60s Splendid Life

After dinner in the evening, Lu Jin washed the pots he bought during the day by the well in the yard. Fortunately, there was a well in the yard, so he didn't have to go outside to fetch water, and it was much more convenient to use water.The jars I bought were quite dirty, with mud still stained inside, and the water that came out was jet black. One jar had to be brushed back and forth several times before it could be cleaned.

Because these jars will be used to hold food in the future, they must be scrubbed clean.

The two older children in the family knew he was working and came to help. Xiao Baoer and Shen Xing were still young, so it would be a waste of help if they didn't come to help, so he didn't let the two younger ones come to make trouble.

Working with three people is faster than working alone. The little girl in their family is not very old, and she is already very agile at work.Although Chenchen is slightly inferior to her elder sister, the naughty little boy who can patiently help with a job is also worthy of praise.

Each jar, which had to be cleaned inside and out, was placed upside down on the edge of the wall beside the well, and soon a row of jars was placed around it.

Lu Jin threw the bucket into the well to fetch water. Looking at the two younger brothers and sisters who helped wash the jars and got their clothes half wet, he asked, "Are you tired? If you are tired, go and take a rest."

"Not tired!" Lu Qinglian paused while brushing the jars, looked back at her brother, and continued to brush the jars with her head down.

"I'm not tired either!" Lu Haochen worked closely following his sister's footsteps, he was not tired even if his sister was not tired!

Looking at the two sensible children, Lu Jin felt very comforted. With a shake of the rope, the bucket was full of water. He grabbed the rope to fetch the water up.It has been raining a lot recently, and there is a lot of water in the well, and the water temperature is high, so the rope for fetching water does not need to be too long, and it will come up after two pulls.Because he often fetches water for work, thick calluses formed on both palms of his hands.

Lu Jin didn't think it was a big deal to have calluses on his hands. Those who work don't have calluses on their hands. Now in the countryside, those who don't have calluses on their hands are lazy people who don't work. It is impossible for a person not to have calluses on his hands.

The last jar was washed and turned upside down at the base of the wall. Lu Jin stood up straight and wiped the water from his face and sweat from his forehead with his sleeves. His trousers were accidentally wet and stuck to his body. He felt uncomfortable. He thought Went to take a shower.Turning back to the two younger siblings who had helped with the work for so long, he said, "Okay, just stay here to dry out. If you have nothing to do, don't come here. Take a break and go take a shower."

"Yeah." After helping her brother wash so many pots, she was really tired, so Lu Qinglian sat down on the stool, not wanting to move.

Lu Haochen sat next to his sister, and even Shen Xing couldn't pull him up when he called him to play.

A few children were playing in the yard. Lu Jin went to drink a glass of water and came over. He continued to fetch water with buckets. He filled the water tanks in the yard and the kitchen with water, and went to fetch a big basin. The water goes to the yard to bathe some boys.

It didn't take long for the sound of a few boys taking a bath and playing with water in the yard.

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It was getting dark outside, and they all went back to the house. Kerosene lamps were lit in the house. Several children were sitting on the kang, and two small tables were placed on the kang. Writing at the desk, even Shen Xing, who was a guest at someone else's house, brought his small schoolbag and books and pens.

When Lu Jin came in from the outside, he saw a few children quietly writing in the room, and when he walked in, he saw Shen Xing and Xiao Baoer scribbling on the notebook with a pen, "..." wasting his feelings up!

When it was time to go to bed, several children wanted to put the kitten on the bed to sleep with them, but Lu Jin stopped them.Originally, he wanted to take the kitten out to live outside, but under the pleading eyes of several children, he had no choice but to agree to make a small nest with a small basket under the kang where they slept, and spread a bed in the small nest. An old piece of clothes they don't want, and spread it inside for the kittens to sleep in.

The kitten probably came to the new home for the first time and missed the mother cat and brothers and sisters in the original home. Just now they barked for a while, and now they put them in the nest and fell asleep.

"Should we give it a name?" Lu Jin thought that they had been meowing for a whole day, and they hadn't given the kitten a formal name yet.

"My name is meow?" Lu Haochen meowed twice like a cat, and he was still giggling cheerfully.

However, this proposal was quickly rejected by his sister, "This name is not pleasant at all, we want to give Maomao a nice name!"

"Then sister, what name do you think sounds good?" The other two children are a little younger and don't know much about naming the kitten. Lu Jin asked their little girl who had an idea.

Little Bao'er and Shen Xing turned to their sister at the same time.

