As soon as the sky was bright, Su Yuehe woke up, the fourth sister also got up neatly to prepare for school, and the third sister was reluctant to get up from bed.

Downstairs, I heard her mother chatting with Sister-in-law Mei in the pigsty, Sister-in-law Mei wanted to introduce her nephew to Su Yuehe, her nephew was almost thirty, because the family conditions were not good, so he never found a partner.

"People are honest, and talents are not bad, let them meet them another day?"

Zhuang Shunlan warmly agreed, saying that she would first understand clearly before meeting.

In the past few days, there have been at least four or five companies that have introduced Su Yuehe to objects, but after careful inquiry, they either did not graduate from primary school, or they were not talented, and there were almost no people who met the conditions.

The only thing that is not bad is the son of Zhao Dafu's daughter-in-law's cousin's family, who graduated from junior high school and has too many brothers in the family, so he is willing to join the family, and this family made an appointment to meet after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Zhuang Shunlan is not particularly anxious, Zhao Aidi can recruit good ones, she doesn't believe that her daughter's conditions are so good, she will not be able to recruit a better son-in-law.

She also specially asked her friend Huang Chunmei for many years to help.

Huang Chunmei is Zhuang Shunlan's unmarried, the daughter of the neighbor's family, moved from the north together, she is a few years younger than Zhuang Shunlan, she looks good, and she is married well, the object is the workshop director of the soap factory, and she knows many people and has a wide range of people.

It just so happened that this morning, this friend came to the door.

When Su Yuehe came back from picking yams, she saw Huang Chunmei sitting on a bamboo chair at the door chatting with her mother, and she stepped forward to say hello: "Chunmei Xianxian, why are you here?" ”

Huang Chunmei is about forty years old, with short hair and a worker's blue shirt and pants, she smiled: "I'm not here for you." ”

It turned out that one of Huang Chunmei's co-workers was a military family member of a certain leader of the army, and this military family member had recently been helping a group of "old and difficult" people in the army to introduce them.

Huang Chunmei's meaning, take Su Yuehe's photo too, with Yuehe's appearance, maybe there is fate at a glance?

"Most of the brothers in the army are soldiers, maybe there are really those who are willing to be sons-in-law."

Zhuang Shunlan had already found a black and white bust photo of Su Yuehe and gave it to Huang Chunmei, and then prepared to make lunch.

Huang Chunmei stopped her: "Don't make me lunch, I have to rush back, I can't catch the car later, people are in a hurry to get photos." If I can't make it in time, then I'll come in vain. ”

Huang Chunmei said so, but she didn't leave in a hurry, she looked outside the house and asked, "What time do the third and fourth sisters get out of school?" ”

Su Yuehe said with a smile: "They are in junior high school in the brigade, and they can't get home until twelve o'clock. ”

Huang Chunmei glanced at the lady's watch she was wearing, it was only half past eleven, "I have to go, or I really won't be able to catch the car." ”

Zhuang Shunlan had already wrapped up the pine mushrooms that Su Yuehe picked yesterday, and she asked Huang Chunmei to take them back.

Huang Chunmei didn't take it: "Leave it for the children to cook and eat." I came in a hurry today, and I didn't buy anything. ”

Zhuang Shunlan forced it to her: "Why didn't you buy it?" Those soaps and mooncakes don't cost money, huh? ”

Su Yuehe also said: "You can take it, I picked a lot of mushrooms today, or take the ones I picked today, it's fresher." ”

Huang Chunmei said: "If you want to get it, don't toss, I'll take it." ”

Sending Huang Chunmei away, Zhuang Shunlan put the moon cakes on the table in the cabinet and locked them.

After lunch, Su Yuehe squinted for a while, and when she heard the people from the production team coming to drive the pigs, she followed and watched the scales kill the pigs and divide the pork.

There are more than 100 people in the production team under the ridge, and this pig is also more than 100 catties, and each person can get about eight taels.

Su Yuehe's family does not count the father and the second sister who got married, a total of five people, and they can share four catties of meat.

Originally, the equal distribution was to have meat and bones, but the pig belonged to Su Yuehe's family, so she had the right of first choice, she chose four catties of pork belly in the best position, and finally brought the pig's blood home, and Zhao Erfu's daughter also cut a small piece of pork liver and a small piece of pig heart for them.

When she got home, Su Yuehe cast a spell to double the expansion of the pork belly in the basin, and then quickly decomposed, first cutting off four small strips of meat and hanging them on the kitchen floor to make smoked meat.

Most of the leftover pork is braised in red sauce, and part of it is chopped up to prepare omelette.

