The old man selling candy used a small wooden spine to hit a small steel chisel.
Erhuazi pulled Lingbao forward and said, "Give me two portions of maltose."
Rock sugar requires a rock sugar ticket, white sugar requires a white sugar ticket, brown sugar requires a brown sugar ticket, candy requires a candy ticket, and maltose requires a sugar ticket.
For farmers, white sugar tickets and brown sugar tickets are both rare, and rock sugar is extremely rare. In five consecutive years, Baihe Village has only issued rock sugar tickets once.
Needless to say, candy tickets are not given out by the production team at all.
Compared with these types of tickets, sugar tickets are the most common type of sugar tickets. They are distributed to every household during the Spring Festival every year, and are more common than brown sugar and white sugar.
The uncle broke off two pieces of hard maltose and wrapped them in oil paper, "Hey, two candy coupons, four cents."
When Erhuazi handed over the candy ticket and money, Lingbao held the maltose in both hands and licked it curiously.
There were many drooling children around. They were all staring at Lingbao, and many of them were holding their fingers in their mouths.
A little girl asked eagerly: "Is it sweet?"
Lingbao licked the candy again and shook his head, "It's not very sweet."
After hearing this, the old man selling candy hurriedly said: "Baby, is this your first time eating it? You need to hold this candy in your mouth and chew it. The more you chew, the sweeter it will be. Try it."
"Yes, Lingbao, maltose needs to be chewed to make it sweet."
Lingbao picked up a piece of candy and put it into his mouth. The originally hard candy immediately turned sweet and soft, and the more he chewed it, the more delicious it became.
She handed another piece of candy to her second brother, "Sweet~"
Lingbao's behavior of giving candy to him was a bit unexpected. Erhuazi was slightly stunned and said with a smile: "I am an adult and I don't eat candy. Lingbao, you eat it."
"Sweet and delicious, my second brother also eats it." The little guy smiled innocently.
Erhuazi's heart felt soft, and he felt like his soul was being purified. He couldn't help but reached out and took the maltose, and then put it into his mouth.
Although he is twenty-three, this is the first time in his life that he has eaten maltose.
When he was a child, let alone sweets, he was thankful to have food at home. At that time, he never had a full meal and would be hungry for two days.
Later, when I grew up and became a father, the sweets at home were either given to women or to children. How could a man still have the opportunity to eat sweets?
"Is it sweet?" Lingbao asked with a smile.
Erhuazi nodded vigorously, "How sweet!"
The candy seller smiled and said: "Is it sweet? Haha, chew slowly..."
The two of them left the maltose stall. Erhuazi saw that Lingbao was eating sweets and had a circle of white starch around her mouth. His eyes were full of love and he helped her wipe the corners of her mouth.
Originally he had many questions that he wanted to ask Lingbao, but now he doesn't want to ask them anymore.
No matter why Lingbao is so strong that he can make people twitch like an electric shock, what he can be sure of is that Lingbao is helping him!
If it weren't for Lingbao, he would have been miserable today!
On the way back to the village, people in the same carriage looked at Erhuazi with envy and asked him how he bought the white noodles.
Erhuazi replied with a smile: "Luckily, when Lingbao and I were going to the market, we met a group of educated youths. He had tickets but no money. I had money but no tickets, so we cooperated to buy them together, haha..."
"Yeah! Then you spent a lot of money, right?"
"It's not much, only four or five yuan. It's much more cost-effective than buying food stamps on the black market! A kilogram of white stamps on the black market costs 30 cents, which is very valuable."
Everyone expressed envy after hearing this, "Oh, that is indeed a profit."
"It's great, we can eat white noodles during the Chinese New Year," many people swallowed their saliva, "I'm just waiting for the captain to get a red-haired New Year pig, which will go with the wowotou."
"To eat steamed buns, Captain Li has to give out corn on the cob. I don't know if he will give out corn on the cob this year. Don't just give out some sweet potatoes. I eat sweet potatoes and fart every day. Oops, I really want to eat something else."
Already..."
Everyone talked for a while, and then couldn't help but look at the big bag of flour placed next to Erhuazi.
