60s Splendid Life

The employees of the tofu shop came to work early in the morning.

Wang Xiumei saw that Lu Jin came with a child on his back today, and asked a little strangely: "Why did you bring Xiaobao today? Is this still sleeping?" Asking her, she leaned over and took a look. The child in the quilt is really sleeping.

The sleeping child closed his eyes and was quiet, his beautiful little face made people unable to take his eyes off. No matter how many times he looked at it, Wang Xiumei felt that the child looked really good.

Seeing this, Da Mao and Er Mao wanted to come and drag their younger brother down to play, but their mother stopped them and forbade them to make trouble with his younger brother.

"He fell asleep. Little Treasure had a fever last night. I'm not too worried. I'll bring him here today so that I can take care of him." Lu Jin touched the heads of Da Mao and Er Mao brothers, and took them out of his arms. Give out two candies to the two little brothers, and coax the two little brothers to play elsewhere.

"You always let the two of them go, don't keep giving them food next time." Wang Xiumei saw that Lu Jin gave candy to her two children again, and the two children ran away after taking the candy. She glanced at Lu Jin , with a look of helplessness.

Lu Jin smiled and said nothing.

"It's hot, let me touch it." Wang Xiumei lifted the quilt, touched the child's forehead with the back of her hand, then touched her own forehead, and said worriedly: "It's still a little hot, it's a bit hot to touch. , you give him more water to drink, and if he has a high fever, he must be sent to the health center in the town for an injection." She saw that Lu Jin's half-old child was carrying a younger brother on the back, and the turtle was carrying it on his back. Like a shell, a little want to laugh and a little sad, put the wooden barrel in his hand on the ground, and stretched out his hand to untie the child on Lu Jin's back, "You are tired from carrying it, why don't you put it down and sister-in-law will help you Back it up."

"No, no, I can carry it by myself." Lu Jin hurriedly pressed his sister-in-law's hand, and said, "Xiaobao is not very heavy, I can carry it, thank you sister-in-law."

"Thank you, my sister-in-law can't help you." Wang Xiumei waved her hand, seeing that Lu Jin really didn't want her to help me with the back, so she had to give up.

Soon, the two aunts Wang Xiumei and Li Guihua also knew that Lu Jin brought his sick brother to work. This morning, everyone refused to let Lu Jin work, and the aunts rushed to help with the work.

Fortunately, now everyone knows how to make tofu, and everyone understands the basic procedures. Cai Chunmei has also learned some tofu, and Lu Jin, the master, has a lot of free time.

In the past two days, the sky outside has been cloudy, and it will rain a little from time to time, so their bean curd sticks have not been able to be made.

Lu Jin originally wanted to teach everyone what to do, but the child on his back was whimpering uncomfortably all the time, and he was not in the mood to teach everyone what to do, so he could only do it another day.

Their tofu flowers and tofu are all made in the morning. As soon as the tofu flowers are taken out, someone comes over with a bowl to replace them. At noon, many people know that the tofu is ready, and they will exchange beans for tofu.

Now the tofu in their tofu shop is still very popular, and they don’t make much every day, so they can basically be replaced.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, their tofu was finished. Seeing that he was not needed in the future, Lu Jin simply took a leave of absence from Captain Cai, and also greeted several aunts and sister-in-laws to bring them The little baby is back home.

Not long after they got home, the two children who were studying at school also came back with schoolbags on their backs.

After the two children in the family came back, the room became lively, and even the children who had been inactive all morning started laughing and laughing with their brothers and sisters.

Probably because of the illness, the child has always been lacking in energy. He often has a fever and sweats when he sleeps at night. Lu Jin has to take care of the child at night, and has to go to the tofu shop to do things during the day, so his spirit is not very good.There is no rest day in the work of the tofu workshop. Everyone comes to work every day, unless there is something to ask for leave, but there is no work point for the day of leave, so unless it is necessary, no one will Ask for leave.

On the day before the Ching Ming Festival, everyone discussed and decided that the tofu shop will be closed for a day on the day of the Ching Ming Festival, and will not open until the festival is over.

Someone came to exchange tofu on this day, and they all told the news to those who came to exchange tofu, so as not to save someone from coming in vain tomorrow.

Tomb-sweeping day is still an important festival for them, and everyone can understand this. Not only is their tofu shop closed, but the team also gives the members a day off to go up the mountain to worship ancestors on Tomb-sweeping day.

After all the tofu was replaced in the afternoon, the door of the tofu shop on their side was also closed.

After dinner, it was raining outside, and the three children in the family were playing inside the house, and the door to the yard outside was closed.Hearing someone knocking on the door outside, Lu Jin opened the door under an umbrella, and saw his uncle standing outside the door, "Uncle, why are you here? Do you want to sit in the room?"

"No need, I can just say a few words outside." Lu Jianguo did not go in, standing at the door and talking, "Tomorrow is clear, your father asked me to ask you, do you want to go up the mountain to sweep the tomb by yourself, or go back Go to the old house with everyone?"

