After finishing their late breakfast, the family of three went about their business.
Xu Yin went to the new house and took a look. The walls were generally clean. Only the wall on the left hand side of the entrance was stained and greasy. It is estimated that the Lu Gong couple used to cook in this location.
Xu Yin rummaged through the system warehouse and found a volume of glossy magazines that fit the era. She specially selected the ones that didn't have a year calendar and posted them on the wall. After moving back, she put the washstand here.
The floor is made of cement. I brushed it with a strong detergent, rinsed it, and left it to dry with the door open.
She then cleaned the windows, wiped the door, and changed the door locks.
Remove the curtains and door curtains, rub and soak them with disinfectant laundry detergent, scrub them clean after a quarter of an hour and hang them in the patio.
After finishing all this work, the ground was completely dry. She went home to see how the couple was cleaning up.
"We've almost finished tidying up. Your dad and I discussed that since we have two rooms in our house, you don't need to move down. Anyway, you have to choose the other room upstairs. The south-facing balcony room is freed up. You
Just move in and save on moving up and down." Ma Chunfang gestured to the position of the bed, "After our big bed is moved, you move the small bed next to the window and leave the writing desk for you. Next time you
My brother is here, you two brothers are discussing who will sleep in the inner room and who will sleep in the outer room."
Xu Yin nodded. She originally meant the same thing. There were two rooms anyway, so why move them all to the first floor. Now that her parents had already thought of it, it saved her the trouble.
"Okay, let's move now. It will save us trouble if we finish the move early." Ma Chunfang said.
She was still thinking about setting up the stall in the evening. The dough hadn't been kneaded yet, the fillings hadn't been mixed yet, so she felt a little anxious.
Fortunately, there was not much furniture that needed to be moved. In addition to the big bed where the couple slept, there was only a washstand, a chest of drawers, two red lacquered suitcases with clothes and quilts, a square table, two stools, and two chairs.
A suitcase was left for Xu Yin, and all the clothes from all seasons were stuffed in it.
I don’t plan to move the sewing machine. Moving it will take up space. It’s better to leave it here and use it when there is need for sewing or mending.
Among these things, the chest of drawers is the most difficult to move. Because it is not like a bed - it can be disassembled and carried separately; nor is it like a washstand or dining table - it is small.
Even if you take out the cabinet doors and everything in the drawers and move them separately, the large chest of drawers, which is as tall as a person, is still made of pure solid wood and is really heavy.
Xu Wuyi couldn't handle it alone. Ma Chunfang said after a while that he couldn't do it anymore. His hands were too slippery and he couldn't lift it anymore.
"If I had known that moving would be so troublesome, I would have chosen a smaller size when I got married. In order to make it larger, I spent dozens of yuan more."
Xu Yin: "..."
Stepping forward and taking over her mother's position: "Dad, you and I will carry it."
I saw her carrying the other end easily and taking away most of the weight.
The couple was stunned:
"Good boy! My dear, I didn't expect you to be so strong?"
"It seems like people are right when they call you a tomboy."
"..."
The family traveled up and down two or three times before finally moving their home.
Ma Chunfang collapsed on the chair tiredly: "Oh, I'm so exhausted! If I had known that moving would be so tiring, why would I have chosen the house upstairs?"
Xu Yin: How can you know so much in life in advance?
Xu Wuyi pressed his wife's shoulders diligently: "Have you enjoyed climbing the stairs today?"
Ma Chunfang waved her hands feebly: "It's more than enjoyable, I never want to climb stairs again in my life."
Xu Yinxin said that is not necessarily the case. After demolition in a few years, the resettlement houses will still be low-rise commercial buildings with five or six floors without elevators. Unless all six resettlement houses are sold and replaced with villas or courtyards.
However, based on her understanding of Ms. Ma Chunfang, she was afraid that she would not be willing to change it. It was indeed enjoyable, but she would not be able to earn rent.
