Jingteng Fanghua

Chapter 37
Liu Hua squatted on the ground, untied the rope at the mouth of the sack, and said, "I told Director Li of the supply and marketing cooperative today that our family can make candied haws, so Director Li entrusted us with the task of making candied haws this year. home.

According to the price of each processed bunch that Director Li gave me, I made a preliminary estimate. This year's Spring Festival, our whole family will work together to make candied haws, and each person can earn at least 35 yuan a month. "

"What? Make the candied haws you brought back? Xiaofu, how did you learn to brag? No one in our family has made candied haws for generations. You're not playing tricks!" Chen Baohong was so anxious that he couldn't help but jump first. Woke up.

"Uncle, don't worry, I will." Liu Hua has already untied the mouth of the sack, revealing the red hawthorn inside.

"What? You will?" Chen Baohong was even more surprised.

"Oh, why are you so surprised? Don't forget, Xiao Fu went to school in the capital, really!" Xiaoxian pushed her husband reproachfully.

After Liu Hua's two unsolicited gestures, Tian Fengmei's knot in her heart has not yet been resolved, but she is concerned about the monthly income of 35 yuan. She secretly touched Chen Baoping's foot with her foot.

Chen Baoping understood, and said, "Baohong, don't interrupt, listen to Xiaofu."

Seeing that everyone's eyes were attracted by his opening remarks, Liu Hua straightforwardly told everyone how to make candied haws.

At the end Liu Hua deliberately added, "I know our eldest sister-in-law is the most ingenious, I will do it again in a while, and my eldest sister-in-law will definitely be able to see it at a glance.

In fact, what is difficult to master is the boiling and dipping of sugar. The heat of boiling sugar is very important. There is also the final dipping sugar. If the dipping is thick, the hawthorn meat cannot be eaten in one bite. It must be dipped thinly and evenly. , After a few times, you will be proficient. "

Tian Fengmei was a little embarrassed by Liu Hua's praise.

"Xiao Fu, what do you say, let's do it." This time Chen Baoping was the first to express his opinion.

Grandpa and grandmother also nodded.

Chen Baoping works in the hardware store in the town. At the beginning, his salary was 18 yuan per month. At the beginning of this year, his salary was just adjusted to 25 yuan per month, but after the second half of the year, his salary will not be paid well.

His brother-in-law is currently entrusting his relationship with him to get him a collective labor quota. Only with an iron job can his salary be guaranteed. When he retires, Chen Tianming can still take over.

Running around must cost money. Tian Fengmei worked so hard to save two to three hundred yuan and gave almost all of it to her brother, but this may not be enough.

She went back to her natal home yesterday to inquire about the situation, and her brother told her that taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, she had to buy some gifts and go to the homes of relevant leaders, especially the chief of the personnel department who was in charge of the county labor bureau who had to get a heavy gift Just hit it.

After hearing Tian Fengmei's message, Chen Baoping thought about how to ask his brother to borrow some money.

Now that Liu Hua has said such a good thing, he and Tian Fengmei are of course full of joy, and it is a supply and marketing cooperative underwriting.

Liu Hua saw that everyone had no objections, so he started a division of labor.He asked Xiaojin to boil a large pot of hot water first, because it was too cold in winter, and washing the hawthorn would freeze her hands.

Then he divided the making of candied haws into four steps for everyone to see.

In the first step, Liu Hua washed the hawthorns with warm water, talked while washing, then removed the core, cut off the long bamboo needles for knitting sweaters, and strung up the treated hawthorns one by one.

In the second step, Liu Hua began to boil the sugar carefully with white sugar, until the pot was full of light yellow bubbles, and then began to demonstrate how to dip the sugar, which is the third step.

When dipping in sugar, Liu Hua made a demonstration, and then asked Da Jin and Xiao Jin to try dipping a few skewers by themselves.

The fourth and final step is to cool the candied haws dipped in sugar.It's the twelfth lunar month of winter, and even God is helping Liu Hua.

