Time flew by and the fourth day of the Lunar New Year arrived. Not long after Xiang Jin and the others had eaten breakfast, her grandparents and her uncles and aunts arrived.
Her grandmother teased politely, "You see, everyone in our family is here as you said."
Xiang Jin said, "I asked you to come and play."
Then she ordered Yang Zhao to bring out the cast iron pot and light a fire for them to roast, while she and her mother went to prepare lunch. The two aunts insisted on helping, and Xiang Jin did not stop them.
She originally wanted to ask Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao to come for dinner, but Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng went to visit the former residence of a late marshal of the country, which was about a hundred kilometers away from them.
It was said that I was with a few old colleagues who used to be part of the leadership team of Zeng Grandpa and his town. They made an appointment in the twelfth month of last year.
Aunt Liao's family also has guests today, including several nephews and brothers from her mother's family, as well as her sister's couple and their children, so they are also guests in the whole house.
In this case, it was natural to forget about it, and Xiang Jin and the others just stayed in their own room and had fun together.
Xiang Jin and his family had a big reunion today. A Hua, Hu Cai, and several of their cubs were also reunited. Grandma Mo and the others sent them back early in the morning, saying they were fine during the day. Aunt Liao also
At home, they are close to their land and can take care of them for a while, so they can come back and spend some time with Ahua and his mother, and then take them back when they come back in the afternoon.
Xiang Jin and the others naturally have no problem.
Ahua and Hucai were very happy to see them. From time to time, you would lick my fur and I would lick yours. The puppies would also start playing and playing around, and sometimes you would even yell at me.
Bark my teeth, I bart my teeth at you.
Because Xiang Jin and her aunts were going to climb Lotus Mountain tomorrow, her two aunts stayed that day, and her two uncles went back alone.
In fact, if her two uncles stayed, their family would be able to live comfortably, and the worst they could do would be a bit crowded, but since there was no one in the family, they wouldn't be able to rest assured.
After all, Xiang Jin and her grandparents stayed, and so did the two brothers Yang Hui and Yang Zhao. Yang Xu and Yang Xin could not help much, so this does not need to be counted, but her two aunts stayed.
Come down.
In order to prevent Yang Xin, Xiang Jin and her grandparents from sleeping in the same bed together and getting cold easily, Xiang Jin and her family’s beds were arranged like this that night:
Xiang Jin's grandparents slept in the same room, Yang Zhao and Yang Xu brothers slept in the same room, Xiang Jin's second aunt and Yang Xin's mother and son slept in the same room, Xiang Lan slept in the same room as her mother, and because Yang Hui was a grown-up
She was a young man, so she slept in a separate room. Xiang Jin and her aunt came to sleep in her room.
"Girl Jin, do you have so many books here?"
Xiang Jin's aunt came to her room and couldn't help but be surprised when she saw the rows of books on her bookshelf.
Xiang Jin turned around and glanced at the bookshelf, "Not many, just those few books."
Her eldest aunt said, "It's not that much. Even the brothers Yang Hui and Yang Zhao in our family have not written as many books as you have in a row here. Have you read all these books?"
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Xiang Jin nodded, "I've seen it!"
"Have you read it? Have you read all of them?" Her aunt was surprised again, "You are so busy every day, where do you have so much time to read?"
Xiang Jin said, "I am a quick reader." Although she is not as perverted as Yan Chen, who can read ten lines per eye, she can also read two or three lines per eye, right? She is faster than ordinary people.
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Her aunt nodded, "No wonder you have good grades. How can you not get good grades after reading so many books?"
Xiang Jin suddenly burst into laughter. What kind of logic is this? Does it mean that if you read more books, you will get better grades? But she didn’t want to talk too much about this matter to her aunt, so she said, "Auntie, what about you guys?"
Will we continue to raise silkworms and pigs this year?”
Her aunt changed her clothes and went to bed, "I will definitely have to raise one and two pigs so that they can eat meat during the Chinese New Year."
