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Gao Liang knew that there was a vegetable field behind Gu Xi's firewood house, and it was not small, with an area of ​​20 square meters, as Li Ximei said.

So they never doubted the source of Gu Xi's vegetables, they only thought they were grown in the vegetable field.

Gu Xi brought 20 eggs, 3 radishes, 5 cucumbers, a cabbage, and two catties of wild boar bacon.After lunch, the father and son left.

The next day, New Year's Eve.

There is a habit of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve in the countryside, but Gu Xi doesn't know how to make dumplings.He doesn't know how to make dumplings, and he doesn't know how to make steamed buns, so after this era, he has never done it, and he has to learn how to make dumplings today.

He Kai was alone, so Gu Xi asked him to pack together.The dumpling wrappers were made by Second Aunt Li. Gu Xi gave 4 catties of flour and made 240 dumpling wrappers.

Gu Xi was not afraid of wasting dumpling wrappers, so he asked Xiao Chengtu to make them together. It was also the first time for the kid to make dumplings, so he was a little excited.

In the morning, I made 100 dumplings, dumplings with cabbage and bacon, and eggs.Gu Xi was generous, he and He Kai ate about 20, Xiao Chengtu ate 6, and gave 24 to Second Aunt Li, 8 members of Second Aunt Li's family, exactly 3 per person.12 were given to Li Goudan's family, 4 people from Li Goudan's family, and 3 for each person.The remaining 16 were given to Grandma Li. No matter how much trouble I had with Grandpa Li, he is a junior, and Grandpa Li is an elder, so he will not lack the etiquette that should be given.

He continued to make dumplings in the afternoon and finished the remaining 140. Originally, he wanted to invite He Kai to have another meal, but He Kai spent the evening with the educated youth.In fact, He Kai also wanted to stay, because it was good to eat with Gu Xi, but the educated youths made appointments in advance, and it was not easy for him to break the agreement.

The educated youths had to bring their own rations when they ate, and then everyone's rations were put together and cooked together.He Kai's rations are sweet potatoes and coarse wheat grains, and he has no other vegetables.

He Kai took his sweet potato and went to He Mingkuan's house.Because other educated youths lived in other people's homes just like him, and only He Mingkuan had his own house, so everyone made an appointment to go to his house.

"He Kai is here." He Mingkuan has always been dissatisfied with the 4 catties of pork ribs that He Kai gave last time.Obviously there is a meat ticket, but he buys ribs instead of meat, which is really stingy.But He Mingkuan didn't know that 4 catties of ribs were much more expensive than a catty of meat.

"Yes." He Kai said, "Here, today's dinner."

He Mingkuan looked at the sweet potato, his whole face turned green: "You brought this?"

"That's right, did everyone bring something more delicious?" He Kai asked curiously, he was not a fool, of course he could see He Mingkuan's expression clearly.

"It's about the same for everyone, but if you work in the field, what delicious food can you have? You still have 1 catty of meat tickets every month." He Mingkuan said.

"That's right, He Kai, why don't you go buy meat, we haven't eaten meat for a long time," said a male educated youth.

"The meat ticket was given as a gift when He Mingkuan got married." He Kai said.

"He Kai, you are wrong. When did you deliver the meat? You just delivered the ribs." He Mingkuan said.

He Kai showed Gu Xi's signature smile: "One catty of meat tickets can buy four catties of ribs. I thought your Erya was pregnant and wanted to drink more bone soup, so I bought four catties of pork ribs, and it cost me four catties of ribs." It costs me 1 yuan and 2 cents, don’t you like ribs? I would have bought meat if I knew it earlier, and I could save 4 cents.”

He Mingkuan blushed at what he said: "I really don't know, we are not rural people, how could we know the situation here."

"He Kai, isn't your dad the deputy county magistrate? Your family didn't give you a meat ticket." Another female educated youth asked.

He Kai said: "We go to the countryside to suffer, not to enjoy, how can I ask for my father's meat ticket?"

"But we have been very miserable these past few months." The female educated youth cried and said, "He Kai, I heard that Mr. Li's house where you live has 6 hens. There must be a lot of eggs in the house. Can you borrow some?"

"...How can I pay back the borrowed money? We don't have an egg ticket either." He Kai asked.

"Ah, use your meat ticket to pay it back, at most we will give you money."

"Yes, you can use your meat ticket to pay back. Meat and eggs are 8 cents a catty. Let's chip in and give him the money." Another male educated youth said.

"How embarrassing. How about asking He Mingkuan to borrow eggs from the village chief's house, Erya is the village chief's niece." He Kai said.

"He Kai, you are so stingy." The female educated youth pouted and stopped talking.

"Everyone, come and bake sweet potatoes." Xia Xiaowen said, "It's good for everyone to chat while eating sweet potatoes."

"Xiaowen, do you have meat tickets too?" The female educated youth looked at her.

Xia Xiaowen said: "My family's conditions are not good, so the meat ticket was sent back for my family to use."

"Ah, you are so filial."

"Okay, okay, He Kai is here to help, the sweet potatoes are baked."

"My stomach hurts, I'm going to the latrine." The female educated youth walked out of the kitchen.

Gu Xi and Xiao Chengtu's dinner was still dumplings. The dumplings were served with sweet and sour cucumbers. The father and son ate very well.While they were eating dumplings, a female voice sounded at the door: "Is anyone there?"

