Reborn since 2005

June 6th, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is the Dragon Boat Festival.

For Yan Xin, it was another day of sleeping until he woke up naturally.

However, his work and rest time is normal, and he wakes up early, before seven o'clock.

I lay in bed for a few minutes, looked at my phone, and then got up.

Father Yan is not at home, he got so much wormwood and calamus yesterday, and today he will sell them in the town, and there will be no business if he arrives late, so he set off before dawn, and will eat breakfast in the town.

——Generally, it means eating two steamed buns and drinking a bowl of porridge for one or two yuan.

Yan Xin needs to make breakfast for herself.

Seeing that it was still early, he was not in a hurry to make breakfast, but went out for a run and ran for more than half an hour on the path in the field before returning.

When I went home, I saw Bai Xiaoling pushing a bicycle and waiting in front of his house.

Seeing him coming from a distance, he waved his hand and said hello: "Brother Xin, you are back!"

Yan Xin was a little puzzled, and asked with a smile: "What are you waiting for here?"

"Do you want to buy tofu today?" Bai Xiaoling asked.

Then he added: "It's the holiday today, tofu is very popular, there are only a few yuan left, I'll keep it for you."

Yan Xin scratched his head, a little embarrassed, he really didn't plan to eat tofu today.

Tofu is not particularly delicious. I ate so much yesterday, so there is no need to eat it today.

It's not that I'm reluctant to spend money. Tofu at [-] cents a piece costs a few dollars, so it doesn't hurt to buy it and throw it away.

If you just buy it and throw it away if you don’t eat it, it’s a waste of food. As a farmer’s son, he can’t accept such a thing.

He smiled and said, "You can leave this opportunity to others. Our family ate tofu yesterday, and it's okay if we don't eat it today."

Bai Xiaoling snorted, and said, "That's fine, I'll sell it to someone else later."

Today is the holiday, and there are more people buying tofu than usual - after all, it is a dish, and it is not shameful to make up a plate during the festival, and it is more decent than putting some pickled products on the table.

Before reaching the twelfth group, it was sold to only a few yuan.

Yan Xin didn't want it, and she wasn't worried about not being able to sell it.

It doesn't matter if it can't be sold, there are only a few pieces of tofu left, which can be eaten by oneself.

She had been waiting here for about ten minutes, not to sell those pieces of tofu to Yan Xin, it was just an excuse.

After talking about the tofu, I lowered my voice and said, "Yesterday I asked my mother about a matchmaker who wanted to introduce her to your father—"

Yan Xin quickly asked, "What did your mother say?"

"My mother said that a matchmaker did tell her about this, and she agreed with it at first, and thought it was good..." As she said, there was some resentment in Bai Xiaoling's eyes, "But she said, the matchmaker later told her , your father looked down on her, and then he didn't have that kind of thought..."

Yan Xin was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself: "Is my dad so fierce? He said it so directly?"

No matter how you think about it, it's not his father's style of speaking.

So he shook his head and firmly denied: "That's impossible! The matchmaker must be talking nonsense! How could my father say such things?"

Bai Xiaoling said: "I also think your father shouldn't be so direct, maybe it's just because of that..."

Yan Xin thought to himself: "It really means that."

But he still didn't admit it, and said: "My dad mentioned this to me, which means we have to think about it, and he didn't mean to look down on it."

"Then what are you thinking about? My mother is so diligent and thrifty to run the family alone, and your father is also honest and responsible. Both of them are middle-aged widows. Isn't being together a match made in heaven?" Bai Xiaoling was a little anxious.

"Marriage is not a child's play, so it must be carefully considered." Yan Xin said.

Bai Xiaoling said: "But, but they are already at that age, and after thinking about it, they are all old..."

What she said is also true.

In terms of age, they are all in their 40s, which can only be said to be middle-aged.

However, if you waste a few more years, you will be really old.

Yan Xin felt sour when he heard it, and felt that it made a lot of sense.

It's not that you don't need to think about finding a partner, but it's true that you shouldn't think about it for too long, especially for older people, who don't have so much time to waste.

