Of course, I couldn't eat so much pork, so my grandmother made the pork that I couldn't finish eating into salted bacon. This is how the bacon is done: in the spring, the pork is washed, cut into thick rectangular pieces, about 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide, then the pork pieces are coated with layer after layer of mish, and then the pieces are hung under the eaves to dry, and after the air is dry, they are hung on the wall of the house. When eating, cut off a small piece with a knife, and the rest is still hanging there. Grandma often put bacon when stewing beans in summer, cut the bacon into thin slices and stew with the beans, the stewed beans have many small white bubbles on it, and the bacon tastes salty and fragrant. Because in the summer, almost no people in the countryside are willing to buy meat, which is a way for rural people to store pork in those days.

In the first year of grandma's visit, Lin Hanmei's family killed a pig, and when the Chinese New Year was approaching, my father and brother went to my aunt's house, and my aunt gave me another kick of pork. One foot is a quarter, and a pig has four legs, and from the middle it is divided into four feet. Dad and brother took the pork back. The aunt also gave a lot of other things, but my father couldn't take them, so he asked my brother to take them, but my brother couldn't take them, so he dragged the bag of things and left, because he had to walk to the station, and the aunt's family lived in a neighboring county. The aunt bought a dress for Lin Hanmei, and she was also dragged by her brother for a long time in that bag.

It was a light green dress. Lin Hanmei rarely had new clothes when she was a child, she only remembered that her father bought herself a green nylon shirt and a red shirt with white teeth, and the red shirt only cost 7 yuan when she bought it, and she choked Lin Hanmei with joy. Once my father took out a pink coat for Lin Hanmei from under the cabinet, Lin Hanmei put it on, and my father took Lin Hanmei to the old Han's house in their tunzi, Lin Hanmei sat on the old Han's kang and looked down at her clothes, and the daughter-in-law of the old Han family found out and said: "Oh, Lin Hanmei's little pink clothes are so beautiful." Lin Hanmei was even happier, tilting her head and smiling happily.

Lin Hanmei wore even worse clothes when she was younger, often a small flowering hat and a small flowering padded jacket, that is, the hat and padded jacket were broken. Dad should have been dressed very well at that time, because once someone in the village had a happy event, Dad took Lin Hanmei there, and when he was playing outside, he heard the villagers talking: "You see Lin Fuhai wearing it so well, and he wears it like that for his children." He also said: "Do you think Lin Fuhai can still be found again?" Another person said, "Can you not look for it?" So young. "Lin Fuhai is my father's name.

Lin Hanmei's other clothes are all leftovers from her brother's childhood, and her father sometimes buys cloth for her brother to make clothes, but he has never done it for Lin Hanmei. Lin Hanmei has a cousin who runs a ready-to-wear shop in a town in a neighboring county, which is more than 30 miles away from Lin Hanmei's house.

Dad once took Lin Hanmei to buy fabric for his brother, and when Dad arrived in town, he first went to his cousin's ready-to-wear shop, put Lin Hanmei at his cousin's, and went to the town to buy fabrics by himself. Because she was not familiar with her cousin, as soon as her father left, Lin Hanmei cried, and her cousin hurriedly hugged Lin Hanmei and coaxed her, and went to the store next door to get a bag of candy for Lin Hanmei, because she was in a hurry, she didn't bring any money, and said to the people in the store: "I'll give you money later." Lin Hanmei remembered that the bag of candy was two yuan.

Lin Hanmei's neighbors didn't come back until after her grandmother came to Lin Hanmei's house. They are a family of five, a husband and wife and three children. The eldest child is a girl, the same age as Lin Hanmei, the younger name is Zhao Huazi, the second child is also a girl, and the youngest is a boy. Life is not good. Her family often eats flatbread, the flatbread is cornmeal cake, mix the cornmeal with water, add a little baking soda, stew the vegetables and then burn the pot for a while, when the pot is hot, grab a piece of cornmeal from the basin with your hands and make it into the shape of a cake, stick it on the pot, generally stick a circle on the pot, and then cover the pot to boil the pot, and wait for a while after the pot is boiled, the flatbread and vegetables will be cooked. At that time, rural families often ate more large cakes and less noodles. Lin Hanmei's family often eats noodles and almost never eats big cakes. At that time, there were also two types of noodles: white and black. White noodles are beaten more fiercely when they are beaten, so that there are fewer noodles and more bran; Black noodles are beaten lightly when the noodles are beaten, so that more noodles come out and less bran. Lin Hanmei's home-cooked food is white noodles. Lin Hanmei still remembers that her grandmother brought some black noodles when she came, and one day her grandmother rolled noodles with black noodles, Lin Hanmei saw it and exclaimed in surprise: "Ah! Black noodles. Grandma was still embarrassed, lowered her head and said shyly, "Well, black noodles." ”

Lin Hanmei once went to play with Zhao Huazi, walked outside her house, and heard Zhao Huazi crying and complaining to her mother: "I eat big cakes all day long." Her mother said, "Then what do you eat if you don't eat flatbread?" ”

Zhao Huazi's mother often took Zhao Huazi and her sister to hug her younger brother and came to Lin Hanmei's house at night. In the winter, my father and my brother sat in front of the stove and boiled the water, and my father or brother asked, "Drink sugar water and drink boiling water?" "Those who answer to drink sugar water put some sugar in the bowl, and then scoop some water into the bowl with a scoop, and those who answer to drink boiling water directly scoop some boiling water and put it in the bowl, as well as fried melon seeds, they love to come to Lin Hanmei's house.

There was a period when my father bought Lin Hanmei some calcium tablets, which were white, a bit like medicine, and sweet. One day Zhao Huazi came to play with Lin Hanmei, and Lin Hanmei took out a calcium tablet and said to Zhao Huazi: "Look, I don't need to drink water when I take medicine." Then he chewed and swallowed the calcium tablets. Zhao Huazi was very surprised and said, "You don't need to drink water when you take medicine, isn't it bitter?" She thought Lin Hanmei was taking analgesics. At that time, the common medicine in the countryside was analgesic tablets. And calcium tablets look a lot like analgesic tablets. Lin Hanmei lied to her: "It's bitter, but I'm not afraid." Later, Lin Hanmei told Zhao Huazi that it was a calcium tablet, which was not bitter and sweet. Zhao Huazi said: "I also want to take calcium tablets." Lin Hanmei's father said: "If you want to take calcium tablets, you go home and eat it." "Lin Hanmei's father doesn't like Zhao Huazi very much.

Once my grandmother was not at home and went to one of Lin Hanmei's aunts' house. Dad wanted to take Lin Hanmei to the ground, before going to the ground, Dad drank some water, Lin Hanmei also wanted to drink, Dad took the scoop and let Lin Hanmei drink, Zhao Huazi was also at Lin Hanmei's house at that time, she also wanted to drink, and Lin Hanmei gave her a drink. Dad was angry and said, "Eating lice can't fall on the thighs, and she also drinks water when people drink water, and people are busy on the ground." Zhao Huazi drank two sips of water and left.

Lin Hanmei heard her father say that she was very fat when she was a child, her face was more than the bridge of her nose, and her hands were full of meat pits, Lin Hanmei seemed to have a vague impression that she had a lot of meat pits on her hands. Dad often took Lin Hanmei's hand to look at the meat pit above, and Lin Hanmei herself often looked down at the meat pit on her hand.