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44. Chapter 44
Zhen Zhen walked out of the alley and ran to the forest with a quick step. She used her consciousness to check the surroundings at any time to see if anyone was following her. When she got to the edge of the forest, Zhen Zhen found a flat place and sowed the seeds in her hands, and they grew out instantly. A golden wheat field, without Zhen Zhen's hands, the wheat grains fall off automatically, and the other parts turn into ashes and melt into the soil. Zhen Zhen waved her hand, and the grains of wheat were automatically piled together.
Following the same method, after a while, there was another pile of rice next to the wheat pile, each of which was exactly 50 jin.
After clapping her hands, Zhen Zhen felt a little complacent: "Fortunately, I have this ability, otherwise it would be very difficult to change money." Time passed by, Zhen Zhen kept closely monitoring the surrounding wind and grass with her consciousness, about half an hour passed. Hours later, the man who was in the alley just now drove the carriage over, Zhen Zhen deliberately swept over the carriage with her consciousness, and she was relieved to see that there was no one hiding inside.
That person was also very cautious, looking around while driving the carriage, when the two met, the person saw the food next to Zhen Zhen, and immediately felt relieved.
After rushing to the cart and next to Zhen Zhen, the man twitched at the corners of his mouth looking at the food all over the place: "Why don't you find a bag of rice and noodles to put it in."
Zhen Zhen looked at him confidently: "We don't have any in our house, the only noodle bag that contains rice noodles, how can there be anything for this."
"Okay." The man looked around and saw that there was still no one around, so he couldn't help asking her, "Your family left the food and left? You are really careful, are you afraid that people will see your face?"
Zhen Zhen looked at him impatiently: "What are you doing with so much? Hurry up, buy it or not? If you buy it, just pay the money quickly, if you don't buy it, I'll have to find someone else."
"Little girl is not too young, but she is not too short-tempered." The man sneered, and hurriedly removed the basket and weighed it from the car: "Fortunately, I have prepared everything, otherwise we would have to carry it to the car."
The two weighed the basket first, and then took the shovel to load the grain into the basket, which was exactly one pound more than one pound. At the current market price, rice is 16 cents and 5 cents a pound, white flour is 18 cents a pound, and a third cheaper is 11 yuan and 50 cents.
The person took out the money from his pocket and counted ten dollars to Zhen Zhen. The bills are not suitable for Zhen Zhen, as long as they are universal in the whole province, the person had to pick from the bills he brought and gave Zhen Zhen some bills. Provincial general industrial tickets, cotton thread tickets, light bulb tickets, cloth tickets and the like.
Put the money and bills in the schoolbag and put it in the schoolbag, Zhen Zhen remembered the high-priced cakes that she bought from the hydrolysis factory in the summer without food stamps, and she felt distressed. No wonder the whole family, including Ming Bei, were reluctant to eat that cake.
After sighing, Zhen Zhen watched the person leave and walked in the opposite direction. After seeing the person walking away with her consciousness, she immediately teleported to another city and exchanged 12 yuan in the same way. After a long time, Zhen Zhen went around three surrounding small towns, not a single gold bar was sold, but a lot of food was sold, and a total of about 40 yuan was saved.
Zhen Zhen couldn't help sighing, in fact, this is also to be expected, she went to small cities, people in these places were thin, and they didn't have much spare money, and the only ones who could buy fine grains were Yinshi people, like gold bars. It is estimated that only places like Bingcheng can make a shot.
But if you go to the ice city to sell gold bars, you will be more adventurous than in these places. It is densely populated and it is difficult to find an open place to settle down. It is also a big city where fish and dragons are mixed, and the army is stationed. She is so young with sixteen taels. The big yellow croaker is a little too eye-catching. Zhen Zhen was a little hesitant, thinking before and after thinking that the money would be enough for a while, there is no need to rush to cash out now. If you really spend that much money in the future, it's not too late to go to Bingcheng.
Seeing that it was noon, Zhen Zhen's body flashed, she teleported several times in a row and returned to the big river near her home. She looked back at the smoke from the chimneys of various houses, pointed to the weeping willows by the river, more than a dozen Roots of wicker fell down and intertwined to form a rough little basket.
Zhen Zhen picked up the small basket, found an ice hole in the middle of the river that had not yet frozen solid, took a stick and hit it down, breaking the thin layer of ice. A mandarin fish lying on the bottom of the river suddenly swam up and jumped up from the ice cave to the ice surface more than one meter high. Zhen Zhen hurriedly took the basket to catch it, and the mandarin fish was falling into the basket. It was frozen solid in an instant.
