When they got home, Lu Cheng had just finished washing the dishes: "Wait for me at the door, I'll go borrow a car."
Speaking of borrowing a car, Lin Qingqing remembered something: "I ordered a few counters a few days ago, and Sister Xiuyao took me there. Today I can go and see if the counters are ready. If they are, I'll bring them over."
Lu Cheng: "Okay, you show me the way later."
Then, Lu Cheng went to borrow a car, and Lin Qingqing went back to the house to get the money and tickets. She originally wanted to take out the passbook to withdraw money, but after thinking about it, it was too polite, so she took the loose change in the iron box that Lu Cheng gave her. She didn't know how much it would cost to buy a sewing machine and a bicycle, so she just counted out five hundred. You know what, although the metal box was filled with loose change, after she took out five hundred, there were still about two or three hundred in it. Isn't this too much loose change? Thinking of Lu Cheng's words about saving half of his salary and spending the other half, Lin Qingqing thought that this money should be from the half of the salary that was not spent.
Not long after Lin Qingqing arrived at the gate of the family compound, Lu Cheng came. Knowing that Lin Qingqing would get in the car, Lu Cheng did not go down to open the door.
When they arrived at the county town, they went directly to the department store because they had a clear goal. But they were also very lucky. Whether it was a women's bicycle or a sewing machine, they were all in stock, so they spent about 330 yuan on the two items. After buying the things, the two went to the vegetable market again. Since they were here, they might as well go. However, Lin Qingqing was worried about the sewing machine and bicycle in the car, so she asked Lu Cheng to wait in the car and she went there by herself.
There are a lot of vegetables in the market. It should be said that as long as it is not too late, there will be no shortage of vegetables in the market. However, meat is not available. Lin Qingqing bought some red beans, edamame, green peppers and a whole winter melon. She planned to make stinky winter melon. Lin Qingqing is very good at pickling vegetables, whether it is stinky winter melon or pickled radish, because her grandmother is an expert in this area.
A whole winter melon must be more than 20 pounds, and Lin Qingqing can't lift it. She put it on the stall first and let Lu Cheng take it later. Then, she went to the meat area.
"Hey...are you selling these bones and pig intestines?" Although Lu Cheng bought meat yesterday, there were too many people eating, so she could only make minced meat stewed eggs, which was not very satisfying.
The salesperson looked at Lin Qingqing and said, "Sell, one catty of meat coupons can be used to buy three catties of bone coupons, but pig intestines don't require meat coupons, do you want them?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Lin Qingqing wanted it the most. Although there was not even a bit of meat on the bones, the nutrition of the bones was in the soup. As for pig intestines, the taste of stir-frying them with onions was also amazing.
So, Lin Qingqing bought three catties of bones, ten catties of pig intestines, and then went to buy onions. When she left the market, her hands were already too full to carry.
Lu Cheng was staring at the entrance of the market. When he saw Lin Qingqing's hands full of things, he hurriedly got out of the car and walked over. "I'll do it." He took the things from Lin Qingqing's hands, "Did you buy pig intestines?" Pig intestines are packed in wooden barrels. Lin Qingqing didn't have anything to pack pig intestines. The salesperson bought all the pig intestines for Lin Qingqing and lent her the wooden barrel. However, the wooden barrel required a deposit of 10 cents.
"We're going to make halved pig intestines. They have a stronger taste, but they can be kept for a few days. When you want to eat them, cut a little bit, then heat them up, and the taste will be lighter." Lin Qingqing had thought about it a long time ago. And don't look at the pig intestines, which are ten pounds. After washing, they are only six or seven pounds. "By the way, I also bought a 20-jin winter melon. You can go get it later. The stall number is 3-25."
Lu Cheng: "Okay, you get in the car and rest first, I'll go get it."
When Lu Cheng came out, the winter melon was held in his arms against his chest. He looked very relaxed holding the 20-jin winter melon. Lu Cheng put the winter melon in the back of the car, got on the driver's seat and asked: "Do you want to go somewhere else?"
Lin Qingqing said: "No, let's go directly to the carpenter's house."
Lu Cheng: "Okay."
The carpenter's house is between the county town and the army, so it's on the way. When Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng went there, the carpenter was not there, and it was the carpenter's wife who entertained them. The carpenter's wife was in her 50s and was a warm person.
