Uncle Kan and the other construction workers nodded one after another: "Yes, yes, it's time to set up an office." ”

Someone else said, "But where are we going to find a house?" ”

Bai Ke smiled: "You don't have to worry about the house, I'm ready." ”

Everyone also laughed: "It turns out that the captain has already arranged it, and he is here to ask for our opinion." ”

Someone shouted: "You are the captain, you have the final say, you don't have to discuss everything with us." ”

Bai Ke said: "Such an important matter, of course, I have to discuss it with everyone." And in the future, if you have any tools that are inconvenient to carry on the construction site, you can put them in the yard of the office. ”

"Great," Uncle Kan was very happy, "if you need our cooperation, just ask." ”

Now that everyone has no opinion, Baike can let go of setting up an office.

A few years ago, Bai Ke bought two yards.

One in the center of the city is used for antiques and stuff.

There is another one in the south of the city, with a larger courtyard and a little more dilapidated.

Think of it as an office.

The two cousins of the aunt's family acted as receptionists in the office.

I was very happy to leave Dongshan Baike.

Sitting in the back seat of the car, humming a little song all the way.

But suddenly Bai Zong was heard sighing softly.

"What's wrong, brother?"

"It's okay, well, it's just that my throat is a little uncomfortable. ”

Bai Ke suddenly remembered, for the past half a day, he was talking to Uncle Kan alone, Bai Zong had not said anything, and everyone had forgotten his existence.

"Brother, don't you think it's too ......?"

"It's nothing, it's good. ”

Bai Zong is really not the kind of person who is hypocritical and scheming.

But Bai Ke thinks about it carefully, the old brother follows his little brother all day long, as if he is a little follower, he will definitely be a little unhappy.

Bai Ke pretended to be angry: "Brother, how can you be like this? We are brothers, what can't you say to me?"

Bai Zong sighed: "I just feel like I'm an ornament, like a puppet." ”

"Why are you a decoration? Don't the big guys also make you the captain?"

"Come on, they're not stupid, they can see that I'm just a nominal captain. ”

"Because I'm too young to be a captain. Besides, without you, I wouldn't even be able to open a bank account. ”

Bai Zong sighed.

"You should help me. In the future, when I talk to them, if you get bored, you can just go aside and rest or play something. ”

"Okay. ”

Although Bai Zong agreed, Bai Ke still felt that he should do something.

Even if it's not my own brother who accompanies him so stupidly, it's a little inappropriate.

To be a human being, you need to have a sense of existence, and you want to be useful in the eyes of others.

But how can I help my eldest brother find a sense of existence?

When Bai Zong and Bai Ke returned home, Zhuoma's father and daughter also came over.

Dr. Yang led her over to pay New Year's greetings to Uncle Fat.

Just like the previous summer vacation, Dr. Yang stayed for a day and left, and Dolma had to stay here for a week.

The last time I stayed there, my family was already very familiar with Dolma.

Don't talk about Qin Yongmei and Bai Ce, even grandpa remembers Zhuoma.

In the evening, Bai Ke overheard his parents chatting with Dr. Yang, and his mother said half-jokingly: "Why don't you let your Zhuoma be our Bai Ke's daughter-in-law in the future." ”

Dr. Yang also smiled and said, "Okay." ”

Bai Ke likes Dolma very much, and in his previous life, he felt sorry that he didn't meet Dolma again after the first grade of elementary school.

If you can marry Dolma as a wife in this life, it should not be bad.

Isn't a kind and gentle woman perfect enough?

As for whether Dolma is slender or beautiful when he is an adult, what does it matter?

As a human being in two lives, Bai Ke doesn't care much about these external things anymore.

But at the moment, Bai Ke really doesn't have any love for Dolma in terms of men and women.

After all, he has adult emotions, and he has no tendency to be a child.

Originally, Dr. Yang planned to let Zhuoma stay at Bai Hakka's house for a week, but under the persuasion of Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei, he still agreed to let Zhuoma go back after the fifteenth.

In fact, this is very good, the train was very crowded before the fifteenth, and there was a lantern event in the small county on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year.

Afraid that Zhuoma would be lonely, Bai Ke, Bai Ning and the two elder brothers would accompany Zhuoma to play cards or something.

Or Bai Ke accompanied Zhuoma to visit Uncle Fat and visit those classmates in Aimin Primary School.

The days of the Spring Festival passed exceptionally fast.

In the blink of an eye, the adults are all going to work.

The children continued to bask in the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

Adults are actually loose when they go to work.

This state of affairs lasted until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, various stores began to sell Lantern Festival.

This year, buying Lantern Festival is crazier than buying Chinese cabbage stored in winter.

It's basically a game of "whoever grabs it, I win".

The white guest and their family don't rush to this lively famine.

Like the southerners, they don't eat Lantern Festival, only tangyuan.

In the eyes of white customers, Lantern Festival is different from tangyuan.

The Lantern Festival is rolled out with something like a sieve.

And the glutinous rice balls are wrapped, just like making dumplings and buns.

After moving to this self-built house, Bai Ke and his father Bai Ce have been thinking about getting a small stone mill, grinding some glutinous rice dumplings or grinding beans to make soy milk.

But the two of them searched for more than a year and did not find a suitable grinding plate.

The grinding discs that can be bought are all too big, and they are all the kind that make donkeys push, and Xiaojiakou can't use them at all.

In the summer of this year, Bai Ke learned that there were stonemasons in Zhongchang Village who could do stone grinding.

So I went to the stonemason and made a small mill with a diameter of 30 centimeters, and carried it back on a bicycle.

I tried grinding soy milk a few times and made rice balls a few more times.

I've already mastered how to use it.

When he was on the tenth day of the first month, Bai Ke helped his father soak the glutinous rice.

When it comes to the thirteenth day of the first month, it is just right to take it out and grind.

Bai Zong and Bai Bin don't like this kind of trivial work, Bai Ke and Bai Ning like it.

Dolma naturally likes it here.

The three of them got busy together.

Bai Ke pushed and grinded, Zhuoma added rice, and Bai Ning carried a cloth bag to pick up rice milk underneath.

After a while, Bai Ning shouted: "Oops, I can't lift anymore, my hands are sore." ”

Zhuoma hurriedly changed with her and asked Bai Ning to add rice.

Because this small mill is too small, it is impossible to fix the cloth bag on the mill, so the most tiring thing is to lift the cloth bag.

The three of them just switched back and forth, worked hard all afternoon, and finally got a small half bag of glutinous rice milk.

Then hang it in the kitchen, and then use a basin underneath it, and the glutinous rice milk keeps dripping with water.

When I woke up the next morning, the water was almost ticking, and I could start making rice balls.

Around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Qin Yongmei and the others were extremely busy.

When Bai Ce led Bai Ke, Bai Ning, and Zhuoma to make dumplings together, she had already gone to work.

The Lantern Festival stuffing was made by Bai Ce alone when they were grinding glutinous rice outside yesterday.

There are two kinds of fillings, one is salty and light, and the other is the common sweet, with peanuts, walnuts, sesame seeds, and lard.

The dumplings have to be wrapped into the shape of dumplings first, and then rolled into a circle.

The four of them had just wrapped up for a while, and the two cousins, Feng Yan and Feng Jun, came back from outside.

Bai Ning took the opportunity to run away, and Bai Ke also got up and watched a few of them busy.

Then, the white customer takes the wrapped rice balls to the outside and freezes them.