There were no air conditioners in this era, and electric fans were all luxury goods. The way to cool off in summer was to spread mats on the ground.

Some of them also sleep directly on the mat at night.

The grounds of Zhang Yan’s family are all paved with gold bricks, which are cooler than other houses.

Seeing Zhang Yan coming in, Zhuangzhuang suddenly got up from the ground and ran towards Zhang Yan with her calf.

In the past two months, Zhang Yan no longer came back in the middle of the night and became much closer to his son.

Every time, when he comes back, his son will step on his calf and pounce on him.

Zhuangzhuang, who is less than two years old, is already over one meter tall, and walks very stably and can trot.

"dad!"

"Hey! Good son! Are you good at home today?" Zhang Yan bent down to catch his son and lifted him up.

"Gee!" Zhuangzhuang laughed happily.

Zhuangzhuang’s favorite thing is to lift it high.

Unfortunately, Zhuangzhuang is not only tall, but also weighs heavier than an average three-year-old child, and more than 30 pounds. Only Zhang Yan and Tong Mei can lift him up at home. It’s okay to hold Zhang Fusheng, but he can’t lift him up.

Now, Tong Mei has been pregnant for seven months, so naturally she can't hold her high.

Only Zhang Yan is left, so Zhuangzhuang is also particularly attached to Zhang Yan.

As soon as Zhang Yan came back, he asked him to hold him high.

It takes a while to play, and it will be over after being satisfied.

"Baby son, come and kiss one!"

"Bo!" Zhuangzhuang was not polite at all, and directly hugged Zhang Yan's neck and drank him a look of saliva.

Then, he giggled happily.

"Boy, I vomited my dad's saliva again!" Zhang Yan gently patted Zhuangzhuang's butt twice.

"Gao Gao!" Zhuangzhuang was not satisfied yet, and he twisted his body in Zhang Yan's arms.

"Okay, raise it high!" Zhang Yan smiled and raised his hero again, holding him around the house for a while.

Zhuangzhuang was not afraid at all, and was excitedly clapping his hands in the air and giggling.

After Zhuangzhuang finished his time, Zhang Yan held Zhuangzhuang and sat down on the chair.

"Today, the old Li family and the Zhou family in the yard are looking for me, and I want to buy pumpkins."

"I came back just now, and someone came to me and said I wanted to buy some pumpkin, but I refused!"

"I refused too! However, I gave them half a pumpkin to their family and said there were not many pumpkins at home!

Thanks to our father giving pumpkins to the second and third families a lot, otherwise it would be really hard to talk to!"

"Then there is anything that is hard to talk about. I will tell them directly that they dare not sell it. If they sell it, they will make a mistake! I told them that they want to buy it and go to Zhangjiayu to buy it!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.

He is worthy of being a husband and wife, and his attitude and method of dealing with the world are similar.

"Can they be willing to buy it?"

"Why don't you want to bear it? How much does a pound of pumpkin cost? How much does it cost to travel around the clock?

If you go and buy 100 kilograms of pumpkin, you can support dozens of kilograms of grain." Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"That's the same! But if the family is really short of food, it must be a reason to buy it! Buying pumpkins is different from buying food, so you don't have to hide it." Tong Mei nodded with a smile.

Pumpkins are vegetables and are grown in rural private fields and are not violated.

If you go back to the countryside, bring a hundred kilograms of pumpkin and eat it yourself, you don’t have to worry about being reported, it will only be envied.

"But they want to buy it, so they have to get it faster!

You may not be able to buy it if you are late.”

"What's wrong?"

"Our hospital will go to a truck tomorrow. I will buy a truck and come back first to see if there are more. If there are more, I will go to a few more cars the day after tomorrow.

Now, hospitals and factories are short of food!

Pumpkin is a good thing to replace food." Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"You said this and reminded me. Tomorrow, I will tell Sister Zhou and ask the street to get out of the car to pull a truck of pumpkins back. Sister Zhou has helped us a lot." Zhang Yan reminded Tong Mei and followed him.

He spoke.

Director Zhou is Tong Mei’s leader, and Director Zhou introduced Tong Mei to join the organization.

Zhang Fusheng, Zhang's mother, and two sisters all moved to the city quietly, which was done by Director Zhou.

Two days ago, Tong Mei specially sent a few big pumpkins to Director Zhou's house.

"Yes! Just follow the arrangements yourself!" Zhang Yan nodded.

Zhang Yan usually doesn’t care about family affairs, and Tong Mei is the one who is in charge of the family.

However, after Zhang Yan came back, Tong Mei would say it to him.

Zhang Yan is not annoyed when he hears it, this is life.

"It's time to eat!" Zhang's mother came in and called for dinner.

I still ate pumpkin at night, and the vegetables were stewed with pumpkin. A big pumpkin of about ten pounds was stewed with a chicken. It was enough for twelve people in the family.

Then there is the pumpkin pie.

This pumpkin pie is not the kind of snack made of pumpkin powder and glutinous rice flour and other ingredients.

But it is similar to the one in the leek box.

Cut the pumpkin into shreds and mix it with filling, then bread it and put it in a pot to steam it.

Because it is flat, it is called pumpkin pie.

Of course, you can also make round ones, that is steamed pumpkin buns.

"Mom, this pumpkin is OK every now and then, I can't eat it every day!

Eating too much will make you feel angry!" Zhang Yan looked at the pumpkin feast on the table and reminded with a wry smile.

"I see that there are so many pumpkins in my house, I'm afraid they will break if they don't eat them!"

"It's no problem to keep the pumpkin for a month. If you are afraid of breaking, cut it into slices, dry it, and then grind it into pumpkin powder after drying it." Zhang Yan gave Zhang's mother an idea.

"Pumpkin powder? Can pumpkin be ground into pumpkin powder?"

"Of course it can be ground into powder. Pumpkins, like sweet potatoes, can be ground into powder.

After grinding it into powder, mix it with flour, sorghum noodles and corn flour with steamed buns and steamed buns!”

"Okay, then I'll try it tomorrow. If it's OK, I'll buy some from the village later.

Anyway, I have nothing to do at home. I can grind it into powder to save a lot of food." Zhang's mother said happily when she heard that pumpkin powder could still steam buns.

Then he said with some regret: "It would be great if we were in our hometown. We can grow a lot of pumpkins in our two acres of private land, so we don't have to spend money to buy it."

"Mom, don't think about your two acres of private land. After planting it for so many years, you haven't planted enough yet?"

"Aren't we ordinary people just farming? Is this enough? When I grind out the pumpkin powder you mentioned, I will ask your dad to go home and buy two more cars of pumpkins back."

"Don't worry, just make it slowly! Pumpkins in summer are not the best. When the pumpkins come down in autumn, they will be delicious and have a high sugar content."

"When autumn comes, how can I still have time to do this? Meimei will give birth to three children. Meimei is going to work, so how can my father and I have no time to do it?"

After Zhang’s mother said this, Zhang Yan remembered that when Tong Mei was in autumn, she should have her own second and third brother.

If three fat boys were left to the future, they would be able to die of worry.

However, in this era, it is definitely a proud thing to have three fat boys in a row.
Chapter completed!