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Liang Xin's eyes stared at the loofah scrambled egg cover twice, swallowed his saliva, endured the hunger in his stomach and the gluttony aroused by the fragrance, and responded: "Okay." ”
As for whether the boy is satisfied or not, whether he likes it or not, she doesn't care. I took the money, cooked the food, and had to leave at this time. I feel that this money is too easy to earn, and the boy's temper is so weird that he is not very sure, so it is better to leave quickly.
"Then I'm leaving." Liang Xin greeted politely again, went straight out of the door, and closed the door carefully. When he went out, he stepped on his own cart, and left the door of the boy's house.
Riding to a place where there was no one, Liang Xin took out all the money in his satchel and counted it carefully. At this time, all the money she earned added up to more than eleven yuan, which means that she was still one dollar short, and she could make up enough for her tuition.
Victory is just around the corner, and it's often the time when you're most motivated. Liang Xin took a few deep breaths, packed up all the money, peeked around, and quietly filled the basket again. After loading it, I still took an apple, wiped it on the corner of my clothes, and gnawed it directly. When she had finished nibbling an apple and felt better on an empty stomach, she got up on her tricycle and began to sell fruit. While selling, he put up a sign for himself, saying that he would set up a stall in the town every Saturday and Sunday.
There are not many people in the real town, and when the people in the town finished running, Liang Xin began to walk back. Along the way, as long as you pass by the village, you will go up and ask. After leaving the town, the conditions of the inhabitants were reduced by several degrees, and there were not many people who bought fruit at all, and the harvest was not much. But he finally ran away until dark, and earned the remaining dollar.
After earning enough tuition, Liang Xin let out a big sigh, and all the fatigue and hunger came up at this time. His eyes were a little cloudy, and the soreness of his legs kept going up. Strongly supported the body and stepped on the car, just swaying all the way home.
got off the bus at the door of the house, and while drifting to the courtyard, he said weakly: "Grandma, I'm back." ”
Grandma Liang heard the voice and came out of the house, and hurriedly picked up Liang Xin's car in the dark, and said, "What the hell are you doing?" Look you're tired. ”
Liang Xin smiled, his face was full of exhaustion, and said, "To be honest, it's really tiring." I thought it would be easy. ”
"Come inside and eat, what's going on at noon?" Grandma Liang put the car down.
Liang Xin reached out to the basket on the board and said, "After eating something delicious, I brought a few apples for my grandmother today." ”
Grandma Liang hurriedly went to take the basket in her hand: "You bring these again, so that your mother knows, and you have to come and climb." ”
"It's okay, it's so dark, no one is coming, and she won't know, grandma, you can eat with peace of mind." Liang Xin washed his hands and sat down at the table, panting and speaking intermittently.
Her stomach was so hungry that Liang Xin couldn't care about anything else, so she grabbed a steamed bun and stuffed it into her mouth. There were still a few things on the table, pickles and dried radish, she picked up a chopstick, put it in her mouth and chewed it together. After taking a bite, he relieved himself and drank half a bowl of porridge in one go.
Grandma Liang saw her gobbling up, and said straightly: "Eat slowly, who robbed you?" ”
"I'm so hungry." Liang Xin replied casually and took another bite of the steamed bun.
"Xin'er, what the hell are you doing?" Grandma Liang didn't give up, but still chased after the opportunity to ask.
Liang Xin looked at her while chewing steamed buns, and when she swallowed it, she said, "Make money, I will go to school the day after tomorrow, and there is no tuition." ”
Grandma Liang slowly took a bite of the steamed bun and said slowly: "I inquired, the junior high school tuition fee costs twelve yuan a semester." How do you earn so much money? If you go to the brick factory to move bricks, it will take a month to earn it. ”
"Grandma, don't worry, I can handle it."
"Done......? What the......? ”
Liang Xin smiled: "It can be handled well." ”
Liang Xin didn't want to talk to Grandma Liang about this topic, so she was half-full at this time, and when she had the strength, she said, "Grandma, I'll go to school the day after tomorrow." The town is too far from home and it's half an hour by bike, and I don't have a bike yet, so I had to stay. We can't afford to eat anything in school, so we have to bring it ourselves. I'll be back tomorrow at noon, and I'll make cakes with you in the afternoon. ”
"Tomorrow morning, you will go out early?" Grandma Liang asked.
"Hmm." Liang Xin nodded: "Go out for half a day, come back for dinner at noon, and make cakes with you in the afternoon." ”
"Don't worry about it if you want to have something, I'll do it with the pancakes. You don't like steamed buns more, I'll give you steamed buns. ”
"It's hot now, and I'm afraid I won't be able to eat steamed buns for a few days, so let's make pancakes. Bring some pickles, make up for a week, and be back from school on Friday night. Liang Xin said.
Grandma Liang didn't understand these either, but according to what Liang Xin said, she just did it.
I woke up early the next day, and I still made breakfast. When the meal was ready, Liang Xin just got up, washed up and ate. After eating, Liang Xin pushed the cart out again, and didn't tell Grandma Liang what she was going to do. As soon as she walked on the front foot, Liang Yue came on the back foot. I went to the courtyard of Grandma Liang's room to take a look, and I didn't know whether to look for something or someone, so I just asked, "Where did my sister go?" ”
Grandma Liang was afraid that she would say something to Xu Qinglian when she went back, so she said perfunctorily: "Who knows? ”
"Grandma doesn't know?" Liang Xin asked again.
