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At work in the township government of the sixth year of junior high school, Yu Jianguo pushed his bicycle into the big iron gate of the township government in high spirits, and when he passed by the canteen, he happened to meet the master who was standing outside the canteen and chatting with the director of health and planning.

"Director Yu is at work, Happy New Year!" The master smiled and immediately dispersed the cigarette, Yu Jianguo took it with a smile, took out the cigarette himself and scattered it one by one.

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Director Zhang, Director Hou Happy New Year! ”

"Good, good."

Those who can enter the township government this year, it doesn't matter what is behind them, the canteen master is still the secretary's brother-in-law, and he also has the position of a director, people respect you, that's polite, but you can't be so big and accept it directly.

Where did Yu Jianguo know these routines before, he had a primary school education, he joined the army as a teenager, and he didn't understand these officialdom rules at all.

I still heard Sister-in-law Fang break it and crush it and tell him that he has suffered a few losses, and he has only understood something over the years.

Several people stood at the door of the canteen and gossiped, and when the director of health and planning left with his hands behind his back, Yu Jianguo pushed the car and prepared to go to the carport, and the master prepared to go to the canteen with his hands behind his back.

"Director Zhang, are the tofu in our cafeteria still being delivered?" Yu Jianguo's footsteps paused, and he suddenly turned around and asked.

The master raised his eyebrows, "It's being delivered, what's wrong?" ”

Yu Jianguo's hand tightening the head of the car, and he remembered the words of Sister-in-law Fang.

"If the son does not teach, the father is guilty."

He couldn't watch the child go the wrong way, so he had to take advantage of her young age to break it over.

Yu Jianguo simply stopped the bicycle, walked back to the master's ear and said a few words.

Seeing Yu Jianguo walk away, the master shook his head, tsk, if he remembers correctly, the old man Yu who sent the tofu is the Lao Tzu of Director Yu, and his own son cuts off Lao Tzu's wealth, which is really rare.

Say there's something wrong with that tofu? Anyway, he doesn't believe it, he has been a cook for so many years, and he still has this experience.

But what does this have to do with him, the only pity is that there may not be more oil and water in another family, you must know that the old man sent tofu to the canteen at the beginning but pressed a lot of prices, and his purse was a lot thicker in the month of the year.

Forget it, forget it! I can't offend people for this little thing, so I changed the family, and at the beginning of the year, the county family came to the door and gave a lot of gifts.

Yu Xiling didn't know that Ye Tingfang blew the wind in Yu Jianguo's ears without a trace, the tofu business was about to open on the sixth day of the new year, and Yu Xiling got up early in the middle of the night to grind tofu.

Now Yu Xihua's brothers and sisters also live in the old house at night, there are no adults at home, Grandpa Yu is not at ease, Yu Xihua sleeps with Yu Xiling sisters at night. When she got up, Yu Xiling's hands and feet were very light, but Yu Xihua, who only heard a slight movement, opened her eyes quickly in the dark, and got up in the dark.

Yu Xirong set up a door panel in the living room as a bed, turned over after listening to the movement, and continued to sleep.

In the stove house, Yu Xiling had just finished checking the big soybeans that had been soaked in the bucket for eight hours and had absorbed the water, and saw Yu Xihua standing at the door timidly, twisting his fingers, "My dad can't go back today, I ...... Will I succeed in working for him? I promise to work hard! ”

"Then you can add me beans." Yu Xiling was stunned, took out the soybeans in the bucket and drained the water, and prepared to go to the miscellaneous house.

The big grinding plate Grandpa Yu gave Zhang Luo a few years ago, but he hadn't used it a few times to catch up with the New Year, and Grandpa Yu had already cleaned the stone mill during the day, Yu Xihua heard this, his face bloomed with a hint of joy, and he hurriedly stepped forward to grab the bucket in Yu Xiling's hand.