Said: "You are quite reasonable, I have to persuade my dad."

After the words were spoken, she asked Bai Xiaoling again: "Then what does your mother mean? She won't listen to the matchmaker's nonsense and have an opinion on my father, right?"

"Um..." Bai Xiaoling hesitated for a moment, and said, "Maybe there is a misunderstanding, but I don't have a big opinion. She thinks your father is quite a good person, honest and trustworthy."

From her reaction, it can be seen that her mother has some opinions about being rejected, but not much.

Yan Xin felt relieved.

What he didn't know was how much ideological work Bai Xiaoling had done for her mother yesterday, and even talked about her future with her mother:

"You also know that I will definitely not be admitted to university. I can only work part-time without any skills. It is also difficult to find a good job. Relying on myself, I don't know how difficult it will be in the future. If you marry Yan Xin Dad, didn't Yan Xin become my elder brother? He is so capable, won't he help me a little in the future? "

When she said that, her mother thought it was true.

Even if it was a bit wronged to be rejected at the beginning, but for the future happiness of my daughter, I just have to endure it.

Besides, Dad Yan is not an unbearable person.

An honest and responsible person will not bring surprises to himself in life, but generally it will not bring disasters.

Bai Xiaoling said again:

"If you don't find a partner, it will be a big problem for me to marry in the future. Then when others look at our family's situation, what a burden it is that I have to provide for you after marriage? Who would dare to marry me?" ? If you get married with Yan Xin's father, the Yan family's family conditions are so good, they will naturally give you a pension, and they won't have such worries about me."

Her mother was angry: "It turns out that you meant to sell me as a mother for your happiness, and at a good price."

Bai Xiaoling quickly laughed along: "It's nothing, mom, don't worry, I don't want a cent of the gift money, I'll give it all to you!"

Her mother looked at her in shock: "What are you thinking? I am a widow in her 40s who is remarried, and I still want a bride price?"

Bai Xiaoling said: "We won't ask for it, but I think if people respect you, they have to show it."

Her mother snorted: "Even if they give it to us, we can't accept it. If we accept it, we will disrespect ourselves."

"All right, all right, if you don't accept it, you won't accept it." Bai Xiaoling said.

He said again: "I'm not saying it's for my own good, but if you marry Yan Xin's father, I can get some benefits, but the one who gets the most benefits is you, isn't it? Look at his house, Take a look at our house, how big is the gap? His son is so promising, with a salary of tens of thousands a month, and he is still a filial child. As long as you marry and treat his father well, will he ignore you in the future? You also know me Yes, it's hard enough to support yourself, can you really point me at me to take care of you? Being a stepmother to such a promising person like Yan Xin is much more enjoyable than being my own mother. "

After all kinds of persuasion by her, her mother finally agreed and gave her the following words:
"Anyway, I have no objection. If someone is willing to live with me, then I will agree. If I don't want to, I won't rush to ask for it. These years have been so difficult, and I have survived it alone. I will not be afraid in the future. .”

With such words, Bai Xiaoling has the confidence to tell Yan Xin about this matter.

She is very concerned about this matter, thinking that this is a large asset restructuring project, which can optimize resources and achieve a win-win situation.

Pushing the bicycle station there and talking with Yan Xin for ten minutes, and then both of them realized that the only obstacle to completing this project now is Yan's father.

As long as Dad Yan is settled, this matter will be considered a success.

But whether he can handle Yan's father, Yan Xin himself has no confidence.

He said to Bai Xiaoling: "My dad is too introverted, he is honest, and he doesn't tell anyone what he thinks. He still has a high opinion of your mother. I think this is possible, and we can't act too hastily. You have to take your time."

Bai Xiaoling was a little anxious: "I think it's better to finish it earlier, so that we won't delay each other."

In order to make Yan Xin feel a sense of crisis, he said: "My mother has always wanted to find someone to marry. In the past, it was because I had to study for me, and no one dared to talk to her. Now I have graduated from high school, and I have taken the university entrance exam again." If you don't, it means that you have no burden, so it will be much easier for her to remarry. I saw a matchmaker come to the house the day before yesterday. Although I don't know what they are talking about, I guess it is about this."

