MTL - Accidentally born in the ’60s-Chapter 3

As Mrs. Li gave a shocking roar, the Li family immediately became lively. Except for Wang Sufen, who was confinement, everyone else came out. Li Mingxi was carrying two pheasants, and Li Mingnan and Li Mingbei were standing at the door with three or four fishes.

Mr. Li stepped out of the Westinghouse with a three-inch golden lotus in her mouth, and Osmanthus came out of the kitchen, reaching out to take things. Li Mingnan raised his hands to hide for a moment: "Sister-in-law, don't move, I have to let my grandma take a look first. You said that we caught so many fish, why should grandma make us dumplings?"

It stands to reason that the Li family has four taels of meat per person a month, and the Li family has a large population. In the past, how could they eat dumplings once every two or three months. But since last year's bad weather, they couldn't buy enough food and non-staple food with the food stamps. Now it's pretty good to be able to fill their stomachs with cabbage, potatoes and corn.

Mr. Li opened the curtain and came out, looking at Li Mingxi's three hands with both fish and chicken, she laughed and couldn't see her eyes, just wanted to praise her grandson, Li Mingbei was stunned With saliva, he leaned over: "Milk, eat dumplings!"

Mrs. Li immediately stopped her smile, grabbed the chicken and fish and handed them to Osmanthus. Seeing the three grandchildren with empty hands, she looked a little dumbfounded, and Mrs. Li gave them a white look: " No meat!"

Li Mingnan and Li Mingbei immediately beat their chests and feet when they heard the words: "You need to know how to fight a silly roe deer and come back." Mrs. Li couldn't help but choked: "It depends on who you and the roe deer are. more stupid."

Li Mingbei scratched the back of his head and turned to ask Li Mingxi who had been silent: "Second brother, does the milk mean that I am stupider than a roe deer?"

Li Mingxi glanced at him, and wrapped his arms around Mrs. Li's arm with a smile on his face: "Nah, I beat that pheasant. I told you that I was just walking up the mountain. After a few dozen meters, the two pheasants came out of nowhere, their wings were frozen, and they fell down as they flew, and I caught these two pheasants without much effort."

Mr. Li looked at her second grandson with a smile: "You are still smart and know how to look up the mountain. It's not easy for this snow-covered mountain to touch a pheasant." She touched the flesh on the pheasant, Mrs. Li smiled even more happily: "I'm fatter than in autumn, because I don't know where to hide the cat winter, so I didn't lose fat."

Li Mingxi nodded again and again: "It's still milk wise, you can guess the way out just by looking at it. Milk, you can see that I beat my mother with pheasants, and I saved the life of our old hen, wait. Can you give me two more when we make dumplings?"

"One or two are greedy ghosts!" Mrs. Li looked at the two pheasants, and then at the seven river fish, and stomped her feet: "You don't have to wait for the dumplings, tonight. There's something delicious." He put on a thick padded jacket and hat and went out.

Li Mingbei looked at the two brothers who were also confused, and hurriedly asked Osmanthus: "Sister-in-law, what's the milk for?"

"Take the meat!" Osmanthus pursed her lips and smiled.

"Is there meat in our house?" The three boys looked at each other, and then burst into cheers: "It's great, I can eat meat!"

Ms. Li walked around the yard and came back soon with a small piece of tough pork, with a bit of distress on her face: "I have hidden such a pound of pork, I I'm also preparing dumplings for Chinese New Year."

The pork was handed to Osmanthus, and Mrs. Li instructed: "Then the pork is stewed in the cabbage, put more potatoes, and if you have eight-treasure porridge to eat at night, don't post the pancakes."

Being able to eat pork, Li Mingnan and Li Mingbei immediately forgot what Mrs. Li said they were stupid. looking for the pork that Mrs. Li hid.

Mr. Li sneered: "I have hidden things all my life, and your grandfather has never found them. You two boys want to find the pork I hid, dream!" The fish and chickens were all skewered, and he had to hang everything under the eaves so that the mice would not take them away.

The Li family has two cauldrons, one east and one west, which are connected to the kang in the house. The eight-treasure porridge in the east pot has been cooked for more than two hours, and it is soft and glutinous. In the big iron pot on the west side, the sweet-scented osmanthus was stir-frying the fat, and soon the fragrance of the oil flower wafted into the air, causing a string of drooling sounds.

Osmanthus couldn't help but look back, except for Li Mingdong, who was quite reserved and accompanied Li Muwu to speak at the door, the remaining three boys squatted in a row in the kitchen, their eyes shining Stare at the points of meat in the pot. Osmanthus smiled and put the cabbage into the pot, turned around and poured out the eight-treasure porridge, rinsed the pot, and heated the fish soup left over at noon to Wang Sufen.

