The next day, Lin Lan put on Xiaodouzi a new white upper and lower blue navy shirt, and led him out of the room.
Xiaodouzi walked up to Lin Yuezhen with her small breasts puffed out and showed off to her: "Auntie, do I look good?"
Lin Yuezhen nodded and gave a thumbs up.
"Auntie, I signed up." Xiaokai and his second sister Xiaomei ran into the yard. When they saw Xiaodouzi wearing new clothes, they said with envy, "The navy uniform Xiaodouzi wore today looks great!"
"Xiaodouzi is also pretty." Xiaomei added.
Xiaodouzi was a little shy: "Mom and aunt made it for me."
Xiaokai held his hand: "Let's go! Let's go to school."
Lin Lan followed the three bouncing children with a smile, and Rhubarb scurried back and forth in front of them.
When she walked to Xiaoqiao, Xiaomei looked back at Lin Lan: "Auntie, Xiaodouzi needs a scientific name when he goes to school. He can't be called Xiaodouzi anymore. Does he have a scientific name?"
Xiaodouzi ran back: "Mom, do I have a scientific name?"
"Yes!" Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "Your name is Yang Xiaoguo."
Xiaokai laughed after hearing this: "Yang Xiaoguo, Xiaoguozi."
Xiaomei smiled and touched Xiaodouzi's head: "Xiaodouzi, Yang Xiaoguo is also very nice."
The three of them talked and arrived at the second team's school. The layout of the school was similar to that of Shilian Brigade, like a big courtyard.
After entering the school gate, the gate is facing a large platform one and a half meters above the ground. There is a red flag on the flagpole. There are several desks in the playground, and children are queuing up to sign up.
Xiaokai pulled Xiaodouzi to a sweet-looking female teacher in her twenties: "Teacher Zheng, my cousin Yang Xiaoguo wants to sign up."
"What a handsome little navy man, did you come here by yourself?" Teacher Zheng said with a smile.
Xiaodouzi said generously: "Mom came with me."
Lin Lan stepped forward with a smile: "Teacher Zheng, I came to ask last month. This is my son Yang Xiaoguo."
Teacher Zheng nodded, looked at Xiaodouzi and smiled: "Yang Xiaoguo is a cute kid. Tell the teacher, can you count?"
Xiaodouzi stood upright and said: "Yes, I can count! 1, 2, 3..."
Teacher Zheng heard him count to fifty in one breath and interrupted him with a smile: "Yes, you are a smart boy. The teacher has accepted you."
Xiaodouzi happily jumped up while pulling Xiaokai.
There are no large or small classes in the kindergarten class, and the tuition fee is three yuan. Lin Lan saw that only a dozen children signed up for the two groups.
After registering Xiaodouzi's name and parents' names, Lin Lan paid the tuition fee, and Xiaodouzi said goodbye to Teacher Zheng happily.
On the way back, Xiaokai and Xiaomei said that they came to school every day to call Xiaodouzi and brought him back after school.
Lin Lan also asked the children not to play near the ditch, and several children nodded repeatedly.
The next day, Xiaodouzi got up without being called and put on new clothes. After dinner, she put on her small schoolbag and looked at Lin Lan happily: "Mom, Brother Kai and Sister Xiaomei and I went to study."
Lin Lan was stunned for a moment: "Oh! Don't you want mom to give it to you?"
"No, they all went by themselves."
Instead of staying at home and asking her to send him off as Lin Lan imagined, Xiao Douding happily followed Xiao Kai and Xiao Mei who came to pick him up to go to school.
Lin Lan and Lin Yuezhen were dumbfounded: "Sister, let me take a look."
Lin Yuezhen nodded and gestured for her to go quickly.
Lin Lan followed quietly and saw the three of them chattering and laughing along the way. They entered the school with their friends on the team and then returned home with confidence.
Lin Yuezhen went to school early in the afternoon to wait. Xiaodouzi told her not to wait in the future. He would wait for Xiaokai and the others to come back together after school.
