When Jiang Xinyu was carrying a bucket of water for the third time, Li Yuezhen and Jiang Baoqin were chatting and laughing in the courtyard of her house.
"Are you back from school?" Li Yuezhen asked with a smile.
Jiang Xinyu nodded and poured water into the water tank.
Chen Xiuyun was hanging clothes, and Chen Jiajia called "Yue Zhen" in the room.
Li Yuezhen pushed the door open and entered the house, "What's wrong with Jiajia?"
Chen Jiajia handed her the written letter and the money.
Chen Jiajia glanced at Jiang Baoqin who was looking around in the courtyard and asked, "Why did you play with her?"
Li Yuezhen took out her letter from her bag and said casually: "What's wrong? No way? You don't like Song Minghan, so you won't let me play with the lesbian who likes Song Minghan?"
Chen Jiajia didn't expect that she would speak so bluntly. Her face froze and she couldn't say anything else.
Li Yuezhen said with a smile: "Get well soon, Teacher Fang is waiting for you."
The two talked for a few more words, and Li Yuezhen took two envelopes and went out.
"Aunt, I need to trouble you to make a trip."
Chen Xiuyun took the letter and said, "What's the matter? It's just a matter of convenience. I'll go there tomorrow morning."
Li Yuezhen said: "Hey, can you bring me a pound of meat? I want to eat braised pork."
Li Yuezhen said, then took out the meat coupons and two dollars and handed them to Chen Xiuyun.
After Chen Xiuyun took it, he said, "I'll get more for you tomorrow."
Chen Xiuyun entered the house with two letters. The recipient's name on the two envelopes was Li, which was obviously a man's name, and Feng, which should be a woman's name. This letter was also written by Chen Jiajia, and the address was It is a family home of a certain military region in the capital.
As soon as Chen Xiuyun put the letter away, Jiang Xinyu walked in. She gave Comrade Chen Xiuyun the review notes she had written during this period, "Mom, don't forget to read it."
Chen Xiuyun nodded after taking it. He taught the primary school students in the team every day and still had free time to read it.
"What are you going to eat for dinner?" The spicy rabbit diced that I ate last week, and the multi-grain cornbread that I brought with me to school this week. The soup has been watery all week, and I almost feel like a bird is in my mouth.
Chen Xiuyun glanced at her and said, "You want to eat well every day."
Jiang Xinyu said confidently: "Who doesn't want to eat good food?"
"While it's still dark, go pick some wild vegetables and come back, and fry some wild vegetables and eggs later."
Anyway, the family has extra income. Even if Chen Xiuyun saves the eggs, she has no intention of exchanging them for money at the supply and marketing cooperative. Under normal circumstances, her family will eat them to satisfy their cravings.
After dinner in the evening, Chen Xiuyun went to Widow Wang's house.
"Chen Yi didn't come back?"
Widow Wang said: "Yesterday I said I was going to the Shijinggou Brigade to show a movie today, but I probably won't be back today."
The Shijinggou brigade also belongs to the Red Star Commune, but the road at the other end of the mountain is very difficult, and its production tasks have not met the standards every year. It is considered a backward brigade of the Red Star Commune.
"Did you ask about that?" Widow Wang's attitude was a little unnatural, her eyes wandering.
Chen Xiuyun said: "There is a name called Feng Man on the letter she wants to send home. This should be the name of her family members, her father's name. I am too embarrassed to ask directly."
Widow Wang's expression has changed.
Feng Man, Feng Man.
"Hello, my name is Feng Man. I am a medical worker. I have experienced life and death on the battlefield with Chen Jinhua. Are you her sister?"
When Feng Man, who was young, beautiful and well-educated, appeared at Chen Jinhua's home wearing a red dress, Widow Wang understood the tenderness in her eyes when she mentioned Chen Jinhua.
After Feng Man left, Chen Jinhua's mother began to torture her. She made it clear that she was bought from her biological parents because she felt pity for her. In the future, Chen Jinhua would have a daughter-in-law with better conditions, and the Chen family no longer needed her. Then
The old woman wanted to sell her at first.
