Two days later, Uncle Ji notified Su Huaiyuan and the others to go to his house to get charcoal, and told them the follow-up of the case.
"That was from the Shanshui Village production team. I heard from them that he was a very honest and ordinary person. I didn't see him interacting with anyone at the time. Lian An asked the entire production team before he got some useful information. In the past few years, I did see strangers coming to see him, but only once or twice a year, and each time they deliberately didn't let me see their faces clearly. So all I know is that they are two people about his age, but I don't know where they are from."
It's hard to find clues like this, especially when you can't see what the other person looks like, how can you find them?!
Uncle Ji felt that with so few clues in this case, it was basically difficult to investigate further, and he didn't know how to investigate.
He told Su Huaiyuan and the others to be careful. If they met these two people again one day, maybe they would remember them or be more careful.
Su Huaiyuan, Lao Feng, and Cai Qingwen understood what Uncle Li meant and nodded repeatedly. They were also very nervous at the time, and when the two met them, they also quickly covered their faces first, as if they did this often, so they were particularly skilled.
After the three of them took away nearly 400 kilograms of charcoal from Uncle Xiao, they first delivered 200 kilograms to Su Huaiyuan's home, and the rest was left to Lao Feng and his friends.
With dozens of kilograms of charcoal added this year, everything is settled. In addition to collecting firewood, the rest of the time is spent on pickling various pickles.
Qiao Ru's cooking is different from other people's, because she not only makes pickles, but also makes sour radish strips, spicy cabbage, pickled radish, pickled garlic, pickled ginger and peppers.
For this purpose, she asked Bai Lianshan to bring back seven or eight jars weighing about five kilograms when he went to the commune, which were specially used to store these pickles.
In addition to eating the kimchi themselves, they also prepared three jars for their daughter, planning to send them to her in two days.
After all the busyness, the 1973 season finally arrived. The snow started to fall lightly at first, but gradually became heavier. However, normal travel was not affected for the time being.
On New Year's Day, in order to celebrate the new year and to celebrate the fact that their family was doing well in the past year, which was considered to have completely changed their destiny in this life, Qiao Ruru decided to eat shabu-shabu mutton in the evening.
Preparations have been made since noon. The lamb bones have been simmered over low heat, the radish has been chopped, the cabbage has been washed, and a piece of lamb weighing about five pounds has been taken out.
As soon as it got dark, Su Huazhu and the Song brothers and sisters came over with their backpacks on their backs.
This was agreed upon when we delivered the 100 kilograms of charcoal two days ago. We agreed to have a reunion dinner together on New Year's Day.
Su Huazhu and her friends also brought a small clay stove and a ceramic pot to help Lao Feng and his friends. They also bought four jars that could hold about two kilograms of food, and finally brought two plates of tofu.
In addition, half of the plate of tofu was given to Lao Feng and his friends, the rest was used by Qiao Ruru to cook in the pot at night, and the other half was used to make fermented tofu.
Fermented tofu tastes great whether eaten with rice or porridge, and Qiao Ru has always liked it.
She can no longer make fermented bean curd with oil after several decades, but fermented bean curd without oil is just as delicious.
The mutton was cooked, and the potatoes and radishes were peeled and put into the pot of mutton bone soup in advance.
Qiao 깇꺗 chopped coriander, shallots, garlic, minced ginger, oil, chili peppers, peppercorns, soy sauce, sesame seeds, peanuts, and vinegar.
As soon as Su Huazhu and the others arrived, dinner officially began. Five catties of mutton was cut into four pots, and three catties of mutton bones, tofu, mushrooms, and black fungus were added as the base of the pot.
Su Ze and Zhou Wanwan had already been surprised, but Su Huazhu and the Song brothers and sisters had never seen such a posture.
In the past, when life was better at home, the best time to eat was New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. We would kill a chicken, stew a fish, make braised pork, and at most a dish of scrambled eggs, which was a very sumptuous meal.
This pure meat dish, of course not counting cabbage, radish and potato, is something the family hasn’t eaten for a long, long time.
Qiao Ru asked the family to mix their favorite hot pot ingredients and demonstrated it to them.
She would add a little bit of ginger and vinegar to everything.
After a while, everyone had prepared their favorite hot pot ingredients, and then began to eat.
Delicious, delicious, so delicious, I have never eaten such delicious mutton hotpot.
The mutton in this pot smells so good, the radish is delicious, the potatoes are even more delicious, and the tofu is even more delicious.
Happiness, Su Huazhu thought while eating, no wonder her mother asked her to buy more tofu and bring it over after she knew that someone in their production team had started making tofu and selling it recently.
She decided to buy more tofu when she got home. It was delicious when stewed with cabbage, frozen tofu and stir-fried with meat, and even better when cooked in hot pot.
Baobao and Xiaobao held a lamb bone in their hands, with a lot of meat on it. The two little guys ate while looking at the dishes in the pot, smiling from time to time when they were fed a mouthful of rice, a small piece of tofu, or a bite of potato.
Su Huaiyuan and Qiao Ruru often cook their own meals in the space, so they have no shortage of food. They are the two most leisurely eaters in the family.
While eating, Qiao Ruru was thinking, should she exchange two or three more sheep?! There were more than a hundred rabbits in the space, and there were five or six sheep.
Not only she thought so, Su Huaiyuan also thought so. Seeing that the children were eating happily, he also wanted to exchange two more sheep and raise them to cook for them from time to time.
After finishing the mutton hotpot, Song Luoyun told Qiao Ruru and Su Huaiyuan that the team leader had helped him buy 15 bags of mountain products from the production team, eight of which were various mushrooms, three were fungus, and the rest were pine nuts and walnuts.
He would probably send it back to Beijing in ten days, and then the production team would send someone to help him deliver the fifteen bags of mountain products to the train. The train station had already been found, and Song Luoyun only needed to pay some freight and deliver some mountain products to the train conductor.
When they arrived at the Beijing Railway Station, Comrade Guangsheng's factory would send a car to pick him up with the mountain products. The production team wanted to exchange the fabrics and bicycle tickets, watch tickets, and sewing tickets, but the factory was not able to distribute them, so they could only ask Xiao Lei to buy them on the black market. Xiao Lei also replied that as long as they had money, these tickets would not be a problem.
So far, everything has gone smoothly for Song Luoyun. He will go to the county to buy the train ticket three days in advance, and Su Huazhu and Song Luoshu will accompany him to buy more things in the county.
Su Huazhu wanted to ask her parents in the evening if they still needed anything so that she could go to the county to buy it for them.
Qiao Ruru immediately made a list for her daughter, including sugar cakes, snacks, notebooks and pens, and children's picture books. As for other supplies, there were still a lot of them in the space and at home.
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