Chapter 20
But grandma didn't tell it most of the time, Lin Hanmei begged for a long time and didn't tell it, grandma called telling stories "nonsense", but she only said that there was no "nonsense" to tell.
Once, Lin Hanmei didn't ask her grandmother, but her grandmother took the initiative to say, "Granddaughter, grandma will tell you a lie." As soon as Lin Hanmei heard that there was a "nonsense", she immediately asked her grandmother to speak quickly. Grandma is telling a donkey fucking story this time. The approximate meaning is: Zhang Donkey was very gluttonous, and stole the food that others put medicine, and was killed by the medicine. This story made Lin Hanmei white, she can't be greedy, let alone steal, and she is easy to be drugged to death.
At that time, Lin Hanmei was most afraid that her fifth aunt would come to the house. The fifth aunt is mentally ill, often curling her hair with her fingers, talking to herself, and laughing when she finishes speaking. The key is that the fifth aunt sometimes scolds Lin Hanmei. Once, the fifth aunt was at Lin Hanmei's house, and the third aunt came to help Lin Hanmei's family harvest crops, and he was also at Lin Hanmei's house. In the middle of the night, Lin Hanmei got up to go to the toilet, and the fifth aunt also got up to go to the toilet, and then began to scold Lin Hanmei, saying: "People's children are called beauty, she is also called beauty, and she is called whatever people call her." "The fifth aunt is talking about the eldest cousin of the third aunt's family, and the eldest cousin is called Sun Xiaomei. scolded Lin Hanmei and cried, and the third uncle coaxed Lin Hanmei and coaxed Lin Hanmei.
The fifth aunt often scolds people for no reason, talking and laughing by herself, and suddenly scolding people; While eating, he suddenly cursed. Everyone scolded, even grandma and dad. Once, when the fifth aunt came back from going to the toilet outside, she picked up the kitchen knife on the cutting board in the kitchen and compared it to her neck, and was snatched down by her grandmother. The fifth aunt wanted to commit suicide that time. Fortunately, grandma found out in time.
Grandma said that when the fifth aunt was a child, she once said to her grandmother: "I dreamed of my father." Later, when the grandmother remarried at night, when she was sleeping, she heard the fifth aunt laughing, so he kicked the grandmother and said, "Why do I hear the fifth aunt laughing?" Grandma was sleeping, was kicked awake, and said impatiently, "She may have been dreaming in her sleep." Later, the fifth aunt fell ill.
When the fifth aunt reached the age of marriage, the fourth aunt introduced a partner to the fifth aunt, who was from their village, more than ten years older than the fifth aunt, and the heart and eyes were not fully active, and the fifth aunt married him. The fifth uncle will collect the rags, and he can also maintain his and the fifth aunt's life. The fifth uncle not only collects the rags, but sometimes sells some things. The fifth uncle once gave Lin Hanmei's family two plastic baskets for dipping pickles, one was red and rectangular, and the other was green and round, and the plastic baskets had seams to allow the vegetable washing water to flow out. The plastic basket was sold by the fifth uncle back then.
The fifth aunt gave birth to three children, none of whom lived long. The first one was crushed to death by the fifth aunt sleeping; The second one was still in confinement, so the fifth aunt took it out to buy popsicles for him to eat, and she also died; The third one died somehow. All three are boys. Grandma once asked the fifth aunt if she crushed the child to death and the fifth aunt beat her, and the fifth aunt said, "Slap me with a pestle." "The fifth aunt is very good to the fifth aunt, how the fifth aunt behaves, the fifth aunt doesn't beat the fifth aunt, I only heard that he beat the fifth aunt that time.
