Osmanthus turned over in her sleep, and Mingdong immediately leaned over and hugged her in a daze. When pressed by a heavy arm, Osmanthus woke up, opened her eyes and saw that it was bright outside, she hurriedly sat up and looked at her. The alarm clock on the eye box is already half past seven.

"It's broken, it's too late." Osmanthus hurriedly got up from the quilt, and took all the clothes that Mingdong had thrown away last night and put them on one by one. Awakened by the sound of Osmanthus getting dressed, Mingdong opened his eyes in a daze, he stretched his arms around Osmanthus' waist, put his face on her lap, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why did you get up so early? "

"It's getting late, it's already 7:30, Meat Bun and Bean Bun are designated to wake up early." Osmanthus put on her clothes and patted Ming Dong's hand: "Let go of me, I'll go down to see the child."

As soon as the voice fell, there was a knock at the door of the room, and then there was the voice of Rou Bao's grievance: "Did Mom and Dad get up? The sun is drying the butt!"

"Get up!" Osmanthus responded quickly, and then patted Mingdong's arm hard to let him loose. Mingdong hugged Osmanthus' waist and laughed, but didn't let go. Osmanthus reluctantly rubbed his head twice, and discussed with him nicely: "Don't make trouble, the child is waiting." Seeing Mingdong closed his eyes Not moving, Osmanthus had to whisper: "It's night, don't make trouble now."

Ming Dong immediately opened his eyes and looked at Osmanthus expectantly: "Just the pose I said last night."

Osmanthus blushed with shame, reached out and pinched Mingdong's arm: "Get up quickly, don't make trouble."

"Is it alright?" Ming Dong's face rubbed against Osmanthus's leg, and there was a little bit of coquettishness in his voice. Osmanthus got goosebumps at his noise. She glanced at Mingdong's expectant eyes. , nodded shyly and embarrassedly: "Just this time."

Mingdong cheered in a low voice, sat up and kissed Osmanthus on the face: "You will know the benefits once, and I'm sure you will take the initiative to ask for a second time next time." Dodging a little, she put on clothes as if nothing had happened: "Get up, get up, and go to the street to buy vanishing cream for your daughter-in-law in a while."

Osmanthus got off the kang with a smile, put away the messy paper in the ground, opened the kang hole and threw it in. The remaining sparks got up, rolled the paper and burned it. Opening the door, Meat Bun and Bean Bun immediately threw themselves into Osmanthus's arms. The two hugged her waist tightly, and their similar-looking faces were full of anger and condemnation: "We agreed to get up early." "The bean bag got up and Mom can't afford it." "It's not a good boy to stay in bed!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mom is up late." Osmanthus had two small meat balls hanging on her body, she moved to the washbasin rack with difficulty to wash her hands, and then picked up the two boys: "Mom will cook for you. , what do you want to eat in the morning?"

Doubao put his finger to his mouth and looked at Osmanthus with bright eyes: "I want to eat noodles, I haven't eaten noodles for a long time."

There was still a little flour brought from Beicha, enough to make a meal of noodles. Osmanthus touched the little son's chubby face and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll eat noodles this morning."

Meat Bun and Bean Bun cheered and ran to the east room to wake Ming Dong up. Ming Dong had just put on his fleece jacket and trousers, and before he even put on his padded jacket, he was overwhelmed by the two sons who climbed up the kang. . Ming Dong hurriedly reached out and touched his glasses and put them on the windowsill. He turned around and flipped his two sons onto the bed. a group.

Osmanthus kneads and rolls the noodles skillfully, and soon the noodles are out of the pot. When the steaming egg noodles are ready here, the third brother over there also washes up and gets up. One bowl of noodles per person, because there is only one egg left at home, Osmanthus did not beat the poached egg, but broke the egg and put it directly into the pot. The noodles were hung with egg flowers, and the two boys did not lift their heads.

