A week later, Lin Lan came back from setting up a stall. As soon as she walked to the door of the courtyard, she heard the sound of Xiao Douzi teasing Dahuang from the yard. She opened the door in surprise, opened her arms and shouted: "Douzi, mother is back!"
"Mom, I miss you so much!" Xiaodouzi flew into Lin Lan's arms.
"Mom misses you too. You've grown taller. Whatever grandma cooked for you, you've grown taller in just a few days." Looking at her son, who had tanned a few degrees but was more cheerful and lively, Lin Lan thought that he should stay at her parents' house.
A few days is the right decision.
"Grandma's house is fun." Xiaodouzi pulled her and told her how he was in the Shilian brigade and went fishing and playing games in the mountains and ditches with his cousin friends.
Wu Shufen happily told Lin Lan that her grandson was smarter than several of her grandsons. Lin Qing went home to do her homework. When Xiaodouzi read the text, she could memorize it all by heart.
"Mom, Sister Xiaohong also gave me textbooks, and she also taught me to recite poems."
Lin Lan looked at him with a smile and narrowed her eyes: "Bring me back to my mother and listen!"
Xiaodouzi nodded and recited loudly: "It's noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil..."
Lin Lan gave him a thumbs up: "Okay! My son is really capable! I will send you to kindergarten in the second half of the year."
Xiaodouzi happily nestled in her arms and looked at her with bright eyes: "Yes! I will study hard and get a hundred points in the exam."
Lin Yuezhen looked at him happily and hugged him.
Wu Shufen came this time and brought beans, rapeseed oil, fungi and a jar full of honey.
She also told Lin Lan that her family had ordered a lot of rapeseed oil and beans for her. Her two brothers were making oil drums at home, and they had also found wood to build an Eight Immortals table for her.
Lin Lan nodded heartily, went to the car repair shop, bought all the remaining doll books, and took them back to the children.
Wu Shufen spent a few days at Lin Lan's house. Seeing that Lin Lan was doing well in business and getting along well with Lin Yuezhen, she went home with the money Lin Lan gave her for collecting walnuts and peanuts.
At the end of the month, the rapeseed in the private plot is ripe, and Lin Lan is ready to harvest the rapeseed.
Brothers Wang Zhixue stopped Lin Lan and sisters from taking action. It took the brothers half an afternoon to take the rapeseed back to the yard.
Sister Lin Lan spread the rapeseed on a drying mat. After two days of exposure to the sun, they beat it with flails and dried it in the sun. They harvested a basket of rapeseed and sent it to the oil press to obtain thirty or forty kilograms of rapeseed oil.
The rapeseed stalks and rapeseed shells were dried and put into the woodshed to make matches.
There are more and more people harvesting and extracting rapeseed oil, and everyone is willing to sell some of their rapeseed oil.
Li Guizhi went back to her parents' house to collect several barrels of rapeseed oil and several sacks of peas, red beans, mung beans, and soybeans. Lin Lan accepted them all after inspecting them.
Li Guizhi and his wife saw that after half a month of hard work, they had earned more than 20 yuan. They were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. The relationship between the two families also became closer.
After the rape was harvested, the green vegetables in the rape field had grown older. When Lin Lan set up a stall, Lin Yuezhen cut them all back home, picked off the old yellow leaves, peeled off the old skin and brought them to the ditch to clean them.
Several rows of ropes were pulled along the eaves of the steps, and the vegetables were dried one by one on the ropes. The sun was sufficient, and after two days of drying, the vegetables were wilted.
Lin Lan closed the stall and went home in the afternoon. The sisters took out the wilted vegetables, washed them with well water, put them into a clean large wooden basin, added salt and kneaded them until the vegetables produced juice.
Kneading salted vegetables is a very tiring job. Sister Lin Lan returned home from the stall and brother Wang Zhixue worked together until it was dark. Then they kneaded all the green vegetables, squeezed out the water, stacked them neatly in a bucket, and pressed them.
Cover tightly and marinate.
Lin Lan went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two pots that could hold 30 kilograms and were specially used for pickling salted vegetables. After they were scalded and exposed to the sun, they were ready to be filled with salted vegetables.