"Comrade Lin is here. Your cabinet is ready. We are preparing to deliver it to you in the next few days." It is convenient for them to go to the army. They have delivered furniture to the army before.
Lin paid lightly: "Thank you, Auntie. I also have a car today, so I stopped by to take a look. By the way, Auntie, are you willing to exchange the chickens you raise at home?" In fact, it means whether to sell or not, but it is a pity to avoid gossip, so everyone uses the word "exchange" to describe it. After all, the policy of barter is advocated by the country.
The carpenter's wife was stunned: "Comrade Lin wants it now?"
Lin said lightly: "No, no, I just asked, if Auntie's chickens are exchanged, I can come next time if I want them."
So that's it. The carpenter's wife understood: "Then Comrade Lin will come over when the time comes. By the way, Comrade Lin, do you collect eggs? You usually buy eggs at the market or the supply and marketing cooperative, right? You need egg tickets, but our eggs don't need egg tickets, so they are 1 cent more expensive than those at the market and the supply and marketing cooperative, don't you think?"
Eggs at the market or the supply and marketing cooperative cost 50 cents per pound, but you still need tickets. If you don't need tickets, you can buy one pound for 60 cents, which Lin Qingqing thinks is a good deal.
Of course, for the carpenter's family, if they take their eggs to the supply and marketing cooperative for recycling, they don't even get 50 cents per pound.
Lin Qingqing said without hesitation: "Of course, in addition to money, if you want to exchange with tickets, you can also tell me and see if I have any tickets."
Hearing this, the carpenter's wife was moved. She did want to buy something, but she didn't have the tickets. "Comrade Lin, do you have industrial tickets? I want to buy a hot water kettle, but I don't have any kettle tickets or industrial tickets." You can buy a hot water kettle with one hot water kettle ticket or five industrial tickets. Unfortunately, they are country people, and they have no way to get either hot water kettle tickets or industrial tickets.
Lin Qingqing thought of the pile of tickets in the metal box, and said, "Yes, I will come to exchange them with you tomorrow morning. In addition to industrial tickets, I have other tickets. I can exchange them with my aunt for potatoes and sweet potatoes." The food exchanged in this way can still be eaten, killing two birds with one stone.
The carpenter's wife was delighted when she heard it, "That's great." If she could exchange it for sugar tickets and cloth tickets, it would be even better.
While Lu Cheng moved the cabinet that Lin Qingqing had ordered, he did not stay in the car, but waited on the side. It was the first time that Lu Cheng waited for someone like this, and the first time he heard Lin Qingqing chatting with others, and he thought it was quite interesting. The proud and stubborn impression of more than half a month ago has gradually faded away. After these two days of getting along, he felt that she was a stable, sensible, interesting, and thoughtful person.
Lin Qingqing didn't want to keep Lu Cheng waiting for long. She still had to go back to study the sewing machine. She had been using Lu Cheng's training clothes as pajamas these past two days. She couldn't wait to make pajamas and home clothes. So she ended her chat with the carpenter's wife after a short while.
"Are you impatient?" Lin Qingqing walked towards Lu Cheng.
"No hurry." Lu Cheng said, "Will you come to exchange for food tomorrow?"
Lin Qingqing said, "Yes, there are a lot of tickets anyway. I'll find some that the carpenter's family needs but we don't need to exchange, so that we can buy less food at home."
Hearing her say the word "we", he felt inexplicably good: "I have to start training tomorrow and can't accompany you."
"I have a bicycle." Lin Qingqing didn't care at all. "By the way, if you go to training, what is the daily schedule?"
Lu Cheng said: "Except for special times, the wake-up call usually rings at 6:30 every day. We get up and have to go to the training ground within 15 minutes, then have breakfast at 8 o'clock, and have an hour of rest after breakfast. At noon, there is a one-and-a-half-hour rest time from 12 o'clock to 1:30, and then 5:30, which is the normal time. But the weather in July and August is hotter, so the training time will be changed, from daytime to night. Generally, it is from 6:30 to 11 o'clock in the morning, and from 6:30 to 11:30 in the evening."
