Wang Zhixue trembled with fright, turned around and saw Yang Zhigang, and said with a smile: "Brother Gang, it's you!"
Yang Zhigang looked at his hand covering his trouser pocket: "Gua Wazi, don't do this on the street. You can tell with just one glance that you have money in your pocket."
"Thank you for the reminder, brother!" Wang Zhixue looked at him gratefully, "Brother, I'll clean it, I work quickly!"
As he spoke, he snatched the dustpan and broom from Zhigang's hand, swept the dam clean, dumped the garbage in the forest, put the broom and dustpan away, and then walked back with the bamboo pole on his back.
Yang Zhigang said to Brother Yong: "This guy is pretty good, he can see things with his eyes."
Brother Yong nodded: "Xiang Yang came here last night and said that this baby is the nephew of one of his friends. Let us watch it and don't let others bully him."
Yang Zhigang nodded: "I understand, I will take care of him."
Wang Zhixue went to the health center and bought tiger bone ointment. He carefully put it into his trouser pocket and walked quickly to the ditch in the eucalyptus forest. He could no longer hold back his excitement and ran all the way. Panting, he ran to the door of Lin Lan's house.
I saw Yang Liying looking anxiously at the door.
Wang Zhigang grinned at her, showing his white teeth: "Auntie, I'm back, I'm sold out."
"thank you!"
In addition, Lin Lan's side had more than two hundred people a day, and the two of them were busy until dark.
Lin Yuezhen smiled and gestured: Li Xiangyang's family is so polite.
Along the way, Lin Lan saw handfuls of mugwort and calamus hanging in front of every house. She felt that there was still a festive atmosphere this year.
"Brother-in-law He, is there anyone else named Lin Lan on the team?"
Lin Lan was stunned for a moment, put down the rice dumpling leaves and ran out. When she saw He Xianghua taking out a large package from the back seat, she smiled and said, "I went to the post office to pick up something, so I picked it up for you."
Xiaodouzi looked at him with a smile: "You're good, I even helped mom tear off the palm leaves."
Wang Zhixue's shop sells two to three hundred pieces a day, both in the morning and in the evening.
Yang Liying happily pulled him: "Lin Lan, Zhixue and I went back together."
Early the next morning, after Zhou Xiaohong and Wang Zhixue picked up the goods and left, Lin Lan kept the rice dumplings as gifts, went to the eucalyptus forest, and handed the rice dumplings to the custom-made customer.
Yang Liying smiled and said: "Maybe it was sent by your third brother!"
Yang Liqun looked at the tiger bone paste and the thick stack of dime bills in her hand, and found that there was also a five-yuan one. She looked at him in surprise: "Why are there so many?"
Yang Liqun excitedly grabbed her son's hand and nodded with red eyes: "Mom knows, my eldest son is the most capable! I must remember the kindness of your aunt and aunt in the future."
The two cooked the ingredients and stewed the pig head meat in a jar. After a while, Wang Zhixue came: "Auntie, I'm here to send you a holiday gift."
"Go!" Lin Lan nodded, carried the vegetable basket into the kitchen, took away the ginger taro leaves, and took out a two-finger thick piece of fat with pork belly strips and a piece of hind leg meat. He saw the pork belly and pig head underneath.
Tied up and cleaned.
"good!"
Lin Lan thought that without the help of Lin Yuezhen and Yang Liying these days, she would not be able to do so many things by herself. She felt that it was true that helping others is helping yourself.
Li Xiangyang hugged him to the stool and sat down. He asked with a smile: "Is Xiaodouzi good?"
Old lady, Yang Liying came to help early in the morning.
"Why are you so polite?" Lin Lan took the duck and salted eggs and said with a smile, "Why won't your mother come back to celebrate the festival?"
In addition to the rice dumplings that Zhou Xiaohong and Wang Zhixue sell in the morning market, more than a thousand rice dumplings will be made and cooked in the evening.
Lin Lan carried the package into the courtyard full of doubts and said to the people sitting on the eaves making rice dumplings: "This package is from the provincial capital. I don't remember that I have relatives in the provincial capital!"
