Since Zhang Hai and his friends hadn't finished their shopping, Wan Feng accompanied Luan Feng to shop in the store for a while. Wan Feng bought some seasonings, some red paper glue and some drawing paper specifically for pasting walls and ceilings.
Wan Feng was pleasantly surprised to see MSG in a round glass bottle here.
The first time he saw MSG was a few years ago in Heilongjiang, around 1977. A young man from Shanghai went home to visit his family and brought a bottle of MSG to his mother.
My mother was the only person in the company at that time who knew how to make clothes. The educated youth would go to my mother for help with sewing and mending, so it was normal to bring something to her home.
He and his brother ate much more Mickey Mouse and White Rabbit candy than other children in the company, but the consequences were very obvious: their teeth became damaged.
People in rural areas don’t add MSG when cooking because a small bottle of MSG costs several cents and most people are reluctant to use it.
This time, Wan Feng encountered this situation and bought five bottles at once. This was because the other party didn't buy him that much, saying that the purchase was limited to five bottles at a time. Otherwise, he would have wanted to buy thirty or twenty bottles.
In fact, these salespeople had never seen one person carry so many of these things at once.
Wan Feng went back and asked his uncle and aunt to buy some more each. The store was sold out of fifteen bottles of MSG. Can this still be called a store?
Finally, everyone's things were delivered, and Yang Qilang didn't know what he bought for Gu Qiaoling.
Gu Qiaoling made all her new clothes this year in Luan Feng's workshop. She also made a set of clothes for her parents and two younger brothers using her own wages.
Luan Feng calculated the cost price.
She can now go home and bring honor to her family.
After the car returned to the depression, Wan Feng first sent these people and their goods home and then drove the tractor to his grandfather's house.
My uncle who got off the bus early at the fork in the road was already waiting at the door with a cart. A group of children from the east end, including Cong Xicheng and the blacksmith, were also waiting to see what New Year's goods the Wanfeng family had bought.
The cart was placed at the back of the car, and Wan Feng distributed the goods from the car. The one hundred plates of small whips with one hundred blasts each did not need to be given to Luan Feng's family because she did not have any children.
Probably the only kid who set off firecrackers was Luan Feng.
Thirty plates of 200-shot fireworks were loaded onto the cart, one plate of 500-shot fireworks was not left for Luan Feng, and twenty plates of 1,000-shot fireworks were left for her.
Wan Feng felt that these were too much. Is it really okay for a sixteen-year-old girl to set off so many firecrackers during the Chinese New Year?
Zhongbian left ten plates of firecrackers for Luan Feng's family, did not give any of the five-cent firecrackers to Luan Feng's family, gave them a bundle of eight-cent firecrackers, and divided the magic bullets into half for each family.
One family gets half of the two types of spray flowers.
The spoils have been divided.
The kids watched without blinking. Damn, the Zhuping family bought so many firecrackers, it was almost as good as the legendary landlord’s New Year celebrations.
The blacksmith was also happy. He was Zhu Ping's brother-in-law, so of course he could get away with it.
Zhu Ping happily pushed the cart into the yard. His task was to find a place to store the firecrackers.
"Ah? I don't know how to use up the money to buy so many firecrackers." Grandma's distressed voice was heard in the yard.
"Ke Le" is a dialect in southern Liaoning, which means what a pity.
Wan Feng smiled and drove the tractor to Luan Feng's house.
Seeing Wan Feng bought so many firecrackers, Luan Feng was overjoyed, and she and Luan Changyuan hurriedly moved them to the finished product warehouse.
After unloading the firecrackers, Wan Feng gave the remaining seasonings to Luan Feng and started to water the tractor.
Tomorrow I will take Gu Qiaoling home and take Yang Qilang over to introduce him to the place, and the mission of the tractor last year will be completed.
Wan Feng asked Luan Feng to boil a pot of water for him the next morning. He did not stay at Luan Feng's house but went home.
After Wan Feng returned home and had dinner, he boiled water and cut the red paper into small bags, then stood them up with glue and finally glued them into the shape of red envelopes.
My uncle, aunt and my aunt-in-law all looked at them curiously, wondering what these things were used for.
"Red envelopes are of course for giving out money during the Lunar New Year. If anyone helps me glue the red envelopes together, I might give them a bigger one. If they don't help me, there might only be ten cents in the red envelope."
Wan Feng seemed to be talking to himself.
The first person to react was my aunt-in-law Jiang Xue. Without saying a word, she picked up the red envelopes that Wan Feng had cut and started to glue them together.
In the end, except for grandma and grandpa, the four of them worked for more than two hours and made about a hundred red envelopes.
Zhu Ping was so tired that he felt dizzy. "This is more tiring than working. Who are you going to give all these red envelopes to? Are we going to give 20 to each person in our family?"
If each person is given twenty, even if there is only a dime in it, it will still be more than two dollars!
"What are you thinking about? You're dreaming before you even go to bed? We have to give out red envelopes to every kid who comes to visit us for the New Year. I estimate there are 50, 70, or 60 kids in our team. Oh, by the way, where did you put all the candies and sunflower seeds I bought? Why didn't I see them when I was unloading the truck just now?"
"No, they are all in the shed."
"Then let's not feed the mice. Let's bring it inside."
Zhu Ping went out and took the big bag of candies from the shed back into the house and put it in grandma's cabinet.
The twenty-seventh is the day for sweeping the plaster and plastering the walls and sheds.
Early in the morning, everyone in the family got together, some swept the dust, some beat the plaster, and after they finished sweeping the dust, they began to paste the walls and the shed.
My uncle and aunt were responsible for pasting the papers, my aunt-in-law was responsible for applying paste on the drawing paper, and my grandma and grandpa were responsible for passing the drawing paper back and forth.
As for Wan Feng? He had to take Gu Qiaoling home and meet Yang Qilang today, so of course he wouldn't participate in this kind of labor.
Luan Feng had already boiled water for him, Yang Qilang and Gu Qiaoling had also arrived, and Chen Cang had to go today as well. As his uncle and matchmaker, of course he had to go.
Yang Qillang was wearing a new jacket, new trousers and a pair of new cotton shoes today, and he looked very energetic.
Let’s set off when everyone is gathered.
The tractor arrived at Tan's house in more than an hour.
The people of the Gu family were busy, of course, doing things like sweeping the dust and plastering the walls, but they had already reached the plastering stage, and the main house had been plastered, and it was much brighter than when Wan Feng first came.
This was the first time Gu Qiaoling had returned home since the day she left. The family reunion was a completely different scene. They were so concerned about each other that they almost shed tears.
It was Yang Qilang's turn to appear next. Gu Qiaoling shyly pulled Yang Qilang over and said, "Mom, Dad, this is Han Wenhai."
It was not until this time that Wan Feng remembered that this guy's real name was Han Wenhai. He called him Yang Qilang so easily that he forgot his real name. So, should he put quotation marks when calling him Yang Qilang next time?
Yang Qilang was a little nervous and said stiffly, "Uncle, aunt, hello!"
Now the Gu couple can take a good look at the man who will soon become their son-in-law.
The results of the examination were very satisfactory. The man had a strong body, a straight face, and was obviously a good farmer.
Gu Qiaoling's father handed her a cigarette and her mother poured her some water.
That's about it.
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