Chen Xiuyun wrapped a pound of mung bean cake in newspapers and asked Jiang Xinyu to deliver it to Chen Yi's family.
He brought back a lot of pig soap without asking for money. Chen Yi also helped the family a lot. Chen Xiuyun regarded Chen Yi as his future son-in-law. He was not stingy at all in giving things and gave away two pieces of pig soap. Jiang Xinyu took it and sent it away.
When Jiang Xinyu went to Chen Yi's house, he had not come back yet. Only Widow Wang was sewing clothes by candlelight.
"Aunt, I made it myself. My mother asked me to bring you some. It's still hot. Let it cool down before you eat it."
Widow Wang refused to accept it, so Jiang Xinyu struggled with her for a long time before she successfully put the mung bean cake on the table.
"Have you eaten yet?" Widow Wang said, taking out a pack of candied dates from the house and grabbing a handful for her.
"Where did this soap come from?"
Jiang Xinyu rolled her eyes, "My uncle sent it from Shanghai. He sent a lot. Auntie just uses it. If it's gone, go to my house to get it."
She can't say she made it at home, right?
Widow Wang went to Chen Xiuyun's house to get it whenever she could use it up, but when she heard Jiang Xinyu say this, she felt really happy. Her family, Chen Yi, helped Chen Xiuyun's family a lot, and her family could afford two bars of soap.
"Your mother didn't go to work today, did she go to town?" Widow Wang asked while sewing clothes.
Jiang Xinyu nodded and said, "My mother should have cooked the food. I'm going home first."
"Go, go." Widow Wang got up and walked her to the door.
After Jiang Xinyu left, Widow Wang opened the newspaper, picked up a piece of mung bean cake, looked at it, and muttered: "This looks pretty good."
Comrade Chen Xiuyun cooked the piece of meat that night.
A whole piece of meat was stewed, and it was extravagantly braised with sugar. Finally, it was mixed with some brany radish and stewed until it was crispy.
Jiang Xinyu doesn't like to eat braised pork that is too fat. The piece of meat Comrade Chen Xiuyun bought today is just right. There is only a little fat in the pig skin, and the bran radish that has been stewed becomes delicious.
Although I still ate cornmeal pancakes, the satisfaction of this meal was truly unparalleled.
Jiang Xinyu found that Chen Xiuyun was quite generous when he was rich. If this piece of meat were at someone else's house, the whole family would save enough to eat it for three days, so everyone would have a taste of the meat.
There was still a lot of oil paper I bought before. After all the mung bean cake was cooled, it was divided into five parts and wrapped. There were still a few small pieces left, and the mother and daughter ate three parts.
This rustic, milky sweet tastes really delicious.
Chen Xiuyun said: "Soybeans should be made as well."
Jiang Xinyu nodded and gave her a thumbs up, "My mother is indeed a primary school teacher and can draw inferences from one example to another."
Jiang Yuzhu chuckled happily, and Chen Xiuyun glared at Jiang Xinyu fiercely.
Jiang Xinyu said with a smile: "Soybeans and mung beans will taste better if they are peeled off. Unpeeled soybeans will definitely taste bad."
"Mom, let me go with you tomorrow. You have to carry mung bean cakes and soap. I will help you share the load. It will make it easier for you on the road."
Chen Xiuyun plans to bring another 30 pieces of soap tomorrow and sell these five mung bean cakes. The weight is indeed not light, but she can lift it. But selling two things will inevitably make her busy. Chen Xiuyun thought that the forest belt behind the meat factory is very good I wanted to escape, so I thought about it for a moment and finally agreed.
Jiang Xinyu is so happy that she doesn’t have to go to work tomorrow!
Mother and daughter finished cleaning and went into the house to sleep.
Jiang Xinyu was lying in the room hazy and about to fall asleep when she heard the ringing of a bicycle.
Xiao Hei in the kennel barked once and stopped barking. Jiang Xinyu knew who was outside the yard with her toes.
She sat up in a daze, put on her military coat, opened the door and went out.
