In addition to chicken cakes, Xu Yin also brought out some sorghum jelly and lard sugar, and wrapped them separately in old-fashioned oil paper.
I plan to go to the agricultural machinery factory in the town to visit my little sister who is staying at my uncle's house and doesn't know if she is crying, and then I will drop by my eldest sister's house on the way.
The tractor master was quite on time. Not long after she arrived at the intersection, the tractor also arrived.
Xu Yin jumped on the tractor and gave the master a few lard candies to thank him for the ride.
When we arrived at the agricultural machinery factory, it was about nine o'clock, thinking it was not a day off, Xu Lan was in school.
Xu Yin thought for a while and went directly to the primary school for workers' children of the agricultural machinery factory.
It's so easy to find children in schools these days, no one can stop you.
To be precise, there is no guard, and the school does not even have a courtyard wall, it is open.
Xu Yin found the third-grade classroom and took a look.
Xu Lan, who was listening to the teacher's lecture, glanced at Xu Yin at the door, raised her hand and reported: "Teacher, my sister is looking for me."
"Go for it!"
Xu Lan ran out happily.
"Second sister, why are you here?"
"Let me see you." See if you have lost weight due to hunger at your uncle's house.
Xu Yin led her to the tree next to the playground.
"Second sister, you are right." Xu Lan wrinkled her nose and complained, "The food at my uncle's house is really not enough! Taotao and I haven't eaten enough for several days, and we are even hungrier than when we were at home. My family
There is a shortage of food, but the eldest uncle’s family obviously has food. Several times I saw the aunt’s wife secretly hiding the food, and when the eldest cousin came back, she would take the food to the eldest cousin’s room to eat.”
Xu Yin touched her little sister's head: "Then do you want to go home?"
"No! That's what uncle owes dad. If I go home to live, won't my dad suffer a loss?"
"..."
You're a kid, why are you worrying so much?
"By the way, second sister, the eldest cousin went on a blind date a few days ago. Maybe we will have a cousin-in-law soon. Can we have a full meal on the day when the eldest cousin gets married?"
Xu Yin raised her eyebrows when she heard this.
She did not interfere with the plot. In the original book, the heroine decided to get married on the first blind date? So smoothly? Doesn’t that mean that the plot has turned a corner?
"Just take care of yourself." Xu Yin was worried that her younger sister was getting involved, so she warned her.
Then he took out the cakes and candies he brought and said, "Well, the second sister is true to her word. I will bring you delicious food after receiving the money."
The expression on Xu Lan's face when she saw the chicken cake was very similar to the look on Xu and his wife's face when they saw the delicious food.
Sure enough, we are not a family, we cannot enter the same family!
"Second sister, is this really for me?"
"Yeah, you don't want it?"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Xu Lan took it, held it in her arms, closed her eyes and smelled the cake scent in the air.
"Yes! It just tastes like this! It's fragrant and sweet! I've only seen Taotao eat chicken cake before! Second sister, you are so kind to me... Wow! There are also sorghum glutinous rice and lard candy! Ah! I am so happy!
I fainted! What should I do? Second sister, if I faint, you must catch me and never let them fall to the ground..."
Xu Yin: "..."
I think you should stop studying and go straight to acting, you little drama queen!
"Second sister has sewed a schoolbag for you. You can put it in your schoolbag."
Xu Yin took out a shoulder bag made of military green cheesecloth, with a bright red five-pointed star embroidered on the front.
The fabric of the schoolbag was not new, and she couldn't remember when she had stocked it. Anyway, she had this piece of material and made a schoolbag for her little sister.
Xu Lan was very happy: "Second sister! When will you know how to make a schoolbag? It's so beautiful! I like it so much!"
"As long as you like it, put the things in and go to class as soon as possible. I'll give the credit points to Taotao to eat, but you have to hide them well so that others don't find out."
"Yeah, yeah." Xu Lan nodded, "I know, I will hide it well and never let anyone discover it."
"Okay! Second sister will come see you next time."
Before leaving, Xu Yin gave the little girl a dime: "If you are really hungry, just buy something to eat."
According to her, it is better to go home. A home of gold and silver is not as good as a home of grass.
But this little girl insisted that going home would be a disadvantage. She would not let her family suffer, so she insisted on living in her uncle's house until she came of age.
Xu Yin had nothing to do with her, so she could only find time to visit her more often and feed her some food.
After coming out of the agricultural machinery factory, Xu Yin still came to the place where she waited for the bus in the morning, hoping to catch a ride back.
It happened that an ox cart passed by, and the old man driving the ox cart took the initiative to ask: "Little girl, are you going to which village next?"
"Yes, sir, can you give me a ride?"
"Convenient! Why is this inconvenient?"
The old man stopped and asked Xu Yin to get on the bullock cart.
When he learned that she was going to Shuangqiao Brigade, he said cheerfully: "My daughter got married in Shuangqiao. I know that road very well. I will take you directly to the entrance of the village in a while."
"Thank you, uncle!"
The master is the leader of the bullock cart, he is steady and does not falter.
But there was still a way to go. When she got off the oxcart at the entrance of Shuangqiao Brigade, Xu Yin looked at the time. It was almost ten o'clock. She had to give her things to the elder sister quickly and hurry up to go home.
Otherwise, when the cheap parents come home from work and see that the stove is still cold, there may be a strike in the afternoon.
"Uncle, thank you. I fry these melon seeds myself. You can pass the time on the way."
As usual, Xu Yin gave someone a handful of fried melon seeds.
Unexpectedly, in the 1970s, melon seeds became hard currency.
As the name suggests, Shuangqiao Brigade has two bridges, one is a flat bridge and the other is an arch bridge.
Xu Sang married into a family named Zhou at the foot of Pingqiao.
The Zhou family has four sons and three daughters, and is considered a large labor force in the local area.
Xu Sang married her youngest son Zhou Yongjun.
But unlike the old Xu family, the youngest son of this family is the least favored among the four sons.
Because when she was giving birth to him, Zhou's mother fell down and almost had a dystocia. Two years later, she got seriously ill again, and it was very difficult.
The superstitious mother Zhou thought that her youngest son was beating her, so she disliked her son from childhood to adulthood.
It can be said that Zhou Yongjun was raised by his grandparents.
The marriage to Xu Sang was a matchmaker entrusted by Grandma Zhou; the couple's wedding room was arranged by Grandma Zhou in an old house and arranged by Zhou Yongjun's eldest sister and second sister; the bride price was arranged by Grandpa Zhou from the coffin book.
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother have nothing to do with each other.
Not only did it not matter, Zhou's mother also converted all the work points earned by her younger son before marriage into cash during last year's autumn harvest and took them home, leaving not a penny for her son.
After that, Zhou Yongjun positioned himself as a little cabbage without a father or a mother. Except for his grandparents and two married sisters, he owed no one to anyone else.
The food for the wedding day, including the firewood, rice, oil, and salt for living after the marriage, were all collected by him from his close friends in the same village, and he agreed to pay them back this year's new crop.
After Xu Sang got married, the couple lived their own lives behind closed doors. They were a little poor, but their relationship was very good.
Of course, it was also because Xu Sang was willing to endure hardships. If it were someone else, he might have run back to his parents' home.