good old days

Chapter 74 smooth
Chen Xiuyun wrapped a pound of mung bean cake with newspaper and asked Jiang Xinyu to send it to Chen Yi's family.

He brought a lot of pig soap back, and he didn't ask for money. Chen Yi also helped the family a lot. Chen Xiuyun regarded Chen Yi as his future son-in-law, and he was not stingy at all when giving things. Jiang Xinyu took it and sent it.

When Jiang Xinyu went to Chen Yi's house, he hadn't come back yet, only Widow Wang was mending clothes by candlelight.

"Auntie, I made it at home. My mother asked me to bring you some. It's still warm. Let it cool down before eating."

Widow Wang refused to accept it, and Jiang Xinyu struggled with her for a while before she managed to put the mung bean cake on the table.

"Have you eaten yet?" Widow Wang took out a bag of candied dates from the house while she was talking, and grabbed a handful for her.

"Where did this soap come from?"

Jiang Xinyu rolled her eyes, "My uncle sent it from the Shanghai stock market. I sent a lot of it. My aunt just needs it. If it's gone, go to my house to get it."

She can't say that she made it herself, can she?

Widow Wang went to Chen Xiuyun's house to get it when she ran out, but she was really happy when she heard Jiang Xinyu say that.Her family, Chen Yi, has helped Chen Xiuyun's family a lot, and her family can still afford two pieces of soap.

"Your mother didn't go to work today, did she go to town?" Widow Wang asked while she was sewing.

Jiang Xinyu nodded and said, "My mother should be cooking, I'm going home first."

"Go, go." Widow Wang got up and sent her to the door.

After Jiang Xinyu left, Widow Wang tore apart the newspaper, picked up a piece of mung bean cake and looked at it, muttering: "This looks pretty good."

In the evening, Comrade Chen Xiuyun cooked that piece of meat.

A whole piece of meat was stewed, and it was extravagantly braised with sugar. Finally, it was stewed with a little bran radish until it was crispy.

Jiang Xinyu doesn't like to eat too fatty braised pork. The piece of meat that Comrade Chen Xiuyun bought today is just right. There is only a little fat on the pork skin, and the stewed bran radish has become delicious.

Although it is still cornmeal pancakes, the satisfaction of this meal is really unparalleled.

Jiang Xinyu found out that Chen Xiuyun was quite generous when she was rich. If this piece of meat was in someone else's house, the whole family would save some and eat it for three days, and everyone would taste the meat.

There was still a lot of oil paper that I bought before, and the mung bean cakes were all cooled and divided into five portions and wrapped up. There were still a few small pieces left, and the mother and daughter ate them.

This rusty, creamy sweet tastes really delicious.

Chen Xiuyun said: "Soybeans should be able to do it too."

Jiang Xinyu nodded, and gave her a thumbs up, "My mother is worthy of being a primary school teacher, she will draw inferences from one instance."

Jiang Yuzhu laughed happily, and Chen Xiuyun gave Jiang Xinyu a hard look.

Jiang Xinyu chuckled and said, "Soybeans and mung beans taste better if they are peeled off. Unpeeled soybeans will definitely taste bad."

"Mom, I'll go with you tomorrow. You have to carry mung bean cakes and soap. I'll help you share the burden. You will feel much easier on the road."

Chen Xiuyun plans to bring another 30 yuan soap tomorrow, and then sell the five mung bean cakes. The weight is indeed heavy, but she can lift it.But selling two things, it is inevitable to be in a hurry. Chen Xiuyun thought that the forest belt behind the meat joint factory would be very easy to escape and hide, so she finally agreed after thinking about it for a while.

Jiang Xinyu is so happy that she doesn't have to go to work tomorrow!
The three mothers and daughters finished packing and went into the house to sleep respectively.

When Jiang Xinyu was lying in the house and was about to fall asleep, she heard the bicycle bell.

Xiao Hei in the kennel stopped barking once, and Jiang Xinyu knew who was outside the yard with her toes.

