Chapter 26: Buns
It's not that Lin Tong doesn't want to buy a fountain pen, the fountain pen is not like a notebook, the price is much higher, she can't take five yuan with the front foot, and spend all the money with the back foot.
She reckons that if that were the case, she wouldn't want to get a penny from that man in the future.
It may be that the salesperson saw that she really wanted to write a letter, and after thinking about lending her her pen, Lin Tong thanked her, lowered his head and began to write.
She could no longer use the title of "Mom and Dad", so she wrote "comrade", and as soon as these two words were written, she was stunned, as if, probably, it seems, at this time, her dear father was only eleven years old, and her mother was only eight years old.
Can she call them "comrades"? Is it difficult to call them "brother and sister"? It's a headache to think about.
Moreover, at their age, they both go to school at their own homes, so she can only write this letter to them alone.
Isn't this a pleasant way to write?
She decided to write a letter to each of them.
The pen unconsciously tapped a few times on the chin, and after thinking about it, write "classmate", which must be right!
Lin Tong finished writing the letter in the same way as a pen pal, carefully folded it and put it in an envelope and affixed it with a postage stamp, and the address was the commune primary school where grandma is now a teacher. Although my parents were still young, they were both in the same school at this time.
Later, her mother also became a primary school teacher, but when she was five or six years old, her mother learned to go to the sea to do business, and for a while the business was not good, she often said at home, "I knew that I wouldn't go to the sea, it was better to be a teacher, two holidays a year, and my salary was guaranteed by drought and flood......
My father was annoyed by her chatter, so he found a relationship for her and transferred her back to school, but her mother's business improved again, and she earned nearly one million that year, and she refused to go back, saying: "What's so good about being a teacher, earning that little dead salary, and I can't even pay the piano fees, dance fees, and calligraphy tuition fees that I miss......"
The angry dad didn't pay attention to her for a few days.
Thinking of his parents, the corners of Lin Tong's mouth unconsciously overflowed with a happy smile.
Returning the pen to the salesman, "Thank you, comrade." ”
The attitude of the salesman is much better, at first the girl asked for paper and no pen, she thought it was nonsense, just now she saw that the girl was writing quickly, the word was very beautiful, and her impression immediately changed, so the attitude was very good to guide her, "You just put the letter into the mailbox at the door." ”
Lin Tong submitted the letter, and the address of the reply letter was written in the Xu family.
She had already inquired that there was a special postman who would go to the countryside to deliver, although it was slower, but she had no better way.
She walked through the big set in good spirits, and it was already noon at this time, and there were fewer people on the big set, but there were still people next to each other.
Xu Lao Er and Xu Lao San all sold the chickens they brought, and seven people, big and small, were standing in the corner eating steamed buns, gobbling them up one by one, eating with mouths full of oil.
Lin Tong pouted, these people ate it without waiting for them, for fear of getting a little cheap with them.
She stepped forward with a bad heart, patted Li Yubo, who was facing away from her, and complained: "Why don't you call me and your eldest brother when you eat steamed buns?" It's not interesting, isn't it? ”
Li Yubo ate Zhengxiang, Leng Buding was taken aback, and wanted to get angry, but when she saw that it was her sister-in-law, and heard her accusation, she was busy with a smile, and said with a little weakness: "Sister-in-law, no, didn't I find you just now?" ”
Xu Lao Er squatted on the ground, like a few children, his mouth was full of oil, and he raised his eyelids and glanced at her, "I thought you and my eldest brother went to his father-in-law's house to eat chicken!" Why, my eldest brother didn't take you with me! ”
This is very provocative, but what kind of person is Lin Tong, he doesn't care about his clumsy performance at all, "Your eldest brother said that after Xiao Nian's mother was gone, your two families fell out, I think, Xiao Nian's grandmother's family can't keep him for dinner!" ”
Xu Laosan frowned, looked at the second brother unhappily, and said What are those useless things to do, what benefits can you get from offending his sister-in-law?
Li Yubo reacted quickly, and quickly changed the topic to explain, "Isn't it that the children are hungry, and there is nothing to eat to sell after dinner, so hurry up and buy some steamed buns and mats." I just ate half of it, sister-in-law, don't be embarrassed, you eat ......" handed over the half-bitten bun in his hand.
Lin Tong took a step back, she really hated it, she gave her half of the bun, she could think of it.
waved his hand and said with a smile: "I don't eat, you eat, I'm just teasing you, you take it seriously." ”
Li Yubo: ......
He withdrew his hand in a sneer, "That, sister-in-law, I ate it." ”
"Eat, eat, eat, you eat first, I'll go find your eldest brother." Lin Tong looked at the fragrance of the people who ate, especially Xu Laoer, and lost the interest in talking, turned around and walked a few steps before turning around and asking, "Yubo, where did you buy this bun?" ”
Li Yubo just took a bite of the bun into his mouth, and when he heard her ask, he swallowed the fee and pointed not far away, "Over there, there is a state-run hotel." ”
Lin Tong nodded, and on the way to the supply and marketing cooperative, she saw that many stalls were holding pancakes or flatbreads and eating pickles, and she didn't see a few people like the Xu family who bought buns to eat. Most of them bring their own dry food. After all, going to a restaurant to buy steamed buns to eat requires both money and food stamps.
The big cakes in this cold sky were all frozen like stones, and some of them were covered with ice ballast, which made Lin Tong's heart sour.
If the conditions are good, you can eat pancakes, rolled green onions or kitchen strips, which are much more delicious than flatbread.
If you sell some simple, cheap and hot soup for lunch at the big market, business will definitely be good!
Lin Tong pondered in his heart, and when he arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, he found that Xu Nian was nibbling on buns, and Xu Zhenhua stared at her with a gloomy face, "Why did you come back?" ”
Lin Tong was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face faded, "I went out for a walk, didn't I say that it would be an hour?" ”
She thinks she's going out for less than an hour!
Xu Zhenhua also noticed that his tone was not good, he had just put a stomach in Xiao Nian's grandfather's house, and he came back after leaving his things, after he came back with Xiao Nian, he couldn't wait for her for a long time, Xiao Nian was hungry again, he could only take him to buy a bun first.
I was afraid that she would be hungry, so I wanted to wait for her to eat together, and I was still hungry, so I saw her tone a little fiercer.
"I'm not, I see that you won't come back, I'm afraid you'll be hungry!" Xu Zhenhua was very shameless and found a reason for himself.
Lin Tong looked at him for a while, and only when he saw that he looked a little uncomfortable did he look away, "Yes, I'm hungry, what are we going to eat?" His eyes involuntarily looked at Xu Nian...... Buns in hand.
The big bun is very big, and there is more fat and less weight in it, which is the kind she doesn't like very much, but why does she feel that she is already secreting saliva in her mouth?