Liu Hua was doing the four steps in an orderly manner, and the whole family watched them attentively, remembering them in their hearts.

The whole family did what they said, and lit the gas lamp that hadn't been used for many years, and the uncle's front door was instantly illuminated.

Under Tian Fengmei's scolding, Chen Tianming and Chen Lingrong were responsible for cleaning the hawthorn together with Chen Tianliang.

Grandpa and grandma are in charge of boiling water in a large pot on the ground fire in the yard, and they also help wash the hawthorns.

Chen Baoping and Chen Baohong are in charge of fruit stringing.

Tian Fengmei and Xiaoxian are responsible for the last two procedures.

Liu Hua would step up to any process that was tight, and also take care of the technical guidance throughout the process.

"Ling Rong, you three must wash the hawthorns. Be careful when removing the pits. This is the first time you make candied haws. Don't make anyone who eats them feel uncomfortable!" Tian Fengmei said.

Liu Hua laughed secretly when he heard this. A celebrity once said: As long as a person has money, his troubles will be reduced by more than 90%, and his EQ and IQ will also increase accordingly.

Regardless of whether this sentence is right or wrong, but as long as there is money to earn, Liu Hua believes that Dajin is definitely a capable person.

Chen Baoping runs a sundry shop, and he can use whatever he lacks. At first, Liu Hua was afraid that Chen Tianming and Chen Lingrong would make trouble, but he didn't expect them to be very cheerful and serious. It seems that the common people's vernacular—— "Money can turn ghosts around" is really true.

While working, Chen Lingrong was thinking of good things, "If I can earn 100 yuan, I will go to Huaifu County to buy some plastic sandals and sell them at the fair.

After saving some money, I went to the county town to join my aunt, set up a stall in the county town to sell sandals, and then asked my aunt to find a partner for me in the city. Then I would marry someone who could eat commodity food. Anyway, I didn't want to marry a farmer in my life. "

Chen Lingrong thought that when she was young, she gave Chen Tianming an idea to kill Liu Hua's little rabbit. Now that I think about it, it's incredible?To be honest, she didn't think that much at the time, anyway, she did it by accident, probably because her mother often scolded Liu Hua in their ears!
After the little rabbit incident, she was afraid of Liu Hua from the bottom of her heart, so she hoped that Liu Hua would leave their Chen family quickly, but she didn't know why her aunt didn't take Liu Hua into the city and never cared about Liu Hua. ask.

She asked her father, who said that the burden on the uncle's family was too heavy, and the aunt couldn't even take care of herself, so how could she support Xiaofu?It wasn't until after my uncle came back from the disaster that he was promoted that his family got better.

Chen Tianming thought that as long as he had money, he would buy a bicycle first, which would be much more convenient for him. As for what he would do in the future, he hadn't seriously thought about it yet.

The whole family worked until almost dawn before finishing a sack of hawthorns. Everyone was tired and their backs ached, but everyone was in a surprisingly good mood!
This was the first time in history that the whole family worked together. Everyone cooperated, helped each other, and did not complain to each other. Together, they completed rows of candied haws that were left to dry in the winter night.

After breakfast, Chen Baohong went to the team to borrow a tricycle, plus his own tricycle and the tricycle returned by Liu Hua, a total of three tricycles.

The family carried the big bamboo baskets full of candied haws to the tricycle one by one. Tian Fengmei and Xiaoxian each took out clean transparent plastic sheets and white coarse cloth from home to cover the bamboo baskets.

Under Chen Dongsheng's command, Chen Tianming and Chen Tianliang tied up the bamboo basket with a rope to prevent the frame from being unstable and swinging back and forth.

Liu Hua, Chen Baoping, and Chen Baohong set off on a tricycle. People in the village looked at the three men as if they were rare objects, and ran after the tricycle to ask what it was pulling.

"Ask my wife!" Chen Baoping shouted.

(End of this chapter)