Chapter 9 Mimeograph Machine
After returning home from the pier.
Li Duoyu took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and rode the 28 bars to the gate of Dandandao Primary School.
As the school bell rang, the schoolchildren rushed out as usual.
After the little chubby dun Li Haoran saw Li Duoyu, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth:
"Uncle, when did you cut your hair, I still think your explosive head is more handsome."
Li Duoyu smiled harmlessly:
"I'll go to the county seat tomorrow, do you want me to make a special trip to the bookstore for you?"
"Uncle, I was wrong."
Hearing the word bookstore, the little chubby dun slipped away in an instant.
In the past, Zhou Xiaoying would come out after the students were almost gone, but this time Li Duoyu waited for half an hour and did not wait for Zhou Xiaoying.
This made him a little anxious.
It happened that a female teacher who was closer to Zhou Xiaoying came out of class, and when she saw that Li Duoyu was still waiting, she said:
"Xiaoying is printing the test paper today, it is estimated that it is not so fast, do you want to go in and find her."
"Where is her seal, I'll go find him."
Lin Shanshan pointed to a small room next to the teaching building: "That is where we print the test papers. ”
"Thank you, Mr. Lin."
Seeing Li Duoyu's hurried appearance, Lin Shanshan couldn't help sighing, why didn't she find out before, Li Duoyu looks quite clear, and he still loves his wife so much.
is not like the one in her family, not to mention that she didn't make any money, she still treats herself as an uncle all day long, and the money she smokes and drinks every day is all from her.
Oh my life!
As soon as Li Duoyu approached the hut, he smelled a pungent smell of ink, while Zhou Xiaoying sat in the hut, holding an iron pen and carving a test paper template on wax paper.
And after Li Duoyu pushed the door in, she was startled, and if she was not careful, the iron pen poked a big hole in the wax paper.
This made her very annoyed, because once the wax paper was punctured, it had to be re-engraved.
"It's all your fault, I have to re-engrave it."
Li Duoyu smiled: "I waited at the door for half an hour, but I didn't see you, so I couldn't help but come in to find you, didn't you do this very quickly before, why is it so slow today." ”
Zhou Xiaoying's face was full of helplessness:
"I used to have one subject, and now I have one subject."
Li Duoyu then remembered that his wife had taken two courses, and the test papers had to be printed twice.
"I'll carve a copy for you." Li Duoyu said.
"Do you know how to engrave wax paper?"
"Don't look down on your husband like this, it's okay, I'm a junior high school graduate, and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within a hundred must be fine."
And Zhou Xiaoying is a secondary school student, in this era, she is already a proper high-achieving student, originally after graduation, she could be assigned to work in a unit in the city.
I don't know why, but in the end I chose to stay on the island to teach.
"Hurry up and give me another test paper, and I'll engrave it for you."
After Li Duoyu took the test paper, he found that the pen words written by his wife were the same as hers, which was very neat and beautiful.
In this era, the printing of exam papers is generally done with mimeographing machines, which is very time-consuming and laborious.
It is necessary to engrave the words on the wax paper first, and after the engraving, put it on the mesh yarn, roll it twice on the wax paper with a brush or ink roller, and a test paper will be engraved.
In all the processes, it is the most cumbersome wax paper lettering, the wax paper should be engraved on the hard board, once the engraving is wrong or the wax paper is broken, it has to be knocked down and restarted.
"Be careful, don't carve my original bad." Zhou Xiaoying was afraid that Li Duoyu would not be able to do this job, so he gave him a relatively small number of words and a simple math test paper.
I thought he would carve things crookedly, and he shouted to give up after two clicks, but what she didn't expect was.
After Li Duoyu sat down, his expression became very quiet and focused, without the slightest hint of being a child, and he was meticulous in his work.
When carving, there is no ambiguity in every stroke, and she is no worse than her, a teacher who has carved test papers for several years.
In the past few days, Zhou Xiaoying can't understand Li Duoyu, how this person in her family suddenly became so good.
In the middle of class today, she suddenly smirked in a daze, and asked the students in the class to make a joke.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoying's face couldn't help but turn red.
However, what Zhou Xiaoying didn't know was that the reason why Li Duoyu did things so carefully was all forced out and typed.
In the last life, after he arrived in the island country.
The first job I did was to assemble electronic components in a black factory, and I often sat on the assembly line for more than ten hours.
Hardship is accompanied by growth, and it is precisely those hard years that make Li Duoyu become orderly when he does things.
With the help of Li Duoyu, the two of them completed the printing of more than 100 test papers in an hour and a half.
And when they walked out of the school gates.
The sun has sunk in the west.
The setting sun illuminates the sea red.