We and your second uncle have decided that we will buy a motorcycle after the Chinese New Year. It will be convenient to ride it back and forth. Then we can get home early in the afternoon. Then we will make a day's worth of pigweed and put it there to wait for your grandma.
Look after us for a while in the morning and noon.
As for the silkworms, we won’t raise them anymore. Except for the spring silkworms, which are easier to raise, the summer and autumn silkworms are both difficult to raise, especially the summer silkworms, which are very dirty!”
Xiang Jin nodded, "Actually, it's good for you to run your shop carefully. If you run the shop well, you can earn money from raising pigs and silkworms."
"That's it!"
"Auntie, in fact, if you sell steamed dumplings, you can also provide your guests with some peanut butter. The steamed dumplings are delicious when dipped in peanut butter. Moreover, the steamed dumplings do not need to be made into crystal powder, just ordinary flour dumplings.
become.
As long as you make the dumplings nice-looking and make the fillings more fragrant, I think many people will like to eat them.
In fact, you don’t need to use much peanut butter. You can just drizzle a little bit on the steamed dumplings for others. It won’t increase the cost much, and it also adds to the characteristics of our store’s steamed dumplings.
Of course, you still have to ask the guests if they like it before showering it on them, for example, some people are allergic to peanuts and cannot eat peanut butter."
Her aunt nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you!"
Xiang Jin then suggested, "The same goes for the crystal dumplings. Because they are troublesome to make, and they are different from those dumplings made of ordinary flour after being steamed. You can sell these dumplings at an appropriate price."
A little higher.
And I suggest that it is best not to make too many dumplings of this kind every day and sell them in limited quantities. Everything is rare and expensive.
If you make too much, people will find it strange at first and come to eat it every day. If you eat too much, it will become stale. If you limit the number of baskets you make to sell every day, those who come early will buy it.
Those who are late will not be able to buy it, so that others will feel indebted, and in this way, the flow of customers in our home will be maintained continuously.
If you do it too much, others will think that the food is very common and can be eaten at our store at any time, so others will not actively come to our store, and other stores on the street will open new ones.
If they want to eat, they will go to others to eat.”
Her aunt nodded again, "Okay, I'll listen to you, but when people ask us, why don't we make more crystal dumplings?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's simple. The ingredients for making crystal dumplings are difficult to make, and they have to be made fresh. It's uncertain how much they will make every day."
Her aunt nodded immediately.
Then Xiang Jin said, "I think, in order to prevent you from getting up early every day and staying late at night, you can actually buy a freezer and put it in the store. Then you can make some steamed buns or wrapped dumplings in advance and put them in it.
You can steam as much as others eat, so you don’t have to worry about steaming too many steamed buns and dumplings in summer and not being able to sell them all.
For example, the steamed buns and dumplings that have been made are frozen hard in the freezer. You can pack them in clean plastic bags one by one. In this way, you will not be busy with your hands when the time comes.
Methodical."
Her eldest aunt immediately clapped her hands in surprise and said, "Oh, that's a good idea. Okay, I'll discuss it with your eldest uncle and second uncle then. Oh, girl Jin, what do you think of your stupid head?"
Why does it work so well?"
The more she looked at Xiang Jin, the more she wished she could be her own daughter. At the same time, she also envied Xiang Jin's mother for giving birth to such a smart daughter!
As a sister-in-law, she is really lucky. Look at all the things she has done in the past six months. Isn't her daughter giving her advice?
If she hadn't been a daughter, how could she have taken away so much money when she divorced Xiang Hai?
If it weren't for her as a daughter, how could her house be so beautifully renovated? This girl spent all the money she earned from selling medicinal materials and corn-shelling items.
Not only that, the store in the town was rented by the girl, and the store was opened with the help of the girl. Even their family business and the vegetable greenhouse owned by her father-in-law also depended on her.
The child is simply the blessing of their family?!
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "It's nothing, I just remembered it suddenly."
Later, her aunt pulled her and talked a lot, and then the two of them left one after another.