"Yes." Gu Xi replied, "Who is it?"

A young girl walked into the kitchen: "Mr. Li, hello, I'm Dong Yunyun, a female educated youth. Our educated youth are having a reunion dinner, but... but there is no food, can we exchange some eggs for you?"

"Change eggs?" Gu Xi raised his eyebrows.

"Well, let's exchange our own food with you. I... I also heard from He Kai that you have a lot of eggs, so you are... a little presumptuous. I'm really sorry." Dong Yunyun's voice was soft, and her eyes flicked from time to time Glancing at the dining table, seeing the bacon and eggs in Xiao Chengtu's dumplings, his mouth was watering.

"How many eggs do you want in exchange for how many catties of grain?" Gu Xi did not refuse.To be honest, 8 cents a catty of eggs is 10 per catty, and even rice can't be replaced, let alone the food of educated youths.

"I... can we exchange sweet potatoes for your eggs? One catty of sweet potatoes, one catty of eggs." Dong Yunyun said.

Gu Xi felt that this female educated youth made her a fool, but she still agreed: "Okay, I'll give you the eggs first, and let He Kai bring the sweet potatoes back. You eight educated youths, I'll give you eight eggs."

"Thank you, I will give you the sweet potatoes tomorrow. There are many sweet potatoes in my place, but there are not many sweet potatoes where we have reunion dinner." Dong Yunyun said.

"Tomorrow, the first day of the new year, you can give it to me after the new year."

"Okay, thank you Teacher Li."

Li Family Village didn't have the rules of keeping the year old, so Gu Xi and Li Chengtu went to bed early.It's just that he fell asleep long ago and had a dream. In the dream, there was a golden retriever barking non-stop, which directly woke Gu Xi up.

Gu Xi thought to himself, maybe he missed his big dog a little bit.

The next day, when the father and son were having breakfast, the children celebrated the new year

"Ms. Li, we're here to celebrate the New Year." Brother Shuangdan came.

"Ms. Li, we are also here to celebrate the New Year." Li Guofu came.

"Mr. Li, Happy New Year." Li Kaigong came.

Gu Xi suspected that these children had an appointment.

"Come on."

Gu Xi immediately bought 10 catties of brown sugar from the system, 8 cents per catty, 8 yuan, and 8 points were deducted from him.Gu Xi has sugar, but what he has is white sugar, which is used for cooking, and people in this era like brown sugar.

Gu Xi made a bowl of brown sugar water for each of the children.Gu Xi distributed 5 chestnuts, 5 small twists, and 5 candied dates to each of them, and gave them each a kiwi fruit.

Then he said to them: "Chengtu is in the room, you can go and play with him."

"Thank you, Mr. Li."

"Ms. Li, we are going to visit other places to celebrate the New Year. Can we find Chengtu to go together?"

"Okay."

"Chengtu, come with us to visit the New Year."

"Dad, I went with them."

"Alright, go ahead."

Gu Xi packed up the dishes, and Li Aihua and his wife came with the baby. "Xiao Chenggong came to pay New Year's greetings to my little uncle." Li Aihua's daughter-in-law said while hugging her son.

"Little uncle's New Year's greetings." Four-year-old Xiao Cheng said with a smile.

"Come on, our little success has grown up again, and has grown taller." Gu Xi waved at him.

Li Aihua's wife put him down, and he ran towards Gu Xi.

Gu Xi led him into the kitchen, where there was a snack table against the wall, with a thermos, bowls, and a few plates of food on it, including chestnuts, Iraqi dates, small twists, and sliced ​​kiwi fruit.

"Xiao Chenggong takes whatever he wants to eat." He said, and poured three bowls of brown sugar water, one bowl for each member of Li Aihua's family.

Li Aihua's daughter-in-law was a little surprised when she saw the things on the table. She didn't expect that a patriotic man would prepare a lot of things, which were better than her mother-in-law's.

The family of three drank brown sugar water, Gu Xi gave Xiao Chenggong some snacks, and gave him 5 cents of New Year's money.Originally, the child was 4 years old, and he wanted to give it 4 points, but it was Chinese New Year, and I was afraid they would think 4 was unlucky.

Leaving Gu Xi's house, Li Aihua's wife said: "I think patriotism is pretty good, people are also careful, and they have changed a lot, and it's not a problem with him and Chengtu in his family, why don't you tell him a daughter-in-law."

"Who do you want to talk about?" Li Aihua asked.

"What do you think of my cousin?" Li Aihua's wife said, "She also graduated from junior high school. She is 19 years old and is two years younger than Aihua. She works in a factory. Although she is not a regular worker, she still earns 15 yuan a month. It goes well with patriotism.”

"Tell mom about it, I don't know about it either."

"Okay." Li Aihua's wife knew that her man meant to agree.

After the three of Li Aihua left, Gu Xi had nothing to do.These days, there is really nothing to pass the time, so Gu Xi asked 444 to find out the use of corn flour, and he planned to make cooked food storage. 444 sorted out a lot: such as brown sugar steamed buns, steamed buns, light steamed buns, scallion steamed buns...

顾希先做了5斤的红糖馒头：5斤玉米粉、10斤精细面粉、15克酵母粉、3斤红糖。玉米粉需要面粉发酵，这样加起来有15斤粉了，顾希做了一个上午，做了225个小红糖馒头。50克一个，大小很有口感。（500粉发酵之后加入材料，有750克左右。）