Wearing a thick hand and holding a wicker basket, she returned home, before Madam Li opened her mouth to ask, Zhen Zhen handed over what was in her hand: "Nanny, look, I went to the river to fish it after school. A mandarin fish."
Mrs. Li handed the small basket to Wang Sufen, who was greeted by her, and dragged Zhen Zhen into the house. She used a feather duster to help her clean the snow from her legs and boots, and kept talking to her: "I can't go home after school in such a cold day. I'm still chatting outside. If you want to eat fish, talk to your father and ask him to fish it for you. The ice is slippery, so what if you fall?"
Mrs. Li put the feather duster on the kang and helped Zhen Zhen to take off the leather jacket and boots: "Hurry up and sit on the kang head to get warm and warm, milk will touch your little face to see if it's cold?"
"It's not cold, milk, my palms are still sweaty." Zhen Zhen stretched out her small hand for Mrs. Li to touch.
Mrs. Li touched her hand and forehead, and she felt relieved because she was sweating. Sitting on the kang, Mrs. Li began to ask every day again: "What did the teacher talk about today? Are there any classmates bullying you? Is it cold in the classroom?"
"It's not cold, and no one is bullying me. I'm the monitor, and none of them dare to yell in front of me." Zhen Zhen repeated what she said every day, and put her arms around Mrs. Tell her the same thing: "The teacher didn't give a lecture today, so he gave us an exam. He won't go to school in the afternoon. He will go to school the day after tomorrow to pick up papers and homework for winter vacation, and then he will have a vacation."
"It's a good holiday, I don't like to let you run out on this snowy day." Mrs. Li opened the box and took out a bunch of melon seeds and handed it to her: "I picked up two scallops in the morning and fried them for you."
"Thank you, milk." Zhen Zhen "haha" and kissed Mrs. Li on the face, coaxing Mrs. Li to hug her happily: "With you, the big treasure, coaxing milk to be happy all day long, milk can live ten more lives. year."
"Ten years is too short, it's no problem to live a hundred years." Zhen Zhen smiled and peeled a melon seed and stuffed it into Mrs. Li's mouth: "You will have to help me take care of the child then."
"Okay, the milk will live with you when the time comes." The grandparents and grandchildren happily negotiated an agreement, Wang Sufen had already cleaned up the fish in the kitchen, washed her hands, came over and asked, "Zhen Zhen, what do you want to eat the fish? ?"
"Pine nut mandarin fish!" Zhen Zhen replied quickly, pine nut mandarin fish is a famous dish that has been passed down from the Qing Dynasty. When Li Muwen went back to his hometown last time, he mentioned that eating pine nut mandarin fish in Bingcheng tastes very good, Zhen Zhen is greedy for cats It seemed that he immediately tried his best to entangle Wang Sufen to make it once. Although it took some materials, it was really sweet, sour and delicious.
As soon as Zhen Zhen said she wanted to eat pine nuts and mandarin fish, Wang Sufen looked at her and sighed: "Why are you so greedy, you can't eat steamed and stewed, you have to use oil and sugar."
Madam Li almost spoiled her granddaughter, she heard Zhen Zhen want to eat and quickly spoke for her granddaughter: "I can't eat it once a year, if the child wants to eat, just cook it for her, isn't there oil in the kitchen?" Wang Sufen He also said that, seeing Mrs. Li helping to speak, she didn't say anything, turned around and went to the kitchen to make pine nuts and mandarin fish.
The mandarin fish with pine nuts must first be treated with a flower knife and then fried in a pan, then poured with sweet and sour sauce, and finally tickled. Today's conditions are not good, sugar and vinegar are scarce things, so naturally we can't be so particular about it.
The family harvests a lot of soybeans every year, most of which are squeezed into soybean oil, so the old Li family has no shortage of oil to eat all year round. Pour oil into the pot, put the sliced mandarin fish in the pot and fry it, then take it out. The oil that has been fried can still be used for cooking, and it will not be wasted at all.
Put the peeled pine nuts and all kinds of mushrooms in the pot. Wang Sufen put two tablespoons of the sauce made from the foreign persimmons picked in the autumn, and carefully poured a tablespoon of white sugar into the pot and stirred it well. Then tick the gorgon and pour it over the fish, and the fragrant pine nut mandarin fish is ready.
