Crossing the green wheat ears

The days passed quickly, and after a few days of rest, I was busy again.The first is the livelihood of the second uncle's family. Xiyuan thought that the second uncle could make tofu, so he started with tofu.

The tofu made here is only divided into two types: tofu and dried tofu (thousand pieces). Xiyuan taught Ershu how to make dried tofu, fried tofu, yuba, and oil skin (refined from the upper layer of soy milk). In fact, Xiyuan also I don't quite understand the specific operation steps, but I just want to talk about it roughly. When the second uncle and the second aunt are free, they think about it. After thinking about it, they really made it.

Then Xiyuan taught them how to make five-spice dried bean curd and spicy tofu. You can add or subtract materials.

The soy products made, no matter whether they are marinated or not, are all sent to the counter of Xiji in Jude Building for sale. The soy products needed in Jude Building are then bought from the counter. Of course, the price is higher than that of retail stores. There are many discounts.

Xiyuan had already agreed with Sun Ye that the tofu used in Jude Building would be provided by Xi's family in the future, and Sun Ye agreed without hesitation.

Judelou consumes a large amount of soy products every day. Fresh tofu and dried tofu are not easy to store, so Xi’s will not provide them. Yes, every two days, Xi Mingwen drove the donkey cart to deliver it together with his family's food, and then Jude Building sent a batch from Yansui City to the other two places.

As a result, Xiyuan gave Sun Ye a few recipes for cooking with bean products for free, and Sun Ye was so happy while holding the recipes, this is not a recipe, this is white money.

There are several types of marinated dried tofu, one is for cooking, and the pieces are slightly larger, and the other is for small pieces, which can be directly served on a plate or bought as a snack.

Because the consumption of Jude Building is getting bigger and bigger, Xi Mingwu and his wife, who were just trying to make it at first, are obviously overwhelmed now, and they don’t need to deliver the goods. Every time Xi Mingwen delivers food to his family Just piggybacked on it.

Xi Mingwu discussed with the old man and his eldest brother whether he could call his uncle to make tofu together.In fact, it was for Xiyuan to listen to. These ideas were all for Xiyuan's help, and they couldn't make their own decisions in silence.

The second aunt also looked at Xiyuan nervously. He hadn't had much contact with this elder nephew. The decision he made with Xi Mingwu was indirectly helping his elder brother.She and Xi Mingwu are still grateful to the eldest brother in their hearts, and they must not forget their roots in life. When they had no livelihood, the eldest brother helped them.

"It stands to reason that it is right to ask your uncle to come over. You have also thanked him a few years ago." Waiting for Xiyuan to make up his mind. Although he doesn't understand these business matters, these methods are his own secret recipes. If Uncle Li is called...

Xi Mingwen also has this concern in his heart, but he is not afraid of pulling others, but he is afraid that they will learn the method and start a new stove to run on his own business, so that he will suffer a loss.

"Then let Uncle Li help Second Uncle." Xiyuan understood what his grandfather and father were thinking, and it is estimated that Second Uncle also had this concern in his heart, but because he had received the favor of Uncle Li, he had to discount his concerns .

The technical content of the dried tofu and yuba made by the second uncle's house is not high, but no one has thought of it. As long as the tofu craftsmen are willing to think hard, they can figure it out. The formula, so ordinary people can't figure it out. Only Xiyuan knows the ingredients of his own stewed soup. Even Xi Mingwen and his wife don't know what's in it, how much to put in each, and it's impossible to leak it. Without this layer of worries, So there is no need to tangle.

"Xiao Yuan, did you really ask your uncle to come over?" The second aunt asked again, not sure.

"Second aunt, can I still lie to you, you will go back to your mother's house tomorrow, and if uncle is willing to come, you can let him come." Xi Yuan said with certainty.

"Hey, okay, okay, I'll go tomorrow." The second aunt was so excited that she was a little incoherent.At the beginning, he and Xi Mingwu went to his natal family, and the people in Yangjiazhuang looked down on them very much. They thought that the married girl would come back and hang up. Her natal family was useless.

But who let her fall in love with Xi Mingwu at a glance through the crack of the door when she was on a blind date, and she was going to marry her life and death, which made her parents and elder brothers unable to look up in the village for so many years. Only by helping them can they get enough food and clothing, especially the sister-in-law, who always stabs them with both inside and outside words. Although Xi Mingwu has a hot temper, he just endures it blindly. Isn't it the "hero's shortness of breath" that Yang Yang is talking about.