Her room was in the courtyard, so she could hear it more clearly. I wonder if Comrade Chen Xiuyun and Comrade Jiang Yuzhu heard it.
Chen Yi was riding a bicycle with one leg propped up at the entrance of the courtyard. When he saw her coming out, he handed her the gray rabbit in his hand.
The gray-haired rabbit is already dead. There is a bloody hole in its leg, which must have been shot by a shotgun. (Many hunters these days have shotguns at home.)
"You can take it back and eat it yourself."
Chen Yi pointed to the front handle, and there were two rabbits hanging on the handle.
Chen Xiuyun heard the commotion and came out dressed, "You're back so late?"
Chen Yi said "hmm" and said, "I went to another brigade to show a movie today and came back late."
"Why don't you stay there?" Under normal circumstances, if you go to a brigade that is too far away from the commune to show movies, the projectionist will stay there at night.
Chen Yi said: "I have a day off tomorrow and I just want to sleep at home and have a lazy sleep so I don't have to run back and forth."
"Thank you Aunt Rabbit. You can come to my house for dinner another day." It's late at night, because it's not appropriate for a rabbit to be here for a long time. Chen Xiuyun saw Chen Yi's heart and thought about it in the future.
Be nice to him.
After saying a few more words, Chen Yicai rode his bicycle home.
When she got home, Widow Wang, who heard the noise, came out of the house covered in clothes, lit a candle, and saw two rabbits in his hand, and said, "Where did they come from?"
Chen Yi said casually: "It's a gift from Orion."
Only after living in this era for a period of time did he realize how good the "treatment" of movie projectionists was. Not to mention the fixed income of monthly salary, no matter which village he went to show movies, he would always be surrounded by people.
, he earned a few cents from every movie show, and the team would treat guests to dinner. The rabbit in his hand was given to him by the hunter, but of course, he secretly kept the money in the end.
"Today Xinyu brought mung bean cake and soap. Tomorrow you go and give one to her house. Moving to a new yard can be considered as an extra gift."
Chen Yi didn't know what to say. Sometimes he would send things to Jiang Xinyu's house secretly, just because he was afraid that Widow Wang would care about it and care about it, but he didn't expect that she would take the initiative to bring it up.
Chen Yi thought about it and agreed, simply ignoring the fact that she had given one as a gift. She couldn't see how many rabbits Jiang Xinyu's house had anyway.
The next day, when it was still dark, Jiang Xinyu was knocked on the door and called by Chen Xiuyun.
After more than two months, Jiang Xinyu entered the county town again. She was in high spirits. After washing her face and brushing her teeth, she wrapped herself in the scarf Chen Yi bought for her. She ate corn cakes that had become cold from being stuffed in the pot, carrying a basket and talking to Comrade Chen Xiuyun.
Set foot on the road to the county seat.
More than three hours later, the sky was completely bright, and the mother and daughter arrived in the forest belt behind the meat factory.
"Sister, I want two more pieces of soap." The pork seller couldn't wait to buy soap when he saw Chen Xiuyun.
Before I even put my things down, I opened the door.
"Are you clean?" Chen Xiuyun held soap for him.
The pork seller said: "It's really clean, otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy two more pieces and put them away." Although the soap sold by Chen Xiuyun in the supply and marketing cooperative is small, it feels very cheap psychologically.
The mother-in-law insisted on buying two more pieces to store.
"What's in this frame that smells so good?"
Jiang Xinyu opened the oil-paper bag, revealing a round and beautiful-looking mung bean cake, "Mung bean cake, sweet and delicious, 75 cents per pack, free of charge."
The pork seller generously asked for a pack. He had eaten red date cakes and knew that the food made by Chen Xiuyun's craftsmanship must be delicious. A pack of mung bean cakes, plus two bars of soap, totaled one dollar and fifteen cents.
After taking the money, Chen Xiuyun said: "Leave me two kilograms of meat, a little more fat. I will refine the oil and I will give you the money later."