Chapter 1202 Control group in the 1990s (11)
After finishing the late breakfast, the family of three went about their business.
Xu Yin went to the new house and took a look. The walls were generally clean. Only the wall on the left hand side of the entrance was stained and greasy. It is estimated that the Lu Gong couple used to cook in this location.
Xu Yin looked through the system warehouse and found a glossy magazine that matched the era. She specially selected the ones that didn't have a year calendar and pasted them on the wall. After moving back, she put the washstand here.
The floor is made of cement. I brushed it with a strong detergent, rinsed it, and left it to dry with the door open.
She then cleaned the windows, wiped the door, and changed the door locks.
Tear down the curtains and door curtains, rub and soak them with disinfectant laundry detergent, wash them clean after a quarter of an hour and hang them in the patio.
After finishing all this work, the ground was completely dry. She went home to see how the couple was cleaning up.
"We are almost done. Your dad and I discussed that since we have two rooms in our house, you don't need to move down. Anyway, you have to choose the other room upstairs. The south-facing balcony room is freed up. You Just move in and save on moving up and down." Ma Chunfang gestured to the position of the bed, "After our big bed is moved, you move the small bed next to the window and leave the writing desk for you. Next time you My brother is here, you two siblings are discussing who will sleep in the inner room and who will sleep in the outer room."
Xu Yin nodded. She originally meant the same thing. There are two rooms anyway, so why move them all to the first floor. Now that her parents have thought of it, she saves her saliva.
“Okay, let’s move now. If we finish the move early, we will save worry.” Ma Chunfang said.
She was still thinking about setting up the stall in the evening. The dough hadn’t been kneaded and the fillings hadn’t been mixed yet, so she felt a little anxious.
Fortunately, there was not much furniture that needed to be moved. In addition to the big bed for the couple to sleep on, there was only a washstand, a chest of drawers, two red lacquered suitcases with clothes and quilts, a square table, two stools, and two chairs.
Leave a suitcase for Xu Yin, with all the clothes from all seasons stuffed in it.
I don’t plan to move the sewing machine. Moving it will take up space. It’s better to leave it here and use it when there is need for sewing or mending.
Of these things, the chest of drawers is the most difficult to move. Because it’s not like a bed—it can be disassembled and carried separately; it’s also not like a washstand or dining table—it’s small in size.
Even if you take out the cabinet doors and everything in the drawers and move them separately, the large chest of drawers, which is as tall as a person, is made of pure solid wood and is really heavy.
Xu Wuyi couldn't handle it alone. After lifting it for a while, Ma Chunfang said she couldn't do it anymore. Her hands were slippery and she couldn't lift it anymore.
“I knew it would be so troublesome to move, so I would have bought a smaller one when I got married. In order to get a bigger one, I spent dozens of dollars more.”
Xu Yin: “…”
Step forward and take over her mother's position: "Dad, you and I will carry it."
I saw her carrying the other end easily and taking away most of the weight.
The couple were stunned:
“Be good! My dear, I didn’t expect you to be so strong?”
“It seems like people are right when they call you a tomboy.”
…”
The family finally moved their home after running up and down two or three times.
Ma Chunfang collapsed on the chair tiredly: "Oh, I'm so exhausted! If I had known that moving would be so tiring, why would I have chosen the house upstairs?"
Xu Yin: There are so many things in life that you don’t know in advance.
Xu Wuyi pressed his wife's shoulders diligently: "Have you enjoyed climbing the stairs today?"
Ma Chunfang waved her hands feebly: "It's more than enjoyable, I never want to climb stairs again in my life."
Xu Yinxin said that’s not necessarily the case. It will be demolished in a few years, and the relocation houses will still be low-rise commercial buildings with five or six floors without elevators. Unless all six relocation houses are sold and replaced with villas or courtyards.
However, based on her understanding of Ms. Ma Chunfang, she was afraid that she would be reluctant to change. It was indeed enjoyable, but she could not earn rent.