Now that it's all right, not only does her family have a livelihood, but she can also help her mother's family, and she can hold her head up and hold her chest high when she returns to Yangjiazhuang.

After the second uncle's family left, the old man expressed his concerns. Although he believed in the character of Uncle Li's family, Uncle Li did not live alone. Who knows who would have any selfish motives?

"It's okay, master. The big income of the second uncle's house is dried stewed beans, and the others are sold with them. If others want to do it in the future, let them do it. It will also save the second uncle and aunt from working hard to earn the hard money. Let's do it." Just sell dried stewed tofu." Xiyuan explained.In fact, it will also affect the income. I can only say this to comfort the old man.

"Father, it's okay. People in Judelou only recognize our tofu and don't want anything else. They sell it to others when they make it." Xi Mingwen delivered goods every day, so he knew more about the relationship between his family and Judelou.

"That's right, it's useless for them to just know how to do it. The key is to sell it." Xiyuan gave his father a thumbs up in his heart. It seems that frequent visits to Jude Building have also gained his father's knowledge.

Early the next morning, the second aunt urged Xi Mingwu to get on the donkey cart and go back to her mother's house with her. She was a straightforward person, and she was eager to do whatever she wanted.

Originally, the second uncle's family made tofu, and Xiyuan wanted to lend them the pea pods, but the second uncle refused, and grandpa couldn't bear to tire his precious donkey, and the pea pods had to be delivered every two days. So Xi Mingwu and his wife took out the money they had saved since they got married. This was repaid by the elder brother's family last year. The year before last year when Xiaoyuan fell ill, they didn't keep any of it to buy medicine for the child. As soon as the elder brother's family became rich Returned it immediately.

Xi Mingwen and his wife lent them another two taels of silver and bought a donkey for four taels. Xiyang and Xiaoyong also followed Xi Weiweicheng's example and named their own donkey. The two brothers held back for several days. I feel that edamame beans, pea pods, etc. are used by the uncle's family. What should they use to give their donkeys a nice and appropriate name?

In the end, it was Xiyuan who took care of the two of them. Green beans, pea pods, etc. were used by themselves, so he suggested that they get them from melons and fruits. same length.When the two little guys heard it, it was really good, it was better than what the elder brother said, so the donkey of the second uncle's family was named the croissant as a matter of course.

The second uncle put the croissants on, and the car is no longer the original flatbed car. In autumn, Xiyuan asked the old carpenter who finished his work to add a carriage to the car. Small, it’s just a miniature version of a luxury donkey cart, and it’s comfortable and warm for people to sit in.

The second aunt was quick to do things, and she left as soon as she said, and took her two sons with her. The grandma and grandpa over there helped take care of them since they were young, and they missed them after a long time.

The old man and the old lady picked some snacks from their own home and bought them for the old man when Sun Ye came last time. It belongs to visiting relatives, and it is no longer the time to beg for status under the eyes of others.

Seeing the husband and wife leading the children out of the courtyard, the old lady squinted her eyes and nodded. She felt that she should be content in her life, living in such a spacious and bright tile-roofed house, with her sons by her side, and the days The more the better.This is something that I never even thought about before.Feeling happy, the old lady was tidying up the rags on the kang, while humming a little song of unknown tune.

After sending away the second uncle's family, Xiyuan's house was completely cleaned up. Xiyuan has not yet taught a few children, and his laziness has recurred.It has been almost two and a half years since time travel, and the string in Xiyuan's heart has been tense, trying every means to change the current situation at home.

Maybe everything is determined by God. In his last life, he was tricked into opening a roast duck restaurant with his good friend. As a result, all the money he had saved after eight years of hard work went into it, and his friend also swept away the rest of the money, and then ran away. No news.His girlfriend disliked him for having no house and no money, and he was getting better with others. His colleagues and friends comforted him on the surface, but in fact they laughed at him behind his back. They were afraid that Xiyuan would borrow money from them, so they secretly alienated him.At first, he was afraid that his family members would be anxious, so he didn't tell the truth. He struggled alone. As a result, his younger brother's family wanted to buy a house. He felt that the loan had to be repaid with bank interest, so he asked his parents to open their mouths to borrow money from Xiyuan.

Xiyuan saw that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he told the truth to his family, thinking that they would understand him even if they couldn't help him, but who would have thought that his parents scolded him for being worthless, and all those years of studying for nothing, knowing people I don't know, people in their 30s have mixed up this virtue.

The younger brother is also afraid that his brother who has no money will hang up on him, so he usually doesn't even make a phone call, and he doesn't tell himself when he changes his mobile phone number, so in the last two years, Xiyuan has also tasted the warmth and coldness of human beings.This is also the reason why he has traveled so long and rarely recalled the past.