Widow Wang knew that she was a child bride in the old society when she was in the Chen family.
To be precise, she and Chen Jinhua didn't even have a marriage certificate.
After Chen Xiuyun said Feng Man's name, she saw Widow Wang start to lose her mind, her face seemed to be crying and smiling, with all kinds of expressions on her face. She called her several times, but she couldn't call her spirit back.
Chen Xiuyun patted Widow Wang on the shoulder and asked loudly: "What's wrong with you?" This expression was really scary.
Widow Wang came back to her senses, the expression on her face was uglier than crying, "I'm fine."
After Chen Xiuyun left, Widow Wang couldn't sew the clothes with a needle. She sat there blankly, thinking of Chen Yi. He had no father since he was a child. Everyone else had it, but he didn't. When she was a child, she heard him ask,
After he grew up, he never asked again.
Widow Wang felt that when Chen Yi came back, she would still tell him about Chen Jinhua.
Although Chen Yi may not need his father now, Chen Jinhua owed them mother and son. He was already promising in 1949, and after so many years, he should be even more promising.
She didn't want to take advantage of him, but when she saw that his other daughter was dressed decently and was born in the capital, she couldn't help but feel a little unbalanced.
Widow Wang was stunned, her mind was full of chaos, and she finally decided that she would tell Chen Yi whether she wanted this father or not, and let him decide for himself, and she would listen to him.
Before dawn the next day, Chen Xiuyun went to the county town with fifty soaps. He didn't come last week, but after coming this week, the sales were very fast, and almost all of them were sold out after eleven o'clock.
There were no meat tickets at home, so Chen Xiuyun spent one yuan and forty cents on the black market to buy two kilograms of pig meat and a pig's trotter with no meat.
After returning to the town, she took the letter in her pocket to the post office and mailed it out. When she arrived at the food station, she took a ticket and bought meat for Li Yuezhen. She thought that the stock of soap at home had been reduced, so she went to the county again.
It took four or five trips to sell out, so I spent two cents to bring back two pig pancreas.
There were a lot of things to bring back, but Chen Xiuyun's footsteps were not slow and she arrived home at two o'clock.
Everyone in the team is eating at home now, and the staff of the film studio are waiting for food at the shed. Chen Jiajia also started working despite being sick today, and Li Yuezhen is also waiting at the shed.
Jiang Pandi's newly built house has not yet been repaired. She comes to sleep every night and doesn't stay here much during the day.
While no one else was around, Chen Xiuyun quickly brought two pig pancreas into the house and put them in a stone basin. Jiang Xinyu moved a small stool and began to select the fascia. Then she cut it into small pieces with scissors and smashed them hard with a hammer.
This work can only be done secretly. Jiang Xinyu will do it for a while, and Jiang Yuzhu will take over for a while.
Chen Xiuyun was washing pig belly and large intestines outside, and scraping the hair from the pig's trotters. The mother and daughter were busy.
After the pig water was cleaned, Chen Xiuyun added water to the pot, and added some peppercorns, star anise and soy sauce to cook.
While braised pork, she quickly used sorghum noodles to stir-fry the dough and rolled out the noodles.
After the noodles were cut and the meat in the pot was almost braised, Chen Xiuyun took out the pig intestines, tripe and trotters, and poured the soup into a basin. There was some bottom left in the pot, and went into the house to remove the pig pancreas.
The fascia and lumpy meat were thrown into the pot, and some stick noodles were added for Xiao Hei to cook.
Then I cleaned the pot and started frying the shredded belly, pouring another spoonful of stewed soup in the middle.
After the vegetables are served, start adding the noodles. The sorghum noodles are dark in color and don’t look good, but they are absolutely delicious when cooked and are chewy and chewy.
After a bowl of fragrant pork belly noodles, Jiang Xinyu no longer said that the sorghum noodles were unpalatable.
The salty flavor of the tripe has a crispy texture, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. Jiang Xinyu finished two bowls of rice in a row and couldn't be more satisfied.