With the cabbage and potatoes stir-frying with sweet-scented osmanthus, I tried to see where the fat was hidden, so that I could grab more pork quickly, ruthlessly, and accurately when I was eating.

The rice was ready, Osmanthus first sent the fish soup and noodles to Wang Sufen, and then brought the family's dishes and eight-treasure porridge to the table. Mrs. Li first took a piece of meat and gave it to Li Muwu, Then he coughed lightly: "Eat it!"

In an instant, three pairs of chopsticks stretched out at the same time and flew up and down, quickly picking out the meat exposed on the surface. Li Mingbei stretched his neck and looked at the bowls of his two brothers: "The second brother grabbed the most, there are three pieces of meat."

Li Mingdong glanced at the sweet-scented osmanthus, stretched out his chopsticks and picked it from below, and instantly took out four pieces of meat, and immediately shocked his three younger brothers.

"Sister-in-law, you are secretly hiding meat for eldest brother!" Li Mingbei wailed.

Li Mingdong gave Mrs. Li and Osmanthus a piece of meat each, gave Mingbei a disdainful look, and coldly spit out three words: "Silly roe deer!"

The fat slices were stuffed into his mouth, and he smiled very contentedly. As for the stupid roe deer who sued, if he didn't lower his head to look at him, the only two pieces of pork in the bowl would have been stolen immediately.

The laughter and laughter next door was mixed with roaring and mourning from time to time, Zhen Zhen listened with joy in her heart, in her past life of more than 20 years, the family was in her impression except for the cold empty house Just endless quarrels. And now, Zhen Zhen finally felt the warmth of the legendary home.

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Sitting on the kang in the east room, Mrs. Li couldn't help complaining to Wang Sufen: "What happened to Wang Sufen: "What happened to you in the past two years? No meat was purchased after the meat coupons were issued, and there was no food in the grain store after the food coupons were issued. Let's see if this year is going to be a good one."

Wang Sufen couldn't help sighing: "Last night, Mu Wu said he didn't know where to get the food, and he didn't know if it could be shipped years ago."

"I guess it's about the same." When Mrs. Li heard the action above, she immediately became a lot more energetic: "No matter what, let the people pass the year."

Touching Zhen Zhen's little hand, Mrs. Li said again: "Fortunately, after Zhen Zhenda was born, two bottles of milk can be bought on time every day. The grandson of your aunt Wang's neighbor is at the beginning of the year. She said that the fresh milk at the milk station has been intermittent in the past few months, and it has not been supplied normally, it is better when we were born in Zhen Zhen."

Wang Sufen couldn't help touching her nose when she heard the words and said with a smirk, "It's a pity that Zhen Zhen doesn't eat milk, and everyone who came back told me to drink it, it's a waste."

"That's your milk." Mrs. Li didn't feel sorry for the two bottles of milk at all: "How can milk be raised by mother's milk, you can drink it steadily and feed me Zhen Zhen It's better to be white and fat than anything else." Picking up Zhen Zhen, Mrs. Li gently shook her: "Is it my eldest granddaughter!"

Zhen Zhen: Hiccup…

"Hey, listen, hiccup." Mrs. Li let out a rattling laugh as if she had discovered a new world: "Come on, let's hiccup again."

Zhen Zhen tightly closed her mouth and shook her head firmly:  …

Old Lady Li laughed again, Zhen Zhen’s face flushed with shame, she was wondering if she was crying to divert Mrs. Li’s strange laugh, when she heard a loud shout from outside : "Milk, hurry up, supplies are coming from the street."

A handkerchief embroidered with flowers, opened with a stack of money.

Ms. Li couldn’t trot, Li Mingdong’s four brothers and sweet-scented osmanthus were the main force for shopping. Mingdong took the money and went straight to the grain store with the grain book and grain coupons. Li Mingxi pinched it. They went straight to the meat shop with the meat ticket, and the two brothers from the north and the south put the non-staple food tickets in a pocket and rushed out with the basket.

Mr. Li was fidgeting and waiting at home, opening the door for a while to look out, and sitting in Wang Sufen's room for a while, but what she said was obviously out of line with the foreword, and she was absent-minded. looks like. Wang Sufen, who has been home for more than 20 years, naturally knew what Mrs. Li was thinking about, and quickly persuaded: "If there is Muwu in the grain store, how can you buy enough grain; Mingxi runs fast, he will go there. Buying meat is designated to be at the top of the list.”

"What you said is." Mrs. Li nodded and stood up again: "I'll take a look." Mrs. Li stood at the door and waited for more than two hours. Zhen tried her best to restrain her drowsiness and silently counted the number of times she opened the door. Finally, when Mrs. Li opened the door for the fifty-eighth time, the four brothers Li Mingdong came back carrying rice bags and pushing the cart, talking and laughing.

