After lunch, Huan Ran and Li Sheng went back to the third team to continue working.

In rural areas, weddings and funerals are a major event.

The Lisheng family is busy marrying a daughter-in-law, and the Erxi family is also busy marrying a daughter.

According to the rules, the day before Erxi's marriage, the mother's family had to have a meal together, chicken, duck, fish, meat, fresh fruits, pears and peaches, all of which had to be prepared in advance. Who's coming? How many people came? Are there any Muslims? Where do you go to invite the cook? From the village or from another village? How many pounds of pork do you prepare? How many months old is it right for a piglet? Are the ribs stewed or sweet and sour? Is the most expensive tenderloin cut for stir-frying or on its own? How to make chicken, when to buy fruit, you don't need to go into town in advance to say hello to the supply station

Also, the dowry prepared by her mother's family must include bedding and pillows, and Aunt Wu is of course a good hand at needlework, but unfortunately she is not a "fully living person".

-- The so-called "all living people" are women who have both children and daughters, and they are blessed, they have daughters and children, and the family just makes up the word "good", so when preparing the dowry, you have to find such a person to make the bedding to beg for a blessing, hoping that the daughter you marry will also have both children in the future.

There are several families in the village with both children and daughters, and Aunt Wu naturally invited a mother-in-law who does the best needlework, which has been sent over a month by the face of the mattress, although the mother-in-law's craftsmanship has not been said, but Aunt Wu is still not at ease, thinking about picking two catties of firewood eggs from the chicken coop for a while and sending them over to see how the bedding is done. Erxi is an old girl, and her heart is also high, Aunt Wu understands in her heart that if it is not to take care of the two of them, with Erxi's ingenuity, she can go to the city to find a better in-law, although Lisheng is not bad, but Aunt Wu always feels that he is not worthy of her daughter.

Ay! That's a bargain for that stinky boy!

When Tian Guo and Erxi were standing in the kitchen washing the dishes, they heard Aunt Wu greeting in the courtyard: "Guo girl, come out and help your aunt settle the account." You are highly educated from the city, and your brain must be better than that of us countrymen. You don't care about the things in the kitchen, just let Erxi clean up by himself. Catch Ming'er got married, she is a member of the Lisheng family, and in the future, if I want her father and I to ask her to work, I have to look at my uncle's face. Giving birth to a girl, sorrowful! ”

"Mom, what are you talking about!" Erxi blushed, poked his head out of the kitchen and said angrily, "Even if I marry the emperor, I am also your daughter, and I should serve you and my father, what do you mean to see my uncle's face?" Na Lisheng dares to give you a look to try, see if I don't turn his face with him! ”

Aunt Wu smiled happily, no matter what, the girl has a word, when she returns to her parents' house in the future, the mother will only love her daughter more, where is she willing to let her do the work?

"Auntie, you have to cry three times on the day you get married, right?" Tian Guo asked.

Aunt Wu shook her head and said bitterly: "If you don't say that giving birth to a daughter is bitter, on the day of marriage, your heart will be like cutting meat, and you will die of discomfort." When I married my eldest daughter, my old man began to cry from the day the man gave the dowry, after all, the eldest girl married far away, and it was not easy to go back to her parents' house once. Erxi is married to the people of this village after all, and Lisheng is not bad, his mother and I grew up together, and Erxi can't stand the grievances when he marries. But what do you say, after all, she is married to be a daughter-in-law, and she is not as happy as being in front of her own mother. ”

Tian Guo fell into deep thought, she only had one relative in this space, that is, her grandmother. If you meet a suitable man to marry in the future, the first condition is that the other party must agree to insert the door upside down, otherwise there is no need to talk.

Originally, before he was reborn, Tian Guo had just fallen in love, he had been an actor for a long time, and he often experienced joys and sorrows in dramas, and when he returned to reality, it was as if he had lived thousands of times, and he was indifferent to everything, and he couldn't lift his spirits. This time, the other party is a young director who is three years younger than himself, with a good personality and talent, he chased her for a year, and he wanted to take advantage of the work break to have more contact with the other party after winning the award, in case it is a suitable lover, maybe Tian Guo will get married, anyway, everyone is in a circle, there should be some common language, unlike those businessmen, the critical moment is still a "profit" word. It's a pity that before I could understand it, I came here inexplicably.

Ay! There is no fate.

Aunt Wu is old and her eyes are not good, and Erxi is a bride-to-be, seeing that she is going to get married, Aunt Wu is reluctant to tire her, so she asked Tian Guo to help calculate how much money will be used for the banquet next month. After that, she went to the credit union to pick it up. Aunt Wu said that in the past, people in the village did not dare to deposit their money in the credit cooperative, for fear that one day the door of the credit union would be closed, and their money would disappear.

"Anyway, I don't know how to calculate, Erxi calculates clearly, she is good at math, and she has drawn several formulas in the book." Aunt Wu took out the little red book that she commonly used in accounting at home, turned to the first few pages and asked Tian Guo to read the formula written by Erxi above. After all, when it comes to her own **, Aunt Wu didn't let Tian Guo take a closer look, and put it away after shaking it twice.

Aunt Wu's family was the first to deposit money in the credit cooperative, not in response to the call of the country, but at that time, the family was building a new house, and the family was afraid that the deposit would be flooded, and they were afraid of being bitten by rats in the granary, and it was even worse to let other family members go. It was Erxi who finally made a quick decision, saying that it would be put in the credit union, and the monthly interest was 4.8, which was good.

Needless to say, Aunt Wu saved the money for half a year, and when she got it back, she took dozens of dollars more!

