The next day, Lin Xiujuan began to make rice candy, the rice is prepared at home all the year round, it is Li Manman and his younger brother's snacks, at this time in the countryside, there are often people who carry a burden to fry the rice, one end is an oval small stove, one end of the stove is a lid, used to hold rice in, the other end is a crank, set on the charcoal fire, slow shaking, and when it is almost ready, tie the end with the lid in a long bag with a waste car tire as the head, step on it with your foot, make an earth-shattering bang, and the snow-white rice will be poured into the long bag, The fried rice farmer took home the rice at the other end of the long bag. When www.biquge.info I was a child, Li Manman and his younger brother liked to eat this thing very much, because they used their own rice, which only cost a little manual fee, and could usually be put in a small bowl as a snack, and when they were hungry, they could add a spoonful of sugar, and they could satisfy their hunger by soaking in boiling water, so they were often prepared at home.

Lin Xiujuan was boiling syrup, Li Man was sitting in front of the stove to help light the fire, and Taotao was holding a small bowl and filling half a bowl of rice flowers and sitting on the threshold to eat.

After boiling the syrup, Lin Xiujuan poured the rice into it and stir-fried, so that the rice and sugar were evenly combined, and then took out of the pot with force, pressed it on the board into a flat shape, and cut it into long strips with a knife.

After a busy morning, the rice flowers at home are finished, the sugar is also exhausted, and after the rice flowers are dried, there is about a dustpan basket (this is a kind of utensils for holding things, round, the bottom is relatively shallow, and the straight drop is about one meter or so, most of which are made of vines, which is convenient for drying things. ）。

Lin Xiujuan covered it with newspaper to prevent dust from falling, and prepared to sell it at the Baitang market tomorrow. Li Manman ate a piece, the sweetness is more appropriate, and it is not too difficult to eat more, slightly better than what he used to eat, but the competitiveness is not too great.

Holding his cheeks and chewing rice candy, Li Manman's mind was thinking about the similar things he had eaten before, including millet melon seeds, and raisins, peanuts, and black sesame seeds. This one of my own seems to be too monotonous, melon seeds, raisins, millet, even if it, my mother will definitely not buy it, or use luck with the things at home!

I stood up and ran to the door of the cellar to look inside, where most of the cellar was filled with sweet potatoes, as well as some miscellaneous grains collected at home, peanuts, sorghum, corn, sesame seeds, etc.

"Mom, there are still peanuts and sesame seeds at home, right? Can you put a little bit in it, so that the rice candy will be a little more fragrant? Li Manman said to Lin Xiujuan, who was cutting kraft paper.

"I haven't done it, so it's probably going to be a little better!" Lin Xiujuan said nonchalantly, "What, do you want to eat like that?" ”

Li Manman nodded: "Peanuts and sesame seeds are very fragrant when fried, if you put them in rice candy, they will be delicious!" ”

Lin Xiujuan thought for a while and felt that it was very possible, so she said: "Wait for a batch to be sold out, I'll do that!" ”

Li Manman saw that his mother thought of this, so he didn't say anything more, and went to bake the fire with the novel.

Baitang gathering, Lin Xiujuan put the stall at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, and her father's good friend Peng Jingsheng is now the director of the city supply and marketing cooperative, so his mother told him, and he was busy setting up his mother's rice candy stall.

"Sister-in-law, how did you come up with selling rice candy?" Peng Jingsheng asked curiously, still holding a piece of rice candy in his hand and gnawing on it.

"It's not a big red mention? She told me and his dad that she and his brother had grown up, they had to go to school, and there were more places to spend money, so she suggested that I set up a stall to try during the Chinese New Year, and her dad thought it was good, so I tried it, and if I couldn't sell it, I would eat it myself! Lin Xiujuan still doesn't think she can make money, but she is quite proud of her daughter's sensibility.

"Is it a big red mention? Why is this girl so sensible? What about the big red? Didn't come with me today? Peng Jingsheng was very surprised, he knew that naughty girl of Li Tianxue, he only knew that she was very good at fighting, Li Tianxue sighed when he talked about her, he didn't expect to be sensible all of a sudden this year.

"Come, play with her grandmother and her brother, and I'll come over in a while." Lin Xiujuan replied, turned her head again, and looked at the two middle-aged women standing by the stall, "Two eldest sisters, do you want to buy some?" Delicious! After speaking, he handed a small piece of rice candy.

"How many cents a pound?" One of the middle-aged women asked after eating the candy.

"Three cents a catty, if you weigh two catties, it's five cents!" Lin Xiujuan said enthusiastically, "You've also eaten it, my rice candy tastes really good!" Syrup boiled in white sugar, fresh rice fried in rice! ”

The two middle-aged women looked at each other for a moment, and the one just now said, "Boss, it's cheaper, let's both buy it!" ”

"It can't be cheaper, think about how much is a pound of white sugar, how much is a pound of rice? The cost is in charge! Lin Xiujuan explained.

The two of them discussed for a while, and then they bought two catties each. Everything is difficult at the beginning, some people start to buy, and then someone follows suit, you have two catties, she has two catties, and she will buy more than half of them in a while.

Peng Jingsheng saw that Lin Xiujuan was busy, so he entered the office, although he was very curious about Li Manman, he still had work to do!

