Chapter 114

There are many children at home, and it is lively. In winter, it is too cold to go out. After the lunch break, the cubs all sit on the bamboo mat and play checkers, and the little bean bag will also play if they watch too much. Play, Xiaoroubao, the troublemaker who is interested in everything, will roll over from time to time and stretch out his fleshy little meaty hands to make trouble.

When his brothers found him, they carried him to the farthest corner. After a while, they rolled over again, and he was carried back by his brother. He rolled back and made trouble again. don’t know how many times repeated it. Too much exercise makes me hungry. Not long after drinking milk, started crying again for rice cereal.

Liang Hongmei, who was in charge of feeding him the rice cereal, was gasp in amazement. He was sitting there with a sturdy and sturdy little dumpling. He had never seen such an easy-going dumpling. This little dumpling is just over five months old, and the younger sister, Siswenwen, grows a little slower, but she doesn't cry or make trouble. Once again, she sighs how lucky her sister-in-law is.

Su Xiaoxiao actually wanted to take Liang Hongmei around the town, but it was too cold.

In the afternoon, Lao Hu brought mutton over, and Liang Hongmei also secretly amazed: "The staff of your meat factory are all so friendly? Do you even deliver it to your door?"

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, "No, I taught Lao Hu's son as a substitute for a period of time before, and the rice ball pillar has a good relationship with his son. When Hancheng goes to the capital on business, I can't be too busy, Lao Hu kindly left it for me. Meat, sometimes the rice balls told his son what to eat a day early, and Lao Hu brought it to me on the way home after get off work. Over time, it became a habit, and since I was pregnant, I kept all the good things for me. "

Liang Hongmei understood: "You guys are really nice, there's still chaos outside, I don't know if it's my illusion this year, I always feel a little calmer since this year, and won't arrest people like before, and people who sell things in the black market will also gradually increased."

Since Su Zhenzhong began to take control of the family's economic power, Hongmei's mother has also come to make trouble a few times, anyway, she has already torn her face. Su Zhenzhong has not taken enough things from our house for so many years? In this world, there is no reason for a son-in-law to help a mother-in-law raise two sons. I also have seniors and juniors. If you continue to make trouble like this, I can only go to the Hongwei Hongguo unit and ask them if they can't support your mother. , I need to come to my poor son-in-law every three to five to fight the autumn wind.

Everyone also knows who the Hongmeiniang family is. This word spread to the ears of Liang Hongmei's elder brother Liang Hongwei and younger brother Liang Hongdang. They knew that they had met Su Zhenzhong's bottom line, and they were worried that Su Zhenzhong would really go to their unit to make trouble. In the past, encouraged Hongmei Niang to come to the door to fight the autumn wind, and the days finally calmed down.

Su Zhenzhong's family's food has gradually improved, and he will save some money. He cuts meat at least two or three times a month and returns to Sujia Village to honor his parents. Liang Hongmei is a generous person. As life becomes more comfortable, Su Zhenzhong is right. She is also getting better and better. It seems that she has returned to her high school days, but she has an extra Big Bao. Big Bao is not as timid as before, and she is much more lively and cheerful. She really regrets not letting Su Zhenzhong take charge earlier. She had really been blinded by eating lard before, and she never wanted to live a ghost life like a ghost hitting a wall with no end in sight.

Su Xiaoxiao knew that it wasn't Liang Hongmei's illusion. In another year or two, there would only be more and more people who were rehabilitated and returned to the city and who sold things on the black market. The educated youth would also return to the city one after another before and after the college entrance examination, announcing the end of this special period.

Naturally, Su Xiaoxiao couldn't tell Liang Hongmei these words, but she remembered and asked her, "What happened to the intellectuals who live in our backyard in Sujia Village?"

Liang Hongmei said: "I still look the same, I don't interact with the people in the brigade very much, and I don't know our family very well. You have to ask Big Bao Little Bao for details. They always love to run to their house, Big Bao Bao When I go back to Sujia Village every week, Little Bao loves to take him to their house. At first I was worried that I would cause trouble. Later, I saw that they just went to read and write. Kochi is Kochi, and they are really amazing. Not to mention, this little fellow is smart, Big Bao understands more and more things, and writes better and better, and he doesn't have any small tricks, so I don't care.