Once, the fifth aunt scolded Lin Hanmei again, and Lin Hanmei ran to the yard alone to cry. The little cousin of the eldest uncle's family came to her uncle's house from the countryside, passed by Lin Hanmei's house, and saw Lin Hanmei crying, so she asked Lin Hanmei why she was crying, and Lin Hanmei said: "My fifth aunt scolded me." The little cousin said, "Hanmei, don't cry." I'll take you back to the house. Then the little cousin sent Lin Hanmei back to the house, when the grandmother and the fifth aunt were in the house, the little cousin said to the grandmother: "Hanmei is crying, don't let her fifth aunt always scold her." Grandma was still unhappy, the little cousin left, and grandma lost her temper at Lin Hanmei and said, "Why does your fifth aunt always scold you?" ”
Lin Hanmei also told her father that she was afraid of the fifth aunt, and when her father told her grandmother, her grandmother cried and wanted to send her fifth aunt back. Dad was afraid that grandma would be sad, so he coaxed Lin Hanmei and didn't let Lin Hanmei say that she was afraid, so Lin Hanmei had to be afraid and endure it.
In winter, grandma would steam sticky bean buns. To steam sticky bean buns, you should first beat the yellow rice into noodles, put some cornmeal on it, stir the two kinds of noodles evenly, put them in a large basin, mix them with water, and put them on the kang head. Put the soybeans in the pot and cook them, take them out with a grate, scoop out the water in which the soybeans are boiled, dry the pot, and then put the soybeans in the pot and put a little saccharin. Crush the soybeans with a pestle and put them in a pot.
Then start to grasp the bean paste, grab a handful of crushed soybeans with each hand, and squeeze vigorously. Sometimes the adults hold the bean paste, and Lin Hanmei also goes up to join in the fun, saying that she wants to help the adults hold the bean paste, but in fact, she is going to eat the bean paste. Lin Hanmei's bean paste, the adults said that it was too loose, Lin Hanmei just took the opportunity to eat it, and after eating a few, she was full, so she went to play again.
After the bean paste is crumbled, the yellow noodles are also ready, and the bean buns are started. Pick a small piece of yellow noodles from the basin with your hands, knead it, make it into the shape of a small cake, put a bean paste and wrap it, knead it with the palms of both hands until it is round, and a bean bag is ready. Put the finished bean buns on the curtain, put a curtain full of them, take them to the pot and steam, take them to the outside of the house to freeze when they are steamed, and pick them up and put them in the big vat of the warehouse after they are frozen. For example, Lin Hanmei's family's steamed bean buns with a small population have to be steamed for a day or two, and those with a large population have to be steamed for three or four days.
When you want to eat like this, use a small pot to pick it up, melt, stew the vegetables under the pot, put a curtain, put the bean buns on the curtain, cover the pot and burn the fire, wait for the pot to boil, the vegetables are cooked, and the bean buns are also hot, which is very convenient. When families can freeze bean buns in winter, they start making bean buns, and they have to eat them until the beginning of spring next year.
Two meals in the countryside in winter, if the children are hungry, they can also nibble on frozen bean buns. Lin Hanmei and her brother also often gnaw. Grandma likes to pick up some bean buns the night before and keep them hot the next morning, and Lin Hanmei often lies on the bed and nibbles two. Lin Hanmei's favorite thing is when she nibbles on the bean paste, and the bean paste is very sweet when it is frozen. The third aunt doesn't like to eat saccharin, so her bean buns don't put saccharin, which has no taste, and Lin Hanmei doesn't like to eat it.
The days passed quickly, and it was the end of the first semester of the first year of the first year. In the final exam, Lin Hanmei felt that she did well in the exam, and as soon as the results came out, they were really good: 92 in mathematics and 85 in Chinese.
After the exam, the students did not leave, waiting for Mr. Yang to judge the score. Teacher Yang finished sentencing Lin Hanmei and some students, and a teacher came to Lin Hanmei's class to walk, the same teacher who helped Lin Hanmei find five yuan last year, and Teacher Yang happily said to him: "Lin Hanmei is 92 in mathematics and 85 in Chinese." The teacher said, "Then she's number one." Later, after the score was awarded, Lin Hanmei was really the first.
There was also a small episode during the exam that day, it was two teachers from other places who came to invigilate the exam, and on the morning of winter, the two teachers came on bicycles and felt very cold, so they burned the stove vigorously, Lin Hanmei happened to sit next to the stove, and it was too hot. What's even more annoying is that Lin Hanmei was wearing a set of light green clothes that her aunt bought for Lin Hanmei that year, and her brother brought back Lin Hanmei, all of which were baked.