Ma Chunfang didn't rest for a while, and stood up like a carp: "Don't be idle, start working quickly! Otherwise, it will be too late to get out of the stall."
Xu Yin and her father looked at each other. Compared with Ms. Ma, they looked like a pair of salted fish.
But soon, her father enthusiastically responded to his wife's call: "Start working! Try to earn another thirty yuan from the late stall!"
Xu Yin: "..."
Well, she is the most salty person in this family.
The couple is responsible for kneading the dough, and Xu Yin is responsible for adjusting the fillings.
Ma Chunfang has already prepared the fillings for the Xiankou Shaobing, but she is not sure whether the Xiankou Shaobing is delicious and whether anyone will buy it. I feel very unsure.
Xu Yin said: "It's not up to us to decide whether it tastes good or not. It depends on the customer's taste. Anyway, there is not much meat filling left. When rolling out the dough like green onion, pepper and salt, it is sprinkled into the layers of puff pastry. It is not made into brown sugar or peanut butter.
With such a hearty stuffing, I can only make a dozen sesame seed pancakes at most, but no one buys them, so I give a few to the neighbors as a favor. I just moved here, so I just took this opportunity to get familiar with each other. By the way, I also promised Xiao
Why gave him two sesame seed cakes to try? He found the small blackboard for me."
Ma Chunfang couldn't help but feel heartbroken when she heard this. It was stuffed with meat. She used to be reluctant to eat it herself, but now she uses it to get rid of favors.
But Xiao He, the factory manager, really wants to flatter me and is waiting to move to a south-facing balcony room.
"When it's baked, you can send it to him."
"good."
The sun is setting in the west, and it’s time for every factory to get off work.
Pingcheng is a typical heavy industrial city, especially the northern area of the city where the iron ore factory is located. Almost all of them are heavy industrial factories, such as steel factories, coal factories, machinery factories, hardware factories...
It can be said that the buildings on both sides of the road, apart from factories, are staff buildings and staff living areas.
Pedestrians coming and going on the street, any one you catch is an employee of the above-mentioned factories, and there are countless dual-income families.
Both husband and wife are employees, and they get off work at about the same time. They are in a hurry to buy groceries, cook, and pick up the children, so sometimes they are too lazy to cook, so they just bring some steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. back home, and it is a makeshift meal.
As soon as they left the factory that day, the employees of the machinery factory smelled the fragrant smell of scones.
"Oh! What's so fragrant!"
“Roasted sweet potatoes?”
“Not like roasted sweet potatoes.”
"I know, it's sesame biscuits! In the morning, there was a family of three selling sesame biscuits at the intersection in front. They are freshly baked and have a lot of taste. However, I was afraid of being late, so I didn't go close to take a look."
"I went to buy them. They taste really good! I've never had such delicious sesame cakes. Are they available at night? Then I'll take two back for dinner."
The sesame biscuits sold by the Xu family are quite big, with several layers of pastry layer stacked on top of each other. Two of them can make a full meal.
Hearing what he said, other employees also became interested:
"Then I'll take one back to comfort the child."
"Is it really that delicious?"
"It's really delicious! I won't lie to you! I bought a brown sugar one and a peanut butter one this morning, and they taste amazing!"
"Let's go! I'll buy one too!"
Hula——
A group of machine workers who were off work soon gathered in front of Xu's cake stall.
"Boss, when will the brown sugar sesame biscuits be ready?"
"Boss, I want one with peanut butter and one with sesame and white sugar."
"boss,……"
Someone looked at the small blackboard and said, "Hey! There are also scallion oil and meat pancakes? Fifty cents each? This is good! I want two meat pancakes."
Ma Chunfang became more energetic after hearing this: "It's meat, right? Okay, okay. Lao Xu, grill a meat!"
"The meat biscuits and peanut butter are the same price? Then I'll try the meat ones too."
"I have one with meat and one with brown sugar."
The couple kept working on their hands, grinning from ear to ear - this business can be done!