Chapter 13 The Other Side of Old Man Lin

The days of Futian were hot and unbearable, and the family had no appetite for food. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Lin Yujuan had a whim on this day and wanted to learn to make kimchi. That sour and crunchy one is very appetizing, and I learned to do it in my previous life and was not very successful. No one sells good food. However, if you do it yourself a few times and find the trick, you can still make it taste good. Besides, at present, my family sells vegetables from the field, and I don't have any technology in it, but I just make some hard-earned money. Anyone else can do it. Speaking of kimchi, no one in this area has ever made it. Some are just pickled pickles.

The next day on the street, Lin Yujuan asked her brother Yukou to sell vegetables first, and she ran to find a kimchi jar. Walking across the bridge to the south, I really saw a shop selling clay jars of various sizes, but there was no style of placing water in the middle of the kimchi jar that was higher than the surrounding area.

"Boss, do you have that kind of jar here?" Lin Yujuan said as she gestured with her hand. The shopkeeper looked at Lin Yujuan and gestured there for a long time and didn't understand what it looked like. In the end, Lin Yujuan could only find a branch to squat on the ground and spend a rough look. The boss understood at a glance, "Girl, we don't have this kind of jar here, but our workshop can make it according to the look you painted." It's a little longer, maybe twenty or thirty days. Your custom-made products are different from others, and no one else will buy them if you don't want them. So you've got to make a deposit first. How many do you want? ”

Lin Yujuan thought about it, and estimated that the process of firing the jar was similar to that of firing bricks, and there was one more glazing procedure. Twenty or thirty days, I can't go as fast as I want. Now I'm not sure how to make kimchi, so I can buy one first. "Boss, I only need one now, you can make one according to the way I drew it and show it to me first. Let's see if it's appropriate. I'm going to come back to your house in the future. Then he gave a deposit, and said that he would find his brother if he was good at the size of the style.

The brother and sister were busy for a long time, watching the sun getting higher and hotter, and seeing that there was still a handful of cowpeas left, a few eggplants discussed and prepared to go home. "Brother, let's go buy some meat or something, Mom is injured, Dad and we are also very tired. We need to eat something good, but don't save money on food and medicine. Jade Buckle agreed. The two brothers and sisters packed up the vegetable basket and went to the place where the pork was sold together. One pound of meat in the family is definitely not enough to eat, so I weighed two pounds, which is about to spend thirty yuan.

"Alas, it's easy to spend money and hard to make money, and the money that just stood there and sold for half a day before it was hot was given to others again." Lin Yukou couldn't help but sigh

"Hehe, brother, listening to your tone, you really look like an adult" Lin Yujuan felt funny and sad when she saw her nine-year-old brother so emotional. In a previous life, a child of this age would only worry about what to play and not how to live. The brother and sister bought the meat and went home. As she walked, Lin Yujuan saw a person in front of her, who was so familiar, and tugged at the jade buttoned clothes, "Brother, who is that person in front, why does it look familiar?" Let's go up and have a look."

At this time, they were not far out of the town, and there were often people walking by on the road. The two walked forward quickly, and Lin Yujuan hurriedly reached out to stop Lin Yukou. She noticed that the man in front of her had found a shade and sat down to rest. Looking at his face, it was Lin Yongde, the old man of Lin. I saw him take out an oiled paper bag from his arms, open it and take a bite, and Yuan Lin Yujuan, who was standing, didn't know what he was eating. Then I took another sip of the wine bottle in my hand, and I didn't have to guess that it must be wine.

Lin Yukou saw that it was his grandfather, so he got up and wanted to go up to say hello. Lin Yujuan grabbed the arm of the jade button, lowered her voice and said, "Brother, don't go over, what are you going to do when grandpa eats." He ate and drank here by himself, and it was clear that he didn't want to take it home and share it with his grandmother. How embarrassing it is for you to go up and break it. "Lin Yukou didn't expect so much, and when he heard his sister say it, he felt reasonable, so he stopped at the moment." So what now, we're just waiting here? ”

"Needless to say, it's just such a road, we walked past Grandpa, he couldn't see it. Forget it, let's find a corner that he can't see, and stop and rest. Saying that, Lin Yujuan pulled her brother and walked back a few steps, and found a shaded place that Old Man Lin couldn't see to rest.

"What's going on, we have to hide from the people who eat and drink secretly when we don't do anything." Lin Yukou looked unhappy. "Forget it, don't think about it, let's talk about it when we get home later." The two chatted about something else, and when the time was almost up, they secretly walked to the front to take a look. Sure enough, I was gone, I was relieved, and I was good to go, otherwise the sun would be more ruthless if I kept waiting.

By the time the two of them got home, it was already a long time later than usual, and the sun was approaching the middle. "Why did you come back so late? If you can't sell it out on such a hot day, you can bring it back to your home to eat. Why are you still waiting in the streets? Qi saw that the brother and sister were sweating profusely, and they were also very reluctant.