Sitting in the front of the car, a man with yellow teeth sighed, "Hua Zi, your family is really doing well these days. They eat both meat and noodles."
Hearing the sourness in his words, Erhuazi quickly denied it, "Uncle Beef, I didn't eat the meat. I bought this noodles for my mother. I'm just an errand boy."
Uncle Niu Geng felt a little better after hearing this, and patted his forehead, "That's right, that's right, I almost forgot that you and your parents separated. Oops! It's really not the right time for you to split up, otherwise you would have eaten all the food.
share."
Erhuazi lowered his head and glanced at Xiao Lingbao, who was sleeping against him, and felt a sense of regret in his heart, "Who said it wasn't the case? The family shouldn't have been separated in the first place!"
In the next few days, when everyone was chatting, they couldn't help but talk about the Jiang family. They said that the Jiang family has been eating white noodles recently. The day before yesterday they ate hand-rolled noodles, yesterday they ate noodle soup, and today Lingbao Niang made it.
Pancakes, the taste is old and fragrant.
"Where did you get the flour? Did you buy it on the black market? White flour tickets on the black market are more expensive than rice tickets. I remember that white flour tickets cost 30 cents, while rice tickets only cost 20 cents."
"I didn't buy it on the black market. I heard that Erhuazi met an educated youth or someone else. Anyway, that big bag of flour didn't cost much, so it was a good deal."
In the Lin family, Mrs. Lin felt sour after hearing what Aunt Wang next door said. She was so angry that she threw the muddy kudzu root into the basin.
"Why do you think Shen Su'e's life is so good? How is she like me? At such an old age, she still has to wash these things in the kitchen!" Her hands were red from the cold, and she felt cold and itchy at the moment. "My hands are all numb."
It’s almost frozen to death.”
Aunt Wang looked around, "Where is your wife? Are you going to pick up dung water?"
"Yes, Captain Li punished her for picking excrement in front of the whole village. How could she not go? Now I have to hide when I see her. She smells like shit! I don't know what I did in my previous life.
What a shame, marrying such a daughter-in-law and entering the house."
Her words were heard by Liu Damei who happened to walk in the door.
"Mom," she said loudly as she threw the pole to the ground, "I also have a job to pick up manure. Although it's half less, it's better than nothing, right?"
When her daughter-in-law choked her, Mrs. Lin was so angry that she yelled, "Why are you so mean? You have the nerve to yell at me..."
"You and Aunt Wang scolded me behind my back, and you still want me to smile and pretend I didn't hear you? I'm not the type to be bullied!"
Mrs. Lin was so angry that her heart was beating loudly. She covered her chest and said, "Who, who is bullying you? Who dares to bully you? I am not marrying a daughter-in-law. I am clearly marrying a Bodhisattva.
I have to burn some incense for you!"
"I go out early in the morning every day and am almost exhausted picking up excrement. When I come back, I have to take care of Da Ya. Mom, forget it if you don't feel sorry for me. You still think I'm dirty and smelly. Do I want to pick excrement? Isn't that what Lingbao did?
It was caused by the disaster star!" Liu Damei said angrily.
"Come on, stop talking nonsense!" Old Mrs. Lin said, "Is the Lingbao a disaster star? It is clearly a lucky star!"
Aunt Wang on the side couldn't help but said: "I also think Lingbao is a lucky star. Ever since Dong Ziniang picked her up, the Jiang family has done all the good things."
After that, she continued talking about the Jiang family’s noodles, “Whose family in our village will be able to eat white noodles by the end of this year? It’s just the Jiang family!
Hey, speaking of it, Dongzi's father was paralyzed in bed before. There were five sons in the family, and the eldest and second son spent all their money on marrying wives. Their family was considered the poorest in the village. The third year of his marriage saw several girls, but he didn't.
A girl is willing to marry him because she thinks his family is poor.
Now that things are changing, Dongzi's father can suddenly run and jump, and eats either meat or noodles all day long. Who doesn't envy the Jiang family?"
After speaking a long series of words in a low voice, Aunt Wang said mysteriously: "If you have to say that these good things have nothing to do with the little Lingbao baby, I don't believe it!"