It's snowing heavily and the new year is coming to an end.
Tongtong rubbed his hands and looked at the sky outside. If he didn't come back, the road would be difficult to walk: the snow would be heavy.
It was windy and snowy, and the village became increasingly quiet. The house was originally quite lively, but after the partition walls were built, the house became an independent courtyard. Originally, my parents-in-law were supposed to come with them, but they had to live here.
The new house was damp, so she might as well forget it for now and wait until the house was completely dry before moving in the summer. Living in the back was too far from the door, and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to hear the fourth master's knock on the door.
She was worried and walked out along the eaves without stepping on the snow all the way. When she reached the front hall, she opened the door. Good guy, this wild wind blew people through. There was a thin layer of snow at the door.
Damin or Sanling swept the snow every once in a while, but not much fell. The whole alley was covered with people coming out to sweep it from time to time.
"Where are Xiaotong and the fourth child?" The woman who spoke to him was the woman across the door. She was not much older than Tongtong. She was also a newly married couple who had moved out. Speaking of which, they were of the same race. The man's surname was Jin, and his name was Jin Suo, his wife.
She didn't know her name, Lin Yutong. She only knew that her elders called her Taozi. She just opened the door and came out, and asked after seeing Tong pass.
Lin Yutong replied to her, "I'm afraid I won't hear the knock on the door, so come out and take a look! I'm riding a bike out, and the road is slippery, so I'm afraid I'll fall somewhere! Look at the day, it's dark, I think it's going to rain..."
Sister-in-law Tao shrank her neck, kicked her hands into her sleeves, looked up, and quickly locked her neck, "I don't think it's going to be good either. It's going to rain now. I don't know if this thatched cottage is safe or not." She said,
He stretched out his cold and blue hands, revealing his thin wrists, then quickly retracted them: "This thatched cottage is built with rafters and purlins as thick as my wrists!"
It means that my parents-in-law could not afford to build a house, so they randomly gathered a pile of firewood and sticks to build a nest, and the people who lived there were frightened.
If she said this, Lin Yutong still felt a little confused: "If it doesn't work, call someone quickly to knock the snow off the roof." Sister-in-law Tao was so frightened that she shouted all over the alley: "Golden Lock! Golden Lock! Run away."
Where did it go?"
Just as he was shouting, the Fourth Master came over from the other side of the alley on a bicycle, carrying a bag of something on the back of the bicycle, and there was snow on his head and shoulders.
When we didn't reach the doorstep of our house, the snow became heavy, and it was so dense that we couldn't see far.
As soon as he arrived at the door of the house, the fourth master got out of the car and quickly pointed in, "What are you doing out here? It's so cold."
Isn’t that just freezing to death?
The fourth master pushed the car in. It was a little difficult to cross the threshold with a bag of things behind it. Tongtong helped him lift it, and then he went in. After closing the door, the wind subsided, and he quickly helped the fourth master to remove the snow from his body.
Dust.
Fourth Master carried a bag of things directly to the room. The room was warm and he felt excited as soon as he entered.
The fourth master took off his coat and warmed the fire, while Tongtong untied the bag. There was a small bag inside the big bag, which was full of chestnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts. He took out the small bag, and there were dried shrimps, dried squid, and small shrimps underneath.
Tongtong smiled and looked at Fourth Master: "Where did you get it?" This thing is not easy to get.
Fourth Master scratched her nose, "I think you want to eat these."
I really want to eat that!
Due to my health, I can't eat anything too spicy. In fact, I have always wanted to eat chili peppers, but I only eat mildly spicy things occasionally, but I can't get enough of it.
I haven’t eaten potatoes, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes for a long time. I’ve been obsessed with eating them for the past six months. I want to ask what else I want to eat, and then there’s seafood. But nowadays, it’s still hard to eat fresh seafood in the north, and it’s hard to find dry food.
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Unexpectedly, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and Fourth Master has brought back all the specialties from the Northeast and dry goods from the coast.
Just as I was packing my things, there was a banging sound on the door. It was Sister-in-law Tao who was opposite the door, "Fourth, please help me..."
Ouch! I'm afraid the house can't hold on anymore.
The fourth master grabbed his coat and walked out, saying to Tongtong: "Don't come out! I don't need you."
Tongtong still looked out at the door of the room. Hearing the voices of so many men in the alley, he knew there was no shortage of people.