But who would have thought that he suddenly came to the present world, the experience and knowledge accumulated in the previous life would be useful in this life, perhaps, everything was arranged by the heavens?

Now the basic life is fine, and the rest of the day just needs a steady flow of water. The so-called no pressure means no motivation, so now Xiyuan is lying on the hot kang with nothing to do, staring at the ceiling, and thinking about nothing. , he enjoys this kind of life without any pressure or burden.

In the main room, the parents are busy with the work at hand, they are restless people, making them look up at the roof like Xiyuan every day, they feel uncomfortable all over.

At this time, the voice of parents talking to someone came from the main room. After a while, the door of Xiyuan's room opened, and Wang Qiuyang poked his head in. Xi Mingwen and his wife were not sure whether Xiyuan was sleeping or in a daze, but they knew Xiyuan was waiting to see Qiuyang, so he let him go and see for himself.

Because of the guilt towards Xiaoshu, Xiyuan was very kind to Qiuyang. If someone else came, he would close his eyes and pretend to fall asleep. Seeing that it was Qiuyang, he quickly got up and called Qiuyang to come in.

"Xiaoyuan, how many days have you been lazy and haven't you rested yet?" Qiuyang asked Xiyuan with wide eyes. He came to Xiyuan two days ago in the same way. He said he was tired from building a house at home. Now, Qiuyang can't figure it out, it's useless to build a house, Xiaoyuan moved bricks and put on tiles, how can Uncle Xi and Aunt Xi be fine, even Grandma Xi is fine, so Xiao Yuan is tired of not working What, so many days of rest?

"No, I've already rested a long time ago. It's okay to be idle." Xi Yuan touched his face, he was thick-skinned, so he probably wasn't red.

"Then get up quickly and let's play for a while, or I'll be boring alone." Qiuyang laughed when he heard Xiyuan say that, and finally he could play with Xiyuan.

"Hey, good." Xiyuan agreed, rolling his eyes in his heart, what is he, a mature man, playing with a young boy?

"Why don't you wait, I'll make something and let's play together." Can Xiyuan procrastinate for a while, and let him and Qiuyang roam around the village like other children?Just thinking about it makes me shudder!

"Father, daddy," Xiyuan said what he was doing, it was just talking about it, specific things, um, isn't daddy at home?

"Hey, Xiaoyuan, what's the matter?" Xi Mingwen came in and asked, seeing Xiaoyuan sitting cross-legged on the kang, shaking his head in his heart, if they were like this when they were young, the old lady's fire stick would have to be greeted on the buttocks .But his family, Xiaoyuan, forget it, it’s not easy for this child, and the family’s life like this is not the result of the child’s hard work. He can’t forget that year when Xiaoyuan and the old man went to Fucheng, and when they came back, they were so tired that they slept for several days What's more, Xiaoyuan said that he has to go to Fucheng again when the weather is warmer in spring, and now there is nothing to do at home, so let the children have a leisurely time, the so-called cat winter.

"Father, make me a chessboard of this size and shape." Xiyuan took a pen and drew a checkers board on paper, and showed it to Xi Mingwen.

"Well, okay, it happens that our family has a small thin wooden board, which is perfect for making this." Xi Mingwen was really responsive to Xi Yuan's request, and turned around to make a chessboard for Xi Yuan without saying a word.

"Xiaoyuan, what are we going to do?" Qiuyang didn't think he should just sit here and wait.

"Ah? Ah! Then let's make checkers." Xiyuan said helplessly. Originally, he wanted to ask his grandpa to do this. Well, let's do it ourselves.

However, it is impossible for Xiyuan to work hard to do checkers. He and Qiuyang went out to the fence on the edge of the vegetable garden at home. Inserting willow sticks into the soil to make a fence, Xiyuan broke two willow branches from the fence, then ran to the place where the firewood was placed, and broke off two sorghum stalks.

When I came back, I cut the willow branches and sorghum stalks with scissors, and they worked together.

After a while, Xi Mingwen also finished the chessboard. The kitchen on the north side of the main room of the house was always burning. He heated it with iron wire, and used the wire to burn out the chessboard that Xiaoyuan wanted on the wooden board. Xi Mingwen was careful in his work. And fast, the chessboard made is neat and tidy, compared with Xiyuan's long and short checkers, it really doesn't match.

However, Xiyuan didn't care about that, he used sorghum stalks, let Qiuyang use willow branches, and taught Qiuyang how to play checkers.