Unlike Beicha, Anbei has rural areas and farms. Even the agricultural college itself is relatively remote. It takes 40 to 50 minutes to get to the town. Douban Xiao can’t go too far, even meat buns. Can't stand it. Ming Dong dragged out the sledge that he had welded for his two sons, put a wooden board on it, and the two brothers, Meat Bun and Bean Bun, sat on it happily.

At this time, the twelfth lunar month was approaching, and there was thick snow everywhere in Anbei. Ming Dong and Gui Hua were each pulling a rope and pulling their son to the town. There are many people on the road to the town, and there are horses and carriages passing by from time to time, so the road surface is extremely smooth. Ming Dong and Osmanthus can drag them smoothly without any effort. Even when there are few people, the two are dragging one side Playing slippery, dragging the sledge to and fro, Le's meat buns and bean buns applauded.

The town in Anbei is not big, and there is only one supply and marketing cooperative. Ming Dong tied the sledge to the tree by the road and led his family into the supply and marketing cooperative. In this day and age, there are still many simple people. As long as someone puts things outside, the people next to them will help pay attention to one or two. In addition, everyone in this place has a few sledges. This is really not a rare thing.

Because the Agricultural College just had a holiday, the teachers and students were preparing to go home for the New Year's goods, so today most of the supply and marketing cooperatives were familiar faces, and the small places were crowded. Osmanthus picked up the bean bag, and Ming Dong carried the meat bag on his shoulders. The two walked in along the flow of people, both the meat bun and the bean bun were so excited that they turned their heads around for a while to look here and there, and their eyes were not enough.

Mingdong was sweating profusely, he only bought a vanishing cream and a pair of cotton-padded shoes for Wang Sufen and hurried out with his family, Doubao pouted in dissatisfaction: "I haven't seen it yet. "

Ming Dong wiped the sweat from his forehead: "It can't be in it. It made my shoes almost fall off. I don't think I'm buying here at all. It's the same thing when we get home from Beicha."

Osmanthus nodded, she bent down to help Doubao organize her hat and scarf, and coaxed Doubao and said, "Let's go to the grain store over there. If there is a sesame cake for you today, buy one for you to try?"

Meat buns and bean buns nodded immediately, and didn't even sit on the sledge, for fear that they would be sold out if they walked too slowly. The grain store in Anbei only sells sesame seeds in the past two months, and not every day. If you sell it once, you will get forty or fifty biscuits.

A sesame cake costs five cents and you have to ask for food stamps. Farmers basically don’t buy this, and they don’t feel hungry if they think it’s too expensive. Only workers from working families with few children or dual workers who have more money will occasionally buy one for their children to try.

When Ming Dong first graduated as a teacher, his salary was 56 yuan. Last year, he had no salary in the labor camp in Anbei Farm. After the establishment of the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, he continued to serve as a teacher, and the school still paid him according to the previous standards. Osmanthus only started working in the past two months. As more and more teachers from Anbei Agricultural College bring their families and children, and the campus is full of children, in order not to distract teachers during class, the school allocated several houses and a yard to set up a nursery school and Yuhong class.

Osmanthus is young and good-looking, and she dresses neatly and neatly. When the school was selecting candidates, she immediately fell in love with her. She directly sent her to work in kindergarten. money salary.

Mingdong and Guihua earn a lot, and they only have two children. The burden is very light. Both of them are happy to buy small things every once in a while to make them happy.

Because it was not the day when the supply was sold, there were not many people at the entrance of the grain store. Osmanthus lined up with her children. Ming Dong went to the front to take a look. Today, the window sold not only biscuits but also stoves.

The stove grate refers to the oil cake in the shape of an iron box like the ashes in the stove. Not to mention the pure white flour, it has also been fried. In this era of lack of oil and water, it is a luxury food. It's just that this thing uses oil and white noodles, and the price is very expensive, costing a dime.

If there are some people who are willing to buy biscuits, there are even fewer people who buy grates. One is that the price is expensive, and the other is that this thing is not sincere, and it is not hungry at all for a dime, except that it tastes better. Not real either.