Lin Yujuan didn't bother to answer, when she got to the house, she tore off the straw hat on her head and threw it on the table, and handed the meat in her hand to the eldest sister on the side, "Sister, go and cook the meat first, I'm afraid it will be bad if it waits for such a hot day." Wait until we have a sip of cold water. Lin Xiujuan took the pork and turned around and went to the kitchen to clean up.

Lin Yukou poured himself a bowl of cold boiled water from the crockpot on the table, and drank it in one gulp: "Mom, do you know why we came back so late?" ”

"Why?" Qi Shi was very cooperative

"We saw Grandpa on the street." Lin Yujuan lowered her voice and said

"What does this have to do with your grandfather? Shouting you guys to play? Qi didn't understand what the relationship was.

"We saw my grandfather buying wine and meat alone and eating it secretly on the road. I don't even know how to take it home and eat it with my grandmother. Lin Yukou also lowered his voice and said

Qi Shi sighed, and his voice was much quieter: "The old man is not the first to do this for a while. ”

"Huh? You often do this, Mom, do you know? ”

"Your grandfather did this a lot, and many people in the village met it. Didn't your grandfather's family be quite wealthy in the past, and at that time the food and drink were good, and people did not suffer much. Later, the family failed, and after getting married, you added your father, and a few of them spent more money. The family didn't have money to eat meat, so your grandfather bought it on the street and ate it himself. I can't take care of my wife and children. ”

The brother and sister were stupid when they heard it, and they still had a father who did this, and they only cared about their children and wives. "I heard that when it was the most difficult, I forced your uncle and them to go out to borrow rice from a neighbor, and after borrowing a pound of rice, they cooked and ate it themselves. It doesn't matter if the children are watching from the side. Later, I borrowed it all over and no one was willing to borrow it again. Hey~ This is what you told you when you saw me today, just know it in your heart, don't go around talking about it. Later, it was your grandmother's family who asked them to move here, and it was not very far from Jiangjiazhuang across the river. Otherwise, it would not be too early for your grandfather to change the wine and meat of these ten or twenty acres of land. ”

If you are a real person, you can't look good, and you don't see anything when you see Old Man Lin teaching his sister and brother to read. turned out to be such a scumbag.

"What else?" Lin Yujuan asked

"What else?" Qi was puzzled

"Grandpa, what other bad things have you done?" Lin Yujuan wanted to figure out what kind of existence her grandfather was.

"No, your grandfather is just a nest, and there's nothing else. Although people are a little selfish, they are not to the point of selling their sons and daughters. Qi said to his daughter

In the evening, when the four sisters and brothers went to their grandfather's house to learn calligraphy, Lin Yujuan secretly looked at Mr. Lin for a long time. I really don't want to appear here, and the old man who looks kind and kind actually has such a selfish side. Thinking about my uncle and father, they are actually very diligent, and it is really not easy to be crooked.

Every evening when the sun is not very shining, there are many people swimming in the river. Lin Yujuan looked very hot, and if she wanted to go down to swim twice, she asked Qi if she could go swimming.

"You can go down and swim before you are yet developed, go as you want, and don't get caught in the men's pile on the shore. Just stay away from them. There are so many rivers here, and most of the men, women and children can swim. It's just that girls don't want to go into the water when they are grown. Lin Yujuan was overjoyed when she heard Qi's words, and hurriedly said hello to her sister and went swimming in the river.

There is no swimsuit, so you can only wear the clothes on your body and go into the water. Not far from the river, there are a few little boys playing in the water. Ah, and two stinky boys are bare-. Lin Yujuan was speechless, thinking about her mother's advice to stay away from them. Swimming was originally a way to swim in a previous life, and it was also a dog-crawling style that I learned in the river. The warm water surrounded Lin Yujuan, and it was not without benefit for her to be a peasant girl. At least you don't have to wrap your feet, and you can swim in the water. Easy to get out of the house too. probably saw Lin Yujuan swimming in the river, and after a while, a few little girls came. This time, I also have a few little playmates.

By the time Lin Yujuan got her custom-made pickle jar, it was already a month later. The jar was really similar to what Lin Yujuan had seen in her previous life, so she ordered five larger ones with the shopkeeper. When the kimchi jar arrived at home, the onlookers of the family had never seen such a strange jar. Lin Yujuan said: "Keep it secret, just take a look, don't go around talking about it." This is the jar for making pickles. Lin Yujuan has changed kimchi to pickles, and others in the province will know what is going on as soon as they hear it.

Everyone pouted when they heard it, and such a strange-shaped vegetable jar still had to be kept secret. Lin Yujuan saw that everyone didn't take it seriously, and told everyone very seriously, "I want to use this jar to make a kind of pickles, which is more delicious than ordinary pickles, and when it is successful, I will sell it on the street." So you must not tell me how I did it, do you know? ”

The Qi family looked at each other, "Okay, let's not talk about it, Suo'er, you also have to keep it secret." The Qi family also told Little Brother Lin

"What, it's me again, when did I talk nonsense everywhere. So don't believe me. Saying that, Little Brother Lin looked hurt.

"Okay, okay, don't look like that, we all believe you can do it." Lin Yujuan couldn't stand it anymore.