She was packing up what she needed to do at home, and thought about what to do. After thinking about it, the Chinese New Year was almost here, and the Fourth Master didn’t have any candy yet. Then she might as well make some candies for the Fourth Master. The current candy cubes were not what the Fourth Master liked.
For food, get some peanuts, melon seeds, and pine nuts to make pralines.
I definitely won't be able to cook it today. I have to wait until tomorrow to get some food and wait for Fourth Master to come back.
According to the local custom, this meal is usually skipped in the evening. If you are hungry, you will bake steamed buns and roasted sweet potatoes on the stove to make ends meet. You will not cook seriously anymore. Therefore, Yang Shuhui will not come over to cook.
But Tongtong and Fourth Master were still used to eating at night, and now that there was a stove, Tongtong stewed bone soup, made wontons, and waited for Fourth Master to come back before cooking.
When I had nothing to do, I sat in front of the stove and peeled pine nuts.
Yang Shuhui came here when it was almost dark and came here to burn the kang. As soon as she entered the room, she smelled the aroma of broth. The small chopping board was covered with wrapped wontons. What was her daughter-in-law peeling there?
Seeing her coming, the daughter-in-law smiled and said, "Mom, I made wontons, and there's a grate frozen outside. When you leave later, bring the wontons over. There's a lot of soup. I'll ask Sihai to bring them to you...
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"If you want to eat, mommy will cook it for you!" Why do you want to cook it yourself?
Easy thing!
Yang Shuhui looked at the wontons. To be honest, she actually didn't know how to make them. She had heard of wontons but had never eaten them. She thought, is this different from dumplings?
Now when I look at them, they are different. Each one looks like a flower.
Lin Yutong didn't ask her mother-in-law to burn the kang, "I stuffed two dustpans of sawdust into it at noon, so there's no need to burn it anymore."
The fourth master managed to get wood chips from the lumber factory. He pulled several carts of sawdust. This thing is the best for burning kangs. It is resistant to burning and heats evenly. Not only did the Lin family get a cart of wood chips, but they also pulled them specially for Sanyun County.
Quite a few.
Yang Shuhui went over to help peel the pine nuts, "Peel this to... fry and eat?"
Come over tomorrow and you'll know when it's done.
It was already dark when the Fourth Master came back, and he seemed to be talking to someone when he entered the door.
Tongtong poked his head out and said, "You're back?"
Back! In response to Tongtong's words, Fourth Master said, "Pull some sawdust to make it a success."
Liu Chenggong was embarrassed, "The kitchen collapsed, and all the firewood inside and outside were buried underneath. It's dark, so we can't clean it up."
Lin Yutong quickly said, "The sawdust is easy to pull. They are all put in snakeskin bags. Pull more bags." There is an old lady in Liu's family who is almost eighty years old and is paralyzed. Tonight, there is no cover.
If you don't burn the kang, you will freeze to death.
The fourth master watched it being put on the cart, then closed the door and came back.
Yang Shuhui asked, "If the kitchen collapsed, then the wall of the building would not be cracked?" It was dangerous to think about it as it was close to the building.
"If it's cracked, use wooden sticks to hold it against the wall for now. It doesn't matter. Block the cracks with straw first to avoid air leakage."
What a pain! "Successful, this kid is an honest kid, and it's not like he's not hard-working. He just wants to achieve things that are beyond his reach. First he practices calligraphy, which is probably not good, and then he memorizes the law or something... This is not someone's son.
He went to the tax office, and then went to the tax office with his abacus, and it was time to show his abacus... He stayed up all day and late at night. He wanted to learn everything, he could learn everything, but he just didn't want to be down-to-earth.
The affairs of his family have been cleared up. If he can enter that unit, what relationship does he have with him or her? Think about it naively." This is also true.
While Yang Shuhui was talking, she saw her daughter-in-law put the wontons into the pot, followed by the spinach. During this time, she put various ingredients into the bowl, and when the pot boiled, took out the wontons and filled the soup with them.
, sprinkle with minced green onions, coriander and dried shrimps, and add some sesame oil. Ouch! This smells delicious!
He turned around and brought himself a bowl and took a bite. It was different from dumplings and was delicious.
The son was holding such a big bowl, and the daughter-in-law only had three or five of them, but she had a big bowl of soup. At this moment, the daughter-in-law was slowly drinking the soup, but she was watching her son eat with a smile, and asked, "Is the pepper suitable?"
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Suitable! People who drink it will sweat.