As soon as the people in the village saw that the credit union was not a liar and that they could get more money if they saved money, they followed Aunt Wu's example and put the family's money in the credit union. For this reason, the township government also specially rewarded Aunt Wu's family with a grand prize, praising her spirit of bravely accepting new things and responding to the call of the country.

"Peanuts are counted as snacks, one pound is one dime, fruit girl, how much do you calculate to buy twelve pounds?"

"When the melon seeds and candy are poured, I will go to the town to buy them, and when I come back, I will fry them myself, and you will write fifteen catties of melon seeds first. By the way, what does this candy taste like? ”

"The White Rabbit milk candy from Shanghai, as well as the sour tricolor and wine candy from Yili Food Factory are all good." Tian Guo doesn't like sugar, and vaguely remembers a few old brands.

Erxi couldn't stay idle, sat next to him and asked with the soles of his shoes: "Sister, is Zhang Binggui always said in the newspaper selling sugar?" said that his technique is very accurate, no matter how much you want, the candy is enough to grab a catty, but God. ”

"Master Zhang works in a department store in Wangfujing." When Tian Guo was filming period dramas, he had heard of this name. After several years of hard work, and later won the Labor Medal, a large number of people poured into the candy counter of the department store just to see Master Zhang's magic hand.

"Erxi, why don't you go to the department store to buy candy, it just so happens that you will be in the city with your sister Tianguo, and you will come back by car after you finish buying." The girl got married once, and Aunt Wu didn't want to treat Erxi badly.

Erxi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then shook his head: "No need, it's good to go to the town to buy it." ”

"Can the town compare with Wangfujing?" Aunt Wu was disgusted.

"Then why can't it be compared?" Erxi narrowed his eyes, and he looked like he was giving himself a long momentum, "The sugar in the town is also delicious." Plum candy, wine candy, halva, everything! ”

"There is also Zhang Binggui in the town?" Aunt Wu said with a smile.

"Mom!" Erxi was so angry that he dodged his feet.

Aunt Wu waved her hand, and it was interesting to argue with her daughter, but when she thought that her daughter would be someone else's family in the future, her heart was sour and blocked, and she sighed and said: "You can buy it wherever you want, anyway, if you become a daughter-in-law in the future, you have to consider what you want to buy, and you can't be like this now, depending on your temperament, you discuss it with Lisheng, and then make a decision after discussion, so take advantage of the time now, and hurry up what you want to do." ”

"I don't want to do anything, I just want to help you and your dad at home. One is just married, and it is the same to buy any candy, but there is no one, and I don't care. Erxi's eyes only looked at the soles of Bai Huahua's shoes, and his hands were like the wind with needles and threads shuttling back and forth on the soles.

The atmosphere was a little sad for a while, as if Erxi would get married tomorrow, Tian Guo's heart was sour, and he was a little envious that Erxi could still quarrel with his mother, and he didn't have this opportunity.

Tian Guo's mathematics is average, but it is not a problem to help Aunt Wu calculate some small accounts. But she didn't come all the way here for these Arabic numerals, so after thinking about it, Tian Guo asked Erxi as if she was chattering: "Erxi, where are the crops harvested in Zaozhuang and several nearby villages sold now?" ”

"Go to the town," said Erxi, "there is a big receiving station in the town, and several villages will pull it there." In addition to the crops, the chickens, ducks and pigs we raised are also sent there, and sometimes the town will send a car to pull it, and the village committee will notify them from door to door before coming. However, it was more often than when we drove there ourselves. ”

"Aren't you going to the city, then?" Tian Guo asked.

"What are you doing in the city?"

"Crops and meat are delivered, and there are farmers' markets in the city."

"Oh, I can't afford that!" Erxi hurriedly shook his head, "You think, it's too far to go to the city once, there are no large trucks in the village, only tractors, it's very tiring to go to the town once, and it's not right away when you go there, in addition to helping people unload, you also have to settle accounts and open bills, every time Lisheng goes, he leaves before dawn in the morning, and he can only come back when it's dark at night, let alone go to the city once!" ”

That's right, at that time, productivity was relatively backward, there were no trucks, computers, calculators and electronic scales, abacus and tractors were the main force, and all of them were supported by manpower.

"Sister, why are you asking this?" Erxi felt that Tian Guo was weird, a barber from the city, why did he care about crops, "Are you transferring jobs and going to the vegetable market?" ”

"No, no, no." Tian Guo smiled wryly, thinking about the problem too simple before, thinking that since the village can send food to the supply station, whether it can also send a batch to himself by the way, but after listening to Erxi, he found that it is not feasible at all, first of all, the problem of the car, and secondly, the distance is long, and it takes at least two or three hours to drive from Zaozhuang to the city. It's not feasible to set off in the early morning, so hard, who will do it? Unless you add money to someone.

Tian Guo drank saliva and asked, "Erxi, have the vegetables in the village been harvested and sold to private individuals?" ”

"Private? What does it mean? ”

"For example, sell me the vegetables you have laid down by the pound. It's the long-term kind, not just a one-time sale, like the village regularly delivering goods to the town. ”

Erxi thought for a while, frowned, and said, "To a private person?" I have never had the impression that this should be a violation of the regulations, and it's not worth it, there is no work to earn when sold to private individuals, we have collected this dish and grain and got it to the team to weigh the pounds and then calculate the work, and at the end of the year, the unified dividends will be shared. ”

"And what if you get paid by a private person?"

"How much can I add?" Erxi asked, and suddenly felt that it was wrong, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Oh, it's not okay to add more money, sister, you don't know if you're from the city, this work is important to us." ”