Li Manman followed his grandmother all the way to see the past, Baitang is an old market, the seat of the township government, more lively, but due to the restrictions of the times and regions, selling things is still relatively monotonous, the meat dishes eaten are chicken, fish, meat and eggs, meat is pork, occasionally lucky people will see the sale of beef, vegetarian is tofu, dried seeds, bean sprouts and the like, and then there is yellow heart black cabbage. Snacks are common melon seeds and peanuts, colorful fruit candy, a few sporadic restaurants that sell food, selling steamed dumplings, mung bean balls, oil boxes, and spicy soup.

Li Manman just took a look, but Taotao was attracted to keep a little saliva, and he couldn't look at it, Li Manman bought Taotao an oil fish and an oil box, and let him gnaw and walk. Grandma's mind is on the drum book, and seeing her grandchildren are well-behaved, she is also relaxed, and she takes the two of them to listen to the drum book. When Li Manman was a child, he often followed his grandmother to the market to listen to the drum book, the storyteller was a pair of allegro, a big drum, even rapping and singing, telling the stories in the history of the wild history vividly and tortuously, and the heroes in these drum books often appeared in childhood dreams, the leopard head Lin Chong, the white horse Zhao Yun, Xue Rengui who set the Tianshan Mountain with one arrow, and the heroine Liang Hongyu were all heroes that Li Manman admired in his childhood.

Sitting next to his grandmother, listening to the long-lost drum book, in his previous life, the drum book was applied for intangible cultural heritage, and he could only listen to the sermon in some specific venues, which made Li Manman very nostalgic for the childhood when his grandmother listened to the drum book together.

"Strange, strange, strange, strange came to my house, my old lady, eighty-five years old she is pregnant! Cluck! While knocking on snacks, Taotao happily recounted the smooth passage of the drum book just now, which I thought was particularly interesting.

"Don't choke, we'll talk about it when you're done!" Grandma was afraid that her grandson would be stuck with snacks and hurriedly said.

"Uh-huh!" Taotao nodded, and asked for another mouthful of oily fish, "My milk, you can eat it too!" As he spoke, he handed half of the oil fish he had bitten to his grandmother's mouth.

Grandma Li's eyes narrowed with a smile: "Don't eat milk!" My eldest grandson! Eat it yourself! After eating, grow up well, and give the milk a banner and break the old pot! ”

"Good!" Taotao was praised, the oil fish is his own, and he is beautiful in his heart, Li Manman glanced at his younger brother, this guy is a natural black! No wonder although he didn't study particularly hard and went to a third-class university, he was very prosperous, it seems that IQ is given by his parents, but EQ is born with everyone.

"Mom, Mom!" Taotao saw Lin Xiujuan who was weighing rice candy for customers, and ran to her mother with her legs, and the little oil hand grabbed the hem of Lin Xiujuan's clothes, Li Manman twitched the corners of his mouth, when he didn't see it.

"Mom, Da Hong, have you played well?" Lin Xiujuan squatted down, picked up her son, wiped his mouth with a towel, and said to Grandma Li and Li Manman.

"How's it selling?" Grandma Li glanced at the rice candy in the dustpan, there was not much left, and she was curious, so she asked.

"It's okay! Today's set is my share of rice candy! Lin Xiujuan took a sip of the water handed over by her daughter, and said to her mother-in-law with a smile, although her mother-in-law said that she was partial to the second family, she still really loved her two children, which was enough for Lin Xiujuan, so although the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Li family was not as close as a mother and daughter, it could be regarded as harmonious.

"Oh!" Grandma Li nodded, although she also wanted the second daughter-in-law to make some money, but what kind of person the second daughter-in-law was, she still knew in her heart that the second family couldn't bear this hardship, and she was unreasonable, and the second child's job was still made by the boss, so she didn't want to hate it.

"Mom, is Uncle Jingsheng the director of the supply and marketing cooperative?" Li Manman looked at the supply and marketing cooperatives in his memory for a long time and remembered that his father's friends seemed to be working in the supply and marketing cooperatives at this time.

"Huh? Yes, he helped build my stall! Lin Xiujuan nodded and glanced at her daughter strangely.

"Mom, look, my family's rice is gone, and I still have to buy it, I don't know if there is one in the supply and marketing cooperative? And the peanuts and sesame seeds at home are not too enough, and I think that if my family's rice is sold in the supply and marketing cooperative, you can save and run to the set? You can make rice at home with peace of mind! Li Manman whispered to her mother, there is another meaning she didn't say, that is, in this era, everyone still trusts the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Lin Xiujuan's eyes lit up, isn't it! She has been selling rice candy for half a day, knowing that she will definitely make money, if she does what Da Hong said, she can pull away and make a little more rice candy.

"You're right, I'll go with my mother to find your Uncle Jingsheng in a while!" Lin Xiujuan nodded and said to Li Manman.

"Mom, that's all there is left, take it to Uncle Jingsheng, his young brother should like to eat!" Li Manman looked at the remaining rice candy and said to Lin Xiujuan.

"Okay!" Lin Xiujuan put all the rice candy into a brown paper bag, asked her mother-in-law to watch the car, pulled a pair of children, and went to find Peng Jingsheng.