I am in the courtyard, animals are just vegetables!

Cao Dongfang, He Yushui and Cao Jiajia ignored the people sweeping snow in the middle yard and went straight back to the front yard.

I'm a minor, why should I help you clean the snow off the roof?

There are no good people in the middle and back yards. The Gao family doesn't interact much with the people in the main yard and has no friendship with Cao Dongfang.

No one was living in Hou Jie's backyard at that time, and there were three households left: the deaf old lady, Liu Haizhong's family, and Xu Damao's family, who were not good people and were not familiar to him.

As for the aunt, it is difficult to evaluate this person. She lives with Yi Zhonghai's Yi Buqun, and even the best people will be assimilated!

She also has the big label of being unable to have children.

You feel guilty towards Yi Zhonghai, but you listen to Yi Buqun in everything. No matter why?

She is also an accomplice of Yi Buqun and cannot be classified as a "good person". She also keeps a distance from Aunt Cao Dongfang.

All the people in the middle and back yards.

Help them sweep the snow from the roof!

When you go up to the roof to sweep the snow and something happens, they hide. It is your responsibility to avoid any accident. Nothing can compare to the people in the front yard sincerely saying thank you and be safe!

If someone in the middle or backyard loses something, they will blame it on Cao Dongfang. They don't even know how to repay a favor. They are a bunch of beasts, so - just ignore them.

Cao Dongfang ignored the people in the middle and back yards, and only chatted with Liu Guangqi and Xu Damao occasionally.

Others just greet each other politely when they meet, and be polite. As for other things——

No contact!

Back in the front yard, Cao Dongfang, He Yushui, Grandma Wang's three children, Widow Chen's two children, and the children of Old Yan's family, Aunt Zhao's family, Zhou's family, and Sun's family were at home on vacation.

Everyone came out to play snowball fights and build snowmen. For a moment, the front yard was very lively. Only Old Man Ma's family was left without anyone playing snowball fights.

Good guy!

There were 17 or 8 kids, big and small, making a lot of noise. It was really lively and the adults just stood by and talked and didn’t care!

Children these days have few things to play with, so if they get hit by a few snowballs during a snowball fight, neither adults nor children will care.

As long as the kids are happy!

Cao Dongfang stopped playing after a while and stood by watching. As for the snow on the ground, he just swept it away.

The front yard is bustling, there are few children in the middle and back yards, and only adults are quietly sweeping the snow.

At eleven o'clock, the children finished their games, but the snow was still falling. After eating and taking a nap, they came out to play snowball fights again. The children made an appointment and went home.

.....

At noon, Cao Dongfang made a winter melon and pork ribs soup, a roast duck, a Beijing-style shredded pork, and a staple food of large white steamed buns, all of which Cao Dongfang pretended to go out to buy.

Cao Jiajia is interested in all kinds of meat and likes to eat it. He Yushui also likes to eat meat.

Sha Zhu's performance has been pretty good in the three months since he was hired as a regular employee. He was paid 30 yuan a month, which he could not spend, so he started taking private jobs before the New Year.

Starting from January, he gave He Yushui ten yuan every month. At that time, Sha Zhu had not been "trapped by a few beasts". In his heart, he regarded He Yushui as his sister and was still nice to her.

Cao Dongfang asked He Yushui to keep the money and deposit it in the bank every 3 or 4 months for use when he grew up. He Yushui did as he was asked and opened an account in the bank.

In 1954, many ordinary people did not trust banks because of the war a few years ago!

Some money is hidden at home and not deposited in the bank. It is also possible that people are afraid of trouble because they have little money.

Sha Zhu came to Cao's house and bought gifts twice. Cao's mother told Sha Zhu not to buy anything in the future and to save money to marry a wife. After being educated by Cao's mother, Sha Zhu agreed.

After Sha Zhu took over the kitchen, he seemed to be a lot more mature than before. At least according to He Yushui, when he looked at Qin Huairu, he was not unable to take his eyes off her, but he also had fewer thoughts.

Hehe, that's because Shazhu's workplace is far away and he doesn't live in the courtyard for long, only one night a week at most, and he doesn't work in the steel plant either.

If they live close to each other, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu will definitely plot against Sha Zhu.

"Brother, duck tastes good when cooked this way. How can we make it more delicious?" Cao Jiajia asked while eating.

"We in the city make roast duck, while in the south we have pressed duck, salted duck, and stewed duck!

Brother will buy some for Jia Jia when he has a chance, okay?" Cao Dongfang said.

"Brother, how far is the south?" Cao Jiajia asked again.

"It's so far. It takes a day by train and it's not easy to get there. The ducks there will go bad if you bring them back in the summer and they won't be edible, but they're okay in the winter," said Cao Dongfang.