Add starch, shredded lettuce, shredded potatoes to pig blood, put green onions, ginger, garlic and chili peppers, and steam them in a pot to make blood cakes.

The remaining pork liver and pig heart are added with some pig blood, one part is used to fry chili peppers, and one part is used to make soup.

In this weather, there is no way to store raw pork overnight, it has to be cooked, eat part of it tonight, and save the rest for tomorrow's Mid-Autumn Festival.

Su Yuehe was cutting pork liver, and when her mother came back, she took out five eggs that she had been reluctant to eat and prepared to make egg dumplings.

"So much minced meat, Mom, you don't have enough eggs." Su Yuehe counted, and there were still more than 20 eggs at home.

Zhuang Shunlan said: "There are no eggs, and the rest will be kept for your second sister." ”

Su Yuehe's second sister, who married before finishing high school, is about to give birth to her second child.

Su Yuehe thought for a while: "For the rest of the meat filling, put some pine mushrooms, and make dumplings." I remember having a little noodles at home. ”

"The little noodles left at home were lent to your sister-in-law Mei yesterday, and there is still a little rice noodles to use."

"Then let's do it." The handmade with rice flour skin is crystal clear and delicious.

"Okay." Zhuang Shunlan went to the room to find rice noodles.

The third aunt's family is also making red stewed pork, Hao Aidi glanced at the pig heart that Su Yuehe was cutting, "Yo, why do you have so much meat in your family?" It's a pig's heart and a pig's liver. ”

Su Yuehe picked up the bottom of the bowl and sharpened the knife: "Our pigs." ”

Hao Aidi was very surprised, she was not at home this afternoon, and couldn't help asking: "Can your pigs be killed?" Is it enough for the scales? ”

The third sister who was squatting on the side and shaving ginger choked with a smile: "If our pigs are not killed, you have not had meat for the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Hao Aidi was so angry that she choked back: "Without our labor force to grow food, you would have to starve to death." Why do you owe money to the production team? Isn't it because of less effort and more take? ”

The third sister said loudly: "We didn't eat the food of the production team for nothing, we paid for it." ”

"Hey, the money was paid, did you pay it off? Last year, I still owed more than 100 yuan in my account. ”

The third sister did not show weakness: "What does it have to do with you?" And I don't owe you money. ”

What Hao Aidi is most unaccustomed to on weekdays is Su Yuehua's unobstructed mouth, "Why doesn't it have anything to do with me?" Because I'm a member, I have something to do with it. What do you bend and sour? ”

Su Yuehe saw that her sister was down, and hurriedly helped: "Third aunt, you don't have to be so cynical, we owe the production team money, not you personally." And we've paid it off now. If you want to say that you owe money, the third uncle borrowed 10 yuan from my father for the Chinese New Year last year, and borrowed 8 yuan last year, and I haven't paid it back yet. ”

Hao Aidi said: "Su He, you are really, Yuehua is not sensible, you don't teach her, but help her come to me." Your third uncle and your father are brothers who broke bones and tendons, can it be the same? ”

This can be caught by the third sister with a logical loophole, and Su Yuehua, who has always been sharp-tongued, immediately scolded back: "Third aunt, you are really crooked, didn't you first provoke it and say that our family owes money to the production team, as a member, do you also have something to do with you?" At this time, why don't you know that you are our own aunt? When the third uncle owes our family money, he is a brother again! Oh, you are only allowed to say us, not you? Wu Zetian is not as domineering as you! ”

Hao Aidi was dumbfounded for a while!

Su Yuehe was amused by the third sister, she saw Hao Aidi's eyes red with anger, and she couldn't help but divert the topic and sniffed forward: "Third aunt, the meat is stewed." ”

Hao Aidi hurriedly opened the lid of the pot, and sprinkled the gas on her daughter while stir-frying: "You are so hot and dry!" ”

Su Yuehe and the third sister and the fourth sister glanced at each other, the third sister stuck out her tongue, and the fourth sister held back a smile.

……

In this era, only the New Year's festival can be eaten openly, and in the evening they ate their hands, and ate pig blood cake, as well as egg dumplings and pork liver soup, which is the most satisfying meal since the New Year.

My sisters eat until they are full of burps! Because I was too full, I didn't go out to play at night, and soon after eating, I lay down in bed and fell asleep.

The next day during the Mid-Autumn Festival, their father Su Yunchang came back from the county seat, bringing back two packs of moon cakes, a pork knuckle, two catties of fatty meat, a fried rabbit, a bag of salted fish, a bag of candy, and two new enamel cups......

