Liang Shengdi had previously said she wanted to save money and become a wealthy old lady. During festivals, whenever a grandchild called her sweetly, she would give them a red envelope and say, "Reward!"
Lin Guoqing said that this is actually quite difficult, after all, 80% of the reward is for the stomach.
But as long as the old lady is happy, that's good. She has been working hard in the past two years. Although she has become a little darker and thinner, she looks much more energetic than when she was lying down like a lazy fish.
Liang Shengdi brought back a bowl of salted hairtail today and brought it into the kitchen for Chen Chunhua to cook and add to dinner.
Nowadays, salted hairtail is still sold by the piece, 20 cents a piece. Liang Shengdi bought 14 pieces, saying that it was two pieces per person, which made Chen Chunhua laugh and cry.
"Mom, this hairtail fish is very salty. One piece can make half a bowl of rice. We have other dishes! How about making half first?"
"I want two pieces! Can't you cook more rice? If each person eats two bowls of rice, won't that be enough?" Liang Shengdi sighed again.
"Last time you also said that 10 pieces of tung fish were too much to cook together, so you split it up over two days. As a result, I was just gnawing on the bones by the end. This bowl of hairtail fish is done!"
Last time, there were five pieces of tung fish for a meal. Liang Shengdi finished two by herself, and the other six people ate three. But she didn't lie, she just felt that she didn't eat enough.
It’s not that she wasn’t full, it’s that she hadn’t eaten enough. Even if there were two more that day, she probably wouldn’t be able to finish them.
Mrs. Liang’s requirements for meals are the same as when she cooks for herself—just enough to fill her up.
"Okay, okay, I'll fry them all!" Since the person strongly requested it, Chen Chunhua of course had to follow the advice of the grocer. When cooking, she added a large spoonful of rice and rinsed and washed the hairtail fish with water for a long time before frying it.
It still turned out salty.
The two boys usually eat two bowls of rice, so they added another bowl to go with the salted hairtail. Even Shuying and Shumei added half a bowl of rice today.
"Mom, this hairtail fish is so salty!" The third child complained while eating rice in big mouthfuls, and also put a piece of vegetables into his mouth with chopsticks to mix the saltiness. He achieved all three.
"Sea fish is naturally salty, it's like this after being marinated for a long time. In fact, it's best to eat it with soaked rice in the morning." Lin Guoqing said while eating, and then got a complaint from Chen Chunhua.
"Eating fish so early in the morning, and you don't mind the fishy smell!"
Lin Guoqing disagreed with what she said.
"Isn't it normal to eat salted fish with rice? Are you still complaining about it? Who made the fish porridge last time? Besides, when there is nothing else to eat, we eat fish for three meals a day! Isn't it, Mom!"
Liang Shengdi was still sucking on the fish bones. Without even looking up, she said, "I can tell you've never been hungry. You said there's nothing left to eat. How could there be any fish left for you? You're dreaming!"
Lin Guoqing:?!
"I remember when I was eleven or twelve, there was a nationwide famine. Didn't our family only eat fish back then?"
"If you go early, there are still some. But later on, everyone had caught all the fish, and the few small fish left were not even enough to fill your teeth." After chewing the bones, Liang Shengdi threw them on the table. Perhaps because she felt they were a bit salty, she also took a big mouthful of rice.
"Besides, the weather was bad back then, with constant rain and floods, so the crops were drowned. But here, as long as you have land and your family is not washed away by the flood, officials should not mess around and tighten their belts, and you can still survive."
"You've never seen people starving to death."
"When was it? In 1942?" Lin Guoqing had heard the old man mention it. There was a disaster in the north in 1942, and many people fled here to escape the famine. There was also a war at that time, and it was a mess everywhere.
Even the children slowed down their eating and stared at their grandmother, wanting to listen to stories.
"You haven't given birth yet, but your sister is already here. Life wasn't easy before the founding of the People's Republic of China..."
As she spoke, Liang Shengdi's tone gradually became lower, and she was unwilling to talk about it. "How miserable it was back then! Compared to now, it was no different from hell!"
What the hell are these memories?! Can't she just eat properly?
Lin Guoqing wanted to open his mouth to ask something, but Chen Chunhua stepped on him under the table, gave him a look, and silently mouthed - Shut up!
Why would you poke someone's lungs when you have nothing to do? Actually, when Lin Guoqing mentioned the three-year famine, she was unhappy because it was the three sisters in the Shen family who almost starved to death at that time.
Memories! Memories! Memories, you old pumpkin!
Lin Guoqing was grimacing as he was stepped on. He turned around to look at the four children and pretended nothing was wrong.
"What are you looking at? Come on and eat! Have you finished your homework?"
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After waiting for a long time until the ninth day of the first lunar month, the bricklayer master brought his apprentice, Lin Guoqing, and the men he had arranged to meet up with came to the new housing site.
When the auspicious time arrived, two strings of firecrackers were set off to add to the excitement.
The Feng Shui direction had been chosen long ago. The bricklayer carried a bucket of white lime and sprinkled the white lime line along the divided land. Five or six men took a few deep puffs of their cigarettes, and then started digging with shovels and hoes.
There is no other way. There are no excavators at the moment, so we have to rely on manual labor.
Lin Guoqing's plot of land was actually quite large, and the soil had hardened over the past two days, resulting in late dawns and early sunsets. It took seven or eight people, combined, almost a week to dig the foundation.
Lin Guoqing was present only on the first day, but he had no time to work afterwards. It was the end of the year, and he had to go out and collect debts for the factory.
All the supervision work fell on Chen Chunhua, and she was so angry that she kicked Lin Guoqing before he left.
He was the one who rushed to build the house, and he was the one who said he was busy after the construction started! Who was it that said he would take her to and from the mushroom class every day? What do you think this man is doing here?
Lin Guoqing knew he was in the wrong. He wanted to stay home and work with them the most, but with so much money involved, he had no choice. After all, he was the one who brought in the business. With great ability comes great responsibility.
So Chen Chunhua has been very busy recently. She has to deliver eggs early in the morning and gets up very early recently because she has to rush back to cook for everyone at the construction site.
At noon, I rode a tricycle carrying food and table boards, and went there with Liang Shengdi to have lunch with everyone.
After that, send another snack in the afternoon. Physical work makes you hungry quickly, so this afternoon meal is essential.
Whenever I have time, I help dig the soil and check if there is any shortage of the steel bars and cement sent from outside the village.
I was originally thinking about whether to provide another dinner, but Lin Fuqiang took the lead and said no. It was getting dark early now, they didn’t work for long, and they still had time to go home for dinner, so Chen Chunhua didn’t need to spend money.
Chen Chunhua smiled and said sorry, but she felt relieved. Cooking for more than a dozen people was not easy. And she had to rush to class the next night.
Fortunately, the first person Lin Guoqing looked for that day was Lin Fuqiang, otherwise there would be no one to speak for her now.
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