The next day, after breakfast, Xiang Jin, her grandmothers and their group went to climb Lotus Mountain, along with Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao.
Grandpa Zeng didn't go. He said he was an old party member and an atheist and didn't believe in that.
When Xiang Jin's grandfather saw that he was not going, he also stopped going and said he would stay and talk to him for a while.
Grandpa Zeng happily agreed, so the two old men sat around the brazier and started chatting. When they saw it, they let them go.
Then they asked Xiang Jin, and Xiang Jin waved his hand, "I won't go. You go ahead. I will cook for you at home. When you come back later, you will be in time for lunch." Her aunt
My second aunt and I are in a hurry to go back. We can't just go back without eating after climbing the mountain, right?
Her mother also thought of this and nodded, "Okay, you do it first, and I'll come back later to help you."
Xiang Jin said, "There's no need to rush. I'll just cook some porridge and stir-fry some vegetables later. It won't be too busy."
"good!"
"Grandma Mo, Aunt Liao, you guys will come to our house for dinner when you come back later?!"
"Okay!" Both of them responded with a smile.
After they left, Xiang Jin went to get some bacon sausages and cooked them in a pot. She put hard firewood in the pot and let it burn by itself. Then she took a basket of vegetables to her grandfather's place and sat down to listen to them.
Chatting while tidying up.
Grandpa Zeng said, "Girl Jin, don't make it complicated. Just make some porridge and stir-fry some vegetables."
Xiang Jin said, "It's not complicated. Today is simple."
Grandpa Zeng nodded, and then Xiang Jin asked them how their trip was yesterday? Was that place fun? How was the scenery nearby?
Then Grandpa Zeng said it was okay. After all, it was the former residence of a late senior general of the country. The roads there were all hardened and led directly to their house. The house was surrounded by bluestone slabs, which divided many areas.
There are also guards on duty in the driveway.
But that house is an old house from decades ago. The furnishings are very simple and unpretentious. There are some clothes that the old leader often wore when he was young, farm tools that he used, and some books that he has read.
, as well as the pen, ink, paper and inkstone he used.
Then there were some trees that he had planted with his own hands, but now they have grown into towering trees. Then there was a look at the place where he used to practice boxing and kung fu. The big rock behind the house was trampled out by him.
Several pitfalls have come, which shows how perseverant he is.
Xiang Jin nodded, and her grandfather also nodded.
Grandpa Zeng said, "You can go and see it if you have the chance. It's still meaningful."
The grandfather and grandson nodded again.
For lunch, Xiang Jin cooked mung bean porridge. Although she promised them that it wouldn't be too complicated, she still cooked almost ten dishes, including stir-fried vegetables, roasted vegetables, steamed vegetables, mixed vegetables, and meat dishes.
It was a combination of vegetarian and meat dishes, including cured meats and fresh meat. She thought about the last time her grandpa said she wanted to have a drink with Grandpa Zeng. How could this drink not have appetizers? So she decided to cook a few more dishes.
good.
When her mother came back, she was making a stir-fried pork dish, "You guys came back just in time, we'll start dinner soon."
Several female compatriots came into the kitchen to help. As soon as her mother opened the hot pot, everyone saw that she had prepared so many dishes, and they couldn't help but sigh. Her second aunt patted her on the shoulder.
After a while, "My dear daughter, my dear daughter, why are you so capable? See how you can prepare so many dishes by yourself?"
Xiang Jin tilted her head and smiled and winked at her second aunt, "Didn't you see that I bought a frugal plate today? You see, I cooked some cured meats and made two dishes, and then
I cooked another dish, cooked another dish, and steamed three dishes, so there were seven dishes. The only ones I actually fried were a small farm-style stir-fried pork and a stir-fried pork dumpling, plus
I'm just frying vegetables, so I didn't waste much time. Wash your hands quickly. Let's start the meal right away. Otherwise, the vegetables I'm going to fry later will get cold. All other vegetables can be heated in the pot, but not this fried vegetables.
, because if it is heated for a long time, the color of the dish will turn black and it will not be so crisp, so you must eat it immediately after frying it."
