That year (44)

Lin Yutong is no stranger to kerosene stoves. In the dormitory of educated youth, almost everyone has one of these things. Lightweight, does not take up space, in the dormitory, occasionally can improve the food by yourself.

Now when you use this at home, you only dare to use some stir-fried vegetables, if you really use this for porridge and steamed buns, where to get kerosene. For example, in Lin Yutong's mother's pharmaceutical factory, the workers all buy steamed buns in the canteen, buy porridge with a pot, and fry vegetables on a kerosene stove when they come back. Almost all the employees of the unit live like this. Mother Lin is in the cafeteria, but she is an honest person and never sneaks anything home. Not as shrewd as some people, when choosing vegetables, choose a few more 'rotten leaves', and take them home is enough for a day's food at home. An aunt who was with Lin's mother, what vegetable leaves, vegetable gangs, vegetable roots, and radish skins were all brought home to soak in the jar to make kimchi, which is said to be a vegetable that can sustain the family for a winter.

Mother Lin also once talked to Lin Yutong, "The radish is clean, but it is too ruthless when the knife is cut, and the peeling is thick." I looked distressed, so I said that if you don't do it, I'll come. I didn't expect to provoke people. ”

Lin Yutong saw Yin Wei peeling the white radish, so he smiled and learned this from her.

"Everywhere it goes, a shrewd man is shrewd in everything. Yin Wei said, and went to stir the porridge in the pot on the honeycomb stove. Then he took out four boiled eggs from them, washed them with cold water, and "ate these in a while, and then drink some porridge." Make sure you have enough food for your child. ”

Lin Yutong responded, and first fried the radish with dried red pepper.

In the morning, the family is just such a dish. The nest head is very small, after all, the stove is steamed, and the small one is cooked. Half a fist-sized nest, only one person, Lin Yutong gave his own to the fourth master, and Yin Wei gave his stuff to Guo Yonghong. The old man didn't eat the egg he gave him, he had to give it to Yin Wei.

Maybe Lin Yutong stuffed four eggs, which can be regarded as full. But he inexplicably felt guilty.

What can you do in the countryside with some wild vegetables in the porridge, so you can coax your stomach, but you don't have this in the city. That's it, Yin Wei's porridge is quite thick.

The two went back to the house, and the fourth master sighed, "It's not easy to live anywhere." ”

"I have to get food back first, and with my brother-in-law's amount of food, it is estimated that I have to be hungry every day. Lin Yutong said, and turned his head to see the three children wearing small padded jackets, tossing back and forth.

Now it's even more nice to watch. I'm afraid they'll fall over.

"I'll pick up people first, and we'll get food back tomorrow," the fourth master got up and put on his coat, "I'll go with my brother-in-law and eat some more outside." ”

"If the bus stop is far away, you can sit on three wheels. Lin Yutong admonished.

"Can the master still wronged himself?" the fourth master kissed Lin Yutong on the face, "Look at the child." I'll be back in half a day. ”

When the fourth master left, Lin Yutong turned out a few catties of wool from the space. This wool, Lin Yutong looked at it, not too eye-catching. At least the new sweater on Yin Changtian's body is a bit similar to this line.

When Yin Wei finished busy and came over to help watch the child, Lin Yutong gave her, "I don't care about it, I see that the eldest sister takes the time to knit a vest or sweater for her father and brother-in-law." It's not enough to find a way to buy some threads. ”

"That's what you bought. Yin Wei took it and looked at it, "Okay, I'm not polite to you." ”

The two of them were talking in the room. Sitting on the edge of the bed and wrapping wool, just to block the child in the bed, afraid that the child will fall.

Speaking of children, Yin Wei couldn't help but be envious, "We're both so old, we don't know if we can have children?"

Twenty-seven or eighteen years old is a good time to get pregnant.

She reached out and pulled Yin Wei's wrist and made a diagnosis, "Sister, are you cold?"

Yin Wei was stunned for a moment, "When I was studying agriculture this spring, I irrigated in early spring, and the river watered the ground." At that time, the water was very cold, and I soaked for a few days......"

Studying engineering, agriculture, and social practice are all things that these workers, peasants, and soldiers and cadets have to come into contact with.

"Can it be cured?" Yin Wei asked with a wry smile.

"I'm scared for a year or two. Lin Yutong sighed, "Your body is probably the most important thing in the family to recuperate." But it doesn't matter, people are not born at the age of fifty or sixty, and it is not too late to be born at the age of thirty. Let's not be in a hurry, we have a good body. Tomorrow I'll go out and grab medicine. ”

Yin Wei's heart was relieved, and she smiled, "If you can be born, you can do it." The one in our family also said that it was a blessing that their family came to him anyway, and he really didn't care if he had children or not. But in my heart, I feel that I owe him. ”

"It's not a big deal. Let's slowly recuperate, and even the root of the disease on our body will go together. When you are in good health, your child will be healthy. Lin Yutong said, turning his head, only to find that the three children were pressed one by one, huddled into a pile and fell asleep. The eldest pressed the second child's leg, and the second child held the third child's arm.

She couldn't help but laugh.