Yang Shuhui suddenly felt that coming here to cook for others might not be a good thing!
This young couple's life seems to be a little different from ours.
Just for my cowardly son, my daughter-in-law is so precious! I am a mother, so I feel a little guilty!
It snowed heavily the next day, so nothing happened. She came over to help her daughter-in-law. Didn't she say she was going to make something yesterday? After she came, she stuck the door shut from the inside, fearing that outsiders would come and eat it.
What to do?
Good guy, melon seed kernels, peanut kernels, pine nut kernels, and some white sugar. My daughter-in-law is making sugar. The nut sugar is made and cut into small pieces and placed on a plate. The daughter-in-law holds it and stuffs it into her son's mouth, "
Is it delicious?"
tasty!
Isn’t it delicious? Who can afford to make this? He only earns a little money, and his daughter-in-law’s monthly remuneration is several thousand. Yes! My son has brought back so much food, but who doesn’t have money?
Did you get it? I got it. If the daughter-in-law likes to eat it, just give it up. In fact, the daughter-in-law only eats three or five as snacks and doesn’t always eat them. Once it’s made into candy, she just tastes it. She doesn’t like it much.
.But my son is different. There was just a plate full of candies like this, and half of the plate was gone in the blink of an eye.
The daughter-in-law bought it with her money, and she cooked it herself, and it all went into her son's mouth.
Then there were raisins and candied dates, making some saqima. This one was more delicious, and she thought it was delicious. Her son could eat it when he held it. When it was done, the daughter-in-law cleaned up two pots and said, "Mom
, bring it to my dad."
Eating this stuff will cause toothache!
She only put away a bowl of both, "Just bring it over and taste it. If you want to eat, come back and get it. You can keep it first."
That’s okay!
When she was leaving, she heard her daughter-in-law say to her son, "I'll buy some wrapping paper later and wrap this in pieces. If I'm hungry at work or on patrol and don't have time to eat, I'll just eat this as a cushion."
Yang Shuhui said in her heart that the three melons and two dates he earned at work were not enough to buy this. People who are used to men are not so used to it. If he could really earn seven or eight, it would be about the same. He only earns so much.
Why did he have the nerve to let others spoil him?
When she got back, she said to Jinyin: "You have to say that the fourth child didn't coax his wife to spend her money like this."
You should stop worrying about the couple's affairs. "Let's see how the boss's marriage is done."
Yang Shuhui had to worry about her two sons' marriages and when her daughter would come back from vacation. In just a few days, she discovered that three more things had been added to her younger son's house - a washing machine, a sewing machine, and a television.
There was no movement after these three things were pulled back. They were brought back at night. Yang Shuhui didn't dare to say anything. Nowadays, if anyone has a washing machine, then don't think about it. There is a big item that can be disassembled and washed, and she wants to take it over.
Wash. The same goes for this TV. A whole room of people had to watch it, and it was very noisy.
My son put the washing machine in the utility room, which can lead the water to the outside of the wall. He also said, "Bring the big things in the house over and wash them."
So what's the point? You have a daughter-in-law, right? It's the father-in-law and the uncle-in-law's clothes, so they are definitely not suitable.
She didn't need it, she just said she wasn't used to using it. As a result, the unlucky son turned around and bought a TV and a washing machine, which he placed with them, "It's not your wife's money!"
Fourth Master: "..." Really not, "I asked Liu Xinfa to take the certificate from the commune and go to the northeast and south to buy specialties. I was given a truckload of freight trains, and they all snatched them up as soon as they landed. Tongtong's money made them
I allocated 200 of the capital to the unit. The new one can earn 700 to 800, and I can earn 400 to 500..."
But all this money was converted into a TV and a washing machine for me and your father to move in. Didn’t you buy the things in your house with your wife’s money?
Fourth Master: "...I'll make up for it later for Tongtong."
I hid the washing machine and used it secretly at night, but I didn’t dare to take the TV out. It was always locked in my daughter’s house. No one in the village had a TV. They had been borrowing money for the Chinese New Year this year. Is it okay to show off my wealth at this time? Why not?
After locking it over there, no one entered her daughter's room! Yang Shuhui also found a special cardboard box, and usually kept the TV in the box, keeping a low profile to the end.
Ke Rao is so low-key, and there was an endless stream of people borrowing money before the New Year. Especially the fourth master, even if he had some mixed lives in the past, he couldn't do it anymore because he no longer had the conditions to do so. Moreover, this was also not possible.
