Chapter 86: The Blessed Heart
All of a sudden, there were countless people standing in the kitchen of Xiao Yun's grandparents' house.
This kitchen is only about 10 square meters full, and now it is full of people, and it is difficult to even turn around.
Xiao Yun was pondering something more important. That is, if you want to write a blessing on the confectionery, you must print different molds. Otherwise, it can't be done.
But it's a waste of money to print so many molds, and it may not be used in the future.
Li Dazhuang proposed to write directly by hand, and just take a brush and write on it. Anyway, it just has a meaning when it comes out.
"Just kidding, we're making puff pastry. It must be engraved on the snack so that the characters will not be deformed. If it's as simple as you say, why would people invent molds?"
"Isn't it to save trouble?"
"You think everybody is like you, just opportunistic. Even if you want to write with a brush, you have to find the right pigment, and it must be edible coloring. Otherwise, you'll end up with a bunch of waste. It's really a waste snack. ”
Xiao Yun asked Li Dazhuang to continue to concentrate on kneading the dough, and he began to sit in the courtyard, carefully thinking about how to solve the problem.
Li Dazhuang saw that Xiao Yun had been sitting outside, and he was very dissatisfied in his heart, and he was unforgiving.
"He alone directs us every day like a leader, and he doesn't actually do anything. If he continues like this, I'll have to pick on him. ”
The stone smacked Li Dazhuang's head with his flour-stained hand.
"You know what. Xiao Yun is arranging the overall situation, if you have a good mind like Xiao Yun, you don't have to do anything. And he's not idle, he's thinking about more important things. ”
Fortunately, the shelf life of snacks is relatively long, so they are not worried about the storage of snacks.
With so many people busy, it is not impossible to make 50 catties of snacks in a week.
Therefore, the most important thing is that Xiao Yun must quickly figure out how to print the words on the dim sum.
Suddenly, Xiao Yun seemed to have a little inspiration, so he hurriedly ran to the kitchen and said to his grandfather, "Do you know which carpenter in our village has the best craftsmanship? I would like to ask him to help make some molds." ”
Xiao Yun's grandfather stopped the work in his hand, straightened up, stretched his waist, and thought for a while: "Lao Zhao's craftsmanship is good. There are married people in the village, and they all ask him to make furniture. But didn't you say that it was useless to make so many molds? And he didn't charge a lot. ”
"Rest assured, I've figured out how to use these molds. ”
After Xiao Yunxing asked his grandfather about the location of the house where Lao Zhao lived, he quickly came to Lao Zhao's house.
Fortunately, at this time, Lao Zhao is making a complete set of combination cabinets in his home.
Lao Zhao smiled when he saw Xiao Yun: "Why did you kid remember me here?"
Xiao Yun and Lao Zhao are not very familiar. But the relationship between Lao Zhao and Grandpa Xiao Yun is not bad. Therefore, Xiao Yun had also met Lao Zhao a few times in his grandfather's house before.
Lao Zhao is a very kind old man, and when he laughs, he is very much like a birthday star. He should weigh nearly 200 pounds, and he is the richest old man in the village.
"Grandpa Zhao, I'll ask you to help me do something, can you think it?"
Then Xiao Yun explained his requirements to Lao Zhao and asked Lao Zhao's opinion.
"Since you asked me to make the molds, I can put the rest of the work aside first, anyway, what they want is not particularly anxious, I can get this batch of molds out for you first. But I don't have to ask you for labor costs, but you always have to mean the cost of materials. In this case, there should be thousands of these molds in total, and you can give me a total of 1,000 yuan. ”
Xiao Yun thought about it, the price was quite reasonable, so he happily agreed, and took the lead in paying a deposit of 500 yuan.
But then Lao Zhao asked him a very important question: "What words are you going to engrave on the mold? Thousands of snacks, I won't let an old man give you a blessing, right? I don't have such a high level of education." ”
Xiao Yun's head grew all of a sudden, he had been thinking about the mold, and he hadn't thought about how to write the blessing at all.
Now I don't even have a computer or mobile phone, so I can't check it online. Otherwise, there will be a whole host of alternative answers.
Xiao Yun could only say to Lao Zhao: "Do you have paper and pen at home?" I'll write some for you now, and then you can do it first." When I come up with it again, I'll send it to you. ”
"Then I'll bring you my granddaughter's homework book, I don't have a pen at home, a pencil is fine, right?"
As a result, Xiao Yun held a wooden pencil in his hand and wrote dozens of four-character blessing idioms on the Chinese Tianzi grid used by Lao Zhao's granddaughter.
When he finished writing this, Xiao Yun felt that his mind was blank and he couldn't think of any more words.
