Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

When she got off work, Li Yaoyao took the initiative to help Xia Mingshuang pull the potato bag, and quietly asked: "Sister Mingshuang, when will your shampoo be boiled?"

Xia Mingshuang: "Didn't you buy a bottle?"

Li Yaoyao: "Isn't it about to be used up?"

Xia Mingshuang looked at her in surprise: "You used it too fast!"

It's winter and it's not easy to get oily, and Li Yaoyao doesn't do housework, so there's no need to wash her hair so frequently.

Li Yaoyao didn't care. Of course she didn't tell Xia Mingshuang that she also used shampoo to take a shower.

Xia Mingshuang: "I don't have all the ingredients, and there are so many different ones. I have to go to a Chinese medicine shop to prepare them."

Where is the Chinese medicine shop now? It has been closed for a long time, but it can be dispensed from the hospital's traditional Chinese medicine dispensary.

But the main ones are soap locust and soapberry. If you know the place of production, you can ask someone to help ship some over, but it’s too much trouble just for a few of them, right?

Who owes this favor?

If Li Yaoyao is willing to go through the trouble, Xia Mingshuang can give her the formula for free. Gu Yunshan didn't think about keeping it secret anyway, he copied it from a book.

Li Yaoyao refused to take it. It was too much trouble. She would rather spend money to buy it. She also encouraged Xia Mingshuang to go back and stay longer. It would be easy to sell it in the city.

Xia Mingshuang was a little tempted. She wouldn't sell it because she was afraid of being arrested by the security office, but Song Yanmin could do it. She is in charge of production, Song Yanmin is in charge of sales, and they split the money later!

The Winter Solstice Festival is coming soon, and the local custom during the Winter Solstice is to eat dumplings. No matter how poor the family is, they always find a way to borrow some thin noodles or go to the team to prepare some wheat to grind bread and make a few dumplings for their children to enjoy.

Each production team will also start catching and killing pigs on the first day of the Winter Solstice or early in the morning.

Xia Mingshuang took the day off one day early.

She was too busy the past few days. First, Zhang Danping brought some hawthorns, and she took Wang Jinling and Fat Auntie to make candied haws.

As soon as the candied haws on the stick at the door, a lot of people immediately attracted people. As long as the money was not so tight for salary, whether they were reminiscing about their childhood or for their children and wives, they would buy two and go back to try them.

Xia Mingshuang is very serious about his work. He specially chooses large and plump hawthorns, processes them very cleanly, and makes the syrup fully boiled. The heat is very good, and he has the burnt aroma and sweetness of the caramel, but without the bitterness of the syrup. The taste, when you eat it in your mouth, is crunchy, sweet, and with the sour taste of hawthorn, it makes people salivate and leave you wanting more after eating it.

Soon it attracted students from the commune middle school.

Students who don't have money will definitely not buy it. After all, they don't even buy the three-cent dishes in the cafeteria and only eat pickles, but rich students don't hold back.

In every school, there are always some students who are not short of money or whose families are willing to spend money. They are lavish and try whatever is delicious, and their clothes are always more fashionable than others.

Military green anti-military uniforms are popular these days. Except for the lack of red five-pointed stars, they look similar to military uniforms. They carry a military shoulder bag and wear rubber-flavored yellow rubber shoes on their feet. This is the most fashionable look.

This outfit is not cheap, but even in commune middle schools there are students dressing up like this, which is very fashionable.

Students from poor families pile on patches and have enough food and clothing.

So the fashionable people who come to buy candied haws on a bicycle, carrying army green satchels, and wearing cuffed cotton rubber shoes, flock here shouting and talking.

Because the sugar is limited, I won’t make a lot, just a handful at a time.

It was sold out in no time, and there wasn’t enough to sell.

Zhang Danping was very proud and wanted to talk to the deputy director, but the deputy director just said back to her: "There is not enough to sell anything these days. Is it strange that such delicious candied haws are sold out? One cent per skewer counts." What? If you can, give me a dollar for a string and see if you can sell it too."

Zhang Danping was so angry that the price went up to [-] cents, but she was sold out as soon as she went up.

The person who really wants to eat the candied haws on a stick doesn't care about the two cents.

At first, everyone was interested in it. Some people even rode bicycles from other communes to buy them, and some people who came from the county to do errands also bought a dozen or so and distributed them back.

Anyway, Xia Ming is busy enough.

