"Ten days of cold food, clear up (morning) Hengheng (heng, evening) wear cloth shirts." After the Qingming Festival, the temperature rose rapidly, and people took off the cotton clothes they had worn for a winter and put on jackets. Grandma found out the single clothes of the Yoyo brothers and sisters and compared them (tried them on), and they were all shorter.

"I don't see the length of the person, but I see the clothes (chu, shrinkage). Our children follow the adults, and they grow up really fast, and these clothes are short. Grandma sighed at her mother.

"I have to make new ones for Hao Hao and Yoyo, and Didi Xiao can use Yoyo's old clothes to change them. Mom looked through the clothes of her brother and sister and proposed.

"There are a lot of woven cloth this year, let's make a new one, Didi is all picking up torn (picking up old clothes to wear) except for the New Year. Wash the newly woven cloth once and shrink it, you also make a new one, your original one is no real color, I will go to buy it again to see if the supply and marketing cooperatives have come to polyester cloth, and I bought a cadre uniform for Weihua. ”

The clothes I bought for my parents at the county department store that time, my grandmother never dared to take them out, and the family didn't have the spare money to buy clothes at that time.

Grandma took the time to cut the clothes, and on Sunday, my mother took them to my uncle's house and used my second aunt's sewing machine to make them. At this time, sewing machines were a rarity in the countryside. The fashionable "three turns and one ring" in the city are issued according to the nature of the work, and tickets are purchased with tickets.

There are no supply tickets in the rural areas, and there is nowhere to sell even bicycles, only advanced village cadres who hand in a lot of agricultural products will be rewarded with bicycle tickets.

Others have to go to the black market to buy it at a high price, and a large golden deer bicycle that costs about 150 yuan in the state can be sold for 2670 yuan on the black market, which is not affordable for ordinary rural families.

At Yoyo's request, grandma cut a green and white plaid cloth top and green and white striped pants for Yoyo, which complemented her mother's green and white plaid top, and Yoyo called herself "mother and daughter clothes".

Hao Hao and Di Di's clothes are all green and white "long flowing water" colors, Hao Hao hugged Di Di and said: "Brother outfit", the brothers are beautiful everywhere.

The woolen yarn that I bought in the county town didn't dare to let Youyou take it out, but bought four fleece jackets at Zhangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and said that it was a defective product that was processed internally, and the adults wore it one by one.

Mom didn't know what to do, and she still sighed there: "It's so cheap, how can there be any flaws, this sales point is really good, and you can also buy internal processing products." ”

Entering the March of the lunar calendar, everywhere is full of vitality, the willow leaves seem to grow long (zhangchang) overnight, the poplar leaves are full of branches, the breeze blows through the "sand lala" sounds, the apricot blossoms fall and the peach blossoms bloom, and the scattered peach trees become more and more delicate.

Toon buds popped up, clusters on the branches. In a few days, it will grow to a long time and can be picked. At this time, the first stubble toon buds are picked, and it is also the freshest, most tender and fragrant one.

Every family in the village planted one or two toon trees, and every household drowned toon buds, and there were more people who came to the consignment point to buy salt, and everyone bought it for three or five catties. Yoyo asked Grandma how many toon buds to be drowned to buy so much salt, and Grandma told Yoyo that every house would flood a large vat, enough to eat in spring.

"Why don't you sell it if you can't eat it?"

"Every family planted toon trees, and they sold them to whom. ”

In later generations, toon buds were famous for their health and beauty effects, and they were loved by people for their high prices, and were developed into an industry. The application of greenhouse cultivation technology and preservation technology has allowed it to develop into an out-of-season vegetable, and fresh products are available all year round, but the taste is always worse than that of the wild.

The second master and Youyou's family lived in the team's house, and there were no toon trees in the yard. When people come to the cattle house or the consignment point, they will give them toon buds and say that they will try it. The dark red shoots are shiny, soft and moist leaves, and they are mouth-wateringly tender.

With toon sprouts, grandma took a scoop of soybeans and went to the "big one" house to change tofu, and met several people on the road who changed tofu. Everyone said that after gnawing on the pickles of the winter, the toon sprouts came down, and they made a toon mixed with tofu to satisfy the children's hunger.

Grandma soaked the toon buds with boiling water, the rich aroma floated out, the leaves of the toon became verdant, chopped and mixed with tofu, white and fragrant. When you eat it in your mouth, it is fragrant and tender, fresh and refreshing.

Yoyo pestered grandma to fry toon eggs to eat, "I haven't eaten it for more than ten years, this year I enjoy the blessing of Yoyo, let's fry more." Grandma responded happily, fried a pot at noon, and was soon robbed of a clean light by several children.

"Grandma, the toon scrambled eggs are so delicious, I'll hook you tomorrow (tomorrow) and fry them again." Zhiliang was still satisfied

"Okay, I'll fry you tomorrow. "Grandma is now responsive, with a leisurely big mall, and now the most important thing at home is to eat and drink.

For a few days, cold toon sprouts, toon sprouts mixed with tofu, toon sprouts scrambled eggs, fried toon fish, grandma is doing it in a different way, and it is addictive to eat leisurely.

She also kept complaining that the toon buds were delicious but the time was too short, and her grandmother told her that she could break two stubble buds after more than ten days, but the fragrance was much smaller. Yoyo took the opportunity to make a lot of good use in the space, and then took it out to eat when the second crop came down.

There were too many toon buds given by the people, and the second grandmother and grandmother also found a big jar and flooded it.

On the morning of the third day of the third month of March, my grandmother made a pot of white noodles and fished a bowl for Youyou first, and there were two poached eggs in the bowl. Put on the green onion sesame oil and smell the fragrant fragrance.

"Yoyo, hurry up and drink, from today, you will be five years old. "It turns out that today is my birthday.

Grandma continued: "I have a good birthday, and the queen mother was born a day, and the girls born today are all rich and noble." It's a pity, I caught up with this world, and this year is better, it turns out that this bowl of longevity noodles is also difficult for grandma. ”

Yoyo asked, "Grandma, when will you live?"

Grandma sighed when she heard this, "Grandma lost her parents when she was a child, and she followed your uncle and grandfather to ask for food, and I and your uncle and grandfather didn't know their birthdays." ”

"Which grandpa's birthday that day, and Mom and Dad, Hao Hao and Didi?"

Without waiting for grandma to answer, Hao Hao hurriedly said, "Sister, I know everything." Dad is the eighth day of October, and my mother is the eighth day of April, and they are half a year apart. I am the ninth day of October, and Didi is the tenth day of October, and we followed my father to live. Grandma, I don't know grandpa's birthday. ”

Grandma sighed, "Your grandfather, I see that grandma doesn't know the birthday, and I can't do it myself, how many years have it been, don't care about his birthday." "I was moved to listen to it, this is the real feeling, sharing joys and sorrows.