The six people who were woken up by Xia Fei all shook their heads to indicate that they did not hear the sound of a large car, and at most they heard the sound of the boss's small car.
That's right! How did the boss's car get in? Why didn't I hear Stationmaster Xie's loud voice come to open the door? Isn't the gate locked every night?
Ling Ran: "Collect" ~ open the door ~ "release", do you understand? Don't understand? If you don't understand, forget it, there's no need to understand so much detail.
Seven people went to the river to plant a tree. This tree is so thick? Not to mention how they moved it one by one to the tree pit, can such a thick tree survive after transplanting?
Xia Fei coughed dryly, "Hurry up and dig a hole and plant the tree! Once the sun comes out, it will be even harder to keep it alive."
The reserved tree pit was only a small hole, and the seven people quickly dug it. Ling Ran stood outside the iron fence and said kindly, "I will ask my father-in-law to prepare breakfast for you and Master Zheng. Don't worry."
"Thank you, Boss!"
Ling Ran waved his hand and took Zhou Xiang's hand as they walked towards Zhou's house, where the gate had already been opened.
Entering the kitchen, Father Zhou was washing rice and cooking porridge. "Uncle Zhou, we also need to make breakfast for Xia Fei and the others in the front yard, as well as Master Zheng and his apprentice."
"Okay!" Father Zhou continued to dig and wash rice.
Ling Ran kneaded the fermented dough in the basin into the alkaline water.
The chopping board is set up, dry flour is sprinkled on it, the kneaded leavened dough is rolled into strips, and the kitchen knife is used to cut it a few times. Water is added to the large steamer, and wet cloths are placed on the two layers of steamer. The cut leavened dough is then placed in the steamer.
It was obvious that leavened dough was not enough, so Ling Ran prepared to mix unleavened dough. Zhou wanted to ask him to go to the street to buy fried dough sticks.
"Okay! Just keep an eye on the time!"
Zhou Xiang waved his hand, "I know!"
Father Zhou cooked some porridge and took out more than twenty salted eggs from the jar. As he washed them, he told his daughter, "This jar of salted eggs is gone again."
"Don't worry! Ling Ran is pickled."
"Can he pickle?"
"meeting."
When the eggs were almost cooked and the steamed buns were almost done, Ling Ran came back with a large bowl of fried dough sticks.
"Master Zheng and his apprentice will be here soon. Xia Fei and the others are here too."
Father Zhou nodded, "Yeah! I'm almost done here too."
With more than a dozen people eating, no matter how much food there is, it is not enough. Even the bottom of the porridge pot is scraped clean with a spatula.
Xia Fei approached Ling Ran and said, "Boss, we want to plant some trees. Can we have lunch here at noon?"
Before Ling Ran could answer, Zhou's father agreed, "Okay! If you don't have time due to work, come over for lunch at noon."
Ling Ran naturally couldn't refuse, but he pulled Zhou's father, who was about to go buy groceries, and said, "Don't buy fish, let's go fishing in the lake. The fish in the lake are quite big."
Father Zhou was stunned. "When did you release the fish?"
Ling Ran didn't even blink, "I bought some fish and released them when I came back from the capital. There were already quite a few fish in the river."
"Okay then! I'll buy some meat and vegetables first, and you make two fishing rods and dig some earthworms."
"Um!"
With fishing as his activity, Zhou's father bought groceries at an incredibly fast speed. Ling Ran was still asking Zhou Xiang to cut some green hemp stalks for him when Zhou's father came back with the vegetable basket.
"Ling Ran, are you ready?"
"No! I haven't found the right material for the fishing line yet!"
"Don't bother looking for it. I bought a spool of transparent thread from the shoe repairman."
"That's perfect. Shoe thread is just as good as fishing line."
