Chapter 387: The House Troubler in the 1970s (18)
Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, Xu Yin took a deep breath:
“Mom, dad, I’ll say it again, if you have any good stuff at home, just keep it and don’t tell anyone else! If you can’t keep your mouth shut, I won’t buy you anything from now on, and you’ll go back to the days of eating bran-thick vegetables!”
Hearing that the braised pork and the roasted knife filter were about to leave him, Xu Laosan hurriedly expressed his stance:
"I must keep my mouth shut! Really! Why don't you just keep your mouth shut? Isn't this simple? Don't worry, my daughter, your father and I will only open their mouths if they want them to. If they don't want them to open, they will use a saw to cut them. Don’t let go!”
"Yes, yes!" Chen Huilan also patted her chest and promised, "We will never tell anyone outside in the future. If there is delicious food, we can eat it secretly at home. But my daughter, you promised me new clothes, you can't just wear them secretly at home, right?"
This is too difficult for her. She can’t wear the new clothes out. What’s the difference between them and the old clothes? People didn't know she had new clothes.
"..." Xu Yin held her forehead and sighed, "You can still wear the new clothes, but you have to wait until after the autumn harvest to get the money from work points to make them for you! This way everyone knows that they earned it through work points. If anyone wants to be jealous, you will be jealous. Go back and let them earn their full work points!"
“That’s right! That’s right!”
Once Chen Huilan heard that the new clothes were not lost, she instantly became energetic again and did whatever her daughter said.
The villagers had not seen Xu Laosan and his wife coming out after dinner for several days to brag and talk about the mountains, and they couldn't help but wonder:
“What has the third child been doing recently? He hides at home when he’s not at work. Since when did he like staying at home so much?”
"Isn't it the same with the third daughter-in-law? These two have been very mysterious recently. When I asked them, they didn't tell me what they were doing. It's strange! It's so strange!"
"You haven't seen that the third child has been much more diligent recently, and the former one actually approached the captain and asked to be assigned a job of hoeing."
"Really? The third child really took the initiative to **** the fields? Didn't he follow his wife to weed the fields?"
"I was right next to the captain at the time and heard everything clearly. No, yesterday I was assigned to his second daughter's group. Anyway, we can't finish the work. With his second daughter taking care of it, the father and daughter earn 20 work points a day. They are so envious! "
"The third daughter-in-law also gets 7 work points every day during this period. She is considered a diligent woman."
“What did this family of three eat? Suddenly they changed their gender?”
What else can I eat?
Every once in a while it’s either fish or meat!
Ever since she caught her parents working in the fields to earn work points, Xu Yin has received about twenty energy points every day, and she is very happy. Sometimes she catches a fish, scoops out a bowl of shrimps, and sometimes goes to the city to find the aunt who pays for her meat tickets and asks her for help. Get some meat tickets, not even a pound, but half a pound or two taels are fine. Occasionally, make a stew of meat and vegetables as a toothpaste for the couple.
No, Mr. Xu and his family are eating meat again today.
But this time it was not Xu Yin who bought it, but Xu Sangti.
Xu Sang made the matchbox, and asked her man to deliver it to the match factory this morning. After getting a dollar back, she managed to exchange it with someone for a half-pound meat ticket, cut off a small piece of buttock meat, and got it back. natal family.
She came here specially to take advantage of the good weather, thinking that she would definitely help clean and scrub the house.
The dirty clothes and sheets that my parents changed must have accumulated in several basins.
There is also a private plot at home that needs to be weeded, fertilized, and planted with summer vegetables, so I specially wore an old patched clothes.
Stepping into the yard, Xu Sang was a little confused: Is this his natal family? Right?
His hind legs have not dared to get off the ground.
Hold the meat and take two steps back to confirm the courtyard door and wall. It’s your mother’s house!
“Sang Sang, are you going back to your parents’ home? You haven’t been here for a while, what are you busy with?”