Yan Xin became silent.

Bai Xiaoling hurriedly expressed her loyalty again: "Of course, brother, I still hope that we can become a family. But your father acted early, otherwise I would have to be someone else's younger sister."

Yan Xin glanced at her and thought to himself: "It doesn't matter if my sister is a sister or not. It's okay if I don't want this sister... But that mother is indeed a good woman who is diligent and thrifty and manages the house. My father can marry such a woman. Life should be fine."

Said: "Well, I'll talk to my dad again and let him make a decision earlier. As long as he doesn't object, I'll visit Matchmaker Wang in the afternoon and let her talk about it."

Bai Xiaoling was overjoyed: "That's the way it should be done!"

After the agreement was made, Bai Xiaoling didn't stay still, and ran back on the bicycle.

She didn't bother to sell a few pieces of tofu.

If someone wants it on the way back, sell it, and if no one wants it, eat it yourself.

Compared with this family reorganization project, a few pieces of tofu are really nothing.

It was already eight o'clock, and Yan Xin was a little hungry, so he went to make breakfast.

Breakfast for one person is too easy, there are still unfinished dishes in the refrigerator, and there is a bowl with a few ribs in it, he uses those ribs to make noodles, and comes with rib noodles, It took less than 20 minutes from the bottom to the finish.

After eating, I went for a stroll in the fields, which was also a way to digest food, and took some photos by the way.

At that time, I can show it to Ai Lili, and by the way prove that the Dragon Boat Festival is indeed home for the holiday.

——Ai Lili would not necessarily doubt him, but he felt guilty and felt the need to prove it.

Originally, he wanted to take away his father's lobster cages by the way, to see if he could make another plate of crayfish at noon, but he didn't know which of the densely packed ground cages in the ditch belonged to his family.

Accepting other people's cages will cause disputes.

So I can only give up this idea.

After turning around and returning home, he didn't go back upstairs, so he rested in the living room.

Lie on the sofa in the living room and start playing with your phone.

Go online, chat or something.

Feng Xi sent him several messages, from going out to getting in the car.

Now she has boarded the bus back to the village, the earliest bus back from the county, and has already arrived in the town.

She has the money to take a taxi and come back directly, it will be much more convenient, and she can still catch up with her breakfast at home.

But she didn't want to do that, she didn't want her family to know that she had the money to take a taxi, so she had to take the shuttle bus back——when she came back from the county by the shuttle bus, the family knew exactly when she could get home. Can't live.

Yan Xin saw that she said that she had arrived in town, and then looked at her news list, and Ai Lili was on the list.

Ai Lili also sent him two messages. The first message was Happy Dragon Boat Festival (at this time, there has not been an online article that you can't say happy Dragon Boat Festival but only Ankang. Everyone can legally say Happy Dragon Boat Festival without worrying about others calling the police) , the second news is that she has already driven to Xiaorong Town.

Ai Lili replied: "Happy holidays, be careful on the road."

Looking at these two messages from Ai Lili, I felt unsafe in my heart, and replied "Happy holidays, be careful on the road", and then deleted the chat page between the two.

After deleting, this is peace of mind.

Then he sent a message to Feng Xi.

Feng Xi didn't drive, but came back by minibus, so he was able to chat with him all the time.

The two chatted for more than ten minutes, and Feng Xi sent a message: "I got off the car, let's talk again when I have time."

That's how the chat ended.

Yan Xin was even a little worried that she would come to his house instead of her own.

Also stood outside and waited for a while.

He didn't wait for Feng Xi to come, but saw his father coming back with a small cart.

He hurried over and helped his father push the scooter uphill, while asking, "How much did you sell today?"

"Eels and loaches sold for 80 yuan, wormwood and calamus sold for more than 100 yuan, and today they sold for more than 200 yuan." Yan's father said.

When I said this, there was some excitement and some pride.

The income of more than 200 yuan a day is really worth his excitement.

Of course, rice field eels and loach were accumulated over a long period of time, not the income of this day.

