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After winter comes, villagers basically seldom go out. According to Guangdan'er's temperature prediction, the temperature here should be around minus ten degrees Celsius by mid-November.

With such temperature, your arms and legs will feel frozen if you go out, so people just stay at home on the kang.

But even though it is winter, the work at hand has not decreased.

During the day, a charcoal stove is lit in the main room, and the family members gather around it and do their own work.

The Lin brothers brought a lot of bamboo from the firewood room, thinned it into strips and began to weave some baskets. From large baskets for firewood to small bamboo brushes for use in the kitchen, they were all works of the Lin brothers.

Guangdaner also understood why his elder brother could easily weave small baskets with wild leaves. It was a family tradition!

These bamboo products will be collected by people in the spring of next year, and can be sold for a few hundred coins, so basically the men do these jobs at home in the winter.

Fang Cuihua and Cao Lian took Erya and Lin Taohua to do some sewing and mending together, and they also rolled all the dried hemp that had been cut from the fields into hemp balls.

This is also a time-consuming and delicate job. After the hemp ball is rolled, it can be woven into linen cloth using a loom.

These were also handiwork. Even though there was a charcoal stove in the house, the temperature was not high, so almost everyone in the family had frostbite on their hands and feet, even Guangdan was no exception.

There is also a little man here, let’s call him Goudan. He got frostbite on his hands because of writing.

The private school was suspended after the snow fell, because Goudan's learning progress was faster than the other children, and the teacher gave him special lessons from time to time.

So during the holidays, Goudan would concentrate on reviewing what he had learned before, and then study what he would learn next year. He would write down the words he didn't know individually on paper with a brush.

Those who knew him would practice on the table with a brush dipped in water. Although the conditions were poor, Goudan was very happy because this was his first brush of his own!

Speaking of brushes, Gouwei completely left the bamboo weaving team this winter and joined Guangdaner.

According to the private school teacher, if the brush holder was more exquisite, it might be able to be sold for a good price in the county town, twenty cents should be about the right price.

This gave Guangdaner great confidence, although it would be difficult for him to improve the craftsmanship of the nib, after all, a large part of it depended on Maomao.

But the pen holder is easy to deal with! In order to make money after the New Year, the two brothers have been focusing on the pen holder for a while.

Almost all the thin and straight bamboos beside the bamboo forest have been cut back. In addition to tying the bamboo to wooden strips to straighten the brush body, some tools for handling the fineness of the brush are also gradually being improved.

Many of the original iron tools have been replaced with bamboo ones. Although they are not durable, it would be nice to have some more.

"We have so many pen holders, but now we have no pen tips." Gouwei said with a frown as he looked at the pile of pen holders tied up around him.

Guangdaner glanced at Fang Cuihua who was rolling a ball of hemp next to him, grinned and said, "Then let's go to the hunter's house. He must have a lot of furs at home."

When Fang Cuihua heard this boy say this deliberately, she rolled her eyes and asked unhappily, "What kind of fur do you want?"

Guangdan thought about it seriously and said: "The fur on the back of a rabbit and the fur on the back of a weasel, these two will do." After saying that, he stared at his old mother with his big watery eyes without blinking.

"Your grandpa's house must have some. If you're in a hurry, you two can go and get some when it's warmer." Fang Cuihua said while glancing at Grandpa Lin.

"Hehehe, okay! Then my brother and I will go check it out in a few days!" He said while rubbing his hands excitedly. I just wonder if he can take a detour to the town by then!

This way you can also do a little shopping!

When he turned around, he saw Erya's envious eyes. Guangdan pursed his lips but said nothing, because he knew that his mother would not let his second sister go with him.

Grandpa Lin looked at the red fruit floating in the water in the cup. At first, he just wanted to give it a try without giving up, and he didn't have any hope for the wolfberry in the mouth of this bare boy.

But after more than half a month, I feel that the winter days that were difficult in previous years are actually much more relaxed this year. After thinking about it, apart from the wolfberry, there are no other changes today.

"Guangdan, is this picked from the Ci Mountain?" Grandpa Lin took a sip of water and asked softly.

"Well, the fruits are growing well. I thought that when spring comes, I will dig a few with my elder brother and plant them in the open space behind our house." Guangdan blinked and said innocently.

It turns out that the old man has just discovered the benefits of wolfberries!

"Well, ask your uncle and your elder brother to help you dig a few more. There is a lot of open space at the back." The old man squinted his eyes and looked very comfortable. All he thought about was the good days for his family in the coming year.

Although Guangdaner thinks wolfberry is a good thing, it is still difficult to make money with it. After all, there are not many wolfberries in Cishan.

There are less than a hundred households in Linjia Village, but it is considered a large village among the villages with the same surname. In addition, there are more people than land in the mountains, which results in the front and back yards of every household being particularly large.

The poor quality of the soil is one of the main reasons. Otherwise, the open space in the backyard should be a vegetable garden.

Watching his second sister skillfully making glutinous rice balls in her hands, Guangdan looked down at his outer clothes. The clothes of everyone in the family were all made of these glutinous rice balls.

This kind of linen is cool to wear in the summer and is very suitable for ordinary people to wear as summer clothing, but in winter, this kind of cloth is no longer warm.

Even though I was wearing a cotton-padded jacket, I still felt a little cold.

When thinking of cotton, Guangdan smacked his lips. It was a good thing! Every household in Linjia Village also planted some.

Cotton was only popularized among the whole nation five years ago, but many places were unwilling to plant it because the yield was too low.

Lingxi Prefecture is a very suitable area for growing cotton. After all, the sunshine is relatively good. It's a pity that Linjia Village is located in a valley with trees, which is not very suitable for cotton planting.

The tribesmen planted cotton just to have more quilts and winter coats, and they didn't have any other ideas.

Pulling at his shortened sleeves, Guangdan pouted and said, "My jacket is too short." Then he stretched out his little claws and scratched it a few times.

Fang Cuihua glanced at it, thought for a moment and said, "Give this coat to Goudan later. Gouwei has an old one. I'll alter it in the next few days."

Guangdaner grumbled, "Don't we still have cotton at home?"

Before he finished speaking, Grandma Lin next to him coughed, attracting everyone's attention before she slowly spoke.

"Last year, because Daya got married, all the cotton in the house was used up. This year's cotton harvest is not very good, so let's keep it for now. Won't your uncle need a few quilts when he gets married?"

In fact, in farmers' families with poor conditions, the quilts given at weddings are basically very important daily necessities.

Grandma's words made Lin Xiaoniu, who was weaving a winnowing basket nearby, blush.

Grandpa Lin took a look at the children at home and sighed softly.

"Taohuaer, you should move to Erya's place after the Chinese New Year. Xiaoniu will be fifteen after the Chinese New Year, so it's time for him to find a wife."

"Dad!" Lin Xiaoniu blushed and waved his hands, looking at his younger sister apologetically.

Lin Taohua had a blank expression on her face, and she accepted this matter calmly in her heart. After all, she had expected this to happen!