Chen Meilan took the female cadres who were squatting into the house, and without waiting for Zhou Lanxiang to speak, Chen Meilan spoke first, "Zhou Lanxiang, this is Comrade Zhang Hong, a female cadre from the county who came to squat, just call Comrade Zhang." ”

Don't call Zhang cadre as soon as you open your mouth, and directly call other people's names Zhang Hong, which is not bad, and even call people Zhang squatting! What a group of uninformed rural women, a disgrace to death!

Zhou Lanxiang sat on the small bench and didn't get up, and nodded with a smile at Comrade Zhang, "Comrade Zhang, you sit on the kang!" I'll finish this pancake first. ”

The heat of the pancakes is the most important, and you can't stop when you put the batter on the pan, Zhou Lanxiang concentrated on the pancakes after speaking.

I heard that it was exchanged for ten catties of bud rice particles from a family in Shandong in the early years of the Liulin Brigade, and they were ready to eat pancakes on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

In the past, their family also had a pancake pan, after the grandfather died, I didn't know who would let the Han family break up, Han Jin didn't look for it, a good man didn't eat a family meal, he could earn back anything for Xiangxiang!

Most of the people in Tunzi have passed the fifth year of the first month, and most of the delicious food and drink have been eaten, and the rest of the time has to be kept for the fifteenth day of the first month and the second dragon of February. But Zhou Lanxiang didn't spend their year like this, the sixth day of the first month sent the poor god to eat pancakes, the seventh day of the first month ate noodles, and the eighth day of the first month to eat grain porridge, until the fifteenth day of the first month, every day is exquisite.

In the past, when she was celebrating the New Year at her grandfather's house, Xiao Jin followed Xiangxiang and helped her prepare daily food, and conscientiously followed the rules of this ancestor for the New Year like her.

At that time, Xiangxiang didn't pay attention to how much this child paid attention to these, but after so many years of separation, this year they celebrated the New Year together, only to find that those details and exquisiteness were silently remembered by him, and even prepared all the things that should be prepared without saying a word.

After the fifth day of the new year, he was going to visit several grandfather's old comrades-in-arms with Grandpa Yang, and this morning he took the cart of timber from the forest farm into the county seat, and when he left, he not only lit the charcoal fire in the pancake pan, but also said that he would buy a pack of colored small candles when he entered the city, and put a small lantern in the small lantern when preparing the eighth day of the first month, which was better than the white wax of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Of course, he also told Xiangxiang that he was coming back to eat pancakes.

Zhou Lanxiang concentrated on spreading pancakes, and the female cadre Zhang Hong was also attracted to it, it was the first time she had seen someone spread pancakes like this.

Northeast people love to eat real steamed bread, spread pancakes are few, although the saying is that the sixth day of the first month to send the poor god to spread pancakes, but that is the older generation of exquisite, now advocating the change of customs for the Spring Festival, the old pay attention to no one wants to listen to it for a long time, not to mention spending so much effort to make these not very delicious things.

But Zhang Hong found that Zhou Lanxiang made pancakes differently. In fact, from the moment she entered the house, she found a lot of things that were different from the rural families she visited.

On the outside, this small adobe house is no different from other rural houses, and even looks worse than most rural people's earthen houses, she has long heard about Zhou Lanxiang, and before she came, she thought that she would see a rural woman with yellow face and thin muscles, but when she entered the door, she didn't have this idea at all.

This cottage feels clean and bright as soon as you come in, there are few furniture in the room, and there are no conspicuous furnishings, but it makes people feel comfortable everywhere!

Even the houses of most of the people in the city she have been to are clean and comfortable.

And then there is Zhou Lanxiang, who is so beautiful, so beautiful that she is beyond her imagination!

This is a divorced woman who has been trained by her in-laws for six or seven years, even a cultural person who sits in an office in the city and can't get caught in the wind and rain, and is not so young and beautiful! It is said that she is 25 years old, but looking at the appearance of the water and spirit, it is more convincing to say that she is a 20-year-old girl who is going to school!

Zhang Hong looked at Zhou Lanxiang a few times and was attracted by the fragrance of pancakes, this pancake smelled so fragrant! Zhang Hong's stomach, which she hadn't eaten for a few days when she came to the countryside, began to gurgle, and the movement was so loud that her face turned red!

subconsciously looked at Chen Meilan next to her, and found that Chen Meilan's face was even redder, and her stomach was ringing!

What the hell is in this pancake, how can it be so fragrant!

Not only fragrant, but also really clean to look at, when she was a child, she also saw an old lady sitting in the open stall pancakes, burning the fire while stalling, the smoke and fire burned black ashes flying everywhere, and she didn't want to eat it when she looked at it.

