Chapter 17 Curious Where Does White Noodles Come From?
"What is this?" Erhuazi couldn't help but bend down.
Before he could untie the sack, his shoulder was pressed by a big hand, and his father's voice came from behind him, "I asked you not to come in and disturb Lingbao. You deserve a beating, right?"
Erhuazi turned to his father and asked, "Dad, what's in this bag? I've never seen a bag like this at home before. I'm surprised."
Jiang Qingshan originally planned to take his second son away, but after hearing his question, he said "Ah" in confusion and looked up at the ground, "What is this?"
Feeling curious, he didn't think much and opened the sack first before his son.
The scent of flour hit your face. The smell was so good that it was indescribable. It made people feel excited and couldn't help but get closer and smell it a few more times.
"White flour?" Erhuazi was surprised and pleasantly surprised, "Dad, this is white flour! This is the first time I have smelled such fragrant white flour. It smells much better than the flour ground from the wheat grown in our village!" "
Outside, Shen Su'e and Sihaizi heard his exclamation and felt strange, "What white noodles are you talking about?"
"Second brother, what are you talking about? Where can I find white noodles at home?"
Erhuazi said anxiously: "Mom, Sihaizi, come and take a look, there are two big bags of them. The white noodles look like fine noodles at first glance! Are they Fuqiang fans?"
Flour is divided into first, second, and third grades according to quality, and they are named Fuqiang brand, Jianshe brand, and production brand respectively. Fuqiang flour is the best flour.
The price of this kind of flour is relatively high and the taste is good. It is a luxury product and only people in big cities have the opportunity to eat it.
“This noodle tastes so good!”
After taking a few breaths, Sihaizi looked at his mother, "Mom, where did our family get the white flour? Just now you said there was no food at home."
After hearing what the fourth brother said, Erhuazi looked at his parents for a while. Seeing that their expressions were not natural, he couldn't help but frown, and turned to look at the little Lingbao on the bed.
"Mom, that girl was biting Lingbao before and said that the person who stole the things was Lingbao. Could it be that she wasn't lying?" Erhuazi asked guessing, "Is it possible that this flour is from Lingbao?" Stolen from the production team?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his father hit him hard on the back of the head. The pain made him say "ouch" and he quickly covered his head.
"What are you talking about? Go and ask Captain Li if there is any flour in the storage room?"
"Second brother, what you said is really too much! How can Lingbao go to the storage room to steal things when he is so young? Besides, you just said that this flour looks like Fuqiang powder. Where did the Fuqiang powder come from in our village?"
Erhuazi rubbed his head, "Yeah, that's right..."
Afraid that his father would knock him again, he swallowed subconsciously, "Mom and dad, you don't know where this flour comes from, so this is too weird, right?"
"What's so strange?" Shen Su'e said, "Your father has been paralyzed for so many years and yet he's recovered. There are just two extra bags of noodles at home. What's so strange?"
Erhuazi was taken in by his mother's words. He felt that it was unjustifiable, but it seemed to make sense.
Sihaizi sighed, "Mom, I think Lingbao may be a lucky star! You just said that there is no food at home, so there are two more bags of flour around Lingbao."
"I have long said that Lingbao is a lucky star. You said that I was superstitious before, do you believe it now? You have to take good care of your sister, do you hear me?"
After Shen Su'e finished speaking, her husband said happily: "Haha, our family now has white flour to eat. We don't have to go to the black market to buy food stamps for us tomorrow."
"No! We still have to go to the black market and buy food stamps. Otherwise, if people see our family eating noodles, they won't be able to explain it," Shen Su'e said.
After some discussion, the couple decided to let Erhuazi go to the black market to buy food stamps, and warned, "Remember to buy flour stamps, not rice."
"Ah? Oh..." Erhuazi looked at the two bags of fine noodles and couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "Mom, then this noodle..."
"When you buy the flour tomorrow, in addition to the two pounds of meat, I will give you one pound of noodles, okay? But don't tell your wife about the fine noodles, lest she talk about it everywhere. Do you hear me? ?”
Erhuazi knew his wife's mouth so well that he immediately responded, "Don't worry, I won't tell her. If she finds out, I don't know what will happen in the village."
When he got home, he told his wife about going to the black market the next day, "My mother promised me that as long as she helps buy white flour, she will not only give me two pounds of meat, but also give me one pound of noodles. We can eat dog meat during the Chinese New Year." Covered."
I thought my daughter-in-law would be very happy after hearing this, but I didn't expect that she would sarcastically say, "Your mother is really good at asking you to do such an errand."
"What's wrong? My mother is very nice. Originally, she wanted my eldest brother to go, but I worked hard to get the job myself." Erhuazi said.
Huang Yuezhu said with contempt, "Hey! I don't think she regards you and your eldest brother as her biological sons. As expected, she is an outsider after the family is separated!"
Saying this, she pulled her husband to her side and said, "If you are caught buying food stamps, what should I do? I have such a big belly, ugh..."
"Okay, don't worry, I'll be fine!"
Huang Yuezhu pretended to cry twice, sniffed, and said: "Two pounds of meat and one pound of noodles are too little. According to me, it should be ten pounds of meat and five pounds of noodles! You can go and bargain with your mother." , let her give more."
"The skinned wild dog only weighs about twenty kilograms. If you remove the bones, there won't be much meat left. It's good to divide it into two kilograms."
"Your mother would rather raise a poor kid than give you some meat. She wants you to do such a dangerous thing. How cruel!"
Hearing that his wife wanted to scold him, Erhuazi hurriedly interrupted: "Okay, stop talking. My mother is my mother after all. Besides, Lingbao's child is also very good. He looks very lucky. What? Damn you? Don’t scold others again from now on."
"How lucky are you? A little girl!" Huang Yuezhu said with disdain, "In my village, everyone said that giving birth to a daughter is bad for three years. Look at Da Mei, she gave birth to a big girl. She is extremely unlucky. The girl is bad! "
"I think girls are pretty good. If the baby in your belly is a girl, the word 'good' and wealth will be combined into one. How wonderful would it be?" Erhuazi said with a smile and touched his wife. belly.
Huang Yuezhu pushed her husband away, "Go, go, don't be so talkative, I don't want to have a useless daughter, I just want a son!"
Her husband thought of Lingbao's cute appearance and couldn't help but said: "I still want a daughter. It would be great if she was born with as much energy as Lingbao."
"Can you please forget about that girl? It's disgusting! Did you go to your parents' place and got possessed by evil spirits? Did they give you some kind of ecstasy? It's true!"
Seeing that his wife was so angry that both of her eyebrows were furrowed, Erhuazi didn't dare to say that he liked Lingbao anymore and kept his mouth shut.
The next day, he went to his parents' house early to ask his mother for money.
It was still dark, and through the courtyard door, he could faintly smell the fragrance of noodles wafting out.
In the kitchen, Shen Su'e had already cooked a large pot of noodles. She was afraid of being smelled by other people in the village, so she got up and rolled the noodles at around four o'clock.
Lingbao followed her mother like a little tail. When she heard a knock on the door, she opened the door and saw her second brother standing outside.
"Lingbao, why did you get up so early?" Erhuazi asked with a smile.
The little baby girl raised her little head and remained silent, her light brown-orange eyes turned golden, and she saw that her second brother's eyebrows were lingering with a black aura that represented misfortune.