Lin Qingqing wrote down the time, and if the time for eating can be coordinated with Lu Cheng's training time, then cooperate. If it can't be coordinated, he will also leave his meal. Of course, this is based on the premise that she is free and interested in cooking. If she is not free and not interested in cooking, everyone will eat in the cafeteria together.
Back at the family compound, Lin Qingqing prepared lunch, and Lu Cheng went back and forth several times to move the cabinets.
Lin Qingqing happened to be washing pig intestines. As soon as Lu Cheng came back, she handed the job of washing pig intestines to him. Men are strong and can wash quickly. In the future, pig intestines are all washed.
While Lu Cheng was washing pig intestines, Lin Qingqing washed winter melon. Although winter melon needs to be pickled, it can be stir-fried at noon. At noon, Lin Qingqing decided to make three dishes and one soup, stir-fried winter melon, braised pig intestines, three fresh vegetables, and a bowl of steamed egg. "Lu Cheng, can you get a wine jar? The kind made of clay, used to hold wine. I want to pickle stinky winter melon, and I need this." If there is really no such thing, you can only use a wooden barrel, but the effect of a wooden barrel is definitely not as good as that.
Lu Cheng knew what she was talking about: "There are some in the cafeteria, I will go get them later, I want a few."
"One is enough." Three pounds of the twenty pounds of winter melon were cut and fried, and the remaining seventeen pounds could not be filled in a wine jar after peeling and removing the seeds.
Lu Cheng: "Okay."
Lu Cheng's pig intestines were not washed yet, but Lin Qingqing's winter melon and three fresh vegetables were washed. The so-called three fresh vegetables refer to three kinds of fresh vegetables grown in the field fried together, namely potatoes, eggplants, and green peppers. This is also the reason why she bought green peppers at the vegetable market today. As for eggplants, there are a lot of them at home. Some were brought by Yu Xiuyao, and some were brought by the military wives who came to eat last night. Fortunately, eggplants can be stored for a long time in this weather.
The staple food is rice and sweet potatoes. In this era, rice is precious and it is too luxurious to eat rice every day. Coincidentally, Lin Qingqing likes to mix rice with sweet potatoes, which is a coarse grain. It is economical and kills two birds with one stone.
Cook rice in a clay pot and steam egg custard on top. Stir-fry vegetables in an iron pot. She first stir-fried three fresh vegetables and winter melon. While cooking, she asked Lu Cheng to cut a pound of washed pig intestines. Braised pig intestines with green peppers and onions, just in case the smell is too fragrant.
Kindergarten
This morning, after Lu Haici and Ji Yang arrived at the kindergarten, he took out the comic book "Seagull" given by his mother to read. Ji Yang sat next to him, and the two good brothers stood next to each other, reading very seriously.
Suddenly, a figure blocked their way. Lu Haici and Ji Yang looked up. It was the child who pushed Lu Haici down yesterday.
The child's name was Chen Zhou. He held a piece of sugar cake in his hand. He looked at Lu Haici proudly: "Look, this is the sugar cake my mother made for me. It's delicious. I won't give it to you."
Lu Haici blinked his eyes and didn't understand yet. However, when he heard Chen Zhou say this, he took out the lunch box from his small schoolbag: "My mother made me baked potatoes today." Lu Haici thought that the other party came to compete in eating.
"Tsk..." Chen Zhou glanced at the baked potatoes in Lu Haici's lunch box, "What's so delicious about potatoes? How can they be as delicious as sugar cakes? Sugar cakes are sweet and soft, so delicious."
Lu Haici agreed that sugar cakes were delicious, but: "My mother's baked potatoes are also delicious,
and baked potatoes are also sweet." Because Lin Qingqing put white sugar, the baked potatoes are of course sweet. In fact, if it were in the future, rock sugar should be put.
"Wow... Lu Haici, can I eat it?" Ji Yang was extremely confident in Lin Qingqing's cooking skills. As soon as he saw the baked potatoes, he drooled.
Lin Qingqing put twelve baked potatoes in Lu Haici's lunch box. Because the baked potatoes were relatively small, she put them in because she thought that Lu Haici had six good friends, and if he shared them, two would be just right for each person.
But Lin Qingqing didn't know how Lu Haici could give two to others, not even one.
