"Here we come!" The old lady entered the kitchen, put the vegetable basket on the table, and looked at the two of them happily: "I have prepared the rice, but Douzi insisted on dragging me and Dandan to eat braised loach. I
I just brought the food over."
Lin Lan said angrily: "You really bring your own rations when you come to eat."
"There's nothing delicious!" the old lady said, taking out the food in the vegetable basket. "Dandan likes twice-cooked pork. I boiled the radishes. I went to the vegetable field to find a few Qiuhai peppers and added bean curds to the pot.
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Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "Sit down for a while, I'll fry the loach, and then we'll have dinner."
Lin Yuezhen smiled and brought a bamboo chair to the old lady and motioned for her to sit down.
The old lady took out a bag of vegetable seeds from her pocket and handed it to her. She smiled and said, "Yue Zhen, in a few days we can plant soybeans and green vegetables. I brought the vegetable seeds here."
Lin Yuezhen nodded and took the vegetables and put them in the cupboard.
Lin Lan took a few eggs, poured some flour and potato powder into them, stirred them evenly, removed the onion and ginger from the marinated loach, poured it into the batter and hung it on top.
Heat the vegetable oil until shrimp eyes appear, put the loaches covered with batter into the pot one by one, fry until the surface is golden brown, take it out with a slotted spoon, let it cool slightly, wait for the oil in the pot to rise again, then pour it into the pot and fry until it is crispy and take it out.
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Lin Yuezhen took out the dumpling. Under the dumpling was braised taro, sprinkled some coriander segments inside, and put it into a clay bowl.
Lin Lan went to the wing outside and saw Dandan and Xiaodouzi reading a doll book: "The meal is ready, let's start eating."
"Here we come!" The two children hurriedly put down the books in their hands, turned off the lights and ran into the kitchen.
The fried loach is crispy and delicious, and the spicy loach is salty, fresh and fragrant without any earthy taste.
The old lady ate two fried loaches: "The fried loach was not bad, the batter on the outside was so crispy, and the bones on the inside were crispy."
"Yeah!" Dandan picked up one, "Grandma, Douzi and I both like fried ones."
Xiaodouzi chewed it in his mouth and nodded repeatedly: "It smells good when fried."
Seeing that they liked it, Lin Yuezhen put a few more pieces into their bowls.
Dandan covered the mouth of the bowl and said, "Auntie, the bowl is full. Please eat again."
Lin Yuezhen smiled and nodded repeatedly, thinking that she had been married for several years and had no children, so her husband's family decided that she was infertile.
The mother-in-law scolded her all day long, and the man didn't help her. She even beat and scolded her together with her mother, and kicked her out mercilessly. She didn't know how many sins she had committed in her previous life. In this life, she became mute first, and then she was kicked out.
Fortunately, I came here, with Xiaolan and Douzi, and my life became more enjoyable.
Seeing Lin Yuezhen watching the two children eating, Lin Lan smiled and said, "Look, my aunt is happy to see you eating, even happier than eating it herself."
When the two children saw each other, they also picked up loaches and put them in Lin Yuezhen's bowl: "Auntie, you eat too!"
Lin Yuezhen happily put it in her mouth and started eating it.
The old lady looked at the two children lovingly and said to Lin Lan: "They are all blessed. Some people on the team can't get any oil or gas for a month. They can eat whatever they want!"
Lin Lan thought about the situation at home when he first came here and nodded: "Yes! It's all because of the small amount of work points in the team. It's hard to have enough food and clothing."
The old lady also thought of the old days of Lin Lan's family, and sighed: "As a person, you need to know how to be flexible. I think if you go forward and don't find other ways, you only know how to guard the fields. People who don't know how to adapt will only get worse and worse."
Disaster."
Lin Lan thought of the years to come, where the brave would be starved to death and the timid would starve to death.
Those who are bold and willing to work are getting richer and richer, while those who are timid and lazy can only watch others wear gold and silver, build high-rise buildings, and drive luxury cars.
They are still struggling to have enough food and clothing.
The two children liked the crispy loach very much. They ate a dozen of them in one go. Only two or three of them tasted fishy. After eating less than half a bowl of rice, they put the bowl away and went to the yard to make money.
After the three of them had eaten, Lin Lan and Lin Yuezhen asked the old lady to sit down and rest. The sisters cleared away the dishes and began to clean them.
The old lady looked at the two sisters: "Lin Lan, the house over there is ready, where do you plan to live?"
Lin Lan thought for a while: "Uncle, I have to see if Douzi can go to the city to study in a primary school. If he can, we will live there. If not, we will have to live here while studying in the team's primary school."
"That's true." The old lady thought about going to see the house that day. The house there was indeed good, but she was still a little reluctant to go there. "If I live there in the future, it will cost a lot to buy coal all year round."
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"Uncle, don't feel bad. It's much cheaper to buy coal with a coal ticket. Besides, it's so convenient to burn briquettes! There's no shortage of hot water when the weather gets cold. If you burn a wood stove, you'll have to spend money to buy firewood!"
The old lady doesn’t understand why everyone wants to live in the city. What’s so good about the city? You can grow some vegetables and feed a few chickens in the small western-style building over there. In those square houses, you have to spend money to buy even onions, ginger, and garlic.
After clearing the stove, Lin Lan washed out the large white beans and poured them into a steamer to steam. A large pot of red beans was poured into the pot, and the steamer was placed on top to start steaming.
Scrub the peas to remove the soaked pea skins, pour them into a clay pot and cook the pea puree.
Lin Yuezhen stood in front of the chopping board peeling the pumpkin, and the old lady also took a knife to help.
The pumpkin peels and bean dregs peeled out every day are boiled and fed to the pigs. The excess is kneaded into small balls and dried in the yard for use when raising more pigs.
The three of them worked for a while, preparing all the ingredients for tomorrow.
The old lady looked at the two of them and smiled and said: "It's better to do things quickly. I'm at home alone. Dandan went to bed early and couldn't fall asleep lying on the bed tossing and turning."
Lin Lan worriedly warned: "You can no longer do heavy work, as your lumbar spine can no longer be damaged."
The old lady smiled and nodded: "I know, I took Dandan back to sleep."
"I'll take you there." Lin Lan said, taking the flashlight, and walked out of the kitchen with the old lady.
The two went to the door of the wing to call Dandan, who was playing backgammon, and Xiaodouzi also wanted to join them. The four of them went out and walked towards the old lady's house.
As soon as they arrived at Qiaotou, they met Yang Meihua and his wife coming over with a flashlight. Lin Lan smiled and said, "Sister Meihua, where are you going so late?"
Yang Meihua pulled the old lady and smiled and said, "We were worried when we saw that my uncle's house was in the dark, and we planned to go to your house to have a look."
The old lady looked at the two of them and said happily: "I'm fine. Dandan is at home. If anything happens, he will go out and call someone."
Yang Meihua nodded, thought for a while, smiled and whispered to Lin Lan: "Lin Lan, you won't be afraid of doing business in the future. Xiang Hua went to the commune for a meeting today. I heard that the big market will be opened at the end of the year, and that the production will be guaranteed in the spring of next year."
household."
"Household guaranteed labor?" The old lady looked at He Xianghua in confusion, "Let's go to my house and talk to us."
"Okay." He Xianghua nodded in agreement, and they walked back together.
Lin Lan thought to herself, it's finally here. Once household responsibility system is implemented in the urban area, when will the communes under Dongshi City also implement it?
Several people arrived at the old lady's house, and He Xianghua told them what he could say at the meeting: "Household production quota is a joint production contract based on the family unit..."
After hearing this, Lin Lan felt that it was similar to the previous policy.