Yu Xiling had never seen such a brazen person, and she didn't know how Ye Tingfang explained to Qiao Zhiliang's teacher at the entrance banquet, after all, Yu Xishan was also their student, or even a more proud student.

The only thing that made her feel a little comforted was that Qiao Zhiliang did not appear at the college entrance banquet.

Thinking of Qiao Zhiliang, a touch of complexity flashed in Yu Xiling's eyes, and soon disappeared again.

Yu Xishan did not persuade Yu Xiling, and finally followed Xu Zhaodi step by step, he had to get up early tomorrow to go to Ye's house with Yu Jianguo to dig mud and seal coal, and take advantage of the good weather in the past few days, and quickly dry it for the Ye family.

At this time, everyone used coal to poke honeycomb coal, and after buying coal, they went to the ground to dig yellow mud, and reconciled it in proportion, and made it with that kind of manual coal beater.

However, the grandmother of the Yu family did not have such a good treatment, all the firewood burned at home was firewood, and the charcoal fire after the firewood was burned out was used to keep warm.

Yu Xiling was in charge of the dinner herself, not to mention the cooking skills of more than 30 years in her previous life, she was the master who had been stir-frying on the stove on a stool since she was five years old, so she took over the work of the chef as a matter of course, and Grandpa Yu was responsible for lighting the fire.

The little Yu Xi'an nested in Grandpa Yu's arms, sitting at the mouth of the stove to roast the fire, while listening to his grandfather's story, not noisy or noisy.

The most inconvenient place in the hometown is that there is no electric light, the old couple is used to feeling the dark, and when they need to light the kerosene lamp at most, the wires at home are torn up, and there is an empty lampshade hanging on the roof of the hall, and the two brothers of Yu Jianguo should only be invisible.

"Ming'er, I'll ask the cadres of the brigade to connect the electricity to our house, does grandma have a light bulb at home?" After eating, washing the dishes in the dark, Yu Xiling looked at the bean-sized kerosene lamp in the hall, and was inexplicably a little sad.

Grandpa Yu is a little embarrassed, who doesn't want to live a bright life, but the monthly electricity bill is not a decimal, and the money for the old couple to take medicine has been on credit for many years, but he doesn't want to wronged the child in his heart, "Yes, your grandmother collects it." ”

"Master, don't worry about the electricity bill." Yu Xiling thought for a while, "I plan to start a small business by myself and make money to support you and Xi'an." ”

There are many places to spend money, and there are a lot of things to buy in front of her, and Xi'an has to send her to study when she is older, and the health of her grandparents is even more urgent.

When people get old, illness will naturally come, not to mention that Grandpa Yu's generation suffered a lot when he was young, coupled with the current situation at home, Yu Xiling suspects that the Chinese medicine taken by the old couple is not right at all, and Grandpa Yu and grandparents left early in the previous life, so there may not be no reason for this.

This is also one of the biggest regrets of her last life.

"Ouch, I can also enjoy the blessings of my granddaughter, grandma is waiting." Children always love to make such wishes, knowing that they can't wait for this day, but the old couple is still very happy.

There was no light at night, and the family went to bed early, but Yu Xiling couldn't sleep.

She so resolutely left Yu Jianguo's "asylum", not unprepared.

On the way back to her hometown, she thought about it, to make tofu to sell before the New Year, and then two days before the Chinese New Year, she could go to the county seat to sell couplets, both of which can make money, but she is very tired.

Making tofu requires craftsmanship, in her previous life, she dropped out of school and was sent by Yu Jianguo to a master in the town as an apprentice and helper, there was no salary for the first two years, and she had to send a gift to the master's house every festival, and after two years, she had a salary, but Ye Tingfang, who had always become her stepmother, took it first.

Since learning tofu, she has been making tofu for eight years, and later started her own business, and the first working capital was also saved by making tofu, but Yu Xiling's most hated job in her life was to make tofu.

