60s Splendid Life

Cai's mother and daughter-in-law Li Qing went to the kitchen to cook. In most households in the countryside, women at home wash clothes and cook. Few men enter the kitchen. Men entertain guests outside, while women enter the kitchen. Cook.

"You guys sit here for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to see if the vegetables are cooked." Cai Chunmei asked Aunt Qin and Lu Jin to drink water outside, and she also went to the kitchen to help out for a while.

The three women were busy in the kitchen, and it didn't take long for them to get busy with lunch.

Many people living in bamboo buildings in their village cook and eat on the lower floor. The same is true for Cai Chunmei's family. They cook and eat at the bottom, and the tables and chairs for eating are placed below.

When the dishes in the kitchen were fried, Cai Chunmei came out with a pot of vegetables, put them on the table outside, and called out to the father and brothers sitting there, "Dad, brother, bring everyone over for dinner." ah."

"Hey, here we come." Father Cai and Cai Kun got up and invited the guests to dinner, "Let's go to dinner."

"Okay." Aunt Qin agreed and stood up.

"Let's go, let's go to eat, let you taste the rabbit I caught." Cai Peng, Cai Chunmei's younger brother, a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, tall and thin, with tanned skin, smiling He stood up showing his big white teeth.This person is an acquaintance. It didn't take long for him to get acquainted with the little guests who came to the house. When he heard that it was time to eat, he pulled him up and wanted to take him to eat.

Lu Jin was pulled up and led to the dining table. Fortunately, he put the little yellow cat to sleep in the back basket just now, otherwise the cat might fall to the ground.

The little yellow cat in the back basket was sleeping soundly, not knowing the owner's distress at all.

Cai Kun didn't forget his children. His wife was busy, so he called them over for dinner.

"I'm here to get them food, you go over there and greet the guests with your father." Li Qing brought out the dishes from the kitchen, and saw that her husband couldn't handle the four children alone, she wiped her hands and came over Changed her husband and left, spread out a small table underneath, and brought a few small bowls of vegetables to the small table.

Whatever you eat at the big table, there are also all kinds of dishes at the small table.

When the dishes on the big table were served and everyone sat down to eat, Li Qing distributed a bowl, chopsticks and spoons to each of the children, and asked the four children to sit at the small table below to eat.

The men and guests of the family sat on the big table above, and there were several dishes on the table, the most obvious one being the large plate of braised rabbit meat in the middle.

Naturally, this meal was a joy for both the host and the guests.

After lunch, they bid farewell to the host family, and they set foot on the journey back to the village, walking back along the way they came.The load was empty when they went back, but it was easier to walk than when they came here. The three of them didn't stop to rest all the way back to Lujiacun.

Li Guihua and Wang Xiumei were still waiting for them to come back at the tofu shop. As soon as they saw them coming back, they gathered around to help them get things, and asked them how their business was doing today.

Aunt Qin put down the burden on her shoulders, raised her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, and said with a smile on her face: "It's okay, all the stewed tofu and tofu we brought are sold out, and the yuba is also sold out." I bought some, and brought some unsold ones back.”

They sold the remaining two pieces of old tofu cheaply on the way back, so there were still some yuba left in the village.

"Are there many people in the market at Lijia'ao today?"

"There are quite a lot, next time you will go over there and have a look."

Wang Xiumei opened the lid of the basket, took out the empty shelf underneath and put it on the table, and said to the people who came back: "Let's leave these here and we'll clean them up later. You can drink some water first." She took a spoon and cooled it down. Two bowls of water came out of the pot of boiling water, one bowl was handed to my mother-in-law, one bowl was given to Cai Chunmei, and another bowl was brought out to Lu Jin.

They make tofu here, and they boil several large pots of hot water in the stove every day. They put the excess hot water outside under the tree. Anyone who wants to drink water can come and scoop it up. They also drink plain water.

Lu Jin took it, thanked his sister-in-law Xiumei, and gulped down a bowl of water. His sister-in-law asked him if he wanted more, and he shook his head.

"How are you doing in the village today?" Aunt Qin asked after drinking a bowl of water.

"There's nothing left, they're all sold out." Li Guihua replied with a smile.

"That's good. If we don't go out to sell things in the future, we can make so much tofu in our own village." Upon hearing that the business at the tofu shop is also good, Aunt Qin handed the empty bowl to her son. The daughter-in-law took it back and put it away.

Li Guihua smiled and said yes, and said that Mrs. Qin went out to the market today, and the two of them are busier than before.

However, after hearing this, Aunt Qin has no intention of adding more people. After all, the market is not open every day, and they don't sell tofu every day. If someone goes out to sell tofu every day, they can consider adding two more people. personal hand.

Wang Xiumei put the three empty bowls together and put them in the sink beside her, and said to the three people who came back: "You guys rest here for a while, I'll go and wash some baskets and racks."