Wormwood and calamus can almost be regarded as a day's income.

Unfortunately, there is only one day in a year.

Back home, he put down the cart, and carried a bucket to collect the crayfish in the ground cage.

There is also a snakeskin bag in the bucket, which contains more than a dozen food bags, and the oil cakes after pressing rapeseed oil are placed in the snakeskin bag, which is the bait for spreading crayfish.

Yan Xin looked at the time, and it was already 09:30. Thinking that there were quite a lot of dishes to cook for the festival today, he stopped playing with his mobile phone and started preparing dishes for noon.

There are several eels in the large water tank in the patio, the smallest ones are three or four taels, and the big ones are almost a catty.

Yan Xin fished out those eels, and then killed the eels and picked out the bones.

This is to make braised rice field eel.

They don't even debone the rice field eels here, they're not so pretentious, and they don't bother to bother.

After a few years, more and more people went out to work, and their income levels became higher and higher, so this way of eating slowly became popular.

Yan Xin's doing this is still the skill he learned when he was helping Ai Lili.

Although not as fast as those professionals, it can still do.

The pork bought yesterday was also cut into a plate, and then a dozen green peppers were peeled.

This is the soul dish of the Dafran people, stir-fried meat with green peppers.

I bought more than a catty of chicken wings in the supermarket. At this time, I also took them out to melt the ice and prepared to make a cola chicken wing.

There is no coke at home, and after his father comes back, he will go to the cripple's small shop to buy it.

Steamed pork ribs must come, and I also bought a pack of fermented soybeans, just in time.

I also bought beef, which was also fried green peppers.

The green peppers are grown at home, a bit spicy, but not very spicy.

After preparing these, Dad Yan also collected the crayfish. If there are two or three catties of crayfish, then make another plate of crayfish.

In addition, I went to the vegetable garden to pick a few cucumbers, and made a plate of patting cucumbers, which can be regarded as an extra plate of vegetarian dishes, which can relieve the tiredness.

In this way, there are seven dishes.

Yan Xin thought about it for a while, and felt that the seven dishes were not very good, and then cut some leeks, and put together another dish - scrambled eggs with leeks.

This is eight dishes.

The father and son eat eight dishes, which is considered very rich.

Father Yan couldn't help but said, "You're making it look like Chinese New Year."

Yan Xin said with a smile: "It's rare to celebrate the festival together, and it's not illegal at all to make it rich."

Prepare these ingredients and start cooking.

By the time the food was ready, it was already past 12 o'clock.

It's still the old rules, Yan Xin is in charge of cooking, and Yan's father is lighting the fire.

The ingredients are all ready, so cooking is very easy.

At this time, Yan Xin talked to his father about finding a companion for his father. This time there was no detour, and he directly mentioned Bai Xiaoling's mother:

"Dad, Bai Xiaoling came over to sell tofu this morning. She told me that her mother said that you told the matchmaker last year that you didn't like her. Is there such a thing?"

Dad Yan shook his head quickly: "I never said that!"

"Then what did you say?" Yan Xin asked.

"I told the matchmaker that I didn't have that idea, and I didn't want to find a partner." Dad Yan said.

The meaning is still the same, but a little more tactful.

Yan Xin felt that if there was no direct explanation that he looked down on others, it would not be too serious.

Said: "I don't know how the matchmaker passed on the words, but from Bai Xiaoling's point of view, her mother felt aggrieved after hearing such words."

"Ah?" Dad Yan was a little uneasy, "What should I do then? How about I explain it to her sometime?"

Yan Xin smiled: "I've already explained it to you, saying that you didn't say that, and that you thought highly of her."

"Oh." Dad Yan felt relieved.

There is some relief - the son is grown up and can handle things.

Otherwise, this is offending people for no reason.

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Yan Xin say again: "I heard from Bai Xiaoling that her mother was quite satisfied with you at the time, and thought it would be nice to form a family with you."

Dad Yan fell silent, and he didn't know how to answer this.

Yan Xin asked again: "Dad, don't you have any ideas?"