In this era, there were no air conditioners and fans were considered luxury items. The way to enjoy the coolness in summer was to spread mats on the ground.

Some even sleep directly on the mat at night.

The floors of Zhang Yan's house are all paved with gold bricks, which is cooler than other houses.

Seeing Zhang Yan come in, Zhuangzhuang got up from the ground and ran towards Zhang Yan with his calves.

In the past two months, Zhang Yan no longer comes back in the middle of the night and has become much closer to his son.

Every time when he came back, his son would jump on him with his calves.

Zhuangzhuang, who is less than two years old, is already over one meter tall, walks very steadily, and can trot.

"dad!"

"Hey! Good son! Are you good at home today?" Zhang Yan bent down to catch his son and lifted him up.

"Cackle!" Zhuangzhuang laughed cheerfully.

Zhuangzhuang's favorite thing is to lift high.

Unfortunately, Zhuangzhuang is not only tall, but also weighs more than 30 kilograms than an average three-year-old child. Only Zhang Yan and Tong Mei in the family can lift him. Zhang Fusheng can hold him, but he can't lift him.

Now, Tong Mei is seven months pregnant, so naturally she cannot lift her body high.

Zhang Yan was the only one left, so Zhuang Zhuang was particularly attached to Zhang Yan.

As soon as Zhang Yan came back, he asked him to hold it high.

You have to play for a while and it's not over until you've had enough fun.

"Baby son, come and give me a kiss!"

"Boo!" Zhuang Zhuang was not polite at all. He hugged Zhang Yan's neck and covered his face with saliva.

Then, he giggled happily.

"You bastard, you spit on daddy's face again!" Zhang Yan gently patted Zhuangzhuang's butt twice.

"Gao Gao!" Zhuang Zhuang hadn't had enough yet, twisting his body and shouting in Zhang Yan's arms.

"Okay, lift it high!" Zhang Yan smiled and lifted Zhuangzhuang up again, holding him around the room.

Zhuangzhuang was not afraid at all. He clapped his little hands in the air excitedly and giggled.

After Zhuang Zhuang had finished enjoying himself, Zhang Yan hugged Zhuang Zhuang and sat down on the chair.

"Today, the old Li family, the Zhou family, and the Ge family in the courtyard came to see me and wanted to buy pumpkins."

"I just came back, and someone came to me and said they wanted to buy some pumpkins, but I refused!"

"I also refused! However, I gave their family half a pumpkin, saying that there were not many pumpkins at home!

Thanks to our father, we gave a lot of pumpkins to the second and third children’s families, otherwise it would be really hard to talk to them!”

"Then there's nothing to say. I told them directly that they didn't dare to sell. If they sold, they would be making a mistake! I told them that if they wanted to buy it, go to Zhangjiayu and buy it themselves!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.

As expected of a couple, their attitudes and methods of dealing with the world are similar.

"Are they willing to buy it?"

"Why don't you give it up? How much does a pound of pumpkin cost? The round trip fare only costs a few cents.

If you go buy a hundred kilograms of pumpkins and come back, you can carry dozens of kilograms of grain." Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"That's the same reason! But if the family is really short of food, there must be a reason to buy it! Buying pumpkins is not the same as buying food. You don't have to hide it." Tong Mei nodded with a smile.

Pumpkins are vegetables and are grown on private plots in rural areas, so there is no violation of regulations.

If you go back to the countryside and bring back a hundred pounds of pumpkins to eat yourself, you don't have to worry about being reported, you will only be envied by others.

“However, if they want to buy it, they have to hurry up!

You may not be able to buy it if it’s late.”

"What's wrong?"

"Our hospital will send a truck tomorrow. We will buy a truck first and see if there are many. If there are more, we will send a few more trucks the day after tomorrow.

Now, hospitals and factories are also short of food!

Pumpkin is a good substitute for food." Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"What you said reminded me. Tomorrow I will tell Sister Zhou to ask people on the street to bring back a cart of pumpkins. Sister Zhou will help us a lot." Zhang Yan's words reminded Tong Mei, who followed.

He spoke.

Director Zhou is Tong Mei’s leader, and it was Director Zhou who introduced Tong Mei to join the organization.

Zhang Fusheng, Zhang's mother, and two younger sisters all moved their household registrations to the city quietly, with the help of Director Zhou.

Two days ago, Tong Mei specially sent several large pumpkins to Director Zhou's house.

"Yeah! Just make the arrangements yourself!" Zhang Yan nodded.

Zhang Yan usually doesn't care about family matters, and Tong Mei takes charge.

However, after Zhang Yan came back, Tong Mei would repeat it to him.

Zhang Yan is not annoyed by this, this is life.

"It's time to eat!" Mother Zhang came in and called for dinner.

In the evening, we still had pumpkin, and the dish was pumpkin stewed with chicken. A large pumpkin of about ten kilograms was stewed with a chicken, which was enough for a family of twelve people.

Then there’s the pumpkin pie.

This pumpkin cake is not the kind of snack made with pumpkin powder and glutinous rice flour.

It's something similar to a leek box.

Cut the pumpkin into shreds and prepare the stuffing, then roll it into bread and steam it in a pot.

Because it is flat, it is called pumpkin pie.

Of course, you can also make round ones, that is, steamed pumpkin buns.

“Mom, it’s okay to eat this pumpkin every now and then, but you can’t eat it every day!

If you eat too much, you will easily get angry!" Zhang Yan warned with a wry smile as he looked at the pumpkin feast on the table.

"I see so many pumpkins at home, I'm afraid they will spoil if I don't eat them!"

"There is no problem if the pumpkin is stored for a month. If you are afraid of it spoiling, just cut it into slices, dry it in the sun, and then grind it into pumpkin powder." Zhang Yan gave Zhang Mu an idea.

"Pumpkin powder? Can pumpkin be ground into pumpkin powder?"

"Of course it can be ground into powder. Pumpkins and sweet potatoes can be ground into powder.

After grinding it into powder, mix it with flour, sorghum flour, and corn flour to make steamed buns or steamed steamed buns!"

"Okay, then I'll try it tomorrow. If it works, I'll buy some from the village later.

Anyway, I have nothing to do at home, so I can grind it into powder, which can save a lot of food." Mother Zhang said happily when she heard that pumpkin powder can also be used to steam steamed buns.

Then he said with some regret: "It would be great if we were in our hometown. We can grow a lot of pumpkins on our two acres of private land, so we don't have to spend money to buy them."

"Mom, don't forget about your two acres of private land. You have been farming for so many years, but you still haven't done enough?"

"Aren't we ordinary people just farming? Is this enough? When I grind out the pumpkin powder you mentioned, I will ask your father to go home and buy two more carts of pumpkins."

"Don't worry, just take your time! The pumpkins in summer are not the most delicious yet. Wait until the pumpkins come out in autumn, which will be delicious and have a high sugar content."

"How can we have time to do this in the fall? Meimei will have given birth to three children by then, and Meimei has to go to work, so how can your father and I have any time?"

After Zhang's mother said this, Zhang Yan remembered that Tong Mei would give birth to his second and third children in autumn.

Three big fat boys, if they were left to future generations, they could make people die of sorrow.

However, in this era, it is definitely a matter of pride to be able to give birth to three fat boys in a row.
Chapter completed!