She sat up in a daze, put on her military coat, opened the door and went out.

Her room was in the courtyard, so she could hear her more clearly. I don't know if Comrades Chen Xiuyun and Jiang Yuzhu could hear her.

Chen Yi was riding a bicycle with one leg at the gate of the courtyard. Seeing her coming out, he handed her the gray fur rabbit in his hand.

The gray-haired rabbit was already dead, and there was a blood hole in its leg, which should have been hit by a shotgun. (Many hunters have shotguns at home these days.)
"You take it back and eat it yourself."

Chen Yi pointed to the handle, on which there were still two rabbits hanging.

Chen Xiuyun, who heard the movement, came out with her clothes on, "Are you back so late?"

Chen Yi said "hmm", "I went to show a movie in another brigade today, and I came back late."

"Why don't you live there?" Under normal circumstances, if you go to a brigade that is too far away from the commune to show a movie, the movie projectionist will live there at night.

Chen Yi said: "Tomorrow I will have a day off, and I just want to sleep at home at night, so I can sleep in and save myself running back and forth."

"Thank you, Aunt Rabbit. You can come to my house for dinner some other day." In the middle of the night, because it is not appropriate for a rabbit to stay here for a long time, Chen Xiuyun saw Chen Yi's heart, and thought in his heart that in the future, he would Be nice to him.

After saying a few more words, Chen Yicai rode his bicycle towards home.

When they got home, the widow Wang came out of the house in her clothes and heard the noise. She lit a candle and saw two rabbits in his hands, and said, "Where did they come from?"

Chen Yi said casually, "Sent by Orion."

After living in this era for a while, he realized how good the "treatment" of film projectionists is. Regardless of the fixed income of monthly salary, no matter which village he went to show a movie, he would always be surrounded by people. , Every time a movie is shown, there is a few cents of income, and the brigade will treat guests to dinner.The rabbit in his hand was given to him by the Orion. Of course, he secretly kept the money in the end.

"Xinyu sent mung bean cakes and soap today, and tomorrow you can give one to her home. Moving to a new yard is also a gift."

Chen Yi didn't know what to say, sometimes he sent things to Jiang Xinyu's house in a sneaky way, because he was afraid that Widow Wang would care about it, but he didn't expect her to bring it up.

Chen Yi thought about it for a while and agreed, and simply ignored the fact that he had already given one.Anyway, she couldn't see how many rabbits Jiang Xinyu's house had.

On the second day, when it was still dark, Jiang Xinyu was called by Chen Xiuyun knocking on the door.

After more than two months, Jiang Xinyu entered the county again, and Jiang Xinyu was full of energy.After washing her face and brushing her teeth, she surrounded herself with the scarf Chen Yi bought for her, ate the cold tortillas stuffed in the pot, and carried a basket with Comrade Chen Xiuyun to the county seat.

After more than three hours, the sky was completely bright, and the mother and daughter arrived in the forest belt behind the meat factory.

"Big sister, I want two more pieces of soap." The pork seller couldn't wait to buy soap when he saw Chen Xiuyun.

It was opened before the things were put down.

"Was it clean?" Chen Xiuyun held soap for him.

The pork seller said: "It's really clean, otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy another two yuan and put it away." Although the soap sold by Chen Xiuyun in the supply and marketing cooperative is small, it feels very cheap psychologically. The mother-in-law insisted on buying two more yuan to keep.

"What's in this frame that smells so good?"

Jiang Xinyu opened the oiled paper bag, revealing a round and patterned mung bean cake, "Mung bean cake, sweet and delicious, a pack of seventy-five cents, no ticket required."

The pork seller was very generous and asked for a pack. He had eaten red date cake and knew that the food made by Chen Xiuyun's craftsmanship must be delicious.A pack of mung bean cakes, plus two bars of soap, came to a total of [-] cents.

Chen Xiuyun took the money and said: "Leave me two kilograms of meat, the fatter ones, I need to refine oil, and I'll give you the money later."

The pork seller readily agreed.

(End of this chapter)