"Yo! Yin Wei hurriedly helped Lin Yutong and divided them. I don't go to sleep in the crib either. I rested on the big bed. Lin Yutong covered them.

Yin Wei got up, "While the child is asleep, you should also go to sleep." Raising children is like this, you have to follow their schedule. ”

Lin Yutong was really next to the three children, and fell asleep in a blink of an eye.

I don't know how long I slept, but when I opened my eyes, I saw why the child was gone. Frightened, he sat up immediately.

"Don't be afraid. The fourth master's voice came from outside, "The child is in his father's house, and there is milk powder." Not hungry. ”

"I fell asleep, and I didn't even know if the child was awake. Lin Yutong sat up and felt that his whole body was soft.

The fourth master smiled: "I didn't cry, when I came back, the three of them were huddled together, you gnawed my feet, I gnawed your hands." There was no movement at all. I was afraid that I would cry and quarrel with you, so I took it out. The eldest sister looked at it. Just fed once. ”

"It may be that knowing that the child is in charge, the strength in my heart is relaxed, and my whole body is like cramping. Lin Yutong fell down, "Did you get someone?"

"Got it. The fourth master came over and touched Lin Yutong's forehead, "It's okay, I don't have a fever." ”

"Then I'll have to get up, or I'll be rude. Lin Yutong lifted the quilt and looked out the window, and the snow was heavy again. "It's time to make dinner, too. ”

"I first took the food stamps to the grain station to change twenty catties of black noodles, and then I went to pick up the people. I came back and bought three catties of meat, and made dumplings at night. ”

"Okay!" Lin Yutong said, and got up to wash his face. I don't know if the food can't keep up in the past two days, or the child's food is too large, anyway, the milk is a little insufficient. In the past half a day, there has been no milking.

By the time the fourth master and Lin Yutong went to the hall, the board had already been erected in the house.

"The kitchen is not as warm as this side. Besides, this big family's dumplings are told to be wrapped by the two of us, and we have to wrap them until midnight. Yin Wei was peeling green onions in her hands, and when she saw Lin Yutong, she smiled. She's so happy today.

There was a sound of chopping meat from the front gatehouse, and this strength must be Guo Yonghong's. Then the one who is with the face is Yinkun.

"Second brother is good. Lin Yutong asked how he went.

"Kobayashi is good. Yin Kun was a little dark, smiling and white teeth. "Wash your hands and pack them together. ”

Lin Yutong answered, washed his hands and went.

The fourth master asked Yin Kun, "Where is my father?"

"Inside. Nice eyes to stare at the child. Yin Kun raised his chin. When the child fell asleep, he sat on the edge of the bed and stared. His son, who he hadn't seen for many years, looked at it twice and pulled it down.

When he was eating, he listened to Yin Kun talk about his side.

“…… It's not just the food that's hard, it's the firewood that makes a meal. We are not the same as the Northeast, there is no hard wood to burn. It's all wheat stalks, peanut stalks, cotton stalks, and corn stalks. As he spoke, he sighed, "Wheat stalks, peanut stalks, and corn stalks can be used as fodder for livestock." Where is the production team willing to ask everyone to share it as firewood. It's all pulled to the feedlot as feed. Just that little cotton stalk, the family shares a little bit. So, I'd rather suffer a little loss and eat with food at other people's houses than cook for myself. In the two years that my grandmother was here, it was hard for me to die. Even if the big guy takes care of it, it's not enough to burn the kang for grandma. When my grandmother left, I simply locked the door of the house and went with the educated youths who cut in line. Every day when I came back from the ground, I had to collect firewood. Otherwise, you won't be able to cook. Often, there will be half-cooked meals, half-cooked, but there is no firewood. I was cooking, and there were people who ran out to borrow firewood everywhere every day. There is no grass in our fields in the summer, and the fields are cleaner than human faces in the winter. Take the grass back to dry, it's firewood. In winter, the tree was cut off and there was only one trunk left. It's really called a clean. ”

"There are many sons in the family, and there are several and a half young men in the family, who eat sparingly, and drink thin at once. This autumn harvest will not be enough to eat at the end of the year. As he spoke, he glanced at Yin Changtian and asked, "Do you know the sixth uncle at the head of the village?"

Yin Changtian nodded, "Don't you remember, when I was a child, we picked up bird eggs together." ”

"His family owes the production team food every year with seven sons. That year, the New Year could not pass, and the Chinese New Year's Eve did not have a bite to eat at home. Isn't it particular about our side, and we can't borrow things in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve. He was too embarrassed to open his mouth. The whole village is in debt. In the end, the third grandfather turned over the peanut seedlings in the feedlot again, and put the peanuts that were so deflated that they were not as big as melon seeds when peeled out, and sent them in half a sack with the shell. A large family, relying on that for a Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

"In the spring, when the greens and yellows are not harvested, the peanuts on the ground sprout, and many children pick the seedlings and eat them. It's all night, so go while the adults are asleep. Because he couldn't see it, he ate a kind of fat grass as a bean seedling. He was blue all over his body, and his face was swollen like a basin. That's it, and it can't stop people from stealing food. I'm so hungry that I can't help it. Later, the production team didn't care about any production tasks, and a variety of sweet potatoes could be considered full. ”

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