They got married one after another. When you get married, you have to live a happy life. Now it's like separating the family when you get married and finding your own way to live. Once you have a wife, most gangsters won't be so messy. They come here to borrow three to five yuan, saying that they can't make it through the New Year.
Yes, what should I do?
Can I not borrow it?
I still borrowed it. I lent it more than 300 light years ago.
Then on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, my sister-in-law, a college student, came back from the provincial capital.
In the past few days, Jin Yin went to the county town every day and waited at the station all day, fearing that he would miss the day when his daughter would come back. Yang Shuhui had already cleaned her daughter's room, and the kang was burning every day.
The stove has never been turned off. The bedding used at home has been taken out and washed before the twelfth lunar month. But today | the weather is not good, and I am afraid of moisture, so I leave it on the kang every day and cover it with a sheet to avoid dust. It is really tidy to clean up.
Then on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Shuangquan finally came back.
Yang Shuhui hasn't asked Tongtong to cook these days. "If I'm not busy, I'll go over there to eat. I haven't officially seen her since we got married." Anyway, she prepares the dishes every day and waits for Shuangquan to come back.
I must have met Murakami before. It’s just that he went away for a year and never came back or wrote a letter. In fact, he is in the provincial capital. I should have been able to meet him when Jinyin went to the provincial capital to bring goods.
. Later I stopped driving, and the Fourth Master went to the provincial capital a few times. The family did not ask the Fourth Master to go there, and the Fourth Master did not go there either. My family must have told this person about the marriage, but they never heard back.
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We don't know what the other party means either.
Yang Shuhui called, she had been eating there in the past few days. It was almost half past eleven today, Jin Yin's hearty laughter came from outside, and a tall and thin girl walked out of the gate holding Jin Yin's arm.
He walked in and called "Mom" with a smile on his face as soon as he came in.
Yang Shuhui's eyebrows burst with surprise: "Bao, I'm back now. Come on! It's hot on the kang. Go sit on the kang."
Entering the room, Lin Yutong saw a very beautiful girl. She was wearing a bright red woolen coat, a snow-white turtleneck sweater, woolly blue pants, and a pair of high-heeled black leather shoes. She shouldn't be too warm.
As soon as he entered the house, he stamped his feet, rubbed his hands, and looked around the room. When he saw Lin Yutong, he smiled politely and said, "Is this Xiaotong?" Then he stretched out his hand and said, "Hello."
There's no need to be so formal! Jinsi is her cousin. She used to go to the Lin family's area. She is younger than Yulian and older than Yurong. They are about the same age and have passed the college entrance examination together. Suddenly it feels like they are meeting for the first time?
Lin Yutong stretched out his hand and shook her politely, "Second sister."
The other party let go and said with a smile: "I didn't know about your marriage in advance. I was very busy. When I found out, I didn't bother to come back. Don't be surprised."
No wonder! I can see that people must have some opinions on the origin of Fourth Master. It should be said that because she has such a brother, it is quite thrilling for her to go to college. It is normal to have thoughts in her heart.
College students at this period are quite capable of being arrogant. One of the siblings has a bright future, and the other seems to have reformed his evil ways. Such a brother and sister may not have a good relationship.
Suddenly I feel a little overwhelmed here!
The more polite you are, the less intimate you will be.
It’s not someone’s fault. After all, the fourth master in his mind still looks like that gangster. If he marries this gangster, people probably feel that his brain is not smart. They are not the same person. They feel that they don’t want to waste time communicating. Then
If we stayed here all the time, wouldn't it be an eyesore?
Although I understand in my heart, but what? I can't be angry! I am too lazy to bother to manage all the relationships that make me uncomfortable.
So, she stood up and said, "Mom, please whisper to my sister, and I'll go back and look at the stove."
Hey! Go! Tongtong always had something to say, so Yang Shuhui didn't think much about it and took her daughter to greet her.
Lin Yutong closed the door when he went back and steamed rice on the stove. If we couldn't eat at the same table, at least the fourth master could start the meal when he came back.
Fourth Master is also on vacation. He went to buy fish with Damin and Sanling, and he will probably be back soon.
But no, I came back, carrying two silver carp weighing three to four kilograms.
Lin Yutong pointed to the next door, "Have you gone?"
Gone! He was so arrogant that he ignored me. He didn’t respond to calls or words, and said, “I’ll just come back.”
