Xu Qingzhi got off the tricycle and said, "Dad, you are here too."
She handed the express box to Grandpa, "Grandpa, please unpack it quickly. There is a problem with the express delivery on the road this time. The new mobile phone just arrived today."
"You help grandpa unpack it first. Grandpa's hands are muddy and dirty. He needs to wash them." The old man was still picking up the peanuts in his hand and did not reach out to pick them up, so as not to dirty the new phone.
Xu Qingzhi walked into the house, took out the key, pulled it, and took out the mobile phone box from the express box.
Grandpa got up and went to the backyard to wash his hands.
"Grandpa, give me the phone sim card and I'll install it for you." Xu Qingzhi opened the plastic packaging on the phone box, took out the new phone, turned it on and clicked Settings.
Grandpa couldn't do it, so she helped.
Grandpa took out the old mobile phone from his pocket, looked at the new phone with curious eyes, and muttered: "Grandpa doesn't know where the phone is stuck."
Xu Qingzhi took the old phone over, patiently pressed and held it to turn it off, opened the cover at the back, took out the battery, and pushed the card slot to remove the phone card.
Fortunately, the mobile phone sim card has been cut into a smaller size, otherwise it would not be possible to replace it with the previous big sim card.
She made the normal settings on her new phone and inserted the phone card.
Then he handed it to grandpa and taught him: "This is a touch screen, use your fingers to swipe it, this is a phone call, and this is a text message."
The old man squinted his eyes and asked, "Which one is the phone?"
Xu Qingzhi pointed to the button on the far left at the bottom, "This, the green one, on the far left, is the phone. Click on it and try it."
The old man's rough fingers trembled in the air and clicked on it, "How do you press this call button? Why don't you have a contact? How do you call your dad?"
Xu Qingzhi had previously saved the number on his old mobile phone in his mobile phone. If it was not stored on the card, there was no way to transfer it. He had to re-enter the numbers one by one.
She taught grandpa step by step how to create a new contact.
The old man said: "Oh, like this, like that, oh, I know, Qingzhi, what's next after this step?"
The operations that young people usually learn by themselves are particularly complicated for the elderly.
Xu Qingzhi patiently repeated it over and over again, instructing grandpa on how to use it, and also set up a shortcut call to make it easier for grandpa to understand.
Xu Qingzhi called again to check the phone card package. There were a bunch of inexplicable ringtones and the like. The phone bill package was ridiculously expensive, not cost-effective, and the data traffic was low.
Xu Qingzhi didn't even know where these packages came from, so he canceled all the useless ones and replaced them with a normal package with calls and data.
"Grandpa, you have two gigabytes of traffic now. If you don't watch videos on the Internet, there will be no problem." Xu Qingzhi said.
Grandpa held the mobile phone with a confused look on his face: "How much is two gigabytes? I think some of them can use their mobile phones to video, can I video?"
"Okay, I'll help you download and register a WeChat account." Xu Qingzhi fiddled with her phone for a while, registered a new account, added her own WeChat account first, then her father's, and then told her grandpa, "This
It’s me, this is my dad, I’ve given you a note.”
Xu Dongru can read, but is not very good at operating.
Xu Qingzhi also taught him how to send videos, voices, and text to others. Her parents typed in longhand, unlike young people who are accustomed to using Pinyin.
The old man pressed the talk button, then glanced at his granddaughter, "Hey, hey, hey, Qingzhi, it's grandpa. Is this right?"
Xu Qingzhi said: "Grandpa, you have to let go. Let go and send it out."
The old man slowly released his fingers,
Xu Qingzhi turned on her mobile phone, clicked on the chat box, and played it to her grandpa, and her grandpa's voice just now came from inside.
——Hey, hey, hey, Qingzhi, it’s grandpa...
"Look, I can receive the message this way." Xu Qingzhi pressed the voice on his side again, "Hey, hey, hey, grandpa, it's me, I'm Qingzhi."
Grandpa’s new cell phone buzzed with a notification tone. Grandpa clicked on it, and sure enough he heard Qingzhi’s voice.
The old man grinned happily, "This mobile phone is really convenient now."
"Well, you can ask me if you still don't understand anything later, and you can also add other people. But you don't have a lot of data in your card, so don't leave it on all the time, otherwise it will be overused. It's enough to send voice messages occasionally.
This way the flow is on, this way it is off."
Xu Qingzhi also taught some basic operations, such as returning, shutting down, how to answer the phone, etc.
The old man was reluctant to put the phone on his body, carefully put it on the bed, and pressed it gently with a pillow, saying: "Wait until grandpa finishes the peanuts, otherwise your hands will be full of mud and the new phone will be soiled."
Miles."
Xu Qingzhi casually moved a bench out and said, "I'll do it together."
Three people sat in a row on the verandah next to the door, smashing the fresh peanuts in the dustpan into the soil, pulling them clean, tearing off the peanuts and throwing them into the dustpan used to dry the peanuts.
"Grandpa, why did you plant peanuts this year?" Xu Qingzhi asked.
Xu Dongru: "Your grandma likes to eat salted peanuts, and she always grew some in the fields in previous years. I was thinking about the taste, so I thought about growing some, and cooking some myself to eat as snacks."
"Yeah, salted peanuts are delicious, and sugar-frosted peanuts are also delicious. Grandma has made them many times before." Xu Qing knew.
The old man smiled: "When it's dried, let your dad take some back to eat."
"Okay." Xu Qingzhi nodded, she would not be polite to grandpa.
While she was picking up the peanuts, she would put the peanuts on the side of her index finger from time to time and press them with her thumb. She would put the thumb of her other hand on the thumb and push hard, causing a crack in the middle of the peanut shell.
