Chapter 221: Many Friends, Many Paths
"Just say that the suspicion is over? I can't find it, I can only say that she hid it well...... In this way, I have an uncle I know in the county revolutionary committee, you go to him, and tell him like this......" Xu Dan attached to the ear of the daughter-in-law of the Hu family and said in a stumbling voice. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The little daughter-in-law of the Hu family nodded again and again when she heard this: "Cheng, Ming'er will let my man do this." Lao Zhang's apprentice, I have long seen her unpleasantly, if I can vent my evil anger this time, it can be regarded as worthy of my half catty of cotton...... Having said that, Xiao Xu, since you have someone in the Revolutionary Committee, why don't you ask him to help you get you out of the cowshed? ā
Xu Dan tugged at the corners of his mouth. It's not that I didn't look for it, but it was useless to look for it.
Speaking of which, it was because of Shu Yingfang that she lost face and suffered so many grievances. This account will have to be settled sooner or later!
May your house be innocent, or else you will be welcome in the barn, and you will taste the sins I am suffering...... Xu Dan thought viciously.
After Yingfang came back, she unloaded the bamboo basket and went to the secretary to ask for leave.
As soon as the secretary heard that it was the stationmaster of the railway station looking for her, he granted leave without saying a word. also asked her to bring a bottle of home-brewed rice wine to the stationmaster.
Yingfang also prepared some small gifts - a basket of eggs and five catties of sunflower seeds. The latter reached the end of the year, and its popularity was no less than that of candy and chicken cakes. In addition, I took a clean cloth pocket and filled it with some dried wood nuts and fried five-spiced sunflower seeds, which I brought for Sister Lu. The amount is not much, but it is enough for one person. Too much will inevitably arouse suspicion.
When they had dinner at the master's house that night, Yingfang and the master said that they would go to the city the next day and asked them what they wanted to bring.
"There is nothing in the family at present, and I can buy the missing outlets. It looks like it's going to snow on this day, so you travel light and go back quickly. ā
"That's okay, I'll catch the early boat tomorrow, and if I can catch it, the boat will be back at noon." ā
"When I come back at noon, I will call to the second and go to reinforce your roof. Zhang Youkang said.
The Zhang family's house looks old, but it is reinforced every year, and the second elder is not worried.
However, the house of the apprentice's family, although it is relatively new, has been occupied by her uncle's family in the early years, and with Shu Jianqiang's inertia, as long as it is not crushed by the heavy snow, it is absolutely impossible to think of going to the roof to inspect and repair. I thought that before Laba, I would find a few acquaintances to help the apprentices repair the roof and strengthen it.
"Okay, I'll try to come back as soon as possible. ā
The next day, Yingfang carried a heavy bamboo basket on her back and a bamboo basket on her elbow to catch the morning boat.
Go to the dock on the other side of the river and hurry to the train station.
"Xiao Shu!" Sister Lu came back from the water room with a bamboo shell hot water bottle in her hand, and saw Yingfang standing at the door of the stationmaster's office knocking on the door, and greeted her with a smile, "You're early, the stationmaster hasn't gone to work yet." Come on, come on, come up to my office and sit for a while. ā
Sister Lu enthusiastically pulled her to the staff office next door, and the colleagues who arrived early were wiping the table and mopping the floor, and saw Sister Lu dragging a girl in and looked at her curiously.
"It's not that who......"
"The girl who called the little milk baby?"
"It's not her. Sister Lu laughed, turned back to Yingfang and said, "Look, they all remember you." ā
"Do you remember? Thanks to you, we were fortunate enough to taste the delicious taste of canned yellow peaches, which are indeed much better than canned oranges, no wonder the price is so expensive. ā
"Even if it's expensive, the supply and marketing cooperatives in small places may not be able to buy it. ā
Several lesbians laughed.
Ying Fang cleverly took out the fried melon seeds and dried wood nuts prepared in advance: "Canned yellow peaches are not available at home, but there is a little snack I made myself, don't dislike it, big sisters." ā
"Oh, sunflower seeds, well, delicious! These are five-spiced ones, right?"
"I'll taste it, I'll taste it...... Really, Xiao Shu, you fry yourself? You're so capable! I'll only fry with salt. ā
"Xiao Shu, what is this? It looks like a dried peach, but why is the color black, black, green and green?" Sister Lu didn't grab melon seeds with them to eat, but pinched up a piece of dried wood fruit and asked Yingfang.
"This is a wild fruit picked from the mountains near my home, called Mao Mu Guo, the fresh fruit is sweet and sour, and it is very delicious, but it is not tolerant of putting it, so I dried it. ā
"Hmm, it's very sweet, it's not sour at all, isn't it sugar?" Sister Lu ate a piece and praised the taste.
Ying Fang smiled and said, "I didn't put sugar." It may have run away after drying, and it is much sweeter than fresh fruit, and it is also durable. ā
"This thing is good. In the New Year, it is much better to entertain small guests than to buy sugar balls. Sister Lu said casually.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, a colleague of Sister Lu pulled Ying Fang and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Shu, do you still have this thing at home?" My eldest sister's family is going to come to my house as a guest in the first month, my little nephew grew up in the provincial capital since he was a child, and his mouth is very picky, and he is worried that the sugar bought by the supply and marketing cooperatives can't coax him.
Ying Fang turned her head and thought about it: She is not short of sugar tickets now, but the other party is a colleague of Sister Lu, and it seems that the relationship between the two is also good, and there are many friends and many roads. Besides, there was a lot of dried fruit at the beginning, and it was stored in the warehouse in a sack, and it was useless except to take some out of it as snacks for those close to me during the New Year. When the New Year is out and the weather is hot, this thing won't last long. Then he nodded and said, "There are indeed some at home, so let's do it, I will definitely come to the city a year ago, and I will bring some to the eldest sister then." Don't give me the sugar ticket, I also picked it up from the mountain, and it didn't cost a penny......"
"That's not good, even if the fruit is picked, doesn't it take a lot of effort to dry it? I don't pay for it, I just exchange the sugar ticket with you, I still think it's taking advantage of you." The other party insisted on exchanging the sugar ticket.
Sister Lu also persuaded Yingfang one after another: "If you want it, you can't take it for nothing." In fact, you still have a lot of them, and a few of us want to change them. ā
Ying Fang smiled: "Then I'll carry five or six pounds over, and you guys will share it." ā
Hearing that there were so many, Sister Lu smiled a few times. One pound of dried fruits can hold several shallow plates, which is enough to last the entire New Year.
"It's so lively early in the morning?" the stationmaster said with a smile as he passed by the staff office.
Sister Lu hurriedly called out to him: "Stationmaster, who do you see coming?" said and pushed Yingfang beside her to the stationmaster.
"Ah, it's Xiao Shu! Come and see everyone? No wonder it's so lively. Come, come, sit down with me, I have something to tell you. The stationmaster enthusiastically intercepted Yingfang from his office.
Sister Lu brought hot tea to the two of them and thoughtfully closed the office door.
Ying Fang took out the things sent to the stationmaster, and especially emphasized that the two catties of rice wine were given by the secretary.