Siheyuan: Separate from the beginning and live with my sister

He Lin started to get busy in the kitchen. As it was no wonder that he lived in a large compound, there were a lot of ingredients of all kinds, and He Lin also saw something rare.

A Snow Flake brand refrigerator, this is the first proper household appliance I have seen since my rebirth. It is also specially allocated by the state to provide better conditions for recuperating cadres. Even the homes of senior leaders do not have it.

In 1956, the Sijiucheng Snow Flower Refrigerator Factory produced my country's first electric refrigerator, named "Snow Flower", which later became one of my country's earliest famous brands.

He Lin studied it and found that this refrigerator should be a freezer only refrigerator and has no refrigeration function.

There were also a few cream popsicles in it, which were obviously for Yang Xue to eat. I didn’t expect that this girl also liked to lick popsicles. I have to try it myself in the future.

He Lin used the grass carp he brought, picked out a piece of pork belly, and some other ingredients, and prepared to make some delicious side dishes.

The grass carp was not cooked into He Lin’s specialty, boiled fish. Instead, it was cooked in two ways: half spicy and half tomato.

Leftover twice-cooked pork, garlic greens, fried mushrooms and tomato and egg soup.

We just prepared four dishes and one soup, which is a very high standard these days.

Here, He Lin was busy in the kitchen, and over there, Sha Zhu was preparing to cook in the courtyard.

However, when Mr. Sha Zhu, the canteen chef of the steel rolling mill, stood in front of the funeral banquet of the eldest son of the Jia family, he was a little confused.

There are only 2 pounds of pork and a few cabbages, but you are planning to prepare three tables of banquets. Aren't you just blindly thinking?

And does this pork weigh two pounds?

Jia Zhang, who was standing next to her, felt a little guilty. Today was her last day of exile and she would have to go back to prison tomorrow. Thinking about how she had behaved recklessly in the Chrysanthemum Group's room before she left, she shivered all over.

Thinking that she had to have a good meal before going back, she secretly cut off a piece when Qin Huairu wasn't paying attention. It must have almost turned into shit by now. She hoped her big son wouldn't blame her.

Yi Zhonghai was also confused when he saw such a small amount of ingredients. He thought that with his 10 yuan and some more from the Jia family, they would be able to handle a few tables of banquets.

But the uncle didn't expect that the Jia family was so stingy and even diluted the money.

Yi Zhonghai sank his energy into his dantian and mobilized his powerful "moral energy". He thought that even if he was angry, he still had to get things done, otherwise he would lose face as a master.

"Zhu Zi, you are a master chef now. Think of a way to hold the banquet. When this is over, won't the Jia family remember you for what you did for them?"

Sha Zhu was so angry that his mouth was crooked: "Uncle, no matter how great my master is, I am still a housewife without rice. It's hard to make a big pot of food with just this little stuff, let alone a banquet. Besides, Sister Qin just borrowed 10 yuan from me. I have no other tricks at all."

Qin Huairu beside him quickly chimed in: "Zhu Zi, the money Sister Qin lent you was all used on the funeral. You see, the white cloth and the photo frame all cost money. And you should think of a way to help Dongxu get the funeral done."

Three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, let alone four cobblers now. Jia Zhang really thought of a solution and gave instructions to Qin Huairu.

"Huai Ru, you don't want your husband's funeral to go on, do you? Then why don't you go door to door to collect gifts? When you have money, can't we go buy groceries?"

Oh my god, this old witch is really a ruthless person. She came to collect gifts for funerals? It's amazing that she could think of this. When the onlookers heard this, they immediately ran away.

The old man didn't want to pay any more money, so he stamped his foot and made up his mind. At this point, he could only make special arrangements.

Sister Jia, you and Huairu should go door to door. If you don't want to pay the gift money first, it would be nice to borrow some ingredients and prepare the banquet first.

Jia Zhang led the way in front, with the widow Qin and her three children in the middle as the main output, and Sha Zhu, with a droopy face, serving as the rear guard.

You can imagine what the scene is like, right? A whole group of Japanese invaders came into the village to raid it.

Every household wanted to curse when they heard such an arrangement. The Jia family really didn't treat them as outsiders and came to beg for food.

As a result, no one was willing to pay the gift money first, and those who were really embarrassed to do so just gave out three potatoes and two pumpkins to deal with it.

After walking around the entire yard, he only borrowed a few small things. The old man waved his hand and left the rest to Zhuzi.

Sha Zhu looked at the arduous task in front of him and decided to just fight it out.

Minced cabbage with meat, minced potatoes with meat, shredded pumpkin with vinegar, and finally I had no choice but to make stir-fried cabbage, so I ended up making four dishes.

The Jia family’s funeral began.

An old man asked Sha Zhu to invite two old men first, and Qin Huairu went to invite the rest of the residents, and a group of people sat down around three tables.

The educated uncle works as an accountant, recording the amount of gifts from each family.

Except for the eldest uncle and Sha Zhu who gave 2 yuan, the other residents gave 1 cents or 2 cents, and even the second uncle only gave 1 yuan.

Since no one gave much, the smart Yan Bugui put away the 5 cents in his left pocket, took out 2 cents from his right pocket, and wrote it on the money as his own gift.

The Jia family looked at the pile of banknotes and felt very disappointed. Together with the 4 yuan from the uncle and Sha Zhu, the total was less than 10 yuan. They were going to lose money.

He Lin and Xu Damao, the rich men in the courtyard, were not at home at all. Qin Huairu was so angry that her teeth were itching. Didn’t He Lin agree this morning? She would have to ask him for an explanation when he came back.

When he was at the factory, Xu Damao went to discuss this matter with He Lin. Knowing that He Lin would not go, he made up his mind and took the initiative to apply to go to the countryside to show movies in the evening.

This made the leaders of the Propaganda Department think that Xu Damao had changed his personality, and they even praised him.

When the four dishes that Sha Zhu had prepared with great effort and brains were served on the table, everyone was dumbfounded. They knew that the dishes prepared by the Jia family were rubbish, but they didn't expect them to be so rubbish.

For example, there is not much difference between the minced meat and stir-fried cabbage. I guess the minced meat is added piece by piece.

Everyone who came to give gifts felt that the 2 cents they gave was a loss, and the Jia family was just dogs.

The old man had not yet finished introducing the funeral of the Jia family when someone started eating with his chopsticks, and the rest of the people started to eat up the food in no time. In less than three minutes, the entire table was clean, with not a speck left.

When Yi Zhonghai sat down, there was not even a single vegetable leaf on the table.

People on both sides felt that they had suffered a loss, and the Jia family's funeral banquet ended in a farce.

Different from the chaos in the courtyard, He Lin's dinner at Yang's house was unusually rich.

Yang Zhenzhong was very satisfied with the four dishes and one soup prepared by He Lin, and he liked his future son-in-law more and more.

With his connections, he easily found out about He Lin at the Ministry of Industry and the steel mill. He knew Russian, had technical knowledge, and had designed an electric cutting machine. He had recently made a big move and prepared a production plan for an assembly line.

He's a little guy who can make a lot of trouble, but he only likes people like this. He would look down on those who are stubborn and unchanging.

It’s just that this prospective son-in-law seems to be popular with women. I’ll have to remind my girl about this later.