"When I arrived, I went to the courtyard surrounded by the adobe wall in front of me, and the crooked neck jujube tree in front of the courtyard was planted by your grandmother and grandfather when they got married. It's a pity that the self-reserved land was not included in the family. But it's good to grow next to the road, so it's easy to recognize the door, and when you see this tree, you know that your house has arrived. Everyone in the village knows that this is the jujube tree of the Emen's family, and they usually don't come to snatch the jujube from the Emen......"

Uncle Lu pointed ahead.

The Lu family has arrived.

The gate of the courtyard was ajar, and there were four people in the courtyard, like wooden stakes.

The first one was a middle-aged man in his forties, and the other three were like his sons, all of whom lowered their heads and listened to Grandma Lu standing under the eaves with a look of shame:

“…… This year's work has been earned, and you can't even eat food before the winter? It's not a year of famine, how good is this year's harvest, even better than last year, isn't the old pious woman next door slandering you again?"

"Not really. ”

"What's the matter? I'm lazy and don't earn enough work, so I don't get as much as last year? ”

"No, cousin, you're not lazy, you're just ......" The father and son lowered their heads and honestly admitted, "I exchanged grain for meat." ”

"Just say!" Grandma Lu pointed at their noses angrily and scolded, "You four laborers, how can you eat all the food you earn before winter, dare to go to the city to change meat." This meat tastes so good, I don't even want food to live!"

"Cousin ......"

"Cousin ......"

"Mother, who do you think is coming?" Uncle Lu pushed open the courtyard door, led Nuan Nuan and Yan Yan in, and Yang Yang followed behind expectantly.

Rao is Grandma Lu's old eyes were dizzy, and she didn't recognize Yingfang's family for a while, and she knew who was coming, so she clapped her hands happily: "Ouch, hey, Grandma's baby eggs are here!"

"Grandma!" the triplets hurriedly shouted.

Ying Fang and Xiang Gang came in with their luggage, and behind them were Xiao Sanye.

"Grandma, we're here!"

"Grandma Xiaofang, we're here to bother. ”

"It's good, it's good, it's all your own people, what to say and don't bother. Come in and sit, it's cold outside. Rong Can, you carry your luggage to the East House, don't let Xiaofang's parents get tired. ”

Seeing this, the four fathers and sons in the courtyard took the luggage quickly and helped carry it into the two large kang houses on the east side.

Grandma Lu scolded with a smile: "It's a bit of eyesight." "Just let the son deal with the lack of food for her cousin's family, and she will entertain her granddaughter's family who have come from afar. No one is allowed to disturb her.

"What's the matter, Brother Tiemin?" Uncle Lu went to the brigade to return the ox cart after putting his luggage, and took his cousin's family away by the way.

Lu Tiemin frowned: "I don't hear from people that now that the city is open, I won't be caught if I exchange white rice and fine noodles for meat." He led the boy to pick up two loads of grain and wanted to go to the city to change the pig's hind legs. As a result, the hind legs of the pig were not replaced, and the grain was confiscated. People almost couldn't come back. Say that the trading volume is too large, and the suspicion is that the amount is speculative. It's good to say that he was punished again, and three loads of grain were put back. I didn't dare to tell my cousin about this, for fear that she would be angry if she found out......"

"You ...... She didn't know that she would be angry, so much grain was eaten out at once...... Uncle Lu didn't know what to say, "It's not enough to change a few taels of meat for a mouthful? No wonder he will be targeted." Fortunately, it has been liberalized since last year, and before that, no matter how much food you are fined, you will not be able to come back. ”

Lu Tiemin said with a sad face: "That's not unknowing." Everyone said that they could change it, but they thought they could change it as much as they wanted. Who knows...... And it's not for yourself to eat when you get it back, it's not a big New Year's Eve eighteen, and I think it's time to ask a matchmaker to help you look at the object. ”

"It doesn't have to be so early. The matchmaker always has to match before receiving the gift, right?" Uncle Lu looked at his cousin speechlessly, there was no woman in the family, and he really couldn't do anything.

"Ah, why did you hear the next door say that you should send it if you open the invitation, otherwise what if people don't give them a good match?"

"Alas, you don't know what kind of urine sex the household next door is? Last year, I wanted to blackmail you for a few hundred catties of millet, so I almost got a revenge. Don't you ask this kind of thing, your cousin runs to ask the next door, you have a big heart!"

"Well, don't you want your cousin to worry about it? ”

"Don't you let her worry about it now?" Uncle Lu rolled his eyes and waved goodbye to the father and son, "Ah Da's lifelong event began to be Zhang Luo in the first half of the year, but you also know that there are few suitable ones in the Forehead Brigade, and they are asking the attention of other brigades." Ah Da celebrates the eighteenth year, and it is not really urgent time, so it is not bad to watch a few more. In addition, there have been guests coming to the door recently, and I will discuss with you after a while. When it comes to grain, I will pick up brown rice for you, and eat white rice mixed with brown rice for a period of time, and the vacancy of five loads of grain can always be recovered. ”

"No, more than five quintals. "Ah Da was about to cry in frustration," two days ago, I heard that someone in the commune next door had caught a wild boar, so I thought about changing a wild boar leg and picked up two loads of it. ”

"In other words, a wild boar leg erodes seven loads of grain?" Uncle Lu raised his forehead, "What about the wild boar leg?"

"Sent out, sent out. ”

"Which matchmaker?"