This bucket of soybeans absorbs enough water, the weight is naturally not light, Yu Xiling is used to carrying it, and does not feel how heavy, but Yu Xihua doesn't seem to feel the weight, and quickly carries the bucket into the miscellaneous house, and when Yu Xiling chases in, she has already held the wooden pole that pushes the grinding and refuses to let go, "I'm bigger than you, I'll do the heavy work." ”

Yu Xiling actually wants to say that pushing and grinding also requires skill, otherwise it is easy to be stuck, Yu Xiling has made tofu for so many years in her last life, when to add beans, how much water is mixed with beans has been practiced to make perfect, and the mill at home is not the kind of big mill that can only be pulled by a donkey, and one person can make it well.

However, seeing Yu Xihua's nervous look, Yu Xiling sighed, picked up the scoop and scooped the soybeans silently, seeing her movements clearly, the pear vortex flashed at the corner of Yu Xihua's mouth, and she quickly pushed up and grinded, full of energy.

She is not as good as her cousin, but she can work and endure hardships, and it would be better if her cousin could keep her, even if she can't, she can occasionally come to help, she is very satisfied.

In her selfish heart, Yu Xihua hoped that she could stay, and her mother said that she would give her a match a few years ago, but she was unwilling.

In such a situation in her family, her brother is bored and honest, and the family is poor, and the capable and neat girl looks down on him, and her mother doesn't look down on the girl in the ordinary family, and her mother has already made the idea of exchanging her for a bride price.

In fact, Yu Xihua doesn't blame her mother, the ancestral hall and even the commune, most of the girls' families are almost treated like this, before the age of seventeen or eighteen they worked at home to take care of the children, and when they reached the age, they should change their wives for their brothers and younger brothers at home.

Although her mother is patriarchal, she will not sell her too badly, and the person she picks must be loyal and honest, she knows in her heart that she is also obedient on the surface.

Because she knew that even if she objected, it would be useless.

But Yu Xihua didn't dare to think about what life would be like if two people with weak personalities lived together.

Although she is introverted and honest, it doesn't mean that she is stupid and doesn't know how to think about things.

There are big dramas in the village, every year, I don't want to watch too much, and there are countless honest couples who are forced by the whole family.

The stone mill brought the hum of rhythm, which was particularly reassuring in Yu Xihua's ears, and the two sisters did not gossip, they cooperated tacitly to do the work in their hands, and waited for the beans to be grinded, and Yu Xiling did not avoid Yu Xihua in a series of subsequent processes, Yu Xihua silently helped, and resolutely did not look up if he shouldn't look up.

Really accompanied Yu Xiling to work all night, Yu Xihua really felt hard, he was making tofu when he should have been sleeping, not to mention other physical work that came and went, just grinding beans and boiling slurry and filtering slag, these are all hard work, so tired that people want to collapse, the stove house at home is small, the stove house is foggy when the pulp is boiling, and the water droplets on the tips of the forehead are mostly not sweat but steam.

Yu Xihua didn't dare to think about how his little cousin could survive and persist until now.

You must know that without her before, my cousin did all this work alone.

The tofu that came out of the mold was white and slippery, Yu Xihua swallowed her saliva, and her grandmother had also sent tofu to her home before, but most of it was eaten by her mother mixed with candy for Zhuang Zhuang, and she didn't have many opportunities to taste it.

Yu Xiling saw it and took out the rice bowl, cut a piece for herself and Yu Xihua, and mixed it with white sugar, "Bean curd with sugar is more delicious than tender tofu with sugar, but unfortunately there is no cooked gypsum, otherwise I can make tofu flower." ”

"For me?" She drank a small bowl of soy milk just now, Yu Xihua was flattered and carefully took the bowl, and took a small bite of it in her mouth, not daring to expect what the bean curd that was better than tofu looked like.

Seeing Yu Xihua like this, Yu Xiling silently felt sad.

When she was an apprentice, she didn't understand anything, and the master only instructed her to work from beginning to end, not only did she not have any wages in the first two years, but when she worked in the tofu factory, she didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, and when the master didn't make a sound, she would be scolded for even looking at it indiscriminately.

At that time, she was also greedy for all kinds of soy products, but except for drinking soy milk casually every day, she couldn't touch anything else.

Later, the master's daughter disliked making tofu too hard and was unwilling to do it, and saw that she was honest, sensible and filial, so she gradually taught her the craft hand in hand.