Ma Chunfang didn't rest for a while, and stood up like a carp: "Don't be idle, start working quickly! Otherwise, it will be too late to leave the stall."
Xu Yin and her father looked at each other. Compared with Ms. Ma, they looked like a pair of salted fish.
Xu Yin: “…”
Well, she is the most salty person in this family. The couple is responsible for kneading the dough, and Xu Yin is responsible for adjusting the fillings.
Ma Chunfang has already prepared the fillings for the Xiankou Shaobing, but she is not sure whether the Xiankou Shaobing is delicious and whether anyone will buy it. She feels very unsure.
Xu Yin said: "It's not up to us to decide whether it tastes good or not. It depends on the customer's taste. Anyway, there isn't much meat filling left. When rolling out the dough like green onion, pepper and salt, it is sprinkled into the layers of puff pastry, instead of being made into brown sugar or peanut butter. With such a hearty stuffing, I could only make a dozen sesame seed cakes at most, but no one bought them, so I gave a few to the neighbors as a favor. I just moved here, so I just took this opportunity to get acquainted with each other. By the way, I also promised the little one He gave him two sesame seed cakes to try, and he found the small blackboard for me."
Ma Chunfang couldn't help but feel heartbroken when she heard it. This was stuffed with meat. She used to be reluctant to eat it herself, but now she uses it to get away with favors.
But the factory manager Xiao He really wants to flatter me, and he is still waiting to move to a room with a south-facing balcony.
“When it’s baked, you can send it to him.”
"good."
As the sun sets, it’s time for factories to get off work.
Pingcheng is a typical heavy industrial city, especially the northern area of the city where the iron ore plant is located. Almost all of it is heavy industrial plants, such as steel plants, coal plants, machinery factories, hardware factories...
It can be said that the buildings on both sides of the road, apart from factories, are staff buildings and staff living areas.
Anyone you can catch among the pedestrians coming and going on the street is an employee of the above-mentioned factories, and there are countless dual-income families.
Both husband and wife are employees, and they get off work at the same time. They are in a hurry to buy groceries, cook, and pick up the children, so sometimes they are too lazy to cook, so they just bring some steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. back home, and it is a make-do meal.
As soon as they left the factory that day, the employees of the machinery factory smelled the fragrant smell of scones.
“Oo! What’s so fragrant!”
“Roasted sweet potatoes?”
“Not like roasted sweet potatoes.”
"I know, it's sesame biscuits! In the morning, there was a family of three selling sesame biscuits at the intersection in front. They were freshly baked and tasted quite good. However, I was afraid of being late, so I didn't go close to take a look."
“I went to buy them. They taste really good! I’ve never had such delicious sesame cakes, even at night? Then I’ll take two back for dinner.”
The sesame biscuits sold by the Xu family are quite big, with several layers of pastry layer stacked on top of each other. Two of them can make a full meal.
Hearing what he said, other employees also became interested:
“Then I’ll take one back to comfort the child.”
“Is it really that delicious?”
“It’s really delicious! I won’t lie to you! I bought a brown sugar one and a peanut butter one this morning, and they taste amazing!”
“Let’s go, let’s go! I’ll buy one too!”
Hula—
Xu's cake stall was quickly crowded with a group of machine workers who were off work.
“Boss, when will the brown sugar sesame cake be ready?”
“Boss, I want one with peanut butter and one with sesame sugar.”
"boss,…"
Someone looked at the small blackboard and said, "Hey! There are also scallion oil and meat pancakes? Fifty cents each? This is good! I want two meat pancakes."
Ma Chunfang became more energetic after hearing this: "It's meat, right? Okay, okay. Lao Xu, grill a meat!"
“The meat biscuits and peanut butter are the same price? Then I’ll try the meat ones too.”
"I have a meat one and a brown sugar one."
The couple are working non-stop, grinning from ear to ear—this business can be done!
(End of this chapter)