Everyone just nodded, and then the leftovers were served, the dishes were served, and the chopsticks were set, so in a short time everyone was sitting at the table.
Xiang Jin and her grandfather brought out a bottle of wine. The wine was not any other high-altitude wine. It was the bottle of rice wine that Grandma Mo and the others had brought for them before. The two of them started drinking with the dishes on the table.
However, Grandpa Zeng had high blood pressure, so Xiang Jin reminded her grandpas to drink less and eat more vegetables.
Her grandfather said, "Don't worry, just have two drinks."
After dinner, her two aunts and her grandparents said they wanted to go back, saying that they would take advantage of the past few days to grind out more flour. Her grandpa said that he would go back and give them some guidance.
Xiang Jin nodded and told her grandpa not to rush over on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. What if the vegetable collectors come and they are there? Anyway, Yang Hui and the others will stay here for a few days. Then they can help together.
If he accepts it, he can stay at home for a few more days.
Her grandfather nodded, then greeted everyone and left.
After a while, Grandma Mo, Grandpa Zeng, and Aunt Liao went back, and the excitement in their house was reduced by half.
Looking at the large pot of firewood, Xiang Jin hurriedly went to the kitchen to get a few sweet potatoes and simmered them in it.
Yang Zhao couldn't help but said, "No, cousin, you just had dinner, why do you want to eat roasted sweet potatoes again? Didn't you eat enough just now? If you didn't eat enough, why don't you?
You can go have something to eat next, there are also rice and vegetables there.”
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "Of course I'm full. I just don't want to waste this firewood. Let me tell you, the sweet potatoes cooked with this kind of firewood are delicious."
Thinking of this roasted sweet potato, she suddenly thought of two more foods, so she asked them, "Have you ever eaten steamed buns with shredded sweet potatoes?"
A few people nodded and said they had eaten it before. In the past, their family used to steam steamed buns with sweet potato shreds and meat cubes, and they tasted pretty good.
Then Xiang Jin asked them, "Have you ever eaten French fries?"
A few people shook their heads and said they had never eaten before, so Xiang Jin said, "Shall I make it for you to try tomorrow?"
Several people’s eyes immediately lit up and they said yes!
Speaking of these deep-fried French fries, Xiang Jin suddenly thought of potato chips and crispy pork. Hey, we can fry some more of these two things and take a look at them tomorrow.
The potato chips can be used as a snack, and the crispy meat can be used to make soup or something, and it will still be very delicious.
Xiang Jin really didn't have anything to talk about with the little radish, so after promising them to cook delicious food for them tomorrow, he went directly to the house to get a book, sat down next to the firewood pot and read it.
Yang Hui saw it and asked her what book she was reading. Xiang Jin raised the cover to him. Yang Hui saw that she was reading one of the most popular martial arts novels at the moment, so his eyelids couldn't help but twitch.
Shen, "Why do you even read this kind of book?"
Xiang Jin responded without looking back, "I'll read it if it's well written."
In fact, the most important thing is that she thought about it later. She felt that the speed of making money just by publishing those single articles was still too slow. She felt that she could serialize a full-length novel based on people's preferences nowadays, which might make a lot of money.
The money would be more, but first she would need to learn some lessons from others.
She plans to use this martial arts novel to gain some popularity, and then her next book will be her favorite legal novel. She has taken on so many cases in the past, and she can write a novel with just a few cases.
Come.
It's hard for Yang Zhao to say anything, because others have better grades than him, so studying and studying are very easy. There is no need to devote all their energy and time to textbook knowledge like they do. They have a lot of
He has no right to interfere or comment on the time he has left to enrich extracurricular knowledge and expand his knowledge.
But Xiang Jin was reading, and he was sitting aside and playing around. Yang Hui felt a little uncomfortable, so he asked Xiang Jin, "What other books do you have there? Can I take one to read?"
Xiang Jin finished reading a page in a few clicks, then turned the page and said, "Go and look for it on the bookshelf in my room."
