Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Niu Xiaoyun watched Han Zhaozhao's ten fingers flying, moving as fast as butterflies flying through flowers, and the four bamboo needles kept switching.

The balls of wool around her were getting smaller and smaller rapidly. She didn't even look at the bamboo needles in her hands. She chatted with her while playing with the woolen socks in her hands.

I couldn't help but move closer to her, stretching my neck to take a closer look. After a while, I rubbed my eyes and praised her: "Oh, my eyes are blurry, your hands are so fast!

Zhaozhao, you are not stupid. You are so good at knitting, so why can't you do needlework?

What did you knit? It's so small, it doesn't look like a sweater or woolen pants, is it a scarf? Why is the color so dark red? It's too dark for a child like you to wear!"

Han Zhaozhao pulled the socks he had knitted to show her the soles of his feet: "Can't you see? I knitted these socks. They're not mine, they're for my grandma.

Here is the toe position, this is the sole of the foot, and look, I'm about to knit to the heel.

Haha, maybe I have my strengths and weaknesses! Otherwise, wouldn’t I be a stupid foodie who is not good at anything and can’t get enough of eating anything? "

Xiaoyun is a good chatterbox: "Well, it's not a big deal if you can't sew. You can't say you're stupid or not.

Besides, you can't sew, but you can do other things! You can catch fish, rabbits and pheasants, and you can also weave baskets and knit socks.

Look, I don’t know how to do these things, and neither do the girls in the alley. Are we all stupid?

I think what Grandpa Guan said is right, if you know to go home when it rains and know to look for your mother when you are hungry, then you are not stupid or foolish! "

Han Zhaozhao burst out laughing when he heard this. Parents in this era really have very low expectations for their children!

It’s unlike later generations, where every parent wants their son to be successful and their daughter to be beautiful. They start giving them supplements while the fetus is still in the belly, and the pregnant belly becomes the starting line for their children.

We attach more importance to educational resources and start prenatal education when the baby is still a small embryo.

It's even more amazing after birth. He has to listen to music, recognize colors, look at patterns, do this exercise, do that exercise, and the little baby is so exhausted from the exercise that he has to live.

When they grow up, they start early childhood education, learning to play the piano, dance, draw, learn foreign languages, and even learn Mathematical Olympiads...

How can these children still be happy little angels? They are clearly beautiful works of art carefully nurtured and created by their parents.

To bring honor to your loved ones and make your parents proud, you have to be introverted since you are old enough to understand!

How can there be any happiness at all!

Especially those born in the 2000s, who have almost no childhood and have been attending interest classes and remedial classes since kindergarten.

Their childhood was like a puppet and a flowing water, with no ideas of their own at all.

All actions are controlled by the parents. Food, clothing and hobbies are all arranged by the parents, and the children are watched by the parents almost every moment.

Compared with other children, compared with other classmates, compared with people in society, compared with... the level of internal competition is appalling!

Parents in later generations are also the most miserable. They feed their children with the chicken soup for the soul every day: the world is uncertain and you and I are all dark horses.

But when the sky is bright, they are all cattle and horses! Try to create conditions for children to roll inward!

Thinking of this, Han Zhaozhao actually felt strangely happy.

Being a child of that era, we didn’t eat well, we didn’t dress well, and every family was very poor.

But being poor is happy, being poor is joyful, and being poor does not have any pressure!

Look around you, almost everyone is poor!

Occasionally, there are a few families that are not poor but they pretend to be poor. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?

In this day and age, no one dares to act bossy or make fun of others’ poverty, let alone look down on the poor openly.

From this point of view, Han Zhaozhao couldn't figure out whether society had progressed or regressed?

Han Zhaozhao likes playing with Niu Xiaoyun very much. Although this child is young, she is very sensible and good at chatting. In the words of later generations, she has a high emotional intelligence.

She saw the socks knitted by Han Zhaozhao and was very moved. After finishing her own needlework, she learned knitting from Han Zhaozhao.

She had dexterous hands and a meticulous mind. After Han Zhaozhao taught her for a while, she was able to knit plain stitch.

She learned how to add or reduce stitches by just pulling them out a little bit.

Han Zhaozhao went to the kitchen and got a pair of chopsticks, split them with a kitchen knife, sharpened four bamboo needles again, and found a piece of broken bowl residue to scrape it smooth.

I taught her little by little from the beginning, and it only took her more than ten minutes. Except for the sock toes and heels which required her to calculate the increase and decrease of stitches, she could knit most positions.

As she practiced for a long time, she became more proficient and could weave faster and faster.

With her help, Han Zhaozhao actually finished knitting a pair of woolen socks in the afternoon.

The hem is made of elastic, so it is very stretchy. Because it is a mid-tube sock, a pair of socks does not use more than 200 grams of wool.

Han Zhaozhao asked someone to buy defective products with uneven dyeing, and spent 9.5 yuan per pound.

She sold five pheasants and five wild ducks, earning less than 40 yuan in total, and only bought four kilograms of wool.

She had the money to buy it, but the salespersons refused to sell it to her because there were too many of them.

Genuine wool yarn costs more than 13 yuan per pound, while the defective products costing more than 9 yuan per pound have no other quality problems except uneven dyeing. A large number of people are rushing to buy them!

Han Zhaozhao had originally wanted to save a dozen pounds to knit sweaters, trousers, and waistcoats for her grandmother, but she didn't expect to only get four pounds. However, it was enough to knit a set of clothes for her grandmother.

"Zhao Zhao, next time you come across cheap wool, don't forget to tell me, and I'll ask my mom to buy some.

These socks are comfortable to wear, soft and warm, just like wearing nothing on your feet."

Niu Xiaoyun put on knitted woolen socks and cotton slippers and walked around the house several times, stomping her feet and rubbing the ground, but the socks wouldn't fall off no matter what she did.

"So snug and warm! I'll buy some wool and knit a pair for my dad and my older brothers so they don't have to worry about cold feet.

Their feet are frozen every year, sometimes they get sores and ooze yellow fluid, and my dad still has to go to work, it’s too much suffering!”

Niu Xiaoyun carefully took off her socks and handed them to Han Zhaozhao, saying, "The tightness of the socks is so good that they won't slip under your feet."

When Han Zhaozhao heard Xiaoyun talking about her family members suffering from frostbite, she suddenly remembered that her grandmother also used to suffer from frostbite on her feet every year, but it seemed that she didn't have it this year.

It must be because of drinking the space water, all her hidden illnesses were cured.

She knew that frostbite was a very uncomfortable feeling, especially after warming up. Hard lumps formed on the frostbitten areas, which were painful and itchy. She couldn't scratch them or pinch them. It was so uncomfortable!

Han Zhaozhao gave Niu Xiaoyun some advice, "Xiaoyun, there are some eggplant vines in my backyard. When you go home later, take some home.

Before going to bed at night, boil a pot of water with the stems and use it to soak your feet. It can cure frostbite. "

"Really? Who told you that? Does it really work?"

Han Zhaozhao nodded seriously: "My grandma soaks her feet every night, so she didn't get frostbite again this year.

Let me tell you, my grandfather who taught me to recognize medicinal herbs said that eggplant roots are sweet and cool in nature, and have the effect of clearing away heat and removing dampness. Boiling your feet in water and soaking them in it for a period of time will definitely cure frostbite.

In fact, if your family is willing to spend money, you can chop up red peppers and soak your feet in hot water to cure frostbite."