She enjoyed peeling it open and eating it. The texture of the raw peanuts was somewhat similar to eating raw lotus seeds, with a crisp, tender and sweet taste.
Sometimes there are three pellets inside, sometimes there are two full pellets, sometimes there are four pellets, and even more exaggeratedly, there are five pellets.
Every time Xu Qingzhi peeled off a particularly large number of peanuts, it was as if she had picked up too many peanuts for her grandpa and her father to see.
"Look, there are five peanuts in these."
Grandpa is often the one who cooperates with her the most: "Oh, five peanuts are not common."
Her father was smiling next to him and looking at them.
Xu Qingzhi knows that peeling peanuts can bring out the joy of playing.
"Dad, let's grow some peanuts to eat next year. Peanuts can squeeze out oil. Peanut shells are a very good feed and should not be wasted." Xu Qingzhi also loved eating peanuts, but he didn't eat much.
But if she likes to eat, she wants to grow them.
Peanut shells are also a good feed component. They can be ground and processed, and then mixed with rice bran, bran and other feeds to feed chickens, ducks and pigs. However, most people in rural areas do not know that these peanut shells are basically either burned or used as food.
The trash is lost.
"Okay, you can sow whatever you want." Xu Fuqiang nodded.
Xu Dongru on the side was thinking, "Yes, it's time to harvest the sweet potatoes in the field in a while. I can't finish so many, so you can take them back to feed the pigs. There are also chestnuts and persimmons. I went up the mountain to see them a while ago, and they are also
It’s time to close it. Fuqiang, if your fields are not busy, call your two brothers and come over to help me.”
"I know, please call me in advance when the time comes." Xu Fuqiang also began to peel peanuts and eat them.
After being busy for a while, I ate one or two. They tasted strange when eaten raw, better than the peanuts I remembered before.
"Grandpa, I'm here to help you too," Xu Qingzhi said.
Xu Dongru smiled cheerfully, "Okay, then when the time comes, beat the chestnuts first and then harvest the sweet potatoes. It won't be a hurry to harvest the persimmons after a while."
The persimmons grown at Grandpa’s house must be harvested while they are still hard. If you want to eat them, put them in rice for a few days, and the persimmons will be ripe and soft.
Xu Qingzhi has loved eating persimmons since she was a child, so after she built a new house, she took roots from the old persimmon tree in the yard and planted them. She felt that the persimmons in her grandpa’s house were just like the ones in Princess My Fair Princess that the little swallows stole.
The persimmons are exactly the same, big and yellow, and taste very sweet.
When I was a child, there were too many persimmons to eat, so my grandpa would give some to others.
Later, some neighbors who didn't deliver the food were gossiping behind their backs, so my grandpa simply stopped delivering it. Sometimes he couldn't finish the food at home, so he would take it to the market to sell.
Xu Qingzhi thought, "Grandpa, if we can't finish the persimmons this year, let's make them into persimmons. The persimmons are so delicious. During the Chinese New Year, we have to buy persimmons. The persimmons outside may not be made by our own persimmons."
Clean."
The dried persimmons can be stored for more than six months, so you can still eat them during the Chinese New Year.
"Can you do it?" Xu Fuqiang asked.
"What's so difficult about this?" Xu Qingzhi muttered, confidently saying: "You can find out by searching online."
Now is the era of network information. As long as it is not a core technology, such as this kind of tutorials on making persimmons, making bayberry wine, and making gourmet food, you can search for them online.
However, some local specialties or unique home-cooked dishes cannot be found online.
For example, her mother makes ginger-flavored braised pork and ginger-flavored pork ribs.
Xu Qingzhi loved this taste the most. When she completed the King of Volume mission, she almost wanted to die from the taste in those worlds, but she didn't know how to do it.
Fortunately, after she came back this time, she looked eagerly at the kitchen door several times and already knew what to do. If there was any accident in the future and she went somewhere without her parents, she could eat it by herself when she wanted to
Done.
The old man never objected to his granddaughter's ideas, "Okay, if you want to make persimmons, we'll make them. Then we'll make more and send some to your aunt. After your grandma left, your aunt's health wasn't very good either.
I didn’t even look at her."
The aunt that grandpa mentioned is grandma’s biological sister.
Because Taoshui Village is further past, and you can reach the village in another city, so this is the border.
My grandma used to be from Dongyang and married to Taoshui Village, but it was quite far away. Usually, my parents would still go out for drinks during weddings and funerals, so it was more convenient to ride a motorcycle.
It is not convenient for people there to go to the market, so they sometimes go all the way to Daji Village to go to the market.
When my aunt comes to the market, she will come and sit in the yard, look at grandma, and the two sisters talk.
So Xu Qingzhi had some impressions of her aunt, because she looked very similar to her grandma, so she remembered what she looked like and knew how to call people aunt, but she didn't know her name, how old she was, or where she lived.
"Okay, we'll make persimmons later. If you want to see them, just ask dad to drive you there." Xu Qingzhi said.
The old man hurriedly waved his hand, "No, there's no need to drive. I'll just walk there by myself. Driving consumes more gas. You know, making money is not easy. Just spend the money when it's time to spend it, and save it when you need it."<
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Xu Fuqiang said softly from the side: "Hey, you haven't been there for many years. I want to see you walking alone to see if you recognize the road. Don't get lost."
The old man was embarrassed when he was poked. His face became sarcastic, and he hit Xu Fuqiang on the shoulder with the back of his hand: "If I don't hit you, you don't know which one is the father and which one is the cub."
Xu Qingzhi laughed.
Xu Fuqiang ducked aside, "It's done, I'll drive you there later. Don't push me."
Xu Dongru then slowly responded with a "hmm".
He hasn’t been there for many years, and he really doesn’t even know the way.