"Let's go by ourselves, uncle, please tell me." Lu Jin said.

"Oh, that's fine. I have nothing to do, so I'll go back first." Lu Jianguo didn't seem very surprised that this nephew would say that, and turned around and left after getting the answer.

Lu Jin stood outside the door, and he closed the door of the house when he saw someone leaving, and went inside after locking the latch.

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The next day, Qingming School also had a holiday, and the two children in the family did not have to go to school.

Early in the morning, the sound of firecrackers came from the other side of the mountain. Someone was setting off firecrackers by sweeping graves on the mountain, and people from the village went up the mountain in droves.

However, Lu Jin did not take the three children up the mountain, their parents' graves had already been swept.As for the rest of the Lu family's ancestors, they don't know each other, and the children in the family have caught a cold these two days. Lu Jin doesn't want to take the children up the mountain anymore, and he is worried about leaving the children at home by himself. Going up the mountain, so he didn't go at all himself.

The people from the Lu family's old house went up the mountain to sweep the tomb. When they reached the new tomb below, they saw that someone had already come to sweep it. Needless to say, they all knew who did it.

Lu Jin didn't contact the people in the old house anymore, and the people in the old house didn't come to him again. He thought it was good for everyone to live in peace like this. , looking at each other feels like an eyesore.

On Ching Ming Festival, when others sweep graves on the mountain, they rest at home.

After they rested at home for a day, Xiao Baoer's body also recovered a lot, and her spirit was better than the previous two days.

On the second day after the Ching Ming Festival, the school will resume school. The older brothers and sisters will go back to school for classes, and Xiao Baoer will also go to study with the older brothers and sisters.Lu Jin had no choice but to put a pot of warm water in a thermos and put it in his schoolbag, and let Chenchen carry the schoolbag on his back. Before the children went to school, he was still a little worried and said: "You guys remember to feed your brother more water, little brother If Bao wants to go to the bathroom, Chenchen, you take your younger brother to the bathroom, understand?"

"I know, brother, don't worry, if Xiaobao wants to pee, I will take him outside to pee." Lu Haochen carried the small schoolbag on his back, and the pot of water inside was much heavier than their few books.

"Then you take your younger brother to school. Remember to hold an umbrella when it rains. Don't get caught in the rain. It's easy to catch a cold." At this time, it's changing seasons, and it's easy to catch a cold if you accidentally get cold. Lu Jin is afraid that the child will be disobedient and run away Playing in the rain, I told my sister to take good care of my two younger brothers, so I let the two children go to school with the younger brother on their backs.

Fortunately, after the Qingming Festival, the weather gradually cleared up.

After the sun came out, Lu Jin taught everyone how to make bean curd sticks. They pulled a few ropes on the side of the tofu workshop and hung the made bean curd sticks outside to dry.Taking advantage of this time, he also taught everyone how to make dried tofu. The dried tofu was made by themselves. After several procedures of steaming and cooking, they successfully made dried tofu.

Lu Jin also boiled a pot of dried tofu with marinated ingredients for everyone to try.

"It smells really good. If I didn't know that the tofu was cooked in it, I would have thought that the pot was cooked with meat."

"Yeah, it smells like meat."

It was the first time for Aunt Qin and Li Guihua to see that tofu could be cooked in this way, and it tasted like meat.

The people outside also came over to ask if they were cooking meat after smelling the aroma. Aunt Qin and the others went to great lengths to explain to others that they were cooking tofu inside, but the big guys didn't quite believe it, "It clearly smells It smells like meat, why is it boiled tofu?"

"It's boiled tofu, you'll know after a while." Aunt Qin said to everyone with a smile.

It didn't take long for their dried tofu to cook.

Lu Jin picked up two pieces of tofu with chopsticks and dried them. He cut them into small pieces with a knife. He tasted it himself, and said, "It's not bad. Cooking it for a longer time should make it more delicious." Dried tofu The taste is slightly harder than tofu, and it tastes slightly elastic. In addition, it is cooked with the stewed ingredients he uses, and the taste is also very fragrant.

"Aunt Chunmei, take a sip and see how it goes." He asked Cai Chunmei who was standing beside him to have a sip too.

Cai Chunmei pinched a piece with her hands and put it in her mouth, with surprise in her eyes, she said, "It's delicious! It's like eating meat!"

"Auntie, take these out for everyone to taste, and tell everyone that if anyone wants to buy them, they can buy them with money. This time, they can't be exchanged for beans, they can only be bought with money, one dime and two yuan, First come, first served, we don't cook much." Lu Jin put the cut dried tofu into a bowl and asked Cai Chunmei to take it out for everyone to taste.

"Okay, I'll take it out now." Although Cai Chunmei was a little reluctant to give out such a good thing for free to the big guys, she also knew that the big guys had never eaten this thing, and they wouldn't know how it tasted if they didn't taste it. Will be willing to spend money to buy.