Chapter 59: I Do
Spiced sparrows and braised rabbit meat, Mingfang had to give Director Liu no money for nothing, but Director Liu was also very real, knowing that it was not easy for the Zhuang family, so he gave Mingfang three yuan.
Not only did Ming Fang get three yuan this time, but her greenhouse vegetables were sold for sixty catties before they were harvested!
She went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy sugar cubes and fried melon seeds. Seeing Li Shanling busy at the grocery counter, she went over to say hello and saw the mutton on the counter.
As soon as I inquired, I dared to love that mutton was cheaper than pork in these years, pork was seven corners and eight pounds, and mutton was four corners and one pound! In these years, people can't eat meat on ordinary days, and they like to eat fat meat during the holidays, and fat meat tastes fragrant, and most people have to use fat to boil lard, and the lard is fried to produce vegetables, which has a unique meat fragrance. I can't afford to eat pork on weekdays, so it's good to stir-fry vegetables with lard. People rarely buy mutton to eat, so the price of mutton is much cheaper than pork.
Mingfang didn't have a meat ticket, so he walked through the back door of Li Shanling and bought ten catties of mutton at once. Old man Lin wants to come to celebrate the New Year, and there are many people who eat quickly, so he has to prepare enough New Year's goods. When the time comes, wrap mutton-stuffed dumplings, and then have a mutton hot pot to be more exciting!
Thinking that Fang Yuan had given herself a fountain pen, she turned to the clothing cloth counter, there were not many styles of clothing and cloth, most of them were blue, blue, black and gray, she estimated Fang Yuan's figure, bought a piece of navy blue cotton cloth, went back and asked her mother to make it out, and gave it to him when Fang Yuan left. Own, Mingli and grandma's clothes, Zhang Meiyu has already done it, Zhang Meiyu is skillful and diligent, and a piece of clothing can be sewn for a day or two.
Now every household in the village has electric lights, because Zhang's mother and son were driven out of the village, and there are still no electric lights. is used to living a modern life, no computer, no Internet, no mobile phone, but there is no electric light every night in the dark, Mingfang has long been unable to stand it. She went to the hardware store and bought wires, switches, light bulbs and other materials, thinking that she would have to install electric lights in her house years ago. But the weight of this wire is quite heavy, she bought a lot of things, and she couldn't carry the basket, so she handed it over to Li Shanling to help her take it home after work.
Mingfang bought almost it, looked up at the sky, it was just over ten o'clock, she walked back with the basket on her back, passed by the entrance of the health center, and turned her head to see Li Honghua's footsteps hurriedly towards the outpatient clinic of the health center. Mingfang didn't care either, and said in her heart, there may be someone in the Li family who is not very comfortable and came to buy medicine.
Ming Fang approached the edge of the village with the basket on her back, she was so tired that her forehead was sweating, but fortunately she arrived home in a few steps, she stopped to take a breath, and saw Li Hongbao running towards her panting.
"Mingfang!Mingfang!" Li Hongbao ran to her side and stopped suddenly, his face flushed all the way, "Mingfang, I've been looking for you for a long time......"
"Li Hongbao, what are you looking for?" Ming Fang wiped the sweat from his forehead. Her eyes crossed over to Li Hongbao and saw curling smoke rising from the roof of her house.
"My test results are out...... I didn't get into the top ten, I worked hard, don't be angry......" Li Hongbao said, took out two papers from his pocket and handed them over.
Also, this kid has stayed in the third grade, and he is one student behind, how can he be admitted to the top ten.
Mingfang took the exam paper and looked at it, 83 points in Chinese, 91 points in mathematics, and the first final notice listed the results, which said that Li Hongbao's results in this exam were 13th in the class and 36th in the grade.
Ming Fangxin said, it seems that this kid has really worked hard, and he caught up so quickly, which shows that he was not good at learning in the first place.
She casually handed the exam paper back to him: "Well, the exam is not bad." ”
"I'll definitely be in the top ten next time, Mingfang, don't you get angry, don't ignore me?" looked at Mingfang's face with sincere fear.
"Hey, Li Hongbao, what does it matter to me that you have taken the exam, why should I be angry?
"It's not that you said that a good man should be ambitious...... Only when you are determined in all directions can you make a difference......"
"Yes, you are ambitious in all directions, you are the one who has a future, and when the time comes, your old Li family will be glorious and proud!"
Ming Fang said that she would pick up the basket and leave, Li Hongbao snatched her basket, carried it on her shoulder, and strode forward.
When she arrived at the door, Mingfang remembered something: "Li Hongbao, are you on winter vacation?"
Li Hongbao put the basket on the ground and nodded: "Let it go." ”
"I have a job here, can you do it?"
Li Hongbao didn't understand, and stared at her dumbfounded.
"Two days later, my greenhouse vegetables will be sold in the market, if you want, you can get some to sell in nearby villages or Liujiapu and Hejiaji Town, and I will give you a five-cent commission for each bundle sold, how about it?"
"What?
"Less nonsense, would you like to do it?"
Li Hongbao's excited face lit up, he didn't care about making money, he cared that as long as Mingfang was willing to take care of him, he could see Mingfang!
"Good, good, I'm willing, I'm willing!"
In the afternoon of the next day, Li Shanling found an electrician from the town to install electric lights for Mingfang's house. Not only did the electric lights in the three houses be installed, but the electric lights were also installed in the courtyard, and Mingfang also asked the electrician to install electric lights in the greenhouse.
Anyway, in two days, the greenhouse vegetables will be harvested and listed, and people will know, and Mingfang doesn't want to hide it anymore.
Li Shanling and the electrician entered her greenhouse, and when they saw a large patch of green vegetables, their eyes straightened!
A bunch of celery and spinach!
There are also pumpkin seedlings, sweet potato seedlings! Mingfang used enough fertilizer for pumpkin seedlings and sweet potato seedlings, and they chased after me, and climbed the branches and fences of the greenhouse one after another, forming a green wall, which looked like a fairy tale world.
Miracle!
Although Li Shanling had already eaten the shepherd's cabbage and pumpkin seedlings that Ming Fang gave to his family, he still opened his mouth in surprise when he saw such a green vegetable field in winter.
It's warm in the greenhouse. Old man Lin and Mingli burned some charcoal in the forest farm a few days ago, and in order to speed up the growth of vegetables, Mingfang built two stoves in the greenhouse.
In these years, ordinary people are reluctant to burn coal for heating in their houses, so they rely on the fire to cook in winter, and the clay kang is heated to bake the cold.
The electrician was a man in his fifties, and he didn't dare to put his feet on this green lettuce field, he stepped on the ridge carefully, and he didn't dare to move, it felt like a dream.
Mingfang brought a stool and told him to kick it, pull the wire, and install three light bulbs in the greenhouse according to Mingfang's wishes. With light bulb lighting, vegetables grow faster in greenhouses. Mingfang thought.
The electrician finished his work quickly, and when he left, Mingfang gave him a handful of spinach and a handful of celery.
The electrician took the greens in his arms and walked away happily!