Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Before dark, the old lady took Han Zhaozhao to place the cabbages upright one by one against the wall and also on the windowsill, where they were also placed in a row.

"If you want to keep this cabbage for a long time, you have to dry it in the sun for a few days. Wait until the outer layer of leaves wilt a little before you put it in the cellar so it won't rot. It will be fine if it lasts until next spring.

Zhao Zhao, put the pine nuts separately and let them air-dry for a day. You can use them to make sauerkraut tomorrow when your grandma gets off work.

Oh, by the way, we don’t have enough salt at home, so I have to buy a few pounds of salt tomorrow. ..."

Han Zhaozhao listened calmly, feeling that her chance had come again.

The old lady went to the warehouse to get a wicker basket, went to the kitchen to get a large wooden basin, and took Han Zhaozhao to the backyard.

I picked and selected a pile of old cabbage leaves, picked out the edible leaves and put them into a large basin, moved them to the pressurized well, washed them clean, and put them into a basket to control the water.

After draining the water, the grandparents carried the cabbage leaves to the front yard and hung them on the clothesline to dry.

The long clothesline was hung with vegetable leaves, and a few wooden sticks were used to hang several bunches of leaves on the clothesline to dry.

After finishing the work, the cloth shoes of the two were soaked. When it got dark, they washed their feet, brushed their shoes, and chatted under the lamp. The old lady also sewed half a sole, then washed and went back to their rooms to sleep.

Han Zhaozhao locked the door, drew the curtains, made the bed, and turned off the lights in one go. Han Zhaozhao turned around and entered the space.

Sure enough, this time she appeared by the pond.

So that's how it is. If she has an expected location in her mind, she will appear at the expected location. Otherwise, the location she enters is the exact center of the space.

In her previous life, the space she occupied was only about eighteen acres in size. Every time she entered, she would enter the central part. A small river surrounded the space, like an island.

When she was developing the land, she also planted fruit trees around the terrain. She also dug many ponds near the river to raise fish, shrimp and other seafood.

She felt sad whenever she thought about it. Now she was in Beijing, not close to the sea, and it was extremely difficult to eat seafood!

So many rare marine fish, shrimps and crabs were swallowed up by the space. What a pity!

What a pity is the fruit trees and tea trees that she had collected from all over the world with great effort!

In this space, she had arranged the fruit trees from high to low. Not only did she plant some shrub fruit trees, she also planted more than a dozen old tea trees of various varieties.

Some rare flowers and plants were planted around the bushes, and further inside was a storage area, including her fishing boat.

One part is her breeding area, where she raises chickens, ducks and geese; the other part is her planting area, where she grows several acres of crops, vegetables, fruits and melons.

Now that the space has changed, the living room, warehouse and fishing boat have all been moved to the upstream bank of the creek, so she also has to readjust the planning of the space.

Looking at the two cabbages and two radishes in front of her, Han Zhaozhao smiled bitterly. Hey, it's a bit too early to think about these things! These two cabbages and two radishes are the first wave of species for the beginning of her dream. She is now truly starting from scratch.

It’s really sad that large tracts of land are now idle.

Han Zhaozhao went to the warehouse to get a shovel, dug four holes, and planted the cabbage and radishes. He believed that it would not be long before they would sprout, bloom, and produce new seeds.

Then she can plant a bed of cabbage and a bed of radishes in the space.

Thinking of the space once full of flowers and fruity aromas, Han Zhaozhao was in high spirits. As the old saying goes, a diligent person is not lazy!

Isn't it just starting over? If the heart is there, the dream is there. All the wealth of the previous life has become a distant memory, but the space is still there, it's just starting over again!

Let's farm! We are unambiguous!

Who told me that I have a farmer's heart? I just like farming!

"Start planting!" He found a plastic bucket, fetched a bucket of water from the river, and watered the cabbage and radishes thoroughly first.

She filled another bucket and returned to the living room. She boiled a kettle of water in the electric kettle. Han Zhaozhao put down a large cup of water and went into the bathroom to take a hot bath. She rubbed the fragrant bubbles on her body and sighed with comfort.

She hadn't showered for more than 20 days, and her body was covered in mud. When she sweated from working, her hair gave off a sour odor that made her hate herself.

Although the weather has turned cold, her grandmother doesn't dare let her take a bath at home for fear that she will catch a cold.

However, they maintained good personal hygiene in the past, and neither the grandparents nor the grandchildren had lice. These are good habits that their parents taught them to develop.

It doesn't matter if you wear poor clothes, but you must pay attention to hygiene and cleanliness. Unlike the children in other courtyards in the alley, they save soap and toothpaste, don't take a bath or brush their teeth, and don't change clothes often.

Not only did he smell, but he also had lice on his head and body.

It is said that when her grandmother first came to the capital, she was not very particular and had several conflicts with her mother over this matter.

But over time, under the influence of her son and daughter-in-law, her grandmother has now integrated hygiene into every aspect of life.

It was because of this recent period that her grandmother was in a daze and had no energy to think about these little things. Otherwise, in previous years, she would have taken her to the bathhouse twice.

The public bathhouse had been open for a long time, and it cost five cents per person to go there. No matter how well-off her grandmother was, she would never save money on this.

After taking a shower, Han Zhaozhao wrapped herself in a towel and rummaged through the closet, sighing softly.

If she had known she would travel back in time to become a little girl in the 1950s, she would have prepared more fabrics for old-fashioned clothes.

The clothes stored in the space are all adult styles, and the fabrics in the warehouse are all good materials. Even the pure cotton fabrics are mostly combed and fine-count cotton, which must not be taken out of the space.

Han Zhaozhao took a T-shirt from the closet and put it on. The T-shirt that fit her in her previous life turned into a long skirt with the hem reaching her calves.

Look in the mirror, wow! It's quite comfortable! It's true that she is born with a lot of clothes! It's not that she is beautiful, it's that she is thin!

It's just that it's empty inside, which is a bit embarrassing. Why don't you make yourself some underwear first?

The most difficult thing for her to accept about this era is not that they eat coarse grains without oil or salt every day, but that most people in this era do not wear underwear.

How could an adult woman wear a pair of patched rough cloth shorts? Or the exquisite and beautiful bras and bellybands that appeared in movies and TV dramas? Forgive her ignorance, but Han Zhaozhao had never seen them in her memory!

The married women in the alleys all go topless, with sagging breasts like two cloth bags, especially the middle-aged and elderly women, whose breasts sag more severely due to having given birth too many times.

Even young ladies in their prime mostly walked with their chests hunched over. Han Zhaozhao used to misunderstand that they were timid and had rarely seen the world.

Now she understood why young girls and wives of this age always covered themselves up when they went out and dared not walk with their heads held high and their chests held high. It turned out that it was because they were shy!

Curvy? That's rare in this day and age!

After all, there are not many women who are naturally strong!

Even if someone is born with superior physical conditions, they dare not challenge the secular vision. There was a folk saying in the past: Look up to your wife, and look down to your husband!

This was not a compliment at the time!

You're overthinking. She's still young, and she doesn't need to think about whether she should walk with her head up and her chest out, or walk with her head down and her chest tucked in. She should learn from her mother, straighten her back, walk like a female warrior, with vigor and ambition, and full of righteousness!