The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

The snow stopped for three days and then started again.

Xia Mianwan felt a little worried looking at the heavy snow. Her family did have someone prepare firewood, but they had only settled down for a few days and there was no firewood or charcoal in her supermarket space.

The charcoal and silver charcoal were all bought by Cui'er.

"Xiaoqi, go ask the hunter Uncle Liu if he has any firewood to sell." Uncle Liu lives quite close to the Zheng family.

Zheng Xiaoqi nodded and went out.

Burning charcoal every day makes it too dry. I hibernate late in the summer and now I miss the modern humidifier very much.

I boiled a pot of hot water on the charcoal stove and made everyone a bowl of egg tea. Egg tea is very nourishing and moisturizing to the lungs, and I drink a cup every morning before I get dressed.

Zhou and Zhu were sitting cross-legged on the kang making clothes for everyone to wear in the spring. "Mother, auntie, this is egg tea. Drink some to moisten your lungs."

The two took the egg tea and drank it. "Your egg tea tastes good, without any fishy smell."

Zhou knew that the family still had some assets, so when Xia Mianwan prepared food for everyone to nourish their bodies, she did not question it.

"Xiaoqi went to buy firewood, and Xiaocheng and his wife were called by the village chief to attend a meeting." Xia Mianwan said.

"What happened?" Zhu asked worriedly.

Xia Mianwan shook his head and said, "I don't know either, but I guess it's because of the snowstorm. I heard that all the roads leading into the village have been blocked."

"What?" Zhou was a little surprised.

"I guess it's about food. Although the road into the village is blocked and people from outside can't get in, we in the village can't go out either. It's okay for ten days or half a month, but if one or two months goes on, I don't know if there will be trouble in the village." Xia Mianwan said.

"What should we do? Do we have enough food? Will they rob us?" Zhu was very worried.

When people can no longer survive, no one will be surprised at what they do.

"It's not that serious. Most people in the village will stockpile food. Usually they will store it until the next harvest. But I don't know about other things. Besides, many people here are new immigrants, so it's hard to say whether they have that much stock. So, I guess the village chief came to discuss this matter." Xia Mianwan said.

Zhou nodded and sighed.

When I was in the capital, I felt annoyed by the intrigues and could not see the suffering of ordinary people. But now that I have come to the north, I really understand how hard it is.

"Do we have enough food?" asked Zhu.

Xia Mianwan thought about it and said, "No problem."

"Sister-in-law, what are we going to eat for lunch?" Zheng Lingwan walked in with a knife. She had just cut some bacon and had not had time to put down the knife.

Xia Mianwan looked at Zheng Lingwan and felt very impressed. Zheng Lingwan was a real rich girl, but after something happened, she sorted out her mentality so quickly, rekindled her hope for life and adapted so well. She was really an amazing girl.

"You've cut some bacon, right? Add some cabbage and steam the bacon rice." Xia Mianwan said with a smile.

"it is good!"

Zheng Lingwan said this and turned around and went back to the kitchen.

……

The two children have been sleeping with Old Madam Zheng and Zhou these past two days. Maybe it was because of the sudden drop in the weather, or maybe it was because of her heart illness, but Old Madam Zheng has been feeling unwell these past two days.

Thinking of this, Zhou moved to Old Madam Zheng's room to take care of her.

Seeing that Old Mrs. Zheng was not feeling well, the two children kept asking Zhou to stay. Zhou thought that Old Mrs. Zheng was not suffering from a cold, so she agreed.

It's a rare occasion that there's no one else in the bedroom, so Xia Mianwan finds it much more convenient.

She flashed into the space and went to the jewelry area. There were two chain stores selling gold jewelry, two selling jade jewelry, and one selling crystal. The remaining three were modern jewelry stores that had everything. Hairbands, leather rings, ear clips, etc., but these modern things could not be taken out for the time being.

Xia Mianwan first carefully checked the two gold jewelry stores. There was no other way. Gold has been valuable since ancient times. Xia Mianwan didn’t know how much the jade ornaments in the supermarket were worth in ancient times, but she knew that gold was valuable.

Xia Mianwan took inventory of the stocks of the two gold jewelry stores. Wow, one store had more than ten kilograms of gold in stock, and the two stores had a total of thirty kilograms of gold. Thirty kilograms is equivalent to six hundred taels of gold today. The other two stores also had thousands of jewelry items, and the two stores also had two thousand items.

Xia Mianwan checked them out and was secretly happy, these were all good things.

As for the jade jewelry shop, Xia Mianwan was not very good at distinguishing them. There were many jade jewelry, but Xia Mianwan knew without asking that they would not be very valuable. However, she did not know whether they were valuable in ancient times. She would take them to the pawn shop when she had the chance.

As for the crystals, there are still quite a few boxes of these crystal beads, and there are thousands of crystal bracelets, crystal necklaces and rings. The remaining stock of these loose beads also has about 1000 pieces of various types of crystals.

Xia Mianwan didn't know much about jade, but he knew about crystal. He had even sold crystal. There were a lot of good stuff here, but he didn't know if they could be sold at a high price in ancient times. Of course, it was impossible in the north.

Xia Mianwan packed up some crystals and jade bracelets and took them outside.

……

"Sister-in-law, Xiaocheng is back." Zheng Lingwan's voice came from outside.

Xia Mianwan put her things in order and put them in the cabinet beside the bed. "I'm coming!"

When Xia Mian went out late, Zheng Xiaoqi also came back with a few loads of firewood.

Zheng Xiaocheng said solemnly: "Two houses in the village were crushed by the snow. The two families are now living in the homes of people they know in the village."

"What did the village chief say?"

"The village chief said that every household must hand in some grain to the village as reserve food." Zheng Xiaocheng said.

"We definitely cannot not pay it. Village Chief Liu doesn't look like a confused man. Did he say how much grain we have to pay?" Xia Mianwan asked.

"Ten kilograms of food per person."

Xia Mianwan is now in charge of the household and knows everything in the house. "Okay, I'll sort it out tonight and you can deliver it the day after tomorrow."

"Why the day after tomorrow?" Zheng Lingwan asked.

Xia Mianwan couldn't help laughing and said, "Of course we have to wait a little longer, otherwise people will think we are a wealthy family and want to eat their food!"