Lu Haici took out a baked potato from the lunch box, broke it open, and gave half to Ji Yang: "Eat it." Giving half was already very generous of him. After Ji Yang took half of the baked potato, Lu Haici licked his fingers again. Although the baked potato was juicy, the potato skin was very delicious with the juice.
Ji Yang stuck out his tongue and licked the skin of the baked potato: "Wow..." He shouted, "It's really sweet, Lu Haici, how come your potatoes are sweet?"
Lu Haici just licked his hands: "I don't know, because my mother is more powerful." He started to eat the potatoes.
"I don't believe it, how can potatoes be sweet? You lied to me." Chen Zhou suddenly felt that his sugar cake was not fragrant. Many people are like this. No matter how delicious their own food is, it is not as delicious as the food that everyone eats together. "Lu Haici, let me eat your potatoes, then I will believe that your potatoes are sweet."
"I don't want to." Lu Haici refused very bluntly. He didn't care whether Chen Zhou believed it or not.
"You..." Chen Zhou stared at Lu Haici angrily.
"Wow..." At this time, another voice came from the door of the classroom, "Lu Haici, what are you eating?" Qin Ming rushed over like a small cannonball, "Lu Haici, my grandma said thank you for inviting me to dinner yesterday. This morning, my grandma made rice hot pot and invited you to eat it."
Speaking of this rice hot pot, Zhang Hongping also made it with great effort. Yesterday, Sun Zi went to Lu's house for dinner. Although Lin Qingqing gave her enough face when she went with him, Zhang Hongping still felt that she was embarrassed. Moreover, she didn't want Sun Zi to eat other people's food for free. Especially after Sun Zi came back yesterday, he couldn't stop praising Lu Haici's mother for her amazing skills and the delicious food she made. He even brought back two pumpkin cakes.
Zhang Hongping also tasted the pumpkin cake and had to admit that it tasted really good, soft, glutinous and sweet, and children's favorite. However, she felt very annoyed when she heard Sun Zi calling Lu Haici's mother all the time. In order to save face, Zhang Hongping made rice hotpot this morning. Rice hotpot is delicious, but it wastes oil and rice. But in order to save face for her grandson, Zhang Hongping tried her best.
Qin Ming also took out his lunch box, which was filled with golden rice hotpot. Qin Ming pushed the lunch box in front of Lu Haici generously: "Lu Haici, you eat it." Qin Ming was spoiled since he was a child. What delicious food has he not eaten? So even if rice hotpot is delicious, it is not his favorite. Therefore, he is very generous. Of course, it would be better if he didn't stare at Lu Haici's lunch box.
Lu Haici looked at Qin Ming's rice hotpot. He had never eaten this before. He thought about it, took out a baked potato from his lunch box and handed it to Qin Ming: "Here." In consideration of Qin Ming giving him rice dumplings, he gave Qin Ming a baked potato.
"Wow, Lu Haici, is this made by your mother?" He no longer mentioned Lin Qingqing's stepmother. He went to Lu Haici's house yesterday. Lu Haici's mother was so gentle, and the dishes and pumpkin pie she cooked had conquered him. If his mother and Lu Haici's mother quarreled now, he would definitely stand on Lu Haici's mother's side.
Qin Ming is so realistic.
Lu Haici said, "Yeah." He also picked up a rice pot and took a bite, his eyes lit up, "This is really delicious, can I have two pieces? I'll exchange it with you for a baked potato." There were still a lot of baked potatoes at home, so he was willing to exchange. He wanted to exchange the rice pot for his mother to try.
"Sure, two is too few, let's exchange more." Qin Ming thought that there was still rice dumplings at home, so it didn't matter if he exchanged more. "I'll exchange a whole box of rice dumplings with you in exchange for a box of baked potatoes." One box for one box, a child's idea, nothing wrong.
"Yeah." This is what Lu Haici also thought. So, the two happily exchanged lunch boxes.
Ji Yang watched them exchange and bit his lower lip. The baked potatoes in his mouth suddenly didn't smell good. Looking at the baked potatoes that Lu Haici's mother made for Lu Haici, and then looking at the rice dumplings that Qin Ming's family made for Qin Ming, he had nothing and couldn't exchange with them, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
"Ji Yang..." After Lu Haici and Qin Ming exchanged, he suddenly called Ji Yang.