Doubao smelled the scent of oil in the air and swallowed: "Mom, it's delicious!"

"You know it's delicious even if you haven't eaten it yet?" Osmanthus smiled and flipped the bean bun in her arms, then turned her head to discuss with Mingdong: "I'm not too hungry just after breakfast, so I can just buy them a stove and eat them. ."

"Okay, let's buy two, one of them and one of us, let's have a taste." Ming Dong took out the cash coupons and food coupons from his pocket and handed them over: "'We want to fight privately to approve repairs', comrade, I want two grates." The person at the window took the money and food stamps, and after a while handed out two paper bags: "'Serve the people', please take it, comrade."

Ming Dong took the stove and looked around to find a place to shelter from the wind. The staff of the grain store greeted him quickly: "If you want to eat while it's hot, go to the empty room next to you, we don't sell grain today, and there's nothing in it. ." Ming Dong quickly thanked him, and took his wife and children to the empty room next door.

The stove was just fried, and it was still hot in his hand. Ming Dong handed it to Osmanthus, which he held to the mouth of the meat bun. After the meat bun took a bite, he handed it to the mouth of the bean bag. Ming Dong looked at it. Seeing that his wife's son's eyes were full of tenderness, he dragged the paper on the stove grate down in his hand and handed it to Osmanthus' mouth. Osmanthus took a bite and looked at Mingdong with a smile in his eyes: "It's really fragrant."

Meat Bun looked at Ming Dong and Osmanthus, and suddenly laughed: "Mom feeds my brother and I, Dad feeds Mom, it's really fun."

Osmanthus put the oil cake to the mouth of the meat bun, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Eat your stove, talk less."

*****

Mrs. Li thought that Ming Dong and Osmanthus were coming back soon. As early as two days ago, she set the kang and stove in the back room on fire. She guessed that Ming Dong and the others would not be able to carry the quilt back with their children, so they put the took out the clean quilt and put it on the kang early to cover it, and it was announced in two days.

Ming Dong and Osmanthus got off the train with their children carrying their packages. They had just walked in the direction of home for less than ten minutes when a cart came over. Ming Dong heard the sound of horseshoes and looked back, and saw that it was an old neighbor. Chen Tou hurriedly called out, "Old Uncle Chen, where did this go?"

Old Chen turned his head and saw Ming Dong quickly grabbing the reins: "Ming Dong, are you on vacation? Hurry up and get on the bus with your wife and children, and I will take you back."

Ming Dong agreed, and quickly helped Osmanthus on the carriage, and carried his two sons up. He took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and handed them two to Lao Chen.

Old Uncle Chen immediately took it with joy, one clipped to his ear and the other into his mouth. Ming Dong took out a box of foreign fire and helped Old Uncle Chen light a cigarette before getting on the carriage.

Old Chen's family and Old Li's family lived not far away, and they were both managed by the same street. While driving a carriage, he told Mingdong about his family: "Your family wrote a letter and explained to you that Nan is going to marry a daughter-in-law. Is it? I heard that it is the girl from the hydrolysis factory, she is very old."

Ming Dong smiled and nodded: "Ming Nan wrote a letter saying that the house at home has been built, and the wedding will be held when the furniture is ready next year, and then Uncle Chen can lead my brothers to the house. Have a wedding drink."

"That's necessary!" Old Uncle Chen said with a smile: "A few of your family grew up under my nose, and they are similar to our own children. Our whole family has designated them to go."

Ming Dong smiled and asked about the children of the old Chen family: "I heard that the second kid in your family graduated last year. Where does he work?"

"I haven't been recruited until graduation. Last month, the street assigned the boss to the business office, and the other boys went to the youth point." Old Uncle Chen said: "But it's not far, just in The production team at Sixth Camp can come back once a month." Uncle Chen took two puffs of cigarettes, blew a smoke ring and looked back at Ming Dong: "Your Mingbei also cut the line, but he didn't go to the grain depot. The young people who are here, follow the hydrolysis factory to carry wood and plant trees." Ming Dong didn't know about this, so he quickly asked a few more questions.