"Mom, I'm going to my great-grandmother's house." Xiaodouzi waved happily to Lin Lan.
Wang Zhixue put down his belongings and gave Lin Lan today's capital: "Aunt, the stall fee is not enough, I will give it to you tomorrow!"
I went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two kilograms of loose wine, some aniseed ingredients such as oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, and also bought two bottles of Quanxing Daqu.
Lin Lan took it with a smile and gave him the vegetable basket filled with rice dumplings, pea cakes, and kidney bean rolls: "My uncle is celebrating the festival at my house and said that he would give the two children a medicated bath and sprinkle with realgar wine. They should be here later.
"
Beep beep! beep beep! The bicycle bell rang outside the courtyard gate, and someone shouted from outside: "Lin Lan, there is a package for you."
"We'll look at it after we're done." Lin Lan took the package and put it in the main room, then came out and continued to work.
"Oh!" Wang Zhixue agreed and walked towards Yang Liqun who looked worried.
Li Xiangyang smiled: "I told Dongzi and the others a long time ago not to make rice dumplings, they are all waiting!" He handed over the basket, "There is pork belly and a strip of meat in it, and half of the pig head. I will go back to Dingbang for a mission.
If you don’t come, please do it and send some to Grandma Yang.”
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The next day, Zhou Xiaohong added another hundred rice dumplings.
Several women gathered around a large wooden basin, busy making rice dumplings with their hands flying.
Seeing his happy look, Yang Liying knew that the goods were sold out, so she slapped him angrily: "You brat, I thought you couldn't get it back!"
Lin Lan also liked this nephew who had something in his eyes. He smiled and said, "It's okay! Go back soon. Your mother will be anxious."
Lin Lan nodded: "Yes! I owe him too many favors."
"My aunt gave me a dime and a half a piece wholesale, and I sold it for two cents, and that's how much I earned." Wang Zhixue said and looked at her excitedly, "Mom, I can help you support your family."
When Wang Zhixue returned home, Wang Zemin glared at him: "I went out after breakfast and didn't come back until dark. If I can't get my wages back at the end of the month, I'll ask you to settle the accounts!"
Xiaoyun and Xiaoli helped twist the hemp rope, while Xiaodouzi and Dandan helped tear off the brown strips.
The mother and son entered the house and went to the backyard. Wang Zhixue took out the tiger bone ointment and the money he earned today and put it in her hand. His face was full of joy: "Mom, I bought the tiger bone ointment. All the money was earned this afternoon."
"Yes!" Wang Zhixue nodded heavily in agreement.
"My aunt and the others are back." Wang Zhixue frowned, "She is busy cooking!"
Lin Lan came out of the kitchen when she heard the voices and said with a smile: "I prepared rice dumplings, and I was thinking of asking my uncle to take me to your house!"
He Xianghua said with a smile: "It's just you, just keep it with peace of mind!" After that, he got in the car and left.
"Hey!" Wang Zhixue walked a few steps happily, then turned back and said, "I'll be here at seven o'clock tomorrow."
Li Xiangyang nodded: "Okay, I'll go over and take a look first, and I'll take Xiaodouzi with me."
Lin Lan took the package and felt a little overwhelmed. She looked at the address on it and saw that it was sent from the provincial capital. The recipient was indeed her name, but she didn't remember any relatives in the provincial capital.
On the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, some of the regular customers who often shop at Lin Lan, some in their fifties and some in their eighties, ordered hundreds of rice dumplings.
As soon as he got home, Li Xiangyang came riding on a large pole carrying a vegetable basket. Xiaodouzi greeted him affectionately: "Uncle Li, you are here!"
Several people worked until dark before putting the rice dumplings out of the pot.
"Okay!" Lin Lan responded with a smile.
Lin Lan took the rice dumplings, salted eggs and two packets of brown sugar, and said with a smile: "I won't keep you here either. You go back and help her quickly. Let her come back and play for two days after you've been busy."
Wang Zhixue took it with a smile: "Zhilin and Zhidong like your rice dumplings the most."
Lin Lan smiled and said: "I like letting them come over to eat."