There is also a carp bought on the road, which is still alive when it is brought home.

Su Yunchang doesn't take home much money every year, but every time he goes back to the village, he brings back a lot of things, and others see them, so the people in the village envy their family for having a "good father" who eats national food and takes care of his family.

When she was young, Su Yuehe also thought so, she liked her father to come home, because when her father came back, he would bring her delicious food and take her to make new clothes.

She used to think that her mother was very annoying.

When I grew up, I realized that my mother was a woman who supported their whole family.

My father used to have a low salary, but he was more than 20 yuan, and now his salary has increased, with a monthly salary of nearly 40 yuan, and he has almost 500 yuan a year.

But her father doesn't prostitute, gamble, smoke, or drink fine tea, he is a good man in everyone's eyes, and his conduct is impeccable, but he doesn't know where to spend his money.

According to my mother's meaning, my father is living too well, and he is usually lavish, whoever asks him to borrow money, as long as he has it, he borrows it, and he doesn't know how to refuse others, so he can't save money.

Anyway, when Dad walked in the door, the family was still very happy.

After all, Dad never came home empty-handed.

The fourth sister lit the fire, Su Yuehe boiled lard, and secretly doubled the size of the pork knuckle, and then took out the bones of the tube to boil the soup, after the elbow meat was marinated, she planned to marinate it alone, she tied the elbow tightly with a rope, so that it would not look particularly big.

Zhuang Shunlan sorted out the things her husband brought back in the room, and when everything was put away, she opened two packets of mooncakes, and there were a total of ten rock sugar peanut mooncakes.

She instructed the third sister: "Take 2 for your grandfather, 2 for your uncle's family, and 2 for your third uncle's family." ”

The third sister who was sweeping the floor protested in a low voice: "There are 4 left, we don't have enough to eat ourselves, and we can't get one each." ”

"Missing yours? There's still a pack in the drawer, which you brought yesterday. Go for it. ”

The third sister is a fairy, she shook her head: "I'll take it later when they all eat, so that no one will pretend not to know that we gave them moon cakes in the future." During the Chinese New Year, the third uncle was like this. Hate to die. ”

Zhuang Shunlan also arranged with the third sister, after all, she also hated Su Laosan's face of being cheap and obedient.

Zhuang Shunlan walked into the kitchen, she lifted the lid and saw the pork knuckle pickled in the big enamel basin, and immediately felt good: "What a big elbow." ”

Su Yuehe echoed with a smile: "The county took it back, and it was a good breed of pork." Mom, will you eat the should-hand and pig's blood cake at noon? ”

The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is to have a reunion dinner, and you can simply deal with it at noon.

"Yes, the fourth sister will light the fire in the small pot, and I will cook it."

*

It rained a little in the morning, and the sun was shining again.

The gate of the Yanbei barracks opened, and a jeep drove in.

Liang Zhengfeng parked the jeep, he gave the key to Liu Shengli, who was traveling with him, to return it, he didn't go back to the dormitory, but went directly to his cousin Wan Xiumin's house for dinner.

To be precise, it is a cousin, and his mother and Wan Xiumin's father are cousins.

But in his eyes, Wan Xiumin is no different from his own sister.

The family area is a row of brick houses with small courtyards, and there is an old pear tree in the courtyard in the courtyard, and pumpkins, water melons and some messy flowers and plants are planted on the side of the courtyard wall under the tree.

There was a commotion in the house, pushing the door in, and a leather ball smashed directly over, Liang Zhengfeng, who was almost as high as the door beam, grabbed the ball in his hand as soon as he stretched out his hand.

"Uncle!"

"Mom, my uncle is back!"

Two little boys, one eight and one six, were at their naughtiest.

Liang Zhengfeng had a hand in their hands, and he threw the ball back like a trick, one moment to the left, one moment to the right, and the two brothers to turn around.

Wan Xiumin poked her head out of the kitchen, "Why did you come back alone?" What about your brother-in-law? ”

Liang Zhengfeng threw the ball to the younger boy: "Brother-in-law is still reporting to the leader." ”

Wan Xiumin muttered in a low voice: "The Mid-Autumn Festival doesn't let people have a good holiday." ”

There was a stew in the kitchen, Wan Xiumin had just wrapped the dumplings, and she wiped her hands out.

"You came back just in time, Sister Qiu found a few marriageable lesbians, and today I will take advantage of the holiday to solve your old and difficult problems together. I told Sister Qiu, I must put you in the front. ”

Liang Zhengfeng was about to speak, but was directly interrupted by his sister: "Don't tell me today that you don't want to find a partner, you don't get married, you don't have children, your mother is in heaven......"