Yu Xiling wanted to keep Yu Xihua, although hard work was at least a craft, but the tofu stall was so big, where could she afford to raise so many people, she still wanted to pull Xu Zhaodi over to help, and when she rushed to her mouth, she swallowed it back silently.

After they finished eating the tofu in the bowl, Grandpa Yu also felt dark, drank a bowl of soybean milk left by Yu Xiling, and found the burden that had been idle for a while, ready to fill the tofu.

On the sixth day of the new year today, the tofu that Master Yang wanted was ordered early, and they didn't have to bother, he had his apprentice to pick it up, and the township government had to go to work on the seventh day of the first month, and his task today was to go to the village and alleys to sell the four plates of tofu.

Grandpa Yu is still very optimistic about his tofu business, because the tofu is delicious, the Yu family's tofu has a very good reputation, and has accumulated a little bit of customers.

"Alright, go to bed." After sending Grandpa Yu out, Yu Xiling cleaned up the kitchen and prepared to go back to sleep, so he rested for a few days, and he struggled for a long time when he got up today.

Yu Xihua still wanted to work directly, but was also dragged to sleep by Yu Xiling, did he really think he was beaten with iron?

When Yu Xiling got up, Yu Xihua had long since disappeared, and after asking, he learned that Second Uncle Yu and they had come back from the county, and their parents had returned, and Yu Xihua's brothers and sisters had returned to their homes as a matter of course, and the wooden bed in the corner of the hall was indeed gone.

Yu Xiling ate the lunch left for her by Grandma Yu, went to Uncle Yu's house to take a look, and saw that Yu Zhuangzhuang was already alive and relaxed, Second Uncle Yu couldn't stay idle at home, and went to look in his own field, Second Aunt Yu saw that she seemed to be a little speechless and stopped, but in the end she didn't say anything.

When she saw Yu Xihua pinching the corners of her clothes to work at night, Yu Xiling understood what Aunt Yu's words were.

"Xiling, I really didn't say anything to my mother, I ...... I don't know......" Yu Xihua was so anxious that tears were about to come out, she got up late and came home tonight, and her parents had already returned.

She usually gets up at five o'clock to work, and her mother naturally wants to scold her when she goes back so late, and then her brother said next to her, she helped Xiling work all night, and her mother didn't say anything more.

But Yu Xihua never thought that her mother would wake her up at night and kick her out.

What will this make Xiling think of her!

"What did the second aunt say?" Yu Xiling didn't have much expression on her face, opened the door of the stove house and locked it and entered the house.

In fact, Yu Xihua has never seen too many expressions on this little cousin's face, it seems that her expression will only be softer when she faces her grandmother and Xi'an, most of the time it is faint, and there is no trace of a smile.

Yu Xihua tugged at the corners of his clothes, and he was about to twist the corners of his clothes, "My mother said...... I can do this job first, and it just so happens that my dad still has work to do in the county...... Let him go to work in the county first, and my dad will come back after finishing his work, so he won't delay things......"

In fact, Aunt Yu is the idea that all three people in the family can earn money, she didn't expect Xihua to work to earn money, so she patronized the man's son to recruit, that is, Second Uncle Yu had to work for Yu Xiling in the morning at night, and Second Aunt Yu still planned to let him do odd jobs in the commune to see if there were any odd jobs.

It's really not that she is too calculating and harsh, but only that her family is too poor, and she has two sons to marry a daughter-in-law.

Seeing that the bride price outside is getting higher and higher day by day, how can he, a father, not make much effort to save his wife for his son.

Let Yu Xihua take Yu Second Uncle to work, it is also a flash of inspiration, if the girl works in the old house, the salary will not be paid, and the man and his son have two other incomes outside, so it will not be a loss.

Yu Xiling didn't say anything, raised her hand and asked Yu Xihua to come in to help, Yu Xihua's face was happy, and he hurriedly ran into the stove house, carrying a bucket of soybeans on the left and right that didn't even have time to pour the water and ran to the miscellaneous house.

"......" Yu Xiling.

It was another busy night, Yu Xiling got up after resting, and before she had time to talk to Aunt Yu about Yu Xihua's salary, she saw Grandpa Yu sitting on the threshold worrying about the two loads of tender white tofu.