When Mei Zhijun and the others relieved the coldness, Ding Hua took them to the temporary accommodation he arranged for Mei Zhijun's family of three.

There are five main houses in this large courtyard that doubles as a tofu workshop, and the middle one is the stove room, and Ding Hua and his family have been living in the two rooms in the east, so this time Ding Hua gave the two rooms in the west to Mei Zhijun's family to live in.

The east wing of the courtyard is where Ding Hua and his family usually make tofu, and what was supposed to be the west wing is now built into two large round warehouses (a cylindrical above-ground granary made of adobe bricks, wood and straw).

In the middle of the yard, where the vegetable garden was originally located, only bare vegetable beds remain, and the thick ice layer is slightly yellowed under the walls of the eastern half of the courtyard where the tofu factory is located.

Mei Yali knew at a glance that it must be the place where the tofu was pressed, and sure enough, after a while, Ding Hua pointed to the low table over there and said to Mei Zhijun: "The table where the tofu is pressed is there." ”

After a few people walked back and forth in the courtyard, Ding Hua asked Mei Zhijun and She Yufen to make tofu for him to test.

found that the two were indeed good hands, so Ding Hua was relieved and boldly took Mei Zhijun to Yuanbaoshan Power Plant.

They went to deliver today's tofu and tofu skin, and at the same time as the delivery, Ding Hua also took Mei Zhijun to meet his cousin, who was the deputy director of the Yuanbaoshan Power Plant - he was going to leave for two months, and it was still necessary to say hello to his backer.

After sending Ding Hua and Cheng Yufeng away, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen began to pack up the two rooms that Ding Huateng gave them to live in.

Mei Zhijun boiled hot water, and then the two of them took rags, brooms and other tools and began to clean the house.

There was only a thin layer of floating ash in the house, obviously Ding Hua's daughter-in-law was a diligent person, and although no one lived in the Westinghouse, she didn't just leave it alone.

It took less than half an hour for Mei Zhijun and She Yufen to place the bedding pillows they had brought on the earthen kang in the western room.

As for the clothes of the two of them, Mei Yali's milk powder diapers and daily necessities, She Yufen put them all in the two cabinets next to the earthen kang.

"Where are these going?" Mei Zhijun pointed to the two remaining rabbits that they gave away, as well as the five catties of pork belly, a jar of lard, and a bucket of sunflower oil that She Fengxia forced to give them.

"Put the stove in the room. Didn't Brother Ding make a cabinet for us to use? Just put it there. She Yufen smiled while breastfeeding Mei Yali and commanded Mei Zhijun to work.

Mei Zhijun carried things to the empty cabinet in the stove room, "What are we going to eat for dinner?" ”

She Yufen groaned slightly, "Millet porridge." Cut some devil ginger and pick up some ground rings. ”

The people here call Jerusalem artichoke "devil ginger" and manna seeds "earth ring", and the diligent housewives basically plant some in the yard every year, and dig them out and pickle them in the autumn to eat.

Before Ding Hua left, he left enough rice, noodles, and various condiments for them to eat for two months in the stove room.

In addition to rice, noodles and various condiments, he also generously contributed to the pickled devil ginger, ground ring, snow fern, sauerkraut, and mustard gnocchi pickled by his daughter-in-law.

Of course, the latter two cannot be fished out and eaten at present because the pickling time is still short.

Mei Zhijun was very grateful for Ding Hua's generosity, and before Ding Hua left, he stuffed two rabbits for each other.

Although Ding Hua himself promised to eat and live in the package before, in their place, the unwritten rule of package food has always been that the owner gives the migrant workers fifty catties of millet as rations a month.

As for the bag of white noodles given by Ding Hua, the devil ginger, ground ring, snow fern, sauerkraut, mustard gnocchi, and other condiments such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the stove room, these were all added to them by Ding Hua in the face of Cheng Yufeng's family.

For the next two months, Mei Yali stayed in Ding Hua's house, which smelled of raw, ripe, and half-baked beans everywhere.

Mei Zhijun and She Yufen didn't worry about her staying alone in the house, so when making tofu, they would always take Mei Yali to the tofu factory.

Mei Yali had no choice but to toss herself by them.

Fortunately, her parents only need to make tofu for half a day every day.

They started with lunch, worked all afternoon, and then delivered the finished tofu to the power plant's canteen before dark.

As for the extra two or three versions of tofu, her father would get up early the next morning and push his bicycle to the vegetable market not far away to sell them for free.

I want Mei Yali to say that it is really an unfortunate thing to work so a cold day in the north, but Mei Zhijun and She Yufen are full of energy.

Without Zhao Huiying's impromptu scolding of three meals a day, the two of them can earn at least 300 yuan a month.

On the day of the Chinese New Year, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen bought a full set of couplets, hanging signs, door gods, and window flowers, and pasted every door and window of Ding Hua's house with a red joy.

"Squirrel fish, croquettes, fried blood sausage, chicken stewed mushrooms, pork skin jelly, red stewed rabbit meat, spicy tofu, sauerkraut pork stewed vermicelli, haggis soup, ......" smelling the fish, meat, and oil fragrance coming from the stove, Mei Yali swallowed saliva while silently reporting the name of the dish in her heart.

She Yufen didn't know that her little girl was coveting her and Mei Zhijun's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and before the meal, she brought a bowl of tender egg custard, and then fed Mei Yali little by little.

Mei Yali had no choice but to hold on tightly to the New Year's money given by her parents, and swallowed the egg custard into her stomach one by one.

The time soon passed on the sixth day of the second lunar month, and on this morning, Ding Hua took his daughter-in-law, children, and old lady back to their home next to the power plant.

The leg that his wife had fallen on was still unable to exert force, and there was no way to follow Ding Hua and them to squeeze the shuttle, so Ding Hua begged his cousin, who drove a taxi in the city, to send them over in a special car.

When I got out of the car, I saw red couplets, hanging signs, door gods, and window flowers posted everywhere in the house, and Ding Hua's daughter-in-law suddenly had a smile on her face.

"Thank you, big sister. I am Ding Hua's daughter-in-law. She walked over, shook She Yufen's hand, and enthusiastically introduced her mother-in-law and children to her, "This is my mother, these are the two naughty ghosts of my family." ”

She Yufen hurriedly took out the New Year's money and distributed it to her family's two little dolls, "Hello sister-in-law." Come inside, I've already burned the kang. ”

Ding Hua's daughter-in-law took out the key and opened the door of the landlord's house, and Ding Hua, with the help of his cousin, sent his wife to the earthen kang in the east room as soon as possible.

His wife reached out and touched the kang and found that the temperature of the kang was neither lukewarm nor hot, so she was relieved that Ding Hua and his wife moved her to the kang head to lie down.