Chapter 22: Regretting the separation

"Ding...... Ding......"

The old man who sells sugar beats the small steel chisel with a small wooden vertebrae.

Erhuazi pulled Lingbao forward and said, "Give me two portions of maltose." ”

Rock sugar requires rock sugar tickets, white sugar requires white sugar tickets, brown sugar requires brown sugar tickets, candy needs candy tickets, and maltose collects sugar tickets.

For farmers, white sugar tickets and brown sugar tickets are very rare, rock sugar is extremely rare, and for five consecutive years, Baihe Village has only issued rock sugar tickets once.

Needless to say, candy tickets, the production team has never issued such a thing at all.

Compared with these kinds of tickets, sugar tickets are the most common sugar tickets, which are issued by every household during the Spring Festival every year, more than brown sugar and white sugar.

The uncle knocked down two pieces of hard maltose and wrapped it in oiled paper, "Na, two sugar stamps, four cents." ”

When Erhuazi handed out the candy ticket and money, Lingbao held the maltose in both hands and licked it curiously.

There were a lot of drooling children gathered around, and they were all staring at Lingbao at this time, and many of them had their fingers in their mouths.

A little girl asked greedily, "Is it sweet?" ”

Lingbao licked the candy again and shook his head, "It's not very sweet." ”

When the old man who sold candy heard this, he hurriedly said, "Doll, is it the first time you have eaten it?" This sugar should be chewed in your mouth, and the more you chew, the sweeter it becomes, you try. ”

"Yes, Lingbao, the maltose has to be chewed before it is sweet."

Lingbao picked up one of the pieces of sugar and put it in his mouth, and the originally hard sugar immediately became sweet and soft, and the more he chewed, the more fragrant it became.

She handed another piece of candy to her second brother, "Sweet~"

Somewhat unexpected about Lingbao's behavior of dividing sugar for himself, Erhuazi was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "I'm an adult, don't eat sugar, Lingbao you eat." ”

"Sweet, delicious, the second brother also eats it." The little guy's smile is simple and innocent.

Erhuazi's heart was soft for a while, and he felt that his soul was purified, and he couldn't help but reach out and take the maltose, and then put it in his mouth.

Although he is twenty-three, this is the first time in his life that he has eaten maltose.

When he was a child, not to mention sugar, he was thankful that he could have a ration to eat at home, but he hadn't eaten a full meal at that time, and he was hungry for two days a day.

Later, when I grew up and became a father, the sugar in the family was either for women or children, so how could I have the opportunity to eat sugar as a man?

"Is it sweet?" Lingbao asked with a smile.

Erhuazi nodded vigorously, "It's so sweet!" ”

The uncle who sold sugar smiled: "Sweet, right? Haha, chew slowly......"

The two of them left the maltose stall, and Erhuazi saw Lingbao eating candy with a circle of white starch around her mouth, her eyes were full of love, and she helped her wipe the corners of her mouth.

Originally, he had a lot of questions he wanted to ask Lingbao, but now he didn't want to ask.

No matter why Lingbao is so strong and can make people convulse like an electric shock, what he can be sure of is that Lingbao is helping himself!

If it weren't for Lingbao, he would be miserable today!

On the way back to the village, the people in the same carriage all looked at Erhuazi enviously and asked him how he bought the white noodles?

Erhuazi replied with a smile: "Luckily, when I went to the market with Lingbao, I met a large group of educated youth, he had a ticket but no money, I had money but no ticket, so I cooperated to buy it together, haha......"

"Yikes! So you've spent a lot of money, right? ”

"It's not much, it's just four or five yuan, which is much more cost-effective than going to the black market to buy food stamps! The black market price is three cents for a pound of white noodles, which is precious. ”

Everyone expressed envy when they heard this, "Ouch, that's really earned." ”

"It's so good, I can eat white noodles during the New Year," many people swallowed, "I'll just wait for the captain to share the dividends and New Year's pigs, and eat them with a nest." ”

"I don't know if he will send corn cobs this year, don't just send some sweet potatoes, I eat sweet potatoes and fart every day, ouch, I want to eat something else......"

Everyone talked for a while, and couldn't help but look at the big bag of flour next to Erhuazi.

