The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and Zhou Suisui wants to make some mooncakes by himself.
The supply and marketing cooperatives also sell it, but no one buys that expensive stuff now.
I bought it for Zhou Suisui before, but it was not tasty at all. The only one she liked was the one with five-nut filling, which she disliked the most.
Make some yourself, but making mooncakes requires an oven, so Zhou Suisui asked Brother Gu to build one in the yard.
Zheng Lili is pregnant now. Zhou Suisui gave a fish to Gu Erge, and the fish soup she made at home is also very nutritious.
The oven was ready and after drying for a day, Zhou Suisui planned to make mooncakes.
She made three fillings in total: red bean paste, egg yolk and sesame.
The salted egg yolks were made from the salted eggs she pickled. Zhou Suisui baked a total of thirty, ten each.
The freshly baked mooncakes were especially fragrant. Zhou Suisui shared three with his three children.
Zhou Sui Sui left nine more and packed two portions for the remaining ones, one for her mother's family and one for her father and mother.
The first and second wives will not be given any money, and the old couple will give them some when the time comes.
"Mom and Dad, these are the mooncakes I made myself. Let me give them to you to try."
"The third family is very thoughtful." Mother Gu said with a smile.
Zhou Suisui didn't have much to say. Seeing that Gu's mother's illness was almost cured, he went home.
Sanwa was playing outside and suddenly ran back to look for Zhou Suisui.
"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Suisui asked.
"Mom, I told them that I ate mooncakes. Tiezhu and the others said they had never eaten them and asked me to get them some. I didn't agree, and they refused to play with me." Sanwa said angrily.
Zhou Suisui smiled and said, "Then do you want to give it to me?"
"I don't want to give it to them. These mooncakes are so precious. Why should I give them to them?" Sanwa said unhappily.
It’s not that Zhou Suisui is stingy, it’s just a few mooncakes, it’s not that he can’t afford it.
But the current environment is like this. Every household has little money, so even if they can afford expensive things like mooncakes, they won’t buy them.
If I give mooncakes to those children and they see me as such, I would be the one being taken advantage of.
If there is one, there will be two. If you don't want to be picky about favors and grudges every year, you will only bring out the bad habits of others.
If you have money, it's yours and has nothing to do with others.
"Mom, please give me a piece of mooncake." said Sanwa.
"What are you going to do?"
"I want to show it off. If they don't want to play with me, then they don't have to play with me. I don't care. They can't even eat mooncakes." Sanwa said proudly.
This is the desire to win that children have, and it was the same when they were young.
"Aren't you afraid of being beaten?" Zhou Suisui said with a smile.
"They don't dare to hit me. If they hit me, my two brothers will hit them!" said Sanwa, waving his little fist.
Zhou Suisui found it funny to see Sanwa acting like a bully.
This kid.
Zhou Suisui gave him a mooncake and sent him away. Sanwa went out happily to show off.
Zhou Suisui ignored him and wanted to sort out her own little treasury.
I went to the scrap yard a while ago and collected some valuable things, so I'll put these aside for now.
The main thing is to sort out the bills, plus the money sent by Gu Jingheng every month, a total of 7,288 yuan.
In addition to this money, there are also various bills, most of which are valid nationwide.
In fact, Zhou Suisui basically didn’t spend much of the money he earned. All the daily necessities were produced in the space, and he usually couldn’t spend it.
I can use this money to buy a house in Beijing, and become a happy landlady when I get old.
After sorting out the money, Zhou Suisui put all the money in the space. After all, the space is the safest place.
She is really rich now. What did seven thousand yuan mean in the 1960s?
Nowadays, an ordinary family may be short of money even if they have only 200 yuan. If they can save 1,000 yuan, they are considered a wealthy family.
When I have nothing to do, I start thinking about the manuscript. After all, this kind of thing cannot be written easily, it requires some brainpower.
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Before we knew it, Zheng Lili was already four months pregnant, and her pregnancy was already obvious at this age.
That day, Zheng Lili was sewing small clothes for the baby in her belly, and Erya was sitting on the kang playing.
The little eyes stared at the clothes in Zheng Lili's hand for a long time, then crawled over and said, "Mom, I want new clothes too."
Zheng Lili smiled and said, "Okay, wait for mom to make one for you too."
She did not blame Erhua, but just agreed. She was worried because she thought that there was not enough cloth at home, but she had no cloth coupons.
When Second Brother Gu came back in the evening, Zheng Lili told him.
"I want to make new clothes for all the children in my family, but we have no more cloth coupons."
Second Brother Gu was silent for a moment and then said, "Let's go ask Third Brother's wife. Maybe she has it. We can exchange it for money."
"Okay." Zheng Lili nodded and agreed.
The next day, Zheng Lili came to Zhou Suisui's house and asked, "What is my third sister-in-law busy with at home?"
"Second sister-in-law is here. You are so heavy, please sit down quickly."
"I just bought these oranges two days ago. Sister-in-law, please try them and see if you like them. They taste a bit sour to me." Zhou Suisui took two oranges and gave them to Zheng Lili.
"This stuff is very expensive now, let's save it for Da Wa and the others."
"How can I let them down? There's more at home. Come and try it." Zhou Suisui said with a smile.
To be honest, Zheng Lili has never eaten oranges in her life. This is the first time she has eaten them. She had only heard of them before.
Zhou Suisui noticed her hesitation, reached out and took one and peeled it. Zheng Lili followed her example and ate the orange.
"This thing is really delicious, quite sweet."
"Sweet?" Zhou Suisui looked at the orange in her hand. The orange was very sour and she didn't think it was very sweet.
Do pregnant women have such weird tastes?
She came here through time and space and suddenly had three sons for no reason. In fact, she had never been pregnant and she didn't know any of this.
Even the three children said the orange was sour, but she saw that Zheng Lili liked it very much.
"Third sister-in-law, I came here today because of something." Zheng Lili said.
"What's the matter, sister-in-law? Just tell me."
"I want to make new clothes for the children at home. I want to do it now while I am not heavy. I will have no time and energy when the pregnancy is advanced. But my family has no cloth coupons, so I wanted to ask you to exchange some money. I wonder if you have any." Zheng Lili said embarrassedly.
Zhou Suisui smiled and said, "Second sister-in-law, why are you so polite? We are all family. You will have to buy cloth coupons when you get to the county town. I have some ready-made cloth here. Do you want some?"
Zheng Lili was very happy to hear this: "That's perfect. It saves me from going to the county town to buy it. Thank you, Third Sister-in-law."
In the end, Zheng Lili took away two pieces of red cloth and one piece of blue cloth and gave Zhou Suisui six dollars.
It's impossible for Zhou Suisui not to charge money. Even brothers settle accounts clearly. It's no big deal.
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