Chapter 79 I Like the House in the City
The work in the fields is very hard, how can I skip breakfast?
My parents are in their forties and as thin as mantises.
You can tell at a glance that he is severely malnourished.
Even so, I still have to work to earn work points. If I don’t eat something good, my health will collapse.
When Li Xiuli saw the peach cake she took out, her eyelids twitched violently.
Two pounds of peach cakes?
How much does this cost?
And she took it out directly, what a spendthrift girl...
As soon as Lin Tang saw her mother's expression, she knew that her mother felt sorry for her again.
He hugged Mother Li's arm and said with a smile, "Mom, don't feel sorry for me. I don't like sweet things.
If I keep it in my room, I’m afraid I won’t be able to finish it by the New Year. Isn’t that a waste?
It might even attract rats to your home, so you decide on your own."
This peach pastry is so sweet that she really can’t bear it.
Li Xiuli looked into her daughter Shui Ling's eyes and was speechless.
I sighed in my heart.
Just take it and open the bag.
The bag contained peach cakes the size of an adult's palm.
It looks crispy and fragrant.
There are also some black sesame seeds on top.
The peach pastry is cracked into fine lines, making people salivate.
In those difficult times, there were very few people like Lin Tang who didn't like sweets.
Most people crave that candy.
Li Xiuli smelled the tempting peach cake and felt her stomach was empty for some reason.
A lot of saliva also flowed out of his mouth uncontrollably.
Li Xiuli felt very embarrassed when she realized that she was greedy.
She is already old, but she still craves this kind of food...
After Lin Qingmu finished watering the vegetable garden, he heard Tangtang talking about peach cakes, so he quickly put down the bucket and walked over.
He saw the bag in my mother's hand and leaned over.
This is peach cake?!?!
It looks sweeter than the soft pastries in the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Mom, there are so many peach cakes, let me try one." Lin Qingmu said shamelessly.
"Yesterday we had meat, white bread, and noodles. Aren't you full yet?" Li Xiuli glared at him unhappily.
This little brat, why is he so greedy?
Lin Qingmu chuckled and said, "You also said it was yesterday, haven't you eaten yet today?"
I can never get enough meat even if I eat it every day.
Li Xiuli said unhappily, "I'll give each of you one piece, and give five to your grandparents. You can keep the rest for yourself and enjoy it later."
As he said this, he gave one piece to everyone.
At this point, a lot of the peach cakes in the bag were gone.
Li Xiuli's heart ached with heartache.
It's not good to have too many sons.
They are all money-making beasts.
He took out two more pieces, intending to leave them for his grandchildren, and took the rest back into the house and locked them in the cabinet.
The Lin family rarely eats breakfast and always goes to the fields on an empty stomach.
Eat one meal at noon and one meal in the afternoon.
Most people in the village are like this.
The whole family was so happy that we actually had something to eat today.
Although Li Xiuli wanted to save on food, she also felt sorry for her children.
When he came out of the house, he had a box in his hand.
"Mom, what are you going to do with the malted milk?" Lin Qingmu asked while eating peach cakes in small bites.
"Drink it, what can you do?" Li Xiuli said, and said to Ning Xinrou, "Xinrou, bring four bowls and the thermos. I'll make you some malted milk. Drink it before you go."
There were four bowls, the eldest and second sons and their couples each had one bowl, she and the child's father shared one bowl, and Aoki drank one bowl for himself.
Tangtang doesn’t like sweet things, so I made her some egg yolk soup.
"Mom?" Ning Xinrou hesitated slightly.
This malted milk was given by my sister-in-law to my parents as a supplement for their health.
Zhou Mei stared at the malted milk in Li's mother's hand with fiery eyes, and wished she could go back to the kitchen to get a bowl.
That's malted milk!
She hasn't tasted it yet.
If only I could try...
Zhou Mei was so excited that the little person in her heart started dancing the yangge.
Li Xiuli waved her hand and said, "Go ahead, you guys try it too."
Except for the younger ones in the family, none of the sons and daughters-in-law have ever had it, so it's a good opportunity for them to try it out.
Lin Tang also said generously: "It's all up to you, mother. You don't have to be polite, sister-in-law."
When Ning Xinrou saw that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law said this, she turned around and went to the kitchen.
When the Lin brothers heard that they could drink such a precious thing as malted milk, their mouths almost stretched to the back of their heads.
"Mom is so generous today!" Lin Qingmu praised.
However, Li Xiuli did not appreciate it at all.
He snorted and said, "I want to be generous every day too. You hand over a hundred or eighty yuan to me every day, and I won't let you eat meat until you vomit every day."
My family is poor and we don’t have anything good. How can we survive without making ends meet?
Last year we only had one meal a day.
The famine had just ended, and the family took advantage of Tangtang and ate meat several times.
"Mom, what you said is true. Who would vomit after eating meat?" Lin Qingmu retorted.
He ate the last bite of peach cake with great relish.
He picked up the freshly brewed malted milk and took a sip.
The water had just boiled for a short time, so you can imagine how hot it was.
Lin Qingmu hissed from the burn, but he was reluctant to spit it out.
Open your mouth and take a breath of cool air, then swallow it when it's no longer so hot.
"You little brat, don't you know that this water is freshly boiled and how hot it is?" Li Xiuli said angrily.
I immediately wanted to throw the broom away from her.
Lin Tang also said distressedly: "The water is so hot, doesn't Third Brother know to spit it out?"
"How can I waste it?" Lin Qingmu was reluctant to give it up and said, "I'm thick-skinned and it's nothing. It smells really good. You guys should drink it quickly too."
He held the bowl, blew on it, and took another sip.
Sweet and fragrant!
Lin Tang's mouth twitched speechlessly.
For a sip of drink, the third brother really tried his best.
With a piece of peach cake and a bowl of malted milk, the Lin family had a rare breakfast that was not considered breakfast.
Then they all went to work.
Li Xiuli took a rare day off and went to the town with Lin Tang, taking a letter of introduction.
She plans to rent a house for her daughter.
Lin Tang is about to go to work in the county, and it is unrealistic for him to go home and back every day.
Li Xiuli wanted to find her sister-in-law Lin Anan to inquire about the information of renting a house.
An hour later, the mother and daughter arrived at Lin Anan's home.
Lin Anan married into a family with the surname Meng, and her husband's name is Meng Shichang.
They were classmates in junior high school. After graduation, they got together naturally and got married.
In the first year of marriage, Lin Anan became pregnant.
She gave birth to a pair of twin sons for the Meng family, and then took over her mother-in-law's job.
The Meng family works at a meat processing plant.
Live in a three-story house with whitewashed walls.
Her house is the one at the very end of the second floor.
The house is not big, and the cooking area and toilet are shared.
The stairs are made of wood and are not as convenient as those in the countryside.
However, in this era when everyone envies workers, these housing conditions can make many people jealous.
"Your aunt is living better and better now. If you can settle down in the city, your father and I will feel relieved." Li Xiuli looked at the white walls and flat ground in front of her and said with emotion.
As parents, we always want our children to live a better life.
Lin Tang smiled and asked, "Mom, do you like houses in the city?"
She doesn't like it very much.
Too small and too crowded.
(End of this chapter)
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