good old days

Neither Jiang Xinyu nor Chen Yi knew what Widow Wang was doing secretly. Anyway, their nightlife was quite rich.

Since the eavesdropping incident, Widow Wang has returned to her previous caring attitude towards the two of them, and is even better than before.

Jiang Xinyu felt that she had done something wrong, but she didn't expect that besides eavesdropping, she could do other things that were wrong.

After "Sunny Day" was screened in the commune, it was first screened by the Wuliqiao brigade. After all, their brigade performed well this year. Because of the rain, others had no harvest, but their brigade was not affected much. The commune also wanted to praise the good performance. In the brigade, it’s natural to follow them first when doing something as good as showing a movie.

Many people from other villages came to the brigade, all to watch movies.

It was busy outside, while Jiang Xinyu was drinking Chinese medicine at her parents' house.

Of course, the taste of this Chinese medicine is not that good. It is so bitter that there is no taste in your mouth.

Seeing her face wrinkled, Xiaochuan took out a candy and handed it to her, "Sister, take it. It won't be bitter after you eat it."

Chen Xiuyun came over with brown sugar water and handed it to her, "Do you understand, Mom Chen Yima?"

Jiang Xinyu told her what happened that night, "I don't think she will eavesdrop again in the future."

Chen Xiuyun also thought it was quite evil. She couldn't believe that Widow Wang would listen to her son and daughter-in-law.

The mother and daughter talked for a while, then Chen Xiuyun changed the subject and said: "When will you go ask Xiao Ding if he has any flour and sugar recently? If you are idle, you are idle, why not make money."

"In about half a month, the mung beans will also come out, and then we will be able to work again."

Anyone who has tasted the taste of making money will never stop making money.

The youngest daughter got married and the second daughter went to the capital. Chen Xiuyun divided almost all the money in his hand, leaving only a small amount. Although the family was not short of food and drink, the more money, the better.

Jiang Xinyu doesn't mind the money, and even wants to start a tomato sauce business in winter.

Although I don’t know if the tomato sauce made by her mother-in-law will work, but now I’ll make the sauce and wait until autumn and winter to see if it doesn’t go bad, then that’s money.

Even if it goes bad, it's just a waste of salt. As for the tomatoes in the private plot, if your family can't eat them all and can't exchange them for money, then they are worthless.

It is so easy to make tomato sauce. Once it is boiled, it can be packed and sealed. There is not much flavor during the cooking process, and it is less troublesome than making pastries.

Tomatoes were grown in the private plots of her mother's family and her husband's family, so Jiang Xinyu told Chen Xiuyun the idea.

Chen Xiuyun had a question, "Although we have cans and bottles at home, we don't have many. Once they are ready, we won't be able to fill a few bottles. How will we sell them when we sell them?"

Jiang Xinyu didn't panic, "How do the soy sauce sellers in our village agency sell it? The soy sauce makers sell it in their own bottles. We boil it and put it in a big can and send it directly to Ding Changhai. How to sell it will give him a headache."

Chen Xiuyun had nothing to say even though he had already thought about how to sell it.

As long as you can make money, do it.

Jiang Yuzhu appeared in the movie, which brought excitement to Chen Xiuyun's side.

Widow Wang was busy with things in the pigsty every day, while Jiang Xinyu did some housework. If Chen Yi was at home, he would not be idle either.

The tomatoes in the field were too ripe to eat, so Jiang Xinyu picked all the red ones.

The bottle of tomato sauce made by Widow Wang had been stored for four days and showed no signs of going bad. Jiang Xinyu was ready to follow her method step by step.

Peeling is too troublesome. She always uses a knife to cut the tops of the tomatoes, and then pours hot water on them to completely peel off the skins.She cut half a bucket of tomatoes, and when it was time to boil them, she started to panic. If she boiled them, all the tomatoes would be wasted.

When Widow Wang came back from her busy work, a pot of tomato, noodle and leaf soup was already ready.

Jiang Xinyu was not very good at rolling noodles, so the noodles she rolled out were not strong enough, so she simply cut them into leaves.

After dinner, Jiang Xinyu told her mother-in-law about the difficulty. Widow Wang made it blindly last time, but there was no sign of damage after several days, so she took Jiang Xinyu to make it again.

Half a bucket of tomatoes cost a lot of salt. When Jiang Xinyu tasted the tomato sauce without any additives, she felt that the taste was quite different from the tomato sauce that she would eat in later generations, but it was better than the original flavor and she could eat it with peace of mind.

Afraid that the tomato sauce would spoil, Jiang Xinyu boiled the jar directly, wiped it dry with a boiled cloth, and put the cooked tomato sauce in while it was still hot.

The sauce is all ready, but Widow Wang is still afraid of spoilage. It would be fine if it is only a small bottle, but this is a jar.After thinking about it, she burned firewood in the brazier and put the jar on it to burn.

Neither of them had survived the sauce before, so they were just relying on guesswork. Jiang Xinyu thought there was no harm in burning like this, so she let her go.

The holidays for commune teachers do not allow them to be idle every day. Although there are no meetings or lectures, they still have to do the school's field work.

Jiang Xinyu waited for the next batch of tomatoes to turn red and continued to cook the sauce.

There seems to be something to do every day. August passes quickly and school starts.

Jiang Xinyu received another letter from Jiang Yuzhu in early September. In the letter, she vaguely said that the college entrance examination might be resumed, and she was also preparing to take the college entrance examination.

Jiang Yuzhu's words surprised Jiang Xinyu. At first, she only wanted to go to a film studio, but now she wanted to take the college entrance examination?

The news that Jiang Yuzhu learned that the college entrance examination was about to resume naturally came from Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi's family has scientists.

Half a month ago, not long after his comeback, he took the initiative to ask leaders in charge of education to host a symposium attended by more than 30 scientists and educators. The focus of the discussion at the meeting was college enrollment.

Zhou Qi knew that Jiang Yuzhu's sisters were rare high school graduates in rural areas, so he revealed the news to Jiang Yuzhu.

His family revealed a lot of information in a few words. If the college entrance examination is resumed, time will be very urgent.

If you spend more time preparing than others, you have a greater chance of passing the exam.

But what surprised Zhou Qi was that when he revealed the not-so-reliable news to Jiang Yuzhu, she also thought about taking the college entrance examination and asked him to help find textbooks for review.

After rehearsing every day, Jiang Yuzhu would study secretly in the empty practice room.

She wants to take the college entrance examination, partly because of the attitude of Zhou Qi's family, and partly because of what Jiang Xinyu said, only by being good can you be qualified to choose others.She doesn't want to pick anyone else now, she just wants to gain the approval of Zhou Qi's family.

Being famous for making movies will make her extraordinary, but in the eyes of Zhou Qi's family, her career is somewhat unattainable.

The opportunity to take the college entrance examination is before her, and she will seize it tightly.

The college entrance examination that has changed the fate of many people is coming soon. For Jiang Xinyu, who has been studying for a long time, she is really not nervous at all.

All the questions in the textbook that she didn't know were solved by Chen Yi, and he would also give her questions for her to do.

She didn't know how difficult it would be to resume the first test paper of the college entrance examination, but in this era when there were no review materials and most people were not fully prepared, how difficult could the questions be?