The old lady next door leaned out of the wall to say hello to her.
Xu Sang was even more sure that he was on the right track.
Why has it changed?
After entering the door, she saw the difference from before:
The yard is swept clean, and clean clothes are hung on the clothes drying racks built with bamboo poles;
The vegetable plot along the courtyard wall is lined with stones. The onions, garlic and peppers are growing very well. Two azalea trees, which are in their flowering period, have been transplanted in the corner. They are bright red. There were no dirty clothes piled up in a mess in the room, the chairs were arranged neatly against the wall, and the floor and tabletop were clean.
In the past, the cobwebs on the walls could be cleaned off every time I came here. Now they are also clean and refreshing.
Looking at the kitchen, the stove was polished brightly, the cupboards were exposed to the original wood color, and the dishes and chopsticks were washed and placed in the sink and chopstick cages.
Even the rice vats, water vats, and pickle vats in the corner were all spotless.
Xu Sang couldn’t believe his eyes.
Since when did mom and dad become so diligent?
"sister?"
At this time, Xu Yin finished her morning work as usual and came back early to make lunch. She was not surprised to see Xu Sang.
Seeing the meat she brought, he guessed: "Did you hand over the matchbox?"
"Hand it in!" Speaking of this, the smile on Xu Sang's face became even brighter, "Your brother-in-law came back and said that the eldest sister who inspected and accepted the matchboxes was very satisfied with the matchboxes I made. This time she gave me two thousand as before. "
Xu Yin was relieved: "That's good! This job will be yours from now on. But you'd better not tell anyone. When my brother-in-law goes to the city, he should go and come back quietly as much as possible."
"I know! You don't have to say it. We both hope no one knows that I'm gluing matchboxes, otherwise we won't be able to chase away the people who come to inquire."
The two sisters talked and started making lunch.
In addition to a small piece of meat, Xu Sang also brought some other things, including wild vegetables that she dug early in the morning, and dried bamboo shoots and vegetables that Grandma Zhou dried herself.
“Didn’t you bring a bag of chicken and cake last time? I gave it to Grandma Yongjun, and they knew it was you who bought it, so they forced me to bring a bag of bamboo shoots and dried vegetables. When the weather gets hot, you can make soup to quench your thirst and eat.”
Seeing that the dried bamboo shoots and vegetables were drying well, Xu Yin said, "Let's steam and stew the pork belly today! Give your parents a change of taste."
Mainly half a catty of meat. One piece of braised braised pork is too small for one person. It's better to cut the meat thinly and steam it.
Xu Sang then realized that the second sister did most of the work at home, but their parents' clothes were washed by themselves. This can be considered a big improvement.
Before, I didn’t even dare to think about it.
Furthermore, my parents now go to the fields to earn work points every day. My father has earned 10 work points for several days, and my mother has also earned 7 work points every day.
Xu Sang was pleasantly surprised by this.
Last month she went back to her parents' home. Her parents were still lazy in bed all day long. Even if they went to work, they would sneak back to sleep in less than half a day. How did the second sister convince them to work full time?
And Xu Laosan and his wife didn't know until they came back from work that the second daughter had left the matchbox work to the eldest daughter.
"Sang Sang, how about Yinyin treating you? I will miss your second sister more in the future." Xu Laosan took a sip of wine with satisfaction, ate a peanut that his second daughter had fried for him and said, " As soon as you meet a suitable partner, ask them if they are willing to marry you, and I will introduce you to my second sister."
Xu Sang's eyes widened in surprise: "What? The second sister wants to recruit a son-in-law?"
“Why are you making such a fuss! Your second sister just nodded on her own.”
Xu Yin nodded along with her father's words: "That's right, sister, but I have to look at the person and choose the person myself. I don't have high requirements, just a good eye match, but I don't want anything that is too delicious or too lazy to cook."
Xu Laosan said: "..."
Feeling being insinuated.
(End of this chapter)