On the beach, only one or two mischievous children are left playing.
When there is no one around.
Zhou Xiaoying leaned closer to Li Duoyu and took the initiative to take his hand.
This shocked Li Duoyu's body, but unfortunately the atmosphere could only go here, and he couldn't take the next step at all, otherwise he would have to ask Zhou Xiaoying to give him a football team.
After the two returned home.
Lao Li sat on the stone bar in the courtyard and smoked a cigarette, and when he saw that the two of them came back late, he said:
"Why did you come back so dark?"
"The day after tomorrow, the school exam, today at the school to print the test paper." Zhou Xiaoying replied.
"You've got a big belly now, be careful to know if you don't."
"Got it, Daddy."
After Zhou Xiaoying finished speaking, as usual, she went to the kitchen when she got home, but Lao Li came directly:
"This point is cooking, what time do you have to eat, you don't have to do it, A-Niang has already done it, eat with us at night."
Zhou Xiaoying just wanted to refuse.
Lao Li continued: "Today, Duoyu went to beg Xiaohai and made you a lot of small seafood, and your mother has already been cooked." ”
"You're going to beg Xiaohai?" Zhou Xiaoying looked surprised.
If I'm not mistaken, this one in her family didn't like to play in the mud when she was a child, and she didn't dare to be interested in those small seafood.
"Well, I went to talk to my mother about Xiaohai today."
"Didn't you hate going down to the mudflats the most?"
"People are going to get better."
"No, you've become too much."
"Isn't this developing in a good direction, why are there so many words, hurry up and sit down and eat, my stomach is about to starve to death."
Zhou Xiaoying: "......"
Since the breakup.
Although they all live in the same courtyard, because of the time bomb of the second sister-in-law, everyone rarely gets together for dinner.
Recently, because Li Duoyu has changed his temperament, and there are a lot of small seafood, the two elders want to have a meal together.
After the two sat down, they found that the table was full of good dishes, including fried sea melon seeds, fried dried oysters with green garlic, fried Balang fish, a plate of boiled spicy snails, and stewed Wangchao in old wine......
I haven't eaten together for too long and tonight's meal is too rich, Zhou Xiaoying looked a little restrained, grabbed Li Duoyu's thigh with her right hand, and asked softly, "Is there anything big at home?" ”
And Chen Huiying looked at her belly, the more she looked at it, the happier she became, and she kept saying:
"It seems to be a lot bigger."
"It looks like I can add another baby grandson next year."
Chen Huiying just sandwiched a barang fish to her daughter-in-law, but she hadn't started eating it yet, and then put a wangchao into her daughter-in-law's bowl:
"Eat more, this is a lot of fish specially caught for you, stewed with old wine, so tired in class, you have to make up for your body."
"Mother, I really can't eat that much."
"Just eat so much, where is enough, in a few days, I will stew a hen for you to make up for it."
And just as they were eating, it happened that the second sister-in-law's family came back from outside, and they happened to hear that the mother was going to make up for Zhou Xiaoying's stewed hen.
The whole face was pulled down in an instant.
shouted loudly in the courtyard: "Yaoguo, I bought a pig's trotter today, and I will give you braised pig's trotters to eat in the evening, and let you make up for it." ”
The little chubby dun who followed behind her had his eyes shining.
"Okay, there's a pig's trotter to eat tonight."
But the group of people who ate in the kitchen ignored her at all, which made her very unhappy.
Li Yaoguo, who was wearing glasses, frowned, in the past two months, his salary has been used by his wife to buy imported cloth to make clothes, where is there any money to buy pig's trotters.
As a result, a lady in the neighbor's house, who was pouring bath water, shouted:
"Xiuhua, no one has killed pigs on the island in the past two days, where did you buy pig's trotters."
Zhu Xiuhua suddenly choked, and was so embarrassed that she slammed the door directly.
When it came to the meal, Li Yaoguo and his son looked at the wrinkled steamed buns made of potato powder on the table, their faces full of bitterness.
The little chubby dun Li Haoran scratched his head and asked by luck:
"Where's the trotters?"
Zhu Xiuhua looked at Li Yaoguo unhappily: "I want to eat pig's trotters and gnaw on your father." ”
On this day, Li Haoran's young heart was hurt again.
Taking advantage of his mother's bath, Li Haoran slipped to the grandfather and grandmother's house next door, and Chen Huiying, who had long known the situation, left him a lot of food.
The little chubby dun was swept by the wind.
"Eat slowly, no one will rob you, don't choke." Chen Huiying looked at this white and chubby grandson distressedly.
And Li Duoyu believes that Li Haoran was so fat when he was a child, he never had a girlfriend, and the second elder had to bear a certain responsibility.