Zhen Zhen smelled the smell and came out of the room, Wang Sufen thought about the white sugar she used just now and said distressedly: "It's too expensive, just eat it once a year, do you hear? I can't do this next time, it's a waste. What a good thing."
Osmanthus also carried the meat buns from the back room to the front yard with a straight stomach. As soon as the meat buns entered the house, her eyes lit up, she ran to the stove and stretched her head out and asked in a milky voice, "Honey, why is it so fragrant?"
"The milk made the fish, the sweet and sour fish I ate last year, remember?" Meat Bun nodded quickly, Wang Sufen said with a smile, "Go, wait for your aunt to be on the kang, and the milk one I'll bring the fish up."
Zhen Zhen supported Osmanthus on the kang, looked at her tall belly and asked, "Sister-in-law, are you going to give birth this month?"
"It's estimated that it will be at the end of the month." Osmanthus leaned on the chop and rubbed her waist: "The belly has been falling so hard these days, and I might give birth early if I can't keep it."
Zhen Zhen touched Osmanthus' belly, the little doll inside seemed to be aware of it, she immediately stretched out her little feet and kicked both feet, Zhen Zhen looked at the bulging bag on Osmanthus' belly and couldn't help smiling and said: "This child is really Powerful."
"It's not that bad, I guess I'm also a kid, the same as when I was pregnant with meat buns." Osmanthus touched her stomach, with a gentle smile on her face: "It's better to be a kid again, just like our mother. Yes, first give birth to a few more boys to support the family, and have a daughter who will be very painful, and you can talk to me when you are bored."
The two were talking. Wang Sufen had already brought everything to the kang table. Now the weather is cold and the snow is thick. It is too hard to go back and forth to work. Li Muwu eats at the unit at noon. Mingbei's school is also far from home, so usually leave in the morning and go home when it gets dark after school. The grandfathers can't go home for lunch. Every morning, Wang Sufen boils a large pot of vegetables, fills a lunch box for the two of them, and brings some dry food. There is a place for hot meals in both the workplace and the school. You can also eat a hot meal.
Although the family often eats fish, it is only in the past two years that Wang Sufen is willing to make it once a year. Every now and then, he raises his head with a smile and says, "It's delicious. ."
Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen were reluctant to eat fish, so they went to eat stewed cabbage after eating two chopsticks. Zhen Zhen knew the personalities of Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen, so she didn't persuade them, she just stretched out her chopsticks and put the fish into their bowls. In Lifan, the two of them were as sweet as eating honey due to Zhen Zhen's heart-warming behavior. Mrs. Li was even more delighted to close her mouth and said, "Don't squeeze it, milk can't be so sweet and sour." At the same time, she couldn't stop complimenting Zhen Zhen: "Why don't you say that the girl is caring? , I can think about the old one, and I didn't hurt her in vain."
Meat buns also learned something. Standing up and delivering fish one by one to the bowls of four, Wang Sufen said with a smile: "There are no unfilial children in our family. It is also good for Meat buns to grow up."
"Not so good." Mrs. Li nodded, and then instructed Osmanthus: "The meat bun is the first of the next generation in our family, so I have to teach him well, and when he grows up, he can support his family like a big brother. Our family can only get better." Osmanthus responded quickly.
The weather is getting colder and colder. Mingnan and Mingbei have finished their final exams and went home one after another. According to the days of previous years, Mingdong is estimated to be on the train coming back, but Mingxi still doesn't know if he will be able to come back this year. , There are not as many vacations in military schools as in ordinary universities. It is said that they are managed according to the army, which is particularly strict. Besides, after hearing the meaning in Mingxi dialect, he learned all the things that needed to be kept secret, and he couldn't even mention it outside the army.
Finally, on the second day after Mingdong arrived home, Osmanthus started. Mingnan and Mingbei were sitting in the kitchen to boil water. Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen worked together to help Osmanthus deliver the baby. As expected, Osmanthus was born again. A big fat son.
With the meat bun in the front, this kid called the bean bun smoothly and naturally, and Ming Dong, who was familiar with the family and the road, became a nanny, helping with washing and washing.
The family lived step by step, and Mrs. Li was thinking about Mingdong's work again. Thinking that Mingdong would graduate next year after the Spring Festival, Mrs. Li went to the back room to ask him about the situation.
As soon as Mrs. Li entered the door, she put down her crutches, took off her leather jacket and hung it on the hook at the door. She stretched out her head and greeted the East Room, "Mingdong, come out and ask you something."
