I am from Guizhou. I went to Northeast China to study in college and I am looking for a wife there. My wife’s family is from Jilin. I visited their house during the holidays a few days ago. Don’t tell me, this kang is different from the stoves in Guizhou. You won’t feel cold as long as you sit on the kang here. But in Guizhou, the whole family sits around the stove to warm up.
It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at her house. At that time, her parents were pickling sauerkraut and asked us to wait for a while. They would eat the whole meal after they finished it. I was not idle and ran over to help. The method of making Northeastern sauerkraut is different from that of Guizhou. In our Guizhou In China, making sauerkraut requires several steps: pick the vegetables, boil them in boiling water, wash and cut them, boil them in boiling water, add sour soup, and it will be ready the next day. But here, you just use Chinese cabbage and put it in a vegetable vat. The final method is to make sour soup and tie it in a bag, so you can take it out and cut it when you eat. The difference between the north and the south is really big.
After dinner in the evening, I played casually for a while. It was already past 10 p.m., and I was getting ready to go to bed. I asked my wife, where can I sleep later? I was sleepy, so she ran to ask her mother. Her mother came over and said, "Sleep over there. You two sleep on the kang over there. The kang is warm. Let's sleep over here," her mother said.
Of course I am confused, do you know? How about a family sleeping on the same kang? I didn’t even know what to say at the time? After a long time, he hesitated and said: Are we all sleeping in this room? No, if possible, I'll sleep in the next room. I'm not afraid of the cold. Really, I'm not afraid of the cold. Her mother said, "Don't be embarrassed. Look, my daughter has been sleeping with us for so many years since she was a child. Look, she has already run to the kang and hid under the quilt."
I didn’t know what to say. I thought to myself, it’s so strange. Is there really no other bed? I thought the whole country was like us, sleeping separately. Hey, if I had known better, I would have prepared a sleeping bag. I thought it was the same style across the country! At this time, the daughter-in-law said, why are you still stupid? Come up and sleep quickly, otherwise the cold will be worse than you in a while! At this time, her parents also said: What are you afraid of? We are all like this here. It is so cold today in the middle of the night, with temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero. Don't freeze it. Just close the curtains.
I carefully closed the curtain, sat on the kang and began to think about life. I thought, why not go out and find a hotel to stay in? After thinking about it for a long time, I was too embarrassed to say anything. At this time, my partner came over and hugged me and said to go to bed quickly. What were I thinking! You try it, this kang is very comfortable, I couldn't resist her, so I could only slide into the bed and immediately felt really warm. At this time, my wife came over and hugged me to sleep again. I tried to break free. After all, there were her parents next to me. This was really not good. So, I didn’t dare to turn over and curled up motionless in the bed.
That’s it, after one night, to be honest, I didn’t sleep at all that night. I was afraid that I would disturb them by snoring, and I was also afraid that other sounds would affect them. Oh, it was really embarrassing.
I got up first as soon as it dawned. At this time, it started snowing heavily outside. After a while, her parents also got up. They asked me, did I sleep well last night? I hesitated, okay, okay. Around 10 o'clock, we sat on the kang and started eating. Suddenly I felt that my whole body was getting hotter and hotter. The kang was really warm!
At this time, the neighbor next to me should have come over to chat. He took off his shoes, kicked off his feet, and sat on the kang. At this time, I saw that the kang was covered with socks, and I suddenly felt that I didn’t know what to say. After all, this is the custom here. This is different from our Guizhou. Just do as the Romans do, so I just sat on the kang and listened to them chatting for a while...
Do you also sleep on the same kang as a family?
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