Grandma Liang went to the white noodle jar to take the fermented gnocchi left over from the steamed buns last time, put it in the basin and stirred it with warm water, and said, "I don't know." ”
Stir up the fermented gnocchi, put a lot of raw flour, and add water little by little to liven it.
Liang Yue stood at the table, biting her thumb and looking at it for a while, and suddenly said, "Grandma, can I try wearing my sister's skirt?" ”
Grandma Liang glanced up at her, remembered the skirt sent by Liang Yiping yesterday, and only said: "That skirt is very big, you can't wear it, how tall are you." ”
"But I want to wear it." Liang Yue still gnawed his fingers.
"Don't worry." Grandma Liang added some water to the basin: "When I reconcile the noodles and put them in the pot to wake up, I will bring them to you." ”
"Where you tell me, I can take it myself." Liang Yue answered.
Grandma Liang thought that she had hidden apples in the box, and it would definitely not be good for her to turn them out, so she said, "Where do I remember clearly?" Let you flip, it's not all messed up. You wait, wait until I'm done. ”
Liang Yue saw that she really didn't give it, so she sat down on the small bench next to the table. But he didn't sit for a while, and he heard Xu Qinglian's voice outside.
Xu Qinglian didn't enter the courtyard either, and stood outside the fence courtyard and shouted, "Liang Yue, are you dead?" so that you can't hear! ”
Liang Yue heard Xu Qinglian's voice, hurriedly got up from the bench, and muttered a little unhappily: "Mom told me to work in the field again." ”
"Be more considerate and considerate of your mother, it's not easy for her." Grandma Liang said casually and watched Liang Yue go.
When Liang Yue went outside, he didn't dare to look at Xu Qinglian's long face, and went home while biting his fingers. Xu Qinglian followed her, and said angrily: "Run here every day, if you want to come and live, I won't stop you!" Even if it's long here, I don't care! ”
Liang Yue didn't make a sound, just bit his fingers.
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Liang Xin went to the town to set up a stall, and today's business is a little better than yesterday. After these two days, a few people in the town also remembered her. Of course, those who have bought her fruits will not buy them repeatedly, but in the end, they can say two good words and form a word-of-mouth effect.
Liang Xin didn't stay in the town for more today, so he sold it for two or three yuan in the morning, and then packed up the cart and went home. When I got home at noon, Grandma Liang still cooked the meal. Cooked rice and stir-fried a plate of baby cabbage. The cabbage is grown in the vegetable garden outside the fence yard, and it costs some money and oil stamps for oil and salt.
Liang Xin put down the car and went into the house to wash his hands and eat, and when he saw the basin covered with gray cloth on the stove, he reached out and lifted it to take a look. It was Grandma Liang's morning meeting, and she was almost awake by this time. Liang Xin habitually reached in, opened the edge of the basin a little bit, saw that there was a honeycomb, and said in surprise: "Grandma, are you awake?" ”
"That's right." Grandma Liang sat down at the table: "It's in the morning, and you can make cakes after eating." ”
"I'll do it with my grandmother later." Liang Xin came over to the table and sat down and took a bite of rice.
With the current living conditions, no one knows what baking powder is. Generally, steamed steamed buns with pancakes will leave a piece of awake noodles every time, which is called "noodles". The next time you want to steam the steamed buns, the noodles will act as baking powder and rise in the flour. If there is no noodles, then what comes out is a basin of dead noodles, and you will not wake up.
Liang Xin is very familiar with these housework. In the previous life, I didn't have any other skills, so I earned a good body and practiced good cooking skills. Reading books once in a while, not letting yourself forget the words you learned and becoming a real illiterate person, are all behind people's backs.
After lunch, Liang Xin washed the pots and dishes, helped Grandma Liang to sit aside, and started making cakes first. First pour the appropriate alkaline noodles, add water to rinse, then add them to the awakened noodles, and knead them evenly with your hands. Adding alkaline noodles is still a technical job, adding less is afraid that the cake will not grow, and it will be dead, and if you add more, you will be directly afraid of burning into a rusty yellow cake.
Grandma Liang watched Liang Xin's movements go smoothly and said straightly: "You are better than grandma!" ”
Liang Xin pulled out the kneaded noodles, put them all on the panel, sprinkled raw white noodles, and said with a smile while kneading: "I'm smart." ”
Grandma Liang looked at Liang Xin, and suddenly said in a serious voice for a long time: "Xin'er wants to read, then read hard, read something, and block their mouths!" ”
Liang Xin looked up at Grandma Liang, pursed her lips and nodded: "Hmm." ”
When the cake was baked, Liang Xin was very satisfied. The wheat itself is native to the ground and then ground directly into flour. In terms of whiteness, it is certainly not as white as the flour bought later. However, the cake is good-looking, the waking time is appropriate, the alkaline noodles are also appropriate, and the taste is still good. As soon as the cake was baked, Liang Xin broke a piece and chewed half of it with Grandma Liang.
After drying for an afternoon, waiting for the cakes to cool down, the remaining cakes were divided into two parts, Liang Xin packed five pieces of cakes by himself, and put the rest into the basket in Liang's grandmother's house. After filling the bread, I found an empty jar and filled a jar of pickle skins, and I was ready to do so.
Liang Xin fell asleep very late this night, and she kept fantasizing about all kinds of things in the school, what was the junior high school life she was looking forward to for a lifetime?