Ming Dong hurriedly invited her to sit in the room, and Mrs. Li waved her hand: "The body is full of cold air, and if the child is frozen, I will ask you about the assignment after graduation. Let's sit in the kang room and talk while cooking."
Mrs. Li picked up pieces of red pine trips from the ground and stuffed them into the stove pit. The burning firewood in the stove pit reflected the two people's faces turning red: "Do you have any letter about the assignment after graduation? Where might it go? "
Ming Dong is a cautious character. He originally wanted to get the notice and then tell his family about it, but when Mrs. Li asked him, he said one by one: "It's already known, the teacher said that our house is the closest to Anbei. , considering the nearest care, it is estimated that I will be assigned to teach at Anbei Agricultural College."
"Teaching is good, but it's far from home." Mrs. Li smacked her lips: "It's more than 100 kilometers away from our home."
Mingdong pushed his glasses and smiled helplessly: "This is my latest job. I'm studying agriculture, and I'm good at farming. We don't have serious villages and agricultural schools in Beicha. No matter how you distribute it, it will not be distributed to the family. In fact, Anbei is not too far away, and the train is also fast, not much farther than ours to Yidong.”
When Mrs. Li heard that she was about the same distance from Yidong, she felt a little better. Except for Mingbei who had to go to the hydrolysis factory high school, the rest of the grandsons went to high school in Yidong, and they always came back once or two months. , so don't think it's that far.
Just thinking of sweet-scented osmanthus, Mrs. Li touched her cigarette bag and took a sip: "I haven't had much reunion since you got married. I used to have winter and summer vacations when I was in school, and I always spent half a year together for half a year, but it's hard to say after I go to work. , we can't leave the child at home and let Osmanthus go to Anbei with you."
Mingdong nodded: "That's fine, but it's too early to say this, I'll have to wait until I get to Anbei to see what's going on there. If there is a more spacious single-person dormitory, I'll put Osmanthus and Osmanthus. Bring the meat and bean buns, I am afraid that Osmanthus will feel uncomfortable without the child."
"It's up to you." Mrs. Li mainly gives advice to her children and grandchildren. If they have other ideas, they don't force it: "Actually, it's best for children to stay with their parents, but you have to be tired."
Ming Dong smiled and gave Mrs. Li some cigarette leaves: "We are young and tired, so we don't have to worry about it. Both our milk and our parents are old, so we should have a good time and enjoy ourselves."
What Mingdong said about Mrs. Li's body was relieved, and her smiling eyes became a seam: "It's enough to have your words, while we can still move, it's time to help you, this generation is not all That's how it came. Besides, after working all my life, I really can't be idle, and I feel empty when I don't work for a day."
The eldest grandson's job was settled, and Mrs. Li was relieved. She returned to the room and told Wang Sufen the original words again: "No matter how far away from home, this is a stable and good job."
When Wang Sufen heard that her son could actually be a teacher in the university, she couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Dongzi brain melon seeds are very useful, so even college students can teach them?"
The two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were discussing with excitement, but Zhen Zhen listened, but her heart sank. Even though she didn't know much about those ten years, she also knew how low the status of teachers was during that period. They were called "stinking old nine", Some even get criticized if they make trouble.
Zhen Zhen thought about it for a long time, but she still decided to tentatively negotiate with Mrs. Li: "I think this job is not good, it's better to ask brother to resign, it would be better to go home and enter the hydrolysis factory."
"Children don't understand, don't talk nonsense, how can you just not do the work assigned by the state?" Mrs. Li rubbed Zhen Zhen's head: "Aren't you reluctant to part with your brother and sister-in-law? It's okay, they are still on vacation. go home."
Zhen Zhen cupped her cheeks in an unhappy way: "I just feel panicked when I listen to this work."
"Don't talk nonsense." Mrs. Li took Zhen Zhen in her arms and peeled the pine nuts to feed her: "I see that your brother likes this job very much, and his face is full of joy, don't say this spoiler in front of him. Did you know."
Zhen Zhen nodded helplessly, she also knew in her heart that if she didn't understand, Ming Dong would definitely not give up her job as a university teacher, but there was no way to talk about it, the family believed it or not. cause big trouble. Anyway, as a college student in Mingdong, reform through labor is indispensable, and doing some work is not a big deal in this era.
Zhen Zhen thought about it for a long time and decided to go to Anbei to see what it was like.