"What did you buy?" Mrs. Li looked at the big piece of pork in the car and was very happy.

Li Mingdong put the rice bag in the corner, patted the soil on his body and said with a grin: "Each family sells food for two months, meat for two months, and I bought a tael of sesame oil, a pound and a half of sugar, a pound of salt, half a catty of peanuts and 2 taels of melon seeds, as well as a tael of sesame paste and a tael of tea leaves.”

Mr. Li nodded again and again, smiled and said, "Okay, hurry up and move to the kitchen, I'll lock it in the cabinet." Pepper, aniseed, alkaline noodles and the like. As for the more than ten kilograms of Chinese cabbage in the car, because the Li family also grows a lot, they don't think it is too rare.

Li Mingbei put the things away, leaned over and said, "Mom, I see that the non-staple food store also has cakes and biscuits, you give me the dim sum ticket, and then give me some money, I will buy half Jin biscuits?"

Old Mrs. Li thought about the money left at home, and shook her head firmly: "Your sister is still young and can't eat biscuits and pastries, what are you buying that for?"

"I can eat it!" Li Mingbei protested with grief and indignation: "I'm only eight years old, and I'm still a lovely child. Why do I have to have two cookies a day."

Mr. Li slapped Li Mingbei aside with a slap: "It's beautiful! You still want to eat biscuits for such a big person? Go and eat your sweet potatoes!"

With white noodles and pork, this year will be better. Mrs. Li happily locks the white rice and white noodles in the cabinet of the study, leaving only cornmeal, dried sweet potato, sorghum noodles and the like Cereals are outside.

Come back with two fish."

"You can pull it down." Li Mingbei was very clever: "Since my brother and I caught seven fish last time, many people go to the river to dig holes for fishing every day. , I saw that no one has caught fish these days, and I guess my two times were coincidences."

Li Mingbei was immediately happy when he heard the dumplings with cabbage and pork: "Second brother, third brother, the milk said that the fish will be made for dumplings tomorrow, pork and cabbage!"

Li Mingxi pushed the workbook forward, grabbed the big padded jacket and ran out: "Then why don't you hurry up."

Li Mingbei packed three large pancakes from the pot and wrapped them in paper, and before leaving, he did not forget to look back to assure: "We won't bring any liars!"

Under the hanging beam of the house, I am preparing to make dumplings tomorrow.

The Yongcui River that crosses the Beicha District is frozen solid, the thick ice layer is half a meter thick, and a group of half-year-old children are skating, hitting ice, and playing sledges. I had a lot of fun, and I didn't seem to know the taste of trouble.

If Li Mingbei used to rush over to play Bingga, but today he was so full of dumplings that he didn't even hear his friends calling him.

To fish in winter, you must first dig an ice hole. In order to prevent people from falling, the locals have a custom to dig holes in a fixed area. Because there are many people who come to fish every day, the ice cave can never be frozen. Li Mingxi found a long stick and poked it twice, and the ice layer was opened.

Three ice caves were opened in a row. The three brothers squatted beside them with a fishing basket and a fishing rod. Li Mingxi also made a small net to catch fish inside.

After the three of them ate the big cakes brought by Li Mingbei, they squatted on the ice and fished in earnest. The time passed by and the sun was about to set, but the three Not even a fish scale was seen. Li Mingbei patted the fishing rod in frustration: "Otherwise, if we get up at four tomorrow, I don't believe that we can't catch a fish."

Li Mingnan sighed, stretched out his hand and pulled the fish basket up, suddenly felt his hand sink, and immediately laughed: "Hurry up and help, there are fish in the fish basket, it is quite heavy , I guess it's a big fat man."

Li Mingbei threw the fishing rod and rushed over to help pull the fish basket out and threw it on the ice, only to see a four or five pound turtle fall out of the fish basket, Not knowing whether to live or die.

Li Mingnan asked hesitantly, "Is there any dumplings to eat tomorrow after catching the turtle?"

Li Mingbei nodded unconfidently: "It should be possible, this stew should also be quite nourishing."

The hibernating turtle:…

The author has something to say:

Small Theater:

Turtle: Who am I? Where am I? Can you spare our turtles!

Kaka: Isn't this a coincidence!

Turtle: My grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather was cut off by you in Nancha Village! New hatred and old hatred, what do you say?

Where did you come from? Are you a bastard?

Turtle: ...let me cook!

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The stalk of the silly roe deer: If the roe deer is chased by a hunter, it will bury its head in the snow, thinking that it will not be discovered. Some roe deer may be a little smarter, throwing the enemy out of sight before they have time to put their head in the snow, so the stupid roe deer will quickly come back to see, where is the enemy chasing? Then I got caught ┓(???`?)┏