Chatting all the way, when Ming Dong got home, he knew almost everything about the family. Uncle Chen heard the carriage at the gate of Lao Li's house. Ming Dong helped the child and daughter-in-law down, and handed the root to Uncle Chen. Yan: "What, Uncle Chen, thank you, come to drink at home when you have time."

"Okay." Uncle Chen readily agreed, watching Ming Dong and the others enter the house, and then drove the cart home.

"Grandma, milk, and auntie, we're back." As soon as Osmanthus opened the door, Meat Bun and Bean Bun rushed in. The two ran in towards the kitchen, and towards Wang Sufen, a sturdy bun came. Embrace.

Wang Sufen looked at the two chubby grandsons lying in her arms, and she couldn't close her mouth: "Oh, the baby of milk is back." She put her arms around one and looked at Ming Dong and Osmanthus who came in behind, His face was full of joy: "Why don't you say it in advance, so that your father can borrow a big car to pull you."

Ming Dong laughed and called his mother, and then said, "I ran into my Uncle Chen as soon as I came out, and I'm not tired." Mrs. Li and Zhen Zhen also came out of the room when they heard the movement, two little buns. As soon as she saw Zhen Zhen, she immediately released Wang Sufen and rushed to Zhen Zhen's side: "Aunt, Aunt, I miss you so much."

They said they were aunts and nephews, but they were actually about two years old. After they greeted Mrs. Li, Zhen Zhen led them to take off their clothes and wash their hands, and then took out a packet of biscuits from her room. This is bought from the shopping mall in the imperial capital. It is added with milk powder and sugar, and it is fragrant and crispy after a bite.

The two little guys ate their mouths full of meat. While they were eating the meat buns, they didn't forget to stuff biscuits into everyone's hands on the kang. Mrs. Li couldn't help but smile and pinched the bulging cheeks of the meat buns: "Really Will take your aunt's things and be a good person."

Both sons and grandsons came back, and they had to cook a good meal in the evening. Wang Sufen went to the yard and brought back a piece of pork belly and a piece of venison. After entering the house, she asked Zhen Zhen, "How do we eat this meat at night?"

Zhen Zhen has a lot of ideas about eating meat, the key is that every time she comes up with it, it's delicious. If you follow her idea, cut it into slices and grill it for the best flavor, but the two little guys can easily hurt their food when they eat grilled meat. Zhen Zhen said: "How about we still eat it with braised food, put some potatoes, carrots, etc. in it, and eat it with rice."

Osmanthus hurriedly said from the kang, "I'm going to cook."

Wang Sufen glanced at her angrily: "Isn't it an outsider with your mother, you should take a good rest after taking the train for so long, I won't be tired of cooking a meal. Listen to your mother, sit on the kang and accompany your milk chatter, Talk about Anbei, she likes to hear that."

Osmanthus smiled: "Mom, if you're too busy, you have to call me."

"Okay, I know, don't worry." Wang Sufen responded and went out with two big pieces of meat.

When the four of them came back, the family immediately became lively. With a smile on her face, Mrs. Li put the melon seeds, oranges, and candy cubes in the box on a kang, if it wasn't for the two little buns thinking about the two in Wang Sufen's hand. A piece of meat, a small belly that is sure to be eaten.

In the evening, Mingnan came back from get off work and was overjoyed to see Mingdong's family. The brothers put the two kang tables together and helped Wang Sufen bring the prepared dishes to the table.

As soon as the meal was over, the kang table was filled with people in an instant. Mrs. Li, Li Muwu, Wang Sufen, Ming Dong, and Ming Nan all put wine cups in front of them, and each poured two taels of wine.