It will be ready after pickling for two days when the weather is hot. Take out the pickled salt vegetables, clean them, squeeze out the water and dry them for two days. Take five or six green vegetables at a time and wrap them into a handful, and put them into the pickled salt vegetables with the mouth facing down.
He lay prostrate in the altar with his bottom turned to the sky.
Put the salted vegetables into the jar, and use a clean straw handle to plug the mouth of the jar tightly. Next, place the jar upside down in a basin, add water to cover the mouth of the jar, and ferment the salted vegetables for half a month.
I hurriedly dug out the private land, hoeed it, spread fertilizer, dug ridges, bought some potatoes with spores, cut the red potato vines and planted them, and spread rapeseed in the ridges.
The temperature is rising day by day, and there are more mosquitoes. There are a few red and swollen pimples on Xiaodouzi's white and tender face, and they are cured after applying Fengyoujing.
The mugwort that Lin Lan dried came in handy. He burned the mugwort every day to make it black, and there were a lot fewer mosquitoes in the house.
It was June in the blink of an eye, and the newspaper-covered windows were airtight and very hot.
Lin Lan bought several meters of gauze from Hou Bing, tore off the newspapers and replaced them with gauze, and used the remaining floral fabrics to sew curtains, and the room became brighter.
In the vegetable field, the purple-red eggplants, slender, crystal-green wattle branches, green cucumbers, green green beans...all are ripe.
A lot of fresh vegetables can be picked every day in the vegetable garden. The tender cowpeas are stuffed into the kimchi jars after they are dried. There are also green and red sea peppers. I bought three kimchi jars and they were full when I came back.
I also want to give it to Zhou Xiaohong, Li Wu and others who have no land to grow vegetables.
Zhou Xiaohong smiled and said that she had not bought vegetables this year, and she could not finish the food sent by Lin Lan's family and Yang Liying's family.
In July, Lin Lan's vegetable garden is full of fruits, including old pumpkins like millstones, white winter melons like buckets, and oval white cantaloupes hanging all over the melon racks.
Pick the cantaloupe and put it in a vegetable basket, hang it in the well, set up a stall and eat two at a time when you go home.
When the potatoes in the vegetable field are ripe, the potato vines are pulled out and thrown into the manure tank for fertilization. A bunch of potato ridges are dug up and a bunch of potatoes are filled.
The largest one is only the size of a goose egg, the well-proportioned ones are the size of a duck egg, and the smaller ones are no bigger than a chicken egg.
Pork ribs and roasted potato, potato puree, roasted potato, fried potato strips... Lin Lan cooked it in various ways for Xiaodouzi to eat.
The little hens began to lay eggs, and they could pick up more than twenty eggs every day. Lin Yuezhen soaked some of the endless eggs in jars, and made some into preserved eggs.
Lin Lan feels that life is still comfortable in this era. You can eat whatever you want. Most people are very simple and simple. All food is grown naturally and has a natural mellow flavor.
After the weather got hot, the sales of orchid beans decreased a bit, so Lin Lan made mung bean cake.
The more varieties you have, the more you can earn. With four stalls, excluding rainy days, we can earn an average of 100 yuan a day.
Thinking that Xiaodouzi wanted to go to school, Lin Lan went to the elementary school built in the No. 2 Squadron. After asking about it, she learned that she could go to kindergarten at the age of four. Xiaokai volunteered to register when the school started and called her.
After Lin Yuezhen found out, she cut a piece of military green cloth and made him a small schoolbag. I don't know when she took Xiaodouzi to buy paper and pens, and also printed an iron pencil case with the words "Study hard and make progress every day".
In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the seventh lunar month, and on August 29 of the Gregorian calendar, Xiao Kai came to Lin Lan and said, "Auntie, the school registration is tomorrow."
Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "Okay! Come and call us tomorrow morning."
"Oh!" Xiao Kai responded and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute, my aunt steamed steamed buns and steamed buns, take two back and eat them with my sister." After that, Lin Lan went into the room and took two steamed buns and steamed buns, skewered them with chopsticks and handed them to him.
"Thank you, aunt!" Xiao Kai happily took it and ran outside.