The father-in-law and son-in-law worked quickly and quickly finished two country-style fishing rods. The fishing rods were thin bamboo rods, the fishing lines were nylon lines used in hand-cranked shoe repair machines, the floats were sections of green hemp poles about 5 cm long, and the fish hooks were bent sewing needles that Zhou wanted to help steal from the third floor of his parents' house.
Carrying a small iron shovel and a broken can, Zhou's father walked out of the yard, then he remembered that the stinking ditch was gone, making it inconvenient to dig earthworms.
Ling Ran walked around the back of the north building and found a few earthworms in the can.
Zhou Xiang frowned. Stringy animals were her natural enemies. Ling Ran handed her the small iron shovel and said, "Go home! Uncle Zhou and I will go fishing."
Zhou Xiang took the small iron shovel and rubbed it against the cement road, fearing that a worm would crawl out of the remaining soil.
When she got home, she threw away the small iron shovel and refused to eat the fish she caught with earthworms.
It turns out that being slapped in the face really feels good.
When the father-in-law and son-in-law were sitting under the weeping willows fishing, the Chen father and son, who had gone back to settle the family, also came over. Seeing Ling Ran fishing in the park, they naturally went over to help.
As a result, I caught a stupid big fish. I don’t know if it was too big, but it even ate disgusting earthworms.
Zhou Xiang looked at the big fish brought back by the Chen father and son with resentment, "Look, you, I gave you a chance to live, but you insisted on jumping into the pot. Should I eat you or not? Spit out the earthworms in your stomach!"
Ling Ran listened to the little girl mumbling to the big fish with amusement, "Don't worry! Uncle Chen jumped in and caught it as soon as it took the bait. It hasn't even eaten the earthworm yet! If I throw it away, I'll use scissors to cut open the fish's intestines and clean them."
Zhou Xiang nodded and said, "Wash it several times with salt."
"good!"
Uncle Chen went to the bathroom to take a shower and jumped into the lake. His clothes got wet, so he took a shower and changed into clean clothes.
Ling Ran looked at the Chen father and son, who were dressed in new clothes despite their low quality. "That's right, clothes make the man. With clean and tidy clothes, you look so much better. Have you arranged everything for your family?"
Uncle Chen nodded. "It's all arranged. That's right, I lied. I said that the money was lent to me to pay off my debts in order to reassure me."
Ling Ran nodded. "That's right. Otherwise, why would I give you a bonus for no apparent reason? Just tell others this. When you make more money, others won't be able to calculate how much money your family has."
"Yes! Everyone knows that my family is in debt, so it's hard to explain why we suddenly have money."
"Well! Alright, you and Xiao Chen should go to the park and help plant trees first!"
"good!"
Chen and his son were not restrained when they had work to do. They picked up the only shovel in the yard and went to the park.
With the joint efforts of Zhou's father-in-law and son-in-law, the big fish was cut into pieces, and the fish head was made into fish head tofu soup.
It is stewed in a large wood-fired pot in the alley, otherwise the ordinary pot on the liquefied gas stove will not be enough.
The fish meat was scraped off, the bones were removed and chopped into fish paste. The fish bones with fish meat were braised in a pan, and the fish meatballs were put into the soup.
Ling Ran fried the fish viscera separately, as Zhou Xiang loved stir-fried fish viscera.
Xie Lin came to Zhou's house with a bottle of wine, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he shouted, "Zhou Quan, I brought wine to eat for free."
Father Zhou said angrily, "Even if you don't bring any wine, how can I not give you some?"
Xie Lin laughed, "I know, but I wouldn't be able to say I'm greedy for that big fish if I didn't bring any wine! I've never seen such a big fish in this river before. You two are so lucky today!"
Father Zhou smiled, "That's right!"
When Zhou Xiang heard this, he remembered that it was Chen's father and son who helped him. Could it be their potential again?
But if they had such potential, how could they have led their family to such poverty? Although the debt was not owed to one family, it was his family that owed the money! In this day and age, owing tens of thousands of yuan was considered extremely poor.
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