She was pushing the grinding plate in the tofu workshop, and when she was walking through the vat of soybeans in a dirty mess, Ye Nuannuan was sitting in a bright classroom in her school uniform to study.

Because she made tofu, there were no tofu products on the Ye family's dinner table, and at that time, Yu Xiling often thought, since she disliked her so much, why didn't she dislike it more fishy and smelly, and the money she earned from grinding tofu?

But no matter how annoying it is, now you have to pick up this craft, and making money is the most important thing.

Early the next morning, Yu Xiling got busy and went to the granary to pick the newly harvested soybeans this year.

Yu Xiling wants to grind tofu, Grandpa Yu and Grandma Yu didn't say anything to stop it, if it is really so easy to make tofu, it can still make money, someone has already done it, how can it be their turn, there is only one company in their area that makes tofu, and they sell tofu once every half a month, there are only two options of white tofu and fragrant dry, the price is not expensive, and white tofu is eight cents a catty.

Fortunately, I planted soybeans every year at home, and I also harvested a lot this year.

Grandparents thought so, but Yu Xiling didn't explain much, it was better to say more than to do more.

There are ready-made stone mills at home, large iron pots, molds and barrels, the neighbor's grandfather next door makes woodware, you can go to credit first, the only inconvenient thing is that the iron pot at home has to cook, she wants to make tofu, she has to rush before breakfast, let the pot out.

It will take a few years for the master in the town to move his family to the local area, and Yu Xiling, the tofu in the county, has eaten, it is a local practice, it is rough, she is different, the tofu made is lubricated, and the bean aroma is rich and original.

Like work, from the moment she picked the beans, Yu Xiling knew that the craft of making tofu was not something she could forget if she wanted to, and she didn't even need to be familiar with the process.

After eating Yu Xiling's tofu, the old couple had expectations for her business, but they got up in the early morning every day to work, and they had to go out to sell before five o'clock.

There is no one in the family who can help.

"I'll do it alone." Yu Xiling smiled and handed the white tofu mixed with white sugar to Yu Xi'an, who had been hungry for a long time, "Although there are many processes for making tofu, everything else is very simple except for the marinated recipe, in case someone else steals it." ”

In fact, how can it be so easy to steal learning, just the hard work of making tofu can scare away many people, not to mention all kinds of timing, such as marinated techniques, etc., without a few years of hard work, it can't become a fire at all.

"I'll sell it, your grandfather is not old enough to move." Grandpa Yu smoked a cigarette and made a decision.

He went for his granddaughter, firstly, he felt sorry for Yu Xiling's young age, and secondly, everyone was still very conservative at this time, and few people could afford to do business, especially this kind of small businessman and hawker.

To say that Grandpa Yu is not completely supportive in his heart, but the situation is compelling, he can already feel that his wife's health is getting worse and worse, and if he doesn't go to the hospital to see it......

Just do it, Yu Xiling went to bed early that day, and didn't need Grandma Yu to shout at eleven o'clock at night, so she got up in the dark.

In order to save electricity, only the kitchen is equipped with a light bulb at home, and the soaked beans are round and bulging, full and smooth, turning the stone mill, and soon the milky white raw soybean milk flows into the bucket with the bean dregs, and finally boils in the pot after filtering it many times.

When the white, tender and smooth tofu was pressed and formed, I straightened up and looked out the window when it was still dark, and I couldn't tell when it was.

"Master, it's still dark, you can sleep again." Sitting at the mouth of the stove and taking a nap, when he opened his eyes, he saw Grandpa Yu lightly putting tofu in the bamboo pole, Yu Xiling rubbed his eyes and quickly got up to help.

On the first day of trial sale, she didn't make much, the two baskets were filled with two versions and then they were gone, and the remaining little Yu Xiling planned to keep at home to eat.

"I'm getting old and sleeping, and it's almost dawn, so you hurry back to the house and rest." Grandpa Yu didn't let her send it, drove her back to the house, and went out of the courtyard in the dark.