The man sitting in the front of the car with a mouthful of yellow teeth sighed, "Huazi, your family has been really good lately, and you eat meat and noodles." ”

Hearing the sour taste in his words, Erhuazi hurriedly denied it, "Uncle Niu Geng, I haven't eaten meat, and this noodle was also bought for my mother, I'm an errand runner." ”

Uncle Niu Geng felt a little better when he heard this, and patted his head, "That's right, yes, I almost forgot that you and your father and mother were separated, oops!" It's really not the right time for you to get your share, or you'll have a share of all the food. ”

Erhuazi glanced down at Xiao Lingbao, who was leaning on his own sleep, and a wave of regret welled up in his heart, "Who said it wasn't?" They shouldn't have been separated in the first place! ”

In the next few days, everyone couldn't help but talk about the Jiang family's affairs when chatting, saying that the Jiang family has been eating white noodles recently, the day before yesterday they ate hand-rolled noodles, yesterday they ate gnocchi soup, and today the Lingbao Niang made pancakes, which tasted old and fragrant.

"Where's the flour? Bought on the black market? The black market white ticket is more expensive than the rice ticket, I remember that the white ticket costs three cents, and the rice ticket only costs two cents. ”

"I didn't buy it on the black market, I heard that Erhuazi met an educated youth or someone, anyway, that big bag of flour didn't cost much, it's a good deal."

Lin family, Mrs. Lin listened to Aunt Wang's words next door, her heart was sour, and she was so angry that she threw the muddy kudzu into the basin.

"Why do you think Shen Su'e's life is so good? Which is like me? At such an age, you still have to wash these things in the kitchen! Her hands were red from the cold, and they felt cold and itchy at this moment, "My hands are almost frozen and rotten." ”

Aunt Wang looked around, "Where is your daughter-in-law?" Going to pick up manure? ”

"Yes, Captain Li punished her for picking up dung in front of the whole village, can she not go? Now I have to hide when I see her, she smells of all over her body, and she stinks to death! I didn't know what evil I had done in my previous life, and I married such a daughter-in-law and entered the door. ”

Her words were heard by Liu Damei, who happened to walk in the door.

"Mother," she threw the pole to the ground, and she said loudly, "I also have a share of work in picking dung, although it is less than half, but it is better than nothing, right?" ”

was choked by her daughter-in-law, and Mrs. Lin was so angry that she scolded with her head and face: "What are you fierce? You're embarrassed to yell at me......"

"You and Aunt Wang scolded me behind your back, and you want me to smile and smile as if I didn't hear it? I'm not the kind of person who gets bullied! ”

Mrs. Lin was so angry that her heart was beating "suddenly", she covered her chest, "Who, who bullied you?" Who would dare to bully you? I'm marrying a daughter-in-law, I'm obviously marrying a Bodhisattva to enter the door, I have to burn high incense for you! ”

"I go out early in the morning, I'm about to die of exhaustion when I pick up dung, and I have to take care of the big girl when I come back, just forget it, mother, you don't feel sorry for me, I still think I'm dirty and I stink, do I want to pick dung? It's not that Lingbao was harmed by that calamity! Liu Damei said angrily.

"You've got it, stop talking nonsense!" Mrs. Lin said, "That Lingbao is a calamity? It's clearly a lucky star! ”

Aunt Wang on the side couldn't help but say: "I also think that Lingbao is a lucky star, since Dongzi Niang picked her up, all the good things have been caught up by the Jiang family." ”

After that, she babbled about the Jiang family's noodle eating, "You said that at the end of this year, who in our village can eat white noodles?" It's just the Jiang family!

Hey, speaking of which, before Dongzi's father was paralyzed in bed, a family of five sons, the eldest and second eldest married his daughter-in-law and spent all the money, their family is the poorest in the village, and the third year met a few girls at the beginning of the year, and none of the girls were willing to marry him, thinking that his family was poor.

Now that feng shui is taking turns, Dongzi's father can suddenly run and jump, and he either eats meat or noodles all day long, who doesn't envy the Jiang family? ”

After lowering her voice and saying a long series of words, Aunt Wang said mysteriously: "I don't believe it if I have to say that these good things have nothing to do with Lingbao's little doll!" ”