But Zhou Lanxiang's pancakes were spread strangely, they were actually stalled in the house, and they were clean, and she didn't see her burning the fire, let alone a little smoke and ash.

If you look closely, it turns out that you have lit a charcoal fire in a tweezer. It's a good idea, but it's too wasteful! It's so hard to buy charcoal now! Her grandmother had the habit of taking the brazier exam in winter, and her parents had no choice, so they got up every morning and went outside to burn wood to build a brazier for the old lady, and her eyes were red every morning.

I don't know where Zhou Lanxiang got the carbon, she really doesn't look like a divorced woman these days, don't blame Chen Meilan for saying that she has a lot of eyes, and she really has to be on guard!

Zhou Lanxiang quickly finished spreading out a pancake, pulled out the iron drawer with charcoal fire under the tweezers with iron tongs, and covered the pancakes and batter with a snow-white drawer cloth, washed her hands again, and then sat down to talk to Zhang Hong and Chen Meilan.

Of course, she also heard the two of them screaming in their stomachs, but by looking at their expressions, she knew that these two people didn't come to her today to make friends, so she shouldn't be kind enough to let people eat pancakes.

Originally, she wanted to get a soft goose feather cushion for Chen Meilan, who had an injured tail, but now she doesn't know, so let's pretend not to know.

Zhou Lanxiang got straight to the point, "Comrade Zhang, I know that you are busy with work, what is the matter with you coming to me today?" "After saying something, Xiaoshan and Xiaojin are about to come back for dinner, and she has to prepare the meat sauce and side dishes for the pancakes.

The more Zhang Hong looked at Zhou Lanxiang, the more wrong she became, how could she be so natural to the cadres from the city, there was no awe, envy, inferiority and fear of rural women when they saw the cadres in the city, talking to her was like chatting with ordinary neighbors, which made her feel very uncomfortable!

"Zhou Lanxiang, I'm here to inform you that I'm going to the literacy class tomorrow. You've been absent from class for three days, and if you don't go, I'll notify your production team to deduct your work. ”

Chen Meilan hurriedly added, "If you don't go for the first three days, you will have to deduct work points!" To miss school again is not to cooperate with the revolutionary work! We're going to have to inform the squads and brigades to criticize you as a reactionary archetype! ”

Zhou Lanxiang's face was not as scared as they expected, it was still gentle, and she spoke softly and didn't worry at all, "Comrade Zhang, there may be something wrong with this, I am definitely not in the list of literacy classes, I know how to read, the captain of our sixth team and all the members of the club know this, and Comrade Chen Meilan also knows." A few days ago, I told her and the women director of our brigade about this in front of her at the brigade headquarters, and the women director of our brigade can testify to me. ”

Chen Meilan's face turned red, "You said you can read and write?" Like you, our literacy class should not be run at all! ”

Zhou Lanxiang still explained to Zhang Hong good-naturedly, "Then I'll read you a piece of newspaper, you look at the newspaper pasted on the wall, you can point to a paragraph casually." ”

Zhang Hong really didn't believe it, so he pointed to a paragraph casually, and Zhou Lanxiang read it fluently, not a word is wrong, "...... Comrade Zhang, I also think that it is a good thing to run a literacy class, and if I am illiterate, I will definitely go to study. There are a lot of illiterate women in our tunzi, so why don't you mobilize them again? As long as you say it clearly, everyone is not ignorant, how can you be willing to be blind, at least learn the team's year-end accounting and be able to understand the account book! ”

Zhang Hong was annoyed in her heart, feeling that Zhou Lanxiang was laughing at her for tossing around, "Where did you learn to read?" Why didn't I report to the team when I went to a literacy class before? You are hiding the facts, you know? If you dig deeper, you won't be able to eat and walk around! ”

Zhou Lanxiang didn't want to conflict with them, many things in this era were unclear, and she still wanted to stop living, "I didn't go to a literacy class, my brother taught me." ”

Zhang Hong also saw the situation on the side of the newly made big kang cabinet, the simple wooden bookshelf nailed to the wall neatly placed textbooks from primary school to junior high school, and there were several awards on the wall, the most conspicuous of which was to reward Zhou Qingshan for achieving the first place in the school and the second in the county in the junior high school graduation examination.

Zhang Hong's mind moved, "Zhou Qingshan is your brother?" He's going to county high school this year, right? Is the political examination qualified? If you don't cooperate with our work, I will write materials to the commune and the county education bureau to report the situation, and we will continue to investigate the matter of his high school before deciding. ”

"I am the chief staff member of the Women's Federation under the County Education Bureau, and I still have a say in this matter!"