Chapter 9 Cutting Wood

Author: Unnamed.

Moonlight

Chapter 9 Cutting Wood

The embroidery factory received an order from the No. 1 Weaving Factory in the city a few years ago, specially customizing a batch of New Year's Day pillow covers for a certain army unit stationed there. The work was done cleanly and beautifully. The leader of the No. 1 Factory's support for the army was criticized by his superiors.

He praised them vigorously, waved his hand happily, and allocated ten of them from the water bottle as a gift to the embroidery factory as a reward for outstanding workers.

Zhao Wenlan got a kettle with the title of "Expert Embroidery Worker". She was very happy. This was a military green kettle. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. If you carry it on your back and walk around the street, forget it.

Showing off more made her more excited than getting double the overtime pay.

Everyone in the family knew the origin of this kettle and how much Zhao Wenlan treasured it. No one expected that she would take it out at this time.

Zhao Wenduo touched the warm cloth cover. Although it was just an aluminum kettle, which was completely incomparable to a thermos cup with a steel bladder, it was already a great thing here, almost as good as a large household item.

It exists, and I can give it to her. This dick is really good!

The time in the morning passed quickly, and an hour or two passed by in a blink of an eye. After eating breakfast and tidying up, it was almost half past five.

Li Cuizhen went to the west wing. The Guo family also took leave today and went to the mountains to chop firewood. The five members of the Guo family are all strong laborers. The three boys are all in their twenties, and each one is as big as a calf.

Seems capable.

The Guo family are both honest and easy to get along with, and they usually get along very well with each other. Li Cuizhen came over to make a call and asked the two of them to help take care of Zhao Wenduo who was going up the mountain alone. The two of them talked without saying a word.

He nodded and reassured her.

When Zhao Wenduo got up, he went to say hello to Luo Siping first and asked her to help ask the teacher for a day off. The reason was that she had diarrhea and ran to the toilet six times in the middle of the night, but she still hadn't gotten up yet.

Luo Shiping scratched her head after hearing this: "There are quite a few students in our class who have diarrhea in the past two days. The teacher doesn't know if he can believe it. What if he doesn't believe it?"

What to do, cold salad! You are a fool as a teacher. This reason is just made up. It’s not like eating rice from the same pot. How can so many people have diarrhea together? But it’s better than nothing, she

You can't go to each house one by one to check, even if you know it's a lie.

Every family in this village is not focused on food. Only when they have work can they have food. If they don’t have enough to eat, why are they thinking about learning? There are many children and it’s hard to feed them. It’s good if they can survive. As for

It doesn't matter if you can't go to school. And this is not an isolated phenomenon, it is generally the case. There are many people who can go to school for three years and two grades, but drop out midway.

Two days ago, Zhao Wenduo heard Li Cuizhen complaining to Zhao Mingyu that if the fifth child was born and there was no one to help take care of her, she would still have to work to earn food, and it would be impossible for the family to live alone. The fourth child was too young to support her.

As for the matter, I have been thinking about it for a long time, and it is most appropriate for me to come down from the third child.

This is because they were vaccinated in advance. They called the branch meeting in advance, which meant that Zhao Wenduo was asked to stop studying and come down to take care of the children to do housework, so that the adults could free up their hands to earn money to support the family. Although it was not stated explicitly,

But given Li Cuizhen's status in the family, it was almost a done deal, and even if it was delayed, it wouldn't be delayed for long.

Zhao Wenduo was indispensable for this matter. He had read books for nearly twenty years, and his knowledge reserve could be considered sufficient. Even for elementary school students, this simple thing was not a problem.

The problem is, she has the knowledge, but she doesn’t have any diploma. She can’t live out her life as a semi-illiterate in the future without graduating from elementary school. Compared with the difficulties she will encounter then, the problems she faces now are just a side dish.

It's a plate.

Even if it is to avoid losing school, we must solve the current difficulties. This firewood must be chopped no matter what.

Of course, Zhao Wenduo can also understand Li Cuizhen's difficulties. It is really not easy to support the family with old and young, weak and sick. It's not that she is cruel to several children, she just wants too much.

There are no conditions for being pampered. She has to be pampered and pampered, not going to work, eating and drinking whatever she wants? The pressure of life forces her to be hard-hearted, neither pampering her children nor pampering herself. Only in this way can she live her life well.

