Chapter 5: Grandma Shows Her Powers
Yoyo followed closely behind Grandma and went to see Grandma show off her powers. The younger brother saw that he had to follow, and his grandmother was afraid that he would get in the way when he was young, so he asked him to go out with his father, and the younger brother pulled his grandmother's shirt and didn't let go.
Yoyo took out a white rabbit toffee and handed it to him: "Didi, if you listen to grandma, I will give you another one tomorrow." ”
"Well, Didi is the most obedient, sister, don't forget it. The younger brother said, happily taking the candy, and ran to find his father.
The three west houses of the second master Han Defu's house, the two rooms in the north are lived, and the entrance is the hall room, and the second mother lives with her two daughters, and the second master lives in the cow house with his son Baojing.
The southernmost one was the kitchen, and Grandma was busy when she came in.
Cut off more than a pound of pork and chicken and put it in a pot to cook. More than half a catty of pork belly strips are made of crispy meat, half a catty of fatty meat slices are made of slippery meat, and the remaining two catties of fat and lean are chopped separately into meat puree. I took two white flour steamed buns and cut them into strips, and one spicy (white) radish was shredded and chopped.
The "ping pong" sounded in the kitchen for more than half an hour, and the grandmother saw that the meat and chickens in the pot were cooked, and scooped up the broth into the bucket with a fence.
Add water to the pot and boil 5 hard-boiled eggs, peel the egg skin in half, take out the egg yolk, stuff the lean meat puree inside and put it together, and hang the batter on the outside.
Due to the small amount of meat, Grandma put egg whites in the processed meat, added more flour, and tried to increase the amount as much as possible.
About 3 catties of oil were poured into the pot, and grandma quickly fried the braised pork, Sixi meatballs, egg-wrapped meat, crispy meat, steamed buns, and radish balls.
Pour out the oil and spread the remaining egg yolks into golden pancakes while the oil pan is at the bottom.
Brush the pot and add water, then boil the meatballs, slide the fat slices, and finally make all the preparations done, the sky is dark, grandma straightened up and beat the waist, smiled and told the second grandmother to put things away, refused the second grandmother's hospitality, and led Youyou home.
Mom has already made dinner, white noodle vegetable bun (vegetarian steamed buns) and flower cake nose (fancy pasta made with dates and white flour). In winter, when the days are short and dark early, the villagers are accustomed to finish the soup (dinner) before dark in order to save lamp oil by lighting fewer lamps.
"Mom, why don't you cook soup (porridge)? Watching my mother scoop boiled water into the bowl, she asked puzzled.
"Drinking white water on the night of the first to third night of the Lunar New Year is a metaphor for the new year to be refreshing and refreshing, and not to cause messy idle things. We people here are used to calling porridge confused, and drinking it in the New Year is not good. "Grandma explained to Youyou.
In your memory, there are very few times when you eat white bread at home. The elder brother happily ate two of the white noodle vegetable buns with a large bowl, and the younger brother also ate one.
Mom and Dad ate one by one, and it was obvious that they were reluctant to eat it, so Grandma took a flower cake and broke it open and handed it to them.
"Try this year's flower cake, this date was specially picked by your concubine, all of them are big and round, sweet that. ”
Looking at this warm scene, I was in a hurry, and the things in my mall were piled up, but my family was in a state of starvation. How can you take out the contents openly and improve the life of your family!
After the meal, the chickens and sheep were fed. Mom boiled another pot of hot water, and the family brushed their teeth, washed their faces and burned their feet.
In Youyou's subconscious, this habit of his own family has been talked about (discussed) by the villagers. It takes a little effort to pick a few more buckets of water, and the water tank at home is the largest, which can hold eight buckets (buckets) of water.
But Chai He is more nervous, most people are not enough to burn, for this reason, grandma and grandpa get up early and collect firewood in the dark.
The family cleaned up, and it was dark, but I got up too early in the morning and went to bed early. Yoyo stole a glance at the time on the brain in the mall, it was not yet six o'clock in the afternoon.
"Comrades of the poor and middle peasants, now the broadcast begins. The little horn behind the door suddenly rang, and there was a stinging noise.
After hearing the sound of nature, I finally found an organization and had a channel to understand the current society.
"Dididi, it's 18 o'clock Beijing time, and the news is broadcast below. ”
Hearing this voice, Yoyo hurriedly checked the time, and she was pleased to find that the time in Zhi's brain was the same as the outside.
In the days that followed, Yoyo had a hobby and liked to listen to the radio.
Every morning at 6 o'clock, the music of "Dongfang Hong" will sound on time, 6:30 is the "local people's radio station simulcast program", 7 o'clock is the provincial news simulcast, and it ends at 7:30.
The broadcast began at 11 p.m. and ended at 12:30 p.m.
In the evening, it is 18 o'clock, and 19 o'clock is the "simulcast program of the people's radio stations in various places". The theatrical program began at 30 p.m., often playing so-called revolutionary songs and eight modern model Peking Operas, which ended at 30:30 p.m. The ending song is all the music of "The Sea Sails by the Helmsman".
From the radio, you know that Hantun Village is a small village in Zhangying Commune, Hongcheng County, Linshui District, Lu Province. With this understanding, Yoyo used his brain to almost check the information about this period on the Internet.
Unfortunately, due to this special turbulent era, not much of the data has been preserved, and it is not complete at all, and most of them are fragmentary records. However, talking is better than nothing, so that Yoyo has some understanding of this era, which is much more real than what he saw in the past in time-traveling novels.
