Chapter 51: The Big Order
It has been said that "there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests." This sentence can be placed in any situation, especially for Huo Jiaojiao, whose family is poor and urgently needs to change.
Huo Dagui went out to work after training his daughter, and Huo Jiaojiao was alone in the house in a daze. She carefully put away Kou Xi's cosmetics and placed them neatly in the windowless drawer of the TV cabinet.
She crouched there and saw that there were a few taller bottles inside, and curiously took them out to see what they were for.
"Bailing" nutritional hair lotion, lemon flower conditioner, diamond hair wax. I also know what these things do, they are all washed and wiped. No wonder there was always a fragrance in Kou Xi's hair, and she thought it was the smell of alabaster on her face.
Opening the camphor wood box next to the TV, Kou Xi's clothes were neatly folded. Huo Jiaojiao looked at the clothes inside and breathed a sigh of relief. She was worried that Kou Xi would have some bells and whistles, and that it would be her brother who would go out to hook up with someone in the future.
She flipped through Kou Xi's clothes and found that they were all the things she bought when she got married, and she had seen them before. The newly bought clothes seem to be the padded jacket she wears.
Huo Jiaojiao put down the cabinet on the right and opened the one on the left. I saw that there were ready-made yarns inside, dark blue and gray. She remembered the sweater Kou Xi was wearing, and the yellow sweater was supposed to be knitted by herself. Looking at these yarns again, I don't know if they are knitted for my father-in-law or for my father-in-law.
She never thought that Kou Xi would knit sweaters for Huo An, because in her eyes, Huo An was very money-saving in the army, and her clothes, shoes, hats, and socks were all issued by the state, and she didn't need her family to worry about it at all.
After carefully returning to her position, she sat on the big kang in the adjacent window again. Seeing that there was a drawer under the kang cabinet that was not locked, she opened it and found a crochet needle and a letter inside. Huo Jiaojiao took out the letter and found that it was written by Huo An to Kou Xi, so she couldn't help but open it and read it.
After reading the letter, she breathed a sigh of relief, and thought to herself: It's not as many words as Huo An wrote to me. He also asked me how my body was, how my family was, and how my children were. His uncle was more worried than his own father, and he always told me to watch them study hard.
"Huh!" Huo Jiaojiao held up Kou Xi's family letter: "What are you talking about, what are you talking about?" ”
The younger brother was more affectionate to himself than to his wife, and the little grievance in Huo Jiaojiao's heart was relieved at once.
Kou Xi got off work and found that the family was actually waiting for him to eat. She went back to the house and changed her clothes, took off her outer pants in the floral cotton jacket made by her grandmother, and pulled on her cotton shoes. When she went to the next door to eat, she found that except for Huo Jiaojiao's two children, who looked a little wilted, the others were extremely enthusiastic.
Especially the eldest sister who is still cold to herself in the morning!
"Are you tired from work? You can't stand all day and take a break when you have time, right?" Huo Jiaojiao handed Kou Xi a pair of chopsticks and pulled her to sit beside her.
Kou Xi nodded: "You can sit, people will be busy for a while in the morning." At three or four o'clock there was no one, and we sat down!"
Gao Liman served Kou Xi a bowl of rice, and his attitude was also very enthusiastic. Kou Xi took a bite of food, and suddenly remembered something and said to Huo Dagui: "By the way, Dad, I received a call today saying that Yazhou County needs a lot of noodles. Strive to send 500 catties over on the twentieth day of the lunar month. What do you think our family can do?"
"Five hundred catties?" Huo Dagui was excited, put down the wine cup and said happily: "Can you do it, I can make a thousand catties with all my life." ”
"But it's only been less than half a month, and this yard is not enough to hang. Kou Xi was worried: "Other supply and marketing cooperatives also have to increase demand, I think our family is choking enough!"
"I'll make noodles after eating in a while, and I'll go buy a few bags of noodles tomorrow morning. Your eldest sister, Xiao Man'er, and your mother can also do it, Huo Lu and Jiangang are all here. It's really not good, call Qian Ming back, and earn the money together. ”
Huo Dagui was full of interest: "If we can do it in Yazhou County, this business will be indispensable in the future!"
500 catties of noodles, looking at the big business of 400 yuan. Huo Jiaojiao became excited, although she didn't know if her father could share the money. But she was also very happy to be there.
Making money is happier than a New Year's reunion!
How can a family still have the heart to eat and quickly resolve the battle. All the noodles were taken out, according to the ratio of flour, salt, and water that Huo Dagui said.
"It must not be too soft, the dough is soft, and the salt is less, and you can't pull it out. Huo Dagui beckoned Li Cuilian: "You go to make tofu, this point in the tofu workshop is done, and it will not be sold in the past two days." Let's sleep less and work more, and hurry up and make the noodles!"
With such a big business, she can earn 400 yuan in one breath, and Li Cuilian is about to wake up laughing in her dreams. Even if it's Kou Xi, it will take five months to earn it. With these 400 yuan, it is enough for the family's expenses for a year. It's a good year!
Kou Xi had to go to work the next day, and he didn't have so much energy to work. At about ten o'clock, she led the children back to the house to sleep, and according to Huo Jiaojiao, she didn't come back until almost twelve o'clock in the evening.
Before half past six in the morning, Huo Dagui knocked on the window to urge everyone to get up. Although Huo Jiaojiao has been working at home all the time, it is still dark at half past six in the northeast in winter. Most people eat two meals, and no one gets up so early. Not to mention that she was tired last night!
Huo Jiaojiao put on her clothes, casually curled up her hair and tied it up and left the house.
The door lights in the courtyard are lit, and the sound of talking and the loud laughter characteristic of Northeast women come and go. Kou Xi also got up, she went to look around and found that all the pots that could be taken out of the house were taken out. The noodles are in full swing. The tofu shop is steaming hot and not cold at all, and the place is big and bright.
Huo Jiaojiao and Gao Liman sat on small chairs with a basin in front of them. There were two parallel poles in front of him, and he wrapped the noodles in the basin around the two poles with both hands.
On the other side, Huo Lu and Song Jiangang took the noodles that they woke up for a while last night to the side and stretched them little by little. Because it's cold, it's not warm enough outside to dry the noodles. Too low a temperature will only freeze the noodles into ice cubes in an instant, and once they are cut, they will be sticky flour.
Therefore, there are not so many rolls, so they are rolled out in the room and hung on the wall. The stove in the house is boiled, and the noodles are dried using the temperature.
But because the space in the house is too small, even if the house is full of noodles, the room is still not enough. Simply moved the two of them to the big house, and vacated the entire hut where they lived and filled it with dried noodles.
The tired people of the family turned their horses on their backs, and finally sent all the noodles to Yazhou County on the twentieth day of the lunar month.