"I'll go with you." Seeing this, Li Guihua also followed.

Seeing that everyone was busy with work, Cai Chunmei couldn't rest here, so she went to help pack things.

Wang Xiumei was working, when she suddenly remembered something, she said to Lu Jin: "The friend who came back to look for you came to our village to look for you again today. In the morning, Chenchen Xiaolian and the others were still at school , the door of your house was not open, I invited them to sit in our house for a while, and I sent them to your house after they came back from Chenchen. I didn’t see their car come out here, people will The son should still be at your house."

"Oh, I'll go home and have a look later. Thank you, sister-in-law." Lu Jin just came back from a trip, and didn't know about Shen Yu's coming to see him, so he thanked his sister-in-law who helped him take care of the guests.

"You're welcome, thank you. Why don't you go back now, just a few shelves, and the sister-in-laws can come and wash them, so you don't have to wait for your guests." Wang Xiumei said to Lu Jin, and then shouted to her mother-in-law Said: "Mother, Da Mao and Er Mao are sleeping at home, I don't know if they have woken up, mother, go back with Xiao Jin, and see if Da Mao and Er Mao are awake."

"I just said why I didn't see the two of them, okay, I'll go back and have a look." As soon as I heard that the two grandsons were sleeping at home, the men in the family were all out to work at the moment, and the daughter-in-law was in the tofu shop again. Here, Aunt Qin was not very relieved that her two grandsons were alone at home, so she called Lu Jin to go back together.

Seeing that there was no need for him to stay here to help, Lu Jin got up, said goodbye to his sisters-in-law and aunts, and went back home with his Aunt Qin.

Back at the entrance of the alley and saw the car parked outside, Lu Jin recognized that it was the car that Shen Yulai sat in last time, needless to say, he was at their house, "Ma'am, I went back to my side. "

"Hey, let's go, let's go." Aunt Qin waved to Lu Jin and entered through the gate of their house.

The door of the yard opened as soon as it was pushed. Lu Jin pushed the door open and went in. The room was very quiet, and no voice of the children was heard.When he walked to the door of the house, he met the eyes of the person sitting at the door reading, and noticed that Shen Yu was reading the storybook he told the children before going to bed holding in his hand.

Just when he was about to speak, the other party made a gesture of silence and gestured him to look into the room.

Lu Jin looked in the direction Shen Yu pointed, and saw two little guys sleeping on the kang, needless to say, these two little guys were Shen Xing and their little Baoer.Not seeing the other two children at home, he lowered his voice and asked, "Did Chenchen and Xiaolian go to school?"

"Yeah." Shen Yu covered the story book on his hand to pass the time. In fact, two children were sleeping just now and asked him to tell a story. When he saw the book on the kang, he picked it up and told them up.

Lu Jin put the back basket on the ground outside, reached in and carried a little yellow cat out. The little yellow cat he carried out was still sleeping, and was still curled up in a ball when he carried it out.

When Shen Yu met Lu Jin taking out a kitten, he was a little surprised and asked, "Where did it come from?"

"I bought it from outside." Lu Jin put the sleeping kitten on a chair. When he put down the little yellow cat, he opened his eyes and took a look, turned over, and buried his face in the chair. The two little paws continued to sleep.

"..." Lu Jin saw this scene.

He wouldn't even believe that the cat wasn't possessed by sleep.

I went outside to wash my face and hands before returning to the house, changed the cloth shoes on my feet into clogs, and asked the people who came to their house, "Why are you here, have you had lunch yet? "

"Eat. Xingxing can't stay at home and wants to come to you." Shen Yu glanced at the wooden clogs on Lu Jin's feet, and noticed that the boy's feet were white and small, like a little girl's feet , although he didn't pay much attention to the little girl's feet.

Lu Jin looked as if he guessed right, so he just said, it must be Shen Xing who wanted to come to their house to play, and Shen Yu, his own brother, would travel thousands of miles to bring his younger brother to the countryside to play with his friends.

"Mom who eats at our house, what do you eat, who made it?" Lu Jin looked at Shen Yu as if asking, could it be you who came to our house to cook?

But obviously he guessed wrong.

"Egg boiled noodles, your sister cooked it." When Shen Yu said this, there was no embarrassment on his face.

Lu Jin thought of the little girl's cooking skills, and asked with a smile, "Didn't I burn the noodles for you?" He didn't know what happened, the two children in their family didn't inherit his cooking talent at all. , for cooking...for the time being, the little girl in their family has never been allowed to cook alone, and he is usually there to guide them one by one, and the fried dishes are edible.He once ate noodles cooked by their little girl, but it took a long time to cook, and the large pot of noodles was burnt. He has a deep memory of that time, because the four brothers and sisters cooked the noodles A pot of burnt noodles was eaten up.