Yang Hui got up and went to her room to look for books, but when he saw the books on her bookshelf, he couldn't help but frown.
Because the books placed on Xiang Jin's bookshelf are either pure English versions of world classics, or works by domestic masters, as well as some books on classical Chinese, ancient poetry and songs, and of course, those on recipes.
There are also some books published by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and some books on test questions published by famous schools. In short, there are all kinds of books, and there are books on everything.
In the end, he had no choice but to take out a book on test questions for all subjects. But when he opened it and looked at it, he found that the test questions on it were very difficult. Many of them were things he had never seen before. If he was allowed to solve the questions by himself,
He probably didn't know where to start, but fortunately, Xiang Jin had written the answer and some steps to solve the problem on it, so he could follow her ideas.
But I have to say that he really admires his cousin. Once again, he saw clearly how big the gap between their academic performance was.
He took the title book and sat back down in front of the iron pot filled with a large open fire. Then he saw that Xiang Jin had read less than half of the novel.
This speed...
His intuition is incomparable!
Xiang Jin felt that the roasted sweet potatoes were almost done. When she raised her head and was about to dig them out with tongs, she saw Yang Hui frowning and reading a book. She asked casually, "What are you looking for?"
What book are you reading?"
Yang Hui raised his cover to her and said to Xiang Jin, "You really work hard and won't let yourself go during the New Year."
Yang Hui was speechless. How could he study hard? He clearly had no choice, right? None of the books on her shelf were suitable for him to read. He simply couldn't understand the foreign languages, but he didn't understand the Chinese words.
He knew it, but he couldn't understand the meaning of the combination. There was only this book, and she wrote the answer on it, and he could barely do it.
Yang Hui did not respond to her words, but said, "You have a lot of answers to the questions here, why do I still feel like I can't understand them?"
"This is high school knowledge. It's normal if you don't understand it," Xiang Jin pulled out a test booklet from his hand.
"Knowledge from high school?" Yang Hui's eyes widened in disbelief.
Xiang Jin nodded, then raised the book, pointed to the row of small words below and said, "Hey, what's written here?"
Yang Hui took a closer look and saw that it was true!
Yang Hui's eyes suddenly became complicated when he looked at her. What kind of academic master is his cousin? He even took high school courses and took so many test questions?
So he asked again, "When did you start reading high school courses?"
Xiang Jin was roasting sweet potatoes with a pair of fire tongs. She didn't notice his expression, but responded casually, "The school just opened? I asked Han Che to mail me some high school textbooks and test questions."
"So this question was also done at that time?"
"Really?" Xiang Jin dug a sweet potato to the edge of the pot in front of him and said with a proud look on his face, "Hey, my roasted sweet potato looks pretty good, right? Look, it's not only cooked, but it's not burnt at all!"
Yang Hui had mixed feelings in his heart. He could easily become a top student, but he was still a scumbag despite trying his best. Is the gap between people so big?
He was so worried that he reached out to pick up the roasted sweet potato, but the roasted sweet potato was still very hot. He accidentally retracted his hand due to the burn.
The little carrot heads covered their mouths and burst into laughter. Yang Zhao looked at him and joked, "Brother, as the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu if you are in a hurry. Are you too anxious? We all have one.
Why don't you wait until it gets colder for a while before you pick it up?"
Yang Hui glared at him angrily.
Xiang Jin asked, "Are you okay?" They haven't gotten the burn cream yet, so it would be difficult to handle if the burn was severe.
Yang Hui shook his head, "It's okay, it's just a little bit hot."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then heard Yang Hui say, "Can you lend me your question book? I want to know what kind of courses are in high school?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, but here are not only courses for the first year of high school, but also courses for the second year of high school. If you want to read, I can give you the books for the first year of high school."
It hurts my heart!
Yang Hui only felt a few sharp arrows flying from the pit of his heart.
Emotional people have almost even studied the courses for their sophomore year of high school. No, maybe they have already studied the courses for their senior year of high school.