"Well...then don't buy it. This roast duck is just as delicious. I won't trouble you, brother. Don't be sad." Cao Jiajia said like a little adult.

Damn it! Don't bother me, I was magnanimously forgiven by a three-year-old kid. Why should I be sad if you can't eat the duck!

"Brother, what are we going to eat tonight?" Cao Jiajia asked.

"Eat lunch first. You're thinking about dinner before you finish lunch. You're thinking too much." Cao Dongfang said.

"Brother, can I have a piece of chocolate?" Cao Jiajia asked with her eyes wide open.

I wipe it again! Cao Jiajia, you and I played the game of military strategy and psychology just to eat chocolate.

You've lowered my psychological defenses. Cao Jiajia, you really put a lot of effort into making me eat.

One a day!

Don't eat too much!

"Brother, mom is not here, just pretend you don't see her, and I will eat one more." Cao Jiajia started to act coquettishly.

If one plan fails, try another!

"I can't see it, but this is possible." Cao Dongfang said with a smile.

"Oh yeah, thank you brother, you are the best!" Cao Jiajia clapped her hands, her eyes narrowed into slits with joy.

......

After a nap in the afternoon, Cao Jiajia went out to play snowballs. It was still snowing in the afternoon, but it was less snowing than in the morning. This time, some people would be affected by the snow again.

The houses of this era are not strong, they are all old houses. If it snows heavily, the houses will really collapse.

Snow disasters are no joke. Heavy snow blocking roads and mountains still happens every year 50 years later, let alone in the 50s.

The situation in the city is better, but the houses in the countryside will be worse. This snow has little impact on courtyard houses, but it will have a certain impact on other houses.

Looking at the children playing in the yard, Cao Dongfang felt happy. Although the conditions were not good in those days, the children were happy as long as they had something to play with.

As for the children in the previous life, the conditions were not bad and few of them had fun playing. It was not that the conditions were better in the previous life, everything was better than now.

This also includes the smiles on adults' faces, the sincerity of which was never seen in previous lives.

Don’t think about it, go steam the lamb.

......

The mutton bought in the system are all cut lamb chops, without big bones. Big bones are not needed for steaming lamb, but they can be used in mutton soup.

It is best to use the breast fork and upper spine area of ​​the lamb, chop it into rectangular strips, wash it with cool water, place it in a large bowl, add ginger, green onions, garlic, and a few raw peppercorns.

Steam in a steamer for about 30 minutes, then put it in a soup plate and serve it on the table with seasonings such as vinegar, garlic juice, and salt.

The method is not difficult. Cao Dongfang has a system intelligence teacher and it can be made very quickly, only needing to steam for half an hour.

This time is short. In order to make the mutton softer and easier to chew, Cao Dongfang follows the intelligent suggestions of the system.

Steam it for one hour and ten minutes. Cao Dongfang calculated that it was put into the pot at 4:10, and it was cooked at 5:20 and was served with other dishes, such as pickled cabbage and winter melon and dried shrimp soup.

As for dried shrimps, I also bought them from the system. Half a pound costs only one dollar, which is really cheap. Dried shrimps taste good and are one of the more delicious dried seafood ingredients.

This time, Cao Dongfang steamed a total of 15 kilograms of mutton (with bones). There were four people in the family, so they needed to eat more, and the rice just needed to be heated up.

Vinegar and Chinese cabbage and winter melon soup are both easy to make. After steaming the mutton, Cao Dongfang checked to make sure the fire was fine, then walked out the door to watch Cao Jiajia and He Yushui playing snowball fights and making snowmen.

The children might be tired from playing snowball fights, so they stopped playing and instead made snowmen in front of several large snow piles. Their little faces were red from the cold and they kept rubbing their hands, but they were still having a lot of fun.

Many children even took out their own scarves and put them around the little snowman's neck.

The snowman was made very well, with all five senses, just like a normal person. Several children were even invited to judge whose snowman was better.

Children always have their fun. A small thing can make them happy for a whole day. They are a group of carefree children.

The front yard was very lively, but the middle and back yards were quiet and the children didn't come out to play. It seemed that there was a generation gap between the adults and children in the front yard and those in the middle and back yards.

They don't get along very well.

There are no employees from the rail steel factory in the front and middle yards, and the deaf old lady and the He family in the back and middle yards are not, but the other six families, including Hou Jie, are.

In this world, not only are Chen Xueru and Hou Jie married and have children, but Hou Jie is also a second-level welder in a steel rolling mill.

Besides, except for the third uncle Yan Bugui, all the others in the front yard came to the courtyard at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Again, the screenwriter's fault.