Siheyuan: Originally I just wanted to be a little transparent

Chapter 13: We have to open fire after all
As a top white lotus, Qin Huairu not only did not consciously break off the relationship with Sha Zhu because of the disapproval of the children at home, but also kept tricking Sha Zhu.

Not only did Sha Zhu’s blind date journeys get disrupted, but even Sha Zhu’s financial power was tightly controlled by this white lotus...

Qin Huairu, a widow with three children, immediately ran to get married after her husband Jia Dongxu died.

The miserable He Yuzhu would have been doomed if he had not had a child with Lou Xiao'e with the help of the deaf old lady.

However, Lin Shengli had nothing to sympathize with He Yuzhu, who had been sucking blood all the time. It was all his own fault.

The evaluation of this silly Zhu is that he is an indistinct person, he has evil intentions but not courage, he wants to find a beautiful young lady all day long, and he is also entangled and disconnected with Qin Huairu, a handsome little widow.

I always want to be like Xu Damao, who keeps the red flag at home and flutters colorful flags outside. He wants everything, but he doesn’t realize that his abilities are limited, and in the end he can’t get anything.

In fact, when Lin Shengli first started watching this TV series, he didn't think anything of it. He just complained about the writer's brain.

After reading a lot of related novels, I feel that the TV series is still too conservative. If it were filmed according to those novels,
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After lunch, Lin Shengli decided to go to the coal shop near the street office to order briquettes and get some firewood.

(As an ancient industry, coal stacking is actually not easy to do. In addition to having a certain amount of capital and a certain site, you also need to have enough technicians and complete tools.

Shaking briquettes is very particular.

Mix the pulverized coal and loess in proportion to make coal slime, sprinkle the coal powder, and spread out a large coal cake with a thickness of three centimeters. After drying, use a coal shovel to cut small squares into coal cocoons. Sprinkle the coal powder and sieve in a shaking basket. An earthen basin is tied to the bottom of the basket and shaken like a Lantern Festival.

In the process of shaking briquettes, tools such as shovels, shovels, rakes, choppers, baskets, and basins must be used.

Manual shaking is still too tiring, especially in coal plants, where the volume is large and the work is high, so there was a breakthrough in technology.

According to records, some coal plants also use hanging baskets to shake briquettes. Three ropes are tied to the iron hoop and fixed on the door frame or shelf, which is more labor-saving, but requires a special location.

If you want to shake briquettes at home in Laosijiucheng, someone will come to serve you.Most of the people who come to shake briquettes are from Dingxing, Hebei.They are divided into two groups in Beijing. One group is the briquette shakers, also known as the Railway West group, "doing dirty work". The railway is the Beijing-Hankou Railway.Those on the east side of the railway line are those who work in bathhouses, which is called white work.

The person who comes to shake briquettes carries something on his back, including a large round sieve, a flower pot and a stick, or a rake and a shovel. He keeps shouting: "Do you want Mei Qiuer (shaking briquettes) land?" ? Do you want Mei Qiuer’s land?”

In addition to those who come to shake briquettes on their own initiative, in late autumn and winter, you can often meet people delivering coal on the street.

A wooden wheel cart is used to push coal baskets with two ears on both sides, and a hundred or ten kilograms of coal is pushed to the door. Just like the waterman, they enter after the master responds, and exit after finishing their work. Pay attention to the rules and politeness.

At that time, it was also popular to go to the coal shop and order coal, for example, "Send two baskets of coal to such-and-such number in such-and-such alley" and pay on delivery.

If you have coal, you must have a stove, usually an iron coal stove, which is not easy to operate. Especially in the early years, burning briquettes was more laborious than burning briquettes.

The coal shop is also responsible for training. Lighting the stove is a technical job, which requires wood shavings, chopped wood, briquettes, and cupping (the role of the small chimney); if you don't master it well, you will get choked and it will not start.There are coal shops of all sizes on the street, and the guys have everything they need, and they are also responsible for making stoves professionally.However, since the late 60s and early 70s, with the improvement of productivity, briquettes, which were originally unattainable, began to enter thousands of households and became a must-have item for ordinary families. Since the burning of briquettes, there have been specialized Stove tiles, the situation of igniting the stove and getting choked is much better.

Along with the stove, there are also missing water bottles and soldering irons.

Shui Bo'er can no longer be seen now. It was a long iron cylinder used to boil water in Laosijiucheng. It can only be used after the briquettes have burned down. Most of the cylinder can be inserted into the mouth of the stove. This iron cylinder can boil water very well. quick. )
In this era, there were no forestry tree protection laws or anything like that. Burning firewood and briquettes for cooking was still the mainstream. Although the smoke was a bit loud, at this time, there was no argument that any department would not allow stoves to be burned.

There are also lump coal and briquettes, but those things are considered luxuries for ordinary people nowadays.

Due to productivity problems, in this era, most urban residents were supplied with loose coal, which had to be purchased with tickets, and it was also rationed, by basket or pound.

If you buy loose coal, you not only have to wait in line for a long time, but you also have to carry it back yourself or find a cart to pull it back.

Just pulling it back isn't enough.

After the coal is brought home, the good-looking lumps of coal must be picked out and kept for the fire. The remaining coal must be stirred with water, mixed with yellow mud to make coal cakes, and then dried in the sun.

After this set of procedures, it was very tiring and troublesome. Lin Shengli didn't want to cause this trouble anyway.

As for buying the best anthracite lump coal, Lin Shengli also wanted to, but unfortunately he had money but no votes. Besides, you can't buy this kind of coal in ordinary places.

As for briquettes, especially anthracite briquettes, are they affordable to ordinary families? They are all special supplies and there is no place to get them.

In fact, Lin Shengli didn't want to make briquettes and firewood. He also wanted to use gas tanks, liquefied gas, natural gas, etc., but where are they?
There is always going to be a fire in this house. Although during the half month in his parents' old house, Lin Shengli made a lot of rice, steamed buns and various home-cooked dishes. The stock in the space was enough for him. Last two or three months.

But it's not a problem that there is no fire in this house. After a long time, someone will make irresponsible remarks, and maybe I will be free to report it to you.

Besides, this portable space is great everywhere, but the fact that you can't cook in it bothers Lin Shengli.

Since the items placed in the space are subject to the principle of constant time, anything to eat will not be cooked inside, and even a fire cannot be lit inside.

I don’t know if it was because Lin Shengli had resisted this system that often acted coldly, and the system deliberately retaliated against him.

Lin Shengli had a big quarrel with the system over this matter, but it was just Lin Shengli's one-man show. The system remained as cold as ever and didn't even bother to pick him up.

After Lin Shengli ordered the briquettes, he stopped by the supply and marketing cooperative. He was going to repaint his home and do some simple renovations first.

I bought the white ash and lime powder needed for painting at the supply and marketing cooperative, and also pulled out a lot of mosquito net material (also called single cloth) and other miscellaneous things...

(End of this chapter)