"No, not a matchmaker. "The heads of the four fathers and sons are almost down to the waistband of their trousers," the captain's old father will have a birthday in a few days, and he is worried that there is no meat at home, and when he saw that the Ejia family had exchanged for a wild boar leg, he discussed with Eda if he could borrow him first. He got the meat and paid it back. ”

Uncle Lu only felt that the back tooth socket hurt.

Grandma Lu can entertain her niece's family at home.

Bring out a variety of sweets.

There are fried fragrant dried sweet potatoes, Taigu cakes with jujube paste, mille-feuille oil cakes with mung bean noodles, sweet and sour jujube cakes, fragrant and crispy sesame pancakes, and egg cakes that are relatively difficult to make.

Grandma Lu has used all her eighteen cooking skills, and the ingredients that she has saved for a year and are usually reluctant to eat have all been made into food for a while.

No wonder so many people in the village chew on the root of their tongues, saying that Grandma Lu is old and confused, and she is an outsider who can't beat with eight poles, spending food, oil and labor, what is the picture!

Like fried dried sweet potatoes and egg pastries that require a lot of eggs and frosting and noodles, ordinary people may not even be willing to eat them during the Spring Festival.

It's good to steam and dry sweet potatoes and give them to the baby as snacks, and they are fried and sprinkled with sesame seeds, which costs a lot of money.

Eggs are to be saved and sold for money, and occasionally take one to supplement the children, and use it to make snacks with precious sugar...... Tsk, a whole loser!

Grandma Lu didn't think so, her granddaughter rarely came, not to mention that this year's harvest was good and the family had enough surplus food, even if it wasn't enough to eat, she had to find a way to get some for her granddaughter's family to try. This is her heart as a grandmother.

"Eat! Do you think grandma's craftsmanship is not good, and the taste is not right?" Grandma Lu brought out the freshly made brown sugar egg tea, scooped it up to them one by one, and persuaded them to eat dim sum.

Ying Fang couldn't cry or laugh: "Grandma, how can we eat so much, don't be busy, sit down and talk for a while." After a while, Grandpa woke up and went in to accompany him. Uncle, are they coming back today?"

The brother-in-law of the Lu family accompanied his daughter-in-law to visit the sister-in-law who had a miscarriage at her mother-in-law's house, because the mother-in-law's house was far away, and it took at least three days to come and go.

"I'm afraid I'll have to go back tomorrow. I left yesterday, and it will be evening when I get there, and I will stay for a day today, and most of them will come back tomorrow morning. Grandma Lu said.

Then he remembered the ham sent by his granddaughter, and said embarrassedly: "What, Xiaofang, the salted pork leg you sent to your forehead still has to be dried before you can eat it?" I originally wanted your little aunt to cut a little and take it to your mother's house, but you said in the letter that you still have to dry it, but you didn't cut it because you didn't know the bottom of your heart. ”

Ying Fang hurriedly explained: "It stands to reason that this ham is to be dried and hung in a cool place for a month or two before it is eaten, and it is too late for us to make ham meat, so we have to send it to grandma's house first." Where's the ham? I washed it in salt water, then found a ventilated place to hang it, hung it dry, and then dried it. ”

Grandma Lu patted her chest: "Ouch, the loss is not messed up, otherwise such a big pig's hind leg will be messed up." Not to mention the forehead, the captain of the brigade has never seen such a marinated pork leg meat, and he is still envious. ”

Ying Fang said with a smile: "This is called ham, which is more durable than simply marinated bacon meat, and it is sun-dried and hung in a cool place. ”

"Really? That's great! Go back and tell your uncle carefully, in the future, our family will have no shortage of meat to eat for a while, and we will do the same. Spring ploughing and summer planting, the meat oil hoarded for the New Year is eaten, and the meat of the new year has not come down, the farm work here is heavy, and there is no oil and water there, ouch is uncomfortable for the old man......"

While talking, Grandma Lu watched Yingfang mix salt water to wash the ham, and finished hanging the beams of the back warehouse.

The climate of the coal city is dry, and one night and another day are almost dry. Then hang it out in the sun.

Just finished the ham, Uncle Lu came back from the ox cart.

I heard him say that Lu Tiemin and his son were four, and they spent seven loads of grain to change a wild boar leg, and the wild boar leg went into the captain's pocket after finishing it.

Grandma Lu was so angry that she wanted to scold her mother: "Li Mingming, who has been stabbed a thousand times! ”

"Grandma, since the captain's character is so bad, how can he still sit in this position?" Xiang Gang raised his eyebrows puzzled.

"Alas, there are people in their Li family in the commune. It's not that no one has reported it before, but in the end, it's gone, but it offends people. When it was time to divide the grain, he picked the shriveled grain and distributed it to the people who did not match him, and all the people who had a good relationship with him were full grain. What's the solution? Who made him the captain? Gradually, no one dared to oppose him, he pointed to the east, and no one dared to go west......"

The adults were talking in the house, and the triplets were playing in the yard when they were full.

The children in the neighborhood heard that Grandma Lu's family had come to the guests of Province X, and the little guests were still triplet brothers and sisters, and they were lying on the wall to see the strangeness.

I was a little disappointed, it's not the same as a pair of eyes, a nose and a mouth, except that it's cleaner and more beautiful than myself, how can adults say it is so unusual.

The triplets were not afraid of giving birth, and asked them if they wanted to play together.

"Yes, yes. The name is Tie Niu, this is the second brother Tie Sheng. ”

"It's called Xiaojun. ”

"It's called Mao Bamboo Shoot. ”

“……”