We can't delay the snacks. Fortunately, we have an electric egg beater that Gu Yunshan helped us make, which is much more convenient. We don't have to break our hands anymore.

Anyway, after working overtime for a while, Xia Ming took a day off so that he could rest in conjunction with the Winter Solstice Festival.

In the afternoon, the supply and marketing cooperative gave out welfare coupons, and she was given coupons for a pound of meat, as well as a pound of meat coupons for Zhou Yue'e to make jam and candied haws. Zhang Danping and Li Yaoyao collected half a pound of meat coupons for her, but she didn't keep any of it and went to the slaughtering team to cut the meat.

Normally, you can't cut so much meat if you want to, but now it's the Winter Solstice Festival, and the commune kills a lot of pigs, so anyone with a meat ticket can basically buy it.

One pound of pork belly and one and a half pounds of hind leg meat, she decided to use them all to make dumplings for the children to enjoy.

People here don't care about good food but dumplings, and they don't have the conditions to spread a whole table of dishes. A dumpling is just fine.

At around four o'clock, Xia Mingshuang happily went home with meat, only to find that Zhan Jiayi was also there.

He came to take Sanjie Gu home for the Winter Solstice Festival.

Miao Miao and Xiao Zaizai looked at the third aunt reluctantly, and the third aunt left reluctantly.

Zhan Jiayi smiled kindly and said, "Brother and sister, the day after tomorrow is the Winter Solstice, I will take his third aunt back to celebrate the festival. The old man misses her strangely."

It's a good thing that someone wants to take his wife back for the festival, and Xia Mingshuang certainly won't stop him.

When the third sister came, of course Xia Mingshuang asked her if she was pregnant. The third sister said she was not pregnant. Anyway, she was cured and there was no need to worry, so Xia Mingshuang didn't have to worry about it.

Xia Mingshuang didn't ask much. After all, the third sister was not that open-minded, so she felt embarrassed to always ask her.

Zhan Jiayi originally urged Sister Gu to leave, not wanting to wait for Xia Mingshuang to come back. Now when he saw that Xia Mingshuang was carrying meat, his eyes lit up and he wanted to have dinner before leaving.

But Third Sister Gu urged him, "Hurry up, let's go, it will get dark soon."

Xia Mingshuang said hurriedly: "Third sister, it's almost dark now. We'll stay here for one night and then leave tomorrow morning. It's just in time for the meat to be cut."

Zhan Jiayi also advised, "My brothers and sisters are so kind, let's just... stay here for one night."

Third Sister Gu refused, she was very stubborn and insisted on leaving now.

She was angry with Zhan Jiayi. Since he was urging him to leave just now, why did he stay for a night and eat?

When I saw Ming Shuang coming back from shopping for meat, I wanted to stay. Are you so beautiful? Why should I let you, a weakling, eat meat?

She was unwilling to go back just now. Zhan Jiayi looked unhappy and said that she didn't care about the old man and that her mother was sick at home thinking about her.

Now she refused to stay, urging Zhan Jiayi to leave quickly, and asked Xia Mingshuang not to stay any longer. Although she was reluctant to leave the children, she still had a hard heart: "It's so cold, you guys stay in the house, I'll leave now. "

Third Sister Gu was not a rude person. After saying this, she put the bags she had brought on her back and left, refusing to take anything back with her.

Xia Mingshuang quickly handed a pound of meat to Zhan Jiayi and asked him to take it back to make dumplings to eat.

Zhan Jiayi stretched out his hand to take it, but Third Sister Gu turned around and glared at him coldly, her eyes swishing like knives. Zhan Jiayi was so frightened that he even retracted his hand.

He swallowed, "Daughter-in-law, let's..."

Third Sister Gu snorted, turned around and walked out quickly. If Zhan Jiayi dared to take Ming Shuang's flesh, she would not return to Zhan's house!

After all, Zhan Jiayi was frightened by the fierceness in Sister Gu's eyes. He decisively turned around and chased her out.

Xia Mingshuang chased her to the door and saw that Zhan Jiayi had already chased Sanjie Gu and ran away. She was full of doubts, what happened to these two people?

Dazhuang and Erzhuang ran out to play with Gu Nianjun, Xingfu and others after school. When they came back, they found that Third Aunt was gone, and they were quite reluctant to leave.

Erzhuang: "Mom, why did my third aunt leave? Didn't we agree to watch us sing tomorrow?"

Yangjiawan Brigade Primary School has its own choir, and the school organizes performances on the brigade's threshing floor during important festivals.