Thinking about it, I feel that the atmosphere in the Jin family is very awkward right now! Fortunately, we have divided the courtyards, otherwise it would be even more embarrassing.
Neither of them took it seriously. Tongtong pulled Fourth Master: "Eat! Let's eat by ourselves."
I grabbed four eggs, blanched the frozen hard tomatoes, peeled them off, cut them into pieces, and stir-fried them to make the soup. I fried the eggs, then put them in the tomato soup and simmered them until the soup became soupy.
After the juice is collected, one bowl of tomato and egg rice bowl will be very satisfying for each person.
Over there, Yang Shuhui was almost in tears, "...Who didn't have a few years of being ignorant before they grew up? Do you think you are sensible now? When the fourth child was fooling around, he would fight with others and hurt others, but he would not be hurt.
People's hearts, what about you? You are hurting people's hearts. You not only hurt the fourth child's heart, but you also hurt the hearts of your father and your mother! After the matter is over, killing is just a nod to the ground! This can still lead to a deadly feud.
?If you ignore me today, you are just stabbing your father and your mother in the heart!"
Jin Shuangquan sat on the edge of the Kang, "Mom, some people will never learn well if they don't give you some lessons! He learns badly because you are too used to it."
"I am not spoiled by you? I am not spoiled by your bad temper?" Yang Shuhui said, "Who can have no shortcomings? If you take someone over with such shortcomings and don't let go, your temper is worse than that of the fourth child."
Jin Yin sighed while smoking, "Shuangquan, you are going to be a cadre in the future, how can you tolerate others? With your temper, how will you work in the future? You think you can look after people, but Xiaotong's parents don't
Can you read people? Where is Lin Shuangchao now? If it weren't for the fact that the fourth child is really spiritual and just mischievous, he is not really bad, and he can marry his daughter. Or Xiaotong is stupid, what are his flaws?
?I didn’t go to college, but I’m not uneducated. To the outside world, I say I make money by copying and writing, but what’s the truth? I’m an invited writer for magazines and newspapers, and the invitations for manuscripts keep coming. They’re all from big newspapers! I don’t talk about making money.
No matter how much the money is, just think about it, if you can get so many educated people to think of a good manuscript, then is this Xiaotong a brainless person? People are educated and have brains, but in the village, people are not high-minded, so why not
Everyone can get along. Your dad doesn’t understand the basic principles, but he has also been working in a public institution for half his life. He talks in meetings all day long about the need to have a mass base... What about you? How can you have a mass base with your personality?
What do you mean by this? That is to say, no matter how bad Lin Shuangchao is, he is a county magistrate and a veteran college student. He walked through sports and got away without being affected. Then you say that his brain is not good? Xiaotong's ability is incompetent.
Man? Your mother and I may be partial to the fourth child, but since the fourth child took over, who can say anything about the work? It has only been half a year, and Director Zhou dared to call him in charge. Director Zhou also has something wrong with his mind.
You are afraid that he will cause trouble, but everyone in the county's public security system knows him, and no one is afraid that the fourth child will be implicated if he causes trouble. How can it implicate you?
Go and walk around the village, and see what people say about the fourth child! They say that the fourth child is not in a straight line, but the road is correct. In this alley, if someone has trouble, the fourth child will not help, and if someone is in trouble, the fourth child will not go to help.
Four invisible? When he was fooling around, he only fought and made trouble with others, but he never bullied anyone, right? People can forgive a young man for those years when he was ignorant, but now that he is here, he can’t forgive him at all.
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What worries Jinyin is that Shuangquan's arrogance and aloofness are not good for her. In fact, the fourth child is a biological brother. If you don't want to deal with it or get angry, it's okay. In the next two days, kick the fourth child twice.
, the siblings quarreled for a few words and then got over it. But you can't do this to your sister-in-law. Not to mention building a good relationship with your sister-in-law, so that your parents don't have to be in the middle. Only Xiaotong's father is the parent official of the county.
, you have to be polite. Generally, after graduating from college, you will be assigned back to your place of origin. There is a high probability that you will return to the county to work in a government agency in the future. So you said you have a backer behind you, even if they don't help you, can you guard against people with connections?
Are you squeezed out of the chance? Is it good for you to have this in-law relationship?
She didn't think about any of this, but she kept the things that happened back then in her heart and magnified them infinitely. Jinyin felt that even after going to college, her future would be a bit worrying.
