Chapter 2330 Trying to Adapt

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

A beeping sound sounded.

Just as Yun Hua was about to turn her head, she felt the wetness on her face. She quickly wiped it on her face and then looked at Dudu, "Have the bowls been washed? Let's boil a large pot of hot water. You and me? Doudou, take a bath, and mom will take a bath after you’re done.”

It’s not easy to take a shower these days.

Northerners say Xiaheshu Village is the south, but wheat is grown here and it snows. Southerners say it is the north, but it has no heating in winter and is extremely cold.

Although it is not winter yet, it is still late autumn. After all, the wheat has been planted. It is a little hot at noon, but it is very cold in the morning and evening. If you take a bath with cold water, you will definitely get sick.

Because the air is dry and the temperature is relatively low during this season, most people only wash their hair once a week. As for taking a bath, there is no such concept at all. The more sophisticated ones will take a bath before the Chinese New Year, and the less particular ones just like that. Everyone is pretty much the same.

Yun Hua can't do it. She will feel uncomfortable if she doesn't take a shower.

Especially when I went to the mountains during the day, I moved a lot and was sweating. I really couldn’t bear not taking a shower. But there is no shower room, and you have to heat the hot water yourself. Taking a bath is really tiring.

Fortunately, the two sons were very sensible and accepted Yun Hua's "quirks" in a short period of time, and asked him to boil water for bathing.

The reason is actually simple. The two children are afraid that if they don't perform well, their mother will get angry and run away.

Dudu boiled a large pot of water. The stove was large at that time, so Yun Hua separated it slightly and the one next to it could be used as a bathing room.

Put the big wooden basin over, pour cold water in, add hot water, and the two children can be washed.

"Do you want mom to help?" Yun Hua said.

Dudu shook his head quickly, his face turned red, "No, we can wash it."

Doudou also said immediately: "Mom, when we grow up, we will take a bath by ourselves and make sure we are clean."

Yun Hua smiled and nodded, then went to get the soap powder and asked the two little guys to wash not only their bodies but also their heads. Children's hair is short and dries quickly.

While the two little ones were taking a bath, Yun Hua filled the pot with water and boiled it, so that after the two little ones were finished washing, she could start washing too.

After taking a shower, I feel much more comfortable.

After Yun Hua entered the house, the two little guys were already playing around on the kang. Doudou was more lively and Dudu was usually not very active, but Doudou always played with Dudu. If he got annoyed, the two little guys would start to make a scene together. .

Yun Hua wiped his hair half dry, then went to the kang to touch the hair of the two little ones.

The village here uses kangs instead of beds. In fact, because there is no wood to make them, and they can't afford carpenters, they simply build a kang with adobe when building a house, and then cover it with a layer of straw to sleep on.

"Okay, your hair is dry and you can go to sleep." Yun Hua said.

Doudou and Dudu immediately separated and lay down, "Mom, I want to listen to a story."

Yun Hua smiled, "Okay, today I'm going to talk about borrowing arrows from a straw boat..."

Those who say that telling stories can put children to sleep must be because the stories are not exciting enough, or the storyteller is not good enough. Under normal circumstances, a good story will only make children more energetic as they listen to it.

This is what happened to Doudou and Dudu. After listening to Yun Hua's talk about borrowing arrows from a straw boat, the two of them became more energetic.

"Mom, I still want to hear it." Doudou said coquettishly.

This voice made Yun Hua feel like he was in a previous life.

She touched the heads of the two little guys: "You can't break your promise when telling a story. Now, close your eyes and sleep, and mommy will sleep too."

Yun Hua slept with the two little ones, not because she was worried about them, but mainly because there were not so many beddings. If she slept alone, she could only sleep on straw bedding, and there was no cover at all.

I must get the cloth quickly.

In addition, when building the house before, when repairing the kang, she also told the masters who helped her that she wanted to make it similar to the one in Northeast China that can be connected to the kitchen, so that in winter, she only needs to sit in the kitchen Light a fire and the kang will heat up.

None of the masters had done that kind of repair, but it didn't sound difficult, so they helped her do it, but the flue wasn't finished yet, so she had to find time to modify the flue.

The next day, Yun Hua entered the city again.

This time she didn't take the two little ones with her, leaving them to look after the house at home.

Today she has to go to the black market to sell things first, and also to sell medicinal materials, and she has to find a way to exchange for cloth and cotton tickets... There are too many things to do, and it is not convenient to take two young children with her.

What she is selling today is the fish she has cleaned and marinated. The other items are pheasants. She keeps the eggs at home for the two little ones to eat.

The fish is not too rare, but a fish this big is.

Yun Hua originally went directly to the black market, but he felt something was wrong before he reached it, so he walked around it. Sure enough, after walking far away, he found that a picket team was checking the black market. According to people living on the street, they had already checked it. Two or three days.

Yun Hua wasn't worried about not being able to sell the goods. In this era of scarcity, how could he be afraid that no one would want such good meat?

If you can't sell it on the black market, you go to other places, such as some places where you get wages.

There was a wire factory in the county, and Yun Hua went to the employee dormitory area there.

She was carrying a carrier on her back and a bamboo basket on her arm. In the bamboo basket was a basket of wild amaranth.

When she arrived, it was not the time when the wire factory was commuting. There were not many people, but this was what Yun Hua had planned. After all, if there were too many people when commuting, it would be confusing and accidents would easily happen.

There are less people around now, which makes it easier.

Some family members from the wire factory came back from shopping for groceries. When they met Yun Hua, Yun Hua smiled and talked to the person: "Sister, I'm here to find a fellow villager and ask you about an acquaintance..."

"What, there is no such person, then I may have remembered it wrong." Yun Hua sighed, with a look of embarrassment on his face, "What should I do with the things I found for him..."

"What?" The other party was really curious.

Yun Hua hesitated for a moment and whispered, "A little meat."

When she heard about the meat, the eldest sister's eyes immediately shone and she looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention, she quickly pulled Yun Hua to the corridor of the family building and whispered, "What kind of meat is this? Let me see it."

When she saw the big grass carp weighing seven or eight kilograms, the eldest sister's eyes were gleaming and she said directly: "Sister, how about you sell this fish to me?"

"How can I sell it? I can't, I can't..."

"It's not selling, we're exchanging it. I'll give you a ticket or something else, and I'll give you some money if appropriate, but we're not selling."

Yun Hua seemed to be moved, but he also had concerns, "But eldest sister, I have so many, you..."

"Of course I can't eat it by myself, but I'll find someone for you. Don't worry, I'll definitely take care of it for you. Tell me first, what do you want?"

Yun Hua said, "It's getting cold and the kids don't have any clothes for the winter. I want some cloth and cotton coupons..."

"This is easy! Just wait!"

Within five minutes, this eldest sister brought four or five more eldest sisters over...