Lao Li's family didn't pay much attention to the meal. Osmanthus and the children were all served with white rice first. Ming Dong smelled the aroma of the rice and asked curiously, "Mother, why does our rice taste so good and the output is high, wait for me to leave. Can you bring me some seeds? I'll try it out in the school's experimental field next year, and see how the yield will be in the plains over there?"

Wang Sufen subconsciously glanced at Zhen Zhen, Zhen Zhen immediately smiled and said: "What is there to discuss about this kind of thing, this year my mother deliberately left some more seeds to open up a wasteland next year, I also said that this is too tiring, just happened to be eldest brother put the excess The seeds of the province are taken away from the wasteland of the province.”

"Yeah!" Wang Sufen also reacted: "Then take it, but I can't guarantee whether it will come out."

All the land at home was planted by Zhen Zhen using her supernatural powers, Wang Sufen was really worried that this kind of seed would not be able to grow in ordinary land. In fact, this worry is superfluous. After several years of supernatural power planting and saving seeds, this batch of rice seeds has long since evolved under the influence of supernormal power. Although the output of planting on flat ground may not be much, the taste is definitely the best. Okay, after all, Zhen Zhen's mouth has become more and more tricky.

Mingdong said with a smile, "It's okay, it's because of this that we need to plant experimental fields, and we need to study how to increase production."

Mrs. Li nodded: "Study carefully, if it can really increase production, it's a good thing, and I have to give you credit."

"It doesn't matter if you remember your merits or not, it's just my job." Ming Dong smiled and turned to talk about how to grow the crops grown at home so that they can grow better.

Returning from Anbei to Beicha, not only Mingdong and Guihua felt relaxed, but even the two children were happy. When he was in Anbei, Mingdong Guihua had to go to work during the day. One of the two children was in the Yuhong class and the other in the kindergarten, and they didn't go out to play at all. This time, after returning home, we can finally go out to the wild. The two children dragged Zhen Zhen to play on the big river early in the morning, built snowmen, played snowball fights and played sledges. The three of them were like growing up on ice, and they were away from home all day long.

Zhen Zhen has been traveling all over the country in the past two years. In addition to buying a lot of things, she also brought back a lot of treasures of ancient calligraphy and painting from various purchasing stations. The building was crowded. Busy with these things all day, Zhen Zhen's mind is all day long how to save more antiques and more ancient books of calligraphy and painting, sometimes at night when the body falls asleep, the consciousness also goes around to check, the nerves have been tense, and now he is relaxed. Playing on the ice with her two little nephews, Zhen Zhen suddenly felt a sense of release.

Seeing that the two little nephews were running away, Zhen Zhen lay down on the thick ice alone, leaning on her hands and squinting at the blue sky, exhaled heavily, and felt extremely comfortable all over her body.

The meat bun slipped and slipped over from a distance, threw a snowball at Zhen Zhen's face and turned around, Zhen Zhen laughed and wiped the snow off her face, climbed up from the ice, and formed a snow ball The ball was thrown at the meat bun, and it just hit the back of his head, and he laughed proudly.

It was crazy enough during the day, and at night the two boys didn't want to go to sleep in the back room. One hugged Mrs. Li and the other hugged Wang Sufen and had to sleep with them in the front room.

Mingdong couldn't wait to relax for a few days, and these two stinky boys knocked on the door before he woke up in the morning. Wang Sufen was also a visitor, and she was speechless when she saw the secret joy that could not be hidden on her son's face, so she could only give him a step down: "If you work outside all day, you can rest well this month. You don't have to worry about sleeping in the house, sleep more in the morning, and relax."

"Hey, okay." Ming Dong's mouth was almost behind his ears, he grabbed his daughter-in-law and went out. Wang Sufen looked at the back of the young couple, and suddenly remembered a big event: "Oh, I forgot to put toilet paper in the back room. Come on, Mingdong hurry up and get a roll."

Osmanthus staggered and nearly fell, and Mrs. Li burst into laughter.