Little flower and little yellow?It doesn't seem to sound very good.Lu Qinglian thought for a while, but couldn't think of a good name, so she asked her brother: "Brother, what name do you think sounds good, can you choose one for it?"

"Can't figure it out, right? Well, let me think about it..." Lu Jin looked at the kitten who ate and slept when he was full. A name flashed in his mind, and he asked the children for their opinions: " How about we call it lazy? Lazy lazy, you see it likes to sleep so much, is it lazy or something?"

"Lazy?" I don't know if it's because her brother took the name, but Lu Qinglian thinks it sounds nice, "It sounds nice."

"Haha, it's a little lazy cat." Lu Haochen laughed, pointing at the little lazy cat sleeping in the den, making fun of it as a lazy cat.

"Hehehe..." Little Bao'er and Shen Xing didn't understand anything. Seeing his brother laughing, the two children also laughed.

The kitten's name was approved by their unanimous consent, and the kitten has a new name - lazy.

After naming the kitten, Lu Jin also sent their little girl back to the room next door to sleep before returning to their room.

The next day, the four children in the family all went to school, and Lu Jin went to work in the tofu shop.

Now there are three other people in the tofu shop besides him who can also make tofu, and Mrs. Qin comes to help with the work every day, so there are enough people to do the work.The work he does here is not very heavy, and the heavy work is basically done by others. As the master of the tofu workshop, his main task is to control the quality of their tofu.

Their tofu shop now sells beancurd sticks in addition to bean curd tofu and stewed tofu, but there are not many people who come to buy bean curd sticks, so they make less bean curd sticks.

Lu Jin planned to make a batch of fermented bean curd. Firstly, the fermented bean curd was long-lasting. Second, although the fermented bean curd smelled bad, many people still liked it. Like himself, one piece of fermented bean curd could eat two bowls of porridge.Moreover, fermented bean curd is also a good seasoning, and it tastes delicious when used in stewed meat. He told the team leader about the idea of ​​making fermented bean curd, "Captain, what do you think? Let's try it first. If If there are more people who like it, let’s do more.”

"Oh, yes, you can also make fermented bean curd. Fermented bean curd is delicious. I ate it many years ago. Now I can't find a place to buy it. If you know how to make fermented bean curd, we can make it first. One batch, if it sells well, let's make more." Mrs. Qin was quite surprised when she heard that Lu Jin could make fermented bean curd, and after being surprised, she was pleasantly surprised, so she naturally had no objection to Lu Jin's proposal to make fermented bean curd.

"Okay, I'll soak more beans tonight, and let's make more tofu tomorrow." Tofu is used to make fermented bean curd, and they make a limited amount of tofu every day, so to make fermented bean curd, they need to make more tofu , then soak some more beans.

After talking about making fermented bean curd, Lu Jin mentioned another thing, "We are now selling tofu and tofu flowers in the village, and we can count how much we can produce every day. People in our village grow beans a lot. A lot, I think that the beans at home will be exchanged with us soon, and I am afraid that not so many people will be willing to spend money to buy tofu."

"Yeah, I've thought about this too." Mrs. Qin had thought about the question Lu Jin asked, but the question now was what to do. She looked at Lu Jin and asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

"I thought of one thing, why don't we find a few people to carry the burden and go to several nearby villages to sell it. It can be the same as in our village. Tofu flowers and tofu can be exchanged for beans, or they can be sold with money. Stewed tofu and dried yuba Those can only be bought with money instead of beans, so that the raw materials of our tofu workshop can be guaranteed and we can make more money." Now that the tofu workshop has opened, they have to think about the issue of sustainable development.

In fact, what Lu Jin thought was why they work so hard in the tofu workshop every day. If the tofu workshop should be returned to the brigade, it means that the whole team will benefit. If this is the case, it is better to select a few more people Come to work in their tofu workshop.If he could sell more tofu and earn more money, the tofu shop would have money in its books, and it would be easy for him to do other things.He also thought about doubling the size of their tofu shop, and when he had the money to open a food processing factory, he could sell the food they made to farther places and earn more money.

Although the higher-ups say that private businesses are not allowed, they allow the existence of a collective economy. If the entire village is rich, it won't be too conspicuous for him to do something in the future.And if their village develops well, the good will definitely outweigh the bad. Maybe their Lujia Village will become the largest village in Qingcheng.

"If you say that, it's not impossible." Aunt Qin thought the idea was good, but she was worried, "We opened a tofu workshop in our own village, which was approved by our team leader, and we went to other villages to do it. I am afraid that other villagers will not agree to the sale."