Parents are still very kind to them. They don’t know how to grow vegetables or miscellaneous grains. Mom always sends them to their house. When they send something to the team during festivals, Dad never forgets their share. Dad and Mom always respect intellectuals. , should also have the meaning of thanking them for teaching the big treasure and the little treasure. You ask this question, isn't there any problem with them? "

Su Xiaoxiao shook his head: "No, no, they are fine."

This situation is similar to what Su Xiaoxiao imagined. As long as they spend this year or two safely, they can go back to school to continue teaching and educating people, and then enjoy their old age.

In the evening, we eat stewed mutton in a pot. Southerners like stewed mutton with fresh ingredients such as carrots, sweet bamboo and water chestnut. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find all these things these days. Su Xiaoxiao does not insist on it. Add ginger slices to remove the odor, pick up some red dates and longan that are available at home, add a piece of peel, put it down and simmer it slowly, it is very fragrant.

When the stew was almost done, went to the vegetable garden to pull out the carrots and let them simmer for another half an hour. The soup was really sweet.

Hancheng came back on time in the afternoon. When he walked into the yard, he could smell the strong aroma of the food. There was laughter and laughter from the children, and he could vaguely hear the voice of Little Bao.

Hancheng walked into the kitchen and saw Su Xiaoxiao and Liang Hongmei busy: "Sister-in-law."

"My uncle came back just in time, it's almost time to start dinner." Liang Hongmei looked at the uncle who had a dignified appearance like a young poplar and began to feel the strength of his genes. The aunt and uncle looked outstanding, and all the children in the family were outstanding.

Hancheng: "Is this pot over? I'll come."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "You better go and see the children first, you are carrying such a hot pot, it would be a big deal if Dabao and Xiaobao accidentally bumped into you."

Hancheng thought about it too, turned around and went to the back room first.

"My uncle looks like someone who helps you with your work every day." Liang Hongmei said.

Su Xiaoxiao: "The family belongs to everyone, so who can help? My brother works every day at home?"

Liang Hongmei smiled and said, "Our parents are diligent, and the children they teach are also diligent."

Liang Hongmei's older brother and younger brother do not work. Before marriage, she worked alone. When she arrived at the old Su family, she basically worked together. She remembered that Su Zhenzhong had lingering fears when she almost divorced her because of the trouble with her family. When she returned to the age of 18, she would not be able to marry a good family like the old Su family, and she secretly reminded herself not to be confused in the future.

The person that Dabao and Xiaobao admire most is the tall uncle in military uniform. As Su Xiaoxiao expected, the two little fellows messed up Hancheng's chessboard and rushed over to hug the uncle's thigh.

Hancheng bent over and hugged one in each hand. The seven- or eight-year-old boy was sturdy, and if it wasn't for Hancheng's strength, he would not have been able to hold it.

Hancheng weighed: "It's all heavier and taller."

Dabao and Xiaobao held their uncle's neck: "uncle and uncle, we all miss you so much."

Hancheng put down the two boys and rubbed a small head with one hand: "Then stay longer and come over to help serve the meal."

Hancheng went to the kitchen to serve the mutton pot, and the three big cubs followed Hancheng's ass with two bowls each.

The shallow-mouthed clay pot was rumbling on the charcoal stove, the whole house was filled with the aroma of mutton, and the cubs were drooling.

Su Xiaoxiao sprinkled some celery leaves into it, and one person first drank half a bowl of mutton soup to warm up his body, and then put some soaked yuba in it, covered it with a lid and simmered for a while.

The steaming, fresh and sweet milky white soup whets the appetite of the whole family.

Su Xiaoxiao took a small half bowl and went to clean the oil star's mutton soup with only a little salt and let it dry. When it was cool enough to eat, she gave Xiaoroubao a drink. My sister's stomach is weaker, so won't eat these things for the time being.

