yang Yi, who cooks hard every day, she also bought a rice cooker for her, but Yang Yi used it sparingly in order to save money.  I am willing to use it only when I am too tired to cook, and I have to be careful every time I use it according to the instructions in the manual, lest I accidentally damage this baby.  However, most of the time, she still chooses to solve meals in the most primitive way.  In her eyes, solving meals is a woman's bounden duty, and she has never been afraid of difficulties. Nothing is too difficult for her. She firmly believes that there are always more solutions than difficulties.

    In order to save money, she bought another load of sawdust this summer, which were produced by some carpentry factories. Those things were thrown away if no one bought them, so the bosses in the factories were willing to sell them to people in the village.  People can not only earn some money, but also help themselves to clear the place. Such a best-of-both-worlds thing, even if it is cheaper, it is a penny for nothing, and the boss of the factory is willing.  But this kind of thing can be burnt well only by those who know how to use it, and those who don't know how to burn it can't light it at all. Many people in the village have bought it, but later they didn't buy it because they didn't use it well.  But this is not difficult for Yang Yi, not only because she is the best high school graduate in the county, and not only because she has received the true biography of her father Yang Wenguang's various life, but also because she is good at thinking and explores methods in life  .  After all, this method saves too much money, and people are forced to move forward by life.  In many cases, external pressure will make people generate power beyond their own cognition.

    Yang Yi asked Li Changqing to help him build a special stove.  This stove is made of clay, about as high as a bucket, and covered with a layer of iron.  Yang Yi put this small stove at the entrance of the north gate, so that if the fire is lit outside, the heat in the room will not be increased by the heat.  Under the stove, Li Changqing also specially made it according to Yang Yi's instructions.  The clay is higher than the outer iron sheet, and the stove is placed on top of the stones, so that more air can enter from below, and the sawdust can be burned more fully.

    Yang Yi put the wine bottle in the middle of the stove, and then began to put sawdust in it. While putting it on, poke it hard with a wooden stick.  The more solid it is, the less it will collapse.  When the sawdust finally couldn't go in anymore, Yang Yi slowly turned the bottle of wine to pull it out, and it happened that a hollow was formed in the middle without collapsing.  Of course, this also requires technology, and Yang Yi often failed in the past.  Later, I slowly summed up the method. When pressing the sawdust, use force, and when pumping the bottle, use less force.  Slowly, she basically did not fail.  Then, Yang Yi picked up a few pieces of calculation paper used up by the children, lit them, and began to feed them in from the hole below. Guided by the fire of the paper, the sawdust began to smoke slowly and then burn.  When Yang Yi saw that the sawdust started to show signs of fire, she used a fan to fan it, which would help it burn better.  In this way, just lighting a fire is a technical job.  The fire finally spread from the sawdust under such efforts, and then slowly emitted heat.

    "Mom, I've finished making buns." Chen Yao was rubbing the noodles on her hands, and then went out to report the situation to her mother.  Seeing that my mother has already lit the fire of the stove, it seems that I will be able to eat soon.

    "Well, you go and put water in the aluminum pot, just put two scoops, then put the steamer, spread the white cloth, and arrange the buns, remember to start from the middle." Yang Yi told Chen Yao to work, and from  She didn't stop fanning the stove, and the sweat slowly flowed down her cheeks. Although she had wiped it several times, she still didn't stop because she was facing the stove.  Chen Yao did everything according to the order, and then put the pot on the stove with difficulty.

    "Go and see what time it is."

    &nbsp??I met so many people, that's why I didn't come to this street to look for cicadas. This is a great opportunity.

    "You just follow me, I'll look for it in front, you just need to hold the bag for me." Saying that, Chen Yao put the bag of instant noodles into Chen Piao's hand, in order to prevent her from worrying, she didn't  Give her time to think, and pull her forward.

    At this moment, Chen Yao really hopes that she has a pair of piercing eyes, so that she can find the cicada at once.  However, now she can only rely on her naked eyes to search hard in the night for the flesh-colored cicada that just crawled out of the ground.

    Leaves, corn leaves, grass leaves, tree trunks, branches, cicada holes in the ground.  Her eyes quickly searched for every place the cicada might hide.

    "I found it." Chen Yao excitedly caught a cicada from a corn leaf. There was still a wet soil feeling on its body, and it seemed that it had just crawled out not long ago.  Chen Piao also excitedly opened the bag and carefully put it away.  In this way, the two of them searched several streets in the village, and finally found five cicadas, which was quite a reward.

    "Let's go back, it's already quite a lot, five." Chen Piao shook the instant noodle bag in his hand, feeling satisfied.

    "But there are six of us, we should find at least six, so we can have one for each of us." Chen Yao was obviously dissatisfied, but she had already started to drag her feet home. After all, the darkness had surpassed the range of her naked eyes, and she could no longer rely on  Find it with willpower, but limited by physical capabilities.

    "We can eat one for the two of us." Chen Piao comforted her.

    When they got home, the two put the five cicadas on the screen of the window, and the cicadas who were content with their fate stayed where they were, or their physiological limits had already been reached, and some cicadas had their backs arched high  , should peel off quickly.  The excited Cicada was still climbing up on the screen window.

    "Third Sister, I put the salt water here for you. Look at it, and put in the peeling ones. I'll go to the south gate to look for it."

    "It's so dark, how did you find it?"

    "I'll bring a candle." Chen Yao really took the candle and walked out of the living room. The candle was the leftover of the candle Li Changqing made many years ago. Although it was not sold, at least the candles at home basically didn't cost money.  to buy.

    Chen Yao took the candle and searched carefully under the dim light, but unfortunately, after searching around, there was still nothing.  She could only put her hope in the ground, and carefully explored every hole, which was the place where Cicada crawled out.  Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and in a hole, her eyes met those of the cicada. She didn't know if the cicada could see her, but anyway, she saw it.

    She directly dripped a few drops of wax oil from the candle, and then fixed the candle beside it. Now it depends on the strength of her hands.  She tried her best to throw away the soil, and when she encountered hard places, she used branches to help, and when the soil was soft, she used her hands to push the soil away, and then used the branches to smash it. In this way, this little life finally fell into her heart.  hand.

    The sixth one happens to be one for each person.  She finally blew out the candle, and by the moonlight, she tightly enjoyed the feeling of the cicada's leg scratching her finger, with a satisfied smile, walking like home.  Tomorrow, everyone will have a golden cicada in their rice bowl, which is their meat dish.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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