Go down.

Luo Shiping's guess would be 90% accurate. It's not like Zhao Wenduo didn't expect the result. Whether the teacher was angry or not was not part of her consideration. The task at hand was not to continue school, but how to keep the winter warm.

The degree passed.

After explaining, Zhao Wenduo went back home directly, took a sickle for cutting firewood, a rope, and a pot of water on his back. He simply packed up and followed the Guo family out of the village.

Bailangli Village is a typical small mountain village in the north. You can see mountains of all sizes near the village. The two nearby mountains are Dongshan and Nanshan. Nanshan is steeper and more dangerous, while Dongshan is more comfortable, short and gentle.

The firewood used for burning is divided into three types here. The mature thick wood is cut into several pieces, and the half wood is made by cutting the ax several times from the middle. It is resistant to burning and has a high temperature. It is the best firewood for heating in winter. Of course,

It also requires the greatest amount of effort. There are not a few strong men working together, plus suitable luck.

It is almost impossible to transport a vehicle down the mountain. The second type is a thick rod with a diameter of three to five centimeters. It can be chopped and directly sawn into sections. It is neat and does not take up space. It also lasts a long time. The third type is a finger-thick stick.

Low shrubs, collectively called firewood, are easy to cut but not resistant to burning, and are more convenient to transport.

In winter, most of the firewood piles prepared by every household are stick firewood, followed by stick firewood, and split firewood is the least.

When people in the village say they have to go up the mountain to cut firewood, they mostly mean getting this kind of firewood.

This is what Zhao Wenduo went up to chop this time, and the Guo family and his wife would also chop some sticks and firewood if they had spare energy. After all, with the men of the Guo family here, this kind of physical work would not be a problem.

Nanshan and Dongshan are not far from the village. Compared with the former, the trees are more luxuriant and there are more firewood. However, in winter, the snow is deep and the roads are slippery, so it is not worth taking the risk for a few bundles of firewood. After all, it is just sticks of firewood.

There are them all over the mountain, and there are always so many houses in the village to chop down, so of course I choose the one that is easy to get to.

In the winter, the mountains are covered with white everywhere. It snows heavily just now, and when you step on the untraveled mountain road, the snow buries your legs and wrists.

The Guo family felt sorry for Zhao Wenduo's young age and the fact that she was a girl, so they walked ahead and let her walk behind. Even so, when they walked halfway up the mountain, Zhao Wenduo's feet were wearing a pair of scales.

The low-top cotton shoes, which were not thick enough, were already filled with snow.

"Third Miss, the trees here are quite dense. You can chop them down here. Your Uncle Guo and I will walk to the top of the mountain." Guo Qiu Huizhen stopped and said.

"Well, okay, then I'll chop here and you guys go up."

Just fix these trees in one place. If you chop them all together, I can’t chop them down, which will waste time and make you unable to get out of work. The trees on the hills are thicker, and you can walk longer, Zhao Wenduo

I know this is because I understand that she is small and frail, and I am taking care of her.

"If anything happens, just call us. We're not far away and you can hear us at the top of your voice." Guo Huairen said.

Zhao Wenduo nodded and watched the two of them continue to go up the mountain. He turned around and looked around. Most of the trees growing on the east mountain were short, with Moringa and Oak trees accounting for the majority. They were not very old, and they were about to pass.

It is as tall as a person's head, with gray and bare branches scattered with a few withered brown leaves, standing upright in the snow, about the thickness of a thumb.

Cutting firewood is not a technical job. Even if you have never eaten pork, you have seen pigs running away. As long as you can knock down the standing tree sticks, you will be fine. But the question is, how to knock down the sticks?

How to put it, where to cut a tree, close to the ground, or along the middle, seems like a simple question, but it varies from person to person.

Zhao Wenduo has not been here very long, and he has only heard about cutting firewood from other people's mouths, but has never seen it with his own eyes. Everyone around him ignored this.

I think that such a trivial matter as chopping firewood is really not worth teaching in person. Even a three-year-old child knows something, so I don't even think about explaining it.

Fortunately, I followed Zhao Wenying for a long time yesterday, and I have a general understanding of it.
Chapter completed!