Yu Xiling was not at ease, so she quietly followed behind Grandpa Yu, seeing that he was carrying the burden and went directly to the neighboring village, and then knocked on the door one by one to sell it.

At this time, no one is rich, sometimes the village listens to the radio, and occasionally there is news about 10,000 households, but they are generally poor here, knocking on the door of ten families, and only one of them took a bowl with half a piece of tofu for the child to satisfy his hunger.

Yu Xiling suddenly remembered that Yu Jianguo asked her to drop out of school that year, and Grandpa Yu rushed to Ye's house to beat Yu Jianguo with a flat shoulder and forced Yu Jianguo to go to school for her.

At that time, the money was in Ye Wenfang's hands, she said that she couldn't come up with the money to provide, she and Yu Xishan could only go to school alone, and even the one who went to school had to pay back the tuition fee slowly, what could I do?

Grandpa Yu and his daughter-in-law couldn't argue, Yu Jianguo didn't say anything, and then he took Yu Xiling's family to borrow money, the family owed too much money, although he didn't borrow it in the end, but Yu Xiling always remembered the scene when Grandpa Yu bowed down and knocked on the door.

In the end, he had no choice but to let Yu Xiling drop out of school.

Yu Xiling didn't hate Yu Jianguo's partiality at first, she only hated Ye Tingfang's inconsistency and scheming.

She went to school late, entered school at the age of seven, only went to the fourth grade at the age of twelve, and then suspended school, she was almost nineteen years old when she graduated from junior high school, at that time Yu Jianguo and Ye Tingfang had been married for two or three years, and it was indeed difficult for the family to rely on Yu Jianguo's salary to provide for four children.

She thought all four of them were the same, but apparently they weren't.

She and Yu Xishan handed over food to school at the beginning of school, ate at school at noon, Ye Nuannuan and Qiao Zhiliang went home to eat, and Ye Tingfang would open a small stove for them. She and Yu Xishan's tuition fees have always been reluctantly paid until the end of the semester, but Ye Nuannuan and Qiao Zhiliang never have to worry about the tuition fees, nor do they have to face the embarrassment and inferiority complex of the teacher who repeatedly urges the fees.

As for other aspects, there is no need to compare, let them eat at school, because the family can't afford to pay the food for four people, so they can only "wrong" Ye Nuannuan's brothers and sisters, as for the tuition fee, Ye Tingfang has been hiding it very well, until a new head teacher inadvertently said that she didn't know.

At that time, she still felt that Aunt Tingfang, who was elegant and polite, was too wronged to marry her father.

Yu Xiling was found and rushed home not long after she followed, and it was not until the evening that Grandpa Yu returned home with an empty burden and a smile.

"A total of five pieces of octagonal and three points were sold, plus a piece of eight coins given to me by Xiling, a total of seven pieces of six corners and three points, Xiling, you count them quickly." Grandpa Yu smiled and gave the money to Yu Xiling first, and then took the hot hand towel handed by Grandma Yu.

A board of tofu is about twenty catties, eight pounds a catty, and four boards sell for five yuan and eight is about the same, Yu Xiling saw that when Grandpa Yu was selling, he met a child who was particularly greedy and had no money to buy, and he would pick a small piece for the child to satisfy his hunger, and it would be a little loss, but who knows if this will be a potential customer.

"Beans don't cost money at home, but when the family runs out, you have to go out to collect soybeans, a pound of beans can produce four catties of tofu, the cost of a plate of tofu is about nine cents, and four boards can earn almost one or two yuan." Yu Xiling counted with her fingers, and the more she calculated, the more smiles appeared on Grandpa Yu's face, "But firewood tools also cost and wear ......."

"I'll be able to bring back firewood along the way." Grandpa Yu waved his hand with a red face, labor is the least valuable thing, the important thing is to make money, and the most workers here are only about 30 yuan a month.

Now he can earn one dollar a day, and thirty a month is thirty, and he can catch up with the wages of the workers, and if he is more diligent, he will be able to save enough money for his wife to see a doctor.

The days are all at once.