The dipping sauce for the southern mutton pot is the simplest fermented bean curd with some coriander, chopped green onion and white sugar. A little dipping can bring out the umami of the mutton.

Su Xiaoxiao asked Liang Hongmei to wash some fresh vegetables and put them on the side, ready to eat them at the end.

The four cubs lined up with their own bowls to go to the kitchen to fill the miscellaneous grains, and when they finished filling their own bowls, they helped the adults fill it up.

Hancheng got up and removed the lid of the pot, and when he sat down, Su Xiaoxiao announced, "The first mutton pot in winter, let's start it!"

The cubs were already drooling, they picked up fat and thin lamb chops with skin and bones, dipped them in a little fermented bean curd sauce, and sent them to their mouths.

The cubs were all moved to tears.

Rice ball: "Mom, this is too delicious, I really want to eat mutton pot every day!"

Dabao and Xiaobao looked at each other: "Auntie is really good at cooking!"

Xiaodoubao has now taken over the position of his brother. He said, "I announce that the mutton made by Ma Ma is the first in the world to be delicious~~~"

Liang Hongmei admired her sister-in-law's craftsmanship so much that she prostrate oneself in admiration, and it was so delicious that she was speechless.

Xiaoroubao's fully satisfied desires tasted the first mutton soup in his life, which opened the door to a new world of his taste buds. After that, he will have to be temperamental for a while. He is sure that he is willing to eat rice glutinous rice without mutton soup. He must be a very clever little fellow when he grows up.

Early the next morning, before Hancheng went to work, Su Xiaoxiao took Liang Hongmei to the market and to the black market under the bridge to buy everything, and then took her to the deaf and dumb weaving workshop to buy a piece of cloth. cotton.

This trip to Liang Hongmei simply expanded my horizon.

"I said that you don't lack everything. It turns out that the material is so abundant that you really want to buy whatever you want."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "This year, the regulations are a little looser, but last year they were still very strict."

Like the Su family commune, the black market sells many more varieties than before, and there are many more chickens and ducks that have been killed. These days, the cowardly starved to death, and the cowardly, Su Xiaoxiao suspected that someone Only private poultry farms will have so many chickens and ducks for sale, and ordinary families can't raise so many.

Liang Hongmei put forward a bold assumption: "Little aunt, do you think that if this continues, you won't be able to buy tickets at that time?"

Su Xiaoxiao thought that the market economy would indeed be slowly restored in a few years. Not only did you not need tickets to buy things, but the economy began to take off after the reform and opening up. Road, very proud.

Of course, Su Xiaoxiao couldn't say anything, he just said vaguely: "The days will definitely get better and better. In short, let the children in the family study hard, and when the college entrance examination resumes in the future, they will all go to college and contribute to the construction of the motherland."

Both my sister-in-law and my uncle are well-informed. They both pay so much attention to their children's studies, but whether they can go to university is always right. Liang Hongmei nodded: "Okay, I will definitely urge the children to study hard."

Liang Hongmei left the train early the next morning. In addition to some food, Su Xiaoxiao asked her to take the cloth back, and asked her and the second sister-in-law to make new clothes. My sister-in-law didn't wear any new clothes.

Liang Hongmei touched the good cotton cloth, and wanted to find all the good aunt in the whole commune.

Several big cubs sent Liang Hongmei to the train station, and Dabao Xiaobao stayed for the New Year.

Dabao and Xiaobao have a strong ability to take care of themselves, and they help with everything at home. With these two good helpers, sweeping the floor, sweeping the chicken coop, feeding the chicken, cooking the vegetables and burning the fire are nothing difficult, except for the small glutinous rice ball. need to find Su Xiaoxiao to drink milk, other diaper changing, diaper washing, feeding milk and rice paste, etc. are all taken care of by a few older brothers.

Otherwise, people always say that a child is the most difficult thing to take care of. If the children in the family are sensible, the big and small play together, and the big ones take care of the young ones. Su Xiaoxiao is not only buying more vegetables, adding more white rice and grains when cooking, and other things She doesn't need to worry about it, she can spare half a day to read books, which is really worry-free these days.