Chapter 402: The House Ruiner in the 1970s (33)
After the commendation meeting, it started pouring rain outside.
When the rain stopped, Xu Yin went home with today’s harvest—two souvenirs from the commendation meeting: an enamel cup and a face towel.
Mr. Xu and his wife were so happy that they seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Xu Laosan made tea in an enamel cup with the words "Model Worker Commendation Ceremony" printed on it, and then took it out to show off. He would praise everyone he met: "My daughter won it by participating in the Model Worker Commendation Ceremony."
The tea he had just made was so hot that the palms of his hands turned red, but his expression remained unchanged.
When Chen Huilan went to the field, she hung a washcloth around her neck, not to wipe sweat, but to show it to everyone.
The seven words "Model Worker Commendation Meeting" woven in a row of red thread on the towel were deliberately exposed.
Li Chunhua saw it: "Hey, Huilan, are you a new towel? Did you just buy it?"
Other women came around to look at it: "Why is it so red? What pattern is it? It's so beautiful."
Chen Huilan took advantage of the situation to show off: "What's that look in your eyes! These are not patterns, they are words! Souvenirs given out at the model worker commendation conference, here, it says 'model worker commendation conference-'... Eh? Why are there so many more? A word?"
…”
Xu Yin pretended that she didn’t know the couple, pretended not to hear them when she heard them, and walked quickly.
The work places are not in the same place anyway.
"Xu Yin!" Chen Lei caught up with him panting, "You are a girl. Even if you are good at farming, how can you walk so fast?"
Xu Yin: “…”
Can you believe that my sister is stepping on a hot wheel?
“What do you want from me?”
“I just passed by your private plot and found that your pumpkin is surprisingly big, like a wheel. Can you eat such a big pumpkin?”
Xu Yin glanced at him: "No matter how a pumpkin looks, isn't it still a pumpkin? Just like a toad, it looks ugly, so doesn't it belong to the frog species?"
…”
Chen Lei was stunned by her and scratched his head: "Have you ever tasted it? Is such a big pumpkin delicious?"
“Not yet. I’ll finish my work and pick one. Do you want to eat it? I’ll give you half of it. Anyway, it’s so big that my family can’t finish it in one meal.”
Forget about one meal, you won’t be able to finish it in a few days.
However, she thought that pumpkin could be used to make many foods. In addition to being directly steamed as a staple food, pumpkin pancakes could also be fried and served with pumpkin porridge. It would also be a good idea to buy some ribs and make pumpkin soup in the morning.
Xu Yin was thinking about how to eat pumpkin all the way to the mission field.
To be honest, she didn’t even expect that Taoyuanxing brand “Xi soil” soil would be so powerful - growing ordinary pumpkins into big wheels.
She had only seen such a big pumpkin in fairy tale illustrations before.
After finishing work, Chen Lei followed her to the private plot to pick pumpkins.
Other young people heard that Xu Yin’s pumpkins were as big as wheels, so they followed them in groups to see how strange they were.
Xu Yin's family's six-cent private plot is full of vegetables and fruits, but it can't accommodate so many people.
“Don’t go in, I’ll pick out the pumpkins and show them to you.”
So a group of young students stood in a circle around the Xu family's private land.
“Lao San, isn’t that your family’s private land? What are so many people doing? Are they vying to be your son-in-law?”
The man who spoke initially wanted to make fun of Xu Laosan, but after he finished speaking, he found that his brat was also in the team, and he immediately shouted with a long face:
pumpkin? What pumpkin?
Everyone then knew that Xu Yin had grown a pumpkin that was bigger than a tractor wheel.
…”
Xu Yin is in the headlines of the Seven Star Brigade again.
“Oh yo yo! Yin girl, how did you grow this pumpkin? It’s so big!”
“Good boy! My pumpkins will have to grow for at least another month before they can be eaten. Are the third family’s pumpkins already this big?”
“I have long said that the pumpkins from the third family grow well. At that time, my pumpkins were just blooming, and his pumpkins were already bearing fruit. Can they not grow as big as they do now?”
“Lao San, have you ever eaten this pumpkin at home? How does it taste?”
How does Mr. Xu know how it tastes? This is the first time my daughter has picked it today.
Speaking of which, don’t pumpkins all have the same flavor?
Xu Laosan curled his lips and thought of the time when rice and noodles were cut off at home at the beginning of the year. For nearly two months, he had to eat pumpkins every day to satisfy his hunger, which hurt his stomach.
“No matter how delicious the pumpkin is, I can’t even get interested in it.”
However, less than two hours after saying this, he was slapped in the face by himself.
“Daughter, what are you talking about? Is this a pumpkin?”
Xu Laosan could not help but widen his eyes when he saw the golden and fragrant pumpkin cake that Xu Yin had just fried.
Xu Lan has already eaten: "Oh! What a good time! What a good time!"
Chen Huilan is not a fan of pumpkins either. When she came back from work and heard her little girl say that she would eat pumpkin for dinner tonight, she felt a little unable to eat.
But at this moment when I saw the pumpkin pie, before I could say anything, my hand had already reached out to pick up a piece. I put it in my mouth with suspicion and took a bite. My eyes instantly shone with light: "It's delicious! Third brother, Yinyin didn’t lie to us, the pumpkins she made are really delicious!”
“Is it really delicious?”
Xu Laosan looks good and smells good, but doesn’t it taste like pumpkin? Is it possible that I can still taste the meat?
“It’s delicious! Try it quickly!”
Chen Huilan gave him a piece.
When Xu Yin came out with a pot of pumpkin and red date porridge sweetened with rock sugar, her father's face was almost buried in the pumpkin cake plate.
…”
Dad, I just want to ask if your face hurts?
Not only Xu Laosan, but also the family who received the big pumpkin grown by Xu Yin today, there was a slap in the face scene at the dinner table that day.
The second elder of the Xu family looked at a plate of steamed pumpkin, smiling so hard that his eyes narrowed: "When Yin Yatou gave it to me, I muttered in my heart, what's so delicious about the pumpkin? It deserves her careful attention to grow it so big, haha! I didn’t expect it to be so delicious, soft and glutinous, suitable for those of us with bad teeth. I’ll ask her for another one tomorrow, so we can eat it slowly.”
Chen Leiniang: "This is the first time I have eaten pumpkin that is sweet without adding sugar. Eating it steamed directly is like eating sweet glutinous rice cakes. If you make pumpkin cakes with glutinous rice flour, it will probably taste better. What a pity! Old The three of us are determined to find a wife for Xu Yin, otherwise it would be great to be our Lei Zi’s daughter-in-law!"
Li Chunhua: "Yin girl from the third family is still amazing! The pumpkins she grows are not only big, but also taste so good. Such delicious pumpkins make me happy to eat them every day!"
Fang Meihong, who also received a piece of pumpkin, scolded her daughter while eating: "You tell me, why can't you learn from Xu Yin and earn full work points for me to grow such a delicious big pumpkin! I have read No one in junior high school is as capable as someone who didn’t graduate from elementary school. It would be really embarrassing for me to tell this..."
So the next day, when she met Zhao Pingping on the way to work, Xu Yin was stared at again.
Xu Yin: “…”
It’s very confusing.
Did this girl admit the wrong person? Mistaken sister for her enemy?
(End of this chapter)