I originally thought he was so well-behaved because of the novelty of starting school.
Unexpectedly, I've been on it for two weeks, and I'm still as good as ever.
Lin Lan would do her homework when she got home from school. After finishing her homework, she would go to the bamboo forest to feed the chickens. Lin Lan never had to worry about it.
Lin Lan was happy and disappointed at the same time. She used to often hear her little sister say that her child didn't want to go to kindergarten. She would hold her in her arms after school and would try her best to get her into the kindergarten the next day.
Thinking of this, Lin Lan sighed: The baby is too sensible, how can I break it!
There are more and more red sea peppers in the vegetable fields these days, and it’s time to make douban.
Lin Lan and Lin Yuezhen peeled the bean sprouts, picked pumpkin leaves, and began to cover the moldy bean sprouts to make bean paste.
Divide the soaked beans into two pieces, wash them with warm water, drain them and let them dry. Place two layers of pumpkin leaves under the dustpan, spread the watercress evenly on the pumpkin leaves, and then cover the watercress with a few layers of pumpkin leaves.
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Place in a cool, dry place and wait for it to ferment.
After four or five days, the mold will be covered with yellow and green mold. The color of the mold is somewhat similar to the color of the incense used for sacrifices. The older generation calls it gray mold.
Lin Lan went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a large jar that could hold fifty kilograms. She scalded it with boiling water and put it in the courtyard to be exposed to the sun for sterilization.
Remove the pumpkin leaves from the covered moldy bean sprouts and expose them to dry in the sun. Pour into a large jar, pour white wine, rapeseed oil, and peppercorn noodles, mix well, cover with gauze and leave in the courtyard to expose in the sun for a few days.
After the watercress is dried, pick out the red sea peppers, remove the stems of the sea peppers, clean them, chop them into pieces with a shovel in a large wooden barrel, pour the dried watercress into it, and add 3 ounces of salt per pound of sea pepper.
Salt, add white wine and peppercorns and mix well.
The mixed watercress is left to ferment in a cool place for a few days, then brought to the courtyard to be dried, left to dry overnight, stirred and then continued to dry. The better it is, the more fragrant it will be.
After drying, put it into small jars, and then pour some lettuce seed oil on top of the bean paste. The jar will not be damaged without adding water.
A week later, Xiaodouzi came back and told her happily that the teacher had chosen him to be the monitor.
Seeing the happy little Douzi, Lin Lan was so happy that she couldn't even close her mouth.
I thought about how I used to be a bad student, and my parents often used her grades to motivate my little sister, telling her not to imitate your pig-brained sister.
Lin Lan felt that apart from not being good at reading, he was not stupid at all. He could learn how to cook after reading it twice. Perhaps it was what the old man often said, God left everyone the ability to eat.
A few days before July and a half, the old lady came to Lin Lan's house: "It's July and a half in a few days. I have to buy some paper money. I'll wrap up the lucky paper in a paper bag and send it to your grandpa's house."
Lin Lan nodded and asked: "Uncle, do you want to send blessing papers to my grandfather's house for burning in July and a half? Why have I never sent them before?"
The old lady glanced at her angrily: "If you want to be like before, no one will come to call you this year. Yang Laoyao doesn't care about anything. Sister Liying bought it and gave it away."
Lin Lan said embarrassedly: "I was ignorant before, so you can tell me what you want to do in the future."
The old lady smiled and nodded: "Okay, I will call you from now on."
An old man and a young man went to buy paper money and came back, heading towards the grandfather's house.
The old lady said that my grandpa worked as a Taoist priest in Chongtong Temple before the liberation, and returned home to start a family after the liberation. He is ninety years old this year and is still clear and clear.
This was the first time Lin Lan went to the Yang family's relatives' home. When she arrived at her grandfather's house, she saw that his yard was still the same old-fashioned yard as before. The lower half of the wall was made of patterned blue bricks, and the upper half was entirely made of wooden carved window panels.