"Hey?" Ji Yang's eyes lit up.
Lu Haici said: "Ji Yang, the day before yesterday you said you would exchange meat buns with me for tofu pancakes, but you haven't given me the meat buns yet."
Ji Yang: "..." I forgot. "I... I forgot."
"Then when will you give it to me?" Lu Haici asked. Good brother, let's be clear about accounts. Lu Haici is also a realistic kid.
Ji Yang blushed: "I... I will go back at noon and ask my mother to make meat buns. I will give it to you when my mother is ready. Is that okay?"
"Okay." Lu Haici said.
"You... Qin Ming, I will give you sugar cakes in exchange for baked potatoes." Chen Zhou looked at them talking, but he was very angry because they didn't tell him. As for what he said yesterday about not playing with you, he had forgotten it a long time ago.
"I don't want it." Qin Ming hugged the lunch box tightly. It's not like he hasn't eaten sugar cakes before.
"You... I won't play with you anymore." Chen Zhou ran out of the classroom angrily.
Lu's House
Lin Qingqing had already prepared lunch and was working on the squat toilet with Lu Cheng in the small room. The pit for the squat toilet was dug last night. Lu Cheng got up early this morning and was fixing the pit with bricks and cement. Now the two of them divided the work, Lin Qingqing passed the bricks and Lu Cheng connected the bricks in the pit. In just half an hour, the rest of the work was completed.
The rest was to seal the squat toilet, which would be done in the afternoon.
"Mom, I'm back." Lu Haici ran into the yard and went straight to the kitchen. He didn't see Lin Qingqing in the kitchen. He was about to go inside when he heard Lin Qingqing's voice coming from the small room.
"Here." Lin Qingqing came out of the small room, and Lu Cheng followed her.
"Mom, I brought you some rice cakes, very delicious rice cakes." Lu Haici ran to Lin Qingqing and pulled her into the hall. As for his father, he was ignored.
Lu Haici pulled Lin Qingqing to the hall and took out a lunch box from her schoolbag: "Mom, try it." He picked up a piece of rice cake and gave it to Lin Qingqing.
Lin Qingqing took a bite, and the rice cake was fragrant and crispy, and it was really delicious. "It's delicious, thank you Haici. But where did this rice cake come from? Why are there so many?"
Lu Haici said: "I exchanged it with Qin Ming..." He told the process of exchanging rice cakes.
At the same time, the Ji family.
Ji Yang ran into the house and saw Xu Huijuan. His eyes turned red and he said in a choked voice: "Mom, I want to eat meat buns, I want to eat meat buns."
Xu Huijuan hadn't reacted yet: "Why do you suddenly want to eat meat buns? There are no meat tickets at home this month. If
you want to eat meat buns, you have to wait until next month." "No, I don't want to... I want to eat meat buns. I want to eat meat buns today." Ji Yang didn't want to lose face in front of his good friend, "Mom, I must eat meat buns today, wuwuwu..."
Ji Yang has always been obedient and sensible, but this is the first time he cried and made a fuss like this, which made Xu Huijuan very worried: "Then tell Mom, why do you suddenly want to eat meat buns?" Someone must be eating meat buns, so he is greedy, right? But even if the child was greedy, he wouldn't make such a fuss.
Ji Yang explained with tears in his eyes: "I exchanged with Lu Haici."
"You exchanged with Lu Haici?" Xu Huijuan didn't understand, "How did you exchange with Lu Haici? How did you exchange for meat buns?"
Ji Yang said: "I ate Lu Haici's tofu pancakes, and I agreed to exchange them with him for meat buns. Wuwuwuwu... Mom, I want meat buns. I am an honest child and I can't be a liar." After hearing
Ji Yang's explanation, Xu Huijuan frowned. Exchange tofu pancakes for meat buns? Isn't Lu Haici too smart? Although Xu Huijuan had some opinions in her heart, she would not show her dissatisfaction on her face. She said to Ji Yang, "Ji Yang, there is no meat at home, so we can't make meat buns. But you ate Lu Haici's tofu pancakes and promised to exchange them for meat buns. We can't break our promise. How about this, mom will also make pancakes, and you ask him if it's okay to exchange his tofu pancakes with pancakes, okay?"
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