Writing these blessings has taken out all what Xiao Yun has learned all his life. He really couldn't think of a more appropriate 4-character idiom.
Even if it's not an idiom, it's a word made up of four words, he can't think of it anymore.
At this time, Xiao Yun realized that the aunt asked them to make 50 catties of dim sum, which was not the most difficult place. It's about making the blessings on each snack different.
At that time, Xiao Yun only considered whether 50 catties of dim sum could be made on time, and did not consider writing different blessings at all.
"Grandpa Zhao, do you have a dictionary at home?"
"Yes, my granddaughter's school requires everyone to have a dictionary. I'm going to get it for you. ”
As a result, Lao Zhao brought a Xinhua dictionary that was only the size of an adult's slap.
Xiao Yun didn't pay much attention to it at this time, and began to flip through the dictionary, hoping to find some inspiration.
With the help of this dictionary, Xiao Yun wrote out nearly 100 more, and then got stuck again.
This snack is so small that if you write too many words, you can't write it at all.
So Xiao Yun basically fixed the number of words in the blessing within 4.
When he wrote these blessings, Xiao Yun was about to scratch his head.
He felt that even a person who graduated from the literature department might not be able to write so many words of blessing to others.
In the end, Xiao Yun no longer pursued any too rigorous blessing logic, but wrote words like "so handsome, you are so beautiful, the whole family is so handsome, and the whole family is so beautiful".
In this way, there were nearly 100 Xiao Yun, and he really couldn't think of it, so he could only say to Lao Zhao: "You engrave these words first, and then I'll go back and think about it." ”
Lao Zhao took the Tianzi grid book, and then read it carefully: "What you wrote in the front is okay, what is written in the back?"
"You don't care about it, just make do anyway, I really can't think of it. ”
Lao Zhao couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect such a thing to stump the only talent in our village." Then go back and talk to your friends, I think your friends are all geniuses, and maybe they will give you some very special advice, and you will feel like you have been initiated. ”
Xiao Yun didn't expect Lao Zhao to know a few idioms, and he spoke in a crepe.
"Why don't you think of a few for me too? ”
Lao Zhao hurriedly began to wave his hand: "I will only have one or two idioms like this, even a talent like you is stumped, not to mention a rough person like me." If I can do some carpentry work, it's okay, but I really can't do this kind of word game. ”
Xiao Yun had no choice but to say goodbye to Lao Zhao, and then returned to his grandparents' house.
There was no one in the yard at this time, and the kitchen was still quite crowded.
Xiao Yun said loudly to everyone, "Everyone, help me think about the words of blessing." Fifty pounds of pastries must have thousands of individual packages. That is, there need to be thousands of blessings. ”
Everyone began to brainstorm, but most of them were thought about by Xiao Yun.
At this time, Li Dazhuang expressed a unique opinion: "I think we can replace words with the same meaning in different local dialects." In this way, wouldn't it be possible to extend many blessings with the same meaning, but in different ways?"
Xiao Yun scratched his head again: "It seems that this is okay, then how many local dialects do you know?"
"For example, we have been to Shenhai City, didn't you write that you are so handsome? Then we can write that you are a beautiful boy, you are a beautiful girl, your son is a beautiful girl, your daughter is a beautiful girl, your father is a beautiful boy, and your mother is a beautiful girl......
As a result, before Xiao Yun could make a move, the stone took the lead and gave Li Dazhuang a rolling pin.
"Can you say something? If you really can't speak, shut up, no one will treat you for dumb. This kind of non-nutritious words can be said, which is really in line with your consistent personality. ”
Li Dazhuang covered his sore head and said nothing.
Huang Haoran's sister suddenly said: "In fact, there are many blessing languages, and we don't necessarily have to put the object of blessing on the newlyweds." Li Dazhuang's words reminded me that we can write words to bless their parents or children. In that case, we are not perfunctory. ”
"Very good, really worthy of a talented girl. I appreciate you, I'm going to go to the dictionary right now. ”
Huang Haoran's sister couldn't help but shake her hair very proudly after getting Xiao Yun's approval.
Li Dazhuang muttered very dissatisfied at this time: "That's what I said, it's just that you haven't understood it yourself, and you blame me." ”
The stone knocked Li Dazhuang again: "Can you shut up? Hurry up and do your work, otherwise, you waste time like this, and we will not be able to complete the expected workload." ”
"You are exploiting, you are exploiting. Even if you work outside, you still have days off. I'm kneading dough almost except for four or five hours of sleep, and I'm already feeling quite tired of it. ”
"Then I don't want to pull the bellows, let's change it. ”
Xiao Yun's grandfather wiped the sweat on his face, and then said to Li Dazhuang.