Talking and talking, Wan Xiumin is the master, for so many years, she didn't dare to show his mother in front of her cousin.

Speaking of his mother, the fireworks in Liang Zhengfeng's eyes dimmed slightly, but for a moment, he smiled: "I'll just listen to your arrangement." ”

Liang Zhengfeng is twenty-eight years old this year, sunny and handsome, handsome, tall and good-looking.

Wan Xiumin is very confident in his younger brother, as long as he releases his conditions, he can catch his daughter-in-law with a straight hook without bait.

"Just listen to me."

As he was talking, a voice came from the door, it was Sister Qiu who came, Wan Xiumin greeted him out, and said with a smile: "Say Cao Cao Cao will arrive." Sister Qiu, hurry up, come in and sit. ”

Sister Qiu is the lover of the director of the Political Department of the Second Regiment, she is a local, so she knows many people, and it is most suitable for her to be an introducer.

"I brought you two persimmons, which my sister brought from the country, and they were very sweet."

"Sister Qiu, why are you so polite! Sit down. ”

Wan Xiumin pulled out the chair in front of the table to give her a seat, and paid for the two bear children to buy candy and sent them out.

Sister Qiu and Liang Zhengfeng are not familiar with each other, she smiled and said hello: "Deputy Head Liang, your sister is heartbroken for your life events." ”

Liang Zhengfeng smiled awkwardly: "Thank you, Sister Qiu, for your help." ”

Sister Qiu was going to visit several houses today, and she didn't say anything about the façade, so after sitting down, she went straight to the point, took out a stack of photos from the brown paper envelope, and lined them up on the table.

"Look at the eye edge first, which one you see is the most pleasing to the eye, then arrange a blind date with which one to meet first, and both parties will continue to talk about it if they think it is suitable, if it is not suitable, then we will change it."

Sister Qiu's pile of photos, there are seven or eight girls, her photo sorting is skillful, she put her two nieces, one in the front, and one in the middle.

Among the old difficulties in the army, Liang Zhengfeng's conditions are the best, a college student, a native of Beijing, with a background in his family, he was promoted to the regiment at such a young age, and he will be promoted to the regiment immediately, and his future is promising.

Sister Qiu gave a detailed introduction to her niece's situation, and Liang Zhengfeng glanced at the photo at the front and listened carefully.

Wan Xiumin quickly slipped around the photos on the table, her eyes stopped at the last one, and she couldn't help but look at it a few more times - this girl is so handsome!

I didn't expect the person introduced by Sister Qiu to have this level.

She pulled out the photo and handed it to Liang Zhengfeng.

Liang Zhengfeng looked down, the woman in the photo was smiling at him shallowly, the girl's facial features were soft and handsome, apricot eyes and willow eyebrows, delicate and beautiful.

His heart was pounding.

It's so beautiful, before the inappropriate words have been spoken, Sister Qiu has smiled and said: "This girl's conditions are quite special, and she may not be suitable." ”

Wan Xiumin hurriedly asked, "Why is it inappropriate?" ”

"That's right, this girl's father is from the bus station, she follows her mother in the countryside, and her family has no son, so she has to recruit a son-in-law to come to the door. If there are many brothers, you can consider it. ”

Recruit a son-in-law?

Wan Xiumin's hand shook unconsciously, this is not a good word for her, once upon a time, her cousin, who was Zhengfeng's mother, also recruited a husband-in-law, but what happened? The child changed his surname and died tragically.

She was afraid of touching Liang Zhengfeng's painful memories, so she hurriedly said: "It's really inappropriate." ”

Liang Zhengfeng stared at the woman in the photo, his thoughts drifting far away.

It was drizzling outside that day, and when he came home from school, the nanny said that his mother was resting upstairs and told him to be quieter.

When he finished his homework and pushed open the door of his mother's room, the blood on the ground stained his white shoes.

He will never forget in his life that his mother's eyes couldn't close after she died.

He was only nine years old that year, and after his mother's death, he was reluctant to speak for almost half a year, so he hid his mother's photo in his pocket watch.

In the years since he left Beijing, he has not gone back, although his grandparents have called him many times to ask him to go home for the New Year, but he has refused.

He would rather spend the New Year alone with his comrades in the army than go back to the place where he "killed" his mother.

"What's her name?" He asked.

Sister Qiu was stunned for a moment, and helped him open the back of the photo, on which was written the girl's name: Su Yuehe.

Su Yuehe......

He also liked the name.