Just after dawn on the second day of the new year, just after half past six, you heard your parents get up. Dad used the iron bucket from the cow house to fetch (carry) water, and Mom swept the yard to cook.
After all, Yoyo's body was still small, and he soon fell asleep again, and it was already more than seven o'clock in the morning when he was woken up by his grandmother.
With the help of Grandma, Yoyo has just dressed. The younger brother came over, probably not awake yet, he rubbed his eyes and stretched out his hand to Yoyo.
"Sister, sugar. ”
You patted her head, and she really forgot yesterday's promise. Didi's memory, a two-year-old child, has not forgotten it after a night's sleep. Hurriedly took out two pieces of toffee from his pocket and handed them over, and said casually, "Give one to my brother." ”
"Sister, you can eat it yourself, I'm too old to eat sugar. Hao Hao took the sugar cube handed over by Di Di and stuffed it into Youyou's hand without hesitation, looking like a little adult that made Youyou cry and laugh.
Youyou secretly complained in his heart: My brother, my sister's sugar is so much that she can eat and vomit you.
Yoyo carefully peeled off the toffee and stuffed it into his brother's mouth. Then he took a handful out of his pocket and handed it to his brother.
"Uncle gave it, brother, you and Didi share the food, don't let people rob it anymore. ”
But he carefully put the candy paper on the kang table and slowly leveled it.
In later generations, almost everything in this era became a collector's item, even candy paper was priced in the thousands.
Hao Hao leaned over and took a look, "You girls like these flower papers, I will keep them for you if I have sugar paper in the future." ”
"Brother, this is not flower paper, there are beautiful pictures on the candy paper, and there are words, different sugar cubes, and the candy paper is also different. ”
Grandpa listened to Youyou's words and nodded approvingly. He said with emotion: "Actually, collecting candy paper is the same as stamp collecting, it is also a kind of collection, and you will understand it when you are older." Yoyo did the right thing, let it go. ”
Youyou taught his brother to sort out the candy paper, Haohao was troublesome, so he peeled off the candy paper and handed it to Youyou.
"It's better for you to leave it alone, you can eat sugar for the New Year in a year, and there are not a few pieces in total. ”
Didi also handed over the candy wrapper, "Sister, mine is also for you." But in his little heart, he knew that his sister liked candy wrappers, and every time he ate candy in the future, he would put them on his sister.
For breakfast, I still eat dumplings, and the whole family eats mixed noodles, pork, spicy radish and vermicelli filling. Yoyo ate several in a row, and I didn't see a piece of meat the size of a bean, but it tasted very good, with a strong pork aroma.
However, the dumpling skin is too thick, and it is not hard, and it is a bit strained. It looks quite big, but there is not much stuffing in it.
Hao Hao also said to grandma: "Grandma, today's flat food stuffing is really fragrant, it would be nice if it was white." This black flour has a thick skin and a little stuffing inside. ”
Grandma said helplessly: "It's good to be able to eat a flat meal of white noodles on the first day of the new year." You don't know, grandma didn't eat a flat meal for several years when she was a child. ”
Hao Hao saw that his grandmother was sad, and hurriedly said: "Grandma, when I grow up, I will also go to be a soldier, and when the time comes, I will send food stamps to my family, and you and my grandfather will eat white noodles every day." ”
Grandma smiled happily, "Okay, grandma is waiting to enjoy Haohao's blessings and eat white noodles every day." ”
Youyou said in his heart: "I can let the whole family eat white noodles now, but how can I take it out?"
After the meal, my mother mixed the chicken food with the leftover dumpling soup, and then scooped it into a large clay pot with the water from the brush, sprinkled with two handfuls of bran, and my father took it to the grass shed to feed the sheep.
As soon as I finished cleaning up, my uncle and grandfather walked in with a firecracker (firecracker), and Gao Men said loudly: "The clinic is open today, and I specially bought one with a hundred rings, hoping that our Weihua's fame will get louder and farther."
Dad went into the house and took out the keys, Mom carried two thermos filled with boiling water in the morning, and the family walked to the health room.
The brigade headquarters where Yoyo's family lives is on the south side of East and West Street, and on the north side of the street is the village's wheat field. Five rooms were built in the southeast corner of the wheat field, and two rooms on the east side opened to the south street and were health rooms. The three rooms on the west side open to the north and are the village houses, which contain the team's farm tools, and the temporary residence of the watchmen during the Autumn Festival.
The street in front of the clinic was clean, and the crowd was full of people watching the excitement, and the uncle and grandfather solemnly said a few words and ordered the firecrackers to open the door.
There is a large desk with drawers in front of the door of the room, on which are placed blood pressure monitors, pillows and a few medical books, a wooden chair behind the table, and two stools in front of the table, one horizontal and one vertical, which seem to be for patients to sit.
On the east and north walls stand white medicine cabinets with dozens of medicines and simple medical equipment. A long brown cupboard of Chinese medicine under the west beams divides the house into two rooms, and a wooden bed with white sheets is placed in the inner room, and the faint smell of Chinese medicine wafts in the room.
Mom and a few women took a rag to wipe carefully, and Baojing took the initiative to pick up a broom to clean inside and out. Someone joked: "Baojing, did you kowtow to your master during the New Year?"
Bao Jing admired doctors because of his parents' poor health, so he went to the clinic to help when he was free, and was nicknamed "Dr. Wu's little apprentice" by the villagers.